Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-02-27
BY TELEG R A P ii .

| passed Clarksville, and on their way to Nashville
 rumor is circulated to the effect that our troops 1 will make a stand at or near Nashvlile. hholneF 1 that the city will be abandoned, and our troops
 will attack the federals in the hills. Since the ! above we have rumor that our forces evacuated l Nashville this morning, and will make stand ae l. some point near by. Achievements did not ar I i've in time for Gen. Pillow to make any success fu resistance It is rumored that the telegraph
 operators have closed the office and gone wi.h tiie
 army in it's retreat. runor fes reached thls ci's bv pa ssengers the cars from Nashvliie, to tIe l effect that Gen. Buckner, while lighting at fort 1 Doneson, sent white flags to different divisions oi
 the federal army that they failed to recognize, put l continued hehting-that Gen. Buckner with ms ' forces, cut their way out and are sale. Ahother has been circulated that he and bis command were l taken prisoners, and that they have all been pa 1 roled Soldiers who arrived here ftom It. Donei-
 son. and who participated in the battle, assert that our men under Gen. Buckner refused to be taken ! prisoners, and that many more have escaped than have vet been accounted fOr--not more than three
 thousand. if any, have been captured.
 1 It is current that fight commenced at o'clock
 this morning between our forces at Columbus ana
 the Yankees. The firing was terrific on poth
 sides and our big guns are said to have sunk four 1 of the enemY's gunboats. Nothing is known of
 their other losses-the battle IS still raging
 The above reports are from the Avalanche extra
 and are but few of the many rumors afoat. The l line to Columbus got down last night-will be up | in the morning. It is said that Jeff Davis in per
 son. is in East Tennessee with 900 reinforce i ments. It is rumored he can't spare any from Vir- I ginia.
 I The following is what Mir. McHenry says: If ! YOU want any information, just say yourself, and ] think what you please and you will come as near
 to it as we do here No use in Gods world trying l to get any news. Every man you meet tells Il
 different tale, and says he is willing to take oath . H. Enr no ri hp ppvo h. l ing and don't take any interest in any rumorS, be- :l Teying time will only tell the truth. Com Hol- ! fins is on his way here--wil be here tomorrow with his fleet 1 suppose he is going to Columbus | from New Orleans. He has one war soop, Mont ! romerv, 10 guns. and the McRae with him. The
 balance are twenty four hours behind him. Seven
 regiments are on the way from Mississippi, and 8 1 r,eat many from other States. All the militia are 1 called out, believe"
 l QuEPy-Are the people downcast or hopeful i BAKER.
 MT. A. says, 'we will whale h--ll out of then" :" Mir B savs he will bet several thousand that l they have Memphis before two weeks. They 60
 not believe any thing across the river. Every one
 wants to see for himself that is the way it goes 1 no head to anything.
 Gov Harris was here, but is gone. The legi'-
 lature is in session o-day.i The Appeals evening
 edition does not say anything about rumors--it be-
 lieyes them ali lies Nashville not taken up
 to the l9th as have private intelligence to that
 effect.
 MEMPHIS, Feb 2l.--The Appeal of this morn 1 ino ts the following: We have managed to ob
 tain an authentic list of the troops engaged in the battle of Ft Donelson on the 18th inst, all of
 whom, with the exception of escaped stragglers,
 surrendered with Gen. Buckner on the day follow inc Gen. Pillows division included Gen tloyd's l brigade and was composed as follows: We give | them as they were located in the entrenchments 1 q Ca1 n,lI Iui-,t md 1 sisted of the 20th Miss. regiment, Major Brown; 1 26h Miss. regiment, Col. Reynolds; 26th Tenn. i reeiment. Col. Lillard. Col. Massies command,
 consisting of the 56th Va. regiment, Captain Davis;
 50th Va regiment, Col Wharton; 5lst Va. regi-
 mapt, Col Massie. Col. Smonton's command,
 consisting of the lst. Miss. regiment Col. Simon ton; 9th Kentucky regiment, Lieut. Col. Lyon; 7th Texas regiment. Col. Gregg; 3d Miss. regi-
 ment. Lieut. Col. Wells, and Greens artillery i Col Brakes command, insisting of the 3d A Ia
 regiment, Major Garvin, 18th Ark regiment. Col. | Gee; 4th Miss. regiment, Col Drake. Col Hei-
 mans command, consisting of the 18th Tenn. re- ri1nent Col. Heid; 18th Tenn, regiment, C0l. Voorhees,: 53d Tenn. regiment, Col Winston; 42d
 Tenn regiment Col. Quarles; and 10th Tenn re. eiment Col. Hindman. Gen. Buckners command
 constituted our ri ght wing. and was composed of the following regiments: I'd Tenn. reei ment l4th i Miss. regiment, Sd Tenn. regiment, 18th Tenn l reoiment and 5ld Tern. regiment. Capt. Frank ! i fight but We are not advised as toIts position | Briq. Gen B. E. Johnson of Kentucky, assisted ] Gen Pillow in the command of sis division on the
 day of the battle. Our total loss will thus be g. en
 to be- twents three regiments Of infantry, and two
 atteres of ght artillery, of which there were nine 1 from Tennessee, six from Mississippi three from l Viroinia two from Kentucky, one from Texas, one 1 fom Alabama and one from Arkansas. All ac-
 couns concur in establishing the fact that no battle tb,t eyer transpred on the American continent
 more terrific more fruitful Of deeds Of daring and vaIor or more hardly contested than that at L. Donaldson, on Saturday the i5th of february, ioo% This statement does not embrace Col. Forrest s cavalry. a Tennessee regiment which was in the battle but cut it's way through the enemy, with loss of about one hundred killed.
 IL is rumored, and generally believed, that two federal gun boats and several transports passed
 Hamburg on the Tennessee river, last night, bound for some place near the Memphis and Charleston
 railroad A private dispatch received here yester
 day states that three federal gun boats made their appearance at Carksviile at o'clock, ?: m., on ] W ednesday We presume they will not attempt
 to pass Fort Zollicotfer even if the river is high
 enough to permit their passage up over Harpeth ] Shoals.
 The Ohio State Journal of the 18th says the rail i roads are all busy at work getting cars ready to brlng troops-fifty thousand it is said, from the
 east, bound westward, but where from or where to, l our informant could not tell.
 One of the federal prisoners, member of an i Illinois ret iment, who captured at Fort Don
 olson and arrived in the city yesterday, asserts thai but forty eight of his regiment escaped unnjured in the fight, all the rest being kiledor wounded. The Legislature met yesterday, but there being no quorum ill either house adjourned until eleven o'cloe to o-day.
 A special dispatch to the Appeal, Richmond Is. Both branches of the Confederate Congress were
 organized to day. In the House of Representatives, Mr. Bocock, of Virginia was elected speaker by
 unanimous vote-R. Emmet Dixon. of Georgia. chosen clerk on third ballot, and Mir. w inn door
 keeper In the Senate R. NJ. T. Hunter, Of Vir- ginia, was chosen temporary president, and K. C. Nash of S C., secretary. Five candidates were nominated for the secretary ship. NJ. Page vas elected door keeper. Both branches determined to dispense with the office of sergeant at arms Nlne- teen Senator's were present and eighteen members of the House of Representatives.
 MEMPHIS, Feb. 2l.-Telegr4phic communication with Nashville ceased yesterday, and the ope- rators are reported to have removed their instru- ments and left that place. The impression now prey ills that Gen. Johnston will not make stand at that city, deemng it under the circumstances impossible but will fall back towards Murfreesboro Nothing known of the exact whereabouts of BuelPs army. 1t is within from five to twenty-five miles of Nashville, and perhaps occupies Nashville to- day.
 | MEMPHIS, Feb. 22.-A dispatch was received here 1 yesterday by Sam Tate, President of the Memphis
 and Charleston railroad, stating that two federal gun boats had made their appearance at Passport, Miss, seven miles from Iuka, on his road. We
 learned last night however, that they had returned without doing any damage. Through one of the I orQr had not laft chx;lln