Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-03-28

for artillery to command the river,) and that
foiled in this by our arrival, be was then lying
within four and half miles of our position
Our brigades were kept constantly changing
their places, aud if the rebel scouts could make
anything Of General Wallace's dispositions or
| mum bers they must have possessed extrsordi-
nary powers for combinations.
The rebel captain was taken by Yankee
| rnse that must have struck him as exceedingly
uuchivalrio. He was out on picket duty One
of our scouts came suddenly on him al point
| where two Of his pickets were posted. Fortu-
| nateiy the scout was quick witted, or the cap
| ture nigh. have been on the other side. "Whu
| are you :" he boldly inquired Of the first rebel
be reached. I'm picket" "Well, so am
L, but little OF my post, looking around for
the Yankees" Where your post 20 asked
the Captain; you've no business TO be away
| from it." "Come this way, and III show
you," responded the scout The moment he
got out Of sight of tie two privates he quietly
informed the officer that he was a picket on
the other side, and would have 10 take him
along! And he actually marched the captain
in, sword, pistols, skoulder-straps and all
GEN. CHEArHAN PERrURBED,
Gen. Cheatham was 80 astonished by our un-
accountable demonstrations that he never
dreamed Of attacking US, and actually burnt a
little bridge between the positions to prevent
US from attacking him
TIE Advance of the Expedition Motes into
StSStppt-Attsmpt to Destroy Connec-
tons bettoeen Charleston and Msmphis.
Especial Correspondence Of Cincinnati Gazette ]
TYLER's LANDING, TIsHoMINGo COUNTY,
MISS, March 15.-The National armies have
at last made descent from the North on the
Gulf States. / write from the northeast Q T.
ner Of the Rebel Presidents own State, and on
the opposite shore is Lauderdale county, Ala.
bama.
sHERNAN's DIVISION ON TIE MOVE.
At noon yesterday Gen. sherman's entire
ings and steamed up the river, preceded by
one of the saucy looking Cincinnati gunboats,
the A. o: Tyler. On reaching Pittsburg, where
the gunboat engagement was fought a few
days ago, the feet stopped, and after recon-
noltering for moment or two, the gunbeat
dropped in a she'll on the bluff where the
Rebel battery had been posted. There was
no response, and glasses showed nothing but
utter dssertion on the shcre,
few miles up another dangerous looking
bluff was reached, and another she'll thrown
with the same result. Without further deten-
tiOn the feet moved on, and, a little after
dark, came in at this landing, a mile or two
| across the Mississippi line. Orders were issued
promptly to prepare for marching, and about
i three o'clock the division moved out under
i another pouring rain.
/ PLAN FOR sHERNAN's MOVEMENT
The plan for this movement, like that for
| Gen. Wallace's, was to send out the cavalry in
/ advance to destroy a bridge on the Memphis
/ and Charleston Railroad, while the infantry
moved up to SUPPORT it, and save it from being
/ banked or cut off.
The cavalry started off at the proper time,
j but about nine O'Clock in the morning they re-
| turned. They had got within six miles Of the
place, when they found a creek so swollen
/ with tho recent rains as to be impossible
Meantime the infantry had only got out, with
infinite trouble, some three or four miles from
/ the boats. The rain was drcnching, and the
poor fellows had hard tine of il in their rst
experience of marching in Mississippi
RISE IN THE WATERS.
The little streams rose so rapidly that the
l troops had difficulty in returning A creek
| that they waded very easily about FIVE in the
| morning they were compelled to bridge at
| nine, before they could get back The srtil.
leTy had great difficulty in crossing at all, the
| caissOns were nearly carried down the stream,
l and the guns went under and almost mired in
the bottom Of the creek under elk feet water
Some idea Of the freshet can be had when /
| repeat what pilot told me-that the Tennee-
/ see rose eight feet in twenty four hours
The movement was a failure, but il was no.
Il body s fault. The elements we're against us
| and so the Rebels still have uninterrupted
| communication between Memphis and Charles.
ton. AGATE.
TIE ADVANCE DIVISION RETURNS FROM NfssIs.
sIPFI-AOvING.
Especial Correspondence Of Cincinnati Gazette
1 PITTsBURG, Tenn, March 16.-Gen. Sher.
mans feet came down here in the night. The
| effort against the Memphis and Charleston
Il Road had failed, and so we united here with
Gen. Hurlburt' $ Division For a more important
| movement.
The rebels are known to be near us in strong
l force, and now we have the cheering news thai
Manassas is evacuated, and the Potomac rebel
army can just as we'll turn up here as not. The
Old rebel camp here-occupied till the gun.
boats shelled them out Of it-shous that a CON
siderable force lay at this particular point
| and we hear of considerable bodies at Purdy
Corinth, and Florence. And besides, John
ston, Floyd, and Pillow cannot be far off,
Our troops are already diSembarked, and
before morning we are to move. Some rebe
prisoners, taken to-day, boast that before tive
days have passed We II be driven back into tht
river, and half eur boats sunk.