Washington telegraph., 1862-03-12
TrLEoR.purc SuMMAsY.-From some

TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY--froms some
mex pIicablc reason, our news by the tel
esraph to Little Rock, is, this week. roi
50 late as that BY way Of New Orleans
aud the ordinary mails from Memphis
Such as it is, we condense it for the ben.
it Of such Of our readers rs do not re-
ceive the Memphis papers.
A Memphis dispatch of the 9th gave
accounts Of large force consisting Of
about 5000 at Cairo, so 900 at Pa alucab,
and so, 900 more being daily expected
from the Potomac, and about 80 Federal
transports at Cairo, icing in readiness 20
move Also that $4,000 of the enemy
were moving from Bloomfield, Mo-, on
New Madrid. and were only IS miles dis
tant The next dispatch (3d) contains
the account Of the skirmish Of Colone
Thompson, found in another column. a
dispatch dated 4.h, stated that the day
before, fight had occurred at New Mad
rid That the enemy had been repulsed
and kept back, by the assistance Of our
yunboats until II o'clock, when the mes
seuger left, aud by our miserable mall
srrangem .nts all the relations Of the
.Southern Defenders" are left to sleep
thres nights on the probable chance OF
each Of them escaping At the same
time W. fiud in the New Orleans Crescent
dispatch from Memphis Of the sane
date (4th) that the Fedcrals appeared IN
front of New Madrid on the afternoon OF
the day before (Mouday) 10000 strong
under Gen'l Pope. They were kept back
by Com. Hollus' gnnboat sheling them
Il sheliug was continued up to four
o'clock Monday. the Federals having
made no response. The Federal lines ex-
tended around the town more than mile
1t was supposed an attack would oe mad
on the morning Of the 4th. 1t was ais ,
momentarily expected that an attack
would be made by the enemy's gunboat>
on Island No. 10. vacre they had fallen
back from Columbus, aud were strongly
fortified.
Iu our last, it was expected daily that
the enemy would enter Nashville. They
/
stou burnt the bridges over the Cumter-
land and fell back to Murfreesboro. a
despatch from Memphis, 4ih, represents
that the Federals at Nashville conducted
themselves with marked propriety; (the
, deceitful scoundrels,) that no arrests vt
private citizens had been made, but only
If Confederate soldiers on furlougli. That
few stores were open, aud oUly two
Federal fags were fying-oue from the
Capitol (alas. the dayD the other from
th. Court House. Gcn'l Johnston after
, having been joined by Gen'l Crittenden
with his forces, had abandoned Murirees
boro also, and was falling back T. Decatur
: iu Alabama. Good bye! old mother
State, You have gone under for awhile
You did not do itD
From Richmond (27th) we learn tina
the President ha. declared martial law u
Norfolk, Portsmouth and snrroundin:
country, aud it IS understood that Con
: gress had pissed an act abulisniDg th'
q Habeas Corpus (We hope il is unly u
The b)unds Of the martial law A +
Hill and j. j. Pettigrew Of N. Carolni
arc made Brigadiers. There are stron1
indications of the passage Of bill crea
e ting q general commanding officer Of The
whole Confederate army during the war
4 di>patchof the 2d says that the President
has also declared martIaliaw in Richmond
aud for ten miles round, suspending al
: civil authority save that Of the Mayor O
i Richmond, al-o (sanctioned by Congress,
the writ OF Ilabeas Corpus. Distlllurie,
were vrderod tn be closed aud sales Of al
liquors prohibited
c The steamer Nashville ran int) Beau
Is fort harbor Sunday morning, %. Th'
blockaders fred y shots at her withou
effrct She steamed up in gallant styl'
= She brought 800, 900 worth # stores fo'
e US. Near the Gulf stream she 1strIyed
a a Yankee Schooner bouni from Philadel
e phia 10 San Domingo. Com Prgram i
A delighted with the .hospitalities he receive
in England, and thinks Belgium will SCOT
, recognize US. The Sumpter was at Glib
ralter. The saucy craft had captured an'
& destroyed twenty -one Yankee vessels
A collision occurred on the New Or
leans, Jackson, and Grea, Northern Raj
= Road on the 9th ult. The 9Th Missis
y sippi Regiment was on board the train Of
a their way to Columbus. Tenty eigh
/, were killed, and "a wo1ujed
IS From Clarksvile, Arkansas, q, "
e learn that Jonas NJ. Tebbets, who fur
,, nishcd the Uoion flag for the Federa!s a
! Fayetteville, and pointed out the propert
of leading seceisionists, had been arreste'
aud conveyed 10 Van Buren, where b
was in prison. A dispatch Of the B
h from the same place states that Colonel
Greer aud SinDs, with SOD nen on
scouting expedition in the rear Of th
u Federal army, took $50 wagons, num
o Der Of mules aud horses, large amour
E Of clothing, killing % Of the enemy an,
i taking ten prisoners, without losing
man
: 1--WE learn from late private sources
that the number Of wagons taken ty Gree
I and Simms, was only 80, instead of Is
; as given in the dispatches.
!. LATER FROM THE NogrHwEsT.--Lie
tenant Ed. Jett writing to a friend of tn
. J,Va of N.rch 1sf savs that Ractnra ROC