The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-05-01
T TELEGR r APHIC.
Important Southern News.

The Memphis appeal of the 18th ult.,
Acknowledges the danger Of the success Of
the Federal flotilla, and advises the en-
ployment of every one, black or white, for
the defence of the Mississippi. 1t advo
Gates the construction of the most approved
description Of gunboots. The fearful loss
of Confederate officers in late battle is ex-
planned by the fact that the enemy have
organized bodies of sharp shooters. 1t
urges the organization of similar bodies of
Confederates.
Since the passage Of the conscription bill
by the Confederate Congress, all males
between eighteen and thirty five have join
ed the army. There is no impressmeut.
The people enter the service with zeal.
Business is entirely suspended except in
goods needed by the army.
A gunboat called the Arkansas is nearly
finished and plated with two thicknesses of
railroad iron placed transversly. She is
considered match for the entire Federal
fotilla. Another called the Bcauregard,
almost completed, is wooden boat, with
thirty inches of compressed cotton placed
between heavy timbers, eighteen inches
thick. She is also considered impregnable.
At Memphis, the burning of the city is
still discussed. Cotton, tobacco, sugar and
molasses, are gathered in immense piles on
the levee, ready to be fired on the appear
ance Of the Federal feet above the city.
Price Still in Arkansas.
The correspondent of the St. Louis DEM
ocrat writing from Houston, Texas county,
Mo-, under date of 10Th inst, says the
published reports of the movements of
Price and Van Dorm are utterly false. He
says that on the 14th their commands were
at De Sark, 80 miles below Jacksonport on
White river. Pocahontas has been eyacua.
ted. The town is now entirely deserted,
the merchants having removed their goods.
Jacksonville also nearly deserted. The
rebels seem to be concentrating a large
force at De Sark. Gen. Price is reported
to have gone to Corinth.
Albert Pike, with $500 Indians and 600
Texans, has been left on the border to bar
rass Curtis, while on the South Edgar
Ashbury is trying to raise regiment for
guerrilla warfare.
Col. Schnable is at Yellville with l,5OO
men.
Gen. Mcbride has gone to headquarters
to get an order to raise an independent COM
mand to operate in Northwestern Arkansas
and Southern Missouri.
The select committee, to whom was
referred the question Of the loyalty of Sem
ator Starke, of Oregon, reported that he is
disloyal to the Government of the United
States, having found that for many months
prior to November, he vas an ardent advo-
cate Of the rebel cause, and after the
formation of the.rebel constitution, openly
declared bis admiration for it, and warmly
avowed his sympathy for the rebel cause.
The telegraph aeeat at Salt Lake reports
al communication by overland mail stopped
BY Indians. No particulars are given.
1t is feared the Telegraph line will be
destroyed.
Since fredericksburg vas taken by the
Federals, Virginia hank notes are selling at
ffty cents on the dollar. Specie in Tir.
GINA is now worth 80 per cent premium.
General MitcheiPs division has arrived
At Tuscunbia, aud nov holds possession of
. hundred miles of the Memphis and
Charleston Railroad.
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