The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-03-26

Last Nights Report.
REIGN or TERROR IN IEIPRlS !! !!

Chicago, March Is.
The Tribune's Cairo correspondence
says, q gentleman just fron Memphis
brings the following information Mem
phis is IN state of agitation and terror.
The Fair Grounds are used fof camps.
and every one capable Of bearing arms is
being impressed into the service; men
are even dragged from their beds
The proclamation Of the Mayor 10 regard
to burning the city has no influence. A
majority Of Aldermen in eonnnsction With
the leading military officers decided, 1t
meeting held fortnight ago, to burn the
city when they evacuate, ia spite Of the
Mayor. There are no Notifications az
Memphis. The news of the battle at Pea
Ridge caused great depression. The Fed.
eral gunboats are expected daily. There
are two hundred and five Union prisoners
in the city, who are made victims Of much
abuse at the hands Of tho guards. One
Of them was shot at for looking out Of
window. Three ganboats are on the WAYS
at Memphis, but it viii take long time
to 6nish them. At Randolph only four guns
are mounted. At Fl. Pillow, however,
there is strong fertilization, mounting
twenty five sixty-fours and thiity-.wos.-
There are about 1000 troops there. Al
Union City there are only $50 troops.
Generals Beauregard, Cheatham, Polk and
Clarke went to Cornith, Miss, fortnight
ago. The rebels have force of 3S. 600
men there, and expect to make stand eth
er At Cornith or Bethel. II was the gen.
eral impression that this battle would be
the decisive one Of the campaign, and that
the fortunes of the South Would hinge
upon it's results.
At A1nphs apd at other large points,
even at New Orleans, there is considera-
BILE Union feeling. southern papers do
not represent the feeling of the masses
Of the people. They, q well a. every
thing else, are under control of politicians
and the military. At New Orleans Is
gunboats are on ways to be plated With
rail road iron. Fl. Pillow, reported 10 be
in our possession, was mere temporary
structure. mounting only three or four
guns. The report that the South is well
supplied with provisions, is absurd. They
have not stock enough on hand 10 last six
months. Clothing, shoes, &c., are also
very difficult to obtain.
No confidence ii felt in Southern politi.
clans, Southern currency or Southern
military leaders. Jef Davis was universaiiy
denounced as incompetent. Floyd is ev
erywhere considered an arsant knave.-
Mrs. Buckner had arrived at Memphis.
She complained Of not being allowed to
go farther North than Cairo. In the par
lor of the Gayosk House she attracted
universal attention BY her bitter denun-
citation Of Pillow and Floyd. The former
Is reputed to have said that he would shoot
Floyd wherever he met him. II was the
general opinion at Memphis that no stand
would be made at Island No. 10, but that
battle would be risked at Fort Pillow.
At the latter place, however, retreat is
cut of by land, as the country in ttp rear
is inundated and swampy.
A detachment from JEFF. Thompson's
band, under the command Of rebel kitch-
en-, made demonstration in theyicinity OF
Bloomfield, No, and succeeded in arrest
ing two ladies residing there--the wife Of
Lieut.. Mitchell, of Poweff's battery, and
Mrs. d. Beuaforth, Of Bloomfield. The
ladies have been taken 70 Halcomb,s
Island, seventy miles below Bloomfield,
near the Arkansas line, where jeff. Is camb
is located.
Col. Michael fowler, of the 18th Iii
nois, who Was wounded at Denelson; sr-
rived to-day en- route for Pittsburg.