The Shasta courier., 1862-03-08
Telegraphic Summary.

A Pacific Railroad bill was reported to the
the 9th of February to the Sd of March.
Senate.
A great FIRE occurred in Boston on the 26th.
$50, 900 was destroyed. Government has
taken possession of the telegraph lines
in the country.
Dispatches received at headquarters of the
Department of the West, announce that the
army under General Curtis had again routed
General Price, together with the forces sent
to his assistance by the Confederates. under
command of Ben McCulloch, at Cross Hol-
lows, Arkansas. This was the place at
which Price was expected to make last de-
termined stand. 1t is forty miles from the
Missouri boundary, and point at which
desperate resistance might well be made.
General Curtis forced Price to leave behind
him all his military stores, also his sick and
wounded. Previous to the abandonment of
the ground he ordered all his camp equip
age burned 1t was done. General Curtis,
in his dispatch to General Halleck, says:
Most of our provisions for the last ten days
have been taken from the enemy. Price
burned the extensive barracks at Cross Hol-l
lows to prevent our troops occupying
them.
Colonel Webster arrived from Clarksville,
and says Pillow fled from Fort Donelson
to Clarksville and destroyed what property he
could and went up the river. Not a county or
road bridge escaped vandalism. The valua-
BILE wire bridge near Nashville met the same
fate. being burned by Pillows orders
Finding he could do nothing at Nashville,
Pillow destroyed all the military stores
which could not be carried off. Three gun
boats from Fort Donelson are at Nashville.
The report that Gov. Harris wished an in
terview with Gen. Grant, is an error. He
delivered an intense war message to the
Legislature, in which he declared that Ten
nessee must fight to the bitter end. Gen.
Nelson's Kentucky brigade reached Fort
Donelson ON Sunday. and was Immediately
sent forward to Nashville Gen. BuelPs
timely arrival there undoubtedly saved the
city from utter destruction, as Pillow could
not have saved it from his desperadoes if
the Federal force had not been in the vicin-
ity. Things were quiet at Forts Henry and
Donelson. The men were fast recovering
from the effects of the late fight.
A special from Washington says the indi-
cations in the Senate are clearly in favor of the
immediate passage of Trumbull's Confsca-
ton Bill, with an amendment freeing all
slaves of rebels.
United States Treasury notes are at thir-
ty per cent premium at Richmond
Gen. Grant has declared martial law in
Western Tennessee, with tho understanding
that if a sufficient number of citizens of the
State return to their allegiance and show a
desire to maintain law and order, all militia
ry restriction will be withdrawn United
States postal facilities are now extended to
Clarksville.
Stark of Oregon, miserable Connecticut
secessionist, has been admitted to a seat in
the United States Senate, by vote of 26 to
10.
The Senate passed the bill fixing the num-
Der of members of the House at two hun
dred and forty-ore. The House concurred
in the Senate bill fixing the number of Rep
rcsentatives at two hundred and forty on e,
under the census of 1860, giving an additional
representative for Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ken.
tucky, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Virginia
and Rhode Island
Colonel Woods cavalry has driven the en-
emy out of Dent, Texas and Howell counties,
and taken fifty rebel prisoners.
General Buckner and Tilghman are in jail
at Fort Warren
Gen. Curtis has taken possession of Fay
etteville, Arkansas capturing a number of
prisoners, stores, baggage, etc. The enc
my burned part of the town before they left
They have. crossed the Boston mountains in
great confusion. We now possess all their
strongholds.
Forty two. officers and men Of the Fifth
Missouri Cavalry vora pniSonaJ MuI
town by eating poisoned food which the reb-
els left behind. Captain Dolfort died L.
Lieutenant Colonel Van Dutch and Captain
Lehman are suffering much, but recovering.
The indignation of the soldiers was very
great.
The London Daily News reviews the en-
gagement at Mill Springs, or Somerset,
Kentucky, and pronounces the victory an
important Federal success.
Diplomatic correspondence concerning in
tervention in Mexico has been laid before
Parliament. Earl Russell, in a letter to
Sir Charles Wyke, touching the rumors that
Duke Macmillan would be called to the
throne of Mexico, says: g If the Mexican
people by spontaneous movement place an
Austrian Duke on the throne, there rs moth
ing in the Convention to prevent it; on the
other hand we could be no party to forcible
Intervention for this purpose"
Paris letters say Slidell has been received
by Mons. Thouvenel in private capacity,
the diplomatic assumption of his character
being distinctly ignored.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 2Sth-The New Orleans
Bee confesses to the magnitude of the calam-
ity at Fort Donelson 1t condemns the neg
lect of the Confederate Government in not
sending sufficient number of troops west
ward. 1t says general call to arr.s be-
comes an Inevitable necessity.
The Governor of Georgia has called for
twelve regiments in that State. If not forth.
coming by the 4th of March draft will be
ordered.
The War Department has ordered that
Gen. Dix and E. Pierpont be appointed
Commissioners for the purpose of examining
the cases of State prisoners remaing in mill.
tary custody in the United States, to deter.
mine whether, in view of the public safety
and existing rebellion, they should be dis.
charged, remain in military custody, or be
remitted to civil tribunal for trial. Ther
are authorized to examine, hear and deter.
mine the cases aforesaid er parte and in a
summary manner, at such times and places
as their discretion may appoint.
A meeting of the cotton and tobacco pl.n.
ters was held at Richmond Wednesday eve.
ming, to take into consideration the volunta.
ry destruction of cotton and tobacco crons-
A nrmber of speeches were made No con.