Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1863-03-27

tci cugc. Hlfty OF NcT uNCeIs Auu
crew were captured.
: Lcvees have been cut in several places,
: between Young's Point and Grand Lake.
The whole country is ovcrfiowed, and
: many wealthy planters have removed TO
. high lands with their saluahles.
Col. Bissell was fired AT on Tuesday,
while exploring Bayou Macon with a
small boat, by forty rebels. The Colonel,
however, showed fight, and they ran
away.
There is said to be seven feet Of water
in the channel to Bayou Macon, whence
transports can 90 readily into Red river
None have yet gone into the Lake. 1t is
doubtful whether any attempts will be
made to navigate this route at present,
the iazoo Pass movement SO engrosscs
attention.
Kumors reach us Of disaster to General
Ross, commanding the expedition thro'
Yazoo Pass, but they are not credited
He was skirmishing briskly three days
ago. His gunboats were then in the ia-
zoo river.
An expedition left here few days
ago up the lazoo river, and passed
through havous into the Sunfiower,
avoiding the rebel batteries ut llaincs
Bluff. Communication will thus be open
ed direct with Gen. Ross in the vicinity
Of lazoo City. The rebels arc reported
10 be sending considerable force IN that
direction.
W ork Is progressing slowly on the
canal here. Water is running through it
rapidly. Dredgcs ara at work deepening
the channel. The rebel batteries oppo
site is foot have the range accurately,
and last nj . lit threw shot and shell exact
act in the channel half way across the
point.
There is no positive news from below.
The Federal gunboat Essex, from Admi
raj farragut's fleet, is reported few
miles below Warrenton, which is proba
bly, untrnc.
A belief that the rebels will cyacuatc
Vicksburg without fighting prevails here,
but seems to have little foundation.
Gen. Gorman ha. been restored to his
command at Helena.
WAsHrNGToN News, 18th Richmond
papers continue to speak Of the scarcity
Of provisions in the South = one Of them
actually recommending the people 10 live
on but two meals per day. The E.cam.
'ner says that the points now held by
| their enemies may yet be abandoned for
want Of TODD for men and hor,cs. 1t
proceeds to say that heretofore railroads
have supplied those wants; but, owing
to the wearing out of rolling stock, scar
city Of hands, &c, the running has been
rcducedlo ten miles All hour. The rail
roads IN Nirgnia,lt IL is said are on the point
of giving out.
The Dispatch saws that, between the
two classes Of their mortal ioemen North,
there is little to choose. One is CONNER
cial and the other crazy. 1t says it re
spcc,s Wendell Phillips more than it does
Edward Everett or Caleb Gushing, be
cause the fanatic has principle and the
other has nothing.
Most all of the churches in Washing
ton used for hospital purposes were given
up to day, owing to the large decrease im
the number OF sick and wounded. There
are at present in the regular hospitals here
SIX thousand empty beds.
The internal revenue receipts are grad
ually growing larger, and arc nearly with
in one halt of the weekly expenditures
Is is quite probable that Secretary Chase
will make another trip to New York for
an important consultation with finsncicrs.
| After the absorption OF the iivc-twcnty
bonds, an amount of ten year bonds will
be put on the market, it IS thought.
1t seems to be very well understood
that, as soon AS Provost Marshal are Sc
Iec,ed and an enrolment secured, draft
will be first ordered in those States that
have not filled their quotas under the old
allotment for men enough to fill up the
deficiency. This will put at least 10000
in the field, with prospects OF a call in June
for 200 900 or 100000 additional.
A large number Of civiians are arriving
here from various parts OF the count y for
appointments AS Provost Marshals. The
" ar Department officials are fairly over
run by them.
Dg.MoiNEs News, 25th.-Judgc Lane,
Of the District Court, as | have apprc-
hended he would do. has refused to en-
tcr,ain applications for wrI,s Of habcas
corpus in cases of alleged army desert
ing. Under very mistaken notion all
IN considered idea Of Chief Justice
Tanev's decision in the Booth case from
Wisconsin. our State courts and Judges
refuse to take cognzance Of cases arising
on habcas corpus. when it is returned by
, tie officer that he holds.thc petitioner by
virtue of Federal authority, handing the
mat er over to the Federal courts, who
, hold in turn that the jurisdiction is in the
, military and not the civil authoritles,and
thus. by round of techncallties, the
liberties of citizens are being swept away.