The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-03-26
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WAsHfNGToS, March % The Governs
ment ls in receipt Of private dispaic chez
from Grants army az Vicksburg, of In.
most gratifying character, leading TO The
belief that tomorrow we must have in.
formation Of startling and decisive
nature. The news OF the fall of Port
Hudson and Vicksburg both, would be
no disappointment TO high Governme nj
officials. II is most probable that Farra-
gut has ere this joined his forces with
Porter's fleet in the attack on Vicksburg.
The receipts, from Internal Revenue.
last week, were one million dollars.
The War Department has had under
consideration TO- day, lists Of appoint.
ments of Provost Marshals under the
CONSUMPTION Act, for Mass chusetts. New
York and Ohio. They will be completed
10 few days, and announced. II is
desired toget them at work as speedily
as possible, returning the hundred thou
sand deserters, TO say nothing of the ne
cessity for the immediate enrolment of
the national militia.
No reliable confirmation Of the rumor
thatthe enemy has evacuated the Kappa
hammock can be had. The whole story is
thought TO be based on limitations 10
that effect recently published in Rich
mond.
Senator Lane, OF Kansas, declared in
the speech be made here last night, that
his negro regiment was the best drilled
regiment in the service, or in the world.
The Government to-day clothed the
late prisoners from Richmond. Before
leaving there they were stripped of al
most all their decent clothes. Several
OF the prisoners Of the late Gen. Mitch
ELS command, who proceeded into Ala
bama, aud ran an engine on the rebel
railroad for hundred miles, before they
were captured, addressed public meet
ing here tonight. Most of their COM
panions were hung.
MURrREEsDORo, March 23.--Within the
. last four days the enemy has undertaken
several "Reminiscences, causing consid-
cradle picket skirmishing along our whole
front. The rebels do not appear, how
ever, to be'anxious to bring on q general
engagement eaiTh "
Wheeler, with about 1000 mounted
men, has advanced to Middleton, about
ten mileS beyond our outposts.
Forrest is still with Van Dorm, whose
whereabouts is not definitely known.
Morgan, since his recent defeat, has
been encamped on Snow Hill, three miles
beyond Liberty, on our left.
Reliable information from the Southern
Confederacy represents that the evacua-
tion of Vicksburg was being advocated
on account Of its strategic advantages.
BY Withdrawing the troops from Vicks-
burg and massing them with the army Of
Middle Tennessee, prominent rebels
hoped and claimed that Gen. Rosecrans
would be obliged to repeat the movements
of last year, when Buell. fell back into
Kentucky. There is, however, no indi-
cation of such a movement
Col Stanley Mathews, of Ohio, has been
directed to superintend the enforcement
of the regulations of Gen Rosecrans' late
order, excluding secessionists and rebel
sympathizers from our lines.
A Washington dispatch says:
The War Department is overwhelmed
with applications for positions in the col
ored regiments. Half of to-day's mail
was composed of them. The success of
the Florida expedition has given, . great
impulse to the movement, 5s ID IN
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