Evening star., 1863-04-14

From late Richmond papers we make up the
following budget of Southern news:
FROM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS DEFEAr.
A gentleman just from Kentu cky brings some
information OF the operations and final repnlse
Of Fegram s brigade in that State. Oa the 24th
nit, Col Scott, Of the brigade, with four COM
panies Of his own regiment and one company
o1 Ashby's regiment, In all between four and
hve hundred men, chased Col. Fry, in COM
m6Dd OF tour regiments OF infantry and some
Of Woolford's cavalry, out of Danviile COM
plets1y routing them, and capturing Lieut. Col.
Adams and other prisoners. While Scott was
pursuing the enemy through the streets of
D:,Dyille the Yankees shot Mrs. Mitchell, the
wife Of the President of tine Branch Bank of
kentucky, through the head, killing her in
stantly, and also female servant who WAS
standing behind her. Col. Scott skirmis he'd
with the enemy from the oath nit to the 2Sth,
and then Y: As in Houstonville, Lincoln county.
During the same time Gen. Pegram was skir-
mishing near Hickman's Bridge, on the Ken
tucBy river, and dreye the Yankees back. On
the 3ist, when two miles beyond Somerset, he
vas attacked by large Federal force Of cav
airy and infantry, under Carter, Fry and
WOolfUrd, and after severe hand TO hand fight
OF sc evpral hours. the Confederates gave up the
nneq ual contest, and fell back six miles, the
enemy not pursuing. Our loss was heavy;
supposed to have been fifty killed. Some two
hundred and over were missing alter the fight,
bn. as parties of stragglers have been coming
in since. the total loss cannot be ascertained.
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sever, as troops reported to have
fought with desperation, we'll as from the
fact that the enemy tailed to follow them.
Messrs. Powell and McGhee, who had pur-
chased for our Government 900 head of
cattle are reported TO have got out with $50,
having lost some SO.
BY way OF Cumberland Gap we have report
that Col. Clark's cavalry had possession Of
Mourt Sterling, where he had captured some
SO prisoners, and that Humphrey Marshall
had icinrd Kim at that point.
1t rs said that Burnside, at the solicitation of
Guthrie, has been started with 10000 Federal
infantry and lu,GG0 cavalry, for Lexington,
kentucky
George ID. Prentice has really gone TO Europe,
taking with him his daughter in law, the wife
OF Major Clarence Prentice, who is in the Con-
federaie army.
Rosacrans has sent five regiments of infantry
10 h. .ntucky, and has ordered all the cavalry
from that Stale to his army at MurirerSbero',
and is massing his troops on his left. tour right,)
doubtless to prevent any movement upon our
part into that State.
MIsCELLASEoUs ITEMS
Tho Virginia Legislature has passed a tax
bill taxing evervb body and everything within
the limits Of the State At MI n more than double
the rates of United States t. " under the internal
revenue law.
The Charleston paper. complain that money
is M ch tighter in that city than ever before
The rebel Congress have passed q bill abol-
ishing HOgging III their army altogp ther-Sub.
stituting the death penalty and Imprisonment
In fhe penitPntiary IN Its stead.
Richard FitZmorrie and Harvey Simmons,
Yankee prisoners" who were released on
taking the oath of allegiance 10 the rebels. have
been re. arrested and sent TO Castle Thunder,
for trying to escape TO ''their Yankee friends"
JEFF Davis, i'll 4 report to the rebel Congress
on the history and condition Of the telegraph
lines in the South. urges that the interests of
northern persons in them-Amos Kendall and
others-amounting 10 S3.:}, $50, be srqne>t tered
The report alleges that the managers OF the
several companies are trying 10 hide the fact
that the Yankees have such interests iii them
The report further proposes to seize all the
Southern teiegraphs and turn them over to the
rebel post office department--the government
10 indemnify loyal rebel owners for their losses
by the act.
The Richmond Mayors Court is busy inyes-
tigatng the women,s bread riot They hud in
custody Tor it large number of women and
some men.
Hon. Wash. Barrow is a candidate for the
rebel GioSernorship of Tennessee.
The Dispatch publishes tiattering accounts OF
the growing corn and wheat crops throughout
fefelG0m.
Samuel NJ. Wilson and G. W. Murdaugh an
nounce themselves i'll the Richmond Dispatch
as candidates for the House of Delegates of
Virginia Tor Norfolk county, including the city
sc Portsmouth, and Geo. w. Grice ;ts candi-
date Tor the Senate.
THE CORES aPoNDENCE
Under this caption the Richmond Dispatch
OF tiir oth. says:
We nave published the gi-t of the correspon-
deLce between Mr.. Mason aud Lord Russell,
On the question of ;he legality of the blockade
OF our ports by the Yankee Government and
the recr cnitCn of the Confederacy. No South
ern man read ii without feelings of indig-
nation ard contempt-indignation for the cold
and stony haughtiness. not 10 say rudeness of
manner of the British Minister towards Mr..
Mason GAIT, ,rwaIds only partially atoned by
disay al OF any personal disrespect) and con-
tempt Tor the subtertuges resorted To to cover
q selfish policy. 1t adds:
ut n3 to ypr ha mis-
may 90 or propose, that our country has re-
ceived the most valuable assistance from the
people OF England, and at this time there
schemes on foot there ofgreat importance to US.
THE RICHMOND DISPATCH on MARYLAND
PUBLICATIONS.
The Richmond dispatch of the 9th instant
calls the attention of Southern men to two
publications lately issued from the Maryland
Press, viz: .sSouthern Rights and Union Parties
in Mary land Contrasted," and .Fourteen
Months i'll American Bastiles" and says no
one can read them without feelings OF loathing
and disgust tor the Union party of Mary land
1t virtually confesses that the people of the
South counted without their host when they
counted Maryland with them, and Is better
against the course of those who at first affected
to sympathiZe profoundly with the South, and
afterw ard became the most hateful and dis
gusting OF all the minions of Lincoln'5 tyranny.
II takes from the last mentioned publication
horrible account of the way prisoners are
treated in Northern prisons. all of which we
need not say has its foundation in any thing
bat truth.
CONFEDERATE CAVALRY RAID IN GLOUCESTER.
lfrom Richmond Dispatch, April 81
On the 3trh nit. a dash W as made by nine Of
the Cioptor Rangers and three of the Glouces-
ter Cavalry on company OF ankees, stationed
At Seawells Point, in Gloucester county, Va.
The company was composed of forty of Tooth
California Cavalry. Our men drew them from
their position, fired upon them and charged
with the sabre. The enemy fed, leaving two
killed and three wounded. One of the killed
was Lieutenant Our cavalry harass the out
posts of the enemy much that they are
afraid 10 go grand rounds without very strong
force 10 protect the officer of the day.
The Danyilie cars brought into Richmond on
the 9th ;142 Union prisoners of war, captured at
Brentwood Tenn. by Gen. Forrest Among
them were twenty. three commissioned officers.
Ali OF them are to be exchanged at an early
day On the same day i5l Union prisoners
were sent by Il nag OF truce TO City Point to be
sent North exchanged. Among them was
Lieut. Bloodgood, OF 22d Wisconsin,, and
twenty one other officers. a majority of the
privatts were those taken al Brent wood, Tenn,
by Gen. Forrest, who had arrived in Richmond
previous TO the lot referred to above
The Dispatch is Mortified a. the reception OF
the Haytien Minister in Washington city
THE MARKETS.
RICHMOND, Tuesday, April :, ls63.-Produce,
groceries, &c.--Apples. S3o50 per barrel very
few in market. Butter in demand at s:}aS3.25
per pound. Bacon, hoground, $l.25aS1.40.
Bees wax, $50 per pound. Beans, SIS TO SlS