The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-02-21


rible storm.
The Tribune's Washington correspondent
says: Important but vague reports come
through rebel channels that Gen. Banks has
fought battle seven miles below Port Hud-
son, the result of which was. the rebels fell
back to Port Hudson, while he retired to his
camps.
The Memphis Bulletin learns that the
rebels have moved very large portion of
their army from Virginia to Vicksburgh.
They have also taken from Mobile all the
garrison, except few thousand for police
duty.
The forces of Gen. Rosecrans' command
have captured six hundred of Gen. Nor
gan's men. Our army is still picking up
dead and wounded in the neighborhood of
Fort Donelson. The dead will now number
more than 200.
When JEFF. Davis undertook to enforce
the CONSUMPTION in East Tennessee, about
four 6fths of the loyal men of that section
escaped through the mountains to Ken
lucky, where they joined the Union army.
A similar attempt in Northern Alabama and
Mississippi is now driving Union men away
from their families, and forcing them to take
up arms against the kingdom ofJeff. Davis.
There is perfect reign of terror in North
ern Alabama and Northern Mississippi, and
the Union armies are daily receiving re-
cruits, who gladly enlist to support the Con-
stitution and the Union.
Orders have been given that no dispatches
to the Chicago Times shall be transmitted
over the military telegraph lines.
The World says of the operations at
Vicksburgh: 1t is reported that McArthur's
division moved up to Lake Providence; here
it appears the Mississippi is not far removed
from two streams, the bayous of Macon and
Leusis, which at high tide join the parent
stream; thence they continue down till they
reach the Red river. 1t is deemed possible,
with little excavation and clearing, to turn
so much of the river into the new channel
as to make it navigable, leaving Vicksburgh
one hundred miles to the left. Should this
succeed, we might expect to see half of our
army advanced in fleet of transports to as
sist Gen. Banks at Port Hudson, prepare
tory to grand attack OF Vicksburgh by the
combined armies.
The rebel Adjutant General has decided
that men with any portion of the blood Of
the white race, are liable to CONSUMPTION
This decision admits to the rebel army all
the mulattoes and quadroons in the Confed,
eracy.
The Kentucky Legislature has passed a
resolution, providing for sending delegates
to the rebel peace convention to be held al
Louisville on the 18th prox.
The steamer Swan, from Key West fol-
New Orleans, has been lost with seventeen
of her crew and passengers.
The Times says Gen. Mcclellan has ap,
piled for active service.
News from Roanoke Island states that the
rebels have 1875 small boats seereted in bay
GUS and creeks, by means of which they ex
pect to cross to the Island and capture the
garrison.
The rebel Congress, on the 26th ult., re-
pealed the act exempting every owner o.
twenty negroes from CONSUMPTION.
The Senate has declined to act on the
names of forty ght Major and one hundred
and fifty -four Brigadier Generals nominated.
The last was returned to the President fol
revision.
A bill has been reported in the House
authorizing Nevada and Colorado Terrific
ries to form Constitution, preliminary t.
their admission into the Union as States.
The rebellion within the rebellion, il
Northeastern Georgia and Southwestern
North Carolina, has grown to be so formi
dable that Gen. G. W. Lee has been dis
patched, at the head of a large force, to sup
press it. The leaven of disintegration is a
work in the unhappy land of Secessia.
Four million dollars have just been sen
South, to pay off Gen. Grants army.
There are rumors of a new difficulty be
tween the British and Washington Govern
ments, owing to the seizure of EnglisE
vessels too near the Bahamas
The emancipation demonstration at Exc
ter Hall, England. was most enthusiast,
affair. and in point of numbers was one 0
t the most important since the days of tn,
} Corn Law League. Resolutions reiteratins
the sentiments of the Emancipation Society
and expressing great sympathy for tn