The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-04-26

fugees had arrived who left MoMinpville
yesterday, stating that Gen. REYNOLDS
arrived at McMinnville Tuesday evening.
capturing two trains of cars, a train of
wagons on the way 70 Sparta, thirty or
forty prisoners, and the wife of Brigadier
General John II. Morgan.
Gen. Reynolds is leading an important
expedition. O.her expeditions havo
been twelve or fifteen miles in front With
in two days, and are pressing against
the enemy.
Negley's splendid division was review
ed to. day by General Thomas, General
Rosecrans being present.
The Chattanooga Rebel, of the 10Th.
contains a telegram from Jackson, 18th,
stating a rumor that the army from Mil.
liken's Bend reached the Mississippi near
New Carthage; that a bridge over the
Big Black river has been burnt: that
Vicksburg will be attacked in ten DAYS:
that sixty four steamers have left Mem
phis for Nicksburg, with soldiers and
negroes, and that the Yankees are forth
flying the railroad north of Memphis.
A bill passed the rebel Congress dis
placing QuarteTmasters and Commissa-
ries' clerks liable to military duty.
The House adopted the following de-
vice for be seal of the Confederate
States: An equestrian portrait of Wash
ington, with a wreath composed OF the
chief agricultural productions of the
South. Motto, Dec Duce NncimenO-
"God being our leader, we will conquer"
A dispatch from Vicksburg dated 18th,
says eight of the enemy's gunbOats came
down at IL o'clock last night. Heavy
firing was opened by our batteries, and
replied TO briskly by the boats. One
boat was burned in front of the city.
Two guns Of the Yankee battery on
the peninsula opened on the city this
morning. One is still firing,
The gunboat Lafayette is reported
sunk.
A dispatch from Port Hudson, dated
April II, a y the encmy's upper feet re-
turned above Bayou Sara, and stopped
at Point Coupee Post-ofice, and returned
the letters taken on their way down to
the lower fleet. Another telegram from
P~ontchatoula of the 18th, says the New
Orleans Era, of the 18th, says the cap
tured ram Queen Of the West was de-
slroyed this morning by the gunboata on
Grand Lake, and her crew captured.
The gunboat Diana was in atight place
at Jackson on the 18th.
The Federal batteries opened on Vieks-
burg on the 18th, Two thirty FOUNDER
PARROTS and three classmates are visible
with a telescope.
The Chattanooga Rebel says a battle
cannot much longer be deferred in Mid
die Tennessee.
Especial Dispatch TO the Cincluuati Gazette1
Col. Scribnel, commanding brigade OF
infantry, and Col. Loomis with Van
Pelts Michigan Battery, yesterday drove
the enemy's beyond Manchester, killing
several and losing none.
| find the following telegrams in the
Chattanooga Rebel of the 10Th lust:
JACKSON, April 17.-Eight boats
passed Vicksburg last night; one was
burned, two disabled, but five were sue
cessfnl.
sit is rumored that the canal from
Milliken's Bend reaches Mississippi neal
New Carthage.
alt is believed that the Yankees are
constructing batteries opposite Vicks-
burg.
"The bridge over Big Black river has
been burned. Yicksburg will DO a.
tackled 10 ten days. All Yankee officers
absent are ordered TO report opposite
Vicksburg. Sixty-iour steamers hav,
left Memphis for Nicksyurg with sol.
diers and negroes. No papers are allow
ed below Cairo. The Yankees are fOrti-
flying the railroad northaof Memphis.
"VIoKsBURG, April 1.-Two guns Of
the Yankee battery on the Peninsula
opened on this city this morning at 8 o.
clock, aud are still firing. Four prisoners
from the boat sunk last night were
brought in to-day, and say the transport
Henry Clay was sunk, and a gunboat
was burned.
The Lafayette was sunk by our bat
teries last night also. The remainder of
the expedition, they say, will come down
Tonight. The battery on the peninsula
ceased firing late this 7, M. No damage
was done.
MEMPnIs, April 23-Six transports
have recently been successful in running
the blockade. They are the Tigress,
Empire City, Moderator, Anglo Saxon,
Chessman, and Harrison. The casual
ties are not known.
The Free Stone and A.. ID. Hine have
taken two double-deck fiat boats through
the Duckport Canal. These boats arc
capable of carrying one thousand mer
each. Transports now run by Warren
ton without difficulty, the batteries be-
ing silenced.
Gen Banks army is at Point Coupee
on the south bank Of Red river, aud OPP
posite Bayou Sara.
HFADoUARrEhs Army or THE Por5MAc,l
April %.
The Richmond Wing Of The 2lst hal
been received.
OKoLoNA, MISS, April 20 "A squadron
of abolition cavalry estimated at LOCO
were advancing on Pontotoc yesterday.
There advance guard was reported there
last night. Our forces are concentrating
TO resist them. An engagement is certain
to-day, unless the enemy retire.
The Wilmington N. o. Journal, o
the 18th saws: "We regard il as more
than probable that a large portion o.
Cen. Hills troops have already left th,
vicinity of Washington, aud, although
mortified, we should not be at all sur
prised that the seige had been abandon
ed, and that the enterprise, so far as
Washington Is concerned, had turned oui
10 be a failure. We do most sincerely
trust thati may turn out otherwise, but
We are reluctantly forced TO This belief
JACKSON, Miss., April l7.-News from
Memphis says thirteen regiments are Il
be sent to Mississippi TO act as cavalry
Corintb. IA ia reported, has been largely