The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-03-18

A private letter from a well-known naval Off
GER confirms the rebel report Of the entire dsstruc-
ton of the lndianOa.
The rebel General Longstreet's headquarters are
at Petersburg, Virginia. He has 500 troops this
side between there and the Blackwater.
Colonel Richardson. the noted geuerrilla chief,
with four hundred Of his men, was captured at Gov
ngton, Tenn, on the 9th. The Federals surround :
ed and surprised them.
General orders No. 20, promulgatedo on the 10th
inst contains no less than l20 officers absent with
ont leave who sre ordered to report within IL days
or be dismissed from the seryice.
Nine refugees from the South who lately arrived
in Washington give deplorable accounts of deS-
titution There is much suffering in Richmond for
actual neeeosaries OF life.
The War and Navy Departments feel satisfied
that 4 very short time only will elapse before the
rebel communication across the Mississippi river
will be entirely cut of by Yankee ingenuity and en-
terprise, without much bloodshed.
General Rosecrans orders that all persons whose
sympathiea, &c., prevent their giving assurances
of loyalty will hold themselves In readiness TO go
South within ten days
On the 9th inst, the Federal gunboat Quaker
City captured the Britsh steamer Douro, off Cape
Fear, after chase of SIX hours. The Donro had
four hundred and twenty bales of cotton Oh board,
and was bound for Nassau.
Judge Kinney had issued a writ against Brigham
Young, under the Polagamy act of Congress. The
writ was served without trouble. Brigham gave
bail in $4,000 L. ID believed the civil authority
can be maintained in Utah without the aid of troops
Late advices from New Orleans and the Gulf re-
present that the rebels are i'll starving condition
in the Southwest. Those recently sent beyond the
lines from New Orleans have returned, begging to
take the oath of allegiance, and asking fnF TODD
The rebels refused to receive them. Measures
have been instituted to csniscate SldelPs property
gentleman from Savannah, who claims to be
a member of the South Carolina Legislature, ar
rived at Cincinnati on the 18th He reports that
immense armies are massed in Tennesee--one to
hold Rosecrans in check while others flank him
and enter sch,icky, and move on Louisville and
Cincinnati They are only WgitiEs for the river to
fall and the roads to dry up.
Gen. Pcmberton has been removed from the De
partment of the Mississippi Bragg succeeds him
and has already taken command. LongStreet COM
mands Bragg's old division in Middle Tennessee
Price has returned from Richmond with full pow
ers and viii 20 to Missouri. Holmes is to be re-
moved, and Hindman sent ea2l of tbs Mississippi.
Kirby Smith goes to Arkansas,
4 recent report of the rebel Secretary of War
says he apprehends difficulty In Obtaining suf
fcicncy Of arms and ammunition, but the question Of
subsistence is an alarming one. The harvests of
the past season, he says, have not generally proved
proptious, and notwithstanding the much larger
breadth of land devoted to the culture of cereals and
forage, the product in many extensive districts is
belO,y tle average.
A dispatch to the New 4oEk 4tiL'lAe says pri-
vate letters from London speak with alarm of a
hoet which Is in progress of construction in Eng
land and Scotland, for tho rebels. Our Govern
ment is urged to demand in peremptory language
that they be forbidden to sail their errand of de-
structon to American commerce, threat of open
war being, in the opinion of the writer's, sure
and only means of putting an end to these secret
hostilities.
Tke French are doing nothing, or worse than
nothing, Ia Mexico. They need large reinforce
ments before making forward movement. Be
tween the guerrllas and the pestilental climate their
prospects are not brilliant. Gen. Forey dispars
vr tGE;p- Puebla without much greater army,
and calls for large reiEfqreements. Thrty-four
thousand Mexican soldiers were there, aud fifty
thousand in The neghboring Notifications of the
City Qf Mexico, which were being greatly strength
ened. Che arsenal il engaged night and day man,
ufacturing the best ried cannon and other improved
implements of war. The troops are generally
well armed, equipped, and apparently capable of
making, formidable resistance TO the advance
ment of the French.