Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1863-02-12
News of the Week.


The Nashville Union thinks the "friends
Of peace" who propose holding a conven.
!. tion ip Nashville, will 60 to the right place
If the East Tennessee regiments are main
tanned in that vicinity. The East Tennes
seeans would take good care of the friends
ofpeacs."
The gunboat Glide was destroyed by fire,
at Cairo, on Saturday.
The Copperheads of the Illinois Senate
having passed a resolution declaring the
Legislature adjourned until june, in order
to give the projected Peace Convention at
Louisville time to take action in favor Of
armistics, and report to the Legislature,
the Republican members agreed that there
should be no more Legislation until the
Copperheads withdrew the above resolu.
ton, and pledged themselves not again to
present them. In consequence, the Re-
publican Senators left Springfield on Friday
night, and the Legislature is virtually dis.
solved.
Hindman's Forces are utterly demoralizod
and scattered. He cannot collect over g.
600 men. Hundreds Of his conscripts have
come into our lines and been parclled, many
volunteering to take the oath and express.
ing their willingness to enlist.
By an arrivsl of prisc vessel, at Phila-
delphia, from of Charleston, we have par.
ticuiars Of the affair, about which Beaure-
gard blowed so extensively. The rebe
rams attempted to recover a prize vessel
captured by the blockaders, but we're final
ly driven off. One of our vessels was in
jured slightly, and another seriously, bu
mono were sunk. The blockaders did mol
withdraw, as reported. One Of our iron
elads attacked Fort McAllister, and retiret
for want Of Shells She was not injured
though struck great many times.
A rebellion has broken out in Northeast
ern Georgia against the rebels. A battle
was fought, in which the insurgents are re
ported to have won victory.
vicksburg dispatches describe the run
ming Of the blockade at that paint by ths
ram Queen Of the West. She started or
her perilous voyage at five in the morning
Of the Sd, and though hot fire from the
enemy's heaviest guns was poured upon her.
and she delayed to butt . rebel steamer
which lay under the bank, and was hi
twelve times, nobody on board was hurt
Other rams, it is stated, will soon follow
.nJ ..onoa ur;lI a.. laoJaJ so,,th oc VIII .
burg, and the communication Of the city
with Louisiana be thus cut of: The rebe
transports in the Ouachita and-Red river
will also be attacked. Other news frou
Vicksburg is comparatively unimportant.
A citizen Of New York, who has takel
the pains to examine the record Of deeds
claims, through the Evening Post, that tn
Heald's story Of the gift of splendid rss
idence to Mrs. Mcclellan, by admirers O
the 6eneral, is hoax.
The people on the Southwestern borde
Of Missouri are reduced almost to starvs
tios, the opposing armies having strippe,
the country Of everything eatable.
The Navy Department has ordered tn
iron'clads Keokuk, Nantucket, Catskil
and Sycamore, to be made ready for sea q
once. The Sycamore and Nantucket will
probably sail during the present, and tn,
Ksokuk and Castkill next week.
Letters lately received from our Consu
lates at Monterey and Matnmoras, confirm
the report that there are large numbers o
Union refugees near the border, waiting 70
su invasion Of Texas to join the Federal or
my. There are one thousand near the Dor
der, reported by the Vice Consul at Mon
terey, and accessions are being made daily
In consequence Of the brutal trsatmen
practiced on the Unionists by the Confed
crate officers. Up the river from Matamo
ras the force Of refugees is very large, thir
teen hundred Of whom are well armed an,
mounted.
Rebel dispatches from Charleston 50
that the British frigate Cadmus brings 10
telligencs that . most formidable naval an,
land expedition il about to attack Charles
ton, preparations now being nearly couple
Ted. The Cadmus was to take off Rober
Burch, British Consul. The citizens ar
greatly alarmed, and are leaving rapidly
Gen. Foster has arrived at Port Royal, Will
large reinforcsments for the Union arm,
from North Carolina.
The Rebels say the Union ram, Queen o
the West, which Isn the blockade Of vicks
burg, is destroying an immense amount o
their shipping between Vicksburs and Por
Hudson, and playing the very deuce will
them generally. Ais
ybs haEbor At Port Royal 10 full Of ves
aels aud troops, everything denotes ae,ivit