Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-03-13

DisDatch Of Saturday, Msrtl n Z, contains the
tho following telegrama
oFrioiAL aRrokr oF vLS ooRs rioHr-
CHarrASoooa, Mach e.--The feIlowing Of.
HciaI despatch Of General Vap DORIS late
engagement has Been received. The heh1
took place AZ Thompson's Station and not q
Franklin: 49,
E,csf The enemy attacked Van Dorm yes
terday At Thompsop's Station, between Coz
lamhla ana FrNhkltAi He 'dfoves them back
handsomely and eaptnred Eve regiments OF
iufantry-twenty two hundred officers and
men. Our loss is not reported,
Isisned1 BRAxroS BRAoo
rHE 1SplAxoLA NOT DESTROYED.
JACKSON, March 6 - 10 General S. Cbsper
General Stephenson, commanding at Vieks-
burg, teIegraphs March ~ "a follows THE
lndianolA is not destroyed. We are at work
10 raise her. One eleven-inch gun was burst
ed the others are not injured. lal,- l.f41.
GSiguedl j. G, PRNBERroS, Lieut. Gen
rug WAR IN THE ournwEsr--GEEERAL RANKS
rREPlRtyu TO MOVE. ..
PoRT Hupsox, March Via MoBnR, March
| G. -Intelligence reliable and Of the greatest
| Importance, has been received from the front
The preparations beiug made by Banks army
point irTesistibly to an early advance. Seven-
| teen mortar boats, the slo?p-ot-war Misslssip.
pi and the RunboAt Essex are now anchored
at Baton Rouge. ~. '''nY y !
Banks force Is fully thirty thousand. Am
balances and litters are being prepared The
! opinion of military men 10 that this point will
be attacked in a few days The utmost conf
dence prevails among both officers and men
in our ability 10 defeat the enemy. The re-
port that our pickets had been driven in is
unfounded but an immediate advance is an
ticipaied. The latest information confirms
the dissatisfaction in the Abolition ranks IL
is reported that Banks is opposed 70 the at
tack, but has orders from the War Depart
ment
| .a FROM YAzoo PASS. -s.aI
Couriers who arrived at Grenada on Satur'
day evening brought intelligence Of the move
lmen,s of the federAls at Yaz0o Pass They
lhad removed the artificial obsiructions as far
as the Coldwater, but none Of their boats had
entered that streAm up 70 Friday evening,
Ii was not known whether any additional
boats or troops had arrived and their force
then on the spot was supposed to be as before
reported As the Mississippi has already ial'
len ak or seven feet at the mouth Of the bayou
leading from Lake Moon, and the upper rivers
are falling rapidly, the old river men express
confidence that the ensmys boats will not be
able to return to the river without another
! rise. If so they and the whole accompanying
forces may be gobbled up
FEBRUARY PAST AND NOTHING AccoNPLIsHRD-
ri BRIGHT PROSPECTS AHEAD
\ From the Richmond Examiner, MArcba,
The month of February has gone by with
out advantage gained in any quarter BY the
enemy A month, which last year was foil oi
disaater to the South, has now passed without
any misfortune or discontinue whatever tc
, our cause. The sequel Of the high water sea
|. son bids fair to prove as free from calamity as
a last year at this time, it teemed with coming
e woes Then the enemy was strong, dshan
! land meuacing all around our borders, Will,
VI 1--we were at all points unprepared, weak ant
|, IdespondenL We were without armies, with
}, out Notifications, without preparation, withor
pl an. and withoat almost nerve or cn-.sgs II
,. any department OF the executive, nom head tC
a foot Norfolk was aboat 20 be evacuated, th'
a noble Merrimae TO be blown up, Port Roya
/. MAS to be stormed and taken, Manassas TO b
Is labandoned, Columbus, Island Number Ten
10 Memphis, Nashville, Middle aud West Tennes
,e lsee aud North Alabama and Mississippi, oC
le enpied by the enemy; New Orleans an
ID Louisiana lost without blow; the Virgin
ty Valley with all it's meat and forage, oysrrun
in Eastern North Carolina, with its stores
To grain taken from us Richmond stripped an
ID ldenuded for fight and special trains ordera
Ifor melaneholy official hegira FROM the Co
a. federate Capital The cause of,hs oou'h W !,
Of cloodedAwitb gsoosn So -:1e STOUT neart OH
Il, Sr~rls 4L--gn not despalring, was oppresse
~ ~ With dependency which found no relief
~ IL. nf 10. e.
ofi The contrast between the present periC
y,1 and that twelve months ago is not less strkir
oyl than cheering The whole acene is reverse
Re and, although the season is OF all others Il
I,ntone most auspicieus for tbs enemy and ina
ca spieious for ourselves, we are now the par
ed ID Il Of hope, confidence and defiance they,
III Fdespondency aud distrust Richmond is scare
70. II menaced and though it were ever so Il
nv midably threatened, is in u condition TO
- saccessfuly defended BY sixty thousand M
~ (effsctive) against all the forces which cou
,lbe mustered against her.
~ Vicksburg, second 10 importance only
10 Richmond, is confidently believed impregr
\. bic, The most formidable war vessels of t
;vs enemy have succeeded in running past
'hs batteries only TO be speedily captured by o
IA enterprising forces below, and 70 become
In valuable acquisitions at no cost at all, to O
W. now promising little navy.
49, srs Charleston, which seems TO be the spec
'iie object of Yankee mAlignity and desire a
m. which, in commercial importance, ranks g.
hat ond in value to no city in the Confederacy,
oss as strong, confident and defiant as Vicksbu
'cs The morbid apprehension ofgunboats viii
the last year haunted the imagination Of our p
me pie has given way to a national appreciate
oae Of their capacity for nActing injury, and