Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-02-17
From Cairo.
Cairo, Feb. l3.

Cairo, Feb. 13..
,u Capt. Pegrsm, of the steamer Ruth,
brought MS Memphis papers Of the 18th,
thAs morning. >.- ..-. "a. ....
The advance Of the rebels in Mississippi
10, understood to be at Okalons. Thew
are trying to repair the railroad desrroy.
ed by Gen. Grant :, but the inci,meacy of
tho weather very much retards their muye-
.ments. s~.-....,-. ...
/ By way of Tuscumbia We learn that
the enemy have moved q large part Of
their army from Virginia to EIckshure.-
They have also taken from Mobile ali the
garrison except four Thousand for pClice
duty. 3D.. -.-.. ..s. ....
The railroad from Meridian to Selma is
completed. and cars run daily to those
points. It, is useful 10 enabling the Con-
tederates to concentrate reinlurcements at
Gieksburg. -.... r.
The hospitals established hy the rebels
at luka are shortly to be abandoned, Or.
~ seyen'y-hi Of their wounded are now
here. -. .--. -
The eOfurcement Of the ennscrint law is
driving many from Alabn ma and Missisip-
pi north. 81 -.....
Notwithstanding stringent orders probi-
biting contra band articles from being sent
South, frequent violari, rs haze occurred
10 7copsequen' q, more vigorous measures
have bern resqrted TO-. All dIvnwarh
bound boats are stamped at Island N. 10
by the gunbnat New Era, and the DHssen
gers and baggage searched. Some ouinine
was discovered in the p"Rsession of a PASS
enger= ON the Rowens, last night, and he
and the Captain were brought to misplace,
The boat remains at the bland.
Four million dollars have been sent down
on the sRawena 20 pay lbe troops in Gen.
Grants department
One hundred bales Of cotton were brought
~ on the Ruth.
p The following telegraph was received at
headquarters =. ......- 4.
.,- Fort Henry, Feb. II.
Gen Tuttie Cairo -. va.
A force from Rosecran' s command have
captured six hun lied Of Morgan's COM
mapd-
I'VE are still picking up dead aud woun-
ded, in the neighboI hood of Douelsm-
The dead number more than TWO hun
dred. -' .a
a-a Nv. ". Lowe. Col Commanding
Thirty prisoners arrived here from Jack.
son last night.
.-,- Cairo, Feb. Is.
The dispatch boat Gen. Lyon. Capt. Il.
E. Birch, arrived with two days late. news
from Ficksburg .a - l.-r
T. 90 Sunday night barge loaded with
coal ran the blockade. and was caught BY
the ram Queeu below. That vessel is well
supplied with coal. -~....
The leveee on the Mississippi side was
cut by our forces, twelve miles below Hele-
ma. at Yazoo Pass ard at Greenville, and
on the Louisiana side opposite Lake Provi-
denee. --si -f eel o. Eel
The machinery Of the rebel bnat Vicks-
burg is being taken out Of her, and the ru-
NOR Is that IT is being taken 10 Muntgome-
~, Ala, and put in q new gunbOat. 1t lie
certainly being taken out. ..E
The steamer KoWena was arrested by
the officers oe the New Era, at Island No.
Ten. yesterday. Considerable quantities
OF cuisine wasfound aboard, mostly in the
hHnds of passengers ynns mao having two
hundred ounces. Some Of it,was intended
fer Tiptohville. Mo- She had on board oy.
er -. 100000 iur' government funde. A
rrise crew was rut on board Who took
her to Memphis. Thirty two of her crew
and passengers arrived here on the Ruth
to-day 3a7 -a1.a g. IN So .:rrs.7 .