True Democrat., 1863-04-15

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 THE SrTuAr1os. On the 18th and 2oth ot mafo,i snow fell to the depth of ten inches at hicnnivnN' It is the settled opinion at-Richmond that ~ ~, will advance when the roads admit of ie me "' tempted passage of the Rappahannock near 0ui- nenner Court.house on the l7th, was supposed to ho tho nralpde to the moving of Rockers whole e,,co The snow storm would stop movements for two or three weeks
 Tn Tennessee they have had skirmshes but no decisive battle. About the middle of March Gen. Jobn H. Morgan met with little defeat, and lost I5O men. On the 20th he fought them near Mil ton for five hours, and drove the federals back Our ose was Is killed and 75 wounded. few days after he was at Liberty, on the federal left Captain Jones crossed the Cumberland ana captured q train of cars near Bowling Green, with a large number of federal officers and S2oO,ooo. On the 9th, Gen. Forrest, with his division made an advance on Brentwood, burned the railroad bridges, destroyed and took all the arms and cap trrcd. 800 prisoners, including g oflicers. Our loas was killed and 15 wounded It is belieTed that BurnsideB is moving to Tennessee, while ko9c- cran3 cro9ecs the river at Florence and moves through Alabama into Mississippi, to co operate with Grant and Banks number of regiments from the east passed through Plttsburg, going down the Ohio, and other regiments forwarded from the west. to Nashville, to form a new army, while Roseoren3 marches southward. Rosccrans has gent sodiu 1000 persons south, having robbed them of all their goods and proyisiona.
 From Mississippi we learn that ths fcds have abandoned the Y4zoo Pass. and are trying the suna ower river, They have boats in the Talla- h4tche and are stealing large quantities cf cotton The feIeral3 have now four or five boats between yickeb,rg and Port Hudson, and are doing great deal of mischief on the river. great piece ot carelessness at Vicksburg lost us a fac boat. On the night of Saturday, the 28th, during the severe storm, the fine boat City of Vicksburg, tied in front of the batteries, broke loose and drtted down to the federals. It was of the finest Do its on the river. In Louisiana there has been series of skirmishes, all of which were Confederate sue cesses From Kentucky, we have nothing more than is to be found in the column headed 'Tee- craphic,, except that Col. Clarke had captured Mt Sterling.
 As we predicted, the battle of Charleston com menced early in the present month See telegraph column for what particulars have, and for other interesting news
 Congress talks of adjourning soon. One propo- sition was to adjourn the 10th inst, but 1t Is not problble that they will do so before the first ot May The revenue bill it Is said, taxes every thing, and the tax is very heavy Men of pro- perty uho have held back and let the willing hor- ses draw the load, must now do their share Of pull ling The act in regard to funding treasury notes will be published next week.
 In our State, we have rumor of the landing of 5000 fedcrals at Gaines Landing, and their threat to invade the State Our impression is that they are on stealing expedition, and will not venture far. In the northwest, the federal Arkansas reS- meut, composed of tories, jayhawkcr8, renegades and bandits have hosted the black flag, and mur- der every man, citizen or soldier, whom they sus- pect of symplthizing with the South These scoundrels have murdered at least shundred cit- gems in that portion of the State within the past six months