Daily national Republican., 1863-05-06
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

From rebel sources mainly we have import
ant news from the Southwest. Gen. Dodge had
gone eleven miles beyond Tuscumbia, and on
the 29th ult. was fighting the rebel Gen. For
rest. Dodge took possession of COurtland,
Alabama, Oh the 26th. Dispatches from Jack
son, Mississippi, Of the 20th, say that Gen.
Grant was at L MON Church, on the Natchez and
Hazclhurst road, north by east from Natchcz.
A train of TRANSPORTS had reached Hazelhurst,
and 1t was supposed that the UniOnists were
about to attack Natchcz. Light draught boats
were moving up the Yazoo river, for what pur-
pose Is not stated. Gen. Banks had taken
Alexandria, the principal town Of RapidGs
parish, La, on the Red river. Another rebel
dispatch from Jackson says that COmmuniCa-
tiOn with Grand Gulf has been re-cstablished;
that after six hours Canu0Iadiug at Grand
Gulf the Union gunbOats withdrew. The boats
fired three thousand shots only three rebels
: were killed, one Of them a colonel, and twenty
I two wounded. Two gunbOats were apparently
disabled. The boats were three miles below,
On the west side. Union forces were on the
| Louisiana shore opposite Grand Gulf.
. The 10Th Ohio regiment, Col. Wood, return
ed on the 9Gth ult. to Mllikcn's Bend. from an
expedition into Mississippi They visited the
corn growing region on Deer creek, and dcs-
trOyed 3jO, 900 bushels of corn and thirty cotton
gins and grIst mills in rebel employ. Three
full regiments Of negroes are now organized at
! Milliken's Bend, and a fourth is nearly full.
Mr. Nallandigham, the notorious member OF
the last Congress was arrested at Dayton, Ohio,
yesterday, by detachment of soldiers sent up
from Cincinnati, to which city he was taken.
His irlends attempted rescue, but failed.
The immediate cause Of his arrest is not stated.
A correspondent at Suffolk, writing on Sun,
day night, reports that the rebels were appa,
rcntly retrcalng, and that Gen. Peck had com.
j IaI iva A Htrb in mr.
grcss for several hours on Sunday, and it /.
reported that rebel battery and a number OF
prisoners ere captured.
A special Cairo dispatch reports that Gen.
sherman 5 division, accompanied 10y a fleet OF
gunbOats, had again gone up HazOO river and
attacked the rebel batteries. CaunUuading aud
muskCtry were heard, but the result had not
been ascertaincd. \ heavy force from Gen.
Grants army had also landed above Grand
Gulf and COnjOiut land and naval attack had
been made on that place.
The rebels say that the United States sloOp.
Ot-war Preble was destroyed by fire oil Pcnsa
cola on the 2Oth Ult.
Alexandria, Louisiana, the town said to havt
been captured by Farragut's gunbOats, and il
the course Of being occupied by Gen. Banks
forces, is u small village situated on the sUull
bank of the Rcd river, $50 miles above IT.
mouth, and nearly 800 miles overland from
New Orleans by the route Travelled by Genera
Ddukh, ana obO mites from NCW OIlGdNs DN lN
river. Steam boats can navigate the Red rive
more than 800 miles from Alexandria t,
Shreveport, a short distance above which place
the raft makes the river impossible.
On the I'd inst. 50 rebels in Union disguise
tagged awoOd train On the Memphis and Chcs
ter Railroad, near Grand Junction. The traiI
stopped, and number Of prisoners were taken
The engineer managed to dctach the engine
and escaped with it.
IN expedition under Gen. Blunt Is now being
fitted out at Fort Scott for Texas. 1t consist
Of Nebraska and Kansas volunteers, one rcgi
mcut from Colorado, and iiNuthOusaud Indians
1t is thought that the expedition will be read,
to start by the 10Th Of this month.
Gen. Dix has addressed letter 10 Henry \
Wise, commanding the rebels near Williams
burg. Notwithstanding Gen. Wisc's profession
Of kindness to the insane at Williamsburg, ant
his charitable petition to General Dix for the
relief, IN default Of his own ability, the rebel
have been permitted 10 make raids upon th
sacred ground, and recently stole OFT seyera
cOIored servants and nurses from the asylum
for the insane. These raids have been repeated
aud assisted by the town Inhabitants. Gen
Dix therefore threatens, in case the aggression
continue TO send the insane to Richmond. II
will also destroy any house from which GU
soldiers may be fired upon, and put to death
as a violation Of civilized warfare, any privat
citizen who CO-opcTatcs in these attacks.
Subscriptions to the 5-2O loan, through ia,
Cooke X Co., amounted, on Monday, to 81,
U24 200.
Our latest intelligence from Western Vlrginl'
Is that the rebels have been entirely driven iron
the line Of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
They are in the mountains back Of Clarksburg
with large Federal force in the vicinity
watching their movements,
The Juckson Appeal Crcbe) says that thc
. Federal raid under Gen. Grierson, besides tear
Ing up the railroad, had destroyed two bridges
each one hundred and fifty feet long, burneC
twenty-cight freight cars, railroad depot, two
commlssary buildings, and captured two rail
road tTuus.