True Democrat., 1863-03-18
: After all, it appears the Missouri legisla-

- After all, it appears the Missouri legisla- ture failed to elect a senator. The convention held 90 ballotings and then adjourned till the 18th of November next. At the close, the vote stood: Phelps 47; Wingate 3l; Brown %; Breckinridge 25; scattering $. Necessary to choice II.
 - The Illinois legislature adjourned on the 18th of February. The peace resolutions passed the House, but the abolition senators bolted and prevented their final passage.
 - Butler the Beast, had grand reception at Baltimore, the 18th ut. Thirty four young ladies, dressed in white, made fools of themselves While firing a salute cannon bursted and killed | Yankee commodore named Woodruff.
 - Burnsides has assumed his new command at New York.
 - The town of Bolivar, fifty miles above Vicksburg, has been destroyed because the parti- sans fired into the steamer Jenny Lind. - The British press and public speakers have changed their tone and now abuse the South with l out stiut The change is very decided. The French pre's are, with one or two exceptions, fla vor of the Contederacy and urge recognition and | intervention.
 - The abolition army in Tennessee, under orders from their commanders, are burning up all the blows and farming utensils they can find.
 --W w e have contradictory accounts of the talk ing and disposition of the Indianoa. The Vicks- burg Whg says that our fleet overlook the gunboat above Grand Gulf, and q severe engagement took place. The cannonading lasted half an hour, when the federal vessel was partially sunk. Anoth- l tHnt was uiaa1 n anchored with her guns all in trim, to protect lhe river.- The Memphis papers assert positively that she was raised, repaired, and was seen below VickS- burg, waiting to gobble up any federal boat that might come down. Finally, the Jackson Appeal of the 2Sth says that finding it impossible to raise the Indanola, she blown up yesterday | (Friday) morning. The following is the official report of the capture:
 STEAMER Dn. BATEY, 30 miles bt!op Vickslarg,l | February 25th, 1863.
 GENERAr PrMnERToN: Last night about 10 p, m ., we fell ill wish the II. s. iron clad gunboat Indian ola, and alter the rams Queen of the Vest and Webb, under Major Brent had engaged her for half an hour, went along side, when the com mander, Lieut.. Brown, U. $. navy, surrendered to me. As all the credit is due to Major Brent, have turned over to him, in a sinking condition, the prize, which we hope to save. Only five of OUT were hurt.
 FRED. B. BRAND,
 Lituf. Col. C0nunandiHq.
 - Threo young ladies announce, through the columns of the Raleigh, N. c. Standard, that they will spin, weave, cut anl make clothes for three soldiers as long as the continues, if the sol diers whom they select will consent to marry them when the war is over
 1 r,1o t;c fsto Inv in merchants ir New York who hold it to be as val uable as greenbncks.
 - Gen. Heron is said to have command oi the federal troops in southwest Missouri. Gel John " Glover is assigned to the command of the Rolla district.
 - Brig. Gen. J. K. Duncan, who commanded at Fort St. Philip and flag officer, J. K Mitchell commander of the Confederate hotilla on the Nils sissippi river, at the taking of New Orleans, are said to have received four hundred and seventy five thousand dollars, for surrentng to the enemy Duncan is living in Pennsy lvana and Mitchell 1T Massachusetts.
 - Twelve Confederate soldiers soldiers frozt to death at Camp Douglas, on the night of the ls February. A number of others were frost-bitten
 - The great disasters to arms in 1862 were in the inos4t's of February and March. Th year, so far, those months have shown a balance in our favor.
 - The democratic members elect to the fede ral Congress were to have met in New York or the 6th inst.
 - The Mexican army is 42,000 strong and we'll provided with artillery.
 - The French army in Mexico, including those in Sonora is 37 10000 men. There are O,0OC on the Gulf coast and interior, and these are sui cient to reach the city of Mexico.
 - The Cincinnati Gazette states that the wife of Gen. John c. Breckinridge passed through that city, recently, on her way to Connecticut. This is all false as Mrs. B. is in Knoxville and has rea tives in New England or disposition to go there.