True Democrat., 1863-01-07
BY TELEG K 4 P II
Nevs from the Vest. Trouble in he Cabtnet-SlO- ard and Chase resigned- More Cont6derate victor5es 1n Virgjnia and Mississippi.
Gen. Banks at New Orleans.


 iatended t0 operate against Vicksburg from below Gen McClenaud's expedition, consisting of at least twenty gunboats and sixty transports, loaded with troops, has gone down to attack Nicksbnr5 from above There will be stirring times around that brave city before long, but we feel scarcely any uneasness for the result.
 Glorious News.
 The Memphis Appeal has accounts of the talk ing of Holly Springs by Gen. Van Dorn, where he captured fifteen hundred prisoners and destroyed million and half dollars of federal property
 President Davis.
 The President was to address the Legislature of Mississippi on the 27th of December.
 Gen. Forrest, from Middle Tennesse, and Van D5rn with his cavalry from north Mississippi, expected to make junction in West Tennessee, and break ID Gen. Grants communications with Memphis.
 Gan. Morgan, or a part of his command, passed Carthage north of Huntsville, about the middle of December, captured 300D tederals and pushed on to the railroad The northern dispatches ad- init this, and say that the Confedentes hold Cumberland river, by possessing Clarksvlle and are also in possession of the Lexington and Nash vile railroad.
 CAPTURE OF BOATS
 The steamer Lake City, with $75,000 in specie, and a number of stores, was captured on the Miss issinni, and is now at Vicksburg. The steamer Blue Wing, loaded with ammunition and ordnance sores, was also captured, and is no" at the Post of Arkansas.
 There is l northern telegram to the effect that the governor of Michigan has proclaimed that he will recall the troops Of that state, no" in Lin col's army, unless an armistice is decare: by lst of January It is well known that the radical governors Of New York, Massachusetts and other states declared they wouli recall their troops if Lincoln receded from his proclamaion This is carrying out tie doctrine of State rights to its extent.
 On the 18th uIt the federal gunboat Cairo, one of their best was blown up ia the Yazoo river, by tornedo. The Memphis Bulletin says: S The explosion was terrific that the Cairo'5 caselnate and hull parted about eight inches, her front guns were thrown against her spar deck, and her anchor thrown up in the air abont twenty feet" 5he sunk in eight minutes, in thirty teetw The buiie- i'm says no lives were lost. Tine Vicllsburg Citi zen says s We believe that all the crew who were on the boat are in it yet They are not l@st; the Yankees know where they are, and they can g and get them if they want to-"
 Accounts from the west say that the ab0tltOn- ist5 had left Van Buren, Several boats were burned by them and considerable damage was done. The telegraph line is down beyond, ---------- which k the reason have not the details ot the raid made by the desperate enemy.
 Buckner of Kentucky, has assumed command at Mobile.
 Cen. Stevenson, who was at Cumberland Gtp with ten or twelve thousand men, if not i'll Ken lucky, i- ready to go in and destroy the railroad The Yankees fear it and are removing everything from the line of the road
 Tie following dispatches we clip from the Gre naaa Appeal Of the 25th December;
 Yankee Election Posse Routed.
 PErgpsBURG. Dec 24.-On Monday, General Pryor. with d small detachment, attacked an kee force of several hundred stationed at Isle of Wieht Court House, to protect the election of a representative t0 the abolition congress. At the first charge, Gen. Dix's protectors fled Tn great confusion and were chased ten miles at Iu'i speed Our loss was trAiug. Gen. Pryor and his men afterwards visited Smithheld.
 Northern Newspaper Speculations. RICHMOND, Dec 24.-The Herald says neither the people nor the army will submit to Fremont. Most intelligent observers believe the radicals vii prevail.
 The Herald says Chase may be made Premier, and R. ]. Walker Secretary of the IreaSHry.- Fessenden and Daniel $. Dickinson are aisi sqoh- en of as speaker.
 The Herald intinates that the troubles in the cabinet will involve the North in civil war. If Seward quits northern capitalists declare they will withhold their support from the administration
 The forward movement on fredericksburg was peremptorily ordered, at Washington.
 The Herald believes the rebel army is falling back to Richmond.
 Burnside had not resigned on the 22d.
 The Herald says this is the darkest period the history of the nation
 The World exclaima, Alas for onr country;
 4l, ;rs,{gt !. fat that ever befell country wrecked by imoeoility- The people have named a man to hold the helm of State for years whom must abide as he Is, anu find in his drollery what solace we can'
 Arrival of the Scotia.
 R,cuvoxD. Dec 24-The Scotia has arrived at Ney York, and brings late European intelligence. The Times thinks the democratic successes have rendered the federal cause desperate instead oi ad vancng.
 EIr Gladstone, in a letter to Professor Newman, denies that he expressed any sympathy with tue southern cause or passed a eulOgy on Jeff Dayls The French government has concluded a con tract for the supply of the army in Mexco tortwo- years, from which prolonged occupation of the country is inferred
 England and France.
 Movements Of Gen. Hampton.
 RICHMOND, Dec. 23.-In his recent dash upon the enplnN's lines, ten. Hampton caDtufed Der of sutlet's wagons loaded with Christmas sup plies some of which were marked for Gen. Burn side A train of thirty-two wagons, with SIX inc mules to each, was also captured and brought off, I The notorious spy, Underwood. was captured at his mothers home, in Prince William county. lie was the first man to raise the black republican flag on Virginia soil. Gen. Hampton has rendered important service wi his brigade of cavalry, since the winter; cam paign opened. About two hundred prisoners cap tured by his command will arrive here to-day.
 Our Army Quiet
 RIcHMoND, December 23.- Passengers by the evening train report change in the situation of affairs at Fredericksburg. Northern Intelligence-Catinet Trouble S. BIcHMoND, December 23.--The Washington Star gives the history of Stewards resignation.- The Republican party met in caucus on the 10th, when resolution was introduced requesting Lin coin 10 dispense with Stewards services. On this proposition the stood sixteen for to thirteen against it. Finding unanmity unattaina- bic, the caucus adjourned till the next day, ahen a resolution requesting the President to partially remoddle his Cabinet unanimously agreed to, the conservative republicans regarding it as an in- yitation to the whole Cabinet to resign They confidently expect Lincoln will regard the recent uDmistakabe manifestations of popular sentiment as his guide in the necessay reconstruction
 The Philadelphia Inquirer fully confirms the re-