The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-02-27
LATE SOUTHERN NEWS.

! 2. LATE SOUTHERN NEWS.
From uhs Cincinnati Commercial.
Late Southern papers received General
Toombs is being court martialed at Sayan-
nah 40 The Montgomery Mail says, General
Polk has, in the opinion Of high military
authority, committed grave mistake, one
which may entail almost irretrievable dis
asters on our army in this Department.
So far we have been badly outgeneral-
ed. ~ ll.f % cs,FTgs ~ 03L aftciSf 't.il-.-
The correspondence between JEFF. Davis
and General Joe Johnson, in, connection
with the Vicksburg campain, communicated
to the rebel Congress was very sbarp on both
sides, and shows that they were greatly at
leggerheads. r7aG 5oIia-- &1gao o' 21.1a
The Petersburg Register, Of the 18th,
says dispatch was received at the war
Depar tment at Richmond, announcing that
the enemy were repulsed with great loss at
Grand Pass, thirty five miles from Mobile.
The attack was made by infantry
supported by gunboats, on Tuesday the
| 10th.
! The rebel Congress adj djourned on the 18th
to meet May next, after passing the Con-
scription Bill, Currency Bill, aud new Tax
REBEL CoNscRIPTIoN BILL.
The Oonscription Bill provides that all
white men, residents between eighteen and
fifty, shall be in military service during the
war, oil between eighteen and forty
five now in service, shall be retained during
the war, in the same organizations now
serving. At the expiration of six months
from the first OF April next, a bounty of $1OO
dollars in per cent. Government bonds
shall be paid all enlisted men. All between
the ages of seventeen and eighteen form a
reserve corps not to serve out of their own
States Exempted are the Vice President
members and officers of Congress-; State
Legislatures and such Confederate State of
6cers as the President and Governors may
certify as being necessary for carrying on
the Government; ministers of religion, su-
perintendants and physicians of charitable
institutions, one editor on each newspaper
and such employees as he may certify to as
requisite to do the public printing apothe-
carries and physicians, one person on each
plantation having fifteen able bodied field
hands under certain conditions; mail carriers
and such as are physically and mentally dis
abled.
The President and the Secretary Of
War have the power to make the details
required by the exigency of the public ser.
vice.
Special dispatch to Cincinnati Gazette.
WARRINGTON, Feb. "a.
Richmond papers of the 19tb and 10th are
received. The news is very meager. We
quote: .Nt..#
MOBILE, Feb. l6.-Oficial dispatches
from Fort Gaines, state that the enemy
opened FIRE on Fort Powell, Grants Pass, at
nine o'clock this morning Five vessels
were engaged.
MOBILE, Feb. II Official news from
Fort Gaines says that seven mortar boats
and four gunboats fred one hundred and
sixty-fve shots at Fort Powell yesterday.
seven or eight of which struck. The fort
sustained no damage. One lieutenant and
surgeon were wounded The officers
quarters were nearly demolished. A dem
onstration was made to land at Dauphn's
Island, but reconsidered 1t is officially
reported that the enemy occupied Enter
prise, Mississippi, yesterday.
Hon. R. Fl. Garnett, member of the rebel
Congress, died on the 18th.
Captain DeatoD. executed as spy at
Richmond on the 18th, belonged to the 9th
Tennessee Union regiment His brothe:
is colonel of Tennessee regiment.
The following is from the Enquirer:
"The Yankee General Averill is prepar-
ing for another grand raid on some import
ant point in this State. His force is 5000,
and the Charlottesville Chronicle says his
aim is Lexington and Mibrougb."
Capt. E. NJ. Driscoll, Sd Ohio, Liutenant
Lovett, 5th Kentucky, and Lieutenant d
c. Duncan, 10th Kentucky, have been re-
turned to Libby prison from which they es
capped by the underground route some days
ago. 1t is not credited in official quarters
that Col Straight has made good his escape.
The announcement by Butler that he was
safe, is believed TO be, as it no doabt is, Q
humbug.
The case of Mrs. Mary Caroline Allen,
formerly of Cincinnati, is still undecided.
She is still in custody.
- The rebel Congress adjourned on Friday
to meet again in May. The Congressmen
publish a long address to the people, which
fills the papers of the goth. IL is unimpor
tant. 1t gives the rebel view ofthe causes
and responsibility of the war; appeals to the
impulses of the Southern people to again
fill up the armies, and drive the invaders
from the soil of the COnfsderacy; says the
South have uninterrupted control of terri
tory which, according to past progress will
require the enemy ten years to overrun. In
relation to peace, the address says: "Until
some evidence is given ola change of policy
on the part of the Lincoln Government,
and some assurance received that efforts at
negotiation will not be spurned, Congress
are of opinion that any direct overture for
peace would compromise our self-respect,
be fruitless of good, and be interpreted by
the enemy as an indication of weakness
We can only repeat the desire of the peo
pie for peace, and our readiness to accept
forns cone is tanf uy; fh tho honor nd inf an