The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1864-05-23


Secretary OF War.
Uespatch TO the Secretary or che Navy.
WASHINGTON, My q, 1864.
Thc following despatch boen received by the Navy
Department.
Hon GIDEON WnIEs Secretary or the Navy
Have just received letter from Lieutenant Com
snder Breese, dated at the mouth Of the Black rvor,
Nay Is. He writes as fo,ws:-
"This morning bearer OF dispatches from General
Banks received at Fort De Rusy who says when he
fet one gunb0at coming the falls, and it was
currently believed that all would get He knew
acthing moro. have Information from reliable source
that the dam has been completed, and may soon
rsct 20 hear that oil the iron-clnds are over"
11r. George William Browa's Despatch.
MEapnis, Tenn. May II, 1884.
6sUs from ne Trans hi.sissippi DepaTmsnt-Krty
isaiA and Price stli at Cansde., ArkSn.ttk's Con-
pdsaatory Orders on us Bottle Of NGasfe,i--Moutoa
aad Green, Scur,y AMI Randall, the Rcbe; GeaNass
Killed, de-, sc.
The steamer Duke Of Argyle arrived here this morning
from Vicksburg and below. She brings gentleman
board who gives very late information of the whereabouts
q Kirby Smith and Price, he having left Can,den Ark,
tho headquarters Of the latter May IL twenty
thousand men encamped at that place, and greatly
sated BY their SUCCESSES in the late campaigns against
0oasted OF their alb ty to defeat Banks in any engage
hnent in which he should have army twice
their own while they confessed their appreciation
gsnerashp OF Steele and their doubts or
battle against him with an equal torca This is well
deserved compliment, 'and most to be noted 1t Is the
forced Acknowledgement OF ability the ps Of the
enemy. II "a certain tina: Steele has been out
generated. although he had been greatly ounumbered in
many engagements.
HIrhv Ccnifh has Eciya
order 20 his troops officially announcing the death Of
several rebel generals and the or their late
battles in Louisiana and Arkansas. They kindly
kandeA BY tho gentleman above referred to for publ
patton in the HrRAIp Re was permitted 70 bring thom
Through with hun from Camden by member Of General
HsADoyARrFKs, TRANS MIs sss,rPi DypaETMKsr,,
CAMDEN, Ark, May 5, 1854. !
6oLpMius TIE Trans M,ssusppr BsrsRlaryr:--
Once more IN thu hour Of victory, We are called upon
70 nourn the heroic dead.
apoo ths Geld OF horor At jenkins FERRY they offered
themselves np precious victims on the altar o. liberty
Nouin and Green arc gone; sc1rry and Randall have
followed sa Me same glorious path Be ours 10 emu-
se Their virtues and vaior, aud 70 act men not
worthy 70 associate with s1ch heroes.
The coiors Of their respective prsedes viii be drared
N nourn'sg FOR thirty days
HEADQUARTERS, TRANS MISSISSIPPI ngra RrNkNr,f
CAMDEN, Ark, May 4, 1854.
o0IDfENs ~ TIE Trans. MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT
Tho campaign nauguratcd at Mansfield Or the day OF
national fast and SPECIFICATION hss, under Providence,
You bays defeated u three times your The fields
OF Mansfield. Pleasant Hi, Cloutierve, Poison Spring,
hight Thousand killed and wounded, six thousand prs
onefs, thrtyfour pieces Of artillery twelve hundred
fruits Of your victories The path Of glory is sun open
- you-pormapent security TO your hei'es before you
As will yet free the soil beloved cscntry from the
hvaders footsteps. Soldiers OF Arkansas, Missouri,
gezas snd Louisiana, yen have the THAMES Of grateful
paopic. Your living vii be respectcd-your dead hon.
ored and revered KlLsbY SMITH General
Kirby Smith still remained a. Camden, whore, il was
supposed, he plaElGg comb nations for q cam.
pan against Steele a. Little Rock. lie was accumuiat
g largo amonnt II supplies and muDiticas o. war at
that paco, snd calling together his scattered forces.
Banks, appeared he lad lott entisey 70 the care 81
Major Geueral wa.nburne commanding THE Mill.
tary district, has Issued order q SURPRISING no
portaaoe as regards commercial intercourse On the
Mississippi river In order, dated the 1eE list,
has prohibited all business transactions between the
s,ty u Bemphis AMI tho country beyond Our lines
a both sides OF the alter the ISM aud again in
another given below and the Isth. be has
hterdicted all trade aud commerce along the MIST sppi,
from Cairo 70 the II White river sYoep, mill.
Wy posts ana under TIE raost regulations These
admirable orders VIII ~ once pns sstnp 70 al the ma
tlous from Memphis where they have met with lutte
opposition the psrt OF the military authorities. and
exSigSI VaDfRs-yo j.
iiaAporA RI7I.s. nrsrsiCr OF Wksr 1ENstsSrr,
MrTiiEs, Tonu., May II. 1854. ]
mo avases existing Mssssipp yys- render The
ibterfcrcoce OF the msry power IMPERATIVE. Boats
ere cleared almost daily from Ncmpos with eearanccs
for any landing place tney may choose and tina, without
any further Restriction aan cleiae IL their clearance
that they viii he sy OF the United States.
Boats cleared, loc ~ the guards with variety Of
merchandise proceed the river, sometimes snGlng
on tho shore. sometime rounding aBd anen1rng out
aud communicating with the shore vth small boats.
they open trade with all classes cf people except loya
Ones they negotiate It'll rebcl chie'tans ami gucriiss
for the bringing In OF cotton and taking out o. supplies
fhsy invite rebel officers and soldiers b. ard and drink
aad hobsob together.
Some boats assured. have b:en out torty or city
days from thelr ceal rom Memphis. rcpenshng
their supplies tulg from other boats pro
cesdng np down The yer, rurning Gto every creek,
bay lagoon where Confederate tsdC he carried
"a. Even tho farce OF anipg uoder The guns OF
Boat K seldom complied Win. The revenue aids oG board
q each, with very ew exceptions, known 10 be OF
bad character and many OF tHem proved TO he IN
sbnpictty with persons engaged in ccntrabsnd trade.
One arrested yestcrda. Is known to be Confederate
soldier belonging r. rerrent IN ATs,rs9s, and is now
the Irving Flock, her, when the bdat over
hauled upor which be aid toog the precauton 10
throw hts vaise overheard thus destroying the evidence
II his crime.
Il il therefore ordered that boat shall hand between
Chiro aud the mOutbos White rivCr cNerW where there
oiSt ned states trsOps. They WI mos De
aAowed 10 land In skin siaGn hoais, viii they be
allowed land SUPPLE al any military point nanied
sbovo except for the The United Stfcs troops aud
such icraons Iez.J,ng witon the FEEDER 81 hrcs
without special permits zach cisa from these mead
quarters,
Tho ram Monarch VAL rro:eed 10 morrow morning ~
sk O'Clock down the Mississippi river aut arrest every
trading boat found between Memphis AM White river
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