Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-07-25
FROM CAIRO.

CAIRO, July "a
Memphis papers of the 22nd say Gener-
al Smiths command Is moving into Mem
phis. 80 of our. prisoners captured Tupello,
mostly from 3rd Kentucky cavalry,
among them one Captain two Lieutenants
four sergeants were brought in and lodg-
ed in Irving prison, others are expected
to arrive soon, 200 wounded rebel prison
ers left at Tupelo for want Of transporta-
tion. Bulletin says General Slocum ar
rived at Grand Gulf on the 18th with
out opposition, captured several Confed-
crate Lieutenants and small parties of
butternuts.
The rebel General Richardson gave no
tice that all persons conscripted IN West
Louisiana not reporting within ten days
would be considered Jayhawkers, and shot
down without mercy.
The Shreveport News contains accounts
of a terrible hurricane which passed over
that town, and killed Don Lewis. Several
buildings were destroyed, and the corn
crop also much injured.
The rebel General Dick Taylor has is
sued a congratulatory order to his soldiers
in the army of the West louisiana and
those who to defeat General Banks con-
tains the following elegant chivalrous
paragraph: Long will the accursed
Yankee race remember the Great Rivers
of Texas and Louisiana. The characters
ties have, Of its turpid water, has a darker
tlnge from the liberal admixture of Yankee
blood The cruel alligator and ravenous
ghara fish, waxed fat on the rich food, and
ever beastly vultures holds high revelry
over many a fostering corpse. lime of de-
livery calling for the benefit of the Con-
tederacy has been extended 10 the lst Of
August.
GA the 10th instant Shelby's rebels tore
up portion Of the track of uhe Memphis
" Little Rock railroad, near Brownsville,
and tired into passenger tram.
Shelby's force is reported encamped
near Duvaps Bluff.
Gagan was south of the Arkansas river
Pursuant to instructions from the War
Department and request of the Secretary
of State, General Washburne has issued
an order, dated the 22d, notifying all per
sons residing in the District Of Memphis,
who claim exemption from service in the
enrolled militia on the ground of allie
glance to foreign powers, to leave in forty
eight hours after the publishing of the or
der, and not return while the order re-
mains in force under penalty of arrest and
punishment.
No change in the Memphis cotton mar
ket. .,..
The steamer Relic Momphis arrive ed
with 81 rebels prisoners taken at the battle
of Tupelo. The officers go to Johnson's
Island and the privates to Alton, and also
rs refugees for Cairo and large number
furloughed soldiers and TWENTY-FIVE bales Of
cotton.
The steamer Madison arrived at Mem
phis from Vicksburg, reports that General
Slocum's expedition reGurnad to Vicks-
burg having met and defeated 1000 rebels
under Writ Adams, after u severe fight at
Grand Gulf on the 10th. Rebels lost heavy
leaving their dead and wounded on our
hands. Also many prisoners. Our loss
Is trihing. Among the prisoners were two
Rebel Colonels of the Mississippi cavalry.
When nearly opposite Napoleon Thurs
day, the Madison received several volleys
of musketry from band of guerillas
Three soldiers of the 18th Pa. cavalry
were wounded, one of them mortally the
soldiers return ed the fire and two or three
bushwackers were seen to fall, guerillaG
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parts along the river
The Bulletin says rebels passed thirty
miles from Memphis. On the other side Of
the river on the road to Oscola Other
accounts state that three companies of
Butternu+s under Colonel Adams late of
Helena went three days ago northward
some distance back of Oscola and that
number ef other rebel companies were on
the St. Joseph and other rivers moving in
a northerly direction.
The ganeral impression is that rebel
force Is about to concentrate in Missouri.
a train Of 10 cars, from Memphis to
La Grange, on the Memphis and Charles
ton railroad ran off the trak, near Collars
Vile
On the 18th some half dozen cars were
smashed and a number Of persons were
badly injured and one or two killed