Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1864-03-30
FROM The SOUTH.


counts Of the Attack on Mobile.
Files Ct Mobile papers TO the 10th inst. have
te n received.
There take the bombardment Of the Mis-.
sitsippi forts very coolly-probably through
tar Of creating panic among the people of
Mobile. The Register of Feb. g says
What's the news, .has been the question ask.
pounoing 81 Fort Powell has teen very heavy
when the wind and water would permit the
Federals to opeIae. A goodly number OF our
people who insist upon Knowing everything
tha' is actually occurring, as well as VIVA. may
be imaginary, contend, because they ara not
hourly posted, that things are going wrong and
ne yer will go right until they have been con-
srl.ed. or at least allowed to know all about
IT.. Well, Forts Morgan and Gaines being the
lore" roor little For. Powell was doomed
to obscurity until the guns Of the Yankee feet
Suddenly Numbered it into notice, and, as it
was giving no great prominence by the gossips,
OF course 1t was bound to "go up the spout
at ID first broadside; hence, great deal Of
repidation "a to its fate has been manifested
by the tmid, and the croaker has had slash.
ing good run, and did storming business in
gloomy representations. But somehow the
won't surrender-the Yankees find it q hard
nut to crack and the croaker is reluctantly
Gaming confidence IN its strength. All we care
10 say about Fort Powell to our sanguine
friends Is, that the Yankees will not be able to
open that gate TO Mobile The Yankees cannot
dig up TO it, and spade and shovel are Of no
Ndlue. y" nile me commencement Is progressing.
fairs 60 on in this city as though there was not
IN enemy on the continent. 1t i5 expected that
a heavy land force will soon Cooperate with
the blockading feet, and attempt 70 lay siege
TO the city by land, and it is still necessary,
and the urgen cy great, for the non.combatants
10 leave the city. No person is wanted in the
city except those that defend it with arms in
their hands. When the fight is over all can
come back and "see the show"
The Tribune of March says:
We learn that there has been no firing To-day
One OF the enemy's vessels had left for New
Orleans for repairs. It is supposed that she
was damaged by shot from the fort. .n
The same paper of the 9th has the following:
The steamboa. Admiral left Fort Powell yes
terday morning. We learn by her that there
was no firing on the fort on Friday, or up to the
fieet Of the enemy was quiet all yesterday
The wind being from the north all day, it was
likely that there was no. way OF gratifying the
aims ane DESIRE of Farragut 10 get possession
OF tho fort
Movements in North CaroIina-From Ten.
nessee-Suffering in Richmond, &C.
The editor of the Norfolk Old Dominion has
received copy Of the Richmond Enquirer Of
the 25th instant. The news is unimportant
We give the following extract:
Burnside in North Carolina.
We understand official information has been
received at the War Department concerning
the landing OF large force OF the enemy 10
Washington, N. G. The force is said to be un.
der commar d of General Burnside.
Whether an immediate forward movement
was contemplated or not, the recent heavy fail
ofsnow in that vicinity, together with the heavy
condition in W hjch il will lea We the roads, and
the attendant flooding OF the swamps, will put
stop to any advance into the int Iior tor some
days 10 come. The s.eXpedition" is no doubt
composed largely Of the new levies that have
BET n recently encamped around Norfolk. It's
rot presumed that they have been Withdrawn
iECm Meade's army.
East Tennessee.
From the Lynchburg Republican,
We have the report from East Tennessee that
the Yankees, who had advanced as far east as
Morristown n, have again taken the back track
and retired to Strawberry Plains, only some
fifteen or twenty miles from Knoxville. The
retreat Of the enemy has dissipated, for the
pre- sent at least, all prospects of q fight.
The enlistment of colored troops in Middle
Tennessee goes on rapidly. At Shelby Vile and
Lebanon there are five thousand ready for the
field.
From Johnstsn's Army.
DALTON. Ga, March 22.-Ths enemy have
IeL!red from our front, and their receat move
uents are supposed to be only "Reminiscences
A heavy snow fell here last night and to-day
1t lies four inches deep.
Our troops have captured the post Of
Ant. Substitute aw
MACON, Go, March 22.-The supreme Court
OF Georgia c-day unanimously affirmed the
constitutionality OF the Confederate anti-sub.
Gen. Pillow has been placed in command OF
the cavalry Of the Northern Dis ,rict of Ala.
b3ma.
From Florida.
Information has been received by the mill.
try authorities at Lake City, Florida, on Sun
cay evening last, that the Yankees had Ian ded
a force ut Piiatka. The force landed at that
point is not known, but it was rumsred that it
was large. General FInnegan rad dispatched
forces TO meet them, consisting Of cavalry, in
iantry, and artillery. Our pickets in from. of
Jacksonville con firm pre- vious intelligence that
the greater portion OF the enemy's troops had
left that place. Everything contin ued quiet IN
The neighborhood Of Jacksonville.
RAISED GREENRACKS--lt is said that raised
g'eenbacks are circulated here The work Ia
neatly done by passing ones 70 pass as tens.
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