The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1864-03-19


Gen. WadsWorth has gone to Fortress
Monroe with orders to suspend further ex-
changes on Gen. Buffers plan. Under that
arrangement we are getting rs of our pris-
oners for 100 rebels.
The commission to investigate the con
duct of Gen. Rosecrans at Chickamauga,
fully exonerates him from all blame.
A Jacksonville letter in the Post, dated
the 1lth. reports heavy firing up the river,
understood to be our guubOats feeling the
rebel lines. Later that day our advance,
Colonel Henry's cavalry, was attacked and
driven in from second position, with a
loss of number wounded. 1t was exPec-
ted the rebels would make an attack on
Jacksonville the next day; ifnot, our forces
would soon advance.
The National Inteligencer, Of the 18th,
denies that Gen. Meade intends resigning on
account of i'll health.
TheEhronicle says Gen. Wadsworth is
instructed to state that no more prisoners
will be exchanged except upon the principle
of man for man, regardless of color.
Col sanderson, just released from Libby
Prison, states that the number of deaths
among our prisoners on Belle Island hes
been exaggerated. The total number from
July 1st to Feb. 1st, was 1l5. The pris-
oners have suffered severely during the win
ter months. and their rations have been in
sufficient, but not so much so as to lead to
starvation.
The military committee have returned
from tour of examination of our Northern
and Western hospitals. AS the result of
the investigation several thousand soldiers
fit for duty have been returned to their reg
iments. The commission is to visit the
hospitals in the South.
A dispatch from Cumberland Gap, dated
March 10, says information believed relia-
bic reports Longstreet's headquarters at
Greenville, Tenn, and Buckner's at Bulls
Gap. Their main forces are between these
two points, and their pickets eight miles
above Morristown. Gen. Vaughn is at
Rogersyile. Gen. Jones is at Lang's Mills,
below Jonesville.
The steamer Fulton, from Port Royal the
10th, arrived at New York on the 18th.
Among her passengers was Gen. Turner,
bearer of official dispatches to the War De-
partment.
Capt Ketcham, of the Island, captured
Two large torpedoes near the mouth of the
Saint Johns river, evidently made for the
destruction of our blockading squadron.
Affairs at Jackson remain unchanged.
The small po1 is very prevalent at Port
Royal and Beaufort. 1t is mostly confined
to the colored troops.
a Memphis telegram says the steamer
Sultana, just from Yioksburg, reports
Sherman whole expedition returned 70 hat
place. They did not proceed beyond Mer-
idian, and had no fighting of consequence.
Loss very small, mostly from struggling.
The 25th and Cd Indiana and 21st Mis-
souri,, re-enlisted veterans, of the 10th ar
my corps, have arrived here en- route home
on furlough.
The Bristol Gazette, of Saturday, states
positively that Longstreet is again advanc-
ing towards Knoxville The Gazette ex-
presses the opinion that in a week the great
battle for the mastery in East Tennessee
will have been fought, and that the Yam
KEGS will have retrealed.
"A special from Columbus, Ohio, to the
Cincinnati Gazette, says Gen. Grant, on his
way East, in conversation with distinguish
ed Ohio officers, expressed himself entirely
satisfied with the situation of military af-
fairs, and spoke in the highest terms OF
Sherman's expedition, which had given the
severest blow since Vicksburg. Sherman
has destroyed forage and provisions enough
to subsist the rebel army from three TO six
months. In one place he destroyed over
two million dollars worth of property, and
in other places immense stores. Thous-
ands of bushels Of corn, and large quaint
ties of wheat, were consumed. He brought
in large droyes of cattle, several thousand
mules, 5000 negroes, and over four thous-
and prisoners, with trifing loss of men
and material on our side. In addition to
this, by the destruction of very important
railroad lines, Gen. Sherman has released
Gen. McPherson's corps from guard duty
along the Mississippi, and they have been
ordered to active service.
The miners in the vicinity of Marquette.