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BY the Young Hector's Mail.

CHATTANOOGA, March 15.-An quiet along the
lines.
Mobile papers of March 9th say The Yankee
force attempted to land at Dauphin Island, think
ing it unoccupied, but seeing the Confederate soldiers
waiting TO receive them, they hastily retireS. They
afterwards shelled the woods furiously. The papers
also say the Yankee picket boats ply with IMMUNITY
to the foot of Fort Gaines wharf.
The Herald's correspondent, writing from the feet
of Mobile, gives a rumor that Farregut intends tc
withdraw his feet, being satisfied that the city can
not be taken by water. Thirty of the forty rebels
who mutinied in Fort Morgan have been shot.
The Richmond Examiner of March Is says; A slow
fire on Charleston was kept up. An artillery duel of
several hours occurred on the 9th between battery
Gregg and a battery on Sullivan Island. No damage.
General Neal Dow and Captains Flynn and Sawyer
have arrived at Fortress Monroe, having been eX-
changed.
The Richmond Whig of March 9th says Z" 1t will
take about q week to rebuild the railroad to Lees
army. Lee has sent out cavalry in all directions TO
seize everything in the shape of forage and subsist.
ence for his troops. The circuitous route that every
thing has 10 come over by rail renders it impossible
for Lee to secure enough over the one line to keep
the army from suffering"
WASHINGTON. March 13th.-Gener Grant will
return here in eight or ten days. He will reorgan.
ize the Army of the Potomac and head its first move
ment in the field. In the spring, General Smith may
receive the command.
Halleck has been offered the command of any De-
partment he wants.
Generals Gilmore and Seymour have been sum
moned here by the Committee on the Conduct of the
War.
The Commission to investigate the conduct of Gen.
eral ROsecrans at Chickamauga fully exonerated him
from blame.
From New Orleans.
NEW York, March l3th.-The Morning Star
from New Orleans, March 9Th. has arrived. Gov
ernor Hahn was inaugurated March 4th. The cere-
monies were impressing. General Banks delivered
an address, and predicted the reduction of tie insur.
rection to three or four States on the Atlantic coast
by this seasons campaign.
Hahn's inaugural regards slavery as (. : cause Of
the present unholy attempt to break up the Govern
ment, and its universal immediate extinction as a
public and private blessing. He says: "From every
light before me | am constrained to believe that the
cause Of the rebellion is in extremity, and it seems
TO be no extravaganza to look upon this year as the
final one of the most senseless and murdercus rebel
lion that ever cursed a civilized nation"
Beauregard's wife died March I'd. The funeral
took place on March 4tb, and was the largest ever
seen at New Orleans. Over six thousan1 persons
attended. General Banks extended to the family the
use of the Nebraska to convey the remains a few
miles up the river to her fathers plantation. The
body was followed to the levee by thousands of ladies
to take q farewell of one who was loved and esteemed
by all.
General Sherman arrived at New Orleans March
ID. The late expedition was called by himself q big
raid, in the course of which he reached n point ten
miles beyond Meridian without opposition worthy of
the name, and returned with eleven hundred mules,
our thousand contrabands, FIVE hundred prisoners,
and a large amount OF supplies.
COMPENSATED LABOR IN LoUIsIANA.-From New
Orleans we learn that General Banks ha6 issued a
long general regulation on the subject Of compensated
plantation labor, fixing the rate thereof, ipterdicting
fogging and the sale Of intoxicating drinks to plan.
tation hands, and stating that the enlistment of SOL
diers from plantations will not be resumed without
further orders from the government, SC. Laborers
will be permitted to choose their employers, but when
the agreements are made they will be held to it for
one year. Laborers will be permitted on q limited
scale to cultivate land on their own private account.
a free labor bank will be established as a safe deposit
for savings The transportation of negro families to
other countries is disapproved.
Particulars of SherInnn's Pa petition.
CHICAGO, March 1lth.-A correspondent who &C
companied Sherman's expedition writes from Canton.
February Goth The expedition has been successful
in achieving the objects for which it was sent. With
twenty days rations Sherman left Vicksburg on the
Sd of February. Crossing the Big Black next day,
he had a sharp fight of an hours duration with
Adams cavalry, driving them to and beyond jack
son, at which place the army camped that night.
We marched TO Brandon next morning, where we
skirmished with rebel cavalry, driving them out.
On reaching Morton, we encountered the division of
LOring and French, who had been throwing up de-
lenses, and evidently intended 10 fight. But as our
forces came up the enemy slowly retreated without
firing a gun.
On the 14th. Hurlburt's corps entered Meridian,
the remainder of the expedition following on the en-
suing day, having destroyed the town OF Hiilsboro,
Scott County, on the 0ay. At Meridian we encoun-
tered some rebel cavalry and drove then out after
some skirmishing. We then took possession of the
town and held it for four days. During that time,
expeditions were sent out which destroyed seventy
miles of the railroad running out of Meridian, inclu-
ding over sc, 600 feet of bridging. A large amount
of rolling stock was destroyed. Considerable rolling
stock was destroyed by the rebels to prevent its fall
ing into our hands. While this was being done,
trains ut Enterprise village and the railroad station
at Chankey were destroyed, together with a large
amount of rebel stores. There had been no intention
of going to Selma, and the main body of the army
never went beyond Meridian.
Another correspondent says: 1t was confidently re-
ported that Polk had ii 1000 men at Meridian, yet he
dared not make a stand. The expedition was at no
time in danger from the enemy's resistance. and was
SO formidable that the utmost terror was caused by
the advance. The country was generally helpless
before them. The country through which the army
passed was thickly peopled in most cases by poor
persons. Many of them will be glad to return to
the Union. Smiths cavalry was to have joined them
at Meridian. If he had done so, he would have been
used to do important service ON the Tombigbee expe-
dition. Sherman left Canton on March 4h and
arrived at Vicksburg March 7th. Nothing is said
about cavalry fighting in the vicinity of Canton, as
reported by rebel sources a few days since. Our
whole loss in killed, wounded and missing was set
down at one hundred.