Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1864-02-03
FROM NBW YORK,
NEW YoAK, February 2.

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New YoRK, February 2.
The Post says that we have Trustworthy
information that General Gilmore vii
come North in about two weeks. He il
now at Hilton Head. Everything in his
department has settled down into the old
routine.
Several of the best regiments Of General
Gilmore's force have been sent elsewhere,
and others were preparing to follow.
The Washington special to the Post Of
the I'd says that Mr. Kitchen, member Of
Congress from the MartiDsburg, Virginia,
District was driven from his home on
Sunday last, by an incursion Of rebel
rOugh-riders.
The trains sre running regularly to-day
on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, though
there are rumors of q raid at Martinsburg.
The new call for troops will necessitste
an additional appropriation Of 500, ,0OO,-
900.
The army appropriation bill spprOpri-
stes S54O 100000.
The Senate Finance Committee will not
report the Tax Bill amendments to-day.
A correspondent of the Boston Journal
on board the gunbost Jackson at Ship Is
/ land, writes on the 18th ult. as fniingzs-
Ias4 H;sht oUUuT Ten O'CLOCK small sail
boat came down the sound with some very
| important intelligence. The rebels in
Fort Morgan reVolted, and during the diff
fculty the rebel gun0osts in Mobile Bay
attempted to arrest the whole garrison of
the fort The whole fort being in revolt
and with the American Asg flying, they
opened on the rebel gunbosts with every
gun in the fort. They succeeded in driY-
log the gunboats off but were not on their
guard, and that night large force was
sent down from Mobile, capturing the
whole garrison excepting four men, who
escaped in the darkness in small boat and
came 10 Ship Island, when we heard, for
the first time, the astounding intelligence.
Since then, we have heard more Of the re-
volt from some additional deserters. Sc
Venty Of the reVolters are condemned to
De snUt tU-dsy in Mobile. We also learn
from these deserters, that on Horn Island,
up the Sound, there are eighteen more
deserters from the rebel army in and
around Mobile and on Round Island.
There are about fifty deserters from the
same quarter. These deeerters bring the
very important intelligence that the rebel
army in and around Mobile, have organ
ized secret societies, and have determined
70 fight Bo longer. Il Is said that the
movement started among the soldiers is
daily growing stronger, and many officers
are Comprised in the movement.
think this is the most important move
nent since the war, and is the most signi-
fcant in favor Of the successful termins-
tion Of this war. I an confident that this
news is true.
The Philadelphia Enquirer, to-day,
says:
Yesterday afternoon two thousand two
hundred rebels, who had taken the oath
of allegiance, arrived in Philadelphia
from the West.
The authorities at the Navy Yard re-
ceiVed two hundred and seventy-fve of the
reformed secessionists. They will be i'm
medistely placed in the service as sailors
and marines.
The cOrsair, for Havana, took $4,000
in gold.
Advices from Memphis state the 10Th
Army Corps is preparing foE movement
large stores Of corn and forage on the
way to Mobile.
some twelve thousand cavalry are con-
csntrsted at COrinth to participate in the
movement
Rumors Of q rebel raid on Marsinsburg,
Virginia, are founded on the fact that a
rebel force shows some indications Of
moving that way, and General Kelly has
taken precautions to meet them.
The following are extracts from the
Richmond papers:
Two Yankee gunboats assembled the
Chowan river as far as Harrellsville, Hart
ford county, North Carolina, and landed
300 men who burned several houses and
destroyed 10000 pounds Of government
bacon.
Rebel accounts report. several lOf them
killed by our cavalry while returning 70
the boats.
The health Of A. H. Stephens was In
proving.
Smallpox had appeared at Salisbury,
North Carolina. 1t was sbating at Dan
vile, IS also among Union prisoners.
Eighteen Yankee deserters had escaped
| from Richmond.
Richmond papIrs have articles on our
Presidential election, and the chances Of
Mr. Lincoln and Gen. Grant, and on the
coming spring campaign in Virginia, of
which they suppose Gen. Grant the author.
The Richmond Examiner has the fol-
lowing important editor 81 leader: Itssys
the time has passed fc4' offensive military
operations on the part of the southern or
mics, beyond recovering lost portions Of
territory. The true policy now is, to rick
nothing, as our means Of subsistence have
been too far exhausted to admit of any
other than defensive tactics. 1t has be-
come with us now q simple question Of en-
durance with the South. The duration Of
the war is simply question Of continued
supply OF food for the people and the
army. The South can hold out indefinite
ly, il at the eleventh hour she does not GO
mad.
The Richmond Congress can bring her
to subjugstioa in six months more by con
soriptlng her present producing classes
and thrusting them into an unolsd and un'
fed army. The great want is food and
clothing. The FIRST duty Of the govern
ment is to provide these supplies, and il
they are not provided, except by weaken
ing the army, the alternative must bC
adopted of resisting with smaller armies
snd using the tactics Of Febius and thC
strategy Of defense.
FROM CAIRO.
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