, 1864-09-16

| Foe lett Cairo at s O'Clock Sunday evening, draw
| 1og one thousand tonf, vita the I'd Wisconsin
cavalry regiment, Mstor Date, tst battalion, aud
about 4C0 men with horzea.
| Eyef,thing vent right until shout 4 o. clock MN,
da, morning, when the boat hsd arrived shout two
! and haif nsi.ee below New haono, running in q
] drree ,cr, fhe struck c log heap. stranded and
~ s's 9et s,s1% st
tes the only part oi the bust nboye the vster was
btr hurricane deck. The oticsEs nf the boat dis
dan, The engineer, crawled forward aud raised The
| eaety ralEc, at time vixen all rushed above aud
when te vas lett alone, tars preventing IN exp'o-
s1n ,nd elpea an So,, hs[
were ii! ssyed: Maj. Dale gayc bis otde1s with
p1opptitude. but vi hunt t6e slightest evideucc
ncys d the BOAT ieil over. they crushed and hart
pretty badly three men who were a51erp on bales
! Of hay. The wounded men were pulled out aud
M 9aeF e. tbs s oeis o e9aa,a5 bs 5
| Jumped overheard, and 1t, is feared that
some Of them were droSned. Some soldiers
1he st desperats orts t2 ave the1s
human beines aero iost, The John j. Roe .sas
old but Il hsa PSI
was no inenrsnce. She belonged to the Copeland
l1ne and ~as the 1aTeef. stcamet on the Mis.fs-
Sy ezaeent and os; ne
| Ben TabeF. and had for clerk D. Nc1lillen. She
hsd two pilots, Mteere. Caysor and Douglass,
xessel drawine 5< fset OF water safely out Of the
| Upper M.rsissippi River, when other hoats dzaw-
Ing "n)y gsc tect could nut get out. The captain
nateiy ire heavy iosesf The loss on on the boat s
bsavy osr, but i mainly beleDsed to tha 6sveia
4 Lieutenant Of the Flfty-ninth United States
| eosoEea Infantry va: murdered In Memphis on
| Sunday night. While seated on porch near
EtDn Ak1fE Hrt &t,A
o. sssGy stee nea nsas saa szts
convc1sIng- with come nesroes. He was suddenly
assaulted BY four men, who drove up In bugeie.,
the atrce, cutting and stabbinv him in the breaat
and tIdes. Near the ease he managed to draw and
d sehaEge 1evolEer, ,:whe3 The musdefers becoming
Tho wounded man tell when u shay Se'4as: as:
did soon alter: Ono Or Two negroes witnessed
the aalr hut Jailed TO give any correct description
ofthc 1Lulaer.: NJ elGe ts obta1ncd 10 lead to
The nflair Is Invoked In nj sstery.
Corporal John linahles, CO. b, 10th Illinois In
fant.y, while g9urdinE tho stealnet New lexo, 9
1aat:~ He was IRON Pekio, Illinois, where ha hss
wife and child living.
tas row poeftise that at leaet one person lott
bis life In the ure III Cairo IN Monday morning..
tile bones Of human being having bean discover.
cd yesterday. on the late tito pf Browns Hotel
Th namc Of the person lost ID not yet obtained.
FROM MEMPHIS.
Especial Dispatch to tie Chicago Trihnne1
MEMPHIS, September IL I
Via CA1no, Thursday, Sept. Is.
Forrest. Or sore other rebel, with largo caval-
y force, Is at Co'dsates. twenty miles south q,
this city, and smother attack Is apprebended. We
have larEe casafry force st Whites Station, With
heavy picket lines thrown out.
Several dashes have been made on these picket
lines within the laet two days, and eight or ten
men wounded and captured.
No uneasiness Is felt By e1tizens:; All seem to
think the city perfectly secure.
The steamer Commercial, going up White River
| With portion Of Mowers expedition on board,
was attacked at GIcsosy'G Landing, On Sunday,
4th, bY 800 Of Dobbipt' suerillae, losing Que man
| Killed and hyc wounded Of the 18th Michigan In
| 1aEtry; Colonel Graves, eommandioe, was badly
Celeste. also loaded With troops, were 10 company
with the Commercial, all under convoy Of cunboat
NJ: ao. and were also attacked. One soldier was
| The gunbcat commanded by Capt. Grace .helled
the rebels: putting them to flight through the
Eoods. The troops then landed, and pushing
line OF battle around Augusta ont found that place
~a]must entirey deserted. They took possesrion,
Fifty Minie balls struck the steamer CONNER
/ cfal
About o'clock Tuesdsy morning the citizens Of
wee y Of ths
in Fort Pickering containing 30 fbelle, e1-
ploded, killing two men, one the guard, ucgru
several negro soldieza; one died during the dsY Of
big wounds It WIS found upon examination that
ITO shells hnd exploded The explosion WAS occ1-
stoned By epa.k frors ! stee:n-tnil1 near by.
THIRD DISPATCH,
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tribuue1
CAIRO, Thursday. Sept. Is, 1864.
The steamer City OF Alton, Capt. Calvert, and
clerks Speeklins and DILL arrived this afternoon,
bringing Memphis dates CT yesterday. All il re-
ported qnIet on the river between here and Mem
pt1s-
The flying minors regarding Dobbin's attack
upon Helena, last Monday. eccm not to be confirm.
ed. The lateet nlTiva1s from there arc to Snndoy
night last, when all waa quiet there.
The Memphis Du ltta has particulars of the late
explosion at that Place OF a magazine at Fott
Pickering, On tho mornin. OF the 18th, 4 uara-
zine Of battery A, I'd e. S. colorcd heavy artillery,
located immediately on the river bsnk, at the foot
OF the ba1ls, suddenly exploded from some M
known canse, ;pEod1cing conclusion which was
fss tare1Ghoss Erce,er portion ct tho city,
AID a1tracttd huLoseds to the leyee, who supposed
that tho noise wab caused by an exploslon OF some
sparks from mill had entered through crevices
| il the too1, mi i2nite1 tho powder, Of which
| there we're abont eight hundrcd pounds. besides a
number OF shells Il IL estimated th4t about fifty
fhells exploded. Fragments were found esattered
nj directions. There Is no Eesttge OF the mag
nziue lett ktaE ding, md tho ground in the imme.
raj feet. The saw mill was only nlls4tIy damaged
| On the roof b exploding shela. Tie residencs of
Lent. Coz. Harper, commanding Cd United States
the concnas1on, au the windows ard Enshes In the
house beng broken, pastcrIng displaced, aud fur
| nituse generally dEnolehed.
| The Casualties were a. follows:
| k1IIED-TriFa.e Geo Washington, Co. A, Sd q.
s. colercd artillery; and Thos. Kne1ale, white