New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-02-19
Conflicting Reports Concerning lohn.
stoa's Army.
uOEGAN SAID TO BE PREPARING A RAID
ATTACK ON MOBILE EXPECTED
Mon. Combatants Leaving the City.
CISCNSATI. Thursday, Feb. ls, 1864.

Hcmc declare that. JohnStOnS entire force IN around
Daton others sly large PORTIONS including the artl'
sry at Kingston have gore 10 reinforce Iongsreet.
John Morgan s said 10 be in the vicinity of Dalton.
with conside able cavalry force preparing for raid
Ger. Watts Of Alabama mas eleerapaed 10 the citi.
sons Of Selra to prepare 10 recoivo noncombatants
from Mobile as that place was to be attacked By
sse Unionists.
The DeRSis was lost recently v lsle ATTEMPT
,ng to run tho blc,kad. from Mobile.
The Mobile papers mink ShorDaus rian is TO pelo-
srate te('entra Alabama and thus compel the eyscua-
s,on of Mobile.
There Indications in the news reports that
GrsE is preparing Tor active operations.
Asesnce OF n Rebel Rccopnoitering Party
Toward oxviiie-Our Pickets At
sacked-Retrcat of the RebeIs-Thc
Csptu-c'of tho Rebel Indian Camp in
North Carolina xounsains-Co Condition
OF the yrisoncrs Tases-Our Casual.
sies.
hfiom Our srsssl Correspondent.
KNoxvILLE, 4. T., Feb. 2. 1864.
A Rebel accommodating party advanced as
tar as tho piAet lines ofCo Generous position on the
Sevier,ille road, Saturday night, and fired upon his
rokots. Finding them ia position, and ready TO meet
them. they retired. Col Cameron Immediately
str,ugthsDsd his lines snd ayiglant look out was kept
during THO night but tie enemy did not make his APP
pearaaces second time.
Yesterday Sunday, the prisoners Indian and white,
who were captured by rhe nth Illinois Cavalry in the
North Carolina Mountains. already referred TO IN a
previcus seer arryed in Knoxville in charge of Capt
hulhnterf Of the sth<lbo. They numbered a, Is OF
wise fat and saucy. The Indians generally bare
headed with fragments OF what were once shoes tied
elotniey
Some Of the whites FAD btscf carpeting thrown
their shoulders and few had blankets. They were
marched 20 the jail where they viii DO better cared for
than they have been 1o- many day before The chief
rcgrst connected with this capture Of the Indian camp
sin che failure TO bag their FOXY old leader, Thomas
His plantation was visited but ne was not TO be found
There some loyal Indians, who have doted sl the
Efforts Of Thomas and his lying even 70 uisead them
They of course totally ignorant Of .he merits Of
the fight in which they are engaged. and their guilt
tear proportion that of their leaders. Brides in
the shape of bad whisky and appeals to their ignorant
prejrdices, haze been the employed 10 enlist
thein in TIE agains. their best friends. Probably
theJrger proportion we're consoripted though many
ffon promises III pluEder went sh voluntarily
Tie follow ing casualties suffered by the 18th Illinois
cavalry in the affair. are reported:
KILLED = IeIeriek l!eSdeIs0n Co. A. Thomas hes'h Co.
woUspEp. Horace CsprOu, commanding Co. A,
Once dead seLsi. MsitHly Ads Co. EdwGd A. Chesley,
Go. o. David wssneI Co O Francis lie Grand Co. C.
rae Depreciation Of Obnoxisws Families
The cGeos of observation-disclosures
from the Rebel Liues-How their
Ranks are Observation-Disclosures Of
she Eneny-The DEATH Of Lieut.. Ca
prom Additional Particulars Of the
Raid into North CaroIinn-Thc Change |
Of Coannsanders-The Eniistracnf of
Colored Troops -skirruish at Haysvilie
-Intervieyy at strawberry Plains under
nRIug Of Truce.
ysom Our Sp.cs,
ISoxyILLE, z. T.. Feb. {. 1864.
The Rebels sent in flag OF truce on Satur-
day evening from Strawberry Plains asking permission
70 remove oar or IRE families from Knoxville within
ihe Rebel lines eastward
nerson well informed as 10 the condition Of affairs
IN Central and East Tennessee states that there will be
.omo two or three thousand families which wiz nc liza
lie 10 be sent ont of the Rebel lines PROVIDED Ietato
~ measures are adopted for t ser ling away Of ebnox
to,s fsm from Klexyille. The mind TecOlls from
contemplation Of The suffering vhich insst IAN u" go
many women nd ehi.dIen. Z noticed report IRON
Nashville Of 1. dag u truce recently sent o9uih@ard
from Chattanooga toword Geo-giG. lac oihcef Iad
progressed d stance OF IS miles without nealhg
wih Rebel picket and had sen1 back for instrpes ION
and supplies The eouIrry had been 90 completely dc.
wasted tbere va, eIely l9nns d hs ,sen oert
~ Kingston Georgia 80 TO % niles iUfthef ana me
Whole country asas bsrc. Tbss the route over when
families must pass who ar Low gang South rom ims
point. ~, ,,,
serng citizen prisoner rom JoDcsboio represents the
ing on il tlatgeg!On All peIsvns Io ~
30 IS or GOin other words all who can stand and go
are forced into the kebe -anks Provisions sre very
searce among residents and KIND ef distribution oi
what remains. or Ieyen process mas peeh aoOPteu
those having anything left In their snOk house o. corn
cribs llring ii distributed those who nave none
The railroad IS ias, repairing and large party - em
ployed upon IL FIR down as GreenyiIe ibey are re-
occupying The old sekepeteT eaVes and Limiting uF al
She Old hands capable Of working them.
The remains VI Lient. Horace Capron. IT, arrived
here yesterday charge OF Major Davidson and Lieu,
1rae ROW ellie. The !aiel goes TO Peoria, III; Ia
charge o. The body. Lieut. CaprOp survived lhiee Gays
sftef receiving bis wound. during which tge he was
carried about 70 nile, Ggieilng Intensely but hero
ealy bearing up 10 the lost. lie received ms wound
while charging al the head OF his company tine heavy
ball which Mas fired by al Indian hom IL MISSISSIPPI
rlne, shateIils the thigh to make the wound
mortal de dsmOuited. examined The wound, ana
then reinouhtod aud rode quarter of mile. when he
became exhausted. The OficeTs aud Of the iegi
ent speak In The highest terms Of the courage and sol
diery QUALITIES OF deceased. and assert that his place
cannot be hIed Al the Of lis death lie was com.
rnanding Co. a, and woud probably have cen made q
Captain III place VI Capt Carr. who IL disabled and
now absent ON leave ot resigned. Lieut. Caproa be-
ksyed with CALAMITY while attached 70 the sth Illinois
Cavalry in the Army Of the Potomac and received a
medal for his conduct in engagement with Stuarts
Cavalry. AT meeting OF the regiment, resolutions
also condcling with the family Col Csyren father Of
Uoseasod who commanded the regiment Is temporarily
absent upon leave. The blow win iall heavily mon
him and upon the large circle OF ms triends IN Ihois
Prom officers who accompanied the raid arn euahed
20 add few items 10 what has already been tonch
ing the expedition to North Carolina
I,y the order of Col Gar1ard, commanding the I'd
Division the l4th marched from LucEcecha Cove Jon
70 and arrived and attacked the Indian camp p H.
Feb 2 competetely destroying The camp capturing -
prisopers ii guns and rifles and killing 81 t. 40 Of the
eneruv whose bodies left on the neid. The camp
numbered 2l5 men. Indians and whites. They we're
~ n4AnH al III