, 1864-08-17

performing the duties OF free and enl1ghten-
Cd citizens, are wei and successfully engaged
In cary Ing on both day and night schools.
The present post commander is encouraging
these enterprises. Some of the adjacent
Plantations, notwithstanding the dangors
rom 1niders, are scientific missionary labor
schools. One on plantation south OF Vi
talia, where Miss Jennie Holiday has forty
dttle children, is remarkable for its order
ind discipline.
{Specfal Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune,1
TleksBuHo, Aug, &. via CAmo, Monday An<,. Is.
On Tuesday Of last week Sergeant Moore,
Company D, I'D Illinois infantry, hearing
ofa purchase Of quantity Of stores, with
out proper permits, ut De Soto, promptly
pursued the snugglers about five miles. West,
and captured aud brought In party Of two
women and one MN, with wagon and team,
and the goods they Ind proposed running
into the rebel lines. These consisted of
boots, shoes, coats, &c., to the value Of one
hundred dollars. The prisoners were de-
tslned until this morning, when the proper
t. was duly condscated and parties dis
charged. Mr. Chadburn, the merchant who
had sold the goods without legal permit,
was fined one Thousand dollars.
Litut, Morgan, Of the detective force,
lately seized quantity Of muskots, revolt
vers and caps In a house in De Solo,. where
they had been concealed for no good pur-
rose.
Mr.. Wilnlot Sperry, Of the Goth Ohio vol
nntcers, has been appointed Military Post
master at Baton Rouge.
r.
Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Tsibune.1
CAIRO, Tuesday, Aug. 16.:
BY the ste'mer Magnolia, only i've days
from New Orleans, we have papers to the
10th inst:
Tha Magnolia was not iaterfered with ut
Gaines Landing. showing that the rebel bat.
tery which fired upon the Empress, with in.
tantry support, had moved to- som: other
quarters.
4 few days ago the guard aboard the gun
boat Laf,9 ettc, lying on the river. near the
Bayou Sora, discovered d Suspicious looking
object floating down the river towards the
gunboat- The fact Was reported and boat
sent ont to investigate the nature Of the
thiog, which proved to be q torpedo, con-
tanning over forty pounds of powder. The
timely discovery Of the torpedo by theguard
probably saved the gunboat from dcstruc-
tion.
The New Orleans papers Of the 10th have
the folio wing from Texas The da5 utter our
forces evacuated Bro wnsyil1e, Texas, party
IT rebels OF the nou.combatnat sort, crossed
ever from Matamoras aud raised the Loue
Star flag. On the day following the rebel
Col. Ford entered the town with about 400
men.
At last nccounts Col. Quirroga, who had
command of the forces, intercepted Vidaurri.
between Pedros kegros aud Monterey
and was utterly routed by the troops Of
President Juarez. Col. Qulrrogn, it was
thought, wou1d again take refuge in Texas.
Yidaurri, when last heard from, was at Lo-
ne6o, Texas.
Dr.. Meare, Of the Gardiner fraud notoriety,
MAS induced to take to the chaparal by
comments made upon his conduct By the
Brownsville Journal, which charged him
p ith being traitor to Mexico, as well rs
rebel against the United Statez., It Is now
maintained that since hts leaving Monterey,
he hiss been lying hid In the mountains near
Cenvalvo. Meers is believed to have been
one ot the corps editorial Of the .uorninq Star.