Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1865-02-17
news Items.

ing ct Camp Morton, informs the Indian
apohs Journal that out Of 1882 rebel pFis-
oners for exchange ander recent orders,
only $3.50 could be found willing 10 be
exchanged. They know what's what
A dispatch from Cairo, says the
Illinois State Journal says that an i'm
meuse fleet consisting Of sixty-six steam
ers loaded with troops and material be.
longing 70 Gen. A. j. Smith division Of
General Thomas army, arrived at that
place, from the Tennessee river, on
Thursday last They were bound South
and are supposed TO have some eounee-
ton with the movement against Mobile,
now believed 10 be in progress. Our
dispatches also state that n powerful
cavalry expedition is in course Of prep
arRtion designed to sweep through the
Gulf States, visiting Selma, Monigom.
cry, dc, with which the Mobile expedi-
ton will undoubtedly operate.
The PeorIa Transcript says that no
less than four fres occurred IN chat city
on Saturday night last, al OF which were
started By incendiaries Among the
buildings either partially or wholly
burned we're the freight hoase OF The
Bureau Valley Railroad, the Fayette
Mills, and Trousdale's Planning Mill IL
is supposed that IL was the work Of a
gang Of thieves who came from Chicago
with the intention Of enlistiug and
jumping the bounty. but who, in finding
the Inducements less than they antiei
pased, turned their attention to other
WAYS of raising the wind.
There was Ere in Corydon on Sunday
morning which proves TO have been a
very serious affair A number OF bus
mess houses we're destroyed The losses
are variously estimated at from twenty
to City thousand dollars, and fall prin-
eipally on Jordan and Wilson, Douglas
and Dembro, Kintner, Reynolds, Read
er and Lane. Miller's Hotel IS in runs.
The fire is said . have been the resu {
Of carelessness, and the great loss will
prove to be no gain unless 1t roases the
citizens to the necessity of procuring a
steam engine at once.
When the train for Knoxville, which
left Chattanooga Friday. says the Ga
zette, arrived at Charleston, the conduct
or received dispatch from Athens that
force consisting OF four thousand can
non aud four pieces of rebels we're
approaching the last mentioned town.
The operator at that place must have
been terribly Scared Owing TO the
difficulty with which four pieces" 81
men would meet with in moving so many
guns, the rebels had not come vithis
shooting distance Of the road when the
evening train passed down.
We have been informed that nun,
Der Of gusrrillas had been at Blanden.
vile, Ky, on Tuesday evening last
They we're thought TO be some of Faulk
ner's men, who are struggling around
picking up things lying about loose
They have considerable temerity to ap
preach so near the command OF Gen
A. j. Smith, who would not like any
better sport than TO gobble up q lot O
the gentlemen one of these fine morn
ings
Six rebel commissioned officers, &
enlisted men, 20 rebel deserters, anc
one citizen were received at the Military
! Prison in Louisville. on Sunday aigaf
} from Nashville. The following are the
names of the commissioned officers
James @. Bright, Surgeon slh TenBes
3 see: John B. Corn, Captain, 9Th Ala
t bama: Robert e. Ditsler, Surgeon II
) Maione's cavalry; G. w. Gullet, Assist
ant Surgeon, Malons's cavalry; Pete
+ Simmons, Lieutenant, 2lss Tenness'
cavalry; Henry Stone, Szrgeon, LIST AM
4sh Florida infantry.
Twelve men belonging to Lyon com
+: nand, captured near Bowling Green
: Ky, were brought to Louisville on Mon
z day evening. They we're a very shabb,
0 looking set
!, The following pass says the Chats
, nooga Gasstts, was presented at thr
/. picket hue the other day, By a German
soldier:eo -E5- e
) $ Guard and pickets viii pass one meal
! tuehman to Chattanooga By order o
: onefwho fur he catch him out side til
! picket lines agin viii shoot him dead il
! hell $50
0 It appears that the man had beef
4 struggling in the country and was pick
: ed up 81 some Of the scouts. The,
] were going 10 bring him TO town, but b
: begged 50 hard to Be allowed 90 com,
> alone that his request vas granted, snc
he above pass sivan HIN for warning