i i ~ i l i *1 
be marching North and Forrest will probably 
join him. On the morning of the 21st Grierson'-' 
cavalry came upon some of Forrest’s troops, 
near Hudsonville. Miss. A sharp fight ensued, 
and the rebels retreated in the direction of Jack¬ 
sonville, passing through Legrnnge. A number 
of prisoners, horses, &c., were taken and carried 
to Memphis. 
The steamer Curlew from the Ark. river, 
while aground at Johnson’s Island, was attacked 
by guerrillas, but the soldiers aboard drove them 
off killing the notorious leader Tom Kernan, 
better known as the wild Irishman. 
Grierson has picked up a few" of Forest’s men. 
They say he keeps his troops well together and 
is too strong for attack. 
Arkansas.— Advices from Camden, say that 
Gen. Steele’s army is there. Gen. Thayer 
joined Steele at Elken*’ ferry on the Little Mis¬ 
souri river, where the rebels were driven 
from a line of breastworks commanding the 
river. 
The enemy next stood at Prairie Diana which 
was fortified by a line of rifle pits and embank¬ 
ments Cor guns en barbette—li miles long. Gen. 
Steele flanked their position, and General Price 
skedaddled towards Washington. Other skir¬ 
mishes occurred, but our total loss was less than 
200 . 
Price supposed Gen. Steele was goiDg to 
Shreveport via Washington, after the fight at 
Prairie Diana. Gen. Steele pursued the rebs to 
Washington, and then turned and pushed for 
Camden. Price discovered his mistake and 
pushed for Camden also. 
A desperate race ensued, and although heavy 
skirmishing occurred all the way, Marmaduke 
being in front, Steele came out victor, and en¬ 
tered the enemy’s fortifications unopposed. 
Camden is strongly fortified with niue forts, 
and all its approaches are well guarded. A large 
rebel transport was captured 30 miles below 
Camden. 
1 1 is understood that re-enforcements are going 
overland from Little Rock to Gen. Steele, he 
not being able to draw from Gen. Banks. Gen. 
Steele's force is fully 20,000, and can whip Kir¬ 
by Smith should he attacked him. No fears 
need be entertained of bis safety. 
Three steamers are said to be lying at the 
mouth of the Arkansas river, from which the 
guerrillas are receiving large supplies of cloth¬ 
ing. «Src. 
Orriu Smith, formerly conductor of the Miss. 
U. R., some time since was taken in the act of 
smuggling 500 Its. percussion caps to the enemy, 
having previously taken the oath of allegiance. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Plank. Plymouth might still have been in our 
possession. 
For their noble defense, the gallant General 
Wessel and his brave band have and deserve the 
warmest, thanks of the whole country, while all 
sympathize with him in his misfortunes. 
* To the officers and men of the navy, the com¬ 
manding General tenders his thanks for their 
hearty co-operation with the army, and the 
bravery and determination that marked their 
pat t of" the unequal contest. 
With sorrow he records the death of the noble 
sailor and patriot, Lieut-Com. O. W. Flusser, 
U. 8, N.. who, in the heat of battle, fell dead on 
the deck of his ship, with the lanyard of his gun 
in his band. 
The commanding General believes that these 
misfortunes will tend not to discourage, but to 
nerve the arm of North Carolina to equal deeds 
of bravery and gallantry hereafter. 
Until further orders, the headquarters of the 
sub-district of the Albemarle will be at. Roanoke 
Island. The command devolves upon Col. D. 
W. WardrufT, of the 99tb V. S. infantry. 
John S. Peck, Maj.-Gen. 
Baltimore advioe6 say that the colored Federal 
troops at Plymouth, after the surrender, were 
murdered by the rebels. 
An unsuccessful attempt was made on the 13th 
to destroy the frigate Wabash off Charleston, by 
a torpedo boat. The Wabash gave a broadside 
to her enemy which sunk her, or she escaped 
under cover of the heavy fire. 
I-1st of New Advertisements. 
The Quebec (Canada) Gazette, of the 20th 
ult., says there was an earthquake shock in 
that city on the previous day. It lasted several 
seconds, and the houses were so violently 
shaken that all who were in them made their 
way to the street as quickly as possible; the 
alarm in every pari of the city was great. No 
damage was done, except the falling of a few 
bricks from chimneys. The atmosphere at the 
time was clear, with a strong breeze from the 
nort h-east. This shock exceeded in power that 
of October, 1860. 
Captain Philip Cashmeyer, Gen. Win¬ 
der’s right hand man, has been arrested and 
thrown into Castle Thunder at Richmond, on 
suspicion of treason to the rebel authorities. 
He was detected in giving letters containing im¬ 
portant information to Federal prisoners released 
for exchange while on the flag of truce boat 
going down the river. Cashmeyer i6 a Balti¬ 
morean, and held a position of great trust under 
Winder. 
An Alexandria (La.) letter of the 8th ult. 
says almost everybody, including leading citi¬ 
zens, is taking the oath of allegiance. Scarcely 
any crop will be made this year, and absolute 
distress for the necessaries of life is inevitable. 
On one plantation, however, they have begun 
work on the free labor plan, and are alreadv 
planting cotton. The great lack is mules for 
plowing, etc., all having been seized for trans¬ 
portation of tbe army. 
Miss Mary E. Wakker, the handsome lit¬ 
tle surgeon who was captured by rebels near our 
lines at Dalton, Ga.. a few days since, formerly 
lived at Rome, N. Y. Late rebel papers an¬ 
nounce her arrival in Richmond, and state much 
curiosity was excited as she passed through 
the streets habited in male costume, on her way 
to Castle Thunder. 
The latest reports from the Navy Yards show 
that very satisfactory progress has been made 
towards tbe completion of the Monadnock, 
Agementicus, Tonawanda and Miuntonomi, 
iron-dad, wooden, double-turreted vessels of the 
largest tonnage. The enemy will probably 
make their acquaintance before the close of this 
year’s campaign. 
The St. Louis County Court on Wednseday 
gave a tract of five hundred acres of highly 
improved land, twelve miles from the city, 
known as the Snizeer’s Farm, to the Mississippi 
Valley Sanitary Fair. The farm, is valued at 
between $30,000 and $40,000. The city has al¬ 
ready paid out of the treasury $20,000 cash for 
the same object. 
A letter from St. John, N. B., states that 
in that place prices rule as follows:—Wood, per 
cord, $3; coal, per ton, $4; flour, per bbl., $5; 
butter, per lb., 18@25c.; beef per lb., 5@10c.; 
for best cuts. Clothing of all kinds can be 
bought for half the prices paid here. Board at 
first-class hotel, for man and wife, $5.50 per 
week. Verily, that is a good land. 
An old house iu Philadelphia, built 175 years 
ago, is about to be pulled down. It is a relic of 
tbe past which one thinks the Pensylvanians 
would sacredly preserve. It was occupied as 
the city residence of William Penn and family, 
in Philadelphia, in 1700, and in this house was 
born his son, John Penn. 
A girl in Webster, Mass., who had been told 
that eruptions upon her face might be cured by 
the use of lime water, drank half a pint of 
water in which a lump of lime had been slack¬ 
ened. Iler throat and stomach were horribly 
burned, and her life was saved only by timely 
medical aid. 
On tbe 7th of April a fire at Gonalves, Hayti, 
destroyed property estimated to be worth $3,000- 
000 Spanish. The fire originated from a spark 
of a cigar falling into'a pile of loose cotton just 
going to press. One hundred and forty-four 
buildings were destroyed. 
On Saturday week, an extensive conflagration 
occurred at Fair Ilavcn, Mass., destroying 
several buildings in the vicinity of Water and 
Centre streets. The oldest inhabitants say that 
their was never so extensive a conflagration in 
the place before. 
General orders No-11, issued from the Adju¬ 
tant General’s office, dated Columbus 25th, de¬ 
clares that every member of the National Guard 
must report in person or by substitute when 
called into active service, or be treated as a de¬ 
serter. 
The New York Sanitary Fair closed on Satur¬ 
day, after having been for three weeks in suc¬ 
cessful operation. The total receipts were $1,- 
004,278, including $44,963 from the sword contest 
between Grant and McClellan, 
Til e Rebels are said to be greatly puzzled as to 
the designs of Gen. Grant. Murehings and coun¬ 
ter-marchings are continually going on and a 
state of unwonted purturbation pervades Dixie 
from center to circumference. 
On Monday week 6,000 boxes fixed ammuni¬ 
tion were taken from the Watertown Arsenal, 
and conveyed over the Worcester Railroad to 
New York, to be transported from thence to 
Washington and the Army of the Potomac. 
Under the Summer arrangement, to take 
effect on the 9th of May, there will be five through 
trains, daily, between Albany, Buffalo and Sus¬ 
pension Bridge, and two or three hours time 
will be gained between the city of New York 
and Chicago. 
Gen. Wallace, in command at Baltimore, 
has sentenced one Eugene Le Mar to be hanged 
by the neck until dead, for entering the Federal 
lines as a spy. 
A special dispatch from Indianapolis states 
thut five thousand troops, infantry and cavalry, 
left that city on Saturday last for active service, 
—destination unknown. 
Ilnllfri Stales I (MO Hnmls. 
A Word to Boys going South- Davis' I’ain Killer, 
Henderson’s Patent l.oiiiu—Gillies A Llpplnrntr. 
Hoyt’s Hiawatha llalr Ites'onvtive— Jos Hoyt & Co. 
Bloomington Nursery K K Phoenix. 
Teeth like Pearls and Breath of Sweetness. 
Dnlrriwn and ( attic t«row* rt —8 E Southland. 
Important to Wounded SoldIrp. -J E I>e> nt & Ctk 
Churning no longer Drudgery Hums & Hush. 
Etuauclpalkin Proclamation- A Kidder. 
Agents Wanted 1) R Herrington .t Go. 
Brlnkerhofl'a ('hum—J K Beards.lev. 
Pautaui Chickens and Eggs—Win Bingham, Jr. 
SPECIAL NOTICES, 
Graves’ Bee-Hive— H Doty. 
Stereotypes of Engravings — D D T Moore. 
A Pact Worth Knowing—D B Lie Land A Co. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY 7, 1864. 
The Army in Virginia. 
The Washington Star of the 25th ult. says: 
Information from the rebel lines as late as Fri¬ 
day morning last, is to tbe effect that Lee was 
not, as has been reported, moving towards the 
Shenandoah, but was at that time in bis old 
position on the Rapidan. Such movements of 
Ms cavalry as were going on were made to be 
in tbe nature of a reconnoissance. to ascertain 
Grant’s purposes; and tbe fact of Grant having 
sent off unusually large picket forces, seems to 
have mistified tbe enemy on various occasions. 
Lee’s army was preparing for a sudden move, 
but was seemingly disposed to wait for Grant to 
open and develop bis aim. 
The movement of our gunboats up tbe Rap¬ 
pahannock has raised an alarm in Richmond,— 
that Burnside was effecting a landing there: 
and a new alarm has been raised of a movement 
by the Federals up the 60 Uth side of the James 
river. 
The rebels were divided between the fear that 
Lee may he invested in Richmond should he fall 
back there, and the fear that he may be out¬ 
flanked by Grant, should he remain in his pres¬ 
ent position. 
Two weeks ago Lee’s forces amounted to 
forty thousand men, and it is believed now that 
with the re-enforcements that he has been able 
to bring up, that they do not amount to over 
eighty-five thousand men. 
The N. Y. Herald's Martinsburg, Va., corre¬ 
spondence says:—A force of rebels is concen¬ 
trating at Front Royal, how large is not known. 
There is some indication that it will commence 
operations on the receding of the Shenandoah 
river, which is no w greatly swollen. The Poto¬ 
mac is also exceedingly high. 
Moseby’s guerrillas in quite a strong force ap¬ 
peared near our lines on the 25th. No civillians 
are allowed to go to the front. Several with 
passes from Gen. Meade were put off the train. 
The N. Y. Times’ special, of the 26th, says:— 
A squad of 25 rebel deserters, mostly belong¬ 
ing to the loth Virginia regiment, arrived to¬ 
day. They agree that Lee has been receiving 
heavy re-enforcements; one asserts that much 
of bis heavy artillery has been sent to Rich¬ 
mond, and the belief is current among the sol¬ 
diers that an early retrograde movement upon 
that city would be made. One of Longstreet’s 
divisions has been sent back to Richmond from 
Lee’s army. 
The Herald's Harper’s Ferry dispatch reports 
a spirited engagement between a detachment or 
the 1st N. Y. cavalry and 300 or 400 rebels, at 
Newtown, near Strasburg, the rebels having 
the advantage. Our loss is one officer and quite 
a number of men. 
Refugees from Richmond continue to report 
that troops are passing through the rebel capi¬ 
tal in masses, on their way from the south, to 
re-enforce Lee’s army. The rebels are concen¬ 
trating all their forces in Virginia. 
A despatch received by the Government from 
Fort Monroe states that the rear of Beaure¬ 
gard’s army passed through Petersburg on Sat¬ 
urday morning last. His force is estimated at 
18,000 to 20,000 men. Lee’s strength is stated to 
be upwards of 100,000 men. 
The plane of Gen. Grant are a secret to his 
superiors and subordinates alike. No one knows 
more than his own part of this campaign. Each 
column is ignorant of the preparations making 
for the movement of the others. 
®t)e Nang donbatser 
— It is said strawberries are plenty in Chicago. 
— Hngo’e translation of Shakspeare is finished. 
— The labor market is overstocked in California 
— Gccth's “ Faust ” is being translated into Hebrew. 
— The Emperor Napoleon is writing a “Life of 
Csesar.” 
— Gen. Burnside’s Army Corps is reported to be 40,- 
000 strong. 
— The sale of hasheesh has been prohibited in Con¬ 
stantinople. 
— Navigation is resumed between the lower and the 
upper lakes. 
— Over 514,000,000 of rations have accumulated at 
Chattanooga. 
— It is rumored that Garabaldi is coming to the 
United States. 
— Women are employed as barbers in Bangor, and 
are very dextrous. 
— It is reported that the title of Tennyson’s new po¬ 
em will be Boadieea. 
— One-third of onr cavalry with the army of the Po¬ 
tomac is dismounted. 
— A new revenue cutter is about to be built at Buffalo 
for service on the lakes. 
— Ireland has lost 2,500,000 of her population the past 
ten years by emigration. 
— The late John C. Rives, of Washington, married 
one of his bindery girls. 
— It is proposed to introduce military drill into all 
the public schools of Boston. 
— N- Y. city is very filthy, and the increase of deaths 
among children is very great. 
— John Jacob Astor was forty years old before he 
made his first thousand dollars. 
— Gov. Seymour lias appointed Billy Wilson Colonel 
of the 00th regiment N. 1‘. S. >1. 
— A Hamburg dispatch says the Danes are preparing 
to evacuate their entrenchments. 
— All the eating houses iu New York have raised 
their prices Born 20 to 30 per cent. 
— The Empress of the French has presented Adelina 
Patti with some magnificent jewelry. 
— The rebels are said to have withdrawn their forces 
from North Carolina to re-enforce Lee. 
— The productive capital In British railways is esti¬ 
mated at two thousand million dollars. 
— Nevada Territory is preparing to send half a tun 
of silver to the St. Louis Sanitary Fair. 
— For seven small farms In the oil regions of Penn¬ 
sylvania 51,112-000 have been paid recently. 
— The heer-housea in London, if placed side by side, 
would make a row thirty-nine miles in length. 
— The Western troops called out for 90 days are to be 
equipped and paid by the General Government. 
— The trade in diamonds is said to exceed anything 
before known in this country. Shoddy is about. 
— Shoddy is likely to reign nt tbe watering places and 
fashionable resorts. It hRS engaged all the rooms. 
— Volunteering in Indiana, in answer to the call 
for 20,000 one fmntlml days' men, Is progressing favor¬ 
ably. 
— Five thousand applications for transfer from the 
army to the navy have been made to the Navy Depart¬ 
ment 
— It is said that Bishop Wordsworth has in press a 
work on “ Shakspeare’s Knowledge and use oi the 
Bible.” 
— The descendant of a Prince of the ancient Armor- 
ique, Count de Yarrocq, has just died at the poorhouse 
in Paris. 
— Florence Nightingale has scut to the Metropolitan 
Fair copies of her work on nursing, dated “ from a 
slck-bcd.” 
— The price of New York dailies, at the news-rooms 
is now twenty-live cents per week, and five cents per 
single copy. 
— The “ Illustrated London News” has passed into 
the editorial hands of Mr. Roger Acton, a Tery compe¬ 
tent, person. 
— Seventy thousand persons are annnally arrested by 
the police of London. Of these 450 are burglars and 
housebreakers. 
— Seven cases of murder are set down for trial at 
New York this week, and several cases of manslaugh¬ 
ter in addition. 
— The grain trimmers of Chicago have established 
the price of trimming vessels and propellers at $2 per 
thousand bushel*. 
— The tobacco growers in Onondaga Co. are now de¬ 
livering their last year’B crop at prices varying from 21 
to 25c. per pound. 
— Rumors are afloat that the rebel government is 
leaving Richmond, and that Lee is about to fall back 
behlud his defences. 
— The ex blockade runner Margaret and Jessie, now 
the gunboat Gettysburg, had a trial trip yesterday, and 
went 15 knot* easily. 
— The number of children in Maine between the ages 
of four and twenty-one years is 234,775. The number 
of school houses, 2,827. 
— It is asserted Mrs. Lincoln's sister’s baggage was 
inspected by Gen. Butler, and that she did not carry 
contraband goods South. 
— The Princess of Wales gave a very costly bracelet 
to the Countess who loaned her a flannel skirt on a re¬ 
cent interesting occasion. 
— The Atlantic Telegraph company has definitely 
accepted the tender of Messrs. Glass, Elliott & Co., to 
lay the cable In the summer of 1805. 
— Mr. John C. Rive*, so well known to every fre¬ 
quenter of Washington, died at his residence near 
Georgetown, on Sunday morning week. 
— Due hundred students were present at the opening 
of the People's College at Havana, on Monday week, 
and 400 applications for admission arc on Ole. 
— The number of printing presses in operation or 
ready for use in the Treasury Building in Washington, 
if placed in a line would extend a quarter of a utile. 
Department of the Gulf. 
Late dispatches from New Orleans state 
that the destruction of cotton on the Red river 
by rebels is not over 75,000 bales. 
A fight between 50 Union soldiers and 75 
rebels took place on Lt-Gov. Johnson’s planta¬ 
tion. The rebels were repulsed. Twenty pris¬ 
oners and $1,000 worth of smuggled goods were 
captured. 
The steamer America, from New Orleans the 
19th ult., arrived at noon of the 28tb. The Era 
of the 19th contains late news from the army of 
Gen. Banks. 
An expedition under Gen. Smith, which, 
with a portion of Admiral Porter’s fleet, went 
up Red river previous to the three days’ battles, 
returned safely on the 15th inst. The greater 
portion of the rebel army is at Mansfield, and 
on the river opposite. Our gunboats, in return¬ 
ing from Red ri ver, were obliged to run by a 
rebel battery of 14 guns. In the tight which 
followed the attempt of the gunboats to puss 
the rebel batteries, the rebels were compelled 
to fall back from the river, giving the transports 
a free passage, a very little splintering of the 
wood work being all the damage sustained. 
As soon as this expedition arrived at Grand 
Ecore, preparations were at once made for an¬ 
other advance of the army. The Era adds, we 
have good reason for believing that Gen. Banks 
is again en route to Shreveport. A portion of 
our army is known to have left Grand Ecore, 
moving out toward the rebel position. The 
return of the fleet from above furnished the 
army with a full supply of ammunition, the 
lack of which was the principal reason of its 
return to Grand. Ecore. 
Our soldiers had entirely recovered from the 
fatigue incident to the late marches and severe 
fighting, and were in a position to strike a tell¬ 
ing blow. A rebel battery had been planted at 
Campton, a few miles above Grand "Ecore, in 
consequence of which Gen. Kirby Smith burned 
the town. The captain of the dispatch boat 
was killed in running tbe batteries at Sanshal- 
lery. Tbe steamer Polar Star, with nearly 400 
Confederate prisoners on board, passed this 
place under a flag of truce. The boat was stop¬ 
ped by Capts. Farmington anil Ayers, belong¬ 
ing to the rebel Gen. Taylor’s staff, but was 
allowed to proceed, the instructions under 
which the commanding officer was acting hav¬ 
ing been previously approved by Gen. Taylor. 
The prisoners who were to be exchanged were 
under tbe control of Maj. J. M. Bradley, of 
Gen. Bowen's staff. 
Gen. Grover’s division is still at Alexandria, 
and will probably remain to protect the country 
and the people of that region from guerrillas. 
We shall remain in expectation of hearing that 
Gen. Banks and his army have again met the 
enemy, and that the overthrow of rebel domina¬ 
tion in Louisiana is entirely Accomplished. 
The transport steamer Black Hawk arrived 
from Grand Ecore the‘27th, and her officers 
bring information of a very exciting adventure 
in returning to Grand Ecore. After bringing a 
number of wounded to the city, the boat was 
ordered to proceed several miles further up tbe 
Red river, and endeavor to pull out of a rather 
unpleasant situation the gunboat, Eastport, 
wMch had been aground l'or several days on the 
sand-bar. They failed to get the Eastport off 
the sand-bar and started to return, but had 
scarcely got away from the protection of her 
guns, when rebel riflemen opened on her from 
the banks. The rebels numbered several hun¬ 
dred, and their firing was very rapid; but by 
putting on all the steam that could be raised, 
the officers on the Black Hawk succeeded in 
escaping from the enemy’s clutches. 
The hospital steamer had arrived with 566 
wounded soldiers, part from the late Red river 
battles, who baa been paroled. 
The rebel loss at the late battles in Louisiana 
is set down at from 7,000 to 10,000 men. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
Orders have been issued for an immediate 
draft in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachu¬ 
setts and Missouri. A draft will probably be 
ordered in Delaware, and also in some districts 
of Maryland. 
Tite War Department has ordered that the 
cavalry organizations which cannot immediately 
be supplied with horses, be armed arid used as 
infantry. 
Commanders of departments aud armies are 
authorized to dismount and employ as infantry 
any regiment which has been neglectful or 
wasteful of its horses, or proved inefficient on 
the field. 
It is said orders will soon be issued to com- 
mandere haring colored troops under them to 
retaliate upon the rebels. 
Special to N. Y. Commercial says, prepara¬ 
tion is nearly completed for the accommodation 
ol‘ 20,000 additional sick and wounded. 
The N. Y. Herald's special says it is reported 
at headquarters that the President thinks of 
sending Gen. Sickles to take the place of Gen. 
Banks. 
The Navy Department has received a com¬ 
munication from Rear Admiral Lee, in which 
he says that the statements of refugees received 
on board tbe Wishun, on the 17th, indicated 
that the extensive and valuable salt works in 
that vicinity were weakly defended, and might 
be destroyed. He directed Capt. Swords to 
organize a boat expedition under command of 
Lieut. Breck, to effect this important object, 
and says, he is happy to inform the department 
of the complete success of the expedition. 
Mr. Wilson offered on Tuesday week a joint 
resolution, appropriating $25,000,000 for arming, 
equipping, clothing, subsisting, transporting, 
and paying volunteers that may be received by 
the President for not less than one hundred days 
after mustering into the service by regiments. 
Gen. Martindale ha* been relieved as Military 
Governor of the District of Columbia, and or¬ 
dered to report to Gen. Butler. 
Private John Thompson, ol‘ the 1st Ohio cav¬ 
alry, was shot April 20th, at noon, near Alex¬ 
andria, for desertion and robbery. This man 
was captured with a party of guerrillas, in Lou¬ 
don Co., in September, where he had been a 
terrpr to the inhabitants. He was scarcely 20 
years of age. 
The President has approved of the joint reso¬ 
lution temporarily Increasing the duty on im¬ 
ports 50 per cent. It is, therefore, a law. 
Department of the South. 
North Carolina papers say Gov. Yance, 
who is a candidate for re-election, has been to 
Lee’s army on an electioneering tour. A corre¬ 
spondent from Lee’s army says:—“We have 
resolved to suspend any of our men who vote for 
Holden, by tbe thumbs— over which the 
Raleigh Progress is indignant, and says it will 
insure his defeat. On the 22d inst., Gov. Yance 
addressed the citizens of Fayetteville. 
Gov. Vance and Jeff. Davis are haring a per¬ 
sonal quarrel over the blockade running steamer 
Advance, which belongs to the State of North 
Carolina and makes regular trips to Nassau. 
Davis insists that these North Carolina steamers 
shall carry part of their cargoes at govern¬ 
ment prices, and at the same rate. Gov. Vance 
informs Davis that these steamers belong to the 
State of North Carolina, and enter North Caro¬ 
lina ports, and bring clothing and supplies to her 
troops. He (Davis) can have no voice in the 
matter. Gov. Vance says these steamers have 
not only been enabled to clothe and equip the 
troops of these States as well as the mass, but 
have also enabled him to add a surplus of several 
millions to the State treasury. 
Much discussion, says the Newbern Times, is 
going on at that place, over the removal by the 
Secretary of War of Lieut.-Col. C. H. Foster, 
commanding the 2d Union North Carolina Vol¬ 
unteers. The same paper pays a high tribute to 
his services In the Union cause, and says his 
removal was brought about by private intrigue 
outside of military circles. 
The following is Gen. Feck’s official in regard 
to the late battle at Plymouth: 
Headquarters Arm r op Dist. op N. C.,) 
Movements in the West and South-West. 
MISSOURI.—Messrs. Wade and Gooch of the 
Committee on the Conduct of the War, were 
recently at St. Louis on their way to Fort Pillow 
to investigate the late massacre. 
Mississm'i.—A special to the Cincinnati 
Gazette, from Chattanooga says that on the 23d 
ult., the rebels attacked our pickets near Nic- 
kayluek Gap, killing 5 and wounding 7 and cap¬ 
turing 29. Some of our men were killed after 
surrendering and several of the wounded were 
cruelly butchered as they lay on the field. 
Tennessee.— Memphis dates tothe22d, say 
that Forrest’s entire force was moving towards 
Alttbama, followed by Grierson. Polk is said to 
Newbern, April 21. j 
General Orders No. 66.—With feelings of the 
deepest sorrow the commanding General an¬ 
nounces the full of Plymouth and the capture of 
its garrison, its gallant commander, Brig.-Gen. 
H. W. Weasel, and his command. This result, 
however, did not take place until after the most, 
gallant resistance had been made. 
Five times the enemy stormed the lines, and 
as many times were they handsomely repulsed 
with great slaughter, and but for the powerful 
assistance of the rebel iron-clad ram and the 
floating sharp - shooting buttery, the Cotton 
