L1m( of New Advertisements. 
HEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
from Mobile, is but three and a half miles, and 
their largest rifled guns can throw shells into 
the remotest suburbs. 
The rebel rams and gunboats are in plain sight, 
but do not make the slightest hostile demonstra¬ 
tion, seeming to have had enough of Farragut 
and his fleet in the recent combat. The rebel 
war vessels referred to are the rams Alabama, 
National and Tuscaloosa, the gunboat Morgan, 
and one other ram, name not known. They 
remain above the city, in the mouth of the Ala¬ 
bama river, just out of range. 
The gunboat Jackson has succeeded in captur¬ 
ing the largest one of the three launches that 
have been hovering around Mississippi sound of 
late, with the object of attacking the Tricontu. 
The launch had on board a howitzer and other 
evidences of a warlike character. 
As stated in a late Mobile paper. General Gran¬ 
ger’s troops have constructed splendid fortifica¬ 
tions at Cedar Point and other places, so that if 
Hood’s whole army should re-enforce Mobile 
and attack our position, with the assistance of 
the gunboats, tbe enemy could easily be kept 
at bay, 
Texas papers state that an order has been 
issued by Kirby Smith to enroll all male ne¬ 
groes, of proper age, free and slave, for army 
service. 
A Shreveport correspondent says that Polig- 
nac’s and Walker’s divisions have crossed the 
Mississippi, and it is supposed they have gone 
to Mobile. 
A destructive fire had occurred at Galveston. 
Brownsville is reported almost deserted. 
The Federals hare fortified Brazos and San¬ 
tiago, and will probably remain there to close 
the porta. 
boat which arrived at Cairo the 13th, report that 
15,000 rebels are concentrating near the mouth 
of Red river. 
Kentucky. —Seventeen guerrillas, cn route 
as prisoners to Louisvilleon the steamer Colossus 
recently, when near Oaseville, overpowered and 
disarmed their guards, killing two or three of 
them, and then compelled the officers to land 
the beat, when they escaped, carrying oil all 
the arms and valuables they wanted. 
Mississippi. —The Vicksburg Herald of the 
10th, says there has been a concentration of rebel 
forces at Jackson; Forrest’s, Taylor’s, Galsen’s 
and Wirt Adams’ troojw were eneamped around 
that city. 
The force was estimated at 30,000 men, with 
extensive wagon, pontoon, and artillery trains. 
All the wagons were marked U. S., being those 
captured ftt G untown. All their movements 
are conducted with the greatest secresy. 
Forrest was still compelled to walk on crutches 
from a wound received at Tupello. 
Advices from Memphis say that Forrest had 
issued an order prohibiting all exit or egress 
from bis lines after the 15th, and forbidding the 
transportation of cattle outside the territory 
under his control. 
This is conjectured as meaning that lie hag 
some important expedition on foot, to whieh tbe 
extract from the Vicksburg Herald undoubtedly 
refere. 
Grape VIriw-c. W. Grant. 
Are You Out of Fmitloyment?—I>erhy AMtHer. 
Oonmnsslfm M' rvhiuit— Win II Ullimon. 
IttrAwhomes, Uni «=, I'monwe, Prime .1 Oo, 
a i>t>h Tr.'is- a. r:i!ir ratock. 
$!tiO Pi r MonlTi— 0 • <•. Hto l<‘. 
Kmployrneut— U. it. Uerriuttm & Co. 
<’ahfornisil—County v'lerk. 
VcutrUofinten*—JuiJuo liUinjf, 
SFCdAL NOTICES. 
A Card troni O. W. Ale> tiu'lcr & Oo. 
It is estimated that the present permanent 
summer resident population of tbe city of New 
Orleans is larger (175,000) than it has ever been 
before. 
The United States Circuit Court at Philadel¬ 
phia have decided that the weight of a tun of 
coal is 2,240 pounds, instead of two thousand 
pounds. 
The whole force at the extensive machine 
shops in the navy-yard at Washington, here¬ 
tofore at work upon large guns, are now exclu¬ 
sively employed upon engines for gunboats. 
The last Australia, China and India mail re¬ 
ceived in London, was the largest ever known, 
It contained 140,000 letters, upwards of 80,000 
newspapers, and more than 3,000 registered let¬ 
ters. 
The cost of the erection of the enormous 
hotel at Charing Cross terminus, London, now 
in course of completion, is above £20,000. A 
sum of £20,000 is allotted for furnishing tbe 
botel. 
The notorious guerrilla Quantrcll has been 
taken. A dispatch from Indianapolis to the 
Cincinati Gazette announces his arrest in the 
streets of that city. He was recognized by a 
refugee. 
Gkn. Saxton, in an address to the Freedmen 
of the Department of the South, advises them 
to lay up their surplus earnings for future use, 
and has established a savings bank for them 
at Beaufort, 8. C. 
In the district of AWinga, Adelaide, Australia, 
the authorities require all dogs aged three 
mouths and npwards to be registered, under a 
penalty of not les9 than £3, rising to £6, accord¬ 
ing to the circumstances of the case. 
A VIOLENT wind storm reoently passed over 
Shelby ville, Ky., doing great damage. The 
Court House and the Methodist and Baptist 
Churches were unroofed, aud a large number 
of other buildings were more or less injured. 
General Maury saysthe non-combatants of 
Mobile give biin more concern than all else. 
They will not leave the city, because, as they 
say, they have nowhere to go, and General 
Maury uppers to the planters to afford them 
shelter. 
From the report of the committee on the 
German population of North America, present¬ 
ed to the last German Synod, it appears that 
there are at least 4,000,000 Germans in the 
United States, one-third of whom—that is, 
1,333,000—are Lutherans. 
Prof. S. N. Griffith, of Lawrence Uni¬ 
versity, Wisconsin, offers to be a representative 
recruit for some lady who will pay his debts, 
about $1,000. He states that he is an ordained 
minister, and might have been an army chaplain, 
if he had only had command of money to elec¬ 
tioneer for the position. 
Tbkke regiments of rebel Hoops at Galves¬ 
ton, Texas, recently mutinied and turned the 
guns of tbe fort upon the city. They had de¬ 
manded flour from the commissary stores, and 
were refused. Geu. Magruder, who was sent 
for from Houston, pacified the men by serving 
out rations of bacon and flour. 
ArtemusWarp writes to the Boston Post 
that he is tired of answering the question as to 
how many wives Brigham Young has. He 
says that all he knows about it is that he one 
day used up the multiplication table in counting 
tbe long stockingH on a clothes line in Brigham’s 
back yard, and went oil’ feeling dizzy. 
MomjottoS, it is said, love beef blood better 
than they do any that flows In the veins of human 
kind. Just put a couple of generous pieces on 
plates near yonr bed at night, and you will sleep 
untouched by these pests. In the morning, 
you will find them fall and stupid with beef 
blood, and the meat sucked as dry as a cork. 
The Department of Agriculture is in daily 
receipt of the most gratifying reports from Its 
correspondents throughout the country, showing 
tbattherecent rains havebad the most favorable 
effect upon the growing crops of corn, and it is 
now generally believed that w t c shall not only 
have enough for home consumption, but an 
abundance to spare. 
The New York correspondent of the Boston 
Post says Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thumb have 
a baby three months old. It cries ami snarls 
just like grown people’s babies, and gives proni- 
L-e of attaining the ordinary dimensions of hu¬ 
manity if it gets through teething and such like 
safely'. Mr. and Mrs. Thumb are going to Eu¬ 
rope soon to be exhibited. 
Tim ladies of Lenox, Massachusetts, made 
a prompt and noble response to the late call 
for blackberry cordial for the sick soldiers. 
They went to work immediately, collected the 
fruit, manufactured forty-two gallons of the 
precious article and sent it lo the Sanitary Com¬ 
mission. That it was of prime quality may be 
inferred from the fact that the brandy alone 
put in cost over one hundred dollars. 
Tub act. of July 4, 1834, increases the invalid 
pensions of those who have lost both hands or 
both eyes, to twenty-five dollars per month. It 
also provides for disabled enlisted men, or those 
temporarily serving with the regularly organ¬ 
ized military or naval force, as well as for their 
widows and other dependant relatives; and 
for cases where there is no evidence of mus¬ 
ter in. 
The London APrenasum contains an extend¬ 
ed and very uufriendly review of the pirate 
Setmnes’ book, recently published in London, 
and entitled “The cruise of Sumter, and Ala¬ 
bama.” It Hays:— “In the commander of the 
Sumter and Alabama, a pereou whom some of 
us have been trying to convert into a minature 
Cochrane, we find no trace of either heroic deed 
or heroic thought.” 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., SEPT. 24, 1864. 
®fjc Nero9 (Hon&mser 
— The Princess Helena of England is sickaedeo- 
gaged. 
— Paper stock dealers pay eight cents a pound for old 
newspapers In good condition. 
— The 4th or July was celebrated in all the principal 
cities of Chili with great enthusiasm. 
— The skins of dogs und cats are now extensively 
used in the manufacture of boots amJ shoes. 
— The North-western Sanitary Commission asks for 
100 , 00(1 bushels of pickles for the army hospitals. 
— A Springfield, HI, paper intimates that President 
Lincoln has chosen Boston as his fntnre residence. 
— The whole amount of throe year six per cent ton- 
pound interest notes heretofore issued amount to $ 4 ^. 
353,760. 
— Miss Hannah Jones of Digbton, Mass., now 87 
years of age, walks two miles to churoh every pleasait 
(Sunday. 
— One man in New Jersey has 180,000 peach trees, 
and will send to market a quarter of a million baskets 
of fruit 
— Peach speculators have lost largely in Delaware 
this season. The crop was so laTge that they could not 
control It. 
— The N. Y. horse railroads are combining to »k 
the next Legislature for permission to increase fares U 
ten cents. 
— Tbe Sioux Indians insist that no roads shall be 
laid tlirongh their territory, nnd no traveling parties 
shall cross it 
— Over $0,000 have been contributed by the citizens 
of the Sandwich Islands to the United States Sanitary 
Commission. 
— The heavy taxes are greatly decreasing the cos 
sumption of tobacco. It is calculated half the smokers 
have stopped 
— The horses Flillnghnm and Gen. Batior are to trot 
on the Fashion course, Long Island, next month, fur a 
purse of $ 10 , 000 . 
— At the Mobile boarding schools tbe tuition is $250 
per quarter, and each pupil is expected to bring 100 
pounds of bacon. 
— A Mr. Berhous, on his way from California to 
Michigan, had his pockets picked of nearly $3,000 in 
the deiRil at Troy. 
— Philo Gridley, one of the veteran Judges of West¬ 
ern New York, died at Utica recently. He was a na¬ 
tive of Connecticut. 
— In July over 49,588 rations were issued from the 
U, 8 Commission Department at Nashville, to poor 
women and refugees. 
— Accounts from Idaho nnd the gold region have ne 
very promising look for the adventurers who have 
thronged thitherward. 
— Mrs. Atwood — whose maiden name was Sarah 
Mncomber —residing in Myrickvillc, Mass , was 1C2 
years old t he 17th nlL 
— Nearly $8,080,000 have been pent to relatives in 
Ireland the past seven years by parties who have emi¬ 
grated to this country. 
— Between tbe end of 1SG2 and beginning oi'1861, one 
firm in Belfast, Australia, has shipped to London near 
ly 30,(XX) Kangaroo skins- 
— The first two years of tbe present wnr a single 
European manufactory consumed 30,000 walnut tree? 
for American-gun-Btocks. 
— A royal decree has been issued at Madrid appoint 
ing a committee of directors to erect a statue in honor 
of Christopher Colnmtma. 
— An American missionary writes from India that 
the Hindoo women worship the statue of Lord Corn¬ 
wallis with great reverence- 
— All soldiers of foreign birth, honorably discharged, 
who have resided in the United States one year, may 
bo immediately naturalized 
— Gen, Gilmore has gone to West Point to recruit 
his health. Ho was wounded during the recent Breck¬ 
inridge raid on Washtngton- 
— The Congress of Chill have passed a bill empow¬ 
ering the government to expend the sum of $1,590,009 
upon U 10 increase of the navy. 
— Tbe Richmond papers say that though flour has 
fallen one hundred dollars a barrel, baker’s loaves are 
still about as big as a baby's fist. 
— The Manchester Miiror tells of a pop corn peddler 
whose sales amount to 100 ,(KXl packages a year, yield¬ 
ing the handsome sum of $ 6 ,COO. 
— A new spire, 654 feet high, is building on fir 
church of St Stephen of Vienna, and will, when com 
pieted, be the highest in Europe. 
— Borden or Winsted, Conn., condenses all trieb’sek- 
berries stmt hlut for the army gratuitously, funr.fifig 
all the sugar at his own expense 
— Grasshoppero have become a perfect pest in U ,B 
West. Michigan and Wisconsin are overrun by them, 
while everything has been ruined. 
— Jackson Haines, the best skater in the world, has 
gone to Europe He will create a sensation in fie cities 
of London and Paris, we Imagine. 
— The rebels pnt 11 fly-three bullets through 9 lady’s 
white skirt on a steamer descending the Ohio fi» oth cr 
day. Happily the lady wasn’t in it. 
— At the recent dramatic f<U at the Crystal Palace, 
London, Aim Mellon got two sovereigns for a scrap ol 
Thackeray’s manuscript of “Philip.'’ 
— Ninety thoosaudt majority has been cast in Penn 
sylvanla in favor of the proposition to h;t her soldiers 
vote for President mid Vice-President. 
_They have struck oil in Kansas which has all the 
valuable qualities of Pennsylvania petroleum, andi d' s 
said, is even better for lubricating purposes. 
— Tlic first salmon caught la the Connecticut river 
for forty years was taken at Chicopee recently, a 01 * 
served at the Massasoit House in Springfield 
— Less than ten thousand patients aro bow in the 
hospitals at Washington, anil the proportion of deaths 
is smaller than at any previous time this year 
— The present trade between England mid France is 
largely in favor of France. Without tbe trade of tin 
loyal States, England w*tild be Almost ruined. 
— The rebel Government had $‘10,000 in gold melted 
r»wv>ntlv. hv Lhe burntne of au inures* car on the Bau 
Department of the South. 
The Tribune's Washington special of the 
13th inst., -nysr— Col. Dana,[of the 133d Penn., 
who has just returned from under fire at 
Charleston, reports that^he was assured by par¬ 
ties who had been out to Fort Sumter, that it 
was rapidly settling, and in a very abort time 
it is believed the water will enter tbe lower tier 
of embrasures. It is a fact well known to our 
engineers, that this fortification was erected 
upon quite a thin point of sand, which strata of 
sand rested npou a soft, pulpy mass of debris. 
The Charleston Courier of Sept. 3d, has u 
strong article against the cessation of hostilities, 
which, it says, the North is much in need of to 
strengthen its armies and war power, yet the 
same issue contains an article which closes as 
follows: 
“War contains in itself every woe and calam¬ 
ity that mortals gToan under. With it comes 
bereavement, poverty, disease, death, rapine, 
devastation, extortion, murder, crimes of every 
dye, woes of every shape and size. May the 
God of Peace speedily lift up the light of his 
countenance on us and grant us peace.” 
From late rebel papers we glean the following 
items: 
The authorities of Charleston have been much 
annoyed of late by unknown persons mysteri¬ 
ously sending up rockets from the city and 
suburban villages, and the Charleston Courier 
calls for the exercise of greater vigilance in de¬ 
tecting the parties who are carrying on this 
pyrotechnic correspondence. 
The Charleston Mercury says that all foreign¬ 
ers residing in Savannah who did not organize 
for the defense of the city by the 30tb ult, were 
to be conscripted and sent to Atlanta. [General 
Sherman, doubtless, will be happy to make their 
acquaintance.] 
The majority for Vance over Holden for Gov¬ 
ernor of North Carolina is estimated at over 
56,000 in a total vote of 75,000. H olden w as the 
Peace candidate. 
Gen. Foster at Port Royal has ordered a draft 
of all able-bodied colored citizens in the Depart¬ 
ment. , 
Capt. M. Tisson, of the U. S. steamer Santi¬ 
ago de Cuba, under date of Sept. 15, informs the 
Navy Department that on Saturday, when on 
his way to Hampton Roads for coaJ, he discov¬ 
ered, chased and captured a blockade ronner. 
She proved to be the English steamer Advance, 
late the Lord Clyde, from Wilmington, N. C. 
She is an iron side-wheel steamer, two years 
old, fast, and has on board some 410 bales of cot¬ 
ton and some turpentine. Her full cargo can 
not be known until she is broken out in Bostou, 
for which port she will be immediately dis¬ 
patched. 
Rear Admiral Lee, in a dispatch from Beau¬ 
fort, say 8 the Elsie ran out of Wilmington on the 
4th instant, and was captured next day by the 
Keystone State and Quaker City. The Elsie 
was seen and fired upon when she ran out, and 
was chased by tbe Santiago de Cuba until lost in 
darkness. At 10.30 the next day she was cap¬ 
tured without papers or flag. A shell from the 
Quaker City exploded in the hokl of the Elsie 
and destroyed about one hundred and fifty bales 
of cotton. Part of the cargo was thrown over¬ 
board in the chase, and there arc now about 
twenty-five bales on board. The prize will be 
sent to Boston. Tbe Elsie is a new steamer of 
light draught and fair speed. 
Gentlemen connected with naval affairs say 
the English blockade runners Elsie and Ad vance, 
recently captured, together with their cargoes, 
are worth probably half a million of dollars. 
The officers and sailors who seized these prizes 
will, therefore, realize handsome dividends. 
The Anny in Virginia. 
There appears to be but little doing in the 
vrny of fighting in front of Petersburg. Gen. 
Grant has issued an order that all civilians in 
front of Petersburg, within his lines, who refuse 
to take the oath of allegiance, shall be sent 
through the lines of the euemy. The order 
also prohibits the sale of provisions to civilians 
who refuse to take tbe oatb. The Army of 
the Potomac is being rapidly re-euforeed. It 
is said that Lee dare not attack Grant until the 
forces under Early return, and Sheridan holds 
him so closely that he can not fall back without 
great loss. 
The rebels made a raid near Harrison’s Land¬ 
ing ou the 16ih, and captured 2,480 head of cat¬ 
tle belonging to the Government. Pursuit was 
made, but the rebels succeeded in getting away 
with their plunder. Ten herdsmen were killed, 
and sixteen captured. 
Hut little of public interest has transpired in 
the Shenandoah valley during the last lew day s, 
but the indications aie that more activity will 
soon be display ed. 
Chattanooga. AU citizens may take their I 
movable property. Transportation will be 
furnished for all movables. Negroes who wish 
to do so, may go with their masters. Other 
male negroes will be put in Government employ. 
Negro women and children will be sent out of 
the lines.” 
Gen. Sherman’s order of the 4th inst, com¬ 
mences as follows: 
“The city of Atlanta being exclusively for 
warlike purposes will be at once vacated by 
all except the armies cf the United States, or 
such civil employees as may be retained by the 
proper departments of the Government.” 
The order concludes as follows: 
“At the proper time just arangements will 
be made for the supply cf the troops of all ar¬ 
ticles they may need over and above clothing, 
provisions, Ac., famished by the Government, 
and on no pretence whatever will traders, man¬ 
ufacturers and sutlera be allowed to settle in the 
limits of fortified places, and if they manage to 
come in spite of this notice, the Quartermaster 
will seize their stores and appropriate them to 
the use of troops, and deliver the parties or 
other unauthorized citizens, who thus place 
their individual interest above that of the Uni¬ 
ted States, over to the hands of some Provost 
Marshal, to be put to labor on the forts or con¬ 
scripted into one of the regiments or batter¬ 
ies already in the service. The same general 
principles will apply to all military posts south 
of Chattanooga.” 
The Griffin Rebel of the fifth contains an order 
by Governor Brown, of Ga., withdrawing the 
16,000 militia from Gen. Hood’s army for thirty 
days. The 35,000 federal prisoners at Anderson- 
ville Ga., have been sent to Savannah aud Au¬ 
gusta. 
The Richmond Examiner of the 9th says: 
The hope built upon the terrible things that 
Wheeler was to do with Sherman’s communica¬ 
tions seem, we regret to say, fist falling into 
nothing. 
The havannuh Hexes learns that the Govern¬ 
ment powder works at Augusta were blown up 
on the 3d inst., with some 30,000 pounds of 
powder. There were nine persons in the 
works at the time, all of whom were instantly 
killed. 
Tennessee,— Advices from Murfresboro of 
Sept. 10, say that the road is in good order from 
here to Chattanooga. Trains left here this 
morning with mails for the army. At Atlanta, 
the rebels are retreating by way of McMinn¬ 
ville. 
A Pulaski dispatch says Gen. Ros.seauhas con¬ 
centrated all the force of Stedman and Granger, 
with his own, and was pursuing Wheeler 
towards the Tennessee river. The country 
between Nashville and Tennessee river was re¬ 
ported lull of straggling bands. 
The Richmond Sentinel of the 12th has the 
following: 
Macon, Ga., Sept. 9.— Wheeler’s forces have 
been dispersed very ear Tullahoma by Sted- 
man. 
Gov. Johnson has received the folio wing from 
Gen. Killen: 
Bull’s Gap, Sept. 0.— To. Gov. Johnson:— All 
Morgan’s papers fell into my hands, and show 
his forces captured exceeded 1.860. 
Ilis command retreated in confusion after 
his death. 1 pursued them eight miles; but 
the “ chivalry ” use the spurs with more vigor 
than they do the sabre. 1 will forward all his 
papers. Alvin C. Killen, Brig.-Gen. 
About 1,700 prisoners from the front, who ar¬ 
rived at Nashville Sept. 17, have been returned 
to Atlanta, and those on the way here have 
been turned back. They arc to be exchanged. 
Gen. Forrest crossed the Cold water on the 
12th and encamped within 15 miles of Memphis. 
Gen. Marmaduke with 7,000 men is across the 
St Francis intending to invade Missouri. 
Gen. Price id threatening Little Rock. 
Arkansas. — The officers of the dispatch 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON 
THE N. Y. Commercial's Washington special 
of Sept 12, says thut contractors are clamoring 
for pay, but the Treasurer Is withholding all 
other payments in order to pay the soldiers. 
Eleven million five hundred and fifty-live 
thousand dollars of the bonds on account of the 
recent loan of thirty-one and a half millions, 
have been sent off by tbe Treasury Depart¬ 
ment Ail the certificates thus far received are 
satisfied. 
The Gerald's Washington special says that no 
decision has y et been arrived at in regard to the 
proposition fur $1,000,000,009 loan made by Eu¬ 
ropean capitalists, and it may be held under 
advisement until the sense of Congress is taken 
upon it 
Although without any apparent cause, a 
number of bids offered for tbe $31,000,000 loan 
Contained the request that if not accepted, they 
should be applied to the 7:30 loan. 
The following persons were convicted by 
court-martial on the 15tfi:— W. H. Wigginton, 
of furnishing information to the enemy, —sen¬ 
tenced to be shot, but his sentence was after¬ 
wards commuted to imprisonment in the Albany 
penitentiary lor ten years. James Ludlnve, as 
a spy,— sent to the same prison during tbe 
war. John Wade, aiding soldiers to desert,— 
sent to tbe penitentiary at Albany two years, 
and to pay a fine of fifty dollars. 
MEXICAN NEWS, 
Steamer Roanoke from Havana, Sept, btb, 
arrived at New York Sept. 13. Dates from the 
city of Mexico to the 29th ult., and Vera Cruz 
to the 1st inst., have been received. 
Gen. Mejia had entered Victoria City and was 
joined by troops from Tampico under General 
Dupin. 
it was reported in Vera Cruz that Gen. Cas- 
taguy had defeated a party of Juarists near Sal¬ 
tillo, losing, amongst others, his Chief of Art il¬ 
lery. Mi jutissaid to be marching on Matamoras. 
Various skirmishes are reported, in whieh the 
French are usually Victorious. 
The Mexican vessels Liberator and Mexicano 
had been captured off Manzanillo. 
The Spaniards arc not making any more head¬ 
way in San Domingo than the French are in 
klexico. They suffer severely from the rav¬ 
ages of sickness. A small force was attacked 
between San Domingo City and San Chris- 
tobal, aud their commander, Colonel Suarez, was 
killed. 
The rebels at Puerto Plato had been attacked 
and driven out of their fortifications, losing their 
guns. 
A cargo of slaves was successfully landed near 
Remedios recently. 
A COl. Dupin, commanding the French force 
at Tampico, recently hung a father and two sous 
under the mistaken idea that they were engaged 
in smuggling. They were subsequently proved 
Innocent. 
Department of the Gulf 
The N. Y. Jlerald's Mobile correspondent 
of the 4th inst., says everything is quiet here, 
and there is no probability of an immediate 
movement on Mobile. 
The sunken rebel iron dad Baltic still effect¬ 
ually blockades tbe main channel across Dog 
river bar, but the Winnebago, a double turreted 
monitor, has found a passage through tbe ob¬ 
struction nearly opposite Mobile, aud can drop 
eleven and twelve-inch shells Into the city at 
will. The Metaceinet, Be bag 0 and Kennebec, 
have also reached the same place, and are in 
line of battle, ready to shell the city at a signal 
from Admiral Farragut. Mobile is entirely at 
our mercy. 
The distance of the war vessels mentioned, 
