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The steamship Morning Star, Capt. J.M. COURTNEY, from New-Orleans via Havana, arrived at this port yesterday. The Morning Star left New-Orleans Sunday, March 6, and arrived at Havana on the 9th inst., leaving the same day. Left at Havana steamship Corsicia for New-York on the 12th. Steamship Creole arrived at New-Orleans on the 3d instant, and the Havana on the 5th; passed in the river bound up, steamship George Washington from this port. The New-Orleans Era publishes the following extract from a private letter, dated off Mobile, Feb. 25: "Yesterday heavy firing was heard in the direction of Mobile, but...
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FORTRESS MONROE, Saturday, March 12. Gen. BUTLER sent a portion of Gen. KILPATRICK's cavalry (Cols. ONDERDONK and SPEAR's,) to King and Queen Court-house, to deal with the citizens claiming to be non-combatants, who ambushed Col. DAHLGREN. Col. ONDERDONK reports that the Fifth and Ninth Virginia Cavalry, with citizens, 1,200 in all, were driven from their camp near Carrolton's Store. The camp was taken and a number killed. Twenty prisoners were taken. The enemy was also driven from the Court-house. A large amount of grain, mills and store-houses were burned. The steamer Spaulding, from Beaufort, 10th, has arrived, bringing the officers...
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The following additional extracts from our late Southern files will be found interesting and amusing: THE PRESS ON THE RAID. THE LAST RAID OF THE INFERNALS THEIR PLANS UNVEILED. From the Richmond Dispatch, March 5. The reader will be startled this morning by the diabolical plans of the Yankee raiders who have just been driven in disappointment and disgrace from the very gates of Richmond. A lucky shot has sent to his long account one of the three leaders of the three bands into which KILPATRICK's command was divided, and upon his person were found the papers making the important...
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The steamship Western Metropolis from New-Orleans, Feb. 29, arrived last evening. In the Era of the 28th, we find the following concerning Admiral FARRAGUT's operations at the entrance of Mobile Bay: "We are again to be interested lookers-on of active war. The roar of cannon again resounds through the Department of the Gnd. The initiative steps of the operations which will soon place Mobile under the rule of the Stars and Stripes have been taken, and it may not be long ere we shall have to publish the glorious news that 'Mobile is ours!' By the arrival of the United...
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FORTRESS MONROE, Tuesday, March 8. Hon. E.M. Stanton, Secretary of War: The-flag-of truce boat is in, bringing over forty-eight officers and over six hundred privates, delivered for exchange. The Richmond papers give an account of Col. DAHLGREN's death and Maj. COOK's capture. The papers of today say: "On the 6th of March, Gen. SHERMAN was at Canton, on the Mississippi Central Railroad. That he has taken a large number of negroes and leaves the country impoverished." The papers also state that the Confederates have ordered all of Gen. KILPATRICK's officers whom they captured to be placed in irons. BENJ. F....
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WASHINGTON, Tuesday, March 8. Without Staff, or flourish of trumpets, Gen. GRANT made his entree into the city this evening, accompanied by his son, a lad thirteen years of age. He quietly took his seat at the dinner table at WILLARD's. Many inquiries were made as to who the strange Major-General was, but none seemed to know, until an officer who had served with him in the West recognized the hero of Vicksburg. The announcement spread like lightning, and a hearty spontaneous cheer rose above the clatter of dishes and the trampling of servants. The eager guests crowded around the...
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The United States transport Arago, HENRY A. GADSEN, commanding, from Hilton Head, S.C., at 10 A.M., and Charleston Bar 5 P.M., Friday, March 4, with mails from Port Royal and S.A. Blockading Fleet, consigned to Maj. STEWART VAN VLIET, Quartermaster U.S.A., arrived here at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morning. The Arago brings a large number of veteran troops (reenlisted) on furlough, from the following regiments, viz.: Forty-seventh New-York Volunteers, Fifty-fourth New-York Volunteers, One Hundred and Fifteenth New York, Eighth Maine, Third Rhode Island Battery, and Eighty-fifth Pennsylvania Volunteers; also fifty-four Confederate deserters. Amongst the cabin passengers are some twenty officers wounded...
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WILLIAMSBURGH, VA., Friday, March 4, That Brig.-Gen. KILPATRICK had started on an expedition to the vicinity of Richmond with a considerable cavalry force and some artillery is generally known to the reading public. The special and most important object of that expedition is not so generally known, and I am not at liberty here to state it. It is sufficient to say, however, that in every other respect it was a complete success, resulting in the destruction of millions of dollars worth of public property belonging to or used by the Confederate Government of the so-called seceded States -- property,...
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WILLIAMSBUDGH, Friday, March 4, That Brig.-Gen. KILPATRICK had started on an expedition to the vicinity of Richmond with a considerable cavalry force and some artillery is generally known to the reading public. The special and most important object of that expedition is not so generally known, and I am not at liberty here to state it. It is sufficient to say, however, that in every other respect it was a complete success, resulting in the destruction of millions of dollars worth of public property belonging to or used by the Confederate Government of the so-called seceded States -- property, some...
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Our late files of Richmond papers furnish us the following interesting extracts in addition to those already published: THE WAR IN MISSISSIPPI. GEN. SHERMAN'S MOVEMENTS. The Richmond Enquirer of Feb. 22, collects the following extracts from Southern journals, which show that SHERMAN frightened the rebels pretty effectually. It says: "The accounts we get from Mobile are encouraging. The defences are said to be almost impregnable, with line after line of defences, with admirably constructed redoubts, all around the city. An officer of the army, who left Mobile on the 13th, represents everything quiet in the city, and not the least...
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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Thursday, March 3. Gen. KILPATRICK crossed the Rapidan at Ely's Ford, on Sunday morning at 4 o'clock. He surprised and captured the rebel pickets, a Captain, Lieutenant and fifteen men on the south bank of the stream, and moved in the direction of Spottsylvania Court-house, stopping for a half hour at Chancellorsville. The last official intelligence from him was a dispatch dated 11 o'clock on Sunday morning, from the former place. The dispatch was substantially as follows: "Twenty miles nearer Richmond. Am all right. Will double my bet of five thousand dollars that...
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HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Wednesday, March 2. Gen. CUSTER started with a force of cavalry, on Sunday, to make a reconnoissance toward Gordonsville, the Sixth Corps, under Gen. SEDGWICK, following in support. He passed through Madison Court-house on Monday morning, and reaching Wolfton, a few miles beyond, encountered a rebel picket, which he captured. Passing across the Rapidan and Ravanna rivers in the direction of Charlottesville, he met the enemy within three miles of the latter place, where he charged a body of cavalry under Gen. STUART, driving them a considerable distance. Capt. ASH, of the Fifth United States...
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SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE N.Y. TIMES WASHINGTON, Tuesday, March 1. The latest information received here from the Army of the Potomac is up to nine o'clock this morning. Heavy musketry, carbine probably, firing was heard early this morning off to the extreme right, in the direction of Stannardsville, where it was supposed that CUSTER's cavalry were engaging the rebels. Madison Court-house as well as Spottsylvania Court-house are in our possession. There is an evident disposition on the part of Lee to avoid a battle, by keeping behind his intrenchments. KILPATRICK has been heard from. The report is favorable. LEE's communications...
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Monday, Feb. 22, 1864. The entire column, numbering a little less than 5,000 men, left Barber's at 7 o'clock Saturday morning, and proceeded on the main road toward Lake City. I am confident the force did not exceed the number stated, for I am assured by an Aide-de-Camp to Gen. SEYMOUR, that rations were drawn that morning for not quite 5,000. The forward movement was made suddenly. On Friday it was not supposed by the commanding officers -- not including Gen. SEYMOUR -- that an advance would be made for some days thence. With that conviction, the officers...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., Friday, Feb. 26. Arrivals from Vicksburgh confirm the previous reports that Gen. SHERMAN had occupied Selma, Ala. The reports from Gen. SMITH'S cavalry expedition are not so good. Stragglers who arrived here to-day state that the rebel Generals FORREST, ADAMS, LEE and RODDY, concentrated their forces against those of Gen. SMITH, and forced him back with considerable loss. He had a severe fight at West Point, Mississippi. The slow movements of Col. WARING's Division, consisting mainly of Pennsylvania and New-Jersey regiments, delayed the expedition some eight days, giving the enemy time to concentrate their forces. It is reported...
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MEMPHIS, Tenn., Friday, Feb. 26. Arrivals from Vicksburgh confirm the previous reports that Gen. SHERMAN had occupied Selma, Ala. The reports from Gen. SMITH's cavalry expedition are not so good. Stragglers who arrived here to-day state that the rebel Generals FORREST, ADAMS, LEE and RODDY, concentrated their forces against those of Gen. SMITH, and forced him back with considerable loss. He had a severe fight at West Point, Mississippi. The slow movements of Col. WARING's Division, consisting mainly of Pennsylvania and New-Jersey regiments, delayed the expedition some eight days, giving the enemy time to concentrate their forces. It is reported...
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From our late files of Richmond journals, the receipt of which we have already acknowledged, we extract the following important matters: The Richmond papers publish the Military Bill which is now the law of the Confederacy. Section 1 -- Provides that all white men, residents of the Confederate States, between the ages of 17 and 50, shall be in the military service of the Confederate States during the war. Section 2 -- Provides that all between the ages of 18 and 45 now in service shall be retained during the present war in the same organizations in which they were...
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