Important from Texas: Operations of Magruder’s Fleet in Sabine Pass– 2
Department of the Gulf: Trip to Fort Macombe – 2-4
The War on the Mississippi: The Attack upon Island No. Ten – 4
News from Washington: Progress of the Government Finance Measures – 4-5
Exciting Tragedy in the Eighth Ward: A Deserter Shot by a U.S. Officer and Almost Instantly Killed – 5
Fred. Douglass on the Proclamation: He Pronounces it a Mighty Event for the Colored Race, the Nation and the World – 5-6
Celestial Cotton – 6
Editorial: The News from Texas – 6
The Poor and the War – 6
The Two Battles of Donelson – 6