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Gen. Pemberton wounded. --The Chattanooga Rebel, of the 7th inst., says: The gallant Pemberton was wounded at the last attack on Vicksburg. The Selma (Ala.) Reporter says dewberries, blackberries, and whortleberries, are selling in that market at 20 cents per quart. The steamers Robert E. Lee and Cornelia have arrived at Wilmington, N. C., from Nassau, with goods on Government account. Geo. E. Bedell, late Postmaster at Columbus, Ga., was killed at Greensville, Ala., a few days since, by the Marshal of that town. J. R. Bowers was shot and killed at Brinkleyville, N. C., on the 8th inst., in a quarrel with W. P. Solemen. The Augusta (Ga.) powder works furnished 1,000,000 pounds of powder for the army last year. Mr. Vallandigham has arrived in Wilmington, M. C., on for Massan. There are two of the inside of Charleston
From Middle Tennessee. --The Selma Dispatch states that Roscerans is still at Tullahoma, and his headquarters are at Winchester. A portion of his army is at McMinnville. The enemy are gathering in the grope of the people around McMinnville, giving the produces only a tenth of his grain for his family support. There are no Yankees this side of Lebanon and Alexandria. Some of our mounted men are at Sparta.
The President in the South. Selma, Oct. 18. --President Davis arrived here this evening, and was welcomed by the citizens en masse. An immense crowd gathered in front of the hotel. The President congratulated the people on meeting them under such favorable circumstances, and spoke in glowing terms of the gallantry of Alabamians on every battle-field. He said if the non-conscripts of Alabama would gather their guns and go to the rescue, by guarding Courtland and other points, thereby relieving regular soldiers who are now from necessity discharging that sort of duty, such blows would be dealt the enemy as he would find it difficult to recover from. In this way most effective aid could be given the gallant men and officers who are carrying out the plans of the noble Longstreet, under the supervision of the heroic Bragg. In this way, the President was confident that Rosecrans could be crushed to dust. It was only by force of arms that the Yankees could be brought to re
The President at the South. --President Davis arrived at Selma, Ala., on the 17th inst. The Selma (Ala.) Dispatch gives some notes of his trip: His personal suite consisted of Curtis Lee, son of Gen. Lee, and Col. Johnston, son of the lamented Albert Sidney Johnston. He was met at the steamer's wharf by Mayor Keith, of our city, and rode in a carriage with the former to the Gee House. Upon arriving there he was shown into the parlor, where he was visited and conversed with by a largiss. A lady here, intent on seeing the President, awaited his arrival most anxiously at the depot, and, upon seeing him, rushed frantically to where he was, exclaiming in pathetic accents, "Oh, Mr. President, will you let the Yankees come to Selma?" "I assure you, my dear madam, they shall not," replied the dignified Mr. Davis, and there upon the overjoyed fair one smacked his lips. No dainty "bus" it was, either, but a regular "sockdologer," that sounded like the report of a small pistol
nt to authorise the President and Secretary of War to delegate to the commanding general so much of the discretionary powers vested in them by law as the exigencies of the service shall require. Navy. The report of the Secretary of the Navy gives in detail the operations of that department since January last, embracing information of the disposition and employment of the vessels, officers and men, and the construction of vessels at Richmond, Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Selma, and on the rivers Roanoke, Neuse, Pedee, Chattahoochee, and Tombigbee; the accumulation of ship timber and supplies, and the manufacture of ordnance, ordnance stores, and equipments. --The foundeles and workshops have been greatly improved, and their capacity to supply all demands for heavy ordnance for coast and harbor defences is only limited by our deficiency in the requisite skilled labor. The want of such labor and of seamen seriously affects the operations of the department. The
Sharp Practice. --The Selma (Ala.) Dispatch says that a lady assumed the name of a distinguished citizen of Tennessee, now a resident of Alabama, by which she obtained the agency to purchase cotton in the northern portion of the State, and played her hand adroitly that she obtained $50,000 from the cotton agency at Mobile, and, but for her detection, would have procured upwards of $200,000 more from the Government. She is a lady of considerable literary pretence, and a resident of Alabama, and it is unnecessary to add that she is exceedingly sharp. The case will come up before the proper authorities.
Confiscation of property in Norfolk. The humane Butler, who is so solicitous about the health of the Yankee prisoners in Richmond, has commenced confiscating the property of citizens in Norfolk. The real estate, furniture, goods, chattels, and personal property of the following persons is advertised for sale for the benefit of the U. S. Government: Wm. W. Davis, C. W. Murdaugh, member of the Legislature; Jos. M. Miles, clothing merchant; Rev. Thos. Hume, Baptist minister; Ed. Kearns, a captain in the Confederate service; Thos. W. Cofer, John T. Rustic, naval constructor at Selma' Ala; W. C. Wingfield, C. W. Young, Robert V. Boykin, John De Bree, Chas. T. Myers, W. M. Mahone, Mathias Ward, and Terry Sinclair.
Not a Deserter. Selma, Jan. 27 --Information has been received that Lieut. G. A. Tabb, of Capt. Boyne's a guild corps, Army of Tennessee, who was falsely reported to have deserted to the enemy before the battle of Missionary Ridge, is a prisoner of war on Johnson's Island.
Mobile. --Gov. Watts, of Ala., has telegraphed to a citizen of Selma, Ala., that Mobile will probably be attacked very soon by the enemy, and as it is desirable that noncombatants should be absent during the siege, it will be incumbent upon the people of Selma to exhibit such hospitality to those of the unfortunate refugees as the intelligence and generosity of all good men and women will dictate under the circumstances.
Fight in Alabama. Selma, Feb. 9. --The Reporter has received information of a fight between the Lewis squadron and the enemy, near Lebanon, Ala., on Wednesday last. The enemy, nine thousand strong, subsequently abandoned Lebanon, and retreated towards the Tennessee River. Our force numbered four hundred only. The Reporter's correspondent days the Yankee force at Larkin's Ferry, numbers at least forty thousand.
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