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The panic at Nashville --A letter from Nashville, Tenn. dated Monday, Feb. 24, says: After a day of much excitement I was awakened by a cry of fire which was caused by the military authorities putting the torch to the steamboats at the landing. They were being altered to gunboats, and it was thought best to destroy them to prevent their falling into possession of the enemy. The report this morning was that our army would make a stand here, and endeavor to save the place, but it is not true, as General Pillow made a speech this evening, in which he said a council of war had been held and they had decided to evacuate the place, and fall back upon a more defensible position. We are expecting the "Feda" here everyday, and I am going to leave at the first "toot" of the whistle of their confounded boats, which they say can go, where they please and are the very Deville. There has been no train except for the soldiers in two days, and to attempt to get aboard of
ce below New Madrid. Jeff. Thompson held no command there. St. Louis, Feb. 24 --A special dispatch from Cairo to the Democrat says: "The latest and that a strong reaction has occurred among the people." St. Louis, Feb. 24. --Cairo dispatches say that the reports about the evacuation of Columbusdications they evidently intend making a desperate stand there. Cairo, Feb. 24. --Everything is quiet here. The rebels before evacuating Clarksville fiobstruct the channel! An expedition returned. A dispatch from Cairo, Feb. 24, says: An expedition, composed of four iron-clad gunboats, with the 27th Ioote, Flag Officer, Commanding. Proclamation of Com. Foote. Cairo, Feb. 24. --Every thing is quiet at Fort Donelson. The rebels, before evacuat Andrew H. Foote. Gen. Buckner takes to Indianapolis. Louisville, Feb. 24. --The steamer Argonant, from Cairo, arrived at Jeffersonville this after
e latter class is urgently required. The unsatisfied requisitions of the several Departments amount to $26,500,000, and the floating debt now exceeds $40,000,000. In this condition of the financial affairs of the United States, he requests that certificates of debt be issued. It is confidently announced that a general bankrupt law will be reported at an early day. The Federal steamer Express is reported to have been lost on the Eastern shore of Virginia, during the gale on the 24th February. The steamer Hoboken, engaged in laying the cable from the Bay shore to Cape Henry, is going to places. The crew were saved by the steamer Spaulding. The attempt to lay a telegraph cable across the Chesapeake Bay has proved a failure. About one- half of it was laid and it broke and the end was buried up or lost, and the remaining portion was also lost. The Federal gunboat Forbes is ashore on Nagle Head. One ship, four brigs, and two schooners, are ashore at Holmes's