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or General McClellan is, of course, at the head of the whole army; but as the Government has a right to command his services in any sphere it thinks fit, it would have shown more wisdom in sending him to the Valley of the Mississippi than it has in compelling him to stand idle awaiting orders in New York. Party malignity should not thus jeopard the success of a great military enterprise. The Feeling in the United States. The Nassau correspondent of the Charleston Courier writes, March 18th, as follows: We may as well make up our minds that the war will drag along until next fall or winter. --Foreign intervention will only intensify. My reading of Northern papers leads me to believe that the mass of the Northern people are indisposed to let the South go without other attempts to subdue it. The Democrats are only conditional peace men. John Van Baren advocates the conquest of the South first, and then if she is not willing to continue in the Union he is willing to say,
Movements of the enemy in Mississippi. Mobile March 18. --A dispatch to the Tribune, dated Panola, Miss., 17th, says two cavalry regiments occupied Hernando last Saturday night. Their further movements are unknown, though it is supported they have ratregraded. Reinforcements are reported coming down Pass, and it is further reported that there has been a heavy arrival of reinforcements at Memphis from above. The roads are drying, but the rivers are very difficult to cross. The Tallahatchie river is rising.
The Yankees on the Mississippi Central Railroad. Mobile, March 18. --A special dispatch to the Appeal, dated Panola 15th, says the trestle-work at Waterford, on the Mississippi Central Railroad, has been destroyed by Yankees from LaCrange.--Several partisan companies are in pursuit of the marauders, with every prospect of overtaking them.
Another steamer in. Charleston, March 18. --The steamship Calypso arrived from Nassau this morning. She was charred last night by the blockaders, who fired repeatedly. One shell burst over her deck, hurting nobody.
The Army of Tennessee. Chattanooga, March 18. --Nothing new from above. General Johnston left here this morning for the Army of Tennessee. Eighteen prisoners and deserters were brought in to-day from Tullahoma.
From Charleston. Charleston March 18. --All quiet to-night. If no attack is made to-morrow it is supposed the enemy will wait fourteen days longer, for the next spring life.