Named Entity Results, Alabama (Alabama, United States)

From North Alabama. --Our latest news from North Alabama is, that Logan's corps occupies Huntsville and the adjacent country. Colonel Mead, of Jackson county, and Captain Johnson, of Madison county, burnt the railroad bridge over Paint Rock river about the 16th or 18th of January. The enemy are reported to have burnt every house in Guntersville but six. We have confirmation, also, of the intelligence that, in retaliation for Captain Johnson's guerrillas having killed four of their men,North Alabama is, that Logan's corps occupies Huntsville and the adjacent country. Colonel Mead, of Jackson county, and Captain Johnson, of Madison county, burnt the railroad bridge over Paint Rock river about the 16th or 18th of January. The enemy are reported to have burnt every house in Guntersville but six. We have confirmation, also, of the intelligence that, in retaliation for Captain Johnson's guerrillas having killed four of their men, the Yankees had burnt every house in Vienna, near Paint Rock river, but a church and a widow's house, and every residence and out-house of every description from Vienna to within four miles of Huntsville.

, nearly 40,000,000 of this amount is already appropriated and is necessary to meet out standing drafts on the Treasury, leaving only about $12,000,000 at the disposal of the Treasurer. Senate bill to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to receive specie from the several States, to be used for the benefit of said States, was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. Senate bill for the relief of Peter James, Jr., was referred to the Committee on Claims. Mr. Clopton, of Alabama, from Committee on the Medical Department, under a suspension of the rules, reported a bill to secure to sick and wounded officers the same rights and privileges in obtaining leaves of absence as are now granted by law to privates. Passed. Also, a bill to authorize hospital accommodations, etc., including medical attendance, to discharged soldiers, when there is a reasonable prospect of benefit resulting to such soldiers therefrom.--Passed. Mr. Sexton, of Texas, from the Committee

lma, Montgomery, and other cities. It says: If the enemy evacuate Mobile, and escape with his garrison to Selina, he will no doubt be joined at that place by Taylor's forces and what militia may be at present under arms in Central and Southern Alabama. If so he will have an army of about sixteen thousand veterans and six thousand militia--twenty-two thousand in all. It is not necessary to add that we can outnumber him in men and material, and it is possible — it is really probable — that a general engagement of a sanguinary nature may take place in Central or Southern Alabama. Time will settle this speculation. If everything works well, Kirby Smith's army will be attended to before next summer. This will require two expeditions--one up the Red river and one up the Rio Grande. All of the munitions of war, in fact everything but food for this army, is carried up the Rio Grande by European vessels, while Texas and Eastern Louisiana furnish the bread and meat. Kirby Smith