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The Mobile Advertiser, of the 15th instant, contains some intelligence about the reported movements of the enemy.
It gets the following report from a gentleman who has arrived there:
He left Oxford on Tuesday morning last, at which time Gen. Forrest was preparing to encounter two divisions of the enemy which had come out from Memphis.
One of these columns is reported by his scouts to consist of 6,000 infantry and artillery, moving down the Mississippi and Tennessee road through Hernando, towards Panola.
The second column from Memphis consists of twelve regiments of cavalry, which went out on the Memphis and Charleston Railroad to Collierville, and then turned south to concentrate with the column marching on Panola.
Gen. Forrest had received reports from below that Sherman's column from Vicksburg consisted of 32,000 men — infantry, artillery, and cavalry.
It marches in close order, not a man leaving ranks, even to steal a chicken.
Gen. Lee's cavalry hover round
A Yankee Criticism of Longstreet's campaign in East Tennessee.
A correspondent of the New York World, writing from Nashville on the 3d i ., gives a very intelligible review of Longstreet's campaign in East Tennessee.
He says:
It is not reasonable to suppose that Longstree n he was forced to do so he withdrew.
But his presence in East Tennessee had another object of far more importance than the capture of K his selection by his superior for an arduous winter campaign in East Tennessee was probably the wisest that could be made.
His plans, as now nd, but inspired even our astute President with the belief that East Tennessee was indeed free.
Longstreet's plans, however, soon began to be developed.
He selected a position in Northeastern Tennessee, where he could hold communication with his superiors at Richmond, and entre vernment in his own hands.
I am confident that Longstreet will not remain in the peaceable possession of the garden of East Tennessee long.
The Daily Dispatch: February 23, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Legislature. (search)
Northern items.
--The following late items are from the Louisville Journal:
The Journal says that "Old Abe's proclamations come about as thick as Mexican pronunciamentos, and are worth about as much."
The Nashville Press, of the 9th, says that Jacob B. Jackson, son of Gen. Jackson, of Parkersburg, Va., is under arrest at Wheeling for disloyalty.
There is great anxiety in Washington because of the condition of affairs in East Tennessee.
Henderson, a clerk in the Federal Treasury Department, has stolen $150,000. This is regarded a small affair in Washington.
Several Abolitionists have been arrested in Louisville for kidnapping negroes in the Northwest and selling them in Kentucky.
Capt. Purcell, of Gen. Hunter's (brother of Senator Hunter, of Va.,) staff, it is thought, will be held as hostage to force the surrender of Quantrell to the Federal authorities.
Gen. Anderson, of Sumter fame, is very ill in New York.
The cold weather of January w