Northern news.
Dalton, Feb. 27.
--The Nashville papers of the 23d have been received.
It is reported in Chattanooga that Johnston has advanced from Dalton, and that his lines are thrown forward ten miles.
A dispatch from Huntsville, dated the 20th, says official information has been received that the rebels, supposed to be Roddy's command, had attempted to cross the Tennessee river at three different points, but were driven back by Dodge's troops.
Swarms of guerillas are reported in the vicinity of Cairo, Ill, burning cotton gins.
The Federal force at Vidalia, La, were recently attacked and driven in by Dick Taylor, but the gunboats came to their relief and scattered the rebels.
The Nashville Union, of the 23d, says that Longstreet has not left East Tennessee, but is strengthening his position; that he is not such a fool as to abandon East Tennessee, the only strategies point from which the rebels can operate successfully during the spring campaign.
The Nashville Times contradicts the report of the death of Brownlow.
Ex-Representative Bouligny, of Louisiana, died in Washington on the 20th.
Foreign advices by the Africa, which arrived at New York on the 21st, state that in the House of Lords Earl Darby reviewed the foreign policy of the Government, contending that it was injurious and humiliating to England.
The rejection of Napoleons proposition for a European Congress, and his invitation to recognize the Confederate States, were severely referred to. Lord Manners expressed the hope that the Government would lose no opportunity in giving friendly advice to the American belligerents with a view of ending the bloody contest. 