Northern news
The report of the evacuation of
Columbus, Ky., is based upon the following dispatch from
Commodore Foote, dated
Cairo, March 1st:
Lieut. Commanding
Phelps, sent with a flag of truce to-day to
Columbus, has this moment seturned, and reports that
Columbus is being evacuated.
He saw the rebels burning their winter quarters, and removing their heavy guns on the bluffs.
But the guns in the water batteries remain intact.
He also saw a large force of cavalry drawn up ostentatiously on the bluffs but no infantry was to be seen as heretofore.
The encampment seen in our armed reconnoisance a few days since, has been removed.
Large fires were visible in the town of
Columbus, and upon the river banks below, indicating the destruction of the town, military stores and equipments.
A. H.
Foote,
Flag Officer.
Gen. Frederick W. Lander, whose death has already been announced, was one of the most popular officers in the
Federal army; though the only point of his career which in other days directed public attention towards him, was his superintendence of the construction of the overland wagon road to Callfornia.
The circumstances of his death are given in the following dispatch from
Washington, dated March 2d:
Gen. Lander died this afternoon, at
Paw Paw, Western Virginia, between
Romney and
Winchester, from the debilitating effects of his wound received at Edwards's Ferry.--His body is on the way to this city, where his widow resides.
Gen Lander had every attention which his old and well, tried friends around him could bestow.
His death was somewhat sudden.
It was not until 5 o'clock this evening that his wife received intelligence of his illness.
General Shields succeeds
General Lander in command.
The New York
Herald, of the 3rd, says:
‘
Gen. Banks's division still rests in the vicinity of
Charlestown, Va. No accident or interruption marred his advance.
The condition of the country from
Harper's Ferry presents the usual appearance of agricultural prosperity.
Negroes are flocking in to the nes of
General Banks in large numbers.--Various reports as to the movements of the rebels at
Winchester were circulared, but as they come from refugees and contribands, no reliance is placed on them.
in the camp at
Charlestown.
’
Hisoellaneous items.
Montgomery, who is known as the
Kansas Jayhawker, has had the command of the Third Kansas Regiment taken from him. He has been ordered to take the position of
Lieut. Colonel.
Gov. Morton, of
Indiana, proposes to reclothe all of the
Fort Donelson prisoners in that State with the condemned shoddy uniforms now piled up at
Indianapolis.
The Treasury Department has ordered the cotton taken at
Nashville, valued at $100,000, to be sent to New York.
It is reported that the
Tuscarora has arrived at
Gibraltar, where the
Sumter still remains without coal.
The Northern papers say the report of
Gen. Beaureguard's illness is unfounded.
He left
Corinth for
Columbus on the 19th ult.
The Chicago
Tribune's dispatches assert that the
Confederates at
Murfreesboro', were surrounded by
Buell's forces; that they offered to surrender the position it they would be allowed to march out with the honors of war, which
Gen. Buell refused, and demanded their unconditional surrender.
All humbug.
The Northern papers announce the probable loss of the old line-of battle ship
Vermont, in the Guif stream.
Two gunboats had been dispatched to make a search for her.
The parties recently arrested in
Alexandria have been ledged in the old Capitol prison at
Washington.
Lincoln has appointed
John Cochrane a Brigadier.
General, and sent the nomination to the Senate.
