The reported re-capture of Nashville. Augusta, April 24.
--The Atlanta Commonwealth says that it has information that Gen. Kirby Smith was at Knoxville on Friday, so that there is no truth in the report of the re- occupation of Nashville by the Confederates.
The Federals still have possession of Huntsville.
We have received Northern papers as late as the 24th of April. The subjoined summary of recent events embodies no news of special importance, and in its perusal the reader will make the usual allowance for misstatement and exaggeration:
From Portress Monroe. Portress Monroe April 22.
--A small rowboat arrived here this morning from Norfolk, containing three men, one woman and two children.
The refugees report the Merrimac still at Gosport Navy-Yard.
Workmen were engaged in placing iron shields over the port holes.
It was supposed that the improvements would be completed and the Merrimac would be out again in two or three days.
The Merrimac, they say, was aground on the last day that she came out, as was generally supposed here, but whether injured or not was not stated.
Nothing was said, however, about the bursting of any of her guns, and that supposition was undoubtedly incorrect.
The steamer Jamestown and the steaming Beaufort went up James river on F
ed the march upon the city of Mexico.
From the West. Cairo, April 24
--The country between here and Mound City is inundated A lar of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad was washed away.
Pittsburg April 24.--Gen. Granger, with 500 cavalry, has had a fight with the rebels,small.
The general aspect of affairs is unchanged.
Chicago, April 24.--A special dispatch to the Times says, that Gen. Mitchell's divisanother great battle near Corinth.
The Nashville. New York, April 24
--Advices from Newbern, N. P., state that the Nashville retuby the Gladiator from England.
The slave trade. Washington, April 24.
--The ratification of the Seward and Lyons treaty for the sth Secretary Seward.
The Forts below New Orleans. New York, April 24.
--The Havana Dierto states that persons from New Orleans rey has £ 450,000 specie for the purchase of cotton.
New York, April 24.--Cotton quiet, sales 700 bales at 29 Ȃ cents.
Pork firm at $12.
eral Reconnaissance under General Smith, &c. Pittsburg Landing, April 24.
--A reconnoitring party, under Brigadier-General A. J. Smitg sick of the war.
The roads are improving fast.
Cairo, April 24.--(Special to the Chicago Tribune)--Gen. Bragg has transferred the— a Hard Yarn. Headquarters Army of the Potomac, near Yorktown, April 24.
--The weather is again pleasant, and the roads are beginnin
From Western Virginia--Dispatch from Gen. Fremont. Washington, April 24.
--The following dispatch has been received at the War Department:
Wheeling, Va., April 24. Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
A dispatch from General Schenck states that a squad of ah--reported capture of Confederate prisoners. New Market, Va., April 24. Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
Our advance guard, Coister's visit to Richmond — the slave trade treaty. Washington, April 24.
--The French Minister, M. Henri Mercier, returned here to-d
Interesting from Nassau, N. P.Wreck of a steamer. New York, April 24.
--The schooner Evelina from Nassau, N. P., arrived to-night, bringing passengers from the steamer Karnak, which vessel was lost in Nassau harbor on the 14th inst., by grounding in full sight of the wharf.
The mails and passengers were saved, and also most of the cargo.
The Evelina was chartered by the passengers, who could obtain no transportation through the agent of the Cunard line at Nassau.
Among the passengers are Mr. Jewett, of Hartford, D. Nevins of Boston, and ten others.
The rebel steamer Nashville, now called the Thos. L. Wragg, has returned to Nassau from an unsuccessful attempt to run the blockade at Charleston.
She had one of her paddle boxes badly injured, which was supposed to have been from the effects of a cannon ball.
She has a full cargo of ammunition and guns brought by the Gladiator from England.
The steamer Ella Warley, with potash and saltpetre, was soon to sai
s of character is not owing to nobility inherent in the people of the but to the domestic and social institute the section of the country which they and to the great law of nature same causes will always produce sults.
As idieness and the early of erbitrary power have moulded the of the nobility of Europe, so these fluences have fixed an indelible upon the characters of the inhabitate Slave States of America.
Naval Affairs.
The Baltimore American's New York respondent, April 24th, says:
The departure of the Galena to Brooklyn Navy-Yard has liberated of mechanics and other employees, who have been distributed among the vessels which will now be pushed forward creased spirit.
The new sloop-of- rondack is progressing pretty well, be not appear likely to be ready for than six weeks. The injuries she the Novelty Works have been
The frigate Sabine, in addition pounder Parrott gun previously has received nine inch Dahigren latter are in place of the
The Confederate prisoners, on Governor's Island.
--A Yankee correspondent, writing from New York, under date of April 24th, says:
The arrival of the remainder of the prisoners captured in Fort Pulaski increases the number of Southern officers and men in confinement on Governor's Island to 600, as follows:
Officers.Men.
Prisoners from Newborn10180
Prisoners from Fort Pulaski!20330
Total officers and men500
The officers are quartered in the rooms occupied by the Fort Hatteras officers and, like them, are allowed the liberty of the island until retreat, after which they are confined to the garrison.
Most of them appear to have money, and avail themselves pretty freely of the privilege which have been extended to them of sending to the city for any extras they require in the way of rations.
The men are confined to Castle William and its vicinity.
Their rations are cooked in the garrison and sent down to them under change of the Provost-Sergeant.
Most of t
t to him and said, "Don't shoot there any more — that's father!" The press of Kentucky insist that some one ought to be held to an awful responsibility for the deplorable and well high fatal surprised on the morning of the 6th.
Gov Johnson and the Nashville Union, documents have come to light revealing the base treachery and vile treason of Ro McKee, while tolerated here as the "strictly neutral" editor of the Louisville Courier.
A dispatch from Cairo to a Western paper, dated April 24th says:
A gentleman from the upper Tennessee who arrived this morning, brings intelligence of the complete and utter demoralization of Beauregard's army, after the battle of Shiloh. says many of the Tennessee regiments, after the battle, left the army in a body and are now scattered through the State, and express conviction that will be impossible again to reorganize them.
Between Mississippi and Tennessee regiments the feeling is intensely bitter and the former declare the presence
$20 reward.
--On Thursday, the 24th of April, my negro man, George, left my farm, in Powhatan county.
Said negro is thirty years of age, bright mulatto, and about five feet nine or ten inches high, I will give the above reward if delivered to me, or $10 for any information that will lead to his recovery.
Mrs. E. M. Mosegey.
Powhatan co., May 7, 1862. my 8--12t *
$20 reward.
--On Thursday, the 24th of April, my negro man, George, left my farm, in Powhatan county.
Said negro is thirty years of age, bright mulatto, and about five feet nine or ten inches high.
I will give the above reward if delivered to me, or $10 for any information that will lead to his recovery.
Mrs. E. M. Moseley.
Powhatan co., May 7, 1862.
my 3--12t*
