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TIIE NEWS.DRThe movements in the Southwest indi-proacL, wt active proceedings! there. All the reiiruijs in Missouri areordered to the fi,:W, .•tud veterans who arc scIt ol, m, furlough are to proceed at*once to the ial j fwit. The regitttenHt cfthe Army of the sa- ! Cumberland are to go'to Nashville, and ; ei ill- i tho*® l*ie °* Tennessee to Cairo. ! G i, ! Active operations for the opening of the gi j campaign are going on in the mint of the | Potomac. Generals Meade, Humphreys, i Patrick and Ingalls had an interview with j General Grant on Friday. 'I lie severe 1 it rni of Saturday lias swollen the rivers j to an almost uiipreufcdautail height, doing 1 M‘ ’ed- considerable damage to public and private ; ty ,le ! property. Bridget bn the Orange and i vi , Alexandria.Pmilr.'td were swept away, and j in non u.avei between Washington and the Ar- at ' on my was temporarily suspended. 1 It,h. ! B.V the arrival of the steamship Morn- ! It 1 ing Star from New Orleans April 2, we w i,n.v 1 have further particulars of the fight at I t ry, ! Cnnc river, though entire credence was p erv I111 R‘veu to the news in New Orleans on ' th * j the 2d. In the fight at Bayou ltapides, hr 1 on March 23. our forces captured two dr a ip I hundred and sixty prisoners, including it I 0|- twenty-two officors. four guns and four i hundred horses. The steamer La Crosse | I,r j was captured and hurried by guerrillas on ; ‘h inn, ; the 2Ath ult.. below Alexandria, and her ; lieu orew were released on parole, but tire off- I DI ina- !icers wcro t'-'aiued. The same band fired | pt I into clie Mattie .Stevens on the night of I cli •’ tbf:3Uth. No injury reported. A large I hi 011 , number of Mississippi refugees are guth- Tl tllC j orilig within our lines at Fort l’ike and | e ME- , vicinity. Seven liiindred in one lot are '• WM- reported to be leaving robeldora. ' wtir v j Despatches from Vicksburg to the 3d j say (hut the Rebels attacked Hook's pian- ! :l ration (which is being worked by the , ol Government,) near Sftj-dersvillc. on the ' w ; Vazoo river oil Friday last, and destroyed til, ' all the valuable buildings and machinery, in. The first Massachusetts Cavalry (colored) th six hundred strong, drove the Rebels off, j after an hour’s fight- The enemy uum-I bored nearly fifteen hundred.1 During the first uVck of the Metropolitan ; be I Sanitary lair at New York the receipts I ' ainoun'e 1 t«i over half a million of dollars, tie yjf | One hundred and twenty thousand people j byre i: visited the Fair during tile week.1 ge1011 he Navy Department has received in-| tclligence of the rapture of the llobd Lw' *0. blockade runners Sumter, Untie Brooks. ]!,sli •ol | Marion and Brazos by our blockading ! '^ill- fleets. I lit.If N ’ws from Mtmphts to the Sth reports 111 Forrest moving southward with his trains Pr i; and plunder- and Grierson as \v,itching , 11 ”• j and lisrmcing his columns, though not 1 f' n!! ; s'roug enough to attack Forrest in force, j G _ I The Rebel privateer Florida was r - j lb „j ported to beat the Canary Islands on th • ' w . Ith of March, where she remained for one , 'u : day. and took in coal and provisions. j th Motor General Floe uni. recently re- tl r I I’Oved from duty in the Department of the i ‘b Cumberland, is ordered ti report in per- i ’t I son to Major General James B, McPher- !,l11 1 son, ooniniandiiig 1), pnrfmcut of the Ten- ba nessec, for assignment to the eommnnd of! bi, the fortified post of tlte District of Vicks- 1 al; 1 bltrg. j m~ Brigadier Eencial Wilson, formerly of! ed General Grant’s Staff, and lately in charge a; : of the Cavalry Bureau at Washington, os has been releivcd and appointed to the 140 I command of the First Cavalry Division j P Utf j of tlia#Army of the Potomac, formerly th, *•_' I commanded by the late General Buford i s-'' jj? I The Rebels under Col. MeCrea are said I 11:1 to be concentrating at Augusta, on White i 111141hitwlriver, in great force, one hundred mil, ; , above'TIiill’s Bluff They drove out the . I■l ofHa i aoove jinn s mun J le v urove out tne j 1. . ' s......H 1. . T V. . .V... .1 . .. V ’Olled ' Sfltall glirrlsdn holding that | lac.:, and 6 forced.them to retire to the gunboats. j H hs ’ The United States supply stcauier Mas-wisachusotts, which arrived at Philadelphia , *'ii ~ ! yesterday from the South Atlantic S'ytiud- j s'*'si a vvu-| ton, report* that on Thursday evening, ; 10 I when off Charleston harbor, heavy firing | Bn ! was hoard from Stono Ini t.—I'akimon j i American I'1
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Cumberland Civilian and Telegraph
Cumberland, Maryland, US
Thu, Apr 14, 1864
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