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The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Yankee vessel Blown up by a Torpedo. (search)
The capture of Fort Pillow Mobile, April 16.
--A special dispatch to the Advertiser and Register from Fort Pillow, 12th, says: Forrest attacked this place with Chalmers's division yesterday.
The garrison consisted of three hundred white and four hundred negro troops.
The fort refusing to surrender was carried by storm.
Forrest led Bells brigade and Chalmers led McCullough's. They both entered the fort simultaneously, and an indiscriminate slaughter followed.
One hundred prisoners were taken, the balance of the garrison were slain.
The fort ran with blood.
Many jumped into the river and were drowned or shot in the water.
Over one hundred thousand dollars worth of stores were taken.
Six guns were captured.
The Confederate loss was 75. Lieut Col. Read, of the 5th Mississippi, was mortally wounded.
From the North and West. Dalton, April 16.
--Northern dates to the 13th have been received here.
The Best Tennessee Convention met at Knoxville on the 12th.
Delegates from nearly every county were present.
Tom Nelson made an explanation of his compromise with Jeff Davis, and denounced the President's acts as unconstitutional.
Wm. Helskell was elected President of the Convention.
Daniel Trenbite made a strong speech, denouncing spectates in the bitterest terms.
Andrew Johnson made a strong anti slavery speech, in which he said if we had no slaves there would be few traitors.
A dispatch from Washington, 12th, states that the railroad bridges destroyed by the freshet had been replaced.
New Orleans advices say that a large side wheel steamer had evaded the blockaders at Galveston, getting in four thousand stand of arms.
It is reported that Bishop McClosky has been appointed Archbishop of New York.
A telegram from Cairo, the 19th, reports that the rebel F
The Printers' Strike Selma, Ala., April 16.
--The Selma Type graphical Union held a meeting this evening and passed resolutions sympathising with the Atlanta Union, and tendering them a hearty co-operation in any measures calculated to secure the rights of the fraternity, and also ordered the Corresponding Secretary of the Society to communicate with the Corresponding Secretary of the Atlanta Union and report as soon as practicable.
The Daily Dispatch: April 18, 1864., [Electronic resource], Affairs in Norfolk and Portsmouth . (search)
No gas. Wilmington, April 16.
--The gas in this city went out last night at 12 o'clock.