Named Entity Results, Forrest

From the Trans Mississippi. The Memphis Bulletin says it is reported, upon authority worthy of consideration, that the cotton trade will be closed in this department within twenty days, by order of President Lincoln, and be re-opened upon new principles after his proposed visit South and West, which is looked for soon after the 4th of March. The Union men of Memphis are preparing a grand reception banquet for W. G. Brownlow, who is expected here in a few days. The rebel General Forrest, commanding the District of Mississippi, West Tennessee and East Louisiana, has established his headquarters at Jackson, Mississippi, and is conscripting guerrillas and sending them to Richmond to be put into the Army of Virginia. The steamer Dove was captured and burned near Helena by the rebels.--The Fifty- sixth--regiment were taken prisoners, and Colonel Dean, commanding, killed. The credentials of a Virginia Senator. It is rather mortifying to the people of Virginia

ity. Colonel Steward is post commander. There was a scout who came in to-day by way of luka, and who brings the intelligence that small bodies of the enemy are scattered through the country, and that it is impossible to come up with them. General Forrest sent in a flag of truce yesterday of some trifling matters. They were not allowed to enter our lines. About thirty of his men came within five miles of Eastport, and within sight of it, yesterday, and captured seven men, four whom they ki this creek, and it is navigable for some twenty miles by small boats. The hills in the rear are nearly as high as those around Pittsburg, and on which the army are camped.--Yesterday seventeen boats came up with a number of troops. If Taylor, Forrest. & Company think to find a vulnerable place to make a strike, I think they will be mistaken. The gunboat Carendelet is lying here to organize the convoys and co-operate with the army in the defence of the place. Captain Rogers, late of the Nau

What Forrest has done. --The Jackson (Mississippi) papers of the 18th ultimo contain an address of General Forrest to his troops, recounting the result of his operations during the past year. He says they have fought fifty battles, kills and captured sixteen thousand of the enemy, captured two thousand horses and mules, sixty seven pieces of artillery, fourteen transports, twenty barges, eight hundred wagons, fifty ambulances, one hundred and five stand of arms, forty block-houses, destrGeneral Forrest to his troops, recounting the result of his operations during the past year. He says they have fought fifty battles, kills and captured sixteen thousand of the enemy, captured two thousand horses and mules, sixty seven pieces of artillery, fourteen transports, twenty barges, eight hundred wagons, fifty ambulances, one hundred and five stand of arms, forty block-houses, destroyed thirty-six railroad bridges, two thousand miles of railroad, six locomotives, and one hundred cars — amounting to fifteen million dollars' worth of property. In accomplishing this, he says they were occasionally sustained by other troops, but says their regular number never exceeded five thousand.

Southern Items. Colonel Forrest, the new commander in the North Mississippi, has closed the lines between the Cold Water country and Memphis, so that there is little blockade-running. Colonel Cofer, provost marshal general of Hood's army, says that from the 27th of November, 1864, to the 20th of January, 1865, the number of desertions, as shown by official reports from Hood's army, was only two hundred and eighty-three in the infantry and artillery. A citizen of Columbia, South Carolina, attempted, the other day, to separate two dogs who were fighting in the street. He received, in return for his pains, a bite in the arm, in consequence of which he has gone mad. Colonel Thomas B. Cooper, of Cherokee, member of the House of Representatives in the last Alabama Legislature, has been elected to the Confederate Congress in the place of W. R. W. Cobb, expelled for disloyalty, and dead from the accidental discharge from his own pistol. A correspondent of the Mobil

multitude of routed, beaten, discomfited men, whose valor has almost atoned for the sins of rebellion!" "Our gallant grey brothers are even now clamoring around Washington," &c. "So with the Generals of the Rebellion. The greatest of them all is now a teacher of mathematics in a university. Sherman's great antagonists are in the express and railroad business. The once-dreaded Beauregard will sell you a ticket from New Orleans to Jackson; and, if you want to send a couple of hams to a friend in Richmond, Joe Johnston, once commander of great armies, will carry them. The man whose works Grant moved upon at Donelson edits an indifferent newspaper in New Orleans, while the Commander of the Rebel cavalry at Corinth is his local reporter. Marshall practices law in New Orleans; Forrest is running a saw-mill; Dick Taylor is now having a good time in New York; Roger A. Pryor is a daily practitioner at our courts; and so with the rest of this bold, vindictive and ambitious race of men."