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Day
4
Month
March
Year
1864
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Public Domain
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New Orleaas, Feb. 20. The spring campaign is begioning very e&rly, and actively. The advauce of Geu. Sherman ioto M'saissippi already takes grand pïopurtious, and proiuises great results It is now quite certaia tbat he has for the tbird time re-captured JaoksoK, the State capita], aud probably holds in uiidisputed possession all the couutry betweeu the Yazoo City, aud Pearl ltiver, without any large force on the western sitie of the lattcr stream. Ii' GeBi Sherman should thick it his duty to push forward and occupy Meridian, he will out off coiumumcation betweeu Mobile und Northern Georgia, - If it bo true that a large laúd foroe has been sent froiu Charleston or further uorth to opérate agaiust Mobile, such au iutervention by tíherrr.au would be very etfeetive. Thoro ia no foree goipg from there with any such purpose that I can hear of; indeed there is none to spare. As I have said beibre, it might be that the men at Hadisouville might be seut toward Jachsoa to co-operate with Sherman, but then there ia need for thera here. Bragg, who is now on the left bank of the river, may give some work to Cauksto do wliich would interfere with any such designs, and even prevent the "reorganiz'ing the State." I still hear, howtiver, that Mobile is to be attacked at once by the fleet under Farragut. At last accounts the Hartford aud the Adiuiral we;t b.oth, quietly lying in the harbor at Peiisacola. The great mythical force f.6 Ship Island is still the subj et of much strcet discussiou. It may be there, but if so it has iudependent sources of supply aud cominunïeation. If there is any great foree there it is shown that it is not drawing heavily from our eommissary storehouse. My own idea is that the Mobile story bas beeu gotten up to effect precisely what it bas effected, the heavy reinlorcemeut of that place by the withdrawal of troops from Johnson asid Polk, and they will be kept thera if possible by meuacing statements i,f uo.l actious. Siuce writing the above, I learn that. on Thursday, large reinfuroements wero sent up the Opelausaa Kailroatj, whieb that day and yesterday was busily employed in transpoi ting men and snpplies toward the Tche. It is reporled tbut the Oonfederatcs are in largc force near TigCTville, this side of Brashear, the present terminus of the riúU'cuid, and that the workmen have coipe in fyom there. It was fortúnate tbr the coinmauding general tliat the two fresh T wcuty-ninth and Tbirtietu Mainc, reg imenttí, eutirely f'ull containing eight hundrt'd men, should have arnved on the sanio morning, just in time to be sent down ; and tliat the Second Iiew York veteran cavalry carne a few days before This was i very graat relief, both for the sake of the country and of f' the govcnimeut.'' is these soldiers have just arrived, and therefore hacl uot ': resided ii: this State one year and iu the parish six mouths," they oould not vote unless a furtber dispensation.from the requireïnenta of the Coustitution was thought nccessary. I have beretofore iuformcd you that the movements ot the Confederates on the right bank of the river were quite threatening. I m now inloi med tliat they aim at nothing less than the entire recapture of all the country on that side of the Mississippi and holding it finnly in their hauda. They bclicved that the designs upon Mobile, and upon Missiar sippi and the othor States, by the route of Chattanuoga, will employ the greater part of the Federal army, and tbat the attempts upon Missi.--sippi and the other States, by the route of ChaHanooga, will employ the greater part of the Federal army, and that the attempts upon Texas will take up the men who can be spared for the west of the river. It is their design, therefore to repossess themselves of all the lowcr country contigious to the river, and, avoküng the banks wberc gunboats can opérate against tnetri, exeept by occasional operations to annoy transport?, to make the región untcnable. They do not fear any advauce iuto Texas and laugh at what haa been done tliero as quite beneath notiee. They iusist that it will tako 50.000 men to opérate successfully in the interior of that State, as they can put as many as that, if not more, in opcratiou against them, The aceomplishment will fall very far short of this programare, but you may rely upon it that they are going to try somethicg like this on. E" Of tho huudreds of tileant seats put up all over the city of Paris for the repose of the public, not one will bescen disfigured by a penknife. Froni one end of the town to the o,ther, everywhere, tho choipest flowvra flre bloo ming, with only u barrier a foot hifíh around the beds, and yet not, a single plant or flowcr is ever touched. Paris has beoome the best lighted city in the witIo, and will bood be, if it iy not already, the be.st ventilated. lts drainage is kpovvn to be nearly perfect. The policeman aro not ruffians, but as civil au gentlernan-ushers of the black and white rod. In tho most polite and civil manner uil your inquines aro anHweiod, and evcry reasouable aseistance is renderod if you g-et into a struit.

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