FORT MONROE, March 13.
The following is taken from Southern papers:
In the rebel House of Representatives, on Monday, a resolution passed advising planters to withdraw for cultivation of cotton and tobacco, and devote their energies to raising provisions, hogs, cattle, etc.
The Senate passed a bill organizing a Supreme Court.
The President set a message to Congress stating that he had suspended Floyd and Pillow from their commands until they could give more satisfactory accounts of the Donelson affair.
Petersburg, Richmond and Norfolk are under martial law.
The Richmond Examiner of yesterday says that considerable uneasiness is felt at the reports of our forces falling back from Manassas and the Upper Potomac. Positive assurances are given that these movements are purely [strategic], and not made on account of any pressure by the enemy. – The points for a new line of defence have not yet been selected, but it is thought will extend from Staunton to Gordonsville.
The same paper contains a severe article on Gov. Letcher, for his secret proclamation calling upon the whole body of militia, and says this is calculated to breed disloyalty.
The nomination of Gen. Lee as commanding General of the rebel army was sent to the Senate.
The Massilla Times of the 29th gives the report of a revolution in New Mexico against the Federal authority, and that Mr. Otero is heading the movement.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Friday Morning, March 14, 1862, p. 2
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