NEW MADRID, April 8. The Union forces captured to-day 6,000 Confederate prisoners who were endeavoring to retreat from Island No. 10 and ot...

CAIRO, April 8. Dispatches from New Madrid are received.   The gunboats Carondelet and Pittsburg shelled and silenced the batteries on the ...

CAMP TIPTONVILLE, Tenn., April 9. FRIEND SANDERS:– I wrote you hastily on the 8th inst from the rebel camp at Island No. 10, which you may o...

Special Dispatch in the Chicago Tribune Cairo, April 11, 1862 Gov. Yates arrived here this morning from Springfield, en route for Tennessee,...