January 24.—General Dodge, commanding the military district of Corinth, Miss., reported that the rebels were putting to death many of the inhabitants of his district, for the only reason that they were loyal and Union-loving people. He gave the names of several who were hanged, others who were hunted down by bloodhounds, and of others whose houses were burned over their heads.—(Doc. 111.)
—The steamer Warsaw, while on her way to Memphis, was fired into by a rebel battery of two guns, at Island No. 84, on the Mississippi River.—Brigadier-General Daniel S. Donelson was appointed to the command of the rebel department of East-Tennessee, in the place of General E. Kirby Smith.—Richmond Whig.
