Show BY PACIFIC TELEGRAPH ESPECIAL TO THE DAILY UNION tta NEW drw YORK may 6 the papers contain a call for a national convention to bo be held at cleveland on the of may for consulta consulia con sulta tion ti on in respect to the presidential election the call declares that tile the one term principle ought to be inflexibly I 1 adhered to and and that the callers d dont ont recognize in in the baltimore convention the essential conditions of a truly national convention NATCHEZ may ad A rumor reached this place yesterday through rebel sources of a battle at alexandria alexan ria on thursday in which dick taylor was defeated it is stated lie he made a vigorous assault upon the works recently erected there and was repulsed with great loss wirt adams cavalry are arc hovering near this city their movements are supposed to cover the crossing of arms and a ammunition in belo below w this city for kirby smith gen A L lee and nineteen other officers abc under arrest at new orleans for declaring that the red i liver iver expedition was not for fight fighting ilIg but for thieving and speculation CHICAGO may ath gen steele left camden for little rock on tile being out of supplies on the lie ho crossed tile the saline river at jenkins ferry but before crossing 0 was attacked by the rebels under pagan fagan A portion of the ichel cavalry crossed the saline and con confined tined to harass steele during the whole march maich causing considerable alarm ile he was able however to prevent the rebels doing 13 him any injury but found it necessary to destroy his train and demolish every bridge behind him ilis his cavalry reached little rock on the the alio main force being within four miles of that place little rock and pine bluff are arc believed to bo safe from any attempt of the enemy reinforcements havo have been sent to the latter place the failure of general steele is a necessary consequence of the disaster to gen coil banks had the latter general been successful the ca capture p of camden by steele would have had bad a strong influence in pre preventing venti the rebels from retrieving their losses in tile trans mississippi department Cn CHICAGO icAco may I 1 memphis papers of the ath say sturges advance strong with two pieces of artillery encountered ono brigades 1000 strong near bolivar olivar 13 on monday last A fight of two hours resulted in the cile enemy itly being in 0 driven from liis his entrenchments across the river burning the alie bridge behind him wo INTO killed and wounded a number and captured several our loss was two killed and ten wounded gen GO sturges is still in pursuit tile steamer metropolis arrived at memphis jtb ath from orleans with intelli genco that the rebels are concentrating at several points on both sides of the river there is considerable excitement cit ement at nat liez aliez acdan and an attack on that place is expected more or less excitement existed at every town between vicksburg and natchez and the wildest rumors are arc in circulation stating ill 0 that the enemy aio advancing g on port hudson in ill two colu columns with twenty six pieces of artillery CAIRO may ath tile officers just arrived from alexandria report that tile efforts to raise the East are arc unsuccessful H iier or guns were removed remove dand and she blown up if tile the way back tile the sent gent to her assistance were fired upon by a battery of 12 pon on shoich and a light fight a clis ensued lied in ill which we lost several men dziver bluff A arkansas Ai kai kansas isas is reported C by the but bilt this coil confirmation ri |