[ Chalmer'8 men, near Seratobia, in which he cap¬ 
tured sixty, killed ten, and wounded twenty. 
Mississippi. The following has been received 
at the Headquarters of the Army, at Washington: 
Memphis, Tenn , May 2$—11:30 A. M. 
Tn Maj.'fJen. Unlteda —The Luminary is just 
up from Vicksburg. There are no official <lis- 
C 5 iai ' d under 
date o. May 22d as follow'*: 
, Gur nofc yery heavy for the position we 
hold. 1 he rebels make a firm resistance. I 
think we anili have the place to-morrow. We 
completely encirde the town, and our men to- 
ijght have their colors planted on the enemy's 
work^, and are lying on the exterior slope. The 
gun and mortar boats are in front, working 
away. Our raptures thus far are about fi 000 
prisoners and 71 pieces of artillery, some ot 
which were destroyed. Gen. Grant is in good 
Spinjf* , If we ta ye Vicksburg, we shall take 
15,000 prisoners, with GeD. Pemberton, and all 
his stores, &c. S, A. Hlulrct, 
Major-General, 
The following telegram was received at the 
by deep entrenchments and extending seven 
miles. 
Three assaults had been made by our forces 
upon the rebel stronghold, in all of which we 
were repulsed. The last assault was made by 
Gen. Sherman with 20,000 men, in which we lost 
000 killed and a large number wounded. Our 
outer line is within 100 yards of the rebel works. 
Our sharp shooters prevent the rebels from using 
their guns. The rebel ' * ' 
JvKxrrcKY.— A dispatch from Cincinnati, 
dated the olst lilt, says that on Thursday next 
Gen. Burnside will remove the Headquarters of 
the Department of Ohio to Hickman Bridge, 
Ky., about ten miles south of Nicholasville. 
A dispatch from Burnside to Bragg, announ¬ 
cing his determination to bang all the rebel cav¬ 
alry officers in his hands in case retaliation for 
the two spies tried and executed in accordance 
with the-usages of war should be resorted to by 
4tw. _ . 
o y r e ^mediateexecution onh* ^ , 
Thl« ehe8t ra - nk in m T possession, man fhf* oi 
their coumry to be felons mw! v lu for 
S^UrfcJlT? f; I«* ™ugh tote 
lbi& order ia im mediate! yleroked' ' I*w xt ’ V nIess 
“lehty wkich irtu taXmJtoSfi .g “* 
side ot the oppressor." J '^bt on the 
yoJ«*Sh5S5iTuBte,v e! , 
millions of your fdlowbofri £ r '- J to k ° ep 
degradation; liberty tn sstf ™t,' SDOranw aiKl 
children; h^befS*?”' 1 
U» rrodnei “hnlr“lr5. ! 
niHilfsi 
I have the honor to be, very respectfully, 
1 our obedient servant, 3 
_ D - Huxtek, Mai. -Gen 
works in the rear of the 
city are far more formidable than those in fronr- 
Gen. Joe Johnston is in the neighborhood of 
Jackson with about 15,000 men, short of pro¬ 
visions and ammunition. No apprehensions are 
felt of any serious attack in our rear. 
The staff officers say that Gen. Grant has 
taken upward of 8,000 prisoners, and 84 pieces 
of artillery. 
| The river batteries had been mostly silenced. 
Gen. German is on the right two miles from 
Haines’ Bluff McClernand one and a half miles 
from the Court House, and McPherson at the 
lower end of Vicksburg. 
The report, that Pemberton offered to surren¬ 
der Vicksburg on terms, and that Grant refused 
to accept of any thing except the ‘-unconditional ” 
is confirmed. 
Li -*vbs 1 *11, but lo, the young bads peep I 
Flowers die, but still their seed shall bloom I 
From death the quick young life will leap, 
When spring shall conic and touch the tomb. 
The splendid shiver of brave blood 
Is thrilling through our country now, 
And she who in old times withstood 
The tyrant, lifts again her brow. 
God's previous charge we sternly keep 
Unto the final victory; 
With freedom we win live, or sleep 
With our great dead who set us free, 
God forget us when we forget 
To keep the old flag flying yet 
w "IT aLM ’ K MISSISSIPPI ihJCADKOV > 
N«:ah Vji'K.mcKO, May 25, via Cairo, May 30. ; 
To IIoTu Ohkon Wdks, Secretary Navy:— 
1 have the honor to inform vou that the expedi- 
tion iinder^command of lAeutenant-Commander 
' possession of the forts at 
I'jectly successful. Three 
-' 11 ram were destroyed at 
J he ram was a monster. 310 feet 
--1 with 4-inch 
7 yard, with machine 
fi blacksmith shops, 
property destroyed 
— -ad 
, she would have 
One battery was de- 
Our loss iu the expe- 
seven wounded. 
A a* . lUTID jj. PORTEll 
Acting Rfcar-Arl aural, Com. Mississippi Squad’n. 
Acting Rear-Admiral Porter, m a dispatch 
lrom i azoo river, gays: 
A few days since the Mound Citv Lieut r>n m 
rent Mnum Byrotl ^ ilfS( ' n ' came up as far as War- 
renfun to reconnoitre, and sec what guns there 
were likely to annoy our transports. The rebels 
hat e been engaged for Rome months in building 
a strong casemated battery intended m Hi 
infantry ten eight-inch guns. This Wwk wLf&fSfHh 
Our loss was two cotton bales and covered with logs, the logscov 
- J— most of them en!<1 Wl . tb !'^ lr " a ' 1 iron, and the whole was to be 
covered with earth. On approaching Ihe works 
i.ieut. Wilson sent a party on shore to reconnoi¬ 
tre. On climbing up the casemates to look in 
the party discovered q company of artillery! 
who had taken refuge there, supposing them¬ 
selves perfectly secure. Our party fired ini., hi 
crowd with their revolvers, W ZvnT the 
vessel that the rebels were about. Lieul Wil 
son then commenced shelling the fort, and in 1 
short, ume n was all in a blaze. After burning 
some time the whole work wasdcstroTed Thi! 
ended in the space ot an hour a fort which ii l.ud 
taken the rebels live months to build working 
mostly day and night. 1 proceeded £ 5SS!Sf ■ 
ton this morning to be certain that the work w£s ‘ 
tr.* hl >: **&&•' poiiiw «... 
Walker, after taking 
Haines’ Bluff, was pel 
powerful steamers and 
Yazoo citv 
v * ' -- "»*— ” ' •« M*UII 
Joti^, 70 feet beam, to be covered 
itori plates. A lg/j a tineuav 
shops of all kinds, saw-rnilj 
ivc., were burned up. The property destroy, 
aud captured amounts to over $2 (ibo 000 h. 
the monster raui been finished, ' ’ ’ 
my | given us some trouble. C 
stroyed at Drury’s Bluff. Our loss’ 
ditiun was one lulled and 
• ...j. uuuuuauu was aescenuing the river 
from Memphis. May 23d, a Commissary and 
Quartermaster's boat wag fired into from the 
Mississippi side, by a band of the enemy, with 
two pieces of artillery, about six miles above 
Austin. I returned yesterday and 1 
force. The enemy, a few hours before my arri¬ 
val, captured a small trading steamer and burned 
her, taking Ler crew captive, and appropriating 
her freight. I could obtain no intelligence from 
the inhabitants, by which to guide my move¬ 
ments. My cavalry under Major Hubbard, 200 
strong, came up with the enemy 1,000 strong, all 
mounted, eight, miles out. The Major was com¬ 
pelled to take shelter in a favorable position, 
where he finally succeeded in repu) 
enemy, and drove them off before the 
could come to his relief. C 
killed, and nineteen wounded—i 
slightly. The enemy left five dead 
field, one lieutenant mortally wounded, and 
twenty-two stand of arms. We captured three 
prisoners. I burned the town of Austin, having 
first searched every building. As the fire pro¬ 
gressed, the discharge of loaded fire-arms was 
like volleys of musketry as the fire reached their 
hiding places, and two heavy explosions of 
powder also occurred. 
Of Major Hubbard and his battalion, I cannot 
Department of the South. 
The steamer Emily arrived 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 6, 1863. 
_ . - at Fortress Mon¬ 
roe on the 26tb having left Newbern on the 24th 
. V,e gather the following interesting items 
for the budget of news: 
Col. Jones, of theoSth Pennsylvania Regiment, 
made a reconnoisance from Newbern on the 22d 
Inst., with Lee s brigade, and when within about 
7 mileK of K >uston, surprised and captured some 
200 rebels belonging to the 5th North Carolina 
Regiment, with several officers, a field piece 
arms, equipments Ac. A rebel Captain and 
Lieutenant was killed. None were killed on 
our side. 
The schooner Sea Bird, of Philadelphia, while 
aground at the mouth of the Neuse river on the 
20th inst,, was captured and burned by the rebels, 
who went off to her from the shore in small boats 
and took her Captain and crew prisoners. 
All the rebel troops in the State, including re- 
/•/ml a/miAut. .. i_ ... . ‘ . 
The Army in Virginia. 
We cannot chronicle 
any movement of im¬ 
portance on the part of the Federal forces in this 
Department. During the week various state¬ 
ments oi the display of activity on the part, of 
the rebels under Lee, have come to band, and 
the dispatches of this (Monday,) morning would 
seem to give some coloring to the reports. If 
true, it is more than probable that lively times 
will soon be inaugurated. We give below such 
items as possess any interest: 
Gen. Hooker is said to have expressed his 
opinion that the enemy are bringing up all their 
forces at Charleston, and probably North Caro¬ 
lina, for a desperate aggressive movement. In 
view, however, of the publicity given these 
threats by the rebels Themselves, it seems more 
likely that their design is to provide for the de¬ 
fence of Vicksburg, and by their usual bluster to 
deter Hooker from another immediate advance. 
On the 28th a succcsstul balloon reconnoissance 
was made by CapL Paine. Tbe atmosphere was 
clear aud no indications of movements were dis¬ 
covered, though it is still believed that a portion 
of the forces have passed out from the Rappa¬ 
hannock. No communication is allowed between 
the pickets, and intelligence from the other side 
is very meager. 
A Fairfax Court House despatch to the Herald, 
dated 30th, states that a detachment of Vermont 
cavalry had a skirmish the day previous near 
Thoroughfare Gap, with 40 rebel cavalry. The 
latter fled losing one killed, two wounded and 
one prisoner. We lost one man prisoner, and 
had five horses wounded. The rebels are beimr 
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— The Irish in Massachusetts have contributed 1 35 Ofio 
for the sufferers in Ireland. * ,00 ° 
~ At Sp r in gfteid, Mass., on Thursday week, die mercu¬ 
ry, in the shade, was up to 94. 
„ ~ f' d ,ieids Zealand are now yield™ at 
tbe rate of 20,000 ounces a week. ’ ’ g at 
. no icuua rregress' Kinston correspondent 
(rebel) under date of May 2oth. says5.000 Yankees 
attacked our force, consisting of three regiments 
at Gunswamp, surprised aud routed them. We 
had several wounded, and lost from 50 to loo 
prisoner*. We took eight prisoners Gen. Hill 
forced the enemy back to within eight miles 
from Newbern. The Colonel commanding the 
Yankees is reported to be killed. The enemy 
burned the Court House and other buildings at 
Trenton, JoneaCo., on Friday, and plundered tbe 
citizens as they went. 
It appears on recent developments, that a mil¬ 
lion dollars worth of supplies had reached the 
enemy through division and regimental Sutlers 
at Beaufort. The former have the exclusive right 
to open wholesale houses wherever they choose 
and in many instances they have been established 
where we have no military jurisdiction, and 
where free access to the enemy is readily ob¬ 
tained. 
On the 27th Gen. Foster visited the camps of 
the nine month- men. He spoke of their many 
actions, and their heroic endurance, aud their 
magnificent discipline, which brought cheers from 
the troops. Gen. Foster told tbe soldier that they 
must not leave him and our sacred cause at this 
stage of the rebellion; that he would give them 
all the advantages accompanying a re-enlistment, 
ami a furlough of thirty days to each regiment 
and so arrange it that while one regiment depart¬ 
ed another should be ready to return, which pro¬ 
position appeared to meet with general favor. 
He then called upon the nine month’s men for 
a new artillery regiment of 12 companies, of 150 
men each. This regiment was organized on the 
. , « — I * , *> - w ur uuBtnnuii. lVs 
litory, lmd a severe tight with a portion Of I has beea a tr °uW« 80 me pi^ a ,)d merih 
Price's army on the 20tb. The enemy crossed ltaIate ’ Davii. B. Porter. 
the Arkansas river near Fort Gibson. Col. Phil- Unofficial dispatches were received in Was 
lips drove them back. Our Joss was thirty hl ^ on on tbe :il st ult., from the army of Ge 
killed, and the enemy’s much greater. The Gram ’ llje 26th. They represent th 
enemy were led by Generals Steele, Cooper and t ?® PB has bt ‘ en 110 material change of affUi 
McIntosh. They are now massed in our front, pince lbo They represent that there bi 
1,100 men and considerable artillery. We have ,x ‘ en no muU,ritl1 change of affairs since tl 
3,000 and one battery, but are well fortified. 25lb ' ° D the turning of that day Gen. Pembe 
is evidently the advance of Price’s main !liked for two hours and a half time to bur 
ftl 'my. his dead. There is no truth in the report of th 
Dispatches trom Fort Lamed advise us of the doath o{ Gon ‘ Steele, 
a portionof his men approach from the south-west of a large force of Gen ’. J ohn ^n is rapidly receiving r«j-enforc< 
nnairi T '"i cans and IndiaC8 r with a design to intercept, m tbo of Jackson, with the inter 
, ! a : CoI ' M 9<>n trams for North Mexico. The guerrillas are 0011 of attacking Grant’s rear. Gen. Johnsto 
i grape and more numerous on the border. The National is re l ,orl **d to have said that if Vicksburg shou] 
.. nu ‘‘! lorce 16 Gen. Blunt will make the hold mt lor fifteen days, he would throw loo no 
on the rebels and best possible fight. troops into the city, if it required the relinquish 
Tennessee.—C ol. Wilder, with his mounted UK ’ Dt ° f i Very foot of territory in his Depart 
infantry, returned on the 25th ult from a trip in etfect . 1, ‘ 
the direction of McMinnville, whither he had • &t * St Jntelligcmce received from Vicks 
gone in search of the rebel cavalry under bUrg 1S to th ® foIIowin S effect: 
Breckinridge. The enemy's pickets we» en- HEAnqcAaricRS ix the Field, ) 
Both of the* | r°E,' f 0 ” Woodbury. But tittle ™ 
I The fim.8 attracted the rebels to tbe vicioity sta bourn Orer one t«B £“ t S 
who collected in considerable numbers to annoy artillery, and several siege guns, rained shot anc 
Af» , and impede our advance. A running -kirmisi, . °\\ , e f wm y! s f 'Vorkfl. Yesterday the 
sr ;•£ s -r ki 
this side ol McMinnville our forces came on the c t-he right, Gen. Sherman has pushed Gen 
camp of Breckuuidge's force, who hastily de- ste6le ® division squarely to the foot of the para- 
camped. Pressing them closely, however Wil- TL * !,'l “® n i ay l - n , a d j. tclj aild , on , lh <' slope oi 
dor woceedttl in oapturtu, 
, . twenty-five serviceable horses, and three head of Imm ‘ d not retire. The Federala and reb - s 
atebeutou 
thsay, „„ r caval oar forCffl pu |* 
n l Fayette- skirmishing with and driving the enemy till ''Orks on cither sidy Nearly the same condb 
nd attack(, d within seven miles of McMinnville when r.m- ol th ' n ^ exisi m McPherson’s trout. The a11 al)]e bodied 
bki„»i S hl„ E forces returned „ UuJZZ ^ MSSfS Z ™«« Governntent for 
Kwsateassga-fl! 
L , , «b« all tbe rebel caealry uudT wLeeto ^ «“ T" ‘ 
rossed the and Morgan are ordered lo report at Columbia Gt ‘ n - McClernand was bard pressed on the left M ri urn ’ 1 
iauregard’s within Jive daya Also, that tbe forces under ^ re-euf?roements Quin! and C1 '® w ^ 6 
Charleston. Harrison, comprising five regiments were ore The at 4 o’clock. was a lar e° ste 
rtion inau- paring to move, atid that ^“Thet 
rg “ ±“l u '&'***> .r*?i* al «SfffcJbafafttiss*„,T; ,b«T: 
un me ist inst. a telegram was received from 
Gen. Stahl, dated Fairfax Court House, May 31. 
in which he says Mosby, with 200 man and one „ UI , 
howitzer, attacked one train of cars near Catlett | This 
Station the day previous and burned it. Col. 
Moon, of the 7th Michigan, who had command in 
tront hearing the firing took t x 1!__ 
and followed them two miles from Greenwich, 
where they stormed a strong \ — ' 
charged the rebels, who replied with g. ‘ i v 
canister, but the Colonel reports that our 
never faltered. They dashed i ’ 
took their gnus. Col. Moon returned at dark to 
his camp bringing in the captured artillery, aud 
our dead and wounded,—four of the former and 
fifteen oi the latter. Many prisoners were cap¬ 
tured, includingCapt. Haskins, an English officer 
in the Confederate service, and Lieut. Chapman, 
who had charge of tbe artillery. Both of these 
officers were so badly wounded that they could 
not be removed and were, paroled. The enemy 
lost heavily in killed and wounded, 
enemy were dispersed in every direction dark 
ness set in and precluded further pursuit. 
Private advices from Gauley, Va., state that 
warm work is oxnocted in tlinf /in K/lf/M-A Inn/. 
-*© » U 1 A UUI, 
weighing 100 tuns, was recently “issued” from a SheffieL 
foundry. 
-An American company have secured the right t< 
work an immense salt mine—a mountain of salt—in St 
Doming o. 
The total Pennsylvania coal trade thus far for 1863 
is 2,115,212 tuns against 1,600,480 tuns last year forth! 
same time, 
— W m. G. Crippen, for the past nineteen years promi 
nently connected with the Cincinnati Press, died on Sat- 
urday week. 
- Mr. Samuel Haskins of New Bedford, xMass., who is 
himself in the army, has six sons also in the land and 
naval service. 
- The contrabands in camp, at Washington, have 
commenced working the abandoned secesh farms across 
the Potomac. 
— The population of Hinds county, Mississippi, in 
whuh Jackson is located, is 31,339, of w hom less than 
| 9,000 are free. 
- A new organ has been imported from Germany for 
the Boston Music Hail, which will cost about $60,000 
when finished. 
— The Richmond Sentinel says that the rebels propose 
to retaliate the execution of two men in Ohio by order of 
Gen. Burnside. 
— Russell, the war correspondent of the Loudon Times, 
has gone to Poland to report the events of the revolution 
in that country. • 
— Laborers are so scarce in Michigan that in some lo¬ 
calities women have been obliged to labor in thn m/: 
TO mow. ihe opinion is that Bragg will soon 
evacuate. 
A skirmish took place near Fort Donelson last 
week, iu which the rebels were routed. Our 
forces brought iu 7,000 pounds of bacon after 
the affair. Our loss was one lieutenant and two 
privates wounded. 
A detachment of the 2d W: 
vTiimi cau uerau men enouirc 
operations here to keep Johnston in check. 
The telegraph this (Monday) afternoon 
tion on the canal appears now to be a conceded failure in 
point of economy. 
— The flag carried through the Chancellorsville battles 
by tbe Second Massachusetts regiment was pierced by 
sixty-seven bullets. 
— From official documents the number of lunatics in 
France, which a few years since was 12,000, has at present 
increased to 60,000. 
In Clark connty, Ohio, last year, 14,444 gallons of 
sorghum syrup were produced by twenty five persons en- 
Isconsin cav 
attacked guerrillas on the Fernandina road 
[ the 23d ult.. killing four and capturing five. 
A few days since detachments of the 5th 1< 
sas and 3d Iowa cavalry fought with infe 
forces of guerrillas, seven miles back from 
lena. and finally drove them. Their repoi 
loss is niue killed and twenty-one wounded 
Colonel among the latter. The Federal loss i 
lour killed, twenty wounded, and several p 
oners. 
On the 24th, Col. Hatch had a fight with 2fl< 
