The New York Herald Newspaper, June 12, 1863, Page 3

NEW YURK HERALD, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1863.—TRIPLE SHEET, 3 0 force Johnston Genera! Brechiurklge ie kmown to have joined him * Vicksburg is ¢ gressing favorably, The tone of the despatches is represented to be euch ae to show that Grant fears neither the enemy in bie fromt Ror in his rear. He wll protect bis lines at all hasarde. Tt ip presumed that be did not know at the date of hie telegrams whether or uot he was to be reinforced. This information juspires increased hope and contdenee im the final evecese of the siege. STRENGTH OF PORT HUDSON. = Lelosely invested, ‘The siege in pro» ator" "thi cared rebelion could ‘cart | (he Hebel (Fortifications at Gibraltar No. 2, on the Mississippi River. bus lor she destructin of these safeguards A ‘The democrats, new rensitive on their rebel friends trampled these 1, had no rebuke for + ebampions of liberty then, a ES] H ‘c ‘ the courage to stand is tho the Warmuverow, June 11, 1868. An unoffic.al lelegram from the viciwily of Vicksburg, received here to-day, states that the rebela in #mail force Feniat should Kp orfancd with itm praise, and my owa friends Attacked Milliken’s Bend and Young’s Point on tho @h nounce and condemn me, y decisiv Let me admonish my friende tat the precedents wo 4 } jostant, but were decisively repulsed at both pointe. to make may returt rae the invemtors. / ‘The colored troops on the former place at Gret gave way, Next year we elect , 2 Dut, upon hearing uhst those of their mumber who were among the remote ities, ive n the advantage ‘Xbanten ’ 2 pon on Sia killed, they railied with great fury aed ste lavolved, tad yas tu party hae trampled theve great f ! _— —— are iuvoly hat our party tramp! r Fal principles under foot, it is jugt possibie that they may l , 4 ~ Wasuxoron, Jase 22—Miduighs. pew RS er in ihe colabtianas tof ma fs Up to late hour this oyening no de patches had beem ot which wil! mit my freedom peech, \ M ’ received here (rom military operations upes the Miesie- Vout my declaring whatT betieve, that the accursed spirit } & a ee wi uever baye permanen| H i ‘ ial et wight. As + until it has been destroyed. {i } y \ vy Tae : through from Vicksburg much more quickly than any I believe this givil war, which is the suicide of slavery i j r \ad a ni. 8 wil be the regeharation 4 Fe ee ee ieaise to eee 2G | { é , - 7 other, it ie expected thas further direet intelligence wit Precedent established which wiil proyent me, from ex- net be received here until to-morrow, cing ‘hia Bad eee “eager fence tee cy - _ vain, and whi 0 enjoy the privil 2 = . % ‘ . 1s ing ‘until this rebeltion eefuaned, and all traitors, ‘ SX ~ 3 oe ae n Z The Chicago bys eigen adie forth and South, subdued, and we enjoy, as in the carly 4 d \ a id . m arice oa repiiblic, liberty vegulated by law throughout Ag | % = i are 4 2 A epecial deepatch from Memphis, dated tho tb inst., our beloved countiy. r Hs . 7" by , fays:— I have thus essed my sentiments, conscious that | } : eee R ZL is they wil be codgataned by ecine of my friends, but with } Oop og We Se, ws VA : Tho steamer Luminary, from Young's Point at eight P. full faith that time will vindicate their soundness, \\\ f] isi) PD NE | M. on Friday, the 6th inst., has arrived here with the Dam, very respectlully, yours, ISAAQ N, ARNOLD. \ SW VE following interesting intelligence: — General Kimball, with a force of three thousand men, ‘was sent up the Yazoo river to Sataria, thirty miles be- low Yazoo City, and arrived there on the 4th inst, He learned that a reve! force under General Wirt A dams Deseret ‘was not far off, and he immediately marched to meet Mts Defences Described by a Con- \ y : t ad ‘o E Pe be ried canes * a \\ \ ( ' y z t ten A. M. on Thursday, the 4th fast, , he came up wil federate Prisoner. NUE, oy the pickets of the enemy, whon a brisk fight eusued, last- : \ ¥ ing thirty minutes. The enemy gave way and a total a, rout ensued. = rsa] *: Our lose was one killed and seventeen wounded. Their ote loss in killed and wounded was considerable. AY Oe Aas 4 ga re aden onpetteerrt mermrd PORT HUDSON. Ponty yy BY DY wey Ammunition and Previsions Giving Out. eee | OF THE GarniSON, There is no perceptible change bdefore the enemy’s works at Vicksburg. STRENG General Joe Job till reported Dei the SRO EI a : PORT HUDSON acee'l Dig HO: rivers sonetrethge’ rina Vein” 160 Wills , with @ force of twenty thousand General Franklin Gardner in peeMmiTack Aanoine © ~ eNO ». rs) Central Osterbaus la watchioghis movementa, with 6 Command. & ROSE OFFILE H] \ Le Ro: y Z inl sufficient force to checkmate any démonstration Johnaton may attempt to make. There Js a ramor in circulation that General Pemberton Al CLINTON AND RT HUDSON fey The Speedy Capture of the Strong- y ay has requested Genoral Grant to permit the women and “FFL, ae “TS children in Vicksburg to pass through the Union lines. hold Certain. ¥ ‘ Over three hundrod head of cattle and mules have been RAR ITAL GEL ALR aEATTIS ¥ turned looge by the rebel on account of the scarcity of NEWS TO THE 4TH INSTANT, ¥ ¥ y forage with them, &e &e &. ¥ v ¥ \ The Murfreesboro Telegram. se 0 N y MURERKESRORO, Juno 11, 1868. The Chattanooga Rebel of the 4th, ia an article on she situation, declares that Breckinridge’s corps has returned. to Bragg, and that Jobuston was so sure in his position that he needed go more troops, It is supposed that Breckinridge’s troops never ioft Bragg’s camp. It is _kuowm that regiments from twovof Breckivridge’e brigades figured in the reconnoissance made on the 4th of June. , We have uo later news from Vicksburg. The rebel pickets refused to exchange papers, and it is suspected » t the latest issues contained the nows of rebel reverses {at Vicksburg. » Citizene frow Shelbyville, who reported the surreader, stato positively that it had been published in the rebed papers. The Chattanooga papors of the 7th and 81b con. ‘ain nothing regarding it. We have received the following account of the defences of Port Hudgon, of the strength of its garrison and its means generally to resist the efforts now being made to reduce it from a young Kentuckian who happened to be in Ar- kansas at the breaking out of the rebellion, and who was compelied to join the rebel troops raised in that Stato. Ris regimout was part of tho brigade of General Foal, which soon afterthe battle of Corinth, or Pittspurg Land dwg, was rent to Port Hudson, where it has ever siuce femained. Joba Harris, our informant, is a native of Keutueky, and in now on bie way to his uativostate, be davig joyfully talsen tho oath of allegiance to tho Union gpverament and forever abjured.that of disunion aud Jeff. Davie, Mr. Harrt= wan ia Arkansas when that State seceded, of Hindmen andettiers of bia stripe, (hat there was no al. ternative for young men but to volunteer aud to éwoll tho vanks of the redoubtable Rinamas, He consequently joined tho Fourteenth Arkansan regiment, which at ite The Rumors of Disaster at Vicksburg and Port Hudgon. Rumors of disaster at Vicksburg and Port Hudson wore it yesterday; but were unable to obtain any con- fret organization pumbered twelve hundred men, bat firmation of them, in the absence of which they may be svhich at the time of hie capture mustered only one net down as canards. fundred and eighty of the original command. He oou- Tt is understood that advices from Vicksburg to the af- Unved with bis regiment throughout ite whole career ternoon of the 6th have reached Washington; but it is up to the moment and was present i the | improbable that they contain anything of @ yory import- a | ant or decisive character. The reported repulse of Genoral Banks at Port Rudson, from Mobile on the 4th, yia Richmond papers of the 6th inet., undoubtedly refers to the action of May 27, the re- sult of which is already known. It Is quite unlikely that the rebels could have any information from Port Ftudeon Of @ later date than our own advices, The Cincinnati Telegrams. Ciwemyats, Juno 11, 1863, No later mews bas been received from Vicksburg. The Latest Telegram Direct from Vicke- burg wae Rear ov Viexsaurc, Mins, June %, ) Vie Maurms, June 11, 1863 5 | There nas beon mo very considerable change in the | situation here for eeveral days past. The siege ia regu- | larly progressing. Our forces gain new j oxime fram day to day, only to find equal difficuities proser.ting (hem selves from other quarters. We are mounting and ad | vancing new large siege guns as tast as porsibic, There are many indications that the rebels are becom- ing in want of both food aud ammunition, All deserters | coming into our lines—and there are plenty of them— | toll the same story of suffering and de-tiution in Vicks toced thelr purpose thé tise to which they would Jong be put, Mhie stirred the soldiers to increased ote Th 8 short time the extensive semicircle Tarcorna ot, rite pita aod abatis, from which erst ter fron hail that greeted our rel is ting parties, was eompleted. Port Hudson os sated oa wha ah the Mississippi, on tbe eastern $s 1 SCALE UF MILES Jpaving 1 in a position to completely command the ap- [proaches elther way. The more outer works consist of oan burg. The wompn and childton wre compelled to-stay in Intrenched abatie, extending in the form of rears “s Ya Sassi J - 5 mh caver to avoid skuightor by Abelis, mud of those in whe : bederesirpee eset Pxpragparunined grniftcr, otherwigo being abe to hold out till reinforcements could, | brought against it and the necessities of the post—« pe ong a ‘ween aa gnins cata: ees She Vv | @ K s B U R G * pribrgceres dave, boon slaughtervd—a circumstance of ‘eoveidered to "| weak straightened provisions and m lack ‘uited States tanspoas » Com. Wra. . ~ us from thle Wey haverbeesraifen, and-oar forces com- | reach them, thelr stock of ammunition 4s not sam. | weak serene, Ag Hays, arrived on. the 16tb, with 1,200 woos of coal and \' Thave heard of Bothing now or startling from Geweya) pinely savent ae ee el cea, eee Tad bomen tee on one ries patie way naval stores on board, and had during that ¢ime supplied, “imal pbiatccaicilh “Synttanin Jobuston’s gathering host. He was at Cantomat last ad fortified with great, amill Ys f D ) The Latent News. the following four steamers with coal and toree, via— corr ‘Wasuinaron , June 11, 1908 ‘On May 16, the St. Jano de Cubs, Com. Wymanjar | NEWS TO THE 8TH INBTANT.. | “‘tnsre bas ven \some trouble along the river trom Advices up to the 4th jostamt have been received from } 11.44 From Havans and coaled slongside. pI. Te Lake Providence down to withiy sight of Vicks Port Hudson, Everything there looks favorable ¥0 °%F.| On the following day the Rhode Island Com, Trenchard, burg. The rebels hive approached aud threatenod final eagcess. from Havana, and the Chippewa, Boysoo, from St. our port on the Louisiane shore at Milliken's Bond Thomas, arrived and was coaled, the latter saillog on the The Siege Progr Yesterday they drove all our forces to the river's THE REBEL PRIVATEERS. 224 for Port Royal, S. C., whore she has siace arrived. Satisfactorily. brink, where they were saved by tie gunboats. There ‘abuie bristle with ennnon of heavy calibre, which sweep ail the approaches, Some forty sloge guns; Desiies lighter field batteries, aro in position here, together with two ‘one hundred an@ twenty-pounders. Great reliance ie placed on the strength of there works; but there are in. ‘erior lines.of defence upon which the rebels can rally in ease of Dolag driven back, These were not of much con sequence at first, but some time Defore the late attack eonsiderable labor bad been expended on them. These ‘works are not of @ continuous character, like tho semi- elrete of outer works, but aro detached, erected on posl- Alons favorable to the rebels in case they wore compelled fo fall back and abandon their outer defences, Heavy siege gune are planted on theso fortifications, Between shese works and the town itself are several swamps and by which it can be brought there from the outside. SCARCITY OF PROVISIONS. Provisions also are getting acarce., The rations served ‘out tw the troope consist of seven ounces of beef and three-quarters of a pound of meal, with the bran ip, dally. No tea or coffee is supplied, Salt is very scarce, but mo- lasses and sugar are pretty plenti‘ul, Tobacco sells at two collars and « batt a plug. Gold sols for four dollars and a half premium over Confederate scrip. Greenbacks ‘are much sought after, and are worth two dollars and twenty-five cents over their Confederate congeners. There fare none but military in the post, the former residents of the place having all fled on the approach of our troope. THR UNION LINKB. ‘The Union troope having landed at once proceeded to ‘Tho United States steamer Morcedita, Commander Ran ‘was considerable fighting for two days, the logs on both som, from Boston, where she was thoroughly repsired sides being severe. Two or more colored regiments cov thened, arrived at Cape Haytien on the 22d % me stituted the principal Union force. ‘the behavior of the ANOTHER---THE COQUETTE--- AFLOAT. = pa Jed from the Guard. ’ Tegiments in the fighting on botn cays is variously an aud gre stahiings particulars of the loss of the Gen. Kimball Ss Expedi- stalel, deus caging tik. they feughd Seduce, ether The Tender to the Florida on. @ | Vite sates ship shepera Knapp, drietty mentioned in tion Up the Yazoo. that they wero inofilcient and euwardiy. Our los io the Henatn correspondenee from part Royal. He states Killed and wounded is estimated at turee handred Cruise. { tbat the Shepherd Knapp, on entor@iy the harbor on the ‘At Young's Point yestorday, within sight of Vicks. f the strength tn making thelr 0p tho 109th ult., in brond daylight, having no pilot on beard, Bass burg, on the Louisiana shore, tho rebels appeared in thick undergrowth, adding considerably to the strength | jayeat the city in reguéer form. 1p m ae ar neat or went ashore at the entrance, and would become ® considerable force, to the number of five hundred pro. of the place, ‘The water defences consist of ton batte: | proach several encounters ocoarred between the skirmish my Bark Whistling. Wind | waren. terror a cooen veges all eared; Web 1 SHARP FIGHT AT SAT. SOME We MD totoine lo Seoeds chou Hib bi oars rlea, numboring betweon thirty and forty guns, | ers on oithor side, but with little loss, The rebols @radu- ie ia doubtful whether her gune—eight in aamber—can be ee MMi UischiGd ccteraseocen: oubdont, whe Stites taes nome of them being leven -inch «and others | aily fell back within their breastworks, leaving tho Union Burned at Sea- recovered. Captain Rytinge ie justly open to censure for Gauparnek ahd ihewrm. tale, 1 PMianighirens Ahirteen-inch bore, Ono of these battories i st | troops at liberty to forum their oxmops and to prepare for a phe kas RC endeavoring, aa he did. to enter the harbor, even though | Bone of the Rebels and Capture formed a line of battle, but being prow.pily confronted by tioned on a bluff eighty feet high. Another battery, | regular siege. CRUISERS, | it ¥a# daylight at the time, without # pilot; and through \} a larger looking foreo than they «xpected, and baving, “the mont wosterly of the water defences, is situated below CAPTURE OF MR. HABRI®. MOVEMENTS OF OUR » | nie earlenanees the service haa lost one of ite mont weet! of Rebel Prisoners. Probably, a wholesome fear of «abouts before thelr ‘the mouth of Thompson's creck, Thero le also.a mortar | It was in ono of Leong nance tag ry ee, ae. yensels. minds, retreated to the woods, Ther: was some litte Dattery, intended for throwing hot shell, The guns gene- that Mr. Harris was captured, together with sixty o » Oey ‘ * OUR BT. THOMAS CORRESPONDENCE. sisi meee) at firing between plcketa late in the evening, but nothing rally are vhirty-twos and forty-twos, ‘These Ddatteries | On the day previous to bis capture a cavalry reconnois- : . Sr. Tuomas, May 26, 1868, like an engagement, or even skirmisi vay erected corly in the war, but the laud defences | snnce had heen sent out from our lines, accompanied by | The Burning of the Bark Wh! ing Naval Movenents, de. General Joe Johnston on the Big Black incipally built after the advance of the Union | light field piece, Thie ga rent a few unexpectod die- we Nowe in this quarter Je scarco just at this moment, NEWS FROM CINCINNATI, Freee ve Baeieean charges amongst ‘vem, scattering the men at the outposts Captain Batler of the bark Whistling Wind, makes the ‘The United States men.ot-war, after laying in port some River, Endeavoring to Cross. ‘ senate: a le GENERAL YRAWELIN GARDNER, im all directions. ‘To prevent @ repetition of these | following statement: — et four | 447%, ave all loft except the Alabama and Gemabok, ’ chiel in command at Port Hudson, is a native of the State favors a force of three hundred rebole wae ordered Left Philadelphia for Now Orleane, with a cargo ur tho latter being diemaeted and turned imto a coal snip for wnt. ° to intercept our cavairy, and to form an ambuscade and {0 inflict all tho injury possible apon them. But the rebels were caught in thelr own trap. Instead of a cavairy re connoisance being made, as on the previous day, they Dundred and fifty tons of coal om goversment account, | 15 sistion, ‘The United States steamer St, Jago do poh : CT Phe Boop ne wt aor roa 71 29, Trae | Cuba haa just arrived, and by her the report of the iors | General Osterhaus Watching | to Meeting, He. . suneat,1 poarded by the Confederate privateer Coquette, fy .of-war Knapp, 146 heipheryrewii 863. n vedertng wa on board tbe Coquette, wet fire vo and destroy- Of the United States manof-war Sheppard Kenpp, His Movements, ‘Twolve hundred paroled Union woldicrs yumod throug of Now York, a graduate of West Point, to which he was appointed from Towa, He served with distinction in Mexico; but, om the breaking out of the rebellion, ho rebels, name of St, Domingo. The particulars T terday to join their regiments in General ool ee a eorumereae tony: ‘Tho | were started from ttleir concealment by the skirinisbere | oq my vessel, The next day wo were put on board the badogsi A a etl pa a Pari angel ~ re an ay to jo iments i weep unr himn were for the moet part previouely com. | of Gonoral Augur’s division, whieh was advancing in full | Bremen brig Argue, from Havans, bound to ARIwerD»ABd | win to aimont a total lose. Her stores, Ke., eaved were ae. a, Hon, Jobu Brough addressed « largo Union meeting at force, Buta slight resistance was made, when the three | gapsequently transferred from her to the bark Almena, Drovght up by the St. Jago de Cuda. The officers manded by General Det, ve vers: pened from Shanghae for New York, and brought to thi city. ‘on board are not very cammunicative about the alfrir as Marietta yontorda: wand ae subordinate 40 General Gardter, Mr. Harrie hundred rebels fled; of this namber sixty were captared, ween four hom looked be made public without detriment ‘eomputes, hole atvength at bet: ‘and | among whom was Mr. Harrie, Ho upon his cap- ‘Tho Whistling Wind was a good vestel, of three nun- Tine patie po ea they op ‘clone; but the movements The Washin See ae ra Resistance to ¢ : » ave ‘orenod ee consisting of the following regtmente | ture as n very fortunate event indeed, ng did dred and fifty tens burthen, and was valued at $14,600, | of the various veeneis on this statin aro known from one Wasminctow, i wy 5 Sertanshe oven many others . oo party, at least to the number of ai ied favo Fourteenth; Seventeenth Sixteenth and Firteapsh is bY taking the oath of allegiance abandon- bo dhe iedt and Thirty-nioth Midvour; the {ng forever the rebel cause. bal garnerg nn od ‘Thirty-fires and Thitty-pioth Alabama; paste of the. -@otained a day or two at Port udeon, when they werd seeond, Forty-sighth, Rorty-ninth and Fifty-firuh Tonnes. | vent to Now Orleans and thence North, Mr, Harrie ie ace “nd the Nath Loriaiana battalion. —Tratitt in the ity, but will soon be on hie way to his Maxey commands a brigade of t . home in Kentucky. For hie wervice of two full ; Aongy he only received a8 pay from the rebel t $184 16 in Confederate paper. Mr. Harris was a prigoner when the assanit upon the rebel works was made by our troops. He subsequently conversed, jeasre. Brown . town ‘0 the oiler, #0 that it can be reported to has advices from General Grant’ Y | THR DEPUTY PROVOST MARSHAL KICLED AND A DB- ai alia ca aig fartes'nh should vot bow, vin:—the 290" and Flor Phy “ee my ggarony according to the despatches, the | ROTIVE MORTALLY WOUNDFD—A SOLDIER #nOT ‘ da; ond then 1t Is @ mattor of wonder to some how , ‘ag stoadily and entisfactorily pro- BY A DESEHTER, KTC. ‘The privateer Coquette is m hermaphrodite brig, of everything going 00 hore is so well known on board both } mege a Vicksburg was Cincnvant, Jume LL, 408, about three hundred tons barthen, and was formerly the | these versela, Papers of the latest dato aro always On | gregging,?! Mir. Stevens, Doputy Provost Murehe.; Mr, Clayfield, a ation. "Tv . brig Clarence, of Baltimore, bat wee captured on a voy. | Wnt cimep io chow the Sefeste toned sigh ene! for the Wannixatow, June 10,1869, | dotective, and an enrolling oflicor who accompanied ‘age (rom Rio Jantero to the United States, She acts a# 4 | navy here to be reported eo public! ae one ae See Two despatches wore received to-night from Major { théim, were fired upon near Manville, Kush county, In vendar to tbo privateer Florida, by which he was cap: | they will eo brought be aad, weed Sa ort having Gonora! Grant, addresved Yo different geatiomen in bigh | diana, yesterday, agua Pages rate his red. 318 vyeseol to them with # i". fr. Stevens was b te ° Capena Piven, cb the bark Almena, which arrived toate cy saci 4 with ie peepee are dated Monday, 8th instant—a mueh mortally wounded, and soon aiterwards died. The em at this port yesterday from Shanghae February 19, | | This town ie to. be Helter Te Me formed nnd the | shorter tine in obtaining advices from Vieksburg than | rviling officer was shot twice threugh lis clothing, Dut states that on Jane 8, latitude 96 08, longitude 7010 west, | Ta subporibed. It We expected that in the ovurse of | peretoiore. | fortanately ercaped without receiving any serious injury. or parts of regiménte:— Captain Jona J. : ‘Rogers, comrades who had been ken by Bromen brig Argus, from Havana for | faye or six months the works will be o myleied. ifort at fret, audone which has occasioned mech | ‘Two companies of the Feventy (rst Indiana regiment 4 Liewtenaat RM. 7 peterson cathe estan dle ‘been ct this mont ja | An important fret, nia yeatertiay for the scene oF (he nut 4 ‘TAR CONDITION OF THR TROOPS | made prisoners on that day, and they ioformed him that | antworp, who requested him to take on beard five men, | have often bean mele, Wo Hcmtas he aes Mactan | acxkety, i torived from then, mamely:—Thot Ceseral | Ik Liam Retna y a dewortor ut. Shelby illo, 70> ts reprenontedas almont perfect. Previous tothe lato terri. | the negro regiment ea itadias tons ance ae on be nnabyiod ond oticera, | ment hot beng witling lonid elter in atoek dr sutsity. | «rant was in ont pases Woy romogaelbrr Rose wera while attempting to arrest the latter ‘assault apon thelr works every conflaen ‘which was exe! yp tee dently rage | steward passenger, belonging bark recs diteitands 4ih tostant, ab whien time Port Hudson wae closely ne fpedeyonende po } berry a which the revels fell pod them, ‘The oucounter | whiting Witd, which veeset was Durued by the More Indian Atrocities in Utah. eT ’ | Loyal League Meeting In Trenton. W. J, det onrengih BOS OBEY Hoe hag De ‘and their Into masters was described Ooqueite on the 6th inet. He took them Baur Laxm, June 10, 1860, | inverted ‘ ready known or be. | Trasrox, NJ June 8 1669 . them; Dut hemambere and determination of our troope | between the negrees p rebel privateer ‘Thirty mounted Indians attacked a coach thirty miles | General | repeats, what i already | A. goneral representation from the 'Nutions! Union py . De ny ene ee on board and brought them to this port. westward to-day, aud Hitler wad nealped the driver ani | eye, iat Ctenerat Joboston ie ri Leagven of New Jorery will arsemsble in thie, ih a i struggle being unthought of tii our men were withdrawn, employe. NO pomengers were al . qwhom to oporate against bim, and m Ds a report tha’ | rew ior the purpor ' i Gemeldertt em AMMUNITION GIVING OUT. Me. Harris says that notwithetanding the strength of the | Movements of the West we mail bags, stripped ino opgeh aud ran off the | Aiyilena cm Rk Lay es aL AM ae 4 3 ONeDS jeelegstas WH) be ureneDE TMM gy esa COUR Squadron, x ly a ates Wo thio athe fear, Uhab yen im tbe event oF iBete | pine 18 meet fal, snd tab before she ‘A.corvenpondent writen from Cape Haytien, May 29 | sieem, Troore are