Later from Vicksburg.
Confirmation of the great slaughter of Yankees. Horrible stench of the dead Bodies--two gunboats sunk, &c. Mobile, May 28.
--The special correspondent of the Advertiser and Register, under date of Jackson, 27th, says: ‘
Reports from below state that Banks has crossed his army at Bayou Sars.
A Federal deserter confirms the reports of the carnage among the enemy at Vicksburg. --Grant sent in a flag to-day about the sick and wounded.
Pemberton is burning tar and using other disinfectants to save his troops from the effects of the stench from the Yankee dead, who are rotting in front of our works.
The slaughter of the Yankees has been far greater than in any other battle of the war.
The Mississippian states that two gunboats have been sunk by our batteries at Vicksburg, and that the battle on Saturday was the most stubborn of all. ’ 