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be exaggerated. Prince Polignac was promoted on the field. His clothes were riddled with bullets. He succeeds Monton and Wharton succeeds Green. Meridian, May 8, via Mobile, May 8.--Lieut. W. R. Wron, of Wirt Adams' cavalry, went within six miles of Vicksburg recently, capturing and killing a number of Yankees and bringingMay 8.--Lieut. W. R. Wron, of Wirt Adams' cavalry, went within six miles of Vicksburg recently, capturing and killing a number of Yankees and bringing away their equipments. He destroyed two Government plantation and brought off the negroes and stock. The armament of the gunboat Petral, captured by Wirt Adams, has reached Brandon. Trans-Mississippi advices state that the enemy were blowing up gunboats and transports, above the rapids on Red river, to prevent their fallin whipping and routing Steele in Arkansas. The commander of the gunboat Petral and 25 other Yankees, captured by Wirt Adams, arrived here to-day. Mobile, May 8.--The Shreveport News, of the 15th, contains Gen. Taylor's congratulatory address of the victory of the 8th and 9th, at Mansfield, and claims a complete victory.