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Yankee foreign enlistments.
Our readers are aware that a correspondents took place some time last month between Earl Russell and Mr. Adams, United States Minister, on the subject of alleged recruiting for the Yankee Government in Ireland Mr. A. denied positively any knowledge of any such enlistments, and discredited the that overnment being given "to listen to any proposals of the kind" Instructions to the same effect, he says, were given to all the Consuls of the United States.
Mr. Adams admits that the liberal bounty paid by his Government for soldiers had occasioned a desire with many to emigrate.
He then lets out the manner in which the thing ussell "may explain the phenomenon of emigration to which your lordship has been pleased to draw my attention" Very satisfactory, no doubt, to his lordship!
Mr. Adams knows, Earl Russell knows, that these people are all intended to swell the force against the Southern Confederacy.
Whether England regards the emigration of so
The Daily Dispatch: June 1, 1863., [Electronic resource], The Congressional election. (search)
From Vicksburg — the enemy falling back. Mobile, May 29th.
--The special reports of the Advertiser and Register, at Jackson, states that the enemy have retired from the immediate front of the fortifications at Vicksburg, and are reported to be fortifying.
Want of water will force him back to the Big Black.
Col. Wirt Adams has had a spirited skirmish on the Yazoo, killing and wounding some 20 Yankees.