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From Vicksburg--Count Mercier to sail for Europe — correspondence between foreign Consuls and Butler. Augusta, June 27.
--The Jackson Mississippian, of the 23d, says that Porter's mortar facet was repulsed at Grand Gulf by light batteries.
The enemy opened on Vicksburg, Saturday, for one hour.
No injury reported.
Col. Stone, late of the Memphis Appeal, says that Cincinnati papers of the 16th, contain a Washington dispatch, stating-that-Count Mercier had engaged passage to sail in the next steamer to that carrying out Lord Lyons.
The report excited much sensation in Yankeedom.
Gen. B. F. Butler has had a sharp correspondence with the British, French, and Greek Consuls relative to some sugar seized belonging to subjects of those countries, and to the oaths required of aliens.
His language was coarse and pointed.
Reported blockading of St. Augustine by British ships. Augusta, June 27.
--A special dispatch to the Savannah Republican, dated Baldwin, Fla., 26th instant, says: Information considered reliable has been received here that British ships are now blockading the port of St. Augustine, cutting off all supplies bound for the Yankees.
A Lincoln transport attempting to enter, was captured and is now held as a prize.
At last accounts the Federal troops at St. Augustine were in a starving condition, and were preparing to march across the country to St. Johns.
It is also reported here that British war vessels are blockading the mouth of St. Johns river.
The Republican says the dispatch seems to come from a reliable source, but does not vouch for its correctness.
The Republican also learns that the steamer Cecile struck a rock off Abaco on Sunday last, and sunk in a short time.
All her crew were saved, but her valuable cargo was lost.
Another arrival of arms. Wilmington, June 27.
--The British steamer Modern Greece, loaded with arms and munitions of war, is aground three quarters of a mile eastward of Fort Fisher, close in this morning.
The blockaders fired at her with a view to her destruction.
The fort opened on the blockaders, when they hauled off. She has one hundred tons of powder aboard.
Fort Fisher succeeded in striking her so as to wet the powder and prevent the enemy's shells from blowing her up. It is believed that a large portion of her cargo will be saved.
Assistance has been sent down.
The passengers and crew are safe, and saved all their private property.