The latest.
Northern accounts of affairs in Mississippi.
the sentence of
Vallandigham — immense anti-administration meeting in New York
--The flag of truce boat which arrived at
City Point to-day brings the New York
Herald of the 19th, from which the following summary is compiled:
From the Southwest.
A dispatch, dated
Cairo, 18th instant, says that the latest accounts from
General Grant, through Federal channels, are to the 18th instant.
Generals Logan and
Osterhans were moving towards
Jackson, driving the rebel,
Bowen, with a reported force of 15,000, before them, while
General Grant was marching upon
Black river, expecting to engage
General Pemberton at the bridge over that stream.
Pemberton's force is estimated at 50,000, and he is said to be strongly entrenched near the bridge.
A great battle there is imminent.--The health of the
Yankee army is described as "superb."
Private advices received at
Washington state that arrangements for the reduction of
Vicksburg and the capture of the rebel army are so complete that it cannot much longer hold out.
Burnside's order recites the proceedings of the
Vallandigham Court Martial, the finding of which is a sentence to close confinement, during the war, in some fortress to be selected by the commander of the department.
The order names
Fort Warren as the place of confinement.
Great Democratic meeting in New York.
An immense mass meeting was held in Union Square. New York, on Monday evening, under the auspices of the Democratic Union Association, to protest against the recent arbitrary acts of the Administration, in the suppression of free speech and the press.
Four stands were erected, with speakers at each.
The
Herald says that this meeting was the largest that has been held in that city during the war.
One of the speakers said that the Norbury of the present day was
Judge Leavitt, who denied the writ of
habeas corpus to
Vallandigham. "Let him remind
Lincoln that a Caesar had his
Brutus, and Charles the First had his
Cromwell.
Let him also remind the
George the Third of the present day that he, too, may have his
Cromwell or his
Brutus." [Cheers]
All the speakers denounced the Administration, and were loudly applauded.
A dispatch, dated
Cincinnati, 18th, says the rebels are collecting a large cavalry force South of the
Cumberland river, and a large infantry force in
East Tennessee will advance into
Kentucky this month, under
Breckinridge.
The track of the Seaboard railroad is being taken up by the
Suffolk forces between
Carrsville and the junction with the Norfolk railroad.
