Latest from the North.
later from
Vicksburg — the
Grand assault Ordered and Attempted, "but not completely carried Oat"--the expedition up the Yazee river — destruction of an Enermous ram not left.
The
Mystertous head at
Richmond, &c.
[from our own Reporter.]
--The
Washington Chronicle of Monday, June 1st, has been received here, and I send you the following summary of its news:
‘
Unofficial dispatches from
Grant's army, of the 26th, represent no material change in affairs there on the 25th.
On the evening of the 25th
Pemberton asked a truce of two hours and a half to bury his dead.
A Cairo dispatch of the 31st says, the fighting
Monday lasted six hours. The battle was renewed on Tuesday.
Few if any batteries have been taken.
Shells from
Sherman's guns came over into the city, as can be seen from the fleet.
Banks's forces have not arrived.--400 prisoners are expected to-night, and will be sent to
Indianapolis.
’
The
Chronicle's correspondence from rear of
Vicksburg, the 22d, says: ‘"To-day a general charge was ordered on the enemy's works, but not completely carried at any point.
The singularly rough nature of the ground makes it almost impossible to tell what we have to encounter before us, and rapidly fatigues the men. The rebel redoubts are constructed for field artillery."’
Price's Army.--
Leavenworth, May 29.--
Col. Phillips had a severe fight with a portion of
Price's command on the 27th.
The enemy crossed the
Arkansas near
Port Gibson.
Phillips drove them back.
Our loss was 30 killed--the enemy's much greater.--The enemy was led by
Gens. Steele,
McIntosh, and
Cooper.
They are now massed in our front, claiming 11,000 men and considerable artillery.
We have only 7,000, and one battery, but are well fortified.
This is evidently the advance of
Price's main army.
Dispatches from the front inform us of the approach from the
Southwest of a large rebel force of Texans and
Indians, with a design to intercept trains
en route for New Mexico.
Burnside has removed his headquarters to
Hickman.
Bridge, Ky., ten miles south of
Nicholasville.
Burnside has notified
Bragg that he will hang all rebel officers in his hands in case the rebels retaliate for the hanging of the spies in his department.
Admiral Porter telegraphs the Navy Department, on the 25th, as follows: "The expedition sent up the
Yazoo, after taking possession of the forts at Haines's Bluff, was perfectly successful.
Three powerful steam rams were destroyed at
Yazoo City--one a monster, 310 feet long, 70 feet beam, to be covered with four-inch iron plates.
A fine Navy-Yard, with machine shops of all kinds, saw mills, black-smith shops, &c., were burned up. The property destroyed and captured amounted to over two millions.
Had the monster ram been finished she would have given us some trouble.
One battery was destroyed.
Our loss one killed and seven wounded.
[from the New York Herald of the 30th]
A dispatch from
Washington, the 29th, says
Grant telegraphed the 25th from near
Vicksburg, to the War Department, representing the
siege of Vicksburg as progressing satisfactorily.
He was said to be able to maintain his investment of the town and repel attacks on his rear.
A dispatch from
Cairo, the 29th says news from
Vicksburg is to the afternoon of the 26th.
McPherson's corps holds the extreme left
McClernand the centre, and
Sherman the right.
Five or six thousand prisoners are expected at
Memphis to-day.
Johnston was as
Jackson with 15,000 men. The rebels hold
Big Black river bridge.
A telegram from
St. Louis, the same date, says
Johnston is receiving reinforcemente near
Jackson, and will attack
Grant in the rear.
It is reported that he said if
Vicksburg could hold out fifteen days he would throw 100,000 troops into it, if he had to abandon every foot of territory in his department.
A dispatch from
Murfreesboro', the 28th, represents that since
Sunday Grant had made a general assault on the rebel works at
Vicksburg, and failed to carry them.
That the place was too strong to be carried by assault, and he had opened a terrible fire on it with artillery.
The
Herald's Hilton Head correspondent says at least 20,000 men have been sent to
Vicksburg by
Beauregard.
An article on the military situation in the
South says:
‘
On the whole, considering the defensive position, it (the
South) has at least equal strength with the
North for this campaign.
Pemberton, according to our latest intelligence, will be able to hold out in that stronghold ten days or a fortnight, until
Johnston, with his army, raises the siege and engages
Grant in battle.
Johnston is rapidly receiving reinforcements from all quarters at
Canton, a central point on the railroad.
Grant is being reinforced too, some down the
Mississippi, which land at Haines's Bluff, on the enemy's left flank, and some up the
Mississippi, landing at
Warrenton, on the enemy's right flank.
It is thus reduced to a question of speed and numbers between the opposing forces, complicated with the strength of the fortress and
Grant's tactics in the approaching great battle.
The rebels cannot afford to lose
Vicksburg; but if they succeed there, by concentrating the victorious army at Chattancoga it will be an easy matter to clear out
Tennessee.
Johnston was only prevented from dealing
Rosecrans a heavy blow by
Grant's landing at
Port Gibson and attacking
Vicksburg in the rear.
Lee, with heavy reinforcements, is about to move into
Pennsylvania, and
Stuart, with 15,000 cavalry, is behind the
Rappahannock.
What is their destination?
But
Hooker, whose army is twice as large as
General Lee's, must first be whipped.
One cool, sagacious head at
Richmond, seems to direct all the movements on the
Southern chess board of the war. What kind of a head, and what head, makes the counter moves at
Washington?
The war Democrats are chiming in with the peace men.
Gold in New York rose to 145, closing at 144⅞. Exchange 157½ to 158.
’
