The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-08 00:00:00

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On the 14th of May we defeated Gen. Joseph
E. Johnston, and captured Jackson, with a loss to
the enemy of four hundred, besides immense stores
and manufactures, and seventeen pieces of artillery.
On the 16th of May we fought the bloody and
decisive battle of Baker's Creek, in which the entire
force of Vicksburg, under General Pemberton, was
defeated, with the loss of twenty-nine pieces of
artillery and four thousand men.
On the 17th of May we defeated the same force
at the Big Black River Bridge, with the loss of
two thousand six hundred men and seventeen pieces
of artillery.

On the 18th of May we invested Vicksburg
closely.
To-day General Steele carried the rifle pits on
the north of the city. The right of the army rests
on the Mississippi above Vicksburg.
JOHN. A. RAWLINS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.

Postscript.—l learn further that there are from
fifteen to twenty thousani men in Vicksburg, and
that Pemberton has lost nearly all his field artillery,
and that the cannonading at Vicksburg closed at
about three o'clock p.m. on the 20th of May.
General Grant has probably captured nearly all.
S. A. HURLBUT, Major• General.

Despatch from W. G. Fuller, Assistant Manager
of Telegraph. Communicated to the Press by
President Lincoln.

MEMPHIS, TENN., May 23.
Col. Anson Stager, Washington, D.C,
Official information from below to Wednesday
states that General Grant has captured Haines'
Bluff and the outer works of Vicksburg, a large
number of prisoners, and fifty-seven pieces of artil-
lery. The battle is still raging, with every pros-
pect of capturing the entire force in Vicksburg.
We have Jackson, Black River Bridge, and Haines'
Bluff. A report is making up for Washington.
W. G. FULLER,
Assistant Manager of Telegraph.

THE GREAT BATTLE AT BAKER'S CREEK
AND BLACK RIVER BRIDGE.
The following despatch was received by the War
Departmentm yesterdayEmrHis T:
-E—NN., May 23 (111 a.m.).
Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War.
The following despatch has been received at these
headquarters, and is forwarded as requested :
S. A. HURLBUT, Major-General.
REAR OF VIORSBURG, May 20 (6 a.m.).
Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War.
General Grant won a great and momentous vic-
tory over the rebels, under Pemberton, on the
Jackson and Vicksburg road, at Baker's Creek, on
the 16th inst.
Pemberton had a most formidable position on the
crest of a wooded hill, over which the road passes
longitudinally. He had abuut 25,000 men. The
battle begun at 11 a.m., and was gained at 4 p.m.
Its brunt was borne by Horey's division of M'Ler-
nand's corps, and by Logan's and Crooker's divisions
'of M'Pherson's corps.
Hovey attacked the hill, and held the greater
part of it till 2 o'clock p.m. When, having lost
1,600 men, he was succeeded by Boomer's and
Holmes's brigades of Crocker's division, by which
the conflict was ended; in that part of the field
Broomer lost 500 men.
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myescape by his right flank through the woods.
Logan lost 400 killed and wounded. We took
about 2,000 prisoners.
On the 17th, advancing to the Big Black, we
fought Pemberton again at the bridge there, and
captured 300 more prisoners. He fought in rifle
pits, protected by difficult bayous full of abattis.
Lawle's brigade of M'Lernand's corps charged
the rifle pits magnificently, and took more prisoners
than their own numbers. Pemberton burned his
bridges and returned to Vicksburg with only three
cannon out of 60 that he had taken out.
Building four bridges over the Big Black, Gene.
ral Grant arrived before the town on the evening
of the 18th, and now holds it closely invested. He
had open a line of supplies, via Chickasaw Bayou,
having cut the town off from Haines' Bluff, which
is abandoned by the enemy, and which General
Grant will occupy.
There was sharp fighting through the day yes-
terday.
Steele won and holds the upper bluffs, and the
enemy's upper water batteries, and gets water from
the Mississippi.
Sherman's. corps lost yesterday 500 killed and
wounded.
M'Pherson, who holds the e(ntre, lost little, as
did M'Lernand, who holds the left.
The gunboats kept the enemy alert during the
night, and probably the town will be carried to-day.
There are from 15,000 to 20,000 men in it.

NEW YORK, May 26, 1863.
The steamers Hansa and City of Baltimore
arrived at New York, aud the Asia at Halifax,
May 25.

The following is the " situation" from the New
York herald of May 26:

The battles of General Grant in the vicinity of
Vicksburg, and the brilliant victories of Admiral
Porter on the Yazoo, have to be numbered amongst
the most successful operations of the war. Admiral
Porter, in his official despatch, dated from the
Yazoo river on the 20th inst., details the capture of
Haines' Bluff by Lieut. Walker, of the gunboat De
Kalb,who not only drove out the enemy,but secured
all their guns, ammunition, camps and equipage.
1 he defences consisted of 14 forte, and took the
enemy 12 months to construct. Admiral Porter
destroyed the gun earriages,blew up the magazines,
and destroyed the works generally, which he de-
scribes as a network of defences such as he never saw
i
before. Admiral Porter, in his official despatch,
also describes the close investment of Vicksburg by
Gen. Grant's army, upon which city, he says, he

Our correspondence from Gen. Dix's department
to-day will be found very interesting, giving in
detail the description of Col. Kilpatrick's brilliant
cavalry raid into Matthews and Gloucester counties.
The news from the Army of the Potomac is that
all is "painfully quiet along the lines," and that is
rather old news now. _

A despatch from St. Louis, dated yesterday, says
that a band of rebel guerillas captured the town of
Richmond, Clay county, Mo., on Tuesday night,
together with the Union force which occupied it.
Two officers of the Twenty-fifth Missouri were
killed in the fight, and another lieutenant was shot
after the Union troops surrendered. It was feared
that the whole force would be treated in the same
manner. The guerillas made a clean sweep of the
whole town. The same band also plundered the
town of Plattsburg, Clinton county, on Thursday
night, and took 11,000 dols. from the Court-house
belonging to the State.
Our advices from St. Thomas via Colon state that
the Alabama is at the Motile (Guadaloupe), block-
aded by the United steamers Oneida and Alabama.
Admiral Wilkes reached St. Thomas on the 30th
ult. from Havana via Ponce, Porto Rico, and after
communicating with Mr. Edgar, the United States
Consul, proceeded to',Guadaloupe in Ithe Vanderbat,
in search of the pirate. Should she be met at that
place by the brave old Admiral, there will be no
chance of her committing fresh depredations on the
merchant vessels of the United States.

MURFREESBORO, May 25, 1863.

Vallandigham arrived here on a special train,
under a strong escort, at ten o'clock last evening.
having left Louisville this morning, and passed
through Nashville without stopping,
His arrival was expected by the military and
public, but the time not being known no demon-
stration of any kind took place.
He was quietly taken in a carriage to the quar-
ters of Major Wiles, Provost Marshal General,
where he was received by General Rosecrans, and a
number of other officers. He appeared to be fully
composed, and abstained from the expression of
any disagreeable sentiments.
At two p.m. his southward journey commenced.
Major Miles, with a mounted Escort, started down
to take him below our lines in Shelbyville. The pri-
soner was very cheerful, and discussed his situation
indifferently : but on approaching the nearest rebel
picket, commanded by Colonel Webb, of the Eighth
Alabama, some eight miles out, he became percep-
tibly affected.
Upon taking leave of his companions, he said in
substance—" I am a citizen of the United States,
and loyal to them. I want you to understand that
you have been a prisoner to the Confederate autho-
rities."

't'o
CorleocneeilvWedehhhimhewith a
made similar remarks. The
former
remark that he had
read his speeches but did not like him ; that he
could not receive him within the Confederate lines,
but he would permit him to remain at his post until
he had ascertained the pleasure of the authorities.

The flag of truce party then left Vallandigbana
and returned. Vallandigham's speech was a very
ingenious stratagem, by which he expected to
prevent his reception by the Confederate authori-
ties, and secure himself the credit of martyrdom as
a persecutedloyalist. .

I deem it
to the South h
t more than probable
assumed the enemyle that in the face of
the antagonism
will refuse to receive him. He was given to under-
stand by General nosecrans that, should he
arrange to return to our lines in the same way, the
President's orders to carry his original sentence into
effect would be executed.
MURFREESBORO, May 25, 1863.

C. I. Vallandigham was received here on an extra
train from Nashville between ten and eleven o'clock
night. After some hours conversation with General
Rosencrans and others, he was put in an open Spring
wagon and escorted by a squadron of cavalry to the
outposts, and at nine a.m. to-day was delivered into
the hands of the authorities. A single private
soldier received him, to whom he made the follow-
ing declaration :—" lam a citizen of the State of
Ohio and of the United States. lam here by force
and against my will I therefore surrender myself
to you as a prisoner of war."
WASHINGTON, MAY 25, 1863.
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A- M. PENNOCS,
Fleet Captain of the Mississippi squadron.
Flagship Blackhawk,
Haines' Bluff,
Yazoo River, May 20,1863.
Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy :
On the morning of the 15th I came over to the
Yazoo to be ready to co-operate with General
Grant. Leaving two of the iron-clads at Red river,
one at Grand Gulf, one at Carthage, three at War-
renton, and two in the Yazoo, left me a small force
Still I disposed of them to the best advantage.
On
of the 18th, at
Vicksburg,
w meridian,h which assuredfiring was heard in the,
rear me that General
Grant was approaching the city. The cannonading
e
was kept up furiously for some time,
when, by the
aid of glasses, I discerned a company of our artil-
lery advancing, taking position, and driving the
rebels before them. I immediately saw that Gene-
ral Sherman's division had come on to the left of
Snyder's Bluff, and that the rebels at that place had
been cut off from joining the forces in the city. I
despatched the De Kalb, Lieutenant-Commander
Walker ; Choctaw, Lieutenant-Commander Ram-
say; Romeo, Petrel, and Forest Rose, all under
command of Lieutenant-Commander Breese, up the
Yazoo to open communication in that way with
Generals Grant and Sherman.
This I succeeded in doing, and in three hours
received letters from Generals Grant, Sherman, and

The rebels were a year constructing them, and
all were rendered useless in an hours. As soon
as I got through with the destruction of the
magazines and other works I started Lieutenant
Commander Walker up the Yazoo river with
sufficient force to destroy all the enemy's pro-
perty in that direction, with orders to return with
all despatch, and only to proceed as far as Yazoo
City, where the rebels have a navy yard and store-
houses. In the meantime Gen. Grant has closely
invested Vicksburg, and has possession of the best
commanding points. In a very short time a general
assault will take place, when I hope to announce
that Vicksburg has fallen, after a series of the most
brilliant successes that ever attended an army.
There has never been a case during the war where
the rebels have been so successfully beaten at all
points, and the patience and endurance shown by
our army and navy for so many months are about
being rewarded.

It is a mere question of a few hours, and then
with the exception of Port Hudson, which will fol-
low Vicksburg, the Mississippi will be open its
entire length. D. D. PORTER,
Rear-Admiral commanding Mississippi squadron.
The Jackson Mississippian of May 13 says :
" Our forces engaged the enemy at Fordien's-place,
which is at the junction of the Utica and Cayuga
roads, leading into Raymond, and two miles and a
half south-west from that place. The engagement
commenced between 11 and 12 o'c'ock, and. lasted
four hours. It is supposed, from the firing, to have
been a stoutly contested one. Despatches to the
Governor report that the enemy with overwhelming
numbers had driven our forces hack to Raymond.
At four o'clock yesterday evening the enemy were
still advancing, and our gallant veterans were com-
pelled to fall back before a vastly superior force.
We just learn from a gentleman who was engaged
in the fight that the Yankees have driven our forces
out of Raymond, and were advancing on us still,
near Sundown. Our reinforcements had not arrived.
We had decided advantages at one time, but their
large numbers overpowered our forces and com-
pelled them to fall back."

THE CAPTURE OF JACKSON, MISS.
(From the Columbus Sun, May 25.)
A gentleman of this city, just returned from Jack-
son, gives us some interesting particulars relative to
the late capture of that city by the Yankees. It
seems that on Tuesday a sharp contest was had
with the advance force of Grant's army at Ray-
mond, six or eight miles south-west of Jackson,
The enemy outnumbered us at least five to one,
Our forces were compelled to fall back upon Jack-
son, which they did in good order late at night.
On Wednesday evening, just at dark, the train
on which General Johnstone and staff had taken
passage for Vicksburg arrived in Jackson, and the
General remained over superintending the move-
ments of the troops.
On Thursday morning, at about nine o'clock, the
enemy appeared in force a few miles south of Jack-
son, end attacked and drove in our pickets. Our
force did not exceed eight thousand, and so rapid
had been the movements of the enemy that several
of our regiments had not yet been arranged for ac-
tion. The force of the enemy was estimated at
thirty thousand.
It seems to be the purpose of General Johnstone
merely to delay the enemy's arrival in the city as
long as possible, in order to allow our forces time to
withdraw our commissary and quartermaster's
stores. _ _ _

Our informant left Jackson at 3 o'clock p.m.,
on Thursday. He states that three or four build-
ings had been burned before he left—set on fire by
the shells of the enemy. The train which left Jack-
son on Thursday evening came near being over-
taken and captured by a battalion of Yankee
cavalry. A few miles west of Brandon the cavalry
were seen a short distance• from the road, but the
speed of the locomotive having been increased to
nearly thirty miles an hour, the train escaped.
We have since learned that Brandon is in posses.
sion of the enemy, and that the road between that
place and Jackson has been destroyed.
The people of Jackson and vicinity, including the
millitary as well as the civilians, are greatly in-
censed at General Pemberton, and openly accuse
him of bad faith. Our informant states that the
feeling is strongest among the commissaries and
quartermasters, who state that they might have
saved everything had Pemberton given them orders
to move a few hours sooner. There appears to have
been no fighting but with artillery, and this was at
very long taw.
The majority of the public stores were removed.
Still a great quantity was destroyed by our men to
prevent them from falling into the hands of the
enemy. All the railroad rolling stock, &c., was
removed.

(From the Richmond Whig, May 23.)
Suppose Vicksburg has fallen, the army inside of
the fortifications captured or destroyed, Port Hud
son reduced or abandoned, the Mississippi in its
whole length controlled by the enemy, and the con-
federacy temporarily or even for the remainder of
the war cut in twain ; suppose, further, that this
really great success to the foe and cruel disaster to
ourselves is attended with consequences as certain
as they are deplorable—increased enthusiasm at the
North, the triumphant vindication of the tyranny
at Washington, conscription enforced even in the
North-west without opposition, perhaps a revival
of the spirit of volunteering, peace parties crushed
for ever, men and money to an endless sum ob
tained, and Europe, busy with its own troublfesi,
awed into permanent silence—sappme all this, o
it becomes us now to consider the worst possible
aspect of the news, what then P Our duty wilt
then be precisely what it has always been— to main-
tain the cause unflinchingly, and to exhibit a spirit
more indomitable and persistent than that of the
enemy. Nothing is:to be gained by despondency.
All that has been lost may be regained by fortitude
and perseverance.
It will bo worse than useless to reproach the
Government, however guilty it may be, for the
appointment of inexperienced generals, or to re-
pine over the precious blood that has been wasted
by the mismanagement of the forces entrusted to

tion of our forces, a revival of energy, an accession
of strength in all the material of war, followed by
a succession of brilliant victories. The fall of
Donelson, Memphis, and New Orleans preluded a
summer of heroic achievements, in which the enemy
was nearly everywhere pushed beck to his own soil.
Scorning to imitate the Yankees by underrating
the consequences of the fall of Vicksburg, we may
yet with reason count upon compensation in the
approaching campaign. The loss of Vicksburg, if
it have no other good effect, will secure us in the
future against the appointment of entirely inex-
perienced generals. Of this we may be perfectly
sure. Moreover, it will add to the strength of our
armies. This is a necessity. The North, stimulated
by success, will hurl its myriads upon us, and we
must meet them with every available man. Within
two years we have withstood fourteen hundred
thousand of the Vandals. What shall hinder us
from withstanding as many more during the year
to come ? Nothing but a want of manhood, which

the South has never failed to show. We have
veterans commanded by great generals, the enemy
have recruits commanded by generals inferior to
our own. Let them come on ; we will see whose
heart is stoutest, let the war last as long as it may.

CAIRO, May 25, 10 p.m.
No boats from below had arrived at Memphis up
to 9 o'clock to-night. All the boats at Milliken's
Bend have been sent up the Yazoo for the purpose,
doubtless, of meeting any possible contingency. It
may, therefore, be 24 hours before we have any-
thing definite. _ _

The last positive despatches come to-day by the
Polar Star, which left the month of the Yazoo at

1 o'clock on Thursday. The battle was still raging
with the land forces in the rear; Porter's mortar
boats below and mortar boats above engaged.
It is believed that a large number of women and
children still remain in Vicksburg.

CHICAGO, May 25, 1863.

A special despatch from Cairo says :

Dates from below to the morning of the 22d are
received. The bombardment of the enemy's upper
works was continued by the mortar fleet. Persons
who saw the operations through a glass say they
are satisfied that Grant bas captured a battery on
Walnut Hill. A furious cannonading is going on
all around.

THE LATEST NEWS VIA WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON, May 25, 1863.

Although no positive and direct official informa-
tian has been received hero of the final reduction of
the stronghold of Vicksburg, all the news received
from every source indicates its capture by General
Grant on Saturday last, and no doubt is enter-
tained that with Vicksburg all that was left of the
army of General Pemberton has been compelled to
surrender.

A despatch was received to-night from Gen. Dix,
stating that a deserter had arrived to-day at Suf-
folk from Franklin, who said that Vicksburg had
been taken. Gen. Dix adds that if this is so we
shall have the information authentically to-

morrow.

Another despatch received to-day from General
Hurlbut, at Memphis, states that by a steamer just
arrived from Chickasaw Bayou a letter was received
from an ordnance officer of General Grant, dated
9 p.m., Friday night, confirming the previous state-
ments of successes, and stating that 6,000 prisoners
and 74 cannon had been captured. At the hour
when the letter was dated General 11/Thereon's
force, in the centre, was within one mile of the
court house at Vicksburg, while General Sherman
on the right, and General M'Clernand on the left,
were each within a mile and a half of the town,
and the gunboats were shelling the city in front.
He concludes by saying that Vicksburg must cer-
tainly be taken by to-morrow (Saturday).
This is the latest intelligence the Government
has received ; but no doubt is entertained that the
capture of Vicksburg will he announced officially
by the next arrival from that point.
From the various despatches up to to-night, and
the most accurate information in the possession of
the Government, it is believed that Gen. Grant has
nothing to fear from the concentration of any con-
siderable rebel force in his rear. The only force
available to them for this purpose are the 6,000
under Gen. Johnston, the small number driven
away from Pemberton under Gen. Loring, and one
or at most two brigades from Port Hudson—in all
making, at the very outside, not more than 15,000
men.

The destruction of the bridges across the Big
Black river will prevent the speedy arrival of this
small force, and it would only add to the glory of
the triumph of Gen. (xrant for such force to inter-
fere with him during the last hours of his attack
upon Vicksburg.
The very significant editorial of the Richmond
TVhig of Saturday, upon Vicksburg, is evidently
intended to prepare the public mind for the intelli-
gence, certainly expected there, of its capture and
the surrender of the whole of General Pemberton's
army on Saturday.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS.
may 25, 1863.
WA ssNGTOII
,
ta w t
General Dix telegraphed
to-night that a flag of truce boat from Fortress Monroe
is expected to-
morrow, came into Suffolk
and that a deserter
added,V ic s, urge
sgh ha been
laldknow
to-
to-day from Franklin said
taken. "If so," the General h
g, procured from a high official
source, is to-morrow
follrrow
to
with certainty. It may be mere rumour."
The following,
the vary latest from Vicksburg dated
Afemphis, 10.30 this morning, and which was re-
ceived here to-night :
The telegram is from Gen, Hurlbut. He encloses
a statement from an ordnance, showing the condi-
tion of affairs at 9 o'clock on Friday• night. The
city was not at that time
taken.
Great advantages,
however, had been • gained, the enemy making a
firm resistance.

The impression prevailed that we would take
i
ickbburg the next time. Wo at that time com-
pletely commanded the town. Our men had their
colours planted on the enemy's works and were
lying on the extreme slope.
Our captures were about six thousand prisoners
and seventy-four pieces of artiilery,some of which
had been destroyed.
The position of our troops was, some within a
mile and others a mile and a half of the Court
House. General Grant is represented to be in good