The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-23 00:00:00

THE YAZOO EXPEDITION:

The correspondent of the New Yurk Tinzes writes
as follows horn Deer Creek on the 24th ultimo:"
•l Thus far the enemy has been enabled at alrOst
every important move on our side to put us in cheep'
Another move has just been completed, with
result the bearings of which on the whole game
yield very little our favour. A half-dozen
poets and several thoustUd troops have, at the ell;
reuse of nearly two wee.ts' labour, some life, ar)
considerable fatigue, ascertained the fact that 11,
serious of small, tortuous bayous are not navigable '
or, in other words, that one of the leading aventge
of approach to the rebel works has not been Jett
entirely free from obstruction. The repels hie
much smarter than we supposed. Here is a water'
course, deep and wide enough to float a ILO'
of-battle ship, which terminates exactly at fl
point in the enemy's fortifications. As the water'
course runs mainly through the forest, the elleul
would not be apt to notice it, and, of course, ee
suspecting its existence, they would be unprepared
for any hostile demonstration from this direction'
All, then, that remained for us to do was to eeed
few of those swift-moving machines called iron-old
gunboats up these bayous, which, moving regatta
and noiselessly through the woods, would suddeell
gain a position in front of the enemy's works, t°
the great astonishment of the chagrined reticle'
And so the iron turtles started, went the immense
distance of nearly 50 miles in the surprisingly 'l3°l.t
time of 10 days, and, when little more than be',
way to the destined point, found, to their intense iiB
tonishment, that the woods swarmed with rebel tided
men, the shores with cotton defended batteries, ti°4
the banks wi's.hconntless negros, axe in band, EuPge
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in felling trees and otherwise obstructing the
gresa of the expedition. Notwithstaiadingoui sec",
and celerity, the enemy were apprised of our rates
tions, and were prepared for our approach ; end it
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this after having only ten days iu which tolure"'
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the intelligence a distance of 51) mites! Find°,
the way irremediably obstructed in front---ireeto
batteries, and sharpshooters being too thiek---tos
expedition determined to return, but at this pc° i
it was found that the active enemy had been bil°lB
engaged in felling trees in their rear, renderOge
retreat equally difficult as an advance. Right beta
we came very near losing some more gunboats, 6
or,
we should have found this result had not the op
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tune arrival of national infantry given the turd
relief by driving off the rebel workmen. EsOribe
by these troops the fleet managed to overcome
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obstructions, and succeeded in getting thus fa
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its way back to the Mississippi. Such in beta
the the beginning and the end of another &Lei the try
move for the capture of Vicksburg. The C 021130,10
between here and the point reached by the glObto
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is cleared, and us Admiral Porter said in a deep
is the 'granary of the world.' Every plariu'rbes•
was stocked to repletion ; cows, beef cattle, I'°;
mules, sheep, fowls, cotton, coin, end oot
every kind were twine in eudies6 quantitate'
up of
troops started without hoists or t_urtodull pos
avy kind; they came buck elmust ever, z, of
mounted on a good steed, and ltacling ;Or
-erviceahie mules by the halter. When °Tidy°
they filled their haversacks wi,h two d.)" 11',
re'
of hard tack' and greasy bacon ; whet, I h'igger
turned each man bud grown fat ou 1.)1(10 11,011 got
mutton, veal, and other delicacies, and they and
with them for future use turkeys, geese. cats en 'test
sheep without number. The bales of eotteof the
constituted at once the wealth and deleeccf3d are
the country through which our troops P'st_tile oat'
now heaps of smouldering ruins ; many of rditieli.
houses and dwellings are in the same e()_:e beet~
At this place a thousand or more bales he the
fired, while many more were tumbled In_t.ted tt?
bayou, and floated down until they were Pleearipg
ny the transports below. To-day are 4"
up thinGa preparatory to going back.