Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1862-03-22
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
.- FROM ISLAND No. 10.
Progress of the t-Confederate
Guus Ilism ouuted.


CHICAGO, March 21-A correspondent Of the
Tribune telegraphs from Cairo as follows:
left Island No. 10 Yesterday at noon, when the
firing was only moderate from the Benton and
the object being to reduce the upper batteries
Five guns have been amounted, Including two
from which occasional shots fred came very near
our boats.
The works on both the mainland and island are
far more extensive than generally supposed
There are at least eighty guns, many of them Of
the largest size, and several are rified.
There are 20 900 troops there | saw at one time
ten regiments on dress parade on the mainland
Their quarters out Of the reach Of morta-s.
The Island is pretty well covered with tents, and
1t is evident that all the rebel batteries haYe
bomb proofs, as the men can be seen to disappear
when shell falls into their batteries.
As soon as the upper fort is reduced, the gun
boats will advance on the others In detail
On Tuesday night the Mound City kept up a
steady FIRE upon the upper fort, preventing the
rebels from making their usual nightly repairs
The result was early In the morning they com
menced the removal of the dead and wounded
from the casemates of the forts A large num-
Der were thus carried outand taken back into the
woods.
On Monday 900 shot were fred from the gun.
boats, mostly shell, besides 300 shells from the
mortars.
OPERATIONS OF COM FooTE AND GENERAL POPR.
ST LOUIS, March 2l The Republicans special
correspondence, dated Island No. 10, Yesterday
mortar boats continued all day yesterday (Wed.
nesday)
All the guns but one In the upper battery on the
tennessee shore have been silenced, and one gun
on the island dismounted
The shells from our mortars are constantly fall
ing In the rebel camp and batteries and mum bers
OF killed and wounded are being carried down
on litters
Large numbers of loaded wagons are leaving
the Tennessee shore, from which It Is believed
preparations are being made for an evacuation OF
the works
The floating battery OF the rebels has been
moored near the head Of the Island
Gen. Pope allowed one Of the rebel gunboats to
approach within fifty yards OF a masked battery,
New Madrid, and then sunk her, killing Is Of
those on board He had previously allowed FIVE
rebel steamers to pass on towards New Madrid,
and they are now between his batteries unable
to escape. Oyer a dozen vessels and the rebel
hoating battery and battering ram are now above
Gen Popes batteries, ind will be sunk or cap
tured
CHICAGO, March 81 "A special Cairo dispatch
to the Journal says moderate FIRE was kept
up by the heet on Island No 10 on Tuesday and
Wednesday. Yesterday the gunboat Minnesota
dismounted 129-pOunder gun on the enemy's
upper battery.
Some Of the rebel gunboats tried to force their
way up Yesterday morning, but they had to re-
tire.
General Pope has p guns mounted at Mount
Pleasant, and has erected new battery four miles
below.
On Tuesday, Com Foote directed the fuses to
be wet, with a view TO destroy the enemy's work
and dismount the guns. The result was satlsfac-
tory. .."
AS yet but one man has been killed on our side
bY the eneny,