, 1862-06-04
FROM CAIRO AND bel
4 Forward Movement Anticipated
in the Flotilla
THE MISSISSIPPI River MUST Be
OPENED.
A REBEL REPORT FROM
VICKSBURE.
TIE MEMPHIS APPEAL PUTTETH
Its TRUST III RAMS.
Further From Col. Elliott's Gallant
Achievement.
MORE QUAKER GUNS AT CORINTH,
Rum0red Hiying of Van
D0rn'S Force
MORE QUAKER GUNS AT CORINTH,
FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE REBEL.
-W0RKS and EVACUATION,

D.
Now that the pews Of the evacuation OF Cor
nth has been officially confirmed, we expect |
forward movement from day to day.
Preparations, not proper to mention in |
dispatch, are being made under the |
orders OF Commodore Davis, which ren-
der 1t probable that the event will not take |
place for two or three days at least. The |
ram Fulton made reconnaissance 1t Craig |
head Point yesterday afternoon, intended as q /
challenge for the rebels It Was not accepted. |
a rebel steamer has for several nights past |
been accustomed to post herself at the further |
side Of C1aighead Point, and there remain IS |
an advance guard Of the fleet, watching the |
approach and movements of our flotilla. It |
was ithought that upon being properly
challenged she would come out and show |
fight, but she did not. She may find it ncccs- |
sary to do SO very soon. Large quantities Of |
shell are daily being received here for the use |
Of the mortar boats, by the mail steamers.
The reduction Of Fort Pillow, or its occupa-
ton If evacuated since the entrance into Cor
inth, of the Union forces, becomes matter
Of military necessity. We must have Mem
pills, The Mississippi River must be opened,
to the end that the army may be embed to
obtain subsistence. The country occupied
cannot furnish this. It has already been
stripped by the rebels, and it was never pro-
ductiFe In order to reach Memphis We must
first pass Pillow, Fulton, Randolph and Wolf
River. At the two latter places only are seri-
GUS obstacles now expected. unless Fort
Pillow should be reinforced by detachment
from Beauregard's retreating forces.
Tho ste,Tner Mafeer arrfyad thfa affarnoor,
from Pittsburg, The passengers report that
Col. Elliott, whose expedition to the south Of
Corinth has been previously noticed, In your
! columns, has returned, having proceeded as
far as Boonville, where he destroyeda 4 bridge
| and tore up the track in two or three places
! and captured 800 infantry and two squadrons
Of cava1rgg &c :113 :.- destroyed train o. cars
/ on the road filed with stores Of various kinds.
Another portion Of Gen. Pope's force found
| large number Of rebel wagons on their
| way south with about six or seven thou
sand stand Of arms which the guard
! attempted to destroy by burning. They
we're, however, eaycd In damaged
state they were doubtless those which had
belonged to men who had died, deserted, or
been carried away sick. Col Elliott is also
| reported by gentleman on Gen. Haneck's
staff, a passenger on the Meteor, to have in-
tc1cepted thirteen locomotives, and large
number Of cars which were being conveyed
South. The force Of Col. Elliott WAS about
1,s00 cavalry Of the I'd and Sd Michigan and
I'd Iowa.
I There is also rumor which some Of the
passengers confidently believe to be authen-
tic, that Gen. Pope was in hot pursuit oi the
enemy, and that Gen. Mitchell, coming in
their face, some L, 600 men Of Van Dorn's di'
| vision were compelled to retreat into swamp,
where it was expected they would be an cap
tured.
: There were five quaker guns, If not more
| left In the rebel works. More than .one O
these had inscriptions on them. One was
, sold Halleck, take care or yon will get you
, ] bruins blowed out.'' The enemy's weakes
point WINS their left, opposite Gene
raj ". T. shernan's division, which
might easily have been turned hat
e General Halleck known Of the nature Of hi
q defenses. The principal rebel forti8eations
: which we're most formidable and extensive
/. | were on their right, constructed to prevent u
= from cutting off their use Of the Mobile an
# Ohio and Charleston and Memphis railroads
These consisted Of earthworks very elabe
1atc1y constructed, with danking faces, en-
" brasures, etc.
Gen. Pope's pickets entered over thes
a works. The Pennington road runs throug
Is them. The most vigorous defenses and dete
f. mined attacks Of the enemy were accordingl
J. from the right, the brunt of which Was born
ID by Gen. Pope's corps, and no division in th:
n1F +1an Ha1
Il Paine's.
- Gen. Pope lost about one hundred kille
~ and wounded In his attack on Wednesda
"a and about forty on Thursday. Lieut.. Bake
dl Of the Yates sha1pshooters, Was the first ma
Of to enter the rebel works On the left. Ge
e Pope's corps entered by the Pennington roa
south Of that, Gen. Nelson by the main Co
inth, and Gen. n. T. Sherman by the Purt
= road.
The eth Kentucky, Of Nelson's divisio
s. claims the honor Of having been the first
= enter Corinth. Col Stuart, of Chicago,
- said to have first raised the flag upon Il
'.- young ladies' seminary; but Maj. Noyes,
II. the 9th Ohio, disputes It with him.
Gen. ". T. Sherman was unable to folio
6. the enemy to the right, on account Of an e
= tensive swamp, the bridge across which h
;, been burned by the rebels. In eVacnating tt
n place on Thursday night, the rebel main bo'
passed out by the rai1road, leaving q, 600 nj
i'd Is rear guard
20 Van Dorm commanded the division that Il
Il by the southern road, and Bishop Folk tn
Of which left by the western route.
NJ. 4 grand-neice Of Alexander Hamilton Al
On her two eons were found in the place 81
Is had been supplied with various articles
10 10 provisions by Gen. Beauregard while he "
tf | In CoTinth.
lis But one or two dwelling houses were
4n EtroSed, and these by accldent-one by one
5y our shells. Awoman In it at the time v
[or | killed.
4 shell also fell into locomotive, kill