, 1862-05-17
FROM GEN. HALLECK'S ARMK.
Flag of Truce from C0rintil.
Exchange Of Sixty Prisoners.


{speclal Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune1
CAIRO, May l6, 1882.
The steamer Gladiator arrived this afternoon
from llttsburg Landing. Her officers report
that when she left there VS. 4 rumor at the
Landing that Besuregasd had sent flag O.
truce to Gen. Halleck, asking for an arlnistice
Of ten days This was subsequently corrob-
GRATED By deserters from the euemy's lines.
The matter was said to have been under con-
sideration when the Gladiator Lett 1t is proper
to state that this report is not believed at
headquarters here.
ITO the Associated Prees1
CAN'T ~. CoR1-STH RoA',, May 15-The fol-
lowle. Is . paragraph Of epeci field order
Just lssu-d:
t.Guards will be imms liatc1y placed aloug
the lire Of the Chamber. CreeS. No officers
or soldiers will be permitted to pass to the
rear, and no citizens to tile front Of the line
without special authority Of the Commander-
in-Chief. Commanders Of army corps aud
divisions will see that their camps are cle.rcd
OF all unauthorized Ringers On, and any one
attempting to ers !e this will b. compelle to
work on the entrcnchnents and batteries, Or
in the construction Of ro-a as.h
This is understood to apply to all perGons,
correspondents included
Fifty seven privatce, three corporals and
enc sergeant, captured By the 1ebels at Dres-
den, Tenn, are coming IN this morning under
y lag Of truce. Rebel prisoners, in equal
numbers will be sent to morrow, in ench1nEe.
Coz. Jacob Thompson Of Be:ures srd's SAT-,
formerly Secretary of the Interior, accompan-
led the 1ag. He admits tue fall Of Norfolk,
New Orleous and Pensacola, and denies the
fill Of Richmond.
Desetters are coming in by squads daily. All
agree that the rebels are still there tortifslng.
A picket skir1nish all day resulted in h,lf a
dozen being wounded On our side,
The weather is very warm.
CAMP NEAR ConE71, May 1Gth-Some
Frenctmen, members OF the 18th Louisiana,
have arrived within our lines. Three compa-
Eies Of that regiment are composed Of French
en-, who had arrived ut New Orleans lately,
and being unable to obtain work, TODD OF
money were obliged to enlist for thirty days
Tic conscfjpt law compelled them to re-enlisr
lot the VAT. They report the whole rebel
army without coffee, bnt at one time, nearly
three days, without Iations. Tney say Van
Dom aud Price left Corinth eight days ago,
end 1t is not known where they have gone
The weather IS clear and hot. The roads
are very dusty before C0Tlnth.
It hayibg been satisfactorily shown that
spies have visited our camps, crossed the
Tennessee River and proceeded in the night
by dug-outs to Florence, Alabama, where
they hold easy communication with the enc
nly,:f was deemed necessary to exclude all
civilians from our camps in order to keep out
spies. Hence the general order: mentioned
yesterday.
An intelligent Federal, Of regiment cap
tursd at Shiloh, exchanged yesterday, says he
We taken from Cotipth to Jackson, Missfs--
sirpi, thence to Jackson, Tennessee and back
to Corlnth he states that from the time he
left Corinth until. his return there he was
guarded By unnamed men.
a contraband, Intimate with Gen. Rardee,
and another servant named Jack. have also
arrived One OF them reports having been
tol1 that Hardee WINS very sick OF the war, and
would leaye, but Be1uregard wouldn't let
him,