Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-07-17
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McClellen Capitnlated.
Tna,ortant from, Vicxsbrrg.

From the Monroe Register, of July o'h' via Pine Bluff Telegraph Lne-Juiy l@th'
 We have comics of the Vicksburg Wing ana Eyeninp Citizen of Thursday, from which we COT feet and condense the following interesting paFlcu- lars:
 On Tuesday evening a launch full or 'roop' came up from the fleet below to the Oiu ooyso I seed oil works, just above the polnt "neie .Ho. were fired upon by pickets. ne ieus lIa99 " discretion the better part oi 'Slod' itk iI their boat around and made Tor the heT' "i'ii "'' rossible baste-seyeral well directed shots were fired at thom. but with what effect IS not kno"n' The Aaosbin Hartford, the Sciota and ten trans rorts joined the lower fleet yesterday, increasing ther number to fortyone craft, oi all kihus tll'y one of which are war vessels. The enemy gun boats above. kept their position quietly, all day yesterday, till near dark, when two of them drop ned down 4 considerable distance and tied up everything reported quiet through the night and no further movements have been noticed to-day. The Yankees having possession below ana apoVe Wick .burr have commenced cutting canal at fbe bend.
 VERY MUCH LIKE A FIGHT.
 Al about , o'clock this morning the mortar boats ,rere placed at anchor near the Louisiana shore' while some of the steam propeiiers ventured on this side within fair range of our guns, when well diracted shot from the batteries drove them back in tonhIe ouick. We are of the impression that they were landing troops from their transports while onr attention was directed by the movement of the gunboats
 The Citizen does not credit the report of the sI,irnish near Grand Gulf. The plans lad by the enemy for fine capture of this city, says the Clt- zen. are gradually being developed The attempt to redcce Vicksburg by means ot ther gun ana mortar boats. have sgnally failed, ana they nave discovered that they cannot take 1t by water, ana
 ssh haj made this we apgrehend they will find as serious ana difficult iob as they have undertaken.
 The enemy has succeeded in placing field ar +1rr,y on the hank of the river opposite the city which opened fire this morning, throw g canister crane and shells ip every dlrection-rlahy puiiu- nas are damaged. In the meantime several of the -,nboats passed up, but it is thought two or them were seriously crippled. The nag snip ana aiioDiler 1.ossel accompanied the gunboats and are now aIa,,n ,.he bend, where the smoke is plainly visible from the Zig fleet above.
 Gen. I. $. pQane and staff have arrived at Mon roe. and has assulaed command of this dstrict.
 Tho fodcrals on thls side of the Mississippi river o cuttinr q canal across the bend of the river Tn order to cut off Vicksburg. The canal IS one anu :, nuarter mile long and twenty feet Wide. lhey have ffteen hundred negroes at work, ana IL VIII be completed i'll few days
 During the battle on the 18th, the federal gun boats in large numbers, attempted to pass our Dat teries at Drury's Bus, on James river, but most murderou1 fire compelled them to leave alter Sus- tainng great slaughter
 Gen. Van Dorn received from the government at Richmond, on the 2d, a dispatch stating that Gen. Mcclellan had capitualated, surrenderng ms forces and munitions of war. An order contain ipc this dispatch was read to our army at 'lcks- burg. on the evening of the 2d of July.
 DEs ARC. July I4-Mrs. M. NJ Erwin, of this ylace just arrived. She left Memphis W ednesday last She brought several papers with her until within the neghborhood of Cotton Plant, where she was advised to destroy them owing to the fede- rals being near and in her route. Among the pa ners was the New York Ledger, which, she informs me. says the late battle near Richmond lasted SIX da,s-federal loss 85 900, and it was thought Vic Clellau would inevitably have to surrender. mat the White House was evacuated, and that the '-qafederates held the first depots on the FaroaIS .ot ;de of Washington. That the Memphis Ava Iancb says at Vcksburg five federal gunboats bavn L, ,en sunk and several crippled Citizens oi Mornbis told her, however, that fifteen had been cnri- Fc terals have nearly every negro in the a,,,trv noar Memphis pressed fortifying the place and ara coneta ptly expecting an attack.
 Confederate eayalry are all through the country, bacl, of Uemnhiy. q, far north as Jackson; nave been arresting all me,, who sold cotton to the federals Twenty-Five th, 2usahu uoliarS III Soi- was captured near Macon, I enn' rom some Me~ . Yo,is cotton buyers. and sent to Tupelo. Mrs. Erwin saw between M aeon and h emphis' not less +han fifty draws that had been burned loaded with cotton. ,,i,: Latest European news say that Lord Russell Tn a late speech denou need Buffers proclamation as too absurd for d civilized people, and that ne was checred at every sentence
 WINDSOR, Operator.