Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-05-05
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Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Timos.l
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Especial Dispatch to the Chicago Timos.l
Murfreesboro, Tenn, May l.
The Charleston Mercury says the Fed
ersls at Grand Lake captured 1000 rebels,
two rams, four Transports, and three gun
boats.
Jackson, Mis9., April 81.
The Federals reached Seuatobia on the
Goth. and sent detachment TO cut the tel
graph at Ssrdis, and run off horses and
wagons. They subsequently retreated, af-
ter accomplishing their object. A lorge
force Of Federal cavalry were within twelve
miles of Houston on the 10Th, designed to
destroy the Mississippi Central Railroad at
WinOna and Duck Hill. The G ,urt House
at fernando was burned by the Yankees
The Federal ljss was ore Major, one Cap.
taia and IL privates killed, aud about fifty
wounded.
A dispatch to the Mercury says: The
fight at Tuscumbia was a desperate, hand
to hand encounter Sixty-six Federals
we're captured by Roddy's caval-y." The
fact is, the enemy di4 not fight at Tus-
cumbia. -.
At V;cksburg. on the 2ls', firing was
heard in the direction of New Carthage.
The reb,l steamers Margaret Charles
ton. Nassau and Merriuac. from Bermuda,
arrived 90 the 2lst at Wilmington, North
Carolina.
Reports of the wheat crop from Able
vile, Edgefield and B>rnwell districts, S.
| c, are encouraging. 1t IS estimated that
| Ahheville will harvest over 10 900 bushels
| The Atlanta HfelHgcHcer # the 2Sth
| publishes an editorial entitled The Dog
! RosecIans." it says: :" His atrocities are
more appalling than Fiend Buffers ;" that
lie is a consumm, t. rnffan. an arrant
| bully, u shTewd deviser of little acts, an
adrOit observer, on active but prudent Ope-
rator." 1t accuses him of laying waste
| Tennessee, burning rebels houses, steal.
ing their horses and preventing cultiva.
ton of the soil. Of Granville Moody il
says: He was last year regarded the
scourge eft vii hanson county, but be is an
angel Of mercy compared with Gordon
Granger, the incarnate devil that swayS
his IRON sceptro over the heads Of our hu
INFLATED, dnwntrodder, suffering people
The correspondent ''290" Of the Htclii
gencer. who was Brngg's Quartermaster a
Stone River, admits that Reynolds raid a
McMinville vas a severe affair, and tina
the rebels feel uneasy about North Ala
bama.
Il. f. Dickson, the Clerk of the Confed
crate House of Representatives was killeC
April 9th, by r F.. Ward, Of Kontucky.
A telegram to the Mobile Adcert'ser o
the 2lst says that Grant has sent 81, COZ
men up the Tennessee River, and that the,
destroyed Eastport.
The AdreyfiSer. of Mobile, has tele
gram from Brouksvilie. via Macon, Ga.
April 2l, from Hon. John Forsyth, tina
1.-THE Yankees have positively taken Ma
hew. There is great excitement" Tn
AdrerfiSer doubts it, saying Mayhem i
in Oktab5eha county, Is miles direct from
Columbus, AMI 80 miles from Houston. |
is possible, we admit, that the force whicl
was reported at Potomac took the road t
Houston, % miles south, thence to May
hew but the route is very had. Genera
Ruggles is as Aberdeen, aud Gen Gholsou
with militia, at Columbus Duck Hill an
WinOna are on the Mississippi Central
, and Mayhem on the Mobile and Ohio Raj
road. These movements of the Federal
, threaten. Meridian and southern rail-oa
cOmmunlca ions generally. The news
highly important.