Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-01-13
From Cairo.

Cairo, Jan. Q.
ke0tIenaD direct from Holly Spriugs
1ePoiset the lO9 Illinois Regiment as having
~eonle, IUf some reason unknown 60 bim,
Just oetOre ne left. TIE meu and oficess
Iete arrested, deprived Of their arms, and
P'aseo under guard. The Colonel, il is
sH'e, sned tears eU?iously WHEN compelled
70 surrender his sword.
Ine nen-receipt Of news from V;eksburg
70 seea1nted for in various ways. viz: the
requirement Of bUats 20 transport reinforce
@eues arom pointe beloW Memphis tOaden.
chssman; Che scarcity Of dispatch boats in
me Heel, being Oaly one there now the
rebel battery at Cypress Bssd, and the i'm
possibility Of Sparinga gunbOat FROM the
Meet % convoy. We are constantly ex-
Pecaing naval dispatch boat, with full
iDtsiliRence from Porter and Sherman.
4be steamer Lancaster arrived at Mem
phis on "Wednesday morning from Helena,
but she brings nothing later from Vieks-
! burg.
AL was quiet at Helena, which would
seem to indicate that Gen. Sherman had
net yet left for below.
| A few days since nine telegraph epair.
ors were captured by guerrilas, twenty
miles from Memphis. and within sight o.
Federal cavalry. They we're paFoled. We
are now. in telegraPhic communication
Wish Memphis.
| There 10 rumor here tonight that feb-
ting has been renewed near Vicksburg.
can trace Il b no reliable source, though
Information 10 that effect may have passed
over the Wins from Memphis.
Three trains. with supplies. had reached
Cyrinth from Msnpis. That garrison had
been on helf-ratiOns for three weeks.
.. NJ. Ilanfer and others, of Ashley, ILL.,,
sent telegram to Gen. futile TODAY, saw
/ iBg thst the negroes sent there by govern.
ment had been arrested, were being tried.
and won'd DO sOid, and asking IL there was
ne ssdreRs.
Cairo Jan.lI.
The steamer Eusselman left Memohis
the 9th, bound up. Shortly after starting
I'm was discovered that something was
wrong with her engine, and Capt. Huntuop
directed the pilos % land. The boat vas
/ % the Arkansas aide. On landing aeysn
white men and three negroes, with revolv-
ere ana shot guns. suddenly rushed aboard
and too possession. They took the heat 10
4 Bfsdiey1 landing. fifteen miles above
Msmphis, and carried of the BEDDING. fu, J..
ntiire. and private property. Here thew
we're jyinsd by City mounted men under
eoinmand OF Capt. j. II. MoGhee. ,Jus,
thsn hatbOaa appeared and was oap,nrsd.
pIundersd. and then burned. The staamsr
I Was then SEA on IRE and the officers and
crew parolad and allowed to 20 10 Nam
phIs in . life boat and yaWI.
| The.lOorh ILLINOIS il ssid 10 he dish.ra-
ed The regiment, except COMPANY K re.
lusec TO 90 anything more until the Presi-
dsni WithdrsWs his proclamation.
Hindman Is reported to have been arres.
SEQ again Tor risking the engagement near
Van buren,. when he was ordered to hurry
on to ViCksburg.
Cairo. jon. IL.
By.an arrival from the mouth of tbs
i YasOo to-day, re have authentic sccount.
from Ficks6nrE.
Snerman's repulSe was complets, His
entire force. under the direction of Gem
McClernand, re-enbarked ou SATURDAY.. on
transports. closely pressed by the rebel ad.
vance. Coming in range Of the gunboa Is
the rebelB were driven back with severa Ios,
4 b che gaos on the hees.
me entIre heet and transports. win
ereops on board, had reached Island 80 n,
lass accounts, and were on the way to Ma.
poleon.
Nothing definite had yet been heard from
Banks and Farragut, though rumors Of
their advance we're plenty.
a hands agree that the ct ak on Vicks
burg oy Sherman was premature. Thu
Ten. himself evidently did NOT expect r.
meet the force he did as he remarked be
fore debsrking bis troops, that twenty. fou
hours after landing. be failed to co o3srat
with the fieet in the attack on the batter,
\ at ha'nes' Bluff, as bad been agreed upon
Gen. Sherman 10 charged with havinf
detained steamers from coming up in Orde
TO conceal bis misfortune, 20 have opene,
s0d read letters of o. rrespoudeuts tbers
and 70 have suppressed soma Of them. II
also threatened to put correspondent IA i,
front, and set them at work carving uou
DER. This 10 the unanimous testimony r
thoes who have arrived today.
The engagement was less general tba
| heretofore reported. The PRINCIPAL fight
ing was done BY the centre under commsn
OF Ger. Smith and Blair. The conduet -,
ths letter is highly spoken of. He bad hi
horse shot under him and then led bis me
4 on foot.
| Gen. Grants forces are marching
Memphis. whore his head quarters will i.
in day or two.