The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1863-06-04
THE LATEST NEWS.

, gx.K or vIcKsBrss, Msy u.
This is the fourth day that Grants
t INV has lain around the entertainments
Tieksburg During that time there
I've been daily battles, and eontinual
, .nponading. At least 1000 OF our
en- have been placed hors ds comtdf IN
j. several charges ordered against the
..bel ear.bworks. :,
During last night the gunbosts and
oortars 10 front Of Vicksburg kept up
lon,ipual FIRE, and several buildings were
,urned by the exploding shells.
At 5 o'clock this morning the cannon
! ding commenced along our entire line
: ronting the enemy works. The rebels
,uns were dismouuted and embrazures
; ON out. Their paropets and eaissons
xere destroyed. The rebels were pow
erless to reply, as our skirmishers were
close to their works, unerringly picking
off the rebe! gunners.
This cannonadc continued two hours,
when Smiths corps and Osterhaus' di-
!, vision charged through the murderous
/, cross end enf'adng fire, close up to the
! rebel works, where an impossible ditch
with sharp stakes was encountered. Our
men planted :heir fla: directly in front
! the embankmen.s out Of the range Of the
rebel fire. The rebels inside the fort
could not show their heads above the
parapets without meeting death from
our sharpsbooters, and could only effect
anything by cutting off the fuse Of shells,
lighting them, and then. rolling them
out over the outer slope of the embank.
ment. Subsequently our boys, with
picks and shovels, dug breach into one
of the forts, and this was taken.
One fort was gala utly taken by storm
BY Cars division.
During the three days We lost FIVE
killed, including three colonies, and City
wounded. Steelc's force is reported to
have lost 1000 men.
kEoKrK, June /.
A party consisting Of two men sent
from this place to Tiago, by Provost
Marshal General Hiatt, to arrest the no
torious Dr. Gross, Missouri renegade
who had been in the rebel service one
year, and who lately has been recruiting
in the southern part Of Hancock county,
Illinois, has returned. The first party
failed to get him. The second party
went in disguise as Southern sympatLiz-
ers, and were three days received into
the confidence of Gross party. They
succeeded in finding Gross, but he es-
capped them. They however followed,
and after few hours search found him,
mounted and armed. They called on
him to surrender. lie replied by firing
bis gun at one of the party, the ball
passing through the crown of his hat
They again called on him to surrender,
when he put spurs to his horse aud tried
! to escape. Three shots were fred near
him, which failed to bring him to. At.
ter chasing him three quarters Of mile
he was killed by the fourth shot.
! WAsuisGror, May d.
The following telegram was received
at the Navy Department to day:
FLAG snir, MISSISSIPPI SarApKoy,
NEAR NicKsBrEG, May 18th.
SIR have the honor to inform you
that the expedition under the comm an {
Of Lieut.. Commander Walker, after tax
ing possession Of the forts at Haines
Bluff, was perfectly successful Thre,
powerful! steamers aud rams were de.
stroyed at Yazoo City. The ram was
monster, 3ol feet long, 20 feet beam, I
be covered with inch iron plates ais
fine navy yard, with machine shops c
all kinds, saw mills. blacksmith shop,
&C., were burned. The property destro,
. cd and captured amounted to over 81
600 900 Had the monster ram b. c
ahoat she would have given US son
trouble. a battery was destroyed
! Drury's Bluff. Our loss ia the expcdi
ton was one killed and seven woundc,
e lSlgned1 DAVID ID. PORTER.
LEAsEswoRTn May %.
6 Col Phillips, commanding the lndis
;. Territory, had severe fight with PC
tion Of Prices army on the 10Th. II
q enemy crossed the Arkansas river nc
:, Fl. Gibson, Col. Phillips drove the
, oaSh. 'At ioos was oD kIile0, the en-
4 mys being much greater.
h NEW YORK, June
" An extra Of the Havana Diara Of I
:. 24th, received by the steamer Sheldral
:, reports the arrival at Havana of I
!; French war steamer Darien, from vs
= Cruz, with dispatches from Gen. For,
= announcing the occupation of Puet Ia
:, the French forces under his commar
The prisoners include Gen. Ortegs.
other Generals, 900 other minor ofic
u and II, 900 men.
~ CAIRO, June
~ Memphis papers of the 2stE state Il
u our forces have succeeded IN takip,
~ portion Of the rebel works. The 70
y remaining to be taken are very formi
!, BILE aud command the entrance to
~ ~ town, Several charges have been MT
y. upon them, but with little success.
VI The rebels seem to think their M
ton is impregnabIe The river batter
:" have been mostly silenced. Sherman
~ on the right two miles from Hahn