The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1863-07-27


Finding Ysz,o city was being fortified. l
ssns Gem Hsrroa there With his division. He
captured several hundrsd prisoners, one stean.
boat. five pieces OF heavy artillery. and allths
public stores fell into our hands. The enemy
burnt three stssmhoate on the approach OF the
gunboata The DeKslb was blown up aad
sunk in fifteen feet Of water BY the explosion
Of q torpedo.
Finding that the enemy were crossing cat
tie Tor the rebel army at Natchsz, and were
sail to have several Thousand there now,
have sent sesamboats and troops 70 collect
them, aud to destroy their beats and all means
of making more. q. s. GRAFT,
Major. r.General Commanding.
VicEsBURG, Mas.
July lSsh, II H., 1863
Major Gen. H. W. HGileek, Gsn'l in Chief:
Joe johnston evacuated jackson on the
night of hs 10Th. He ia now in full retreat
eas:- Most of his army must perish from heat,
lsck Of waller, and general encouragement.
The rebel army pafeisd here have TO great
extent deserted, and scattered over the country
in every direction
asn. r ,nsom has gone to Natchez to stop
the crossing of cattle for the eastern army.
On his arrival he found large numbers had
been driven ont Of the city to be pastured /;
also, that munitions.0f war had recently been
crossed over to wait for Kirby Smith. He
mounted about two hundred Of his men and
be: Of prisoners aud i've thousand head Of
Texas cattle. two thousand head Of which have
already gone to Gen. Banks. The remainder
have beea and will bs brought here. In Lou
isiana shey captured more prisoners and num-
ber of teams loaded with ammunition. Over
two million rounds Of mnsket ammunition
were brought ack to Natchez with the teams
haa
ri.lon, destroyed. L. y. GRANT,
Major Gsn'l Cong.
MISCELLANEOUS.
&The Yankee authorities Of Baltimore have
iuat made q clean sweep OF the employees at
Barnum's Hotsl on the charge of dis.OyAlty.
Those arrested are Jno. w. McDermOtt, book
keeper; Jos Dorsay, chief clerk; Jos Young
and John w. Mills, assistant bO"kkeepsrs ;
Michael Henry, harkeeper Jno. Kelly, chief
barkeepsr, and VIM. Leach, the cigar vender.
Ga Saturday, in Baltimore, Col Bakers do
teclives arrested large number of Col. fish' q
detectives upon the charge Of receiving tribes
FROM rebel sympathizsrs. They we're placed
in the Old Capitol at Washington.
Gen Sicklea, accompanied by several mem
bers of his staff, left Washington on Wednes-
day last in a special car for New York city
He was thought sufficiently vigorous to bear
the fai sues Of the le urney.
The Vicksburg correspondent OF the New
York Times says that "for six weeks very lit
tie " i'll be done by Gen. Grant army in view
of the sicsiy season and intense heat.
Thurlow Weed. the Abolition editor Of the
Albany Erening Journal, has contributed $50O
f,r the tenetit Of the eoiored people OF NV
York who sustained irjury in the lats riot.
Gsn Wadsw worth of the Federal army, has
rendered bis resignation, but the Government,
it is said, is unwilling TO accept it.
Mai Gen. Wool and Brig. Gan. Harvey, ot
the u s. Army, have bsen retired ffcm active
service by Lincoln.
The Chamber of Commerce, Cincinnati, has
expelled thirsy-three members for refusing to
take the cath Of allegiance.
The lincoln Government refused to allow
Vailau6ig CHAINS address to his constituency to
be telegraphed from Canada.
VIM Charles Macready, the great English
tragsdiaD, is dead us was seventy years Of
vge.
Another negro regimen. he's embarked from
Boston for Nswbern, n G.
The monitor Passaic mas been s0ht down &c
Charleston.