Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1863-05-22

1t is reported from Memphis, as rumor
from Arkansas, that General Mafmaduke at
tackled and defeated, on the Saturday or Sun
day previous, the Federal force on Crowley
Ridge, near St. Francis river, Arkansas, forty
miles west of Memphis.
We have a singularly worded telegram from
Cincinnati. Itruns thus" 1t is believed that
c. l.. Yallandigham left this city last night
nUo!ahtaray. Rumor assigns him to Fort
Warren
A later telegram from Cincinnati furnishes
a brief synopsis Of Gen. Burnside's =" order"
in the case Of Mr. Nallandigham, sentencing
the latter to close confinement for one year in
Fort Warren.
WEDNESDAY, May 20.-If we may believe
phe @ reliable information " published in the
Washington Star of last evening, the town Of
jackson, Mississippi, has really been taken by
General Grant aud its capitol burned. We
have it also, upon the same authority, that
Vicksburg has been incontinently abandoned
by the Confederate forces. The latter are said
to have moved across the ridge in a northeast
ery direction, and, the Star ventures sur
mise that il was their intention to offer battle
to Grant in the open field. As, however, il
appears by this statement that the way is per-
fecIly open to General Grant, to move direct
3 upon VIcksburg without opposition, and to
take possession Of its works, its cannon, and
by have also the further advantage of COM
muniGating with the Federal fleet and the aid
Of its guns, we should hardly suppose that he
would accept the hazard of battle-presumin
all that is said be true-when he can achieve
this magnificent conquest without the loss OF
single man. We may note here, however,
as detracting somewhat from the credibility of
the intelligence which the Star claims to have
received, that the same particulars slightly
varied, mode their appearance yesterday MORN
ing in the Philadelphia Bulletin, and were pro-
essedly derived from Cincinnati. The tele-
gram to the Bulletin, unfortunately, makes
one garing mistake which seriously mpairs
confidence in its accuracy. 1t states that &C.
neral Grant entered jackson on the 18th The
Associated Press despatch is also Transcribed
Uer6dtim from the Bulletin account, with the
exception of the date alluded to, which IS al
tered to the l4th We do not, however, re-
produce the latter. An examination Of yari-
GUS telegraps which purport to chronicle, from
Southern sources, the movements Of General
Grant, will show that they seriously conflict
with each other Even General Hurbuit re-
port to General llalleck, quotes Vicksburg and
Jackson papers Of the l4th, which, with re-
gard to the latter, seems improbable if Grant
entered jackson on that day. Moreover, what
appears TO be more astounding still, if the date
be correctly printed, we have a telegram from
Jackson on the l5th-one day after Grant is
said to have entered the town-annouucing
the evacuation Of Alexandria, Louisiana, by
General Kirby Smith, who is said to have fall
len back TO Shreveport. Still, the weight OF
testmony-such as it is--appcars to sustain
the fact that Grant really occupies Jackson,
and if il should turn out to be so, there can
be no doubt that he is in possession Of an I'M
portant railroad centre and can thus cut Of
supplies and reinioccemeuts intended for
Vicksburg. That the latter place has been
abandoned we do not for a moment believe;
nor is it at all probable that ii will be yielded
without a battle. This opinion derives con-
6rmaton, from the toue Of the Southern pa
pers on the subject, and from the rumored con-
centration Of troops upon the point SO serious
Is nenaeed. The Richmond Sentinel, Of FRI
day last, calls special attention TO the move
ments of General Grant, who has made adj
vaBcos, we arc told, :" which necessitate a
speedy batlle.' After pointing out that the
object which Grant seeks first of all, to attain
lis to cut the railroad which leads from
Jackson to Nicksburg at what is acknowledge
ed to be a very vulnerable point the Seati-
mel declares that "a conflict cannot be long
DELAYED in that quarter is happy to learn
that General Joseph y. Johnston is in immc-
date command of the Confederate forces, aud
awaits the result g with faith and hope that
the forests of the Mississippi, aud the shores Of
the Black, will echo the notes Of victory which
have gone out to them from the Rappahah-
mock"
A telegram TO the Philadelphia BQlletia, fur
nishes intelligence from Kentucky which is of
unusual interest, II true. We are told that
dispatches from Somerset, in that State re-
port the presence in Wayne and Clinton coun-
ties Of seventeen thousand Contederates, with
fourteen pieces of cannon. Four regiments Of
Confederate infantry are said 10 be at James
town, and twenty-four other regimentsG at Nor
rstown. General Buckner, we are further
more informed, is at Clinton, and that he has
been assigned to the command Of East Ten
ncssee.
THuRsDAY, May 2l--The latest despatch
from General Grant, in person, breaks oil just
at that point at which the interest in the situa-
ton is about to eliminate. lie telegraphs from
Raymond, Mississippi, some eight or ten miles
from jackson, on the l4th instant. McPher-
son, with his division, was then at Clinton, "a
point on the railroad west Of jackson, and be-
tween the latter place and Nicksburg. Sher-
man was on the main road southwest of Jack
SON. and MeCiernand was bringing up the
rear. On that day Grant proposed TO attack
JacksOn-and with this declaration Of his in
teuton the despatch ends. From information
derived, il is alleged, from Southern sources
we have been put in possession Of the fact, or
what purports to he the fact, that Grant did
actually move ON Jackson and take possession
Of the place; which appears TO be quite proba-
bic, as VIC learn that, following the precedent
set at Baton Rouge the State Capitol--a noble
struciure--was set Gu fire and burned. The
latter incident gives that touch Of yerisimili-
tude to the statement which IL would other
wise have wanted and we are, therefore, iu-
elined TO accept il as true. Assuming then
that jackson was entered on the l4tA, with or
without desperate batte-for Tie accounts
differ in this particular-we are, as yet, in the
dark ms to what followed. Six days have
elapsed since that event is said to have occur
red and during the whole Of the interval
Grant has not been heard from; or, at least
nothing has been made public Simultaneous
ly, with the alleged capture OF jackson, we
were told that Nicksburg was evacuated--the
Confederate forces moving northeasteIly along
the dividing ridge which separates the Nazoo
/ from the Big Black, in the direction of Living
stone small village near the line Of the Jack
son aud New Orleans railroad, and about
twenty miles north Of Jackson If such a
movement really took place, as stated 1t is
more than probable that garrison was left
behind sufficient in point Of numbers to hold
the works at NicksOurg, " hilst the remainder