The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1863-03-19

From several circumstance we judge tina
affairs at Vicksburg are approaching acrisls
Your correspondent there ('Jack') say
Sundays Vicksburg Wing confirms the dea
~truction Of the Indianola. She sank with al
her artillery on board. The rebel gunboa
Webb lost 8 feet of her prov in the late con
test.
He further says our gunboats are believes
TO be above Haines' Bluff, as their signal
have been heard.
The health Of the army is good, and every
thing appeared to be ready.
We understand that mail communications
between Memphis and Vicksburg is stopped
both ways. Civilians are alst6prohibited from
going below Memphis.
The cavalry along the lines OF the railroad
from Memphis have received orders 10 gel
themselves in the best trim possible.
Gen. Carr arrived at Cairo from Missouri to
day with the advance of his brigade.
Gen. ElIets Marine Brigade moves dow
the river to-day. NJ
NEW YORK March Is.
The Washington special to the Herald says;
'There is no doubt that the rebels will evac-
uate Vicksburg, if they have not done SO al
ready. The Federals have succeeded in des-
troying an important bridge, cutting off an
other important communication. The rebels
will probably retire to Jackson, which is
strongly fortified. This will expose Port
Hudson, and render its fall certain"
CINCINNATI, March 16,
The Gazettes Vicksburg dispatch says the
Yazoo expedition captured % transports, des-
troyed IS gunboats, and arrived at Haines'
Bluff and will soon IN the attack.
1t is ruInored that the rebels have evacua-
ted.
MEMPHIS, March II,
ria Cairo, March IA
The Capitola left the feet before Vicksburg
on Sunday, and arrived here a few hours ago.
When she left all was quiet.
The river was very high and rising, and
the backwater had broken through the levee,
and filled the canal, rendering work thereon
impossible.
On the Saturday evening previous, the reb-
els had been shelling the workInen on the low
er end of the canal, and killed one man.
The camps are now in in a miserable posi-
ton, and are absolutely below the level of the
water. Were the level to break they would
be entirely submerged.
Diseases of all kinds are prevailing, but the
smallpox more especially.
The fleet below Helena having on board
Quimby's division, is waiting for forty stern
wheelers and a small side-wheel steamer to
carry them through the Yazoo Pass, the stea-
mers they are now OH being too large.
An expedition of iron-clad boats-the La
fayette, and some three or four others-left
last Sunday fer Duval's (O Bluff, ON the va
200 river. where there is a Confederate battery.
Considerable of a fight was anticipated.
WASHINGTON, March IA.
Gen. Rosecrans sends a dispatch announ-
cling the evacuation, of Vicksburg, according
to information received at his headquarters
This creates quite a sensation, but is credited
to a great extent In official quarters. The Ma
Wy Department has been i'll possession Of in
formation for some days, from the Mississippi
fleet, leading fully to the belief that the ell
envy had been moving stores, guns etc, from
Yicksburg to the interior, and otherwise Civ
ing signs of evacuation. One Of the evening
papers, however, despite all confir1natory ev-
idence, doubts the story.
CAIRO, March IA.
We have Memphis dates to Thursday even
ing. They contain nothing important.
An important movement of troops is taking
place below, any particulars Of which would
be c~ontraband. We shall look for important
results soon.
liz dZOo L Lo Io Alhtlt ~ SlNC 10 dl
vantages not heretofore fairly appreciated
Officers just in from the vicinityo Of Vicksburg
say that that stronghold must soon capitulate
or do worse.
The steamer Emma came uplast night with
$50 negroes from Helena. She has gone to
st Louis with them. The Emma was one of
the transports with the Yazoo expedition, and,
i'll passing through narrow places in thewoods,
both Of her wheel houses were knocked off and
her upper works generally very much damag-
ed. She was the largest boat i'll the expedi-
tion-most of the rest passing through un-
harmed. She went with the expedition to
within five miles of the head of the Yazoo riv-
er.
Gen. EIlet's Marine Brigade arrived here
this morning. This service consists of the
steamers Autocrat, Fairchild, Baltic, Rams,
and others, and is to act against gu%erillas in
keeping the river open, being an entire army
in itself, and provided with infantry, cavalry,
and artillery. Gen. Ellet commands in per-
son, and Capt. George r. White, of Chicago, is
Quartermaster. The Autocrat is the flagship.
The Fairchild carries stores. Operations with
this brigade will soon commence. The men
have been mainly recruited from old regiments,
and have seen much service.
MEMPHIS, March 10,
Via CAIRO, March Is.
A skir1nish took place near Bolivar last
Monday, between q detachment Of Federal
troops and a band Of guerrillas. The latter
were routed and eighteen captured.
Gen. Sullivan, on the same day, destroyed
O collection of skiffs, &c, near Savannah, on
the Tennessee river, with which a rebel force
designed crossing and committing depreda-
tons.
Van Dorn's movements are closely watch
ed.
The steamer Hamilton Belle has returned
TO Helena from a cruise OH the st. Francis riv-
er, where Is hhds, of sugar and 60 bales Of
cotton were seized, and rs prisoners We're ia
ken.
We have the following additional particu-
lars concerning the steamer Ruth The boat
left Cairo last Wednesday, with alarge amount
of freight and a number Of passengers, among
whom were two police detectives, who discov-
cred contraband goods aboard, consisting Of
uniform clothing, quinine, a quantity of gold,
and a mail for the Southern Confederacy. A
Mr.. Brown, who unsuspectingly disclosed tho
secret, says a large bonus was to be paid il
the shipment proved successful, and the Gov
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