Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1863-04-10


lars 1t was insured for one hundred and
Lightweight thousand dollars
Concerning the YaZoo Pass expedition, a ru-
NOR from Senatobia has reached Memphis that
the troops fifteen thousand in number which
disembarked before For. Pemberton, were una
BILE to reach the transports by reason of the
overflow of the country, and were attempting
TO make their way North by land. Chalmers,
the Confederate commander, was said to be
mastering large force to prevent such move
ment Although purportng TO be two days
later news than that of any previously receiv-
ed from Yazoo Pass, the story, we are told,
needs confirmation.
MONDAY, April Ga pithy but ominous des-
patch from Cincinnati, sums up in few terse
sentences the present condition of affairs be-
fore Vicksburg. "The news from Vicksburg,"
we are informed, " is not encouraging. The
Steele's Bayou (Southern) expedition has re-
turned to Young's Point and the troops were
being disembarked. The work on the cutoff
has been abandoned Rebel cannon command
two-thirds o. its length" A letter to the
New York Times, from its correspondent who
accompanied the expedition, confirms the
above statement in every particular. He tells
us that the gunboats managed to navigate the
deep but tortuous bayous at the rate of five
miles a day, and at the end of ten days, "when
little more than half way to the destined
! point, found, to their intense astonishment,
! that the woods swarmed with Rebel ritlemen
the shores with cotton defended batteries, and
the banks with countless negroes, axe in hand
engaged in telling trees and otherwise obstruct-
| ing the progress of the expedition Finding
the route under such circumstances TO be ut
/ terly impractcable, the expedition determined
to return but, in the meantime, trees had
also been felled In their rear, and but for an
/ opportune arrival Of body of infantry 'some
more gunboats would have been lost.n Are
we to understand from the phrase, " some
more gunboats," that the telegram from Vicks-
| burg announcing TIE destruction of three of
the gunboats that were in advance, wa liter
/ ally true2 Whether il be so or not, we are in
| formed that the feet, escorted by the troops,
/ finally oYercame the distractions and was, at
the last advices, once more anchored off Vicks-
| burg, where Gen. Grant, after having planted
a battery Of eighty-four FOUNDER Parrot guns
behind the levee on Young's Point was about
to open bombardment Of the Confederate
works on the opposite side Of the river.
The ram Switzerland, which succeeded in
passing the batteries at Vicksburg in a dis
abled condition, was being fitted with a new
drum, and on the 25th of last month was ex-
pected to have all necessary repairs completed
within day or two. In the meantime, the
situation of Commodore Farragut was regard
ttl ny nllHstll ana OlHcIS Us utmduNluE duul-
tional support. A new battery, in process Of
construction by the Confederates, near War
renton, was destroyed, it is said, by the guns
| OF the Hartford but great fears were enter
tanned of an attack upon the Hartford and
Albatross by the Queen of the West, the
Webb, and also--wonderful to relate tine ln
dianola. This remarkable iron-clad, with
whose short ana inglorious career everybody
is supposed TO be acquainted, has been cap
tnred, sunk, blown up, rccaptured, wrecked
was lying on the banks Of the Mississippi
near Hard Times Bend, undergoing repairs,
when Admiral Farragut took possession of
her; was also discovered by him partially
submerged and with her upper works shatter
ed by the explosion, and was, at the same time
according to the very latest news from Mem
/ phis---at Alexandria, on the Red river, with
er the Rebels had taken her, and where
she has been sufficiently streng thened to be
! again rendered seryiceable.
A special telegram from Cairo to the ST.
/ Louis Democrat announces the astonishing
fact that the Confederates have moved large
force from the front TO the rear of Vicksburg
anticipating an attack ria Yazoo Pass or
Iaines Bluff, and that they have taken the
| further precaution to fortify their position
with" quaker guns" W. are also inform
ed, through the medium Of the same telegram,
that the Rebel steamer City Of Yicksburg-
which was long since removed up Black river
broke from her moorings in front of Vicks-
burg during high wind and was captured by
Admiral Farraguts vessels. Finally, we are
| assured that unless something is speedily ac-
complished by the YaZoo expedition it will be
abandoned. As the failure and return of both
expeditions-the Yazoo Pass and the Sunhower
have been confirmed from half dozen diff
terent sources, there can be no further ques-
ton as to that fact
Steamers navigating the Cumberland river
continue to be fired into by a considerable force
OF Contederates below Clarksville and at IIar-
peth Shoals. Van Dorm is supposed to be max
lug an attempt to out0ank Rosecrans and il
is still appreheuded that he designs moving
upon Kentucky. The Confederates are con-
structing bridges across the Tennessee river
above Florence, for the purpose of facilitating
communication between the Army of Tennes-
see aud that which occupies Mississippi
General Curtis reports to the War Depart
ment series Of skirmishes in Carroll county
Arkansas, in which the Confederates lost
twenty-five men killed and seven taken pris-
oners The Federal loss is set down at one
man wounded, and he not dangerously
The slSirmish near Drainesyille, between the
| LIST Vermont cavalry and Captain Mosby's
| "guerrillas was attended with much more
serious results than the earlier accounts inn
! phed. The correspondent of the New York
Herald estimates the Federal loss at sixty in
killed, wounded and taken prisoners. The
Washington Star puts the loss at one killed,
twelve wounded and eighty missing Mosby
who, it is said, suffered surprise, 'rallied
his men," we are told, with lightning ra-
pidity, and when our squadron broke he pur-
sued and hacked them severely" 1t is now
denied that Mosby was badly wounded as
previously reported. Wade Hampton and
Fiizhugh Lee, with twenty-five hundred cav
airy, are said to be at Culpeper Courthouse
In consequence Of the depredations of the
Alabama, the underwriters AT New York have
raised their rate of insurance on American
vessels to five per cent.
THURSDAY, April TIT is announced in the
New York Tribune that "our relations with
Great Britain are considered, by those who
are conyersaut with them, to be extremely deli
cate" The difficulties existing between the
two Governments are said TO have their origin
IN the fitting out of the Alabama and other
vessels for the use of the Confederates. Mr..
Adams has protested against the construction
OF similar craft in British waters; but Earl
russell demands as a condition precedent 10
any acuon on the part of the British Govern |
ment, that legal proof be furnished Of the fact
sunt 'he vessels in question are really intended