, 1863-04-10
FROM vlCKSRURG.
IMPORTANT MOVEMENTS on
THE TAPIS,
Especial Dispatch TO the Chicago Tribune.1
1oCSG's Po1Sr, La, april 3.

ApCAG 101NT+ Ld., Apr1I 8,
via CA1Io, April 9, 1868.
Several transports filled with troops, and
Genera. Ellct's Marine Brigade, left this point
this morning and steamed up stream, accom-
panied by an iron clad. There is no prospect
Of active operations before Vicksburg for
some time.
new canal is being cut three miles aboyc
this point. Three drcdges and IN African
brigade are hard at work upon it, night and
day. a battery Of thirty-pound PARROTS has
been planted on the peninsula opposite yicks-
burg, but It's effect has not yet been fully
tcstcd. The weather is fine and the health of
the troops. is improving.
Especial Ditpatch to the Chicago Trtbuue1
CAIRO. April 9. 1868.
Several arrivals from Memphis and below.
but news outside Of your dispatches from
your regular correspondents is very unrelia.
Bile in character. The new canal being cut
absorbs some attention. 1t enters tho Miss.
issirpi below Warrenton, and is eight miles
long; the exit is By Diamond Bend. It starts
1usl oeloH uuckport.
Farragut still holds the country between
Vicksburg and Port Hudson. The Queen Of
the West Is up Red River. Porter and Grant
are both on reconnaissance up the Yazoo,
and have considerable force with them.
Ross' and Quimby's divisions arc still in the
Pass. 4 gunboat went tho same way on Sat-
usday last, and carried ammunition and sup
C.rlS+$ l. hr+ t,on
Tutt!e. Smith is here.
Colonel BisEcll came up yesterday with his
regiment. Adjt. Gen. Thomas has gone be-
low. He went down on Sunday. Col. J. c,
sullkan, Of 1ndiaua, is appointed Inspector
General Of the Department Of the Tennessee.
4 fight was expected on the 9Th at Cane
Greek, near Memphis, twelve miles distant.
Our forces were drawn Up in order Of battle.
Chalmers army is greatly oyer-estinlated, It
is only about LOCO men.
CAIRO, April 9.-Our latest news from
Stcele's division landed ut GrccnyiIlc, Miss.
on Friday: Confederate force Of several
Thousand is reported near that plQce,
Capt. ]. B. Sample, A i. G. on Gen. Tut
ties STAFF, writes from Young's Point on the
1T. as follows: "We are much surprised to
HHN LIZ tauupe III euC4 5ubu uEIltQ anu GpftltS,
Af:t reading the accounts in tie papers Of
suffering and sickness, we were prepared for
almost anything; but it Is a1l mistake, I |
never saw troops in better condition.
Gen. Tuttle IS assigned to the command Of
tue 80 division, 15ih army corps, and goes up
20 point four miles above Young's Point.
Ills headquarters is on the steamer Florence
Miller.
Gen. 0glesby has been assigned to q COM
mand in Gen. Hurlbut's corps, and will 90 to
jackson or Corinth.
Col. Blsselrs engineer corps hare como IN
to Memphis to make repairs on The Memphis |
and Charleston railroad.
Over sG2, eco was paid to the 335th Iowa, here
Cairo, yesterday. It is ordered to Young's
Point, where it will 20 In q few days
understand Captain Phelps will be assign
cd to the command Of thls naval post, in the
place Of Capt Fennock, who takes comm md
Of the fvet in the Cumberland and Tennes-
sec rivers.
CAIRO, April 9.-The jackson .tDpca5 of the
}lst, admits the loss of the ram Vicksburc,
but snys her machinery had been taken out
and that she was not worth much.
General Steele had funded lis division At
Grcenrillc, Miss. His object, no doubt, is to |
cooperate with the fleet in reducing Fort |
Pcrnberton. If anything Of Importance is
transpirins at any point below Memphis, We
fail to hear Of It. Arrivals from below arc
scattering and irregular, and papers when re-
ceiycd contain nothing.