The New York herald., 1863-05-17


According TO information from rebel sources
General Grant is actively employed in Mississippi.
The Richmond Enquirer Of the 18th publishes
dispatches iron, Jackson. Miss, stating that one
5au, on
rfth inst, at twelve o'clock; that he was for.
titing at Rocky Spring and Western SPRING. that
Ccncrai Osterhaus is at Cayuga with one hundred
and fifty cavalry and six or seven regiments of in.
fantry and that our forces were being reinforced
AT Willow Spring and Rocky Spring from the river.
The same Journal Of a.day later, Friday the 18th,
says ha; lighting then going on In Mississippi.
Grant with one thousand men had advanced to
Raymond. where General Gregg had force of
1900 infantry and few cavalry. Skirmishing
commenced at nine o'clock in the morning, and ut
one Pm the battle opened heavily. Reinforcements
were then arriving so rapidly to support the Union
troops that the rebels fell back through Raymond,
making stand at Mississippi Spring where they
had renloroements The firing in the neighbor-
hood Of Jackson continuous throughout the day.
county. sixteen miles Southwest of jackson, and
connected with the vicksburg and Jackson Railroad
by sb,arch liac eight miles long running due south
The excellent map Of the entire locality of Gen.
Grants present and prospective operations, which
we give to day, shows all the prominent places
mentioned in the above dispatches. The rebel
accounts also state that our feet above vicksburg
is rapidly increasing. They report everything quiet
in iron, Of Chattanooga. and announce the ar.
rival c! tue heavy baggage and tents of the Union
army to the rear Of Nashville.
with reference to movements at Charleston, the
Richmond papers have dates to the 18th instant,
su1 they stated that our forces are building for.
niab,e batteries on Folly Island bearing upon
Morris Island, aud that we were busily engaged
forlfyine ourselves on 'Seabrooks Island The
blockade runner Britain, from Nassau, with mer.
chandsc. has entered Charleston harbor in
safety. The steamers Bashaw and Pet, from the
same port also arrived at Wilmington, N. c., on
Thursday.
No new movements are transpiring in General
Hookcr's army. Everything 10 perfectly still
there. Rumor was busy in Washington yesterday
with stories Of changes in the command Of the
army aud revolutions in the Cabinet; but there
does not appear, up TO this time at least to be
any foundation for them.
The cavalry arm Of the service appears to be In
The ascendant just now. Adespatch received rom
tho commandant Of the Tennessee division Of the
Mississippi squadon-s. l.. Phelps-yesterdsy
states that Colonel Breckinridge, of the FRS,
West Tennessee cavalry. with ffty.6ve men,
dashed across the country from the Tennessee
river TO iiuden on the 18th inst, and surprised a
rcbel force more than twice his number, Capturing
Lieut.. Colonel Frierson, captain, one surgeon.
four liertcnants thirty rebel soldiers, ten con.
scripts, ffty horses, two army wagons, arms, &c.
The Court House, which was the rebel depot. was
burned, with a quantity Of army supplies. The
troops. with their prisoners, returned on board
the gunbosts. The latter will be set TO Cairo
A despatch from Fortress Monroe. dated yes,er.
dav. ssys that the steamers 3. II. spaulding C:eor
gis and Belvidere arrived from CITY poIp, with