The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1863-07-02
1890 Shells Dropped into Vioksburg!
GUNB0AT AGROUND.
RnINFORQEnH7T F0n GRANT.

JACKSON, Juno 29.-The advices received
from Yickaburg report no change in regard to
affairs there. On the night of the 2lst The en-.
emy Fprung mine to blow up an angle Of om
works which wac complete failure, killing a
numb9r Of their own men. The YicEsburg
Citizen ofth9 18th, 18Th and 23d, has been
received. 1t says that for % days an iaoes7
SAINT shower ofshol has rained upon the city.
The loves. estimate places the number a; a
thousand aud but three casualties have occurr-
ed. The streets are daily filed with people,
including women and children, who 20 about
free from danger. On Tuesday while working
of its edition, a IS inch shell passed through
the Office scattering cases and type. No one
injured. One of the onemy'5 gunboats is fast
aground below the city. A number of trans
ports, loaded with troops, came down past
few dayaago. The enemy has been firing in.
condiary shells for three days, but no damage
has been done by them. Maj. 4oadley Of
Arkansas, commanding the water battery, and
Maj. Martip, of the Goth Louisiana, were killed
last Sunday. Ccl McLaurens of the 28h La,
seriously wounded A citizen confirms tbe
news of a heavy bombardment on Saturday,
and says our loss was comparatively nothing.
All knew and feel that Jobuston will arrive in
time, we general tone Of the el,loz.al.- in
me L'uloh are choertu. Ihep paper IS printed
on wall paper.
Gen'I Parsons battery at Cypress Creek,
20 miles below Napoleon, fired on five trans
ports loaded with troops on Tuesday, Gripping
them badly. The troops landed and attempt.
ed to storm the battery but were driven back
with loss of 900.
The Brookhaven prisoners arrived to-day.
They had orders to strike through the country
and destroy Railroads aud then embark at Pen.
sacola for New Orleans
RICHMOND, June 3O,-A report was brought
last night that Spears, with his 1900 cavalry,
had left the White House yesterday morning
on another raid, taking the road through the
county of King William.
The Winchester correspondent of the Wing
of the 26th mentions report that Ewell GER
tainly holds harrisburg. Officers protesting
to be direct from there say the people are
very submissive The report needs oonfrma.
tion; bntthe latest Philadelphia papers report
Ewel within twenty-six miles of Harrisburg
on the night of the oath
Gold declined here one dollar from the high
est rates, in consequence of the increased
amount offered for sale
Continuous heavy rains for the last few days
must have rendered the roads Of the country
bordering on the ChicEahominy almost imy
passable.
Vice President Stephens is here.
TIE ladies gunboat Virginia was success,
fully launched at the Navy Yard, opposite
Rockets, yesterday afternoon.
Al flag of truce boat, expected al City Point
Thursday, is not yet heard from.
RICHMOND, June. 3O.-No news from Central
nor York River trains to-day except tina. thcI
yankees are still in force at the White House
1t is reported that several hundred Of tneI
enemy were captured this A. M. in New Kent
county
Four men from Eastern Shore |a,, who.
reached the city this ?. NJ, report that al the.
yankee troops exoopta few cavalry had with
drawn from Accomac and Northampton couu.
ties.
BRooruAyEN, June ga rumor reached
here last evening that other raids for the same
object left Rodney.
The yankees say they will destroy the Mo.
bile and Ohio Railroad if it takes thirty thou.
sand men,
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