The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1863-06-03

25th:
SIR: have the honor to inform you
that the expedition under command of
Lieutenant Commander Walker. after
taking possession of the forts at Haines's
Bluff, we're perfectly successful.
Three powerful steamers and ram
were destroyed at Yazoo City. The ram
was i mouster, 80 feet long, 10 feet
beam, to be covered with inch iron
plates. Also fine Navy Yard, with
machine shops Of all kinds, saw mills,
blacksmi!h's shops, &c, were burned up.
The property destroyed aud captured
amounted to over 81, 100000.
Had the monster ram been finished
she would have given US some trouble.
One battery was destroyed at Drury's
Bluff
Our loss on the expedition was one
killed aud seven wounded.
A correspondent writing from Mur-
frce>boro. gives some interesting items Of
news from Rebel sources. With regard
10 NiCk,burg and war matters, they say
that their army has rations for 80 days !;
Pemherton is using disinfectants to pre-,
vent sickness among his troops two gun
boats have been sunk; Gen. Banks has
crossed with his army at Bayou Sara the
Rebels had run 700 mules out of Vlcks.
burg in order to save their feed Breck.
iDridge WIS at Atlanta on the 18th, and
il is probable that his whole division has
left Bragg's army for the South Col.
Grierson's cavalry had made another raid
from Baton Roua c, capturing and destroy
ing large Rebel camp; a dispatch from
Canton. Miss, to Richmond, represents
all we'll at Vicksburs oD Tuesday the
fighting before Vicksburg on Saturday
was the bloodiest of the war.
Dispatches from Cincinnati state that a
number of cOnscripts from the 10th Ten
nessee Rebel regiment reached Cairo on
the 25th instant. They were on their way
from Port Hudson to join Gen. Bragg
army when the battle of Raymond was
fought. In the fight they refused to fire
on the Unionists, and shot into the air
After this engagement. they eucamped
at Mississippi Springs, where they received
fifteen hundred re-enforcements from al
nbaua. In the middle of the night about
halt Of the 50th (RebeD Tennessee regi
ment left their camp, determined to make
their way into the Union lines. They
saw there has been at 10 time more
than ten thousand Rebel troops at Port
Hudson
Richmond papers say that the .ong
threatened law Of retaliation is to be i'm
mcdiaiely enforced aud that for two off
GERS recently murdered officially" il
Ohio, two Union officers OF equal rank
now in Rebel hands are to be similarly
killed They further say that ofhcia
notice has been given that, hereafter, fo
every Rebel dealt with in any manne
shat JEFF Davis may choose to think i'm
proper, immediate vengeance will be IN
6lcted upon some Union prisoner.
these threats are actually carried out
there won't be many Rebel prisoner.
taken after the Union soldiers learn tn
fact-sometody will get hurt.
Adgces from Kentucky represent tha
all il quiet on Gen. BurnsIdes front Th
Rebel force in Wayne County is estimate,
At from 5000 to 5000. Gen Pegram'
Rebel headquarters are this side of Mon
ticelo, on Gen. Gilbert's trout. Ther,
is much speculation and uncertainty riff
as to the intentions of the Rebels. Tha
they are going to make bold strike seeul
evident.
With regard to the Enrolment act,
Washington dispatch says: 1t is prett.
certain that the act will be carried out {
the letter of the law Prominent gentle
men from New York and Pennsylvani
have made representations to TIE Presi
dent and the War Department. that any
thing looking at all like an attempt t.
evsde plain provision of the act woul'
have damaging effect among the people
Valandgham has been sent down t,
his friends In Dixie for reasonable prac
tices.
1t seems to be believed at Washington
that the army of Gen Lee is actively il
motion, and that an attack on Gen. Hook
er's line is not Improbable. Masses o
the enemy's troops were traced on Satur
day on the road to Culpepper and Kelly
fOrd by the clouds of dust which rose il
the rear Of the river front of the army
6tuart's aud Moseby's cavalry are esi
gently on the move.