Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-06-09

Near Yieksburg. june. 2s

But little firing has been done for two |
days. Rebel sharpshooters occasionally |
get up lively time. but soon subside.- !
Scarcely shot or shell has been thrown at |
US for a week.
Looking at the situation along the whole |
line, and considering the condition inside, |
the siege may be prOtracted three or four !
weeks, resistance is continued to the last |
This we can afford, as our loss daily grows
less, while that of the enemy increages,
The exiedition under Gen Blair proceed.
ed northward as far as Mechanick sburg, as
miles from here, without meeting rebels 10
force. A few guerillas were found, our
cavalry wouuding several. The crops were
found in a promising condition, and the
country well supplied with live stock, The
troops returned to Haines' Bluff yesterday.
A large amount Of colt was DESTROYED,
and many cattle and negroes brought
away.
The gunboats ran no to Ysz0o CITY sev-
eral days ago, and destroyed much proper
ty, including a gunbOat on the sticks -
Several rebel transports were seen farther
up the SuufOwer and Tallahatchie, and
temporarily escaped.
Communication with Gen. Banks is kept
no on the Louisiana shore.
! Guerrillas iEfess the region between Lake
/ Providence and Grand Gulf, and commit
| depredations with IMMUNITY. Government
! plantations are selected for attack and
! piuudered the negroes being driven off or
! hurg. Every negro with Fed eral uni
form is mercllessly suspended to the near
/ est tree.
Cincinnati, JuneT.
A rebel Lieutenant arrived from Ticks>
burg yesterday. and brings rebel news n,
! made Public II came into cur lines ut-
Ger a flag Of truce, but failing to return
with the truce party aud rem. ming among
our outposts day afterwards, Cen Grant
declined to let him return, alleging that he
could give valuable information to the enc.
my of the siege and Federal operations
He could not hold him as prisoner nor as
L SPY, but would send him to Memphis,
there to remain until the siege of Vicks-
burg was through. He states that the
Confederates a Nicks5urg have full four
months provisions and abundance Of am
munitlOn; that the troops are in hopeful
spirits; and that Gems Johnston and Penn
berton are sanguine that Eicksburg can
never be taken. The rebel loss On fridays
and Saturdays battles was quite s,nall. and
does not exceed 500 in all, while the Fed
! eral loss was several thousand. The stencil
was so great that cessation Of hOstilities
took place, and, by permission of General
Grant, 1000 rebel soldiers assisted in
burying the Federal dead
Gen. Johnston has been largely reinfOrc
; ed by troops from Bragg, and an attack on
Grants rear was determined upon. Grant
is also being reinforced, and a sanguinary
conflict must unquesti0rably follow. The
place of the troops taken from Bragg mas
been filled by arrivals from Lee and Beau.
regard. Stirring and exciting intelligence
: from Middle Tennessee and Vicksburc
must come soon.
, a courier from Pemberton to Johnston
delivered the following dispatch to Grant
for which he was set at liberty:
Forage is all gone. The men are OF
| quarter rati0ps. The ammunition is exbaus
ted and we can hold out only ten days"
A man who left Nicksburg on Monday
says:
The army is 10 good spirits, and Their
G are food and ammunition enough to Jas
ninety days. This cOntradicts Penn erton
dispatch.
The City of Memphis brought up 4Ot
wounded. ThCre are at least 1000 to com
up.
. A dispatch was intercepted from Devi
to Johnston, saying be would soon sem
i $4,000 men.
/ 1t is said that the Confederates are t
t attack the lear of Grants army on tn
7tb.
A large number of Federals are on tn
e sick list
{. Gen. Osterhaus now commands lis divi:
| ion. having recovered from his wounds d
Island CO, in the bend.
The Curlew shelled the woods for tw
miles, driving the enemy from his guns o.
r the Arkansas shore. They numbered SOC
! Inc Chancellor, going down, was fire
into; lost killed aud 6 wounded.
The lata was shot in her upper works
no enc hurt.