The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-01-15
TIE NEWS.

The most important news Of the week
may be sum med up as follows:
The great expedition of GEN. fisherman,
destined for land attack on IVicksburg, was
landed short distance up the Yazoo river,
some Is or 20 miles back Vicksburg, hay
ing been transported there in Sixty steam
srs conveyed by several gunboats. The
army at once marched against the Confed-
crate Notifications, but after several days
terribly hard fighting and sustaining heavy
losses in killed wounded, prisoners, missing
ard materials of war, were repulsed and
retreated to their transports. In the III can
time, the Federal gunboats, after seeing
Sherman's army landed, proceeded up the
river, bunting fight, expectingto destroy
some ship yards and the military works
protecting the same. They were accommo-
dated with fight and were repulsed. The
feet of transports with the remnant of
Sherman's army at last accounts were slow
ly working their way up the Mississippi
river foE Memphis and had reached Ma
poleon, Ark /; twenty of the vessels we learn
from private ad vices, being filled with woun-
ded. Gen. Banks from New Orleans did
not effect junction, as was expected, with
Sherman at Vicksburg; and indeed it is
supposed that be will have to make terri
BILE fight at Port Hudson before he can pass
that strongly fortified place, supported as it
is also By a large land army.
For several days in succession the FEEDER
al newspapers reported the probable capture
of Springfield, Mo-, by Confederate force
under Gen. Marm aduke. 1t was added,
also. that Federal force ono. State troops)
sent for the relief of Springfield, on reach
ing there, sent flag of truce to- the Con-
federate Commander, which resulted 10
their going over to and joining the Confed-
crate standard. But the latest news contra
diets all this, and says Springfield was not
captured by the rebels at all. What the
real truth is, we are yet to learn.
One of the most signal events of the war
was a naval fight in the bay of Galveston,
the rebels attacking both by land and water.
The result was, that the Federal iron-clad :.
Harriet Lane, after nearly all her crew
were killed, surrendered; that another U.
s. vessel, for fear of capture,
was blown up by her own officers, Commo-
dore. Renshaw and Others blown up with her,
and that the four remaining Federal vessels
fed, leaving the city in the hands of Gen.
Magruder, who has thus added to the lau-
rels Of Big Bethel, the re-conquest of the
chief city of Texas.
In Tennessee, the armies of Rosecrans
and Bragg are confronting each other in sui
len inactivity, between Murfreesboro and
Tallahoma, at which last named place the
Confederates are entrenched in position of
unusual natural strength. Perhaps both
armies are too much employed by their late
conflicts, to resume any very heavy active
operations.
Grants army seems to be checked some-
where on the line of the Railroad. which
was destroyed in his rear, threatening loss of
communication and supplies, between Holly
Springs and Memphis. All quiet as usual
on the Potomac ard Rappahanock, Burn
sides main army still lying at Falmouth,
opposite Fredericksburg, making no move
ments, save small accommodating parties.-
Rumors of heavy expeditions on the South
ern coast are afoat, but we know too little
of than to give any definite account.