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

MEXrHIs, June 2. via CAIRO, June 1868.
Special dispatch to the Chicago Tribune
says:
The steamer Ed. Walsh is the latest
boat up from Youngs' Point. She left
there last Sunday.
There is nothing remarkably new to re-
port since the sinking of the gunboat Gin
ciDnati.
Gen. Grant seemingly holds Vicksburg
and the entire garrison as though in the
hollow Of his hand He can assault and
take it readily, but with large loss. lie
prefers to take it by siege. He is now
planting heavy guns, aud preparing for
Joe Johnston, should he think it best to
attack his rear.
1t may be some time before Vicksburg
falls, but it eventually must come into our
possession.
The report in the streets here to~day,
from Secesh quarters. is that joe John
ston is at Big Black RIVER, about attempt
ting to cross. Also that a large force has
gone from Grant tOsprevent his progress
and drive him back.
WALNUT HILL, EIcKsBURG,
via CHICKAaAw BAYOU,
May %, via CAIRO, June 3.
Special dispatch to the Chicago Tribune
says:
Deserters from all parts of tho rebel
lines. state that the garrison Mt Vicksburg
Is from 10000 to %, 900 strong, that the
men inS the trenches and forts are not re-,
lieved day or night and are now living on
quarter rations of corn bread and boiled
fresh beef. Their reserve is only one
brigade and half, and the majority of
the troops are willing to surrender the
city.
Our shells are destroying buildings. and
the inhabitants live in caves to escape
death.
Pemberton sent some families with
their negroes, into our lines yesterday, but
Gen. Grant sent the former back and kept
the negroes to work for US.
The guerillas have made raids at and
above Lake Providence, and run of a num-
Der of negroes.
The gunboat Cincinnati went down and
fought the upper water batteries to-day,
and after a brilliant bombardment became
involved in an eddy and was forced to re-
tire. She received several shots in her
stern, and is now in q sinking condition.
but can be saved.
Our sappers and miners are progressing
successfully with their work of gradually
approaching, and in some places have
reached within few yards of the rebel
works. The rebel sharpshOuters do not
dare to fire, nor their men in their ri
fie pits to how their heads above their
works.
Our loss in killed and wounded during
the siegewhich commenced on the 8:h inst
will not exceed 1900 or 1000. The first
accounts have been greatly exaggerated.
The rebels may have to he starved out,
but there need be no fears entertained of
mot capturing Vicksburg and its entire gar
ria9n.
MEMPHIS, June 2 p. m. via Carlo
June 3. 1868,
Special dispatch to the Chicago Tribune
says:
4 --latest adyices from Grants army are
TO Saturday Both by steamer Walsh
The siege Yicksburg is slowly progress
ing. The city is Theoretically sealed, our
Investing lines being two miles from the
rebel entertainments. Sigh skirmishine
has been kept up for several days. The
mortar boats are firing slowly night and
day from the front. All the prisoners in
the Vicksburg Jail have been released and
put across the river. They report that
one OF the mortar shells burst in the iail
and destroyed it, The health and spirits
Of our army is good supplies are ample.
Haine's Bluff is the point of debarka~
ton.
Certain arrangements now being proN
jscted wilisgive us Yicksburg without
great loss. The confidence of Intelligent
persons from thence is strong. They ex>
press no fears of Johnston as Gen. Biar is
opposed to him. Gen Forrest has passed
down to join General Johnston, with 5 900
cavalry.