issued the following address to the people of that minutes before she sank we ran close in, got out State: "I have this day received a despatch from one plank, and put the wounded ashore. We General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding the also got a hawser out to make fast to a tree to army in Mississippi, stating that he is informed hold her until she sunk. Unfortunately, the men that numbers of stragglers from the army are ashore left the hawser without making it fast. reported going East through Georgia, especially The enemy were still firing, and the boat comthe northern part, and requesting me to have menced drifting out. I sung out to the men to them, officers as well as men, arrested and sent swim ashore, thinking we were in deeper water back to Jackson, employing for that purpose (as was reported) than we really were. I supassociations of citizens as well as State troops.' I therefore order the commanding officers of the State troops, and all militia officers of this State, and request all good citizens, to be vigilant and active in arresting all stragglers and deserters, whether officers or men, and when arrested, to deliver them to Colonel G. W. Lee, commanding post at Atlanta, to be by him sent to Jackson, in obedience to the orders of General Johnston. Prompt and energetic action is necessary."

May 27.-The rebel fortifications at Port Hudson were this day attacked by the National forces under the command of General Banks, but, after a desperate conflict of eight hours' duration, they were unable to reduce them. In the first charge made upon the works, Captain Callioux and Lieutenant Crowder, both colored officers, were killed. (Doc. 201.)

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pose about fifteen were drowned and twenty-five killed and wounded, and one probably taken prisoner. This will sum up our whole loss. The boat sunk in about three fathoms of water; she lies level and can easily be raised, but lies within range of the enemy's batteries. The vessel went down with her colors nailed to her mast, or rather to the stump of one, all three having been shot away. Our fire, until the magazine was drowned, was good, and I am satisfied did damage. We only fired at a two-gun water-battery."

-THE Eleventh battery of Massachusetts volunteers, returned to Boston from the seat of war.

the command of Col. D. R. Clendenin, returned to May 28.-The Eighth Illinois cavalry, under the headquarters of the army of the Potomac, after a raid along the banks of the Rappahannock and Potomac Rivers below Fredericksburgh, Va. The regiment were on the scout for eleven days, during which time they captured five hundred horses and mules, destroyed twenty thousand pounds of bacon, and a large quantity of flour; burned one hundred sloops, yawls, ferry-boats, etc., laden with contraband goods, intended for the use of the rebels, and valued at one million dollars; and brought into camp eight hundred and ten negro men, women, and children, with a great deal of "personal" property, consisting of horses, mules, carts, clothing, etc., and also one hundred rebel prisoners, several of whom were officers of the rebel army.

THE United States gunboat Cincinnati, was sunk by the rebel batteries at Vicksburgh, Miss. Lieutenant Commander Bache, gave the following report of the occurrence to Admiral Porter: "In obedience to your order, the Cincinnati got under way this morning at seven o'clock, and steamed slowly down until a little abreast of where the mortars lie. When we rounded to, the enemy fired several shots from a gun called 'Whistling Dick,' but soon gave it up. At half past eight, with a full head of steam, we stood for the position assigned us. The enemy rapidly, and from all their batteries. When abreast of our pontoon, and rounding to, a ball ---THERE was much excitement in Boston, on entered the magazine, and she commenced sinking rapidly. Shortly after, the starboard tiller the occasion of the departure of the Fifty-fourth was carried away. Before and after this, the regiment, colored Massachusetts troops, for Southenemy fired with great accuracy, hitting us nearly Carolina. This was the first negro regiment sent every time. from the North.-A party of two hundred rebel We were especially annoyed by plunging shots from the hills, and eight-inch rifled cavalry made a descent in Kentucky, near Somerand ten-inch smooth-bore shots did us much set, and captured a small number of Nationals damage. The shots went entirely through our belonging to Wolford's cavalry. - Elections in protection-hay and wood. Norfolk and Portsmouth, Va., took place, result

And now, finding

that the vessel would sink, I ran her up-streaming in the success of the Unionists.

as near the right-hand shore as our damaged --THE rebel steamer Banshee, ran the blockade steering apparatus would permit. About ten of Wilmington, N. C.-Richmond Examiner.

of entering Maryiaını." The Thirtieth regiment | rforence, and a number were burned, of New-York volunteers, under the command of and the Nationals returned with six hundred Colonel William M. Searing, returned to Albany head of horses, mules, and oxen, one hundred from the seat of war.-A rebel camp near Carth- | prisoners, and a large number of negroes.