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^jjtCspt IB^J @£COT SflallC, GAPE- ISLAND N. .1. J. 8. LEACH, Editor and Proprietor. j Thursday. May. 28. 1863 ONE OOr.T.AK PF.lt ANNT.Ml _ suocess in Mississippi. While there seems to be en ill fnlo upon the mbveraents of our armies in Virginia. sOccess attend* tlioee in Mississippi. The late - mid oL. thf Illinois cavalry, under .Col. Qrirrsou, did o vast amount of damage to the envoy. They " are «ald to ha*t> cut crcry rsilroad in the Stale, rendering them irreparable, in moat instances, especially as this is followed up by our victorious armies, giving the rebels no lime for repairs. This raid; in eeery respect, was the roost brit " liant fent of the war. an-l probably a more successful raid is not on record. Railroad bridges and depots were burned, and commissary and ordnance traijis. and stores were captured and destroyed In one instance an ordnance train, con** mining 3,000 shells, designed for the Vieliborg batteries, was destrpjed. They also captured large numbers off "contrabands." and many horses. Their . route was so irregular that the n-bels ; could not calculate tbeir whereabouts ji and bcnce they only' once encbuntrred, nn| considerable rebel forer, when they . cot their way through thb:u, with but eery little l«ts. At onu lima t)«i-y came , eery near a rebel force of 6000; but era- 1 ded tlwm, by Ukiag a circuitous ronte, j at the same time capturing 3U0 rebels j Itut the great feature is the advance of Ucn. Grant, who, from their own j statements, seems to hare taken the rebels in an entirely unexpected point. Fetiing down tbo Mississippi, in com- | pany with Admiral IV rter's fleet, run- , wing the blockade or the rebel baUeries, ' •he loaded his forces, aad conituencc<l | his march for Jackson, the capital of the state, which -lies to the eastward, end in the rear or the rebels at Yieksburg On his march he encountered the _ rcbeU yreffd times, and. »f we mistake, aot, foughi aix seyuriuTbaltlus, in ever* one of which he was rictorioos. ' }fe fi j nully arrived at the capital, where he . did great damage, af.cr dflving the reb- ' ch from their position. , The following extracts from rebel papers will giro som< idea of what they did at this point, although the .uccoauf may b« somewhat exaggerated i "Before leaving rhey burned the confederal* Hooso, tint depots, ponitaatiary. Green k Phillips' factory, Wet*#*' foundry. Lenoire's hat factory, and a black of buildings en Stale street, including the Medical Puryi-yor's and other Womtiwcnt offices. Also, both • ridge* over Pearl River, and destroyed several miles or the railroad track." "The Catholic Church of thie place was destroyed, and the Mississippi"" rutted the presseu broken and the type Thre-n »to Uwwtreet. The furniture thrown into 1 1 -street. Tlx- turntiure.

•f the capitof' was badlv shuead,; and ti># Governor's mansion demolished. Ladies were robbed pf jewelry and money. All the stores wen: attacked and tbeir contents destroyed ; iron safbs broken open. Tbe railroad was fttdly torn op fur several miles, and the- telegraph wires torn down- About three hundred negroes from lllhds cownty joined the Yunkere. Tbe country was plundered generally. Farmers estimate the damage at from ft«o to ten millions Moeh destitution aud suffering prevails " In one of the battles the rebel Gun. Tilgbmen was killed. From what wo enn- gather, Grant did- not long reroai# at the capital, but whhher he went Is not yrt csrtalnly known. The rebol papers report that lk* rtfrtaitd towards Vicksburg. But we should cull this rather uuadaanec. as that Is evidently the poinr at which be is aiming y and ib i* reportad that he has taken possession j of the bridge over the Big Black river, oa the Vkkaborg end Jackeon Railroad, which »s ucar ihe former ploeoj and this seem* very probable. The reiwl de»pondinp I j„ .,toW * ,hkM Wjfej' ! "S W" Ihey may Ix. Tbvjr own that they HRtft wiUttt fight, or eveeuate Jjck*tal£, ,k«r "'jt- Tttn I... never beta a «i no whan the full bf Vtrksburc loolul fO prt>b*ble, md we ■Hail look fet'firthefr *Mc«i whh Inter i

ACT ADM ATVJCKXBUM. . J In another place we have given some general statements of aftirs in Mssstppi, but since that was in type we I have later advices, which seem to refider it almost certain thft thweity of Yiclcsj burg has At last fallen into ohr hands ' We can give no better (amatory of the ! late dispatches than that contained in tbe following from the^-Fhifadelphin "Press" of Monday last : "New* of tbe highest importance, i satisfactory to the best expectations of tbo public, -appears fo-dny from the , array of Gen Grant. It brings os re port of multiplied victory, success upon success, captures of great extent, an;l 1 1 evidently of triumph overwhelming auil ! decisive. Vicksburg has been taken, 1 , after a first-class battle, succrediug a | | catalogue of splendid contest which ! _ have taken place along the Ine of! Grant's victorious n.orcii from Grand | • Golf to Viekaburg. On the 18th, i , .Vicksburg was closely invested, and upon this llaines' ltlufT and all the riflepits north of the city were 'tween, after1 - a desperate assault ; still Intel1, ll»6~ eu- j tire works of Vicksburg were curried, j ' and finally the city la in our possession, j > What the raptures ore we can but sur- j / misc. The probability is suggested by i our news that the greater part .of the rebel army has been made prisoners, ' | Three very considerable battles seem to 1 i have, occurred more immediately before j iiUtecHv was taken . one on tbo IGth, called "the bloody anAdecisitivB battle /of Bitker's creek." in ^iiieh Prmbertou's • whole force was jipfi-atod, with n loss of 1 20 pieces of artillery and 10(1 men ; • i another on the 17th, when the same j - 1 fcrco was beaten at. Big Black bridge, with the loss of 2.000 men and 17 guns; ' I and, since this, a great battle fur the I direct possession »f Vicksburg. In the ' : preliminary battles J'eraberton is repor1 ted to have lost neatly all his artillery. - ; Upon the capture of llaines* Bluff and I the rifle pits, the earthworks nt Vicks- ; burg and nil 'lis gnns came into onr po- ! session. It seems veritable that having " ) lost nearly all his aftillrey, Purobrrton > ( has by this time surrendered the greater I j part of his ariuy. We hate a report f j estimating the captures of the prefatory ' batth'i, near Vicksburg, ut sixty fonr ' guns and nearly tmihoiisand prUon'ers. The battles of Uruud Gulf, Fori Gibson, Raymond, Mississippi Springs, Jackson, s Baker's Creek. Edward's Staiiait, Black „ Rivar, and Vicksburg, fought within y the apace of • -month, eoiwpreheud • w campaign, dountless, unequelkd iu the' [ war for expedition and rucci-ss " *j' From the diajiotches from which the ' I above was gathered, it scums hardly possible that wu should be disappointed this time, though lite final capture of the J city was not fully . confirmed. An official despatch from Admiral Porter of the 20th, while the battle for the possession of the city was rsging, ,' soys that the capture of the city is only " a questiou of a few hours. No later official rsport has been made public I, There caii lie but little doubt, however, . that Yicksbutg is in onr hands, and it Is qnite probable that their main army I: is captured, as there seemed no way of ® escape, if overcome by tbe . Federal I •rmy-

WAR AND OTHER NEWS. > ' I Dr. I) W. Hand, Medical Director ) i at Suffolk,. reported in onr local columns ' as a prisoner in the hands of the rebels i [ according to a later accouut, has been • released Glad to hear it. *. > Tbe Polish insurgents have been dc- ' feated by tke Russian forcra in two or , three engagements, near Burzino, and , on the Galfician frontier. A number ( of fugitive Poles have cnosied into Aust tria, taking with tbcra six wwgon loads ( of arms and ten cannon. Out cf twenty-eight steamers which , have attumpted to ran the blockade from i Nassau to Charleston and other points , on the southern coast, ten have boon J captuted or destroyed. The i ffect or , these captures has been to raise the ; pric« of freights, and consequently the ( j business has fallen off io a great meaI "»«• I Our gnnhoats have succeeded ib I breaking through the rebel raft above I ! Alexandria, on the Rod river, and have t ; ascended that * stream to Hariisburg , where theywhrBcd a rebel battery to r i aevera! boors without destroying it. [ It iu stated that preparations arc now - . making for a »ew draft of MO.OOO men, ;oon ta oc called iutd She ffuld-

It appears as If Bragg was withdraw- ' ! ing a portion of h1a force from fceforo ' Ilosccrani, and was sending hit men to | ' the relief df Jackson, Miss, flonio 're- j r ports state that tbiu fcrcc hat gone to • .Knoxrille. The steamer Matanzas, ot New York, from New Orleans, on the 13ib inutant, \ , 1 brings a detailed statement of the bom baruoieut of Port Hudson, which was j i commenced at midnight on- the 6th in- ' ! • slant. *£|ie fleet consisted of the Rich- i 1 [ mond, gunboat Essex,- and the mortar i 'boats. The enemy did not respond to j i our fine either on this occasion or on ' I the following day. They finally replied , ' j on the afternoon of tbe 10th. The re- j ' j porter of the Era promises to send good , j news by the next steamer. Neither the i f j Richmond or Essex were1 injured, I I though repeatedly (truck by the enemy's ' j ■ shot. Every place of poblic resort in New r j Orleans (churches excepted) have been - ordered to display i*ie nations! colors; > • I and it is ordered that at the coromcnce- | ment and close of every performance, t ' the national airs be played. e | Ail tlra colored regiments in General v | Ranks' de^UK^raent, except- the engineer ' f | corps, hove been tnrn/d over to Genet-al t [ Ulluton, wboJias the eQtire eon'.rhl of, e their rqnipmeiit ami organization. -Be- j • i sides- the present fdur regiments in ser- '[ vice, there are 23flrt recruits in a camp ' of inatrnction. A corps d'armce of .t j colored catalry, infantry and artillUry, i; will ho immediately formed, under the " command of white officers, A slight enzagement took place on the night of the 14th inst., on Morris d Island, 8 C., between a detachment of '' Union troops and a hundred rebel so!- i ^ diers, The latter were driven back I, across the cri-ek, oar damage being r only ouo man slightly wounded. It was t believed that tbe Monitors would atI tempt the destruction of th? forts on the • beach beftdv again attacking -Fort ,* Sumter. Admiral Dupont refused to i, allow a flag of trace boat to come out k of Charleston, on the ground that they ; II had violated previous flngs. The Bertnudfc Rhy#! Gazette, of the 5th inst., (ays thnt 8emm«« has resigned lC the command of tint Alabama, and has y i taken a new 22 gun confederate ship, dj There is nothAig of special Int . rest io ! from Gen. Hooter'* army. They nre i stBl tying on the north »id' *.f l j - j ,i|» appahnnnock. Then- arc indication* )r . which lead' (omo ito the belief that the ^ I rebel* intend croising the river, with n |v ' view of driving pur army back to the .r defences around Washington, nnd there c are fears in some quartern that they r contemplate an invasion of Maryland and Pennsylvania. These are only ty rnmors nnd surmises, and what foundation there is for Ui-th we are unable to gj say. It it certain that our army will be greatly weakened by the loss ol the nine 1 months ond two veers men, now soon

/to be mastered ,ouf, and we feel con- ' siderabie anxiety aboat the result. Mr. Vallandighaui, of Ohio, who was 1 son:." time since arrested for treasonable speeches, br* had his trial, found guilty, 'ud receiued his sentence. What that] sentence i# setum to be a matter about which diero are conflicting statements, j ' One statement ia, that h- is to be sent j toAfort Warren during the war, while another say* that be is to be sent South, i and that this sentence has already been ; 1 executed. The lattar seems llie most probable, but we are unable to delrri mine definitely. 1 The news from Mexico is bad fo* the 1 French, and good-for the advocates of 1 the Monroe doctrine. The French have r been forced tt» raise the Mege of Pnebla, I and will not be uhle to re- commence it ' before tba month of October. They • have tent ho France for heavier gnns and reinfo'rcomeuts, and hi the mean i tim», will go into quarters at Orizaba The authorities at Washington hat i- - information- that a heavy smuggling , trade is still cnrrlr-d .as ut iffutemorai r and other porta on Rfo Grande. The Navy Department reports offi- ' cially the capture of several sloops and I I schooners at or uesr Mobile, Charleston, ' and -the Nerih 0 nts-ics coat!.

j OUK ABKY CCBBEtFON 0 ES CE. « Headqomrters 25ih Reg.'N. * C*ur o* Jcuax's Cbkx*. V*., V i Monday. May lb, 1863. J , Dear Bare: — ' Tbo Tweatv-fifib, as yon r | already ki-ow, are becoming Csmous for t \ hanging tbeir " Imimj Ol operations." At 1 j I.nwer Pari«b, where 1 hastily scribbled 1 ! p-'y last letter, we Iheught wo hud estab. ! Ii»IhhI a camp that wo would bo permitted - to occupy during tbe remainder of our time 1 io service; but wliilo wc were thus thioking ao order to move camo, and. Friday moru1 ing, iu quicker time than wo established 1 camp, it was deserted, and bed, baggage. ( ■ and board, and oar frail curcostes, were | changing their lia«e. and to-night finds us I encamped on Julian's Creek, a tributary of | the Elisabeth River, comfortable, i and hiippi. Thie point is between Norfolk anil Sc.tTolk. ubonl five jnilei fret" tinformer. and twelve miles from the Utter i place, wuile I'orti-tnoulh is but four mil«> distant. The l|7lh New York regiment ' accompanied ns here. We ,-uino by rail. When we first started it was a question among us where wc were going. The dif. PTWvnl points Speken of as our place ol , destination were, to reinforce Keyee on the i I'riiinvola, Hooker on the Rappahannock. In Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Fortress Mo"I roe. to do provost duty. None of tlie-e i .^ilace« were (reached, but we are here »lu- j ■ tinned to handle the pick nnd shovel, er. ' 1 in other words, to fortify this |M«ttion for ! ' i tho protertson of Porl-iintutli ami Ntu'v'k i • | against any emergency. There is to he a j chain of foci lOcution* between h.-re ami 1 ' , Suir, Ik d i-nr regiment tr to help in «h - ' erection of a Urge fort ill a cornfield near camp. Fort New Jersey is the name given , It. I believq the inside of the f rt U «e , coter five or six seres of ground, no siu*3 I affair, you will guess We -hjsll not l>e l able to complete it during onr time, ulf Iboogh « hen we leave it will have the Dp . j puarunce of being a fine nnd formidaide ; f»rlification. A large farm-boose stands ' , n.ur where the tort is building. The farm who has a son that is captain in the rebel ' farm mast be a haled sight in liim!> . Ile 1 has four line looking joui.g daughters. l,.it > they are s« strongly tiiu-tnred wi'th Ihe f j Southern ladies eu niarse that.no Union {soldier or officer is noticed by tham, u iiMtiere not in wluil etaisdlngthay »«r» at home. In this part of the co.intiy the ladies generally nr.- educated Mill nco»in- » plished, uud it see uis rather hard Ibatt I ilicre are fair one* that no arqnsintances can , . bo formed In help make a soldier's life less , . ud.ajt nn.l saeufirinc -Don I y«n think . ' so. reader ' Unl navrr mind we far ! S I ladies of the North, who excel those of the ' 1 Mouth in every attainment, v There is scarce a household in this ! i- vicinity that has not parted wiili one or | y rnoro male mi-inbers. who are in the Con- j j federate army, and with this fact before I v- i yon it ia needless to say that people tym- j : pa thine with the South. Yesterday I took 1 I a w»lk ia the country round, and conversed I i with o great many of the people. They ' 1 j tell me that regular mails are received ! '' from Itichmnnd. and thai Confederate sol-

i I diers have often come home, and stayed a ] ■ day or two with tbvir fri'Styls, ond then ] ] made their way beck through our lines. ( | These statementt-'are no doutit Irae. ond, in the facelt>'f them, is, there any wonder j that we do Wo' make more rapid progress I ' j in conquering ~tkp South f Bad I time to • ! write, I might refbte you ranch of interest ' ] that I have IvarAed in my conversatiogji I . with the inhabitant* here, t Our camp is not io as healthy a location \ • as it was at Suffolk even. They jay that j this ii a lever add ague locality. "Hie flefd ! | ' that we occupy as a* camping ground *os ] ^ lust cultivated by a Jeraormnn, wRnse name was Hulleck. !#e raised a splpofifd crop ef sweet pnlatoee here, j us i before ' the war brokff out. ? s We have received hut little news from f Suffolk siuce leaving there ; u'nd ns in wCoT • our forces are doing we know nothing of importance. It. is said, howerrr, that an | attack from the enemy haa been looked for ' for tbo past two or three days. .Sunday, r the forces were under arms awoitinj; mote1 menu. If the rebels find oat to their satisfaction that Hooker is not intending an early advance, tbey may attack tu at > Suffolk. Yet 1 can hardly believe that . Longst reel's men are in nnvYonduioii to ( act, upfln tbe offensive now. Our rrgimeot baa been reinforced to-day. Several men from the convalerceot and - partilqd camps arrived. Corpoial Garrison, 1 Learning Wealberby, Wm. Snyder, II. L. t Grace, and Josiab Powell, taken p'lsunera. atr3 Wai. V. Smith and Ssxoel llano,

wounded at Fredericksburg, all bf Co. p., wens ersreng Uioao that arrived. They were pleased to get among their comraduv ooco more, and their comrades rejoiced Io greet their presence, and welcome t kern to their ranks. The prisoner* had interesting tales to rclato of tbeir capture and life in GRANVILLE. MAHJUJEL). CLAIRr-M YKRS.— On the. 10th inst, iitfltev B. S. Sharp, nt M K. Parsonage, nV*r Cold Spring, (tape May. Mr John Cleit_o,f Burlington Co.. and Miss KliraMydrs, of Cold Spring, Cape May Co, J.rftrn remaining in the Post Office at Co, he, i. May 23 d, 18C3. Richard S. Bartons. J. Long. JAMES WILEY. P. M IN CHANCERY, OF NEW JERSEY ANDREW M. JtASTWICn, Compft AND (iEtlllUE STIt ATTIlSi. WIFE «n<» OTHERS Ort n -a ' FOR BALK OF MomT.ACKD PREMISES. I ) V \ inw of * writ of rxrcu-.n>'l t«mr l out of I»ihe tic. ' ourt of Chvnrery Ne«- Jcrvev. th ihe »l~.r alAtnl i-.«u-- I «-," «li Public &.W on premisrs ou S*tunl*, the STIh nf June next I e-t.-rm«.n of '.""l* ,lAy"n tlie*L>wcr rawnShlpmYhe ruuoly of Opc May, t..e folio.. In; Rcnl Estate. in Township of Ihe county oi C.-qw t«Mni!«*l — follows Ilcyinuln; a' a |mst In the line of l-uult herein r»n«i-)ISi mil in the line o( lands be I on* In; to Mriikln Hughe* the drain Intuitu* <«it of the batn Itelit sw-mr» lOHti thenee ,i) nearly east, bounde.1 ..id .lit ri, f..n> ihir,- |«-l,o. tr.m, Henre T*t of 1 "*■ // v/"1 * '-j j*** rob' "**f" I .-K theiier i.i i n.irtl, eiylita fitly I- trties tu a line ul lauds, to: mall. Thomas Pace's, i ..m ih.-rn . . i, ii, suing down said line south to the net Pares running the same course twenty I Wo -our-^V.V •vhlie'oak ti '"fJrri' * direct •u liked j II. from thrarp (5) sooth niortgrn de--e.-s easr six feet [ma, thence («) south St v-five-dn-tees < ast lltty-lour |wrches to a romrr stamline in he neck Ucld thence <ij south twenty lUdreirca cast slxte. il pcrei -s Into the field to a certain post t hence 1H) -outfi Ittly -eight desrru west, seventy l..or perc.irs and Itflren links to a large pepera* tr.-e, thence (9) south any eight degress west four ... l-erchrs to the end ol a dam, thence (10) on said dam sourh tuenty.sta decrees east tivehe |«etehe« "/(j1,'' uf w'i"lam Vhelilnger iteeM. . .ornet theu.-c (uf nnttll Ui'rty-mrrr'dnona'wst north Hurt) -lour d,-i;rees west (orVyw>oe<^eTei>m \ . -ad araeatren links In line ol isndsuf Aaemli.au I ,1 trorn thenrc tl5) along sal,! Hand's line a-»l MeukmHufflies lit r to jlrc ri est plare ol l«vloniog t'l Irl) wmcj | 't M *' '"ri,,' * ° '"in'|a^u" ' April »th."i Ju. Shcrnr. l'OK SAIjEe TWO-HORSE CARRIAGE A N D II A UN ESS. . •. A I ,SO A < >N 1/ I IO HSK ' i COVERED MARKET WAGON" 1 V f. /. I rt Apply '«• J. s. l.r.A' H. '•May 2":'. . J(w !,|.„d. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. ! S\': i ll*-n"[,> F1,<(ps lutlwr u'lh' * . rrdklurs ,.| t-ild dinnleol, to tiling iu their debts. | cemsn.li an.l claims ngaluat the ratitr of a .id de,..iletit, under oath, within iUim- oioatbs or they nil! t»- * I n"i'n| 't r°'o W''Ufl th'-f l"r, splnst the sal.1 s.1- * ' ,, ... PKTPR SOl'DKIt, xurroeate. May Mb, ISS3 myW.Jai ;i A CARD1 *1 ate sutiscrttwr, having had rvnsltk rahtr cxtv- , 1 rienec lot the last ten ;. ears. In pirsentiugsl ,i»s to the (,ov eminent, will continue to serve all sol ' i 1 TT' i. ""-•""wa- chUdren, or relatives, ut <t>talmngland warrants, bounty money, arrearages nf ' r!?*s£I ^ PtSZ ,b.V. "'•} . •"ttttl cnuttod unpsy, or pensions \c; as they entitled

,C '0,m,,r "r '"re nets ot Congress He hXa hikdSbiTe'T/iii" ■ *!!!*'£ w>lh -■*** "" oreesssry tonns, legally drawn for proM-cutlng ihe TV. . ... . MAWrttCE llKESLKV. May tnd IhdJ. my 7 SaRoal Eat&te Agoncy, •> COTTAOM and HIT* IIUVSHIT And SOLD OK COHNinniOjS, PFRSONS wlshlng to s«l or buy Farms or Farm Land In this roonly, or Cotrsgn and Lots, or ^JSP-JSiSK. ss s,™ w'H| the I'tireptjhc tarn. cuWdltions ol iwjmmt, *■! and other pgrtletnars, should be Slated. Ths price Ib.mkS'r.ta^Lr WUh TOOd,,'°" - HI-*, t COTTAtJKS RUN TED. . 'Sy'f cottages In let. or those In Philadelphia wishing to tent, will nnd It t6 their adtanlag' '» apply A cumnlsslan ol tire per real, on Ihe AaOwntuf renl will be charged tbo awaer If tho cotujg is rented. Olhrvaelw there rsUl be no chirp-! ' - ' 8- LEACH. THE BEST IMPROVED FIRE AND WATER PROOF OGSSPOSITION HOOFS. OBAVKI , ItOOPft, in Cape Island nml Cup. May OoM In the C1IKAPEST AND HUNT MAN KM.. eeKmJt'othJri™ ,rt,uw,od «ll before Cape Island, May 7, tSJ-tf. A» SH AW. ^ ~~ NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Alvln T. llllrirrlh admlnlstrstor of Daniel H.t_ saw: deevdeut, uuder oath, atthlo nhv Si "r "D)' . -