Show OPERATION operations 9 ON lill tiie tile THE mississippi commodore commadore porters fleet abou ithe i the of june opened 11 hc ve on the lower batteries at vicksburg and kept up the cannonading canno f fi tr r a 3 veral verai hours when it t ceased but buts Ws bras r renewed e the next morning the batteries rc re pil d but feebly and the casu casualties altie were but few in the course of the thel day tan sports came down the river and landed troops on the shore so says report dispatched dispatches oe of a more recent date stated staled that col cul Ell eil elliot lot of the same fleet had been i enabled to keep up co correspondence with ear far ra fleet through louis Loui siara lar lap a the tha he rams monarch and ume timid bont aint dt be lauer elid end of june went up the he yazoo about dixy miles adlea to destroy the confederate gunboats gun boats van dorn polk and living ston which ivere lvere ere lying there protected by a raft ana and a battery of foul four guns on being attacked the confederates set fire to the blaa boas and let them float down down stream a ream compe compelling lUng the rami ramn rams to retire dettre fo escare escape being burned on the morning of the 28 th of june as per nine of vessels succeeded in passing ingup up the river niver above vicksburg through a heavy cannonade cannonading cannon canno adi adl n g from thirty guns A canal was being dug on which several thousand negroes were e employed in aloyed to turn the mississippi out of is c cl iannel above vicksburg ur k in order to nake make u ake that city an inland town abi h was reported completed on the first of july if the scheme aprons a A vicksburg b villas stated be eleven miles from tho tha river it was announced on the 21 instant that Farra guts fleet wasye was repulsed zt vicksburg Vick bicks surg arg on the wt after a eight fight of two hours the confederate defenses I 1 ire rie tie re represented as being formidable both below the city I 1 1 fire fine on evening a house belonging in tp to elder taylor fourteenth ward werd took fire fromi from a stove pipe and before he the flames ivero ahry had lad spread so far that the roof of the buil bull building din was consumed ot or destroyed dore wore le ore they tuy tny could couls be extinguished this is the first ue fife that has occurred in the city for gereral years worthy of lett lete l tes |