The Boston Journal has a letter dated on board the United States gunboat Kennebec, off Natchez, May .14, which says:—”We arrived at this place on Monday, 12th inst. The following vessels are lying at anchor opposite the city: United States sloop Brooklyn, Iroquois, Oneida, and gunboats Sciota, Wissahicon, Winona and Kennebec. This city has not surrendered yet; will probably this day, and then for Vicksburg and Memphis. The planters are destroying and burning all their cotton, great quantities of which are floating down the river every day. One planter told me a few days ago below here, that he had burned fifteen hundred bales of cotton.”
Alexandria Gazette, Alexandria, VA