The Position

The tclograph and the papers have had I Vicksburg captured several times sinco j our last issue, but at our latest reliablo advicos, we regret to say that the rebels still held that stronghold, and that G-en. Grant is yet knocking at her doors. If the censorship of the press would stop bogus reporta and pennit real news to come over the wires we might mako some 1 prediction, as it is we wait in glorious unccrtainty, hopiug for a triumph of our arms. An "intercepted dispatch," so the story goes, says that Jeffi Davis promises the Vicksburg rebels 100,000 men if they can nold out two weeks, wliile the Blobile papers claim they have the best of the fight so far, and can hold out until their provisions exhausted, that is five raonths. We hopo that G-rant will accomplish his object before the large reiaforeements rcach the sccne of aetion, and that in any event he will not be left to be overwhelmed by accumulations of the encmy. We have no confidence in the report that Boauregard has cvacuatcd Charleston, but presmns, not expecting an attack, he has sent or will sond every spare man to Lee or to the West; and if to Lee that an advance on Washington is in the ' programme. In Rosecrans' department " stirring newa " is promised. SST Tho President bas chacged the senteuce of Vallandioiiam from confinenient in Fort Warren, and ordered him sent within the rebel lines. He was dolivered to the rebel officers near Murfreesboro, protestiug that be was a citizen of Ohio and of the United States, and declaring himself a prisoner of war. It is said he has been ordered to llichmond to await a decisión as to wbether he will be permitted to remain within the Confedérate lines. We predict tbat he will be sent North, and that the goveminent will get out of a bad job, as far as it can, by leaving him in the enjoyment of Lia liberty.