Did Not Save Their Bacon

miles west of Port Gibson the advanoe of General Grant's anny found n a forest by the roadside two immeüce piles of bacon, eaoh coveriug an aroa of 2,500 squre foet, each piléd as high as the branches of the forest trees, and eaoh oontaining, by estiraate, 40,000 pounds. tlia eneuiy, counting on an easy viotory at Tbompson's HiJls, had loaded his train with these supplies, and his rutreat wasso horried tbat, lm had not time to remove Ordeetroy them. Of course these, as weil as an abuudaneo of tents, feil iuto our pogjujfgion,