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he Federal army are now drawing their rations. He says, further, that he cut a canal six miles long around the island from above, four miles of which was through a heavy forest, and sawed off the trees four feet under water. He reports his capture of troops to be fragmentary portions of seven regiments, namely: The 1st Alabama, Colonel Stedman. Col. Alex Brown's regiment, Tennessee. Colonel Baker's, Alabama, Tennessee, and Mississippi. Col. Clark's Tennessee. Col. Marsh Walker's Arkansas, 40th Confederate regiment. Col. Smith's Arkansas. Col. Terry's battalion, Arkansas. The total number taken is not far from eighteen hundred. He describes our guns as being but indifferently spiked; but we may say the same of Yankee work in this respect. Modern appliances for the removal of spikes are so ingenious that a single night or day will suffice to withdraw any number, and this fact is therefore no reasonable indication of carelessness or ignoran