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prevent a detachment being sent below to interfere with Wheeler's rans. Franklin, Tenn., May 10.--A flag of truce from Spring Hill to-day reports Van-Dorn's death confirmed. He was shot by Dr. Peters, not Major Cherry. There had long been an undue intimacy between Mrs. Peters and General Van- Dorn. Dr. Peters escaped to Nashville. A letter from Columbia to the Rebel says three transports and two gunboats, descending the Tennessee river on the 27th of April, were attacked by Col. Woodward, and the transports were sunk. The gunboat escaped. Progress of Gen. Grant. Cairo, April 11. --The Memphis Bulletin says: We learn that Jackson, Miss., is already invested, and that the rebels have no way of getting out of Vicksburg but by cutting their way through the national forces. The steamer Horizon, during an engagement at Grand Gulf, ran in a snag and sunk with 100,000 rations on board, most of which were lost. It was the pontoon bridge over Big Blac