al q uesbur § Ntsstup.
WEDNESDAY, M• Y NT, 1863.
Mir "IN THIS COUNTRY ESPE
CIALLY, IT IS A HABIT NOT ONLY
ENTIRELY CONSISTENT WITH THE
CONSTITUTION, BUT EVEN ESSEN
TIAL TO ITS STABILITY, TO REGARD
THE ADMINISTRATION AT ANY
TIME EXISTING AS DISTINCT AND
SEPARATE FROM THE GOVERN
MENT ITSELF, AND TO CANVASS
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE ONE
WITHOUT A THOUGHT OF DISLOY
ALTY TO THE OTHER."—Hon. Wm.
H. SWARD, Secretary of State under the
Lincoln Administration.
Positively the Last Warning.
Wu have a large number of sub-
scribers outside of Pennsylvania
who owe us for the Messenger from
three to four years. We need the
money, and have DUNNED these
delinquents until we are tired of it.
and so arc our prompt, paying sub
scribers. We now notify all subscri
out of this State, who are in arrears
for OVER ONE YEAR, that unless
they PAY UP before the first day
of July, their papers will POSI
TIVELY be discontinued and their
accounts put in proper hands for
collection. They may rely upon our
keeping this promise strictly and
literally. We print for neither glory
or fan, and if they want a paper for
nothing, this is not the place to get
it. We will next week send accounts
for the last time, to these delin
queets.
I) , AYAOII , :' ILI 11. n - P al
At this Office, a large amount due
us for Job Printing and Advertising.
Executors, Administrators and oth-
ers who know themselves indebted
on these scores will oblige us by call
ing during the approaching Court
Gov. Seyznones .Letter to the
Vallandigham Meeting in Al-
bany, N. Y.
ALBANY, (N. Y.,) May 17.—The fol
lowing is a letter of Governer Seymour to
the Vallandigham meeting last night :
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, May 16
I cannot attend the meeting at the Cap
ital this evening, but I wish to state my
opinion in regard to the arrest of Mr,
Vallandigham. It is an act which has
brought dishonor on our country. It is
full of danger to our persons and our
homes; it bears on its front a conscious
violation of law and justice. Acting upon
the evidence of detailed inferences ;
shrinking from the light of day in the
darkness of night, armed men violate the
home of an American citizen, and furtive
ly bore him away to a military trial con
ducted without the safeguards known in
the proceedings of our judicial tribunals.
The transaction involves a series of of
fenses against our most sacred rights.—
It interfered with the freedom of speech.
It pronounced sentence without a trial,
save one which was a mockery, which in
sulted as well as wronged the perpetrators,
End now seeks to impose punishment, not
for an offense against law, but for the
disregard of an invalid order put forth in
the utter disregard of the principles of
civil liberty. If this proceeding is approv
ed by the Government and sanctioned ly
the people, it is not merely a step toward
revolution: it is revolution. It will not
only lead to military despotism : it estab
lishes military despotism. In this aspect
it must be accepted, or in this aspect re
jected, It is upheld, our liberties are over
thrown. The safety of our persons and
security of our property will hereafter de
pend upon the arbitrary will of such mili
tary rulers as may be placed over us,
while our constitutional guarantees will
be broken down. Even now the Govern
ors and Courts of some of the great West
ern Stares have sunk into insignificance
before the despotic powers claimed and
exercised by military men who have been
sent into their borders. It is a fearful
thing to increase the danger which now
overhangs us, by treating the law, the ju
diciary, and the State authorities, with
contempt.
The people of this country now wait
with the deepest anxiety the decisions of
the Administration upon these acts.—
Having given it a general support in the
conduct of the war, we pause to see what
kind of government it is for which we
are asked to pour out our blood and our
treasure. The action of the Administra
tion will determine, in the minds of more
than one-half of the people of the loyal
States, whether the war is waged to put
down the rebellion at the South, or de
stroy free institutions at the North. We
look for its decision with most solemn so
licitude. Signed,
HORATIO SEYMOURR.
A CHANGE OF BASE.
The following advertisement in the Osh
kosh (Wisconsin) Review, slitivi4V - that
there has been a general change of base
nines the accession of the Abolition
dynasty to power. Some of the
emancipation and amalgamation gen
try should apply for the coinfortabie
position. A white man's daughter "treat
ed as one of the family," by "respectable
colored" folks we should think would be
inconceivably happy :
"Warm:D.—By a respectable colored
Wilily, a bright, intelligent- white girl to
serve in the capacity of a house servant.
Such a girl will be paid good wages and
be treated as one of the family. Refer
ences as to honesty and intelligence re
quired. Address X. Y. Z., Oshkosh Post
Office.
"Nowa: UUJT."—It is estimated that
grow the commencement of the war, 53,
874 Federals have been killed, 117,029
wounded, 74,218 made prisoners, and 250.
000 died from disease and wounds ; that
60,898 Confederates have been killed, 119,-
015 wounded, 62,169 made prisoners, and
260,000 died fawn diens. sled wounds.
effmmunicatino.
For the Messenger.
LETTER FROM WESTERN VIRGINIA.
MILO, WETZEL CO., VA., }
May 14th, 1803.
Editors Messenger: Gents :—I see by the
paper and learn by private means that
you had a "big scare" down your way
some time ago. We had a small edition
of the same here; but, by the time that
we got well 'satisfied that we ought to be
very badly frightened, the danger was
over and the enemy gone—leaving as the
nearest and most certain evidence of his
visit, two burnt Rail Road bridges be
tween two and three miles from us. The
burners of these bridges were not, I
think though, very far from home, and
were mere bunglers at the business—hav
ing too much lightning whiskey aboard to
know well what they were at. These
bridges were only two or three hundred
yards apart, and it is true that they suc
ceeded in making them impassible, but
by the evidence of " Aunt Hannah"
Church, an old lady who lives "solitary
and atone" between the bridges, the
burners were between two and three hours
at the work, and ought to have been ex
pecting to be shot two or three times at
least whilst at the job. They kindled a
fire in an old shanty alongside, however,
and made themselves comfortable—burnt
two bridges and cut down a couple of tele
graph poles and cut the wires. These fel
lows were believed to be from the Glov
er's Gap region, a few miles above, where
some arrests have been made.
The Provost Marshal has now given
notice that damages to the Road, in future,
will be visited on all Secesh sympathizers
in tne vicinity of the destruction, by levy
ing contributions for its repair. This
would be all fair and right where the fact
could be established That such persons
were privy to and conniving at the act,
but might be made very oppressive and
unjust, and converted, by bad men, into a
punishment on those in the vicinity of
the road whom they might choose to
consider their enemies. As an evidence
of how these things are sometimes done,
I will just mention that along with the
first invoice of workmen and soldiers t hat
came out from Wheeling to repair dam
ages, during the raid, were some hot-head
ed and would-be very patriotic citizens,
filled with patriotism and bad whiskey.
Our friend, William Newman, was at
this Post Office with his mail for Waynes
burg;and hearing the report of a band of
Cavalry having taken your place, was
holding on here for further information,
before risking his valuable corporosity
and mail within reach of their sacrilegous
hands. Though it is well known by all
who are acquainted with Mr. Newman,
that he has used his voice and influence
for the maintenance of the Union, both
before and since the Secession of the
States, some of these hot-heads, probably
under the same potent alcoholic influence
that burnt the bridge, had Mr. Newman,
who was enquiring for the news, arrested
as a Secessionist and "dangerous charac
ter," and had him for some time held in
"durance vile." This . kind of thing, I
take it, is rebuilding or strengthening the
Union in a very small way. Such a course
must and will react on those who so mis
use power. Mr. Newman was fortunately
examined before being sent off, and of
course released—but it is a stigma
our national character that at the mere
wish of an irresponsible man, citizens can
be th.us summarily arrested without any
real charge or grourvls. •
Well, we are soon to be " West Vir
gihia." At the election held on the 26th
of April, the majority in its favor was
over 22,000, there being lees than one
thousand votes against it. As there
were less than 50,000 votes iu the forty
eight counties conitosing the new State,
at the last Presidential Election, when
the largest vote ever given was polled, I
think it may be Teemed pretty conclusive
evidence, considering the state of affairs
under which the late election was held,
that it is the fixed determination of West
Virginia to cut loose from the old carcass,
"which is, not only dead but stinketh."—
An election is to be held on the 28th inst.,
S for Governor, and other State officials,
and the new Government goes into opera
tion on June 30th, at Wheeling. Arthur
Inghram Boreman, a native of your place,
will be elected first Governor of West
Virginia, 'and a .better man, probably,
could not have been selected. Mr. Bore
man is a lawyer of Parkersburg, now
President Judge of that Judicial District,
and a son of Kenner S. Boreman, Esq.,
formerly of Waynesburg, well recollected
by your old citizens as a most worthy and
estimable man ; and the son, now about
to be placed in the highest office in the
gift of the people of his State, is worthy
of the father, w bicb is eulogy enoagh.
There is but one ticket, which is as fol
ows: For Governor, A. J. Borenta.n, cif
Wood County ; Secretary of State, J. E.
Boyers, of Tyler ; (I think he is a native
of Greene Co., or Monongalia, Va.,) for
Treasurer, Campbell Tarr, of Brooke ; for
Auditor. Samuel Crane, of Randolph ;
for Attorney General. A. B. Caldwell, of
Ohio; foe Judges of the Courts of Appeal,
R L. Berkshire, of Monongalia, W. A.
Harrison, of Harrison, and James H.
Brown, of Kanawha. The ticket is a
mixed one, composed of one half Demo
crats, and one-half old line Whigs—Mr.
Boreman being one of the latter. Par
kersburg, Grafton, Clarksburg, Weston
and Wheeling are among the aspirants for
the State Capitol.
The last heard of the "Raiders" they
were at the Oil Wells or Burning Springs,
in Wirt County, going southward. They
gave Parkersburg and Wheeling a big
fright—Col. Mulligan having came on last
week to Moundsville with his Brigade, to
protect Wheeling, it being feared that
the Cavalry would come up along the riv
er counties to attack the latter place.—
Our people are now urging upon the Sec
retary of War the necessity of keeping
some 5,000 Cavalry in West Virginia, for
its protection and that of Western Penn
sylvania. The last raid has proven the
utter pdwerlessness. of Infantry, or any
force an foot, however large, to protect a
region of country from a Cavalry force.
The Infantry, when Cavalry is concerned,
can only act on the defensive. They can,
it is true, when in sutlicient force, pro
tect towns or points where stationed, but
cavalry can, with perfect impunity, pass
and repass around the footmen, and whilst
committing depredations, laugh at their
efforts to protect a countzy, or bring
them to battle only when they feel strong
enough to desire it—keeping at a sale dis
tance when they wish to avoid a fight.—
Gen. Roberts, with his large force upon
the North Western Rail Road could not
get near them—because their object was
not to fight but to rob and destroy. This
matter is now being pressed upon Govern
ment with good prospect of success, as
this is believed to be the only means of
preventing a repetition of the last scenes
of terror and devastation. J. W. H.
THE DRAFTED MEN.
For the Messenger
WASHINGTON, N. C , May 9tll, 1863
Editors of the 31 essenger.—Gentlemen,
having no doubt but what the numerous
readers of your valuable paper through
out the county would like to hear from
the "Drift" occasionally, I will state
that both officers and privates of Company
A. of the 108th Regiment, P. M., with the
exception of three priva,tes, are well.—
We have been in the U. S. service for sev
en months, and during that time we have
lost a man from our company by disease,
and only three by discharges, one of these
being discharged on account of his being
over 45 years of age when drafted. Our
men are in high life from this one fact
alone, viz: that their term of service ex
pires in two months, not from the fact
that they see our prospects looks any
brighter, nor the South any nearer w hipped
into love than when they left home. The
"Drift can't see it."
The health of the entire regiment is
good. There have only been seventeen
deaths in the regiment since its formation.
1 will send with this a full roll 'of the
company. More anon.
A LIVE LINCOLN MAN
H. H. CREE Captain.
W. F .11L - GuEs, L;t Lieut.
J. M. MORRIS, 2nd Lieut. *
SERGEANTS.
Ist. J. Hudson, S. B. Arnett, T. Craig,
J. E. Burwell, A. Grooms.
CORPORALS
R. C. Bennett, W. Dunn, J. S. Mundell,
L, L. Rich, J. Moore, C. C. Ruse. .1. W.
Wilson, W. F. Smith.
Wagoner.—J. Orndort
PRIVATES
W. Anderson, J. Areley, L. Adkinson,
W. Bowan, J. M. Barewore, C. Calvert,
A. Colzard, W. Clutter, F. M. Clark, J.
H. Cummins, D. C. Davidson, B. F. Dean,
J. Davidson, J. Estle, J. W. Evans, M.
Estle, W. Gass, A. Guseman, H. Grooms,
E. Garrison, E B. Garrison, P. Hight, J.
Headley, H. Hendershot, G. Herod, T.
_Huffman, S. Hopkins, N. Hartley, S. E.
Hill, G. Johnson, T. Johnson, S. R. Kin
nan, J. A. Keener, H. Lambert, J. H.
McKee, I. Morris, J. Minor, G. W. Nise
ley, L. S. Patterson, S. Phillips, J. Piles,
T. B. Roberts, W. T. Ruse, S. Roberts, A.
3. Rush, S. H. Rose, D. Rice, J. i. Rine
hart, L. Russell, G. W. Reager, F. Staley,
J. Sine, J. Sharpneck, S. Staley, S. Smith.*
J. Shriver, C. F. Smith, J. Shape, W. H.
Thompson, B. F. Wilkinson, J D. West,
M. Wade. J. Watson, 11. White, A. Wa
ters, M. Wright, B. Weaver.
Discharged—J. Cumbrage, A. Grebble.
*E. Smith, detached to command Gen.
Spinola's Ambulance Corps.
" - Smith detached to the Quartermaster's
department.
DECLINATION.
Messrs. Jones & Jennings: Gents:—Cir
cumstances over which I have no control
compel me to decline being a candidate for
Assembly at the approaching Primary
Election. At some future time, I shall
gratify my friends by submitting my name
to the consideration of the voters. The
success of the party in the present emer
gency is, with me, paramount to all per
sonal aims and ambition. I sincerely de
sire its harmony and triumph, and am
unwilling to multiply any difficulties or
embarrassments in its way at the present
time. Hence I decline.
JAMES HUGHES.
New liainpublre Congressmen.
The official vote for members of Con
gress in New Hampshire elects Marcy,
Democrat, in the Ist district, by 76 major
ity ; Rollins, Republican, in the 2nd dis
trict, by 351 majority ; and Patterson, Re
publican, in the 3rd district, by 276 ma
jority,
ger"How dare any man," says Sum
ner's organ, the Boston Commonwealth,
"pray for a return of that festering wrong,
that sin and shame—the Union as it was?
It is like breaking the tables of the Eternal
Law and dashing them in the face of Je
hovah." Could blasphemy or political
madness go further ? And yet we are
asked to labor with these men for their
object, the destruction of slavery.
Ser"Occasional," in the Philadelphia
Press, says: " I thii,k the temper of the
American people, as exhibited during this
rebellion, worthy of all praise." This
compliment is deserved, for if ever a peo
pls had their temper tried by unwortfiy
and incapable rulers, it is ours. We sus
pect, however, they will exhibit a temper
at the next Presidential election that "Oc
casional" won't feel like praising.—
World.
Wiiff'Bv the official lists received at
tv'e Surgeon General's office, the num
ber of rebel prisoners who have died
in Union Hospitals since the com
mencement of the war, is shown to
be over 6,000.
r The Abolitionists who claim to pos
sees all the patriotism in the country,
might learn a useful lesson by reading the
parable of the Pharisee and the publican
Democratic County Meeting I
LARIIiig AND ENTHUSIASTIC
GATDERING !
In compliance with the call of the
Vigilance Committee, the Democra
cy of the county assembled in Mass
Meeting at Waynesburg, on Tues
day, May 19th. On motion of David
Crawford, Esq., the meeting was or
ganized by the election of the follow
ing officers :
President,
Wm. A. PORTER, of Waynesburg
Vice Presidents,
W. T. H. Pauley, Morgan.
Joseph Sedgwiek, Jefferson.
John Dowlin, Cumberland.
Capt. John Stephenson, Greene.
Philip Kussart, Dunkard.
Win. Cleavenger, Monongahela.
B. Fordyce, Perry.
Richard Phillips, Wayne.
Thomas Moore, Whitely.
Geo. Hennan, Esq., Gilmore.
Capt. John Scott, Jackson.
Dr. I. N. Owens, Springhill.
Dr. P. R. Chapman, Alleppo.
James Hughes, Esq., Riehhill.
Edward Barker, Esq., Morris.
Isaac Mitchell, Washington. •
John MeNay, Franklin,
Oliver Phillips, Centre..
Secretaries,
Wm. L. Lazoar and R. A. McCon
nen ; of Marion.
Committee on Resolutions,
John Phelan, Vannat
ta, James Meeks, R. W. Jones, Geo.
Wolf; Esq., S. H. Adamson, J. G.
Ritchie, and Morgan Belt.
The organization completed, Hon.
WM. H. WITTE, of Montgomery
County, was introduced to the large
audience by the President of the
meeting, and proceeded to address
the people on the groat questions of
the day in a speech of singular abili
ty, eloquence and force. It would
be impossible to furnish any thing
like a satisfactory synopsis of his re
marks. Enough to say that for two
hours he commanded the constant
and unwearied attention of the crowd,
and there was scarcely a hearer who
was not reluctant to have the speech
(dose.
On the conclusion of the speech,
11. W. JONES, in behalf of COL PHELAN,
Chairman of the Committee on Res
olutions, presented the following
series, which were unanimously
adopted :
Resolved, That the resolution pass
ed, unanimously, by the Congress of
r the United States in July, 18tH, by
which they declared that "this war
is not waged in any spirit of oppres
sion or for any purpose of conquest or
subjugation, or for overthrowing or in
terfering with the rights or established
institutions of the States, but to thfand
and maintain the supremacy of the Con
stitution, and to presfrve the Union,"
placed the war upon such grounds as
rallied the whole people to its sup
port; while now, with little more than
a year pasd, the Administration
has wholly changed its position, and
made it a war for the abolition of
slavery atone, regardless of the Union
and the Constitution ; the result is,
that the North is divided and the
South united, and the war, apparent
ly, no nearer a tor urination.
2d. That the suspension of the
right of the people GO the great writ
of Habeus Corpus, in places where
the Courts are open and untram
melled, is an invasion of their priv
ileges which cannot be tolerated.—
A sturdy Judge proclaimed, two hun
dred years ago, even in Monarchical
England, " When the Courts of law
are open, Martial Law cannot be exe
cuted. The power that is above the
Law is unfit for the King to ask, or for
us to grant."
3d. That the late arrest and kid
napping, in the silent hours of the
night, of Eon. C. L. Vallandighant,
and his trial by court martial, in a
State which has never yet been
reached by the war, and fur words
spoken openly, in an assemblage of
the people, is an outrage so wanton
and unjustifiable as should arouse the
indignation of every patriotic citi
zen. If Mr. Vallandigham has vio
lated the laws of the land, his ene-
in the militia when in actual Ser
vice, in time of war or public dan
ger." Martial Law has always gov
erned the soldiers and sailors, but
civilians never, except within actual
military lines; and the pretence of
appointing a military commandant
in States whore the war does not pre
vail, with a view of extending martial
law to such places, and subjecting
others than these in the "army, navy,
or militia" to it, is a sheer and palpa
ble invasion of the Constitution, and
the most sacred right of the citizen,
guaranteed by the Constitution.
Bth. That the people cannot, and
dare not yield the rights of Free
Speech and a Free Press—the right to
investigate and pass upon the acts of
all our rulers—rights secured by all
our Constitutions, State as well as
National. Their surrender w , mild
mark us as degenerate sons of noble
sires, and as fit subjects for military
despotism. In the terse and vigor
our language of Daniel Webster, "It
is the ancient and undoubted prerog
ative of this people to canvass pub
lic measures and the merits of pub
lic men. It is a 'home bred right,' a
fireside privilege. It has been en
joyed in every house and cabin in the
nation. It is not to be drawn into
controversy. It is i.s undoubted as
the right of breathing the air or
Attlkieg on the earth. Belonging to
private life as a right, it belongs
to public life as a duty, and it is the
last duty which those whose repre•
sentative I am shall find me to aban
don. Aiming at all times to be cour
teous and temperate in its use, ex
cept when the right i tself is question
ed, I shall place myself on the extreme
boundary of my right and bid defiance
to any arm that would move me from my
ground. This high constitutional priv
ilege 1 shall defend and exercise when
in this house and in all places ; in time
of peace; in time of war, and at all times.
Living, I shall assert it; and should
I leave no other inheritance to my
children, by the blessing of God I
will leave them the inheritance of
free principles and the example of
a manly, independent, and constitu
tional defense of them."
7th. That the Emancipation Proe
clamation of the President is alike
unconstitutional, unnecessary, and
impolitic;—unconstitutional, because
that instrument confers no authori
ty upon the President to abolish or
regulate the local institutions of the
States ; unnecessary ; because the
Confiscation Act already freed the
slaves of those in rebellion, leaving
the Proclamation to operate upon
those not in rebellion, and impolitic,
because it served to convince the
South that a return to the Union
could only be at the expense of the
cherished right of self-government.
Bth. That until the Southern peo
ple show a desire to terminate the
war and restore the blessings of the
Union, the Government can do no
less than prosecute the war. If the
Administration shall cease its mis
chievous policy, respect the Consti
tution, and place competent Gener
als at the head of the army, it will
have, as it has had heretofore, the
active support and sympathy of the
whole people.
9th. That whilst wo honestly en
tertain the views contained in these
resolutions, we would oc recreant to
our time-honored principles, did we
not, upon this occasion re-assert our
unalterable devotion to the Consti
tution and the Union of the Stat
That whilst we charge upon the Re
publican party the adoption of
measures by which the war was orig
inated, and the defeat of means by
which the great calamity might have
been . averted, we cannot, as Demo
cratic patriots, entertain the slight
est
sympathy for treason and rebel- i
lion. In no event will we consent to
any peaceable dissolution of the
Union, but say, in the language of
the illustrious Jackson, "it must and
shall be preserved."
On motion,
the Delegates to the
approaching Democratic State Con
vention were recommended to support
Hon. Wm. 11. WITTE for Governor.
The meeting adjourned with three
cheers for the distinguished speaker,
and with renewed h in the devo
tion of the National Democracy to
the Constitution and the Union, and
the great principles of popular lib
erty.
MARRIED
On T., ursday morning last, by Rev.
Charles Tilton, Mr. A. J. SowEas to Miss
MELvINA, daughter of Isaac Hooper, all
of Waynesburg.
OBITUARY.
J. P. BARNETT, of Richhill township
Greene County, Pa., a member of the Ander-,
son Cavalry, departed this life, November 18th,
at Carlisle Barracks, Pa., of Typhoid
in the 28th year of his age.
is young man was one of these quiet, unas
ig persons who gain the affections and con•
to of all their associates. He was respected
:toyed by all who knew him. He enlisted
Anderson Cavalry on the 29th of August,
rent to Carlisle Barracks to camp where
'as taken with the Typhoid Fever. He
red a great while, but the messenger of
came at last and took him from amongst
He bore his sickness with the greatest
tosure, and was never hoard to complain,
iiipressed his willingness to yield to the
his Master. His spirit has taiiett its
to that world from whence none ever re
, and where the clashing of arms and bat
roar are heard no more. May his silent
rest in peace. He leaves a widowed Moth
rothers and sisters to mourn their loss ;
loss of a kind and affectionate son and
ter whose voice will never again be heard
Ingle with those who loved him dearly.—
teat is vacant around the old family cirlce
nigh he was near and dear to us, yet we
Tilling to yield to the call of Heaven in
ig him from amongst us. All honor is
Mrs. Long who nursed him with all the
-less and affection of a mother.
DIED,
her residence, in Waynesburg, on
day, May 18th, 1863, Mrs. LYDIA
in the 83d year of her age.
She was consort of •Jonathan Black,
deceased, who was a Revolutionary pen
sioner. She has ever been ar. exemplary
christian woman, and has been fbr many
years a devoted memher of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. She has been much
afflicted of late years, but kept her mind
active to the last. She has gone to that
sun bright clime where her youth will be
renewed, and where the weary are at rest.
—Peptiblican.
On Monday, May 18th, 1863, of Con
sumption, Joann A. 811MIGTON, at the
residepce of his father, John Simington,
in Franklin township, is the 27th year of
his age.
PIO of te gag.
From General Grant's Department I
GLORIOUS VICTORY 1 1
Haine's Bluff and the. Entire Works
of Vicksburg in our Possession.
57 Pieces of Artillery Captured
Probable Surrender of the Entire Rebel
WASHINTON, May 23.—The folio w
ing dispatch was received by the
President to-day :
MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 23.
To Col. Anson Stager, Washington, D. C.
Official information from below to
Wednesday has been received. Gen.
Grant has captured Haines Bluff,
and the en tire works of Vicksburg,
and a large number of prisoners, and
fifty-seven pieces of artillery. The
battle is still raging with every pros
pect of capturing the entire force in
Vicksburg. We hole J ackson, Black
river bridge, and Haine's Bluff. A
report is being made up for Washing
ton. (Signed,) W. G. FuLLEtt.
Assistant Manager of the Telegraph.
WASEUNGTON, May 23, 11 A, 14.
The following dispatch has just been
received at the War Department :
_Memphis, Tenn., _May 23d.—1 for
ward the following which hay just
been received from Colonel John A.
Rawlins, Assistant Aj u tan t Gen eral
Rear of Vicksburg, flay 10.—The
Tennessee landed at Brunnsburg on
the 30th-of April. un the Ist of Miry
fought the battle of Port Gibson, de
feated the rebels under Bowen, whose
loss in killed, wounded and prison
ers was at least 1,500, and in artil
lery five pieces.
Oa the 12th of May, at the battle
of Raymond, the rebels were defeat
; ed, with the loss of 800 men.
On the 1-Ith defeated Joseph E.
Johnson and captured Jackson with
a loss to the enemy of 400, besides
immense stores and man ufw•tures
and seventeen pieces of artillery.
On the 16th of May, fought the
bloody and decisive battle of Bank
er's Creek, in which the entire Vicks
burg force, under Pemberton, were
defeated with a loss of 29 pieces of
artillery and 4.000 men
On the 18tb, defeated the same
force at Big Black Bridge, with a loss
of 2,600 men and 12 pieces of artil
lery.
On the 18th, invested Vicksburg
closely. To-day General Steele car
ried the rifle-pits on the north of the
city, the right (Attie arrny resting on
the Mississippi above Vicksburg.
(Signed,)
.Tons A. RAwrAss, A. A. G.
LATER.-1 learn further that there
are from 15,000 to 20,000 men in
Vicksburg, and that Pemberton lost
nearly all his field artillery, that the
cannonading teased at Vicksburg
about 3 o'clock, p, m., of the 2011 i.—
Grant has probably captured nearly
all. (Signed,)
S. A. lluannur, Maj Gen.
Some of the Southern papers arc
parading an estimate of their loss in
the late battles on the Rappahan
nock, which makes it 9,200 in killed
wounded and missing. But the
Richmond Examiner of last Satur
day, says that 12,000 wounded had
been brought to this city. Allowing
for those sent to other places, and
those not removable, and allowing
also for the disposition to understate
a loss, and we may say that the
whole number of wounded was 15,-
000. The ordinary proportion would
make the killed about three thou
sand We know that General Hook
er captured at least 3,000 prisoners.
This would make the whole rebel
loss about 21,000, and it is more like
ly to be above than below this figure.
The lass in our army is nearly as
great as that of the rebels. It is aw
ful to think that an indecisive battle
should cause such a terrible amount
of misery. . Neither North nor South
can honestly exult much over this
one, though the rebels are making a
tremendous boast over their "great
victory."—Phila. Eve., Bullelin.
The Capture of Jackson, Missis-
By dispatches received on 11.1dip
day at the Headquarters of the Army,
we learn that Gen. Grant, after a
hard day's fight, succeeded in cap
turing and occupying Jackson Miss.
An official dispatch from Gen. Hurl
but, dated at. Memphis 17th inst.,
says :—Rebel papers of the 14th
from Vicksburg and Jackson, report
that General Grant defeated Griggs'
brigade at Raymond, on Tuesday the
12th ins:. The rebel loss is admit
ted in the papers at seven hundred.
On the next day, Griggs was reinfbr
ced by General W. H. T. Walker, of
Georgia, and was attacked at Missis
sippi Springs, and driven in towards
Jackson. On Thursday, a dispatch
from Canton says the United States
troops had taken Jackson, from the
East. This was probably a cavalry
movement.
General Joseph Johnston arrived
at Jackson on the 13th, and went
out towards Vicksburg with three
brigades. He must have been West
of Jackson when the capture was
made by our forces. The force with
which Grant fought Grigg's brigade
was from Port Hudson, and Walker's
from Jordan. Every horse fit for
service is claimed by the rebel gov
ernment to mount their troops. Gen.
Grant has struck the railroad near
Edwards' Station.
S. H. B
Successful Cavalry Skirmish
BALTIMORE, May 20.—The follow
ing dispatch was received to day
WINCTIEETER. Va., May 20,—Maj.
Gen. Schenck My cavalry had a
skirmish with the rebel cavalry to
day, six miles from here. We killed
six and captured seven of them, in
cluding a Captain and a Lieutenant.
There were no casualties on our
side. My cavalry is still in pursuit.
[signed] R. R. MILROY, Maj. Geol.
Force
The Rebel Loss.
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