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IL W. JONES, 1 - Editors.
JAL B. JENhINGS,)
"One Gimetry, Ogg Constjtylion,
Destiny.?"
11111tIstilt11%) VA
AT E JUNE I i 864
•
POE PRESIDENT IN 1861,
SOL GEORGE B. McCLELLAN,
pgub je r i to the Decision of the Democratic Na
• tional Can't:en:ion.]
{/01f)pflATic COUNTY TICKET.
A,MF:IIIFILT,
iiio,49
air rERUT Tr.
SHERIFF,
ON ATH JOHNS,
OP IRAIBINIINOTOp.
commisstonte,
741f:0mit.% SCOTT,
Of WRITELY.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY,
.0i$0! G. it*FTCIIIE,
CZE=E3
POOR RorsE Ditticrose,
ARTHUR ItINICH•RT,
iiF mar 1414 .pi
#FDITO•,
A. J.' MAIKTIN,
or waTOZ.
'While the army Is fightlug. you as 7 t-
Ikep l i see that the war Is prosecytpi or
op tot eservation of the Vino!? auii he
tlkiditetilit, ai4A or•youir •laViouality tiLd
Seer rights ai eitizeut.t!
G EO. 41. McGLEL L N.
jAlt-!.Tpe Constitution aM tpe puff is
I piateet i tt kigetl . ter. If they 640, the y
musk iogettier; if they fall. they
oust fall legether."••Daaie/ Webster. •
The Official Return" of Oft Primary
Eleotion.
At the Convention of Return Judges on
Monday last,no returns were received from
Springhill, MorriS, Dimkard or Greene town
ships, and ire are . censequently compelled to
defer the publication of the official vote until
next week. 'lt is inexplicable to as that it
is not made the duty of some person in each
township to be present at the Convention
with the returns. This same thing of with
holding the •ote until after the Convention
occurred last year, and is getting to be a
decided "bore." Let a remedy be devised
and applied.
According to the otllcial returns as far as
received, and urofficial reports 'from the re
maining townships, the following gentlemen
-are the successful candidates :
Assembly—Thomas Rose, of Perry.
Sheriff--Beath Johns, of Washington.
Commissioner—Thomas Scott, of Whitely.
Plied Attorney—Joseph iiitC4its,' 9f
. . .
Ustion.
Poor Douse Director--Arthur Rinehart of
Franklin.
Auditor—A. J. Martin. of Wayne
THE COUNTY TICKET.
We nail to our mast-head, this week.
the names of the Democratic nominees
for the several county oftices to b; filled
at the approaching Fall election. They
have been fairly selected, are all good
and true men, and are entitled tp . the
hearty and energetic support of every
Democrat in the county. The canvas
has been a wain one, niuch intereat has
been evinced, and every proper means
ep4plpyed by the friends of the various
candidates to pilsure, their "'success; and
now that the people have signified their
preferences ; let all personal pFeju dices and
prepossessions be laid aside, and let all
labor f,,r the election, by an overwhelm
ing majority, of "the Cc:47 et, THE WHOLE
TI - cgrr, AND NOTHING BUT THE
TICKET."
. „
Mr. ROSE, the nominee for Assembly,
well 7 ktipivn to our readers and the
arty, this being the third than his name
has . been before the people as a candi
date for Assembly. He is a gentleman
of respect4hlelity and intepigence,
'and will make an incorruptible legislator.
Mr. JOINS, the candid4t,elo Stietifr,
is one of the most active 40 consisinnt
pemocrats in the county, stud will prpre
a most courteous and efteient, G 4 47
Messrs. tITCHIE , SCQTT,
TIN and ItIIipHART are 411 coimallle
gentlemen, well-qualified for the
Alone for which they hayp been named,
and -enjoy a large share of pill confi
dence, as is attested by the handompe
rote they have received.
Let the party go to work with a will
for the entire Ticket, and give it an Un
precedented majority. This is no time
'to coif about wen, or to alio*penional
': joie l litifts to interfere with
• - Abe 'arty : Xen are but the
day, l 44 Pinciple, like
11%Id‘iit 'eternal
• pairchers is not a Niwi . it phe Union
wbillAsi!siid, or sits sin pay, that be dim
*l . Olll,
_tits , with the rent in any
1641 .111 iNmulf40 ripetwm—rw-
It k now nearly three years since the NEA-
szsozn has been na4er the control of its pres
ent Editors,—a period full of elcitoments,
and of slip:o4l . g interest in our national
politics andtiffairs. In the conduct of the
paper, we Have labored honestly and zealously
to subse.r.ye alike the true ; interests ,of the
country and of the great and patriotic party
IN ith which it is our pride and privilege to be
Identified. We haye stood squarely on its
platform, have been neither ahead of the party
nor tiehind it, and Lave extended to its policy
and candidates a hearty, earnest and tmitortn
support. As a consequence, (for the people
are generally Just in their awards,) the
paper has had more subscribers and a better
support in all respects than it has ever had
betore. 'Nevertheless, there has been some
fault-finding, and a disposition on the part of
m few captioil,s and conceited grugiblers to
' dictate a Cotirse for us , - . ,vhich, in our view,
wonla not only l i iiki , e imperilled the success of
the party, but would Have done violence to
our convictions of patriotic duty. While we
have listened respectfully to the suggestions
of .these "favored and enlightened few," and
heard the mutterings of the distant thunder
they have tried to raise alxiy,t ,otir ,earft, we
have kept right on our way, assured Atot we
were RIGIIT, and that Taxa, the infti4ige.cx
rector of all wrongs, would "make AII things
even" and vindicate our course and ; m otives.
We have had no personal and mercenary i.ob
jects to attain, and no nervous longings for
popularity. Our single aim has been To no
ota Di TY to our country and party ,hi 'these
trying and perplexing times, and p.w. gon
science acquits us of any intentional or de
liberate dereliction in this regard.
We have been led to these remarks by the
perusal of a private letter just received by the
Senior Editor from one of our subscribers,
and from which we hope to be excused for
jr/aking a brief extract. The author is a dis
tinguished lawyer
.of .t:orthern Pennsylvania,
is one of our DelwatN to Chicago, and has
been the Democratic candidate fcr Congress
in his District, and notwithstanding the over-
Whelmtng Abolition majority it usually gives,
came within a few votes of an election. As
a man and a politician, he is utterly fearless
and incorruptibly honest, and is the idol of
ii party in his portion of the State. Ile is
no trimmer or time-server, but carefully ma
tures his ,opinions aml then expresses and
Ralptahaa th,ept w,ith bcldncss and intrepidity,
despising the Arts of the demagogue who
would conceal his real sentiments or who is
"all things to all men and upthing long."—
Eoteriug the army Ate s Lieutenant-Colonel of
pne /gm cavalry Regimenta in the Spring
of '6l, when all over the land Democrats by
tens and hundreds of thousands were flock
ing to the national standard, under the pledge
that the war was to be prsoecuted for the
sole purpose of restoring "the Union as it was
under the Constitution as it is," he was in all
the seven days' battles before Richmond and
in several other general engagements, carry
ing himself with conspicuous gallantry in all,
and eliciting the warmest praise from his
superior officers. Promoted to the Colonelcy
of his regiment, he was assigned the command
of a brigade of cavalry at Antietam, whe,te he
and the brave men npder him pertormed pro
digies of valor. Disgusted subsequently at
the removal of 4cpellatt, and with the per
fidy, incompetence and mpi-slayery fanati
cism of the Administration, he quit the ser
vice and returned to his profession. Such,
briefly, ere the character and antecedents of
the gentleman who writes us as follows con
cerning the MESSENG ER :
"I cannot refrain from expressing my real
gratification at finding one Democratic paper
tkat 4rt. 100 Consecrative. 19 conserve the
ptiptic peace and welfare in times like the
present requires infinitely more courage than
to float down with the current without
thought, reflection or manly independence.
It all our papers held the same views and
'lsqpressed them, we might truthfully boast
thetwe could not be swerved from on; daty
by either passion f.tr prejudice."
Stir The LAPP Journal says: "Fred
Dttogivi thi* that the Blacks can never
set rid of otitis twitiabkwoorroleas inav by
smailPartitton with the whites, &tab
this:ls - the only way to *wet ths . !dolts oat o
*4,"
The Messenger and its Course.
New Tax Items.
It is thnuht that the Abolition fnprAciv
of Pongress will put the following itenp in
the new Tax bill
!Tor speaking disrespectfully of lir. Lin
coln two hundred dollars and confiscation of
your property.
For thinking against Mr. T.incoln, one hun
dred dollars.
For dreaming disrespectfully of Mr. Lin
coln, fifty dollars.
For taking the name in vain of any Aboli
tion offtce-holder, 25 dollars.
For speaking disrespectfully of private Re
publicans, ten cents each.
For voting a copperhead ticipt, twenty- 4Fe
cents.
Every Democratic office-holder, taxed
cents a day, (Sundays included.)
Every man not drafted to be taxed ten
dollars.
For every white male cl4ild born alive, ten
cents,
For every wisft4 temine ptim for{} naive,
ten cents.
For every negro male child born alive, a
premium of twenty cents.
For every negro female child born aliva,
prpruium of ton cents.
For not believing Mr. Lincoln to be the
grOiertiment a tax of 600 dollars.
For talking apinst the right Republicans
have to steal, a .ax of fifty cents for each of
fence.
For dying, a tax of one dollar a head, save
and except thop Americans of African de
scent, who ghall have a right to die free qt
charge.
Wegdell Philips, in one of his ifite ha
rangues in Boston, took upoil the platform
with him a young saddle-colored female,
whom hejntroduced as "the type of the fu
ture American woman." The abolitionists
were so delighted that they crowded toward
the platkirm to caress her. It is certain
tbst dam crack-brained fanatics had their
own way, the white race . would scsin be ex
tinct in this country, and their place filled
by bYbdds.
TUE amyl BRANCH, The Suspension of the Nev York
World 4 hyfßal of Commerce._ I
Abolitionists do not went Peace I
The gditors restored to Liberty.
or a Restored Union. The New York World and Journal of
Commerce, having been auspended by the
Qovermnent for publishing a boguw procla
mation of the President, resumed operations
on Saturday—it hezQg ascertained that the
proclamation was an Abolition forgery per
petrated by one of the former "loyal" em
ployees of t4,le Times, and at present local
editor of a paper in lkooklyn, (and withal
one of the pillars of the Rev. Beury Ward
Beecher's Church,) for the purpose of in
fluencing gold and eto4 operations which
he has, as a good "loyal" citizen, been large
ly engaged. What will the Abolition news
papers, which charged tike fwgery upon
"Copperheads," say to the startling revela
tion made in the following brief article which
we copy from the N, ew york World
The alleged cense of this military usurpa
tion and outrage was the publication, on
`Wednesday morning, in the daily issue of The
World, of a Proclamation, purporting to he by
the President of the United States, calling for
four hundred thousand more men, but which
proved to be a bold and audacious forgery per
petrated by a Republican loyal leaguer, an old
city editor of the Tribune and Times, a mem
ber of Henry Ward Beecher's church, an in,
timate of President Lincoln's, a guest at the
White House, namely, Joseph flowlird, j r .,—
widely known as "Howard of the 'Times"—
and skillffilly palmed upon the newspaper
press. He has confessed his crime, avows
that he had no complicity with any newspaper
employee. This document was received at
The World office at a late - hour on Wednes
day morning, just as the paper was going to
press, written on manifold tissue paper, with
every appearance of coming through the or
dinary channel of telegraphic news. It was
immediately put in type by all the papers, and
The World and Journal of Commerce issued
their editions in part before the forgery was
discovered. The other papers made the dii
eovery just in time to suppress their issues
sonic of them being already printed—but the
publication in two Demoe r ratie papers tarnish
ed the pretext Which the
. edniimstration had
long been seeking to wreak tf,cir partisan malice
upon their most persistent,oponents. and se
cure, if so they might, IV silence ut a free
press, and thus prevent the dak nrnil weekly
exposure of the r own acme ; - agamei liberty
and law. We make these charges boldly; and,
among many other reasons, for this rOaSOII
that Prqident Lincoln. sectoitry Stanton, and
Secretary Seward, before the order for the sup
pression of the World was sent, knew all the
facts iu the case, except the name of the guil
ty
party; knew t t rom Gen. Oix himself the
lilameleasness of the World and its employ
ees. Yet the order Wa3 sent, and, in spite e f
protests fr,i;o:i government officials, from the
v... tole press of the city, and from an indignant
public, was kept in force two and a half days.
It was riot trail Saturday tyc.t we were agn,in
put in possession of our office and eriAed to
proceed with the printing of our large edition
of the Weekly World. three days behind its
regular day of publication.
The Monday's correspondence from Wash
ton of the N. Y. Herald says :—The demon.
atration wljjeli was intended to have been made
in the House to-day in referense to the recent
suspension of the World and Journal of Com.
'tierce by the military authorities was squelched
by the Repablicans reftg4ng to saapend the
rules ti; allow the intro4ec4ml Pruyn's
resolution of censure of the administration.--
Great indignation is felt, anti the matter is only
postponed to he brought up again at the first
opportunity. No attempt was made by any
member to defend the arbitrary course pm . -
sued:'
01
We clip the following significant ar
ticle from the Washington city Consti
tutional Union of May 17th. • The facts
it embodies speak for themselves. If
any farther evidence of the intention of
the present radical Congress not to re
store the Union is needed, we would
like to know what it. is
The fate inflicted on the following resolu
tions, offered in the House ot Hepresentatives
yesterday by the Hon. John i.. Dawson, of
Pennsylvania, proves demonstratively that
the feelings of radicalism hago reached their
acme of implacability. kn i t;he .beginning of
the outbreak the T t eurfle rushed u#li enthu
siasm to meet the _supposed h,i,valter, under a
call for the defence of the capital, which was
pronounced to be in danger. 4 isrge army
eagerly olmed tihe AugowLs . ,.,stulyinder mo
tives added for the active prosecution of the
war addition 4 troops 4 9 4,e.4 to the standard
of their country with the war cry . the res
torAtion of the ,Union
,uneler,the .Consti
tution. This, in the Inception of the contest,
was proclaimed to be the sole motive of its
prosecution.
We are unable to probe the hearts .of ,the
advocates of the war, and determine whether
their declarations were the mere utteramoes
of hypocrisy, or whether their present faith is
a change produced I,)y alteration ot interest.
That a revolution in the doctrines they origi.-
nally preached is proved.
The resOitipp,of Mr Dawson brought all
the faithful to a definitive test, and we live
11OR the demonstrations in the ayes and noes,
which we append, that while ignoring the
Constitution in the North, they are resolutely
determined not to return to the Union with
the South. The slogan is not now the :Cuioti
under the old Constitution, but war for the
negro; war—war protracted to the utmost
period of prolongation, until the utter devas
tation of the fertile fields of the. South and the
I extermination of its inlillitatits close the
tragedy,.
The c4o4,ey nil* ie giateitd to Mr. Daw
son for bringing the majority to this test.—
The resolutions were laid on the table, on the
motion of Hon. AIPOS Myers, of Pennsylva
nia. The vote, glyen below, should be care
fully s i canfietl ley all, so that at the nett elec
tOn for members of ~ongress, the trustwor
thy may be discriminated from the hypocrites
or the faithless:
WiirEAgi, it was solemnly declared by this
Tionae ,on the 22,d day of July, 18131, speak -
lug in the name ot the people of the United
States and in face of the world, that the pres
ent civil war was waged for no purpose of
conquest or oppression, but solely to restore
the Union, with all the rights of the people
and of the States unimpaired; and whereas,
a civil war like the present is the most griev
ous of all national calamities, producing, as
it does, bloodshed, spoliation, and general
demoralization; and whereas the American
Government cannot rightfully wage war upon
any,,portion of its people, except for the solo
purpose of vindicating the Constitution and
laws, and restoring both to their just suprem
acy; and whereas, a restoration of peace is
essential to the perpetuation ot the system ot
republican government, It is now eminently
befitting a Christain and homogeneous peo
ple in the triumph of our arms, and in the
exultation of victory, to tender the olite
branch as a suh.stitu`e for the sword. There
fore.
RKSOLVED, That the President be required
to make known, by public proclamation or
otherwise to all the Country ; thap whenever
any State now in insurrection, shall submit
herself to the authority of the Federal gov
ernment as defined in the Constitution, all
hostilities against her shall cease, and such
State be prptected from all external interfer
ence Kith tier Weal lw ti 4 institutions, and
her people shall be guaranteed in the full en
joyment of all those rights which the fede
ral Constitution gave them; and iu tha exec
.eittt, of a sound and patriotic discretion he
shall proclaim a general amnesty to all those
w 49: 4,Y false counsels, have been induced to
engage in qtr. work of rebellion.
On the mfitinn to lay ou the table, the
• vote was as follows. •
y, 4 s—Messm .1111s9n, Ames, Arnold,
Ashly, liiiiiv, John D. Baldwin, Beaman.
iticoh B. Blair, 4ontwell, Boyd, Ur'illiatii G.
Ilrown, 4.liihrose W. ark, Cobb, Cole,
Creswell,' Henry Winter Davis, Thomas T.
Davis, Dawes, Deming, Donnelly, Eckley,
Eliot, Fenton, Frank, Garfield, Gooch, Grin •
nell, Griswold, 'Rigby, Hooper, Ilotchkiss,
A. W. Hubbard, J. 11. Hubbard, Ilidbutd,
Hutchins, .Tenckes, Julian, Kasson, Kelly,
Francis W. Kellogg, Orlando Kellogg, Long
year, Mcßride, McClurg, Mcludoe, Samuel
F. Miller, Moorhead, Morrill, Daniel Morris,
Amos Myers, Norton, Odell, Charles O'Neill,
Orth, Patterson, Perham, Pike, Price, Win.
11. Randall, Alexander H. Rice, John 11.
Rice, Edward H. Rollins, Shannon, Sloan,
1,,t
Smith, $ panlding, .gievens, Thayer, Tracy,
Upson, an Valkenburgh, 'Ulihti . li. Wash
turne, illiam B. Washburn, Wilder, Wil
son, and liViptlom---76.
NAY--Messrs. James C. Allen, Wm. J.
Allen, Ancona, Augustus C. Baldwin, Bliss,
Brooks, Jas. S. Brown, Chanler,' Coffroth,
Cox, Cravens, Dawson, Eden, Edgerton, El
dridge, English, Flack, Ganson, Grider, Hale,
Harding, Harrington, Herrick. Holman,
Philip Johnson, Kerman, Knapp, Lazear,
Long, Mallroy, Marcy, McDowell, McKinney,
W. It Miller, Jas. R. Morris, Morrison, Nel
son, Noble, Pendleton, Pruyn, Robinson,
Jas. S. Rollins, Ross, *putt, John B. Steele,
Stiles, Strouse, Stuart, Voorhees,Juseph
W. White, Winfield, Fernandt? Wood, and
Yeainan-58.
The Rightful Governor.
"A pamphlet has been printed in ftliilß
delphia, showing that Judge Woodward wilp
elected goygnor by over 100,q4q majority
of the legal votes of the State. The fact§
au() !hip arty pc figures produced, make a
clear case of the most stupendous fraud,
which, for the bonar of humanity, it is to be
hoped, was never known before. If. this
pamphlet does not forewarn to the extent of
forearming the people of Pennsylvania, they
mast have made up their minds to patiently
wear the chains the Abolitionists have forged
for them"
air 'Certain Repulliipi+p journals have de
clared the Executive pc the country no inca
pable that the questifip Rpw is, in the midst
of our "terrible etrnggica!" Can the nation
carry this man through tge'n, and not perish
in the attempt? he being not only incompe
tent% leitincapable of hotter things, became
”unconscions of ltis cm! unfitness for his
Owe:"
Gov. Seymour's Letter in Reference to
the Seizure of the World and Journal
of Commerce.
NEW Yonx, May 24.—Governor Seymour's
letter to the District Attorney Hall in rela
tion to the seizure of the World and Journal
of Commerce, says It is charged that these
acts of violence were done without the legal
process'and without the sanei.on of State or
!,i4i4t)4l. laws It this be true, the offenders
must be punished. If the owners of the
above named journals have violated F,tatp
National laws, they InnA be procaedo
against and imnished by those laws. Any
action against them outside of legal proceed
ings is criminal. The Governor argue's the
matter at some length, and concludes: in
making your enquiries and in prOsecuting the
parties implicated, you upon the
sheriff of the county and the heads of the
pollee department for any needed force and
as§i6tance, the failure to give this by any
official under my control will be deemed
sufficient cause for his removal.
"VOTE FOR CURTIN AND AVOID
THE DRAFT!"
ANOTHER COMINC;;
IMPORTANT CIRCULAR FROM PRO
VOST MARSHAL GENERAL FRY.
• WASHINGTON, May IS, 1864.
Major ('. Gilbert, A. A. P. M., Gen-
era!, Philarielphiii
Confer with your State authorities and en
deavor to get the different districts and sub
districts to commence raking men at once,
with a view to the new call referred to in dis
patch of yesterday from Secretary of War to
General Dix. It would be greatly to the
advantage of the different towns, cantles,
&c., to save time by commencing immedi
ately on assumed quotas. Spare po etlikt
to colaplet!! the reyish;ii of enrql!r t prit at the
earliest possible day. The epf..l riff quotas
will be based upon it. I want it reported, to
me by the 10th of June.
JAMES B. FRY.
Provost Marshal General
A FREE l'ionr.--The Journal of Com
merce, in view of the rattier free fight gqirg
t.in among the pepublicanje4Ralists i
and anti-Lincoln, says: "it niali.o,* Rq Nrt.
of difference to of vilether they hyld their
Convention in June qr p t eptember. It is only
of special recpr4 that we have arrived, by a
Intpra,l progress, at a point at which we can
14,41 at' the Odiculcuis' doctrine, that to stip-
Rivirt the Administration is to support, the
Povernment, the late 'loyal' supporters tit
the Administration being 'u y ! . hard at work
plotting its overthrow. What Copperhead,
they wuold be it they were only honest:"
Dynio--Thrimi.--Senator Doolittle said
iR Porigrees the other day : "Slavery, 14r.
Bresidprit, is dying, dying, all around us."—
To this the Dayton (0.) Empire says
"Yes: And Constitutional liberty is dying , , ,
morality, public and ;Ovate, is dying; 8,)
that we have prized of peace, of social order,
peiglilxirly kindness, of friendly intercourse
IR society, is dying. And dying, too, by
birfpflieds of thousands, are the brothers,
fathers . , sons, of the most frenzied, deluded
ahifinserable people. Why did not Mr.
Doolittle tell it all, while be was about it ?”
ilia" & lock of the Presidents hair, clip
* ken the spot where he scratched hie
heed, when he wee his iltaancipatieß
hmismatinn, It perhaps bring aim* *
little fortune at one plAwaeSealtary
(Prep*,
ARRESI or Mrimax.—The Cincin
oati of the Chicago
Jlmes writes : 'The arrest of Colonel
edary created some exciteme,nt, until
the facts in relation to it were shown.
Col. M. was arrested upon an indict
ment found by a Republican Grind Ju
ry in the United States District Court,
iu which it was allegedw.s.
~ that he s
co-conspirator with Sam Thomas and
wife, Cathcart, and the washerwomairi
Parmenter. Col. M. had not the hon
or of even knowing by name his co,
conspirators, much less their offence,
until he heard of their arrest. The ;
whole thing is a poor, pitiful attempt to !
make personal and political capital
against Col. Medary, but when tinder,
stood, will react upon his opponents.—
FlOOll as the Colonel arrived in the
city, the Messrs. MeLean..of the Enquire. ;
er, Washington and S. B. W., repaired!
to the court room and volunteered their I
names as sureties for the veteran Dem
ocrat, and were accepted to the very
moderately low Amu of $3,000. No
body
supposes that the case ever I
be tried, as the prosecution are not
desirous of showing their weakness.-
gag- To all men the best friend is virtue;
the best companions are high endeavors and
bugorable sentiments.
(Jr 4 „e l iT A l
ON TO RICHMOND
Grantly Ong My from the City,
Sorit 6ir. Nourp 4..t5N t,
Near J crico's Bridge, May p.
The rebels are in our front and pris
oners have been taken - ittring the last
24 how from three rebp) 6enerals,
Ewell, Rill arid Longstreet. Over 400
prisonerS were taken from a brigade
o' the rebels by the Pennsylvania
1 - k±serves, under Crawford, who made
a charge on our extreme right, after
Warrgn had crossed the North Anna
on ,tbe roai leading to the Beaver dam.
Our troops have torn up and completely
destroyed nearly six miles of track on
the Virginia ,'entral road, west ct' Sex
ton's Junction. We are now but one
day's forced march from Richmond, in
a t;ine open country. There, is plunty
of good pasture for our horses but moth
mg for men, except what has been
brought along. The enthusiasm of our
army W)WS no bounds. The condition
of the rebels, judging from their woun
ded prisoners into our hands, is
very bad. The weather is i4frPSCly
hot .
Frcipi Qua. Cgel,----Some Account of
His Defeat.
NEw Yonii, May 20.—The Tribune's
correspondent with Gen. Sigel says that
the army left Woodstock on the 15th,
marched eighteen miles, to Newmarket,
fought the combined forces of FA:ll°ll's
and Imboden, and returned to Stras
burg in forty-eight hours. The fight
was commenced ny the '2Bth Ohio at
tacking Imboden near Mt. Jaekson,
drawing him to Newmarket, wiiere
Gens. Echolls and Breckenridge rein?
forced the latter. At the same time
Sigel reinforced our force. The rebels
p.4:p•ged twice on our troops, the second
chargp heing successfid; but on reach
ing our wow]. line they were met by
seventeen pieces of :Milieu and a des
tructive infantry f t re, almost annihila
ting the rebel 'first line, We charged
in turn and drove them, but our bat
teries had to GoaLe working to allow our
charge, and the rebels numbering two
to our one, then drove us back, we los
ing rive guns. The retreat then coin
iiienced, in good order and success, across
the Shenandoah, the bridge being burnt
after crossing, Our loss is six hundred
and fifty killed, wounded mid missing.
From Gen. butler's Army..,-A Mid,.
night Assault by the Rebels.--They
are Repulsed with Great Slaughter.
ew Yonx, 9f ay 21.—A Herald cor
respondent with Butler, writing tinder
dale of allay 41, gives an account of a
midnight 4ssau4 by the rebels on the
night previous, The pickets 4.‘peived
the fire firmly and galltlntly and fell
back, when the artiary npepiLtd lire on
the advancing rebels with withering dis
charges of grape and canister. siege
guns and light batterries were I/Fought.
to bear, and the rebels were mowed
down ' f ilo grass. They still advanced,
receiving another slaughtering dis
charge, when they halted. A rebel
caisson then e.iploded, scattering death
in all directions. The gunboats on the
4.pponiatox, joined in shelling the
lygods, where the rebels reserves were
sta.! ioried.
;Finally, pie rebels litulitig our forces
so well prepared to receive them, with
drew, leaying their dead on the field,
nun beriug 233. Cur defetices, con
stl•ilcted by some of our best engineers,
are almost impregnable.
Reponoissance by Gilmqre.-!-En:
gagement of an Hour and a Halt??
The Rebels Completely Routed.
FORTRESS MONROE, May 24-5 P.m;—
This morning Gen. Gilmore went out
on a ree,qnnoisance, and at 3:10 a:
it}et the enemy in some force. After
an engagement of an hour and a half hp
completely routed them. Our Igg,l is
slight.
It is reported that nearly half of
Beauregard's force left him yesterday
and marched towards Richmond, proba
bly to rehtfprce Lee.
The rebels have made pine 14sclo pn
our intrenchipents ap4 they have been
repulse 4 each time.
Important from Gen. Sherman—John
ston's Army In full Retreat—The
Rebels burning their Trains—Gen.
Stoneman in Pursuit.
NEw YOICK, May 25.--Extended de
tails of Sherman's operations. -in the Tri
bune, show that after several days'
fighting, on the morning of the }6th
the rebels vlPrt , T0W5:4 1 44 ( MP'
Pliell afßitin!tfil ' Nreleg.
their "tiler) , earri4 :* e limit 4,-
1190 rummy, c}a4 ahu • more are
meant
A Battle on the North Anna River.--
Hancock's Corpa Again the Victors.
--Lee Failing Back and Grant in
Pursuit.
WAR DEPAR:MENT. WA: I / 1 1NOTON,
May 24, 10 p. m.—Maj. Gen. Dix : A
dispatch from Gen. Grant, , dated 11
o'clock last night, states that the army
moved from its position to the North
Anna river, closely following Lee's ar
my. The Fifth and Sixth 12orps march
ed by way of Harris' stone to Derick's
Ford, and the Eighth Corps succeeded in
effecting a crossing and getting into po
sition without much opposition.
Shortly after, however, they were vi
olently attacked. and handsomely re
pulsed the assauk without much loss
to us. We captured cone prisoners..—
Everything looks ,ex.coolingly favora
ble.
Another dispatch giving the details
of the movement of our corps, and
speaking o the rebel assault on War
ren's position, says; lie was attacked
with great vehemence. I have ney,er
heard more rapid tiring either of artill
ery or musketry. Tice ,Attach resttlt
ed in a destructive repulse to the ene
my.
At th,e position attacked by IJatic,ock
the rebels were entrenched and in
consislerable force between the creek he
had crossed and the river. They made
a powerful resistance to his onset, but
before 4,:trk he had forced them from
their works and driven them across the
stream. It is said in these engage
ments the slaughter of the enemy was
grit. C)ur losses were itlei - nisi:Jet-able.
The rebels charged ;}gains otir
TO sutiered, especially, from caitis
t cr.
A dispatch from the front. dated 2
o'clock this morning., ha.s gtlso been re
ceived, :1 tats that the gnemy has
tiilen back from the North Anna, and
we are in pursuit. Negroes who have
cote iia 1 ,- .4y.Lee is falling• back on Inch
mond.
Other official dispatches from head
quai ters say that Gees. Warren, Burn
side and Hancock are pushing forward
after the retreating enemy. Gen. War
ren captured a good number of prison,
ers last evening, but has not had time
to count them or ascertain his loss.—
Gen. Hancock is storming the rifle pits
on this side of the river. Last evening
he also took between 100 and 200 pris
oners, and drove many rebels into the
river, where they were {frown .d.
Gen. Warren has also captured some
official paperl, among which are an
ptli
c:inl order calling out boys 611.«±n years
of age to gap ison I;,ichniorvl. Ainbu
-140- r4eiti :11141 inAsicians were also or
4med w anus.
Sheridan is this morning at Dunkirk,
and will be at Milford to-night.
No dispatches have been received to
day from Sherman, and none arc ex
pected for several days.
Dispatches from Butler have been re
ceived to-day, relating chiefly to the re
spective forces.
Admiral Lee, in a telegram dated
22d, to the Secretary of the Navy,
states that )p,st atlllatttrday night
iltf enemy attacked the army, and were
bansomely repulsed.
,\ dispatch from Canby, dated the
18th, at the mouth of Red, river, states
that Banks' troops had arrived at
SietniTiespgit yesterday, and will reach
Norgansville'to-day. The army is in a
better pondition than expected, and will
soon be ready to resume ofinsive oper
ations.
Glorious Inteiligence.,-Lee's Army
Hastily Retreating.--The Rebels
Beyond the South Anna River.--
Rumored Flight of Davis and his
Cabinet.
PHILADELPIII 1, 'Alay 25—The Bulletin
has the tbllowing special dispatch :
P. - .tsniNcroN, May, 25.—The Repub
lican ha: an extra which contains the
following highly important and glori
ous intelligence: I take pleasure in
being able to announce that intelligence
ha. reached this city that Lee is filling
bria. from the North Anna, and, as has
been already stated, commenced a has
ty retreat, and he had reached a point
beyond the South Anna river, pursued
with great - vigor by Grant.
Uen. tyrant is in thip saddle all the
time, day and night, directing gener:il
inoveuients in person.
Hooker has crossea the rivo
near Resaea, and Gen. Schofield crossed
pear Pultou. Gen. Stoneman, with 14s
cavalrv, is in pursuit of Johnston, engag,
ing them with artillery that morning.
Unless Lee stops to fight we shall
next hear of !sratid conflict for 4ich
mond betiwe, or in the works of that
capital.
Reports say that Jeff Dal is and his
Cabinet lett Richmond some days ago.
There is little doubt but that Ridtroond
by this time is pretty well cleared- out
of its ilihabitants, and that it is nothing
less than a fortress.
There are still a number of sick and
wounded at Fredericksburg. Skir
mishing with guerrillas occurs daily,
but always in our favor,
Official from Secretary 4fanton—Lee
Taking up a New Position—Tito Ur
Three Days May Davelope his
Plans.
WAstitNoroN. May 261.11.—T0 Maj
Lien. : Dispatches from Gen. Grant,
received tali, morning, informs ilia De
partment that the rebel army still hold
a strong position between the North
and south Anna rivers, where their
forces appear to be concentrated. It
will probably require two or three days
to develope his intention. •
The Ninth Corps has been incorpor
ated with the Army of the Potomac.
No other . dispatches received from
any other field of operatioNs.
[Signed;] E. M. STANTON.
[lt will be seen from the above that
Secretary Stanton was somewhat too
hasty in announcing that Lee was cross
ing the South 4.nna, and that our army
would tq that r4Tvtii , TResdaY
°raging. }0 has ifAtle wagger Bind,
gun 4 cioakrtleas mepts in his next battle
the assistance of most of the troops in
and around Richmond. Much will now
depend on the kidnap' and activity of
Butler's army .--Onnol.]
I The y.utepnii"Strategy Again pe,
Ifealed t
Niw Y.of.m. May 26.--The Herald's
Ninth Corps (x - irrespondent, says ;
ultaneous with the attack on our left
during the night of the ;19th, a di v i s i on
of cavalry attacked our extreme right
wing, composed of Gent ral
ored troops. The attack was impetuous
but was met with great steadiness, and
a heavy volley from the rifles of the
; colored troops brought the rebels to
halt. They formed again, however,
and advanced more steadily, when they
were again met with unflinching bra
! yes y. J. , 'inding they could make no
impression, they lett the field. Next
morning not a 'rebel was to be seen
on our front.
Upre as on our hft. the rebel strategy
so Oftell successful with this army, of
cutting off our supplies, was flAled, and
they abandoned the attempt with di,
gust.
The Race for Richmond—Gen. Grant
has the jnside Track—Gene. War
ren and Hancock Still Successful.
NEW YORK, May 26.—A Iferald' d
headquarters correspondent says
line of advance from Bowling Green is
duo south to Richmond. Gen. Lee has
Longey disiance to march, and the
probabilities are that we shall reach
there first. Lee may by forced marches
arrive tho e at the same time, but his
army would be so exhausted that the re
sult of an engagement would not !Ai
doubtfitl.
Ow CzmiTERFIELD, M:iy (Monday
10 P. M.—The news from Warren and
Hancock is beyond our expectations.—
Both Corps effected a lodgment on the
right bank of the North Anna late this
evening, after a sharp and decisive en
gagement. At each crossing they suc
ceeded in carrying the enemy's line of
rifle-pits and driving him completely
from is vantage ground.
From Gen. Crook's Expedition.,
Narrative of his Operations.
A dispatch to the Cincinnati Onzetto
o,atig; that Gen. ('rook left Charleston
on the let inst., and passed through
Princeton on tho 9th: at Cloyd Moun
ta'm had the first and fiercest battle, and
choti..ated and routed the enemy. Col.
Olev, of the Seventh Virginia Cavalry,
with one hmidred and twnnty-the men,
rharged the enemy's rear and took
many prisoners, including (-len. Jen
);ins; thrce cannon, ten-pounder Su
polcont,, were taken. Our forces camp
ed that night near Newbern.
On the morning of the 10th, about
.9 o'clock, 41(1 attacked the enemy at
the bridge, and fought till 3. We burn-,
ed -the great bridge, and they the one
on the pike. We captured seven can
non, three 20-pounders, which were
spiked and thrown into the river,
On the 11th we mai-oiled all day, and
camped on Salt Pond Mountain.
On the 12th the advance guard rout
ed "Brick Wall Jackson," and captur
ed his train and two cannon, 12-poun
ders. This occurred oa this side of
Salt Pound Mountairot.
On the IWi we reached Union. Of)
the evening of the 18th the rear was at
tacked while crossing Greenbriar river,
and eight or ten prisoners lost, though
no men were hurt. Immense stores of
rations and cavalry equipments were
destroyed at Dublin, and tobacco and
cigars captured in great quantities.—
Since the 9th Averill's men have lived
°tithe pnemy, have lcartitd no par.
tieulars of his movements
. yet. Our loss
in killed and wounded amounts to C. , 00.
The rebels fought desperately, and
were overcome after a long amp sev , ro
strm,gle.
tilgel's Fight at New Marl►cl
n ho participated in the en,
gagenicut of the lath hitt., at New Mar
ket. under Gen. Sigel, writef, as follows:
—The fighting was terrific, the most so
of any battle itt the valley. We could
only bring about 5,000 men into tyro
fight ; the enemy numbered 10,00 tv,
18.000, and fought like devils. Our
cavalry behaved badly, 4nd *erne ct the
intimtry no better ; but the later n'c re
rallied, the cavalry coul d not be. Gen.
Sigel was in the front; and in the thick
of the battle all day, encouraging, direct
ing, and leading his men. The bullets
were dense all about him ; one or tarq
of his stall* were slightly injurod : sev
eral leel horses shot under them."
Litte Children Starving
A eorrespondent, speaking of the,
suffering of the poor in the counties
of .. ipottsylvania, Stattbrd and C...aroline..
says "rnopped near a village to feed
my horse and refretth myself, and here
discovered for the first time the state
of the poor in the vicinity. Where my
horse had eaten his corn from a blanket,
several grains lay scattered on tho
ground. Three little half clad children
came and gathered the, up and ate
them. I was interested in one of them,
a little girl, and called her to me, and
upon questioning her she said they had
nut eaten a piece of bread for threa t
days, their only thod having been wild
greens gathered from the fields. Shc
said her father was killed in the first
battle of Fredericksburg, and there vies
nct cne in the neighborhood to whom
they could apply for help. I gave them
what I had in My haversack, and left
them enjoying themselves.
Butler's Fight last Moriday.
A dispatch to the Philadelphia Inquir
ed, dated Bermuda Ifundred, May IYtl
reads as follows : "The Director tf
Transportation of Wounded informs me
that nearly five • thousand of our rnen
were captured, wounded and killed or}
Motida , y. Nearly
. the whole of Heck,
man's krigade are either killed, wounded
pr missing. Our forces have fallenlhack
to within five miles of this place. They
are no longer menacing Fort I:I:Fling:.
' lir A Prussian Countess, seventeen
years old, shot herself at Baden reoentr
ly, and was ngt opected to survive.—
Canse--_-. a. Ipt4pr from her, betrothed,
saying that:be could not Awry bet at
present, and releasing herfitozn her V 4
gagement.