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Forever float that standard sheet I
Where breathes the foe but &11S beforena,
With Freedom's soil beneath our feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us.
OU t. PLATFORM
THE UNION-THE CONSTITUTION-AND
THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.
IN: DINDIIN DlizWiikringt•lo,ll doißOkil
THt PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA, who
desire cordially to unite in sustaining the
NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION in its patriotic
efforts to suppress a sectional and unholy re
bellion.-against the UNITY OF THE REPUB
LIC, and who desire to support., by every
power of the Goverument, one hundred thou
sand heroic brethren in arms, braving disease
and the perils of the field to preserve the Union
of our Fathers, are requested to select the num
ber of Delegates equal to the Legislative Re
presentation of the State, at such times and in
such manner as will best respond to the spirit
of this call, to meet in STATE CONVENTION
at HARRISIPIRE, on THURSDAY, the SEVEN
TEENTH DAY OF JULY next, at eleven
o'clock, on said day to nominate Candidates for
the offices of AUDITOR GENERAL and SUR
VEYOR GENERAL, and to take such measures
as may be deemed necessary to strengthen the
iovernment in this season of common peril to
A common country.
A. K. McCLURE,
... Chairman People's State Committee
Gio. W. HAMMEBSLY, Secretaries
JOHN M. SULLIVAN,
HARRISBURG, PA
Monday Afternoon, June 9, 1862.
THE CLINTON DEMOCRAT has earned its own
measure of infamy, not alone in the brutality
With which it has assailed the President, but by
the insidious manner in which it has opposed
the war. Yet the Clinton Democrat essays to
justify itselt with the fact that Republicans and
Abolitionists both have attacked President
Lincoln. With Abolitionsta,lve have no influ
ence, nor have we any better opinion of such
of those who attempt to traduce the national
administration, than we have of the Democrat.
With Republicans who indulge in such attacks
we have no fellowship, and hence the denunci
ation which the Democrat merits and has receiv
ed at our hands, we are as willing to pour out
on the men professing Republicanism and yet
assailing an administration devoted in - all its
objects and policy to the preservation of the
forms of Republican government. No loyal man,
perfectly dizinter cited, and acting an a full faith in
the purity of the government, can object to the adminis
tration of Abraluzm Lincoln, we care not whether
he profess to be Republican or Democrat. Repub
licanism may do so, but for one individual be
longing to the Republican party whothus permits
his indiscretion to mislead him, there are thou
sands of Democrats bitterly assailing the ad
ministration, and claiming that the freedom of
speech justifies them in such a course; and that
they have the right to approve or disapprove
the action of any administration. The object
of the Democratic party, at the inception of
rebellion, was to give it any aid necessary to
its success; its purpose now, is to afford the
leaders in that rebellion every influence to
secure their escape. This is what we complain
of, and with such action we now charge that
Democracy who are •led and controlled by the
Clinton Democrat. They do not only attempt
this action by abusing President Lincoln, but
they persist in its course by insisting that the
law shall not be enforced against traitors. Let
the Clinton Democrat make precedents of, those
Republicans who support the government, in.
stead of others whom it alleges are opposing
that government, and we will have faith in the
reality of its patriotism. But until it is
prompted to do so, we must continue to regard
it as among those who desire the success of re
bellion as the essential initiative to the success
of Democracy.
JOHN BELL A PEACEMAKER. — Capt. Boyo3, of
the Tenth Ohio Regiment, who has arrived at
Evansville, Ind., from Huntsville, Ala., states
that Gen. Mitchell has granted passes to John
Bell and Jere Clemens to visit Washington, for
the purpose of re-establishing peace in the
South-west—Chicago Journal.
Poor BEOI 1 We fear the ring has been taken
out of his metal, and that his peace clatter
will have but little Union music in it. John
Bell alone could have saved Tennessee from
the ravati,es of Ulla war, and seriously impair
ed the rebellion in its infanet.l;ad-he possessed
the nerve and honor, ( I .(, , •l4itriot devoted to
his country. Be a peacemaker 1 Who can
respect the suggestion of one who not only
betrayed his country, but those who, ignorant
of his true character, supported him as a Anion
candidate for the Presidency? John Bell a
National peacemaker I He should be ashamed
to appear at Washington, and ought to blush
when in the presence of any one of the honest
Union men who voted for Bell and Everett.
He has ding-donged too much in the wrong
quarter, John B9llhary
Dolour° Drown is looking up. Some of us
can remember the time when people only killed
themselves for heavy grief, disappointment,
ruin, unendurable shame, or something of that
character. But we notice that the other day
Miss Esther Randall, a domestic living at Sara
toga, committed suicide because her mistress
would not permit her to wash on Monday, and
set her washing day on Tuesday. We regard
this as a hopeful sign that the importance of
small things is beginning Lobe appreciated, and
that domestics are no longer to be tyrannized
over with impunity, in the matter of using
clothes pins of inferior manufacture, and being
obliged to put on tea kettles with the spout in
the wrong direction.
Gov. Johnson, of Tennessee, does not propose
to handle rebels with mittens, for fear of hurt
ing them. He has issued a proclamation against
the guerilla plunderers and murderers of Union
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men, in which he says :
I do hereby proclaim that in every instance
in which a Union man is arrested and maltreat
ed by the marauding bands aforesaid, five or
more rebels from the most prominent in the im
mediate neighborhood shall be arrested, im
prisoned, and otherwise dealt with ea the nature
of the case may require ; and further, in all
cases in which the property of citizens loyal to
the government of the United States is taken or
destroyed, full and ample remuneration shall be
made to them out of the property of such rebels
in the vicinity as have sympathized with, and
given aid, comfort, information or encouraze
ment to the parties committing such depreda
tions.
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Gov. Johnson also "forbids all citizens, under
heavy penalties, from entertaining, receiving
or encouraging such persons so banded together
or in anywise connected therewith."
While Gov. Johnson is thus treating rebel
lion, and attempting to meet the care by a well
timed blow at rebel freebooters, the northern
sympathizers with southern traitors are sharp
ening their wits to discover bow traitors can be
rescued from the doom in which they were in
volved by their own treason. To do this, it is
urged that the door must be left open that
traitors may return. What door 4we ask. No
door has been shut to the south, except that
which its people themselves have closed, and
no obstructions placed in the way of their alle
giance, except those which their own intolo
rable tyrannies have created. But, in the esti
mation of the northern dough faces, the rebels
must not be made amenable to the law, nor
must they be held responsible for the outrage
ous usurpation of all public and private rights.
The door must be thrown wide open. The
Senators who perjured their souls before they
avowed their treason, must be re-admitted to
the Senate—the officers of the army and navy
who deserted their posts and their ships when
the country needed their services, must be wel
comed back, each to his position—and when
this is done, the door can again be closed, the
honor of the nation again be placed in the
keeping of the men now in arms for its destruc
tion, and the guilt of treason left to wash itself
clear in the power with which it is proposed to
invest it by those who sympathized with rebel
lion from its inception.
Thus, while the northern dough-face is quot
ing Vattel, to prove that it is the policy of
all governments to conciliate instead of con
quer treason, and that in lieu of visiting the
sternest punishments on traitors, we must " let
the door open," or in other words, smother
justice that high criminals might escape—while
the Democracy are thus engaged, Gov. John
son makes the bold declaration that he will hold
five traitors responsible for the right of every
Union man, ruthlessly violated under rebel di
rection. This is a frank declaration in the face
of men whose crimes so richly merit death, and
of a character too, at once to arouse for the man
thus assaying to vindicate the law and enforce
the punishment of its violators, the hearty ap
plause and confidence of the country. But
what must be the reflection of Gov. Johnson,
if he ever learns the dough-face sentiment
which sought to counteract bis labors to sup
press rebellion ? What will be his feeling when
he hears that as he is struggling to overtake
and crush out rebellion, a set of men in the
north are laboring with equal zeal, to open the
doors of the Union, that those who are reeking
with the crime of treason against its existence,
might once more become the recognized favorites
for its bounties and protection? Ha will surely
regard all his own labors to secure the protec
tion of that Union as abortive, and regret that
the blood of loyal men should have been shed
in its defence, if by its re-invested power and
re-e-tablished peace, are meant the recognition
and reception into fellowship of its bitter and
sworn enemies. Nor will Gov. Johnson only
so regard such action, but it will beestimated
in a like manner by the civilized world. No
peace will be considered secure that is not based
on the entire overthrow of the rebellion, and
no settlement will be considered valid that does
not secure the immediate and dire punishment
of all the guilty. In this way the door of the
Union will be opened. It will be opened freely
to the oppressed masses of the south, that they,
what untrammelled, may re-assert their alle
giance to the government. It will be opened,
too, to the guilty leaders of the rebellion that
they may be brought within the reach of the
civil authority, and visited with the sternest
penalties of their crimes. But the door of this
Union will never be opened to an unconditional
fellowship with the men who are now in rebel
lion. It is this certainty which now most dis
turbs the dough-face Democracy of the north,
and hence their solicitude and efforts to secure
such a recognition. Upon that recognition de
pends the success of Democracy. Upon the
success of Democracy depends the future opera
tions of the rebel leaders. Let the freemen of
t he Union ponder these facts.
GETTING AT IT BY DEGRIGIS.-A correspondent
from IlaHeck's army, writing to the Cincinnati
Times,says he picked up, in an old rebel camp, a
New Orleans Delia, of the 29th ult , with the
following in its editorial columns:
"FROM BELOW. —Oar citizens need not be
alarmed. The Yankee fleet cannot reduce nor
pass our forts, and if they were to do so, our
soldiers here would rejoice at the opportunity
of demolishing their craft, and slaughtering the
sailors.
"LATER.—The enemy'a fleet has passed the
forts, but will be beaten back before they reach
quarantine.
"Ursa &rm.—The enemy's fleet has reached
quarentine unharmed. Bally, citizens.
"Lamr.—Just as we go to press, we have to
announce that the Yankee fleet is just below
that our troops have abandoned the town ; that
citizens are flying in every direction, and that
the city is in the power of Porter's fleet.,'
This is like the cry in France when Napoleon
left Elba: "The fiend has broken loose ;" "The
monster is at Frejos;" "Napoleon approaches;"
"Viva I'Emperor !"
Tan Second and Fourth Maine regiments
have lost one half of their number in killed and
wounded in the various engagements on the Pe
ninsula since their landing at Fortress Monroe.
pennovivania Elattp Cettgrapt), Illontsav 'Afternoon, June 9, 11,62.
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FROM THE SOUTHERN COAST
THE ATTACK ON MOBILE
New YORK, June 9.
The following dispatch has been received from
City Point, Va.:
"I have seen a copy of the Petersburg Ex
press of the 4th inst., which states that a dis
patch from Mobile informs them that the Union
fleet had attacked Fort Morgan, having passed
the lower batteries.
FROM LOUISVI LLE.
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Lontsvirzs, June 9
The Journal just received the following:
To the Editors of the Louisville Journal:
In Gen. Buell's report as published in the
Journal of the 29th ult., General Boyle's name
does not appear. This is a mistake ; it should
be mentioned with the names of the other
generals for gallantry on the field.
(Signed) J. B. FRY,
Colonel and Chief of Staff.
Gen. Buell also telegraphs to General Boyle
to the samq effect.
FROM NEWBERN
A.RRITLId OF RELEASED PRISONERS
The steamer Guide has arrived from Newberu
with 450 released prisoners and a number of
sick soldiers. She passed the steamer Eastern
St4te, for New York, off Cape Hatteras, with
150 more.
FROM OLD POINT OOMFORT, Va
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The Old Point boat arrived at seven o'clock
this morning. The English steamer Jason ar
rived there yesterday. Lieut. W. E. Black, of
the lilOth N. Y. Volunteer, has been appointed
Aid-de-camp to Gen. Dix.
From the Mississippi
THE CAPTURE OF MEMPHIS.
FORTS WRIGHT, PILLOW AND RANDOLP
EVACUATED,
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Official Report of Commodore Davis
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Wasirurorou, June 8.
The following dispatch was received at the
Navy Department:
UNITED STATE 3 STBANBR BIENTON,
OFR PatUDIPHD3, June 6.
To Bon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy:
Sia: I arrived here last evening at 9 o'clock,
accompanied by the mortar fleet, under Capt.
klayuadier, the ordnance steam storeships, &c.,
and anchored a mile and a half above the city,
This morning I discovered the rebel fleet,
which had been reinforced, and now consisted
of eight rams and gunboats, lying at the
levee. The engagement which commenced at
6 30 A. M., and ended at 7 o'clock, terminated
in a running fight.
I was ably supported by the ram fleet, under
command of Colonel Ellet, wbo was conspicu
ous for his gallantry, and is seriously but not
dangerously wounded. The result of the ac
tion was the capture or destruction of seven
vesseles of the rebel fleet, as follows: Tne Gen.
Beauregard was blown up and burnt ; the Gen.
Sterling Price had one wheel carried away; the
Jeff Thompson was set on fire by a shell and
burned, and her magazine was blown up ; the
Sumpter was badly cut up by shot, but will be
repaired ; a little rebel steamer had her boiler
exploded by shot, and was otherwise injured,
but she will be repaired. Besides this, one of
the rebel boats was sunk in the beginning of
the action ; her name is not known.
A boat, supposed to be the Van Dorn, escaped
from the flotilla by her superior speed. Two
rams are in pursuit of her. The officers and
crews of the rebel boats endeavored to take to
the shore.
Many of their wounded and prisoners are now
in our hands. The Mayor surrendered the city
to me after the engagement. Col. Fitch came
down at eleven o'clock, and has taken military
possession of the town.
C. H. DAVIS, Flag Officer.
WASHINGTON, June B.—The following mes
sage, In relation to the action of the rams in
the naval engagement off Memphis, was re
ceived at the War Department this evening :
OPPOSITE MEMPHIS, June 6,
via Cam, June 8.
To the Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
The rebel gunboats made a stand early this
morning opposite Memphis, and opened a vig•
orous fire upon our gunboats, which they re
turned with equal spirit.
I ordered the Queen, my flag ship, to pass
between the gunboats and run down shed of
them, upon the two rams of the enemy, which
at first boldly,stnod their ground. Lieut. Col.
Ellet, in the Monarch, of which Capt. Dryden
is first master, followed gallantly. The rebel
rams endeavored to back down stream, and
then to turn and run, but the movement was
fatal to them. The Queen struck one of them
fairly, and for a few minutes was fast to the
wreck. After separating, the rebel steamer
sunk.
My steamer, the Queen, was then herself
struck by another rebel steamer, and disabled,
but, though damaged, can be saved. A pistol
shot wound in the leg deprived me of the pow
er to witness the remainder of the fight.
The Monarch also passed ahead of our gun
boats, and went most gallantly into action.—
She first struck the rebel boat that struck my
flag ship, and sunk the rebel. She was then
struck by one of the rebel rams, but not injur
ed. She then pushed on and struck the Beau
regard, and burst open her side. Simultane
ously the Beauregard was struck in the boiler
by a shot from one of our gunboats.
The Monarch then pushed at the gunboat
Little Rebel, the rebel flag ship, and, having
little headway, pushed her before her, the rebel
commodore and crew escaping.
The Monarch then finding the Beauregard
sinking, took her in tow until she sunk in shoal
water. Then, in compliance with the request
of Col. Davis, Lieut. Col. Ellet despatched the
Monarch and the Switzerland in pursuit of one
of the remaining rams and some transports
which had escaped.
The gunboats and two of my rams have gone
below.
I cannot too much praise the conduct of the
pilots and engineers, and Military Onard of the
Monarch and Queen, the brave conduct of Cap
tain Dryden, or the heroic bearing of Lieuteu-
ant Colonel Ellet. I will name all the parties
o you in m a yself,
special
the
only person
lam,
person in my fleet
who was disabled.
CHARLES ELLETT, JR.,
Colonel Commanding Ram Fleet.
The following second despatch from Colonel
Ellet was also received this morning:
OPPOSITE MEMPHIS, June 6,
VIA Canto, June 8, 1862: j
To the Hen. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
It is proper and due to the brave men on the
Queen and Monarch to say to you, briefly, that
two of the rebel steamers were sunk outright
and immediately by the shock of my two rams.
One, with a large amount of cotton, &c., on
board, was disabled by an accidental collision
with the Queen, and secured by her crew.
After I was personally disabled, another boat,
which was also hit by a shut from the gunboats,
was sunk by the Monarch, and towed to shoal
water by that boat. Still another, also injured
by the fire of our gunboats, was pushed on the
shore and secured by the Monarch.
Of the gunboats, I can only say that they
bore themselves, as our navy always does,
bravely and well.
The following despatch was also received this
evening, though written the day before the
naval battle on the Mississidpi :
Boonmut, June 8
o.erosrrE RANDOLPH, Twelve miles
below Fort Pillow, June 5,
via Cairo, June 8.
To lion. E. N. Stanton, Secretary of War:
To my mortification the enemy evacuated
Fort Pillow last night. They carried away or
destroyed every thing of value. Early this
mo?hing, Lieut. Col. Ellett and a few men in a
yawl went ashore, followed by Col Fitch and a
part of his command. The gunboats then
came down and anchored across the channel.
I proceeded with three rams, 12 miles below
the fort, to a point opposite Randolph, and sent
Lieut. Col. Ellett ashore with a flag of truce to
demand the surrender of the place. Their
forces had all left, two of their gunboats only
an hour or two before we approached. The
people appeared to respect the flag which Lieut.
Col Ellett planted.
The guns had been dismantled, and some
piles of cotton were burning.
I shall leave Lieut. Col. Ellett here in the
advance and return immediately to Fort Pillow
to bring on my entire force.
The people attribute, the sudden evacuation
to the attempt made the night before last to
sink one of their gunboats at Fort Pillow.
Randolph, like Fort Pillow, is weak, and
could not have held out long against a vigor
ous attack. The people express a desire for the
restoration of the old order of things, though
still professing to be secessionists.
NEw YORK, June 9
BAITIKORB, June 9
Rebel Account of the Naval Battle.
CHICAGO, June B.—The Memphis Argus of the
6th, in au account of the naval engagement,
says: Three shots were fired from the Confede
rate fleet before any reply was made by the
Federats. Atter the firing commenced, the
shots from the Federals fell wide of the mark.
On the arrival of several more.of the enemy's
gunboats, Commodore Montgomery ordered the
fleet to fall back. which was done, the firing,
however, being kept up vigorously.
The rebel fleet retired to opposite Bear street,
no longer in line of battle, when one of the
Federal boats shot ahead. The Beauregard
prepared to receive her, and the contest was of
short duration, as the Beauregard avoided the
blow intended for her, and struck her adver
nary forward the wheel house, which placed
the Federal boat hors du combat. She hauled
off and made for the Arkansas shore, and re
mained there during the engagement. In the
meantime another Federal raw, the monarch,
came to the assistance of the fleet
The Beau regard attempted to run her down,
but missed her and struck the Gen. Price in the
wheel-house, making her a complete wreck.—
This boat made for the Arkansas shore and
sunk A number of persons on board of her
werentilled and wounded by the enemy's sharp
shooters. At this period four federal iron-clad
boats, which had taken no part except firing at
long range, came up. Upon their arrival the
cannonading was fiercely renewed. In a short
time the Monarch was struck by a large shot
and sunk.
The Little Rebel was soon afterwards struck
by a federal shot, and at once started for the
Arkansas shore. The Beauregard, nothing
daunted by the disasters which had befallen the
others, continued vigorously firing as she re
tired towards the Point. Two or three of
the enemy's large boats closed upon her,
pouring in broadside after broadside. She was
struck several times and raked fore and aft. A
federal ram coming up, also dealt her a blow,
when she sunk tepidly in deep water.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE NAVAL BATTLE
CAIRO, Juno B.—The regular packet Platte
Valley, the first boat through from Memphis,
arrived this morning. Our forces are in pos
session of Memphis.
The flotilla, consisting of five gunboats and
eight rams, left Fort Wright on Thursday morn
ing. Finding no obstructions at Fort Ran
dolph, the flotilla passed on, and at eight
o'clock on Thursday evening, the gunboats an.
chored two miles above Memphis, the rams
remaining a short distance above.
A reconnoissance was then made. The Rebel
fleet consisting of the following vessels, the
General Van Dorn, the flag-ship ; Gen. Bragg,
Gen. Lovell, Jeff Thompson, Beauregard,Little
Rebel and Sumter, were discovered lying near
Memphis.
During the night the Rebelfleet moved down
the river, and at daylight were seen coming up
In line of battle. Our gunboats had in the
meantime weighed anchor, and, followed by
several rams, moved slowly toward the rebel
fleet, when a shot from the Little Rebel, from
a rifled gun, at long range, fell within a short
distance of the Cairn, which was in advance.
The Cairo replied with a broadside and soon
the eugagemeut became general at long range.
The rams had in the meantime advanced, and
the rebel ram Beauregard being in the advance
she was singled out by the Union rams Mon
arch and Ocean of the West, each striving to
be the first to strike the rebel craft.
The Monarch succeeded iu striking her amid
ships, almost cutting her in two, causing her
to fill and sink immediately in the channel,
directly opyosite the city.
At this juncture the Little Rebel made a dash
at the Monarch, which, by this time, was in
the midst of the robot fleet, but by a skillful
movement of the pilot of the latter, she drop
ped out of the way, and the blow intended for
her struck the rebel boat Gen. Price, taking
away the wheel house, and making it necessary
for her to run ashore, when she sent a shot
which, unfortunately for the rebels, struck
their boat, the Lovell,rendering her unmanage
able. Immediately afterwards she was run
down by the Queen of the West.
A broadside from the Benton took effect in
the sides of the Jeff. Thompson, when she ran
ashore, and soon after was in flames and burned
to the water's edgo.
. .
Four of the rebel boats having now been dis
abled, the remainder of their fleet retreated
down the river, pursued by our boats, firing as
they advanced, resulting iu the capture of the
Sumter, Bragg and Little Rebel, which had
been abandoned by most of the crews.
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Captain Montgomery, the flag officer, with
most of the officers and men, succeeded in mak
ing their escape in the woods on the Arkansas
shore. The Federal ram ...Lancaster was struck
by the Beauregard early in the engagement;
and slightly disabled.
Col. Ellett, in commend of the Federal rasp/,
CHARLES ELLETT, Jar,
Colonel Commanding Ram Reel
CHARLES ELL ET, Jr.,
Colonel commanding Earn Flotilla
was struck in the breast by a splinter and
stunned temporarily, but soon recovered end
continued on deck throughout the engage
ment. This is the only casualty on our side,
Our rams were manned by sharp-shooters,
mostly from Illinois, who did good execution
in picking off the Rebel gunners at every oppor
tunity.
The enemy's loss in killed, wounded and
prisoners is heavy, but not yet fully ascer
tained. Our boys are busily engaged in pick
ing up the crews of the disabled boats.
THE SURRENDER OF lOW :1 !Si
CAIRO, June B.—After the return of our gun
boats from the pursuit of the Rebel fleet, Com
modore Davis sent the following note to the
Mayor of Memphis:
FLAO STEAMER BENTON, OIT MEMPHIS, June 6.
I have respectfully to request that you will
surrender the city of Memphis to the authority
of the United tqates, which I have the honor
to represent.
I am, Mr. Mayor, with high respect,
Yourobbedient servant,
(Signed,) C. F. Davis, Flag Officer.
In reply, the Mayor says; " Your note is
received, and in reply I have only to say, as
the civil authorities have no means of defence
by the force of circumstances, the city is in
your hands."
Immediately after our boats' crews landed,
and the National flag was hoisted over the
Post Office. The party was followed by an ex
cited crowd, but were not interfered with.
The Forty-third and Forty - sixth Indiana
regiments now occupy the place. Col. Fitch is
in command. The city is quiet.
No demonstration whatever has been made,
and it is even asserted that it will not be ne
cessary to declare martial law.
Five of our gunboats now are abreast of the
city. We captured five large steamers which
were moored to the levee.
The rebels burned a new gunboat which was
nearly ready to launch.
The Vicksburg Which of the 4th says that
6000 Federal troops have landed at Baton
Rouge.
The Memphis Avalanche of the 6th says, that
the locomotive recently run off by the railroad
employees, have been recovered.
The same paper says that all the bridges be
tween Memphis and Humboldt have been de
stroyed.
From M'Clellan's Army
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Occasional Artillery Skirmishes Yes
terday.
GEN. PRIM ON A VISIT TO GEN
M'OLELLAN.
THE KILLED. WOUNDED AND MISSING
AT THE BATTLE OF FAIR OAKS.
OFFICIAL STATEMENT
Dispatches recei,ved at the War Department
up to noon to-day state that all is quiet in front
of Richmond, accept occasional cannonading at
our forces employed in bridge opperatione, but
which does not retard their progress.
HEADQUARTERS AIM' OF THS POTOMIO,
hvsnAY June, 8.
The rebels opened with artillery yesterday
afternoon, on the pickets of Gen. Sumner, they
having advanced to a new position. No harm
was done, and the firing soon ceased.
A Richmond paper of Friday has been receiv
ed, and it gives no details of the late battle.
They claim, as usual, a brilliant victory. It
states that the rerterais - were - ariven into rue
Chickahominy and White Oak swamp, and that
Gen. M'Cleilan had sent flags of truce a.king
permission to bury his dead —all of which is
false. It gives the loss in one regiment at 140
killed and wounded, evidently showing that
they considered it their interest to disclose the
news of the defeat to the public by degrees,
thereby preventing a panic.
Gen. Prim and staff, of Spain, arrived to-day
and paid their respects to Gen. McClellan.
Three deserters who arrived from Richmond
to-day, state that there was great excitement
in that city, for fear that the James river would
rise sufficiently to allow our gunboats to pass
over the obstructions. The excitement was so
intense that many citizens were leaving. The
deserters confirm the wounding of Gen. Joe
Johnson.
This being Sunday, everything is quiet.
The following statement of the loss in the
battle of Fair Oaks has been received at the
War Department:
Jo the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
Statement of the killed, wounded and miss
ing on the 31st of May and Ist of June, 1862,
in front of Richmond:
Killed. Woun'd Mis'g
Gen. Sumner's 2d corps 183 894 146
Gen. Heintzelman's 3d corps. 259 980 156
Gen. Keyes' 4th corps .448 1,758 921
Total 890 3,627 1,222
Grand total killed, wounded and missing, 6,789
A nominal list will be furnished as soon as
the data can be received.
G. B. M.cCLELLAN,
• Maj. Gen. Commanding.
XXXVIIth Congress—First Session,
WASHINGTON ? June 9
SENATE.
Mr. SUMNER offered a resolution that the Com
mittee on Post Offices and Roads be directed to
inquire into the expediency of providing for an
air line railroad between Washington and New
York. Laid over.
Mr. Wn.son, (Hass.,) introduced a bill to
provide for an increase of medical officers in the
volunteer service.
On motion of Mr. OEM, (lowa,) the joint
resolution relating to the penitentiary of the
District of Columbia, was taken up.
Mr. Witsort, (Mass.,) moved to amend by
providing that the volunteer soldiers confined
in the penitentiary of the District of Columbia,
under sentence imposed by court martial, be
forthwith discharged, and such imprisonment
shall not be allowed hereafter.
Mr. Garms said he had a list of soldiers sent
to the Penitentiary. There were ninety-six
cases, of which forty-eight were for insubordi
nation or some other trivial offence, nineteen
for desertion, three for neglect of duty, seven
for violating the fifty-fourth article of war,
which punishes soldiers for treading the grass,
&c., six for mutiny, consisting of a refusal to
go forward in the face of the enemy without
weapons, two for assault and battery, one for
forgery, three for larceny, and the others for
most trivial offences. Only four out of the
whole were confined there for offences which
were considered criminal by the civil code, yet
these men were sent there for from six months
to five years.
Mr. TrAuurs, (N. Y.,) hoped the resolution
would pass. He had just returned from the
penitentiary where he found respectable citi
zens from his own State confined fcr the merest
offence. It was time this thing should be
stopped.
Mr. WnsoN, (Mass.,) spoke further in favor
of the resolution. He said there were men
confined there as felons for scarcely no offence
at all, and thus disgraced for no cause.
The amendment was adopted and the resolu
tion adopted.
At one o'clock, the Senate resolved itself into
a high court of impeachment, on the trial of
Flour five to ten cents higher and unsettled,
State $4 25@4 35 ; Ohio $6 10(41.5 36 ; South
ern SS(S 10. Wheat advanced one to three
cents unsettled and excited ; 90,000 bus. sold—
Chicago Spring 91c®,1 02 ; Milwaukie Club
98c®1 05. Corn advancing, prices one to two
cents better, 60,000 bus. sold mixed, old 52c®
53. Pork dull. Lard steady. Whisky dull
and unchanged. Receipts flour 32,000 bus.,
Wheat 70,000 bus., Corn 61,000 bus.
Barausoas, June 9.
Flour quiet ; 10,000 bbls sold ; Howard Street
s6®6 50 ; Ohio $6 45. Wheat quiet ; 30,000
bus. sold ; Southern white $1 45®1 60. Corn
buoyant ; 19,000 bus. sold ; white 57@58c;
yellow unchanged. Oats firm ; 4000 bus. sold;
Penna. 40®41. Provisions dull ; mess pork
512®12 60 ; bacon, sides 6 c ; Western lard 84.
WASHINGTON, June 8
Cotton quiet—stocks better. Chicago and
Rock Island, 64k; Illinois Central railroad, 95f ;
Michigan Souttiern, 58f ; Yew York Central,
321; Pennsylvania coal, 95 ; Reading, 581;
Missouri, 6s. 531, gold 41- per , cents premium ;
Tennessee, 6s. 60i ; Ohio, 103 ; Illinois cou
pons, 1862, 1001 ; 11. S. coupons;63. 881,106 i.
WE STUDY TO PLEA.SE.
HENRY C. SCHEFFER, Paper Hanger,
has jest opened a large, new an t well selected
tteek °Mall Paper and Window Shades, at Ids new
store No. 12 Market etreer, next to Rummel at Killingera
grocery near the Bridge.
*air Paper hanging pereonally attmied So. All work
warranted. jefl.dlnro
FROM REMDING
To
NEW YORK AND BACK,
ONLY $4 50.
Truk. East Pennsylvania Railroad, good du-
V ring the whole month of June.
Excursion tickets at the above rates can be
had at the office of the above company at Read
ing, good for all passenger trains. •
EDWARD M. CLYMER,
je9-dtje2B President.
FOR SALE.—A. valuable building lot
20 feet, 10 inches by 176 feet, pleasantly located on
Hi g h or Fourth elreets between State and North streets,
adjoining properly of David S. Herr. Apply to
J. EFPPLN, Tobacconist,
13 Market :,quare.
100,000 SEGARS TO BURN.
IHAVE on hand 100,000 good &gars,
(sixe t ) of my own manufacture, which I will set
In large or small lots. Orders solicited and will be
promptly attended to. Address
JOHN C. BERMAN,
je7•dtf Lewisberry, York coanty. Pa.
STRAWBERRIES.
Strawberries by the quart, Chest or Bushel.
ORDERS sent through the Post Office,
or left at the lower Market, on Wednesday or 'dot
urday mornings, will be promptly anended to.
Alto they can se had at the place at any hour of the
day, fresh picked from the vines.
Keystone Farm and Nursery,
Immediately below the city,
jet .1. Mal.
T" general variety of goods for ad
justing the
WANTED.
A T Harrisburg Car Manufactury six or
_EL eight good Csrpenters. je6-alty
THE undersigned would respectfully in
form the public, that be has lived up this Bummer
hecort in the best midi:l , e order, and has established a
rope ferry across tbe river, thus enabling all to procure a
safe and pleasant passage. Ile tropes by prompt atten
tion to tbe wants at the community ta receive a liberal
amount of patronage.
Drunken and dis.aderly men are forbidden the
Island, and improper females will not be, allowed to
v sl . the place, so that the most faatidions need not best
tate to visit this resort. [let-diva] G. R. OMB.
BEAUTIFUL TISSUE PAPtR,
FOR covering Looking Glasses, Picture
Frames, ornamenting Callings, trimming Ci3s Piper,
and out SD as to ming over airing& in the shaP 3 of
stars, points, circles or festoons. For sale at
myel SCHEER EMS BOOKSTORE.
West H. Humphreys. The Senators took seats
on Ulu right Rrid left and the Vice President on
a raised platform.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Dennison, Delegate from. Utah, pre
sented the Constitution of Utah, together with
a memorial, asking for admission into the
Union, on an equal footing with the original
States.
Referred to the Committee on Territories.
The tax bill with sundry amendments was
returned from the Senate. It was ordered to
be printed and referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means.
Mr. WYCLISFS offered a resolution calling up
on the Secretary of War to inform the House
whether Gen. Hunter has organized and equip
ped a regiment of blacks in South Carolina,&c.
Adopted.
Mr. VALLANDIGHAM, (0.,) offered a resolution
setting forth that this House has heard, with
sincere satisfaction, of the evacuation of Cor
inth, and the occupation of It by our army
without the loss of life, and tendering the
thanks of this House to Major General Hal leek,
and the other brave men under him, for this
signal achievement ; and, moreover, that in
common with the whole country, the House
would rejoice to see the Constitution as it is,
and the Union as it was, maintained and re
stored everywhere without any further effusion
of fraternal blood.
Mr. VArJanntortax demanded the previous
question on the adoption of this resolution.
Mr. BLAKE moved to refer the resolution to
the eumtnittee on the military affairs.
Mr. FLviaar, Pa., made a similar motion.
Tho Speaker decided that the motion was
out of order—only thirty-five members having
voted to sustain the previous question.
Upon the adoption of the resolution, Mr.
VALLANDIGHAJK said, as the House refused to
adopt the resolution without hesitation, he
would withdraw the demand for the previous
question and leave the resolution open to
debate.
Whereupon, under the rule, the subject went
Over.
Mr. Hurcupts, (Ohio,) offered a resolution
which was agreed to by a vote of 66 yeas to 48
nays, repealing the resolution heretofore adop
ted proposing to purchase from Gales and Sea
ton of the National Inklligencer, certain setts of
the annals of Congress and a register of debates
at a cost of over $35,000.
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH
PHILADELPHIA., Jllll.O 9
The foreign news has counteracted the down
ward tendency in breadstuffs. Flour quiet—
sales of winter wheat at $5, superfine $4 50a
375. Wheat quiet at C. 18®1 20 for red, and
125@1 30 for white. 5,000 bus. yellow corn
afloat sold at 63cts. Whisky steady at 241®
25cts.
NEW Yonx, June 9
THE MONEY MARKET
NEW Yuan, June 9
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