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Government, and in arms around the Capital ; that in
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jects ore accomplished the war ought to cease:"
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ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17th, 1863,
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POVISVILL2, May 18,1883_
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NOVEMBER 21, 1862.
THE Frankin Repository and Transcript and
the Telegraph have gotten themselves, severally
and collectively, on the rampage about a speech
delivered a week since by Hon. Wm. H. Miller,
of this district, before the Democracy of Cham
bersburg. We were not present on the occa
sion, but judging from the stir created by the
effort of our Democratic Congressman among
thz cumatng pact or negro-worshippers repre
sented by the Repository and the Telegraph, we
should say he acquitted himself with credit.
No wonder the cowards howl when they are
lashed. 'We are glad to hear that he laid it on
so well- If the whole of his speech was of a
piece with the quotation about which the
Chambersburg Abolition raper makes so much
ado, to wit: “That there are plenty of men
who would be very willing to exchange with
;President Davis and give Lincoln for Vallan
digham"—all we have say is we believe it to
have been a remarkably truthful and modest
.production. We are of the number who would
be so disposed ourselves, and we know of
others who have not hesitated to commend his
Excellency, the Man of Straw, to a fate more
awful than the doubtful hospitalities of the
ruler of Dixie's land.
The Conduct of the War.
The New York Evening Post, a black Repub-
Ikon paper, -very truly says
"1f government will attend elosely to the war,
and if military gentlemen will go and fight the ere
my, see shall hear less of arrests and other abuses
at home; but to try political offenders - by military
courts will not put down the rebellion ; to arrest
women for
_gapping their crinolines a the -star
spangled banner will not put down the rebellion ;
but to so mass our armies and to so plan our sum
mer eompa2gn as to defeat and rout and destroy the
rebel armies—that will put an end noeonly to the
-rebellion, hut to all 'mischievous and silly manifes
tations of sympathy with it which appear in the
free Stales."
Taken from so loyal a source, we trust the
above extract will not be considered treason
able, and will only add that during the past
two years the Lincoln administration has had
at command men and means enough to have
conquered, if properly handled, any nation of
Europe—more than the great Napolean com
manded in any two years of his eventful ca
reer—more than Alexander had with which to
conquer a world—and yet after all this blood
has been wasted and this enormous treasure
sqnandered, what good result has been at
tained? 'Will some unquestioning supporter
of the administration answer ?
WAITED TO SURRENDER.—The Wheeling In
miligencer says : It is told as a fact, that when
the rebels were at Morgantown it was agreed
at Waynesburg, Pa., that no defence of that
place should be attempted, and moreover, that
ham Lamar, M. C. and cashier of the bank
there, went out eight miles with a flag of truce,
hunting somebody to surrender the town to,
but found nobody, after a long and diligent
mord.
i i :The above paragraph is extensively copied
into the Abolition papers. We don't believe a
word of it. We know Mr. Lazear to be as
loyal a man to the Conetitation and Union as
there is in the country—we know him to be an
honorable man—and hie lOoka bespeak him
brave man. That he perambulated the country*
for miles, with a flag of truce, hunting the
enemy, we have no doubt is an unmitigated
falsehood. That it was agreed to surrend
Waynesburg without defence, in case the
enemy appeared in force, we think highly pro
bable--for what reeistance could Waynesburg
make against an organized military body, ar
tillery, cavalry and infantry ? Assistant Ad
jutant GeneralleClure surrendered Chambers
burg, a larger town than Waynesburg, with all
its military stores, without a struggle, and
treated the rebel (Cicero to the beet he had to
drink, and not a word of reproach was uttered
by the Abolitionists that we ever heat d. Why,
then, should Gen. Lazear be blamed for 'agree
ing" to pursue a similar course—if indeed he
did "agree" to do so ?]
Gen. Hunter Superseded
Such was the report in Washington a few
days ago. Unfortunately for the oeuntry, as
appears by intelligence from that city, pub
lished yesterday, the rumor was unfounded.
kro show in what light this military humbug—
who, in the uniform of a Major General, has
been disgracing his country and retarding the
progress of our arms in South Carolina for the
past eighteen months, or thereabouts—is viewed
by a portion of the leading administration
press, we quote from the Albany Evening Jour
nal, which gives his performance and his char
acter in these words:
44 His administration of the ' Department of
the South' has been a signal failure. Not only
bee he done nothing egainet the enemy, but he
has managed to quarrel with pretty much
everybody with whose he has had official in
tercourse_ He quarreled with General Lane
in Kansas; he quarreled with Fremont in
Missouri ; he quarreled with Foster and Na
glee and Stevenson at Hilton Head; he quar
reled with his own staff_ When he should
have been addressing his attention to the re
bels, he was indicting frothy proclamations and
wangling over questions of etiquette with his
associates. Instead ofmoving promptly against
Oharleston last winter, he frittered away pre
cious weeks in determining whether he should
be supreme like Cesar, or should divide the
honors with the commander of the North Caro
lina forces. Before he could determine this
momentous question the opportunity for a suc
cessful attack had passed."
This was written under the impression that
he had been removed, which, as we have
turns out not to be so. He has attached him
self to the administration by his unqualified
and obsequious support of their negro policy—
which is the only well defined policy they
have—and although they must be conscious
that he has disgraced the service and is an in
jury to it, yet they hesitate to displace him,
.for fear of bringing down upon them the wrath
of Wade, Chandler, Stevens, Sumner ST. Co.,
the representative men of the ultra Abolition
wing of the party.
With that wing Hunter is now stronger than
ever. He has bound them to him by hooks of
steel, in consequence of a military raid of ne
gro troops into Florida, which he has recently
planned, for the purpose of conscripting the
male slaves of that region to fill up the ranks
of the black brigades which he has engaged to
furnish for active service in the field. He has
done another act 'Which extorts their admira
tion and rivets their support. He has written
a foolish but sanguinary letter to Jeff. Davis,
in which he threatens to hang indiscriminately
every man in South Carolina, civil and mili
tary, now in his hands or upon whom he can
hereafter lay his hands, unless the head func
tionary of the rebel government shall annul
hie retaliatory order in reference to white olli
eers in command of negro troops.
These acts make Hunter, next to Fremont,
the pet of the ultras ; and even were the Pre
sident inclined to remove him, the power we
have spoken of is stronger than he, and would
prevent him from consummating the act.
The country may suffer from his folly, but
the General is safe in his 'negation while Wade
tz uo. are his friends.
The Chicago Trouble—The Liberty of tie
Press Assailed, and an Order of Court
Disregarded by the Military.
general Ambrose Burnside, who assailed in
vain the heights of Fredericksburg, defended
by soldiers, is now attempting to trample the
liberties of an unarmed people in the dust. If
the people of the West are true to themselves,
brave enough to defend their rights against
military encroachments ordered by this mili
tary failure and sanctioned by the administra
tion, he will fail as signally in the latter at•
tempt as he did in the former. He led his
troops—no he did not lead, he sent them to
massacre at Fredericksburg, and now his ob
ject seems to be to create a revolution in his
military district, so that be may find opportu
nity for another and more extensive massacre.
We do not know what the end may be—a day
or two will determine; in the mean time we
are glad to see the people of Chicago and the
Legislature of the State evince a proper spirit
in resisting his infamous Order of Suppres
sion.
On this subject the journal of Commerce re
;
It appears, then, that Judge Drutnmond's
order, an order of the United States Court, the
highest tribunal in the land, the highest in the
world, since it is of all courts on earth most
solemnly charged with the defence of liberty—
it appears that this order was issued for the
preservation of personal rights and public
honor, and to prevent a wrong to both.
" It may be said here that courts do not issue
injunctions to prevent military actions; that a
judge might as well issue an injunction to stop
a great battle. The only answer necessary is
found in the fact that Chicago is . no battle
round ; that at this very moment a peaceful
convention of the delegates of the people are
assembled there in a voluntary meeting to pro.
mote the commerce of the nation. Obviously
there is and can be no possible reason for ex
ercising military law in Chicago, to the extent
of overriding the law of the Supreme Court.
Even if such a necessity is supposed to exist
elsewhere, the circumstances must be viewed
as if there were no war. All crimes in Chicago
are cognizable by the courts.
" The court, then, was engaged in protecting
the great American principles of freedom. The
military arm was raised for a precisely con
trary purpose. In such a ease surely the court
seems, prima facts, to be the arm which should
be sustained, while the other should be with
drawn."
*** * , *
"It is therefore a duty we owe to the Con
stitution, to sustain the court. It will not do,
when a man proposes to injure his neighbor's
property, for that man to say, 'I am a soldier,
and therefore no longer subject to the warrant
of the Supreme Court.' Such a plea will 110 t,
avail him in a civilized community."
* * * * * * *
"Such collisions are apt to lead to danger
ous results. Thus it is in the power of the
court to order its attachment to be enforced.
Enforcing it may make it necessary to call eut
the posse et7mitatus, which is the whole force of
the county or district. The collision thus oo
ctirritlg between the people and the military
might be very extended in its evil effects. Or
Vint. is a more imminent danger, the opposi
tion of the military to law might induce disre.
glt4l a law by the civilians, and riot and
blocrlsbed ensue."
"Such acts rouse Americans to a feeling that
liberty is threatened, and if it is threatened no
promises or pledges will suffice to quiet the
defenders of our birthright. We have moat
serious fears already of the ressit to come
from there ill judged proceedinge:"
We know very well what the result will be
if this arbitrary and unlawful course is per
sisted in by the administration and its Learner;
satraps; but, although we would avoid it if
possible, we have no ftar of it. The result
will be revolution and bloodshed throughout
the entire North, and in that revolution the
administration and all its cohorts will go down,
and liberty and law will triumph.
" THE multitude," says Forney in the Phila
delphia Press, a few days since, ' , rarely com
prehends an idea, but it follows a threat or a
command." This sentiment furnishes a key
to all the recent arbitrary acts of the adminis
tration. It has no faith in the loyalty of the
people or their reverence for law, but suppo
ses, as all weak rulers have done in times past,
that force alone is efficacious with the masses
of men. Forgetting that they are the servants
of the people, and therefore bound to obey, the
members of the administration imagine them
selves the sovereigns of the people, whose
function is to compel. This has been the theory
of all weak and wicked rulers. The only hu
man emotion they ever dream of appealing to
is that of which they are most conscious them
selves—fear. A republic which depends upon
popular intelligence, judgment, loyalty, for
bearance, is simply impossible with rulers
whose only panacea for general discontent is
force. The administration (if this country,
operating under this fatal theory, is turning
against it the conecience, the enterprise, the
loyalty, the respect of the whole count*. It
has lost all moral power, and will soon be too
contemptible to be feared.— Worid.
NEWS OF THE DAY.
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM vlokblttnta.
Ctwents..±.rr, June 4.—The Commercial's dis
patch gives Vicksburg advices to the 30th of
May_ Spades are once more trumps. We are
erecting earthworks to protect our men, and
mining to blow the face out of one or two forts
that are nearly unapproachable otherwise.
The idea of carrying the place by storm seems
to be abandoned, and the safer and surer plan
of starving Gen. Pemberton into submission
now finds favor everywhere.
CAPTURE OF THE REBEL STEAMER CUBA
WASHINGTON, June 4.—The following report
was received at the Navy Department to-day:
U. S. SHIP DE BOTO, GULP OF MRIEWO,
May 18th, 1863.
Stn! I have the honor to inform you that
yesterday at noon we discovered the smoke of
a steamer, and stood for it. Soon after we
made for the steamer, and pressed after it to
the very extent of our powers. At 6 o'clock
p. nt. she stopped, and two boats pushed off
from her, carrying her officers and crew.
I immediately lowered and took out of the
steamers boats the principal officers, RS a
ecurity for the lives of my own men, and then
boarded the steamer. As soon as the boats
had got alongside of her, the flames burst out,
as I had anticipated, when I hoisted the recall.
Afterwards, having had the assurance that
there was no danger of her blowing up, I went
near enough to the burning ship to lead our
hose on board, but all efforts to suppress the
flames were unavailing, and by sunset the fa
mous rebel ship Cuba sank benerth the waters
of the Gulf, in latitude 28° 47 1 , longitude 87°
58/.
It is estimated, on reliable authority, that
the cargo of the Cuba was worth in Havre
nearly $400,000, and if landed in Alabama
buds - vv. Inc Lit r irtMal a Itaini Oil 4.t.,t
million and a quarter.
I have her officers and crew on board and
shall deliver them to the custody of the autho
rities at Key West.
.1 am sir, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, Wm. W. WALKER.
ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
WASHINGTON, June 4.—The soldiers of the
Army of the Potomac will be gratified to learn
that a reform is to be made in in the matter of
supplying newspapers and periodicals. The
cost of any newspapers and periodicals sold is
not to exceed five cents per copy, or one-half
the amount now charged by the extortionists.
The privilege of acting as newspaper agents is
to be confined to discharged or disabled sol
diers, and given to the highest bidders, the
amount of the offer to be paid into proper
hands as a hospital fund.
It is understood the privilege of supplying
provisions and other stores to officers' messes
at head quarters is also to be awarded to the
highest bidder on similar terms.
Yesterday morning the enemy's pickets were
considerably strengthened on the front of the
Rappahannock.
A rebel deserter is represented as stating
that since the prohibition to fish in the river
the enemy are considerably curtailed of their
fresh luxuries.
Gen. Nye, Gov. of Nevada, and Judge Nott,
of Now York, are visitors at heaequarteri, the
guests of the 93d New York volunteers.—
Major Granville O'}laller, of the ith U. S. in
fantry, left here to-day to enter upon the du
ties of provost marshal of the State of Mary
land.
It 18 understood in official circles that Ad
miral Dupont will shortly be relieved by Ad
miral Foote.
An order has already been forwarded relie
ving Acting Admiral Wilkes, and designating
Commodore Lardner as his successor.
FIGHT IN UTAH-THE MORMONS ASSIST THE IN.
DIANE
WASHINGTON', June 4.—lnformation has just
been received here showing that, in a fight
which recently took place in Utah, between
the California volunteers and a party of Indi
ans, at a dettlement called Battle Cryek, the
MOrmons assisted the Indiansa man by the
name of Potter bringing the Indians into town,
and showing them the whereabouts of the vol
unteers, who were not expecting an attack.—
After the attack was made the Mormons gath
ered to enjoy the sport, over two hundred look
ing quietly on in a contest where the 'lndians
outnumbered the volunteers ten to one. For
tunately the arrival of reinforcements saved
them from massacre, though for tines hours
they kept up the unequal contest. Colonel
Connor makes a similar complaint of the Mor
mons in his official report of the (battle on
Bear river.
DISMISSED THE SERVICE
By direction of the President, Swond Lieu
tenant Charles Lyman, 14th Connehieut Vol
unteers!, has been dismissed from tie service,
for furnishing the discriptive list of a man
[probably the men] of his company to an un
authorized person, in disregard cf general
orders on the subject. This order,as an ex
ample, was read at the head of every company
and regiment in the army.
BTRAZI
The Navy Department has advertised for
steam machinery proposals to be received until
the 15th inst. The Department wil consider
propositions of parties who may chnise to offer
for machinery of equal power, or plans and
specifications of their own in place of those
advertised.
ExerrAMENT 117 ALPRANDINt
Some excitement still exists in ilexandria,
in apprehension of a re‘nl raid, Mich is cer
tainly contemplated—but in whit direction
none can tell. The colored folks contraband
and all, are still at work, diggpg pits, en
trenching,
&0., in that and other Vicinities.—
There is no apprehension in Washigton. The
military authorities are on the alert, [glad to
heir it,] preparing for contingencies. The
rebels are more frightened than ever. [Glad
to bear that also.]
CAVALRY EXPEDITION
Kilpatrick's cavalry are now on an expedi
tion south of Richmond, probably to damage
their railroads.
EOM
WASIIINOTON, June 4.—C01. Kilpatrick has
been entirely successful in bis raid back from
Gloucester Point. He crossed the country be
tween York and Rappahannock rivers, making
an extensive circuit through the garden spot
of Virginia, a section where our troops had
never been before. Large numbers of horses,
negroes, fie., were brought in by him to Ur
hana. His raid spread great alarm among the
rebels. At Urbana he was taken across the
Rappahannock by our gun boats, and thence
proceeded to our lines.
EXPEDITION TO SHREVEPORT.
BOSTON, June 4.—A gentleman from New
Orleans holding a position in Farragut's fleet,
gives an account of an expedition to Shreve
port, on Red river, where the rebels had a navy
yard. Two iron clads of great power were
found upon the stocks and blown up. It is
believed they were powerful enough to have
destroyed our Mississippi fleet. The iron for
them had been sent from Richmond.
BY THE MAILS.
THE TROUBLE IN CHICAGO-13URNSIDE'S ORDER
.--MOTION TO DEFER INJUNCTION-REHARRS
OF JUDGE DRUMMOND-MEETING OF THE CITI•
ZENS-ACTION OF THE LEGISLATURE.
The following is a copy of Gen. Burnside's
order suppressing the Chicago Times :
RHADQVARTERS DRPAHIIIENT OF TUN OHIO, zz
CINCINNATI, June 1,1883.
GENERAL ORDERS No. 84.-1. The tendency
of the articles and opinions habitually pub
lished in the newspaper known as the New
York World, being to cast reproach upon the
government, and to weaken its efforts to sup
press the rebellion, by creating distrust in its
war policy, its circulation in time of war is
calculated to exert a pernicious and treasona
ble influence, and is, therefore, prohibited in
this department.
2. Postmastirs, news agents and all others,
will govern themselves by this order, as any
person detected in forwarding, selling or in
any way circulating the paper referred to, will
be promply arrested, and held for trial.
3.. On account of the repeated expression of
disloyal and incendiary sentiments, the put
lishing of the newspaper known as the Chicago
Times is hereby suppressed.
4. Brigadier General Jacob Ammen, com
manding the district of Illinois, is charged
with the execution of the third paragraph of
this order.
By command of Maj. Gen. A. B. BIIRNSIDE.
LEWIS RICHMOND, LL COl. and A. A. G.
[official:] D. R. LARNED, Capt. and AA. G.
Cow coo, June 3, 1863.—A motion was made
in the United States Court this morning by the
Times counsel to defer the application for an in
junction until notice of the application could
be given to the military commandant at camp
Douglas.
Judge Drummond, in granting the motion,
said :
"I may be pardoned for saying that person
ally and offictally, I desire to give every aid
and assistance in my power to the government,
and to the administration in restoring the
Union, but I have always wished to treat the
government as a government of law, and a gov
ernment of the Constitution, and not a govern
ment of mere physical force.
"I personally have contended, and shall al
ways contend for the right of free discussion,
and the right of commenting, under the law
and tinder the Constitution, upon the acts of
the officers of the government."
During the day the inner office seemed the
centre of attraction, and was visited by a large
—.caber of people.
In atoorcraiacei with a call issued this fore
noon, an immense meeting assembled at 8
o'clock to-night in front of the Times office.
The crowd soon filled the street, rendering
it impassable. The meeting shortly afterward
adjourned to the eourt house square, and was
there addressed from the north aide entrance
by gentlemen of both parties.
The speeches counseled the observance of
the law, but denounced the recent order of
Gen. Burnside as arbitrary and despotic.
During the afternoon the militia were or
dered under arms, but at the present writing
the meeting is orderly, and nothing of a seri
ous nature is anticipated.
Judge Davis of the United States Court,
Southern District of Illinois, is expected to
night to act in the matter of the application
for an injection in connection with Judge
Drummond.
General Ammen is also expected here to
night.
RESOLUTIONS OF THE LEGISLATURE
SPRINGFIELD, ILL., June 3.—A preamble and
resolutions passed the House of Representa
tives to-day by a vote of 47 to 13, after an ex
citing debate, in substance as follows
WEEREAS, Information has reached this
body that an order issued by Gen. Burnside
for the suppression of the Chicago Times .?
And whereas, Such order is in direct viola
tion of the Constitution of the United States
and of this State, and destructive to those God
given principles whose existence and recogni
tion for centuries before a written constitution
Nos made, have made them as much It part of
our rights as the life which sustains us ; be it
Resolved, By the House of Representatives
(the Senate concurring therein,) that we de
nounce an order which. threatens an act so
revolutionary and destpotio as contrary to
liberty, destructive of good 'government, sub
versive of constitutional and natural rights,
and that, if carried into effect, we consider it
equivalent to the overthrow of our form of
government and the establishment of a military
despotism in its stead.
Resolved, That in view of the monstrous con
sequences which must inevitably flow from
such action if justified by the general govern
ment, we respectfully, yet firmly, request the
withdrawal of the order in question, and the
disavowal thereof by those in power, as the
only course which can be pursued to reassure
our people that constitutional freedom, so dear
to their hearts, has not ceased to be. The at
tention of the Governor is called to this in
fringement of popular 3 ights and the invasion
of the sovereignty of the State of Illinois.
CAPTURE AND DESTRUCTION OF A REBEL
SCUOONEIt.
Com. Farragut has sent to the Navy Depart
ment a report from Lt. Corn. Jewett, dated off
Mobile Bay, May 18th, from which we make
the following extracts :
I have the good fortune to report to you the
destruction of the rebel schooner Isabel this
morning, about 2 o'clock, by Acting Master's
Mate N. M. Dyer, of this vessel.
Agreeably with the permission of Captain
Goldeborough I sent the second cutter with
sine armed men in charge of Mr. Dyer to lay
close to the Bwash channel and give due warn
ing of any vessel attempting to run in or out.
At 11 p. m.. Mr. Dyer made a vessel close nn ,
der Fort Morgan, and thinking she was on her
way out, laid quiet watching her.
Seeing no movement on her part, he pulled
cautiously in, trying to get in shore of her,
but ran upon a hawser which was run to the
shore from her. Concluding she was aground,
and had been so for some time, he then boarded
her, taking her crew completely by surprise,
and capturing her captain with six men, and
her papers.
An armed launch from the Gaines had just
left her to go for a steamer and assistance.
Finding it impossible to get her off, and seeing
the Gaines coming to her relief, Mr. Dyer re
moved the previsions, papers, &e., and get fire
to her. As she burned but slowly he returned
to her, and knocking in the heads of the bar
rels of turpentine, again fired her and came
off to this vessel, leaving her in flames.
Agreeably to the statement of her captain
when boarded, she was aground within 200
yards of Fort Morgan: Her cargo, per invoice,
consisted of 200 bales of cotton.
Fo - : his coolness and efficiency in the above
transaction ) Com. Farragut, at the euggeetim
of Lieut. Jewett, has promoted Master's Mate
Dyer to an acting ensigncy, subject to the ap
proval of the Department.
JOHNSON ADVANCING-SIEGE OF VICKSBURG
LAKE'S LANDING, YAZOO R 1 R,
Xlay 28, 1863.
Scouts report that Gen. Johnson is advan
cing. One army cort:s drew seven days' rations
and marched to meet him at daylight yester
day morning.
His advance is stated to be between the Ya•
zoo and Big Black rivers, with the intention of
retaking Haines' Bluff and breaking up our
communications by the Yazoo.
His force is 'variously estimated at from
15,000 to 35,000. Gen. Grant is confident of
his ability to . defeat him without raising the
siege.
MEMPHIS, June 2.—Advices from Grant's
army to the 30th have been received. The
siege of Vicksburg is slowly progressing. The
mortars are firing slowly day and night.
All the prisoners in the Vicksburg jail have
been released and put across the river. They
report that one of the mortar shells exploded
in the jail and destroyed it.
POSITION OP GRANT'S ARMY
CINCINNATI, June 3.—A dispatch to the Ga
zette, from Cairo, gives the following informa
tion, which was obtained from a Union officer,
who bad arrived from Vicksburg:
The base of the Union lines extends from
right to left on the Mississippi, from. Yil2oo to
the lower part of Vicksburg, over six miles in
the rear of the rebels.
Our lines come up to the rebel lines east of
the town.
We hold undisputed possession of everything
between the Black River bridge andsixty feet
of hills in the. rear of the rebel army.
At the last accounts, General Frank Blair's
division had started for the Big Black river
bridge. His destination was unknown.
Deserters report that the rebel losses were
extremely heavy on the 22d ult.
The cessation of hostilities on the 21st ult.
was for the purpose of letting the women and
children leave the city.
ASSAULTS ON VICKSBURG DISCREDITED
Ti"AsanzaroN, June 3.—No official informa
tion has been received here in regard to any
assault upon the rebel works at Vicksburg by
General Grant's army, or of any repulse by
the Union forces. It is believed that if any
such events had transpired, attended . with
great slaughter, as represented by the rebel
newspapers, the fact would have been promptly
communicated to the military authorities here.
In the absence of such information, the re
ports of assaults and repulses at Vicksburg are
discredited.
SENT SOUTH OF OUR LINES.
NASHVILLE, June 3.—The Chief of Police
yerterday arrested C. F. Jones, formerly con
nected with the New York Spirit of the l'imea,
now "local" of the Nashville Dispatch, for
writing treasonable correspondence to the N.
Y. Freeman's Journal. He will be sent south
of our lines.
We have the following Washington items,
June 3
ADMIRAL DUPONT RELIEVED
Admiral Foote was to-day detached from his
bureau, and ordered to relieve Admiral Du
pont from the command of the South Atlantic
Squadron. The Tuscarora is to take him from
New York to his post of duty.
GEN. BUNTER-CONFLICTING RUMORS
The report that General Gilmore, who re
duced Fort Pulaski, is to relieve Gen. Hunter
in the command of the Department of the
South, although denied in some quarters, is
reaffrmed in others quite as likely to be well
informed. Gen. Gilmore is here making pre
parations.
WILKES-GEL 1 1 .1 7 CLELLANTHE AUMY.
The pamphlet of Geo. Wilkes attacking Gen.
M'Clellan has been extensively given away in
the Army of the Potomac. The soldiers have
burned it abundantly. The 118th Pennsylva
nia made a grand bonfire of all the copies they
could collect.
MYSTERIOUS MOVEMENTS OF LEE'S ARMY.
The rebel picket lines on the Rappahannock,
which were'made so weak but a few days ago,
have been suddenly very much strengthened
again. So it looks after ail as though the
enemy were playing a very bold game of de
ception. They show no signs of any advance
from Culpepper, though lktosby's guerrilllas
have been quite active to-day up to points
within a few miles of Fairfax.
DETECTIVE SHERMAN A PRISONER
Detective Sherman, reported hung by the
rebels, is intprison in Richmond, as is learned
by a letter direct from him.
GEN. DIX SUPERSEDED.
The order putting the department of Major
Gen. Dix under the command of Maj. General
Hooker was issued the day before yesterday.—
It is presumed that Oen. Dix will ask at once
to be relieved from duly.
Nay Wygritogiugm.
COAL AT REDUCED PRICES.
I am about closing out my coal business, and will
sell pure Lykens Valley and Wilkesbarro coals at re
duced figures, when taken in lots of five tons and up
wsrds.
Also—for sale—Carta and Harness.
ja - Call at Coal yard, foot of North street. •
je6-Iwd* GILLIAItD DOCK.
WANTED.—Twe rooms wanted to rent
by a small family, Enquire at this (Mee.
jes-Ite
A, DMINTSTRATOR'S NOT IC E.-
1-1- Letters of administration having this day been
granted by the Hegieter of Dauphin county to the sub
scriber, on the estate of PETER BECKER, late of the city
of Harrisburg, deceased, all persons knowing them
selves indebted to said estate are requested to make im
mediate settlement, and those harlot; claims are re
quested to present them to tee subscriber,
doawdw
GEORGE G - ARVERTCII,
Administrator
VALUABLE IRON PROPERTY for
SALE--SIA.TILDA FURNACES and ORE BANKS.
This property is entneed on the Juniata river, in Mifflin
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of land, about three hundred acres of which is good
farm land, in a high state of cultivation; the balance
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Furnace, Stack, Steam Nngine, Iron Blowing Cylinders,
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Manufacture of iron, either with coke or anthracite,
In addition to the charcoal, the buildings for the furs
!lace and fat m are ample, substantial, and in good repair.
The property will be sold a bargain, and on easy terms.
For further particulars address
WASHINGTON RIGHTER,
Cowatats, Lancaster county, Pa.
P. quantity and quality of the ore see Prof.
Lesaliefs report on same, jadiftwlm
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expense. p*id,to eelt tnp h.sr *hasp Pwartly Elewlag
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T UNE sth, and eiih, 1863, *
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_ .
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warranted in strong silver-plated oases, for $l,
$1.50, $2llO
Per sale at
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No. 18 Market Street, Harriabrag, Pa
91 F. WATSON,
T
MASTIC WORKER
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Among others for whom I have applied the Mastic
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J. H. Shoenberger, residence, Lawrenceville, finished
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James M.'Candlass, residence, AlloghenyCity,finistked
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Calvin Adams, residence, Third street, finished four
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J. D. M'Cord, Penn street, finished four years.
Hon. Thomas Irwin, Diamond street, finished four
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St Charles Hotel ar.d. Girard novae, finished five
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FM
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Market street sear Depot._
EOM
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