JUL - i all tuned with their faees downward. On taking up some four of five, we dis covered tho remains of Capt. Tower, min gled with those of the meu. We took them, placed them in a eu&D, and bro't thm home." In reply to a question of a member cf the jiiimiitee. a to whether he sat isfied that they were buried intentionally with their faces downward, Gov. Spr'jgue's wuwer was, "Undoubtedly ! Ueyond all controversy I" and that "it was dene as a mark of indiai.it." In answtr to an other question, as to what their object could have been, 'especially in regard to the body of Col. S locum, ha replied, oheor brutality, &nd nothing else. They I'd It on account of his courage and thiv a!ry, in forcing Lis regiment, fearlessly it id bravely, upon them. If; d.'.-troycd about od-haU of that Georgia Regiment, which Vu3 made up of their best citizens." A ben tho inquiry wag put whether he thought these barbarities were committed by that regiment, he responded, "By that name regiment, as I was told." While their owu dead were buried with marble head and foot stones, -and names unon them, ours wero buried, us I have stated, in trenches. This eminent witness con cludes his testimony as follows : ''I have published an order to mv second regi ment, to which these officers were attach ed, that I shall not be satisfied with what they shall do unless they give an account of one rebel killed for each of their own number." The members of your committee might couteut themselves by leaving this testi mony to the -Senate and the people with out a word of comment ; but when the enemies of a just and generous Govern ment are attempting to excite- the sympa thy of disloj-al men in our own country, nnd to soiieit the aid of foreign Govern ments by the grossest misrepresentations of the objects of the war and of the con duct of the officers and soldiers ot the ltc-public, this, the most startling evi dence of their insincerity and inhumani ty, deserves some notice at our hands. History will be examined in vain tor a parallel to this rebellion against a good Government. Long prepared for by am bitious men, who were made doubly con fident of success, by the aid and counsel of former Administrations, and by the belief that their plans were unobserved by a magnanimous people, they precipita ted the war at a moment when the Gen eral Administration had just been chan ced, under circumstances of astounding r.etfidv. "Without a single reasonable ground of complaint, and in the face of! repeated manifestations cf moderation and peace on the part of the President and his friends, they took up arms and decla red that they would never surrender un til their rebellion had been recognized, or the institutions established by our fore fathers had been destroyed. The people cf the loyal States, at last convinced that they could preserve their liberties only by an appeal to the God of battles, rushed to the standard of the Republic in response to the call cf the Chief 3Iagistrate. Every step of tbi3 monstrous treason lias been marked by violence and crime. No transgression has been too great and no wrong too startling for its leadeis. They disregarded the sanctity of the oaths thev had taken to support the Constitu tion ; thy - repudiated all their obliga-; tions to the people ot the tree states; they deceived aud betrayed their own fellow citizens, and crowded their armies with forced levies ; they drove jhrcm their midt all who would not yield' to their despotism, or filled their prisons with men wli-j would not enlist under their flag. They have now crowned the rebellion by the perpetration of deeds scarcely known even to savage warfare. The investigations of your committee have established this fact beyond contro versy. The witnesses called before us were men of undoubted veracity and character. Some oT them occupy high positions in the army, and ethers nigh po sitions in civil life. Differing in political fcntiments, their evidence presents a re markable concurrence of opinion and ot judgment. - Our fellow-countrymen, heretofore suf ficiently impressed by the generosity and forbearance of the Government cf the United States, and the barbarous charac ter of the crusade cgainit it, will be hocked by the statements of these unim peched and unimpeachable witnesses, r.r.d foreign nations mast, with one ac cord, hov;evcr they have hesitated here tofore, consign to lasting odium the au thors of crimes which, in all their details, exceed the worst excesses of the S-.-poys of India. j Inhumanity to the living has been the j leading trait .f the rebel leaders, but it ; was reserved lbr your committee to dis- j close, as a concerted system, their insults i to the wounded, and their mutilation and j desecration of the gallant dead. Our j soldiers taken prisoners in honorable bat- j tie have been subjected to the most shame- ful treatment. I All the considerations that inspire; chivalrie emotions aud generous consid- j rations for brave men have been disre garded. It U almost beyond belief that the men fighting in such a cause as ours, r.nd mi stained bv a Government which in the midst of vio'.encc and treachery has pi veil repeated evidences of its indulgence, ! houM huve becu subjected to treatment t ever before resulted to by one foreign j i-niion in a conflict with another. All the ) ,.ir:ties of mofessional and ovu ; lwe r.e.cui to have been disearaeu. Gen. Beauregard himself, who, on a very recjut occasion, boasted that he had been 11. -1 1... 1 C.litinrc Rt'tr tl.o f ill I r.'!l V'-i ' MilHI"- I' t . . - ; murderous privateer, and the rebel sur geons Jiiduined intercourse and communi cation with our own- surgeons, taken in honorable battl The outrages upon the dead will revive the recollections of the cruelties to which savage tribes subject their prisouera. 1'hey were buried in many eases naked, with their faces down ward. They wero left to decay in the open air, their bones carried o'F as trophies, sometime;?, as the testimony proves, to be used as personal qdornments, and one wit uess deliberately avers that the head of one of our most gallant ollieers was cut off by a Secessionist, to be turned into a drinking cup on the occasion of his mar riage. Monstrous as this revelation may appear to be, your committee- have been informed that during the last two weeks the skull of a Uuion soldier has been ex hibited in the office cf the sergeant-at-arms cf tho House of Representatives, which had been converted to such a purpose, and which hud been f jund on the person of one of the rebel prisoners taken in a re cent conflict. 'The testimony of Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, is most interest ing. It confirm.'; the worst reports against the rebel soldier, nnd conclusively proves that the body of one of the bravest officers in the volunteer service was burned. He does not hesitato to add that this hyena desecration of the honored ejrpse was bo cause the rebels believed it to be the body of Colonel Slueum, against whom they were infuriated for having displayed so much courage and chivalry in forcing his regiment so fearlessly and bravely upou them. These disclosures, establishing, as they incontestable do, the consistent in humanity of the rebel leaders, will be read with sorrow and indignation by the people of the loyal States. They should inspire these people to renewed exertions to pro tect our country from the restoration to power cf such men. They should, and W2 believe they will, arouse the disgust and horror of loreign nations against this unholy rebellion. Let it be ours to furnish, nevertheless, a continued contrast to such barbarities and crimes. Let us persevere in the good work of maintaining the authority of the Constitution, and of refusing to im:Lae tho monstrous practices we have been called unon to in estimate. Your committee beg to say, in conclu sion, that they have not yet been enabled to gather testimony in regard to the addi tional inquiry suggested by the resolution of the Senate, whether Indian ravages have been employed by the rebels in mil itary service against the Government of the United States, and how such warfare has been conducted by the said savages, but that they havp taken the proper steps to attend to thisimportant duty. J. F. WADE, Chairman. Oil WROXG. WHEN EIGHT, TO BE KEPT RIGHT, WHEN WRONG, TO BE PUT RIGHT. TJsc Ircslde5it at Fort Monroe. .hjittle i.ni'ill Run cool'y pvj,v.;cd to !mM !:. 1: !v - k j f.. t f'-T '.'" of the President Lincoln, accompanied by Secretaries Chase and Stanton, paid a visit to Fortress Monroe on Wednesday. The party' were met on board the steam reveuuo cutter Miami, by Major-General Wool aud Staff in full uniform, who es corted them into the Fortress, where they were tendered a handsome reception by the garrison. As the President entered the Fortress be was favored with the usual salute ot twenty-one guns. Mr. Lincoln made a thorough inspection ot the fort, viatcr battery and machine shop. At the latter placi his attention was par ticularly directed to the machine for rifling cannon. It was in operation at the visit. The simplicity and efficiency of its movements were highly satisfactory. The President iu turn visited Fort YY col, (Rip Raps,) where he was received without ti e customary salute, it being dispensed with at his request. The splendid rifled guns of the fort wore loaded, aud shell fired at the rebel battery at Sewall's IVint. The President watched the mouus '-f ran-if of loading th'e guns, and when the first shell was fired, hv watched the curling smoke and listened attentively to the whiz of the burning fne as the shell proceeded thro' the air. As it fell the shell struck direct ly in the rebel works, exploding with a loud report, throwing up a cloud of dust and smoke iu the air. The President subsequently visited the iron batteries Galena and Monitor. He examined these ve?sels with much care, making the most detailed inquiries as to their construction and operation. On the Monitor, especial ly, his inquiries were numerous. The President was about to proceed to pav a formal visit to Flag-officer Goldsbor ough, on board the flag-ship, Minnesota. As the ( fiicers of that -vcs-el were getting their men teady to man the yards and fire a salute, the look-out on the foretp an nounced that the liierrimac was coming out of .Norfolk. The men were beat to quarters,' and the fleet in the harbor f-ig-na'led to get ready fur action. True enough, the Murimae was seen off the north end of Crauey Island, with steam up, and black smoke curling out of her pipe. The fleet formed in lint; of battle, and soon were in readiness to give the rebel monster a hearty reception, bhould it have the temerity to visit the Roads The Mcrrimac rcmaimd stationary under the guns of Craney Inland for several hours, and then returned to Norfolk. -The President meanwhile visited tfe flag-ship Minnesota, where b.i was received by t fie etistoma-'y honors of manning the yards, llriifg a sulute, &e. The President exam ined particularly the portions of the ihip that had been struck by rebel shot, and when the philosophy of how four state rooms were knocked into one by a hostile rebel shell was explained, he was forced to express his surprise at the terrible effect of an exploalo'i-of a ten-ireh shell, which ;-ave him n p rf ct h?rrr of woo len war TIIURSDAY::::::::::::::::::::::::::::MAY 15. We need not remind our renders that, a week or two ago, we published an edito rial article under the head of "Breckin ridge," in which we took occasion to animadvert a little upon the career of that rapacious rogue, and to apply to the livid lizard a few epithets which, as we supposed, the cowardly craven richly merited. It will be remembered thai, at tho time, we declared that the hectoring hog had still a few secret sympathizers in our midst, but little 'did we think that any one of them would be fool-hardy enough to emerge from his kennel, and in the broad daylight, take up the cudgel in defence of such a stinking skunk. Rut it seems we were doomed to be the. victim of disappointment. The ostensible editor of the Democrat cc Sentinel that ponderous and world-renowned sheet, so popular among old women, and so useful for certain purioses not necessary here to be enumerated the editor of that p&per, we say, who has so long been feigning opposition to Treason and Traitors, has at lat seen fit to throw off his mask of Loy .alty, and stretch out his frail arm in behalf of the vile viper which had so long nestled in the bosom of the Union only for the purpose of stinging it to death. We do not certainly know whether the editor made defence for this miserable malefactor of his owti free will or not. Our impression is, however, that he did not; but that, as usual, he was put forward as a cat's paw by the men who own him, and who, no doubt, like himself, were ' dreadfully mortified and chagrined by reason of the castigation which we admin istered to the scandalous scape-goat for whom they cherish such deep and ever lasting affection. If this pack of jackals could have been heard to howl, as they certainly did howl, over our article, "one would very naturally have supposed that we had first torn the hides off them, and then immediately afterwards "touched them on the raw." Iu that mulish, drawling way for which he is so distinguished, the insipid scribbler for tho Dimocrat & Sentinel calls us to account for our presumption in telling a few plain truths about the-nialignant mon ster, lie spvaks of our article as "remark able," and slu a literary curiosity in its way; and because we wrote it, he calls lis an'dguorantandinsolent old Abolitionist," 'a iow-mindcJ olacguard, "au accom plished blackguard," and many other nice names all of which, it was no doubt in tended should be very severe. Following the heels of all this, the scribbler then takes us to task for "makinc; malignant assaults on the private character of" whom? why, the mendacious mLcreant that he still regards as his fast friend, and whose facile follower he delights to be. If wc could not employ our columns more profitably, we would re-publish this scribbler's article entire, just to prove be yond all cavil what we hove hitherto only inferred from his dogged silence, namely, that he is a Secession-sympathizer. If our friends do not relax their encourage ment and support in this most trying hour, we fancy we shall be able to bear up under the pressure of the abuse he has heaped upon our humble selt, but there are certain features in his article which are intolerable. We allude to those portions wherein he Fpeaks of the "unfortunate iirevkinriilye,' and Heaven save the mark ! of 3fr. Usec&uirtJye 1 1 ' To speak thus of such a bloody bloat, is, of a verity, imposing as much upon poor, weak, loyal human nature as it can well get along with. We have no disposition just now to dwell long upon the character of this das tardly deserter from the Union. It has not been our fault if the libidinous liar is not full well known to our readers. Ben edict Arnold was a Christian and a gentle man when compared with such au hepatic hell houud, and the facts already disclosed will prove it. If any one wants further information in regard to the course in which the snouted snake is engaged, and of the conduct of the coin icted cut throats whose chiff h i. let u recommend a perusal of the report of the joint commit tee on the Conduct of the War recently made in Congress, in reference to the barbarous treatment by the rebels, at Manassas, of the remains of officers and soldiers of the United States, killed in battle there. "The perusal of this report," a3 a co temporary well observes, "will make the flesh creep with horror. The brutal des ecration of the dead, and the fiendish tor ture of the wounded it reveals, seem so unnatural and iuhuman, that we hesitate to believe that such acts could have been committed by men. The rebels have iu deed made a reputation for themselves, and when, hereaiter, the world wishes to illustrate the perfection of maliguant ha tred and devilish cruelty, instead of poin ting to the Sepoys or savages, it will take the Sccessiouists for its example." Aye, and when the world look about for the chief conspirator in all this crime, and for the malevolent malicho who has been the prime cause of all these outrages, we ven ture to say it will have no difneulty in settling down upon the scalping scape gallows whose name heads this article. Aud yet thii writhing wretch has hii secret sympathisers in our midst, and eveu Las a Pross and Typea which, while it shams loyalty, publicly prostitute itself to the base business of defending his ran cid and rotten reputation ! What a com mentary docs thia furnish upon the de pravity of the human heart I What is there in the character cf this knowing knave and thoughtful thief that ho should have such aid and comfort in the North ? But never mind. Sooner or later, .1 us tico eternal, retributive Justice will claim tho daep-dyed dastard &s her vic tim, and only will she be satisfied when she has got tho villainous varlet at the end of a rope, without a foothold. Then, when the last vital spark shall have been choked out of his cursed carcase, it will net require a prophet nor ye; the son cf a prophet to teil the world that his spurious spiiit ha4 taken its flight for that intense ly Southern Confederacy established ex pressly for the Devil and his Angels. SoiiErmxa Up. A. A. Barker, Ksq., editor of the Alltyhaniau, had a long tu.ik with. Hall, i-'ditor of certain ji-ieis iu tld-5 county, last Tburslay, ir. Aluona. Both those ealifcEieu are candidates for Congress. From the lute tone of i!r. Barker's p-tner, one would suppose that he U to throw tor Hull. Some ihiuk, however, that if Hall should tar ry the Coulertes oi Blair county, he will throw for Barker. Wait and see. Blair Co. Whij. We have only to say in reply to the above, that we did have a talk with Mr. Kail on the occasion referred to, but it was by no iaeaus a "long talk." aor did it, so far as we can re member, embrace a solitary word iu relation to the Congressional questicn. As to the 'late tone" of our paper, we do not think it justifies the supposition which our neighbor makes, that we are "to throw for Hall." That gentleman's name, at least for ft consid erable time, has not even appeared in these columns, except through a quoted paragraph, and iu an incidental compliment paid him at the close of the Legislature, upon the manner in which ho discharged his olMcial duties. Further than this, we can assure our neigh bor of the Whig, that there i3 no arrange ment that we know of, by which Mr. Hail is to throw for us, or we for him; neither wo' d we feel ourself warranted in entering into that sort of diplomacy. Ia conclusion, our neighbor will allow us to suggest in a jocu lar way of coarse that the extract w hich we have made from his paper, forcibly reminds us of that old saying, that i:the wicked tlt-e when no man pursueth ;" and that those whi. are in the habit of making side-door arrange ments themselves, are generally the first to suspect others, however innocent, of doing the same thing. , Adam Phule, Esq., has just announced to us his determination to apply to Govern ment for a hog-contract. lie proposes to take the editor of the Standard along down, and if need be to exhibit him as a sample of the article to be delivered. A. P. is confident that, with such a specimen in his possession, fhe Department will be so delighted that it will award him a contract, "on the most rea sonable terms," for several hundred, if not more. The great difficulty which A. P. is likely to encounter, however, will he his utter inability to procure stock equal to the speci imen. ' E3U Judging from the tone and temper of his paper, it would seea that the editor of the Standard really docs suspect us with hav ing n a d or having a horse-contract, aud that j the irritation which h: is so wont to manifest towards us, arises solely from the fact that wc didn't take the precaution to tender him the position of stable-bosS. 2y-The editor of the Standard occasion ally amuses himself by calling us a horsf contractor. The name is os empty as the imputation is false, and certainly comei with a very bad grace from an old chronic mail contractor. J&ayThc people are q-ueer. When the Standard-man calls us a horse-contractor or a spoilsman, they won't believe him; neither would they believe us if wc were to charge the Standard-man with honesty. So it goes. ECyltnd the report oY the Select Cnmm'w on the crnduf.'of fh War' General War Sens. By the arrival of a United States ship at New York we have the first Union accounts of the bombardment of Fort3 Jackson aud St. Philip, tho capture of New Orleans, and the almost total anni hilation of the llebel fleet. The bom bardmeut of the forts continued with un abated fury for six days and five nights. Twenty-one mortar boats and three gun boats iiad becu engaged in the attack upon the forts, and succeeded on Friday, the 25th inst., in silencing the fortifications, and securing the safe passage up the river of fourteen war steamers, bound for New Orleans. The Hartford, Commodore Far ragut's flag-ship, was sst on fire by coming iu contact with oue of the fire ships, but visions and forage. Their wagon trains moving in the day time and their troops at night. The enemy covered their re treat with a line of skirmishers, stretched along tho country, driving in their strag glers at the point of the bayonet.. The most gloiious news we have recei ved is that of the capture cf Norfolk, Portsmouth aud the Gosport Navy Yard. The following dispatch from Secretary Stanton, gives the particulars: "Norfolk i3 ours, aud also Portsmouth and the Na vy Yard ! Gen. Wool having completed the lauding of his forces at Wiiloughby's Point, commenced the march on Norfolk with live thousand men. Secretary 'Chase accompanied the Geuerah About five miles from the lauding place, a rebel bat tery was found on the opposite side of the bridge over Tanner's creek. After a lew th tfi-tt was extinguished before much damage was done. On the ll5th a Hag of j discharges of companies of infantry, the truce was sent to Commodore Porter, ask- rebels burned the bridge. This compelled iui; what terms would compelled our forces to march around five miles fur ther. At five o'clock in the afternoon and the arrangements j our forces were within a short distance of The contest js said to Norfolk and were met bv a delegation V.f j t o - j citizens, and the city was formally surrcn , dered. Our troops marched in, and we iug at their posts with fatigue, so inces- noyr ;nve possession. Gen. Ycile is in anily had tney been kept at the wort. ( be demanded in the surrender. The Commodore replied, "Unconditional,1 were duly made have been the most desperate of the war, many ot the men ou the mortar boats ral lib sandy had they been kept j command as military Governor of Nor- The Uniou gunboat Ytromi, aud the rr;b- j io Gen. Iluuer withdrew his forces el iron-clad steamer Webster bad a terrinc engagement. The Webster ran into the Verona, injuring her to badly (the Vero na) that she was iu a sinking condition. The Verona, while in this desperate state, discharged a broadside of eight guns into the Webster, vith such destructive effect, tkjit both ships went down together ! The celebrated ram, .Manassas, was run into and sunk by the st'.a.i:i-hip Mississip pi. The Union forces destroyed 11 of the llebel gunboats, ami the two iron clad steamers, Mississippi aud Louisiana. Tiie "Stars and Stripes" now. font over ail cf the forts and the Crescent City. The re bel loss was about 1,5'jO killed, wounded, and taken prisoners. The Uniou loss was about 200 killed and wounded. An immeuse meeting was held bv the Union residents, after the city had mrrendered j jcr the guns bi the fort. The rebe to the Federal fleet, expressive of the joy j TiXmf tie 3iallory, advanced in the'fj and gratitude experiececu at teeing the a C0UliUed broadside from the Cinci once more over the without battle. Commodore llogers' ex- pedl'ion was heard from this afternoon ascending the James River." We have the glorious intelligence of the defeat of the remnant of the llebel navy which escaped from New Orleans, and which huz been stationed at Fort Pil low on the Mississippi river. -The follow ing is the official dispatch of Captain Da vis, Commander of the Western Flotilla, pro. tern : "The naval engagement, fur which the rebels have been preparing, took place on Saturday morning, the 10th. The rebel fleet, consisting of eight iron clad gunboats, four of which were fitted up with rams, came up handsomely. The a'rtiou lasted one hear. Two of the rebc; gunboats were blown up and one sunk, when the enemy retired precipitately ui.- rebel iror face c f incinns:: until within forty yards of her, while mt appeared upou the deck cf the Mallory preparing to beard with, grapnels throw : out, which design was frustrated by throv? Kig hot water from the steam batteries o: "Old FlaV rebellious city. From the. victorious army cf M'Clellan we have the intelligence ot two most sig nal victores achieved o7tr lk insurgent army. The f.rst battle took place at Wil liamsburg and tht; u:tiiis are brieSy con densed in the following dispatch from Gea. M'Ckllaa : "I Lave the pleasure to auuouuee the oecuputiou of Williamsburg a the result of u Lard-fought battle yes terday. The effect of Hancock's brilliant engagement yesterday afternoon was to turn the left of their line of wotks. He was strongly reinforced, and the enemy abandoned the entire position dating the night, leaving all bh sick and wounded in our hands. We bavj tTtr i!00 unin jured prisoners, aud more than 1,000 wounded. Their less ii killed is very heavy. I have sent cuvulry in pursuit. The conduct of our men has been excel lent with scarcely an exception. TLeir works are very extensile, and exceedingly strong, both in respect to position and the works themselres. Oar loss vas heavy iit Hooker's division, but very lit tle on other parts cf the field. Am I au thorised to follow the example of ether Generals, aud direct the names of battles to be placed on the colors of regiments ? We have ether battles to fight be love leaching Hichmond." A correspondent who was ou the ground says : At the out- j ijas " art we took t'.ro ot their works ana were t advancing, but the exhaustion of those ot cur rerimeats field and wh duri-og the d uack, us me wei-c uwcuy v,llUu1. w.iv, . , r, , Lcut tirc0 c 'clock. fcfce of our bat'erles was lost by getting nuncd- j (infetrov..tl pv the rebels. Jt Is said t. ded, and its horses were shot. ien. .u - i.aVQ j;.,en and sight bv those who the iron-ciai the Cincinnati. The Mallory, undaunte. by the failure m the attempt to board, crowded on a full bead r i steam, and ca'isv towards the Cincinnati, evidently with tbt. intention of running her down. Captah Sternbel waited until she was within te:: yards cf him, when he gave her a bread side iron his Parrot guns, doing fearfu: execution. The two boats by thi3 tita? were so close together, that it was impossi ble to stb cut the guns of the Cincinna ti, and it wa3 only by bringing the steam batteries to bear upon the Maliory that she was compelled to haul off. Captain Sternbcl fehot her pilot with his revolver and was himself wounded by a pistol fiho: fired by tbs mate cf the Mallory. The air waa very heavy, and under cover oi the dense smoke which hung over the river, the rebel fleet retreated. When the smoke cleared away, a broadside frcm the Flag Shin Benton was seut after the Mallory. Shortly after she was seen t . careen, and went down with ail on beard. Mortar boat No. 10, in charge of Second Master Gregory, distinguished itself. The rebel squadron is supposed to hav,-. been commanded bv Commodore 11 i- l The following important inteltigcn- relative to the .ieirtmac, nas Lec-n recu s which were esrliest in the j j 1Vom portres.s Mor.rcs : Th-2 Mem iea had had no provisions .zc was bd0,vn UD on Sunday morning v. ay, compelled them to fall i tw0 m;,.utrs before five o'clock. She vi ind its horses were shot. (Jen. M' Clellan arrived cu the ground at 5 o'clock, f :r j . : ff nr.rtj and assumed command. He directed all ! g;eauicr Galena has sunk The rebel steau- the exhausted troops to retire, filled their places with fresh men, uveve baci tne en emy, repossessed the ground and works taken in the morning, captured another breastwork, and took a large number ot prisoners. The enemy had a force of over 60,000 men, and only decided to evacuate after the brilliant bayonet charge of Gen. Hancock. The rebel General Hicketfo was killed. The Federal less was about 00 killed and 400 wounded In regard to the second battle a telegram from Bal timore says : A battle has been fought at West "Point, on the York river, and the rebels have been defeated with great slaughter. The battle took place on the afternoon of Wednesday, the 7th, between the troops under Generals Franklin and Sedgwick, and tho rebels under General Lee, who were endeavoring to make their way to Richmond. It is said to have been the severest battle n the Peninsula, and the rebebwere totally defeated and flank ed, being driven back towards the forces under Gen. Johnston on the Chiekahom iuy. The whole number of Federals kil led and wounded was oW. The enemy were driven back by our gunboats with treat slaughter. They had not less than 30,000 men, while our force was not over 20,000 landed. Had it not been for the gunboats we would have been defeated. The latest new3 received state that the pursuit of the retreating rebels, by our troops under command of General Stone man, has been eminently successful. H:s , - - head cr Yovktown, aud captured the Jamestown in the dames river. Special dispatches from Cairo state that a plot had btcn discovered at Paducah ol the part c f the secession residents theru to hand the town over to the rebels. Steps have been taken to punish the con spirators. For several weeks past thej have nightly met, six hundredin number, i:i a large hall in that city. Put for the information given by one of their number, the plot would have been consummated within a week. The. military force thcra has been largely increased, aud, every precaution taken to prevent a surprise. The sixty-four pounders upou the parapet around the Marine Hospital are turned upon the town, to be used in case of an outbreak. On Friday last the rebel Gen. Prrgg'a division, about 20,000 strong, attacked General Paine in his position two miles from Farmington. A sharp engagement lollowed, our men fighting bravely, an ? making several brilliant bayonet charges. Large reinforcements of the rebels having arrived, our men were compelled to fall back to Farmington. Wc lost nearly two hundred men in killed, wounded and taken prisoners, while that of the enemy was not less than five hundred in killed and wounded. The army being on its way to attack the rebels at Corinth it H impossible for any particulars to be giv- en. - From .ill narta of the eountrv we hear .cadrpuarters are now within twenty-seven of fl!J unintcrrupted succession ofbrill; miles of Richmond is advance, on- Uniou vi elovlcs. sisting of the J.iglitu Illinois cavalry, is j five miles ahead. The enemy is in sight j but cradnallv falling back. General M'- Clellan, with the main body of tho army, is rapidly following up within a few miles ! j The enemy's retreat hu been most admi- ! 1 rably accomplished, carrying almost ev- ! ' rythinj with them in th ih.npu of pro- 1 for t rt d-.n wiiU'hlw Pickles of the Standard eviJru'.J thinks he is smart, but wc opine the wor would pretty generally set hisu dowfl ' li-antiirt. JiT" Our ucijhbor t-f the Standard c'li r? ... . . -t i i, rv'-t'.ut n. e win proimoir : m2l fiii E " Oi - on t Le.a Al j A ttr cxr 'Car , ncs - M or j flea .tie X. t.of 1 cf 1 J V or j c!e;i bar U ncr( the; L chl 3X1 " dw . L Jgro " gro aud tow 30 ; Ida pr.r olei ' t AW J par clci C par , clet bla 3 eh:; - icr uad 1 or ; ' cle: pla or c i j or clc mi ha mi ha wi , re: fie! cy co Stl mi ho foi wc fc'ii Ih HI to; coi do la F.C1 di; Jar ne IU fo; Tl. do of tic wi tit W , nr th pu n oh tv. pu CO th 1.2 o II ir n
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