The Sun.
London, England, 1864-06-07 00:00:00

N°. 22,449.

At all Libraries, in Three Vols., post Bvo.,
THE DANES, SKETCHED BY THEM-
SELVES. A Series of popular Tales by the best
Danish Novelists.

Translated by Mrs. BUSIIBY.
Richard Bentley. New Burlington-s

THE NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF "LADY AUDLEY'S
SECRET," &C.
FOURTH
H EDITION.—This day, at every Library, in 3 vols.,
ENR Y DUNBAR.
Three Editions of this most popular Novel have been
exhausted in less than Three Weeks. The Fourth Edition
was ready on June 1. Beyond all question, the New Novel,
"Henry Dunbar," has excited more genuine public interest
than any other work issued this year.
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THE, SUN, LONDON, rUEsDAY EVENING, 3 UNE 7, 1864.

N what " Happy Land" can I see you after the
JL "Opera?" 1 only know of One HAPPY LAND
in which a Gentleman may Sup—EVANS', COVENT-
GARDEN, my de4r fellow!

NEW NOVEL BY MR. C. J. COLLIS&
This day at all Libraries, in 3 vols.,
THE MAN IN' CHAINS,
By the Author of " Sackville Chase," &c.
London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street.

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NEW WORK BY MR. CHARLES DICKENS,
In Monthly Parts, uniform with the Original Editions of
" Pickwick," " David Copperfield," &c.
Just published, Part 11., price Is., of
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By CHARLES DICKENS.

To be completed in Twenty Monthly Parts.
With Illustrations by MARCUS STONE.
Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly.

This day, demy Ivo., 20 coloured Illustrations, cloth, 7s. 6d.,
RAMBLESin SEARCH of FLOWERLESS
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" Rambles in Search of Wild Flowers."
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This day, demy Bvo., sewed, each with four coloured
illustrations, Ei2hteenpatce,
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"Kinahan's LL Whisky."

THE WELLINGTON THREE SHILLING
DINNER, oonsisting of Soup, Fish, Made Dish,
Joint, Sweet, &a., is served daily from 3 to 9 p.m , and on
Sundays from 5 to 8.30 p.m.
Private Rooms for large or small parties.

By order,
JOHN CATES, Manager,
The Wellington, St. James's-street.
Entrance, 160, Piccadilly.

MR. ELTON F. TEMPLEMORE having. re-
covered from severe indisposition, and having during
that time been compelled to submit to a course of mental
treatment applicable to the insane, and latterly from mono-
mania, by the advice of the medical profession begs most
respectfully to inform them that he will be happy to explain
personally the complicated structure of the nervous system,
and point out where the symptoms have been misunderstood,
and the mistake made by the indiscrimination of the faculty.
—7B, Tachbrook-street, Pimlico, June 6, 1861.

POSITIVELY THE LAST WEEK BUT ONE.
EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY.-NOW
ON VIEW, CROMWELL with his FAMILY,
painted by Charles Lucy. Open from 10 till 5.

NR. and Mrs. GERMAN'REED. with Mr.
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To be followed by THE BARD AND HIS BIRTHDAY,
a New Musical Tercentennial Seance, by William Brough,
Esq., sustained by Mr. and Mrs. German Reed; and MRS.
ROSELEAF'S LITTLE EVENING PARTY. for a few
times, by Mr. John Parry. Every Evening (except Satur-
day) at Eight. Thursday and Saturday Mornings at Three.
—ROYAL GALLERY of ILLUSTRATION, PI, Regent-
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chairs, ss.

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and
BACHELOR'S BOX,
an Entirely New Entertainment, at the Polygraphic Hall,
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from eleven to five.
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11 " E
0 X F OR D,
R, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING will be performed the new and success-
ful Opera, by M. Guonod, FAUST, with augmented band
and chorus, supported by the following talenteci principal
artistes :—Misses Russell, Fitz-Henry. Tyrrell, W almsley ;
Messrs. Morley, Tivoli, Green ; and UN BALLO IN
MASCHERA.

Director. Mr. F. Jonghmane.
To-morrow Evening, THE MERRY WIVES OF WIND-
SOR, by Otto Nicolal.

Comedy by UNSWORTH and EUGENE, Mr. T. Maclagan,
W. Randall, G. Ilutehenson, G. W. Jester, Miss Nelly Power
(the juvenile comedienne), &e., (to.
Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is. ; private
boxes, 10s. 6d.

Open every Evening.

CANTERBURY HALL,
Westminster-road, London.
Tars EVENING,
Will be produced, with alterations and improvements
in production, the New Illusion, surpassing anything yet
attempted. entitled THE TERCEN rENARY ; or,a NIGHT
WITI-I SHAKSPETtE, written expressly by W. F. Vander-
vell, Esq., in which Mr. W. Randall will re-appear.
ALSO, PRINCE BLOSSOM;
OR, THE FAIRIES OF THE MAGIC FOUNTAIN AND THE

ARGYLL ROOM S, Windmill-street,
Piccadilly,
IS OPEN EVERY EVENING.
During the evening,' an unparalleled repertoire of Dance
Music, Selections and Overtures, is performed by the cele-
brated Argyll Band, forty in number.
Doors Open it Half-past 8, commence at 9.
Admission is.

Manager, M. GRENET.

GIVEN AWAY.--A Catalogue of the Wonders
contained in the LONDON ANATOMICAL
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AMERICA.

QUZENSTOWN, Juno 5.
The royal mail steamer Africa, from Boston the
25th and Halifax the 27th of May, has arrived.
• The following is the protest of the New York,
of the editors and temporary suppression of those
World and Journal of Commerce against the arrest

newspapers :--
"The docement in question was written on the
manifold paper such as is used for all the despatches
sent to the several newspapers of our association,
and had every external appearance and mark to
identify it as a genuine despatch arriving in the
regular course of business.
"It was delivered at our efface late at night, at
the time of the receipt of our latest news—too late,
of course, for editorial supervision, but, as it hap-
pened, not before our
printin office was closed.
"It was delivered at all, or nearly all, the news -
g
paper offices, and published in a part of the morn-
ing editions of the World and Journal of Commerce,
and, as we are informed, in a part of the editions of
one or more of our contemporaries.
"Early this morning the
fact that the despatch
had not been sent by
the aunt of the Associated
Press became known to us, and its fraudulent chae
ratter was at once announced upon our bulletin
boards, and a reward of 500 dole. offered by us for
The Executive Com-
mittee of the Associated Press also offered a similar
the discovery of the forger.
reward of 1,000, as the fraud had been attempted to
be perpetrated upon all the journals composing our
association.
"We took pains in the afternoon to apprise
General Dix of the facts in the ease, and gave him
such information in regard to the circumstances
acting
of the forgery as might assist lain in the discovery
of its author. The Government was at once put in
possession of the facts of the case. Nevertheless,
this
under peremptory
orders n
under a strong military guard, and issued warrants
evening
e froming Generalth
for the arrest of the editors and proprietors of the
e Government, Dix,ernuent ,
placed our offices
World and Journal of Commerce, and their impri-
sonment in Fort Lafayette. A vessel was lying
under steam at one of the wharves to convey us
thither.
"Chancing to meet one of the officers of General
Dix's staff charged with the execution of this order
we proceeded in his company to t'ee headquarters
of the Department of the E est, and were informed
by General Dix that the order for our arrest had
been suspended, but that the order for the suppres-
sion of the World and Journal of Commerce had
not been rescinded, and that we could not be per-
mitted to enter our offices, which continue under the
charge of the military guards.
"We protest against this proceeding. We pro-
test against the assumption of our complicity with
this shameless forgery implied in the order for our
arrest. We protest against the suppression of our
journals for the misfortune of being deceived by a
forgery not less ingenious nor plausible than the
forged report of the Confederate Secretary of War,
which Secretary Seward made the basis of diplo-
matic action.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's.oross.
FUNDS are urgently REQUIRED.
Treasurer and Banker—EDWARD MASTERMAN, Esq.,
ehotNas-lane.

41 PRIME, STONE, HALE, AND HALLOCK,
Journal of Commerce.
"MANTON MARBLE, World.
"New York, May 18."
Governor Seymour's letter to District Attorney
Hall in reference to the military seizure of the two

journals says :
"It is charged that these acts of violence were
without due legal process, and without the sanction
of State or national laws. If this be true the offen-
ders must be punished. It the owners of the aboie
named journals have violated State or national laws
they must be proceeded against and punished by
those laws. Any action against them outside of
legal procedures is criminal."
The Governor argues the matter at some length,
and concludes :
" In making your inquiries and in prosecuting
the parties implicated you will call upon the sheriff
of the county and heads of the police department
for any needed force and assistance. The failure
to give this by any official
the
deemed sufficient cause for removal."
in paper‘
such T hoef a ft
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Pressa%
The I ribune states in relation to the document as
under my control will be
follows :
at
and
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believe it came fromt
ti oh no
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exw
except
ot sent
ourre o e
awn,itvoe
d everyi
office of the association.
It was sent, designedly, no doubt, when it was pre-
sumed that it would be seen by none of the editors,
but would be taken by the p
• rinters and hurried
into a part of the morning edition of each paper,
the printers having no time to examine it, even if
they were disposed to take
the responsibility of re-
jecting what seemed to be an important proclama-
"tic by
tion, and to have c
an authorised channel.
That it did not find its way .
to this office was pro-
bably an accident, the editorial rooms
being closed,
and the messenger perhaps not knowing how to find
his way to the printing.office and to this accident
not
it is due that it Was '
Published in two other of
the morning papers. In both those offices it be-
came known, by the merest accident in one of
them, by inquiry in the other, that we had not re-
ceived it, and suspicion being • excited by that fact,
the forged document,
though in type, was sup-
pressed in both offices:,
The authorship of the proclamation was traced to
Mr. Howard, of the Brooklyn
Eagle, who had been
consulting some stockbrokers on the probable effect
on the markets of the issue of a new call for troops,
and had shown them 4 ,
araioeht which he pre-
tended he bad private information from Washington
was to be issued shortly. On his arrest he made no
attempt at concealment of the forgery, which he
avowed he had perpetrated for atockjobbing pur-
poses. Two or three other
persons connected with
Brooklyn papers have been also arrested on suspi-
cion of having been concerned in the fraud. Mr.
Howard was a Republican in Politics, and a promi-
nent member of the King's County Republican
Committee. He was at one time private secretary
to the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Moat of the
leading journals of New York, irrespective of party,
condemn the severity of the action
of the Govern-
ment towards the World and Journal of Commerce.
The New York Leader has the following:—
" The'present Administration is possessed in the
very highest degree of the faculty of committing
the most unpardonable blunders. With the nicest
and neatest sinister dexterity, it carefully manages
to displease everybody. It ought to be nicknamed
the Handy Andy Administration. The most recent
instance of these characteristics of the Administra-
tion is the tempere.ry suppression of the World and
the Journal of Commerce in consequence of their
publication of the forged proclamation on Wednes-
day morning last. Now, Could any folly be more
gross, more senseless, more disgraceful ? Sup-
pressing a paper the day after the forgery is like
locking the stable-door after the horse is stolen.
Suppressing the very issue that was to contain an
explanation and retractation of the_forgery is like
refusing to let the stolen horse return. Punishing
the papers, that were the 0013- sufferers from the
hoax, is absurd. Arresting the editors; who were not
at their offices, but who were fast asleep in their
beds when the forgery was accepted, is monstrous.
Such insanity is unparalleled. It is useless to
object that the Administration did not know these
facts, for General Dix knew them and could easily
have telegraphed them. And for this Administra-
tion to attempt to punish newspapers for such a
hoax! Why, when Fremont issued his Missouri
proclamation and Old Abe recalled it they perpe-
trated a greater hoax! Why was not Seward re-
moved for the Mallory hoax ? Within the past two
weeks Stanton has hoaxed the people, through

" Washington, May 23.

PIGS ! PIGS! PIGS!-INDIAN PIG MEAL,
without husks, supplied to the Royal farms, Windsor,
and in every county in England, iGs 6d per cwt. ; one cwt.
equal to 1 cwt. barley or any meal. Delivered tree in Lon-
don. Established 1858.—TRomAs PE A.RCE, Manager, 66,
Lant-street, Southwark.

500 BUSINES
JSUENSE. ANDW. HIND'S
Containing 500 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, &c.,
Gratis.
Letters, enclose stamp.—Particulars entered free.
OFFICES—CORNER OF LITTLE CARTER-LANE, ST. PAUL'S.

FURNISHED HOUSES. - Mr. ANDREW
HIND has to LET an excellent HOUSE at Redhill.
Beautiful views. Large drawing and dining rooms, six bed
rooms, dressing room, usual offices and garden Rent for six
monthß, seven guineas per week. or for a year £220. Also, a
Ten-roomed House at Kentish Town, genteely furnished, at
2i guineas per week; an Eight-roomed House at Croydon,
two guineas, if taken for six months. Offices, corner of
Little Carter-lane, St. Pant's.

" The whole army has been amply supplied with
fall rations of subsistence.

"Upwards of 20,000 sick and wounded have been
transported from the fields of battle to the Wash-
ington hospitals, and placed under surgical care.
" Over 8,000 prisoners have been transported from
the field to prison depots, and large amounts of ar-
tillery and other implements of an active campaign
brought away.
" Several thousand fresh cavalry horses have been
forwarded to the army, and the Grand Army of the
Potomac is now fully as strong in numbers and
better equipped, supplied, and furnished than when
the campaign opened.
" Several thousand reinforcements have also been
forwarded to other armies in the field, and ample
supplies to all.
"Daring the same time over 30,000 volunteers
for a hundred days have been mustered into the
service, clothed, armed, equipped, and transported
to their respective positions.
" This statement is due to the chiefs of the army
staff and bureau and their respective corps, to whom
the credit belongs.
" EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
Major. General Dix."
" War Department, Washington,
May 24, 10.30, p.m.

"A despatch from General Grant, dated 11 o'clock
last night, states that the army moved from its posi-
tion to the Anne, followed closely by Lee's army.
"The sth and 6th corps marched by way of
Harris's Store to Jericho Ford, and the sth corps
succeeded in effecting a crossing and getting a posi-
tion without much opposition. Shortly after, how.
ever, they were violently attacked and handsomely
repulsed the assault without much trouble to us.
We captured some prisoners. Everything locks
exceedingly favourable to us.
"Another despatch, giving in detail the move-
ments of our corps, and speaking of the rebel assault
on Warren's position, says :le was attacked with
great vehemence. I have never heard more rapid
or massive firing, either of arti,!lery or musketry.
The attack resulted in a destructiv e repulse of the
enemy;
" At the position attacked by Hancock the rebels
were entrenched and in considerable force between
the creek he h'id crossed and the river, and made a
pertine,cions retsistance to his onset, but before dark

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General Dix, with official telegrams, locating cur
armies wrongly and exaggerating our victories.
The President's little arrangement with Frank
Blair and General Schenck—what was that but a
hoar upon Congress and the army and the country ?
Come, if you are going to send the victim of hoaxes
to Fort Lafayette, begin with those in high places!
Several of them have a right to go there both as
victims and as perpetrators. This weak attempt to
further injure the World and the Journal of Com-
merce recoils, like a boomerang, on those who make
it. We have no special admiration or effeetionate
regard for thosa journals, and we certainly do not
approve of the World's recent course; but we speak
from principle and as the organ of people of all par-
ties and classes, who are justly indignant at this
outrage upon the press and unwarranted interfer-
ence with private property. Who believes that the
Tribune would have been stopped and an officer
sent after Horace Greeley to take him to Fert La-
fayette had the Tribune been deluded into printing
the forgery ? If the Administration desires to sup-
press certain papers in this city for opposing it, why
not do so at once and boldly, and take the respon-
sibility and the consequences, instead of sneaking
behind little excuses in this way P Then it would,
at least, please the Radicals. Now it disgusts
everybody. Heaven hasten the election day, when
we shall see the last of this imbecile, senseless, and
corrupt concern !"
The following official bulletins from Secretary
Stanton have been published :
" Washington, Saturday, May 21, 9.50 p.m.
" Despatches from General Sherman, state that
our forces found in Rome a great deal of provisions
and seven fine iron works and machine shops. We
have secured two good bridges and an excellent ford
across the Etowah. The cars are now arriving at
Kingston with stores, and two days would be given
to replenish and fit up.
" A despatch just received from General Banks, '
dated at Alexandria, the Bth May, states that the
dam will be completed to-morrow (the 9th of May)
and the gunboats relieved. He would then move
immediately for the Mississippi. General Canby
was at the mouth of the Red River on the 14th of

May, collecting forces to assist Banks, if necessary.
" Despatches from General Butler, dated at 10
o'clock last night, report that he had been fighting
all day, the enemy endeavouring to close in on our
lines. We shall hold on. Have captured the rebel
General Walker of the Texas troops.'
" EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
" To Major-General Dix."
"War Department, Washington, May 22, 10 p.m.

" On Friday morning General Grant commenced
a movement for the purpose of compelling Lee to
abandon his position at Spottsylvania (the details of
which, for obvious reasons, should not be made
public). It has thus far progressed successfully.
" Longstreet's corps started south at 1 o'clock on
Friday night—an hour and a half after Hancock
moved. Ewell's corps followed Longstreet last night.
The indications are that the rebel army has fallen
back beyond the North Anna.
" Howe's brigade has joined Lee.
" The movement of General Grant has thus fur
been accomplished without any severe engagement
or serious interruption.

" We now occupy Gurney's Station, Mulford
Station, and south of the Mattapony on that line.
" A despatch received this morning from General
Canby, dated May 14, at the mouth of the Red
Rivers, says We have rumours to-day from
rebel sources that the gunboats, except two, suc-
ceeded in getting over the falls at Alexandria on
the day mentioned in Gen. Banks's despatch.'
"No despatches have been received today from
General Butler.

" D.spatehes from Kingston, Georgia state that
General Sher: an's awes are rcating and replenish-
ing their supplies.
6' EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
"1\ Major. General Dix."

" Despatches from AT ijor-Gencral Canby, dated
incaffli of the Red River, at midnight, May 15,
state that 'Admiral Porter has just arrived. The
remainder of the gunboats will arrive to-night.
General Banks will probably reach SemmeTort,
on the Atchafalaya, to-morrow.'
"A despatch from Admiral Porter, dated on
board the flagship Black Hawk, mouth of the Red
River, May 10. states that the portion of the
squadron above the falls at Alexandria have been
released from their unpleasant position, owing to
the indefatigable exertions of Lieutenant-Colonel
Bailey, acting engineer of the 19th Army Corps,
who proposed and built a tree dam of 600 feet
across the river at the lower falls, which enabled all
the vessels to pass in safety, the back-water of the
Mississippi reaching Alexandria, and allowing them
to pass over all the shoals and obstructions planted
by the enemy to a point of safety. Lieut.-Colonel
Bailey will be immediately nominated for promo-
tion for distinguished and meritorious services.
"An unofficial report from Cairo, dated May 22:
states that the army and gunboats are all safe at
the mouth of the Red River and Semmesport.
" Major-General Sherman, by a despatch dated
8 30 p.m. last night, reports that he would be ready
by the morning to resume his operations. Returned
veterans and regiments, he says, have more than
replaced all losses and detachments.

"We have no official reports since my last tele-
gram from General Grant or General Butlen.

" Official reports of this department show that
within eight days after the great battle of Spottsyl-
vania Court-house many thousand veteran troops
have been forwarded to General Grant.

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he had forced them from their works and driven
them across the stream.

"It is also said that in these engagements the
slaughter of the enemy was very great, and our
losses inconsiderable. The rebels charged against
our artillery, and suffered especially from canister.
"A despatch from General Grant, dated this
morning at 8 o'clock, has also been received. It states
that the enemy have fallen back from the North
Anna, and we are in pursuit. Negroes' who have
coma in say that Lee is falling back to Richmond.
'• Other official despatches from headquarters say
that Warren, Burnside, and Hancock are pushing
forward after the retreating army. Warren cap-
tured a good number of prisoners last evening, lint
has not had time to count them or ascertain his loss.
Hancock is storming the rifteftpita this side of the
river. Last evening he also took between 100 and
200 prisoners and drove many rebels into the river,
where they were drowned.

" Warren also captured some official papers,
among them an order calling out all boys 17 years
of nge to garrison Richmond. Ambulance men and
musicians are also ordered to the ranks.

" Sheridan was this morning at Dunkirk, and
will be at Milford to-night.
"No despatches have been received to-day from
General Sherman, and none are expected for seve-
ral days.
"Despatches from General Butler have been re-
ceived today, relating chiefly to the respective
forces.

"Admiral Lee, in a telegram dated the 22d, to
the Secretary of the Navy, states that last night
(Saturday) the enemy attacked the army and were
handsomely repulsed.

" A despatch from Major-General Canby, dated
the 18th, at the mouth of the Red River, states
that General Banks's troops had arrived at Semmes-
port yesterday, and will reach Morganzea to-day.
The army is in better condition than was expected,
and will soon be ready to resume offensive operations.
" EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War.
" Major-General Dix."

The special correspondent of the New York 7inzes,
writing from Guinney's Station, May 21, 7 p.m.,

, says
"The army of the Potomac is again on the march
towards Richmond. Daring the night Hancock's
corps, which had held the left of our lines in front
of Spottsylvania Courthouse, took up itp march,
moving on the road parallel with the Ny river.
, Early this morning it reached Guinney's Station,
on the Fredericksburg and Richmond Railroad, 12
miles due south of Fredericksburg, Thence it
pushed onward, following the railroad, and to-night
finds the head of Hancock's column at Bowling-
green, 18 miles south of Fredericksburg. The other
corps have been to-day following the same general
line, and the 5% is now passing the point at which
this despatch is dated. You will observe from these
indications that the commanding General haseffected
a turning movement on the right flank of Lee, who
is now hastily falling back to take up a fresh defen-
sive position. It is expected that his next stand will
be on the South Anna river, although he may endea-
vour to hit us while moving by the flank, just as he
did when outflanked in his lines on the Rapidan.
Heavy firing, in fact, is this moment heard across
the Ny, where one of our columns is moving.
A mile south by west of Guinney's Station is i
the point of confluence of the Po and Ny rivers,
and at this point the stream is crossed by Guinney's
bridge, which is in our possession. The river south
of the junction of the Po and the Ny is called by
the inhabitants of the country the Mattapony,'
although the Mat and Ta, its other two affluents,
do not enter it till we reach a point a dozen miles
south of it. Oar army is now ell gone from the
front it has held before Spottsylvania Courthouse
for the past two weeks, and the lines of Spottsyl-
vania pass into history. They are associated with
fighting as desperate as was ever made by em-
battled foes, and by the greatest valour of both
armies. Its woods sepulchre thousands of bodies of
baave men, killed in the great cause for which this
army marches and fights and suffers. Yen will
notice by the map that our present front, while it
puts us in a very advantageous position is regard
to the enemy, at the same time perfectly covers our
communications, which are by way of Fredericks•
burg and Acquai Creek. The railroad will soon be
open from Acquai Creek to Fredericksburg, and
will doubtless be put in order south of that point as
we advance. There are also several available points
of water communication by the Rappahannock, as
at Port Royal, ice., which will probably be used. I I
should misrepresent the conviction of the soundest
heads in this army if I should convey the impres-
sion that our progress is to be now only a triumphal
march. We shall be met by the most obdurate re-
sistance which skill and courage on the part of the
enemy can command. But General Grant has
given you the keynote of the sentiment of this
army; we shall go through with this business, ' if
it takes all summer to do it.' "
The Boston Journal has a correspondence also
from Guinney's Station (the spelling agrees in two
despatches), and dated the 21st. It says:—
" This locality is known as a station on the Fre-
dericksburg and Richmond Railroad, twelve miles
from Fredericksburg. It is in the valley of the
Ny, near the confluence of that stream, and the
Mat, the Te, the Po, making, when put together,
the Mattapony. The Mat comes in eight miles
further down toward Hanover Junction. The Ny
flows through a beautiful valley, broad and verdant.
We have passed through the Wilderness and have
come into a country more open, but still the wooded
acres are more than those under tilth and pasturage.
There are stately mansions, surrounded by the mud-
chinked cabins of the negroes, There were indica-
tions yesterday that the rebel forces at Spottsylvania
had decreased in numbers. Gen. Grant therefore
decided to put the army in motion towards Richmond.
The movement had been under contemplation several
days. One corps started the night before last, but
the attack of Ewell's corps on our right brought it
back, but orders were issued last night for the gene.
ral movement. The 2d Corps started in the night for
a rapid march to Bowling-green. The route taken
was by Massaponax Church, which is 12 miles from
Fredericksburg, at the crossing of the Fredericks-
burg and Richmond telegraph road. The supply
trains which have been parked at Fredericksburg
were started in the night for Bowling-green. There
was a constant rumbling of wheels through the
night. The 2d Corps passed Guinney's before noon.
A small cavalry force appeared on the south side of
the Ny, but there was no contest till the arrival of
the head of the sth Corps, and the escorts of Gene-
rals Grant and Meade. Then regiments of rebel
cavalry appeared at the Guinney's crossing of the
Ny. The 68th and 114th Pennsylvania infantry
and Captain Adam's squadron of Ist Massachusetts
cavalry made a bald dash, and after a sharp contest
carried the bridge and saved it from being burnt.
The rebels were driven a mile beyond, and the sth
Corps passed over and bivouacked on the bank
above. I see their camp fires brightly but ning asr
I write. There was a brisk cannonade in ourrea
at sundown, probably the rebels trying to
valley.e harass
our column by throwing shells across the
in tho skirmish at the bridge two
or three of
the 68th Pennsylvania were wounded. The rebels
lost several men. A lieutenant was captured,
army.
who talked freely of the
movement of the
movem
They did not think ent to theta.
Ile said it was an unexpected
Grant would swing out to
Bowling. green, but that he would push down the
Such telegraph road. is the beginning of the third
The first was from Brandy
advance of this series.
and Culpepper
to Wilderness; the second to Spott.
sylvannia, and the third is not finished. We shalt
probably find Lee ready to
oppose us at Hanover
Junction.
I have but one remark to make in this
connection—that this movement towards Richmond
is an earnest one. Twice Lee has made almost
superhuman efforts to stop us, but the army has
hammered at the barriers constantly, night and day,