The national Republican., 1861-06-27

panIes oi reOeiS rusneu down and attempted 10
cut them off. Surgeon Heber Smith, Of N. Y,
was shot through the face and hand, and
August Peterson was mortally wounded. Both
arc now at the Hygeia Hospital here. Six
others were slightly wounded. (
Captain Beanie at once opened fire upon the z
treacherous rebels with shell and canister, kill.
ing and wounding, he thinks, large number
Of them. The companies fed, and the house
was completely demolished. -
The Quaker CITY also had a short engage.
ment this morning with large number Of dra.
goons, while cruising in Lynnhaven bay, near
Cape Henry, Commander Carr picked up Q
man named Lynch, refugee from Norfolk,
who represented that the master plumber of the
navy yard was ashore, and wished to be taken
off, An armed boat, sent for that purpose, was
frt d upon when near the shore, mortally Wound.
ing James Floyd, seaman, Of Charlesiown, Mass.
few ~ pound shells dispersed the attacking
party behind the sand bills. Floyd died this
Adolph Vincennes, Of Colonel Duryea's repi.
ment, died yesterday Of u wound received at
Great Bethel ..
The gunboat Union sailed southwark this
evening. During her cruise off Charleston, she
took the Hntha from Liverpool, and bound
to Charleston, with n cargo consisting mainly
Of coniraband Of war. The prize was sent to
Philadelphia. Three rebel steamers came out
from Charleston, but did not venture to meet
the Union. ...
The ship Morning Light from Australia, with
a cargo OF guano, is also here.
The Cherubim, from Liverpool, sailed for
New York this morning. = ve. s'
Lieut.. Crosby, with so men on the propeller
Fanny, this morning made reconnaissance of
Back River, and dispersed several parties Of
rebels seen on shore.
A flag Of truce is just down from Norfolk
with so refugees. They report large number
Of troops at Norfolk, and say those at Sewsll's
Point express profound contempt for Sswyer's
gun. They also state that Yorktown is being
made stronghold. r~ ...
From the Baltimore Patriot June 2s
A FIGHT ON THE POTOMAC BETWEEN TIE STEAMER
PAwEEE AND THE sEcEssIoNIsTs. . ..
Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock,
fight commenced between the United States
steamer Pa,cnee and the Confederate troops on
Matthias Point, on the Potomac.
The Pdpnee had about seventy men, and the
forces on the Point wore estimated at seven
hundred. The fight lasted about an hour, du-
ring which some sixty shells were thrown into
| the Confederate troops, and one hundred balls,
when they retreated. The Patonee then landed
| sixty men and captured two of the cavalry,
who remained with their horses, and they were
placed on board the steamer James Guy, and
sent TO Washington.
Our informant, who was on the st. Nicholas
did not learn that any were killed but it was
| supposed, from the appearance Of the place,
that number had been killed and wounded.
None Of the PdUnee's force were injured. A
farmer named Yoe, or something like it, was
known to be badly wounded, and was taken of
| by one Of his negroes. The farmer had been
| harboring secessionists for some time, and his
house was fred by order Of the commander of
| the Pdpnee.
| A number Of the farmers in Virginia, near
the Potomac, who are Union men, have been
| compelled to leave their farms and homes and
come over into Maryland, where they meet
with very cold reception, but they get off to
| Washington, or some other safe place, as soon
as possible. These friends of the Union are
forced by the secessionists to leave their crops
and all their property to their mercy, and are
glad to escape with their lives.
The CRUISE OF THE NIAoARA-From Fort
Pickens-A letter written on board the U. s.
flag ship Niagara, off Mobile, under date Of
June 6, says
"Snce seeing you, have been to Charles
ton, Havana, Pensacola, Tor Fort Pickens,) and
this place. In few more days we 90 to the
mouth Of the Mississippi Flag officer Me- Keau
has command of the Gulf squadron along the
coast; so we are the flag ship, and visit all the
ports along the coast The steamers Pophatan
and Brooklyn are at the month of the Missis
sippi Sabine, Huntsville ST. Louis, Wyan.
dotte, Mohawk, and Water Witch, of Fort
Pickens, keeping Gen. Braxton Bragg at bay,
and the Crusader at Key West.
"We have just received a supply OF fresh
beef, packed in ice, three hundred live hogs,
and one hundred and fifty sheep, with other
delicscies, which were sent down for the use Of
the squadron in the steamer Parkersburg, from
New York. The gunboat Mt Vernon con.
1--WE want small gun boats here badly, as
our ships are too large to run into the rivers
and inlets along the coast. Yesterday our
boats, fully armed, under command of Lieut..
Guest, ran in under the guns of Fort Gaines,
Dauphin Island, Mobile, and cut out schooner
belonging to citizens of Mobile, and seized her
as q prize. She is beautiful vessel Of one
hundred tons, and has just been newly fitted
up. We will mount thirty.four FOUNDER on
her, and have her in tow wherever we 20.
81 have visited Fort Pickens, and It is i'm.
pregnable, although Bragg has one hundred
guns in battery bearing on it,"
The Havana correspondent Of the Delta
says that Mr.. Weller, Minister to Mexico, goes
to Florida to pass through the South aud see
his friends, Messrs Mallory, Davis, and
Toombs, with whom in days past he acted in
defence of Southern rights.