Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1861-06-21
TIE WAR NEWS.
Synopsis of the Daily Reports.
TUESDAYS News.


WASHINGTON June I7.-Thcre is reason
for confident belief that General Scott is fully
prepared to keep the rebel chiefs on the back
| track at least till they shall have evacuated
! Virginia and Tennessee.
! The whole rebel force, except the rear guard
at Manassas Junction, are said to be retreat
| ing to Richmond. Every point on the Poto
mac from Williamsport to Acquia Greek, is
now guarded by Federal troops.
Col Stones command are in quiet possession
Of Leesburg. The cars are running fourteen
miles On the Alexandria & LCesburg Railroad
The route is expected to be opened by them
! for Pauerson's division.
The War Department has ordered the re-
building of Harper's Ferry bridge. 1t is ex-
pected to be done in five days.
! A gentleman who rode down the towpatl
| of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, confirms the
| report that Major Everetts command. at Sen
! eca, had brush with the secessionists. Capt
! Shrcve of the Virginia forces and two of his
men were killed. Major Everett drew the wa
| ter out of the level of the canal in front o
his position, and used the towpath for breast
work, which gave him decided advantage il
| position. The secessiohsts were driven off.
| Statements have reached the city that the
| First Ohio Regiment had a skirmish with the
rebels on the Loudon Railroad, ten miles out
of Alexandria, this afternoon, but it did not
result seriously.
Additional troops have been sent to Alex
andria tonight, and moro will be hurried for
ward. Rumors continue rife that Beauregard
| will advance towards Alexandria tonight.
| Rcinforcements of rebels at Fairfax have
arrived in large numbers since Friday. A Gov
ernment scout, Disguised, was Informed at
Fairfax yesterday that between Gordonsville
and Fairfax 60,000 troops are located and if
teen thousand would be there from Harper
Ferry tonight. Sixty-fve car loads of troops
from Richmond were sent up on Friday.
Satisfactory information has reached here
that the Federal forces have occupied Lees
burg.
New YoRk, June l7.-Eisht regiments arc
expected to leave this city for tbe. seat OF war
this week
uAGERsTowx, june IA messenger has
just returned from Harper's Ferry. 1t is al
legged that three car loads of coffee and sugar
from the West, stopped there, contained strych-
nine, and were thrown into the river. None
Of the piers Of the bridge were damaged. The
work will be put across, and travel resumed
in Il few days. Most of the inhabitants OF
Martinsburg left, expecting q great battle
there. The Federal troops were greeted en-
Enthusiastically. 1t is said that the cause of the
evacuation of Harper's Ferry was that Beau
regurd said tie place was indefensibe, and
liable to be starved and cut off
BALTIMORE, June 1.-Two regiments left
Camp Patterson to-day, for Washington. The
correspondent Of the American, at IIaIper's
Ferry, says Tie rear guard left at noon yester-
day. The army is encamped near Charles
town, near where j ohn Brown was hung. 1t
is said. that there never has been any powerful
batteries erected in the mountains. There
was but one, Of small guns, commanding the
bridge.
PoINT OF ROCKS, ITth.-It appears that flint
lock muskets, sugar, coffee, cotton, machinery,
&c. which could not be taken away from Har.
pers Ferry, were thrown into the river
Nothing left of any value.
FORTRESS MONROE, June 16-via Baltimore
17th.-There is little doubt that an important
expedition is on foot. It is said to-day the
rebels are throwing up battery opposite the
Rip Raps, as protection against the Sawyer
rned gun, which shot into Sewcll's Point bat
terry yesterday. Cubles battery of six rifed
guns is also coming. Col Baker, of Oregon,
will, it is understood, be associated in a respon-
sihle military capacity in this Ticinity. He
arrived here yesterday.
ST.. LOUIS, June I7.-As part of Colonel
Kallman's Regiment of Reserve Corps were
returning from the North Missouri Railroad
at about IL o'clock this morning, when oppo-
site the Recorders Court Room on Seventh
street, between Olive and Locust, a company
near the rear of the column suddenly wheeled
and discharged their rifles, aiming chiefly at
the windows of the Recorders house, killing
four citizens, mortaly wounding two, and
slightly wounding one. Statements regarding
the cause of the firing are very conflicting; one
being that pistol-shot fired from the window
ef the house corner of Seventh and Locust
took effect in the shoulder of one Of the cap.
tains when he gave the order to fire. Anoth-
er that soldier accidentally discharged his
rife in the ranks, at which the whole company
became frightened and fired full volIey at
the crowd on the sidewalk and in the wind.
ows of the houses. The Recorders Court was
in session and crowded with prisoners and al
so spectators. Police officer Pratt was shot
in the side and died in ten minutes. Deputy
Marshal Frazer received three shots in his legs
and will undoubtedly die. The names of 9TH
er persons who were killed on the pavement
below were not aseertained. The windows just
behind Recorder Peers desk, were riddled
with bullets, and broken glass scattered over
his desk. Bodies of the killed were removed to
the Health Office where thorough investiga-
tion of the affair will be had, when the partic-
ulars of the affair will be given.
The wound of Captain Ruisch is of such
character as to induce the believe that he was
shot from a second or third story window, the
ball entering his coat Just back of the point
of the left shoulder, tearing the skin across
the spine, and passing cut at the lower point
of the right shoulder blade. Two or three
members Of the same Company are said to
be wounded by buckshot. A large number of
witnesses have been summoned to attend the
Ooroners inquest tomorrow morning, when it
is hoped thu facts will be learned.
ST. LOUIS, June 1.-THE Federal forces
now engaged in the interior of this State, con
sist of upwards of 10000 men The War
saw (Mo.) Democrat says Judge johnson will |
not take his scat in the United States Senate
in July; it also states that Senator Polk will |