The Placer herald. [volume] (Auburn, Placer County, Calif.) 1855-1991, 1861-06-08
LATEST NEWS FROM THE EAsT.-IN.
VA0ION OF VIRGINIA..

Union.
On the night Of the osd several regiments
with the New Jersey and Michigan brigades,
Ellsworth's Zouaves, and the militia Of the
District of Columbia, crossed into Virginia.
The Virginia pickets having been previously
driven in by the advance guard, one Of the
regiments took the road leading to Fairfax
Court House, about twenty miles distant
from Washington; while the New Jersey
regiment stopped at the forks, a mile from
the long bridge over the Potomac, at
Warrington, and awaited orders.
An advance was also made into Virginia.
by way Of the Potomac acqueduct, at
Georgetown. The New York Seventeenth
Regiment was among these troops. The
command took position on the line of the
Washington and Alexandria Railroad.
On the morning Of the cath freng was
heard on the Virginia side of the river, oc
c.sioned by driving in the Virginia pckets.
Alexandria was occupied by the N. Y.
Zouaves, l4th and Goth, and New Jersey
regiments.
The entrance into Alexandria was attend
ed by an event that caused the deepes, gloom
at Washington, and created "a profound
sensation throughout the country. Col.
Ellsworth, Of the Zouaves, pulled down the
Confederate flag fving over the Marshall
House, in Alexandria, when soon af,erward
he was shot and killed by Jackson, the pro
pretor. II is said he was shot in the back.
Jackson was Immediately killed by Francis
ID. BrownelI, of Troy New York, member
of the Zouaves.
T.:k,
the following particulars: Colonel Ellsworth
was shot, rs he WAS descending the stairs
with the secession flag which he had torn
down, by the man Jackson, keeper of the
Marshall House, with double barrelIed gun.
lie died almost instantly, dyeing the seces
sion flag with his blood. lie ouIy said
my Cod"
The body Of Col. Ellsworth WAS subse-
quen'ly taken to Washington, and laid in
state in the East room of the Presidents
House. 1t is reported that as the Virginia
troops retired from Alexandria one of them
was killed by return shot from the Federal
forces.
A dispatch TO the Tribune says n compa.
ny of thirty five Virginia horse was captur
near Alexandria by Shermans battery. And
n dispatch to the N. Y. Post says the Goth
N. Y. Regiment captured 800 men on the
Orange road.
1t is reported that body of Federal
troops had advanced toward Fairfax Court
House, twenty miles from Washington, to
take possession of the junction of the Or.
ange and Alexandria and Manuassa Gap
Railroads.
The Times dispatch, dated midnight, says
gentleman just arrived from Alexandria
says the Fire Z"uaves have commenced ex.
ecusing their threats Of revenge. They have
already shot three violent Secrssionists The
people At Alexandria who were sympathizers
with Jackson have been compelled to flee
for their lives.
1t is said Gen. Sanford, of New York,
will command the troops advancing into
Virginia from Washington.
1t is believed that demonstrations were
made against Norfolk and Harper's Ferry
simultaneously with the movement upon
Alexandria.
Postmaster General Blair has stopped the
mail service to the seeded States Will, the |
exception Of Tennessee, which has not yet
formaly seeded. Neither is Western Vir
ginia included in the prohibition.
Government is in possession of informa
ton, that certain prominent protessei Union
men IN Baltimore, are secretely working
for sec ssion. Their names and plans are
known.
A dispatch to the N. Y. Herald, says Gen.
Butler left Fort Monroe on the 23d, with |
four thousand troops on propelIers, and Ian
ded them near Lind Haven.
n.,
in Virginia. Gen Johnston, late in com.
manG Of the Pacific Division, is said to he
in command of the Confederate troops at
Harper's Ferry.
1t is reported that demonstration is soon |
to be made from Cairo against Memphis.
Agents Of the Government were at ST. Louis
purchasing steamers.
The Union men # ST. Louis say tie SO
cessionists do not respect the agreement
made between Gen. Harvey and Gen. Price,
and that they prosecute Union men more
than ever. Gen. Harvey. Gen. Lyon, and |
others declare this must cease, or that Gov.
Jackson and his friends will be made nc
quainted with Federal bayonets.
New FEATURE IN CHINADoM.-The China
residents Of this place, says the San Andreas
Independent, are organizing in associations
represented by merchants, builders and me
chanics of all sorts, who intend hereafter to
keep their loose change among their own
countrymen. We shall soon have China
taiors, carpenters, brcklayers shoemakers,
ETC., enoug to supply their own people with
all the necessaries of life.
EE The Directors of the Folsom and
Auburn Turnpike Company met LIST Satur,
dav. and made an assessment of ten per