The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1862-07-15

INTO hnal defeat. our government Is
Strengthening you with the resources of
a great people On this, our nations
birthday, we declare to our foes, who are
rebels against the best interests of man
kind, that this army shall enter the CAPT
tai of the so-called rebel confederacy,
and our national constitution shall pre-
vail, and that the Union, which alone can
insure internal peace and external securi-
ty to each State, must and shall be pre-
served" cost what it may in time, treas
ure and blood.
(Sgned) GEO. B. MCCLELLAN.
! New YORK, July 10.-A dispatch
from Gen. Lee to Jeff Davis announces a
signal victory on June 2Sth, and grieves
to state that the rebel loss in officers and
men was great.
A Richmond telegram of the 28lh ex-
pressed the opinion that Nc Clellan would
capitulate, as his army was thoroughly
discounted.
Gen. Esey was severely wounded, it
is feared MORALLY.
The British ship Racer was in Charles
ton harbor on 28lh.
A Washington dispatch to the Post
says the forthcoming address of the Re-
publican members Of Congress TO the
people will favor the most energetic ac
ton in the prosecution Of the war, and
the use Of all the means in our power
against the rebellion and foreign inter
vention.
The policy of employing blacks in
military operations is rapidly gaining
ground here.
The steamer Potomac from PIT Royal,
July 9th, has arrived here.
The health of the troops is favorable
The rebel pickets are annoying at Wash
ington Island.
Two of our pickets were wounded on
the 5th.
All quiet at Beaufort.
WASHINGTON, July Especial TO tie
World. An important manifesto in the
shape of a proclamation from the Presi-
dent, defining the future policy of tie
Administration on the great questions Of
the hour, is not improbable at an early
day.
Mr.. Lincoln has been waited on by
several Senators and members of the
House, and will be visited by large
delegation to morrow, should lie be able
to receive them, ard urging him to issue
a proclamation in the tenor Of bill re
ported in the Senate TO day, requiring
the Generals commanding departments
TO accept the services OF all persons com.
ing within our lines.
The debate in the Senate to-day mere
" paves the way for the assumption o
this new policy which creates no unavold
able sensation.
Gen. O. M. Mitchell is about to take
an important part in the campaign ii
Va.
He has been assigned to command
under Gen. Pope, and will take charge
OF it as soon as he returns from shor
visit TO West Point and Albany.
Gen. Lew Wallace was serenaded, las
night, in Washington. In his little
speech he spoke strongly in favor 0
emancipatiug and arming the slaves, ant
for quartering upon the enemy instead oil
guarding his property.
Special to the Times Evidences have
have reached the Government of vel
planned rebel conspiracy, Of a most ex
tended character, which was TO have
burst upon the country simultaneously
with the battles at Richmond. The reb
J ell leaders confidently relied on shaking
off Nc Clellan and annhialing his army
by their immensely superior numbers
and this success was to be Immediate,
followed by rise in Tennessee, Ken
, lucky and Maryland, and the advance o
jeff. Davis upon Washington in the mids
of the confusion. The families of rebe
: officers who are living in Kentucky
while their heads are in position in Rich
mond. were fully informed of the scheme
and, III their boldness and imprudence
let it out. The facts were communicat.
ed to the War Department and to Gen
Boyle, Of Kentucky, and preparation
were made TO defeat the movement bu,
the utter failure of the rebels to break
the power OF the Union army now threat
} ening Richmond, made it impossible iol
them to put their plan in motion.
The Washington Star, of this evening
, says:
I'VE have now at Front Royal quite ;
division OF Gen. Pope's army"
New York, July An army Letter
states that rebel captain taken prisoner
estimates the rebel loss on Friday a
} Gaines Hill at "a, 900, and that their 10
tai loss, during the week, is from 10000
10 10000.
Another letter says:
A number Of our wounded have come
in. having been ordered by the rebels Il
seek their own camps. Our loss now
, says this letter, Z" is reduced TO under 10,
900 men,"
The Richmond Examiner, Of the 4tl
inst, calls Tuesdays battle
The tiercest and most sanguinary o
the series of bloody conflicts Magru
der's command was ordered TO charg,
the strongest of the Federal batteries
the officers and men went down by hun
dreds, while the horrors of the battle wer'
J increased by the continuous broadsldel
. from the enemy's gunboats. The car
mage from the whitening fire Of the Fed