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New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-05-26
GEN. BANKS OFFICIAL REPor

GEN. BANKS Official REPORT.
HEADQUARTERS MAsrIssBrso, May !s-i:~Ps.
Hos +. NJ STANTON. Secretary II VA,
The Rebels attacked US this morning at daybreak
in great force. Their force was estimated AT 10000,
consisting OF Ewelrs and Jacksons divisions. Tho
fire OF the pickets began with the light. and WAS
followed by the artillery until the lines wee tall1
under fire on both Sides
The left wing stood firmly, holding its GROUND
well, and the right did the same for uine' wne"
two regiments broke lines under the IRE OF toe
enemy The right wing fell back aud were ordered
to withdraw, aud the troops passed through tue 0"A
in considerable confusion. They were quick! TO
formed on the other side, aud continued their msVu
in good order to Martiusburg, where they arrived
!. 40 D. M. distance Of - miles.
Our trains are in advance, and will cross the river
in .afety. Our entire force engaged was lees than
4 ono consisting Of Gordon's and Donneliys brig
ode. with two regiments Of cavalry under Geo'
Hatch and two batteries Of artillery. Our loss was
considerable. a. was that Of the enemy but cannot
now be stated. We were REINFORCED by the iNh
Maine, which did good service, and regiment OF
cavalry. Mp. BANKS, Major General Cong.
WASHINGTON May IS. 1904
The enemy, under Gems. Ewsl aud johnson WIN
mp~ror force, gave battle to Gen. Banks this
morning at daylight at Winchester. Gen. Bann
fuph, them ak hours and then retired in the diree'
ZION of Mar,insburg, with what loss Is unknown
The enemy are, it is understood, advancing IRON
Winchester upon Harper's Ferry. Our troops 'n'''
are being rapid. re-enforced
Rumor saws that Gen. jackson is advancing 70
,h. .,,ror of Ewell and johnson. and there are
oso sa,ement, that there still another force behind
him.
PROMPT means have been taken to meet the 'ms''
gency, ii truly reported
~ FROM TIE WAR DEPARTMENT
,.,,,ch received ,O-pgbt states That Gen. DalAA
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12
Death of General Mitchell.

Dispatches from Port Royal bring us
the sad intelligence of the death of Gen.
Mitchell at that station, of yellow fever.
No man of his rank in the army has dis
played more zeal and ability than Gen. D.
NJ. Mitchell. The record of his life is pc
e%uliarly American. Eminently a self
made man, he was enabled by his own
energy and perseverance, although poor
and friendless, to secure a West Point
education. No opportunity presenting
itself, at the close of his course, for OBJ
tanning distinction as a military a he
devoted himself to scientific subjects. and
on the breaking out of the war had at
tanned a position as an astronomer not
inferior to any man on the Western con
tinent. As the Chief of the Cincinnati
Observatory, he became the inventor of
some of the most accurate and reliable
scientific apparatus now in use, and to his
efforts the country Is indebted for an eX-
tended series experiments, in connection
with the telegraph, to determine the lat
itude and longitude of the most import
ant points in the North. While thus en-
gagged, he also published a number of as
Economical text books, and as a writer on
such subjects proved himself a worthy
rival of Hugh Miller and Maury, in giving
to dry details that clothing of language
necessary to interest the pupil and the
amateur.
On the outbreak of the wal he obtain
ed a position in the army as Brigadier
General, and was assigned to a command
operating in Kentucky and Tennessee.
Although supported by a comparatively
trifling force, his campaign in Tennessee
and along the line of the railroad in
Northern Alabama and Mississippi dis
played more real energy and activity than
has been shown by any commander in the
same department. By rapid marches he
succeeded in a few weeks in clearing the
entire district under his control of rebels;
cutting the principal line of communica-
ton between Richmond and Memphis,
and Selling more rebel property than has
since fallen into our hands. He was re-
moved, as is believed, at Buell's instiga-
ton, and assigned TO a command where
his activity would present a less startling
contrast to that emulator of Rip Van
Wrinkle. He has been most untimely cut
off by death may his memory long be
green in the minds of his countrymen.-
Pihsburg Dispatch.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12
The Tax on Tobacco.

The heavy tax on tobacco, imposed I'M
der the internal revenue law, is already
beginning to be felt here and a consider
able falling off, in the demand for the ar
ticle is experienced. Our readers have
but faint idea of the extent to which this
tax must effect the tobacco trade but
when we state that under the law some
of our manufacturers will have to pay two
hundred dollars a day to the Government,
they will be better able to arrive at an in
telligent conclusion on the subject. There
is another thing, too, which will operate
against the manufacturers, unless their
whole system of business be revolutionis-
ed. They generally give a credit OF o
months on their sales, but under IA law
they are required to make returns every
month to the collector. They will thus
be compelled to pay the tax long before
they receive payment for the tobacco, a
thing which considering the great amount
will be out of the question. The result of
this will be, they will have to do a cash
business exclusively, or none at all.-Hdr-
risGurgk (Penn.) Telegraph.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12
A Hit at the Rebel coaxers,

The Richmond Wig of the Both ult.,
in an article upon recent speeches made
by Messrs. Seymour and Van Buren,, in
which they held out the hope that the
rebel States could be brought back to the
Union if the people would support their
submission ticket, thus spurns and rejects
their proposition mo, the people of
all shades of opinion in the United States
had better make up their minds that the
separation that has taken place was ne
cesSary and is final. We are as.wide apart
as the zenith and the nadir. We are as
different as white from black-as antago-
nistic as fire and water. They can never
conquer, nor coax, nor cheat US into re-
union. The sooner they surrender the
hope and abandon the effort the better
for them. We think no better of the
proposition when coming from 'conser-
natives than when coming from rad
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12
Ruined Plantations in louisiana.

A correspondent of the Boston. Travell-
er, who accompanied a flag of truce to a
rebel camp eighty miles from New Or
leans, a few weeks since, says:
We passed large groves of oranges, ripe,
and soon to decay for want of labor to
pluck them; large plantations deserted,
and the immense crops of sugar and corn
destined othes same fate, and for the same
cause. The scene was dismal in the ex-
treme, and should be witnessed by these
northern men who, ignorant of war and
its rayages, complain of it SO bitterly be-
u they are called upon for increased
taxes At noon we stopped at the plan
tation of Mr.. Webb, and asked of the old
black oma who thrust he head out of
a window at our approach, for food for
man and beast.
She called a small boy, who pointed
out to us a spot where our horses might
get a mouthful, and then conducted us
into the house where a sumptous repast
awaited us of cracked corr and a little
molasses. Fortunately our hayersacks
were better stocked, and after making
the old woman's heart glad by a present
of some flour bread" we set out once
more,
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12
How State Secrets Leak Out.

There are certain facts connected with
James NJ. Wright, a confidential clerk in
the Adjutant Generals office, at the Wal
Department, says the Washington Sun
day Chronicle, which we feel bound to give
to the public. Helivesin Prince Georges
county, Nd, just outside of this District.
Some time since he went to a neighbor,
Mr.. Joseph Gregory, who has three sons,
told him that because he was a Union
man he was in danger of being driven
from his home, and that in order to Sc
cure protection he must send two of his
sons to the rebel army. Wright said he
warned Nj. Gre CORY of his danger, be-
cause he was a neighbor, and that his in
6uence was such that he could get the
sons commissioned.
Mr.. Gregory spurned the offer and then
Wright changing his tone, said that Mr..
Gregory and his family would be driven
from Prince Georges county, or used
words to hat effect, and intimated that
he Wright would aid in doing it.
This occurred while Mr.. Cameron was
Secretary of War, and all these facts were
testified to by Mr.. Gregory and three 9TH
er persons before the Potter Investigating
Committee, and a report, sent to the War
Department. Being referred to the Ad-
%jutant General, he reported that the SER
vices of Wright were i~ndispensably nee
essary, and he could not be removed.
When Mr.. Stanton assumed that place,
Mr.. Gregory made a second affidavit, and
Mr.. Watson, Assistants Secretary, declared
that the man should be removed. The
affidavit was under oath, and was sent to
Assistant Adjutant Gen. Thomas, who re-
ferred tito the very Mr.. Wright whose re-
moval il demanded. Wright reported
back that it was false; that the man who
made the affidavit did not believe in flu
ture rewards and punishment, and there
fore he was incompetent to testify.
All of Mr.. Gregory's sons have been
drafted, while Mr.. Wright, who has sent
his SON to Richmond to avoid the draft,
is exempt, because he holds "a commission
under the Federal Government. Wright
was one of the most noisy babblers against
Gov. Hicks, when that stern old patriot
refused to call the Legislature together to
enable it topass an ordinance ~ofsecession,
and was a leader of the convention of the
county, called for the purpose of denounc,
ing the Governor and i~ntimidating him
into obedience to the demands of the
traitors who then, as now, infested the
State.
So the matter rests at this day, and we
feel bound to lay these facts, as they have
been sworn to. by several persons, before
the public. Wright still retains his po-
sition. 1t is one of the most confidential
ones in the Adjutant Generals office
He is made acquainted with all the Or
ders of the army before they are promul-
gated, and knows the most valuable secrets
of the Government. Is it surprising that
the rebels are informed of the orders is
sued by the Wal Department before they
are known by our commanding Gen erals?
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12
The Price of Newspapers.

The Rockport Republic has the follow
ing in reference to the increase of the
price of newspapers Most of the large
daily newspapers in Western New York
have advanced the price of their Issues
An editor of a leading New York daily
informed u last week that the publishers
in that city would Don follow suit. Ma
ny of the country journals have also been
published at increased prices. The adj
vance is caused mainly by the advance in
printing stock"
Upon this the Boston TraUsLer remarks:
Printing materials of all kinds have very
materially advanced since the commence
ment of the war. On some articles of
prime necessity to the printer, the adj
vance is fully equal to thirty per cent. In
addition, to this the Government taxes
them three per cent. upon their advertise
ments and three per cent. upon their in
come, if they are fortunate enough to
have any"
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12
The Election.
From the New York Tribune-l


Never was a great and patriotic party
doomed to bearup against such q combina-
ton of adverse influences as those with
which the Republicans and Union Wa
Democrats struggled in our contest of yes
terday. They were compelled to meet at
the polls.
/. Every partisan of Slavery and SYM
pathizer with the Shareholders Rebellion;
.. The great Rumselling interest, Or
ganized as a political power, and lavishing
funds as well as efforts in behalf of the
Democratic tickets;
3. Two hundred thousand voters who
never voted any other than the Democrat
ic ticket, and never will, though that tick
ct where all madeu up of Fernando and Ben
Wood and undisguisedly favorable to the
revolutionary usurpation and despotism.
1. Thousands whose God is Mammon,
and who, finding the war expensive and
burdensome, are anxious for peace at any
price;
5. Every coward who fears being draft
ed;
G: Every sneak who has been told that
Seymour's election will relieve him from
the payment of war taxes, and is actually
fool enough to believe it;
I. The depressing effect of the recent
elections and their Unexpectedly adverse
results;
s. The absence at the seat of war of at
least one hundred thousand of our BRAY
est and best, two-thirds of them ardent
Republicans and a good share of the re-
mainder Union war Democrats of the
school of Dickinson, Bancroft and Ire
main.
Q. General dissatisfaction with the slow
progress or no progress of our armies, and
a wide spread feeling that, through the
inefficiency or %insincerity, of
our military leaders, the blood and treas
ure of the loyal millions are being sacri-
feed in vain.
The loss to General Wadsworth and the
Union War tickets from this last source
must be estimated by ems of thou
sands. 1t was in vain that the party of
the country bore up manfully against it,
and did all that men could do to mitigate
its effect. What is the use of sending
our young heroes TO die of exposure, ia
and fever, in a war wherein they
are not permitted to fight?-wherein
nothing is achieved because nothing is
,eally and resolutely attempted?-whose
lIOElCSo ID IN liz W 81 III AOo-
and augmentation of our public
lebt?-wherein month after month drags
IN its tedious hours to 10 purpose and
With no result?"-such were the questions
hat caused thousands of voters to refuse
.nvincibly to approach the polls, no mat
.er how strongly urged, and impelled
other thousands TO vote against their no.
bier impulses and better judgment-to
rote according to the dictates of discour-
,gemeut and despair.
We tell the Administration most earn
that the country cannot endure an
,ther months inaction of our armies
hat a Fernando-W Wood dictatorship at
North, in through sympathy if not in
pen alliance with the JEFF. Davis REBEL
on at the South, will inevitably result
rom such inaction. The wal for the
Union must be fought out speedily and
esolutely or it will die out. Defeat
7ould be calamity, but delay is ruin.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12

The Union vote this year is 5S,86S less
than 1t was for Lincoln in 1860; the Dem
ocratic vote is 6,49S less than for Doug
las, breckenridge and Bell; this is the
great gain of the Democracy. Last year,
when there was no great principle involv-
ed, and when the whole vote was SO, 649
less than for President, the Union falling
off was 24.6l3, while the Democrats lost
59,O36; yet this only proved that their
voters had felt too little interest to go to
the polls. This year they have come out
to elect Congressmen-the Union men
have ione to fight in the meantime-and
therefore the result shows a gain from
lS6l-but a heavy loss from 1860, as we'll
as loss from their vote at the Presidential
election in 1856, 1852, and even in 1913,
since which year the voting population
has increased one-third. On this increase
over 1861, they raise a jubilant shout of
great Democratic triumph" Study the
above figures, and see how much founda-
ton there is for their so-called victory.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12

A PATRIoF.-There is at present, lying
sick at hospital No. l. a soldier named
Cameron, a man now in the SEVENTEEN
year of his age. He was a soldier in the
field in 1872, was one of the volunteers
under General Taylor in 1846-'47, is
now a private in company l, Eightieth
regiment Illinois volunteers, and advanc-
ed as he is in years. is somewhat broken
down by the severity of the recent cam
paigh. In the present struggle for his
country, Mr.. Cameron has had nine sons
in the Union army, four of whom have
fallen battle. He is a resident Of Wash
ington county, ILL.,, has been twice mar
ried, and and is the father, he states, of
twenty-three children.-LOu. journal.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12

The PRESENT CoTFoN CRoP.-The Louis
vile Journal publishes a letter from NJ.
w. Whetmore, of Nashville, to Secretary
Chase, containing a plan for securing to
the government a large proportion of the
present cotton crop of the South. Mr..
w. estimates its value as follows:
From the best information l can obtain
there will, 1t the end of the present cot
ton picking season, be 100000 bales of
cotton of the average weight of 400 lbs.
OF this amount | would expect, by judi
cious management on the part of the gov
ernmant, to obtain by the end of the cot
ton fiscal year, June, 1863, two million
bales, the present value of which in Liv-
erpool, in Federal currency, would be
thus: 800, DOC, 900 pounds at 80 cents
$500, 000, 900. Now, in proportion a the
market is supplied, the price must peoes-
sarily decline on the account of the in
creased supply, | will rate, in this exam
pie, cotton at so cents-S400, DOC, 900. In
calculations of price and value, | have
omitted to state the expense of selling
cotton in Europe, but have placed the
prices far below prices current there to-
daY.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12

PORTAGE, Co.-Samnel Fulton, hailing
from New York and working as a wood
chopper in Ravenna, on Friday last stole
a carpet bag from the Office of the Collins
House; a package of shirts from an eat
ing house, and a cheese from Phelps and
Hopkins warehouse The contents of
the carpet bag were valued at 5000
Fulton was committed in default of bail.
The barn of Philip Russell jr., in Wind
ham, was burned on Friday night. OctO-
Der 3lst, together with II tons of hay oats
etc.......F. w. Seymour, of Ravenna, had
his carpet bag stolen from his carriage, in
Warren a few days since......On Thurs
day last, a man giving his name as ThOs.
Williams, and afterwards as Thos. Wat
son-who first stated his home TO be in
the village of Warren, then five miles be-
yond, then five miles west of War; n,Fut
up at the Collins House. and offered his
horse, buggy and harness for sale for p
dollars. The establishment is pronounce
ed well worth one hundred dollars. He
was arrested and detained i'm Jail until
Monday, when he was discharged on IA
writ of HabeuS corpus, before Judge Ly-
man, and fled Immediately, leaving his
team......On the 24th ult., a young nan
named Vaughn, son of Truman Vaughn,
of Mantua, left the residenc of Mr.. Gas
kill in Hiram township with a horse and
buggy. Soon after, screams were heard,
and the young man was found between
the cross bar of the thills and the axle
tree-in which position he had been
dragged some distance. How the horse
took fright is unknown, but he ran with
great desperation, as several rods of pros
trate fence attested, The unfortunate
man was about twenty-seven years DID,.
A son of E. S. Whiting, of GAINESVILLE,
while playing in a barn a few days since,
fell and broke his arm......The fall crops
in the county are gathered and prove less
than anticipated.
A~sHTABULA, 0.-The bark Constitution,
of Milwaukee. went ashore near Conneaut
on Sunday morning. She was filling so
fast that her crew abandoned her at
night......Afew days since Mrs. W.P. Nor
ton was butted by a ram, and severely in
jured......A little daughter of VIM. Will
lard, of Ashtabula, aged some six or sew
en- years, was seriously injured on Thurs
day of last week, by being thrown from
a loaded wagon and ran over, crushing
the bones of the thigh, and lacerating
the flesh in a shocking manner Mr. Viii
lard and one or two others were also
thrown out and stunned. but not injured.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12

An ACCOMPLISHED SWISDLER.-Some
twelve months since, a confidence man
named Capt. Winfield Scott Campbell, op-
Grated pretty extensively in Cleveland,
chiefly upon clergymen. He was arrested
in Warren Trumbull county, but manag-
ed to escape, and disappeared for a short
time. A few days since he reappeared in
Cleveland, in the uniform of a regular Off
Ger, and enlisted in Capt. j. 5. Kinks
company. In camp he passed himself of
as a drilled officer and was put in charge
of a company of drafted men. He -four
ished about camp for a few days announc-
ed that he had been appointed Captain
by the Governor, borrowed $3.50 from his
fellow soldiers in camp, to go to Columbus
for his commission, and disappeared.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12

PENNsYLvANIA.-Contrary to general be-
lief, we find that the Union party stands
better on its Congressional than on its
State vote. We carry the State on Con-
gress by 6,231 majority though the Oppo-
sition figure out about $3.50 majority on
the State ticket. True, we have fallen
in our Congress vote from the heavy poll
OF 1860; but so have the Opposition; We
lose by far the most, chiefly in men gone
to the war: but they lose 1855, in spite
of their boast of immense gains. They
lose even more heavily than last year =
then they gave Foster 23O,257 for Govern.
or-now 207, 600 for Congress- loss OF
, ,5SS; and yet they brag of great gains.
Wait till the soldiers return l@Springfsd
Republican.
Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-11-12
Negro soldiers in the South

In the employment of negro soldiers, as
in so many other things, the rebels set US
the example of what they denounce as
barbarous in US. The following from the
Baltimore correspondence of the New
York Post, is of the many evidences
of the employment of the negroes in the
rebel service:
"A rebel deserter, the son of a quondam
Baltimorean, now of South Carolina, and
"A trustworthy man, says he belonged to a
regiment from this State, composed of
Tour companies of, negroes and six of
whites; that the negroes were allowed to
vote with the whites in the choice of their
officers; that they mess and sleep toge ther
without any prejudice whatever, and that
the negroes make as good soldiers as the
whites"