Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1862-06-07
also states that yicksburg bad sered
to the Federal fleet

to the Federal fleet.
Corinth, June 2-The cavalry >cxpedi,
ton sent to destroy the brigdes south OF
Corinth, returned. having destroyed bridges
along the road in several places. They
also captured q large amount OF commits
sary stores and three pieces of artillery,
and took several hundred prisoners. We
found twenty-five hundred sick ard
wounded at Boenville. Memphis refugees
say all the papers have been removed to
Grenada, Miss. Residents at Cerinth say
the rebels before leaving destroyed the
bridge across Cypress creek under the mis-.
aPpre hension Of making it necessary for
them TO destroy seven locomotives. and a.
many trains loaded with commissary and
quartermasters' stores.
Washington, June l.-During the whole
of the battle this morning, Prof. loves
balloon was overlooking the scene at an
altitude Of 20Oc feet. Telegraphic com.
municaton with Gen. Mcclellan was con
stantly maintained. Every movem en-, of
the enemy was obvious and instantly re-
ported. This is believed to be the first
time ballon reconnaissance has been sue.
oessfully made during = Battle The ad
vantage TO Gen. Mcclellan must have been
immense.
-S . . . -
william sbuTK.
am surprised that the correspondents
have said so little of the ancient metropo-
lis of the Old Dominion, the venerable
city Of Williamsburg. No place in Vir'
GINA yet occupied by our troops is SO re-
plete with historic interest as this old
capital, and in none should the restoration
Of the flag of our fathers be hailed with
greater satisfaction. That was an exciting
sunrise when Jameson's dashing fellows
Haunted the stars and stripes from the
roof Of the College of William and Mary.
and when later in the day Mcclellan and
staff entered the classic structure to con-
sole the torn and dying there gathered
from the field, strange recOllections Of the
past were aroused. So early as 1919 IF.
teen hundred pounds were raised in Eng
land for founding college in Virginia for
the Indians. 1t was not, however, until Il
half century later that the bird act Of the
Virginia Assembly. in the fifth year Of the
reign of William and Mary, provided -
That Middle Plantation las Williamsburg
was then called) be the place for erecting
the College of William and Mary in Nir
einia, and tina. the said College he at that
place erected, and built as near the church
now standing, in Middle Plantation, Old
Fields, as convenience will permit.
The College building was planned BY
Sir Christopher Wrcn, and it was designed
says beverley, ITO be an entire square
when completed" The first commence.
ment exercises were hell. in 1900, "a.
which there was q great conc curse Of PEG.
pie several planters came thitber in
coaches, and others in soops, from New
York, Pennsylvania and MARYLAND, it
being new thing in that part OF America
to hear graduates perform their exercises.
The Indians had the curiosity, some Of
them, to visit Williamsburg upon that oc.
casion, and the whole country rejoiced, as
If they hal some relish Of learning
The building first erected was destroyed
by fro in l70J Two sides of the square
had tier been COM leted-tbe north and
eas.-which constitute, even now, notwith-
standing the second destructive fire in
1859, the greater par, Of the present
edifce.
The proec; of educating the Indians
amounted to very little, but under its high
patronage, both "A, home and abroad, the
college soon became famous as seat of
learning Bishop Meade, in his "Oid
Churches, Ministers and Families Of Nir-
gina, SAYS: Zone thing is set forth in
praise of William and Mary which we de.
light to record. viz: that the hopes and
desi -ns Of is founders and early bencfac.
tors, in relation to its being nursery of
pioIs ministers, were not entirely disap.
pointed 1t is positively affirmed, by those
most competent to speak. that the best
ministers IN Virginia were those educated
at the college and sent over to England
for ordination
The political influence which The insti-
TUT has cxerted upon the country may
be inferred from the historical catalogue
OF lis graduates. Among the number
wer" Ben amin Harrison, George Wy,he
and Carter Braxtoa, sisncrs of the De-
ciaration ~! independence; Peyton Ran
do'ph, President Of the first Congress
Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe ard
John Tyler, Presidents Of the United
States: John Marshall, Chief Justice
John Randolph, George NJ Bib, John J.
Crittenden and others, United States Sen
tors. and Winfield Scott, late Com mander.
in Chief of the Army
Was there no, patriotic Justice in Nc
Cleilan's redeeming from trai,orou. hards
and restoring to the old flag the ins,itu-
ton where his illustrous predecessor and
friend had laid the foundation of his dis
tinpuished career Cor. Ereriuy Po,f