Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-04-18


Lady Davis and returned in safety.
On the night of April 4, bold Capt.
Waugh Of the Caro- adelet run his gun
boat, protected by hay barge next the
rebels, close under the batteries of the
Islaad, without firing gun, or recelv- t
ing a shot, though all the batteries !
opened on him, floating battery and all .
A few days afterward, another gunb oat !
ran the gauntlet, and Bissell's Engineer
Regiment succeeded in carrying four I!
steamers and some other craft through
the bayous, So that Gen. Pope on Mon
day the 7th, threw force across the
river, with the help of the gunboats 81
lenoed the rebel batteries opposite him,
and Instantly crossed over with great
force, established himself IN safety on
the eastern bank, and at once moved up
wards toward the rebels. Meanwhile
the rebels, seeing themselves unded,
instantly lost heart, and sent flag to
! Commodore Foote to ask leave to capt.
ulate. The Commodore, however, re-
quired an unconditional surrender,
which was accordingly made, little af-
ter midnight, on Tuesday morning, the
Sth, most of the rebels having attempted
to run of by land. But Gen. Pope
troops met them, and made them Prls-
toners, apparently without any opposl-
ton. Thus this enormously strong po-
sition has been secured without battle.
The fruits of the victory, as far as com
puted. not to mention the opening OF
/ the road Gown the river, are three gem
erals, six thousand prisoners, hundred
siege guns, a number of small arms,
camp equipage, ammunition, horses, and
provisions.
Before leaving Missouri to take
command in the field in Tennessee, Gen
Halleck has bestowed u last calming
. touch upon the troubled waters OF un-
easy rebeldom, By approving the sen
tence passed by military com mission
upon one Ellis, editor of the Boone
! county Standard, seditious sheet, fo1
3 publishing information for the enemy
and encouraging resistance to th'
. United States laws and Government, II
sundry prose and poetical articles. Ih'
$ commission adjudged the fellow to b.
/! placed and kept outside the State
, Missouri duriug the war, and his pres
and materials to be con6scated. Gen
: Halleek approved, as did Secretar
Stanton; and the form of proceeding
i has been made a precedent for othe
commanders.
% The Texans seem to have pretty flu
n control of New. Mexico, all but Fol
q Union and Fort Craig, where the Unio
h troops, safe and we'll provisioned, al
4 quietly waiting for reinforcement
e One regiment has already reached tn
D former post, from Colorado Tsrritor,
i The Texans are said to have organize
thing which they term territori
|. government
~ jeff. Daris's Cabinet has franco
!. government and selected territorial o
;. ficers for Arizona. They will fad t
" Apaches, we apprehend, a trife restle
h as subjects. Congress has bill Tor
,c similar purpose before it, but does II
n hurry, considering that there are
n white people in Arizona. they havii
re been all killed or driven off by Il
et '.horse Indiana.
IN The position Of Affairs in Arka
a. sas had not changed at the last advice
II. both armies still waiting for re-inforc
ments.
of A report reaches US by rebel cha
,er nels, that our troops have probat
ve crossed over from Fort Pickens and {
art cupied Pensacola.
ad The area of freedom is still exten
his ing under the judicious energy Of Co
,n- modore Dupont and his brave sallo
tb- Commander Gillis, who was sent
,,t blockade Warsaw Sound, some FIVE mi
ofI south of Savannah River, found that
am rebels had evacuated their strong bat
rs, ries on Skiddaway and Green Islam
rtv near by, removing their guns to pc
m tions nearer the city, thus giving us
Irv entire command of Warsaw and Ossab
No sounds and Vernon and Whining
tba rivers, important approaches to the CT
nL An intelligent contraband refus
,m from Savannah says that bacon and
ON quor are growing very scarce there,
tn. supply having been derived from 1901
on @ where's, where the Unionists have p
to session" The citizens are daily
me- pectine an attack, and are sending
NET their leash money" to Macon, ;
are threatening to burn Savannah
the they leave it. :,
H. Fort Pulaski has been invested
DO more than a month; the garrison has
\ I'd ready offered to evacuate if allowed
~ honors of war, but Gen. Sherman,
~ unchivalric person, as dead to the Fl
he. feelings as Gen. Grant at Donelson,
. nd cliued, requiring an unconditional
aav- reader.
80 Since the fall of Newberu, ia
ont ness has taken hold upon the peoplt
W Charleston, aud they call the n
o, Caroliaia3s towards, and refuse to
NV the money Of that State. Two Nc
- rad Carolina regiments there, finding
100 state of things unpleasant, mutin
ac. broke open number of shops and
- of whatever they wanted, refused to g
nost any longer, and were permitted td
rom home.
100 m From Gen. Burnside's departu
e ~ we have no news Of Importance.
,,;n Macon is invested, and some ST
nm have already been thrown into it..
II is said that some rebel Bombasts
49, summoned Gen Burnside to evac
.,as1 Newbern within sig days, and thai
sln. latter replied that he would call on
80 rebel commander at Geldsboro
rther Raleigh.
and Governor Tod to the Ohio Eoluntee
birds fi'tS1n h IL, 1n
ulsed Coho Ahes' ", nplii ioo., ~ ~
r;nc- Ohio troops engaged in the recent
armv tie at Pittsburgh Landing, Tenn: