, 1862-05-22


rear guar d is very strong Gen. Mcclellan tel
egraphed that the rebels had been guilty of most
barbatUus conduct in placing torpedoes in aban.
doned works and at wells and springs, near the
flag staff, in carpet bags and barrels Of -four.
PrrTsBURG LANDING, May L.
In the affair at Pennington on Saturday, Gen.
Pope took 200 or 800 prisoners, pieces Of ar
tillery, and several hundred muskets. The fight
lasted three or four hours, and was sharply con-
tested on both sides, threatening to bring on a
general engagement Divisions and brigades
were formed in line, and general call to arms
was made. The rebels finally broke, and fed
in confusion.
The Heralds dispatch is fully satisfied that
the road to Richmond is opened and the rebel
army Of the East utterly routed. The Times's
dispatch says the main road Of retreat up the
Peninsula is close on the bank of York river,
which will bring the rebel army in range Of our
guuboats, that are conducting Franklins trans
ports to the rear. The division doubtless will
he able to intercept the rebel retreat from them
and give them battle or surrender. Mcclellan
las transports sufficient to forward 200 900 from
Yorktown to West Point Immediately, and it
will not he surprising il he captures the bulk Of
the rebel army and takes Richmond in week.
WAsnNGroN, April 6.
The N. Y. Timess dispatch says the French
Minister has gone to Richmond to assure the
rebel government that the Emperor don't recng-
niZe them as power among nations. England
and France, by recognizing them as belligerents,
did all that could be expected on the part Of
neutral goverI mrnts, and that continued HOSTILE
ties by the threat ned destruction Of cotton and
tobacco crops would only he q wantOn injury
to the commerce Of the world, iIjuring France
and England even more than the United States |;
that resort to guerrilla warfare, as proposed
when their armies were destroyed, would de-
moraliEe society and be simply a return to bar.
hariSm. The rebels have heen admonished,
therefore, that cessation Of hoStlities is duty
they owe to themselves and to the world and
which all civilized nations will Unite in requiring
Of them. .-.
-... CAIRO, May 4.
A refugee from Vicksburg, Miss, who LEFT
Memphis on Tuesday, says: t" The particulars
Of the fall Of New Orleans have been received,
and produced great CONSERVATION. Vicksburg,
Natchez, and other places we're entirely deserted
Most of the people have fed Into the interior"
The rebel gunboat fleet arrived at Memphis on
Tuesday and Immediately went up 10 Fort Pillow.
The Memphis papers don't believe FarragutS
feet will come up the river that far.
The steamer Wright was fired into on Friday
night, six miles below Savannah, Tennrsses.
FIVE soldiers were wounded. The Inhabitants
were notified that the town would be burned
on a repetition Of the occurrence.
NEw Yong Mav5
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