Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1862-05-30
H4LLECK FOER NILES FROM
CORiNTH
roRr WRIGHT NOT EVACUATED.

| FORT WRIGHT NOT EVACUATED.
Toe Captiins Of the steamers plying b.
{ tween Cairo and the dltila report that there
are over thousand refugees below New Ma
drid, and the banks arc lined with them,
begging t. De taken North.
Dcscrters from the rebel camp a. Corinth
a week ago. report that Bcaurcgard had
. lO3 .OO0 men Sd 00O Of them being held as
a reserve under Breckenridge. The rebels
are suf rin- greatly from sickness, and aa
average Of 600 daily are being sent from
camp over tine Memphis and Charleston rail
road. All the houses along the road are
I used as hospitals. Beauregard IS continually
| among his troops, making them speeches,
/ urgIns. and making every effort to encour-
are them. Ills troops are subsisting on half
rltion~. Salt beef o! miserable quality is is
/ sued oa,e d week. Ride pits around Cor
| NTH command all the approaches to the Mo
| bile &c Ohio railroad. The rcbels are max
/ in extraordinary Efforts to obtain heavy
guns. ol which tney acknowledge they have
a poor supply.
: dcsratch from Gen. Ililleck' headquar-
/ tegs on the 22i, says there was considerable
diminishing over our whole lins wednesday.
/ In every case the enemy was driven back
with "A LOSS OF about 10 killed and wounded.
Our Joss Is about the same.
On tie 2lst, Col Crook, in an expedition.
seized the telegraph Office at Covington.
where he learned from dispatches that Jack
soa was about sending several regiments IRON
4 vt-hn ka al
yanccl 20 the Virginia Central Railroad at
Jackson River Depot, driving large rebel
force before him. burning the railroad bridge
ten miles from the depot and capturing 4
noted guerilla, Capt. Shriggs and his men,
while passing through Covlngton, without re-
,lstanc, lie found rebel dispatches in the
telegraph Office at COvingtOn TO the effect
that the rebel military movement in Green
BrIer and Mercer counties had failed, and
that the Union sentiment prevailed. Sever
al prominent secessiOnists were arrested anil
the whole movement has greatly strengthen
eI -hc Union cause IN these counties.
In the engagement at Princeton. which
va, captured by the rebels aud recaptured
hy Gsu. Cox, we lost about 30 killed and ~
wJunicJ. y prisoner reports the enemy's
los, double OF treble that number. Our Of
i.er, and men behaved admirably.
Pensacola adyiccs state that the rebels be-
-i.r~ burning 5he Navy Yard, burned all the
steam saw mills, thus destroying the only
means oi Subsistence Of hundreds.
lively, wounded Vt. soldiers have arrived
atN. y from White House, Va. Rinaldo Hood
Of the > Regiment, Co. E, Alpheus Parker.
COTE. Oliver Hancock, Co. c, W. Is.
STILES c.. B. and W. II. Banker, Co. X.
81 Regiment. Elliott Bcurn. Co. \, and
Benjamin RYAN, Co. +, 4th Regiment
Alonz, StOusht1n, Co. c, Anthony Pelky,
Co. e.. 9TH Regiment Henry Spaulding,
c.. X. G'I. Bailey Co. B, and George
Evans c.. q, of the 9th RegIment.l
Ev old.r ol the President Of the UnitcI
States, As Ssrgeon j. Is. Butler, {. ;. 4.
j. hereby stricken from the rolls Of the army.
Brig. Gen. c. F. Buckingham, OF L.. 5.
Volunteers, il assigned to special duty IN
War p r.-tment. from the lst inst, as
CHmui-sIv General OF prisoners and COM
naming g.fccrs having charge Of prisoners,
VIII, a, -l1a ,- practicable, forward 10 that
Office i,s;, oi prisoners, showing their rank,
regiment, where captured, date Of confnc-
IN en; and where confined.
Uuy army has been within four miles Of
Coriuth for several days. Some skirmishinE
had taken place, bus the enemy did not secm
inclined TO attack.
\ tug nj down from the fleet to recon-
noi,rc was ired or from Fort Wright We'd
ucs lay evening. Subsequent demonstrations
by the gcbc.s prove they still occupy the
place.
rle rct.. lie, has disappeared, however.
rwJ oi our m1rtars opened fire on the Fort
" cdncsiay noon, which was kept up at in
crvlls Of five minutes until six IN the even
NJ. The hrins was returned three or four
lines by guns from the rebels either from
he iortiicitiJn or from their mortar boats,
heir she'll bursting wide Of the mark, and
ljiuc NJ damage.
IL is asccrtlined from an authentic source
hat the expenditures Of the government,
.om April, 1851, to the present time, have
Tot averaged a million per d ".
Instructions from the Treasury to the col
o.t0Is, in accordance with the Presidents
.rJc,ama,ion, opening the ports of Beaufort,
'Jri oyal and New Orleans, have been Is
uai.
,assdu dates Of the llth, state that soma
hirty re5.l vessels were there awaiting the
srmlnati,n OF the war, preferring inactioa
D certain capture by the blockade squadron
Tho, they say, have efscually scaled tho
Juthern ports.
The President and Cashier OF the bank Vi
be Jaion az Nashville were arrested Thurs
~ by order Of Gov johnson, on the charge
treason. The town of Pulaski has!becn
,scsscd for twelve dollars and sixty-eighs
.nts by the Provost Marshal, to compensate
Union merchant; for goods seized by Nor
ans troops.