The Alleghanian. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1859-1865, 1862-06-05

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81, in which he says: ''The eneny's po-
sitien and works in front of Corinth were
! exceedingly strong, aud he cannot occupy
"a stronger position in his fight. This
morning he destroyed an immense amount
Of public and private property, stores,
wagons, tents, &c. For miles out of the
] town the roads are filed with arms. hav-
ersacks, &C., thrown away by his flying
troops. A large number of prisoners and
deserters have been captured, estimated
by General Pope, at 5000. Gen. Beau
regard evidently distrusted his army, or
he would have defended so strong posi-
ton. His troops are generally much dis
couraged and demOralized. In all their
engagements for the last few days, their
resistance has been weak
a dispatch from Cairo, dated May 3
says A Memphis refugee, who left
Fort Wright on Tuesday last, arrived to-
day. He says the rebels have l, 800 ar
tillcrists garrisoning the fort, and that in
consequence of the scarcity of COAL most
of the rebel gunboats had been abandoned,
and the guns taken to Fulton and Fort
Randolph. A strong pontoon bridge has
been constructed by the rebels near Fort
| Wright, over which to retreat when ne
cessary An Arkansas refugee arrived
from the fleet to-day. He says Little
Rock, the capital of the State, has been
captured and is now occupied by the Uni
| ted States troops; that what citizens re-
naming were decidedly loyal to the Uni
| ted States Government. The Arkansas
State Legislature had decamped on the
appearance of the Federal forces. Gov
ernor Rector had fed from the State, and
is now in jackson, Miss Vicksburg had
surrendered to the Federal fleet, and the
gunboats were going up the river to de-
mand the surrender Of Memphis, which,
he says, is entirely unprotected and al
most deserted.
A special dispatch from Harper's Fer
ry, dated Saturday, May 81, says: The
llth New York Militia has arrived here,
but refused to be sworn in, much to the
disgust Of their commander, Colonel Moed-
hoff. The men stated that they wanted
to 80 to Washington. Major Bower, of
Gen Saxtons staff, addressed them as
follows: "Those Of you willing to ac-
kr owledge yourselves towards here in the
face OF the enemy, step out of the ranks
They did SO, and were ordered to leave
and pay theirown way back to New York !.
But few remained at Harper's Ferry
Gen. Saxton rejected the whole regiment,
saying that he did not want towards in
his command. 1t is German regiment.
We have the intelligence of another
terrific engagement before Richmond, in
wl1ch the rebels were completely routed.
Gen. NJ Clellan telegraphs to the War
Department, from the field of battle, as
follows s'We have had desperate bat
tie, in which the corps of Generals Sum-
ner, Heintzleman and keyes have been
engaged against greatly superior numbers.
Yesterday, Saturday., the enemy taking
advantage of terrible storm which had
flooded the Valley of the Chickahominy,
attacked our troops on the right flank
Casey's division, which was in .he first
line, gave way unaccountably, and this
caused temporary confusion, during
which the guns and baggage were left,
but Generals Heintzlelnan and Kearney
most gallantly brought up their troops,
which checked the enemy, and, at the
same time, however, succeeded by great
exertions In bringing across Sedgwick
and Richardson's divisions, who drove
back the enemy at the point OF the bayo-
net, covering the ground with his dead
This morning, Sunday the enemy at
| tempted to renew the conflict, but ao0s
eUe,y,chere repulsed! We have taken a
great many prisoners, among whom are
General Pettigrew and Col. Long. Our
loss is heavy, but that of the enemy must
be enormous. With the exception Of Ca
sey's division, the men behaved splendid
ly. Several fine bayonet charges have
been made. The Second Excelsior made
two to day During the conflict, Prof
Loves balloon was overlooking the terri
BILE scene from an altitude of two thousand
feet, and rendered invaluable aid in tele.
graphing tie movements of the enemy
This is believed to be the first time that
balloon reconnaissance has been success
fully made during battle, and certainly
the first in which a telegraph station has
been established in the air to report the
movements of the enemy and the progress
of battle
The latest news from Corinth state that
the enemy succeeded in carrying away
everything except few provisions, which,
with the warehouses and railroad depot,
were burned before we arrived. They
took every invalid from the hospital and
every letter from the Post Office The
rebel Notifications were seven miles long.
The rebel rear guard under Gen. Bragg,
10000 strong, marched southwark at
midnight. Citizens positively assert that
Beauregard was there in person and left
with the rear guard. Our cavalry found
all the tents of the enemy standing, took