Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1862-05-09
THE NEWS

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progress of the war.
The important position of York.
town, Va, which the rebels have sc
long held, and boasted their ability to
hold against all the force of the Union
has been taken, with fifty pieces of ar.
tillery, and an enormous amount OF
stores. The loss is terrible one to the
rebels.
-. Glocester Point, is also taken by
our forces, with seventy one pieces of ar
tillery, and large quantities of ammuni-
; tion, medical stores, tents, camp equip
age, &c. The enemys retreat was a
panic stampede.
THE Union armies are closing in
upon Richmond, with the certainty of
fate. The rebel Congress has caught
the infection of the military ':skedadd
lers'' and .sevacuated the capital. The
Richmond papers are very severe upon
the cewardly act.
Savannah is announced ss hav-
ing determined to surrender 10 the
!. Union army now approaching the city,
d 1t is, doubtless, in the possession of the
Union forces before this time
The announcement Of the cap
ture of rebel battery within twenty
four miles Of Charleston, S. c.. shows
the progress of our troops in that di
rection. Doubtless the proud capital
of the great empire of South Carolina
will soon be occupied by the hated Yam
KEGS
Gen. Burnside has taken posses
sion of the Dismal Swamp Canal, at
least, so far as to prevent its use by the
rebels, thus cutting off that means OF
!, communicating between Norfolk and
Albemarle, and Pamlico sounds.
e --- Gen Pope's advance Division
encountered force of five thousand
rebels at Farmington near Corinth, on
Friday, and routed them The rebels
aed in utter confusion, leaving their
tents, camp equipage, &c, and thirty of
their dead upon the field.
.--- If the hosts of rebeldom do not
fy fromtheir strong gholds a tCorinth, they
will be routed from them at the point
of the bayonet within the next few days.
Nothing can save them from utter de
feat. ae
Another great battle has been
fought on the banks of the Rio Grande,
in New Mexico, in which the rebels
were defeated A few weeks ago the
rebels held sway throughout the Terri
tory Now the power OF the Union is
irresistible there, and the traitor hordes
are completely mastered. The war in
New Mexico is about ended.
---- The capture of New Orleans is
fully confirmed The correspondence
between the Naval Commander and the
Mayor of the city will be read with
great interest This is the most humil-
iating catastrophe which has yet befal-
len the conspirators, and it must have
the effect Of opening the eyes of the
Southern people to the utter hopeless
ness of the cause of the rebels
The CONSERVATION throughout
the South is truly fearful. They feel
as the guilty ever do, that they deserve
the penalties due to their crimes, and
the closing in upon them, the irresisti-
BILE power of the Government, which
they SO wickedly, and SO boastfully
aimed to overthrow, has struck them
with such panic as was never before
known in history.
Ia The rebel gunboats recently
built, and building at New Orleans, and
which JEFF Davis assured his, followers
were to sweep the Mississippi. have all
been destroyed to prevent their falling
into our hands, This is terrible blow,
as the means which the Confederates
had been able to extort or to steal, had
been expended in the building and
equipping of them.
---T The rebel steamer Bermuda,
laden with forty two Thousand pounds
of powder, large number of cannon,
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swords, pistols, and other military
stores, just captured by our Navy, is
another terrible loss to the rebels. 1t
is by far the richest prize yet ia ken
during the war.
se---4Another of our Naval ships, the
Santiago de- Cuba, has captured the
rebeIship Isabelle. laden with Enfield
rifles and cannon from England, des-
tined for the use of the insurgents. and
also several other vessels with valuable
cargoes. thus cutting off the supplies
rpon which the conspirators depended
for continuing their reasonable war
upon the Union.
The capture of Fort Macon re-
stores to the Government another of
the stolen forsifcations, with Fifty can
non, twenty thousand pounds of powder,
alarge amount of shot and shell, FIVE
hundred stands of arms, large store
of provisions, and four hundred and
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