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into the scale, and open fierce FIRE. The leu
tenant is st the masthead with the signal officer
who tsegraphs with the men who work Porter,
signals, which are placed on the roof Of house
IN order to direct our FIRE. | also climb up t
the masthead in spite Of jack-b0ots and spurs
IN the heat Of the action the hslmsman forgett
to steer straight, and the Gslens runs ashore. a
dissgreesble thing, as, Immediately, tie enemy
covers the naigh5orh0cd with saarpsh5oters.
We st lSs! get off, and POrter's FIRE slac6ens.
I We thence conclude that the enemy is cepulssd
and fraternizatioa' with the "bue-iackets
/ takes place, in which participate. The gener-
/ al returns to his headquarters, aud we separate
from him. We then went to Fortress Monroe on
board gunboat, the Jacob Bell, which was sent
here with dispatches
FRom GEN. mcULEALAN,s ARmY.
Efs EF'is56raasSE irons EEaSTisOa's ESssdii,a z
From the New York Times, August l5.I
We have definite news this morning from our
correspondents with the army Of the Potomac
of the entire withdrawal of General MeClelan'a
/ army frem its recent camp at HerrisOn's Land
ing. At the tims our letters were written tie
evacuation wss in fall progress; and az the time
hss elapsed within which the first march was to
be accomplished, from the late camp to the
vicinity of Williamsburg, and as news has
ing of sny interference with General McCiellan's s
movement on the part of the enemy, we may
assume that it has been entirely successful, and
that all possibility OF hostile pjury TO that still
great army, isolated and Intellectual where it was,
is at an end.
! Our correspondents do not pretend to have
authentic information of the intended mode and
direction of this transfer of General McClellsn's
forces, and we shall propose no theory on the
subject when events viii SO swiftly enlight5n
| the country snd, we trust, sstonish the enemy
We are sstisisd-we are more than satisfied, we
are heartily rejOiced-to know that the splendid
army of the Potomac, tried in trenches, in
sWamps, IN chilling rains and IL torrid heats,
and seven times baptized in the blood of we'll
fought battles bafore Richmond, is delivered
from the jail-Yard Of the James river bank, and
is once more in the field and free to strike the
enemy where it will Ten thousand thsnksgiv-
ings for this
There will bs many sorry partissns, so poor
in spirit and patriotism, IS to see nothing in
this important movement, but good Opportu-
nifty for rejoicing over Gen. Mcclellan. So
early as yesterday, q city cotempoIary's cores
pondence, anticipating the withdrawal OF the
army, says: Il will be a complete confess
sion of the failure of the Psuinsular campaign"
We need not now discuss whether the cam
psign has failed or been abandoned to sslzs upon
better combinations that new forces have made
possible. Or if ths Peninsuiar campaign has
been complete failure" We need not now
discuss whoss fault it Is that it has proved So
The discussion involves facts that the public are
not officially possessed Of; and, if they had the
facts, they have not the leisure, nor the dispo-
Eition, now, to consider them. There is time
enough to gsther al the points, and to do ius-
tice to the living and the dead, before the events
of this war win bs needed to take their place in
history. Weleaye the personal aspects aud in
terests OF this great army movement, to tboss
who value them more than they do the good of
the c2nse, which is the safety of the republic.
Is our brave army safely Withdrawn from
the bank Of the James river7 II 50 a great vie
tory has been won. Talk of tho evscUshon of
Manassas as r successful piece of strategy
Any weak general, with an object to gain by
il, could strike his tents and fee away by raj
road, IS the rebels did from Manassas. They
had no enemy in the rear or on either flank; and
no enemy could get there without observation.
But Gen. McC5lian has been literally sur
rounded by the rebel armies. They have In
vested his camp, outuumbedDg him immensely
They have been daily, for a month, meuacing
his communications with his government and
threatening to cut of his supplies They have
boSsted that he was in their power and that his
army should never escape. 1t vas 10 be cap
tured or driven into James river to perish
Il has not persisted. I has not been harmed !
1t has marched out with banners flying, with !
yonet set, and cannon shotted Aad once
again its power is free TO be uphfted III battle. |
Such Is the resdIng Of tO-dsy's new
We now see the explanation of the recent !
demonstrations of our forces on the south side Of
the James. Il was to make tina enemy believe /
was threatened and induce him 80 I
send heavy columns of his Richmond army 1
thither The scheme succeeded, Next came 4
Pope's rapid advance upon G0rdOnsville. It was /
to induce the heavy reinforcement of StOnewalt /
Jackson from the masses at Richmond The /
scheme succeeded And then came the feint of I
hcClellan's advance on Malvern Hill. It was /
to alarm the weakened gsrrisons at Richmond .
with the fear that they were Immediately TO bs /
assailsd. They were completely deceived, al 4 |
while they were excitediy preparing to resist 4
MeClellan's expected attack, he was marching /
away to new and moro favorable fields Of con-
test.
This withdrawal of our army from Harrson's
Landing, if accomplished, as it seems to have
been, not only without loss, bRt even without at
Jack, we place above any other similar achieve
nent of the war, on either side, for wise concep-
ion and brilliant execution. AS for Richmond,
t is ever menaced from the east by our gun
boats, as long as we control the waters Of the
York and James rivers. So that the withdrawal
IF the army of the Potomac does hardly relieve
Eat all fJom its state of siege. And
while the rebel leaders still watch and defend
against attacks from those rivers, they will have
he disheartening knowledge that the heroic sol
iisry that so8ed the earth with their dead from
to Malvern's encrimsoned hill, is
oOse again to fall upon their front, their flank,
,r rear, or wherever wise generalship shall
shoose to hurlit
Tbs amount of the grand march OF the army
IF the Potomac is this, that inasmaeh as General
sIcClellan's rsinforcsments could not well 90 to
lim, he has come TO his reinfOrcsments. Oar /
army is now unit-iis forces are joined. and
IRE as one body. governed by one head; sad
hat head is General Halleck. The nssion's
military progress in the past month has been q
miracle Of energy aud succsss, land gives fouada-
ion tor the most ssnguine hopes Of patriots.
From san FranoisoOo
SAN FRANCISCO, August I5-The ship Sea
mans Bride has arrived from Australia, with
.wo hundred passengers bound for British Co
umbia.
The United States quartermasteT had just
paid hundred and fifty thousand dollars in
gold to a San Francisco wO0lfsctor for army
clothing supplied to California volunteers
The Supreme Court has denied q rehearing in
The Broderick will case, so the question whether
'he will was forgery cannot be judicially IN
AUGUST I6-A block of wooden buildings in
Grass Valley was destroyed by FIRE on the night
1f the 18th, in the neighborhoOd of the Ex-
change Hotel, which escaped. The loss was
over $20 600
AUGUST I7.-Arrived at 9 o'clock this morn
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