Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1862-05-06
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THE WAR NEWS.
OPENING OF SOUTHERN PORTS.
Important Southern News.
Free Passage Of the Mails to New Or
leans aad other Captured Ports In the
South.
APPOINTMENT OF A COL.
LECTOR NOR NEW Or
LEANS.
Another Union Victory in
A.s Tennessee.
THE MERRiMAC OUT AGAIN.
News from Yorktown.
Tho Evacuation CeAsi idored Con-
plete.
FEDERAL GUN BOATS ON THE
YORK RIVER,
Gloucester Occupied by the Fed
eP0l Forces.
FEDERAL GUN BOATS ON THE
YORK RIVER.
Gloucester Occupied by the Fed
eP0l Forces.

From Yorktown.
PHILADELPHIA, Nays.
The Enquirer has special dispatch from Fort
Monroe giving the following psstaoulsrs in regard
to the evacuation Of Yorktown:
OSR MILK BEYOND YoRKrowx,
Sunday, II o'clock A. n.
All day yesterday the rebels kept up hot IRE
on Gen. I'orteE's division. No ono was hurt.
Our Parrott guns at Farnholt Court House 90.
casionslly answered them. All last evening and
up to midnight heavy firing was kept up. Abous
that time their FIRE slackened consider and ct
2o'ciock stepped altogether. We fred one or two
more batteries At them, but got no answer.
About three o'clock this morning . building 81
Hsintzelman went up in balloon aud found that
it vas their store-hosse st Yorktown wharf. At
daylight they reported the forts empty.
Att o'clock We occupied Yorktown without Z
gun being fired. Of the guns Of the enemy, near
~ all remaining, were spiked and Lismounted.
Of aDmunition. powder, balls. shells, etc.
Eighty guns were in Yorktown, which is sur
rounded by . smi-circle.
The earlnwo were ell constructed to cover
one another in every position, but they must have
eventuAily yielded could We have got around
tn. m.
The gun wc dismnunted the other day killed
and wounded four rebels.
The isrt had been occupied by the 1st Battal-
lion of New Orleans Artillery, the 9th aad Both
Alabama Regiments, the 10th and l4,h Louisiana
and the 18th and 18th Georgia Regiments These
and left the fort 1t midnight. rear guard was
lett, who waited for our appearance AMI then re-
tired in the greatest haste.
Two deserters who left their regiment in
Williamsburg OF daylight, say tho whole rebel
army WAS in . panic.
peoH hall nj nvod
their rear guard 1t A. NJ. to be four miles west
Gen. Mcclellan Immediately ordered out the
artillery and cavalry, and is pushing after them
at full speed.
All our gun-boats cams up at . o'clock and
landed eome marines 1t Gloucester, who raised
the o. S. flag amid cheering that could be heard
across the RIVER. The boats eli then left, and are
now running up the York River, sheling the
bank on both sides.
A number of mines had been prepared for our
troops, by placing percussion shells under the
ground in the road ways an entrances to the fort
No whites we're to be found, and only q few ne
gro women and bxbies.
The town was squslid and filthy, and few days
Of warm weather wsuld have brought on Testi-
lenre.
An abundance Of bread, -four. and . large guam
tity of meat, salt and fish were left.
All the tents were lett, but no horses or wagons.
II ports concur that the rebels consist Of mob
Of about 100000 men ili-fed, dirty and disheart-
ened.
The road from Yorktown to Hampton, on which
ve encsmped, was guarded BY Fort Aagruder,
mounting large number Of guns, part of which
were taken away and part spiked.
Some OF their works were we'll built and we'll
laid out, while others were wtetched contriyances.
The work upon them was finished on Friday
night. and the slaves cent to the rear under guard
5 The rebels leave nothing behind IN which they
can make stand.
Their camp fires all along were the same %
usual. The dense woods along the Penninsula
enable them to leave without teing lesn by the
balloon.
Tue large guns Of the rebels were mostly CO.
lumbisis taken from the Norfolk navy yard.
Some Of them have been recently mounted.
Tho fort fcations. although Of the roughest
character, were very formidable. being surround
cd BY deep gorges almost impossible to rass, 90
that If that was likely to fail, To would have
time to extricats his army from the peninsula and
ge. them into Richmond and out Of Virginia, that
otherwise they would al be caught.
The coachman represents that Mrs. Davis said
that the Coatederacy was about played out, and
hst if New Orleans vas really taken she had no
loHgsI aoy interest in tho ms tier, as all she had
was there. That it VISA great pity that they
had ever attempted to hold Virgioia d tho 9TH
er non-cotton growing states, and that she said
to mrs. Dr. Crimes, dssghrer Of COL Jas Taylor
U. s. Commis.ar Of Subsistence, who wsa
very anxious to get to Washington where he has
one Of her children, not to give herself any
trouble, but only to stay where she was, and when
the Yankees came to Richmond she could 60.
The co4ehman says that Mr.. and Mrs. Davis
ed, and ready move of that there is much
outspoken feeling in Richmond. That, having
been . waiter in . hotel there, he knows sil the
Union men Of the place, and that the Yankee.
are looked upon with much pleasure moro BY the
shites than even the eolored people.
~ r>A>~ - Nnw Oh ~ - y h
avoided. Mrs. Davis herself wss refused when
she offered ten dollar Confederate note.
Many Of the Richmond people wish the Union
troops 70 come, - they are half starved out.
The bank ana Government property il Ill pack
ID mp for removal 70 Danvlls, near the North Car.
olins lioe.
Gen. Johnssn did not think that they wovld
succeed 1t o,ktown. The Goodman cverh card
the rebel officers say that il they fail at York
towa and New Orleans they would leave Wiz
ginie.
Hsn. b. NJ ao.ton:
/. Our csyalry and herse artillery came up with
The enenys rear guard in their intrsnchnent
ahout miles this side Of Williansbnrg brisi
6xht eniusd. Jast - my aid lett, Smiths divis.
len Of Infantry arrived on the grounds and 1t il
psesumed carried his works, Though l nave no,
yst heard. The ensmy's rear IL strong. bat
have fierce enough up there to insure al pUrpo-
e. All along he lines Of their works prove q
have been nos. formidable, snd an nov fally
settled Of the correctness Of the course l hsvs
parsuel. The success u brilliant, and You may
rest assured that its effects will b e the creates,
Importance. There shall b 10 delay in following
The rsbsIs hsvs besn guilty u the murdsroul
and bsrbarous conduct in placing tospedoes WITH.
in the abandoned works, near wells snd springs
and nesr hAsstsGs, nagasin-s aaA sslsgrspa ON
ces, in carpet bags, barrels of Aoer. Ia. fostu
nstsly - hsvs not lost many men in this naa'
~. esns OF killed and pslhaps dosn wsnn
lel shall make the prisoners remove them d
their own pssil. loigred]
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