Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-06-13
NEWS mATTERs.

on copies OF all his orders, letters and
dispatches for the 10 vessels of his fleet,
thereby economizing time and labor,
avoiding errors.
A private despatch has been received
by the president of the Chicago Sanitary
Commission, from Cairo which says that
Gen. Mitchell has won another brilliant
victory at Chattanooga, Tennessee. The
enemy was completely routed, after two
days hard fighting.
All the correspondents, writing from
the battlefield of Fair Oaks, speak en-
Enthusiastically of the calm bearing and
unfinching courage of Brigader General
Thomas F. Meagher and Brigadier Gen
eral Daniel E. Sckles.
A gentleman who has just arrived al
ST. Louis from Corinth, and is conyersant
with matters there, says Gen. Buell., with
10000 troops, embracing two divisions
of his own and all of Gen. Pope's forces
were at Guntown, in hot pursuit Of Gen,
Polk's rebels. The railroad between Co,
rinth and Columbus KY, is being re-
paired and will soon be in running order
again.
Major General Burnside and staff
reached Fortress Monroe, ON Tuesday
morning, having come through the Albe-
marie and Chesapeake Canal in the small
gunboat Port Royal, leaving Newbern
on Saturday. The Port Royal came
through both cuts of the canal The
lower one, connecting the Currituck and
Albermarle Sounds, had been obstructed
by piles and sunken vessels, and the pre-
vOus arrivals by the inland route have
avoided this cut by traversing the whole
length of the Currituck Sound, The
progress of the Port Royal was consider
ably delayed by the Instructions, but
Gen. Burnside succeeded in blowing them
up and opening the canal Norfolk was
reached at midnight, and after communi-
eating with Gen Viele and procuring a
pilot the Port Royal came to Fortress
Monroe The object of Gen. Burnside,
visit was to have important communca
tiOns with the government, and having
sent dispatches and received replies, he
will return.
Henry Clay, grandson Of the Sage o
Ashland, and son of him who gave up hi
life on the battlefield of Buena Vista
died on the 5th inst, in Louisville, of ty
phoid fever, contracted in the camp, H,
held rank in the United States Army a
Captain, and was serving as aid to Gen
r. W. johnson
Dispatches from the NJ ountain Depart
ment state that the advance of Gen. Ere
lnont's Division pursued the Rebel
through Harrisonburg, on the 9Th. TIL
New Jersey Cavalry, under Col. Wyshan
were ambushed by the Rebels and ii
skirmish lost thirty-fye killed, wounde
and missing The infantry reserves aftel
wards drove the enemy back, but poi
tion of the Pennsylvania Bucktail Reg
ment was outaanked and suffered very S,
verely
Paymasler Wise, of the gunboat aotill
publishes II card in the western paper
in which he says; have paid the who
expense Of the llotila from the first, al
including the cost Of the gunboats, The
equipment, the purchase Of several larl
steamers, pay Of officers and men, and Il
accumulation of a vast amount of materi
got together in hurry, and with all Il
disadvantages of forming navy in Il
far West, our whole expenses do not til
far cover three millions of dollars, and '
have hardly debt unpaid. Our e
penses are now about 81 so, 600 per mont
making $1,000 per day"
On Monday morning General Shield
forces, near Port Republic were attack
by Gen. jackson, and after four hou
hard fighting fell back to the main bo
of the army. A large quantity of rel
SlOfeaJ luuuu at NlllOIu anu AOuIu
store, we're destroyed by Gen. Shields.
The heavy rains have somewhat interfer
with the commssarat arrangements.
European dates to the lst inst, ha
been received at Halifax by the Airit
The French army at Rome is to be
duced to single division, Lord p
merston is strongly opposed in the
trenchment question by the conseryat
party. The Turks are reported to ha
gained a great victory at Montenegro.
The U. S. Consul at Paris gives not
that no more applications will be receiy
from foreign officers for commissions
ahe Federal army The British goveI
ment will dispatch two vessels TO ma
further surveys on both sides Of the A
lantic for the telegraph cable. The sh
Sue with turpentine, having run h
blockade on the coast of Georgia, vi
passed by the Africa of Queenstown