Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1862-05-10

umus this morning. The battle 81 West
Pain, on wednesday ls said to have been the
hardest ys. fought on the Peninsula The
,.sDenv were totally defeated and routed.
ese ssEt OF the rebels are reported 70 have
crossed the James river and escaped.
ne manoavres Of TIE feet At Hampton
Roads were kept up briskly yesterday, but nc
RQht wss had. President Lincoln witness
Cd he movements from a tug.
Gen. Halleck's army Is said to be within
4 two miles Of COrinth.
! Our Epsolal dispatches give interesting
particulars from New OFlssna
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5saa,a izAs strutesy upoH the James River.
The news which we publish this morning
from Fortress Monroe win be read with the
greatest interest Our feet at that station,
sfter q long season Of inaction, has walked
INTO an activity which promises great re-
salts. The country has been excusably i'm
patient 70 see our navy-NenitOr, iron Ga
lsaa and Naugutuck, with numerous gan
bos,s, ocean steamers and wooden wsr-ships
kept apparently cOWed down by the Aerri-
mac and 1t has often been asked why battle
~ not given at once. But all in good time
alths work VIII be done, for it is in hands that
know what is to be done and how to do It.
Tia dispatches Of the lest two days indicate
thsf he aset has not been kept back BY the
isNerrlmac, bat By the hand Of the General
who kept it in reserve until Just such an
snsrQsnoy should arise ss now presents
issif The rebels were compelled 70 dee from
FoIktOWn. 10 prevent them from reaching
.Rishmond undiGturbod, a whole division had
ba kept for weeks upon transports ready
st half an hours warning 70 steam after and
pasI them, up York river TO West Point
Vshass their retreat could be stopped BY de-
glzoying. the bridges and opposing foroe in
thsir rsar. They risked aght ct Williams
barrsnd were defeated with great loss They
ma retrsst again. Bat where Should they
ro9 # toward Richmond, the way was block
Cd by brave troops upon land and gun
beats In York river, as well Is BY the
huroDeots of NcDoWelPs advance upon
that city. One other course was
oDsa foF them-to Cross Ohickahominy
river, (which runs nearly parallel with James
river from above Richmond until it emPties
into the James about ten miles west Of VIII
Hansburg) destroy the bridges and ferries
behind them, and then at their leisure
soros TIE James river and 80 retreat into
.Eorth Carolina This they could DO, the
James river being efectuhlly-as they
sapposed-guasded BY the Nerrimac. Here
a6psarS the gsneralship which kept our
49, ssla ~ Lss-s-s-WSeKs. IL was strEsssy-
70 give the rebeis the belief that the Nerri-
mac held ct bay our feet that they might
thereby cross the Ohicahominy. But the In
-os,1t tbat tbev had hirlV done So and
.therobT given ue um6 % bsfs4gtuSu VuF
AMY at West Point, We have tidingS that
ne Galena has run the blockade, and with
other gunboats, gone up the Jsmei river,
while the Monitor and Others Of the feet re
main to fight tne Merrimac. The Galena is
tha new iron-olad boat built ct Mystic
Nothing which the rebels can bring out,
s5lde fom the Merrimae, can compete with
her. The tables are therefore turned. and it
.i5the Gslena, and not the Nerrimac, which
e master Of the situation. Had the block
.ads been run before, the rebels would have
-aEoidsd the James river in their fight aud
.procipitatsd themselves upon our advanced
force on Yosk river, and perhaps defeated il.
Nov We are doubtless ready for them there,
ard although they will be forced to fight at
OF nsar West Pointer their only road Of
.ssoaps lies nearer Yo.k than James river
6sy viii be met by q force which Will re-
pulse and defeat them. The strategy is con-
plste, and the results viii be glorious to our
army and tle General commanding.
LATHG.
Since the above was written dispatches
show that the programme is being fully car
risd out. A fght has bsen had at West
Point in which the rebels were defeated with
great slaughter. We await anziOusly for
further particulars.
kssaVhile our navy at Fortress Monroe
hbusy. The Monitor, Naugatuck, DacOtahl
Seminole, susquehanna, San JacintO, and
Minnesota, ell steamed forth to give battle to
the Nsrrimac should she dare to show her
Sslf SeWalps Point was industriOusly
1heIled, until dense smoke indicated that
thsiF works, barracks &C., had been fred
Ths Nerrimao finally appeared, when the feel
LEFT the field TO the Monitor, if the former
should stack her No attack had been
made ct our last adviees.
An Is working we'll. Thsre is no mac
ton now, no ''quist" in the Potomsc Army.
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