New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-05-27
Get Mt Work bridging the ChiIseahorniny
Lincoln 20 Draw q Compromise Line
through Richmond onirabanes Com
ing ina Freely.
Corrrsy oGdcnce Of The \. Y TTbure.
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Cores yoGdence Of The X. Y. TTibure
THis SIDE B0I1os BHpCy UFos THK(
CHCxAHosisr ghundsT Nay I2-l0..s :
Tie ax.mon OF the MassaChufe and the Maine
regiments are making the Chiekahominy swamp ring
with strange blows and stranger hilafity. new
and better bridge than ever spanned the Chcka-
hominy, viii be finished probably this forenoon.
Last evening, Gen. Reyes waded The river and adj
yanced TO the peach orchard and tho monumental
oiiimney-s, about which Death on the Pale
Horse" has lowered for two dave, covered with "a
slouch hat. Tie General advanced lie piclets mp to
Ills point before be left, and when be returned
were in military possession Of a high plateau Of
wooded land overlooking the swamp-fiDged Chicka-
honiny, and constituting position Of military
strength far superior to anything az Williamsburg
position strong by nature, aud 20 susceptible Of
being fortified, thai We are plunged anew into won
der at the strategy which has abandoned it, as IL pre-
yiously abandoned the almost impregnabe Yorktown
line, and the line at Williamsburg. What do the
Rebels dol What have they got2 Certainly, there
ale no Alps in Lower Virginia. What IS there, to
which this Rebel army draws us, by its succe,sive
excavations of strong-holds, aud It's oycr-deberate
and orderly rctrea,sl
Prisoners are brought in, and tie negro teamsters
VINO have tired Of tie mules Of Secessia come IN in
hungry and weary plstoons. They all represent the
enemy to be shout eight miles his side q Richmond
70 be from 10 900 20 10000 sirong-iha, all around
Richmond ID a circle of Notifications, with guns in
pOniion-that nearly every house IN the city con-
iains sick sodlers-that fresh troops come from
North Carolina and from different parts OF Virginia.
One man, an oyerseer of large plantation owned
by widow, and in whose bebalihe OF course sought
a guard to-day, ACKNOWLEDGED under Gen. Reyoss
searching examination that II took four bours for the
division Of Rebel artillery that went this way to
pass his mistress farm line. AZ the Secesh bat
ierios move, this measure would give them about
100 guns on tlis march.
The line OF ioTaging by the Rebel army in its
re,reat was from two 10 three miles WIDE on both
sdes Of the road They cleaned mp pretty thorough
ly as they went, partly for their own wants party
20 ,!pprive us Of subsistence. The stock Of edible
pouty has utterly disappeared, aud there Is danger
af extinction of The breeds Vi domestic fowls; ior
won meet. about every house and barn, little chick
ems. ducks, and turkeys bewidered III their search
for mothers long since toasted ond eaten by soldiers,
WHO Won can swear were enlisted IN New .iofk and
phladelpha, and never enjoyed Gods DiessinS oil
beinO peimitied 10 live on farm.
Iwo of the negro team5teis who came IN 10
Keyess headquarters ths morning. gave M the roa
sn Of their flight, their hehet oil The story curret
among the Africans in Richmond, that " Lincoln
,vas coming dar right off, and Was gwyne 10 draw
I,ne frouoh ri chmond, and was gwyne to tase all
de- brsek ueope Norl OF dat line, and let de Rebels
have all dem Souf Of IT. and and dls boy tolSht
we would get on de Nori side OF de lino. Ana
there are a great many thousands OF white virgin,
aps that should be made TO hurry over 10 Tue No1i
do of de line" aud would 100. II tie political SEN
tirnentg and military policy which fire Gen. heye'
governed the administration Of the war.