New-York daily tribune., 1862-05-05

lively but the thick large trees prevented much loss
of life, though several Rebels W fall. We
lost but three men, Tonseley Lucius Carpenter, and
Louis Wood, all from Co. A. Capt. Walbridge. In
all the fighting and skirmisbing since leaving Fortress
Moure, the I'd VT. ha. not had man wounded, bus
| five have been killed outright
RECEPTION OF TIE NEWS IN THE CITx. :.
AtI! O'Clock yesterday afternoon, we received
the telegrans from the Office Of the Asbocs'eo
Press, and a. precisely O'Clock we had summoned
our pressinen and compoors, raised steam to orivo
cur immense printing engine, and thrown OIL An
EXTRA TRIBUNE with the glorious news. The pa
per was seized by thousands and spirited away 70
the flIthest limits of the metropolis. NewSooys
sang even more cheerily tnan is their wont when
stirring intelligence Las been flashed over the wires;
and the public, eagerly, and with as much delight
as was expressed by the boys, caught up the sheets,
and based TO spread the long-expeeted and patent-
ly-awaited news OF the day. AT O'Clock IN the al.
ternoon the fall Of Yorktown was made known IN
Harlem and Westchester. The intelligence was re.
ceiyed with hearty cheers. Like demohstratons
were mace in Brooklyn, jersey City, and through
ont the city's enyirous. There was, however,
neither exploding of cannon nor raising OF iiags;
ard this truth may be regarded as additional evi.
d.nce Of the general desire to possess circuSsan'
,i.l account of the movements Of Gen. Mcclellan
before ndulgng in boisteroas indications OF JOY
There was talk OF illuminating the city tonight,
should the later ds atcEes of to-day not bear uaings
OF reverse.
LETTER FROM MAyOR-GEN. MCCLELLAN TO HIS
WFE-sCENE AT THE TIFTH-AYENUE HOTEL.
The ruElor current, yesterday afternoon, that
Mrs. Maor-Gen. Mcclellan bad received Telegram
lnom her husband, announcing the occupation OF
Yorktown by the forces under his command Re'
cardu it as quite within the region Of the possibilties
that ito dispatch 10 MI. Mcclellan might add some'
thing to our meager stock of information concerning
the evacuation OF the Conieders,es stronghold, aud
viewing as important everything which might throw
| light upon the iaconc bulletins from the War De-
part uea we instructed reporter 10 visit the F1'th-
Avenue Hotel, and reqaest copy. 10 his requess
be received this satisfactory reply:
DEN Mcclellan, dispatch merely .ays that we are b
Yours d., ELLEN MCCLELLAN"
1t was thus rendered clear that there was at that
1 ltime-Sunday evening-no avenue through which
| the public might gather the minuter and more in.
teresting details of the movement through which our
soldiers have gained possession of tie enemy's
ground-the General clearly being too busily en-
gagged in following up his advantage to indulge in
lengthy epistles. IL was, however, . source OF
gratfcaton to know that the truth of reports from
the War Department was doubly confirmed by
private dispatch from the General, for at that time
the later and fuller dispatches to the press had not
not reached the remoter regions OF the town.
At the Fifth Avenue Hotel an eager multitude
thronged about the clerk office, and filled the cen.
tral halls Hundreds demanded the latest news, and
other hundreds induged in extravagsnt specuatious.
Every one interogated his neighbor, and each de-
sired every other mans opinion; but the responses
afforded no relief TO the general anxiety, and the
clerks invariable answer to the thousandth-time-
reiterated question, - ls there nothing further from
Yorktownl" was, There is nothing that Las not
already appeared in the extra editions by the news
papers"