, 1862-05-05
Beauregard's Intercepted Dispatch
Reads $4,000 Men,
ACERNAR REGIMENT DESERT FROM
THE REBEL SIDE,
Great Sickness Among
Our Troops.
The Enemy Still at Corintf.
Our Army o1l'>the Move.

CAIRO, may l. t
Gen. Strong has established 4 military mall |
between Cairo and Gen. Hal!cck's army at t
Pitt6bnrg Landing and intermediate points. !
This will afford business facilities for citizens
to the upper Tennessee.
To-day several steamers have arrived from |
Cape Girardeau and st. Louis, with troops
and supplies for Gen. Halleck-
Dir. Melen, chief clerk Of the Treasury De-
partment, arrived last evening from Tennes-
zee, whither he lsd gone to establish Custom
houses and Surveyors, preparatory to resnmp-
tion Of fconlnlercial intercourse. Proper officers
were appointed at Pittsburg Landing, Swan
nah and Paducah. Hc leaves for Columbus
and Hickman tomorrow on a similar erTand.
The steamer Admiral arrived from Fort Pill
low this morning, She reports nothing par
ticnlarly important in that direction. The
bombardmept continues, as heretofore, at r.
regular intsEyals: carried on By mor1ars alone.
The fort batteries do not reply, save when
tug more daring than her consorts steams
around Craig-hcads Point for the sake Of
drawing the enemy's fire, and asccrtaining tie
location and range Of his guns. Shot then
| fall around her like hail, sometimes in alarm
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| siticns indicated in previous dispatch.
| Gov. Haryey's body WAS recovered about
sixty miles below Pittsburg Landing. 1t was
]rst discovered by some lads who informed
negro woman who drew the body out Of the
stream, and after riling the pockets Of three
hundred dollars, watch, pencil, &c, buried
it. The facts coming to the knowledge Of
Afr. Singleton Of BIRTHS Landing, he caused
the tody 10 be cxhumtd, and By dint Of 1nil1-
| eled promises and threats obtained the yalua-
blcs and papers. These fully establishing its
identity, hc sent them, with the body, to the
Major Of tie 10th Wisconsin, at Pittsburg, by
the steamer Lady Pike. The body arrived at
Cairo this afternoon on the steamer Lacrosse
und was received By Perry A. su1ith Of Ap
pleton, and his brother, J. 8. Harvey Of Chi
cago, both of whom left this afternoon fol-
| Chicago with the remaius.
Tic steamer uiawatha arrived from
Pittsbur5 Landing early this morning
and brings the body Of Colonel Ey
c1ett Peabody Of the 18th Missouri
killed on the morning Of the 9th ult. It is il
charge of Major Faoiap, his private secretary
Tic remains were taken to St. Louis this al
! tEII0OI1 HAtte 44ItoS4ut. AoueAaA Sc40AiAo[A~
will be had, and then shipped to his friend
| in Boston.
Tbe uinwatna left Pittsburg at 3 ocloc]
| Sa:u1duy morning, reports thai on Friday
! Ten DAYS 1atioas and ammunition were seryel
An advance Of the entire army was ordered
: Thursday evening the pickets of both arnlie
$ we're so near that the so}disrs exchange
= canteens It was the opinion Of officers thi
1 fight would occur to-day.
: The Gadiator, which arrived about noo'
"a u reports that 500 Of MorglEns Cavalry ha
!. crossed the river below SaI4nnah, aud we
VI advancing upon that point. Reinforcement
u had been demanded aud Gen. Hal'eck hi
:. sent them just before the Gladiator left.
Id There is much sickness in the army fro
le the effects Of climate aAd water.
The Intercepted cypaer dispatch Of Beau,
gard to JEFF Davis should hare read eight
al six thousand nlcn instead Of thlrty-s
thousand.
II Thrre are rumoss Of the capture Of the fl
- and third Kentucky regiments in one Of Q
reconnaissance expeditions, but they are I
= credited.
~ The steamer Shlngiss arrived from the ii
t1lb EfEAAAE1 OHk 1AAiEo bO iAlEA
10 She carries the usual quantum Of rebel
AZ strtcTs-
~ Seven rebels taken from the vicinity Of
he ducah and one hundred Of Beauregards arn
lbs captured By one Of our reconnaissance part
~ ~ we're brought down the river By the LaCro:
~. A gentleman who sr7ived on the Gladia
F i from Pittsburg says that day or two si
ion Ehi1e Gen. Pope's division were maxim
rs reconnaissance towards Coriuth as they nea
in the cucmy's line, Gernan Confederate II
ed. ue1,. impressed into the rebel service at n
'ar, Orl.ans, b1ukc from their ranks and ran
N. a. the Federal column. Four hundred succs
the ed in ttIecting their escape, and arc now
ks, roll. d in the ranks Of the Uniun army
ant The steamer Black a4k has Just azri
,r1 from Savannah with $50 SICK and wounded
lor- lneis troops m route for S.. Louis. The
the ports Of suffering Of our soldiers there are
ter exaggerated. When the Black Hawk ar1i
tore ,le found eleven hundred sick and wount
ses. of whom FIVE huud1ed were ulinoisans.
4ect ! cnty-dye per cent. Of these are wounded
LATEST.
md, CAIRO, 10 p.
oa The following dispatch was received f1t
and ptiyat. source from Pittsburg Luading:
4 r. P111sBURa, MaJ 4. ls6o.-Affairs movs
alter slowly to-day. Gen. Hal1eck is aTangtn
Col army 80 that everything moves with
aceo utmost System and regularity.
The divisions were moved from the re-
N. the front to-day. The enemy's plckets q
,e Sd sight, but for day or two there has bes
onn- sl,r,nieh Of moment. Tomorrow Gen.