Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-05-08
News of Tire w eek.

Gen. L. Wallace's Division has taken q
possexsion Of Purdy without opposition
The enemy's left flank had rested in that
town. iHiI
The bombardment Of Fort Wright con-
tinues vigorously. An engagement with the
Rebel feet by gunboats was expected, and
our Hotilla was putin line Of battle, but the
enemy has made no demonstrations
The correspondent Of a Cincinnati paper
gives the list of the killed, wounded aAd
missing Of the National army at Rttsburg
Landing, as follows: Killed. l.735; wound
ed. 1882; missing, $3.50. Total loss
l3,66l. t t.i3 s pin
Flag Officer Fsrrsgut, whoisin command
Of the Mississippi Squadron is q Tennes-
seean by birth, and is doubtless anxious to
visit Memphis. He married in Norfolk,
but cut loose all his social connections there
when Virginia passed the ordinance Of Sc
e~cssion, saying to his friends that he had
argued with them 40 long as argument could
avail, and now, having to choose between
them and his country, should bid them fare
well. .aI
The rebel papers report that our gunboats
in passing the batteries on their way 10 New
Orleans we're protected by bales Of wet hay,
impenetrabie to cool, and indestructible by
hot shot. They also state that the iron-clad
steamer Louisiana, Of % guns, the subject
Of many boasts, was bored through and
through, and sunk by our steel-pointed
cenical shot.
Gems. Denver and Sturgis, Of extreme
pro- Slavery, if not Of Secession sympsthies,
have been recalled from Kansas for the ar.
rest Of Colonel Jenuison,, which seems to
have been mainly caused by partisan preju-
dice.
Gen. Grant writes . iettor in self justi6'
cation, part Of which is published in a Gin
einnati paper, respecting the fearful Nation
q; loss at Pittsburg Landing. He speaks
Of his desire to do his duty, without respec
70 praise or blame.
Gen. Popefs corps has taken Bonneville
Miss, torn up several miles Of railroad, ant
destroyed two bridges. Bonneville is situa
tod on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, direct
iy South Of Corinth. Capt. Poorman'
company is in Pope's corps.
y 1t is reported through rebel sources-o
rather by dessrters-that Gen. Lowell, wit
the forces that no withdrew from New Oh
leans, IL terrifying at Grenada, Miss. Thi
Ii on the New Orleans Eailroad, one hun
dred miles south Of Memphis. II is not
probable story.
Rebel dispatches report that a portion Q
our gunboats have gone up tho river fror
New Orleans. This goes to confirm the now
Of the capture Of Baton Rouge.
There is great CONSERVATION in oil tn
towns on the Mississippi The rebels al
beginning to form some idea Of tho strengt
. Of the Government !
The Union people who were driven on
Of Fredericksburg by the rebels, and who's
property was taken, are to visit Washing
ton, to urge upon Congress tho importanc
Of Q ooniscation law. The Union peopl
of the Seeded States, who have been PEI
. secuted, robbed and oppressed, are una
mouiy in favor Of this measure, so far
heard from. II Is only rebol sympathiser
10 the loyal States, or conditional Unic
men that oppose Il.
Tho Nashville correspondent Of the Oh
cinnati Gazette states that rebel cavalryme
soms time since, caught q boy twelve yea
Asfsss,psa having tied him fast 70 . tire
ripped out his ~entrails with their knives.
His father was . Union man. Some Of Il
sayages, who have been thus proving thcI
selves more intensely internal than than d
imps Of hell, have been arrested u
brought TO Nashville by Woolford's Ke
lucky Cavalry. l
% The Texan invaders of New Mexico are
. bad way. Another fight has cccurr
bstveen them and General Candy, in viii
-; they were whipped. and the General
now out Of their retreat, 30 that they mi
Bartender, unless thcy 20 to tho mountai
: -'Ghsf6 bands Of hostils Indians would
- ls.llANishtsd 70 massacre them.
NJ .Thsss hundred and aAy loyal blacks b,
izbsss enrolled ~ Port Royal, by Gene
Hnntsf.
Gsssri Lowell, in command Of tho re
intscopgwhich fed from New Orleans,
native Of Boston, and has relatives now
siding in thas vicinity.
The Memphis Argus, once q aerce
Z ssssion sheet, bus now suspected Of lea
toward Unionism, d~cnounsss Beauregar
: humbug, aud own up that the N
Tsre dsfsatsdat Pittsburs,
d The question Of eonfscation is likel
sbexsy thoroughly discussed in both lie
sfCopcrss, during the coming week.