Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-06-04

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James River. The Galena is much dam
aged, and will have to go into the dock
before she can again go into action.
A deserter named Henry Church, for
merly of Fair Haven, Mass, came into
Heintzelman's camp and reports l5,OO(
rebels sick in the hospitals at Richmond
Gen. Nagley's Brigade has driven the
rebels from a position nine miles from
Richmond, which is now far within oul
lines. Our loss is one killed, and six
wounded-two very badly.
New York, May 30.
A Washington special to the Post a
A large number of members of Congress.
went down to Fortress Monroe this morn
ing on an excursion.
The news from Corinth is received will
much enthusiasm, and it is believed thai
Gen. Halleck's cautious movement.
through an extremely difficult country
are about to be crowned with success. II
is thought that Beauregard has beer
obliged to retreat because of a stoppage
of supplies. When Com. F~arragut's fleet
got up above the mouth of the Red River
of Texas, the great source Of ~Beauregard's
supplies was cut of, and as our fleet adj
vanced up the Mississippi the region from
which the rebels could draw food for theii
great army became daily less, so that the
position at Corinth became gradually but
surely u~ntenantable.
A Fortress Monroe letter says:
Our feet in the James River has been
increased by the gunboats Occur de Leon,
Stepping Stone, and Island Belle. They
have been up the Appomatox river to
Fort Walthall, which is five miles from
Petersbnrgh.
There were no defences of Importance
on the river as far as they went.
Deserters report a strong under current
of Union feeling in Petersburgh, and great
suffering from scarcity of food. Flour
seventeen dollars per barrel scarce and
rising.
There are only 5000 troops at Petersburgh
Our forces have held communication or-
erland with Gen. Burnside.
Nav York, May 80.
The Commercial has the following copy
of a letter from q merchant in New Or
leans to a business friend in this city,
The writer is a large stakeholder:
NEW ORLEANS, May 15.-Gents-We
have now passed crisis in political affairs
in this city. Most of the time Unionists
and patriots have been victims, and suf-
fered in property md business, and still
in feeling under the most vindictive
persecution. Our city is destitute of eve
ry thing. 1t is useless to expect any
thing like q safe business or personal safety
in any part of the slave States unless the
whole country is held by military occu-
pancy and military power. One third of
u population must be expelled from the
country and their places supplied by
Northern colonists. 1t will take years to
subdue the proud despots and overthrow
finally this tyranny which has always ruled
absolutely wherever slavery exists.
l have lived here for forty years. /
know almost every one and something of
everything that is going on. l think
there will be n fine opening for commerce
here. New Orleans will be a greater cen
ter OF business in future than heretofore.
Ny property is lying idle. am making
nothing by my business, and am
losing the revenue of ordinary times
Our currency is useless for all business
purposes. We hope Gen. Butler will COM
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soon, and scatter the Confederate trash
to the winds. l repeat there must be n
strict military occupancy of this whole
country for years.
The population must be changed and
slavery abolished before peace and safe
ty can be established in any part of this
country. The old pirates and buccaneers
have only been driven ashore from the
Gulf by steam power on the sea. They
have hastily multiplied in numbers and
increased in v~illainy by the change.
WASHINGTON, May 80.
The casualties in the Cd Massachusetts,
regiment, in the retreat of Banks army,
are Q killed, 43 wounded l63 missing. In
the lst Maine Cavalry , officers and II
rank and file missing. Killed and wound
ed unknown. In the 10th Maine Infant
8 wounded.
John NJ. Brodhead, of the District of
Columbia has been appointed by the Presi-
dent n of the Commissioners under the
act for the emancipation of slaves in this
district.
Seven rebel bushwhackers have been
tried by the Federal authorities in Boone
county, Missouri, and sentenced to be
shot. Gen. Halleck has approved the
the sentence, and it is to be hoped that
the rebel desperadoes will be made to
swing.
The news from New Orleans is several
DAYS later, and shows that Gen. Butler
is still administering martial law among
the rebels with spirit and success. He
has suppressed the more violent news
papers, taken the management of the
Delta into the hands of the United States
authorities, sent the contumacious Mayor
of the city to prison, affixed a disgreceful
punishment TO secesh woman who insult
federal soldiers, prohibited the use of Con-
federate shinplasters, annulled JEFF. Davis
fast day, ordered the banks to bring back
their specie, and made the Consul of
Netherlands toe the mark for concealing
confederate property.
Gen. Banks having been reinforced has
driven the rebels back, and retaken Mar
tinsburg and Front Royal. At the latter
place there was a short fight in which the
were whipped, a number of prison
ers taken, lS of our men who were taken
prisoners were recovered.
Fifty students and two Professors of
Reserve College, Hudson. have
rendered their services to Gov. Tod for
military duty in the State. and have been
accented. As this takes the major Dor
ton of the students in attendance. the
has suspended for the present.
Horace Greeley oficiated for Rev. F..
II. Chaplin. Mt the Broadway Universalist
Church, in New York, recently. Horace
for many years has been a member of that
DIR. Chains health is reported
very precarious.
Senator Wilson stated on Saturday that
there are COG regiments in the field
About a half a million of men are SUD-
posed Ia be fit for duty A bill has been
offered to raise the army to 100000 men.
WooL.-Some small lots of wool have
commenced coming in. although
III farmers have not yet clipped. 1t sells
at from IS to "a cents, according
10 quality. and may reach even a higher
ignre.- The clip in this county promices
10 be unusually large this spring.-Jfsr-
rer Pa Dispatch.