The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1862-04-30


,gain in few dayx She was aground the last
lay out Is generally supposed. Nothing 10 said
n Norfolk about the bursting Of gun, and it 10
loubtless Incorrect Capt. Buchanan is thought
70 be alive; he was wounded BY . rife shot in
he thigh. -rt
The previously reported engagement between
Burnside's troops and Georgia regiment took
place on Saturday. Our troops numbered 500 ::
The rebels we're the Third Georgia regiment IN
der Colosel Wright. The Eight Was on the Ca
nal. above Elizabeth City. The rebels lost Is
killed and IS wounded. II is said they run on
being attacked. They we're poorly equipped,
md lacked muskets and ammunition.
A refugee, Who visited Richmond last week,
states there are few troops there or at Norfolk,
having mostly gone to Yorktown. $4,000
troops, he said, passed through Richmond in enc
day for yorktown. One Of the refugees vas q
sailor on the steamer Finsal. He left Savannah
on March Let, and reports great CONSERVATION
there. The Fingal and other vessels in the har.
Dor. are ready to be burned or sunk. The troops
in the vicinity Of Savannah are dying in large
numbers. The city might have been easily ia.
ken at the time Of the first landing at Por,
Royal.
Detroit, April IS.
By orders from the War Department, the
Of the Commissary General of pri..
oners 10 transferred from New YORK to Detroit
Official accounts of the capture of Elizabeth
n. c., are received. Gen. Reno attacked the
place on the 18th inst. with 1000 men. The
rebels we're entirely routed, losing IL killed and
4s wounded.
Gen. Park is in command of the forces invest
ing Fort Macon.
A dispatch was received yesterday afternoer
which was afterwards, for some reason, ordered
The dispatch was to the effect thai
Gen. Burnside had received proposals. from the
Governor of North Carolina for the surrender o
the State.
Nothing has yet taken place at Yorktown
The rebels are reported loo, 900 strong. Wea
Their pleasant, and pre- parations for the siege 60
ing on rapidly.
We have no Intelligence from either Banks'
or Fremont's departments.
In the West things are also in statu quo
Gen. Mitchell is now in possession of 800 mile,
of the Memphis aud Ohio Railroad. Reinforce
ments continue to arrive at Pittsburg Landing
A skirmish between 500 of our cavalry and ,
force of rebels has taken place without advan
tase to either party.
General Bragg is reported to have transferred
the command Of Fort Wright to General Price
The Western rivers are all rising and much o
the country on the Ohio and Mississippi is inun
dated.
Advices from New Mexico rather indicate tha
the Federal forces there will he able to hole
their own. Important news ia promised by tn,
next mail.
Rumors we're currenl Yesterday that Secretar!
Welles, of the Navy Department, had been re
moved, and had been offered the position o
Minister to Spain, but dispatch from Washing
ton to the New York Post assures the public
that there is no foundation for the report
From Mexico We have news of the breaking
off of the conference, the Juarez Government
offering every satisfaction in the matter of claims
but positively refusing to listen to the idea of Z
Thereupon the French General had
determined to march on and seize the Mexican
Capital, but the English and Spanish plenipoten
Liaries, ON the other baud, had decided on tn,
withdrawal of the forces of those powers from
Mexico altogether.
New York, April IS.
The Chamber of Commerce has adopted O
to Congress, proposing the raising Of
$3.50, O00, 900 by taxation, as follows: From
ali sales of goods and merchandise and other
property at retail and wholesale, a tax OF one
per cent. yielding, your memorialis,s believe
he annual sum of SIG ,OOO, 900 from the tariff
The sum of $5O, 900 900 from an excise or ia,
IN cotton of two cents per pound A24, ZOO, O0(
rom an excise or tax on tobacco OF twenty
:ents per pound; 100000, 900 from an excise
Or tax on whisky, and other liquors of twenty
i've cents per gallon, $4,000, 900; from an ex
Use or tax on malt liquors of five cents per gal
on, $4,000, 900; from direct tax on real an6
PERSONAL property, 2,OOo,OOO-total 1864,
BOO, 900.
April 26th.
The bombardment of Fort Wright lie slowly
progressing. The rebels do not reply. Com
cote has asked to be relieved on account Of
lis wound received at Fort Henry, but the De-
partment, instead, has furnished him . second
a command, upon whom the principal part Of
he labor will devolve.
Another skirmish was going on, on Thurs
lay, at Pittsburg Landing. No particulars re.
:eived.
All quiet on the Potomac. General Lee il
.aid to command the rebels at Yorktown. In.
locations of serious mutiny in their camp i:
reported.
General Banks continues to advance. A
dispatch to the War Department speaks of hi.
orces having reached point nine miles be-
Tond Harrisonburg. This would bring then
within few miles of Staunton.
The bombardment of the forts at the mouth
If the Mississippi was still in progress on Sat
1rday last IT ia described by the rebels n
being terribly severe.
A large number Of eonfrmations BY the Sen
.te is reported, including Colonel Geary, as 9
Brigadier General. Nathan Reeve, Of Detroit
vas rejected.
The Seward-Lyons treaty ratified by the
Senate on Thursday, is for the more perfect
Of the slave trade. 1t provide.
hat either nation may search the suspected
Eessels Of the other, and provides further fol-
The summary Punishment of those found en-.
gagged in the illegal traffic
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