Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1862-06-10
Geu. nesursgard,s Army.

aieu. nesnregard's Army.
Through tho enenys papers, wO have their
accounts Of q falling back by Con. Beaure-
gard at Ccrinth On Thursday morning, the
2ylh, the enemy opened cannonade upon
Gen. Bssurcgaris lines. They report having
driven our troops from their advanced works.
ua the nsxt day the enemy entered Ooriuth,
and found that tien. Reauregard, was gone they
knew not whittier, ani had been gons several
iays They We're already miles away doubt:
less, while uur Iuns.tuT enemy on the >rfs-
vioua day ass shooting his hlg' guns at nur
8Lahla!Ied ontiuRrhu.enls, And driving our
| men 0ut
I.rsrega,d, Price, Engg, Van Dotn, are
nntnes that will rolnmand the confidence Of
cur people iii any course they may dstermine
uron The retirement from COrinth was un.
usstinhahly t,r coed reason and has moral
10 il that 1lll doubtless he understood after
aWhilr. Aud It as most admirably executed.
| The enemy 1cle firing st our banks OF dirt,
and killing rcbclI in thoir imsginhtons, two
Jays, it is hcli;vcl after our lruly Was l0r
away.
| Commenting On the noWs, the New loi6
Herald" OF the 3st u,,, under tho head OF
he Situation, says
Tie ejaculation Of UOtath ty the rsh, !
army, undcl General Bsauregard is announced
officially by General Haleck, III a despatch
received al the VI ar department yesterday
e7vaing. Tho Tu,rthSninth Ohio Regiment,
the advance guard Of General Popes brigade,
entered tho cltya low minutes bcftIr heran
o'clock yesterday morning. and planted tho
| Union hag on the dome If ths Court housc
Inc cnemy had abandoned tho plhc, previous
ly. The last d. play oI resistance they msde
was in responding TO The batteries VI ienei 81
'.ipe on Thursday m,"rnIhE, id NC AnInnnaed
| ycaterd:y.
To what paint tho rebel. hsy. rftieAtsd
| rgInsins up 10 This liilr, uhrerthia. RuMOrs
, are s,al that iieA,IrcgarL has InaLo q march
| upon Richmond to 1n General Johnston, It
| ia possible that ilu may have been forwarding
q pol lun uf his !uIra, in small Godiea IL that
| direction TOR sUne lima pbSI; but it Is quite
probable Ii III The main lJrce III hs army is
still in Tho vicinity of Corinth, at some picnt
on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. In one Of
| his dst patches 10 The War Department Gen.
Hallerk says ,hat tie enemy are evidently in
strong postum some four or five miles south
Of Curinth, OH he Mobile and Ohio Railroad,
and tha: hu lllilleck) anticipates Il INK
moro men; !,onl B,aureesrd.
The fcilo.i-. is frcm tie Harali's editorial
Oh the same sui ject
Inc news Of the evacuation by the rebel al
my und.r BIaurcgard OF their stronghold Of
UdIinth, created III this city yesterday quite a
bIe.Ze oi excitement, and every variety Of
speculation aud conjecture ns to the present
dusisns and plans Of Jefferson Davis and the
.losrtrien1 Of thoir armies
Tic prevailing idea as, that if Bsaureg7rd
ilad abandoned Uorinih it " as hscal.sa he .s:s:1
lralsi .rred large proportion OF his army 10
R CiIlend. There is, too, some plausibilltY IN
this lneoIT, ii we NAV Judge from recent
even,E End revelations in Virginia. Whlo Gen.
McClel.an's powerful army is close upon Rich
uoud snd ia steadily and Solldly approaching
! nearer from ,:n7 to day, VIC Ind that the rebel
csfsrs in liza. 'lilarler nave contrlVetl fIot only
Ia maIn,aD All lie Appearances in trnni OF O
superior opposing irrce and OF bn impendiDg
desperate struggle for their Confederate
Capital, but that they have also contrived to
reinforce very heavily The columns OF jackson,
Eu e.l, .lohnsen and other rebel giierillas among
the m1untairs Of Wrstcrn Virginia and the
Shenandoah.
Another report says that the rebels arc fall
in. back to Okolona; but the latest news by
| telegraph does not sleni to confirm 1t. How
ever, as Inc strategy Of the leaders OF he ro.
beIlion has hecn all through so mysterious, il
would not stem strange il such vas the fact.
Okocns, 10 which place Beaurcgart is re-
ported to hasn gene, IS stnaIl station on tie
Mobile sud Gaia rsilruad, siAtY-sevcn miles
south OF Uornlh, md two nuElTcd and sixty
one miles ncrth OF Mobile. About ten miles
south Of Okolona, al West Point the hash-
3iilg and Jackson railroad leaves tie lile
oi tho Mobile auI 'lo taIiroai, aud
runs southwlsterly to Canton. Mississippi, q
lew luilcs north oi Jackson. The only Sd
vantage Ia lie obtained Li the occupation Il
tks prstlr ~ that tLc:o alu tSh roads lead
ing snuth"ard tE,'..I II -"ne Ia AhhIle, Anl lis
9th er to j 4cksou.