, 1862-07-24
WASHINGTON, July l2.
NnscELLANEOUs IrEsrs.

The Navy Department is officially informed
that Oh the 10Th Of June, gunboats 7ehdmd and
Somerset crossed the bar Of ST. Marks river,
Florida, and drove out q company Of Rebel.
The artillery, four or five Held-pieces, was after
wards landed, aud this force burned the RS
and barracks. The Somerset captured the
schooner CUrlew of Cedar Keys. The same
vessel also surprised a steamer loading with cot
ton at Dead Mans Bay. Before she could be
reached the crew burned her, t.-N.
The correspondence of the New York Herald
says: Rebel prisoners say that long before the
evacuation Of COrinth, troops from Beauregard
began u arrive at Richmond, and continued to
arrive steadily until the evacuation took place,
by which time tiny thousand had arrived. Sub.
seluent to that event. twenty-five thousand
more came. All these were the flower Of Beau.
regards army. Gen. Lee had the chief com.
nIand in the late battles.
The New York HeraFS correspondence, dated
james river July 9th, says "Our arniy Is now
massed on the left bank Of James river, along
space Of five miles, where we are comparatively
safe The Rebels are maSsed between the Chick.
ahominy aud the James rivers-their from to-.
ward aud pressing upon our rear, their right
resting on RiehnOndt where The main body Of
their army rcinains. Their len extends down
toward the Junction, two nIes from our position" y"
Col Sheridan, with little over seven hun.
dred cavalry, was attacked by parts Of eight
Rebel regiments numbering 1900 men, on
July LIST, near Bonneville, Miss The Rebels
were defeated and driven back, after seven hOu 8
fighting. The Federal loss was forty .one killed,
wOundCd and missing. The Rebels leit sixty live
dead Oh the field.
The Richmond Dispatch says: The British
steamer Modern Greece, while going into Will
mingtOn, N. T., on the 9Th Of June, ran ashore.
She had q thousand tons Of powder on board,
which was wet to prevent explosion by the
shells Of the blOckading feet The Federal ves-
sels were unable to reach her in consequence Of
the proximity Of Fl Fisher."
The New York World gives a statement from
trustworthy Union man, recently from Atlanta,
Ca that the spirit Of the South Is utterly broken
and had the battles bsGnre Richmond resulted in
Confederate defeats, the rebellion would have
been crushed. He also says that comparatively
little cotton has been destroyed, as the planters
do what they can to save il. lie adds that the
wheat crop is an utter failure. If corn also
fails, famine will be the fate Of the South.
Captain Mcfarland. Of the lO2d Pennsylvania
Regiment, having been taken prisoner near Fair
AXIS by party Of six rebels, who who carrying
q wounded officer 10 the rear, very politely Of.
lered to pilot them through the bushes, and
carefully brought them around among our own
PicketS The summons "WhO comes there 7"
was answered by the Captain, "a friend with
seven prisoners"
Col Isham N. Haync has been elected to Con-
gress from the Ninth District in Illinois by o
plurality Of eighty-twO. Col. Hayne is said to
be Democrat. But his success is to be re-
ferred to the fact that no served calamity In the
battle at Pittsburg Landing, and received wound
which untitled him for further military service.
He succeeds Gen. John A. Logan, now in the
service.
There is no doubt that the career Of the pirate
Sumter is closed. A letter from the TIssarOra,
dated April llth, states that the privateers de-
serted in numbers when they discovered that
they would be receiyedon board the TasoarOra,
aud CaptFin Semmes was compelled to discharge
almost all his men and abandon his inglorious
career W.
There Is strong movement progressing
among the shopkeepers in Canada to drive the
British shilling out Of circulation. They have
resolved 70 take that coin for only twenty.louF
cents, and they have received promises from
the banks that al that are deposited shall be
sent back 10 England
Itisascsrtained that petitions for remuneration
l0F the liberation Of ,078 slaves N the District
q Columbia have already been 6led, which is
an Increase upon thu estimated humber Of one
thousand, snpPossd " Be owned IN ths District
Cssn. Allied Bocklsy, Of Raleigh Court IIOasO,
wCslVrn Virginia, who OOmmandSd . RSbVI