The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-07-23
TEE WAR NEWS.

Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, he was inter-
cepted near Burlington Island, while pre-
pairing to cross the river into Virginia. He
was there confronted by overwhelming
forces on his front, rear ard TANKS, and nearly
all his men captured, the remainder dis
persed, and they still liable to be taken as
stragglers. The details are however so con-
fused, that we forbear copying them, con-
tenting ourselves with this general sum-
mary, until we receive accurate and au-
thentic reports.
Port Hudson was surrendered to General
Banks with z, 900 prisoners, on the 9th.
The process of paroling the captured at
Vicksburg, numbering thirty odd thousand,
has been completed. Gen. Sherman, with
heavy division of Grants army had march
ed eastward and occupied jackson, the cap
ital of the State of Mississippi. What ohm
ston, the Confederate commander is about,
is not clearly developed. He will probably
"turn up" soon, if Sherman makes further
advance into the interior.
The position and Movements of Bragg
are again enveloped in some mystery. One
rumor sends him towards Kentucky, to con-
centrate in this State with Buckner and
Preston, while another reports him heading
for Georgia. What the truth is, let the
reader guess for himself, for we can't assist
his conjectures.
Charleston has again become a point of
great interest. The Federals assaulted the
Confederate works on Morris Island, Qhe
outermost defences of the City, and carried
all but Fort Wagner, which they were con-
fideut of reducing also. If this be effected,
we may soon after expect to hear ola grand
mbined land and sea at attack on Charles
ton, Fort Sumpter and other defences, the
Federals expressing themost confident hopes
of success; and indeed Charleston paper is
reported to have admitted that the last hope
of saving the city rests in the bayonet.
The crossing of the Potomac by Lees
army, was q great surprise to the Federal
Commander, NJ eade, who expected to have
caught him on the northern bank near
Williamsport and fought the decisive battle
of the War. But Lee successfully achieved
the passage of his main army, with 1000
train wagons, losing only brigade of his
rear guard, some 1 500 men captured. Lees
moveme nts are not clearly defined, but he
is supposed to be going up the Shenandoah
Valley, with view of covering Richmond
and resuming operations on the old theatres
of war in Virginia. Meade has also crossed
the Potomac, lower down the river, and has
the advantage of shorter march than Lee,
to gain any point in Eastern Virginia either
may desire possess. The ultra eastern press
are already muttering dissatisfaction at
Meade for having allowed Lee to escape
humiliation, rumors are abroad that be is to
be superseded by Grant; but this is not
probable.
The anti CONSUMPTION riots in the North
and the reported discomfort with the Con-
federate government in North Carolina,
though not regular military operations, are
nevertheless arked features of the War
Sew eral days of terrible riots, attended with
all the usual and horrible consequences of
/ mob violence, murders, arson and many
shocking barbarities, were passed before the
disturbance could be quelled. Similar riots,
though of less magnitude occurred at Brook
Ign, Yonkers, Troy and other places in New
York State, Newark, n. j., and Boston,
Mass. They have all been suppressed, and
the government is proceeding vigorously
with the process of drafting. On the othe
hand, j eff Davis, as if unappalled by the late
disasters to his arms, seems to gather either
courage or desperation from reverses, and
has ordered out the. entire able-bodied
population of the Confederate States, be-
tween the ages of eighteen and forty-fve;s so
that we have still before US the horrid pros
pect of an indefinite prolongation of this
bideous war.
P s.. We understand that telegram
was received by private hands in the city
yesterday, corroborating the news of Nor
gan's defeat, and reporting, further, that the
Federal forces in Virginia had intercepted
Lees progress towards Richmond. AS to
this last, the reader has seen the same state
ment, in effect, so many times heretofore,
that he will be inclined to await further
proof before attaching much credibility to it.
Our own impression is, that though Lee re-
tired from the tn eatre Of operations in Penn
sylvania and Maryland, the advantageous
results of them IN the end will REM ain with
him. 1t certainly was not a decisive vic
tory, if a victory in any sense, for Meade;
for Lee retired with the main body of his
army, without loss of artillery, with very
slight loss of trairs, with far greater trains
than he took in the advance, his enemy
failing to pursue in his track hnt andeaHnr.