The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-05-07
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interest, many importaut movements beins
on foot, with bloody actions occurring in tn,
field. But the War Department at Wash
ingtOn having scaled the, telegraph, the
news we get is from such various sources, sc
round about In its channels and so discon
nected, conflicting and inexplicablo in some
of its parts, that We feel real embarrassment
iin attempting a summary.
The most interesting movements of the
week are those of Hooker, who has crossed
the Rappahannock and been fighting Lees
forces for several days. The actions were
said to be very hot and bloody, with very
heavy losses on both sides, but so far as vel
reported without decisive results rumors on
one side giving the advantage to the F eder-
ais and on the other to the Confederates.-
1t seems to be admitted that Gen. Towards
corps, OF Hooker's right wing, was badly
handled and severely worsted by the rebels.
A great variety ofrumors are afloat, favor
able to Hooker's success, such as his having
gained important positions, destroying rail-
reads in Lees rear, &C., but they are not
given as reliable; and we suppose another
week or more will intervene before we get
such veritable intelligence of the actual
state Of facts and the results of the fighting
as the candid reader should accept as reli-
able. However, we copy the very latest,
from New York. May 5. giving very inter-
esting details, to which the reader will give
such credence as he may think they are
worth. ''''
More boats have passed Vicksburg going
down, with the view it is supposed of as
cendiDg the Big Black river which runs in
the rear of the City, and forming combined
attack with Grants land forces marching
around from above; but this calculation ap-
pears to have beed baffled, at least for a
time, by the repulse of the Federal gun
boats at Grand Gulf after severe struggle.
Banks is reported to be successfully over
running Louisiana, having occupied Ope-
lousas, and at last accounts was moving to-
wards Alexandria, towards which General
Kirby Smith was said to be concentrating
his forces. r
The Confederates are said to have been
again driven out of Missouri into Arkansas.
The upper Ohio, from the Kanawha to
hands of the Confed crates, and great excite
ment is said to exist at Wheeling and Pitts
burg for the safety of those cities, as we'll
as of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.
The Federals are closely besieged by
Longstreet, at Suffolk, Virginia, but are said
to hold a position, protected by swamps, the
river, and artificial works, impregnable to all
assaults except starvation.
Pegram's cavalry force is now said to be
driven back into Tennessee.
No general battle yet between Rosecans
and Bragg, each General seeming to be
maneuVering to force the other to come out
of his intrenehments.
Nothing new from Charleston.
For the rest, we must refer to the dis
patches copied from New York, Cincinnati
and 9th er papers.
P. S. After the foregoing was written,
yesterday evening, a rumor was afloat in
this city, based on an alleged telegraphic
dispatch, that Gen. Fitzhugh Lee (son of
the great Rebel General1 had bsen wound
ed in the foot, which had to be amputated,
and taken prisoner, with ten thousand men,
by Gen. Stonemen of Hooker's army. We
only give the rumor, because it is current,
leaving the reader to believe as much of it
as he pleases. Our own impression is, from
all the accounts we have seen, and from
what we see stated in Federal newspapers
of the suppression of news by the govern
ment, that Hcbker's operations in Virginia,
will result, if they have not already result
ed, in a signal failure, but that the true
state of the case, either way, will not be as
certained for week or two to come.