Union County star and Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1859-1864, 1863-07-28
Good News.

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Johnson's giving up Of Jackson. and
retreat eastward, throws into the Union
possession 40 amount Of railway stock
engines, &C., which the Rebels confess l.
= great aud irreparable loss to them.
Gen. Banks officially reports the trophie.
of Port Hudson, at $500 prisoners aud
two Generals, 81 heavy guus, 5 batterie.
Of 5 pieces, a good supply Of pr'j cities
for light and heavy gus, 5 600 stands Of
arms, Al, 500 pounds Of poxder, l5O, 600
rounds, two steamers, and small amount
Of stores Of various kinds.
Com. Porter reports extended aud en-
tirely successful expeditions up the Red
River and its branches, capturing men,
guns, boats, and ammunition, and inter.
cep'ing the supplies Of Rebel forces.
Gen. Foster has been successful, from
the South, in severing connections leading
towards Richmond. Q
July 2Oth, at Newbern despatch from
Besufvr, says the Union forces have com.
pleIe possession Of Morris Island, which
commands Charleston in f.ct.
Protected by guDboais, weekly Daviga-
iion for trade is now to be started between
Cairo and New Orleans.
A Union cavalry force advanced and
cut the Railway At wythesviIle. Va, with
some losses, men and women firing upon
them from their houses, which we're then
destroyed BY our force.
1t is believed that Rosecrsbs will now
attend 10 the Liberation Of East Tennessee,
working from the South.
Meade aud Lees armies are in motion,
and it is claimed that Meade has obtained
positions tha, give him the decided advau-
tage of Lee. Any day, We may hear
sg.in the shock Of arms between the two
forces.
Saturday, the Rebels we're at Port
Royal, West Of the Blue Ridge. but their
cavalry was driven from Manassas Gap.
And tie C",perheols Of Tie North
are Gecominy Uery tume-they discard the
Cupperhead badge-somc Of them have
euiisted-they "tslk happy" about the
Union triumpbs-aud let US hope at least
to see them all turn patriots, and thus
sooner stop the SHAREHOLDERS Revolt.
S% Open resistance to the draft is con-
fued, iu New York State, to the purlieus
Of vice aud ignorance, where they vote
almost unanimously their sort Of Dem.
Ocracy." The country generally want the
Rebellion crushed, aud act accordingly.
10 Auburn city, there vas on immense
procession, . crowd, music, cheers and
huzz.s for the &" Draft" tn. Uuiou," Old
Abe, Gen. Meade, our recent victories, &c.
10 Mffliu, Columbia county, Penn's,
and 10 Falls, Wyoming county-two towns
Overwhelmingly Copperbcad-excited men,
misInformed by wicked leaders, armed
to resist the enrolment, but
we're cooled of. by the show of sufficient
force OF lawful men with weapons in their
hands.
10 Philadelphia Councils, the Copper.
heads tried to stop the draft by laying .
tax to buy of the whole number required.
But the War Democrats and the Kepub-
licans united in putting that down, aud is
sppropriatiDg . handsome sum to the
families of drafted men who may need aid.
D@-Tbe Southern Wings were almost
opposed to the Rebellion,
but some of them fell into the current.
Their last candidate for Vice President,
Hon. Wm. A. Graham, has published 10
that old Wing organ, the Raleigh Regis f,
Ter, strong article against Secession as a
wrong under the Union, but an obvious
right under the Confcderacy, aud that the
Cnion bad never hurt North Carolina
while the Confederacy was exhaustipg it
Of men, money aud property. John A. |
Gilmer, Bedford Brown, and other lead.
ing men, agree with him in opinion.
There are said TO be Thousands iu West
North Carolina who stand out against The |
),f. Davis Government, de6An.ly, SYM
10 feeling (aud will 10 acticn)
Silb all the Mountain region. When
sst seen BY our forces, the State A'g !
instead Of the Conf derate) VAS q ing ss
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