The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-30
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New YORK, April %. Advi ces from Port
ROYAL, S. c., the Goth, state that our troops
are being conveye d 10 Folly island and HAWAII
and that North Edisto is occupied by a conside
rable force. The troops on Folly island are in
trenching. Five Of the Monitors are at North
Edisto and two are at Port Royal. The IRON
sides remains off Charleston. The Monitors
have been filled with shot and she'll, and in eve
ry department the utmost activity prevails.
The Washington Star of yesterday reports a
battle at Cheat Mountain, Western Virginia,
in which the rebels were badly beaten and
driven back.
Further advices from Port Ropal give a re-
port that Charleston will agan be attacked May
Sd, when the spring tides occur. All the Mon
itors except Weehawken had left Port Royal.
The health Of the troops was suffering some
what from warm weather. Rebel desertets re-
port that new distractions have been placed
in Charleston harbor which would not allow
the smallest craft to pass.
MURrREEsBoRo, April 30. At noon to-day a
small force of rebel cavalry appeared on the
Manchester pike and the videttes gave the alarm,
saying the enemy was advancing in force. Col.
Negley, with commendable promptness, moved
cut a short distance, but the alarm proved false.
1t is thought that the rebel demonstration
Yesterday was made for the purpose of forcing
Gen. Rosecrans to concentrate his lines, thus
leaving Van Dorm and Wheeler at liberty to
act on his tanks with their cavalry also, to
enable them, with the force north of Duck riv-
er, to defeat any attempt that might be made
similar to the one at McMinnville. At present
all efforts of the rebel cavalry on our TANKS are
futile.
CHICAGO, April 20. A special Cairo dispatch
saws, by way of Memphis we have news of the
capture of Tuscumbia. 1t was held by the reb-
ell Col. Chalmer, whose forces have been trouble
some lately in the vicinity of the Tennessee riv-
er. Last Thursday, Gen. Dodge attacked him.
A severe engagement ensued. Chalmer stoutly
contested the ground, but was compelled to fall
back. The Federal loss is stated at 100. The
rebel loss is not given, Gen. Dodge is in posses.
sion of Tuscumbia, and the rebel communica-
ton by that route is cut off.
MONTREAL, April 9. A despatch from the
mail steamer Anglo Saxon says all the mails
are lost, and that 237 lives are lost out of a to-
tai of AS.
WASHINGTON, April29. Correspondents with
the Army of the Potomac write that the
weather there is pleasant, and that the soldiers
are in the best of spirits.
Brig Gen Martindale, Military Governor of
the District of Columbia, has issued a general
order stating that tomorrow will be observed
by the officers and men in his command as d
day of fasting and humiliation. He says that
a soldier who IS moved to the performance of
bis duty in battle or elsewhere by the %inspira-
tions of Gods presence, In his mind and pur-
poses, will be melted by an influence of i'm
mense power and that a whole nation stimula-
ted and exalted by such influences would be IT.
resistible.
Letters from East Tennessee say there are bat
few rebel troops there, who could be easily driv-
en- out by 5000 men from our side. Though
still tyrannically oppressed, the great mass of
the people remain loyal.
New YORK, April 20. The steamer She'll
drake, from Havana the 23d, arrived this eve
ming. Vera Cruz dates of the 18th, per French
war vessels, state that Puebla was completely
surrounded on the ODD ult. The attack COM
menced on the 9th, and the Penetentiarie car
ried by assault on the 3lst. Fort Xabier was
also taken on the 3lst. After entering the city
the French forced through the first barbados
of the two principal streets leading to the Plaza
and the Cathedral, both of which are fortified.
The soldiers, on the Sd inst, had worked their
way to within 100 metres of the Plaza. Up to
that date the French had lost from $50 to 600
killed an1 wounded
An arrival from Vera Cruz, the 10th, says
that a mail from Puebla had been received con-
tanning additional advices of the capture of the
Plaza and Cathedral, but the city was still COM
manded by forts Guadalupe and Loretto, but
nothing is said as to their opening fire upon the