Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1863-07-10


sWhat win the Yankees do next, if this army
shall have been annihila,ed, \ They
cannot send any more veteran troops to re-.
place it, andthe probability is that they may
lose both Washington and Baltimore.
cat any rate they will lose all of PenssyI.
yania this side of the Susquehanna, and our
troops will have 1t for the support of the war.
If Lin coin depends upon raw leyies they will
be slaughtered like sheep. If he bring on Rose
Grams, Bragg will recover the whole of Tennes-
see. If he call up Grant, he must abandon all
his designs against Vicksburg.. Whichever
way he turns an insoluble difficulty presents
itself, nor is it at all improbable that he may
have TO leave Washington as he entered it. We
are surprised that he remained SO long"
And now for the significant p. S. to the Dis
potch's article:
eThe intelligence comm unicated from Mar
tinsburg (which we give elsewhere-ED starr
is glorious, if true. 1t does not come in
such q shape, however, that we can place
implicit reliance on it. We therefore publish
it for what it is worth. Nevertheless, we doubt
not that Gen. Lee has defeated Meade although
this intelligence may not be reliable"
The Battle at Gettysburg.
From the Richmond Wing, July 6th.1
The officers of the truce boat, which arrived
at City Point Saturday afternoon regard the
fight at Gettysburg as drawn battle. They
also report that Meade was severely wounded,
and that four of their generals were killed
names not remembered by our informant. They
OF course include Gems. Reynolds and Paul.
The Yankee Movem emit Around Rlc hmond
[From Richmond Dispatch of 7th.1
BY the train on the York river road yester-
day we learn that large number of Yankees
were at Barhamsyille and Talleysville, New
Kent, and it was generally belle we'd that Dlx's
army was on its retreat down the Peninsula
They had picketed very strongly from Tun-
stalls across to the Pamunkey river, to pre-
vent, it is supposed, our discovery of their
having evacuated the White House.
The movements of the enemy in the direction
OF Hanover, since their signal repulse at South
Anna Bridge on Saturday night, indicate that
they have given up the idea of further Often
siye operations against Richmond from that
quarter. Gen. Cook, who commanded at the
bridge, informs the government that the assault
on Saturday night was made by three brigades,
and after sharp engagement, they were re-
pulsed and finally driven off.
His information in reference to their subse-
quent movements corresponds with that pub
lished by us yesterday-that they re-crossed
the Pamunkey at Littlepage's bridge.
Information obtained from other sources re-
present that they passed down through King
William, and the inference is that they are re-
turning to Yorktown and Fortress Monroe by
way of the Peninsula.
Raid on the W iImIngton and W eldon Rail-
road
RALEIGH, July 6.-Some excitement was oc-
casioned here yesterday on account OF cayaI-
ry raid on IN Wilrninptop nd Walden Do
road at Warsaw. It's rumored that the enemy
has gone back towards Newbern but nothing
Is certain. Gov. Vance addressed the people
81 the Court House this morning. All citizens
are being enrolled for the defense of the city in
an emergency.
Observation-Disclosures lots for Death.
At the Libby prison yesterday, by or
der of Gen. Winder, the Captains among the
Yankee prisoners, numbering Il, drew lots for
TIVE to be shot in retaliation for the shooting of
Captains VIM. F. Corbin and t. j. McGraw by
Gen. Burnside at Sandusky, Ohio, on the 18th
of May last.
The prisoners We're assembled in room at IL
O'Clock by Capt. Turner, the commandment of
the prison. and after being formed in a hollow
square around table, were Informed of the
order of G en- Winder. slip of paper, with
the name of each man written on it and care
fully folded up was then deposited in box on
the table, and Capt. Turner informed the men
that they might select whom they pleased to
draw the names out-the firsttwo names drawn
to indicate those to be shot.
Capt. Sawyer, of the 1st n. ]. cavalry sug-
gested that one of the chaplains be appointed
Three of the chaplains Were called down from
an upper room, and Rev. Mr.. Brown accept
ing the task Amid silence almost death like
the drawing commenced. The first name taken
out of the box was that of Capt. Henry Wash
ington Sawyer, of the 1st n. J. cavalry, and
the second thato Capt John Finn, of the 51st
Indiana. When the names were read out Saw
yer heard it with no apparent emotion, re-
marking that some one had to be drawn, and
he could stand it as well as any one else Finn
was very white and much depressed.
The prisoners We're then dismissed, and the
condemned men sent to Gen Winder's office
On arriving there they Were permitted to write
letters to their friends. Sawyer wrote letter
home, and read it aloud to the detective stand
ing near. Upon coming to the last part of it
saying, "Farewell, my dear Wife farewell, my
children; farewell MOTHER" he begged those
near by TO excuse him. and turning aside burst
into tears. Finn said he had no letters to
write, and only wanted a priest.
Both men were returned 10 the Libby pris-
on, and Will be kept in close confinement until
the day of their execution, which is not yet
fixed. Sawyer is a Pennsylvania by birth,
and Flynn is an Irishman
The Confederate officers shot by Burnside
Were executed for recruiting in Kentucky, and
that General, when appealed to by the sisters
of one of them TO spare his life refused, with
the brutal reply, that he 9: had quit handling
the rebellion with gloves"