Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1864-05-14

Butler, and had wasted no troops by leav-
ing them on the Peninsula However, the
Federal army WIS embarked and on
Thursday and Thursday night passed
Fortress Monroe and debarked at point
on the south bank of the river. The place
selected was City Point and its vicinity,
and up to fonr o'clock on Friday morning
no opposition had been made.
Petersburg, ten miles up the Appomat-
tox, was garrisoned, it is said, by Boaure-
gard with thirty thousand men. The gun
boate can scarcely get up the Appo-mattox
as it is full of torpedoes, and is easily de-
Tended as the James.
From the Red river We have more dis
astrous intelligence than ever. The re-
port of the evacuation Of Camden ny Gen.
Steele is confirmed He left that place on
April 2Otb, having abandoned the at
tempt to capture Shreveport aud give up
the idea of joining Banks As soon as
Banks retreatcd from Grand Ecore the
great portion of the Confederate army left
that vicinity and marched north after
Steele. A force, however, was left to fol-
low Banks. The day before Camden was
abandoned the Conlederates appro@hed
that place and captured train going TO
Pine Bluff, sezing two hundred and forty
wagons, four cannon and thousand pris-
oners. Steele at ance left Camden and
marched north, the enemy closely pursu-
ing him. lie was without supplies and
, forage. The enemy reached the Saline
river bcf.ry him and on April Both op-
= posed his crossing, The skirmiShers also
approached within eight miles Of Little
, Rock, which is fifty miles north OF the
river. After sacrificing the remainder of
his trains, Steele succeeded in fighting his
way across the river, and marched to-
wards Little Rock, the enemy harras.ng
1 his rear. He was, at last accounts, forty
miles from Lttlc Rock, was still fighting,
and had lost heavily.
The other force of Confederates follow.
. cd Banks from Grand Ecore to Aexan-
dra, Bya grand movement they got in
front of him, and opposed The crossing Of
Cane river. After bush fight, in which
three hundred were lost on both sides the
IL Confederates were driven off and the
u crossing effected. There is no longer any
> doubt that General Banks has abandoned
: Alexandri and gone to New Orleans, -
=, The Red river expedition has been one o
the most disastrous failures Of the war.
{ The condition OF military affairs is very
mysterious. Were it not for Secretary
Stanton's repeated statement that he
II knows nothing of the result and only be
u fieveS it to be victory; we would have
> no hesitation in saying that the War DIP
/ partmen, has received unGayoratle new
Il and would not reveal it. Ii is astonishing
, that with all the facilities at the hands o
u the Administration they should not bt
able Tor five days TO get more than bre
line of authentic intelligence from battle
~ field whose cannonade could be heard, a
C it was heard, at Washington. But Wills
e Stanton reiterates bis statement we have
IS no alternative but to believe him.
Everything is clear up to Thursday
night, on the Rapdau. The Federal army
then rested on the field with their left OF
rhancelors0ile and facing south, ant
their right resting on the Rapidan nea
> Germania Ford and facing southwest to
" ward Mine Run. Lee and Longstrec
confronted the Charlottesville flank; Hi
>, and Ewell, the other. No substantial ad
y vantage had been gained aud it was tn
intention of the Federal generals to renew
the attack on Friday morning.
:. About Friday we have great mass @
Intelligence, some of it very absurd and il
10 many cases without foundation. Their
was a heavy battle fought, and it was be
10 gun by the Fed raj army, Hancock wa
!. on the left; Sedgwick on the right; War
10 r in the centre. Burnside was comm
no in on the right during the day, HI
n. men so fatigucd. however, by
twenty hours march that they coul
-, not do much General Lee has sent di,
l.. patch to Richmond, which is quoted b
~ Stanton, in which he says she thinks
os n mercful God that every advance o
No their General Grants part. has been ri
al pulsed" TO offset this, Stanton has sci
hit to Judge CoIlamer, in the Senate, info
N nation that he has heard from Grant az
10 Mead, and "that they were on to Kicl
30 mond.' He also telegraphs to Dix "Tl
81 belief here is that Lieutenant Gener
.tv Grant is achieving complete victory
h. These statements of Lee and Stanton a
oa Il 4 tLo oubIio M, II Al n