Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1864-06-03


Prisoners captured report Grant ont Of rations--
quite possible General engagement may occur to-
morrow.
The length of the lines of our army precludes
anything like accurate reports from the whole
front a. -- -
The dispatches of Monday last represented Gen.
Grants lines as extending from Hanoyertown on
the Pamunky to Gilman's Mills on the Mechanics
vile road Il Was then supposed that he would so
extend his left flank as to cover and use the York
River railroad. Bottoms Bridge is below the
Railroad and Coal Harbor is in few miles, at both
Of which places fighting has been going on. 1t is
thought that he will now settle himself down. make
the White House his base Of supplies and begin the
tedious process ofeHtrenching and mining. unless he
isattacked by Gen. Lee anda pitched battle forced
him But as the Sentinel says st is time for us all
to cease specuiations as to Grants movements and
attend to Che facts He has been offering fight
when we thought he was rctreating. and retreatiug
when we thought he was Offering fight; he has
been advancing when he was whipped, and heading
up stream when he had every reason to hurry
down. He has gone by the rule Of military con.
trariness, and has always disappointed US When-
ever we supposed that he was acting sensibly or
consistently with himself We suppose that be has
come to the final fight at last; though, warned BY
, experience, we express the opinion with becoming
doubt"
The New York Tribune of the 28th has been re-
ceived at Richmond All the Yankee wounded ex-
cept forty have been removed from Fredericksburg
preparatory to the evacuation of the city,
Joshua Giddings dropped dead in Montreal on Ae
23d ultimo
Mosby's men destroyed all the block houses and
bridges from Union Mills to the Rapidan.
Nothing of interest from either army.
= siSe q.i5,las gives particulars of sS sray st
Hotel N Washington between Voorhees, and Senator
Chandler in which the latter was roughly handled.
Tho collision reyr nut at the table
| made by Chandler against the copperheaas.
A special dispatch to Tho Mnhiio Adpertiser dated
nabe fact that by these successes they haYea
Senatobia lstinst, gives Northern tes to the 2Sth
1t contains many comments on the Ate Federal re-
verses and prognosticates Grants success with the
new movements.
| The Metropolitan Record says these summary re-
verses are damaging to Federal pride, and believes
the South can never be conquered. 1t is an unde-
| ready achieved their independence
The Ohio Crisis estimates that there will be quite
Loss IN cereals in consequence of the reduction of
| labor, equal at least to 1900 millions bushels
The New York Tribune says that large number
of unassigned officers and 1000 men recently draft
ed in Connecticut sgned their willingness to
out the balance of their time or get off medical
certificates.
| Congress.
RICHMOND, June 1st / D. m.-The Senate passed q
bill regulating impressments, with amendments not
affecting the main objects of the measure viz trans
ferring the power ofimpressments with limitations
from military authorities to the collectors. Also
passed the Senate bills authorizing the appointment
| of additional Quartermasters and Commissaries-
! The House was occupied in the further considera-
tion of the bill amending the tax act Various bills
| and resolutions we've iritroduced.-PrOgress.
| FROM GEN. LoNGsTREET
LYNCHBURG, May 1s.-To Judge A. B. Longstreet:
My wound is severe, but not dangerous. 1t is
through the neck and shoulder. l am improving.
j. LI0NGSTREET.
! The very Latest.
dispatch from Gen. Lee has been received
dated June 1st in which he says that Anderson
and Hoke attacked the enemy that forenoon and
drove them to their entrenchments. In the after
noon the enemy attacked Hehs division butiwere
pulsed by Cook and Kirkland. Breckenridge and
Malone drove them from the front and captured $50
prisoners. A portion of Gen. Buffers troops have
landed at White House and are advancing up the
York river railroad from Tunstall's Station.
Gen. Hoke's division had captured battery, q
stand of colors and some prisoners. The Northern
papers say that Lee has been outgeneraled and
that the whole Yankee army has crossed the Pa
munky and is advancing on Richmond.
Gold closed at 1873 on the 30th ult Col. Law.
renee Keitt o: SouthCarolna was severely wound
ed on-Tuesday last.