Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-07-08

General WILSON'S LOSSES ExaBBers
ated.--GlOOd News Expected from
sherman and Grant---NO Rebels
10. be Seen at HarPer's Ferry.--
An Artillery BnttIe--.T'he Bom-
bardInent Of Petersburg Doing
it's Work.
NEW YORK, July 1.-THE World has in
formation from the front stating that Will
sons losses have been greatly exaggerated.
Four of his guns were recaptured from the
enemy.
Notwithstanding the rebel raid into Ma
ryland and the distrust in state affairs as
shown by commercial men in the high price
of gold, there is reason to believe that ia
vorable military news will soon be made
known to the public.
BY the measures that have been taken to
guard Pennsylvania it is believed that the
rebels will not be in sufficient force to do
any material damage.
Very good news is expected from Sher-
man. Nothing less, in fact, than the cap
ture of Atlanta. Military men here say
that with the loss of Kenesaw mountain,
the rebels can not reasonably expect to hold
| Atlanta, as there are no positions beyond
the Chattahoochie at all equal to those this
side of it.
Good news is also shortly expected from
Grants army. 1t is believed Petersburg
will shortly be in our hands. 1t is well un-
derstood that nothing the rebels can do by
way of the Shenandoah valley will induce
Grant to send any portion of his army to
the defense of Washington.
Movements are now under way largely
reinforcing Grants army by veteran troops
from points of less vital importance than
| Richmond.
| ITribune's Special
BALTIMORE, July 6-10 p. M.--The Bal
timore and Ohio railroad company has just
received intelligence from Sandy Hook, OPP
posite Harper's Ferry, stating that not a
rebel can be seen or heard of at Harper's
Ferry or in any part of Maryland, and that
it is believed that by tomorrow morning
there will not be one anywhere in that vi
cinity, they having skedaddled up the val
ley, it is thought, to escape being captured
by Hunter.
The Tribune special dated Monocacy,
July 9th, says that Gems. Lew Wallace,
Tyler and Howe are here preparing for any
emergency. Aparty of rebel cavalry were
driven back from near Frederick to-day.
Sigel reports the whole rebel force at four
thousand.
The Tribune Harrisburg special of the
9th, says official information received here
shows that Grant has notified the War De-
partment that a large portion OF the rebel
army has left his immediate front; that u
large portion of Hunters force has reached
, Parkersburg on its way east, and his ad-
vance will reach Cumberland tomorrow
!, morning.
The Herald's 18th corps correspondence
of the I'd, says to-day witnessed one of the
most exciting artillery battles of the war
3 After two hours cannonading the rebe
} batteries were completely silenced, and the
1 gunners driven from their places.
I. At three o'clock z. M. the rebels opened
again flriously, and soon the enemy's
r works were enveloped in one continuous
cloud of dust, caused by our shells. The
:: rebel gunners could be seen running to thu
: rear for place of safety. After two hours
q fighting every rebel battery was silenced
! Our batteries have been placed with grea
skill and care, so that at any moment they
: Our bombardment of the city is steadily
n doing its work, numbers of buildings hay
4 ing already been destroyed,
= The Tribune's Washington special say
G that Petersburg is now covered by over on
e hundred of our guns, and were Grant t.
n give the word, its destruction would be tn
/. work of but few hours.
: A private letter off Charleston states tina
the rebel officers sent there have bee
@ placed In comfortable quarters where reDt
q shells most do fall.
:. The occasion of the suspension of tn
: writ of habeas corpus and martial law i
e Kentucky is anticipated trouble in enforc
O ing draft, and particularly in the enlist
n ment of slaves.
Q The Tribune's correspondent off Texa
!, says the Granite City and Wave were cap
i tured by the rebels only after most pei
l. sistent defense. A pilot and boats crew {
!. the New London were captured. Our kille
e and wounded were about thirty that {
the rebels above twenty.
New YORK, July 1.-THE Worlds Wash
ington special says that notwithstandin
If the wild reports it has been nlearned that tn
'e rebels burned only one important bridg
d west of Harper's Ferry, at Patterson
Is Creek. Governor Curtin telegraphs tn;
is twenty thousand rebels crossed the Potoma
: at Point of Rocks, when trains from hel
IS have run to-day to, and beyond that poin
l. The Star says that Hunter has joine
IN Sigel and will make short work of the rait
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