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position, capturing their camp. The
Confederates continued their retreat.

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without effect.
The Paris Constitutional published
an article to show the impossibility
of the south being conquered, and
maintaining that mediation alone
would succeed in putting an end to a
war disastrous to the interests of hui
mainly.
William Mumford, citizen of New
Orleans, was hanged in that city by
order of General Butler for an overt
act of treason in pulling down the
United States flag from the mint.
In the Missouri convention bill
for the gradual emancipation of the
| slaves was submitted and defeated by
vote of fifty-two to nineteen.
| Memphis, Tenn, was formally taken
possession of by the Union forces in
the name of the government of the
United States by COL G. N. Fitch,
commanding the Indiana brigade.
The schooner Rowena, formerly the
Garibaldi, ran into Stone Inlet, S. O..
not knowing it to be in possession OF
| the National forces, and was captured
ny the SuuDOdL HdWuS0.
The Confederate batteries at Chat
tanooga, Tenn, were silenced by the
artillery Of General Neg.eys command
after a bombardment of three hours.
June 8, 1862.
A accommodating party under Lieu
| tenant Bonse of the Tenth Virginia
Union regiment, captured three bush
whackers" that had been doing mis-
chief against the Union army in west
ern Virginia
General Fremont attacked Stonewau
| Jackson seven miles beyond Harrison
burgh, Va, near Union Church or
Cross Keys, at $3.50 in the morning.
| Jackson withdrew from his position
after several hours of fighting.
General Turner Ashby of the Con-
| federate cavalry was buried at Char.
lotte Vile, Va.
Judge Swayne Of Memphis, Tenn,
refused to open the criminal court in
that city after receiving an order
| from Col G. N. Fitch, commanding
| United States forces, instructing him
to confine himself to the hearing and
| adjudication of such cases only as
were not based on the recognition OF
| the right of a state to secede from
the Union, or on the presumption OF
| the establishment of the so-called
southern Confederacy, or recognizing
| the same.
A small force of Union troops, while
on a reconnaissance in the vicinity OF
| New Market, Va, captured Confed.
crate spy named Hance, who had been
engaged in carrying information from
| the Union army to the Confederate
headquarters in Richmond.
A reconnaissance was made, under
cover of the Union gunboats, by a
body of National troops under Colonel
Morrow, on James Island, S. G. The
| Union forces drove the Confederates
| for two miles, and were at one time
within three miles of the city OF
! Charlestown, and in full view of Fort
| Sumter. The object of the recon-
| noissance accomplished, the troops
| fell back to their former position, los
ing two killed and seven wounded.
June 9, 1852.
General Jackson, too close pressed
in his retreat from the Shenandoah,
turned on the advance body of Gen
eral Fremont's Union army under Gen.
eral Shields, near Fort Republic, Va,
and drove them back upon the main
| force Having checked the Union
army, he continued his retreat.
The senate of the United States re-
solved itself into a High Court OF Inn
parchment for the trial of Judge
Humphreys of Tennessee, for treason.
but proceedings were postponed until
the Goth.
The house bill prohibiting slavery
in the territories was passed.
Secretary Wells addressed long
| communication to the senate on the
construction of armored ships.
General Halleck at Corinth sent the
| following dispatch to the war depart
| ment: "The enemy has fallen back
fifty miles from here by railroad, and
nearly seventy by wagon road. Gen.
eral Pope estimates the rebel loss
| from casualties, prisoners and deser-
| ton at over twenty thousand, and
General Buell. at between twenty and
thirty thousand.
"A person who was employed in the
Confederate commissary department
says they had one hundred and twenty
thousand men in Corinth, and that
now they cannot muster over eighty
thousand. Some OF the fresh graves
on the road have been opened and
found full Of arms. Many of the pris-
oners beg not to be exchanged, saying
they purposely allowed themselves to
be taken. Beauregard himself retreat
ed from Baldwin on Saturday after.
noon to Okolona, Miss"
Brig. Gen. D. B. Birney. having been
tried by court-martial and honorabI-
acquitted of the charges against him
re-assumed command of his brigade
by order of General Kearny, COM
handing division.
| The house of representatives OF the
| United States called for information
concerning the formation by General
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