The New York Herald Newspaper, July 3, 1862, Page 1

SSS WHOLE NO. 94 28. AP OF JA RICKIMOND Hitt. : DFAIR GR “3 PRET ec AR RON Wong OAS Wo —F, NEWS FROM MCLELLAN. Arrival of the Stepping Stones from James River. The Army of McClellan at its New Base of Operations. The Reported Capture of Richmond Premature, Fontamse Moxon, July 1, 1662. Arrival of the Stepping Btoncs— Wounded Seldiers from Gen. McClellan's Army—Camp Rumors, dc. ‘Bho United Mtates transport Stepping Stones arrived here this morning from the James river, bringing news from the Army of the Potomae up to Monday aight. By Ber we learn that Gen. MoClelian’s army had reached ite ow base of operations, and he js mow enabled te eo ‘operate with the gunboats on the James river. ‘The Stopping Stones brings dows s number of noliiers wounded jo the engagements of Thursday, Friday and Gaturday, They will be transferred to the various hos: pitals, where they will be able te reosive better mediou! treatment than could possibiy have been given them so near the main bedy of thearmy. The arrangerhents for tris humane duty are becoming daily more compiote funder the direction of the new Surgeon General and bis able assistants. ‘There are of course & number of rumor the operations of thearmy before Riohmoo itive to some of which are vyory wild and some doudtlsammay bs true; | landed direot from ¢ Pad om caretully wilting tho whole pf thoes Vance la png phaix aasena, wader the Arovgction of tha way /A cnaheat, fammmaad ong acons jhe Chiekahomiagy Qvoulivy Seng: NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 38, 1962, RIVER AND Serial Cane AMES RAR RAR nnn BAN ITs Arn anne SSS PRICE TWO CENTS, 8. Operations or General McClellan. RAIS Zersanun wie RAIL-20AD BRIb | mR Oisearcy \ Sake a ae YA? BAS, es a2 a B 0 r SEL ME ERIOGE Meg A\U 4 s wile i N BW KENT CO CROSS ROAD = == = CHART: CITY ®@ {coURT HOUSE, » PACKS " ONIweee LOWER BRANDO Zz y y ————$ ‘We neod hardly add that the new position of our army f# upon high ground, en which it ean operate to far greater advantage than of lete, in the swamps of the Chickabominy. ‘The order was executed in fine style, and our troops 4id not miss a man, the enemy being too severely pun ished to follow us closely. The ouly difficulty was with the Ponnaylvania reserves and Meaghor’s Irishinen, their fact that seams certain, and that ts, General MoCleliaa bad not up to the time of the departure of the Stepping Stones made any decided advance upen the rebel eapital IWappoars that be oxpests and is awaiting reinforce. ments, and when these arrive be will push oa with « vigor not easily to be ehecke Both ho and tne rebels Lave guffered heavy loesee during the past fow days, apd (L may be weceasary to wait @ short time vefoi either army ca recommence operations. The Battie of Saturday. Fontness Monxom, Juno 80, 1962. Thave arrived here safely, in company with General Stoneman and sta and Gonoral Casey aud staT, who are sald, under special ordors. © no doubt been apprised of the great eonfu- here, and naturally aiteudaut upon the crowding of vessels into the harbor from White House Point ‘The affair of Saturday last partook moro of (he nature of a battle thaa the engagements of Thursday or F 1 Goneral Pits John Porter wored himsel’ with glony. He nelected a yery atrong position, and, having posted quined by linrd Sighting, and they wore anzions to foliow up the success, All the troops must be praised for herole gallantry ia | this adiair; but the regulars must have peelal notice General Sykes, the lamented Major Rossel, the Third, Fourth and Fourteenth infantry, behaved admirably. General Porter thought he would be reinforced, and bo orderad to advance upon Richmond forthwith; but it waa not so decigned, and he fell back, as ordered, promptly. ¥ Four trains of cara, loaded with forage, ware ordered | The Position of Gen, McClellan's Army. {From the Washiogton Star, July 1.) bie informa yerapa from Fortress Monroe, anu g taat Generals Keyes and Fits John Porter bave succeeded la getting Into the im- 4 portant position on the lefs wing of the Army of the | bis forces in an adinirable manner, was prepared {9 hold te Despatch, on Satarday; but, moeting the enemy's | Potomac they were ordered te take on Thursday last— | it against any force of the enemy. Tho brave men of pickets om the road, the trains were tacked down neat thelr preparations to take which hastened the enemy's this command all fought with herole courege, sat the | the White House, (he cars yurned, and the fowr bo yeaont terrific attack upop Genoral Porter's braveend | volunteers vied with General Sykea’ regulars (n aking | comotives were blown up. This was a great lowes wot tt eifeotive ferce. wakeohanced by the destruction of stores, &e., at Hie steady movements, and carefully executing 9 ¢ ost (ever beheld, ‘The rebels wore not in sight on Sum day morning, when we moved down the river, - The gun Unttt it thua became certain bere that they had beem | of their officers. White Houss—everything thore being in flames. Elegant | able to get into live as the left wing of the army (in- ‘Time and aga'n vast hordes of rebels moved ambulances and loaded bagae ‘egone were rolled down jest), (t was e matter of dou! ther the sacrifices we | as often mowod them down ina most destructive man. | they were cast inte the river made in the great battle had A aught. Steady discharges of sholl, grape and Tombarked wilh many others on board the Joba Hrooks ‘ever, !t is elear that the point for which so much was | in regular saivon seemed to sweep down whole com: | risked hae boot most ekiifuily achieved. panies. | move down the river in safoty at night, we dropped aa- chor In sight of White House Point, Tho houses burned on led to believe yester Gen. Porter ordered Gen, Moagher’s Irish brigade to saree gentiemen wy heroio style, headed, in their shirt » at the Artoy of the Potomae now stands in the po- ‘To charge bad an excellent effect, The rebels wore | under bluff, so as toallow the rebels a chance to come driven back with great slangbtor, and Gen. Portor waa | gy far enat as thoy chose, Richmond f008 fer te sompensate the coun try for it Our ieft dank now reste tmmadiately on the bank of James river, while our right is probably upon the im. ‘o polut understood to have been wea by Heint fores un Wednesday last, The forces lately required to guard West Point and the White Mouse, and intormediate depots, as woll as the thirty-Ave mii¢e of railroad Crom West Point to our front, sre now no jonger necossary in their late positions, thus practically adding much to the acting Aghting strength of our army, whe yplios of branspor' stead of remaining the right wing, as up to Thureday | golid columns apou our troops; but our rogular batteries | to thoriver danke, and, there boing no timoto burn thom, | Now, how- | ner. but, owing to the fact that our y e! was too large to ‘Our loss proves to have been far ‘Ag soon sa confusion in the rebel ranks was apparent, all night, and (he aeons presented was one of the grand charge beyoneta, whioh they did im the most gallant aad morning. if that oan possibly be componanted for, the sionally with these rolled up. oats dropped down with us some miles, and anchored preparing to move upon thom ovef ths piles of the robe! | t sent up to communicate with Genoral McClellan of James river was fired on recently by a rebel Held battery. dead and dying, whon the enemy ayata advanced steal | Jy, strongly reinforced. Now the Pennsylvanians gaye them the beuelit of ail their apiendid rifles, while the batteries played api | ther ag before, creating sad havoc, Indeod gb. | tor upon other elds during tis wat has never been any. | wires and open direct communication with General Mo thing to compare to this, The robels staggered under | “han. their lonmes, androur foro’ advancmg ateadily upon | Arrangements are perfecting, under the direction of them, driving thom back ry point, when o stay | officers of high standing here, to convey a full supply of officer rode up with an order from the Commander in | stores to General Motlelian’s army, but by what means | Chief to Gen, Porter, directing him to fail bavk with bis | Jam not at liberty to publieh. ' A tingle sutier, im the ylolnity of White Boury, bad Y 11 of Genoral Stoneman’s command was ordered to Yorktown and Wil itg to guard tho telegraph the slat ory description can be almost immediately in | GF DESTROYED Property te the smeunt of $10,000 destroyed on Satur. day. Preparations to Recet he Wounded Men from McClellan’s Army. . We learn that ordera have been received from Wash- ington to prepare al! the hospitals for immediate use. De. Sloan, the Me Director in this city, will take charge of angemouts. From thie it is evident that it i# the iutention of the eovernment to send to this eltya large number of those who Rave been {n jured 1a the late battles on the peninsula. The Righty-e TO THE Heanqvanrens, F Pa h New York Volanteecrs, fn OF THE HERALD. courn Ree 1 1Captain Company A. Righty-etghth regi his body of choral amater than our choral resident musi- annual concerts in thie city have auffi ‘Tar Anton So very who arene: fay Wart clans, o@ (he ciently proved, are about to make pleasure tour to Ni. agara, during which they will give two concerts at Dufinlo and Rechestor, in the former of which they are well known by the musica! reputation they established there some two years *. They have secured the as sistance of some of our most distinguished musicians, ficlbding Mills, Wollenhaupt, Noll, Mollenhauer and Schreiber, and the concerts will be given under the direction of Ansohate aud Borgmnann, As most of the in our leading German mercantile ora of the Arion Society, aud numbers of our wusic loving pnbilo have already applied for tickets to accompany them, there is little danger in from the Bouth show that General i’rice js held in bigh esteom by the army for his personal ani n ties, His orderly, who was captored at Meiplis, says that Price remarked in his hearing that ‘as far ast conscription act concerned him, be would see it damned, and ite framers too, before Be would fight for it. Hi fought,’ he paid, “Yor State right, and not for any sue Gamned despotism ae dictated that act”? tary quail. ZB ES DER WEST Pol BATILE GROUND dpgh4h mies 5 /\ —— SCALE OF MILES | haxarding the prediction that the brief tour will be « amer excursion, extending over the period, as it has beon annonneed to us, of twelve days, Gewarat Paton ann rae Cosscnirtion Law —\ll aecounte ee FROM PORT ROYAL. NEWS Abandonment of James Island. By the arrival ef the United States steam Honduras, Captain Clifford, we learn that @ States (ransport Vanderbilt left for Stono Inlet June 2% with two echooners in tow to convey the United Stated troops from Jamee Ialand to Port Royal. Nothing of an{ tntorest baw taken place since the Jast battle at Jamel Island Courtiventany Bewerr To Mise BareMan at eum Baooss Ly Acapewy ov Momc.—To any that there was « ‘jam’? At the Brooklyn Academy of Musle Tuesday evening would scarcely convey an {doa of the great and everflowing andierce that thronged at this house te give Miss Bater man a deserved complimentary benefit, The entertatms ments consisted of the “IHunchbaek,” in which Misa n performed Julis, unquestionably her greatest character; aad @ concert directed by Musto, tm whielll Mise Carlotta Patti, Madame Strakoseh and Mr. B. Molles®) hauer made theif appearance, The performances gev@ untuixed satiefeotion, i — 1 Nieco's Gannem.—Migs Carsline Richings, the sccomtl] plished actress an@ vocalist, commenced the tweifttt wook of her very successful engagement on evening, appearing in the pretty operetta of the tional Guard,’’ and tn an allegorical esc in | whieh are made the drama,ef the Frenoh sehoo!, logue aad amusing situations, of by Miss Richings and the excellent company hor, Mr. Richings, pere, plays the part of Aissolute chevalier, and sustains 1% with e degreq of esprit anda dash of genuine aature quite refreshing» Mr, Raymond alee has a good part in Achille Boaben, | Parisian confectioner, which be persenates capitalyd ‘exception of ® few bite of vulgarity whieh qrould do well to dispense with, But the chief tion ts the singing of Miss Ri . Several popula selections are introduced in the drama, and eung with oxquimte taste by M'ss Richings, ‘The “ Tyrolienne’’ ai «La Manoln’’ deserve te be particularly mentioned, + allegory of Washington’? 10 like ail productions of 4 remarkable principally for the introduction the national anthem of ‘The Star Spacgled Naanor the singing of whieh by Miss Riebings took (he heave Horm, with th