The New York Herald Newspaper, May 9, 1863, Page 3

4 i owds nxivasiy inquiriug the news from Ar. So acres om “be — oe lerce has he ,ot¥"’ which ho Whe jcive them babe? And ot were asked i z i i p i Bi i 8 id = 3 E & z Wg tH iitet i i al wo nkee bullets, 1 found the young al, bis father, playing chess in om Pires (he the open SP thiore = ei | = FS supported by heavy, ‘ight post ‘orcss bewme and joists. As this iy of more fecont—poraibly older—co uatri:ction than of brick. At the eaves remainder, its four wie rogin is about six feet and/adove we have a the Label guparaie were quchentnmeniees view of the network of cros® amd joists, and of General H "s plans, They believed that of hig | the rafiers to tho apex of the roof. yoouy army had been withdrawn, that the rem ‘was nore | fronts northeast, and from five square windows Fg deems by she battieat Fredericksburg, and'| wohad somothing of a view of the tows. To the right, 4 back to Washington. street, is a large warcbouso fy While conversiog with General Lee a rate ja i. oe Ha ; from the City Guard... Back of this is another lar; his picket gnard arrived, and informed him that the Yau- used oe hospital 4 Kees were advancing in somo force towards the river at} OD all sidus, for cven sick, and especially Rappahannock station; Another reported that they were | Confederate soldicrs, arg nob free roaking a demonstration at Kelly’a Ford, Ceneral Lee | desicing tocscapo on the first * y- sent word to the picket a¢ Rap;.ahannock Station Wo resist | Custie Thunder could be seen an ady.nce of the cnemy, and he would fyrnish proper The windows on tho right hand side icok across a nar To the picket commander at Kelly’s Ford he | row stteet, and upon a tob.cco warehorse and manufacto- z $ 5 Secesh sesidents.of Wis Lown coum - , of i ‘comseqmience of the result of the grand riege Fae pag a they noped would cesult in thelr retease from the the Yankees, att OUR CAPTURED CORRESPONDENT. en Adventures in the Rebel Confederacy. MgO ERIC: > 3 fantry advance or the jayi ry, where, during tho day, neg: » ‘Frip from Ellis’ Ford to City wry npzeared, 10 Jet. them come, Delage at work ‘th the viagra "q nol back windows overlooked ve Point via Richmond. ‘and when entangled Whey would be an easy prey. | river and the three bridges across it, Manchester, and a ‘This was on Tuesday ove jug Of thé vivor by or Aiter cowpieting his examination and directing aataffor. it preyious to the 8 jul stretch of countr; th of James, Pes previes MP | OUR barely clocncagbloeuiba ie’ stn nn ficer to asvertaio what papers | had— which he courteous! with Generals W. H. B. Lee, Stuart, fib ski 0 par hm, ad aking rey ratio ‘there-were ol HW i 4 r wo Winder, and-a Lovely Fetiale, {wo rary sad aa fo segnipany ie fo the onde cred Stongbton and telongl el . We passed through Cul- % rf and two miles beyond, to whore. Stuart nd Bis tents itched io a herutitnl roy “o UMLeT Lee's despatch, bt EU t gare wo the officer who acoompan| ¢, and I-was $o Culpepper and turned over to the Prevost Marshal, irty room of an old h..tel | ous to m By him I was pat into a very 1 was furnished 00 dlankets— ho. Offleers of the Jail, the Keepers es to and the Guards, thing to fall into the @f the Southera confederacy. ‘There was one other prisoner in the room, a private rine bate Pennsylyacia cavalry, captured near W: ’ s =. ?. the Captives Have Been and THR YANKEES CONG. . « During tha night, while unsuccesat courting » sre Treated, Morphens, | beard our guards saying, excitedly. that the : “Yanks” had crossed the river and were advancing; | raoid'y approaching starvation, Seu. ae, we. that there was agrest stir in camp, everything being |. among tho people, and of returnin, put in.re.diness to move, and that a locomotive had becn | Georgia are some two thousand kept on the track alfnight ready for immediate use. have so far succossfully resisted the A train of fifty or sixty wagons, with a cavalry guard, | ing a force sent to take thom, Io Passed our quarters Lie next morzing. A majority of the | South our prisoners found Uoicn by ‘wagous were marked United States. The teamsters were | casos, Clandestinely offered thom money. mostly negrocs, and many of this race wero with the | the Sonthern jails are indi aa rds, waifermed, mounted, aud armed the samo as | with great crialty on the her goldie:s. Whether intended for servico in the field | taining Union sentiments. Tcanuot say, but appearances wonld indicate that they | Union sentiment predominates, and here citizen prisoners el are treated With moet atrocious sé: erity. the prisouers that if Lee's army was once in retreat there were not bayonets onough in the Southern confederacy to stop it Bauperiences of Mr. J. H. Vosburg, Onc,.of Our Special Army Corres pon> dents, It hasbeen rownrked that the Hgrap has correspon- ts in every place whore it is possible that anything esting may occur, but I beiiove that I have the dis- on of being the first representative of that prese in 'y prison. d On my way frow Stailord Court House to Kelly's Ford, previous to the late advance of our army, | was in by:ilinees and the Intevess of the hour to take up rersfor the Dight at a cowfortable farmhouce, is te.d proceeding 0 camp. This was on Sunday eveniag, April ‘The house where | stopped was a hospitable ove on a where trodpa were passing almoxt bouriy, avd I 4 no reason to apprebond au encounter with the sub- of Je®, Davis, About cight o'clock the noxt m ro , Whop starting ort fora walk after breakfast, aco mw ida bymyhost. aud having p ised the gate and into road, 1 was suideoly coufrovted by two here were evidences of a considerable scare in town. Citizens could be seen hurrying to avd fro, and the guard informea me that many white residents, and all the ne groes not Leeded ia the army were leaving theplace. ON THE RAILROAD. Arriving st the care | (ound a beyy of jadics, secesh o'f.cors and others, noiwithstanding There anxiety at tho approwch of the Yaukees, anxinus to get a view of a Hr RaLp correspondent. Abongh this curi.sity was mani festod everywhere on my route, | must say that it was always courteously displayed. The train for Gordous- ville was packed 10 its full Capacity with stampeding citt zens, with prisoners, conscripts, apprehended deserters aad n groes. About half the occupants oF the car where J was pliced were of colored proelivities, but with asus. coptibity for improvement, as evidenced in the con-tant PRRSONAL--ARKM ALS ¥ROM THR Nonkru.—Newspaper ligh teaing of color from old age to infancy. Many young | ‘cireles’? will bo interested to learn that Mr. J. H. Vos. “inas'ers”’ seemed to prefer the society of the more or | burg, urmy correspondent of the New Yore ‘not less colored dames in this car to that of their whiter | the World, as bu‘ore report 4—has arrived im this city, THK WEMALD REYRYSENTATIVE, J found that my own arrival at Libby was expected, my capture having been heralied by the Richmond jou nas. ‘Tho otlicers expresred themselves detighed to have me among them, as they prosumed I would tho pab- tic an account the teatment they were receiving. The con‘eder: appeared to be rage og 2 tickied at having captured a correspondent of the Heaarp—- may it never sehieve a more important success—and no- tices of my al appearet in the Richmont papers. Tho (ellowig is trom the Buquurer of May | | im the unmistakable gray umform of the | sisiers in other portions of the train, is stopping for the present at the “Libby.” Ho was federate seryiee, with guns “aba roady.”? ‘They bad , Southern railroads are in a very dilapidated condition, | encountered at Klils’ Ford, cn tho Rappahannock, some and the average § eed of the traius whch bore me trom | days ago, by a number of Stuart s meo, who insisted aud congeaiod behind an embankment, and when | fret ived thenr were not six paces from me. Bidding mo Cougteous ‘Good morning,’ they told mo that! was a oner.. Under the circumstances to surrender was orous discretion, and | yielded,as my captors after- ds remarked, ‘‘yery dignifiedly.”” The remainder of party; making in all six, immediately appeared. THF REV. MR. RRAIN, Calpopper to Richmond, and from Richa nd to City | finally prevailed tpon him to pay a visit to Ri Point, was about eight iniles per nour. Near Rapidan | Capt. J ¢ sehoenofek, aid-de-camp to General rz, Btation, and dircetly acrors the Rapidan river, ie range | of the federal army, has arrived from Kally’s ¥ord, aud Of bills, commanding a stretch of open and nearly ievel | is atopping at the fame hotel, county in front, Here, I wae informed, it was the | \ten- Tun FARR tion ef the rebel commanders to make a stand i case | at Libby prison waa not exactly ambrosial, nor Geveral Hocker attempted to advance on Guidonsville. | always tum suficit. The provers wore furnished Ik a very strong position, with the Rapidan im frout, | with Voaf of dread abd is more or less fortified. 1 could gee only rifle pits. J frat caught sight of the tall form, and had an oppoite- wag my host, has, I understand, boon accuse! of fur- Tae ‘taormation that lod to my eapture ci atten rape te han of Captain Oe ina Cotten bliged to throw it - Geuers urZ. i FO" a (tbat.We'fias Deon arrested on that account. I firmly | wore a triste but defiant uir—it was his first captivity— ita place. They o that ingitber Mr. McWurraio nor any member of | and frequecily ejaculated hig favorite parblew! with true } at famityhed' any complicity in the affuir, and I wish Belgic vehemence, at the treatment to which prisoners : are subjected in the South. to be ‘exonerated from “all suspicion im the “In France,” said he, “where | havo served, prisoners wore ‘AW a Righty ‘respectable and istelligent eae hreaind aah spt sr eny st: enoengnh aoe to iy, thelr ‘conduct: on the‘occasion was such as, | “Captarn vohoenofeki bad becn surprised, aurrounded 1 been @tepesed to entertain it, would have removed | and captured soon after the crossing cf our troops at suspicion from my mind. Besides, I afterwards Kelly's bord. When taken before General Stuart he was a col ip the rebel serviee and ‘satistgctornly how apd why | was made captive. | ow the staif of that gencral, which was, of course, de. | the ‘sergeant’ PASHING INTO DLXIE. clined. s and fit. Gmiployed ts. make ix men of the Niath Virginie cavalry composed tbe teen huredred lnbabi and oy een tion | *‘yreenbacks’’ be apremium of Ot; cent In which effected my eapture. Two were pticed on | ge wpoiest Virgica latabtry, mauiy composed of Trim, | Comfedernte aa Widade amas och basen thnk toon anch of Canna sion 06° 8 . te ee 130) sic tnaneie, Sup Posrses arb aneeemmnaatant sea ta sal etealag inees nesanel cot Ot h wae and level eld, #0 that escape was impossible. My horse | Toto was Major Royle. Ido not think there were | behuved, :iso, that he exacted from prmsoern a pam ay 2 cy egal by one ha ie 6 any considorabze supplies at tis | olnt. moeb greater pine than he = —— remainder, THE GUARDHOCER in town; re was 00 ese. Opini noes for Qa°BHIA Darhaeet, Raving © | svsre the prisoners were coutaed: wees email, dirty | diered ‘us. to the characior ul this man, ta charge, entered the piac woods and made a straight {tine for Fits’ Ford, distant about three miles. Tey bad grorsot the Rappthannock, ia boats at this point, aud by (the same-moans we returned. A company of Nor.b Untans were on picket at this ford on the rebel shie Hig macoers were certainly not pleasing, ne have had some cause for tll-nature in the Brnaen =I ‘of bie whinieg voice by our ofhvers, and im remarks not tatter- 1, private Marpendig, Fourth Penn- | ing to bis self-Jove, The pursy adjutant who superin- syivania cavalry, and myreif The Captain, whore com: | tended the semi daily roll-call looks suticieally, god. wor on guard, took a fancy to invite (aptain Schoe- | humored, but he was by no means a favorite Ni own quarters, which wae a real kindness, as ‘ ergeant seemed to consider it proper ever to nded. dress « Yazkeo prisoner Cn meen g | e furoiebed rations of hard biscuit, Aguard from the City Battalion wac kept at the head y and a ham to divide among va. 1 | of the stairway within the room. ly conversing with theee men we learned that many of thera entertained Union rentiments, apd that ail were henruly tired of the Jom, Davis rule. CTR PORTIONS OY TRE HRIFON, officers had Been comfned in this building, with a single roum. This was crowded wi severh soldic: a durauce for various causes, deserters and covserijae. There wore but three Yankee prisoner: nthe wagons were constantly passing within a short d.vtance, many to tnd ham io Se Beveral captured in this vicioit was allowed to send out rchase provinions in town, papi ee made a po gy hy papa bo ns poet privilege. We had nothing to We ow ppertanities than they did. D.SAFPRCHION IN Tie FOUTH. Arrivedon the southera side of the river, 1 was per to ride my horse, and ibis privilege was extended ‘% mo while I remained in the custody of theso men, up ‘The inmates of this room represented many portions of the coniederacy, and from them I learned much of inter-*} single roorn, but berore I cane ano:her had beon fitted up, at regarding the feeling emong soldiers aul people ia the | and the captains transferred to that. This lower ‘room South. | was arsured that e is great disaflection ia | which | did not ree, was said tobe much lees pleanan il T reached. General Lee's headquarters, altnough 4 | the anny and —- the citizens d that thousands, | than the one [ occupied, being poorly ventilated, and the shared the march of m: re | Doth in and out of military service, would leave the | windows boarded up, ro little could be seen outside, ‘sometimes, voluntarily y captors | conreteracy and gu North if they vould.’ \iany asked me | while there was rot suticious light within. Anoher ‘en (008, for none of them had their horses. These meu— | aaxwuely Low 3 y would be ers | " row — was used As the ener ae ae the s@gontiomen,’’ L should say, to adopt their ewn invariable in reaching onr lices, and declaring enlisted men wore on > and a7 ping aa though friends, | ey Would take the first opportunity to escape, | quarters are represented ne anything but commedious. parascciogy—made oe They reprovented the contederaie government as a terri- | Sull another room was devuted to the incarceration of me Virginia. cavalry ie mainly composed of nub. | bie despotixm, by which no man’s liberty of porsessions ) eri tan prisoners and descrtera from our army. ‘who furnish their own horses, and fight, T often heard the expression that this | civilian prisoners many were sutiers, and it is said were regarded, « Contest on the part of the South was ‘the rich man’s | some of them, as well a9 8 me deserters, have been con- Profens vo" boliove, fur theie rights and theit | war aud the pour man’s fght.’? Tue congeription is being | fiued over # year and a ha Dovorters are kopt io prison . The sergeant in'command informed me that wore arg sateen. ae 1 aad Cn on nent El maces Mea treatment uatil had deen planned a woek matéd that there wenty conscript hin! 9 xe they the oath nee Confederacy, when ~ nue he. wide: ii, set talk Pre | county. ‘These mea, of whom I sav a mie specimens, aro | they are conseripled. . views, ana that rally x vogro trates and overseers, and are, toe GENERAL WINDER @aats of the neighdorkeod with whom 1 hat | great extent, destitute of a Duman fosling, visited us om Friday, taking a survey of prison. Become acquainted. It was hoped that some valuable in. | One man confined in this guardhouse been caught | He is a venerable looking man sat two dayw before near Culpepper. Hix wife was ill, and formation regarding Gevoral Hooker's plane aud move- | the yext woruing be learned that her situation was oriti- ; ments might be elicited from me, from papers or other | cal: but Do eutreatkes could prevail u,on thowe who liad | gray eye, and secencion fricndy | him iq charge to allow him to go avd veo her for a short fotteve bien to time, aceoinpaniod by a guard, thoagh the distance | tributed to him, and f was his Daughty. ingulting air, ponsers: un hear nes cal thet, you, wosla like to eee hie 1 two Inties, Arrogant spirit broken with % me of any value whatever ‘One old man named Walton, of nearly sixty years, from He was approached by an officer, whe asked for the ro- mn PICKnD Fauquier covnty, eaught by'a rebel routing party, had | turn of a beautiful pistol rr) Deen confined fir several weeks, he did not know for | and which this officer had in hi what cause or what was to be his futo tured, General Winder sald he did not - AD ex. pA cierk ander Bochanan’s administra | ing any oun General Rosecrans of any of his oom. tion had bee He had been lon, mond, "as he issued orders that com wild beast '’ He, however, promised to forward a letter about the pistol, NRWSPATERS. to which (hese men belonged was stationed at Richard's Ford, to arrive at which we performed a journey of about not be conseripted, know that a clause in | to General Krag iuto the service ali Mary- ment was commandéd by Lieut. McGrawioy, and by him landers found within the ts of the confederacy. | A darkey came into our priseu every morning with the nding a4: che amstances , the ini of | Ri. nd Shoo! ju a iar ‘and his mon 1 was treated with the kindest coneitera. eae Ryrabowag one mh re Richin’nd papers, ting, pecaliar and laughable wees’ owe trom eneryweere,? aw ama 4 fal Won—rather sheet journals to us at Sftceu conte each, and (guest thai as 4 prisoner. 1 paapod the | extent that would have excited Mark Tapley'# incense ad- It ie diffi. | miration, rw y fare REINFORCEMENTS FOR 14K. ten for thom, They coutamed very walt to conceive how men can live, much leas fzbt, on On Thursday moruing there paused through Gordons. ae uitie credeece to (hele depatcbes, what the rebel government allows its soldiors in the way | ville a train loaded with soldiers, composed, as I learned, | fais amusement from the editorial columas, ‘Wration:. of men from four batteries intended on}; ia ete 4 ANU KMPNT®, “ a; mselves fevce at Richmond, but who bad been. ‘There was nopieket on our side of tbe river when 1 | infantry battalion for this emergency. We took the train Arrived at this ford, Bit one wan octablisbed during the | at ono c'eck for Kichmond, and on the way met two | more trains joaded with troops, artillery and Rorsen. Ai her, I tiinis | saw 06 this road about two thou trom the kighth cavalry, immediatety on +) iwfdntry and two Hatteries of artillery. { Asie arrival took piace One Of those most pleasing «cence (ON TO RICHMOND, | On this train we bad comfortable seats and more plea- surrey than on the covious. We reached Ricnmand avout, nino Celok f |. Owing to the dark- \ bea fm war, a friendly ounversation between outposts of hostile ‘wmies. The ofiect upon those on the rebel side was ealu- and many were the expressions of friendly good towards individual “Wanke,’ end of longings for Peace, where no thought of deadly Coufies with these un- which overto: Twas Abie to gee but | Of fortifications betore reaching it. We ‘wero marched to y treet and halted in front of Cartie Thunder. where our were left, Tho" Yauks’ were to Libby prison, about a block above and on the Fame Wobacen warehouse 8 iad louk ing brick salavert endl cnisere, i was a moreantilo | {hat giving 06 anders\and we were first ushered | ducing us to give the paro'*, was a ruse to preventan at lo eenpe when we saw the prison so poorly SATURDAY, MA bave vo communication with them. Four «ffices — two Virginians aud iw) bevtuckians—confved® in the penitentiary as hostaes for the neverious /ar were sont ty tabby on Monday, and ¥¥, 1803.-TRIPLE SHRUT. , that the mci) body we ver vwivancing wpoa Blick A tng attompting to ren by the datteries af Viek Dury, » + have varupied Port Oitson and | ' | OO ee ee ee “ HOOKER’S ARMY. 7 reports are we as to the fate. of the Important De teh from the relorsed with the others, Thoy report as sull in tho withawo harges, wus destroyed by a hot chat trom the | Richmond pouilectiny Ca tainGranwa and Lieutcoaut 1 , Waie,of Re Fighth Virgiaw cavalry, he'd as hod ges Tebel Batterie’, Vhe barges were juaded with commis Gi rap apa Liputenant Varngs, cacriila mit oo FOS, prot crot by bales of bay whieh eaught who, I bear, are confined in uitentiary at fire. algo "Soa. J. thumar, of glo Puurth, Mahe. 20> ” orgy dared at Manassas, who atieinpled to eseape, and being belarinaacte se the company of contrabind vegrees was aceuted | Seene of Gen, Grant and Admirak Porter's We ot. MeKee, of Mount ster- | Operation tscelag bis fricnds depart are enh) ne oaturaily very on maa at Mount OKs a man named Ferguson, whom he had arrested as 8} camed an article (0 be published ina Richinond journal stuting that ke had bécn badly treated by thas oificer, parole or Oxchacge was refused him, He i@ repre- rented 8 @ very worthy and brave man. Several colored saiins, Delonging Lo the Columbia and tho isaac Smith, were retained, bat the oilicers of Meso veasels wilh muke tbe proper representations to secure their release. - vO CITY Prom, Between Richmond and Petersburg wo saw inany fortl- fications, but no treo, s. At Petersburg a crowed of mingled whites and blacks regurded us with evident interest while wo marched from ono triinof cars ta the other, Be- tween ietersbury and City Point are some fortifications. Arrived pear City Poi wo caught gight of and Stripes on the State of Maire and the Jobn Rice. This view was greoted with hearty cheers from our suldicrs, ng Ay) i TAK CON UON. * ave hid an interior view of the Southern confede: is, that its powe. is as rotten as 48 priuel- gc: and, if we can succeed in dealing it ou0 effective yw at a vital poiut—say Richi ind, Charleston or Vicks bu it will s@ crumble into rains; and, unlike “the Daseless fabric of a-vision,” loave.a woeful wreck bebind. IMPORTANT FROM TAE SOUTHWEST. Capture of Grand Gulf by {Admiral Porter. ON RR S8SUPATION OF THE PLACE. TERRIBLE EXECUTION OF OUR FIRE, Aan eee ~- The Navy Holds the Door to Vicksburg. MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL GRANT'S ARMY. Reported Occupation of Pert Gibson by Our Troops, &eo., &., cial Reports of Admiral Porter. The Sceretary of the Navy has received the following despatches: — Fragsme Bextow, BeLow Grand GvLF, Mise., Aprii 20, ‘1863. Hon. Grovow W xis, Secretary of the Navy — Thave tho honor to inforim you that, by an arranges ment with General Grant, I attacked the batteries at &e, Grand Gulf thin mocning, which were very for midable. After a fight of five hours and thirty minutes we silenced the lower baiteries, bat failed to silevco the upper one, which was high, strongly built, had gau# of very heayy cali bre, and the vessels wero unmanageadie in the heavy cur- rent. It fired bul feebly toward the last, and the vessels all last by and enfiladed it, while Lwont up a short dis tance t© communicate with General Grant, who con- ‘eluded to jand the troops and march over to 4 point two miles below Grand Gulf, I gent the Lafayette back to engage the upper batteries, which she ami, and drove the persons out of it, as it did not respond after a few fires. Atrix P.M. we attacked the ‘batteries again, ana under cover of the fire all the trans. ports parsed by in good voudition, The Benton, Tuscam- bia and Pittaburg were much cut up, having twonty four Killed and Ofty six wouuded, but thoy are all ready for werview, We land the army im the morning en the vther side and mared op Vicksburg. DAVID UW. YUKTER, Acting Bear Aamwal. Frsceiur Bexgon, Gasxv Guus, Miss., May 8, 1863 Hon. Gwuen Wrases, Sotretary of the Navy:— ‘Sm—I have the honor to report thas 1 got under way this morning with the Lafayette, Carondelet, Mound City and Pittsburg, avd proceeded up to the forts at Grand Gulf, for the purpose of attacking thom agaio if they had mot beca abandoned. The cnemy had left before we got ap, blowing up their ammunition, spiking their large guns and burying or taking away the lighter ones. The arma- inet consinied of thirteon guna im all, The worke aro of the most extensive kind, and would seem to aefy the efforts of a much heavier fleet than the one which sienced them. The forts were literally torn to pieces by the accu- racy of our fire, Colonel Wade, the commandant of the Datteries, was killed; also bis chief of staf, Fleven men were killed that wo know of, and our informant says that many were wounded, and that no one was permitted to go insite the forts after the action except those be- longing there, - We had a hard fight for these forts, and it is with great pleasure that I report shat the navy holds the dor to Vicksburg. Grand Gulf is the strongest place on the Mix- «issippi. Had the enemy succeeded in finisning the forti- fications no Leet could Rave taken them, I have been ail over the works and found them as fol- lows: —One fort on a potat of reeks seventy -Gve feet high, calculated fgp six or seven guns, mounting two seven-inch rifles, and Ove eight-inch and one Parrott gun on wheew, which was carried off, On the loft of this worlgis 4 trian- gular work, calculated to monnt ene beayy gud. These works are counectod with «mother fort by a covered way aod double rife pits extonding one-quarter of mile, constructed with mug labor and showing great ski I ‘on the part of the-construgtor, The third fort commands the river in all dircetions, It mounted one splendid Blakely one hundred-pounder, one eight-inch and two thirty pounders. The latter were !ying bursted or broken on the ground, ‘The gunboats had g0 covered up everything with earth that it was impos#ible to see at first what was there, with the exception of the guna that wore dismounted oF broken. Every gon that fell into our nands was in good cond: tion, and we fownd a large quantity of ammunition. eve are by far the most extensively built works, with the exception of thope at Vick» burg, 1 bave seen yot, and lam happy 0 say that wo held them. Tam dismounting tbe guns sud getting on boara the ammunition Since making the sbove examination new (ure have been passed nearly finiahed. They had uo guns, bul were complete of the kind as regards porition, and had heavy fleld pieces in them, DAVID D. PORTER, Acting Rear Admiral, Commanding Misevaippl Sqnadion The Purewit of the Fiy Kebels. Cana, May 4, 1208. ‘Tho rebels who escaped from Grand (iulf were vigoroot- ly pursued and many eaptured, Roport sayy that they spiked most of their guns at Grand Guif ou Suuisy wight, Return of Sherman’s Expedition—The ardment of Grand Gualf—Move- ments of General Grant, dsc. Usiow Furet, or Yaroo Meee, May 1, Hin Camo, Many 7, 1468 Sherman's expedition returned tonight Yesterday the irm-clads Do Kalb au4 Choctaw, with other goo boats ant mortars, engnget Mrines’ Mu sie boure. The Choctaw was strangle fifty foor timer withost damige No casoaltion. The rebete were thurs in force, expectiog ue to give batile, Seven ganboats bombarded Grand Gull ou Wedoewtay for cight hours, Twonty.aix seamen sore sled aod lifty- four wounded. The Tuscumbia won dteebled mperarily, ‘Tho gunboats and sie traneports (90. (hd blo k oo } Wednesday Qt of them got through waloly without any eammaition Goners| Grant, with bie fares ccomcet (he Mieeien om yeatordsy, anh @ wow mreting Wort lwo He ox pected to attack Grand Cult todey i the reor, while (he gan din aeraiied Wie from, The Uwoo trows araen theniattic. moving wit’ great reprivy. There tw every procpegt Of the early falot Pietebury Genera’ (rant fad (16 viockade in @ tag, Reported Uecupntion of Port Giteon by Union Troope—Advance on River, Ke. Camo, May &, 1469 Baee | etal vit, | at 220 bf --— A 1 Ww statet by passengers from below that a sort of ee THE WAR IN TENNESSEE. Monrnvenono, May ‘Tho following order te important to ladies proposii to visit this department, and General Rosecrans desires it thoroughly ventilatod in the Northern papers, ‘Heapquasrens of Ovnice Provost Manual, ‘This being thoscason for active military oorktions, the presence of ladtes, however dusirable under certain circumstances, is not so now, The genaral cou manding dirccts’ that no passer bo ineued to ladies to pass from Louisville to Nashville, Marfrces boro or within the lines of this dep irtmont until further orders. Those residing in ro North are warnoil to avold the trouble and expense of travelling to Louisville, as they will not be adimitzed within the tines of this depart- ment, except in the most urgent « aud theo undor passes Inguod from the departinent headquarters M. WILES eoand Provost Marshal Rebel Cavalry at Lexington, Tenn, i jay 8, 1869. jor Morgan wa inoving towards Loreen It i# reported that the eobe! cay Wheeler, are at Lexington, Teon. to Mergan Under Ar Sny They will be in Nashville i» Ficecen Days, &. Muurkenmouo, denn , May $, 1963 Trastvorthy jcformation froin Manubecter representa that Johnson is in command there Gereral J. 1 Morgan is onder arrest for refusing to oboy General Wheelor, who has been placed over him. Morgan's men threatened to disband. The rebols think we are poorly fortified hero, and will fall back to Nashvi'le when attacked. ‘They ray thoy wilt bo in Nashyitio in fifteen dage. Organization af the Contrabands in Ge. meral Rosecrans’ Departinent. m Muninwmnone, Tenn,, May 8, 1843. Major Wiles, Provoxt Marshal General, line devised a Vory practicable organization for coatrabands tia this ie pariment, and Me tha employment of rotugees who come fnte our lines. The sucena of Goneral, Morton's jwneer brigade, detaiied from the army, hae induced Genera} Rosecrans to atsempt to organize the contrabwids in the same mauner, There are in this department about 25,000 able bodied negroes, who whi be organized into companie Of thirty each, Commanded and dyernsen by a refugee from this Stato, thus bringiug the experience of the Unio Tounesecans ts ald the vificers to be in command @f the Drigade, Captain Roands, of ihe Ninth Michigan jufamtry, wn to de Brigade Commander with a regular rial, The ooatra Dands are to ho drilled an goidiors, with apadew and picks Substituted for muskets. They are to bo used in bnilding fortifications and roads, removing obstructions, and such other Iabor ascan be dome by them, thus rebeving tho mechanics of Morton’s pionger brignde of their rougher Jabor, and affording thew time to fo the more important labor pertaining to their duties, ‘This organization of the contragpnds is the momt sensi. ble one yet proposed, and long experience ia this depart ment convinces Major Wiles that it will prove perfectly practicable, The first brigade will be organized in a few days. The pay for refuyeos and comrabands hae not born decitod upon. Fverything remains perfectly quiet in our front, and strange to say, theirowairy hive made no demonstration on our flanks, The Trial or Ht Clement L. V ‘ham Concluded—The Deets! anteed To-day. Crrerewany, May 8, 1869. ‘The trial of Hoo, Clement 1. Vallindigham was oon. cluded yerterday. The decision of the Court will probably be amavenced some time during the day A Threatened Dis An rhanee_ in Philadel- P Punspmurma, May 8, 1863, A disturbance was threatened at the office of the Age this afternoon, caused by a soldier tearing dows ita bulle tin placard, which contained the following bead line = ‘TMegal Arrests by the Government.’ This act wan renented, when a crowd gathered around and cried (‘Tear it down,” and some demonstrations were made carry out the threat, when “ay or Henry spear ed upon the scene, addressed the assemblage ond cal'ed upon al good citizens to dinper ne Mayor Henry was greeted with great eethusians, and three cheers we en for bim and General ilomer, when the crowd moved slowly wit Nominations for State Officers of West A comventicn mevat Parkersberg on the 6th to pom! pate officers for the wew State of West Virginia, and wijoorned yesterday, having reade the following nomi. bation» For Gowrnar of Parkersburg Seereary of Stetr—j % Royer, of Widdletown, Treasurer—Camphell Tarr, of Meawke county Awlitor Samuel Crane, of Wheeling JudcerR 1. Rerksbire, Of Morgantown; ¥ A Harrison, of Carkeborg, and James 11, Brown, of Kans whe Ade rnty Creal, B. Caldwott, ot Theeiing ‘The Indi Distarhances tn Utat, ocr Lane, May 8, 1868, On the 4th of May Captain mith, of the Seound Califor nia Veluwtenrs, found the y mie 4 Sell crena, Killed twenty-aine and vol th om the Oth they Killed (wonty che turing ware Bioek, tine wildier way woundet with Oty men, went serth on the 6th (0 evtabiieh « port at Goda Syringe ry ” Gee Comment News from San meteeo. as Peavcraw, May 9, 1808 Arriged sbip Gasper Com “ew Yor’, #higa Deaby George Hand, Migrator sot isck Wateh are advertions for Hews Kong Malen & American pix (0m at 46, sale of 1.200 bbie. rhed qogar, On'Woroie, Li ye., ple rene Mp too gree aw Aleohol in tet and pare wpirite 40 4e oven Patera tard, 124G0 200 (oem farsi canal, GLI, 24M bb's. coment at 62°75. Dirty eemros feabogany weed, B10} er pint, Mock of rice te the market ever 20,099,005 } oe Saxons I ngere. i " y 4, hen | the seametip Merlin series here toky tom Hew | feentinnd woh tweet we of the see “axons Sere nnn Secretary of War. The Finale of the Nine Days’ Campaign. The Retreat‘Acroas the Rappszhannock. Slight Opposition te the Move- mont from the Enemy. The Ficreo Fight of Sedgwick’s Corps at Salem Heights, Visit ofthe President and Generat Malleck to the Army. Brilliant Success of Stone- man’s Expedition. wee Safe Arrival of Col. Kilpatrick's Force of Stoneman’s Cavalry at Gloucester Peint. Offensive Operations to Be Speedily Resumed. THE SIXTH ARMY CORPS. Tho Battle of Salem Heights, May 3. VOR BANKS’ FORD, Splendid Bravery of General Sedge wick’s Comma. y ) THE Pane y 4. Callantry of a Lievtenant, who Swerificrs in Company aad Saves a Brigide. Casualtics in the Firstand Third Divisions. ae, de, wee DESPATCH PRON THE SECRETARY OB WAS, Wamninectry, Mag 8, biti To Tk Gos rRNen CF Meee ‘The Prewv! turned from bue The Principat -yperratyon there iat veer 19 var bum shpat Fb Ue veeam ethicleney of & Wee Bow ceony hasnoek Yee General Noexer Hs forme’ porition um the Maye frecrombed the rover wm thedt aay jane im the movemout Net acre Uhaw engaged Gener) Sv 2 thd of Goweral Shon ore xh boom > be vine mncoess, art wor advanced tow Of Rich nd ont in every dir The Ayny of se Kive operations a han mine tue goamy Se wounW tiene Bue & o@ tun otew CAane WOE Moor ily reneme WIN M. SLANIO®, Mooretary of War, | OUR DESPATCHES. (THE CORRESPONDENCE OF MR. GALEN H. OSEOMME, Barns’ Yoav. On vee Korecmayecer, Vay 7 . | ‘The battle of Salem MMeiyte, fought on Mendes @ ect sangcinary contents of the wo ihe dewick Were MATTING 10 pio Lerernt Ville, when sbey exe Hooker's colamo at “ty upon the reinforcements wie! Lougntreet had eoliected, and, after an eugagetneat almost w verity during (her bellinn m0. In the edvanee from the ty Atv inion Of General tire erlann ape the © foft, Bkiems Vorty thh Heventh Mannnc Kore throws out on Ueth flanks, and the maret miles w yet by the ret our resolutely advw volley of their mrt rebel General Par! of flying artiviery poy wn, hut nev der to charge Greatest rer ity OM the doable 4 ek me rab a Darn tiel in ee. Wnpalied to wihdraw Ny of Dreterwkabure the ke lod the way, wits Newton = te Minty fire York, Kighty-9w od Pewos lt, and the ners Hewe oper the om the Pecnevivanta 4 na r rt before ap and hurr y At four wet in the afte | 9 potet tour | Chane fora they «4 mod (, 1 ehould arteonded » anee tr npea ie rome tae rie f tee rom a . ’ | se thy Galem Taboruacls, T r thee lead dog | alan showed (hamnsel ves throngn toe Crome & little furthoe | yond, Midway bot the cherett aut Oar entrawen | to the open told wae & plaatation mansion of moderate Preteotens, and nearer ta ‘ta wooded * hus (rod anether ng. Theem comatiiate Balem Ieights 4 the Meld, r with (be road » whieh we were dyer nm J yan rer emer | An our (roope emerges from the worts and entered this word wae went tock from the PMirmm hers that (ee relate bad a battery 'n poritin om the bene opp vite the charch, sed wmomt weneatanecumy a vheti ne 4 the rebel gue exploded in the read wureg a nd bet Wore, and retioonly w ” Aap emt Caperal oo the ated of free Amen! nant om : y ite ew eRe, ee oie The reg coente of Calne! Pinrone’s New Jerney bri ¢ with the Mitenth and Use Bondred and gto, voret Twenty fret New York, from Barta 's brigede, immed ately py cored fovaned ead chirged ate the woods om the right «hie the} (ude ( Ceneral Maret mate a etme movement om tte leit A nttery @ ar \iery, under Caytarn Withevin satel harried forward wud bages to Pay HD met vnceiiont atiend apm the intrenchee |