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ason why Grant does not offer batted to General Lee. The report, however, may be but if so, and if McClellan has any in fnce over Grant's actions, the latter would hardly be apt to select the Peninsula as a line of operations. McClellan tried that route once, and abandoned it in grief and despair; and the experiment cost him his camels, as well as the soubriquet of the "Young Napoleon." The train last evening brought down one hundred and forty prisoners, taken by Mahone's command in Tuesdays fight. The affair in Charles City county. We have received some further particulars of the affair in Charles City county, to which brief allusion was made yesterday. The expedition, which consisted of a portion of Gen. Fitz. Lee's cavalry division, started from Matthews Court House and proceeded to Hennon's wharf, on James river, a point nearly opposite Fort Powhatan. At one o'clock on Tuesday our men dismounted and pushed forward through the woods which. He between the river ro
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The end of the Heenan and King Championship. --On the 24th ult., Thomas King, John Carmel Heenan. Thomas Sayere, John Tyler, Jerry Noon, John Macdonald, James Mace, and Robert Travers were tried at the Sussex (Eng) Quarter Sessions held at the Saire Hall, Lawes, on the charge of having riotously assembled and of having assaulted and beaten Thomas King and John Carmel Heenan. Mr. Roupell and Mr. Willoughby prosecuted. King, Mace, Calvin, and Tyler were defended by Sergeant Tindal Atkinson and Mr. E Besley, while Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Gates represented Heenan, Sayers, and Macdonald. Serjeant Atkinson and Mr. Sleigh said that their clients would plead 'Guilty.' with the exception of Mace, against whom there was no evidence. The Chairman thought that it would be sufficient to call upon the defendants to enter into their own recognizance in the sum of 1007 each to appear and receive judgment when called upon. The defendants entered into the required sureties and left the court.
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ise appropriated, to be expended by the Secretary of the Treasury, is the purchase of cotton and its conversion into specie, to be applied exclusively to providing for the payment of the interest aforesaid. The Senate then resolved into secret session. The doors being opened Mr. Johnson, of Mo., submitted the following: Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring therein, that the resolution passed by the two Houses fixing the day of adjournment for the 31st instant be and the same is hereby rescind. Laid on the table. The Senate then adjourned. House of Representatives--Prayer by the Rev Dr. Jeter, of the Baptist Church. Mr Hanly. of Ark, from the Military Committee, to whom had been referred a memorial of the Society of Friends, reported a bill to amend so much of the act of February 17, 1864, to organize forces to serve during the war as relates to the exemption of certain religious denominations. The bill was taken up and passed
May 20th (search for this): article 1
s road to Fredericksburg, and no teams ought to have been in transit over it. Hereafter the Massaponax church and Childsburgh dirt road will be used as our line of communication until the location of the army is substantially changed Friday, May 20--7 A. M.--The losses in the fight last evening are estimated at between five and six hundred and are confined mainly to few regiments The First Maryland veteran regiment were returning from their furlough home, and found themselves under fire befs concealed foe. The veterans were soon engaged with their old enemies, and assisted materially in breaking the rebel line and clearing the woods. This regiment lost fifty killed and wounded out of three hundred. The latest telegram dated May 20th, says: The position occupied by Lee is a vast entrenched camp. Its natural strength has been increased by the creation of fortifications, which were built long ago in anticipation of their need. Lee manifests no disposition to come out o
May 24th (search for this): article 2
From Yankeedom. Mobile, May 26. --A special dispatch to the Tribune, dated Senatobia, May 24th, says that the Chicago Tribune, of the 19th, and the Memphis Bulletin, of the 21st, have been received there. Grant's loss is put down at 20,000 wounded, of whom 12,700 had arrived in Washington; 15,000 were left at Fredericksburg and Belle Plains. Grant's losses, exclusive of Burnside's, foot up 45,000. They claim the capturing of 8,000 prisoners, forty guns, and twenty colors. Sigel is reported to have been badly thrashed by Breckinridge. The Courier reports that it is not so, but says that Sigel gained a victory, losing 600 men, and Breckinridge losing 1,000. Nothing definite from Banks.
May 26th (search for this): article 1
From North Georgia. Atlanta, May 26. --A reporter from the front arrived late last evening. Wheeler attacked Cassville Tuesday, defeated Woolford's cavalry brigade, burned 160 and brought off 80 wagons, and 150 prisoners.--The Yankees are running cars to Cass Station. Scouts report that three Yankee corps have crossed the Etowah on the road to Dallas, and are still crossing. They march in close order, with no straggling, and are ready at any time for a fight. McPherson occupied Dal afternoon and Wednesday morning with Polk's corps. The Yankees levy heavy contributions an they march, and burn all the mills, factories, and residences. Where the owners have left they destroy everything. [Second Dispatch.] Atlanta, May 26. --The army having advanced from the line of the railroad westward, our information comes more irregular. The firing heard last evening and again to-day is supposed to have been about thirty miles from here, between Marietta and Dallas
May 26th (search for this): article 2
From Yankeedom. Mobile, May 26. --A special dispatch to the Tribune, dated Senatobia, May 24th, says that the Chicago Tribune, of the 19th, and the Memphis Bulletin, of the 21st, have been received there. Grant's loss is put down at 20,000 wounded, of whom 12,700 had arrived in Washington; 15,000 were left at Fredericksburg and Belle Plains. Grant's losses, exclusive of Burnside's, foot up 45,000. They claim the capturing of 8,000 prisoners, forty guns, and twenty colors. Sigel is reported to have been badly thrashed by Breckinridge. The Courier reports that it is not so, but says that Sigel gained a victory, losing 600 men, and Breckinridge losing 1,000. Nothing definite from Banks.
May 26th (search for this): article 3
From the army of Northern Virginia. Ashland, May 26. --Both armies are still confronting each other in line of battle around Hanover Junction. Nothing of interest is believed to have transpired to day further than skirmishing.
May 26th (search for this): article 4
A General Prayer Meeting Recommended. Macon, Ga, May 26. --The following resolution was adopted unanimously this morning at the City Prayer Meeting: Resolved, That the Christians of this meeting request the city editors to send the following as a Press telegram all over our land: The Christians of Macon, Ga., ask their brethren everywhere in the Confederacy to unite with them in prayer for our country daily at 5 o'clock P. M.
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The end of the Heenan and King Championship. --On the 24th ult., Thomas King, John Carmel Heenan. Thomas Sayere, John Tyler, Jerry Noon, John Macdonald, James Mace, and Robert Travers were tried at the Sussex (Eng) Quarter Sessions held at the Saire Hall, Lawes, on the charge of having riotously assembled and of having assaulted and beaten Thomas King and John Carmel Heenan. Mr. Roupell and Mr. Willoughby prosecuted. King, Mace, Calvin, and Tyler were defended by Sergeant Tindal Atkinson and Mr. E Besley, while Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Gates represented Heenan, Sayers, and Macdonald. Serjeant Atkinson and Mr. Sleigh said that their clients would plead 'Guilty.' with the exception of Mace, against whom there was no evidence. The Chairman thought that it would be sufficient to call upon the defendants to enter into their own recognizance in the sum of 1007 each to appear and receive judgment when called upon. The defendants entered into the required sureties and left the court.
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