Col. Turner Clanton, a prominent citizen of Augusta, Ga., died on the 13th Inst. He was a native of Virginia.
The court house of Coffee county.
Miss, was destroyed by fire on the 2d inst., with all its papers.
ow a Yankee paper announced Mrs. Beauregard's death.
--The New Orleans Era, the organ of the Yankee military government in that city, announced the death of Mrs. Beauregard in the paragraph copied below.
The paper is edited by the Lieut.-Colonel of a Massachusetts regiment, detailed for that duty.
No language could do this creature justice:
The morning papers announce the death of the wife of G. T. Beauregard.
She died at her residence on Esplanade street, on the evening of the 2d inst. This woman has, we learn, been in poor health for the past two or three years, and has required, what has been denied her, the care and attention of the man who gave her his word at the altar to cherish and protect her. He also swore at one time to support the Constitution of the United States.
He does not he'd his oaths in very high estimation, as we find him not only plotting for the destruction of his country, but deserting his invalid wife for years together, and leaving her dependent
— The exchanges of officers on both sides are computed at their exchanged v in privates. --Since the date of the above report there have been less than one thousand exchanges, and very few captures on either side.
The figures are, consequently, approximately correct.
No statement has been furnished of the number of prisoners held by the Confederates.
Washington Discussions on the Presidential question — everything to be Reversed to Gen. Grant.
A letter from Washington, dated the 2d inst., published in the New York Herald gives the following speculations about the Presidency.
If is probable that Gen. Grant has as much to do now in his "change of base" as he end well attend to without meddling in the Presidential question:
The political cauldron at Washington is building and bubbling at a fearful rats, and its mixed ingredients, as they are turned up to the surface, would astonish the witches of Macbeth.
The responding members of the dominant party of the two are beg
The Trans-Mississippi.
The Atlanta Appeal, of the 2d inst., has the following encouraging view of affairs in the trans-Mississippi Department, written before the report of Steele's surrender to Price:
If our intelligence from the West be true, and we have no reason the doubt it, Gens Smith and Price are doing their work up nobly on the west side of the Mississippi river.
The campaign of Banks in Louisiana has proved a complete failure, and he is represented as having been driven on the north side of Red river, and is seeking refuge at Natchez, on this side of the Mississippi.
This leaves all West Louisiana free from the enemy, and will play hob with those Yankees who have emigrated thither with the view of raising cotton and sugar.
They will be compelled to give up their farms, of course, and re-emigate to the North.
Gen Magruder seems to have no foe to contend with in Texas, and Gen Smith will remain idle during the spring and summer, as it will be impossible for L
our men, two of them Colonels.
The defeat of Banks in Louisiana.
A Washington telegram says that a bearer of dispatches from Admiral Porter has arrived there, who given "a more deplorable account of Banks's disastrous campaign than any heretofore published." The statement of the bearer of dispatches is thus condensed:
On the first day a column of 30,000 men was exposed on the march in such fashion as to be easily and shamefully dispersed by from 12,000 to 15,000.
On the second day Gen A J Smith whipped the rebels alone, driving them six miles. He was in hot pursuit, eager to reap all the fruits of victory, when an order came from Gen Banks directing him to retreat with the rest of his army.
General Smith refused to obey.
A second order to fall back he also refused to obey.
Finally Gen Banks in person brought in a third order, and insisted that Smith should fall back before daylight.
He begged permission to stay long enough to bury his dead and care for his wou
50 dollars reward.
--Ranaway from the subscriber, on the 2nd inst., my negro boy Sawney, who is about 17 years old, 5 feet 4 inches fire, of a light gingerbread color, blue eyes, which a thick head of hair; was raised in Orange county, by a Mr. Garnett, to which place he may attempt to made his way; or he may be lurking about Richmond and its vicinity.
The above reward of $50 will be paid for his delivery to me, or if secured in any jail so I get him again. R. A. Patterson, Henrico co, May 23, 1864, my 24--6t
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
simply this: The enemy's wounded, who had lain for forty-eight hours in front of our works, waved their handkerchiefs and hats for assistance, and the Yankees who came out of the woods to render it were picked off by our sharpshooters.--Grant is too much of a bull dog to send in a flag of truce, according to the customary mode of civilized warfare, since it would be a partial acknowledgment of defeat.
The following are the casualties in the Fayette Artillery, of Richmond:
On the 2d instant, Geo. A. Newton, Washington city; on the 3d instant, Peter Fritz, and on the 4th instant,--Pheaney and Thomas W. Sheed — all killed.
Three are wounded, whose names were not reported.
[from our own correspondent.] Army of Northern Virginia, Near Gaines's Mill, June 5, 1864.
Since Friday morning no engagements of any magnitude or importance have occurred between these two contending hosts, and the situation is essentially the same that it was at the close of those repeated and
Later from the North.
A Washington paper of the 2d instant has been received in the city.
Gold in New York on the 1st was 189½--an advance of one cent on the last advices.
The general news is devoid of interest; accounts from the "Army of the Potomac" are dull, and somewhat less boastful than usual in regard to the prospect of a speedy downfall of the rebel capital.
The knowledge of Grant's change of base seems to have put the coveted prize farther off than ever, and the paper has not even an editorial comment on the "situation." Indeed, its leading article is on "Taxing bachelors and widows." According to one correspondent, Grant has a full appreciation of the calibre of his opponent.
A released prisoner from Richmond, who has arrived at Baltimore, tells some mendacious stories of the situation of affairs here.
Among other things, he says that only four hundred Yankees were captured with Gen. Heckman in the battle near Drewry's Bluff on the 16th of May
With regard
Raid towards the Wilmington road.
--The Goldsboro' State Journal, of the 2d inst., says:-- "As we go to press we learn from good authority that a Yankee force, said to be from twelve to fifteen hundred strong, with artillery, &c, have moved out from Sheppardsville, and threaten the line of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
Step have promptly been taken to check them."
