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waiting the arrival of a paymaster. The ship Fair Wind, of Boston, with a cargo of guano, was this morning towed up the Roads by the steamer S. R Spaulding, in a disabled condition, having been ashore at Hog Island. The British ship-of-war Gladiator was yesterday cruising off the Capes. A flag of truce yesterday conveyed Mr. Whalen, former U. S. Minister to Nicaragua, to the Confederates' pickets beyond New Market bridge. A flag of truce is just in from Norfolk, with Corporal Hulburt, of the First Connecticut Regiment, released by the Confederates for his attention to Colonel Gardiner, after the battle of Bull Run. He states that a considerable number of released ministers, including several chaplains, will reach Old Point tomorrow. In his opinion the Confederates are actively preparing for an attack upon Fortress Monroe. That measure is now popular in the Confederate camps, and appropriate material is being collected in large quantities at Norfolk. All the
wing, Major General Law. Wallace; left wing, Brigadier General Nelson. Between these, beginning at the left, Brigadier Generals Tom Crittenden, A. Mr. D, McCock, Hulburt, McClernand, and Sherman. In the divisions of the three latter were to be included also the remains of Prentiss's and W. H. L. Wallace's commands shattered, diso take their places, and for them the fight is added. I might describe similar deeds of Will and Harrison's regiments, but, "from learn all." M'Clernand and Hulburt. Farther to the right McClernand and Hulburt were gallantly coming on with their jaded men. The soldiers would fight — that was the great lesson of the battleence of surprise, that can hardly be wholly charged on them. Four times McClernand regained and lost again the ground to the front of his division. Similar were Hulburt's fortunes. But I must abandon these details. Beginning at the left we have followed the wave of successes that swept us forward again, from spot to spot, o
r-Gen. Grant will retain command of his district, including the army corps of Tennessee, but in the present movements will act as second in command under the Major-General commanding the Department. Cincinnati. Friday May 2.--The Commercial has, from its correspondent with the army of Gen. Saileck, the following official figures of our loss at the battle of Pittsburg Landing: KilledWounded.Missing. McClernand's2511,351286 W H L Wallace's2281,0331,163 Lew Wallace's4225795 Hulburt's3131,449325 Sherman's4371,402482 Prentiss's1935621,802 Crittenden's8041037 Nelson's9364210 McCook's948064 Total1,7257,8324,044 The total killed wounded, and missing is 13,661. About 300 of the wounded have since died. [After this expense, we hope to hear no more of a Yankee victory at "Pittsburg Landing" --or properly Shiloh] From Yorktown. The following is the substance of the news from Yorktown, published in the Northern papers of May 2d: The intelligence f
mphis yesterday. The Chicago Times, of the 2d, has been received. Grant admits a heavy loss, and has fallen back to the Big Black, where he is awaiting reinforcements from Banks. The Memphis and Charleston Railroad has been stripped of troops. Rosecrans is reinforcing Grant via Louisville. All the steamboats at Louisville and Memphis have been pressed. Four thousand five hundred Confederates had reached Memphis. The officers go to Sandusky, and the men to Indianapolis. Gen. Hulburt has been ordered to prepare hospitals at Memphis for thirty thousand wounded. Grant asks Hurlburt for thirty thousand men, and Hurlburt replied that he did not know where they were to come from. Their own figures foot up a loss of 50,000. [third Dispatch.] Mobile, June 9. --A special to the Tribune from Jackson, dated the 8th, says there are many rumors, the most reliable of which is that Gen. Kirby Smith. instead of being at Port Hudson, has taken Milliken's Bend, with ten