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ce, which is of much interest: We have reliable information that a portion of McClellan's army sought safety in flight as far back as Monday afternoon. This we knew Monday night, and so stated yesterday, but further confirmation of this retreat is furnished in the following communication which Col. Pannill, the Provost Marshal of this city, has kindly furnished us: Drewry's Bluff, July 1. To Col. Wm. Pannill, Provost Marshal: Capt. Upshur reports from Bermuda Hundreds on James river, at 11 o'clock last night, that the enemy (or a portion of them) was in full retreat; that their gunboats were near Shirley, on the Charles City shore, endeavoring to protect the retreat; that the Galena and two other gunboats had tired 200 shells into ranks, as they supposed, but that our forces had pressed the enemy hard, and he could hear fearfully rapid musketry firing until dark; that they were embarking their wounded above Shirley, and that many stragglers of all arms of the service
the brick floor and seized some money which they had heard from her negroes was buried there. The Petersburg Express says: The Federal gunboat John Bell. which was so severely peppered on Friday week last, while attempting to pass up James river, in the vicinity of Turkey Island, by a section of French's battery, under the direction of Col. Manning, of the 3d Arkansas regiment, has turned up at the North, and reports "severe injures" sustained on the occasion above alluded to. Our boyiserable piece of deception to save the cowardly vandals who had deserted the deck and huddled below. From a gentleman who has visited City Point within the last day or two, we learn that the malice of the commanders of the Federal fleet James river was so far indulged in their recent beastly raid up our river as to impel them to the commission of many dastardly acts. Independent of their wanton destruction of private property and the great jeopardy in which they placed the lives of many