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Wistar (search for this): article 1
on. All these reports indicate a grand combination of movements, having in view the occasion of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. The Chicago Times says Grant is advancing on Montgomery, Ala. The escape of Col. Straight--his arrival with other prisoner, at Fortress Monroe. The following official dispatch announces the whereabouts of Streight and seventeen, of his comrades: Fortress Monroe, Monday, Feb. 15. I have received a telegram under date of February 14, from Gen. Wistar, which states that Col. Streight, with one hundred and ten other Union officers, escaped from prison in Richmond by digging a tunnel. Col. Streight, with seventeen others, are safe. Benjamin F. Buttler, Major General Commanding. Another dispatch says: The following list of officers is reported to have arrived at Williamsburg: Col. Streight; Col. we Creary, 21st Michigan Lieut.-Col. Hobart, 21st Wisconsin; Capt. Wallack, 51st Indiana; Lieut. Harris, 9th Ohio. Six
Gunther (search for this): article 1
engers, mounted their horses and left. The locomotive was soon put upon the track and proceeded on to Cumberland. Miscellaneous. The Yankee Senate and House are at a dead lock on the Enrollment Bill. It hasn't passed yet. A letter from New York says: A pretty revelation was made in the Assembly chamber last evening, in the course of an exciting debate on the Metropolitan Police bill. The Democrats got into a fight among themselves in the course of which it came out that Mayor Gunther is at the head of an extensive peace organization which has its secret mountings periodically in the city of New York. One of these meetings, it was further stated, was held as recently as last week, at which were present representatives from every State in the Union. This disclosure took the War Democrats by surprise, and an urgent desire was expressed for further light on the subject. The following resolution passed the U. S. House on Monday, by a vote of 78 to 62: Resolved
Straight (search for this): article 1
at Clinton Miss., on the 4th. The Federal troops charged a rebel battery and just 15 killed and 30 wounded. The enemy were driven off, and the troops continued their advance. Another dispatch from Chattanooga says that Gen. Thomas army is now in motion for Tunnel Hill and Dalton. All these reports indicate a grand combination of movements, having in view the occasion of Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. The Chicago Times says Grant is advancing on Montgomery, Ala. The escape of Col. Straight--his arrival with other prisoner, at Fortress Monroe. The following official dispatch announces the whereabouts of Streight and seventeen, of his comrades: Fortress Monroe, Monday, Feb. 15. I have received a telegram under date of February 14, from Gen. Wistar, which states that Col. Streight, with one hundred and ten other Union officers, escaped from prison in Richmond by digging a tunnel. Col. Streight, with seventeen others, are safe. Benjamin F. Buttler, Major
Creary (search for this): article 1
rades: Fortress Monroe, Monday, Feb. 15. I have received a telegram under date of February 14, from Gen. Wistar, which states that Col. Streight, with one hundred and ten other Union officers, escaped from prison in Richmond by digging a tunnel. Col. Streight, with seventeen others, are safe. Benjamin F. Buttler, Major General Commanding. Another dispatch says: The following list of officers is reported to have arrived at Williamsburg: Col. Streight; Col. we Creary, 21st Michigan Lieut.-Col. Hobart, 21st Wisconsin; Capt. Wallack, 51st Indiana; Lieut. Harris, 9th Ohio. Sixteen other officers have arrived at Williamsburg, whose names have not reached here yet. Our cavalry were securing the country to the Chickahominy. Gunboats have gone up the James and Chickahominy rivers to give protection to such as can be found. The New York Tribune says the incentive to Gen. Butler's recent attempt against Richmond, was that "negotiations for the ex
Climore (search for this): article 1
t., the military quarters presented the scenes of preparation which precede battle.--They were ordered to leave the next day for a destination unknown to them. When the morning came, nearly eleven thousand troops. Including some batteries, embarked on the steamers; and the living military burden on the waters presented a scene of martial activity to which Hilton Head has long been a stranger. Gen. Seymour was in command; and before the expedition salted he had a lengthy audience with General Climore. It was intended for Florida, to co-operate with our forces in st. Augustine, and to capture the connective towns in that region. I subsequently ascertained that the expedition continued on its journey for three days without being intercepted by any obstacles, and that the troops were landed off Jacksonville. Some scattered rebels fired a few shots from the bluffs on the coast, and at the approach of our soldiers the pickets hastily fled, crowing the expedition with a bloodless victo
Benjamin F. Buttler (search for this): article 1
he escape of Col. Straight--his arrival with other prisoner, at Fortress Monroe. The following official dispatch announces the whereabouts of Streight and seventeen, of his comrades: Fortress Monroe, Monday, Feb. 15. I have received a telegram under date of February 14, from Gen. Wistar, which states that Col. Streight, with one hundred and ten other Union officers, escaped from prison in Richmond by digging a tunnel. Col. Streight, with seventeen others, are safe. Benjamin F. Buttler, Major General Commanding. Another dispatch says: The following list of officers is reported to have arrived at Williamsburg: Col. Streight; Col. we Creary, 21st Michigan Lieut.-Col. Hobart, 21st Wisconsin; Capt. Wallack, 51st Indiana; Lieut. Harris, 9th Ohio. Sixteen other officers have arrived at Williamsburg, whose names have not reached here yet. Our cavalry were securing the country to the Chickahominy. Gunboats have gone up the James and Chickahominy
Cimer (search for this): article 1
toms upon the market premium, and indirectly on the public credit. In its commercial article it says: At 4 o'clock the following prices were made is comparison with Saturday night: The shorts in gold had to pay above 161 per cent at the close of the deliveries of the day. The prices then fell off to 160¾ per cent. The Railroad Raid near Harper's Ferry. The Baltimore American, of Saturday, has the following notice of the capture of a railroad train near Harper's Ferry, by Cimer's cavalry. It says: The train which left Baltimore at six o'clock on Thursday evening reached Harper's Ferry about 11 o'clock, and moved on towards Martinsburg, having on board a goodly number of passengers bound West. When at Kearneysville, about nine miles beyond Harper's Ferry and ten miles this side of Martinsburg, the train encountered a pile of rails on the back, and the locomotive was thrown off, but going at a slow speed, no damage was done. As soon as the train was stop
William J. McCluney (search for this): article 1
., to prevent the payment of the two thousand seven hundred dollars incurred in billing the quotes also to prevent the holding of any more town meeting to appropriate money for volunteers. The Injunction, it is declared, was signed by men of all parties. Gen. Butler has ordered that all estates in his department abandoned or now occupied by rebels shall be turned over by the military commanders, to be taken possession of by the Superintendent of negro affairs or treasury agents. Commodore Wm. J. McCluney, U. S. N. died on the 11th inst. He was in the wasp in the fight with the british sloop Frolic in 1812. Gen. Grant has written to some friends in New York peremptorily declining to be a candidate for the Presidency. Sir. Wm. Atherton, Attorney General of England, who prosecuted in the Alexandra case, is dead'. Beast Butler is in New York to attend the funeral of his brother, Col. Butler. Geo. Thompson, the English Abolitionist, has arrived to Boston.
William Atherton (search for this): article 1
n., to prevent the payment of the two thousand seven hundred dollars incurred in billing the quotes also to prevent the holding of any more town meeting to appropriate money for volunteers. The Injunction, it is declared, was signed by men of all parties. Gen. Butler has ordered that all estates in his department abandoned or now occupied by rebels shall be turned over by the military commanders, to be taken possession of by the Superintendent of negro affairs or treasury agents. Commodore Wm. J. McCluney, U. S. N. died on the 11th inst. He was in the wasp in the fight with the british sloop Frolic in 1812. Gen. Grant has written to some friends in New York peremptorily declining to be a candidate for the Presidency. Sir. Wm. Atherton, Attorney General of England, who prosecuted in the Alexandra case, is dead'. Beast Butler is in New York to attend the funeral of his brother, Col. Butler. Geo. Thompson, the English Abolitionist, has arrived to Boston.
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of the officers of the Exchange Bureau New York papers of Tuesday, the 16th inst. We give a summary of the news they contain: The movements in the Southwest The war news from Gen. Grant's department is highly interesting. A dispatch from Chattanooga states that Gen. Logan, with the 15th army corps, left the vicinity of Huntsville, Ala., some days ago, moving southwardly, and we have rebel accounts of the presence of some of his forces at Lebanon, Ala., some twenty south of the Tennessee river. The cavalry expedition under Gens. Grierson and Smith, started from Memphis, moving across the country southwardly. It was understood (says the New York Times) that these columns were intended to act in conjunction, the one to attack, and the other to out off the retreat of Polk and Forrest, who were scouring Central and Northern Mississippi. This movement was generally regarded as a great flanking movement on Johnston's army. A Nashville dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazettes say
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