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The War news. A courier arrived last evening from Gen. Beauregard's headquarters, and reported that the prevailing quiet on the Southside remained unbroken, save by a slight cannonading in the distance, which was supposed to proceed from the gunboats down the river. Butler continues to amuse himself, and buoy up the spirits of the North, by sending thither accounts of battles which never took place, and victories which he never won. The Beast is evidently afraid to let his true situation be known to his Yankee masters. From Gen. Lee's army. No official dispatches from Gen. Lee were furnished for publication yesterday. The press correspondent, however, reports that Grant has recrossed the North Anne, and is again on the move, it is supposed, in the direction of our right; and we have it on good authority that he has thrown a force of infantry and cavalry across the Pamunkey at Hanover Town, about twenty miles from Richmond, in a northeasterly direction.--This is the dir
ent he for the first time discovered that he was not, in strict military language, on the offensive; but, on the contrary, was shut up in his entrenchments by Gen. Beauregard, who had moved in on him during the day. A letter, dated at Hatcher's, May 18th, from "H. Q," of the 18th army corps, thus relates how the discovery was made:orced back or broken through. He tried another portion of the line with the same result, and soon ascertained that the woods were teeming with rebels, and that Beauregard was in full force before our works. He then turned and came into camp, having lost his orderly, killed, and several men wounded. As the fighting was done in tfor them at daylight, and do not doubt our ability to repulse every effort they may make. Their force is placed at from twenty five to thirty thousand men. General Beauregard commands, and Bush rod Johnson has their left wing. The gunboats under Admiral Lee have been shelling the rebels engaged in building a battery on one of