Runaway--fifty dollars reward.
--On Sunday, the 22d of June, my boy Ewart a bright mulatto; about 5 feet 4 inches in height; 17years of age. The said boy supposed to have accompanied the army of when passing through Albemarle country.
The above reward will be paid if taken out of the county, and $10 if taken in the county.
Chas S. Bowcock,
jy 3--1w Everettsville, Albemarle co., Va.
The War in the Southwest.
We have advices direct from Little Rock. Arkansas as late as the 22nd of June. At that date Gen. was still there while the Federal army, under Courts was on White river, some seventy miles distant. The force of the enemy in Arkansas does exceed ten thousand men and an army order the leadership of such a man as Gen. Stering Price would clean them out with no less of time and carry the war again far within the border of Missouri.
Much information has been communicated to us in regard to the situation of affairs to Arkansas but we need say no more than that it is in the power of our Government, by prudent management and energetic measures, to strike a blow from whose effects the Yankee invaders of the would never recover.
Our informant was in Vicksburg for a short po and with the bombardment of the city and its results.
His opinion is that Vicksburg can not be taken by the enemy.
The canal which they were making on the opposite side of the riv
From Petersburg. Petersburg, June 22.
--10 A M.--Hancock's Yankee corps yesterday made an attempt to strike the Weldon road, but after getting within hall a mile of it, on Davis's farm, two miles below the city, our artillery opened upon them, and at the same time our infantry came into action, driving the enemy back, caprant's whole army is now in our front on the south side of the Appomattox.
Nothing exciting is transpiring this morning.
[second Dispatch.] Petersburg. June 22,
7 P M.--Two brigades of our army attacked and flanked Hancock's 2d army corps this evening, about two miles south of-this place.
The fight began at 2 o'clss is very light.
The enemy have cut the Weldon road ten miles below here, but it will soon be repaired, it is supposed.
[third Dispatch.] Petersburg, June 22.
--The Yankee raiding party, after cutting the Weldon road at Reame's Station, proceeded towards Dinwiddie Court-House, for the purpose of cutting the South
Casualties of the first Maryland Heavy Artillery--Lt John Gale commanding, on the 22d June--Corp'l W H Hatton, Charles county Md, flesh wound in thigh; Privates Albert Dougherty, Somerset county Md, severely in head, will recover; Harry Pennington, Baltimore city, flesh would in thigh; Chas Pease, Baltimore city, painfully in arm; McFillns, Georgetown, D C, hand broken; G W Robinson, Delaware, slightly in breast.
The Nashville Dispatch announces the death of Peter Bashaw, the last Revolutionary soldier in Tennessee, who died near that city, on the 20th ult, at the great age of 101 years.
Since Gen Loring assumed command of the "Army of Mississippi," now with Gen. Johnston, Brig Gen.
Featherstone has commanded Loring's division, and Col Melion, of the 3d Mississippi Featherstone's brigade.
Col Ed O Cook, of the 32d Tennessee regiment, was wounded on the 22d of June, and died at Marietta, Ga, on the night of the 23d.
A correspondent of the Atlanta Confederacy recommends Gen Guenvus W Smith as the successor of Lieut Gen Polk.
hat the counties open to the Yankee troops will be desolated and ruined.
[Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Petersburg, Va., July 7th, 1864.
Since my last communication there has been nothing worthy of a letter, and my only reason for writing to-day, is to give through the public journals of the country, the names of the gallant men in Mahone's division, who captured the ten battle flags of the enemy, in the flank movement against Hancock's Second Corps, which took place on the 22d of June.
These flags since their capture have been at Gen. Mahone's Headquarters, but will to-day be forwarded to Richmond to the War Department, there to be kept among the trophies of the campaign and the war. I had a at them yesterday evening, and propose to mention them briefly.
The handsomest is one with the word "Tammany" on one of the stripes.
This is a most beautiful flag of elegant material and excellent workmanship.
The stars are all white, set in blue ground.
It belonged to th
y of Wilson's raid — its Unfortunate Termination — a Yankee way of Balancing Damages.
The correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, under date of July 2d, gives that journal quite a lengthy account of Wilson's recent raid upon the Richmond and Danville Railroad.
The force which was engaged were the divisions of Wilson and Kantz, numbering about 6,000 men, under command of the former, and sixteen pieces of artillery.
He says:
With this force Gen Wilson set out at 1 A M on the 22d of June, starting from the vicinity of Prince George Court House.
He crossed the Petesrburg and Weldon Railroad at Reams's Station, at which point Col Chapman, with the Second brigade of Wilson's own division, had a skirmish with a small force of the enemy, which, however, was easily driven.
The expedition moved by way of Dinwiddie Court House toward Petersburg and, on the south side of the railroad, which they struck at Ford's Mills, near Sutherland's Station.
They then moved down the road, G
d puffed up like a frog with pride, and thought themselves better than their fellow-men, and bedizened with gold lace and brass buttons,"or words to that effect.
All this at Camp Paroled Prisoners, near Demopolis, Alabama, on or about the 22d day of May, 1864. [Signed] L. B. Haynes, Captain First Louisiana Artillery, [Signed] A. C. Davis, Acting Judge Advocate Department, Military Court.
This charge was fully investigated before a court martial convened at Meridian on the 22d of June, and resulted in the speedy acquittal of the accused.
The following is the decision of the court:
VIII.
David S, Snodgrass.
Chaplain of Post, Demopolis.
Charge — Conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline.
Finding:
Of Specification First.--The court finds that David S. Snodgras, Chaplain of the Post, Demopolis, Alabama, in a discourse delivered before enlisted men, at the Camp of Paroled Prisoners, did say: "In the great Christian army, there would be no
alluded, to show that, in detail, by a brief mention of the dates and engagements, with the loss of men in each case:
May 5, Rapidan,2,000
May 6, Wilderness,15,000
May 7,skirmishes,300
May 10,Spotsylvania,10,000
May 12,Spotsylvania,10,000
May 18,Po,1,200
May 19,Po,1,200
May 23, North Anna,1,000
May 24,North Anna,2,000
May 31,Cold Harbor,3,000
June 3,Chickahominy,7,000
June 16,Petersburg,2,000
June 17,Petersburg,1,000
June 18,Petersburg,3,000
June 19,Petersburg,4,000
June 22,Weldon railroad,2,500
June 23,Weldon railroad,1,000
June 26, Danville railroad,3,500
Last assault on Petersburg,5,040
Absolute loss of men,73,340
The above may appear appalling to European eyes, as also to those on this side of the Atlantic, but it does not give the half of Grant's losses in this campaign.
All the columns operating in Virginia are under Grant's orders, and must be received as a part of his campaign.
In the table above, no mention is made of Hunter's losses in his
