Additional from the North.
The New York papers of the 17th give some further news of interest than the summary we published yesterday.
We give some extracts:
‘
Governor Bradford, of
Maryland has issued his proclamation cutting for three regiments for one hundred days service.
They are to rendezvous at
Baltimore, for service within the
State and are in no case to be required to do duty outside the
State without their consent.
’
The
Yankees are endeavoring to repair their losses by calling out the militia for one hundred days, to take the place of the men who were in the fortifications at
Washington and on the sea coast defences.
Yet they pretend that our losses are greater than their own, and that we cannot procure any reinforcements.
Louisville, May 14.--The following dispatch was received here at midnight:
Frankfort, May 13. --
To the Editors of the Louisville Journal: Kentuckians, to the rescue!
I want ten thousand six months troops at once!--Do not hesitate!
Come, I will lead you!
Let us help to finish this war and save our Government!
Thomas E. Bramlette,
Governor of
Kentucky.
G. D. Townsend, A. A. G. of the
United States declares "all Federal prisoners of war and all civilians on parole prior to May 7, 1864, the date of the order, exchanged." He says the
Confederates are still indebted to them 33,596, for which no equivalents have been received by the
Federal Government.
On the 14th, 1,000, and on the 15th, 800 wounded were received in
Baltimore.
Andrew Smithson was arrested in
Baltimore on the 14th, charged with denouncing the
Federal Government, and swearing that
Gen. Lee had whipped the
Yankees and would do so again.
Lord Lyons denies having had any correspondence with the Confederate Government.
The New York
Times's Washington correspondent of the 15th, says:
‘
Over 12,000 of our wounded have been brought up from the battle field and distributed among the hospitals in this city and
Alexandria.
A large number still remain at
Belle Plain and
Fredericksburg, awaiting removal.
Thousands still lie on the battle field.
’
A dispatch in the
Herald, dated
Washington, May 15, says the railroad from
Alexandria to Rappahannock Station remains undisturbed by guerillas, and is in perfect order.
Trains, however, run out no further than
Union Mills at present.
Stanton says
Sigel was last heard from at
Wood stock; and says the rumor that he had broken the railroads between
Lynchburg and
Charlottesville is not true.
[By this time they have found out it was
Sigel and his
Dutch that have been broken.]
The Cincinnati
Times says prominent among the combinations for the reduction of
Richmond is the movement of
Gen. Crooks from the
Kanawha Valley, with a considerable force.
Gen. Robinson had his thigh badly fractured, and it was thought would have to be amputated so high up as to endanger his life.
The
Herald publishes a sketch of
General J. E. B. Stuart.
A correspondent of the New York
Times, writing from
Fredericksburg, May 13th, says:
‘
The rebels hold out bravely.
They have fallen back not more than four miles after a week's desolate fighting.
’
The
Times says the ‘"work goes bravely on — the rebel
Longstreet has died of his wounds, and
Gen. Lee has been dangerously wounded and sent to
Richmond, and his army is in full retreat towards the rebel capital."’
The
Times, in an editorial about "West Pointers," says
Banks's overthrow in
Louisiana "has made it plain to everybody that
Major Gen. Banks is practically no General at all."
Major Derby,
surgeon-in-chief with
Gen. Banks, reports the
Federal loss at
Pleasant Hill at 670 killed, 1,340 wounded, and 1,565 missing and wounded.
A dispatch in the
Times from
Natchez,
Miss, says the "rebel battery which fired upon the steamer
Von.
Phill, made its appearance at
Fort de Russy and sunk the steamer
Emma.
A telegram from
Cincinnati, of the 14th, says:
‘
The rebels have retreated in some distance to
Resaca and
Rome.
The
Yankees claim to have captured 5,000 prisoners and 10 or 12 pieces of heavy artillery.
’
Butler's army — a Yankee Story.
A correspondent of the New York
Times, of the 14th inst, writing from Bermuda Hundreds, under date of the 10th, says:
‘
In the course of the morning
Gen. Butler received a flag of truce from the enemy, signed by
Gen. Eushrod Johnson, containing three propositions, viz: I Asking permission to come within our lines to remove their wounded and bury their dead.
2. Asking an exchange of their wounded.
3. Asking a general exchange of prisoners on both sides.
To the first of these propositions
Gen. Butler replied that the work was already done; to the second he announced himself as perfectly willing to assent, and to the third he replied that no exchange of healthy and well prisoners could be effected until the
Confederate authorities should acknowledge colored soldiers to be prisoners of war.
’
I suspect, after all, that the smart rebels cared less for burying their dead and an exchange of the wounded than for the well — the latter class being peremptorily needed just now in their army.
Circumstances, at least lead to this inference, for the blackened and swollen remains of several of their men, who fell in Saturday's fight and were buried by us on Monday, were frightful evidence that their care in this respect must be of sudden growth.
I do not know the numbers of rebel prisoners that have been sent to the rear of our lines, but I think they must have been quite large.
They are the best looking men of their class that I have ever seen.
They tell me that the niggard ration of three ounces of bacon per day, with its accompaniment of meal, is as much as they require to put them in fighting trim.
The officers fare so better than their men, receiving precisely the same ration in quality and not being allowed to purchase luxuries, even if they possess the means. "Ah!" said one, as he eat heartily of the private stores of one of our officers, "you Yankees don't know what privation means."
The "
Tribune" correspondent says that in the first six days of the series of battles
Gen. Grant has been fighting, he lost 40,000 men, nearly all of whom are killed and wounded, but few prisoners being taken.
Yet the Seven Days battles, which were called disastrous, left
McClellan within half the distance of
Richmond, as compared with
Grant's position at last accounts.
This fact would seem to prove that the
Peninsula route must have some advantages as compared with the overland route,
President Lincoln's 'plan' to the contrary.
The
Arkansas correspondent of the New York "
Times," under date of May 6th, makes the following candid admission:
‘
It is not too much to say that
Steele's movements so far have been a complete failure — a disastrous one, barely saved from being a perfect rout.
As I was in
Little Rock on the 1st inst, (Sunday,) when the army was expected to return that evening, as I knew personally of the panic that existed there, and had conversed with officers right from the front, it is not presumptuous to claim some knowledge of the real status of affairs in
Arkansas.
’
