thousand dollars worth of stores. We do not 
stop here, — a still more important point is 
aimed at. Crooks’ Cavalry are with us, and 
doing splendidly. 
Secretary Stanton’s official dispatch, dated 
June 12—12 M., gives official news from Hunter's 
command. The fight in which Gen. Jones was 
killed, took place at Piedmont. 1,500 prisoners, 
and 3,000 stand of arms were taken. 
Arkansas.— The steamer Emperor arrived 
at Cairo on the 11th. She passed Columbia, 
Arkansas, on the 7th. The town and all the 
plantations about there were on fire, burned by 
Gen, Smith. Gen. Smith's command was 
ashore, resting from a hard fight with Marma- 
duke, in which the rrhels were driven off with 
severe loss. Marmaduke took shelter beyond 
an impassable bayou, where he prepared to 
make a stand. Gen. Smith took possession of 
his late field of operations, and the embargo 
upon the Mississippi river hail been removed. 
Our loss was from thirty to forty killed and 
wounded. 
The steamer Peruvian arrived from Duvall's 
Bluff at midnight, bringing Little Rock papers 
of the 3d. Thousands of persons are leaving 
resemblance of coin of the United States or for¬ 
eign countries, or of original design, every per¬ 
son so offending, on conviction thereof, shall be 
punished by a fine not exceeding $ 3 , 000 , or by 
imprisonment for a term not exceeding five 
years, or both, at the discretion of the Court, 
according to the aggravation of the offence. 
The House has passed a resolution (should the 
Senate concur) to adjourn on the 20th Inst. 
The Secretary of War has received dispatches 
from Gen. Sherman (in Georgia) of a very late 
date. Our lines were withiu four or five hun¬ 
dred yards of the enemy, at a place called Big 
Shanty. Fighting may soon be expected. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JUNE 18, 1864. 
The Army in Virginia. 
A correspondent of the Philadelphia 
Inquirer at Cold Harbor, saysA week ago 
to-day (June 6 ) our lines faced the Central rail¬ 
road, and to the west, with Mechamcsville and 
Richmond on our left flank. To-day our right 
has been swung around, and our whole line so 
crept down the Chickahominy that we now face 
to the southwest, with that stream before us, and 
with Mechanicsville and Richmond almost in 
front of our center. This is an important change. 
If Lee’s army were out in an open field, we 
would make extraordinary short work of them. 
[Our forces attacked the enemy on the 3d inst. 
in their entrenchments at A. M., and though 
gaining some advantages, were obliged to aban¬ 
don them, with a loss, during the day, of some 
seven thousand men in killed, wounded and 
missing. The rebels also lost heavily.] Just 
now they are in an improvised series of works 
northeast of the Chickahominy, not, properly 
speaking, a part of the defenses of Richmond, 
which all lie behind that historic, stream. 
Across the Chickahominy, the defenses are in 
five lines, or series of works. Meantime, as the 
two armies lie, close fighting is the order of the 
day. It is the days of Vicksburg over again. . 
The skirmishing lines are hardly forty yards 
apart, and each line is not more than that in the 
advance of the line of earth works. That ground 
between the lines of skirmishers would hardly 
be called pleasant just now. Sometimes a rash 
soldier advances a little way into it, but only a 
littly way, for he he Union or rebel, he is sure 
to fall, killed or wounded. 
The Tribunt's correspondence from headquar¬ 
ters J une Stb, says:—Our left wing now extends 
across the railroad on the eastern bank of the 
Chickabomiuy. An advance in that direction 
was made yesterday morning by Griffin and 
Cutler’s divisions of the Sth corps, and Sumner’s 
Bridge taken after a sharp encounter. The 18th 
Massachusetts regiment advanced to the river 
Two North Carolina regi- 
®t)c News Condenser 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
Kossuth’s wife is dying from a cancer. 
Mrs. Gen. Butler is at Bermnda Hundreds. 
Gen. Blnnt made a speech at the St. Louis Fair. 
There are ten Episcopal churches in Pittsburg, Pa. 
Barnnm is exhibiting Pauline Cushman, the female 
The Hartford Courant says that a very heavy 
storm of hail fell north and east of t hat city on 
Wednesday afternoon, doing much damage to the 
growing crops of grass, rye, strawberries and 
tobacco. Drifts of hail were seen as high as 
the hub of a carriage wheel in some spots—the 
storm having lasted for two hours. One hail¬ 
stone seven inches in circumference was picked 
up! The damage will be severely felt by 
farmers and others. 
A Washington correspondent says the 
official records of the military authorities 
show that upwards of one hundred and fifty 
female recruits have been discovered and made 
to resume the garments of their sex. It is 
supposed that nearly all of these were in collu¬ 
sion with men who were examined by the sur¬ 
geons and accepted, after which the fair 
scout 
The rebel papers admit 19,000 killed in the late 
battles. 
— Thirteen dead hogs were found in a Troy sewer 
recently. 
— There are but two married women in Arizona 
Territory. 
— Cabas, the danseuse, is at the point of death in 
New York. 
— The Laird rams have been bought by the British 
Government. 
— The Brooklyn people are protesting londly against 
dirty streets. 
— Fifty thousand acres have been put in flax in Can. 
ada this season. 
— Hon. W. Barnes, of Steuben Co., died at Bath on 
Thursday week. 
— The New York World is called by somebody the 
Prince of Wails. 
A ladies Anti-Importation Union has been organ¬ 
ized in Cincinnati. 
— Chevalier John George Hulseman, Austrian Diplo¬ 
mat, died recently. 
— Gold has been discovered in New Caledonia, a 
South Pacific island. 
— Fifty thousand persons visited the N. Y. Central 
Park Saturday week. 
— An average of 300,000 lbs. of meat is consumed in 
New York city daily. 
— Gov. Dennison, of Ohio, was the President of the 
Baltimore convention. 
— Fourteen newly married couples went to Europe 
on the Persia recently. 
— W. n. Wells, for 8 years Snpt. of Public Schools 
in Chicago, has resigned. 
— Nathaniel Hawthorne was buried in Sleepy Hollow 
Cemetery, Concord, Mass. 
— Earl Russel exchanged walklDg sticks with Gari¬ 
baldi at their last meeting. 
— A joint committee on the conduct of the war arc 
to visit Bunks’ department. 
The Empress Engenia wears short skirts so as to 
display her hoots and tassels. 
— The Central Railroad bridge across the Hudson at 
Albany hnB been commenced. 
— Major Gen John C. Fremont has resigned and his 
resignation has been accepted. 
— The beef stalls in Philadelphia are closing up. Peo¬ 
ple won't buy at present rates. 
— The New Yorkers are eating smoked shoulders on 
account or the high price of beer. 
— Jas. Hamilton was 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
oues 
substituted themselves told came on to the war. 
A Tribune correspondent says of the Army 
of the Botomac:—“ Actual marching has worn 
out 50,000 pairs of shoes. Two-tliirds of the 
men-more than 100 , 000 —have pot changed a 
garment since they started; have marched and 
fought, and slept thirty days and thirty nights 
in heat and dust and rain, and have not changed 
a garment. They are fighting it out on this 
line.” 
A sad affair occurred at Harpswell, Me., by 
which two little girls, daughters of James Lin¬ 
net, aged 5 and 8 years, were drowned. They 
had been to gat her shells to put on their mother's 
grave, and while returning across the stream 
the tide came in and swept them under. 
When found they were clasped in each other’s 
arms. 
Gen. Sherman having asked the Superinten¬ 
dent of a construction train what time it would 
take him to replace the bridge near Resaca, and 
having been told that it would take at least four 
days, replied:—“Sir, I give you forty-eight 
hours, or a position in the front ranks before 
the enemy.” The bridge was completed in for¬ 
ty-eight hours! 
A PARIS latter states that there are a great 
many Southern families now in that city seeking 
refuge, they say, from “Northern tyranny," 
some of whom have long stories of wrongs to 
recount. One large room in the “ Grand Hotel" 
is devoted exclusively to the baggage of these 
refugees, whom circumstances have obliged to 
leave without settling their accounts. 
A bold thief walked into a large jewelry 
store in Cincinnati last week, and pretended to 
regulate his watch. At a moment when he 
was unobserved, he quietly opened a door of 
the show case, abstracted a tray of forty-eight 
diamond rings, worth altogether ten thousand 
dollars, and complacently walked off. 
A Radical U. 
The following important documents were 
laid before the House of Representatives on the 
Sth, and referred to the Military Committee: 
Washington, D. C , Junes, 1SG4. 
To the Senate and House of Representatives; 
I have the honor to submit for the consideration 
of Congress, a letter and inclosure from the 
Secretary of War, with my concurrence of the 
recommendation therein made. 
Abraham Lincoln. 
War Depautmekt, > 
Washington City, June 7,1S64. ( 
To the President;—! beg leave to submit to 
you a report made to me by the Provost Mar¬ 
shal General, showing the result of the draft 
now going on to fill the deficiency in the quotas 
of certain States, and recommending a repeal of 
the clause in the Enrollment act commonly 
known as “the three hundred dollar clause.” 
The recommendation of the Provost Marshal 
General is approved by the Department, and 1 
trust that it will be recommended by you to 
Congress. 
The recent successes that have attended our 
arms, lead to the hope that by maintaining our 
military strengt h, and giving U such increase as 
the extended field of operations rnay requne, an 
early termination of the war may he attained. 
But to accomplish this, it t# absolutely neces¬ 
sary that efficient means be taken, with vigor 
and promptness to keep the army up to its 
strength, and supply deficiencies occasioned bv 
the losses in the field. 
To that end, resort must be had to a draft. 
But ample experience has now shown that the 
pecuniary exemption from service frustrates the 
object of the Enrollment law, by furnishing 
money instead of men. 
An additional reason for repealing the ex¬ 
emption clause is, that it is intende<I to make 
the draft for comparatively a short term. The 
burden of military service will therefore be 
lightened. But its certainty of furnishing 
troops is an absolute essential to success. I 
have the honor to be your obedient servant, 
Edwin M. Stanton, 
Secretary of War. 
War Department, ) 
Provost Marshal Generals i'fkice. 
driving the enemy, 
ments were on the opposite side of the river and 
a rebel brigade at Meadow Station. Our posi¬ 
tion is impregnable against any assault. 
A Tribune Washington special says:—In¬ 
formation of the burning of Bowling Green, the 
county seat of Corodine Co., has been reeeived. 
It appears that a train of cars was fired upon 
from a house when passing through the place, 
when the cavalry in charge of the train took the 
citizens and placed them in the houses standing 
away from the town, after which the town was 
set on fire and completely destroyed. 
Washington advices of June 10, say that Lee 
has made several attempts to break our lines, in 
all of which he has been foiled. On Tuesday 
night, the 7th, he made a desperate attempt, but 
was handsomely repulsed. 
There is considerable cannonading nightly, 
commencing about 6 o’clock, and continuing 
until morning. 
Yesterday, about noon, a furious cannonade 
was commenced in front of Burnside’s corps. 
Headquarters is so near the rebel line that 
almost into their 
run over and killed by a train 
of cars at Granby, Vt., last week. 
— Iron ferry houses are to be erected on the Brooklyn 
side, similar to those In New York. 
— There are over 200 varieties of birds, American and 
foreign, in Central Park, New York. 
— New counterfeit $3 bills on the Chicopee Bank, 
Springfield Mass., are in clrcnlation. 
— A new and mysterious “Order’’ called Grave 
Openers has been organized in Chicago. 
— Ex-Prcsidcnt Buchanan has seat a contribution of 
$200 to Uie Philadelphia Sanitary Fair. 
— Louis Napoleon wants his cousin, Cardinal Bona¬ 
parte, to be Pope when Pius Ninth dies. 
— One hundred and seventy two marriage licenses 
were issued during May in Washington. 
— A man In Indiana lately died from erysipelas occa¬ 
sioned by an attempt at. self vaccination. 
— The rebel Gen. Johnston lately had 25 of his men 
tied to stakes and shot for trying to desert. 
A young woman 19 years old, In Jamestown, N. 
Y,, covered 1,050 hills of corn in five hours. 
— Rev. Dr. Curry la the newly elected editor of the 
Christian Advocate and Jonrnnl, New York. 
— The great. Wtard gun, weighing,000 lbs. recently 
exploded with a charge of K) lbs. of powder. 
— L. M Kcitt, the bullying Congressman from South 
Carolina, was killed in one of the recent battles. 
— The London letter carriers wear a uniform of a 
dark blue coat and vest with gray tweed trowsers. 
— On the day of Garibaldi’s entry into London over 
half a million copies of his photograph were sold. 
— The citizens of Montreal, L. C., have adopted res 
olutions of respect in memory of Joshua K. Giddlngs. 
— Abraham GCSOIT, M D., a celebrated Chemist and 
Geologist, died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 29th of 
April. 
— It is said there is in Lowell, Mass , an apple tree 
which never blossoms and yet is loaded with fruit an¬ 
nually. 
— S. L. M. Luke, editor of the Dunham (Canada) 
Standard, has recently been tried for murder and ac¬ 
quitted. 
— The Pope severely censures the Russian govern¬ 
ment for its course with regard to the Roman Catholic 
religion. 
— An effort is being made in Illinois to secure the 
endowment ol an institution for the education of war 
orphans- 
— Henry Tracy, of Hancock Co., Tenn., six feet six 
inches high, weighing 60U lbs., and 46 years of age, died 
recently. 
— Nearly 5,000,000 sheep are now kept in Michigan, 
and the wool clip for the present season is estimated at 
12 , 000,000 lbs. 
— Three thousand handkerchiefs were hemmed and 
variously marked by the ladies of Utica for the soldiers 
the other day. 
— They are making Btraw hats in Paris without any 
crown, its place being supplied by two falls of lacc, 
veiling the hair. 
frequently shells come flying 
very midst. 
In accordance with a truce of two hours, 
agreed upon by Gens. Grunt and Lee, all firing 
ceased along our lines at six o’clock P. M., on 
the 7th. A surgeon from each brigade, ac¬ 
companied by pioneers, advanced from the 
works on each side, and proceeded to bury the 
dead between the lines and remove the wounded. 
The fighting has been less during the past 
week, we should judge, thau the week previous; 
but Gen. Grant’s army are not idle. A judi¬ 
cious use of the pickaxe and spade wifi, we hope, 
in due course of time, oust the Jacobins from 
their strongholds as at Vicksburg. 
Secretary Stanton’s report from Grant on 
the 11th, says the enemy on Friday made some 
cavalry demonstrations, but were repulsed. 
Gen. Butler made an attempt to capture Pe¬ 
tersburg on the 0th, but was unsuccessful. The 
Union forces were uuder the immediate com¬ 
mand of Gens. Gilmore and Kautz. The two 
Generals moved to the right and left of the 
town. Gilmore was headed oil’ by Beauregard, 
who had got information of the movement, and 
built fortifications. Gilmore concluded not to 
risk an engagement, and re-crossed the Appo¬ 
mattox. Gen. Kautz, with 1,400 cavalry, entered 
the city on the opposite side from Gilmore, but 
learning how matters stood, retraced his steps, 
taking with him forty prisoners and one piece 
of light artillery. 
The Secretary of War on Monday, the 13th, 
says: — We have dispatches from the Army of 
the Potomac as late as eight o’clock this morn¬ 
ing. The movement was, at that hour, in suc¬ 
cessful progress. 
Washington, JuoeO, 1*64. j 
To Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of 
IFar;— In accordance with the amended En¬ 
rollment net, approved February 24th. 1904 , 
and your orders on the subject, 1 
S. Convention at Cleveland 
(O.) on the 31st nit., nominated Gen. Fremont 
for President, and John Cochrane, of N. Y., for 
Vice-President, The Republican National Con¬ 
vention (at Baltimore on the 8 t.li inst.) nominated 
President Lincoln for re-election, and Andrew 
Johnson, of Tenn., for Vice-President. 
Miss Lizzie Magown, of St. Louis, has been 
awarded, by the Sanitary Fair being held in 
that city, a handsome sewing machine, as a 
reward for her labor. She has made during 
the past two years 500 cavalry overcoats, 8,000 
pair of pants, 500 jackets and 000 blouses. 
A lady of Gorham, Me., aged three score 
and ten years, went into the field with her hoe, 
the 0th Ult., covering 1,100 hills of corn, drove 
up her cows, milked them before sunset, and 
retired to rest in good season. 
TnE steamer Berkshire, running between 
Hudson and New York, was destroyed by fire 
on the Sth (in the night) at Esopus island, eight 
miles below itondout. She was on her way to 
New York. Thirty or forty lives were lost. 
A regular kind of worm, small but very 
destructive, is making sad havoc with the fruit 
and shade trees in New Haven. Canker worms 
and caterpillars are unusually abundant and 
destructive throughout Connecticut. 
The Taunton Gazette say# that Mr. Lemuel 
Eldridge of that town (next week it will be a 
city) now has five sons, and has also had three 
sons-in-law in the volunteer service, two of 
whom have been honorably discharged. 
The number of emigrants that arrived in 
New York during the week endlug May 28th, 
was 10,180 making a totol of 08 , 078 , slave the 
first ol‘ January, against 49,082 for tho corre¬ 
sponding season last year. 
A young lawyer of Cincinnati has been held 
for trial in the Court of (,’ommou Pleas, for the 
crime of having eloped with the wife of a col¬ 
ored man, the woman having taken money and 
property to the arnouut of $1,400. 
The Sim Francisco Bulletin , of the 9th of 
April, states that the total number of guns on 
all the harbor defenses of that city will in a few 
months be nearly live hundred. 
The size of the rebel torpedoes are startling. 
The one which blew up the Commodore Jones, 
it was stated by a rebel prisoner, contained 1,700 
pounds of powder! Ono bud been fished up 
which wu# emptied of 1,950 pounds! 
ana your oraers on toe subject, 1 ant now con¬ 
ducting a draft in various sub-districts for their 
various deficiencies on quotas of troops hereto¬ 
fore assigned. The results of the draft, so far 
as showu by the reports to this date, are worthy 
of attention. They are briefly as follows: 
Number of drafted men examined. 14.711 
“ exempted tor physical disability_ i'.cti 
“ “ for other causes.2^632 
Total Dumber exempted. 7,016 
Number paid commutation money. 5 050 
•• who have furnished substitutes.L<I1P, 
“ held for personal service.I’jjgg 
The last includes some who may yet pay commuta¬ 
tion money. 
Total not exempted.. 7,735 
These reports come from sub-districts in eight 
different States. 
I invite your attent ion to the small proportion 
of soldiers being obtained under the existing 
law. 1 sec no reason to believe that the army 
can be materially strengthened hy draft so long 
ag the $300 clause is in force ; nor do 1 think it. 
safe to assume that the commutation paid bv a 
drafted man will enable the Government to pro¬ 
cure a volunteer or substitute In his place. 
I do not think that large bounties by the 
United States should again be resorted to for 
raisiug troops. 
1 recommend that the Three Hundred Dollar 
clause, as it is known, be repealed. 
James B. Fry, 
I’rovost Marshal General. 
In fourteen cases prosecuted under the Confis¬ 
cation Act of July 17th, 1802, the United States 
Court, on the Sth inst., passed decrees of confis¬ 
cation, and ordered an early sale, after due ad¬ 
vertisement, of nil the right, title and interest 
in the estate of the respective owners, for and 
during their natural lives, except in one case in 
which the property was personal, and tho for¬ 
feiture was therefore absolute. 
Among these case# are those of John Letcher, 
Governor of Virginia, Truston Polk, late Sena¬ 
tor from Missouri, W. T. Smithson, of this city, 
Judge Scarborough, late of the United State# 
Court of Claims, and French Forrest, formerly 
Commandant of the ’Washington Navy Yard, 
and now a rebel Commodore. 
The property of Judge Scarborough consists 
of a valuable law library, which comprises an 
immense number of volumes. 
On the 9th inst. a vote was taken on the Bank¬ 
rupt Bill in the House, and it was deb ated—64 
to 05. 
A law recently passed provides that if a per¬ 
son or persons, except as now authorized by 
law, shall hereafter make or cause to be made, 
or attempt to utter or pass any coins, gold, sil¬ 
ver or other metals, or alloys of metal, intended 
--• purpose of current money or in the 
Frankfort from Louisville. The Union troops 
had made an attack on the Stockades, but were 
repulsed. Fighting commenced at G o'clock on 
Friday evening, lasting till dark, and at inter¬ 
vals during the night. The enemy approached 
from Georgetown. They had no artillery. A 
4-pounder bad been placed below the fort to 
protect our rifle pits, which was captured, but 
subsequently retaken. 
About 100 were killed and wounded at Frank¬ 
fort on Saturday. The fighting commenced at 
seven in the morning and continued, with short 
intervals, till three in the afternoon. 
Secretary Stanton publishes the following dis¬ 
patch from Gen. Burbridge, the latest news, as 
we go to press, from Kentucky: 
“ I attacked Morgan, at C’ynthiana, at day¬ 
light yesterday; morning, (the 12 th,) and after an 
hour’s hard fighting, completely routed him, 
killing 300, vvounding nearly as many, and cap¬ 
turing nearly 400, beside# recapturing nearly 
1,000 of Gen. Hobson’s command and over 4,000 
horses. Our loss in killed and wounded was 
about 150. Morgan’s scattered force# are flying 
in all directions, have thrown away arm# and 
ammunition, and arc wholly demoralized.’’ 
West Virginia 
Gen. nunter has been 
whipping the rebels in the Valley of the Shenan¬ 
doah. We give the following extract of a 
letter dated Staunton, June 0th: 
We came upon the enemy yesterday in force, 
15 miles north of this place, and after a brief 
but spirited fight we whipped them most thor¬ 
oughly, driving them from the field, and cap¬ 
turing a large number of prisoners. The rebels 
were commanded hy Generals. W. E. Jones 
and Imboden, the former of whom was killed. 
To-day we pursued the rebels into and through 
this place, where they made little resistance, 
although the place is quite strongly fortified, 
and every male person in it w as ordered out in 
its defense. 
The dispositon of our forces was such, how¬ 
ever, that they could not have held it in any 
case, as we were on their front, flank and rear. 
We have captured a battery of six guns, 
several hundred prisoners, and many hundred 1 for use or 
