A special to tlic Rochester Democrat dated 
Washington, July 24, says that dispatches have 
been received from General Sherman covering 
the. operations of Friday and Saturday. On 
the former day the enemy made a most fierce 
and persisting attack on General McPherson's 
coips, forming the left wing of the army, and 
holding the railroad to Decatur. 
The enemy’s cavalry at the outset turned our 
left flank, and the line at that point was driven 
hack. One division retreated in some disorder. 
The troops were rallied, then, however, and 
the rest of the line repelled the enemy, who 
finally repulsed at all points. At the close 
La Grange under Major - General A. J. Smith 
and Brigadier-Generals Mower and Grierson, 
with instructions to move in pursuit of the 
rebel General Forrest, and bring him to bay, 
fight and whip him. General Smith was 
ordered to pursue him to Columbus, Miss., if he 
did not overtake him this side. 
A dispatch from Gen. Smith to Gen. Wash- 
burae, the 19th insi., says:—We have met For¬ 
rest, Lee and Walker at Tupelo and whipped 
them badly on three different days. Our loss 
was small compared to that of the rebels. 
From other sources we learn that Gen. Smith 
met Gen. Forrest and whipped him badly in 
five different battles. Our loss is said to be less 
than three hundred. 
Dates from Cairo, of July 23, say : — *• We 
learn from Memphis that the forces of Gen. A. 
J. Smith, who defeated Forrest’s rebels so 
completely at Tupelo, Miss., have returned to 
La Grange, Term., having run short of supplies. 
Not a gun or a wagon was lost. The rebel loss 
in battle was about 4,000.” 
Alabama.— Gen. Rousseau, at the head of a 
column of raiders, bus captured Montgomery, 
the Capital of the State, and former Capital of 
the Southern Confederacy, He has penetrated 
the country east and west of it, cutting the rail¬ 
road at Opelika, that being the junction of the 
Atlanta and West Point railroad. He also cut 
thg road toward Columbus; also the Mobile, 
Montgomery and West Point railroad in several 
places southeast of Montgomery, betweeu Green¬ 
ville and Garland. While Rousseau has been 
doing his work, other military operations are 
in successful progress. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS. 
List of New Advertisements, 
lx the Sixth Corps a spy was discovered in a 
somewhat singular manner. 
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SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Russell's Great Prolific Strawberry—Jas Kcech, 
He had been in 
the service and appeaved and disappeared fre¬ 
quently under circumstances that awakened 
suspicions that he was communicating with 
the rebels. Nothing could be proved against 
him, however, until he was arrested the other 
day, and a Union soldier, dressed in a rebel uni¬ 
form, was thrown into the same guard-house, 
pretending to be a rebel prisoner. Finding 
himself in the company of a rebel, as he sup¬ 
posed, the rascally spy opened his heart and 
mouth, and revealed his own guilt so clearly 
that he will be hung without any unnecessary 
delay. 
There is now living at Douglas, Mass., a 
widow lady 73 years old, who sawed and split five 
cords of seasoued wood in tbe course of last win¬ 
ter and spring, doing it for her health. When 
she began, her limbs were so stiff that she could 
not lift her feet without assistance from her 
bauds; but by degrees she entirely regained 
the use of her limbs and materially improved 
ber health. 
Ax Indianapolis correspondent complains that 
the rebel officers who are prisoners at that city, 
are prisoners only by name. They board at 
the principal hotels, and eat their meals with 
the guests. It seems hardly possible that with 
the full knowledge of the enormities of the 
Libby prison so fully proved, such disgraceful 
leniency should be exercised. 
The Winsted (Conn.) Herald notes that a 
worthy Collinsville cultivator who, some two 
years ago, wrote series of articles for that paper, 
and among them a very strongly reprehensive 
one on tobacco-raising—as im immorality—has 
now an acre and a half in tobacco! And, by-the- 
way, it looks thrifty, and attests careful and en¬ 
lightened culture. 
Japanese Tommy has written a letter to 
Leland, of the Metropolitan Hotel, in which he 
states that he has gone into a military school, 
that he is teaching lots of other little Tommies 
"English,” and finally, that he "was very 
sorry that we have very soon put the rebels 
down.” 
The Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser says that 
Mrs. Morris of Wetumka, is manufacturing black 
sewing silk for her own use. She has her own 
silk worms and raises her own mulberry trees 
to feed them. Both the worms and the trees 
are said to thrive, and the silk is pronounced to 
be of good quality. 
Cotton has made the fortune of Dundee, 
Scotland. Jute is now its stable manufacture, 
with great profit. It is a good substitute for 
cotton in many articles. A gentleman has 
succeeded in bleaching and dying it so perfectly 
that it can be used in place of silk for many 
articles. 
A cargo ol' human bones, shipped from 
Genoa, has been seized at Hull, England, It is 
supposed that a large trade is carried on secretly 
in this kind of goods. The bones have proba¬ 
bly been used to make knife-handles, tooth¬ 
picks, and the like. 
Seven thousand persons are said to have 
starved to death on the island of Santiago, one 
of the Cape de Verde group, between January 
1st and May 1st, in consequence of a failure of 
the crops. At Porto Praya forty or fifty are 
dying daily. 
There will be no commencement at Beloit 
College, in Wisconsin, this year. The seniors 
have goue to the war for one hundred days, but 
will receive their degrees all the same. If they 
have no commencement they seem to have made 
a very good beginning. 
H. L. Hosmke, Esq., Toledo, Ohio, former 
editor of the Blade, and for some years past As¬ 
sistant Clerk of the House of Representatives in 
Washington, has been appointed Chief Justice 
of the United States Court for the Territory of 
Montana. 
It is proposed to hold a billiard tournament 
in Hartford, Ct., in August, for the “ champion 
cue of Connecticut.” The cue will be gold 
mounted, and the very be6t players will contest 
for it. 
A torpedo boat is constructing at East Ha¬ 
ven, Conn. She is to be bomb-proof, covered 
with iron plates of a greater thickness than those 
upon the monitors, and provided with powerful 
machinery. 
A party of eight trout fishers in Pennsyl¬ 
vania recently took 10,000 in one week. All 
less than six indies long were returned to the 
water, yet they had 3,142 left. One of the ang¬ 
lers caught loo in one spot. 
A NEGRO recruiting agent who had obtained 
four recruits in Illinois, with the intention of 
enlisting them in Boston, had them stolen from 
him while passing through New York by two 
police officers. 
A lady in Boston has just had extracted 
from the end of her right thumb the fragment 
of a needle, which was accidentally broken off 
in her hip about twenty-eight years ago. 
Two brothers just from the Colorado gold 
mines, where they worked one year, have deposit¬ 
ed 1374 ozs. of gold at the Philadelphia mint, for 
which they received $24,780. 
The proceeds from eleven Fairs, held for the 
benefit of iho Sanitary Commission, amounted 
to four and a half millions of dollars, including 
those from the Philadelphia Fair. 
Th e New York actors are on a strike. They 
held a convention on Monday and agreed to de¬ 
mand that their salaries should be paid in gold, 
or itB equivalent in greenbacks. 
John Webster, Chief of the six Nations of 
Indians, a member of the Onondaga Tribe, was 
killed in a drunken frolic on a recent visit to the 
St. KegiH Indians in Canada. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., JULY SO, 1864, 
The Army in Virginia. 
On: advices from Grant's army are to 
Saturday evening (23d.) It has been very quiet 
for three or four days. Even the batteries had 
done but little firing. Secretary Seward arrived 
at Grant’s headquarters on Saturday morning. 
His business was not known. Maj.-General 
Ord assumed command of the 18th Corps on 
Friday. 
Deserters, however, are coming into our lines 
daily. A rebel sergeant and his squad came in 
this morning, and all report that thousands are 
ready to leave as fast as the opportunity presents 
itself. The deserters come principally from 
Georgia, Florida and Alabama regiments; and a 
rebel officer of a regiment from the former 
State is said to have gone to his superior a day 
or two since and stated that if his company 
was not soon relieved he would have none to 
relieve, as they would all have been gone over 
to the enemy. 
They state the rebel army is very short of 
provisions, particularly of vegetables, and they 
seem to be glad euough when they get into our 
lines. Strict orders have been given that they 
shall not hold intercourse with our men on the 
picket line, or exchange papers, and one fellow 
the other day, who came boldly over and 
brought a paper with him, taking one back, 
was caught and made to stand on top of a high 
hill and wave the paper back and forth as a pun¬ 
ishment. 
An attack from the enemy has been expected 
the past two days, and deserters had said it was 
looked for as certain, hut no demonstration has 
been made. 
We give the following as the last advices we 
have from the late Maryland raiders. It was 
published last week that they got off with all 
their plunder. They were, however, over¬ 
hauled and somewhat punished: 
The Herald's Snicker’s Ferry correspondent 
of the 20th says: 
The forces under Gen. Wright pursued the 
rebels under Gens. Early and Breckinridge, to 
that point, skirmishing with their rear guard 
which was twenty-four hours behind the main 
force. When near Purcellville, four miles south 
of Snicker's Gap, Duffy's cavalry captured 
eighty-two of their wagons. More fighting 
was had w T hen our troops succeeded in reaching 
the ferry. Here they fought the enemy in force, 
and General Wright coming up, he threw 
several regiments across the stream who main¬ 
tained their position. He then cemmeneed 
manoeuvring so as to destroy the enemy, when 
Early receiving news from Lee, and /earing a 
thrashing from Wright, packed up and left at 
double quick to Sfcrasborg. 
Gen. Wright crossed and proceeded a few 
miles toward Winchester, but learning nothing, 
he changed his mind as to the direction the 
enemy had taken, and counter - marched his 
force in obedience to orders. 
It is now evident that the rebels lost over 
two thousand men while robbing the people in 
Maryland. 
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were 
of the action we held all the positions occupied 
in the morning. 
Before the attack was made, Gen. McPherson 
was killed by a sharpshooter while reconnoiter- 
ing alone in front of his lines some distance in 
advance even of his personal staff. General 
John A. Logan succeeded to the command and 
exercised it during the day. 
The latest accounts say that our troops buried 
1,000 rebels left on the field within our lines; 
besides which the enemy buried many of their 
own dead near their works. It is estimated that 
over 6,000 of them were killed and wounded. 
Gen. Sherman’s loss in killed and wounded is 
reported at 2,500. 
Saturday there was no general engagement; 
but Gen. Thomas, who has established himself 
on the north and north-east within a mile of 
Atlanta, bombarded that city continually. No 
news of its capture has yet been received. 
Genera] Hood's whole army is posted in and 
about the town. 
Large fires were observed in different parts of 
the city, and it was supposed that the rebels 
were destroj ing their supply depots preparatory 
to evacuating the place. 
West Virginia. —The Washington Star of 
the 21st, says that a dispatch from Gcd. Hunter 
reports that the following has been received from 
General Averill: 
Near Winchester, July 20.—Breckinridge 
divided bis force at BerryvUle last right, send¬ 
ing Early to Winchester, and the other to¬ 
ward Millvvorth. We defeated Early to-day 
in front of Winchester, killing and wounding 
over three hundred of his officers and men, cap¬ 
turing four cannon, a quantity of small arms, 
and about two hundred prisoners. 
Gen. Lilley is severely wounded, and in our 
hands. Col. Borde, of the 58th Virginia, is 
killed. The cannon and prisoners have been 
sent to Martinsburg. The enemy's loss in offi¬ 
cers is heavy. 
Prisoners report their force at about 5,000. 
The commands of Jackson and Imboden, which 
were present, are not included in the mentioned 
strength. 
Missouri.— Pickle is reported to have 1,000 
men in Southwest Missouri threatening Fort 
£l)c News Conbcnscv 
— Blaeberries are plenty and cheap in Maine. 
— New Jersey promises its biggest peach esop, 
— The city of Hartford has a population of 45,000. 
—.Canadian manufacturers are suffering for anthra¬ 
cite coal. 
— Six steamboats were destroyed by fire at St. Louis 
on ihcHitta inst. 
— Some of the colored shoeblacks in Washington 
earn $ 10 a day. 
— A recent census of Detroit, Mich., shows a popu¬ 
lation of 53,320. 
— Tombstones and headstones are taxed five per cent 
under the new law. 
— Tbe price of board at the principal hotels in Bos¬ 
ton is $1 per day. 
— The prospect of the wine crop in the South of 
France is very flattering. 
— Mr. Volk's monument to Senator Douglas at Chi¬ 
cago, will cost $500,000. 
— There was a great invasion of crickets at Spanish 
Fork, New Mexico, lately. 
— The Norwegian College at Decorah, Iowa, was 
dedicated on tbe 30th ult. 
— Locusts are appearing in Wisconsin by millions. 
They appeared last in 1810. 
— The losses by the fire in Brooklyn, Friday week, 
are estimated at $1,000,000. 
— At Saybrook, Conn., they are catching large quan- 
ties of white fish for manure. 
— The Sanitary Commission has sent an order to St 
Johnsbury for 4,000 crutches. 
— Celnmbia College, New York, i9 to have a school 
of music after November nexL 
— The D. S. has one squaTe mile of coal field to every 
fifteen square miles of territory. 
— Three women were recently arrested in Poughkeep¬ 
sie for passing counterfeit money. 
— Mr. Henry J. Morgan, of Quebec, has nearly ready 
for the press a lift of Major Andre. 
— All the patients wbo can be moved are being sen: 
North from all tbe army hospitals. 
— The first troops that, started from Pennsylvania to 
repel the late invasion were colored. 
— Gov. Seymour has recently pardoned 63 men and 7 
women from Sing Sing Stale prison. 
— There are thirteen factories in Rhode Island, mak- 
men. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Northwest Georgia.— The Government 
received dispatches from General Sherman, the 
21st, announcing that the enemy assaulted the 
Union lines three times on the 20th, and were 
repulsed with little loss (to us) each time. 
Most oi our men fought behind earthworks, 
hence the small loss; but the enemy coming 
out of the defenses of the city to offer battle, 
became exposed and suffered great, loss. 
The Natioual Washington Republican, of the 
23d, says:—The Government is in receipt of a 
dispatch to-day from the telegraph operator at 
Chattanooga, via Louisville, Id the following 
wordsAtlanta is not ours yet. Our forces 
find strong opposition, but it seems we are in 
possession of a part of the city, but the enemy 
holds the rest.” 
The Republican Extra also has the following 
concerning a battle before Atlanta on Wednes¬ 
day last:—An official dispatch from General 
Sherman states that after the battle of that day 
Gen. Howard, commanding the Fourth Corps, 
sent word that he had buried two hundred 
dead in front of his lines and a large number of 
wounded were scattered upon the field. 
Gen. Hooker, commanding the Twentieth 
Corps, in advancing his lines on Wednesday, 
met the enemy in the open field, and a most 
desperate battle, lasting several hours, was the 
result. The enemy were very thoroughly 
whipped and driven from the field. After the 
battle, Gen. Hooker reported to Gen. Sherman 
as follows:—I have buried 400 dead rebels, and 
4,000 wounded lie in my front. 
General Sherman holds the railroad leading 
from Atlanta toward Richmond, so that John¬ 
ston cannot escape by that route to re-enforce 
Lee. His only means of leaving Atlanta are by 
two roads leading south to Macon and south-west 
to Mobile. 
If Johnston escapes with his army by either 
of these last named routes, he will be obliged to 
move quickly. 
It is a well settled proposition in military 
circles that the rebels can better afford to lose 
Atlanta than Johnston’s army. It may possibly 
be true that Lougstreet is in command of it. 
The Nashville Union, of July 22, says that 
on Monday Decatur was captured by our forces, 
thus cutting off all communication with South 
Carolina. Deserters and stragglers have been 
coming into our lines In great cumbers since we 
crossed the Chattahoochee. They represent 
that all hope of saving Atlanta has disappeared. 
ing menhaden oil, employing 250 
— Newspapers famish a very good substitute for cot¬ 
ton-batting in making bed comforters. 
— At Glen Cove, Long Island, a single rose-tree now 
has no lees than 9,600 bads and flower?. 
— One-fifth or the national Income of Great Britain 
is derived Rom the tax on ardent spirits. 
— The German papers have discovered that Othello 
was not a Moor, bat a man named Moor. 
— The name of the conqueror of the Alabama is tri- 
syllnbldc, and is pronotinc-od Kearsar-ge. 
— In France tbe waste steam from the locomotives is 
made to heat the ears in the train behind. 
— The grinding mill of Uje Mass. Powder Works at 
Barre was blown tip Tuesday night week. 
— There are in England and Wales 44,099 lunatics 
under care, in public and private institutions. 
— Mexican advices say that Gen. Moga with his whole 
army has given in his adhesion to the Empire. 
— Poor old John Bell is cooped up In Atlanta, G.v, 
despised by the rebels, hated by the Unionists. 
— A convention of the reporters of the Western press 
is to be held at the close of this month In Chicugo. 
— Commander Winslow and Onpt, Semtnes served 
together in tbe Mexican war, and were old friends. 
— Extensive fires have raged in the woods a few 
miles from Rome, New York, for u week or two past. 
— On an average, prices of domestic produce are now 
over 200 per cent above the quotations at the close of 
1861, 
— The Bath Sentinel says that in all parts ofthe 
State of Maine hay is plentiful, and the quality excel¬ 
lent. 
— The women of Shelbeyville, Ill., recently gathered 
in force, and broke up a disreputable house in that 
place. 
— It is said that the parings of cucumbers will cause 
roaches to disappear, if laid in places which they fre¬ 
quent. 
— Mr. Alleu, editor of the Ohio State Journal, has 
been appointed Consul to Bangkok, the Capital of 
Siam. 
— Gen. Kilpatrick, the dashing cavalry lender, is on 
his way to his old command in General Sherman’s 
army. 
— American rhododendrons are tbe pride of the 
British conservatories. The scarlet v 
ariety is much 
prized. 
— A son of Ralph Waldo Emerson has left the Junior 
Class at Harvard to join the hundred day men from 
Boston 
— Mr. Jacob Emmerson of FraukJin, Me., aged 
SK,‘ j years, on the 12ih day of July inst. hoed 1,250 hills 
of corn I 
— A Mrs. Weldon, seventy-six years old, died lately 
in Bergen, while on her knees at evening prayer with 
the family. 
Mississippi.— Advices from Memphis say that 
ou the 6th inst. General Washburne Bent out a 
force of infantry, cavalry and artillery from 
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