Tun Common Council of New Orleans lias, at 
Gen. Ilutler’B suggestion, employed 2,000 deBtitule 
laborers (who have families) in cleaning the streets 
of the city. This is a humane and wise sanitary 
provision. 
Gen. Stoneman says that he asked a squad of 
prisoners who h'll into his hands a lew days since, 
what they were lighting for. They repliedTo 
support the gentlemen who got us into it. An hour s 
speech could not better have explained the general 
motive ot the mass of the Southern army. 
Department of the linlf. 
Three steamers have arrived from New Or¬ 
leans since our last issue, and we gather the 
following items of intelligence from the budget of 
news forwarded by them: 
Commodore Farragut communicates to the Navy 
Department the encounter between our gunboats on 
the Mississippi, and the whole artillery in the vicin¬ 
ity of Grand Gulf, between Natchez and Vicks- 
burgh. A boat sent down to bring up a coal vessel 
from near that point, discovered earthworks in pro¬ 
cess of erection. The Wis^ahickon ami the Itasca 
were sent down to attack them. They found a 
battery of rifled guns located there and a force of 
Home 500 artillerists ready to receive them, A vig¬ 
orous light ensued. The Itasca was struck twenty- 
five times and the Wissahickon seventeen. They 
lost, however, but one man killed und six wounded. 
The fort being too serious an obstacle to have In the 
rear of the boats, Com. Palmer, serving at that 
point, decided to tiring the remainder of the squad¬ 
ron down and break up the business before it, became 
too formidable. On the afternoon of the 1st, we 
dropped down with the squadron and shelled the 
town lor an hour, but they deserted t heir batteries, 
ahd, with the exception of a few rifled shots, mani¬ 
fested no resistance. Coin Palmer says the heights 
are filled with riflemen, and if they give him any 
more annoyance lie shall burn the town. 
Wrn. Clary, late second officer of the U. S. steam 
transport Saxon, and Stanislaus Roy, of New Or¬ 
leans, were to be hung the 26th for burglary, having 
forged authority from Gen. Butler to enter a house 
and rob it under false mimes and pretended uni¬ 
forms of soldiers of the United Stales. 
Gen. Butler issued a general order complimenting 
the troops lor order and efficiency in turning out 
promptly on a beating of the assembly in the night 
to demonstrate their vigilance. 
Gen. .lacksun has been arrested on charge of 
being concerned in burning the ship American 
Union at, the time of the arrival of the Federal fleet. 
Gen. Butler issued an order to all citizens who 
hold offices of trust which calls for doing any legal 
act, to take the oath of allegiance. The same 
must lx? the case with all citizens requiring protec¬ 
tion, passports, or money paid them, or bondlttcd 
by the power of the United States, except for pro¬ 
tection from personal violence. Foreign residents 
must seem to do no act to aid or eomlort the ene¬ 
mies of the United States, so long as tlieir own Gov¬ 
ernment remains at peace with the United States. 
The United States steamer Calhoun has cap¬ 
tured on Luke Ponchartrain the Confederate 
steamer Whitman. The same steamer has also cap¬ 
tured the rebel schooner Venus in the same lake. 
The cargo of the latter consisted of 21J8 bales of 
cotton. An expedition from the same steamer cut 
off tho rebel gunboat Corfu. She was sounding one 
of the bayou*, securely guarded by rebel troops. 
The IJ. S. Bliip Susquehannuh, on the 11th inst,, 
captured die retm) schooner Princeton, from 11a- 
vanna, bound to Matamoras, Her cargo consisted 
of drugs, dry goods, «tc. 
On the flth inst, the Bainbridge captured the 
schooner Borgany, and sent her to Key West for 
adjudication. 
Col. Kimball, with four companies of the 12th 
Maine regiment, had broken up a rebel camp at 
Mauchac. There bad been for some weeks 1,800 
men there, with a number of heavy guns. They 
skedaddled on the approach of our forces, leaving 
their camp equipage, regimental colors, and some ol 
their nether garments. 
Gen. Butler has issued a modified form of oath for 
the foreign population, by which persons taking it 
only swear to support and defend the Constitution 
of the United States. 
Department of the Mouth. 
Ouit forces met with a serious repulse at James 
Island, before Charleston, on the 19th ult A rc- 
Connoissance was made tho Kith. Gen. Stevens, 
with 4,000 men, was to make an attack at day¬ 
break, while Gen. Wright and Col. Williams, with 
3,000 men, were to support him. Somehow the 
movement, was delayed an hour, and as our troops 
rushed up the field, they were in broad day met by 
a murderous fire of grape and canister. Two regi¬ 
ments only reached tho (rout, and were much cut 
up, tho 8th Michigan and 79th New York. The 
28th Mfissiicbusetts broke arid scattered, and tho 
40t,h New York did little better. The first two 
drove tho gunners from their guns, and some even 
penetrated the works, but the other regiments fail¬ 
ing to support them, they had to retire, after hold¬ 
ing the battery twenty minutes. Meantime, Col. 
Williams coming to the support, was exposed to a 
cross fire from rebel guns in the woods. IIis troops, 
fid New Hampshire and 3d Rhode Island, fought 
nobly and with considerable loss. For three-quar¬ 
ters of an hour no gun was fired from the fort, and 
the prompt presence of about four hundred men 
would have carried it, but they were not there, and 
the troops retired. 
Another account confirms the above in the main, 
but states that the Massachusetts 28th did well. He 
gives our loss—killed, 84; wounded, 366; missing, 
]26. Our camp is now within range of the gun¬ 
boats’ lire, and in safe condition, entrenchments 
thrown up, and re-enforcements awaited. 
Gen. Brannon’s troops, numbering two thousand, 
arrived from Key West at James Island, but our 
forces must be largely re-enforced before operations 
arc resumed. Rebel troops are constantly arriving, 
and preparations for tlio defence of Charleston are 
extensively making. 
The following among other documents has been 
received at the Navy Department: 
Ubauqvartkkh Iikcauvmknt ok this Botmi, I 
Htono Rinbk, 8, O., June 10, > 
The Major-General Commanding cannot refrain 
from expressing his admiration ol the noble con¬ 
duct of the naval officers on duty in the Stono 
river, in support of the military operations in that 
vicinity. liver ready and ever prompt, they have 
rendered invaluable services to the army. 
Capt. Grayton, commander of the squadron, by 
his frank and cordial eo-operaliou, 1ms won golden 
opinions from all the army officer* who have had 
the pleasure of witnessing n'm operations. 
D. Hunter. Major-General Com. 
It is slated that Gen. Bonham is under arrest, 
with orders to report at Washington: that G«u. 
Hunter left James Island, leaving Benham in com¬ 
mand, with orders to make no advance toward 
Charleston without re-enforcements or further or¬ 
ders. It was reported by rebel deserters that the 
whole rebel force at Secessionvilie was but two bat¬ 
talions, with six guns mounted and seven more 
ready for use. 
The barque Gem of the Sea, on the 3d ult., cap¬ 
tured the rebel schooner Mary Stewart, of Nassau, 
while attempting to run the blockade off the Santee ( 
river, South Carolina. Her cargo consisted of 308 
sacks of salt and sundry oilier articles. This 
schooner formerly belonged to Gov. Aiken, of 
South Caroliua. 
Com. Dupont writes to the War Department, that j 
through information derived from a negro who had 
been employed by our army, the enemy became ( 
aware of the absence of our troops from Hutchin¬ 
son Island, and made a descent on Mrs. Marsh’s , 
plantation, and with a ferocity characteristic of all 
events in that part of the Sooth, murdered in cold , 
blood a large number Of contraband*, who were , 
awakened from their slumbers to (all into the hands > 
of the infuriated rebels. 
The Newborn Progress , of the 21st ult., reports | 
that the rebels at Kingston and GoldRborougb are , 
living ori half rations, and frequently deserting. ( 
Tho rebel pickets had burned Tusoarora, and des- j 
troyed a portion of Ihe railroad. It was reported , 
that fifteen rebels hail been killed at FishervillO by , 
the explosion of a shell thrown by one of our gun- , 
boats, which did not burst at the time it was fired. , 
A telegram from before Charleston, dated the , 
26th Ult., says:—All quiet at James Island to-day. r 
The gunboats yesterday shelled a detachment of j 
the Marion artillery, posted on John’s Island, and , 
forced them to retreat. 
c 
The Army of Virginia. , 
The forces under Major-Generals Fremont, t 
Banks and McDowell have been consolidated into , 
one army, called the “ Army of Virginia,” and „ 
Major-General I’opo has been assigned by the 1’resi- ] 
dent to the chief command. The forces under Fro- i 
moot constitute the first army corps, to be com- v 
manded by Fremont. The forces under Banks con- f 
wtitute the second corps, and are to be commanded „ 
by him. The forces under McDowell constitute the 
third army corps, to lm commanded by him. ■ 
The telegraph this (Monday) morning states that ^ 
General Fremont having been superceded in corn- ( 
maud of this Department, by Ihe orders appointing t 
General I’opo, his Inferior in rank, over the army of f 
Virginia, and having asked and been refused leave ( 
of absence, has, at his own request, been relieved ^ 
from duty. The following order of the Secretary of t 
War explains the matter: ^ 
WAR Dki'AIitmknt, Washington, June 27. 
Major-General J. C. Fremont having reoiiested to t 
be relieved from the command of Hie first army . 
corps of the army of Virginia, because, as lie says, 
the position assigned him by appointment of Major* s 
General Pope as Oouimamlei in Olitefo! Hie army \ 
of Virginia is subordinate and inferior to those j 
heretofore held by him, and to remain in the sub¬ 
ordinate command now assigned would, as he says, 11 
largely reduce his rank and consideration in the i 
service, it is ordered that Major-General J. C- t 
Fremont lie relieved from command. 
2. Thai Brigadier-General Rufus King be and he 
is hereby assigned to the command of the first army ‘ 
corps of the army ol' Virginia, in place of Fremont, > 
relieved. By order of the President. , 
J3. M. Stanton, Secretary of War. 
The mail arrangements for the army in the field ( 
have been re-organized. Letters for Fremont’s g 
Headquarters, whether from Washington, New 
York, or the West, should be all directed “ Martins- 
burg," and will be forwarded from there. All let- ^ 
tors for the army under and with Fremont, except 
those for Headquarters, should be addressed to 
Winchester. Letters for other districts in the De¬ 
partment to be sent as heretofore. 
About 600 prisoners, taken by General Fremont, 
in the Shenandoah valley, went through Philadel¬ 
phia on the 26th ult. Most of them were left by 
Jackson in his retreat; their destination is unknown. 
General Fremont this morning turned over the 
command of his forces to General Schenck on the 
28th ult., by the following order: 
GENERA I. ORDER, NO. 26, 
IlKAUQl)ARTRRS, Middletown, June 2H. 
The undersigned having been relieved from duty 
with the forces of the Mountain Department, Briga¬ 
dier-General Scbonek, as next in rank, will assume 
command of the sumc, and report for further orders 
to the War Department , _ 
Maj.-Gon. J. C. Fremont, 17. S. A. 
At noon on the 24th ult. a special train from Harp" 
cr’s Ferry to Winchester rau ofi’ the track near 
Wadevillc, and capsized down an embankment ten 
(bet high, killing one man and mortally wounding 
several, and seriously injuring thirty persons. Jas. ( 
O. Keep, of New York, was the person killed. Col. 
Redan, eighty soldiers, and a dozen civilians were 
on the train, besides fifty horses. All the men were 
on the top of the cars. The horses were thrown 
through the roofs of the cars into the river. The 
wounded have been brought to Winchester. 
A telegram just received Irom Washington says: 
The report that Gen. Banks is dissatisfied with the 
order placing Gen. Pope In command of the army 
ol Virginia, is not true. Gen. Banks is a soldier 
and obeys orders. Long ago he expressed his will¬ 
ingness to form a junction with either Fremont or 
McDowell in the field, and act subordinate to them, 
if by so doing if will contribute in the least to crush 
out the rebellion. The appointment of Gen. Pope 
to his present position was no surprise to Gen. Banks. 
Army of Ihe Potomac. 
Gen. Hooker, at 9 A. M. of the 25t.h inst., 
advanced his division with a view of occupying a 
new position. The result was that bin troops met 
with a most determined resistance from the enemy, 
which lasted till four o’clock in the afternoon. But 
the rebels were forced to give way before the invin¬ 
cible charge of our men. During the day every¬ 
thing indicated a general engagement, but tint ene¬ 
my, for some reason or other, backed out of it. '1 ho 
troops all (ought as gallantly as ever. The loss on 
our side will be about 200 killed and wounded. 
The following is Maj.-Gen. McClellan’s dispatch 
to the Government: 
ItKDOUUT Ncm nKit TlIKKK, June 26 1:30 P. M. 
To lion. K. M. Stanton, Secretary of War :—We 
have advanced our pickets considerably to-day, 
under sharp resistance. Our men have behaved 
very handsomely. Some tiring still continues. 
31’. M The enemy arc making desperate resist¬ 
ance to the advance of our picket lines. Kearney 
and hall of Hooker's men are where I want them 
I have this moment re, enforced the latter’s right 
with a brigade and a couple of guns, ami hope in a 
few minutes to finish the work Intended for to-day. 
Our men are behaving splendidly. The enemy are 
lighting well also. This is not a’ battle; merely an 
affair cu HoinlzolmanV corps, supported by Keyes; 
and thus far all goes well, and we hold every point 1 
we have gained. If we succeed in what we have 
undertaken, it will be a very important advantage 
gained. Loss not large thus far. The fighting up 
to this lirne has been done by Hooker’s division, 
which has behaved as usual, that is, most hand¬ 
somely. On our right, Porter has silenced tho ene¬ 
my's batteries on bis front 
;> P. M.—The affair i« over and we have gained 
our point fully, and with but little loss, notwith¬ 
standing the strong opposition. Our men have 
done all that could be ilesired. The affair was par¬ 
ticularly decided by two guns that Captain Deer- 
ney brought gallantly into action, under very diffi¬ 
cult circumstances. The enemy was driven from 
his camps in front of these points, and all is now 
quiet G. B McCi.ki.i.av, 
Major-General Commanding. 
An official list of the rebel loss at the battle of 
Fair Oaks has been published. Fifty-eight regi¬ 
ments and battalions, in all, were engaged, sustain¬ 
ing a loss of killed, wounded, and missing, of 5,897. 
A telegram from City Point, Va, on the 27th ult., 
states that Jackson, Price and Beauregard are in 
Richmond, and will be assigned important com¬ 
mands shortly. 
Gen. McClellan has issued an order prohibiting 
uniformed persons from leaving White House. No 
soldiers, sick or well, are allowed to go North of 
White House for a few days. 
The Richmond Knqulrer } of June 21, says:—We 
learn from the Express that Yankee troops to the 
number of 6,000 advanced from Norfolk and Suf¬ 
folk, to a point on the Seaboard Railroad, known as 
Frankfort Depot, 50 miles from Portsmouth and 30 
miles from Weldon. The aim of ibis force is, 
beyond doubt, to advance to Weldon and cut off 
railroad communication at that place with Peters¬ 
burg and Richmond. At Weldon, the roads from 
Wilmington, Raleigh and Petersburg converge. 
This explains the recent visit of Burnside to Old 
Point and the White House on the l'amunkey, 
where he and McClellan compared notes. 
Gen. Vide lield a conference with the city officers 
of Norfolk on the 24th ult., and finding that they 
would not take the oath of allegiance, ordered that 
no election for municipal officers be held the next 
day, as arranged for. The next morning he issued 
a proclamation declaring tho city under martial 
law, and returning the old city officers, whose terms 
have expired. Gen. Vidu has found it necessary to 
adopt this course in consequence of numerous 
petty disturbances between Unionists and Seces¬ 
sionists. 
Mondav, P. M. — Onr city has been agitated all 
day with countless'rumors from Richmond, and it 
was known that the authorities at, Washington had 
ordered a suppression of intelligence. This after- 
coon details ol three days’ fighting began to arrive, 
and we publish, to tho exclusion Of much other 
matter, such Information as baa been received. It 
would seem although the fiercest and bloodiest bat¬ 
tle of the war lias just been concluded. Our report 
we owe to the N. Y. Tribune: 
A severe and most determined battle was fought 
on the right wing on Thursday and Friday, which 
is claimed by some of our officers as a successful 
strategic movement, into which the enemy had un¬ 
wittingly been drawn, and which will soon result 
in the caplure of Richmond and the entire rebel 
army. The attack was made by the enemy in 
immense force, who crossed the Chickuhominy near 
the railroad above Mechanicavillc, Thursday after¬ 
noon. They fought desperately, but were unable 
to drive our men a single rod, though Ihe enemy 
were ten to one. The only forces engaged that day 
were McCall's division, the battle lasting from two 
to nine P. M , when the division was ordered back. 
Shortly afterward an attempt was made to break 
through the right, which was repulsed; and half an 
hour later another attempt was made on the left, 
with the same result. The battle had then been 
raging for KOtn« hours without any apparent change 
or advantage on either side. 
Re-enforcements of artillery und infantry then 
came steadily along over the bridge, marching 
through the beat und dust over tho hill to the field 
of battle. The enemy then seemed to make the last 
desperate determined effort, and came forcing our 
men back into the low ground between the hill and 
the bridge, where they could have been slaughtered 
by tens of thousands before they could have crossed 
that long narrow bridge. Wugons, artillery, ambu¬ 
lances and men were hurrying toward the bridge, 
and a panic was almost inevitable, when a strong 
guard was placed across the bridge at the time 
when the enemy had almost reached the main hos¬ 
pital, half a mile from tho river. Then Thos. Fran¬ 
cis Meagher's Irishmen came over the bill,stripping 
themselves to the bare arms, and ordered to go to 
work. They gave a yell und went to work, and the 
result was that the enemy fell back to the woods; 
und thus matters stood up to 11 o’clock yesterday 
(Sunday) morning. 
At dark an attack was made along the front of the 
entire line, and was renewed at two A. M. in front 
of Gens. Hooker, Kearney, and Sumner, without 
material result. 
Another correspondent says of Friday’s battle: 
Twice, all along the front, did the bloody and deter¬ 
mined attack cling to our lines of battle, and our 
rifle pits and redoubts. Porter with 50 cannon, 
Sumner’s, Hooker’s and Ayre’s guns, reaped them 
with a very death harvest. Their loss iu killed and 
wounded was horrible. 
Count De Paris took prisoner a rebel Major who 
belonged to Jackson’s army, lie said he had been 
in tho valley of the Shenandoah all winter, and 
came hero yesterday with part of Jackson’s array. 
The rest of it arrived this morning. The whole of 
it is here, lie said that in the attack on our right 
the rebels had from 60,000 to 80,000 troops. This 
will explain the enormous fire under which our men 
were borne down and swept away precisely as some 
of the regiments were swept away at the Seven 
Pines. 
The Count de Paris testifies to tho remarkably 
good conduct of all the regiments that sustained 
this unequal attack on Porter. They gave way 
indeed, but not all of them rau. Their losses are 
enormous. 
The regular 11th infantry is about annihilated, 
nearly every officer in it is killed or wounded. 
The 14 th also suffered severely. 
Major Rosselle of the regulars, a kinsman of Gen. 
McClellan, is kilted. 
Col. Pratt, of a N. Y. regiment, is also killed; and 
Lieut-Cols. Black and Switzer. 
Our Iosh in officers is very marked, indeed the 
disproportion in numbers is so extraordinary, and 
the obstinacy of our troops so unyielding, that onr 
losses were inevitably large. 
The artillery in both Porter’s and Smith’s divis¬ 
ions piled tho rebels iu heaps. Tho fire was beuvily 
effective. 
The following is the conclusion of the Baltimore 
Ame.rimn's account ol the recent affairs before Rich¬ 
mond: 
Washington, June 29.— Since closing my letter 
Gen. McClellan was on the field, expressing himself from the White House, I find myself very unexpoct- 
satlsfied with the result. edly in Washington City, and in possession of most, 
On Thursday, about icon, the enemy made an tellable information from White House and other 
attack on Gen. Stoncman’s forces, In the vicinity of points cn the Peninsula, nearly a day later than is 
Hanover Court House, probably for tho purpose of contained in my letter. ... 
accomplishing an outflanking movement on the I < appears that telegraphiccomm ..mention between 
right, and to engage our attention in that direction. White House and McClellan was uninterrupted 
Shortly afterward they commenced a vigorous can- until 1 o'clock on Saturday, and then the wires were 
nnnading from the works situated ou an eminence cut at a dispatch station 11 nules out. Tuns a h 
opposite Mechanicsville, about one and a half miles ntation, four miles out, was m our possession until 
distant, also from two batteries, one above and the 4 o’clock in Lho afternoon, at which hour he ope- 
othor below. They were replied to by Campbell’s rater at White House heard a Strange signal Coming 
Pennsylvania batteries on picket duty, one on the over the wires. Ongoing to the instrument, he was 
Mechanicsville road and another from behind earth- Partied with what Un.on soldiers called the “ rebc 
works at the right of a grove. About 2 P. M. the national salute.” This was the signal given for final 
enemy’s Infantry and squadrons of cavalry crossed evacuation, when a portion of the infantry forces 
the Chickuhominy in immense force, a short dis- immediately embarked on steamboats in waitmg for 
tance above Hi.. Virginia Central Railroad, making them. The last of the transports were moved oil by 
a rapid advance through lowlands and forest toward steam tugs, and not uu article was left on sioie. 
Gen. McCall's division, who were entrenched on a Even some damaged hay was taken off. 
hilly woodland, across a swampy ravine, about a In midst of this closing scene in the beautiful 
mile in the rear of Mechanicavillc. Chickahominy region, 1 regret to state that some 
The 1st Pennsylvania rifles, Bucktails, and Camp- vandal ret lire to White House, and it was entire y 
bell's Pennsylvania battery, were on picket duty, all consumed. The enemy made Ins appearance in 
of whom, except one company, fell back behind the considerable force at White House about 7 O clock 
breastworks and rifle pits, where a line of battle on Saturday evening, and although he neither ound 
was drawn up. Co. K of the Bucktails, who were bread for man nor hay lor beast, was welcomed with 
on picket beyond the railroad, were surrounded by heavy showers of grape shot from the three gunboaU 
the enemy, and the last that was known of then which were ranged along in front ol the landing 
they were trying to out their way through an They were supposed to be 30,090 strong, and unlosi 
immensely superior force. Their fate is not known, they brought their haversacks well supplied, muff 
but it is presumed that the greater portion were have gone supperloss to bed- 
taken prisoners The cavalr y at While ,lousw * uarde<1 the de P ar 
The enemy advanced down at the rear of Meehan- turoofthe last wagon and horse, which moved of 
icsville, on a low marshy ground, to where our at the final evacuation and joined Ihe forces o4 Gen 
forces were drawn up behind rifle pits and earth- Stoneman, Who was hovering Id the vicinity all day 
works, on an eminence on the northerly side of the Alter passing these trains and securing their entm 
ravine, when the conflict became most terrible, safety, Stoneman, with his entire loree, moved oil ir 
The rebels, with the most determined courage, a direction that 1 am uot at liberty to state. Case] 
attempted to press over miry ground, but the bul- ««Port» that he lost not a man, nor lelt a soul be 
lets and grape shot fell among them like hail, until, bind, not even a contraband, 
in the words of an officer, “they lay like flies on a At ten o’clock Sunday morning, Colonel Ingall 
bowl of sugar,” und at dark withdrew. The can- and Captain Sautelles were before Yorktown witl 
nonading on both sides continued until about 9 an immense convoy ol vessels and steamers on tli 
P. M., when the battle ceased. Our forces were way to a now huso of operations on James Itlvei 
covered by earthworks, and suffered but slightly. The order for debarkation Hays:- “Move dowi 
Bate in the afternoon the enemy made a charge immediately to Fortress Monroe and await iustrUC 
with cavalry. About 100 of them came rushing tions of Gen. McClellan." A number are, howevei 
down and attempted to cross tho ravine, when the already up tho .lames River, under protection ol th 
horses became mired. A squadron of our cuvulry, gunboats. 
seeing the position in which the enemy were placed, Since an early hour on Saturday morning, Ger 
made u dash down the hill, when the cavalrymen McClellan has been deprived oi his telegraph con 
abandoned their horses and fled. The Infantry light municalion with Washington, lie abandoned il 
was then renewed, and according to the statement use several hours liefore the wires were cut, doub 
of Sergeant Humphrey, of the Pennsylvania Buck- less being tearful that the enemy might, by plucin 
tail regiment, continued until about 7 P. M., when a magnet on the wires, read his orders. Direi 
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&I)C News t£onimtscr. 
— The hotel proprietor!) at Saratoga anticipate a prospermia 
season. 
— There are seventy rivers in Canada in which salmon are 
caught. 
— Mad dogs are becoming alarmingly numerous in various 
part of tins State. 
The quantity of water pumped up daily for the city of 
tendon Is 1A0,000,000 gallons. 
— The Richmond Dispatch complains of the very frequent 
desertions from tire rebel army. 
— The seven year locusts have made tticir appearance in 
hordes in some parts of Kansas 
— During the late flood in the Lehigh river, the water 
actually rose tfi feet in 10 minutes. 
— Jenny Lind is giving charity oratorios in London to 
immense houses, at n guinea a ticket. 
— A Temperance Society is being formed among the sailors 
of Die Itritisli fleet stationed at Halifax. 
— Three million dollars’ worth of petroleum oil has been 
exported from New York since January. 
— The total reducible Stale debt of Ohio is f 14,fiOT,42fi, an 
Increase of $404,000 since the Inst report. 
More than 1,800 Mormons, cn route for Utah, have passed 
through Quebec within the past two weeks. 
— It. Is stated that the total loss from lire in Albany, for the 
year Hiding June 1, 1H02, was only $22,000. 
— The daily receipt of silver at the International Exhibition 
In London exceeds four hundred pounds in weight, 
J. \V. Fawkes is now In Illinois with his steam plow, 
offering to plow the fields of the farmers by contract. 
— A woman in High FalJs. Ulster Go . N. Y., gave birth, 
June 8th, to three children—*11 healthy looking hoys. 
— A crowd of secessionists lately left New Orleuns on their 
wuy to Europe, glad to hive their country at a distance. 
— A highly respectable citizen of Salem, Mass lately died 
of smoker's cancer, caused by excessive use of tobacco. 
— The Oregon papers are discussing the expediency of 
establishing a school for the deaf and dumb in that Htute. 
— It is estimated that the pension bill recently passed by 
the Mouse will draw from the treasury annually $40,000,000. 
The coffee crop of Costa Rica this year now appears to 
he 100,000 quintals, being about 30,000 over that of hist year. 
— All the clergymen In Nashville, except. Hcv, J 8. Mayes, 
Presbyterian, skied with the rebellion, and have nearly all fled. 
— The. legislature of California has passed a law taxing 
the Chinese residents of that State $2.60 per head per month. 
— The Dunkirk (N.Y.) Union says 1,040 hogsheads of tobacco 
were received at that port by three lake arrivals, for shipment 
East. 
— On Sunday week, 60,000 pedestrians visited the New 
York Central Park, 800 people on horseback, and 6,600 
vehicles. 
— Tho total contributions received by the Mayor of Troy 
for the relief of the sufferers by tho late flro, is about 
$241,000. 
— The keel of another iron clad war vessel, similar in 
many respects to the Monitor, was laid at Jersey City ou Tuea 
day week. 
— Tho now planet, recently discovered at Cambridge, Mass., 
1ms been named Clytic, the mythological daughter of Ocean us 
and Tethys. 
The Union party in the city of Itaitimorn have, by rev. 
points cn the 1’cninmila, nearly tt day later than is lution, endorsed President Lincoln’s Emancipation recom- 
contained in my letter. mendaUons 
It appears that telegraphic communication between 
White Honre and McClellan was uninterrupted 
until 1 o'clock on Saturday, and then the wires were 
cut at a dispatch station 11 miles out Tunstall’s 
station, four miles out, was iu our possession until 
4 o’clock in the afternoon, at which hour the ope¬ 
rator at White House heard a strange signal coming 
over the wires, (in going to the instrument, he was 
startled with what Union soldiers called the “rebel 
national salute.” This waa the signal given for final 
evacuation, when a portion ol the infantry forces 
immediately embarked on steamboat:) in waiting for 
them. The last of the transports were moved off by 
steam tugs, and not uu article was left on shore. 
Even some damaged hay was taken off. 
In the midst of this closing scene in the beautiful 
Chickahominy region, 1 regret to state that some 
vandal set tire to White House, and it was entirely 
consumed. The enemy made his appearance in 
considerable force at White House about 7 o’clock 
on Saturday evening, and although lie neither found 
bread for man nor lmy for beast, was welcomed with 
heavy showers of grape shot Irom tho three gunboats 
which were ranged along in front of the landing. 
They were supposed to be 30,000 strong, and unless 
they brought their haversacks well supplied, must 
have gone BUpperless to bed. 
The cavalry at White House guarded the depar¬ 
ture of the last wagon and horse, which moved off 
at the final evacuation and joined the forces of Gen. 
Stoneman, who was hovering iu the vicinity all day. 
After passing these trains and securing their entire 
safety, Stoneman, with his entire force, moved off in 
a direction that I am nut at liberty to state. Casey 
reports that he lost not a man, nor left a soul be¬ 
hind, not even a contraband. 
At ten o’clock Sunday morning, Colonel Ingalls 
and Captain Sautelles were before Yorktown with 
an immense convoy of vessels and steamers on Ihe 
way to a now base of operations on James River. 
The order for debarkation Hays: “Move down 
immediately to Fortress Monroe and await instruc¬ 
tions of Gen. McClellan.” A number arc, however, 
already up the James River, under protection of the 
gunboats. 
Since an early hour on Saturday morning, Gen. 
McClellan has been deprived of his telegraph com¬ 
munication with Washington. He abandoned its 
use several hours before the wires were cut, doubt¬ 
less being fearful that tho enemy might, by placing 
a magnet on the wires, read his orders. Direct 
a retreat was ordered, very much against the will of communication with Gen. McClellan is now being 
the Pennsylvania boys, who begged to bo allowed opened, however, by gunboats up the mouth of the proem of repair, win increase the Mia*t*d P pi tiotuia to 
to defend their position, which they felt confident Chickahominy, and will soon he right In this respect. vewels, carrying a total of l&u ffun*. 
they could continue to hold. The outer forces The object of Gen. McClellan was to abandon -The India trade of Horton in revwtig. 
began to fall back. Porter’s corps were some dis- White House and draw in the right wing ol his *' f ”" ( lll, utu W1 ttrr v ‘ 111 1 " l "" 
tance below, near Gaines’residence. arm y iiciohs the Chickuhominy, which he has . . u .. iM 
Of next day’s battle the correspondent states that accomplished with but little loss, in comparison j tor «*,«*> baU proof nhlp«, and id»o in preparing 
the cannonading waa terrific, and the musketry can will) the punishment bestowed on the enemy. tUBt | Ilg8 and forgiugx for «ix new Monitors, 
only be understood by those who have heard the Gen. McClellan has also Strengthened his position Tli(i chtaeae have hired a fleet of gunboat* from Eng- 
crash of Immense trees in quick succession. Dor- by contracting bis lines and changing his base ol |unJ Tll „ y ar „ t„ i„, (dti^rod and manned by Englishmen 
yea’s gullunl ZouaveH were lying upon the ground operations to the James River, where he will have w , luMj will be provided by the Chlneae. 
for over two hours whila our batteries were shelling the co-operation of the gunboat*, and it the enemy _ Au Am „ r | uim iirt ut, Wro. w story, la admitted by “ n 
the woods over them. Finally, toward night the attempt t<» Interrupt his supply vessels On James K nK u«h critical authorities to bear away mo honor* in the 
enemy attempted to break tbe center line, in front River, they will meet with prompt punishment from department of xculpturo of tl... Great Exhibition, 
of Duryoa’s Zouaves, and the musketry firing be- tbe gunboats, and so weaken the forces before Rich- _ Th „ royal &ialilex of Portugal and Italy have been 
came most terrific, lasting some twenty or thirty rnond that the city will fall into his bunds with but riveted by an e*pou»ud between the Pm-tugor King and t.« 
minutes, after which there wus a lull. a slight struggle. ITtneo* Muria Fla, fifth child of Victor Eimnanuc . 
— Thtrty-tbur (laticnta worn added to tlio lntuuic honpital at 
Northampton, Maas., on Tuesday week, making 3-13 now in 
that institute. 
— The demand for Syracuse salt is very large. Manufac¬ 
turer* are shipping 20,000 barrel* per week, and tbi* doe* ret 
fill tlio order*. 
— According to Health Fhyaician Kantmun’s report, one 
hundred and twenty-seven death* occurred iu iinflalo during 
the month of May, 
— Among the new pout road* in California wo ob*ervo one 
“ from Cbloo to Humbug Valley.” There ought to be u largo 
mail ou Uiat route. 
— A boiler ex plenum took place in an Iron forge at Bridge- 
water, Maa*, which killed *ix person* and diuigeroualy 
wounded six more. 
The number of (duiinl tbu* far presented bofor* the Cora- 
mission at Cairo, ha* reached nearly 700, representing In Uio 
aggregate $100,000. 
It is estimated that the cotton throughout England, on 
the first of Juno, was 428,000 bale*, against 1,646,000 at th# 
same date la*t year. 
— The Now Hampshire Journal or Agriculture «uys: “ New* 
from all part* of the State load* u* to infer Uiat there will be a 
largo crop of gras*.” 
The friend* of Mexico arc pressing upon the Senate the 
ratification of tin. treaty with Mexico, granting pecuniary aid 
to that Government. 
— In 1810, according to tbo U. 8. census, Uioro were 111,602 
daves in Maryland. Iu 1KU0, there were 87,188—decrease iu 
half a century, 24,314. 
_A firm in St. Louis advertises for salesmca, and admon¬ 
ishes those who are “ alllictod with sccessionism, or any other 
stupidity,” not to apply. 
A bill to repeal the Personal Liberty Law of Wisconsin 
was passed by the Assembly of Uiat State on the !4lli ult., by 
a vote of 61 aye* to 26 nays. 
Tbe 33d annual meeting of the American Institute ol 
Instruction will bo held at the State House, Hartford, Conn., 
August 20th, 21st, and 22d. 
lu tlio town of Brantford, C. W , fifteen or sixteen dwell¬ 
ings and shop* were burned June 26tli, inutile best part of th p 
town. I.oss about $20,000. 
_l.ord Clyde, (Sir Colin Campbell,) Uio highest military 
authority in Europe, pronounce* Geu. McClellan a splendid 
strategist and au able leader. 
_Tho estimated vnluc of British and “ scocsh ” ships and 
cargoes captured by tbo U. 8 blockading squadron for u twelve- 
month, is nearly $12,000,000. 
— The Nashville Union announces the arrival in Uiat city 
of large quantities of cotton from Northern Alabama —th« 
region held by Gen. Mitchell. 
— The drouth i* very severe In Norttiern Vermont. La¬ 
moille, Chittenden, mid Orleans counties, have not been visited 
with a copious rain since last fall 
— The boat* captured from tho rebels, and which are in 
procca* of repair, will increase tlio Mississippi flotilla to 17 
vessels, carrying a total of 166 guns. 
_ The India trade of Boston is reviving. Fourteen sliips 
from Calcutta will arrive at that, port in July and August. 
Several others are also loading at. Calcuttu. 
— Tho Bridgewater (Mass.) iron works are engaged in for 8' 
illg plates for s«verul ball proof ships, and also in preparing 
eastings and forging* for six new Monitors. 
- The Chinese have hired a fleet of gunboats from Eng- 
