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disbanded, Mr. Hildreth, brother-in-law of Gen. Butler, and wife. There was on Tuesday mornin the distance is forty-eight hundred yards. Gen. Butler went to Newport News Point in a steaming tod in the afternoon the funeral took place. Gen. Butler and staff were present, besides the officer There was no talk of any early movement by Gen. Butler toward Yorktown, and all the roads loading he direction of Norfolk. Yesterday morning Gen. Butler resumed the amusement of shooting a few morifled Projectile,) which gun and ammunition Gen. Butler has placed at least temporarily on board thege guns, and the requisite ammunition, and Gen. Butler will soon have the use of them in the same attle of Great Bethel. On Tuesday morning Lieut. Butler, two brothers of the deceased, and Mr. Jam before parting, Col. Magruder remarked to Lieut. Butler, "We part as friends, but on the field of t Colonel Magruder sent his compliments to General Butler. Col. McChesney, of one of the New York re[2 more...]
Prince Alfred arrived at Quebec on Thursday week. The papers report that there was as much enthusiasm displayed as on the occasion of the entry of Prince Albert. The resemblance to the latter in feature is remarkable. He is much shorter in stature, however, than his brother. A majority of East Tennessee Rebellion delegates have appointed a committee to memorialize the Legislature to permit East Tennessee to secede peaceably from the Southern Confederacy. This is founded upon rumor. It is pretended that three fugitive slaves, at Cairo, have been surrendered to their owners in Kentucky. Picayune Butler never pursues that course, but steals all he can lay his hands upon. Hon. Nathaniel Greene Pendeleton, who acted as aid to Gen. Gaines in 1813, and was a Whig member of Congress in 1941-3, died in Cincinnati on the 18th Inst.
ments, from which we extract the following: From Old point. The Baltimore Sun, of Friday, says: The steamer Georgeanna, Capt. Pearson, arrived yesterday morning from Old Point Comfort, and reports everything quiet at that point. Col. Butler, a brother of Gen. Butler, was among her passengers, and he went on to Washington. She also brought up five or six soldiers returning to the North. With regard to the trial of the large rifled cannon, mounted on the Rip Raps, passengers Gen. Butler, was among her passengers, and he went on to Washington. She also brought up five or six soldiers returning to the North. With regard to the trial of the large rifled cannon, mounted on the Rip Raps, passengers by the Georgeanna report that it will be useless in its operations against Sewell's Point.--A dense forest intervenes, besides which there is a sand beach nearly a hundred feet high, which entirely destroys the view of the one from the other. No house can be seen, nor a white flag from one should it have been put out on the occasion of the trial of the gun. One of the Ericsson steamers left Fortress Monroe at 4 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, with ninety tons of shells for Fort McHenry.
can so terribly frighten their fierce Zouaves, and force them, together with their logger-headed Hessians, to skip from the field of Bethel, broken, routed and panic-stricken within their lines.-- Honest Old Abe, even — if he reads none but Picayune Butler's reports of that fight — can not longer doubt that something is going wrong and that somebody is being hurt. As for their Creek army, that was warranted, like a quack pill, to go through in the shortest space of time, and no mistake! We mn wretched Cain. All this braggadocio was to frighten the South, to scare boys with bugs. Those fighting editor, Webb, Greeley, Raymond, &c, &c., must certainly now come to the resene, and by their martial aptitude retrieve the fortunes of Picayune Butler and "poor Pierce." But where is old Fuss and Fosthers all this time? Will he never have finished that " hasty plate of soun," and mount his slashing and come up to the scratch? We are getting as impatient as any rabid shelf to see
er possession of his entrenchments. A fresh howitzer was carried across and placed in the battery, and Capt. Avery, of Company G, was directed to defend it at all hazards. We were now as secure as at the beginning of the fight, and as yet had no man killed. The enemy finding himself foiled on our right flank, next made his final demonstration on our left. A strong column, supposed to consist of volunteers from different regiments, and under command of Captain Winthrop, aid-de-camp to General Butler, crossed over the creek and appeared at the angle on our left. Those in advance had put on our distinctive badge of a white band around the cap, and they cried out repeatedly "don't fire." This ruse was practised to enable the whole column to get over the creek and form in good order. They now began to cheer most lustily, thinking that our work was open at the gorge, and that they could get in by a sudden rush. Companies B and C, however, soon dispelled the illusion by a cool, deliber
Telegraphic items. By way of Memphis, Tenn., we have received the following: Fort Monroe, June 21--There are rumors here of a heavy Southern advance from Yorktown hitherward. The Federal pickets near Little Bethel have been driven in. Persons representing themselves as deserters from Sewell's Point gave such vague information that Gen. Butler suspected them as spies and put them in prison. The Southerners are erecting masked batteries opposite the Rip Raps. No correct returns of the killed at Great Bethel have been or will be given. All surgeons were ordered across the Potomac from Washington last night. The War Department has discovered that female Secessionists have been carrying on a regular correspondence with Beauregard, via Mt. Vernon. New York, June 21.--The correspondent of the Commercial, from Washington, says that army officers believe a collision is certain before to-morrow night, the impression prevailing that the Southerners are
cate, although we are ever on the alert, and the Yankees may rest assured that when they do honor us with a visit, they will not catch us napping, for our motto is, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, " and, with that maxim ever uppermost in our minds, we shall always be prepared to give the fanatical invaders a warm reception. At present the time draws slowly along, but I presume it is the calm before the storm, and therefore we daily cast our eyes ahead for breakers; but I judge Picayune Butler is one of those who now considers "discretion the better part of valor; " but "those whom the Gods wish to destroy they first make mad," and we only hope the brave soldier, all the way from "Bosting," will have sufficient temerity to again venture within our reach, and he may depend that Bethel will be even out Betheled; for since the boys have smelt powder and blood they are determined when they do start again they will take a through ticket, at least, as far as Hampton. We are rej
From Washington. --The Southern papers bring us the following intelligence, telegraphed from Washington, June 27: Financial affairs are becoming alarming here, and it is thought direct taxation must be resorted to. Among other suggestions are those of a newspaper income tax and a stamp tax. The Ordnance Department has preferred charges against Gen. Butler for violating army regulations in allowing Sawyer to conduct experiments. Lowe's balloon having discovered a scattering camp in the vicinity of Fairfax Court-House, Lieut. Tompkin's company of cavalry and several companies of light infantry were ordered to proceed there from Alexandria — It was rumored here last night that the cavalry had been cut to pieces. No official intelligence has been received yet. It is reported that Gen. Cadwallader has received direct orders from Scott not to advance on Martinsburg. The New York Tribune says:"It is not true that a cooperation has been made between Adams' Expr
Spicy correspondence. We had heard that a sharp correspondence had passed between our gallant General Magruder and General Picayune Butler, shortly after the fight at Bethel. The New Orleans Delta received here yesterday, contained the whole of it as furnished by its correspondent. We copy the letters this morning. The miserable pretence of Butler, that he is endeavoring to protect private property, has not even deceived the Northern press. A correspondent of the New York Tribune denoButler, that he is endeavoring to protect private property, has not even deceived the Northern press. A correspondent of the New York Tribune denounces the outrages committed by his troops on private property as a disgrace to them and to the age. What barbarities indeed must they not have perpetrated, when the brutal and fiendish New York Tribune complains of them! We conversed a day or two since with J. Barron Hope, of Hampton, who detailed some of the enormities committed in that town by the vandals of Fortress Monroe. Not to speak of destruction of houses, gardens, farms, etc., they have destroyed and carried off books from valuable
Gen. Butler and Col. Magruder. The Yorktown correspondent of the New Orleans Delta furnishes the correspondence between Butler and Magruder, in relation to an exchange of prisoners, after the victory at Bethel. It is so interesting that we give it in full. It will be seen that our gallant officer handles the pen as well as Butler and Magruder, in relation to an exchange of prisoners, after the victory at Bethel. It is so interesting that we give it in full. It will be seen that our gallant officer handles the pen as well as his artillery: [Gen. Butler to Col. Magruder.] Division Headquarters, June 11, 1861. To the Officer Commanding the Forces at County Bridge: Sir: Capt. Davies and Lieut. Potter, of the 6th Regiment New York Volunteers, are about the proceed to the scene of the late engagement, near County Bridge, for the purpose of brinGen. Butler to Col. Magruder.] Division Headquarters, June 11, 1861. To the Officer Commanding the Forces at County Bridge: Sir: Capt. Davies and Lieut. Potter, of the 6th Regiment New York Volunteers, are about the proceed to the scene of the late engagement, near County Bridge, for the purpose of bringing away any dead or wounded that may have been left behind. I trust the courtesies of civilized warfare will be extended to these gentlemen, as I have no doubt they will be.--I have some prisoners, taken with arms in their hands, whom you might desire, or be willing to exchange for any persons that might have been so unfortunate