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THE COUNT HYM AN.
that should touch the profoundest sen
sibilities of a monster, if that monster
v ore their general.
f l ho following enumeration will he
acceptable, particularly to such of our
readers as have been, during a por~.
tion of the time, cut off from the
mails:
May 4th.— Grant crossed tlieRapid-
an, at Ely’s and Germanna folds.
Oth and Oth.—The great battles of
the Wilderness. Grant repulsed, and
driven at all points, with great loss.
Abandons his dead and wounded on
the right, and retreats to hie intrench
ed lines, between Wilderness and
Trigg’s Mill, nearly coincident with
the Brock road, leading from Wilder
ness to Spottsylvania G. H. General
Longstreet wounded on the 6tb.
1th.—Skirmishing. Grant retreats
towards Fredericksburg.
Sth.\—Two battles fought to-day, at
Spottsylvauia G. H., between Long-
street’s corps, under Amici son, and the
fifth corps, under Warren, supported
by cavulry. The enemy repulsed
with heavy loss, m both instances.
Oth.— Skirmishing.
10/7/.—Grant attacks Lee in his in-
trenchmenta, near Spottsylvauia C H.,
and is defeated with great loss.
1 lth.— Skirmishing.
12/7/..—Great hattloof Spottsylvauia
G. H. Grant attacks our lines, bleaks
over a part, capturing several thou
sand men of Johnson’s division, but is
driven out, and repulsed at all points,
with enormous loss—tho ground in
front cf our lines being piled with his
slain.
14/7/.—Grant moved his lines by his
left Hank, taking position nearer the
Richmond Fredericksburg railroad.
He then remained pretty quiet, until
the
18/7/.— Grant ‘attempted an assault'
on Ewell's line, hut was easily re
pulsed.. His less said to be consider
able.
Thus much tor Grant's immediate
movements, with the troops under his
eye, But other important operations
around Richmond form a part of tlie
same drama, and mus^be mentioned
as a portion of his proceedings :
May 6'h,—Butler' lands in large
foice at Bermuda Hundreds, near the
junction of the James and Appomatox.
Skirmish near Port Walthall,
7/A.—Battle at Port Walthall June
tion. Enemy defeated.
10th —Great cavalry expedition a-
gainst Richmond, Under G.em Sher
idan. Battle near Chester Station,
C&'Vulrj fighting.
i 1/A.—Hegvy cavalry fighting Gen
Stuart wounded
12th.—Cavalry fighting continued.
Enemy attack second line of batteries
on the Mechaniffiville road. General
Gracie skirmishes with the enemy on
the Meadow Bridge road, General
Gordon (cavalry) wounded General
Stuart died. Sheridan re crossed the
Chickahominy, and disappeared Ho
wards the James.
13/7/,—Heavy cannonade at' Fort
Drowrv. Eneiny demonstrating a-
gainst it by land.
1 477/ and 15th.—Heavy cannona
ding and skirmishing with the enemy
near Fort Drcwry.
15/7z.—Gen. •Breckinridge defeats
Sign! near New Market, and puts him
to flight, ?.
.16/7/.-—Gem Beauregard attacked
the enemy near Fort Drcwry', drove
them out of their intreiichments,- and
captured many prisoners.
11th.—Butler retires to Bermuda
Hundreds, and fortilioltv".
Dkath of Gk.y. SiUAiu.—“The
circumstances of the death of Gen. J.
E. B. Stuart, as narrated to tho editor
of the Richmond Whig, are as fol
lows :
‘His troops had been nearly over-
whelmed, and he dashed to lira front
to inlly them for the fight. At this
juncture, ho saw a yankeo private
sharp-shooter take deliberate trim at
him, and fire. The laril penetrated
his abdomen, and the General was
borne from the field. One ol the most
splendid charges of the war was the
result, and the enemy were repulsed
with great los3. He was carried to
the house, of his brother in law, Dr,
Brewer, and, on examination, the
wound was.pronounced fatal, Ho ex
pressed tho hope that, having been a
perfectly temperate man, with a good
constitution, he might survive, but was
informed that there were no prospects
of his recovery, He then requested
that every means should he taken to
keep him alive until the arrival of his
wife, but all measures laiied, and the
gallant spirit departed the body that
had so often been in the van of victori
ous columns, about an hour and a hall
before her arrival.’ ”
Somi: Backing Down.-— ,! In ihe
Federal House of Ropresiitativcs, on
the 4th hi$tthe bill guaranteeing a
Republican Government to the rebel-*
Hons States was taken up. and Mr.
11, W. .Davis offered a substitute
amending the bill so ns to require,
instead oi one.tenth oi the voters el
the seceded fcka.e, a major is > ;o re-
organise a State Government, allowing
*Uosr*. who ha vo field merely ministe
rial offices u ltd oi tho robe! Govern
merit, arid those who have held itrferi
or millitary offices, to participate in
and hold office under the reconstructed
Government. The substitute w/n-
adopted. Tho preamble proposed by
Mr. Stevens to the effect that tho so-
called Confederate Stato are a public
enemy wagiugan unjust wav; in which
they are not entitled to the privileges'
au:i immunities os civilized warfare,
etc., was stricken out, and the bill thus
amended, finally passed—yeas 78,
nays <30.
So Lincoln s last proclamation is
virtually set aside, and his project of
securing v.e>elcction by the vote of «
bogus lithe of the population ol the'rc-
liellious States’ defeated.”
O* —
Morgan's Fight -With Ay frill.
—“From a gentleman to whom the
Ly itch burg V irgiuian is much indebted
for information respecting affairs in ihe
Southwast, that paper gleans the fo 1 -
lowing respecting the fight between
Morgan and Averill, near Wy theyille.
Tlie Virginian’s informant was cap
tured by the yankees between Duhlip
and Gh'iistiansb'nrg.' Previous to his
capture, he put up at a house that was
afterwards made Averill’s headquar
ters, and heard Averill’s Adjutant say
that tlioy had lost 363 men. He
heard Averill remark to his Adjutant
that ‘that d—d scoundrel Morgan lmd
whipped us badly.’ In answer to an
enquiry put by the Adjutant respect
ing Morgan’s forces, Averill gave it ns
his opinion that Morgan must have‘at
least ten thousand.’ Morgan lost four
meu killed and sixteen wounded. A-
mong the killed was Major Palmer, of
Kentucky. Morgan had no fight with
the enemy at Saltvillc. The Virgin
ian says that Averill was slightly
^rounded in the head, and wore a band
♦“The Atlanta Register very oppor
tunely revives a remark said to have
been made by Gen, Scott, early in the
wav, to a yankeo officer in Washing
ton : ‘Beware of Lee when he mi
vanccs — of Johnston when he re
treats.”
Insi;rrk( tion Frarbi* j.n Nun
York.—“Tho New Yenk corner,pen
dent ofth'e London Times, Mr. Charier.
Mahay, wrote 1o his journal on the
25th of March last, that unless Gen.
Grant gained a victory in the coming
battles in Virginia, not only would
that individual lose all prestige, hut
that the Pederal Government itself
would not be aide to withstand the in
vasion of Southern armies and the
revolutionary 'outbreaks «hich won hi