nd 170 wounded in all.
Preparations for leaving.
The Pamunkey river had become crowded with vessels of all classes and sizes, principally chartered by the Government for transporting stores, forage, ammunition, &c., &c. On Thursday Colonel Ingalls issued an order for them to prepare to depart for West Point and Yorktown.
Tugs were sent to two them down the river as fast as possible.
The store-houses and piles of commissary stores at the landing were covered with hay and saturated wilegraph at Dispatch Station and received some of our messages, telegraphing answers back to the White House.
The trick was discovered before they had obtained any important information.
The stores fired.
At about 3 P. M. on Saturday, Col. Ingalls ordered the tank and bridge to be fired first; after that the cars, engines, depot houses, tents, forage, hulks, stores, hospital tents, etc., extending from the bridge to the edge of the woods.
Everything was destroyed systematically and in
rnished by Mr. Ingalis that McNutt purchased his furlough with the expressed intention of visiting his home, and consequently assumed the name of the party from whom he purchased it. When he was afterwards detected in an unlawful action here the name of the other party was still given, and caused private Ingalls, of company C. 14th Louisiana, to be subjected to reproach.
McNutt is still to prison and, measures having been taken to identify him, he will hardly be tried on punished as Ingalls. rnished by Mr. Ingalis that McNutt purchased his furlough with the expressed intention of visiting his home, and consequently assumed the name of the party from whom he purchased it. When he was afterwards detected in an unlawful action here the name of the other party was still given, and caused private Ingalls, of company C. 14th Louisiana, to be subjected to reproach.
McNutt is still to prison and, measures having been taken to identify him, he will hardly be tried on punished as Ingalls.
Additional.
The following intelligence is from the N Y. Herald of the 11th inst, not so late by a day as the dates given above:
Active preparations for the opening of the campaign are going on in the Army of the Potomac, Meade, Humphreys, Patrick and Ingalls had an interview with Grant on Friday.
A severe storm occurred on Saturday, which has swollen all the streams to an unprecedented height.
All the bridges on the Orange road were washed away except the Rappahannock, and that is seriously threatened by drift wood.
By late arrivals from New Orleans, it is reported that the Federals, under Smith, occupied Shreveport, and by way of Carro, it is reported that Steel's expedition from Little Rock had occupied Shreveport and that the rebels were fleeing to Texas Both reports are based upon mere rumor.
Farragut confesses that Mobile cannot be taken by the fleet unless a simultaneous move is made by the army.
The reported loss of the rebel ram Tennessee, nea
y appealed to the House to take a direct vote on the resolutions.
The question was then taken on the motion to lay the resolutions on the table, and carried by yeas 81, nays 64.
Matters in the Army of the Potomac--the late Rains —— active operations soon to be Commenced.
The telegrams from the Army of the Potomac say that the orders recently issued by Gen. Grant are regarded as significant of early and active operations.
A letter from the army says Generals Meade, Humphreys, Ingalls, and Patrick, visited Lieutenant General Grant at Culpeper on Friday.
The army has been considerably strengthened, and "the men are anxious for active operations." A dispatch, dated the 10th, adds:
The rain yesterday and last night was the most destructive to the railroad of the season.
The streams between this place and the Army of the Potomac, which were already very high, were swollen beyond all precedent.
Old citizens along the line of the road say that they never before saw su
"Bet your Pite."
The polite and accomplished Ingalls — he is a General under Grant — informed the people of Yankeedom, on the 12th, that the "old Republic" was safe!
His words were, dated from Spotsylvania Court House, these: "The old Republic is safe-- bet your pile!"--He adds: "Grant is a giant and hero in war." Ingalls would, no doubt, bet his pile on that, too, the more especially as Grant had it in his power to throw him a crumb or two for his eulogy.
Ingalls is probably a gamblerIngalls is probably a gambler, and likes to see betting going on, even where the chances are too slight to hazard his own pile.
To stimulate others around the table, he assured them that although the Confederates fought "like devils," "we (they) will have them this pop, though, and without demonstrating the safety of the "old Republic," or of any "pile" that anybody may have bet on it.
But Ingalls is merely helping the "Giant" and the Yankee Government in the fraud which they are ever practicing to give spirit and f
rinted letter in relation to your proposed movement in acknowledgment of one of Ohio's greatest sons.
I wrote only yesterday to my father, who resides in Covington, Kentucky, on the same subject, and asked him to inaugurate a subscription to present Mrs. Sherman with a furnished house in the city of Cincinnati. General Sherman is eminently entitled to this mark of consideration, and I directed my father to head the subscription with five hundred dollars for me and half that amount from General Ingalls, chief quartermaster of this army, who is equally alive with myself to the eminent services of General Sherman.
Whatever direction this enterprise in favor of General Sherman may take, you may set me down for the amount named.
I cannot say a word too highly in praise of General Sherman's services from the beginning of the rebellion to the present day, and will therefore abstain from flattery of him. Suffice it to say, the world's history gives no record of his superiors, and but f
They seemed very friendly.
Stanton had his arm around Seward's neck, and constantly whispered in his ear. Welles sat by himself, and nobody spoke to him. Andy Johnson talked to everybody.
Chief Justice Chase sat erect and dignified, evidently reflecting that he ought to be in Lincoln's place.
Senator Sumner stood prominently forward, as if to attract attention.
Negroes excluded ladies from the rear of the platform.
Every black face beamed with joy and pride.
Major-Generals Hooker and Ingalls were in sight.
Colonels and captains were as plentiful as roses in June.
The President smiled to himself and seemed greatly to enjoy the sunshine which now streamed upon him. He was dressed in black, with a plain frock coat.
In his hand he held a printed copy of his inaugural address.
The marshals of the day were grouped around the President, swelling with pride, and often excluding him from sight.--The planks of the platform were wet, and the airy position rather chilly.
The b
