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, *r* *,\ t (* 41rxNEW-YORK. THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1864ntoon brdge. Ctnmra and Bmx'i brigades them off to Hanover Coart-home, killing and capturing a large number of priioners. Sixth Corps was toon at oar heel*. Then name eond, Eighth and Ninth. Lib was doomed tojolntmeot. Hie elaborate fortification* would na him. Omm nu on his Eight flunk, and ha away Id Richmond.st day morning Gaxaa’s division of cavalry waa Into near Hawbs' Shop. Dima* brffMs was e advance. The woods seemed afire with , and they soon began to reiound with the share s ot our crblntt. In a short time Baths’ i brigade was fighting In earnest. Qol. I was ordered to Datixs’ support, and remainder of the division was holly ;ed. Fits Hcan Ln oornmnndfd In person*LvalrT corps was all fighting, assisted by ab.ig-f mounted I ire-eater* from South Carolina, wuled by Col. Butlxr. These men hod just d from toe seaboard, apd admit tbo warmth of!oepiioB which oar troops gave them. Congas in the battle were the Fourth ant! Sixteenth iviveni*. First New-Jersey. Sixth Ohio and Massachusetts. For a long tfroe these men Firaauan Lza back. All tbo cavalry engaged ed with valor.found the rebels strongly entrenched in this u with heavy inns in position : bat with ever*make a wgy for tho boats ot the chosen people of the1.0 rd.We did not expect, on setting out from the James River,tbat we should gat up the Pamunky to White House unmolested by the rebels or their Infernal works. At Fortress Monroe, however, Qen. Bairn got news authoritatively that Gbaht's enny had crossed the river on Saturday at Hanover Ferry, several miles further up and this lea ions our chances of being attacked. But there !• still sufficient spice of dangs/- to g)vo zest to theadvance. We teamed of late venttons of ttiha to heard of torpedoea and have that such things are not M weak ln-enemy.” At Fortress Monroe thereare harrowing Stories afloat of these infernal Invention* being scattered about the Pamunky by ourSouthern brethren without (he, slightest regard to•oonomy, and we are fast approaching places whera we shell test the truth o! these suspicions. Oars is thesecond boat in th« line; but if (here Is any nervousness it finds on board no expression In words. Gen. Burni and (e viral members of hi a Staff are on toe forward deck] within a few feet of mo, conducting themselves very nonchalantly In view of what might happen. By the by, 1 thin* Gen. Sami err* In one thing. He is always at the post or danger. The vicinity of the plLot-hduse, exper ance teaches me, la not the safest place in passing sua-peoted localities. The river at this point Is veryevidences of BnxarojuPa visit here tan days dace. In plenty of empty hardtack w boxes, and aeouple of dead bones, whose speedy burial vroald be very desirable, f After finishing the last sentence I gathered myself up from the grass to Dinah off tba little green bags, which were proving a pest, and discovering a stout slake loosely thrust Into the earth, a lew feat off, I attempted to pull it up far a seat* My eye glanced down, and I was eaved a piece ol sacrilege. The post marked a grate. Its badly written Inscription in Ink told that ** Sergt.Joan Jtisiow, Company I, Eighth Illinois Regiment,” died in May, 1662, and was buried there.If ever the loose earth had been shaped Into a mound oyer the body, there is no sign of 11 now, and the sergeant's test resting-place will soon be unknown, like thousands and thousands of others, which make Virginia soil Indeed sacred **—a very Golgotha of honored dust.]Gen. flunrn has jus! been riding about to establish his lines. He tells me of a cavalry man from Gsaht, who has just come to. This man says tbat Guirr’s cavalry crossed at Iianovec Ferry on Saturday and the infantry yesterday. There bad, been fighting, and bard fighting, ever since. Even now 1 hdarthe boom of heavy guns, and suppose, from tbo rapidity of the reports, that a hard battle is raging. Gkahi’s headquarters are cot more than fifteen miles from us. ami to-morrow, at daybreak, if the unloading ofakBBieavffie yesterday morning tad had not a tered the enemy la force up to that time.Gen. BnxiiDiy'f cavalry had had several skiiwith tba enemy and completely routed thank Heavy cnneonedlny was heard yesterday la radio □ of II sehanios villa.The highest hopes ate entertained by those tent to judge of the situation.The Argueflee Case* WAsmseTO*. Wednesday, JiThe* President, in response to an inqu day, sent to the Senate all ibe papers in the At a ate on file in the State Department, and letter of Secretary Snriin, In which the latfi “ By the act of Congress of liny 19.1820, the8 sve-trade Is declared to be piracy; andtreaty of 1842 with Great Britain, tt Is etipuU they wtll invite and urge upon all Powers 1 pfiely and duty of effectually at onoa and cloilng all African slavd markets,” The 8 says, there bsing no treaty of extradition beta United States and Spain, cor any act of C directing how fugitives in the Spanish do shall be delivered op, (he extradition InetrsLLxe case Is understood by the Stats Dcp to have been made In virtue ol the law at and the Constitution of the Doited States. Athere la a eon filet of authorities eouoern
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