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5=11=2NEW-YORK. THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1864itoon brdge. Com and Dim'! brigade« them off to Hanover Coart-home, killing ind cap taring a large number of prisoner*. Bum Corps was toon at oar heels. Than cam* sond, Eighth and Ninth. Lai was doomsd to ointment. Hla elaborate fortifications wo aid ia him. Omni was on his right flank, and he way to Richmond.i day morning Guaa’fl division of cavalry was □to near Hawia* Shop, Divaa’ brtgdUa was advance. The woods seemed afire with and they soon began to resound with the sham i of our carbines. In a short time Baths’ brigade was fighting In earnest. Qol. waj ordered to Datim’ support, and remainder of the division was holty sd. Fits Hues Lai oommnnded In person* raliy corpa was all fighting, assisted by ab.lg-mounted I ire-eatera from South Carolina, uuied by Col. Btrttan. These men hod ja«t 1 from the sesboard, apd admit the warmth of caption which oar troops gave them. Con-as in tbs battle were the Fourth am! Sixteenth rIrani*. First New-Jenrey. Sixth Ohio andMassachusetts. For a long time these men■’irxauan Lxi back. All tbo carairy engaged id with valor.found tho rebels strongiy entrenched In this , with heavy guns tn position ; bat with every lags opoa their side they were badly beatee, [rom tho field In great confusion, leaving their nd wounded tn our hands, and over one hurt* rt sorters.ms maintained the contest from noon till 2 when Ccbtib came up, formed his squadronsmake a wgy for tho hosts ot the chosen people of theLord.Wo did nor exnset* on setting oat from the James River, tbat we should get Up the Pamunky to White House unmolested by tho rebels or thaix infernal works. At Fortress Monroe, however, den. 8«mt got news authoritatively that Guar's *nny had crossed the river on Saturday at Hanover Ferry, several miles further up and this lei sons our chances of being attacked. Bat there !■ still sufficient spice of dnge/- to givo zest to theadvance. We learned of late ventlons of thha to heard of torpedoes and have that such things are not weak In-enemy.'* At Fortress Monroe there are harrowing jstorles afloat of these tnfeml Inventions being scattered about the Pamunky by our Southern brethren without the, slightest regard to economy, and we are fast appro aching places wbero we shill test the truth of these suspicions Ours is thesecond boat in the line; but If there Is any nervous* npsi it finds on board no expression in words. Gen. Suitiz and Several members of hta Staff are on the forward deck] within a few feet or roo, conducting themselves very nonchalantly In view of whet might happen. By the by, 1 thins Gen. Sumi eri« in one thing. He is always at the post or danger. The vicinity of the pllot-hduse, exper once teaches me, Is not the safest place In pasalng suspected localities. Tbe river at this point Is very narrow. It Is like a stream running tbrough a mountain gorge. The bank do the left hand is perpendicular and nearly a hundred feet high. Oft tna crest are two embrasures for rebel guns shoveled oat of the stiff red aly.The gunboat Afor«« fs a length ahead of as. She 1*ate evidential of Sksxtpaji*! visit here tin days since. In plenty of empty •* hardtack” boxes, and a couple of dead horses, whose speedy burial would be very dot trabla, I After finishing the last sentence I gathered cnjaclf up from the grass to ornsh off tbs UHle green bags, which were proving a past, and discovering a stout stake loosely thrast Into the earth, a few feet off, I attempted to pull It op for a seat* My eye glanced down, and I eras saved a piece of sacrilege. Tbe post marked a grave. Its badly written Inscription In Ink told that ** Ssrgt. Joans Jassos, Company I, Eighth Illinois Regiment,” died in May, 1662, and was boiled there.If ever tbe loose earth had been shaped into a mound oyer the body, there is no sign of it now, and the sergeant's lest resting-place will soon be unknown, like thousand* and thousands of others,which mike Virginia soil indeea ** sacred **—a very Golgotha of honored dust.]Gen. Surrn bs jus! been riding about to establish his lines. He tells me of a cavalry man from Gxaht, who has just come to. This man aaya that Giakt'b cavalry crossed at Hanover Ferry on Saturday and the infantry yesterday. Tbere bad, been fighting, and hard fighting, ever since. Even now 1 hear the boom of heavy guns, and suppose, from the rapidity of the reports, that a hard battle is raging. Gaiitx’s headquarters are cot more than fifteen miles from us. and to-morrow, at daybreak, if the unloading of supplies and munitions la finished, we shall a tail on the march to meet him.Tbla point will be made secure as a bass of supplies, and the Indications at present are that tbs tn-tire Army of tbe Potomac will be dependent on It* for a Pine at least.chanlatriHe yesterday morning and had not ai tered the enemy la force up to that time.Gen. Bnxinitt*i cavalry had had laveral skin with the enemy and completely routed them.Heavy cannonading wms heard yesterday In ractfon of Mscheniosvllie,The highest hopes are entertained by thosa ctint to judge of the situation.The Arnuetiei Case*WAsmaerotf. Wednesday, Jo The* President, in response to an inqul day, tent to the Senate all tbe papers tn the Arj case op file tn the State Department, end letter of Secretary Snriin, In which the laiia By the act of Ceugresa of May 13.1620, the lS its -trade 1* declared to be piracy; andtreaty of 1842 with Great Britain, It ti atlpuUt they wfll Invite and urge open all Powers tt pneiy and duty of effectually at once and 1 closing *11 African elavd markets,” The 8alt; says, there bslng no treaty of extradition betwi United States and Spain, nor any act of Ct directing hew fugitives in the Spanish doc shall be delivered op, the extradition In I ariuxs cm a Is understood by the Stats Dens to have been made In virtue of the law of and the Coos lit nlion of the Dolled States. AIthere Is a eon filet of authorities cooeral expediency of exerelslng comity toward sign Government, by eurresdedog at* quest one of its own subjects charge' the commlnlnn of crime within its territor although It may be conceded that there It no n obligation to make such a surrender upon a cthfirdfar. tinleu fft la inknaalMlvfld hv Ir
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