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Show French Notions ofAmerican Urography. We translate from The Almanack du Magazin Fittoresuue the fpllowiuK paragraph para-graph contained in an abstract of events of the war in the United States: May 28 The Federal troops assembled at Harper's Ferry, cross the Potou o, and after a first engagement occupy Alexandria. , May 27 The Federals, commanded by Gen. Banks, experienced the first re-Terse, re-Terse, They rocrossed the Potomac, and fell back upon Williamsburg. May 80 and 31 A great battle is fought near Richmond; on the first day tho advantage remains with the Confederates! Con-federates! on the second day they experience ex-perience considerable loss, and abandon Corinth. After seven days of bloody fighting near Richmond (June 28 to 29) 90,000 Federals commanded by McClcllan retire from the Confederate army, which, with re-enforcements brought by Gens. Beauregard Beau-regard and Jackson, has been increiised to 185,000 men. They take position on the James river, seventeen miles from Charleston. On the cover of the book it is stated that "The central committee of primary instruction in the city of Paris ban placed the 'Magasin Pittoresque' on tho Hat of bookn proper to be given as prizes in the pubf schools." |