Show BY PACIFIC TELEGRAPH ESPECIAL TO THE DAILY VEDETTE 1 CAIRO caino may at tile the crossing of the atchafalaya Atchafala ya the rear glaid had a lively artillery duel with the enemy our loss which was the heaviest sustained on the march was one hundred and killed and wounded tile the rebel loss was two hundred and sixty killed and wounded and three hundred prisoners the enemy also lost two pieces of artillery to effect the crossing at atchafalaya Atchafala ya twenty transports were placed abreast over the river a bridge of planks was placed over the forecastles over which our artillery teams horses and mules passed half a dozen steamers ferried the men and baggage over ten gunboats gun boats protected the crossing and the passage was completed on the ST louis may the department of missouri Miss onri has been attached to the west mississippi department thus placing the former under the orders of general canby NEW YORK may 20 26 heralds headquarters head bead quarters correspondent says our line advanced from bowling green to richmond lechas lee has a longer adlonger Z distance to march and the probabilities are we shall reach first lee may by forced marches arrive there at the same time but hell be so exhausted that the result of the engagement will not be doubtful A dispatch dated old chesterfield ter field 10 p in says the news from warren and hitchcock is beyond our expectations they succeeded in carrying the line of rifle pits on the south bank of the north anna driving him completely from his advantageous vant ageous ground CHICAGO may in the house yesterday the question of abrogating the reciprocity treaty with the british provinces was discussed at length tile the subject was finally postponed until the second tuesday in december A chattanooga dispatch of of the says Sher shermans mans headquarters head quarters at kill kingston aston last night seventy nine miles from chattanooga and sixty from atlanta our advance was then some ten miles south of kingston there had been no severe fighting since the affair at resaca but continual severe skirmishing many prisoners being taken and many deserters coming coining in who lep johnsons army so far dispirited as to lender a respectable stand short of atlanta an impossibility johnson is reported to have between fifty and seventy thousand mon men ek exclusive of ten thousand georgia militia at atlanta engaged on fortifications cat ions much of johnsons army is composed of tile same anic s material materi al and behave quite pokily schofields Sch coi ps is i apoi ted to have suf feied ed aci y much Anum A number berof of his wounded is now in chattanooga a A nashville correspondent states that shermans Sher mans entire almy aimy resumed its march from Kings kingston tonj georgia on tuesday and flanked johnsons strong position at altoona on tile eto wall wali river his position is in a mountain fastness and is considered a stronger one than that at atlanta this correspondent believes johnson does not intend to fight but that his troops are being gradually transferred to lee and beauregard Beaure gaid NEW YORK may A havana correspondence says in foliation foi fol mation is received from st domingo which states that a counter revo lution has broken out in the provinces among 0 the insurgents the spanish hag flag has been hoisted in several places A number of the insurgent leaders have been shot by their own men A special to the herald says an affray occurred on wednesday at the national clotel fl 11 otel between senators chandler and voorhies cs of indiana in which the latter slapped the formers face hannegan II annegan as friend of voorhies inter interfered feied and was in turn assailed by y chana Chandl IL crl r hinlle II annegan an struck I 1 chandler witha with a pitcher r and drag dragged ed him to the floor by the hair and cuffed him until the affair was stopped by tile the bystanders the fight originated in chandless chandlers Chand lers de denouncing jouncing democrats in such samanner a manner that eliat voorhies illies conA construed rued his AS pois onal to himself the heralds special gives the following account of the struggle for taylors Tay Tayl lois oils bridge over the north anna when my last dispatch was waa written a considerable force of the enemy was disputing our passage over the north anna gen laws division of long streets chips was posted in a strong carth earthwork work between long creek and tile the river and seemed disposed to hold taylors Tay Tayl lois oils bridge at all hazards haz baz aids and poured into our lines a of shot and shell from their batteries when gen birney with his division advanced cols pierce and eagan with the 1st ast and 2nd and bri brigades I 1 ades made I 1 an ass assault atilt A at G in the evening of the on the works the riflemen of the enemy louied a deadly fire into their ranks while they chaigen on the batteries on the high ground and a little to the left of the bridge our artillery at the sanie time opened tearing up the aqil s with their whizzing missiles ps tile the redoubt was carried at the point of the bayonet A con fidei able number of rebels were killed in the entrenchments and were captured tho the assault which was made under the immediato immediate command of birney is considered a bi brilliant il affair hancock ancock II fioto him a letter tile rd vcr very congratulatory congratulator I 1 and and new aluf yolk pennsylvania and maine suf suffered feied severely than any other regiments in the division the rebels when dirven from the redoubt to the rifle pits retreated across tho the river many of them swimming 0 tile tho bridge being too much crowded to ad mit their crossing with as much celerity as they desired an assault on the blidge was made without loss of time by the ath maine and the bridge was carried after a sharp skirmish and the rebels dirven from their position on oil the opposite bank at 11 1 p in the enemy mado made a soivio aiom their and endeavored to retake the bridle bridge 0 but after a 1 spirited spirita d skirmish of twenty minutes were driven back at midnight mid night they made lade another attack with a larger force and dhove our men from tho the bridge held it for sonic some time and mado made several attempts to burn it but tho the ath N Y heavy artillery coming up the rebels were foicey to their flies files were extinguished and we occupied P aed the bridge without vit bout further trouble at I 1 7 in the morning D of the birney crossed the north anna at tho the bridge with a division follow followed edby by gibbons division and soon after by the balance of the corps the heralds con says our losses on the and does docs pot not exceed killed wounded and missing in 0 while that of the enem enemy y amounts to that in killed and wounded wo we took 1000 prisoners the worlds special dated ila in of the says our entire army is on oil the south bank of the north anna champion aiom aspinwall tile the gittli with in treasure aniced ROMay CAI CAIRO may banks with a portion of liis his army aniced at orleans on tile the it is not known that any now new movement is on foot at present in movin moving t across the country in reheat cat from alexandria banks left the red river at fort derussey and struck for support whole elicio lie crossed the alio atchafalaya Atchafala ya chenco marched to morganza A J smiths command also marched to i t where he fie embarked on transports A naval officer who left pensacola on the says reports has been le ic of another mutiny in the garli ganison soi I 1 0 of f fort moi boigan gan no pai dicu ticu lars the now orleans oilcans delta della of th tho says an anival last night reports a heavy battle as having taken place it at san luis between the fience and mexicans under in which the former were thoroughly defeated bated tile tho news is not considered entirely aclin ble |