| Show BY PACIFIC TELEGRAPH especial SPECIAL TO THE DAILY UNION VEDETTE NEW YORK june ath the state committee of war democracy of new york met at tile the astor house y esterday yeste este iday after re reaffirm ufa affirm rm ing their preference for the re nomina tion of lincoln they adopted a call to all war democrats to rally at baltimore on june ath to impress on tile the tile the union convention the justice expediency ency and necessity of oatlie the norn nomination ina of daniel S dickinson for vico vice president tile the commercial says that eliat J J cisco has blaa been compelled compell cd by the state of his he alili to resign his p position as abst ks sat treasurer to take effect at the close of the fiscal year NEW june ath A long letter from Fieni ont accept ing inthe nomination concludes as follows 0 lows if the convention at baltimore will nominate any man mv whose past life justifies a well grounded confidence in his fidelity to our cardinal principles is no reason why there should be any ally division among the leally patriotic men of the country to any such I 1 shall be most happy to give a cordial and active support support myown decided preference is isto to aid in this way and not to be myself a candidate but if lincoln is ie ic nominated as I 1 believe it would be fatal to the country to endorse his policy and renew his power which has cost us the lives of thousands of men needlessly and put the countey on the road to bankruptcy will iemann no alternative but to organize against him every elen element lent of conscientious opposition with it a view to prevent the misfortune of his reelection election re I 1 in I 1 I 1 this tin s contingency I 1 accept the nomination at cleveland and as a arelin preliminary step have resigned my commission in the army this was a sacrifice sac rafice which gave me pain but I 1 had for a long C time fluit fruitlessly lessly endeavored to to obtain service I 1 make this tin s sacrifice now only to regain the liberty of speed speech and leave nothing in the way vay of discharging to my utmost ability the task you have set before me john cochrane has also writ written tena a letter accepting the nomination for vice president tribune special headquarters head bead quarters ar army my of tile the potomac ad says tile the successful operations actions of the ath corps or on monday followed up by an advance of the ad corps on oil tuesday morning they compelled the enemy to withdraw horn his line on the tata pony and the i ebels have rett bated to the south side of the chickahominy with the exception of their line to le ic taid our advance our cavalry entered vill 0 last evening eveni evening nr after scouting about the old battle battlefields fields of the chickahominy Gr grants ailts gy bailles baffles the manen of the enemy having offered them battle on oil tile lit apony with his light wing hegt testing aig on oil tile virginia central railroad and I 1 having compelled the enemy to withdraw aci oss the chickahominy lie he has tin till own his left will wing with his usual celerity away to the east cast of richmond and is now threatening tile the crossing of the chickahominy at bottom briol bridge 0 cre this is now the point of interest baldy bal dy smith arrived from tile the white house just in time to get into action and cooperate with our left flank last night SANDY HOOK june julie ath tile the virginia from liverpool queenstown Queens town the news from Ar america cicat sensation T the 0 news was generally regarded 0 in europe as disastrous to th the 0 rebel cause tile the lebel loan declined 5 a 6 lairds rams rains have been purchased by the british government the duke of malakoff is dead NEW YORK june julie ath heralds correspondent with slier sher man details the battle of new hope church on the about three p in the enemy gave signs of activity and soon moved a heavy body en masse from the wood before mcphersons sons army and harrows divi division 1 they marched boldly up the hill cx exposed josd to a sev severe ere artillery fire fir e when they had reached within less than a hundred yards of the breastworks our infantry poured upon the thick mass a terrible volley tile the column stag staggered er 0 but rallied and made efforts to approach closer the troops now became hotly engaged and though tile the aebel greatly numbered outnumbered oct us they held at bay our ai tillery secured a vetter better aria and with nell and she shell soon sent the i obel gnass rushing 0 f for or the protection of tile ra vine mid and the wood near by another attack was boon boan made upon all another otiler position of lio line command ed by it was thought to have been made with even mote irn but met the same fate A lull ensued but the debels were bi fugit up for a third attack against son and sweeneys division of tile the irth coli chips ps they at first presented ted tile the same bold front this did not last 1 as they were discouraged and sent back with severe loss lobs from prisoners we learn that the rebels consisted of five divisions of tile flower floer of johnstons army commanded by cheatham five thousand will cover our total losses the herald s correspondent with butler says of the battle of the ad dinst at 3 a in the rebels opened with artiller artillery y and massing a body dished on our picket line ind and cap luied a number of prisoners the ad new then dhove the rebels back capturing twenty five of them another similar attack was ma made de but none of them succeeded in in their object of bi eakim caking through our lines our losses are heavy but that of the rebels much heavier washington june geb dispatches from grants headquarters head quarters to 6 last evening state there has been no fighting figh till during durin the day the enemy made an attack on saturday Satu Sat iday inday night upon wright and smith but were everywhere repulsed hancocks lines are within forty yards bards of the rebel the rebels were very busy on saturday constructing entrenchments on the west side of the chickahominy at bottom s bridge and throw threw a pal baity ty across to the east side A dispatch from sherman dated altoon ci eek ath p p m states that the enemy discovering us moving round his big right flank abandoned his position last night and marched off mcpherson is moving today to day for ackworth Ack woith thomas is on the detect road and schofield on his right it has been raining hard for three days the roads art are heavy the enemy had an immense immense line of works which we have baie guined with less losi los to us its than them signed Sr ANTON NEW YORK juno june gab additional by the steamer news of the battles in virginia caused a profound sensation tion people are astounded at the magnitude of the losses loses some papers think grant is defeated in his big object of an advance on richmond s that the battles are indecisive and that the Feder federals alb paid too dear for their victory if any tile the chato georgii georgia is announced for sale at liv liverpool by a pi private avato pat baity t her crew bas ha been paid off and her stoics sold at auction the times thinks if giant c richmond the aebel cause is still not lot loi loiland tand and thit its downfall nv will ill be at a great loss of life to to the federals Fedei als HEAD amay or OF june ath 8 a in our cavalry was engaged all ye in the vicinity of H awes store the filst attack N vas as made on hamptons Ham command which was badly defeated with a heavy beavy loss we afterwards attacked tho the hills on the left on tata tat pony river aud and drove one brig gade out of their works and held tho the place an hour aethen wethen then withdrew with diew we now hold hawes store gen wilson bivouacked bivouac ked last night between bethsaida cli chinch and the Pami inky and has a strong position to day the at ai my iny is renting nothing but artillery dueling 11 occurred in the tha fight of yeste yesterday iday breckenridge occupied tho the light Beaure beauregard gaid ne next kt to corps in the centre ewell was on the left and the whole bole of hills coias was held in reserve their armillei ar artillery tillei v ire fire was good at some points two of our chaissons caissons cais ong sons w ele eap exp exploded boded by their shells and a number of men and horses killed and wounded HALIFAX june gab per ship china the bank of england reduced ro the rate of interest to seten set en the london times richmond correspondent en t under date of april claims that the rebels had bad full information of grant s plans plang for his bis campaign a fortnight before grant matched maich cd the operations of his big army since aie it e delineated with remarkable precision and the confederate loan had 1 ed about four per cent NEW YORK june fth A fortress monroe dispatch of tile the 3rd ard says the rebels continue to waste their gunpowder on butters batters formidable gen kautz was to have started on oil an important mission on oil tile the night of the 2nd and its destination was to points of most vital import importance anco to the enemy and it would assist gen grant materially A deserter reports the mayor of richmond arrested and d in castlo thunder fur it a gin lender of the city is is case of necessity binstead instead of burning it as had been ploll obed every man inan and boy and even evel foreign subjects were pi pies cased caged into service sc fcc the lebel papers complain coni of jo johnston and say that be is whipped heralds correspondent gives tile the hollwig foll wig particulars of wednesdays n our line of battle extended fully ten tell miles in length 0 from northwest ay st to southeast south east cast hancocks ILin cocks line VMS on oil the mechanicsville Mechanics ville road i in n the rifle ride pits wrested from the enemy two days bufore before tile alie line of defense has been much strengthened since falling 0 into our possession insides burnsides Bu corps was next to hancock warren was thrown a little forward ailep j in front by double and triple lines of lost and W rights chips was marched to the left eft with two divisions of Sheri dans cavalry in fiant of tile the flank an ali at tempt was made by the rebel infantry early in the day to daive our cavahey from coal hal hai bor it resulted in their repulse and a large number of them were killed and wounded and to were taken prisoners prison eis wright followed up his success and brought brou I 1 glit on an engagement which lasted laste till an hour after dark at that time we had carried tile the rebel line of rifle pits and had driven the enemy to tile the chickahominy abor tile debels then made a furious assault late in the even evening ingy I 1 upon our centre and right marching in ill till ec lines upon warick wan en and seeming I 1 determined ter mined to pierce our centre and throw our line into confusion attempt after attempt was made and their men holud to certain desti st notion luction the battle I 1 aged fully hours bours in front of this chips oui losses can only be a tittle tithe of what tile the enemy suffered suf feied tile attack on oil hancock was nearly simultaneous he not only repulsed the enemy but pressed them back so far that lie was drawn into a bad position and anscom compelled to make his retreat and resumed the I 1 ground round lie he occupied at tile outset subsequently lie he was to abandon his position and move his hib corps from the right of tile the lines to the extreme left another correspondent with the corps says of the fighting 0 at coal gaibor hal bor the enemy were in heavy force at coal harbor and gaines mills strongly 0 anti on oil the edge ed I 1 c of a dense wood they had rifle P pits it S and other works at half past foul the troops in position in thice lines of battle at five skirmishing commenced arid and batteries of 24 pound ers opened fire on the rebels and tile the roar of its guns boon completely swallowed all sounds sound ft biorn orn tile the skirmish line at half balf past five an order was received for both corps the ath and to charge the aebel work in our front brooks and devine devinc pushed the woods on their fiant and like a tornado over tile open field the rebels opened with wi th grape canister and a heavy file the alie filst liue line was badly cut up tip tile the second line mingled with it and then tile the third almost immediately after tile the debels were duiven poil pell rnell mell from their works through the woods they rallied behind their ie serves and attempted to recapture the position but received with so murderous mui derous a fine of ar tillery that they bi biake oke and fled in confusion again and again they rallied and returned to the charge but only to be dirven back with licater slaughter A coal harbor dispatch of the ad says a general attack was along the whole line at 4 this morning resulting in the fiercest fiel fight of tile the campaign tile the left of hancocks IIan cocks col coi ps after resistance ies istance turned the enci enemas nys left carrying a portion of their main line and a lid capturing some and many A i fai fortunately tuna tely however they were unable to hold their ground or bt inoff ng on the guns she batt battle e still la lages laes 0 es with a pi amise of a blo bloody dy day fort monroe dispatches des patches of tile ad says according acco iding to a telegram from 13 baldy ildy smith li the rebels att attacked ached him with three columns and were driven off after a desperate fight smith is ie ported to have taken COO grant is pushing 1 tile the enemy at every |
