NEW YORK, May 14. – A Fort Monroe letter of the 12th states that McClellan’s pickets were within 16 miles of Richmond, that the Monitor and Naugatuck had passed City Point towards Richmond, the Galena following. The rebel steamers Yorktown and Jamestown were at Rockets, near Richmond. These are only rumors.
The Champion, from Aspinwall, brings $484,000 in specie.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 10, 1862, p.
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