NEW YORK, May 15. – A Fortress Monroe letter of the 13th says the deserters who are constantly coming in, agree in their statements that the evacuation of Richmond is rapidly progressing, and that the effort of retreating rebels is merely to hold back Gen. McClellan so as to obtain time to remove their stores. They also say that the destruction of the city by fire is threatened and that it will require the utmost efforts on the part of the citizens to prevent its consummation. That the evacuation is now progressing there is no manner of doubt, and the government archives are being carried South.
The story of the enemy’s lack of provisions is denied by their deserters, who say that there is plenty of subsistence at Corinth.
The U. S. gunboat Catawba arrived this morning in eighty hours from Port Royal. The Catawba has 6982 bags of unginned cotton on board.. News unimportant.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 17, 1862, p. 3
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