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CAPE MAY OCEAH WAVE- ! CAPE ISLAND N. .T.^ J. ». LEACH, - . Editor, r>Mkh*r •*< rnyrifUr, « -- — wJB — I — - — — j ON K DOLLAR PER A SNVM ! ! Thursday. J tine 12, 18R2TO WHOM IT MAT COICM1. Soon after the death of our fallow-cit-izen, Towntsnti T. Ireian, who fell on the blood j beqtie field of Williamsburg, the friend* of the deceaied raited Money to procure tbe body, to be bifeoght to hi* friend*. A part of the money wa* paid to tbe aAacriber, hot soon after, tbe design waa relinqoished until after the sutnrotw waa over, a* the orders of Gen. McClellan prevented tbe farther exhuming of bodiea, for tbe preaent at least. It is preaumed, however, tliattbe body can bo obtained next Autumn. — The money, therefore, will be placed in the hand* of one who will pay ft over at any hoar It la demanded, and a receipt taken, stating the object for which it waa raised; and if the body can bo obtained «l aorne future time it will bo used for that porpose, but if not, it wiH bo disposed of according to tbe wishes of those who gaVe it, dig notice of which will be given. * J. S Leach. CAFKMATAHD ATLAXTIC X A. In a recent speech made at Cape Island, by U*o. C. CoDini Esq , in favor ; of tbe Cape May and Atlantic R. KN and in vindication of the railroad repn- ' tation of our railroad "Corpulent Indi- I vidual," the speaker asserted that the I recent mote to extend the Millville and I 1 QUsaboro' road to Cape Island was j ' net with the expectation ef build- : ' Ing tbe toad, hut for the purpose of fruftratfng two plana of the afortsaid | , ■"Iedftidoal ;H to prove which flc ( stated that the move of aaid indi- 1 1 v ideal made, was commenced last Feb- ■ ruwry ; bat thai orf the part of the < Mfliville road bad been commenced 1 •iocs. Nov, to some, who do not know ' tile facts in tbs sate, this might have j some weight. The facta in the case, however, are these. T# our certain , knowledge, and to the certain knowledge < of a large number of persons, the re- . cent move for the Millville road waa 1 commenced as early as last July, and ' tbe necessary hare been in pro- ' V great ever since ; while, by the admit- • lion of the speaker rafered to, the other j was not.eonmenced till last February, , r Any one, therefore, can tee, the force of i the argument. The facts, If they; prove c anything, prove exactly the reverie of •' what w« intended— that the move on 1 the part of tbe Cape May and Atlantic 1 was made to kill. If possible, the other, c which is just what we have always ar- [ gued. Rut this argument is just as ; >alid as all others from that source. Bat, in connection with this subject, \ ve wish to ask om question, vis. : r Where is the money to oome from to 1 "buHd aaid *' ftsp* 'May and Atlantic c Road f It cannot be built for 'much 1 ,le*t than half a million of Julian, and c it la well known that no bona fide sub- " -seripiion ta the atock of any road here ^ has ever been made, to tbe amount of \ s»ne fifth of that turn, except it be In b tbe preaohl case of the Millville road, c and we are not certain that that has 9 reached that amount yet, exclusive of i< the snbecription of Mr. Dungeu, and ? yet tbe moat persevering effort* Vtntve 1 been made, during several year* past, to 1 raise the atoek for different roads. ' When tbe Cape May and Atlantic ^ vat in vogue several year* ago, wa as- , sect that no bona fide subscript km was e raised to tbe lamoaat of $76,006. though w the whole country from here to Pkiladsl- » phi* waa ruuaaoked at tba time , and by " oar CerpoleU friend too, now aaid to be h tbr president of the rami, with all the ° • aaahteee tbe eftlarea of Cape May could reader him, often paying hi, ex- {, pensea, artber by private eontrihwtSon*. g . "Z ; V. I— ife dam u ^ ^ -I *

i challenge tbe parties to make $40, 000 ! of that aubscriplion available. Why tbe • ! subecrlption consisted, la a great mea- j 1 sure, of such stuff as a $76.0b0 or .$>&,• . 000 auhscription by a "Corpulent. Ind!. ' ; vidual," who now, can't pay the cobbler : for mending bis boot*. Where then, I we repeat, is the money to come from, to build the Cape May and Atlantie j Road, whan there ia no hope of raising ; - tbe money to build the other road; exi eept by tbe offer of three fourths of tbe , whole amount, from three responsible parties, outside of the individual) subi scriptions f thx anotmox bailxoad. At tbe close ol an article . under the ' above- bead, in 6or last lease, Hie following f sentence »-ecurs.'— "We hare tbe Beit rra1 sou* for believing that they have no iatcn lion of building the Cape May and Allan- , tie road, except upon on* coailngsocy, which, at seme future tints, we will' date, in eotneclion- with others point* on this subject, which space forbid* at preient." That promise wewHl bow attempt to fulfill. And what is thot contingency ! Jt is limply the eertainty. or at l*ost tbe appur enl certainty, that the other road — from Millville— will be completed. A* we have before and often Mtated, we honestly believe tbst those who have figured the most , conspicuously in 'this eulerpriie, do not j want any railroad to Cope May. and have j done their best to prevent it. because of I the iojary it would do to Atlaplie City ; , and we tbinlt we adduced circumstantial j • evidence upon this point, lost week, strong | i enough to hang a man. if tried by an imi partial jnry. Hot if there mast be e rail j | ro*d to Cspe May, it trould be Infinitely to j the advantage of tbe Oamden and Atlantic I j Ri R. Company and Atlantic City, that it j j should be tbe one from Egg Harbor City, | running in connection with the Camden J I and Atlantic Road. Any one can easily j i see how the arrangement of the trains, ran- 1 jnng time, and the fa ir, con! J b® so mans g- ! ed by that company, as to benefit Atlantic ' j City and injure-C»pe Island. Hence it is j j bnt reasonable to snppeae that the Camden and Atlantic Company, Atlantic county ! and Atlantic city, all of whom are more or j less interested in tbe prorperly"^. Atlantic city, and no way interested in Caps li- 1 fond, would prefer that road rather than i he one to Millville. But again, it need* no argument to prove | that, if we most have one of the roads* the j Catiidcn end Atlantic Company would pre- • ft-r the one to Egg Harbor City, for the I cbvioua reason, that all the passenger* ! and freight to. and from Cape Mey must over their road, and greatly increase their r* venue ; and were it not for tbe ioturest the members ef thalN company have in Atlantie Cify, •• ahoeld very naturally fouelude that they would do all tbey could complat* tbe road to. Cap* May ; but not as the matter now stands. It may be osknd, Is not their interest in the rood more than their interest io Atlantic (Jity T Wa think not, for their post conduct , does not prove it. Bullet us look nt this ( phase of the question. New statistics show that that road has paid a fair income- since its completion. And jet w* think it will ' / app»<t'r 'hat the stockholders, who control the road, bav received no benefit from the ' revenue, or at Wast but a very small spm. i The reason of this is obviyes. The road i cost n. v than 72,000.000, which is more ihaa three times what it ought to have ■ co s\- and mere than three times the cost of the road from Millville, according to the ^ contract made. More, than oos half of .the S2.000.000 was in bond* drawing interest. ' Now 4hil# tbe revenue of the road would 1 hnvs paid a fair dividend on tbs legilimata • costs, which should not have exoeedifl^' S600.000. as It now Is it does not pay -tlT ( interest on the bond*, ef more than a $1,000,000 ; hence the stock bridgs no revenue | tbe holders, end probably the besiness of | tbe road will asver increase so aa to more : then pay lb* iatsreat of tbe benda, unless 1 there should be same compromise 'between tbe bond aad stock holder*. And this, it aboatd bo remembered, arise* I row the 1 onoi ctoas cost or the road, a circumstance | which eanaot oris* in the road from Mill- * rills, whicfc is contracted for at leaa than f oo# third the oast of Ska Camden and At- , Untie, to proportion to tka length, nor io j other road, treiR at a legitimate cost- £ From '.baa* circumstances, it would op pear that the interest or the, staekboldtrr. ' the iuomm ef the road is small as it only ' goea to pay the interest t-n tba beads, sod £ dose not eoam into meir pockets ; end ir t they are intarestad la property at Atlantic ■ City, we may well, suppose that that iateretl exceeds their interest in the income of the read, which is merely nominal, exoept in , directly, bj enhancing their interest at AtOiiy. Aid yet those are the mea s ■# &'

; who profess to be taUresud i0 baildlag Urn j I road to Capo May. aad if built, wo«M. ia a . ; great measure, eoolrol tbe bnsioss* of the ' road, by its conoectioa with the basins** j of" their road. Aod bow can wo aspect • them to build the road, or eoutrol it to oar adrsotagu if built t • No, wo repeat tbey do oot wont any road • ! bailt to Cape May, sad all their past scs ' tiou*. as well as their ioterests, go IV show I , it. Ret if we must have one roed, as we . have s«id before, they would prefer tbe , ene by their road, for the reason* stated. , Andeveowgre th* other read bailt, it would'be fo^rkeir advantage to have the oneih eopfieetion with theirs altq, for the same reasons. Add nothing, we are satisfied. will erer complete tk- rosd from Egg 9 Harbor C'ltyTCuTB^ assipletion of tbe on* 1 from Millville. If the Utter is built, tbe - former may. potribly, in time, be bailt alto; and if those especially interested io tbe • former wish to see it beill, they caooot sc- , complish their object in a more speedy . manner, than by helping forward tbe .road ■ from Millville. But let that project fail 6- • aally ; let it be known that no road would - ever be built in tbst direction, and the ghost of the Cspe May aod Atlantic would i never have another resurrection, bnt (bote who are now so noisy about it, ' would i chuckle over the ' prosperity of Atlanlio i City, and the downfall of Cape Island. • Let o* build the road to Millville, and thou I j if, in consequent*, the otber-is built also, t we shall have two, and we care not how s | m*°r- ~ _ f ; TEX AKXAIGXHZXT. • At n certain great Railroad Meeting, | ' I held not a fliouaasd inilcs from this j ' | place, and not a thousand years ago, j I the orator — a limb of the law — as *« I , 1 have before stated, exerted' his energies I r for several hours, principally to vindit cato the reputation of bis corpulent ' . friend, a certain great railroad man. 1 ! At tbs meeting in the afternoon, be sta-*j ' ted tbst In tbe evenhg be woutd- arraign three or four of tbe oilizens of I ' I Cape Island before the bar ol public | j I opinion, and try tbem by a jury of their j , | fellow citizens, and call upon tbem to ] r [ defend themselves, or forever after hold ■ their pence. Tbe arraignment, trial j - and verdic4, however, was a very weak - ■ I affair, net eveit materially affecting the 1 of the little "Ocean Wave," against which the heaviest guns of the legal orator vryre principally directed j But we have refercd to this, simply for • Rte purpose of suggesting whether it 1 would nst have been wiser, for our legal Boanerges to hare reserved his energieg to defend and vindicate his corpulent friend, when, on his arrival at Millville, on his return to Philadelphia, be was arraigned before a justice of the peace, . for passing a counterfeit note, and refu- 1 sing to redeem it. « TEX LATE BATTLx'ixrOXI XICEXOXD. The recent battle on the Cbickobominy, before Richmond, McCleUan'a ulli- j cisl report of aihicb we published last week, appears to have been one of the j roost desperate and bloody of the war. Wc hare no official account of the loss, but it is estimated at from 5,000 to 7,000 killed, wounded and misting on our side ; and fajpltfes froni Richmond report tbe rebel Ibss at 10,000. We holier* that the 7th and 8th New Jersey rcgimti'ils were not eugaged, they being left to guard the camp. The 5lh and 6th, however, ware in the fight, with the rest of Hooker's Division, and all accounts report them a* having foxghl ■frith desperation and bravery. They suffered considerably. Litis — An Official statement, given Gen. McClelhn, states tHat the Io" the above battle, was 890 in killed, 627 wounded, and 1,222 missing: — Total, 6,739. ____ basuabitt or rat tsaitoss.— Thii has been characterized opon tbe part of the rebel* by apta or the grossest barbarity. At Willistnsborg they followed the example they had before set, of butchering onr woanded. The LouTigers were guilty of many murderous acts Oiteof that regiment bayoneted a woanded soldier in Cot. Small's regiment. No sooner was It done, than of Small's area put five bulletin through the rebel, aad then cat off hir scalp, which ihty preserved. S-TfeWttn -UtU SilMf— life (O^) Union aajs : "we wmtM rath*, make oar ia revulatioaary Mnxtce «r fa da- ' •polk Aastria- thus dwell ia tha Ufiiaa."

^ Important from tho WERT. I s it ,000 nmi»n» carixxxik ' * TM following official despatch, from ' 1 Gen. Halleck, speaks for itself ' lltadipiorlrri of (JU Army of the j lippi.Jmr 4. 1662:— To thetHon. Kduin M. ' Blenton, Secretary of War: General Pope 1 k with 40.000 men, is thirty milss sooth of ' * Corinth, pushing the enemy bard. ® lie already reports 10.000 prisoners and | I des,-rlora*from.lhe soeay, nod 16.000 stand i of arms captured. 1 Thousands of the aeemy arc throwing j ' away their anna. A farmer reya that whan | * Beauregard ' .earned that Cidene! EHioil 1 '* had cut tbe railroad en hi* line of retreat, J he became frantic, and told hit men t* tare ! * themselves tbe best tbey could. 8 We have captured nine locomotives and i a number of care. One it already repair- 1 e ed, and ia'niDniog to-day. Several more j will be in ruDciog order in two or three , ! d*ytThe re«ull if all'l could possibly desire, i (bigoed] JI. w. Haixscs, Major-General Commanding. J EVACTJATIor 0 T TORT WEIGHT. e The rebel forces have evacuated Fort d Wright, nbovo Menrphis, Tennessee, as | ° announced by official despatches, and - 0 our men are now in possession of it. — ' t The rebels took away everything they , , could, aod destroyed all they could not . remove. Fort Randolph is below, be- I tween Fort Wright and Memphis, which _ is the only Impediment to taking that ci- 1 d ' ty, nud even that is reporterl as ctacua- j led, but the report is not confirmed. capture of memphis ® | Lavkr. — From later advices we learir - that the rebel* evueuated Fort Randolph ti that our gunboat* bad a derpersio lie bt will: iho*eof the rebels, before Memphis, „•) in which the rebels were totally defeated , | beven of tlse vessel* and ranis were dettvoyed or captured, some of which will be f | retired. Only one of Ihem ••ecaped. ( One of onr ranis was disabled, bat will be ! saved. Thi* wa* tin- ouly material injury ' to our vessels. Col. Kllct, in command of ' the ram fleet was seriously, though nut dan1 gerously wounded. Many). of the rebels I j fell into onr bands, their woanded among i tbem. > The fight was on- Saturday last, and L*. , f ted olio hour and a half.. and when ended. | the Mayor of the city of Memphis surrendered' i be city to Com. Duvi*. hi command , of lb* punbnui fleet, who delivered :t over to Col. Fitch, who now holds posrtMion. I Considerw.le property, buildings Ac., apI pears to have been destroyed by tbn rebels I lu the city, aad many ol tbe inhabitant* bad left. The rebel navy may now he con- ! aidercd annihilated. Gen. Prentiss, aud some £000 of onr j - ■ j men taken prisoner* by Ike rebels at the | 1 | battle of Pittsburg Landing, has* be»n re- , | leased on parole, and returned north. , Scarcity of provisions io feed them seems | to have been tbe cause. J The rebels in some parts of Kentucky, j ' J from reports, appear to be committing rev- j ] age* opon the Union men, murdering, rob j blog Ac. A fight recently occurred in ■ Monroe county, between 60 Uatoout*. on- ' der CapL McCuliough, 9tb PeDiisylvauia Cavalry, and 100 of Morgan's ai«u, under ' 1 Capt. Hamilton, in which lb* two captains | war* killed, and three on each side were) wounded. There is reasoo to fear trouble, , < io guerrilla warfare springiog up in tl-e . | I rear of our army at tbey advance, which j , , should be dealt with in the most summary asUMr, TEX WAX IX XXXICO. \T* are not alons in our war troubles on thi* continent. Osr Mexieen neighbors 1 have been having their* with the iorsding, 1 ' allied powers of England, Fraoc* and Spain ; but so amicable adjustment having bees made witb England and Spam, their i armies have been withdrawn oome time I since, leaving France "alone ir h«r glory," io the iavesloM ; and tbey do not seem in be very successfal in their operations on , the American cootinest. From late advi- , ce*. it appears that tbey had hud an engagement In the early part of last month, io whiek the Mexicans were ufotorioes, and < tbe Freaeb compell.d to retreat. Lei than stay at borne, and mind their own,, business, lis* people of this comment can ' , take care of themselvai. - J "CffTh* recant enthusiastic uprising of - 1 lb* people of lb* loyal State*, at the . time ! ! of the retreat of Gen.. Banks, when there j i sras supposed td be hnminent daager, has j shown to the world that tbe North has no ; idea ef givieg tap the enal**t, ia a |i»hoo- ( orabla msnuer, taiil the rebelUou is em h- <

takt ghwdki" " I We arc told that ike drees of the reb* " : cl army, who were in tbe fight at WiN liamiborg, was without taste or uniform : Men iu the suuie regiuteuts wore diffcr-"^^^^H i enl kind of clothing, to wit; felt, for. and straw liats; cup* ol every style; red, , | white, blue, green, grey and brown coats and pant*;- nod these, even, Her* tat1 . tered, torn and dirty. A wounded reb- < I j el left on tbe field told our men that he I had bsd but one suit while in the scr- ; I rice but another sea ready for hire ! i at Richmond. If this is so, when ' ; the rebels pass through Richmond it I I will be on such wdouble-quiek that tbey ^3 i will bnvs no time to "put on a change." ! | In every battle, whenever the rebels get I an opportunity, they rob ous dead and' , wounded of their dress-nniform. ' commaxdzbofthe'm jeeset brigade Tbe officer wh* commsndeil the New Jersey Brigade in the battle of Williamsbuig, was Gen. Frank 1'aiterson, too of I a old Geo. Patterson, who railed, with his army, to iocurccpt Ceo. Johnson and hinder ; him from reinforcing the. rebel* at Manos- < sks, in July last. Tbe sou is a much braver 1 and more loyal officer than his father. Io- > 'stead of staying la the rear of the Jersey i Boys and' urging tkeiu on, ho rods Bp and down tho front of his lines and ltd on his men. He had .his horso shot ffMa under ,| him, but immediately mounted another. — . When he thought the Brigade was wavering be cried out.- "Fight on. lioyr;,we have ^ ' two io their one, and are whipping tbem !" ' 1 aud at the tamo time the rebels had three to i>uv on«. _ Patterson '-.new«hife but hu told it to tbem to Ireep iMrfTsplrita up. — ' A Iter the bailie wax over, he tolShts men ' ihry »ere whipn|f8 ihrr* times, bet-thry ' did not know i y AFFAIRS KEAB* CHASLXSTtlE. , From ri-bc-1 snurces, vVe learn that Gen. Hunter iS' advancing on Charleston,' and* considerebte flghtthgrhad already- occurred, the result and pari icnlurs of which is Dot' yet aiSrrtaioud Tbe probability is. that thai nest *io wbidi all our difficulties were ' hair he J. is doomed soon to fall iutvour .hand*. When the old tlag is again raised' I over Fort Sampler, let ihrue tim-« three' cheers ring throngh'cut chrf wholh laud. i; gaj-'I'lie msDue- in which Gen. Bask* j conducted his recent retreat, ir spoken off in the most romplinieiwary urwnwer by U>« pre"*, oven iu Canada His retreat WBSkn 1 nhsnlute neceasity. en account of inferiority * of numbers. To save the baggage trains • Ac., was imporlanl. As this cosld not mli tjuco a* rapidly as the army, to give tine, i the army would make a Hand sod fight awhile, and then loliaw ib* train, and conturned to do this until out of dangvr. Tho ! whole afl'air is considered equally as brilliant cs tbe re l reel of £sigtd-from Csrlb*g*| I in lb* early part of tba war. : Ojr'I Lo rebel Jackson, who tompellsd J Hanks, with bis small forco to reereal from iliu Snonunjoah valley, did qot hare loqg ■ .to boast. iFroaionl from Iks west, by a ' forced march of 100 milvf, «nr ttie mouBtains, with a purl of McDowePs and Btak'r rolumns. have tfriven liiin bask to beyond | where lie made liis first attack. Borne 300' or -100 prisoners were raptured, 'T "I The First New Jersey Cavalry, with Oikcavalry rrgiinvi.ta, ware iu tbe advance i rb> • • giTrfi^ Richmond Dispatch mentions, two, instances where the rebels iu tket city buried thevr sick ooldiers before tbey were dead. « i Iff'l'hs tobacco crop iu Mary Uad will , be very smaii this year on account of so many slavt-i running away. Villi estimatrd thai tbo rebels bare 4 destroyed obnut 870,000,000 worth of property since the rebellion broke out. «*-ll i* reported that tbs rebel Gen. ' Joe Jehnson was mortally womidsd It the recoot battle before Richmond, celled the of "Volt Oaks." VFrom the latest accounts, it appears prubsb'l* that Cul. Corcoran, aud several- * of his officer comrades io rebel 'prisoei. willbe released, iu exebsuge for severe! privateers. VThe port of Norfolk has been opened by Uen. llix. Rosinese is looming up. A Id ton paper has been started ia that city. ! (Jeamaoicatiun u opened be tweeu Norfolk Iand Gun. Bqrnaide through the csasi. V Little Rock, the capital wf Ariwn^a". is in our possvssiou. uuder command of Geu. Curiis. Tho robe! Gorertu-r and I Legislature lied at the approach of our ar- • ■ , vU*osraU Wool and Dix, by osder of J ti e War Departumat. have changed abect. ^ Gen. Wool is ordered to lUIUmore aad. Geu. Dig to Fortress Monroe. "* f »j ■: --~J1