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Lee Making a Stand at Spottsylvania -- No General Engagement -- Death of Maj.-Gen Sedgwick at the Hands of a Sharpshooter. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, May 10. To Maj.-Gen Dix: Dispatches have been received this evening from Lieut.-Gen. GRANT dated at 1 o'clock yesterday. The enemy have made a stand at Spottsylvania Court-house. There had been some hard fighting, but no general battle had taken place there. I deeply regret to announce that Maj.-Gen. SEDGWICK was killed in yesterday's engagement at Spottsylvania, being struck by a ball from a sharpshooter. His remains are at Fredericksburgh, and are expected here to-night. The army...

For Prayer and Especial Gratitude to God, in View of the Great Victory. EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, May 9, 1864. To the Friends of Union and Liberty: Enough is known of army operations within the last five days to claim our especial gratitude to God. While what remains undone demands our most sincere prayers to and reliance upon Him, (without whom all human effort is vain,) I recommend that all patriots at their homes, in their places of public worship, and wherever they may be, unite in common thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty God. ABRAHAM LINCOLN.DISPATCHES FROM THE WAR-OFFICE.FIRST DISPATCH.The General...

WASHINGTON, Sunday, May 8 -- 9 A.M. We have no official reports from the front, but the Medical Director has notified the Surgeon-General that our wounded were being sent to Washington, and will number from six to eight thousand. To Gen. John A. Dix, New-York: The Chief Quartermaster of the Army of the Potomac has made requisition for seven days' grain, and for railroad construction trains, and states the enemy is reported to be retiring. This indicates Gen. GRANT's advance, and affords an inference of material success on our part. The enemy's strength has always been most felt in his...

During the time leading up to America’s Civil War, the United States was torn in two. Today’s division is not like that. This is not a time of breaking in two, but of splintering into thousands. We see the results in churches, families, courts, legislative bodies, political parties, businesses, and social movements. Former allies have now gone to war with one another. It’s as if Satan himself opened a great can of itching powder and cast it on the world. In this case, the itching powder has a name — deception. American conservatives are fighting one another over the wars...

WASHINGTON, Saturday, May 7. The statements which were received here today, and which are entitled to belief, are that Gen. LEE made a tremendous and violent attack to pierce our centre, hoping thereby to divide our forces and to secure a victory; but Gen. HITCHCOCK's corps came to the relief, and, amid a murderous fire, formed in line of battle, and thwarted the designs of the rebels. The loss was heavy on both sides. Gen. SHERIDAN was profitably engaged in another part of the field, and sent the Chief in command a message that he had routed STUART's cavalry. The...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) announced that the city’s Department of Corrections was prepared to imprison former President Donald Trump at Rikers Island. Adams’ comments came a day after New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan, the judge presiding over Trump’s business records trial, threatened to jail the former president after finding him in contempt for violating a gag order for the tenth time.

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WASHINGTON, Friday, May 6. There is little doubt but that LEE is falling back from the Rapidan upon Richmond, having been driven to this by the flank movement of Gen. GRANT. The race will now be for Richmond. In the skirmish at Thoroughfare Gap, yesterday, an officer, was killed, on whom was found an order from LEE, directing all the guerrilla cavalry bands of Northern Virginia to return and form a junction with his army. The order was dated May 4, and is considered good evidence that GRANT's movement was a surprise to LEE, and that he is making all...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 5, 1864. The Army of the Potomac began its forward march on Monday. The crossing of the Rapidan was effected without opposition on Tuesday and Wednesday at Culpepper, Jacobs', Germanna and Ely's Fords. No rebels were seen, except a few pickets, who retired as we advanced. If LEE intends to make a stand this side of Richmond, it is possible he may be met near the old battle-ground of Chancellorsville, but it is the general impression that he has fallen back from his position on the Rapidan to Richmond, in order to protect that City from the...

The steamship Matanzas, from New-Orleans April 26, via Havana April 28, arrived at this port yesterday morning. The news had reached New-Orleans of the evacuation of Grand Ecore by Gen. BANKS, and of his retreat upon Alexandria. There was no news of the battle alleged to have taken place on the 24th, news of which comes via Cairo. The New-Orleans papers, being under very strict military censorship, published nothing up to the 26th concerning Gen. BANKS' retreat, and possibly it may not be true, as it is not otherwise confirmed.THE NEWS VIA CAIRO. CAIRO, Tuesday, May 3. By the arrival...

Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. WASHINGTON, Tuesday, May 8. Mr. E.A. PAUL sends the following to this bureau: All is quiet with the Army of the Potomac to-day; everything is in readiness, however, for a movement at the proper moment. Our troops are in excellent spirits, and anxious to advance against the enemy under their new Commander-in-Chief. Gen. BURNSIDE's command is in a favorable position. The Fourteenth New-York Battery had a slight skirmish yesterday while going to the front. The men employed in the construction department, and all other supernumerary help, is being sent to the rear as fast...

WASHINGTON, Monday, May 2. THE ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS Several members of the House called upon the Senate, to-day, to urge the adoption of the House resolutions fixing the last day of May as the time for adjournment. Congress will be ready to do so as soon as the Tariff and Internal Revenue bills are disposed of. All of the large appropriation bills have been acted upon or passed in committee. To-day the naval and civil appropriation bills, with Senate amendments, were considered by the House Ways and Means Committee. The belief is that they will be reported to the House...

The 19th-century Prussian general Karl Von Clausewitz famously said: “War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.” Or as we more often hear it, “War is but politics by different means.” Some predict that America is on the verge of a hot war. But while it’s true that our country is more divided than ever, it may not be as divided as the pro-Hamas, anti-American protesters hope. War is what generally happens when two (or more) sides get to a point where they can no longer peacefully coexist with the current circumstances. America seems...

A stunning new poll shows that more than 100 million Americans, 41% of the nation's population, believe there could be another civil war in America within the next five years. The Rasmussen Reports document on that foreboding expectation was released on Thursday. It said "41% of Likely U.S. voters believe the United States is likely to experience a second civil war sometime in the next five years, including 16% who consider such a scenario Very Likely."

ST. LOUIS, Saturday, April 30. Advices from Camden, Arkansas, say that Gen. STEELE's army is there. Gen. THAYER joined Gen. STEELE at Elkin's Ferry, on the Little Missouri River, where the rebels were driven from a line of breastworks commanding the river bottom. The enemy next stood at Prairie de Anna, which was fortified with a line of rifle-pits and epaulements for guns on barbette a mile and a half long. Gen. STEELE flanked their position and Gen. PRICE skedaddled, after a brisk fight, towards Washington. Other skirmishes occurred during the march, but our total loss was less than 200....

Law enforcement was noticeably absent when violence erupted on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles late Tuesday night between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Dozens of counter-protestors, many wearing white masks and flags over their shoulders, arrived around 10:45 p.m. and attempted to dismantle the pro-Palestinian encampment that has overtaken Royce Quad since last Thursday. The agitators lobbed fireworks at the encampment and set off what may have been bear or pepper spray.

The Yazoo, from New-Orleans, April 21, the Columbia, from the same port, April 23, via Havana, and the Merrimac, from New-Orleans direct, April 24, arrived at this port yesterday afternoon. We are indebted to the officers of the respective steamers for the prompt delivery of our news packages. Among the passengers in the Merrimac is Gen. ANDREWS, also a number of other officers, and 220 sick and wounded soldiers. Gen. WEITZEL is a passenger in the Columbia. The reports previously received via Cairo, of skirmishing at Grand Ecore, and the probable imminence of a battle, are repeated by these arrivals,...

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WASHINGTON, Friday, April 29. The Congressional Republican caucus this morning agreed to ask for the appointment of a Joint Committee of Congress to investigate charges made against Secretary CHASE by FRANK BLAIR. Senator HOWE will offer a resolution to that effect in the Senate tomorrow. This action is demanded by Mr. CHASE'S friends, who desire to give an official and effectual refutation to the slurs heaped upon him. THE FRENCH TOBACCO. The rebels may endeavor to make capital out of the refusal of our Government to permit the French vessels to ascend the James River, but the French Minister here...

WASHINGTON, Thursday, April 28. Facts showing the determined energy with which the rebels are concentrating troops in Virginia continue to multiply. The President to-day received a dispatch from Gen. BUTLER stating his belief that the rebel forces were withdrawing from North Carolina and hastening to reinforce LEE. So far as heard from up to 11 o'clock to-night, nothing of much importance has transpired at the front. Note of preparation is still heard, and indications are that collision cannot long be delayed, Gen. BURNSIDE left here on yesterday by special conveyance to join his command; and the signal corps, which has...