Vrtss. TUESDAY, MAY 6, 186.2 TriE LATEST WAR NEWS Further partialities of the Rapture of Yokkte,.., , and the flight and pursuit of the rebels, will be found in another column. It is supposed that "General McClellan has captured over 100 cannon, and immense quantities of ammunition, stores, dka. - Our cavalry and artillery came up with the rear guard at . the Male at IVi!Limburg on Monday afternoon, and a brisk fight immediately ensued. It was a hand-to-hand encounter between the Fede ral and rebel cavalry. The latter were driven from the field, but for want of enough infantry our troops 'were unable to advance on the rebel entrenehments. :Night coming on, it was deemed advisable to defer further operations until yesterday. The telegraph does not state whether the action was resumed yes terday or not. One of our attentive eorreepondents, with Gene ral - McClellan's army, sends us a very graphic /otter, describing the scenes attending the evacua tion of Yorktown, and the advance of our army. From his intelligent narrative, we are enabled to appreciate more fully the masterly strategy of Omni McClellan in driving the enemy front the Peninsula of Virginia. Jeff Davis' coachman—so a letter from the Rap lattbannook says—has scan lit to take French" leave of his master and come within the lines of the Union army. The coachman, it is said, was very commuulowive to our otheera, and im parted some of the secrets of thA rebel chieftain's family that would not likely be known to anybody, save the person whose story is recorded in our telegraphic columns. The coachman was accus tomed occasionally to drive Mr. Jefferson Davis and his lady out, and, if we may believe him, the couple had occasional discussions about the merits of the Confederacy and that Mrs. Davis slated that said Confederazy was i‘ played out_" It is also stated that Jeff Davis wished Johnston to make a stand at Manassas, but the latter declined, and was even indisposed to go to Yorktown, As the Union troops approach nearer to Rich mond the Union people of that city become more emboldened toward their rebel persecutors. Affairs in East Tennessee, as we have heretofore intimated, are in a moat deplorable condition: The rebel %ate 'Legislature, at Memphis, having passed a conscription act, thousands of Union citizens of that section have begun to flee into Kentucky to escape its operations. On the 16th ult., the Knox ville nFgtster—a Secession slieetHslates that some eight hundred of these refugees left their homes to find in a loyal State an asylum from oppression. They carried with them the implements of honest labor, proposing to gain a livelihood in peace, if possible ; but a portion of them were armed to resist any attack that might he made, Never theless, they were pursued by a body of rebel cavalry, under command of an infamous Colonel Ashby, and after an engagement of an hour, during which they heroically defended themselves, they were compelled to succumb. At least a hundred of them, according to the rebel statement, were killed or wounded, and four hun dred and twenty•three made prisoners. The latter were carried back to Knoxville in triumph, to be subjected to the pitiless scoffs of heartless traitors, who had formerly been their fellow-citizens, and are probably at this time enduring the tortures of the dungeon. The same paper states that among the prisoners taken were many prominent men of that section. So great has been the stampede of loyalists from East Tennessee that the rebel General Kirby Smith, commanding the department, at the instance of Jeff Davis, had issued an order declaring martial law, and calling upon the people to remain at their homes, to cultivate their fields, and to. be true in their allegiance to the "existing" government, holding forth, as an inducement, the premin le awl end the military draft. East Tennessee, sur. rounded on almost every side by traitors, has thus far withstood the torrent of treason and lawless nets= nobly. As in the case of Western V irginiai its efforts should meet with such an encouragement am the .part of the Government, that not. a tkaitor mill dare avow disloyal bordors. Congress Yesterday §aDlATg, — The bill to regulate the number of major and brigadier generals was laid over- A bill to donate public lands to States and Territories endowing agricultural colleges, was referred. A resolution favoring 9 general e.ebiioge of prison era was referred. The homestead bill was taken up, but a vote was postponed till to day. The con 'AN:widen bill was taken up, and speeches made by Niesere. Howe and Foster. The Senate then went into executive session. HOUSE.—The bill amendatory of the act to pro vide increased revenue from the imports, to pay the haunt on the public debt, and for other pur poses, was passed. The Rouse resolved itself into Committee of the Whole on the Pacific Railroad bill, which was debated by Messrs. F. A. Conkling and others. The Plans of the Consiirators. Such a succession Of victories have lately crowned the efforts of the Union armies that, in any ordinary contest between two indepen dent nations, similar triumphs would inevitably compel the Vanquished country to sue for peace. At every contested point the Seces sionists have been defeated. They have been entirely driven from Missouri and Kentucky. Compelled to evacuate their old stronghold at Manassas, they fell back upon what they sup posed was a still stronger position, at York town, but the preparations for besieging it were so formidable that they saw resistance was hope less, and, without waiting for our final onset, their main army precipitately fled. The long catalogue of our victories in North Carolina has been recently swelled by the'capture of Fort Macon, and the triumph of General RENO at Camden. The enemy could not defend Fort Pulaski, nor efficiently guard the ap proaches to Savannah. They could not hold the forts they had stolen in Florida. They could not prevent our fleet from passing up the Mississippi,"abreast of their great metropo lis, and thus seizing New Orleans. They could not retain Columbus, Island No. 10, Northern Alabama, or Nashville. They were unable to reap any fruits from their temporary tri umph in the first day's fight at Pittsburg Landing, as they were compelled to fall back upon Corinth, a place from which they will probably soon be driven. They are as unsuccessful on Oa as on land. Their boasted system of privateer jug has proved a dead failure. It is reported that their only really successful vessel, the Sumpter, is about to be sold, and that the officers and crew have returned to Southampton. One of the cruisers, which, for a time, was successful in eluding our blockade, the Isabel, or Ella Marley, was captured by the United States gunboat San tiago de Cuba, a few days ago, while it was attempting to run a cargo of arms, ammuni tion, wines ? cigars, and medicines, from Nas, situ, N. P., to Charleston. The Merrimac, it is true, destroyed a few of our wooden vessels in Hampton Roads, but she dared not van- tune A Soeond. attack, and le reported that her officers were so fully con s vinced of the folly and danger of at tempting any important new enterprise that they resigned rather than obey their sealed or ders to sail to the York river. They doubtless knew that such preparations had been made tor the reception of their boasted monster as would probably, insure its destruction. Thus, the whole vaunting rebel programme has been utterly demolished. Boastiog that they world seize the capital, invade the North, and plunder the cities of the free States,not one of their soldiers has ventured above Mason and Dixon's line, and at some point in every Com monwealth the authority of the Union has been restored. The old flag waves triumphantly over at least a portion of the soil of every member of the Confederaey, and It is only in detached parts of the eleven rebellious States that the rule of DAVIS IS still acknowledged. The power and prestige of the conspiracy have departed forever. Its pride is humbled, its communications are broken, its hopes of prosperity have all vanished. None of the - promises of its leaders have been realized. Its ability to "move on" is confined to retro .grade movements. Its threats against the .North and the commercial world are only realized in the ruin of Southern interests. Consternation almost universally prevails throughout all Secessia, and at no point are there greater signs of &air and trepidation than at Richmond. The rebel Congress is taunted by its own organs with having ad journed for the sole purpose of enabling its members to seek their personal safety in flight. The cc contraband" coachman rof the Secession chieftain reporte that Confederate money is no longer willingly received at the capital where it is issued; that Ur. and Mrs. Jest' DAVIS have prepared for a new hegira t o Montgomery, or some unknown region ; that "Lady DAVIS considers CC the Confederacy about played out," and the at tempt to hold the non-cotton-growing States a serious, if not a fatal error. The ex periment of advancing to Virginia has been almost as ruinous to the consp racy itself as to that devastated State. It now must certainly soon be abandoned, and the leading spirits of the rebellion may well ask in trembling tones where they shall go. North Carolina can afford no safe place for refuge. Its Governor is reported to have been arrested on account of his strong disposi tion to institute a counter revoiution, and to re store hiS State. by virtue of the rights of lo verelsnty with which, according to the Seces sion philosophy, it is endowed, to its legiti mate position in the American Union. Even if this rumor is untrue, and if the loyal feeling it indicates does not exist, it is plain enough that if Virginia is deserted by the rebels they cannot long sustain themselves in a quarter that would be so closely beleaguered by General BURNSIDE,. and by the poweitul armies of MeilLeuks, McDoweLL, and BArias. Tennessee cannot be thought of now. The whole of the middle portion of the State is in our possession. The Eastern portion is loyal in feeling, and the day of its deliverance cannot be distant. South Carolina, with all its boasted chivalry, cannot Shake off the Union gaVelAells tbc.t .warm atoms its coast and keep its metropolis in a constant fever of trepidation. In the interior of Georgia they might for a time be safe, but they could not long there find rest for their weary feet. There is a prospect that they will again occupy their old caPit4 l ; at Mcatgviacry, But it is now surrounded, on nearly all sides, by =Union troops, who could easily march against it. It will not be very surprising if a fate similar to that which bitch the so-called rebel provisional government of Kentucky overtakes JEFF DAVIS and his CeDillct It has driven by our victorious army of the West from point to point, until it had no other capital than a Sibley tent, in which its dignitaries of State aired their un substantial honors as best they could, until, at the battle of Shiloh, their Provisional Governor, GEORGE W. JOIINSON, fell, bitterly lamenting the titter prostration of the unholy cause in which he had sacrificed his life. It is surprising that, amid so many disasters, tlie rebels 411Q1Ild still protract a' contest in which they cannot possibly be successful. If the leaders of the conspiracy had any regard for the welfare of the people of the South, peace,would speedily be_ restored. But, un fortunately, the destinies of that section are, for the present, under the control of men of desperate fortunes, who, conscious Of the ex tent of their criminality, will prolong the war to the last moment, in the hope that some sudden turn of fortune May extricate them from the awful dilemma in which they Liar - e placed them selves. If they were at the head of a recog nized government, they would probably deem it 'their imperative duty to rescue the people they have deluded from the many sufferings they are now enduring and the many dangers which menace them. But the lending conspi rators, while they have not the power to resist our armies, are enabled to wield an iron rod over the districts not yet rescued from their control, and to punish with remorseless cru elty all who are patriotic enough to disobey their imperious mandates. That abandonment of their treasonable or ganization which would restore peace to the nation, and happiness to thousands of fire sides, they dread as their iudiYidual ruin. Steeped to their eyelids in crime, they cannot now safely retreat, and they will seek, while they can, to protract a hopeless war, with all its attendant horrors and miseries, for their individual benefit, trusting that some loophole of, escape may be opened. For a brief period still the nation ialtit struggle on, but as it Iris baited all , the ofigt. nal designs of the conspirators, and driven in all their outworks, the time cannot be far dis tant whew all wear remaining hopes will •be destroyed, the authority of the Union fully re established throughout the length and breadth of the land, and the ehiele of the Yek.-llion be appropriately punished. THE BRECirixi4 MGR PAPEriq are ..mooooivoir delighted at the revelations of the celehrsted % Viryck Committee, and at the late scene in the Rcuse of Representatives of the United States, produced. , by the resolutiOns of that committee. And upon the revelations of this committee and the vote of censure in the Bouse, they propose to arraign the whole Republican party, and to prepare for the coming elections on the encouraging theory that the Republicans are a set of persistent scoundrels, and that all the existing integrity has lodged among those Breckinridge politi cians who have not yet taken up arms in com pany with FLOYD, JACOB THOMPSON, and linxemanmon himself. It would not be an ungraceful sequel to this exhibition, if these Breckinridge papers would show that among the most industrious petitioners for favors at the departments of the General Administra tion were prominent advocates of the present Breckinridge organization ; nor would it do injustice to any honest histery if the ad ditional fact were stated, that while a number of these partisans received valuable contracts or jobs, they did not obtain them because they made corrupt propositions, but because the Government acted fairly by all, and needed the aid of all in its darkest hours of doubt and despair. Partisans in such a despe rate strait, however, cannot stop to speak the truth. They have a mission to perform. The DreeLluridge leaders in Penn Sylvania are everywhere known to have supported the Heaven-defying corruptions of F.Lovo, TWICE; and .1 - Aeon THOMPSON, under the Administra tion of the Great Criminal, JAMES ISUCHANAN, and they are now universally befieved to sym pathize with the Great Rebellion, so steadily .t fisted by themselyee i and - therefore it is a necessity—it is a life-and-death matter that they should raise a cry of corruption against re Republicans; and the Van Wyek Report has given them the opportunity. NOTHING THAT has been done by the Ad. ministration' or by Congress can be cited to show that the Republican party is in favor of emancipating the slaves of the South. The act abolishiug slavery in the District of Columbia was demanded by the highest military and national necessity, was voted for by Demo crats and Border• State men, and stands justi fied by the highest constitutional authorities. If there is further emancipation, it results from the cruelties and insanities of the rebels themselves ; and had Judge DOUGLAS been chosen President the revolt against his Administration would have been as bitter as that against Mr. Lmeor,s 3 s, and the liberation of slaves as general as since the commence ment of our present struggle. There is not a Convention et: the Republican party that has demanded emancipation at the hands of Con gress; and if the supporters of emancipation in the National Legislature could be assembled they weida prove as a pally what the Chief Magistrate is daily proving, that they do not regard emancipation as one of the objects of the war. Tan BEST WAY to answer a Breckinridger, when he insists that the property of the rebels shall not be confiscated, is to ask him what the Southern slaveholders would have done had positions been reversed, they being as strong as the present loyal States, and the latter com mencing the war 7 Would they have hesitated to confiscate every description of property ? Would they have refrained from filling their prisons with suspected persons, from hanging spies, and from dealing devastation on all sides? The answer to these inquiries is found in the fact that having begun the war without Causes they have stolen and destroyed hun dreds of millions of the property of the Fede ral Government, have repudiated hundreds of millions of just debts, and bard sacrificed and confiscated hundreds of millions of the pro perty of their own people. THE BRECKIERIDGE LELDERE, having brought the Government to the verge of ruin and in volved the country in a terrible war, despite the peaceful tendencies of the times in which they bore rule, now propose to take the reins of power from the hands of the unquestion ably loyal, and sail the ship on their own ac count. Ranson BnowsLow.--On May-day this patriotic end popular gentleman eat for his portrait to Mr. Gutekunet, the photographer, Arch street, and the result was a splendid carte de visite, which McAl lister & Brother, 72S Chestnut street, published on Monday, and have already gold very largely. LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL." Wasarsa-rort, May 5 General McClellan bas undoubtedly shown great strategic ability in compelling the rebels to abandon a position which he deemed almost impregnable. Ilia despatch announcing their evacuation of a stronghold so elaborately for tified is generally accepted as the augury of another and a nonclunive victory. Nothing seems to be necessary to complete the panic and the demoralization of the enemy, but ru,...tat by Land and *Bider. This has been or dered, and probably before my letter is in type you may receive the evidence of its suc cess, curropondent in the Baltimore Sus, of this morning, describes the configuration of the region between Yorktown and Rich mond as follows : An examination of the great military map of Virginia, published by order of the State, shows that the peninsula widens a little beyond Yorktown, and there is no stream above the rank of creek un til the ci Chiekahominy 11 river is reached. Pre° roads extend from Yorktown to near Williamsburg, which place is described by persons here who know the country thoroughly, as on a dead level. Two ;Veda run from Williamsburg to Richmond. One musts the " Glitekahonliny river near its &in fluence with the James river, and skirts the north bank of the latter and crosses numerous creeks. The other road, or the northern route to Richmond, flits parallel with York Ayer to New Rent, 0, U., and thence two roads to Richmond, one straight west, crossing the Chickahominy at a point be tween swamps. The other road runs more north erly, and is not out by swamps or large streams. It is supposed that General McClellan's gunboats and tramports can go up the York river, and thus more readily furnish supplies to his army. The first cans° of this sudden panic. of the rebels was undoubtedly the overwhelming pre parations of McClellan for the siege, which was to commence to-day, and the admirable diversion upon Fredericksburg of McDowell, Augur, Banks, Shields, Geary, and Fremont. The last strategy has been bitterly complained of in certain (Platters, but it has splendidly vindicated itself'. With the map of Virginia before you, you can, almost at a glance, realize how successfully the enemy may be fought and followed. Every arrangement has been made to cross thellappahannock at Fredericks burg, if that should be deemed necessary, so that no attempt can be made by the rebels upon the column which rests on that river. Indeed, In the universal fear that by this time has e t alt en the whole populace of Rich:no:A and its gurroundings, I would not be surprised if our forces made an advance from Ire_ derickshurg and took the capital of the so called Confederacy on the other flank. At this writing great and general praise is awarded to McClellan, and if his pursuit is persevered in, as I have no doubt it will be, the measure, of his renown will be filled to overflowing. Simultaneous with this great neWs conies the intelligence of the gotscualion of Corinth. In this quarter, as in Virginia, the panic of the rebels must be fearful. Be hind and around them tho great army of Hal leek, which is now, or soon will be, in Mem phis, and which, this done, may advance to the rebel front by means of the river, they see before them the gunboats of Foote and. Pokier, and behold the great capital of the Southwest, New Orleans, in the possession of the Union where can they look for succor or as cape ? Their only alternative is in a prompt and graceful submission to the authority of the Government. When the State Department makes public the reasons which have actuated the President in directing the arrest and confinement of cer tain suspected persons, the partisans who have been so highly offended, and have sought re venge and recompense in our courts, will bang their he in shame. They have demanded to know why they and their friends lave-been imprisoned, and their demand will be answered in such a way as will satisfy all loyal men that the course of the Administration was emi nently sagacious and just. OCCASIONATa. ALL ttemein to PresidentNowa* and his constitutional advisers! They have done their whole duty to the American people. Now, while vmarti - 1 .- doting over the triumphs of the army and navy, let us not forget the enor mous and unprecedented responsibilities and labors of the officers who haite had to bear the burdens devolved upon the several depart melds of the Government. *hen they came into power, they found a vast ruin left them to restore s to rebnild, and to reanimate, and within a year they have not only done this great work, but have put a vast army into tho -field, created a mighty navy, and astonished the civilized world by their wisdom, their for bearance, their vigor, and their patriotism. WIIIE ntairia) there not he a striking corres pondence in the actions and impulses, as there is in the objects, of the rebels and the Breckin ridgers ? The latter openl,y co-operated with the _Southern madmen up to the fall of Sump ter. Their objects and sympathies are still akin. Through their infernal machinations there is weeping in almost every loyal household, and the shadow of still greater grief tails across every loyal threshold. Are such men to be trusted again ? Are these fit eounselloys of the people in these fearful times ? Loyal Repub licans and loyal Democrats, you are to answer these questions at the polls next October. The Pennsylvanians at the Battle of Shiloh. The only Pennsylvania regiment engaged in the battle of Shiloh MU the Seventy-seventh, com manded by Colonel Stambaugh. They were at tached to General MeCook's division, and that offi cer in tie omelet report tells what part they took in That great battle. Creneral McCook saya: Being satisfied that the enemy had changed his point of attack from the right to my extreme left, 1 ordered Colonel Stambaugh's Seventy-seventh Regiment Pennrylvania Volunteers to take up a position on my extreme left, and repel the assault there being made ; he immediately engaged them, and at this moment the contest along the whole line became terrible. Colonel Kirk's brigade now Was ordered to engage, and he arrived precLely at the right moment, as the oartridges of General Rousseau's brigade were all expended. General Rousaeau's brigade fell back through Colonel Kirk's lino, and retired to the woods in the rear, to be supplied with ammunition. Three noun be fore, being convinced from the stabbornness with which the enemy was contendinff, and the rapid discharges of my regiments, that their forty rounds would soon be exhausted, I dompLiehed Lieutenant Campbell, my ordnance officer, for teams to bring up ammunition. He arrived at the opportune mo ment with three wagon loads. * * * * Colonel Stambaugh, with the Seventy-seventh _Pennsylvania regiment of volunteers, early in the action, being ordered to watch the enemy upon my left, was at a later period ordered to engage. His regiment, partially isolated from the rest of the di vision, steadily moved over an open field in ita front under a heavy fire. While here the enemy's cavalry charged this regiment twice, but was ea,cle time repulsed with heavy loss. Col. Stambaugh bad the satisfaction of receiving the sword Ooh Bnitelee, of the 'Twentieth Tanneries, who surren dered to him as a prisoner. Lieut. Col. Housem and Major Stambaugh ably seconded the efforts of Col. Stambaugh. Pllol , 3l9Selt CorrEx.—The following appears in the New York Herald of yesterday, and we take leave to add, from personal conviction and kgow , ledge, that a more loyal man than the mom plished writer does not live : 2'o the Editor of the Herald: 1820 P/51/3 STRAIWZ, PUILADHLPHI/1 9 May 3, 1862. Mowing that you would not be designedly unjust, I call your attention to an error in the statement of your letter writer from the vicinity of Yorktown. It is in your paper of Friday. In giving a sketch of the life of my West Point clsesmate, General Fitz John Porter, he mentions several of the clans who Bow occupy dietin. guiehed relation. iu our army, cud then among t h ose who are by the rebel ranks he includes my name. I de sire you to favor. Me by announcing that neither in thought, word, nor deed am I a rebel, but a loyal citizen of the best Government in the world. I was brought up under the stars and skeipzi, and mean to adhere M them as long as I live ; and I intend to reside, if nothing un foreseen sheuld occur, where I have resided for seven years past, in Philadelphia, where loyalty is the rule and rebels are not countecanced. I will only add that your letter writer probably Ponsulted a It feidster of officer. and graduates," and finding that I was from Georgia, and had resigned—albeit so far back as 1855—took it for granted tbat I was in the ranks of rebellion, a decided non sequitur, in one case, at least. Your paper is widely circulated. Those ip distant places who have lost eight of me would be misled by the statement referred to. I have, therefore, respectfully to request that you will publish this note, and 011ie, yours, respectfully, HENRY COPPEN, Professor Vraversity of Penneylvanla, Philadelphia. AMERICANS AT LEOHOBN.--112 a Leghorn paper (the Indzeatre Commere:ale del Porto-Franeo ds Lzvorno, of April 14,) we find the following list of Americans registered at the United Skates 04fifitz late at Leghorn, for the week ending Saturday, 12th of April, 1862: Andrew J. Stevens, consul ; Mr. William Hoff man, of New York; Mr. ginnlyb G. Thompson, of New York; Mrs. V. Si. Thompson, of New York; Mr. R. J. Monks, of Boston ; Mrs. R. J. Monks, of Boston ; Mr. Henry M. Brooks, of New York; Mrs. Emily A. Brooks, of New York; Mr. De Wolfe Beuett, Hallowell. Malmo: Miss gecett, Hallowell, Maine. LARGE POSITIVE SALE OF BOOTS AND BiIORS, TRAynottna-DAeo, STRSR (10003, 40,--,The early attention of purchasers la requested to the large as sortment of boots, shoes, brogans, travelling-bags, and straw goods, viz : Panama, straw, and palm bats: Shaker hoods, women's and Wean' Leghorn and fancy straw hats, bloomers, LO., embracing first-clam seasonable goods, of city and Eastern ma nufacture, to be peremptorily sold, by catalogue, on four months' credit, commencing with the straw goods, this morning, at 10 o'clock, by John B. Myers & Co., auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 234 Market street. SALE TAM DAY-STOCKS AND REAL ESTATE.- %lODINE it Sone' large sale, at the Exchange, will commence precisely at twelve o'clock. See cata logues and advertisements. ' F k :, -' ; 4 i ' I ; TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1862. THE EVACUATION OF YORKTOWN. [correspondence of The Press.) BEFORE YORKTOWN, May 3, 1862. I would like to give you an idea, if such a thing were possible, of bow we are placed on this penin sula. A fortnight of life here hes been more parti cularly warlike than any we have.yet enjoyed since the commencement of the war. it hoe experiences long to be treasured—full of meaning, strange and varied. Here we are in a new country to all intents and purposes—a sleepy, quiet, and not very inviting place in time armee, halt cultivated, raw and un finished. From the tent where I am writing I have a very pleasant and characteristic view. It is soft and genial, with a cloud or two passing over the sky, and the Steaks, From a kitchen Are insinuating Nell among the pine and cedar branches of the ar bor above me. There is an open space in front which might have been a meadow land, but the grass has been trodden and worn away. There ail , 'deep ruts still remaining, left by a train of quartermasters' wagons who passed along a few days since when we had the heavy shower of rain. A regiment is lying out 'beyond, in a low nestling encampment of shelter tents and huts of clay, ex temporized by the ingenious soldiers of the line. Fees , aolillef§ are pitching quoits, and seem to se interested in the game, for they have been busily engaged since long before breakfaat—and a little farther off a corporal is leisurely drilling a couple of stupid privatee, who go through the motions awkwardly. If we pase up to the end of the en campment we cross a ravine, and enter what was a field, but what is the parade ground of game 'trai ler). companies. In the distance is a farm-house, very much abused, from which a small red flag is flying to denote that it is a hospital. Beyond teis Louie is a long range of woods, thickly filled with soldiers, and coestituting the advance of our right wing. Here we occasionally see Lowe's balloon mysteriously sailieg up front the trees to its star ternary thousand feet. There is constant firing, too, sometimes musketry and sometimes artillery, although I have not heard a reports for the last half hour. This is the right of the division. 'lmmediately behind us, at the distance' of a furlong from the tent where I am staying, are the headquarters of the army. It would be impossible to imagine a prettier encampment than that occupied by Gene ral McClellan. It is on the border of a wood, and very pear a running steara, to which we are in debted for our fresh water. A rising lawsi has been chosen sloping up towards the forest. It has been ditched and graded, and the tents arranged with care, Most Of the tents are plain wall teats, with arbors of green in front. The General'a is in the centre, and. near to it is the flag.staff from which our colors are floating. The French princes, and the other menibeita of his staff : , are quartered around him, and with the quarters for servants and horses, orderlies and attendants, the encampment of the General is as large as most of those Invalided by a regiment. A guard of Zouaves surround the lines and keep off curious people, whom I find to bo as plenty here as in more civilized and peaceful communities. We occasionally see our little emu mender. Ile is very modest and unpretending, and bas a way of moving about at the most un expected .times and in the most unusual places. An evening or two since, just before "retreat," I was passing within the camp lines of a neighboring regiment. There was a little bustle in a group of soldiers near the quartermaster's tent, and I turned Wend, The men stood to attention" and gave a salute, while a single horseman rode rapidly along attended by an orderly. A fatigue cap was on his head, and he wore a blue blcuSe Without any marks of midi. I recognised the well-known features of General McClellan and watched him as he passed on. The members of his staff started Oftef hint as soon as they learned of his departure, and it was amusing to witness the eager haste they manifested to roach the General. The young Duke de Chartres, a splendid rider, Colonel Astor, and Major Modell, of the marine corps, were among those I noticed in this hasty pursuit. This is in the neighborhood of Wormley's creek, a narrow, sluggish stream, very popular in ourcamps OR Recount of the good quality of the oysters and game with which it abounds. I saw a soldier yes terday coming up the bank with a pair of ducks be had caught, and a negro behind him carrying a basket of oysters. Ire wanted them for ti the lieutenant," he said, and was evidently pleased with his great success. Beyond the creek, there is a broad corn-field, which extends along to the river, and retains some portion of the old fence. work; it branches out to a point formed by the confluence of the creek and York river, and is now being planted with Mese guns and cannon at heavy calibre. Here is the Battery Number One, from which the batteries at Gloucester Point were shelled. A large house stands near the river, with garden around it, and ea.rthworkit built upon ruined fruit-trees. • The house is deserted—nothing re mains but a bedstead and a tow articles of furniture. From this house we can see tee rebel works at Yorktown very distinctly. The , tell flegspele s with. the rebel flag could be aeon with toe naked eye; with a plain field-glass the colors of the fiag were easily distinguished. A low line of water batteries stretched along the shore, and occasionally a form would be seen moving past the embrasures. We were se near that the sounds of rebel music could be heard ; and on the maiden of toy first visit I distinctly heard their drums and fifes. There could be no mistaking the sounds, for in the camps of our army no music is allowed, and at all the military duties of the day—rovoille, molest guard, retreat, and tattoo—the fife and drum are dispensed with. This is done as a precadtionary measure,•to prevent the enemyafrom knowing our numbers and mot location. Out in the stream our gunboats are crawling about, occasionally creeping up to the point, firing a shell and floating baok to their anchorage. • The last day or two.hee been very gigot, Some regard it as the calm before the storm—others think that the enemy is preparing a surprise, and that, before we are aware of their intentions, they will Wu a flank and fall on the rear. Then (hero is the strange, but far more probable rumor, that Magruder is about to evacuate, and that there will be no fight on the peninsula at all. This is the im pression that is deep /aims. I .m confident, how ever, that if a battle does not take Owe, it will not be because it is not anticipated. I heard a general of high station say a few days ago that on this penin sula would be fought one of the greatest battles of the age—that it would be bloody and deeisive, and would end this war. I have talked with officers, too, who bad a more serious idea of affairs here, They seemed to think that within the parallels Of Magruder lay the whole strength of the Southern Confederacy, and that it would be a great victory to drive the rebels out of their works and force teem to meet us in en open country. This is the reason given for our refusal thus far to shell the enemy and storm their entrenchments. That would cost life, and could be followed by no itittnediate result. It Is thought that MoClellan desires to perfect his arrangements here in the front, to send up and oc cupy Gloucester Point, and either take the enemy in the rear or cetera him to abandon his position, General Franklin's division has been lying off Ship Point for three weeks, ready for some such service as this. It has been living on steamboats and transports in a most uncom fortable manner, within five minutes' sail of shore, so that it may move to any point at a moment's warning, and this circumstance, known to all here, and I think known throughout the North, convinces us that McClellan has •a plan deeper and more intricate than any now apparent. I concluded the above paragraph yesterday, and laid it aside to await the mail of this morning, But Morning comes with greater news than any I have yet recorded, and 'resume this unfinished sheet for the purpose of giving you the story. • The rebel army has 8#1,2191.0.akil forces ore in possession—the cavalry, artillery, and regular infantry are zn hot pursuit. This comes as a cu rives climax to our dreams last night, and will, I am afraid, sound strangely in connection with the flippant sentences and crude theories I spent yes terday in writing. It was not yet daybreak when the adjutant came into oar tent, with the 131112011LIC0111Villi that imme diate marching orders had been received, and that we were to move at once on Yorktown. Of course there was baste, bustle, and confusion—harried• and incomplete toilets, buckling on Swords, sling ing haversacks, and every possible preparation for the march. The men were falling rapidly into fine) orderlies were galloping hither and thither, staff-officers, and aids, and field-officers were tu multuous and excitable. It was a strange contrast to the scene of the evening before, when we all ant at the tent-doors smoking our brier-woed pipes, watching the smoke curling around the new-b9rn crescent, sentimentalizing about home, or specu lating about the morrow and what it might bring forth. The cavalry have gone ahead, and there go the artillery. Lumbering, screaming, thundering, the guns and caissons pass along, the captains shouting, and the horses impatient and fierce. Whey eluden their pace before going very far, for very soon the words are passed, and they pass into the edge of last night's picket lines. We cannot be rash in these strange districts. Ambuscades and infernal machines and unimaginable contrivances are to be dreaded. Bo they pass along cautiously, steadily, surely. The outer parallel of the Union works is passed. They are now in the disputed ground, over which the swift rifle balls have been con stantly going and coming within the last few weeks. In a short time the rebel works are reached. It is wonderful how close we have been to the enemy. It seemed to me but a minute or two is riding over a field and through a thicket separating the extreme lines of tooth armies. A little negro hut stood at the side of the grove, but its inhabitants had gone, and it bore evidences of having been used as a shelter for the rebel pickets during their occupation of the vii bp, one name—"l". F. Trion, N. C. Yola."—be , ing cut, in at least three places, by some ambitious rebel who was fortunate enough to possess a sharp penknife. Before daybreak our soldiers were in Yorktown, and the sky was scarcely clear before the correspondents were behind them, prowling around huts, camps, and the ramparts, with raven nous pens and small slips of paper, very much after the fashion of Mr. Diatoms' newspaper men in BEYOND YORKTOWN. May 4 "Bleak House," who reported the wonderful ease of spontaneoue combnetion. How ball I tell what the gentlemen of Bases paper and ravenous little pens felt and thought and saw, as, passing the outer line of ramparts that in the morning mike bad loomed up so grimly and defiant, but now looked harmiele and deserted, they entered the boasted stronghold? How strange to think that these were the dikes and embrasures that by day end by night, for weeks peat, had worn an sir of so much mystery, and were the objects of so much fearful interest and strange solicitude and lucid speculation? But this Tenet the time for snob reflections. We Can see, as we pause on an eleva tion here, the lines of infantry jogging forward briskly; some stragglers with heavy haversacks, who rub their eyes indignantly at the reveille and seem to be scarcely awake, even now, are bringing up the rear. Some few of them are singing " Dixie ;" many of them are boisterous, and every one is talking to his nei g hbor. The sun is coming up from the broad waters, and the long line of winding bayonets is gleaming and flashing in the crisp air, that seems musical with the hum of voices, su.d the ring of sabres, and the tramp of many feet. Right ahead of us, the rebel standard floats defiantly in the light breeze that is blowing from the river. The nice look as It eagerly , with haired stamped upon their Dives, and some of them gaze forward with distrust. The column halts for a single moment. A shout, dull and far away, is borne with reverberation to our ears. The flag is hauled. down ! The DIM are dashing forward and cheering most tremendously. The dull roar that sounded like the plaintive beat of a surging sea, has bonnie a. sublime and mighty chorus, like the boom of the rolling breakers near a headland. Wo are fairly within the rebel works. We have plied their entrenohluvoto and eastioue in safety‘ with tumultuous joy and shouts of triumph. The rebel flag is nowhere to be seen. Everything is in the most profound and hopelessly inextricable confu sion. Vamp equipage is strewn around, and looks forlorn, dejected, miserable. No curl of smoke goes up from any tent to speak of hospitality and plenty. The grtund is trodden and cut whir broad wagon-tracks, and littered with the tokens of the foe's discomfiture and haste. Here is a drum that, to make it as inefficient as possible, has been punctured with gaping holes all over its head. There are some picks and sho vels, to which the sacred soil still clings in clods. To our right are vast piles of shot and shell. To our rear the second line of defences stretches outward to the coast, like a chain of dis tant hills. Those batteries, at tire commencement of the siege, were said to berg minuted one bun, dred and twenty guns, of formidable calibre. There are not half, probably not quarter, that number visible now. They are few and far be tween, end it is said that all of ream. vp2Aced. here, again, we come to a caisson, that seems to have been struck by one of our shells, for it is shat tered almost to pieces. The gun has been unlimbered and removed{ Whichever way we turn, we en counter relics of the departed enemy. They are such as are common to every military camp, except that they seem to have been disarranged, for some iinnecountahle reason, in the night. Nettling has 'sten burned, apparently, and nothing left that could be conveniently removed. The flight seems to have been much hurried, but not accompanied with a panic. It was precipitate, anti yet I might almost say deliberate. We are startled by the explosion of a shell, and very coon the word is passed from mouth to mouth, that several of our generals and an unaccountable number of privates have been killed. Not without a feeling of excitement, and, perhaps, not wholly without a slight tremor of trepidation, I hasten to trace the statement to its source. Much to my re lief, I find it greatly exaggerated, although the truth is sad enough. TV99 of our men have boon allied and several slightly wounded by the ex plosion of a percussion shell, which had been partially buried, so I learn, near tne base of the rebel flaglstaff• It is a very fearful thing that death should visit such a scene of triumph, and sadden moments of the wildest joy. As the wounded are borne away to the hospital, where the red flag itillowly waving in the sunlight, a silence falls upon the witnesses. It is but a mo ment—but in the calm and tranquil beauty of the Sabbath it comes to many a rugged soldier in the throng, with gentler thoughts, and memories of years. But now the quiet is disturbed in an unexpected quarter- We cap hear the steady booming of guns for some miles up the river. What does it mean '! ire ask. Every eager face asks the same ideation anxiously, and many speculations are indulged in. At length I hear that eitil gunboats have gone up the river this morning, and probably are shelling small rebel batteries along the coast. The contraband, who has just appeared upon the scene, with a grate ful sense of his own -61perkanee1 can give his myriad of questioners but little information on this point, although in everything else he appears to be aufiat. He twists an odd-lookinu skull-cap in lib fingers nervousiy, and by dint of rolling his eyes, is grow ing very voluble. He mieht h ave emousaud tongues, however, and fail to answer half the questions that are propounded to him in chorus. Where are they gone? When did they go? What did they go for? How many of them were there ! What did they say, and think, and enact ? Each of these interrogatories was propounded a dozen times at least in my hearing, and appeared to afford unspeakable gratification to the Ethiopian, who at intervals would swing him self about and indulge in a burst of hearty laugh ter, throwing his arms above his head to prevent asphyxia. While scenes such as these were transpiring in and about the town, in such countless varieties that an instantaneous photograph could not have clone fall justice to them all, our cavalry and artillery were dashing down the road to Williamsburg. The enemy could not have left many hours before, and the possibility of overtaking them was not unpro mising. It was well on to noon before the long line of the pursuers was out of sight—swallowed up in the dust, the glare j and the horizon ; sad many. of us:fancied we could hear the thunder of their forward march an hour after. I can elaborate no more. It is necessary that these hurried lines, penath,a on a convenient bank, where I can rest my portfolio, should be sent off to catch the steamboat on its way to Fortress Monroe. Long before this column is read the story of the retreat will have been told by the anticipating te legraph. It has been my aim simply to tell you some of the incidents that crowd upon me in this dramatic and bustling hour. We are moving on ra platy, and while this goes to Philadelphia, I go on my way to Richmond. The soldiers are passing on, regiment after regiment, and our flag flying above them. There is a shout from a crowd beyond the Sold, and a company of horsemen galloping through the rising dust. " There goes McClellan," says , a sergeant, who has stopped to strap a oomrade's knapsack. !! Three ckeyrs hr him, Now; boys, we're off to Richmond." - R. T. S. LETTER FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Evacuation of Yorktown—Heavy Firing—The Captured Guns—Flag of Truce—Dead Body Washed Ashore—The Merrimac: Her Ap• pearance canned—Trial of, a New Projec tile—From New Orleans—Astounding News. [Special Correspondence of The Pram] FORTEXSS MONROB, anti gy, DIAT 4. ;Mot as I sat dOWD to write my letter, this morning, there came the astounding news that Yorktown had been evacuated by the enemy. The news came in the shape of a despatch from fie% Wl c elelfsa to Goa. Wool. It says that the evacuation was consummated some time during the night. The despatch Is dated at three o'clock this morning. Bu nton' of a needy evacuation have been rife for some days, hut no faith wag Igrkbed h therm, and your correspondent did not think them of sufficient importance to chronicle in the columns of The Press. During the whole of last night the tiring of heavy gnus semi tetslfle, keel u aor thought ihnt the bombardment Mid commenced in earnest, and no people were more surprised than were the residents here to know that General Mc- Clellan was in Yorktown, and that the enemy bad eve- Cliated. This occupation of Yorktown places us in possession of nearly four kundred tinge guns, many of them rifled, and nearly all in good condition except that they are spiked, but these spikes can be easily drawn and 14@guagrourlor , ed serviceable again. A flag of truce was sent out yesterday. No Southern papers were received except two or three copies of the Norfolk Dag Book, and this Oldy contains a few doleful leissestatiens at the 11l eueeem of the beniederate ar- The body of an officer in the Delaware regiment, bat whose name I could not ascertain, was washed ashore at Mill Creek bridge yesterday afteraozo. It .I...uppolood that he has been foully dealt with, as all hie front teeth are knocked in, and there is a severe bruise as though made with a heavy blow over the temple. The Xerrinitic Pee Out to-day cruising around In the direction of ()tansy Island. but not daring to come within range of the guns of the Fortress, or of those of the Galena and Monitor. Crowds of people are watching her movement@ from the docks, but there is no probability that she will ventw a down to-day. The bay le i n floe condition for her to come out; the water being smooth and there being no wind. She presents quite a changed appearance, and many failed to recognize her. She la of aNM teed co l or , ver y low in the water, with a long prow, and her desk it crowded with men. Now that Gen. Wool, and the Associated Press agent, send almost daily doapatohes to the Northern press, the lettere of the correarandents here era earnewhat old by the lino they get to the newspaper Maces. No "spe cials" are allowed to be seat oval the Government line of telegraph. • An impromptu trial of a neW Pi9jodile was held a few days since from one of our batteries. A party of rebete undertook to burn a bridge, the weedy of which was ne cessary to the operations of the siege. A few ordinary shell were sent at them without much effect, when ono of a new kind of incendiary saw, lately patented, Will fired at them. It burst In the woods just beyond, setting them on fire in an instant, while the rebels ran like frightened sheep. They did not expect ouch a missile. I hear from Now Orleans, that out of ilio eaaa rte fl ee t of six gunboats at that place, we have sunk two and taken four. A contraband is reported to have brought in a rumor tbat Eicbniond le in possession of General McDowell, /t i t pi ply. poenible, but at lam accounts (two weeks since) be was at Fredericksburg, only sixty miles from Bicbmond ; and an that city was comparatively defence less, be may bare taken it. We wilt soon know. WEAT FMB The ay is cloudy, and thew° hi a prospect of rain. There is scarcely a breath of wind, and tho bay is enicoth. A heavy ttorni Is looked for before many days. MATOU. FROM WASHINGTON, The Pacific Railroad Bill to Pass. Mit of the Freueh Meister nod Others tO YorKtown. THEY WITNIBB Trg OCCUPATION The Ammunition and Stores Destroyed by the Rebels. Assumption of the Interest on tho Public Debt. PROVISIONS OF THE BILL Proposed Donation of Lands for Agricultural Colleges ANOTWER CONFISCATION PILL orraneo Special Despatches to •' The Press:. Nay 5, 1867 Visit of the French Minister and other prominent Gentlemen to Yorktown— Wima they sow. I learn that the French Minister, Mr. MEACIRR, in company with Ib mare. FRANK. P. BLsny Sr.,F Atm. BLAia Jr., ex -governor of Ohio, and a numeer of other geutletneo hokim ff dit•tinS lit.ited pindlielle In the Government, lot here on Friday last for Fortress Monroe, determined to get a glimpse of Yorktown, and if fortunate enough, to be in at the death " itd rebel defenders. After a very pleasant - Within which none tint the most propitious weather was enjoyed, and nought but the beet spirits prevailed, the excursion party reached Old Point. After a brief sojourn here, and still briefer obsaryatiQg pf the F ,„th. 0- interest, the advance upon Yorktown was begun. The famous old peninsula was reached in safety by the voyageurs, directly after the evacuation had taken place. They had jest arrived in time to witness that memora ble i.Mnday scone. the waking of our legions to the start ling fact, the reveille, the hurrying in mid out of eager mom the mounting or the lm patmit ciyalry, the forward more, the occupation of the deserted town, that lay as dim and peaceful in the distance at some village church yard, and tho tearing down of the rebel ilag that flaunted with a tacrilegious wave in the Sabbath sunlight. All ttle w-aa witnessed by the party, and much more, that, if less romantic, is pone the less enjoyable, and worth re cording. the gentlemen having returned from their recontiote game to.day, yeur eorreeriandhat and obtained, of them not only an interview, but many facto of in tcreet. They report, that with the exception of two negroes, who appeared to be generally satisfia with the the town was wholly deserted by the rebels, who, prior to their French leave, managed to produce a "confusion worse confounded " state of affairs—at which sort of WOlii they are unusually felicitous. The fortifications, they atate, are of the most powerful description, and most elaborately constructed. They might have been defended stubbornly by leas than one fourth of the army Which deserted them as untenable; and in every respect they show evidence of Walt engi neering skill, no less than a blind confidence of success. The proofs of sudden flight are plainly visible on every band—in the litter of camp equipage; in the abandon :mentor 'vast 'acres or saanunition, which article is daily becoming scarce with the enemy, and in the general dishabille (if I may so speak of a camp) and wild dis order which met the eye at every turn. • It was ascertained that an Immense amount of powder had been thrown into the rivsr, together with implements of peace as 'well as of war. fixes, picks, and !bevels, whose labor had vainly expended itself on profitless fortificatienet were pitched overboard in the rancor of revenge and bitter disappointment. Pikes and well male eabres shared the same fate by thousands. All of these arms will doubtless be recovered. The paeiage of our army through Yorktown WAR A grand epectacle, worthy the easel of the beet historical painter en the continent. No canvas cane ever repro dx,ee its strange impressiveness and spirit. The passage of the army occupied many hours. General IsleCLio.tss is active, confident, and vigilant as ever, and performs more drudgery than the meanest private in the ranks. He shares alike the labors and the confidence of hie army, and with it will share the honor of the victory. Assumption of Interest on the Public The goose pooood it bill to- doy, providing for increased revenues from importa to pay the interest on the public debt. Tide bill allows such portion of the tax as may be finessed by any State or Territory, or the District of. Co lorable, to be paid or satigiedi in Whole or in part, by the release of such State, Territory, or District, duly ex ecuted to the United States. of any liquidated or deter mined claim pertaining thereto of equal amount against the United States • pravided that incase of ouch release filch State, Territory, or > elan said to Mr.. W. B. June,' (daughter of Col James Taylor, U. S. Cunt oilman General or Su tdstence), who 141,14 very anxious to get to Washington, where she has one of her children, not to give heretlf any trouble, but to stay where she 1.1.114, khB 3tl ra lh Vaaketas came to itichlSWG4 ram could )tn. Fie eays ldr. asii Mrs. Davie have all their books, clothies, and pictures packed up, ready t) CHIVE' off; that there Is mach oul,npoken Union feeling in Rich j that, haYing been a waiter in the hotel, he knew ell the Union men in the place. and that the Yahkets are looked for with much pleasure—more by the whites than even the colored people. Confederate money hi not taken when it can be avoided. Mrs, Davit herself wee refused when 9110111 4 810 Confederate note for a purcOunu, Mall) of the ftinninOna people with the Union troops to conie, as they are lialf.etarveil out. The Bank al.ll Government pr..iperty is all packed up to be removed to Danville, near the North Carolina line. " Gen ,, rbl Jcquittitois did not think the robots would eue= teed at Yorktown. "The coachman overheard an officer say that if they failed at. Yorktown and New Orleans, they would leave -Virginia." Numerous and Important Captures made by the Bluekadiug Fleet. WASESINGTON, htay 6 - -On April 26th, at 640 P. ?II the Uuitcd States steamer laambeau, LIMAN:int Cosi mending Unsham, caetered the schooner Active, sailing under Inglish colors, about bevels Tulles south of Steno, South Carolina. She was from Nassau, and purported to Le bound for New York, with a cargo principally a salt, coffee, and other arileitli now very much needed In a Southern port. The captain admitted thst the familiesof hhesell and mate are residents of Charleston. She was sent to New York for adjudication. Oh April ildtb, the U. b. steamer t'ecur, Acting Master L. G. Crone, captured the schooner Rate. Capt. theme reports that w hen about thirty miles off Charleston, S. C., he made a bail running N. W. W., and proceeded on his course, intending to speak heri as he approached her the bogie 11.1,1eys bao.o,i M._ S. It. Ite - ,eee changed his course and gave obese for two hours, when ho tired a shot across her bows; she then hoisted the English en sign and continued her course. Another shot wee tired acmes her bow, to whirl' 1 9 altoution etas paid, pat a third .1,-taios just ahead of her, caused her to heave $O. Eby. nuns from 1`...1 aeeau, N. P., and purported to be bound for Philtioulphia, with a cargo of salt, pepper, and soap. The captain, ou being boarded, claimed to he in distress, ssyie.g he had spruce his forenseet arid bowepritthe night before, When asked why he alerted sail on her, he PS plied that be wanted to get into the nearest pott. The schooner has been sent to New York for adjudication. On April 19, at 1040 A. 11 , the pilot boat G. TV. Ilium, J. It. Beers commanclieg, captured the rebel setweher ireWft off the wed of &Wit Carolina She la te he of platy tons resister t valued at 83,000, and bad on board 39 bales of cotton. The captain, Wm. Ryen, and a crew of four men, are residents of Chides ton. The vessel belongs, as appears by hre papers, to , 31 "" 8 ., n Street kWeittr Vlierleti9ll, ga ff was coualgadi tothe ears art A. /knell) ~S; Co., :NAM% N. P. The papers contain positive orders tp the captain to burn the vessel and sick the pappre it in danger of captuto. The cemeLers'ves fife forbidden eto sell tne cotton to the Yea- Ws Pt PPS price, OP 11 1 11 rhitahlphig for ad? The cargo of the Lila Wariey (hribel), captured by the steamer Santiago de Cuba, consisted of pig lead, sheet copper, iron in bundles and slaps, ZOO:, cased of be 6ntleldrules and au oda... rtauttcat instruments, cotton cards, drugs, asinine, pot VAN cream of tartar, copperas . , carboys, castor oft, Retests, indigo, soap, paper and stationery, cigars, candles and tallow, codfish, herring. mackerel, butter, cheese, bread. tea, alcohol, gin. and tooth. brushes. Mime artieineteerellinnd rat hailed. ;Itia4kist to Cit..-los ,• tot), S. a Among tditor., two lies, Leslie of cigars, very haudeontely gotten up, and Inscribed to Ills Excel leucy, President Davis, from John Frazers & Co.. Charleeton." liar leg-book was mutbated, and the MUMS were Put ME of au.% SUCOCI a 3 coulo 1., iud held Of in the surprise of the capture. Important papers wore alto discovsted, which, it is thought, will show her real character and destination. Several of her passengers and crew have avowed that she was bound to Charles- On, tier captain is a residantO. A I r u ttelli_en, and Itaii hie faintly there, and the engineers are also front that city. She bed on board a well. known Charleston pilot, named Lockword, engaged at high wages to take her in and out, and others of her officere and passengers are feP.l49llfil of the tame place, The coal found cat baud or her was about suinclent for the voyage from Nassau. to Charleston, but nut to St. Johns, and the quantity of water was email. Beeidee the /sabd, the Santiago de Cuba seised, on Aprii '2O, oil the coact of Georgia, clearing front Charlet toe, S C., WhAil liPst discovered, the schooner Mereeg, with British flag, and register dated Nassau, April 16. The * Elizabeth, of Charleston," was visible on her stern. Under the new name, the papers are incorrect. She cleared from Nevelt for Baltimore. April 2t. with a cargo Of belt, coffee, soap, manufactured 14 A r elY Val drags, leather, rope, cotton goods, stationery, corn-brooms, Teas eardinee, salt, cad saltpetre. Also, on April 30, within 15 miles of Charleston, gibe seised the schooner Maria, with the Britieh flag, and her register dated Nassau, April loth. She left Matanzas on tbs 20th of March, with Opts, hound to room, vin Ragged Island, for salt' bat c quid show no register prior to that obtained at Nailuitt. Her former name was the Sallie Rose. of Charleston, which was also visible under the now paint on her stern. ller cargo consisted of salt, cigars, and cotton cards. Some of the crew of each of these schooners have !RR iklat a large sumof moneyK was OlLiPt3i 4 themlt they succeeded in running the blockade. Maior Guneral THE HAMMONIA AT NEW YORK. NEW TORE, May 0, 10 o'clock A. 111..... The ateanuthis //ammonia arrived at midnight from Southampton, from which port she sailed on the 2M alt. The eteamehip China arrived at Liverpool on the 21st, and the Etna and Jura on the 23d, Tbo eteenier which sailed with military ptores for Canada, is miesing. The British Admiralty had ordered all wooden cor vettes, Weeps, and gunboats in the navy to be ircmclad and converted into powerful floating Armstrong bene fits, the mirk to he commenced hnnuediataly_ '1 he Royal Sovereign was in the course of doneePilett into a cupola vessel, on Captain Colon' plan. She will have a beak placed below the water, actiug as a power ful rani. 9P1i69/114WPIT Wady DI 83,7iffi tim 4 ler er and recount.. /mine central nue fate itailload limes bed advanced. There was scarce!y any application for discount at the banks. The Crown Prince of Prussia will be present at Sher opening of the World'a lixhthulimn The London Prees on the Battle of Shiloh. The Loudon Times, in an editorial, pronounces the battle of Shiloh a drawn battle, and the first creditable encounter during the war. a But," it adds, "we should be veer liihch. immieken if we thought that the affair le calculated to bring the war to an end, or• to discourage the Southern people." The Daily News says that both aides fought with dee perste courage, and on both sides the generals seem to have displayed eoneiderable military skill. The Shipping gazelle: •t Nothlbg Me the PrOtdAttl of losses, to the numbers, has occurred since Borodino." [This is an estimate from the numbers originally re potted.] - • • - - ,The Marine llJointer was entered to hasten the con struction of iron•plated batteriee in the dock-yards. The floating batteries, Pegio, Saigon, Poicsfro, and Peschiera, 14 guns each, were to he launched in May. Idireioo the alleged forger, wee at liberty and reinstated to hie former minion, the Court of Appeal haring re verged the original judgment. Thirty-eix bishops had notified the atinleter of Pablig Worehip of their intention to repair to &ate, in corn• lillanee with the Fore , . tottnumne. Ou the Paris Bourse, reales were quoted at W. OW. Twelve hundred royal troops enterer) Nan,lin on the 2003, and order bad been established. PORTUGAL. The United States frigate Si. Lewis was at Liaison, BAVARIA, The betrothal of the Grand Duke Ferdinand to•the As tir of Francis II bat) been 91111011TICIA. Bishop Fano has been arrested by order of the Fsing'N. procureur. The brigand chief Centrillos had been ar rested, and one hundred thousand cartoushe boxes and four hundred brigands' uniforms seized. Garibaldi it antirslY engaged in forming rifle Mahn ?he clergy at Locco bad sent an address. bearing 700 signatures, to the Popo, praying him to. renounce hia temporal power, and thereby blots Italy. The Prince of. Capua was dead. IMO French and Englict eanadrons halt been ordered to tecort the Ilia% of Italy from Genoa to Naples.. Right thousand Montenegrins. and three thousand in. BDents attacked the Turks near 14ikeich. The insur gruie were repulsed eight limos , The Montenegrins retreated, leaving 609 , dead en the field and carrying away many killed and weunded. Three hundred and Arty-three Turks were killed, be. aides many wounded. The Montenegrins continue to assemble in. Deng& Omar Puha had ordered Dervish Pasha to. fan beet on Krestac in order to attack the Turkish forces. It wee rumored that the rebele intend to. attack Poo , . low•Foo. CiPmmenktl Insellicente. Llvguru°L, April 22.--Coiton—The sale or 20,006Mtlas is reported, incite:Meg 10,000 to speculators and exporters. The market is firm, with an upward tendency, hot the prices are nuchalLsed• ESTATE OF TIDE.—The Manchester markets are ki. an salcanciog Dial.AUSTUFVS,—ltesere. Itioheedson, Spence, la Co., and Wakefield, Nash, & 00., report Flour unchanged and steady. Wheat firm and unchanged, but (Inlet; red Western, les 3d ; red Southern, lit 3dtalls dd ; white Western.. whits Mullion, Pisa aria PM. Clan and unchanged; mired, MIA. PR0V1519.3.5.-13eet heavy; Pork dull; Bacon qtdet. but steady; Lard steady at 41141448 Tallow quiet. Put , Drcu.—ltoein quiet j conunon'l3s ,• Spirits of Tur nehttne steady at 6808911 Mar dull; Oafillede. BOW Bice inactive • Ashes quiet and steady. COTTON -../inotlier report says Cotton is go higher, and firm. LoN„pON.—The Corn market is quiet and unchanged. A CO:SCEST or veva and inetrnmental cumin will be given this evening, at tho Spring Garden Institute, cor ner of Growl and Spring Garden streets, by Mega% Porter and Bowman, who will be assisted by several ta lented McGill. and Mews. Parvin, Wood, and Miller. The re sidents of the northwest have an evening's entertainment of more than ordinary atiraotion offered them. DR. CHAPIN'S Im.riEss.—Rev. Dr. E. H. Cha pin's illness has assumed such a serious phase that be will probably cease preaching, and, by the ad vioe of his physician, so to Europe, In whigh gmoi it is his intsistisu t 0 remain okasmi pu, LATER FROM EviwrE, PROICE GREECE lIIk tKGOVANIA