C|r |J its s, TUESDAY, MAY 36, 1883. MarWe can take no notice of anonymous commu nications. We do not return rqjeoted manuscripts. -'Voluntary correspondence solicited' from all parts of the world, and especially from our different military and naval departments. When used, it will be paid for. ' THE - NEWS. Fubther news from the Army of the Mississippi confirms and enlarges previous accounts of the rapid and general success of the operations of Grant upon Vicksburg. Admiral Porter, in an official despatch to the Secretary of the Navy, dated Haines’Bluff, the 29th, relates the oapture of that remarkable: po sition by the joint efforts of the navy , and army. Hainea'. Bluff, with, fourteen forts, comprising an extraordinary network of defences', Same into our possession, along with a numerous armament of the heaviest guns,' and large quantities of camp equipage and ammunition. Upon this tri umph, following “ a series of the most brilliant suc cesses that ever., attended an army,’,’the capture of Vicksburg and the main rebel force, so often beaten and at last oireumyaUated by the army of Grant, was imminent and certain. Details of the desperate battle at Champion Hill, (Incorrectly called the bat tle of Baker’s Greek,) which was fought on the ICtli, have also reaphed us, and add another page of glory to J,he record of Western valor. In this battle Pem berton’s whole army was engaged. General Lloyd Tilghmanwas and the rebels lost 4,000 men. Pemberton having been driven to the Black river a number of miles from the scene of the opening encounter, on the nth occurred the battle of Black river, near the bridge of that name, and again the. total defeat of Pemberton, who retreated across the river, burned the bridge, and returned to -Vickßburg. Grant immediately constructed four new bridges, and crossed in pursuit. On the iSth he arrived in the vicinity of Vicksburg, opened a, line. of supply by jyay of. Chickasaw Bayou, and, on the 20th, captured Haines! Bluff. From this point of progress, letters from Grant, Sherman, and Steele, inform Admiral Porter of their vast success; and a little later, we have reason to believe from the character of our news, the greater part of the Vicksburg fortifications was carried. Johnston had been out off from all junction with Pemberton’s forces, and the army of .Vicksburg was surrounded. The Army of the Mississippi, under the daring, and skilful command’of'Grant, has accomplished, the moßt instant, versatile, and successful campaign Of the war, graduating with oelerity from victory to greater victory, culminating in triumph greater than all. In twenty-one days the army of General Grant, which, at the outset of the campaign, num bered about sixty thouasnd men, has marched over a hundred and twenty-five miles, fought seven or eight of 'the severest battles of the war, put hors ile combat nearly the entire Confederate forces of Mis sissippi, estimated at upwards of fifty thousand, .and probably captured the strongest fortified posi tion of the rebellion. In this extraordinary cam paign Grant has outgeneralled two commanders heretofore regarded as among the ablest of the South. Ik the Confederate service there are five full gene rals, ranking as we print their names, thus: Cooper, Dec, Johnston, Beauregard, and Bragg. They have seven lieutenant generals, ranking as follovys: Longetreet, Polk. E. K. Smith, Hardee, Jackson (now dead), Pemberton, and Holmes. And there ’ are over two hundred major generals and brigadiers. This is stated from a rebel newspaper, but it seems questionable that Cooper (commonly regarded as Daviß’ adjutant general) is a fall general over Lee, unless he occupies in the rebel army the office which Halleok.holds in our own. The rebels have loßt the following generals during the war : Lieu tenat General Albert Sydney Johnston, Lieutenant General “ Stonewall" Jackson, Major General Earl Van Dorn, Brigadier Generals McCulloch, Zolli cofler, Bee, Barlow, Gregg, Paxton, Hope, Branch, TilghmaD, and half a . score of less distinguished. The rebel loss In principal ofllcers is far greater than our own. s Ail the Indians are how removed from Minne sota, except in the Cedar Valley. According to the St. Paul Press not an Indian lodge is to be found be tween the lonative and the Otter Tail river, except’ a few stragglers, who will very soon be compelled to foliow in the footsteps of their illustrious predeces - both. The entire agricultural area of the State is now practically clear of Indians,, and in., three or four weeks from this time will be as secure to settlement as the neighborhood of St. Paul. For this happy deliveranceby the military power, a heavysaorifice in the late massacres has been made to civil, au thority. A-FReedman’s Aid Socibtt, of which Sir Thos. Fowell Buxton is President, has been organized in London;in view of emancipationin America. Oh motion of Mr. Thomas Hughes, author of “Tom Brown’s School Days at Hugby,” the. society re solved to record its detestation of the. particular atrocities of American slavery, its internal slave trade exposing 23,600-men, women, and children, every year to the experience of new cruelties of the violation of sacred family relations; its denial to nearly four millions of people, living in the midst of a professedly Christian land, of the common ele ments of knowledge, and of the reading of,the Word of God, which hringeth salvation; and its Impious pretence of justifying'all this by the sanction of the Divine will. Genekai. TtnumiN, long persecuted under the military administration of Buell, has been recently appointed to the command of the lst-Division of Cavalry in the Department of the Cumberland. The division is made 1 up of twelve regiments of horse and parts of two batteries of flying artillery. In the division are the 4th Regulars, 4th Michigan, 4th Ohio, Hi Pennsylvania, and others equally distin guished for their share in the great battle of Stone river. General Turchin is a Russian, and a skilful and energetic officer, highly valued by General Mitchell, in whose command on the Alabama line he served, and especially obnoxious to the rebels whom he showed no favor. Tbe enrolment began yesterday in New York, tin introduod a reso lution to pay the exemption fee.of every citizen drafted who is not able to pay the money himMlt It would cost the city $3,000,000 to carry out this proposition. The number of our vessels taken by Southern pri vate* s 1b 106, and the property lost was of the value of $10,000,000. The loss iB still greater in regard to the insecurity of our flag, whereby business is thrown into the bands of foreign ship-owners. Texan crops promise to be immense, which, ren ders it all the more necessary for us to get command of the Mississippi, so that they may not be used to feed rebellion. Six Monitors are building at St. Louis, large and Btrong, and promising to be most useful in giving us command of the Mississippi and its tributaries. Five-twehties to the amount of $100,000,000 have been converted into stock. Tile Victory and its Results. The grandest victory of the war has been achieved. If ever we had cause to rejoice and give thanks, as a nation, for the triumph of our flag, we haye it now in the stirring sentences that have announced to the world the fall of Vicksburg. There might be vic tories, perhaps, that would thrill the popular heart with 1 a sense of greater retributive character, and be accepted as worthier con cessions to the pride of our arms. It might he conceived that there would be more of poetic justice in the capture of Charleston or Richmond, where rebellion sprang into existence, and where it had assumed the head and front of its offending. -The fall of either of these points would have been appropriately heralded by the ringing' of bells, the waving of flags, the blazing of bonfires, and the other ele ments that go to make a popular demonstra tion of rejoicing. Yet, in moral and mate rial results, affecting lisas a people, imme diately or remotely, at home or abroad, the taking of Vicksburg is of infinitely greater importance than a success at any other point within the whole area of the seceded States could be. The keystone of the rebellion has fallen, and the arch upon which the super structure rests must soon crumble into frag ments, before the ponderous and well directed blows of our mighty armies. And from these, shattered fragments, the possi bility of reconstructing our modern Ephe sus, that sacred temple which only madness could ever have attempted to destroy, is no longer questionable. The smoke of the terrible struggle begins to roll away, and by the clear light of the sun we can see that the limits of the battle-field have been greatly contracted. The foe is being pressed to : his mountain fastnesses ; his haughty'banner .trails amid the dust, and the blood is trick- ling from his clcalh-'syound. He may make a few more convulsive struggles, but the ap proaching dissolution can neither be averted nor postponed. Who shall estimate the value of a triumph such as this, over a foe'haughty, insolent, and deemed to be impregnable ? The finan cier, who pledges all his worldly wealth upon the existence of the Government; the agri culturist of- the West, who seeks a market for his grain; the soldier, who needs the stimulus of some great victory to nerve his arm and inspirit his heart; the merchant, whose business transactions are never too extensive; the patriot, who hails with de light every new assurance that the Govern ment of his fathers shall be the Government of his children —in short, every lover of his country, every lover of prosperity,- every lover of peace—must be jubilant over the glorious news we print to-day. To the skill of General Quant, the bravery of his hgroic command, and the favor of Almighty God, we owe this splendid victory—this culmination of a series of splendid victories. The mea sure of our gratitude should be as boundless as the results of our success are incalculable. They cannot be expressed in dollars and cents; they cannot be figured up by states men ; or statisticians ; they cannot be pro pounded in military formula by skilful stra tegists. The calculating machines, that Paschal and Babbage contrived would be found at fault in such a task. How much has been saved to the natio.nl treasury by this victory, who shall say? How much has been saved to the wearied patience of the people, who can imagine ? How many y ears of war have been averted ; how many foreign complications avoided; how much precious blood saved—these things wo can not know- But we know that this victory, striven for month after month, in heat and cold, in rains and snows, is the seed and not the harvest. We know that it must germinate a renewed confidence in the suc cess of the cause in every loyal inn, som. We know that it must unite' sentiments now divergent, and awaken sympathy where before there - was only coldness. We know that it is the best endorsement that could he offered of the Government credit, financial and politi cal; and that the idol gold must no .v come down from its pedestal. We know that our armies, hitherto merely carrying on a border war, can now be concentrated, and traverse the whole area of the rebellion, carrying victory and freedom inscribed upon their banners. And, finally, we know that re cruiting will once more become active, and, perhaps, sufficiently so to render a draft un necessary ; and that every branch of busi ness will receive quch an impetus that the burden of taxation will scarcely he felt. These are the inevitable results of victory, and such a grand as that which has just been achieved has never before figured in bur history. Nor can we tell what we hare gained by looking at the. map. It is more than a mighty river—the largest on the face of the earth; it is more than thousands of miles of territory; it is more than a strategic position, and a great army-with its cannon;— these are great advantages, hut they are simply material. They are gained to-day, and might be lost to-morrow. We have shown to the world that we are still a na tion, and have the power to command its respect if we cannot have its .friendship. We exemplify the justice of our cause in its success to-day, as we exemplified; it in the gloomy days of the past, by our confi ding. and patient endurance of misfortune. We have dissipated the so fondly nursed by our enemies abroad, that supe riority of a?ms lay with the rebels, and that they were impregnable. Our task is almost finished, and the day of peace must dawn now very soon. . The New Yoke World, a journal pub lished in a loyal State, and pretending to be a friend of the Government, the Constitu tion, and the laws,- and to have some respect for the American name, thus deliberately and wantonly slanders the Republic. We can imagine the joy with which a paragraph like the following would be read by every traitor and tyrant in the world: “A general Btrikes down the very pillars which protect the hbmes of us all; and shouts, as from some Circe-smitten and unreasoning horde, hail the fatal blow. Men are seized without warrant of law, and sent into exile, but no gleam of awakening rea , son lights these stolid and besotted eyes. A Federal .officer' at one swoop orders the whole adult male population of a flourishing town to cease the pursuit of their daily avocations, and converts a city prac tically Into a prison for its whole population: but still the glasses clink, and the bacchanalian chorus rings out loud above the sorrow and the shame, tho wantonness and the wrong. All the signs: which portend a supreme social catastrophe gather In the air—the passions of political oalumny and intole rance creep Into every household, pollute the ordi nary Intercourse, and poison the common relations of men. The machinery which has made the worst Governments of history execrable in the eyes of mankind is openly set up in our streets; Spies go about the land; the drum usurps the forum; the bayonet supplants the prcßH. Men are taken from their beds under cover of the night, to vanish alike beyond the control of law' and the consolations love, the ostracism of ancient Greece is publicly re-, commended, the deportations of modern Russia_ are openly practised. And all these things are done with jubilation and applause, without shame as without remorse, without respect ..for, the insult ed past, without consideration for the imperilled future.” . ! An evening tapeh, called The Dial, and published by Mr. S..E. Cohen, made its ap pearance yesterday. It is a medium-sized sheet, and will be sold at the price of two cents. The DM has tferetofore been a small financial sheet, or stock bulletin, and the success it thus received has led Mr. Co item to enter the regular field of journalism. The first number iB bright, readable, edited with care and taste, loyal to the Administration, and-filled with news. There is a field foT a good evening paper, and. we wish Mr. Cohen all possible success. Miss Anna E. Dickinson, tho brave and gifted, champion of freedom, will make an address at the Academy of Music this evening. She speaks in behalf of a noble charity ; and for this Teason, as well as for the good and true words shejwill utter, we ask a great audience. We may. say, that on the occasion of Miss Dickinson’s delivery of this address in New York, recently, it was received with'great enthusiasm.- Tlie French Beaten in Mexico. If the intelligence from Mexico, via Ha vana, be true, the, French troops have sus tained a very serious defeat beforo Puebla. General Forky, a gallant and experienced commander, has been beaten by an enemy who, it was expected, would have been con quered with the “ Veni, vidi, vici” rapidity of Caesar’s facile campaign; in Pontus against the son of mighty Mithridates. At first, only 8,000 men were detailed for the new conquest of Mexico, but, ere long, it was found necessary to send.such large re inforcements that General Forey’s com 'mand lately numbered 30,000 men. After six weeks’ investment of the city of Puebla, the French have been compelled to retire upon Orizaba with such great loss that it was believed*tkcy could do nothing further without getting more troops from France. From all the provinces of Mexico native troops were coming in to swell the number of the national army, commanded by Or tega and Comonfort, and it is probable that the invaders will have to act on the de fensive against this patriotic forced Indeed, dispirited and reduced as they-are, the French are likely to be driven back to their ■ ships. In a word, this Mexican expedition promises to bo as great a fiasco as the first Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt was at the close of the last century. After eighteen months' warfare in Mexico, the French army is reduced and demoralized. v The effect of, the disasters in Mexico may be very prejudicial to the Emperor Napo leon. Frenchmen are easily elevated by success, and grievously depressed by failure. Napoleon has succeeded in the Crimea, in China, in Italy, in Cochin-China, but liis defeat in Mexico might cause all these tri umphs to be forgotten. -To prevent French men from thinking, from grumbling, per haps from conspiring—for there are Bourbon and Orleanist as well as Red Republican enemies of the Empire in Paris— Napoleon must do something that will atone for the defeat in Mexico. He committed the error of undervaluing his opponents there. He calculated on easily routing an armed rab ble, ('probably misinformed on that point by his ill-adviseT, General' Almonte, ) and was repelled by brave men, whom danger and patriotism have disciplined into formidable soldiers. He must either send vast rein forcements to Mexico or withdraw the rem nant of his army from that fatal shore., To advance will be costly and hazardous, to re tire will he disgraceful and alarming. This invasion of Mexico, it: should be re membered, was hot an original Napoleonic idea. As early as the summer of 1861 it was secretly agitated first in England, under the especial auspices of Lord John Rus sell. ' A few creditors of Mexico met, in Liverpool and London, and entreated Lord Russell to take some strong measure to recover from Mexico what was there due to them. Lord Russell answered plausibly, and suggested to Franc.e a joint action in the-case.- Spain was subsequently taken in, and the expedition which ' reached Yera Cruz in November, 1861, consisted of French, English, and Spanish troops and ships. Yery soon, England and Spain hacked out, leaving France to carry on the war single-handed. Of course, Napoleon cannot feel particularly indebted'to Lord Russell for. having put him into this strait. It will not fake much time nor any very great cause, we suspect, to destroy • the •political ties which have united France and England since 1848. ‘ If Napoleon takes any step to get rid of the disgrace of defeat-in Mexico, it will probably he a war with Russia, without, if not with, the co-operation of England. He care's as little for Polish nationality as his uncle did ("who merely turned over the Duchy of Warsaw to the King of Saxony), Hut Poland would make a popular casus belli. He has lately appeared disposed, to give employment to his vast anny, and he has built up one of the finest war-navies in the world. Russia is assailable by sea as well as by land. England, in the'event of war, would -try and remain neutral, but would soon drift into war, and the conscious ness of this probability may be the secret of the mitigated tone of Palmerston’s Government and newspapers toward the United States. Wax in Europe is much more likely now than it was in the summer of 1853, and Prance has an old grudge against Russia for the disasters sustained by the first Napoleon and his mighty army in the campaign of 1812. It seems scarcely possible, with the Polish revolt assuming )vast proportions, for Russia to avoid losing Poland or fighting France. WASHINGTON. Special Despatches to. K Tile Press.” Washington, May 26, 1863, From Richmond. The Richmond Enquire)' of the 23d has been re ceived, but contains nothing of importance beyond the despatches in relation to Vicksburg quoted else where.-- The> Enquirer defends Pemberton’s course on the Big Black ; thinks he is entitled to a candid and in telligent criticism, and not to be blamed rashly. Twenty-aeven Yankee prisoners, captured at Jack son, MißßiEßippi, arrived at Libby prison on the 22d, but the Enquirer does not seem to think it a show big enough to brag about. Settlement of a Fugitive-Slave Case. The fugitive slave Hall, whose case has excited 8D much interest'in this community, and about whose custody a conflict existed between the civil and military authorities, waß to-day enlisted in the army, thus escaping further pursuit by his owner. i- " • Our Foreign Relations. There is reason to believe that the present condi tion of our affairs abroad is regarded as very satis factory by the State Department. Payment of the Army. The Secretary of the Treasury signed warrants to-day placing funds in the hands of the paymasters for the pay of the entire army of the United States to the first of this month. No further payments will be due until July next. Pardon by the President. The President to-day granted an unconditional pardon to Wm. Hayden, who was convicted, at the October term of the Cireuit Court of the United States for the district of Massachusetts, of aiding.in destroying letters stolen from the mails. Blockade Runner Captured on the Potomac. - The schooner Emily, which iB supposed by her log sJate to be from New York;, was captured by the Po tomac flotilla, above TJrbana, on the Rappahannock, on Friday, and arrived here to-day. The officers and crew, on her oliaraoter being discovered, set fire to the vessel and escaped. The flames were soon ex- She is supposed to be a regular block ade runner, and her cargo is worth $50,000. 1 Fortress Monroe. FoitTßP.ss Monroe, May 23.—The flag-of-truce steamerß Maple Leaf and John Bioe have arrived; the latter brought down 400 paroled prisoners. Dr. Hand, medical director at Suffolk, the crew of the Ihdianola, and a reporter from the New York worlds : are among the number. . Col. Ludlow, commissioner for the exchange of prisoners, returned this morning from Oity Point, in the steamer O.W. Thomas. [From the Richmond JDispatcli, May 23 1 v “ Two Yankee officers, who were captured near Jackson, Miss., while en route for Atlanta, Ga., succeeded in bribing two of the guard and made their escape, their, custodians leaving with them. V Captain Arnold, of the rebel army, haß been con demned by court martial at Knoxville, and sen tenced to be shot. He is a young man and a brave soldier. Much sympathy fs felt for him, and the entire Congressional delegation from Tennessee have interested.themselves to procure his pardon. There are three men in Columbia, S, C., under sentence of death for having in their possession counterfeit Confederate notes. Fortress Monroe, May 24—5 *l\ M.—The steamer Swan into yesterday afternoon by a rebel battery opposite tbe.mouth of the Matta pony river, three miles bejow West Point; only one rhot took effect. The gunboat S. G. Morse was sent up and drove the battery from its position. Discussion between Wendell Phillips and Senator Wilson. Boston, May 25.—At a meeting of the Emancipa tion League, held at the Tremont Temple thiß after noon, a discussion took place between Senator Wil son and/Wendell Phillips, on the action of the Se nate and the Administration relative to officers who had manifested unfriendly feelings toward negro enlistments and the emancipation policy. Phillips charged that the Senate had never put its ban on any such officers; which, assertion Mr. Wilson de nied, saying that it had often done so. • Mr. Phillips said that if suoh was the case, the public had no knowledge of it, and therefore it was of no public value. The only case that had come to the public knowledge waß that of Gen. Stevenson, and he was promoted, instead of being rejected. ; Mr. Wilson said Gen. Stevenson was confirmed at the express and urgent recommendation of Gen. Hunter, in whom the anti-slavery men had great confidence. The discussion was quite lengthy and spirited, but conducted in a friendly manner. 1 Larue Positive Sale op Boots and Shoes, Gaiter Uppers, Straw Goods, &c.—The early attention of purchasers is requested to the large as sortment of boots and shoes, stock of shoes, men’s and boys’ Leghorn and Panama hats, Shaker hoods, soft hats, etc., embracing about 900 packages of first class city and Eastern manufacture, to be perempto rily sold by catalogue, on four months’ credit, com mencing this morning,, at 10 o’olock, by John B. Myers A Co/, auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 234 Market street. ■. \ ■.••■■■■ THE PRESS -PHTr.AnET.PmA. TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1863. THE HEWS FROM VICKSBURG. Official Despatch from Admiral Porter. laplnre of Haines' Bluff and Fourteen Forts, with Guns and Gamp Equipage. A SEEMS OF BRILLIANT VICTORIES. Sherman’s Attack on Haines’ Bluff, THE BATTLE OF CHAMPION HILL Official Despatch from Admiral Porter. Washington, May 25.—The following has been, received at the Navy Department: Cairo, 111., May 25.— T0 the Hon. Giokon Wkllrs, Secretary of the Navy: The following despatch has just been received: , . ; A. M. PENNOOK, . Fleet Captain Mississippi Squadron. - ' Flag Ship Black Hawk, , Haines’Bluff Yazoo River/May 20. ' To the Hon. Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy: On the morning of the 15th. I came over to'the Yazoo river, to be ready to co-operate with General Grant, leaving two of the iron-dads at Red river,- ' one at Grand Gulf, one at Carthage, three at War rentori, and two in the Yazoo, which left me a small force. Still I disposed of them to the best ad vantage. On the 18th, at meridian, firing was heard in the rear of Vicksburg, 'which: assured me that General Grant was approaching the city. The cannonading was kept up furiously for some time, when, by the aid of glasses, t discerned a com pany of our artillery advancing, taking a position, and driving the rebels before them. I immediately saw that Gen. Sherman’B division had come into the left of Snyder’s bluff,’and that the rebels at that place had been cut off from joining the forces in the city. I despatched the De Kalb, Lieut. Commander Walker ; the Choctaw, Lieut. Cooi’r Ramsay \ and the Reno, Petrel, and Forest Rose, all under com mand of Lieut. Com’r Breeze, up the Yazoo, to open communication in that way with Geus. Grant and Sherman. This I succeeded in doing, and in three hours re ceived letters from General Grant, Sherman, and Steele, informing me of their vast success, and ask ing me to send up provisions, which w;as at onoe done; l'n the meantime Lieutenant Commander Walker, in the De Kalb, pushed on to Haines’ Bluff,-which the enemy, commenced evacuating the day before, and a party remained behind in hopes of taking away or destroying the large amountof ammunition on hand. . - When they saw the gunboats they ran, and left everything in good order—gunß, forts, tents, and equipage of all kinds, which fell into our hands. As toon as the capture of Haines’ Bluff ahd fourteen forts was reported to’mej'Tffibved the gunboats from below VicksbuTg.to Gre at the hill batteries, •which was kept up for two or three hours. .At midnight they moved.up to the town and opened upon it for about an hour, and continued at intervals during the night, to annoy the garrison. ' On the 19th I placed six mortars in position, with orders to fire night and day aa rapidly as they could. The works at Haines’ Bluff are very formi dable. There are’ fourteen of the heaviest kind of mounted eight , and .ten-inch and seven-'and-a-half inch rifled guns, with ammunition enough to last a long siege. _ , r • As the gun-carriages might again fall into the hands of the enemy, I had them burnt, blew up the magazine, and destroyed ; the works generally. I also burnt up the encampments, which were perma nently and remarkably well constructed, looking as if the rebels intended to stay for some time. These works and encampments covered many acres of ground, and the fortifications and the rifle pits proper of Haines’ Bluff extend about a mile and a quarter. " Such a network of defences I never saw. The rebels were a year constructing them, and all were rendered useless in ah hour. - As soon as I got through with the destruction of the masrazineß and other works, I started \Lieut. Com. Walker up the Yazoo river, with a sufficient force to destroy all the enemy’s property-in that direction, with orders to proceed as far as Yazoo City, where the rebels have a navy yard and store houses. In the meantime, Gen. Grant has closely invested Vicksburg, and has possession of the best commanding points. \ . In a very short time a - general assault will be made, when I hope to announce that Vicksburg has fallen, after a series of the moat brilliant successes that ever attended an army. There has never been, a case during the war where the rebels have been so successfully beaten at all points, aud the patience and endurance shown by our army and navy for bo many months are about to be rewarded. It is a mere question of a few hours, and then, withJthe exception of port Hudson, which will fol low Vicksburg, the Mississippi will be open its en tire length. ; D. D. PORTER, Acting Rear Admiral, commanding the Mississippi Squadron; Cincinnati, May 26. —T be Commercial*s special, dated Memphis, May 23d, says : . As soon as it was known that Jackson was taken, a movement was made on Haines’ and Chickasaw Bluffs, the Unionists being under the command of Gen. Sherman. The rebels were thoroughly en trenched, and determined to dispute the occupation oftheßluffß to the last. Gen. Sherman made the attack in the most brilliant manner. After a severe fight, with heavy loss, he occupied the field, captur ing 8,000 prisoners, 100 heavy guns, 1,000 animals, camp ammunition, and large quantities of. corn and stores. Theloss to the rebels in killed and wounded is awful. The prisoners were paroled and sent across the Yazoo river. [This does not agree with Com. Porter’ll despatch, whorepresents that the re bels evaluated Haines’Bluff.] < ,On Sunday Gen. Grant directed an attack to be made on the upper batteries at Vicksburg, and si multaneously the gunboats commenced bombarding the water batteries at that place. It is stated by gentlemen who stood on the De Soto, at a point immediately opposite Vicksburg, that on Tuesday Gen. Grant,took the rebel guns on the hill and turned them on the rebels, who were at the water batteries. Paroled prisoners state that Gen. Giant had possession of the entire line.of forti fications surrounding Vicksburg, and that rebel offi cers told them it was impossible, Biri'ce the capture of HatnesV Bluff, for them to escape. It is stated that General Johnston had started to Vickßburg with 19,000 men, but had been cut off and driven back. , r v . When the Empress arrived at MilUken’s bend, on Wednesday, the firing at Vicksburg and up the Yazoo had entirely ceased, which leaves no doubt of the occupation of ,the entire Vicksburg fortifica tions, as well as all the surrounding points, by Ge neral Grant. General Frank P. Blair had sent down to the point for quartermaster’s stores, stating that his division rested on Chickasaw bluffb. The 12th Missouri came out of the engagement with 0n1y.84 fighting men. Battle of Champion Hill* The decisive battle seems to have' been fought at Champion Hill, near Baker’s creek, on the 16th. The following is the .Commercial's special aocount: Champion Hill Battle-Field, 26 miles east of Vickßburg, May 16, 9.30 P. M.—The Union army, under General Grant, has won another glorious victory t A furious battle, lasting nearly five hours, resulted in the defeat of the enemy at all-points, with a loss of from 2,000 to 3,oookilled and wounded. Three complete batteries of heavy rifled cannon, be sides several single pieces, and from 1,500 to 2,000 prisoners, fell into our hands, and an immense quantity'of small arms and camp equipage. Our success is signal and complete. Nothing mars the intense satisfaction of officers and men but the heavy sacrifice of life by which.it was achieved. Early this morning, General McClernand’s corps was put in motion, General Hovey’s division on the main-road from Jackson to Vioksburg, but the ba lance of the corps was a few miles southward, on a parallel road. General McPherson’s corps followed Hovey’s division closely. At nine o’clock General Hovey discovered the enemy in front, on Champion Hill, to the left; of the road, near creek, apparently in force. Skirmishers were thrown, out, and the division advanced cautiously and Blowly, to give General McPherson’s advance di vision, under General Logan, time to come within supporting distance. General Hovjey’a division advanced across-the open field to the foot of Cham-’ pion Hill, incline of battle, at eleven o’clock, and commenced the battle. The hill itself is covered with timber, and is but the abrupt terminus of the high ridge running north and south, flanked on both sides with deep ravines and gullies; in many places covered with ah almost impenetrable growth of scrubby white-oak bushes. The rebels appeared to be deficient in artillery throughout the battle, but, opened with a rather heavy fife from a four-gun bat-, tery of rifled 6-poundcrs, planted about four hundred yaids back from the brow of the hill. The woods! on both sides.of the road leading , up the hill And winding back on the ridge a mile or more, was filled with sharpshooters, supported , by infantry; Here the battle began in earnest, as our men en tered the edge of the timber, and it raged terribly from ll o’clock till between-three and four. General . A. P. Hovey’s division carried the heights in gallant style, and, making a dash on the first battery, cap tured it. The rebels lay thick in the vicinity of the guns, and their horses were more than; half killed. Gun carriages and caissons, broken and overturned, v with knapsacks, blankets, small arms/and other debris, attested the struggle for the ground. The colors of the 3lst Alabama Regiment were captured there. At this juncture Mitchell’s Ohio battery was; opened eighty yards from the brow of tae hill. The rebels made a dash for it, and nothing but the fteet ness of the horses prevented its capture. Capt. MitobeUbvas wounded, and is believed to havetfaUeninto rae enemy’s hands. At thiß juncture the rebels appeared to receive reinforcements of freßh troops on the hill.; Gen. : Hovey was slowly driven back, but a brigade from Gen. Quimby was ordered to his support, and the ground was speedily reoccupied by us, and the rebels were finally re pulsed. At the commencement of the engagement, Gene - ral Logan’s division marched; past the broWsOPthe bill, and forming in line of battle on the right of Hovey, advanced in gallant style, sweeping every thing before them to the edge of the woods in front of General Logan. The battle was of desperate character imaginable. The rattle of musketry was incessant from the first moment of the engagement, and a continuous and deadly roar, in which the reports were so blended that a single discharge w aß rarely heard. Not a man flinched, or a single line wavered. Two batteries were captured by this division, and enough hard fighting done to immortalize it. Besides this, it captured a large portion of the piisoners, small arms, &c. " Between 3 and 4 o’clock, General Osterhaus’ and McArtliui’s divisions, which were miles away when the battle began, came up and finished the work. The enemy were in full retreat soon afterj and these divisions pursued them Till 9 o’clock, and are now encamped at Edwards’ Station, five miles beyond the battle ground. We had no cavalry, so that pur suit was out ol the question. From prisoners we; learn that Pemberton commanded in person. Great dissatisfaction existed. The rebels charged Pemberton with selling out to . Grant, and planning military operations during the past four weekß to insure defeat. The same-paper has a despatch dated headquar ters of Gen. Logan, sixteen miles from Jackson, May 16, which says: Immediately on entering Jack son, on Thursday, Gen. Grant despatched orderlies to McOlerhand’s corps, which were eomingupin the rear, to countermarch and get on the main road to Vicksburg and Clinton. Gen. McPherson’s corps i r >V as put in motion, and in the same direction with Gen. Logan’s in advance, and reached this point at » lour o’clock. • Intercepted despatches from ordered • the lebel force to fall back to the entrenchments at . Vicksburg, when hard pressed. This will no doubt ; be done. • ' v The battle at Jackson was short bu/spirited. Reports from Vicksburg. General Croker’a division had the advance. But two brigades were under fire. The 43d Illinois, 18th Wisconsin, 80th Ohio, Uth Missouri, 4th Maine, 24th Missouri, and sth an£ for ac count. [second DESPATCH.'] Port au Basque, May 23, via Sackyille, May 25. The steamship Hibernian passed this point on Saturday eV Milnfr Gibson, in tho House of Commons,; explained that the application of the New York Associated , Press to erect a fog trumpet at Cape Racewas rejected because it was not thought fit to allow a foreign, company to do it. The matter was under consideration, out the gun was thought to he the best signal. , _• , The bullion in the Bank of England has decreased ,£4?8,000 during the week. The stearoeTs Jnra and Edinburg arrived out on the 13th, and the Hammonia on the 14th. „ •It lie reported that the merchants and shipowners ;ol London intend to memorialize the Government tb put an end at once to the pretentions of the Federal Govern ment, ip seizing neutral ships bound to neutral ports. The London Times says the merchants and shipown ers appear toregard the order of the Federal Govern ment to discharge the cargo of the Peterhaff.as merely a pretence to gain time and dela-*. " - • The London Shipping Gazette says it can see nothing in the evidence of the witnesses' in the Peterhoff case to have justifieddhe seizure of that vessel, unless it was the .alleged throwing overboard of a box dr parcel of papers. The London journals generally regard the latest Ame rican advices as unfavorable for the prospect of an early peace. The advices had the effect of sending the Con federate loan to a slight, discount. ■>:v ; = ■ It is rumored that the. Confederates have sent another commission to'Europe, to press the subject of mediation on the Governments of England and France. - • r The London Observer looks on the mission of Mr. Evarts to London as an earnest of the good feeling which animates the Washington Government, The Times' city article argues that' a protraction of.the war. or even the subjugation of the South, will involve the Union finances in ruin. It says these facts are being recognized in Europe, and render the possibility of a Union loan beiog negotiated as entirely out of the question. . . „ . , ■ ■ _ ' The Polish question remains .unchanged. The Go-, yeniments of France and Rusaiawere negotiating upon a scheme for a European Congress, . Russia having ac cepted. in the project,for,such a conference. The Prussian Chamber of Deputies and the. ministers are at loggerheads.. The latte'r having had their freedom of speech limited by the President of the Chamber, re tired, and refused to attend any more sittings. A sanguinary battle is said to have taken place on the 12th inst at Ifalish. The Russians are said to have been victorious, but Buffered great loss. - ; The secret,Provisional Government of Poland has pro claimed severe penalties against the collection of taxes in PolandfoT the Russian Government. The insurgents have beendispersed at Glinka The in surrection is gainingground'in the province ofVolhynia* The Russians were repulsed at KoLo, but the Poles have been defeated near Korin. : . ENGLAND, The latest American- advices, caused Borne. fall in. the rebel'loan.- The price at one time descended to 4 per cent, discount, but subsequently closing at 3# to 3 per cent, discount, being a fall of 3 per cent, as com pared with the previous day. Mr. John White Aspinal, commissioner from North Carolina, had issued, at Manchester, an.invitation for . Mibscriptions to cotton bonds : of that State for the sum of £BCO,OCO sterling. The New York correspondent of the London Times , m his message to that journal per the Jura, announces that a telegram, which he wished to send taHalifax, per tho Amelia, on the 29th ultimo,was not allowed to be trans mitted from New York, the military censor stating that his orders from Washington were imperative to permit no information whatever, in relation to the army or General Hooker, to be given to the public. This despatch Id question merely gave the commencement of General Hooker’s army to cross the Rappahannock, aud the pro bability of an immediate battle. At a meeting of the Liverpool Town Council, the Mayor and Mr. Clint, Chairman of the Watch Committee, re ferred to the statements that the local authorities had actively exerted themselves in hunting down the al leged. Confederate agents in the matter of the Alexan- The Mayor said that it was true that one detective had: been employed, at the request of the Home Secretary, to make inquiries whetherthe foreign enlistment act was being respected in Liverpool. Beyond that he was not aware of any system of espionage by the polise. _ Mr. Clint denied ihe insinuations made against .him. He had not in any way assisted detectives. He believed that the reports respecting the employment of the police in tracking the supposed Cdnfederate»agents, arose from the circumstance that a private inquiry was being made by officers set to work by Federal officials in England. The London Morning Herald , in speculating upon General Hooker’s advance, in Virginia, expects that the conflict, if decided in favor of the South, will go far to end the war ■' : • , . .. ' . .Parliamentary proceedings had not been particularly >' Mr. Dawson gave notice in tho House of Commons that he would ask for the particulars of the loss of the Anglo- Saxon, and whetherthe Government had refused per: mission for tho use of Daboll’s fogtrumpet at Cape Race, and if so, what were the grounds of refusal. The Shim)ing Gazette has an editorial on the same subject, in a tone.of censure upon the Government for refusing-such a great advantage to shipping. • The Continental political news Swas generally unim- April 27.—Skirtings and : twist are dulL Exchange, 2t?£d. FRANCE. The Paris journals announce that M. Thiers, yielding - , to the importunities of electors, has resolved to become a candidate for representative for the second district of Paris, and also for two provincial districts. AUSTRIA. An Imperial decree Btates that, in order to throw into oblivion the events in. Transylvania betweenlB44 and 3863, the Emperor relieves those who have passed their term of imprisonment for high treasonfrom ulterior legal consequences. . PRUSSIA. • -The Prussian conflict between the chambers and the ministers is not yef adjusted. The House had resolved, to support the President against the Cabinet, and was preparing an address. to the king, praying him to set aside persons and policy, which threaten to bring ruin, upon them and the country, and declaring that the - House will use every constitutional means to avert war. INDIA. Bombay mails to April 28th had reached ..Suez. Shirt-, inga and twist firm and unchanged. Cotton dull; Ex-' change 2s %d. Freights quiet. _ ' Arrived from New York, May 1, New York, atMalaga; Expedient,.at Oporto ; 9th..Milhewana, at Antwerp; Kesigna, at Falmouth; 11th, Dido, (88)at Deal; 12tb, Charlotte' at do ; 11th, :Bell Wood, at Liverpool; 13th, Admiral, Columbia, Ernestine, Cynosure, aad Milita, (SS) at do. ; Arrived irom Boston,March 31st, Conqueror, at Singa pore. Arrived fro'm Philadelphia, May 13th, J,W\ Webster, at Deal ■*'*'* : Arrived from Baltimore, May 13th, John Clark, at Li verpool. - - v.Arrived from Callao. May 11th. Hamlin, at Deal;" - Arrived, from San Francisco, March 3ht, Leontine, a/ Singapore! . Sailed for New York May lßt, Lady Alice and Bolivia," from Lisbon; Saguenay, from:Gibraltar ;-9th, Pavidge nite, from Cardiff;' Ida Mathilda, from Limerick; 9th, Charlotte aßd Emma, and Adelaide, from Liverpool; lltb, Amazon, from Plvmouth. later toy the Asia at Halifax* Halifax, May 25—The royal mail steamship Asia, from Liverpool on the lflth-Tnstant, via Queenstown on the 37th,‘ arrived at this port at 8K o’clock this evening. The steamship Persia arrived at Liverpool on the 16th. ■ The steamship Great Eastern was passed in Queens town harbor on the afternoon of the 16th.; The Americanhews brought by the steamer Persia was eagerly canvassed, and generally regarded as indecisive. It had no effect at London, but in Liverpool it caused a depression in the cotton .market, and the strengthening of the breadstuff's market. : v - . : Letters "from - Jamaica, received in England by the W*sfc India mail, report that on the 7th of April a sea fight took'place at Pedro Bluff, between a large war steamer, which strikingly resembled the pirate Ala bama, and three other vessels. Heavy firing was heard at ,9 o’clock A. M , and the vessels were distinctly soon from the shore pouring broadsides into each other. The firing lasted until 2 o’clock P. M., but the result was not known The Parliamentary estimates for the postal subsidies will' be moved in the House of Commons on the 18th, and rinclude £58,500 for the Galway line,'commencing on the Ist of July. It is reported that Captain Bullock was to leave Liver pool on the 16th for the Clyde, to tako command of ano ther rebel pirate cruiser, which was ready for depar ture from that river. T b&Army and Navt/ Gazette says the Federal efforts recently made in London to raise a loan have not been successful. Commercial Intelligence. • " : [By the Asia.] Liverpool, May.l6. —Cotton—The sales to-dav amount to s,ooobales, themarket closing unsettled, with a slight decline in all qualities under the Persia’s adyices. The Manchester market); are quiet but firm. The Liverpool Breadstuff's market closed firmer.' Pro visions continue quiet' Bacon is still declining. MONEY MARKET.-Consols closed at @93%. The bank minimum was advanced to- day to 3H percent. ' - AMERICAN SECURITIES.—Erie Railroad 50@51; Illi nois Central 41@40 per cent. discount. „;BAVRK MARKETS,—SaIes for the week 12,500 bales. The market is active ana advancing. Stock in port 35,000 bale?. • ~ : ttay 16.—The Paris Bourse is heavy. Rentes wi i)DC. ... . . .. . Further from Europe—The Haiisa at New New York, May 25. —The steamer Hansa, from South impton May 13, arrived at this port this afternoon : Her papers contain the following additional foreign lews; - ' • - ■ The Arabia arrived on the 30th of May. The Gazelle, for Donegal, with Indian corn, has sank on the North. Bank. : The Paris Galignani says: “An application was made to, the president of the-Civil Tribunal by MM. Erlan- Q°- ». brokers, under the following circumstances: In the beginning of 186 a the undertaken the negotiation of a loan for the Confederates, but their operations.were suddenly paralyzed by, a notice of seizure oi its proceeds served on them at th e instance of MM Dn- PasseurS Co., shipowners;’.of Havre, who allegfdthat they had a claim on the' Confederate Government for a million of francs, as an indemnity for the wilful do* sjrucuon of their ship,, the Lemuel Dyer, with a cargo of 2,683 bales of cotton, when leaving New Orleans, in April, 1862. Prance not having recognized the Confede rate States, Dupasseur & Co. could not obtain a remedy by diplomatic means, and, therefore, adopted the ex pedients seizing the proceeds of the loan.' Erlanger now applied- for an order to annul the*seizure, on the ground that it interfered with their frightß as negotiators of the loan, and that the guestion involved points of in ternational law not within the competence of the tribu nal which granted the or.der for seizure.^ The application was opposed by, Dupasseur & Co., ■whose counsel argued that the Confederate government was the only party entitled to dem a nd annulment of the seizure, hut the president decided that,'as the seizure had impeded Er! anger & Co.’s operations, they had a right to demand its suppression, especially as the claim oi Dupasseur & Co. haa not been legally established; and'he,accordingly granted the order demanded by the applicants. 4 ■ v ' v The Times says: The Confederate loan receded to' par on the later news from America announcing further Fed eral successes on the Mississippi, but these accounts must he deceived with caution, siuce little is.known, with regard to the strategy of the Confederates, and it was certain that every effort would be made before the first'of May to create a favorable impression in . New York, not merely to facilitate the financial operations of Mr.. Chase; bnt lo mitigate the difficulties of the con scription question. SRANCE. . • The jifonffewr. says: The Empress being slightly in dhposed, the evening par«y which waß; to have taken place s t the Tuileries on the 11th, has been adjourned to ihelSth.” • - - , " . . ;.r. ' La Franca asserts that Russia accepts, in principle,, the project of a conference for the settlement of the affairs of Poland. • ' ' • , . The Pays announces that the Swedish fleet is expect ed to arrive at Cherbourg at the end of the present month. Official despatches received here, from Cochin China, March hi, state that public order was re-established in the colony. A great number of villages had given in their submission. Admiral Bonnard and a Spanish pleni potentiary were to leave for Hue on April 3, to exchange the ratifications of the treaty of peace of 1862 All the Spanish troops were to re-embark on the 2d of April, to return to Manilla. . . The insurrection pains considerable ground in the en virooa of Lubar, in Volhynia; The Russians have been attacked in the palatinate of Sandomir. Taezanowski, the Polish leader, who had been , surrounded by a hos tile force near Konin, on the Wartha, gave battle at Ko‘o, near Kalish. and repulsed the Russians. The Berlin Ueue Prtnissicht Zeituna sajß: Trust-, worthy opinions of the provincial authorities think it unnecessary at present to proclaim a state of siege iafthe Grand Duchy of Posen. This is believed the less requi site for the entire province, as discouragement has been caused by the recent domiciliary visits and arrests.” ; 'at&ieß, qu '* reliable au thority, .”,»bat.negotiations are being carried on between tlie Prench' aiid Russian Governments 'relative .to the . Fcheme ofa-. European Congress for' the settlement of the Polish question: . The same journal thicks that both cabinets are favora ble to the scheme. ■ A despatch from Lemberg, of May 11th. says: battle took place yesterday ini the district of ulanow, between the insnTgents and the Russian troops. . , : The insurgents crossed the Galician frontier the same evening, PRUSSIA. At the sitting of the Deputies, on May 12. the President rei»d a letter signed by tlieJMinisters. stating that so long as'the House supports the assumption made yesterday by the President for right to limit the Ministers' freedom of speech, the members of the Cabinet should no longer be presint at tbesitting of the Chamber., POLAND. The Oet. Deutsche Zeitunp, of May 12th, says: 1 Upon the Bth, eighteen companies-of Russian lufansry, with eight guns and live .squadrons of cavalry, attacicoi Nazanow*->i. near Konin. After a stubborn resistance the assailants eucoeeded in' ; Btorining the place, which had fceen strongly, barricaded,(and the Foies retreated towards Silisia. Arrival of the City of Baltimore. New Yokk, May 26.—The steamer Oity of Baltic more arrived at Quarantine at 2 o'clock tiiis morn ing. news has been anticipated. . SECOND EDITION. FOUR O’CLOCK A. M. THE VICTORY AT VICKSBURG- Further Details of the Battle of Champion Chicago, May 25. —The special despatches re ceived here contain the following information: From the rebel prisoners we learn that Gen. Pem berton commanded in person. Fitzhugh Lee (?) and Gregg, who commanded at the battle near Ray* mond, and others of note, had subordinate com’ xnands. > It is impossible yet to more than approximate our loss, which is supposed to be about 1,000 killed and wounded. It may prove less, but cannot be -much more. But few officers of distinction were injured. The 24th Indiana Regiment lost 100 men, and Lieutenant Colonel Swain, commanding, was killed. Not a general nor staff officer on our aide haß been hurt. This haß been the hottest and mOBt brilliant fight in the Southwest for several months. Gen. Grant is everywhere received with enthusiasm. His reck less exposure on the field begets unbounded admira tion among the privates. Well authenticated cases of rebel barbarity to our wounded men can be enumerated. Three different men, who were shot down in battle, were subse quently sabred by the rebels, when they temporarily retook the ground. The men lived to narrate the atrocity, but will scarcely recover. >, Bl ack River Bridge, Twelve miles east of Vicksburg, May 17. General McClernahd’s corps marched to thiß place early thiß motning. Osterhaus was in the advance, and found the rebels strongly entrenched on the east bank of the river batteries. He was soon in posi tion, playing on the enemy’s workß. At 10 o’clock, Lawler’s brigade, of Carr’s division, charged across the .open fields, two hundred yards in width, wading the bayou, and swarmed over into the entrenchmenrs. Seventeen cannon were taken inside of the earthworks, and from five hundred to two thousand prisoners captured. No description can do justice to the intrepedity of the regiments comprising this brigade. The rebel fire was appalling, but they rushed on to victory re gardless of death, and literally swept everything before 'them. General Mart Green’s Missouri (rebel) Brigade, over 1,200 strong, was cut off by the llth Wisconsin and surrendered. The principal part of Gen. Vaughan’s Brigade were also ccptured. The loss of the llth Wisconsin Regiment was slight. The 2lst and the 23d lowa led in the charge, and sustained the principal loss. The llth Wiscon sin also captured a Btand of colors^ A furious cannonading was continued all day from the rebel batteries on-the other side of the river. They fired the bridge, to prevent our crossing’ Pon toons have been sent’to Sherman’s corps, and he will probably cross a few miles above and attack them'in the flank. The force opposite is thought to number 25,000. Our army are in excellent fighting condition, and think themselves invincible. As General Grant rode to the front to-day he was everywhere greeted with tremendous and uproarious cheering. * This morning two 4-pound howitzers and two 6-pounder rifled gunß were surrendered, with their horseß, harness, and ammunition complete, without a shot being fired. miles back on the road these guns became separated from the main body of the rebel army, and yesterday, on the retreat, were cutoff by our ad vance. Our loss to-day was not heavy. The Tebel killed and wounded is unknown. Their troops did not fight as obstinately as yesterday. They seemed to expect defeat. The wonder is that they had not totally withdrawn to the other side, without an engagement. . Gen. Osterhaus was slightly wounded, but rode on the field again. The Latest from Vicksburg. Washington, May 26.— -General Dix telegraphed from Fortress Monroe, to-night, that a flag-of-truce boat is expected to arrive to-jnorrow, and that a de serter, who came into Suffolk to day from Frank lin, Btated that Vicksburg has been taken. If this . is the case, the General adds, additional facts will be known to-monow with certainty. It may be a mere rumor. The following, which is procured from a high offi cial source, is the. very latest from Vicksburg. The despatch is dated . Memphis, at 10% o’clock this morning, and was received here to-night, It is from Gen. Hurlbut. He encloses a statement from an ordnance officer, showing the condition of affairs at nine o’clock on Friday night. The city of Vicksburg was not at that time taken. Great advantages had, however, been gained, although the enemy made a firm resistance. The im pression prevailed that our forces would take Vicks burg'the next day, as at that time we completely commanded the town. Our men had their colors planted on the enemy’s works, and wfire lying on the extreme slope. / Our captures were about 6,000 prisoners and 74 pieces of artillery, some of which had been de stroyed. The position of our troops was within a g mile or a mile and a half of the court house. General Grant is represented to be in good spirits, and is confident of more brilliant results. It is supposed that there are 15,000 rebel troops at Vicksburg, who will doubtless be made prisoners in the event of the capture of the town. The despatch further says that the'mortar |and gunboats were in front of Vicksburg, hard at work. Cairo, May 25—10 o’clock M.—No boat from be_ low had arrived at Memphis up to 9 o’clock to-night. All the boats at Milliken’s Bend had been sent up the Yazoo, for the- purpose, doubtless, of meeting any possible contingency. It. may, therefore, be twenty-four hourß before we have anything definite. The last positive , despatches came to-day by the ! steamer Polar Star, which left the mouth of the Yazoo at 1 o’clock on Thursday, when the battle was still raging with the land forces in the rear,. Porter’s mortar boats below and mortar boats above were engaged. It is believed that a large number of women and children still remain in Vicksburg. Chicago, May 26.—A special despatch from Cairo says: Dates from below to the morning of the 22d have arrived. The bombardment of the enemy’s upper works was continued by the mortar fleet. Persons who saw the operations through a glass say they are satisfied that Grant has captured a bat tery on Walnut Hill. A furious cannonading is go ing on all around. From the Army ol'tlie Potomac* Headquarters Alßhy of the PotcAiac, May 25. —The following orders were promulgated to-day: Headquarters Armt of the Potosiac, No. 66. —lii consequence of the gross abuses that are practised. upon the" Government and the army by registered purveyors, the Command ing General directs that all permits of this class of persons be revoked and the office .abolished. To avoid inconvenience to officers, and loss to purveyors, such articles aB had been inspected by the United States offi cers at Sixth-street wharf, and are n©w in transit from Washington, may,be brought to the army, but no new orders will be filled. Regularly appointed sutlers, under existing regu lations, can furnish by private conveyance such air ticleß as are necessary for the commands to which they are respectively attached. But public trans portation will not hereafter be granted nor privi lege bestowed to any trader whatever. The commanding officer of every regiment and de-, tachinent to which a sutler is legally appointed, will be held responsible that hia duties, as defined in the 30th article of war of the revised army regu lations, and the act to provide for the appointment of sutlers, &c., published in General Order No, 27, War Department, 186&, are properly performed. The large number of persons following this army, and thereby escaping taxation, conscription, and the burden that falls upon their fei low-citizens, is a great and growing evil, and every commanding officer will reduce to the smallest possible number Mb own camp fSllowers, by sending to these headquarters every citizen found within these lines without the permits required in paragraph 3 of General Order No, 18, Army of the Potomac. By order of Major General Hooker. S. WILLIAMS,' Assistant Adjutant General. Paragraph 3d of General‘Orders No. 18, referred to above, iB as follows: “Citizenß not resident will not be allowed'to re main within the lines or camp of this army without a permit from the Provoßt Marshal General. Com manding officers will cause all such persons within this command to be brought before the provoßt mar shal for his decision and action.” The sultry heat of the previous two days was changed last night to a chilling wind from the north east, accompanied by a slight mist.' There are no events of importance to report to night. The War in Tennessee. ; OiKcns'NATi, May 25.—Ferguson’s and Ohalmce’s guerillas have been operating near Memphis, and, last week, were within a mile of the city. They captured a few pickets and mules, and wounded two or three men. •, A skiriniHh took place near Fort Donclaon, last week, in which the rebels were routed: We brought in Beven thousand pounds of bacon after the affair. Our lossJwas one lieutenant and.two privates wounded. All if quietin Murfreesboro and in South ern Kentucky. No rebels are north of .the Cumber land. Humphrey Marshall has been arrested, and sent to Bichmond, on charges of disloyalty and trea son to the rebel Confederacy. Marshall is said to be at heart a Union man. If so, he has a queer way of showing it. Murfreesboro, May 25.— The indications are that large bodies of rebel cavalry are going south ward, and that Breckinridge’s force haß fallen back, and there are now no rebel troops between Mur freesboro and Manchester. The rebels assert that Grant has been beaten, but give no particulars. w v The.War in Kanawha County* /CiNCiKKATi,: May 26.— I The Gazette, has intelli gence from Charleston, Va., to the elFeot that our pickets on the road between rßaleigh and Fayette ville were surrounded and attacked on the 17fch. All but one escaped.: Skirmishing continued till the 19tb, when our pickets were all driven in. They then attacked our forces under Col. White.: The fight lasted till the following-day, when the enemy fell back. ' It is believed to be a feint to cover ope* rations elsewhere. We *iad one killed and. nine wounded. The rebels under the command of Gena. Goslin, Imboden, and Eokler, were at Lewlsburg With a force lately, operating on the Baltimore and Ohio £ Ail road. ' . Confession and Sentence of a Murderer, . Albany, May 25.—'Wm. F. Church, who mur dered his wife at West Troy last winter, pleaded guilty to*day of murder in the second degree, and was sentenced to the State prison for twenty years. Admiral Wilkes’ Fleet. New York, May 26, —The United States ships VaDderbilt, Wacliusetts,' Alabama, Oneida, Chip pewa, Sheppard Knap, and Gemebok, were at Sb. ThomasonMay 16th. A number of vessels .were also there discharging coal for the United States Government. * Arrival of Vallandigham witUln the Refcel lines. New York, May 26,—A despatch to the Herald, dated Murfreesboro, to-day, Bays: “Vallandigham arrived here on an exs?a train from Nashville last night. After a conversation with General Kosecrans, he was put into ao open wagon, and escorted by a body of cavalry to therout posts, and delivered to the enemy this morning.- A single rebel private received him, Mr. Yallandigham- Baying, <1 am a citizen of Ohio and the United* States. lam here against my will. I surrender my self as a prisoner of war.* »* Prisoners Paroled, Cincinnati, May 25.—A special despatch from Columbus, Ohio, to the Commercial , says: “The members of, the 3d Ohio regiment are now, here. They were a portion ; of Colonel Straight’s force, captured by the rebels near Home, Georgia. The surrender was perfectly justifiable, having been un avoidable, the enemy occupying an impregnable position with overpowering numbers.” United States Steamer Hartford, Baltimore, May 26.—A letter received from an officer on board the United States steamer Hartford, dated the 12th of May, says she was still afloat, not withstanding the numerous rebel reports of her de struction ana capture/ arid still maintains her posi tion at the mouth of Ked river, in defiance of their threats. Return of the Second New Hampshire Re- gimeiit to the War.. Boston, May 26.— The 2d New Hampshire Regi ment left Concord this morning to return to the seat, of war, having been recruited and put in the beflt fighting condition. . The Second Maine Regiment* Boston, May 25.—The steamer Expounder, from 'Washington for Bangor, with the 2d Maine Regi ment aboard, passed Cape Cod at noon to-day. Funeral of Capt. Temple, U. S. A. Albany, N. Y., May 26.— The remains of the late Capt. Temple, who was killed at Chancellorville, were buried here to- day. They were followed to the cemetery by Gov. Seymour and staff and a laTge number of army officers. Capt. Temple was the youDgCßt captain in the regular service. Public Entertainments, 'Walnut-street Theatre.—This establishment closes itß career this week. The, engagement of Baura Keene and company was a dead failure. "We neither hope nor believe that this was altogether the fault of that admirable actress. She did her best in what she had to do. The shabby support she re ceived,'both from her own company and from the management, which should, at least, have made the attempt to produce new plays in a decent manner, was enough to consign any dramatic production to speedy oblivion. This week several benefits will be given. Mr. E. li/Tilton, Dr. Ounnington, and Mr. B. Youog, appeal to, and deserve, the kind remembrances of the pub lic. These gentlemen are of much private and pro fessional worth. They are painstaking and success" ful, and will, without doubt, be saluted by full au diences. Swisa Bell Ringers. —The Peak Family Swiss Bell Ringers hold forth at Concert Hall, for one week longer. Their entertainments, when they were last here, were well attended, and were of a character to insure a continuance of such evidences of public good will. r THE CITY. Tbe Tile] MAY 25, 1862. | MAY 25,1863. 6 A.M.,.. .12 SC 38. M. 6 a. m 12 m 3P. M. 52....... .65........ .68 52^. ....62...........64^ ■WIND. . "WUTD. 1 .WW...WbyN ESE.....,Eby S...EbyS A Unionist among the “Tbaitoks”— A Singular Scene.— Last evening, at the Union League House, Mr. Porter, of Waynesburg, Green county, Pa., delivered a spirited and patriotic address, in the course of which he related a highly amusing and singularly novel incident which took place on Saturday evening, and of which he was in part the innocent occasion. Mr. Porter is a Demo* crat of long standing, though most ardently and fervidly attached to the Union causej and resolutely in favor of the war for the crushing-out of the re bellion. A short time ago, Mr. Porter was invited by Mr. Chas. Ingersoll to deliver, on last Saturday evening, an address r before the Democratic Cen tral Club. Mr. Porter accepted and was re ceived with great cordiality by the audience. In the course of his speech he took occasion to say, unequivocally, that he was a “ fighting Demo crat, and,-for one, determined to support the Admi nistration in itß efforts to suppress the rebellion.” He further declared that he would never permit any one to call him a “ Copperhead,” a name which sug gested treason to the country and hostility to its glo rious institutions. At this a number of persons in the audience, surprised that loyalty should have dared thus to speak within the sacred precincts of the Democratic Club room, rose to their feet, crying, “We are Copperheads!” “No such talk in this room !” “ Put him out!”. and other choice phrases. Mr, Porter’s voice was completely drowned by the louder noise of the audience, and he was finally coni-' pelled to retire. The narration of this incident, to gether with the reading of the letters of invitation, couched in the chaste and perspicuous style of Mr. Ingersoll, was the subject of no little merriment at the League. / • Sixty-ninth Annual Session'of the New School Presbyterian General Assem bly—Fourth Day—Morning Session.—The ses sion commenced at nine o’clock. The services were opened with devotional exercises. Prayer was ofi'efed asking God’s blessing upon all the interests and feelings of the Assembly. The hour of business having arrived, it was moved that threading of the roll Bhould be dispensed with for the future. The minutes of the previous. meeting were read, correct ed, and approved. The Moderator read the follow ing telegram: ' 1 . " • .. \ . 4 * Peoria, 111., May. 23. “To the Moderator of the New School Presbyterian General Assembly , now in session at Philadelphia: “The General Assembly of the Old School Presbyte rian Church, now in session at Peoria, have unanimous ly elected delegates to represent them in your body. ” (Signed by the committee of conference.) This despatch was received, accepted, and ordered to be placed upon the minute book. , The reports of delegates to corresponding bodies were read. Rev. FrancisB McCabe, delegate to-the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, re ported the existence of a fraternal and Christian feeling evident in the body. Eev, A,. Itoftrdman hambert, b f>., delegate to the General Association of Massachusetts, reports. that he was well and cordially received. He remarks a tho roughly patriotic and religions feeling in the association. Rev. J. B. Condit reported the history of his visit to the General Conference of Maine, which was gratifying to him. •' . v Rev. Peter Snyder, delegated to the General Conven tion of Vermont, speaks encouragingly of the work of this body at its session last year. v Rev. Mr. Hyde, from Vermont, addressed the Assem bly relative to the affairs of the General'Convention of that State. He saio that he could bring with him the Christian and fraternal salutation of his brethren to this Assembly. The Convention was only nominally divided from the Assembly They were one in effort, in hope, in feeling, and in general management. This Conven tion has jurisdiction over two hundred churches, with about seventy-live members each in good standing. All but thirty of these churches have settled pastors. Tb e total membership of this branch of the Church is set down at 14,500. Last year this community contributed the sum of #28,000 for mis nonary purposes. The Sunday school system is progressing with great success. Middle bnry College is in good condition.-'" Within the smarter of a century of its existence it has graduated one thou sand persons; half of this number have become minis ters, forty have been professors, and ten presidents of in stitutions of learning, ten. have been.iudges, and anum ber have been elected Governors of Slates. The Moderator, on behalf of the Assembly,reciprocated the feelings of fraternal regard and patriotism expressed by tlie General Convention of Vermont through. Mr. Byde. A communication was received from Mir George M. Adams, delegate from the General Association of Massa chusetts, which was accepted and ordered to be recorded on the minutes with other communications of the same character. The Standing Committee on Foreign Missions made a report through Rev. Albert Barnes, chairman. The re port alludes to the fact that the whole world is now open to the preaching of the Gospel; that this work has been successfully entered upon; that we have the means ne cessary for the prosecution of the great-work; thatthe great Head of the Chutch was mercifully inclined toward us. The report concludes with a series of resolutions proposin g renewed and continued effort in the work of Foreign Missions. The resolutions read as follows: Resolved, That the removal oSevery obstacle to the preaching of the Gospel there is abundant cause for gra titude and encouragement, and the strongest appeal to every friend of the Redeemer to enlist to the extent of his ability in the work of evangelizing a lost world/ Resolved, That the fact, so painfully evident, that as a Christian people we are not properly awake.to the claims of the heathen, and are doing little for their a . salvation, compared with the ability which God has given us, is one that should humble ns, instruct us n and induce ns to devote ourselves henceforth while we live, our sons and our daughters, our means and our prayers, to this great Resolved, That this General Assembly and the churches we represent are called upon to cherish and manifest the deepest interest in the work of foreign missions, as con ducted by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, with which we have been so long and so happily connecied. and which has given us such abundant proofs of the skill and fidelity which have marked the management of its great trust, and of the entire fairness of all its arrangements relating to the lo cation of ihe missionaries connected with our Presbyte ries; and their freedom to act according to the dictates of 1 their own judgment as to the formation of Presbyteries ! in their respective fields. ' i ‘ Resolved, That the General Assembly regard with great satisfaction the result of measures calculated to keep mpre'fresh and enduring that bond which unites • us with peculiar regard to our own ministers and their beloved partners in the missionary field; and we trust that those dear brethren will permit us to hear from them occasionally, hereafter, within each year, and that they will appoint one of Iheir ministers or elders as the pxesby terial agent for. foreign-missions, - whose duty it shall be to see that the cause is presented to each church, to report at each meeting of the Presbytery, and also to report annually to the Permanent Committee of the As sembly what each church in the Presbytery has done for the cause during the year, and that the stated clerk of each presbytery oe requested to furnish to the Perma nent Committee the name of the minister or elder who shall he appointed the presbyterial agent tor foreign mis sions. . Resolved, That the stated clerk of-fche Assembly be di rected to supply each of our Foreign Missionaries with a copy oJ the minutes of each General Assembly. The term of office of Wm. E. ; Dodge, Jos. H. Tattle, Thomas Bond, Ed. A. Lambert, and W. S. Griffith, as members of the Permanent Committee, expires, at this time, the committoa recommend that they be re-elected. Mr. Barnes spoke at some length in regard to the pro posed individual effort of the Assembly in the. Foreign Missionary lervice, and action independentstho Ameri can Board ofForeign Missions. :He thought tho Church was fairly represented in the American Board, and that this Board had agreed that it was proper and right that presbyteries should be erected in foreign fields/ It is de sirable to bring. the subject of Foreign Missions-’ before every church and every church member, annually, in older that the Foreign Missionary work may be in creased and the influence o‘f the Church extended. El der Griffith read from the report of 'the Permanent Com mittee the fact that the Church has a constitutional quo rum of ministers in every field necessary, to establish a presbytery. ’ Mr. Griffith read a highly-interesting letter from the Rev Dr. Williamson, missionary to the Dakotah In dians, alluding especially,to the recent-troubles and noatsacre of Mankato, Minnesota. From this letter it appears that the loss at the massacre was only about 600 or 7(.0 persons. Tne real cause of this rebellion was set down a$ the hatred of our religion by theTndiahs. _ The report was received, accepted, and referred to the standing Committee on Foreign Missions. . ' A telegram was received and read from Peona, dated May'SEd; as follows: •• ; -v/ ‘ ; „„ . ••. “ Rev. Dr Tustin, Mr. Hall, and Judge Sharswood. have been elected delegates to -• 5 “Permanent SecretaryO- 8. P.^GLA. On motion, these gentlemen were recognized and .ad mitted to seats as duly accredited representatives of the, Old School-branch of the Church; 'Brief addresses were made on the progress of the mis iouary work among tho; Indians by Rev. Messrs. Johnston, Freat. and Coan. These gentlemen alluded to the great revival of religion now gting on among the Indians, and a&ked-that renew ed eflortf should be made bj the Church to extend the dissemination of the Gospel throughout the world. Re maiks were also made'by Rev. Mr. Hyde"and Elder Griffith After which the refcolutions appended to the report of the Committee on Foreign Missions were taken upserfattm, and considered ~. ... - •«- . The consideration of 'tbeso resolutions, created some debate, in which Rev. Mr. Parker, of Indiana; Roy. Mr. hkeiTctt, Rev Mr. Williams, of--Iowa; and, others, participated. .Dr. Cox read a report of the Judicial Com-' mittee, in the.caee -of D. S. Oodd, of the Presbytery of Chvcga, hew the return of the case to the fora new decision, anir a proper one. Dr. Srear opposul tne J-ecommitniUto the Presbytery. iTofestor Day supported the disposition made of the bflair by the Judicial Committee. •• Dr. ; Cox defended the re*u it tithe committee. Duiing the consideration of the fuhiect, the Assembly adjourned, with prayer by tne Moderator.-until•‘•1 o’clock m the afternoon. AFTEBNOOX SKSSJOX. -V -X : -The Assembly held a session in the afternoon. Personal —Hon. William H. Seward, Secretary of State, was in the city yesterday. He vißiteci the Boidieis’ Refreshment Saloons, at the foot of Washington etrcet, and was received with the uaual honors-by cho managers of' those institu tions. Magnificent Flag- FGK the ISThtett sixth Pekitbylvania. —The fadies ot Fcrttaville have performed a patriotic act is ordering for pro* sentation t an unexpended balance of $67,358, of which $50,000 haß since been authorized to be applied to purposes of city defence. The Citizens’ Volunteer Bounty Fund Committee collected, we believe, in the neighborhood of $500,000, which was mainly expended under the direction of the committee in filling up old regiments. A report made some three months since, if-we remember rightly, exhibited a balance then on hand of $125,000. Thiß committee, however, acted independently of and the authorities had no control over their-fund, which has probably, ere this, been to a large extent expended by "the public-spirited gentle men of the committee in the prosecution of their multiform and arduous duties. The Chief Engineer and the Ken sington Water.— lsaac S. Cassin, Eaq., Chief En gineer of the Water Depaftmenthas used every ex ertion placed in his power by City Councils to re± medy the great >Bd growing evil in regard to the impurity of the water pumped into the Kensington basin. A resolution was adopted by Councils a short time since, instructing the Chief Engineer to drain the Kensington basin of all the water, and re move all the filth or sediment that has collected therein. The Chief Engineer addressed a commu nication to the Committee oh Water, upon the sub ject, which was concurred in by them, in which he speaks as follows: “ I beg leave to say that the impurity of the Dela ware water and its deleterious properties cannot be removed byanyprocesa of subsidence in the reser voirs, nor can the remedy be found in the removal of deposits caused by this process, from the Kensington basins. The impurities exist in the water in solu tion, and the removal of a very small proportion of its solid matter yearly, or even monthly, would not produce any desirable result. During the paßt year the Kensington reservoirs were thoroughly cleaased, and it was found that the same complaints existed after as before the removal of the deposits found in.' * the basins. I beg to say further that I regard the periodical expenditure of moneyfor this purpose of extremely dqubtful propriety, as it has been found A of ho perceptible benefit. * “No temporary measures can. be resorted to or adopted that will change the fact that the Delaware water is entirely unfit for domestic purposes, and the quantities of impure and objectionable matter are constantly increasing ; that the health, and even the life, of the people is endangered by its use, and that there is the most urgent necessity for the early adop tion of measures of a permanent character looking to the discontinuance of the use of water from the Delaware river. Lometer. . “Theimportance of adopting measures that will afford permanent and substantial relief has long been apparent, and the best interests of the people of the Kensington water district and of the whole city call for the entire abandonment of the use of Delaware water, the expensive process of furnishing it, and of any further temporizing in the premises.” . No definite action as to how the evil shall be re medied has 'yet been arrived at by Councils. The suggestion made by the Chief Engineer in the above communication, and at other times, relative to the impurity of the Kensington water, should at once be acted upon by Councils. Arrival or the Remains of Lieute nant Colonel George F. Leppien.— Yesterday afternoon the remains of Lieutenant Colonel G. F. Leppien, who died in Washington on Sunday morn ing from wounds received in the Battle of Chancel lorville, arrived in this city. His right foot was shat* tered by a shell which rendered amputation neces sary, from the effects of which he died. Colonel Leppien was among the first of our gallant defend ers, and though likemany other brave men who have gone before him, he was comparatively unnoticed while taking part in the most Bevere and trying ac tive operations. Th& deceased was twenty-seven years of age, and was a native of this city, and was educated in Europe. He first served'as a lieutenant of artillery in the .defence of Washington, but was subsequently commissioned to take command of the 6th Blaine Battery, in which connection he to ok part in nearly all the principal engagements north of the Rappahannock.' He received his.death wound at ChancellorvUle. His funeral will take place to morrow afternoon, at three o’clock, from the resi dence of. Mr. Wolf, 909 Walnut street. ' The-City Treasury. receipts at the office of the City Treasurer last week amounted to $96,769.08. The following were the items of re venue ' Taxes of 1868 $21,303 62 Taxes of 1862 8,623 47 Railroad Tolls 4179 City Rental... H 6 24 Water-Rents 4,808 69 City Ice 80at.,...,95 00 C05t5....... , 6 12 City Loans. : 617,770 25 The payments for the same period, independent of trust funds, amounted to $66,042.42, of which there waß paid out for sinking, fund and matured loans $23,687.98j warrants of *6l and *62 amounted to $754.71, and warrants of’63 to $40,699,73. Pauient op Captains Mustfived Out op We learn that the accounts of cap tains of companies now being mustered out, or here* after to be mustered out-of the service of the army, shall not be settled by paymasters until the accounts of each officer have been approved and settled by the Ordnance Burea in Washington. It is alleged that great negligence, has been shown by manyeffi cers in the enforcement of proper care among the men under their command of arms belonging to the Government. In order to correct the evil, all cap tains are to be held Btrictly reaponsible for such arms, and until their accounts are -properly adjudi cated by the Ordnance Bureau, the amount due them on their pay rolls will be withheld by the Go vernment, Cooper-Shop Reebeshment Saloon.—■ In honor of the late victories of General Grant, this establishment was illuminated on Saturday evening last. To day will be the second anniversary of the organization of the Cooper-shop Committee. The event will be appropriately celebrated at the Sa loon. A salute will be fired, and the Jefferson Cor net Band will be present, the members appearing for the first time in their new uniform. It is expected that Dr. Andrew Nebinger will deliver an address, and speeches will, doubtless be made by other mem bers of the committee. ' • ■ Luke Sheard, a' popular soldier of the 13th Pennsylvania Cavalry, was lately killed by accident near Harper’s Ferry. He took cars from Baltimore to his regiment, at Winchester, and ar rived at Harper’s Ferry at two o’clock on the morn ing of the 20th. Getting out of the cars without knowledge of the locality, Mr. Sheard and Charles Mobs, a fellow-soldier, stepped over : the embank ment, which is twenty feet high, and without pro tection. Ee survived the acoident but a few hours. The members of his company have communicated to his widow their sincere condolement. Swoiid Presentation.— Last evening, Capt. James Gleason, late quartermaster of the 69th Regiment Pennsylvania Yolunteera, was presents by hie friends with a handsome sword, in token of his recent appointment aa brigade quartermaster in. the Army of the Potomac. The presentation cere* mony was of an interesting character, and speeches were made, appropriate to the occasion, by Lieut. CoV. Tschudy, Capt, Gleason, Capt. Jack, and others. ; Jay Cooke (general subscription agent), reports the sale yesterday of $2,286,800 worth of five twenties in the following localities: ; ... New York and New Jersey .$1,150,000 Philadelphia and Pennsylvania........ 610,800 Boston and New Eng1and........ 300,000 Washington.... Baltimore Western States. Hospital Case.— William Miller, aged 21 years, was admitted into the Pennsylvania Hos pital, yesterday morning, with several flesh wounds in his legs. It is alleged that he was shot by hi* father-in-law, in Warren street, near Thirty-sixth, West Philadelphia; on Sunday evening last. The wounds are not dangerous. The father-in-law waa taken'into custody;last evening. The reason for tae shooting has not been stated. ; Passing Through.—Tlie 33d New York Regiment, with the 11th IHaßsachusetts Battery, “B men in all, will reach the Union Refreshment Sa loon this morning, on their wav home fromWaA iDgton. A New Hampshire regiment, of ™ wfll reach the same place latuin the afternoon, going to the seat of war. ' : a Patriotic Occasion—TheUnion Vo lunteer Refreshment Committee «nu«MKSSufS part of the programme, boldiers and citizens arc invited to attend. _ Board outbade.— The Board held a stated meeting last evening, but did not transact any businhsß of pubiio interest. _Mx. made A motion that the rule, be so a tered a. to provWe that the executive council shall meet on the same evening, as fhe Board of Trade. This was agreed to, aSd g the meeting adjourneduver until September. Accident. —A man named Felty, residing • n the vicinity of Sixth and Green streets, in at tempting to get on a gravel train on the Reading Railroad, near Fountain Green, last evening, fell, and bad one of his arms severed by the wheels. Professional Pickpockets. 5 — A couple of female pickpockets—no mote, adroit known to the police—will v were S arreßtedluL noon at the Central Station, Thej were arreßrea aa professional thieves by Deteotn es G. H. Smith and: Ktvrued —A sailor, named.JoluiKelson, - w.?».w.'erhnslv stabbed .during a fight at Penn, and f “ S e S,£ts, »bout eleven 'o’clock last night. He Was removed to the Penn Hospital. q AIJS of a Prize Vessel. — Yesterday, by order of the United- States .marshal,, the- prize schooner Minnie was sold at public, auction for $4,600. 1 ' ■■■ ■ - i Sjgkor Blitz will amuse citizens of Fmnkford to-day 5 Wednesday at sad, Thursday at. Bristol., > r/ Markets by - Baxtimotve, - May- 26,—Flour i» 'Very duU jmd ._ hejivy. : OhioTextrars6.so@6.62K. Wheat aotive." Kentucky-* white fsLT3@l.Boy /’Pennßyivanta ,re£ ■> sliS6@l^6oS. tJorh\qpiet white 9lc; yellow yWjh . Whisky MqPi. and diqupuig v.