. - The Colon AN it Was T, Thar Constitution as ft lot THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 24 lir gelding potter on every page FORNEY'S PRESS In reply to an article of ours one day last week, in which we further exposed Forney's persistent attempts to deceive the friends of the late Judge Douglas, the Press of Monday says : In the:free States, with the possible ex ception of Illinois, there is no "Democra cy" but that headed by the slaves of Bu chanan, who applauded the proscriptions of himself and the other authors of this murderous attack upon free government. In Pennsylvania. these leaders are the masters and owners of the Democratic or ganization,- Buchanan himself is the crafty counsellor of these party chiefs. This :extract is a fair specimen of the noisy twaddle that daily fills Forney's edi torial column. Constant abuse of Buchan an, and frothy declamation about his "mur derous attack on free government," he expects to divert public attention from his own political infamies. There is not in the United States to-day. a retired states man, so utterly helpless as James Bu chanan; there is not one who - does not wield more influence, and this the coward ly demagogue of the Philadelphia Press very well knows. He is under a- cloud, and not until long after he is called to mother earth will justice be done to his administration. It will be for other men and other times to judge his motives, but the present malignant ravings of a base, corrupt and disappointed demagogue, like Forney, win scarce effect the decision which posterity:tnay make. Had Mr. Buchanan, among Other criminalities, attributed to him, Siedeeted this viper for one of his Cabinet; he would not now be the object of his malignant and most shameful calumny. But the President knew him, and although be was mistaken in Floyd, it was well he was not seduced by Forney. The worst that impartial history can record of Bu chanan is the fact of his permitting him self to be hemmed in by traitors: but had Forney been one of the Cabinet at the time, we doubt very much which side he would have been on ; for be it remembered that, up, until a certain date, no more pli ant tool of the Southern hotspurs inhabi ted any portion of this broad Republic.— His present tactics, in expressing admi ration for the teachings of Judge Douglas, are in accordance with his entire political life. He can't be open and straight for ward; deception and pretension form his rule of action. Forney's attempt to brand Buchanan with treason and class the Democracy of the country as his present followers, is only worthy of a traitor who labors for conspirators himself. Three years since, who was a more fawning hound upon Brackinridge than Forney, and who is now relied upon for the performance of the dirty work of abolition traitors _but he ? If any black republican scoundrelly schemes. like Cameron's operations in the War De partment, are to be glossed over, Forney is the one engaged to do it. And yet, not a 41.7 passes that he does not devote his columns to the denunciation of as loyal, honest arid brave hearts, as the country contains. Why doesn't this miserable creature throw off all pretensions to Democracy, and not longer• subject: himself to the charge of being a fool, as well as knave • Daisleimagine that foul and stereotyped - abuse of an old Ex-President, now over seventy years of age, and consequently enable, even if willing, to chastise his slanderer, is still necessary to gain for him abolition confidence? If so, he has labored to little purpose; if his masters are not satisfied with him by this time, no addi tional abuse of Buchanan, or pretended love for the teachings of Douglas, will serve his-purpose. A CABAL. On Monday last the House of Represen tatives. at Washington, indulged in a run ning debate about General Fremont, in the course of which Hon. Thadeus Stevens sustained his -reputation for being a wag. He, with great 'soberness and solemnity, arose,and announced that "in revolutionary times there was a cabal against Washing ton, and that there now seemed to be such a cabal against Fremont." Stevens went on for- - some time in this strain, without even smiling, and Frank Blair, of Missouri, thinking that the old joker believed what he was saying, undertook to prove that the Pathfinder was even worse than com mon mart had made him. He alluded to his incnrsimi — ot California adventures into Missouri; how he received them with open arms and filled their hands with contracts of the_most notorious character. In reply to a remark from Stevens that condemna tion of Fremont's extravagance was hos tility to the President, Blair grew angry and tiplied• that "it did not lie in the mouth of Stevens to charge him with assailing the President, when it was known that the gentleman had heretofore not only assailed the President, but our generals in the field. The President may, in consideration of the political influence brought to hear upon him, have reinstated Fremont in command, in order to prevent a division of Northern sentiment, placing him in the Mountain Department, where be could do no harm and no good. The people of Mis souri were made to suffer by Fremont bringing his California friends into that State, and were obliged to wait for six or eight months for their money, while the speculators obtained advance payments. This running debate went on for some time, drawing others into it, until a strait laced and dignified member from Massa ehusetts (Mr. Thomas) said that he, and' several other gentlemen with proper sen sibilities, were disgusted with the whole discussion. These quarrels, said he, about particular generals are distasteful, and he was astonished that some members were willingtbua to waste the time of the House. _There was but one parallel to it in history and that was when "-Nero fiddled while Rome was burning." Stevens; who is of Ways and .sown himself wholly —.charging the duties of that —ut post, turned upon the Massa “tusetts member with a look of withering contempt. But the Bay -State gentleman was not intimidated in the least, and meet= ing the malignant glance of Steven4-21te intimated that the comparison of Fremont to Washington was merely contemptible, and so it was. The idea of the Pathfinder and ” his hundred days," and now his " Mountain Department," together with the dodges of his partizans being mention ed as, in any way, resembling any portion of Washington's career, is too ridiculous for any one to contemplate, and a subject requiring one of Stevens' sublime audacity to state. Taking it altogether, the Path finder made nothing of this sudden venti lation of his command of the Western De partment. Fight Between, the Monitor and MeiTime°. The London Tekgraph is quite efferves cent over the fight between , the Monitor and Merrimac. We append the follow ing : Good-by to the wooden walls of Old England I Good-by to the "fighting Tens entries" and "saucy Ardhtuas" of thesea, with their wings of white canvas, and their ribs of island oak! Never again will their dainty prows plow through the blue water to fight the battles of Albion. They may carry stores. like humble traders, or rot at their moorings, like hulks, but their fighting days are over! They, with their fellows, are as much out of date as a Greek trireme or a Roman galley. It is the age of iron ! We must hang a coat of mail upon our wooden men-of-war, and build our new ones of the solid metal. Down must come the stately tapering masts, and away must go all graceful curves and lines of beauty ! Bluff and ugly bows, top sides tumbling home like the roof of Gaffer Giles' big barn ; and the spars of bark on the hull of a line of battle ship ; this is the new order of the day. Forests are nothing now, and mines are every thing, we must dig our new navies out of the bowels of the earth, in place of felling them from the green woodlands. There is an end for good and all to the poetry of a sea fight ! In those to come the air must be foul with a hundred funnels, and the water be load ed with a hundred thousand tuns of metal. Enormous bolts of iron will hurtle upon enormous iron plates ; from iron. guns of awful dimensions. The ships themselves will not be ships, but metal monsters, horrible beaked sea unicorns, or turtles floating up with death and destruction under their impenetrable shells. And all because of the fight which was fought in America, at Norfolk waters, on the 9th of March of the present year of grace ! Our readers will find the story in the graphic lefty of our spociak.corres pondent, which we print to-day; and they may make their minds up. that since King Edward's cannon opened the eyes of the Frenchman at Cressy, there has been noth ing more revolutionary in the annals of warfare. THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN Killed. Wounded and Mlonlng In the Fight on theleth or April. Major General McClellan reports that tile number ofkilled, wounded and missing in General W. F. Smith's Division of the army corps. April 16th, is as follows : Killed, 85; wounded, 120; missing, 9. To tal, 164. A correspondent of the New York Tri bune describing the fight, says: At 4 o'clock in the afternoon four com panies of the Third Vermont regiment were called up, formed into line, and told by their Colonel in a pithy speech that the work expected of them was to charge across the creek and take the enemy's en trenchments. Ayres' guns—all of the bat teries under the command of their accom plished artillery officer—covered the Ver imonters' advance. They marched steadi ly at the quick to the edge of the creek,and plunged in, on the run. The- water deep ened unexpectedly. The men were soon wading to their breasts,with theircartridge boxes slung up on their shoulders, and their muskets held high up. The moment they entered the stream the rebels swarm ed on the edge of their rifle-pits, and rain ed a fire of bullets on the advancing line. The stream, as dammed, was about twelve rods wide. The Vermonters loaded•and fired as they waded. Their killed and wounded began to fall from the instant of entering the water. Many of the latter were sustained by the arms and collars of their coats, and so helped across and laid down on the opposite side. The Third, as soon as they emerged and got a foothold, received the order to "charge!" With a yell, •with true Green Mountain ring in it, they dashed st the ex tended rifle-pit. At least s regiment of rebels broke from behind it, and ran into the redoubt in the rear, leaving the Ver monters in the pit. For at least an hour they fought from here spinet overwhel ming numbers, receiving reinforcements at the time, first of four companies of the 6th Vermont, and afterwards four compan ies of the 4th Vermont. They shot' their foes principally through the head, and so superior was their fire, and their pluck so impressive, that the rebels moved two ad ditional regiments into the fort, and into a flanking position on the left of the rifle pit. Exposed now to a cross fire, as well as an increased fire in front, the ermont ers, though they wanted to stay, bad to go. In good orde r ,covering themselves behind trees, and fighting as they went, they re. crossed the stream r earrying with them all their wounded whose conditionat all prom ised survival of their hurts. Many were now shot in _the _water, and drowned, beyond all possibility of help.— The language of a LamPf / county boy,not 16 years old, - "Why, ar4L:it was jnet-like sap-boiling i n that stremiz—the bullets fell so thick,' is so expressive that I use it as a measure of intensity. The- brave men, having backed out of the water formed on the dry land and began the fight anew, while many, not detailed, buivoliniteering through impulses of soldierly devotion and personal affection. dashed into the stream again and dragged out the wounded, who were clinging to the trees, and sitting with their heads just out, of water. Julian A. Scott, of the ad Vermont, company E, un der sixteen years of age, was one of these heroes. He pulled out no less than nine of his wounded comrades. He twice went under fire away across the stream and brought back from the slope of the rifle-pit John C. Backum, of his own company,who was shot through .the lungs. Ephraim Browne, who was helpin g him , was himself shot through the thigh in the inside, and disabled. Scott waded back, like the boy hero he is, and brought him safely over. It was a sight to see—the masterly man ner in which Capt. Ayres saved the Fourth Vermont's four companies from the fire of the rebels, who swarmed more than a reg iment full in their rifiepit. The momenthe saw them form fora charge he rode to every gan and directed it to be sighted so as to shave the top of the breastwork and then, in the magnetic manner which distinguish. es him in the field, required his command to serve the pieces with the utmost possi ble rapidity. The fire was literally a be som of destruction. The shell burst with precision withina few inches of the toti'of the parapet, and over it. The 4th'. coas pewee were saved by it. The rebels dared not lift themselves or elevate-their'- hes& above the ed g e of dark besagetweeks to ire' down on the :VenaimbmrflO si natl . Their guns, neasesanif,Wrsr sa upward'stir - their fine was al most wholly thrown away. NEWS FROM THE SOWin We give the following extracts from Southern papers: Interview with the Frontal Nis- We understand that on yesterday Dr. Lemoine, the representative of thirty anti: sand French residents of Louisiana = held an interview with M. Le Compte kenri Mercier, the French Minister to the. United States, who arrived iithiti city from Wash ingon on Wednesday. The result of the interview we have not ascertained; but it is very probable that matters were represented in their true light to the visiting Minister respectingthe war, its causes and policy. Dr. Lemoine is an enthusiastic sympathizer with the South, and is looked up to by those whose senti ments he speaks with confidence and ven eration.—Richmond Enguirei. News from Riebmond, RICHMOND, April 18.—The Senate pass ed the bill increasing postage to ten cents on single letters. Alzo, the House bill, prohibiting the sale of cotton, sugar or to bacco to the enemy. The House passed a bill to raise parti zan bands of rangers. Gen. Van Dorn's report of the battle : of 4ea Ridge was pre sented __ Doh-M cKinney; wholwas killed 'on the Peninsura on Wedstaday, was buried at Lynchburgh . thit-iv.ening. There was a large turnout. John M. Both. The, court of enquiry, which has been de liberating for some time past upon the ad visability of releasing .41m Minor Botts from imprisonment adjpurned yesterday: The result of their :labors, so far as we can learn, have not yet transpired. Mr. Botts was returned to the charge of the officers.—Richmond E7nqairer. Skirmi■h at White Marsh Is The Savannah Morning News says a skir mish took place at White March Island on Wednesday, between some companies of the 15th Georgia and a Michigan regiment, in which the latter were repulsed with the loss of about twenty men. The Confed erate loss in killed and missing was five and several wounded. Conscription. From the Richmond Enquirer The following is President Davis' mes sage recommending the passage of a con scription law : To the Senate and House of Representa tives of the Confederate States : The oper ation of the various laws now in force for raising armies has exhibited the necessity for reform. The frequent changes and amendments which have been made have rendered the system so complicated as to make it often quite difficult to determine what the law really is, and to what extent prior amendments Are modified by more ;recent legislation. There is also embarrassment from con flict bet Ween State` and Confederate lekis lation. lam happy to assure you of the entire harmony of purpose and cordiality of feeling which has continued to exist be tween myself and the Executives of the several States, and it is to this cause that our success in keeping adequate forces in the field is to be attributed. These reasons would suffice for inviting your earnest attention to the necessity of some simple and general system for exer cising the power of raising armies, which is vested in Congress by the Constitution. But there is another and more important consideration. The vast preparations made by the enemy for a combined assault at ' numerous points on our frostier and sea board have produced results that might have been expected. They have animated the people with a spirit of resistance so general, so resolute, and so self-sacrificing that it requires rather to be regulated than to be stimulated. The right of the State to demand and the duty of each citizen to render military service need only to be stated to be admitted. It is not, however, wise or judicious policy to place in active ser vice that portion of a people which expe : rience has shown to be a necessary reserve. Youths under the age of eighteen require further instruction ; men of matured - ex perience are needed for maintaining order and good government at home, and in su pervising preparations for rendering effi cient the armies of the field. These two classes constitute the proper reserve for home defense, ready to be call ed out in case of any emergency, and to'be kept in the field only while the emergency exists. But in order to maintain this re serve intact, it is necessary, in a great war like that in which we are now engaged; all persons of intermediate ages not legally exempt for good cause should pay their debt of military service to their country, that the burthens should not fall exclu sively on the most ardent and patriotic. I therefore recommend the passage of a law declaring that all persons residing within the Confederate States, between the ages of eighteen and thirtj-five years, and rightfully subject to military duty, shall be held to be in the military service of the Confederate States, and that some plain and simplemethod be adopted for their prompt enrollment and organization, re pealing all of the legislation heretofore en acted which would conflict with the system proposed. Jzrzzasoir Rms. From the Hanteville Advocate. More About Bell Metal. The bells of the Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal and Cumberland Presbyterian and Baptist Churches, in Huntsville, Ala., have been taken down and directed to the Confederate foundries, to be cast into can non. They will be amply sufficient to make two batteries of six pieces each. The weight of the bells furnished from here were :--Presbyterian, 2,106 ; Methodist, 710 ; Cumberland Presbyterian, 689: Epis copal, 480;.Baptist, 110; W. H. Wilst.n, 164. Total, 4,259. New Orleans Correspondence of the Memphis Appeal. More Rebel Gaubeats ' The Confederate government is now constructing in New Orleans thiiteen large iron-cladgunboats,one_ of which is intended for sea service, and the rest for sea service and the river. The largest is built by Murray, and is armed with thirty guns.— The projector is confident that with it alone he will be able to drive the Lincoln fleet from the Mississippi. They are en cased with railroad iron, and are consid ered invulnerable. From the Macon Ma.) Telegraph High Priam . Since the Unionists have* taken. posses sion of Tennessee, prices of every article of food have risen every hour. Blue beef has risen from ten to twenty cents in the Macon market; corn is a dollar and forty cents; salted swine's flesh, of the most miserable description, is from thirty-three to forty cents per pound. Affairs in Nashville. The city council of Nashville, Tenn., at is last session passed the following reso- I rations : Resolved, That the Mayor of the city of Nashville be, and he is hereby, requested and instructed to have the flag of the United Statesing placed upon all public prop orty belong to corporaon. Resolved, That this we cordially ti thank the °Mears and soldiers of the United States for the unexampled kindness and cour tesy hitherto extended to our fellow-citi sena, and that, as men striving together with them for the re-establishment of the government of our fathers, we pledge them: car. most sincere and heartylm-oper ation. .tatiankliereldeonthopted directing teeeliireati thilionblii_echoole in the nity to tab) the oath of allegiancip.orces. EP. Fint Edition. LATEST NIIVS Et TELEGIAPIL ARRIVALS PROM EUROPE THE RELATIONS BETWEEN EN4 LAND. MANCE:AND SPAIN ON THE MEXICAN QUESTION. Heenan not Going to . Fight Mace, or Any Other Man. PORTLAND, ME., April 23.—The steam ship Bohemian, from Liverpool, with dates to the 10th, and telegraph advises to the 11th, via Londonderry, arrived hero at half-past six o'clock, a. m. Her mails go out this morning by the train to Boston, and will be due there at two o'clock p. and at Philadelphia at noon to-morrow. Rumor says that the relations between England, France and Spain, in relation to Mexico, are unsatisfactory. 11. S. Sven are quoted at 77e78. LATEST. • BERLIN, April 11.—Measures are re ported in preparation against the press. COPENHAGEN, April 11.--4 t is reported that Prussia has proposed to Denmark a partition of Schlesburg aa a solution of the present ditlicully. Acossuau, April 10.—The Gazette as serts ou reliable information that England has succeeded in bringing Spain to her side on the Mexican question, by a formal note not to object should Spain take Hayti. Livsaroor., April 11.—The Spanish slitver named Ortiz has been taken into Cape Castle. !Heenan has gone to Paris. He does not intend to fight with Mace or any other ‘AMITANTINOPLE, April W.—The Porte has informed the great powers that he has sent orders to Omar Pasha to address au ultimatum to the Prince of Montene.:ra, demanding the immediate releme of t, the prisoners, and a formal engagement on the part of the Prince henceforth to prevent invasions of the Turkish Territory. The statement that Turkish troops have entered Montenegro is incorrect. PARIS, April 11.—Garibuldl has been received with much enthusiasm. Escape (Willie French Lady from Ft. Lafayette--His Recapture. NEW YORK, April 23.—Lieut. Thomas, the "French Lady," confined in Fort La fayette for transferring the steamer St. Nicholas to the custody of the rebels at Baltimore last summer, escaped from Fort Lafayette on Monday night. Re had procured a number of tin cans, which he corked tightly and tied about his waist, when he took to the water and swain toward the Long Island shore. Ile was discovered by the sentinel, and a boat be ing put in requisition, he was brought back and conveyed to his old quarters. Vermont Soldiers Wounded.-- Hospitals Getting Ready in Baltimore. BALTIMORE, - April 23.—The. Vermont soldiers wounded in the action near York town still remain at Fortress Monroe. Some will probably be brought here. Our hospitals are getting ready tin patients, in anticipation of the wounded coming from the expected battle at Yorktown. Arrival from California. Nt:w Imo:, April 2:l.—The steamer North Star• has arrived from Aspinwall, which she left on the 15th inst. She brings $630,000 in specie from San Fran cisco. The U. S. sloop-of-war, Cyaue, was about to leave Panama for Valparaiso. Interception of a Valuable Dis patch from Gen. Beauregard. A. dispatch from Nashville states tha the following telegram has been intereep ted by Gen. Mitchell : CORINTH, April 9th, 1862. To Gen. Samuel Cooper, Richmond, tit. : All present probabilities are that when ever the enemy move on this position, he will do so with.an overwhelming force not less than 85,000 men. We can now mus ter only about 35,000 effectives. Van l)orn may possibly join us in a few days with about . 15,000 more. Can we not. be rein forced from Pemberton's army ? It defeat ed here, we lose the Mississippi Valley, and probably our cause. Whereas, we could even afford to lose, for a while. Charleston and Savannah - tor the purpose of defeating Buell's army, which would not only insure us the Valley of the Mis sissippi, but our inde_pendence. G. T. BEAURRGARD. r _I PI DSE Y9l BLOOD SEARCHER— MACAUTIONI—Many parties have informed me that they have used another artiole of Bleed Searcher purporting to be prepared from my re cipe, but that its size, taste and effect are entirely different from mine, desiring me to account for it; to which I answer, and also caution the public that no other genuine article of LINDSEY'S BLOOD SEARCHER can be made by any other Living man than myself, as the max recipe, both original and improved is known by we onto, who has spent, I may say, a lifetime in bringing it to its present perfection and celebrity. Sold by my Agent, and respectable Druggists throughout the countm The trade supplied on reasonable terms. DR. J. M. LINDSEY Hollideysburg, Pa. SIMON JOkIiSTON, Sole Agent. corner Fourth and Smithfield eta, Might Cold, Q a c k" Ql . W4/ .f .- faugh,Olaaitaenesa t3RONC Hi AL or Waite ,ffh.sec.a t, /'• < c c 'D whi withch, might be checked C a. simple remedy, f neglect :1, often terminates serious/y. Few are aware of the importance of stopping .a Wattak or Ought 'hi in, its first stage; that which in the beginning would yield to a mild remedy, if not attended to, soon attacke the lungs. .groalarett4Panchici,gatarhea were first ineroduaed &sutra years ago. It has been. proved that they are the best article before the public for • tfatOtt,caLtia, 41reandith-a, 0 - athrma, , "Patczooh, the Hacking Cough in. ,fantuanafitian o and numerous affections of the Shitacd, giving immediate relief. Plane Speakers I Singers will find them. effectual for clearing and str_7l.43thening the voice. Sold all (Druggists and (Dealers in _Medicine, at P 6 cents per box. 41419-emdsw CUSTOM HOUSE. 1 Pittsburgh, April 14th. 1862. grNOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that 'SEALED PROPOSALS" accom panied by proper guarantees according to forms to be furnished on application at this Office, will be received thereat, until 12 o'clock, meridian. on the FIRST TUESDAY OF JUNE NEXT, for the supply of Provisions, Medicine, Arc., enumerated in said forms, for one year, commencing on the filet of July next, and ending on the thirtieth of Tune following. The quantities stated are esti - mated with reference to the usual number of pa. tienta in the Hospital; but the United States re ."'" the right to take more or lee of said arti stes. accordingly as they may be' required. If the articles delivered at the Hospital are not in the indaineat of the Physician of the beet quality and adapted to the Hospital he will be at liberty to reieet the saine.to purchase other articles in their *..ftk and to chiuwe the contractor with slily ex am orcest over the contract prices. The united States reserves the right to sees& dieproposals for th e whole or saw of the sit idesspeci fied. ' W.:BATCHELOR. apls:td Surveyor aail Asset ofthlbl•lieslall AT - 1111121ZY —JOHN Oy ILALIKKILDAIIIIIIOII will be a candi date broombrsties to the above ellokbotore iba next auras 10 . 10116 - • ANS /MSS Fit ••• ale by DOWN & 'MUM solT ISO Weed street. Second Maw THE VERY LATEST TELEGRAPH, Enna kirtrerak Mom*. Fon•rukss MONROE, April small row 'mat arrived here this morning from Norfolk containing three men, one woman and two children. The refugeeti report the Merrimac still at the Gosport Navy Yard. Workmen were engagedin placing iron shields over the portholes, and it was supposed that the improVements would be completed and the Merrimac would be out again in two or three days. The Merrimac was aground the last day she came out as was generally supposed here. Nothing was said, in Norfolk about the bursting of a gun, and that supposition was undoubt edly incorrect. Capt. Buchanan is thought to be still alive, having been wounded by a rifle shot in the thigh. it was only a flesh wound. The steamer Jamestown and steam tug Beaufort went up the James river on Fri day and Yorktown on Sunday to obtain coal at Richmond. They took in tow a number of schooners loaded with iron to be rolled.into plates at Trafalgar workS, in Richmond. Four new gun boats have been launched at.the Navy Yard, and four more are in course of construction at Nor folk. A part of these will be covered with the irun plates above mentioned. The previously reported engagement between the troops of Gen. Burnside and . a Georgia regiment took place on Saturday. The Union troops are said to have numbered five hundred. The Confederate troops consisted of the third Galena regiment, Col. • Wright. The engagement took place not at Elizabeth city, but on the canal above that place. The Confederate loss MIS fifteen killed and thirty-five wounded. They Were only partly equipped, and many lacked Muskets and ammunition. They are said to have run on being attacked; The Union troops held their ground until they had buried their dead and carried away their wounded, when they retired. Eleven graves of rnion soldiers were sub-' sequently counted on the battle field. One of the refugees visited Richmond last week. Ile states there are very few troops either there or :it Norfolk, they mostly having been sent to Yorktown. Fourteen thousand troops are said to have passed through Richmond on one day last week bound for Yorktown; the whole party of refugees came from SaVan nah, one of the men who brings his wife and children belongs in New York ? and is a carpenter by trade. The third is one of the crew of the Fingal which ran the block ade sometime shim" at Savannah. The crew of the Fin , Ml were sent here from Norfolk by a flag of truce, which immediately returned. The rest of the crew are still in Norfolk up to list Satur day. They were supported by the British Consul, but a recent despaeh from Lord Lyons has thrown them upon their own resources, and it is supposed that they will be lorced to enlist in the Confederate Navy. (inc of the men who left Savannah on the first of March reports great consternation there. The steamer Fingal and other ves sels in the harbor were ready to be sunk or burned. The troops in the vicinity of Savannah have been dying in large numbers, on ac count of the dirty condition in which they keep themselves. The city might have been easily taken by our troops at the time of their first landing at Port Royal. An attack was then confidently expected amid the whole city was in a state of in- tense ,Xeitelti,.lll and alarm. The refit- gees arrived at ON Point about half past 2 o • t•biel< this inorning alter passing very close[to the rebel pickets and batteries, and were hailed tin• the first time by the steamer Baltimore laying in the Roads: the English steamer Rinaldo left her anchor age in the tipper part of the Roads-this forenoon and is now anchored below the Minnesota. 71'he French steamer Gassendi returned from Norfolk with M. Mercier, the French Minister, this afternoon. His dispatches proceed immediately to New York by sea, where a steamer is in waiting to cross the Atlantic. Wiaaithe Appeal Says. CHICAGO, April 22.—A special dispatch to the Tribune front the Memphis Appeal of the 17th, in an editorial devoted to the Mississippi Valley, acknowledges the dan ger of the success of the Federal flotilla, and the employment of every one, black and white, to the extent of his ability for the defense of that stronghold, and advises the construaion of the most approved gunboats. The same paper also acknowl edges the fearful mortality of the Confed erate officers in the recent battle, and at tributes it to the enemy's bodies of sharp shooters, and advocates the organization of similar bodies in the Confederate army. No demonstration had - been made by the Federals on t heline of the & 0.11. R. be tween Memphisand Union City; the road is '1 in operation to Trenton. A report is cur rent at Memphis by way of Corinth that the Federal:: have abandoned Tennesee river. The Appeal says that the Confederate losses at the. battle of Shiloh .does not exceed 1001 killed and 500 wounded, and 800 taken prismters. It ascribes the de feat of Monday to whisky found in the Fe deral encampments on Sunday night. The remains of Gen. Johnson lay in state two days at City Hall. They were placed in a vault of the St. Louis Cemetery. The New Orleans gentleman . whobionght the Appeal reports since the passage of the ecinscrp tion bill by the Rebel Congress, all males between 18 ane3s have joined the army. There is no impressment, thepeople enter the service with zeal-Lbusiness is alMost entirely suspended except in that class of goods needed by the army. Three gun boats are being constructed at Memphis, 2 of which will be completed in aweek; one is called the Arkansas, plated with two thicknesses of railroad iron placed trans versely,and is considered more than amatch for the whole Federal flotilla; another called the Beauregard, a wooden boat, with thir ty inches of compressed cotton placed be tween heavy timbers eighteen inches thick, This is also considered impregnable,. they are provided with prows a its Merrimac. Our informent reports 18,000 men near Chickasaw Bluff making all necessary preparations to provide against an attack. Burning the city is still discussed. Enor mous piles of cotton, tobacco, sugar and molasses are gathered on the shore and be fired on the appearance of the federal fleet above Memphis. The Coniseation Bill. WASHINGTON, April 23d. —A Republican caucus was held here to-night, at the Cap itol, continuing in session until nearly 11 o'clock, and about fifty members were pre ,Colfax, chairinan, and - MAW- Pherson Secretary, ageneral debate ensued upon the several confiscation bills in which Stevens and Blair, of 310., Covode, Hick man, Olin and others participated in the discussion, and was somewhat of the char acter of that which has recently taken place in open house upon that subject; the sense of the caucus seemed to be in favor of discriminating against the leading rebels in the confiscation of all kinds of ' property;it was unanimously agreed to re fer all the bills pending in the House to a select committee of seven members, as moved to-day, by representation of Olin. Relief for the homilies of those Killed la Baltimore the lath of Last April. BOSTON, April 23.--The resolution adopted by the Legislature of Maryland and signed by Governor Bradford, appro priating seven thousand dollars for the re lief of the families of the killed and disa bled asembera of the Mass. Sixth regiment, who were attackealby the mob in Balti more on the 19th of 14141,1861, was read this tißeEtron ig,the How, of ,Repreee, n,7 Wives; and - waitaiteired . te" the' Commit tee on Efidemlitelititins. The resolution ' - sensation and its reading was followed by hearty applause. Thilety-111eireatit tlesommilw WASHINGTON, April 28.—Housx.,W Cox, of Ohio, moved that the Housirpro ceed to the consideration . of thin, Senate bill for the relief of.tho -, owidirs, 'Alters and crew of the Danish'bark 4.orgaa'...9o rentzer. He stated that:the Siicretary of . State. for diplomatic rayons, - desired its immediate passage. This veiel wail seiz ed by the blockading squadron under a misapprehension, and taken to New York. Eighteen hioithailand fifty . dollars is the sum appropriated. The bill was passed. " - Mr. Blair, of Mo., from the Military Committee, reported a bill to create a board of fortifications to examine into the coast and harbor defences. _ . The bill to facilitate the suppression of the rebellion and prevent the recurrence of the same was taken up. It authorizes the President to direct our Generals to declare the slaves of rebels free, and pled 4es the faith of the United States to make lull and fair compensation to loyal men who have actually supported the Union for any losses they may sustain by virtue of this bill. Mr. Olin, of ,New York, said he under stood that the Committee on the Judiciary had agreed substantially that none of the confiscation bills referred to them ought to pass. Mr. Thomas, of Mass., remarked that they had recommended that none of the bills pass. Mr. Olin said the disposition in the House and the country was in favor of some legislation on the subject. As the Committee of the Judiciary could not agree he proposed that a select committee of seven be appointed, being untrammeled by the House, they might be able to agree upon a proper measure of legislation. Mr. Dunn, of Indiana, was glad to hear Mr. Olin's suggestion. The subject of confiscating rebel property was one of the most difficult questions before Congress, and on its decision was involved the res toration of the government to its former state of prosperity. He congratulated the House and the country that a bill had been laid upon the table this morning, which, if it had been passed, would have disgrac ed the civilization of this age. [An excla mation on the Democratic side : " Good ! That's so!"1 A bill which at one fell swoop would have impoverished the peo pie generally from old age down toinno cent childhood. Mr. Olin replied that the House did not require a lecture on the subject. It was clear that there was contrary opinions relative to the question of confiscation. He voted to-day to lay the bill on the table, not because a bill for the purpose was not proper, but because he could find no war rant in the Constitution for the power, .by which it was sought to be exercised. Mr. Colfax, of Indiana, advocated a se lect Committee. Mr. Dunn was opposed to a sweeping confiscation bill. He wanted distinction made between the leaders.. Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, maintained the propriety ofa bill to punish all wilful rebels, depriving them of their property. Mr. Lehman, of Pa., opposed the con fiscation bills, and looked on the march of our armies as the proper mode of suppres sing rebellion and re-establishing the Con stitution. Mr. Hickman claimed the Constitution gave President ample power without Con gressional action. Mr. Crittenden was against all confisca tion measures would tend to exasperate the war, and postpone the time of putting down the rebellion. Mr. Crittenden addressed the House at length, asserting that the people would permit neither the Abolitionists nor the Secessionists to put down the Constitution. Mr. Edwards, of N. H. said that alarge majority of the people North do not de sire to interfere with slavery in the South, and a large majority of Republicans here do not desire to interfere with it unless it be necessary to save the country. Mr. Crittenden replied he was glad of the interruption—he was gratified with the declaration, it was what he had himself believed. He concluded by saying he knew of no safety fir himself and his countrymen, but in the preservation of the Constitution and the lJnion. He took those as his shield and spear. House adjourned, Si ENATE.--31 . r. Trumbull, of Illinois, pre sented a petition of W. C. Jewell, in favor of a defensive stand-still policy at Yorktown, and to secure a reserve force of 25,000 men. Mr. Hale of N. IL, offered a resolution that the Military Committee be instructed to inquire whether any general in the army before Yorktown exhibited himself drunk in the face of the enemy and if any measures have been taken for the &island punishment of such officers. Mr. Sumner, of Mass., suggested that it he addressed to the Committee on the Conduct of the War. Mr. Hale referred to the statement made by Mr. Morrill in the House•yesterday,and said he thought it was high time that Con gress should take some notice of these things. If officers will thus lead brave men to be slaughtered like beasts, no punishment is too great for them. • Mr. Foster, of Conn., said the Senate had not taken the high ground it ought to have taken in regard to confining men known to be intemperate, and it becomes us to weed our own garden first and cor rect our own laxity, and he was pained to say criminality in this respect. The President Mr. Foote said the Gen eral referred to had not been confined. Mr. Hale said he knew the Senate had not taken high ground enough, but if offi cers get so drunk that they couldnot set on a horse,he thought some notice oughtto be taken of it. Mr. Wilson, of Mass., said. he supposed that the resolution was referred to Gen. W. F. Smith, he knew nothing of the case, but he (Mr. Wilson) never proposed the name of any person of intemperate habits. The resolution was adop t ed. - Mr. Davis, of Ky., introduced a bill prescribing an additional oath for the grand and petit jurors in the United States Courts. . The bill-recognising the independence of Hayti and. Siberia, and the appointment of a diplomatic representation, was taken up. Mr. Sumner said that, thus far our gov ernment had been unusually friendly to new governments but it bad turned aside from the nations. He thought it time to pat an end to this anomily in the history of this government. Skirmish at Harrhissburg, Vs HARRISONBURG, April 22.—C01. DOR nelly made a reconnoissance to-day to wards this town, when appearing they were fired on by rebel eavalry scouts. Two companies of Ohio cavalry were deployed on the left towards Gordonsville turnpike, and the same number of Vermont cavalry oil the right, and Michigan cavalry in the center. Hampton's battery and the Fifth Connecticut formed the reserve. The reb el cavalry after the first fire retreated to the town, when they were joined by their command and escaped by the Gordons ville route. They were pursued by the Ohio cavalry. Seven men and eleven hor ses were captured the rest having escaped. The town was then entered and occupied by Col, Donnelly and the cavalry. We found in the town eight of Jackson's Winchester hostages whom he released yesterday near Shenandoah on parole of honor. - Two had died of fatigue and want of proper attention. The rest are now on their way home. A large amount of fonige and grain have been secured in the valley. Capture of i Iltetbel . Ittaissemr. Prrrsatrao LsxnutO, April 2 . 3.—While the gunboat Tyler was reconnoitering up the Tennessee nverabe captured-the rebel Steamer J. Robb, near the month Crave Creek. This is one of the boats which elu ded our first expedition up the river after Ue fall of Fort - Haim Her name hat been ilatip4to Lidy Tyler. =The steutherhasheiretthsemereplew ant. , Wankfasten. ! • W Is t it; April 23.—The schooner tin' d at the Navy Yard this Mons*. reports that the steamer Yankee weifiZap the Rappahannock river to Fredericksburg yesterday, having cau tiously the sunken obstacles in the ~,siVen miles below that. town. Our flotilla had captured seven rebel schooners, one of which his a valuable cargo of dry goods, medicines and salt pe tre. They have also taken two nmallstennv ers. It is further stated thatthe reberpieketi are occasionally seen on the south side of he river. Our troops still command the possession of Fredericksburg, the residents of which are entirely free in their usual 'business pursuits. The bill reported front the Committee on Military Affairs to-day, authorizes and requires the President to convene a board to consist of two officers fiom the Corps of Engineers, one Ordnance officer, one Artillery o ffi cer, two officers of the Navy, two members selected by reason of their scientific and special attainments, and an officer of the Corps of Engineers as Sec retary, whose duty will he to examine and consider our system of sea coast and lake fortifications, with especial deference-to: such changes as may be necessary or advi sable, because of the introduction of new elements of attack and defense; and- to - test by experiments such points in the construction of fortifications as the board may think needful. The board is to re port to the President, for transmission to Congress, its conclusions and results with such supporting information as may seem appropriate. The President may, if in his judgment the exigencies of the country require it, order the work recommended , by the Commission to be commenced-and prosecuted without the previous assent Congress, The bill further provides the amount appropriated this session for fortifications, shall be expended under direction of the President, upon such defensive works as shall be recommended by the commission, and authorizes the President to acceptany. sums ef_money loaned or advdeced by the several States for, the construction of de fensive works for the 'protection of the States, making such loans_ upon: such terms as shall be agreed uPdnbetweetithe proper authorities The *art jatjthave quired to examine:Ot cOraiMpl:o- priety of constratting • 4 14 ° o .;d Depot on the Northern for heavy ordnance, arid: alsd'iiiiOurmory and arsenal, of construction , ..West ofthe Allegheny Mountains, and for additional arsenals of deposit and repair , _ and shall be subject to the approval of the President, and locate the same at such points as shall from purely military considerations 'appear best for the defense of the country. The bill also provides that there shall be added to the number of cadets at both mil tary and naval academies a number 'equal to the number allowed by the existing law in those schools, to be selected from each congressional district and territories'br the academic board from among -such ap plicants as shall apply for admission,, and who upon examination, shall be downed • best qualified, prorided the number' dded shall have all expenses defrayed by the' parents and gnardiani3 ' who shall be re quired to deposit with the superintendent of the • academy at the beginning of- each • year the estimated amount of money neCetk; eery to pay all expense& for the year. 'The.; cadet being subject to all rules and regula tions established from time to time:for:the'. government of said academies. No political news of importance is atts;eh ed to the visit of the French Minister to Richmond. It is said in quarters usually well informed upon diplomatic subjects that although the Southern authorities may seek to take advantage of it, his 'going thither was on business closely connected with the Consulates. Undue importance has been attached to the presence of ex-Senator Gwin in Rich mond. It is believed his business is of a domestic rather than of a political charac ter. It can be-safely stated• that:the visit of these gentlemen to Richmond is not in the remotest degree connected with tit's- United States government, as has been without reason assigned. Looking before they Leap. i 3 CAIRO, April 23.—A dispatch from the': fleet, on the 22nd says tor three days there had not been a gun fired, the com batants seeming satisfied to save their powder until something can be new*, plished by its discharge. The enemtia - reported to have fourteen gunboats off the -- Fort together with the ram Manassaa. The latter and seven former, arriving on Sunday. Mr. Hollins has returned from New Or:_" leans leans with the McCrea. She left the fleet yesterday-with one hundred bales of cot ton for Cairo, and it is the first shipment North. since commencement of hostilities. It is reported that the Mound City Hos pital will be suspended until the water. subsides. subsides. The sick and wounded will be transferred to other hospitals. The steamer Tigress arrived here this afternoon from Pittsburg Landing, with officera of the 12th lowa on board, report - water. falling. Their regiment has but twelve effective men left. Comitinued Hostilities of the 1.. divans. SAN FitAxerseo, April 19.—The bark John Mows arrived from Bordeaux. :She brings news-from British Columbia • to the 16th. • Spring had opened. Miners were leaving Victoria in crowds for the gold fields. Col. Carleton, with about, 3,000 Califor- • t nia volunteeris and a battery, left the South Eastern border of this State on a secret expedition-'--some say for Araione 'and New Mexico, others for Salt Lake. The United States steamer Narragan sett on a cruise, and the ships Camden ant' Keodiak sailed to-day. The ship Devonshire has been charter to carry boat spars from Puget Sound Spain. Tee Indians are again showing symp of Hostility on the Eastern slope r 'Sierra Neiradas. A party of whiner, killed 1 on the )3th near Owens rive., ir mersider district of Salt Lake. It is reported they have destroyed, ees mail stations, stolen much property' ' killed several employees of the Oaeriaial:...: Mail Company. The mails-are tempode rarily. stopped, and the telegraph is liable to struction at any moment. A regiment of California volunteers. now in this State, should be ordered to duty on the plains at . once. SALT Lire, April 22.—The Indians have stolen stock from nearly everysti,tica'W tween Laramie and Bridger, killed several men, burned our station and ..threaten the entire destruction of the Overland Mail Company's property. The eoniPany consequence of this is concentrating their— - employees and property-at few stationitfor protection, and have abandoned ain't tempts to carry the mail for the present. The Charges against Gen. Ihnith Contradicted. NEW YORK, April 22.—The Post of t evening says the rumors against. Geneitil Smith appear to have no foundation. Not only is be one of the most temperate men • in the army, but a private dispatch froni General MCClabia says he gallantly skillfully gained a great ,advantage for tts —silencing the fire of ibattiwy in splendid style with but little loss on ont , sidsi: '-a' - Letters from General Smith state that '- his horse, a splendidaninial, fell with kb& during the ' action. which suggests 410 able.causeof the unjust rumors. New !reek iNarliet-Ntelptem.'':',,,;`-'‘ . _ .. New Yews. April 21.-Ciseiest quiet. sak i ` • 300 bales. Fleur advisee* Went MNl iredu a ," . eat nsiSqles. 9.000 bush ,ist sl_ St Ass E 5 bushels soideo c . Whisky lower. at L. Reic 7 l 4 , i nou r..... r :::: nab, -Bdnialiaa silike . i ka : x. 404, Cora bushels. Iftely A ..t.... ihdl Ns MUM Vela
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