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TUESDAY, MAY 6, 186.2
TriE LATEST WAR NEWS
Further partialities of the Rapture of Yokkte,..,
, and the flight and pursuit of the rebels, will be
found in another column. It is supposed that
"General McClellan has captured over 100 cannon,
and immense quantities of ammunition, stores, dka.
- Our cavalry and artillery came up with the rear
guard at . the Male at IVi!Limburg on Monday
afternoon, and a brisk fight immediately ensued.
It was a hand-to-hand encounter between the Fede
ral and rebel cavalry. The latter were driven from
the field, but for want of enough infantry our troops
'were unable to advance on the rebel entrenehments.
:Night coming on, it was deemed advisable to defer
further operations until yesterday. The telegraph
does not state whether the action was resumed yes
terday or not.
One of our attentive eorreepondents, with Gene
ral - McClellan's army, sends us a very graphic
/otter, describing the scenes attending the evacua
tion of Yorktown, and the advance of our army.
From his intelligent narrative, we are enabled to
appreciate more fully the masterly strategy of
Omni McClellan in driving the enemy front
the Peninsula of Virginia.
Jeff Davis' coachman—so a letter from the Rap
lattbannook says—has scan lit to take French"
leave of his master and come within the lines
of the Union army. The coachman, it is said,
was very commuulowive to our otheera, and im
parted some of the secrets of thA rebel chieftain's
family that would not likely be known to anybody,
save the person whose story is recorded in our
telegraphic columns. The coachman was accus
tomed occasionally to drive Mr. Jefferson Davis
and his lady out, and, if we may believe him,
the couple had occasional discussions about the
merits of the Confederacy and that Mrs. Davis
slated that said Confederazy was i‘ played out_"
It is also stated that Jeff Davis wished Johnston to
make a stand at Manassas, but the latter declined,
and was even indisposed to go to Yorktown,
As the Union troops approach nearer to Rich
mond the Union people of that city become more
emboldened toward their rebel persecutors.
Affairs in East Tennessee, as we have heretofore
intimated, are in a moat deplorable condition: The
rebel %ate 'Legislature, at Memphis, having passed
a conscription act, thousands of Union citizens of
that section have begun to flee into Kentucky to
escape its operations. On the 16th ult., the Knox
ville nFgtster—a Secession slieetHslates that some
eight hundred of these refugees left their homes to
find in a loyal State an asylum from oppression.
They carried with them the implements of honest
labor, proposing to gain a livelihood in peace,
if possible ; but a portion of them were armed
to resist any attack that might he made, Never
theless, they were pursued by a body of
rebel cavalry, under command of an infamous
Colonel Ashby, and after an engagement of an
hour, during which they heroically defended
themselves, they were compelled to succumb. At
least a hundred of them, according to the rebel
statement, were killed or wounded, and four hun
dred and twenty•three made prisoners. The latter
were carried back to Knoxville in triumph, to be
subjected to the pitiless scoffs of heartless traitors,
who had formerly been their fellow-citizens, and
are probably at this time enduring the tortures of
the dungeon. The same paper states that among the
prisoners taken were many prominent men of that
section. So great has been the stampede of loyalists
from East Tennessee that the rebel General Kirby
Smith, commanding the department, at the instance
of Jeff Davis, had issued an order declaring martial
law, and calling upon the people to remain at their
homes, to cultivate their fields, and to. be true in
their allegiance to the "existing" government,
holding forth, as an inducement, the premin le
awl end the military draft. East Tennessee, sur.
rounded on almost every side by traitors, has thus
far withstood the torrent of treason and lawless
nets= nobly. As in the case of Western V irginiai
its efforts should meet with such an encouragement
am the
.part of the Government, that not. a tkaitor
mill dare avow disloyal bordors.
Congress Yesterday
§aDlATg, — The bill to regulate the number of
major and brigadier generals was laid over- A
bill to donate public lands to States and Territories
endowing agricultural colleges, was referred. A
resolution favoring 9 general e.ebiioge of prison
era was referred. The homestead bill was taken
up, but a vote was postponed till to day. The con
'AN:widen bill was taken up, and speeches made by
Niesere. Howe and Foster. The Senate then went
into executive session.
HOUSE.—The bill amendatory of the act to pro
vide increased revenue from the imports, to pay the
haunt on the public debt, and for other pur
poses, was passed. The Rouse resolved itself into
Committee of the Whole on the Pacific Railroad
bill, which was debated by Messrs. F. A. Conkling
and others.
The Plans of the Consiirators.
Such a succession Of victories have lately
crowned the efforts of the Union armies that,
in any ordinary contest between two indepen
dent nations, similar triumphs would inevitably
compel the Vanquished country to sue for
peace. At every contested point the Seces
sionists have been defeated. They have been
entirely driven from Missouri and Kentucky.
Compelled to evacuate their old stronghold at
Manassas, they fell back upon what they sup
posed was a still stronger position, at York
town, but the preparations for besieging it were
so formidable that they saw resistance was hope
less, and, without waiting for our final onset,
their main army precipitately fled. The long
catalogue of our victories in North Carolina
has been recently swelled by the'capture of
Fort Macon, and the triumph of General RENO
at Camden. The enemy could not defend
Fort Pulaski, nor efficiently guard the ap
proaches to Savannah. They could not hold
the forts they had stolen in Florida. They
could not prevent our fleet from passing up
the Mississippi,"abreast of their great metropo
lis, and thus seizing New Orleans. They could
not retain Columbus, Island No. 10, Northern
Alabama, or Nashville. They were unable
to reap any fruits from their temporary tri
umph in the first day's fight at Pittsburg
Landing, as they were compelled to fall back
upon Corinth, a place from which they will
probably soon be driven.
They are as unsuccessful on Oa as on
land. Their boasted system of privateer
jug has proved a dead failure. It is
reported that their only really successful
vessel, the Sumpter, is about to be sold, and
that the officers and crew have returned to
Southampton. One of the cruisers, which,
for a time, was successful in eluding our
blockade, the Isabel, or Ella Marley, was
captured by the United States gunboat San
tiago de Cuba, a few days ago, while it was
attempting to run a cargo of arms, ammuni
tion, wines ? cigars, and medicines, from Nas,
situ, N. P., to Charleston. The Merrimac, it
is true, destroyed a few of our wooden vessels
in Hampton Roads, but she dared not van-
tune A Soeond. attack, and le reported
that her officers were so fully con
s vinced of the folly and danger of at
tempting any important new enterprise that
they resigned rather than obey their sealed or
ders to sail to the York river. They doubtless
knew that such preparations had been made tor
the reception of their boasted monster as
would probably, insure its destruction.
Thus, the whole vaunting rebel programme
has been utterly demolished. Boastiog that they
world seize the capital, invade the North, and
plunder the cities of the free States,not one of
their soldiers has ventured above Mason and
Dixon's line, and at some point in every Com
monwealth the authority of the Union has been
restored. The old flag waves triumphantly
over at least a portion of the soil of every
member of the Confederaey, and It is only in
detached parts of the eleven rebellious States
that the rule of DAVIS IS still acknowledged.
The power and prestige of the conspiracy
have departed forever. Its pride is humbled,
its communications are broken, its hopes of
prosperity have all vanished. None of the
- promises of its leaders have been realized.
Its ability to "move on" is confined to retro
.grade movements. Its threats against the
.North and the commercial world are only
realized in the ruin of Southern interests.
Consternation almost universally prevails
throughout all Secessia, and at no point are
there greater signs of &air and trepidation
than at Richmond. The rebel Congress is
taunted by its own organs with having ad
journed for the sole purpose of enabling its
members to seek their personal safety in
flight. The cc contraband" coachman rof the
Secession chieftain reporte that Confederate
money is no longer willingly received
at the capital where it is issued; that Ur.
and Mrs. Jest' DAVIS have prepared for a new
hegira t o Montgomery, or some unknown
region ; that "Lady DAVIS considers CC the
Confederacy about played out," and the at
tempt to hold the non-cotton-growing States
a serious, if not a fatal error. The ex
periment of advancing to Virginia has
been almost as ruinous to the consp
racy itself as to that devastated State. It
now must certainly soon be abandoned, and
the leading spirits of the rebellion may well
ask in trembling tones where they shall go.
North Carolina can afford no safe place for
refuge. Its Governor is reported to have
been arrested on account of his strong disposi
tion to institute a counter revoiution, and to re
store hiS State. by virtue of the rights of lo
verelsnty with which, according to the Seces
sion philosophy, it is endowed, to its legiti
mate position in the American Union.
Even if this rumor is untrue, and if
the loyal feeling it indicates does not
exist, it is plain enough that if Virginia
is deserted by the rebels they cannot long
sustain themselves in a quarter that would be
so closely beleaguered by General BURNSIDE,.
and by the poweitul armies of MeilLeuks,
McDoweLL, and BArias. Tennessee cannot
be thought of now. The whole of the middle
portion of the State is in our possession. The
Eastern portion is loyal in feeling, and the day
of its deliverance cannot be distant. South
Carolina, with all its boasted chivalry, cannot
Shake off the Union gaVelAells tbc.t .warm atoms
its coast and keep its metropolis in a constant
fever of trepidation. In the interior of Georgia
they might for a time be safe, but they could
not long there find rest for their weary feet.
There is a prospect that they will again occupy
their old caPit4 l ; at Mcatgviacry,
But it is now surrounded, on nearly all sides,
by =Union troops, who could easily march
against it. It will not be very surprising
if a fate similar to that which bitch
the so-called rebel provisional government
of Kentucky overtakes JEFF DAVIS and his
CeDillct It has driven by our victorious
army of the West from point to point, until
it had no other capital than a Sibley tent, in
which its dignitaries of State aired their un
substantial honors as best they could, until,
at the battle of Shiloh, their Provisional
Governor, GEORGE W. JOIINSON, fell, bitterly
lamenting the titter prostration of the unholy
cause in which he had sacrificed his life.
It is surprising that, amid so many disasters,
tlie rebels 411Q1Ild still protract a' contest in
which they cannot possibly be successful. If
the leaders of the conspiracy had any regard
for the welfare of the people of the South,
peace,would speedily be_ restored. But, un
fortunately, the destinies of that section are,
for the present, under the control of men of
desperate fortunes, who, conscious Of the ex
tent of their criminality, will prolong the war to
the last moment, in the hope that some sudden
turn of fortune May extricate them from the
awful dilemma in which they Liar - e placed them
selves. If they were at the head of a recog
nized government, they would probably deem
it 'their imperative duty to rescue the people
they have deluded from the many sufferings
they are now enduring and the many dangers
which menace them. But the lending conspi
rators, while they have not the power to resist
our armies, are enabled to wield an iron rod
over the districts not yet rescued from their
control, and to punish with remorseless cru
elty all who are patriotic enough to disobey
their imperious mandates.
That abandonment of their treasonable or
ganization which would restore peace to the
nation, and happiness to thousands of fire
sides, they dread as their iudiYidual ruin.
Steeped to their eyelids in crime, they cannot
now safely retreat, and they will seek, while
they can, to protract a hopeless war, with all
its attendant horrors and miseries, for their
individual benefit, trusting that some loophole
of, escape may be opened.
For a brief period still the nation ialtit
struggle on, but as it Iris baited all , the ofigt.
nal designs of the conspirators, and driven in
all their outworks, the time cannot be far dis
tant whew all wear remaining hopes will •be
destroyed, the authority of the Union fully re
established throughout the length and breadth
of the land, and the ehiele of the Yek.-llion be
appropriately punished.
THE BRECirixi4 MGR PAPEriq are ..mooooivoir
delighted at the revelations of the celehrsted
% Viryck Committee, and at the late scene
in the Rcuse of Representatives of the United
States, produced. , by the resolutiOns of that
committee. And upon the revelations of this
committee and the vote of censure in the
Bouse, they propose to arraign the whole
Republican party, and to prepare for the
coming elections on the encouraging theory
that the Republicans are a set of persistent
scoundrels, and that all the existing integrity
has lodged among those Breckinridge politi
cians who have not yet taken up arms in com
pany with FLOYD, JACOB THOMPSON, and
linxemanmon himself. It would not be an
ungraceful sequel to this exhibition, if these
Breckinridge papers would show that among
the most industrious petitioners for favors at
the departments of the General Administra
tion were prominent advocates of the present
Breckinridge organization ; nor would it do
injustice to any honest histery if the ad
ditional fact were stated, that while a number
of these partisans received valuable contracts
or jobs, they did not obtain them because
they made corrupt propositions, but because
the Government acted fairly by all, and
needed the aid of all in its darkest hours of
doubt and despair. Partisans in such a despe
rate strait, however, cannot stop to speak the
truth. They have a mission to perform. The
DreeLluridge leaders in Penn Sylvania are
everywhere known to have supported the
Heaven-defying corruptions of F.Lovo, TWICE;
and .1 - Aeon THOMPSON, under the Administra
tion of the Great Criminal, JAMES ISUCHANAN,
and they are now universally befieved to sym
pathize with the Great Rebellion, so steadily
.t fisted by themselyee i and - therefore it is a
necessity—it is a life-and-death matter that
they should raise a cry of corruption against
re Republicans; and the Van Wyek Report
has given them the opportunity.
NOTHING THAT has been done by the Ad.
ministration' or by Congress can be cited to
show that the Republican party is in favor of
emancipating the slaves of the South. The act
abolishiug slavery in the District of Columbia
was demanded by the highest military and
national necessity, was voted for by Demo
crats and Border• State men, and stands justi
fied by the highest constitutional authorities.
If there is further emancipation, it results
from the cruelties and insanities of the
rebels themselves ; and had Judge DOUGLAS
been chosen President the revolt against his
Administration would have been as bitter as
that against Mr. Lmeor,s 3 s, and the liberation
of slaves as general as since the commence
ment of our present struggle. There is not a
Convention et: the Republican party that has
demanded emancipation at the hands of Con
gress; and if the supporters of emancipation in
the National Legislature could be assembled
they weida prove as a pally what the Chief
Magistrate is daily proving, that they do not
regard emancipation as one of the objects of
the war.
Tan BEST WAY to answer a Breckinridger,
when he insists that the property of the rebels
shall not be confiscated, is to ask him what the
Southern slaveholders would have done had
positions been reversed, they being as strong
as the present loyal States, and the latter com
mencing the war 7 Would they have hesitated
to confiscate every description of property ?
Would they have refrained from filling their
prisons with suspected persons, from hanging
spies, and from dealing devastation on all
sides? The answer to these inquiries is found
in the fact that having begun the war without
Causes they have stolen and destroyed hun
dreds of millions of the property of the Fede
ral Government, have repudiated hundreds of
millions of just debts, and bard sacrificed and
confiscated hundreds of millions of the pro
perty of their own people.
THE BRECKIERIDGE LELDERE, having brought
the Government to the verge of ruin and in
volved the country in a terrible war, despite
the peaceful tendencies of the times in which
they bore rule, now propose to take the reins
of power from the hands of the unquestion
ably loyal, and sail the ship on their own ac
count.
Ranson BnowsLow.--On May-day this patriotic
end popular gentleman eat for his portrait to Mr.
Gutekunet, the photographer, Arch street, and the
result was a splendid carte de visite, which McAl
lister & Brother, 72S Chestnut street, published on
Monday, and have already gold very largely.
LETTER FROM "OCCASIONAL."
Wasarsa-rort, May 5
General McClellan bas undoubtedly shown
great strategic ability in compelling the rebels
to abandon a position which he deemed almost
impregnable. Ilia despatch announcing their
evacuation of a stronghold so elaborately for
tified is generally accepted as the augury of
another and a nonclunive victory. Nothing
seems to be necessary to complete the panic
and the demoralization of the enemy, but
ru,...tat by Land and *Bider. This has been or
dered, and probably before my letter is in
type you may receive the evidence of its suc
cess, curropondent in the Baltimore Sus,
of this morning, describes the configuration
of the region between Yorktown and Rich
mond as follows :
An examination of the great military map of
Virginia, published by order of the State, shows
that the peninsula widens a little beyond Yorktown,
and there is no stream above the rank of creek un
til the ci Chiekahominy 11 river is reached. Pre°
roads extend from Yorktown to near Williamsburg,
which place is described by persons here who know
the country thoroughly, as on a dead level. Two
;Veda run from Williamsburg to Richmond. One
musts the " Glitekahonliny river near its &in
fluence with the James river, and skirts the north
bank of the latter and crosses numerous creeks.
The other road, or the northern route to Richmond,
flits parallel with York Ayer to New Rent, 0, U.,
and thence two roads to Richmond, one straight
west, crossing the Chickahominy at a point be
tween swamps. The other road runs more north
erly, and is not out by swamps or large streams. It
is supposed that General McClellan's gunboats and
tramports can go up the York river, and thus more
readily furnish supplies to his army.
The first cans° of this sudden panic. of the
rebels was undoubtedly the overwhelming pre
parations of McClellan for the siege, which
was to commence to-day, and the admirable
diversion upon Fredericksburg of McDowell,
Augur, Banks, Shields, Geary, and Fremont.
The last strategy has been bitterly complained
of in certain (Platters, but it has splendidly
vindicated itself'. With the map of Virginia
before you, you can, almost at a glance, realize
how successfully the enemy may be fought
and followed. Every arrangement has been
made to cross thellappahannock at Fredericks
burg, if that should be deemed necessary, so
that no attempt can be made by the rebels
upon the column which rests on that river.
Indeed, In the universal fear that by this time
has e t alt en the whole populace of Rich:no:A
and its gurroundings, I would not be surprised
if our forces made an advance from Ire_
derickshurg and took the capital of the so
called Confederacy on the other flank. At
this writing great and general praise is
awarded to McClellan, and if his pursuit
is persevered in, as I have no doubt it will
be, the measure, of his renown will be filled to
overflowing. Simultaneous with this great
neWs conies the intelligence of the gotscualion
of Corinth. In this quarter, as in Virginia,
the panic of the rebels must be fearful. Be
hind and around them tho great army of Hal
leek, which is now, or soon will be, in Mem
phis, and which, this done, may advance to
the rebel front by means of the river, they see
before them the gunboats of Foote and. Pokier,
and behold the great capital of the Southwest,
New Orleans, in the possession of the Union
where can they look for succor or as
cape ? Their only alternative is in a prompt and
graceful submission to the authority of the
Government.
When the State Department makes public
the reasons which have actuated the President
in directing the arrest and confinement of cer
tain suspected persons, the partisans who have
been so highly offended, and have sought re
venge and recompense in our courts, will bang
their he in shame. They have demanded
to know why they and their friends lave-been
imprisoned, and their demand will be answered
in such a way as will satisfy all loyal men
that the course of the Administration was emi
nently sagacious and just. OCCASIONATa.
ALL ttemein to PresidentNowa* and his
constitutional advisers! They have done their
whole duty to the American people. Now,
while vmarti - 1 .- doting over the triumphs of
the army and navy, let us not forget the enor
mous and unprecedented responsibilities and
labors of the officers who haite had to bear the
burdens devolved upon the several depart
melds of the Government. *hen they came
into power, they found a vast ruin left them to
restore s to rebnild, and to reanimate, and
within a year they have not only done this
great work, but have put a vast army into tho
-field, created a mighty navy, and astonished
the civilized world by their wisdom, their for
bearance, their vigor, and their patriotism.
WIIIE ntairia) there not he a striking corres
pondence in the actions and impulses, as there
is in the objects, of the rebels and the Breckin
ridgers ? The latter openl,y co-operated with
the
_Southern madmen up to the fall of Sump
ter. Their objects and sympathies are still akin.
Through their infernal machinations there is
weeping in almost every loyal household, and
the shadow of still greater grief tails across
every loyal threshold. Are such men to be
trusted again ? Are these fit eounselloys of the
people in these fearful times ? Loyal Repub
licans and loyal Democrats, you are to answer
these questions at the polls next October.
The Pennsylvanians at the Battle of
Shiloh.
The only Pennsylvania regiment engaged in the
battle of Shiloh MU the Seventy-seventh, com
manded by Colonel Stambaugh. They were at
tached to General MeCook's division, and that offi
cer in tie omelet report tells what part they took in
That great battle. Creneral McCook saya:
Being satisfied that the enemy had changed his
point of attack from the right to my extreme left,
1 ordered Colonel Stambaugh's Seventy-seventh
Regiment Pennrylvania Volunteers to take up a
position on my extreme left, and repel the assault
there being made ; he immediately engaged them,
and at this moment the contest along the whole
line became terrible. Colonel Kirk's brigade now
Was ordered to engage, and he arrived precLely at
the right moment, as the oartridges of General
Rousseau's brigade were all expended. General
Rousaeau's brigade fell back through Colonel
Kirk's lino, and retired to the woods in the rear,
to be supplied with ammunition. Three noun be
fore, being convinced from the stabbornness with
which the enemy was contendinff, and the rapid
discharges of my regiments, that their forty rounds
would soon be exhausted, I dompLiehed Lieutenant
Campbell, my ordnance officer, for teams to bring
up ammunition. He arrived at the opportune mo
ment with three wagon loads. * * * *
Colonel Stambaugh, with the Seventy-seventh
_Pennsylvania regiment of volunteers, early in the
action, being ordered to watch the enemy upon my
left, was at a later period ordered to engage. His
regiment, partially isolated from the rest of the di
vision, steadily moved over an open field in ita
front under a heavy fire. While here the enemy's
cavalry charged this regiment twice, but was ea,cle
time repulsed with heavy loss. Col. Stambaugh
bad the satisfaction of receiving the sword Ooh
Bnitelee, of the 'Twentieth Tanneries, who surren
dered to him as a prisoner. Lieut. Col. Housem
and Major Stambaugh ably seconded the efforts of
Col. Stambaugh.
Pllol , 3l9Selt CorrEx.—The following appears in
the New York Herald of yesterday, and we take
leave to add, from personal conviction and kgow
,
ledge, that a more loyal man than the mom
plished writer does not live :
2'o the Editor of the Herald:
1820 P/51/3 STRAIWZ, PUILADHLPHI/1 9 May 3, 1862.
Mowing that you would not be designedly unjust, I
call your attention to an error in the statement of your
letter writer from the vicinity of Yorktown. It is in
your paper of Friday. In giving a sketch of the life of
my West Point clsesmate, General Fitz John Porter, he
mentions several of the clans who Bow occupy dietin.
guiehed relation. iu our army, cud then among t h ose
who are by the rebel ranks he includes my name. I de
sire you to favor. Me by announcing that neither in
thought, word, nor deed am I a rebel, but a loyal citizen
of the best Government in the world. I was brought up
under the stars and skeipzi, and mean to adhere M them
as long as I live ; and I intend to reside, if nothing un
foreseen sheuld occur, where I have resided for seven
years past, in Philadelphia, where loyalty is the rule and
rebels are not countecanced. I will only add that your
letter writer probably Ponsulted a It feidster of officer.
and graduates," and finding that I was from Georgia,
and had resigned—albeit so far back as 1855—took it for
granted tbat I was in the ranks of rebellion, a decided
non sequitur, in one case, at least. Your paper is widely
circulated. Those ip distant places who have lost eight
of me would be misled by the statement referred to. I
have, therefore, respectfully to request that you will
publish this note, and 011ie, yours, respectfully,
HENRY COPPEN,
Professor Vraversity of Penneylvanla, Philadelphia.
AMERICANS AT LEOHOBN.--112 a Leghorn paper
(the Indzeatre Commere:ale del Porto-Franeo ds
Lzvorno, of April 14,) we find the following list of
Americans registered at the United Skates 04fifitz
late at Leghorn, for the week ending Saturday,
12th of April, 1862:
Andrew J. Stevens, consul ; Mr. William Hoff
man, of New York; Mr. ginnlyb G. Thompson, of
New York; Mrs. V. Si. Thompson, of New York;
Mr. R. J. Monks, of Boston ; Mrs. R. J. Monks, of
Boston ; Mr. Henry M. Brooks, of New York;
Mrs. Emily A. Brooks, of New York; Mr. De
Wolfe Beuett, Hallowell. Malmo: Miss gecett,
Hallowell, Maine.
LARGE POSITIVE SALE OF BOOTS AND BiIORS,
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attention of purchasers la requested to the large as
sortment of boots, shoes, brogans, travelling-bags,
and straw goods, viz : Panama, straw, and palm
bats: Shaker hoods, women's and Wean' Leghorn
and fancy straw hats, bloomers, LO., embracing
first-clam seasonable goods, of city and Eastern ma
nufacture, to be peremptorily sold, by catalogue,
on four months' credit, commencing with the straw
goods, this morning, at 10 o'clock, by John B.
Myers & Co., auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 234 Market
street.
SALE TAM DAY-STOCKS AND REAL ESTATE.-
%lODINE it Sone' large sale, at the Exchange, will
commence precisely at twelve o'clock. See cata
logues and advertisements.
' F k :, -' ; 4 i ' I ; TUESDAY, MAY 6, 1862.
THE EVACUATION OF YORKTOWN.
[correspondence of The Press.)
BEFORE YORKTOWN, May 3, 1862.
I would like to give you an idea, if such a thing
were possible, of bow we are placed on this penin
sula. A fortnight of life here hes been more parti
cularly warlike than any we have.yet enjoyed since
the commencement of the war. it hoe experiences
long to be treasured—full of meaning, strange and
varied. Here we are in a new country to all intents
and purposes—a sleepy, quiet, and not very inviting
place in time armee, halt cultivated, raw and un
finished. From the tent where I am writing I have
a very pleasant and characteristic view. It is soft
and genial, with a cloud or two passing over the
sky, and the Steaks, From a kitchen Are insinuating
Nell among the pine and cedar branches of the ar
bor above me. There is an open space in front
which might have been a meadow land, but the
grass has been trodden and worn away. There ail ,
'deep ruts still remaining, left by a train of
quartermasters' wagons who passed along a few
days since when we had the heavy shower of rain.
A regiment is lying out 'beyond, in a low nestling
encampment of shelter tents and huts of clay, ex
temporized by the ingenious soldiers of the line.
Fees , aolillef§ are pitching quoits, and seem to se
interested in the game, for they have been busily
engaged since long before breakfaat—and a little
farther off a corporal is leisurely drilling a couple
of stupid privatee, who go through the motions
awkwardly. If we pase up to the end of the en
campment we cross a ravine, and enter what was a
field, but what is the parade ground of game 'trai
ler). companies. In the distance is a farm-house,
very much abused, from which a small red flag is
flying to denote that it is a hospital. Beyond teis
Louie is a long range of woods, thickly filled with
soldiers, and coestituting the advance of our right
wing. Here we occasionally see Lowe's balloon
mysteriously sailieg up front the trees to its star
ternary thousand feet. There is constant firing,
too, sometimes musketry and sometimes artillery,
although I have not heard a reports for the last
half hour.
This is the right of the division. 'lmmediately
behind us, at the distance' of a furlong from the
tent where I am staying, are the headquarters of
the army. It would be impossible to imagine a
prettier encampment than that occupied by Gene
ral McClellan. It is on the border of a wood, and
very pear a running steara, to which we are in
debted for our fresh water. A rising lawsi has
been chosen sloping up towards the forest. It has
been ditched and graded, and the tents arranged
with care, Most Of the tents are plain wall teats,
with arbors of green in front. The General'a is in
the centre, and. near to it is the flag.staff from
which our colors are floating. The French princes,
and the other menibeita of his staff : , are quartered
around him, and with the quarters for servants and
horses, orderlies and attendants, the encampment
of the General is as large as most of those Invalided
by a regiment. A guard of Zouaves surround the
lines and keep off curious people, whom I find to bo
as plenty here as in more civilized and peaceful
communities. We occasionally see our little emu
mender. Ile is very modest and unpretending,
and bas a way of moving about at the most un
expected .times and in the most unusual places.
An evening or two since, just before "retreat," I
was passing within the camp lines of a neighboring
regiment. There was a little bustle in a group of
soldiers near the quartermaster's tent, and I
turned Wend, The men stood to attention"
and gave a salute, while a single horseman rode
rapidly along attended by an orderly. A fatigue
cap was on his head, and he wore a blue blcuSe
Without any marks of midi. I recognised the
well-known features of General McClellan and
watched him as he passed on. The members of his
staff started Oftef hint as soon as they learned of his
departure, and it was amusing to witness the eager
haste they manifested to roach the General. The
young Duke de Chartres, a splendid rider, Colonel
Astor, and Major Modell, of the marine corps,
were among those I noticed in this hasty pursuit.
This is in the neighborhood of Wormley's creek, a
narrow, sluggish stream, very popular in ourcamps
OR Recount of the good quality of the oysters and
game with which it abounds. I saw a soldier yes
terday coming up the bank with a pair of ducks
be had caught, and a negro behind him carrying a
basket of oysters. Ire wanted them for ti the
lieutenant," he said, and was evidently pleased
with his great success. Beyond the creek, there
is a broad corn-field, which extends along to the
river, and retains some portion of the old fence.
work; it branches out to a point formed by the
confluence of the creek and York river, and is now
being planted with Mese guns and cannon at heavy
calibre. Here is the Battery Number One, from
which the batteries at Gloucester Point were shelled.
A large house stands near the river, with garden
around it, and ea.rthworkit built upon ruined
fruit-trees. • The house is deserted—nothing re
mains but a bedstead and a tow articles of furniture.
From this house we can see tee rebel works at
Yorktown very distinctly. The , tell flegspele s with.
the rebel flag could be aeon with toe naked
eye; with a plain field-glass the colors of the fiag
were easily distinguished. A low line of water
batteries stretched along the shore, and occasionally
a form would be seen moving past the embrasures.
We were se near that the sounds of rebel music
could be heard ; and on the maiden of toy first
visit I distinctly heard their drums and fifes.
There could be no mistaking the sounds, for in the
camps of our army no music is allowed, and at all
the military duties of the day—rovoille, molest
guard, retreat, and tattoo—the fife and drum are
dispensed with. This is done as a precadtionary
measure,•to prevent the enemyafrom knowing our
numbers and mot location. Out in the stream our
gunboats are crawling about, occasionally creeping
up to the point, firing a shell and floating baok to
their anchorage. •
The last day or two.hee been very gigot, Some
regard it as the calm before the storm—others think
that the enemy is preparing a surprise, and that,
before we are aware of their intentions, they will
Wu a flank and fall on the rear. Then (hero is
the strange, but far more probable rumor, that
Magruder is about to evacuate, and that there will
be no fight on the peninsula at all. This is the im
pression that is deep /aims. I .m confident, how
ever, that if a battle does not take Owe, it will not
be because it is not anticipated. I heard a general
of high station say a few days ago that on this penin
sula would be fought one of the greatest battles of
the age—that it would be bloody and deeisive, and
would end this war. I have talked with officers,
too, who bad a more serious idea of affairs here,
They seemed to think that within the parallels Of
Magruder lay the whole strength of the Southern
Confederacy, and that it would be a great victory
to drive the rebels out of their works and force teem
to meet us in en open country. This is the reason
given for our refusal thus far to shell the enemy
and storm their entrenchments. That would cost
life, and could be followed by no itittnediate result.
It Is thought that MoClellan desires to perfect his
arrangements here in the front, to send up and oc
cupy Gloucester Point, and either take the enemy
in the rear or cetera him to abandon his position,
General Franklin's division has been lying off
Ship Point for three weeks, ready for some
such service as this. It has been living on
steamboats and transports in a most uncom
fortable manner, within five minutes' sail of
shore, so that it may move to any point at a
moment's warning, and this circumstance, known
to all here, and I think known throughout the
North, convinces us that McClellan has •a plan
deeper and more intricate than any now apparent.
I concluded the above paragraph yesterday, and
laid it aside to await the mail of this morning, But
Morning comes with greater news than any I have
yet recorded, and 'resume this unfinished sheet for
the purpose of giving you the story. • The rebel
army has 8#1,2191.0.akil forces ore in
possession—the cavalry, artillery, and regular
infantry are zn hot pursuit. This comes as a cu
rives climax to our dreams last night, and will, I
am afraid, sound strangely in connection with the
flippant sentences and crude theories I spent yes
terday in writing.
It was not yet daybreak when the adjutant came
into oar tent, with the 131112011LIC0111Villi that imme
diate marching orders had been received, and that
we were to move at once on Yorktown. Of course
there was baste, bustle, and confusion—harried•
and incomplete toilets, buckling on Swords, sling
ing haversacks, and every possible preparation for
the march. The men were falling rapidly into
fine) orderlies were galloping hither and thither,
staff-officers, and aids, and field-officers were tu
multuous and excitable. It was a strange contrast
to the scene of the evening before, when we all ant
at the tent-doors smoking our brier-woed pipes,
watching the smoke curling around the new-b9rn
crescent, sentimentalizing about home, or specu
lating about the morrow and what it might bring
forth.
The cavalry have gone ahead, and there go the
artillery. Lumbering, screaming, thundering, the
guns and caissons pass along, the captains shouting,
and the horses impatient and fierce. Whey eluden
their pace before going very far, for very soon the
words are passed, and they pass into the edge of
last night's picket lines. We cannot be rash in
these strange districts. Ambuscades and infernal
machines and unimaginable contrivances are to be
dreaded. Bo they pass along cautiously, steadily,
surely. The outer parallel of the Union works is
passed. They are now in the disputed ground,
over which the swift rifle balls have been con
stantly going and coming within the last few
weeks. In a short time the rebel works
are reached. It is wonderful how close we
have been to the enemy. It seemed to me
but a minute or two is riding over a field and
through a thicket separating the extreme lines of
tooth armies. A little negro hut stood at the side
of the grove, but its inhabitants had gone, and it
bore evidences of having been used as a shelter for
the rebel pickets during their occupation of the vii
bp, one name—"l". F. Trion, N. C. Yola."—be ,
ing cut, in at least three places, by some ambitious
rebel who was fortunate enough to possess a sharp
penknife. Before daybreak our soldiers were in
Yorktown, and the sky was scarcely clear before
the correspondents were behind them, prowling
around huts, camps, and the ramparts, with raven
nous pens and small slips of paper, very much after
the fashion of Mr. Diatoms' newspaper men in
BEYOND YORKTOWN. May 4
"Bleak House," who reported the wonderful ease
of spontaneoue combnetion.
How ball I tell what the gentlemen of Bases
paper and ravenous little pens felt and thought and
saw, as, passing the outer line of ramparts that in
the morning mike bad loomed up so grimly and
defiant, but now looked harmiele and deserted, they
entered the boasted stronghold? How strange to
think that these were the dikes and embrasures
that by day end by night, for weeks peat, had worn
an sir of so much mystery, and were the objects of
so much fearful interest and strange solicitude and
lucid speculation? But this Tenet the time for snob
reflections. We Can see, as we pause on an eleva
tion here, the lines of infantry jogging forward
briskly; some stragglers with heavy haversacks, who
rub their eyes indignantly at the reveille and
seem to be scarcely awake, even now, are bringing
up the rear. Some few of them are singing
" Dixie ;" many of them are boisterous, and every
one is talking to his nei g hbor. The sun is coming
up from the broad waters, and the long line of
winding bayonets is gleaming and flashing in the
crisp air, that seems musical with the hum of
voices, su.d the ring of sabres, and the tramp of
many feet. Right ahead of us, the rebel standard
floats defiantly in the light breeze that is blowing
from the river. The nice look as It eagerly , with
haired stamped upon their Dives, and some of them
gaze forward with distrust. The column halts for a
single moment. A shout, dull and far away, is borne
with reverberation to our ears. The flag is hauled.
down ! The DIM are dashing forward and cheering
most tremendously. The dull roar that sounded
like the plaintive beat of a surging sea, has bonnie
a. sublime and mighty chorus, like the boom of the
rolling breakers near a headland.
Wo are fairly within the rebel works. We have
plied their entrenohluvoto and eastioue in safety‘
with tumultuous joy and shouts of triumph. The
rebel flag is nowhere to be seen. Everything is in
the most profound and hopelessly inextricable confu
sion. Vamp equipage is strewn around, and looks
forlorn, dejected, miserable. No curl of smoke
goes up from any tent to speak of hospitality and
plenty. The grtund is trodden and cut whir
broad wagon-tracks, and littered with the tokens of
the foe's discomfiture and haste. Here is a drum
that, to make it as inefficient as possible, has
been punctured with gaping holes all over
its head. There are some picks and sho
vels, to which the sacred soil still clings
in clods. To our right are vast piles of shot
and shell. To our rear the second line of defences
stretches outward to the coast, like a chain of dis
tant hills. Those batteries, at tire commencement
of the siege, were said to berg minuted one bun,
dred and twenty guns, of formidable calibre.
There are not half, probably not quarter, that
number visible now. They are few and far be
tween, end it is said that all of ream. vp2Aced.
here, again, we come to a caisson, that seems to
have been struck by one of our shells, for it is shat
tered almost to pieces. The gun has been unlimbered
and removed{ Whichever way we turn, we en
counter relics of the departed enemy. They are
such as are common to every military camp, except
that they seem to have been disarranged, for some
iinnecountahle reason, in the night. Nettling has
'sten burned, apparently, and nothing left that
could be conveniently removed. The flight seems
to have been much hurried, but not accompanied
with a panic. It was precipitate, anti yet I might
almost say deliberate.
We are startled by the explosion of a shell, and
very coon the word is passed from mouth to mouth,
that several of our generals and an unaccountable
number of privates have been killed. Not without
a feeling of excitement, and, perhaps, not wholly
without a slight tremor of trepidation, I hasten to
trace the statement to its source. Much to my re
lief, I find it greatly exaggerated, although the
truth is sad enough. TV99 of our men have boon
allied and several slightly wounded by the ex
plosion of a percussion shell, which had been
partially buried, so I learn, near tne base of the
rebel flaglstaff• It is a very fearful thing that
death should visit such a scene of triumph, and
sadden moments of the wildest joy. As the
wounded are borne away to the hospital, where
the red flag itillowly waving in the sunlight, a
silence falls upon the witnesses. It is but a mo
ment—but in the calm and tranquil beauty of the
Sabbath it comes to many a rugged soldier in the
throng, with gentler thoughts, and memories of
years.
But now the quiet is disturbed in an unexpected
quarter- We cap hear the steady booming of guns
for some miles up the river. What does it mean '!
ire ask. Every eager face asks the same ideation
anxiously, and many speculations are indulged in.
At length I hear that eitil gunboats have gone up the
river this morning, and probably are shelling small
rebel batteries along the coast. The contraband,
who has just appeared upon the scene, with a grate
ful sense of his
own -61perkanee1 can give his myriad
of questioners but little information on this point,
although in everything else he appears to be aufiat.
He twists an odd-lookinu skull-cap in lib fingers
nervousiy, and by dint of rolling his eyes, is grow
ing very voluble. He mieht h ave emousaud
tongues, however, and fail to answer half the
questions that are propounded to him in
chorus. Where are they gone? When did
they go? What did they go for? How many of
them were there ! What did they say, and think,
and enact ? Each of these interrogatories was
propounded a dozen times at least in my hearing,
and appeared to afford unspeakable gratification to
the Ethiopian, who at intervals would swing him
self about and indulge in a burst of hearty laugh
ter, throwing his arms above his head to prevent
asphyxia.
While scenes such as these were transpiring in and
about the town, in such countless varieties that an
instantaneous photograph could not have clone fall
justice to them all, our cavalry and artillery were
dashing down the road to Williamsburg. The
enemy could not have left many hours before, and
the possibility of overtaking them was not unpro
mising. It was well on to noon before the long
line of the pursuers was out of sight—swallowed
up in the dust, the glare j and the horizon ; sad
many. of us:fancied we could hear the thunder of
their forward march an hour after.
I can elaborate no more. It is necessary that
these hurried lines, penath,a on a convenient bank,
where I can rest my portfolio, should be sent off to
catch the steamboat on its way to Fortress Monroe.
Long before this column is read the story of the
retreat will have been told by the anticipating te
legraph. It has been my aim simply to tell you
some of the incidents that crowd upon me in this
dramatic and bustling hour. We are moving on ra
platy, and while this goes to Philadelphia, I go on
my way to Richmond. The soldiers are passing on,
regiment after regiment, and our flag flying above
them. There is a shout from a crowd beyond the
Sold, and a company of horsemen galloping through
the rising dust. " There goes McClellan," says , a
sergeant, who has stopped to strap a oomrade's
knapsack. !! Three ckeyrs hr him, Now; boys,
we're off to Richmond." - R. T. S.
LETTER FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
Evacuation of Yorktown—Heavy Firing—The
Captured Guns—Flag of Truce—Dead Body
Washed Ashore—The Merrimac: Her Ap•
pearance canned—Trial of, a New Projec
tile—From New Orleans—Astounding News.
[Special Correspondence of The Pram]
FORTEXSS MONROB, anti gy, DIAT 4.
;Mot as I sat dOWD to write my letter, this morning,
there came the astounding news that Yorktown had been
evacuated by the enemy.
The news came in the shape of a despatch from fie%
Wl c elelfsa to Goa. Wool. It says that the evacuation
was consummated some time during the night. The
despatch Is dated at three o'clock this morning. Bu
nton' of a needy evacuation have been rife for some days,
hut no faith wag Igrkbed h therm, and your correspondent
did not think them of sufficient importance to chronicle
in the columns of The Press.
During the whole of last night the tiring of heavy gnus
semi tetslfle, keel u aor thought ihnt the bombardment Mid
commenced in earnest, and no people were more surprised
than were the residents here to know that General Mc-
Clellan was in Yorktown, and that the enemy bad eve-
Cliated.
This occupation of Yorktown places us in possession of
nearly four kundred tinge guns, many of them rifled, and
nearly all in good condition except that they are spiked,
but these spikes can be easily drawn and 14@guagrourlor ,
ed serviceable again.
A flag of truce was sent out yesterday. No Southern
papers were received except two or three copies of the
Norfolk Dag Book, and this Oldy contains a few doleful
leissestatiens at the 11l eueeem of the beniederate ar-
The body of an officer in the Delaware regiment, bat
whose name I could not ascertain, was washed ashore at
Mill Creek bridge yesterday afteraozo. It .I...uppolood
that he has been foully dealt with, as all hie front teeth
are knocked in, and there is a severe bruise as though
made with a heavy blow over the temple.
The Xerrinitic Pee Out to-day cruising around In the
direction of ()tansy Island. but not daring to come within
range of the guns of the Fortress, or of those of the
Galena and Monitor. Crowds of people are watching
her movement@ from the docks, but there is no probability
that she will ventw a down to-day. The bay le i n floe
condition for her to come out; the water being smooth and
there being no wind.
She presents quite a changed appearance, and many
failed to recognize her. She la of aNM teed co l or , ver y
low in the water, with a long prow, and her desk it
crowded with men.
Now that Gen. Wool, and the Associated Press agent,
send almost daily doapatohes to the Northern press, the
lettere of the correarandents here era earnewhat old by
the lino they get to the newspaper Maces. No "spe
cials" are allowed to be seat oval the Government line of
telegraph.
• An impromptu trial of a neW Pi9jodile was held a few
days since from one of our batteries. A party of rebete
undertook to burn a bridge, the weedy of which was ne
cessary to the operations of the siege. A few ordinary
shell were sent at them without much effect, when ono
of a new kind of incendiary saw, lately patented, Will
fired at them. It burst In the woods just beyond, setting
them on fire in an instant, while the rebels ran like
frightened sheep. They did not expect ouch a missile.
I hear from Now Orleans, that out of ilio eaaa rte
fl ee t of six gunboats at that place, we have sunk two and
taken four.
A contraband is reported to have brought in a rumor
tbat Eicbniond le in possession of General McDowell,
/t i t pi ply. poenible, but at lam accounts (two weeks
since) be was at Fredericksburg, only sixty miles from
Bicbmond ; and an that city was comparatively defence
less, be may bare taken it. We wilt soon know.
WEAT FMB
The ay is cloudy, and thew° hi a prospect of rain.
There is scarcely a breath of wind, and tho bay is
enicoth. A heavy ttorni Is looked for before many days.
MATOU.
FROM WASHINGTON,
The Pacific Railroad Bill to Pass.
Mit of the Freueh Meister nod Others
tO YorKtown.
THEY WITNIBB Trg OCCUPATION
The Ammunition and Stores Destroyed by the
Rebels.
Assumption of the Interest on tho Public Debt.
PROVISIONS OF THE BILL
Proposed Donation of Lands for Agricultural
Colleges
ANOTWER CONFISCATION PILL orraneo
Special Despatches to •' The Press:.
Nay 5, 1867
Visit of the French Minister and other
prominent Gentlemen to Yorktown—
Wima they sow.
I learn that the French Minister, Mr. MEACIRR, in
company with Ib mare. FRANK. P. BLsny Sr.,F Atm. BLAia
Jr., ex -governor of Ohio, and a numeer of other geutletneo
hokim ff dit•tinS lit.ited pindlielle In the Government, lot
here on Friday last for Fortress Monroe, determined to
get a glimpse of Yorktown, and if fortunate enough, to
be in at the death " itd rebel defenders.
After a very pleasant - Within which none tint the most
propitious weather was enjoyed, and nought but the beet
spirits prevailed, the excursion party reached Old Point.
After a brief sojourn here, and still briefer obsaryatiQg pf
the F ,„th. 0- interest, the advance upon Yorktown was
begun. The famous old peninsula was reached in safety
by the voyageurs, directly after the evacuation had
taken place.
They had jest arrived in time to witness that memora
ble i.Mnday scone. the waking of our legions to the start
ling fact, the reveille, the hurrying in mid out of eager
mom the mounting or the lm patmit ciyalry, the forward
more, the occupation of the deserted town, that lay as
dim and peaceful in the distance at some village church
yard, and tho tearing down of the rebel ilag that flaunted
with a tacrilegious wave in the Sabbath sunlight. All
ttle w-aa witnessed by the party, and much more, that, if
less romantic, is pone the less enjoyable, and worth re
cording.
the gentlemen having returned from their recontiote
game to.day, yeur eorreeriandhat and obtained,
of them not only an interview, but many facto of in
tcreet.
They report, that with the exception of two negroes,
who appeared to be generally satisfia with the
the town was wholly deserted by the rebels, who, prior
to their French leave, managed to produce a "confusion
worse confounded " state of affairs—at which sort of
WOlii they are unusually felicitous.
The fortifications, they atate, are of the most powerful
description, and most elaborately constructed. They
might have been defended stubbornly by leas than one
fourth of the army Which deserted them as untenable;
and in every respect they show evidence of Walt engi
neering skill, no less than a blind confidence of success.
The proofs of sudden flight are plainly visible on every
band—in the litter of camp equipage; in the abandon
:mentor 'vast 'acres or saanunition, which article is daily
becoming scarce with the enemy, and in the general
dishabille (if I may so speak of a camp) and wild dis
order which met the eye at every turn. •
It was ascertained that an Immense amount of powder
had been thrown into the rivsr, together with implements
of peace as 'well as of war. fixes, picks, and !bevels,
whose labor had vainly expended itself on profitless
fortificatienet were pitched overboard in the rancor of
revenge and bitter disappointment. Pikes and well
male eabres shared the same fate by thousands. All of
these arms will doubtless be recovered.
The paeiage of our army through Yorktown WAR A
grand epectacle, worthy the easel of the beet historical
painter en the continent. No canvas cane ever repro
dx,ee its strange impressiveness and spirit. The passage
of the army occupied many hours.
General IsleCLio.tss is active, confident, and vigilant
as ever, and performs more drudgery than the meanest
private in the ranks. He shares alike the labors and the
confidence of hie army, and with it will share the honor
of the victory.
Assumption of Interest on the Public
The goose pooood it bill to- doy, providing for increased
revenues from importa to pay the interest on the public
debt. Tide bill allows such portion of the tax as may be
finessed by any State or Territory, or the District of. Co
lorable, to be paid or satigiedi in Whole or in part, by
the release of such State, Territory, or District, duly ex
ecuted to the United States. of any liquidated or deter
mined claim pertaining thereto of equal amount against
the United States • pravided that incase of ouch release
filch State, Territory, or ><ibtrini shall be allowed the
same abatement of the amount of such tax as would he
allowed in cast of the payment of the same in money,
11 /dal titian bo conotruod ae applying to such claim of
States for the reireiburnment of expenses incurred by
them in euroillente sabsiating, clothing, supplying, arm
ing, equipping, paying, and transporting its hoops em
ployed in aiding to suppress the present insurrection
against the tt.itfa finites, as shall be plead with the pro
per officers of the United States before the 30th of. July
next, and in such cases the abatement of fifteen per cent.
shall be made on such potion of said tax se may be paid
by the allsimmas ir, or to part, the
same as if the final settlemontaud liunidation thereof bad
itreen madobeforrrthe 311 h of June
The Case of the Ella Watley and San
lingo de Cuba.
To nravtnt any chance of international trouble con
cerning the seizure of the Ella Worley at a point some
hundreds of miles from our coast, her case will be
rt adjudi-
.
sated in Admit%lty Court, In maner @KA form as wig
geoied to be proper in such cases by the Law Officers of
the British Crown.
The seamen of the Santiago de Cuba will probably
get A thousand dollars each for their attars of Min mo
ney. Heretofore, upwards of half that sum has been
allottod to seamen. It is estimated that Commodore
Mclition, of the Gulf squadron, and Commodore ALDEN
will get a hundred thousand dollars each as prize money.
The Coy share (one 641) of the proceeds of
sales of prizes will pay for all the vessels that have been
purchased on naval account.
In Relation to an Exchange of Prisonete.
Senator WlLsott introd.6.l the tollowit s to-Utty
"Resolved, That humanity and sound policy require
that the officers' and men of the army and navy of the
United States held as prisoners by the forces new in
arms against the authority of the Governmeht ebould 6.
released from captivity, by such exchange's as may be
needful ;- and that such exchanges, made as a measure
of humanity and military expediency, would recognise
HOMY the admitted facts that those foreoa in arms afiltatt
the authority of the United States hold hi captivity per-
Bone whom it is desirable to release from captivity by
necessary Practical measures."
Appointment of
_postmasters . in Penn-
Sylvania
JAMES 0. SLOAN, postmaster McLaughlin's Store, West
moreland county, Pennsylvania, vice BAsursi. 111cLAtTarc
tax, resigned.
postmaster at Troy Centre, Crawford
county, Pennsylvania, vice JOHN G. STRATTON, de
ceased.
EMMIEM
At WAkaad, Carrot! county - , Maryland, ELIAS
WOODS 111 appointed postmaster, Tice Annstun ats-
SELL, deceased.
New Post °dice Established.
go lOr~a Sidi., arm...trona- county, rounaylvania, and
JA:ans T. FOnNR appointed postmaster; between the
OffiCH of Adams and Col !oscine, about one mil. off route.
The. office is to be supplied without cost to the Divert
ment.
The Tax Bill.
It wee generally believed that the tax bill would be re
ported to-day, but the Committee on Finance devoted to
day (awl will occupy to -morrow inthe final cough-hire
tion of the bill, thus leaving it to be reported on Wednes
day. It will, doubtless, be before the Senate for some
time.
Pastes for the Southern korts.
AssuranCes have been given that in a ehort time the
prohibition relative to persons visiting the Southern ports
will be removed. This will, doubtless, be met from tha
Treauury be r srument by A removal Of all restriction on
trade to each ports.
Death of D. B. Lathrop, United States
Army Telegrapher.
D, B. IhATintor, operator on the United States Mili
tary Telegraph, died last night from injuries by the ex
plosion of a torpedo, placed by the rebels in the deserted
4.Clegf#l4! 911 . 199 Ot 'Praire n. Mr. LATHROP wee a roel•
dent of Springfield, Ohio, and highly esteemed by his
brother telegraphers, and all who knew him. He was
always among the first to volunteer to fill the past of
danger, and his services in the front ranks will be pain-
fully missed.
Brigadier General Confirmed.
The Senate this afternoon confirmed the nomination of
J. NAP OLEON;.Z SEEMAN as brigadier general of WHOP
were. He wow formerly on eeneral FfinnOllT'd Ma% KW
Will now be attached to HUNTlin'l3 command. He is by
birth an Italian. His history is romantic and eventful,
having been in many of the principakbattles of E aeons for
flu, bur fifty yams, !dials bsulehed citizen or ellOtrit4.
Though seventy years of age, he appears to be not more
than fifty, and isjustly regarded as an efficient officer.
Bill to Secure Personal Liberty
Senator OARLII.II introduced a bill to-day to secure to
the citizens of the United States personal liberty. This
bill preecribes that arrests for disloyalty may only be
made upon the oath of some person of known loyalty.
with a pal tinnier deen s ifption of the act of dieloyatty or
other cause for which such person has been arrested.
The second section imposes a fine of ten thousand del
hirs upon any ono who shall contravene the provisions
9 1' tpc ? ptit. Section, or an imprisonment ill the pain.
teutiary for a period not less than five years. Such ar
rested persons may have the privilege of the writ of
habeas corpus, which cannot be sntpended. This act
enali not prevent the street of perilous iu the disloyal
States, if 1111014 S as hare prescribed.
The Tax on Whisky.
It is slated, in a reliable quarter, that the Senate Com
mittee on Flamme are equally divided upon the question
Of taxing whisky in hand. AN the values are dif
ferent, an ad valorem tax would be the proper one,
which sort of assessment would cost as much as it
would come to."
Pacific Railroad_
Mr. CJIMPIIIILL, of Pennsylvania, chairman of the
select committee on the Pacific Beihoed, primed the
bill nearly to a voto to-day, the amendments to the
substitute belue agreed to, and the lattss adantel The
bill is to be printed, when the previous Question will be
ordered, and the bill paned, there being a clear ma
jority In favor of it.
The Long Bridge Repaired,
Army transportation across the Long Bridge will be
immediately resumed, the repairs to the broken draw
being nearly completed. The Government loses heavily
for not.having a ennoble military bridge at this point.
Gen. Smith and his Letter to Representa-
tive Morrill
Opposition is developing itself in the Senate to thecon
&motion of Gen. limit, on Recount of his severe letter
to Representative liloanim., of Vermont.
Treasury Notes Exchanged for Gold
I h am that the Government line recently exchanged a
thiniOn of 7 3-40 treanury for a talllion in Quid:
Confiscatioo—New Bill,
Moe Senate had under conalderation to.dag the tonna.
cation bill, Mr. Howe addressing the Senate and takiag
ground against it. In the House, Mr. Vulvas, of Mae
eachaneits, introduced another bill In accordance with
tha elews of Ms Lae speech, which W all referred to 1131
epecial committee on the subject. It will be 1101120 time
before the subject is again before the House. Mr. T.'s
bill imposes a heavier penalty on persons conglcM Q 1
Ip~i goo in O.e of largo noon, impnsonment, etc .
thee practically confiscating portions, if not all, of their
property.
The Rebel Tom of Gnu,
When Island No.lo was him, the rebel payers com
plained of the lose of needed guns. The evacuation from
Yorktown must badly heighten their troubles on that
head.
Route Agency.
On the line from New York city to Pierniont, N. S.,
M. M. liooosproti la appointed route agent, In place or
JAC:4III SAIEVXST,
Mail Memßomero Appointed.
At Camden, Delaware, Enwifun DoList is appointed
mail messenger, vice JAMES KNIGHT, resigned.
At Went Fairfield, Pennooleatilin, Smite A.
3 , 4 arreintel for six times a week service, in place of A.
HD.STON.
THE PURSUIT.
Despatches from Gen. Mgcleiii9Z.
OUR FORCES CONE UP WITH THE REAR
BVARD.
ENGAGEMENT AT WILLIAMSBURG.
Hand-to-hand Encounter with the
Enemy. •
WASHINGTON May ho following deanatMi ho
been ttceived at the War Department:
IIEADqUA MYERS ARMY OF Tilt. POTOMAC,
blay 4, 7 o'clock P. M.
To th,; Pt Alanton, IYecretar7J (If War:
Our cavalry and horso artillery came up with the
enemy's rear guard in their entrenchments, about two
miles this Bide , of Williamsburg.
A 'Attic figlat cnnued, Just an my aid loft, Goneral
Smith's division of infantry arrived on the ground, and
I presume carried the enemy's works, though I have not
heard.
Inn a15P1111 , 11 PAa.P Ik hkiOng, but i Novo force enough
tly there to answer all purposes.
We have thus far seventy.one heavy guns, and large
amounts of tents and ammunition.
All alone the titbit teethe Beetle to he.ie hOOO
most formidable, and .I am now fully satisfied of the cur
re cteees of the course I have pursued.
The talcum in brilliant, and you may rest assured that
its effects will be of the melba. lthil.6fta.hee.
There shall be no delay in following up the rebels.
The rebels have been guilty of the most murderous and
barbarous conduct in placing torpedoes within the absn
ilontd works, near wells, near imbue: near thwattfit,
thateziees, and telegraph offices, end in carpet-bags,
barrels of flour, etc.
Fortunately. we have not lost many men In this manner.
Ernie four or five have been killed, and perhaps a dozen
VVOILIMICd. simil make the prisoners remove them at
their own. peril. G. B. MoOLELLAN,
lIIUDQIIARTERg YEAR WlLLllSlghtfith,
Mai 4—P. M. j
The advance of the forces under command of General
Eton( man, with the view of ascertaining the position of
the enetnr, reecho:l tht phlce, which is Iwo and a half
miles from William•burg, about two o'clock this after
noon, on the Toad from Yorktown.
The country, in most instances, was laid desolate, and
but few of the houses along the reeri were muted,
On emerging from a corner of the woods, we came in
view of 'Williamsburg and the enemy's earthworks At
the same time, no guns were visible on the enemy's
VcIISPI hat a regiment of cavalry cool I bo seen anerokche
ing, about one mile off, in line of battle.
Captain Gibeon's reserve battery was then ordered
trout, to open on the enemy's approaching cavalry, while
a portion of the Sixth United States Cavalry were do
etl es skim/dotere to the right and left. The fire
from the battery was very effective on the enemy's ca
valry, but they never changed their course. About two
hundred yards to the right of Gibson'e battery was en
kidditieoPli %thigh bold nil the appearance of being deeort
ed, when all of a sudden our troops wore opened upon by
a deadly fire from artillery posted behind the works.
At the same time the rebel cavalry continued ad
vancing until they were checked by F. made by a
portion of the First and Sixth Cavalry, which was per
formed in a most admirable manner. In more instances
than one :it "ay a hand-to-hand encounter with the,
anew ' e ,
cavalry j out, strange to relate, none of our
men were taken prisoners, while we captured about
twenty-five of the enemy, among whom is Captain
blank I,ce, of the Third Florida infantry.
Mirain Gibson'. battery had fourteen horses
lotout. DeWolf was mortally wounded.
One of onr guns was lost by sticking fast in the mud.
Lieut. Benton, of the first cavalry, and ten men of
the same regiment were wounded:
Lieut. McClellan, of the Sixth cavalry, was slightly
wounded, as were also twelve others of the same regi
ment.
kieut, Colltrree, of the Etna cavalry, had hie horn
allot under him, while engaged in a hand-to-hand en
45,"rnier ”Itil two of me enemy. - ide escaped with a few
slight bruises.
Private Noble Irish, of Major Barker's Ofccinlino
I)rageoue, bad hie bores killed, and wee severely wounded
in the lig by the exploaion of a torpedo while pasalog
through Yorktown.
The rebel cavalry was forced by our men to abandon
their po.ition, but the want of infantry propel/VW Our
men from advancing on the enemy's works. It being
evident that it wee inclose to attempt further operation%
the (coops fell back about two hundred yards to await
the arrival of infantry. Gen. Haneaekte brio&tioola
after arrived, but it was deemed advisable to defer further
operations until to-morrow.
We have information that the enemy are still on the
retreat beyond Williamsburg. The rear guard of the
enemy ie very eireeg, ae was shown to-day,
LATER-MONDAY MORNING
It commenced raining this morning, and has con.
t hattetl heavily op to tide time..
There is no news from Williamsburg, as it Is too early
in the morning to hear.
We wilt occupy Williamsburg early this morning.
llrtra thence our kbISPLIN wSil deyei upon Ihat taken . by
the enemy.
TILE ORDNANCE CAPTURED Al
YORKTOWN.
HEADQUARTERS. ARMY OR THE POTOMAC,
Hay 4-11.20 A. H.
To the Hon. Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
An inspeciion just made shows that the rebel's spin,
omen in their works at Yorktown the following ord-
mince:
Two 3-inch rifled cannon.
Two , tjti- inch rifled cannon.
Sixteen 394nunders.
Six 42-pounders.
Nineteen 8-inch columbiads.
Four 9-inch Dahlgrens.
9 12 9 1944211
One - 10-inch mortar.
One 8-inch siege howitzer.
• With the etirriages and implements complete. Each
piece is supplied with seventy-six rounds of . nmmtirki
;ion .
On the ramparts, there are also four magazines which
have not been exareined.
These do not include the gqijil lefl M Qloucester Point,
and ;Lair Ober worns to our left.
G. B. McOLELLAIT,
Major General.
WASHINGTON, May s.—No further news has been re.
calved at the War Department from Fortress Monroe or
Yorktown. -
The boat far Cherrystone Inlet bad probably been de
layed by the storm which prevailed in that region.
Veil , little litleii,t.ettee hee nerivw.i by telegraph from
any quarter, and nothing of an unfavorable character.
The Clocupation of Baton Rome
Confirmed.
Lauding of Gen. Butler's Army at New
Orlesn§.
AN IMMENSE AMOUNT OF COTTON DISCOVERED.
An Xntlyasiastia Union Meeting
Cnicano, April 5.—A special despatch to the Times,
from Cairo, dated to-day, eaye: A rouges rpm blow-
phis brings news of the occupation of Baton Bongo, La.,
by the United States forces, and the passage of the river
by the United States gunboats.
Gen. Butler's army had landed at New Orleans. An
Immense 81MOUlat of cotton 1111 i discovered and
seized.
The Union citizens of New Orleans had held a meet
ing, which was attended by largo numbers, who Indulged
in the meet enthusiaatie demonetrations er jay.
According to our informant, but little opposition will
be made to our gunboats coming up the river.
A few rebel troops, lately enrolled at Baton Rouge,
were elationed there, but they had at the approach of
the U. S fleet.
Sr. Loris, May 5.—A refugee from the Hon% who
was at New Orleans when our fleet arrived there, say.
our forces captured a large quantit.7 of ottim, mar, and
other property.
Latest from Pittsburg Landing.
CAIRO, May s.—The steamer Antelope, front Pittaburg
Landing on Sunday morning, has arrived here.
In the affair of Farmington, on Saturday, General
Pope took between 200 and 300 prisoners, besides an
mrammt of touts and camp ormipsge t four pieces of ar
tillery, and several hundrel muskets.
At the time the Antelope left Pittsburg loud and con
tinuous firing was heard. the cause of which was not
PNWPIRA,
From Fort Wright
C. no, May s.—Boceut arrivals of deserters from Foab
Wright confirm the report that Jeff Thompson's COM.
maud is there. The actual rebel force at that point is
mild not to exceed from 3,000 to 4,600.
From CaliforOlo.
Ben FR/own:co, May "I.—Arrived, Young Hector,
from New Bedford ; bark Harry Hammond, tom Sislekla.
Sailed—Ship Radiance, for Callao; brig Sunny South,
for the Amoor River ; ship Magola, for Hoag Kong;
Wing and Gidereleeve. for Callao.
The steamship Golden Hate sailed to-day, for Whams,
carrying 300 passengers, and $lOO.OOO in trim/sure for
New York, and $213,000 for England.
Arrival of the California Steamer.
/4 ENV ' YORK, May flt.et,rmAiip Northern Light
arrived this evening from Aspinwall, with $615,000 to
treasure from California.
Our recent victories were celebrated at rename., 0$
the 7.'.i nit., by a reception of the friends of the Union by
Consul DlcHeyil. The United States steamer Saunas,
Com. Leeman, fired thirty-four mune on the ems day.
Advicee from Jamaica report that the American
schooner tri m Philadelphia for Jamaica, was
burnt on February 10th by the pirate Nashville.
The south A 11031101! Mail Mine no new.) of import
akea.
JEFF Dkil
HE MAKES
Disagreement
Hints as to
Mn. Davis Th
reached Waahint
aeuterday on the
"A Moroi mai
and ref
Ile repel
overheard, whllal
the Cbrringe, ax t
EM!EM!!
_ . .
4, Mr. finvis
borne healed diN
hlunaisam, Davis
ordried a FliHrid
atoll 111,8111. W to
though. t thin waft very bud in him, to Le nowilling to go
and help General Magruder. TLe coachman overheard
the convernatioi, between Goners] Jetienten bud Davie'
^?Finit ho h4' not 1010 illanaseloi when
he JiJ, eunerat Mcihollan would have come out against
Lila mid cut him all to pieced.
hire. Davie reed an article from the Richmond Ex.
aminor to her husband, Raying that It was a port ef the
Yablat, Blbx. 46 .1 Coio-alahi.:4. and itiLLPowtil ware to
corn &junction In Louina or iiaroline county, loud more
down on BiCaMODII. Thiele remarked that he thought It
V.eb 100, but bla general)) weld() take care of them.
The coachman overheard a cooyernillthiU between
Davi. ~r.l awl. ; kornivrlr Cultist Ofistos miner
from Califoruith Davin noel that hu had tent General J.
it. midereon from North llarolina to reel.t tile march or
toe United Staten troops flow Frodericknburg, and to
cle.ay them tom 000911 far pile
. eet) Ihe WWII& re.
4
G.4 , 11c .mereirvravown, do Mat if that was
likely to Le unnuncennfid, ha would Hero time to extricate
his army from. the Penn:lda and get theta into Rich.
wood and out of Virginia; otherwlae tbey would all be
caught.
22 1 14 :v vepreeenVs Vtniit Ogre, Davis said the
Confederacy way about payed out i' that if :Vow (Means
was teaily taken, she bad no longer any interest in the
InKttr, ea all eke had wan there, and that it wee a antli
pity. They had ""F a!KSIW to hold Virginia and till
eater uuni-c...trcm-groSibg states, MO > elan said to Mr..
W. B. June,' (daughter of Col James Taylor, U. S. Cunt
oilman General or Su tdstence), who 141,14 very anxious
to get to Washington, where she has one of her children,
not to give heretlf any trouble, but to stay where she
1.1.114, khB 3tl ra lh Vaaketas came to itichlSWG4 ram
could )tn.
Fie eays ldr. asii Mrs. Davie have all their books,
clothies, and pictures packed up, ready t) CHIVE' off;
that there Is mach oul,npoken Union feeling in Rich
j that, haYing been a waiter in the hotel, he knew
ell the Union men in the place. and that the Yahkets
are looked for with much pleasure—more by the whites
than even the colored people. Confederate money hi not
taken when it can be avoided. Mrs, Davit herself wee
refused when 9110111 4 810 Confederate note for a
purcOunu, Mall) of the ftinninOna people with the Union
troops to conie, as they are lialf.etarveil out.
The Bank al.ll Government pr..iperty is all packed
up to be removed to Danville, near the North Carolina
line.
" Gen ,, rbl Jcquittitois did not think the robots would eue=
teed at Yorktown.
"The coachman overheard an officer say that if they
failed at. Yorktown and New Orleans, they would leave
-Virginia."
Numerous and Important Captures made
by the Bluekadiug Fleet.
WASESINGTON, htay 6 - -On April 26th, at 640 P. ?II
the Uuitcd States steamer laambeau, LIMAN:int Cosi
mending Unsham, caetered the schooner Active, sailing
under Inglish colors, about bevels Tulles south of Steno,
South Carolina. She was from Nassau, and purported to
Le bound for New York, with a cargo principally a salt,
coffee, and other arileitli now very much needed In a
Southern port. The captain admitted thst the familiesof
hhesell and mate are residents of Charleston. She was
sent to New York for adjudication.
Oh April ildtb, the U. b. steamer t'ecur, Acting Master
L. G. Crone, captured the schooner Rate. Capt. theme
reports that w hen about thirty miles off Charleston, S.
C., he made a bail running N. W. W., and proceeded on
his course, intending to speak heri as he approached her
the bogie 11.1,1eys bao.o,i M._ S. It. Ite - ,eee changed
his course and gave obese for two hours, when ho tired a
shot across her bows; she then hoisted the English en
sign and continued her course. Another shot wee tired
acmes her bow, to whirl' 1 9 altoution etas paid, pat a
third .1,-taios just ahead of her, caused her to heave $O.
Eby. nuns from 1`...1 aeeau, N. P., and purported to be bound
for Philtioulphia, with a cargo of salt, pepper, and soap.
The captain, ou being boarded, claimed to he in distress,
ssyie.g he had spruce his forenseet arid bowepritthe night
before, When asked why he alerted sail on her, he PS
plied that be wanted to get into the nearest pott. The
schooner has been sent to New York for adjudication.
On April 19, at 1040 A. 11 , the pilot boat G. TV.
Ilium, J. It. Beers commanclieg, captured the rebel
setweher ireWft off the wed of &Wit Carolina She la
te he of platy tons resister t valued at 83,000, and
bad on board 39 bales of cotton. The captain, Wm.
Ryen, and a crew of four men, are residents of Chides
ton. The vessel belongs, as appears by hre papers, to
, 31 "" 8 ., n Street kWeittr Vlierleti9ll, ga ff was coualgadi
tothe ears art A. /knell) ~S; Co., :NAM% N. P. The
papers contain positive orders tp the captain to burn the
vessel and sick the pappre it in danger of captuto. The
cemeLers'ves fife forbidden eto sell tne cotton to the Yea-
Ws Pt PPS price, OP 11 1 11 rhitahlphig for ad?
The cargo of the Lila Wariey (hribel), captured by
the steamer Santiago de Cuba, consisted of pig lead,
sheet copper, iron in bundles and slaps, ZOO:, cased of
be 6ntleldrules and au oda...
rtauttcat instruments, cotton cards, drugs, asinine, pot
VAN cream of tartar, copperas . , carboys, castor oft,
Retests, indigo, soap, paper and stationery, cigars,
candles and tallow, codfish, herring. mackerel, butter,
cheese, bread. tea, alcohol, gin. and tooth. brushes.
Mime artieineteerellinnd rat hailed. ;Itia4kist to Cit..-los
,•
tot), S. a Among tditor., two lies, Leslie of cigars, very
haudeontely gotten up, and Inscribed to Ills Excel
leucy, President Davis, from John Frazers & Co..
Charleeton." liar leg-book was mutbated, and the
MUMS were Put ME of au.% SUCOCI a 3 coulo 1., iud held
Of in the surprise of the capture.
Important papers wore
alto discovsted, which, it is thought, will show her real
character and destination. Several of her passengers
and crew have avowed that she was bound to Charles-
On, tier captain is a residantO. A I r
u ttelli_en, and Itaii
hie faintly there, and the engineers are also front that
city. She bed on board a well. known Charleston pilot,
named Lockword, engaged at high wages to take her in
and out, and others of her officere and passengers are
feP.l49llfil of the tame place, The coal found cat baud
or her was about suinclent for the voyage from Nassau. to
Charleston, but nut to St. Johns, and the quantity of
water was email.
Beeidee the /sabd, the Santiago de Cuba seised, on
Aprii '2O, oil the coact of Georgia, clearing front Charlet
toe, S C., WhAil liPst discovered, the schooner Mereeg,
with British flag, and register dated Nassau, April 16.
The * Elizabeth, of Charleston," was visible on her stern.
Under the new name, the papers are incorrect. She
cleared from Nevelt for Baltimore. April 2t. with a cargo
Of belt, coffee, soap, manufactured 14 A r elY Val drags,
leather, rope, cotton goods, stationery, corn-brooms, Teas
eardinee, salt, cad saltpetre. Also, on April 30, within
15 miles of Charleston, gibe seised the schooner Maria,
with the Britieh flag, and her register dated Nassau, April
loth. She left Matanzas on tbs 20th of March, with
Opts, hound to room, vin Ragged Island, for salt' bat
c quid show no register prior to that obtained at Nailuitt.
Her former name was the Sallie Rose. of Charleston,
which was also visible under the now paint on her stern.
ller cargo consisted of salt, cigars, and cotton cards.
Some of the crew of each of these schooners have !RR
iklat a large sumof moneyK
was OlLiPt3i 4 themlt they
succeeded in running the blockade.
Maior Guneral
THE HAMMONIA AT NEW YORK.
NEW TORE, May 0, 10 o'clock A. 111..... The ateanuthis
//ammonia arrived at midnight from Southampton, from
which port she sailed on the 2M alt.
The eteamehip China arrived at Liverpool on the 21st,
and the Etna and Jura on the 23d,
Tbo eteenier which sailed with military ptores
for Canada, is miesing.
The British Admiralty had ordered all wooden cor
vettes, Weeps, and gunboats in the navy to be ircmclad
and converted into powerful floating Armstrong bene
fits, the mirk to he commenced hnnuediataly_
'1 he Royal Sovereign was in the course of doneePilett
into a cupola vessel, on Captain Colon' plan. She will
have a beak placed below the water, actiug as a power
ful rani.
9P1i69/114WPIT Wady DI 83,7iffi tim
4 ler er
and recount.. /mine
central nue fate itailload limes
bed advanced. There was scarce!y any application for
discount at the banks.
The Crown Prince of Prussia will be present at Sher
opening of the World'a lixhthulimn
The London Prees on the Battle of Shiloh.
The Loudon Times, in an editorial, pronounces the
battle of Shiloh a drawn battle, and the first creditable
encounter during the war. a But," it adds, "we should
be veer liihch. immieken if we thought that the affair le
calculated to bring the war to an end, or• to discourage
the Southern people."
The Daily News says that both aides fought with dee
perste courage, and on both sides the generals seem to
have displayed eoneiderable military skill.
The Shipping gazelle: •t Nothlbg Me the PrOtdAttl
of losses, to the numbers, has occurred since Borodino."
[This is an estimate from the numbers originally re
potted.]
- •
• - -
,The Marine llJointer was entered to hasten the con
struction of iron•plated batteriee in the dock-yards.
The floating batteries, Pegio, Saigon, Poicsfro, and
Peschiera, 14 guns each, were to he launched in May.
Idireioo the alleged forger, wee at liberty and reinstated
to hie former minion, the Court of Appeal haring re
verged the original judgment.
Thirty-eix bishops had notified the atinleter of Pablig
Worehip of their intention to repair to &ate, in corn•
lillanee with the Fore , . tottnumne.
Ou the Paris Bourse, reales were quoted at W. OW.
Twelve hundred royal troops enterer) Nan,lin on the
2003, and order bad been established.
PORTUGAL.
The United States frigate Si. Lewis was at Liaison,
BAVARIA,
The betrothal of the Grand Duke Ferdinand to•the As
tir of Francis II bat) been 91111011TICIA.
Bishop Fano has been arrested by order of the Fsing'N.
procureur. The brigand chief Centrillos had been ar
rested, and one hundred thousand cartoushe boxes and
four hundred brigands' uniforms seized.
Garibaldi it antirslY engaged in forming rifle Mahn
?he clergy at Locco bad sent an address. bearing 700
signatures, to the Popo, praying him to. renounce hia
temporal power, and thereby blots Italy.
The Prince of. Capua was dead.
IMO French and Englict eanadrons halt been ordered
to tecort the Ilia% of Italy from Genoa to Naples..
Right thousand Montenegrins. and three thousand in.
BDents attacked the Turks near 14ikeich. The insur
gruie were repulsed eight limos ,
The Montenegrins retreated, leaving 609 , dead en the
field and carrying away many killed and weunded.
Three hundred and Arty-three Turks were killed, be.
aides many wounded.
The Montenegrins continue to assemble in. Deng&
Omar Puha had ordered Dervish Pasha to. fan beet on
Krestac in order to attack the Turkish forces.
It wee rumored that the rebele intend to. attack Poo , .
low•Foo.
CiPmmenktl Insellicente.
Llvguru°L, April 22.--Coiton—The sale or 20,006Mtlas
is reported, incite:Meg 10,000 to speculators and exporters.
The market is firm, with an upward tendency, hot the
prices are nuchalLsed•
ESTATE OF TIDE.—The Manchester markets are
ki. an salcanciog
Dial.AUSTUFVS,—ltesere. Itioheedson, Spence, la Co.,
and Wakefield, Nash, & 00., report Flour unchanged
and steady. Wheat firm and unchanged, but (Inlet; red
Western, les 3d ; red Southern, lit 3dtalls dd ; white
Western.. whits Mullion, Pisa aria PM. Clan
and unchanged; mired, MIA.
PR0V1519.3.5.-13eet heavy; Pork dull; Bacon qtdet.
but steady; Lard steady at 41141448 Tallow quiet.
Put , Drcu.—ltoein quiet j conunon'l3s ,• Spirits of Tur
nehttne steady at 6808911 Mar dull; Oafillede. BOW
Bice inactive • Ashes quiet and steady.
COTTON -../inotlier report says Cotton is go higher,
and firm.
LoN„pON.—The Corn market is quiet and unchanged.
A CO:SCEST or veva and inetrnmental cumin will be
given this evening, at tho Spring Garden Institute, cor
ner of Growl and Spring Garden streets, by Mega%
Porter and Bowman, who will be assisted by several ta
lented
McGill. and Mews. Parvin, Wood, and Miller. The re
sidents of the northwest have an evening's entertainment
of more than ordinary atiraotion offered them.
DR. CHAPIN'S Im.riEss.—Rev. Dr. E. H. Cha
pin's illness has assumed such a serious phase that
be will probably cease preaching, and, by the ad
vioe of his physician, so to Europe, In whigh gmoi
it is his intsistisu t 0 remain okasmi pu,
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PROICE
GREECE
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