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MONDAY, MAY 10, 1802.
THE LATEST WAR NEWS
Get.cral McClellan, by our latest daSpatalladi was
within fifteen miles of Richmond, and consequent
ly, seven miles nearer victory than we had sup
posed. On Saturday his army advanced on the
main road to the city, and drove the enemy across
the Chickahotniny at Bottom's bridge, where a
harmless artillery fight occurred.
A telegraphic despatch to Secretary Stanton, by
authority of Gen. McClellan, states that our fleet
that ascended the James river, consisting of the
Galena, Monitor, and Naugatuck, all iron-clad
vessels, and the Port Royal and Aroostook, have
been repulsed at Fort Darling, seven miles below
Richmond. The iron gun on board of the Nauga
tuck, which is said to have burst, was mounted
amidships, pointed towards the bow, and was
loaded from below by depressing the muzzle, which
Wa. 4 effected by means of pulleys ingeniously cm
struoted for that purpose. This gun was loaded
by means of a movable charger, which could
be raised or lowered at pleasure. The ram
ming was accomplished by a sort of piston rod
on a line with the muzzle of (he gun, which is also
worked by pulleys, thus affording the celerity of
loading and firing every half minute. The gun
was capable of throwing a hundred-pound shot a
great distance. The Lieutenant Morris, of the
Port Royal, mentioned as having been wounded,
*HS the commander of the Cutuberlaud during her
engagenienr with the Blerrim,.c. Right miles be
low Richmond the James river is only about half a
mile wide and the water very shallow. On both
banks of the river are high bluffs easily fortified.
At this p , int the fort was located. After bombarding
the place four hours, and finding our gunboats
could not silence the battery, our gunboats with
drew. Our loss was thirteen killed and a num
ber wounded.
Later Southern news has been received by way
of Cairo. The rebel papers of the West state that
the evacuation of Yorktown and Norfolk was done
for strategical reasons. The Union people of Mem
phis are said to be sorely dispirited on account of the
non• arrival of our fleet before that city. Rebel
accounts of the naval fight on the Mississippi claim
a victory fur their side, having " sunk one gunboat
and two tuortar-bouts." The rebel loss was two
killed snd eight wounded. Their fleet was com
manded by Captain Montgomery. assisted by Jeff
Thompson. Flour is quoted at twenty-two dollars
per barre,l in Memphis, and other necessaries of
life in proportion.
General Pope's corps de armee of General hal
leek's army has again advanced, and it is now
within three miles of the rebel entrenchments at
Ceritth. Deserters continue to report that great
dis:atisfaction is everywhere expressed in Beaure
gar° 's army, and that the enlisted men from the
Romer States see no reason why they should fight
for the independence of the Cotton States
Cteeerel bieaey has abet to gaseetary Canton the
official report of the killing of one, and the capture
of 15 of his men by a body of rebels. General G
stales that. he ordered a company of infantry to
Linden, and that the advance guard of said com
pany, numbering 17 men, were attacked by from
ft 0 to 1,011 rebel cavalry, and after gallantly resist
ing, were overpowered and taken prisoners.
The official report of the naval engagement on
the Mississippi has been received. The official
facts do not differ materially from the statements
heretofore published. Captain Davis states that
three of the rebel vessels were disabled, and that
they retreated on the double quick. Only three on
our side were seriously injured.
We have another rumor to the effect that
Weldon, North Carolina, has been evacuated by
the rebels. 'Weldon is a thriving post village of
- Halifax county, North Carolina, on the right bank
of the Boar oke river, about ninety-five miles
northeast from Raleigh, the capital of the State.
Feur railroads centre here—viz: the Wilmington
and Raleigh, the Seaboard and Roanoke, the
Gaiton cud li.nlhigh, cud the Petersburg, Two or
three newspapers were published here before the
secession of North Carolina, but we believe not
one remains. While we hold Weldon the rebels in
Virginia cannot retreat to the Cotton States.
Later by the steamer Port Royal, which arrived
on Saturday, report that the proclamation of Gene
ral Hunter has been published in Charleston, and
a negro insurrection there was imminent. It
is expected that Savannah will soon be in our pos
session, General Hunter having erected numerous
batteries that will shell the e ty if it is not surren
dered to him. Our troops bold a portion of the
railroad between Savannah and Charleston.
A despatch to the New York Tribune states that
Humphrey Marshall's command of rebels attacked
and captured Princeton, the capital of Mercer
county, Virginia, and situated 270 miles west of
Richmond. The next morning Gen. Cox defeated
the rebels and recaptured the place.
HOWEVER slavery may stand affected as an
industrial institution, when this whirlwind of
war P.ball have spent its force, justice to the
present and security for the future require
that its power to rule, or harm, as a political
engine, shalt b e u tt er ly destreyed. We risk
nothing in affirming that the popular conviction
in regard to slavery is heavily for its political
disfranchisement, whatever it may be in re,
gard to its final extinction as a system. Prom
an industrial point of view, the question of
its incompatibility with the system of in
voluntary labor presents itself ; and while it
is not the purpose of this article to discuss
that question, we may remark, in passing,
that neither history nor present observation
aSor4a an v-N.7 - napb, of the hareaorly aid equAn
ty of the two systems in juxtaposition.
As a political engine, slavery must perish.
It must elect no more Presidents, by direction
or indirection ; neither must it any more come
into the national legislature and dictate laws
for the government of a free people. It must
be made to retire to its plantations, with its
scourges and gyves, and there vent its threat
enipgs and foment its brawls. The annals of
Congress are enough disfigured wits its vio
lence and brutality. It is high time that we
purify the record, or COMO tv keep it.
We bare a class of politicians who either do
not read history at all, or, if at all, for the pur
pose of wresting its teachings from their obvi
ous application, or the more effectually to ig
nore its teachings altogether. They constantly
affirm that slavery, undisturbed by agitation,
would never disturb the political equilibrium
of the Government; that it only arouses
itself when its constitutional rights are threat
ened. Such is not the teaching of history - ,
and such is not the fact. It is both a physi
cal and a philosophical impossibility that any
system should stand still. The various
branches of industry—agriculture, manufac
tures, and commerce; the arts and sciences ;
the spirit of discovery and of invent/MlS—
none of these stand still. They move either
forward or backward. But four terms are ap
plicable to them—rise, progress, decline, and
fall. So of slavery and so of freedom, and
so of all states of society, atni conditions of
things thereunto pertaining, either as causes
or accts. As a nation, we have never ap
proached the perfectness of freedom yet. No
nation ever has. But all nations, at some
period in their history, uptend to the highest
level of excellence. Failing to reach it, they
fall. Bow is it to be with us? Shall we
reach that level and live, or fail, and afford
the world another instance of misplaced
hopes
Slavery cannot stand still. It mutt obey "the
law. It is intensely selll.4h and grasping in its
nature, and cannot be content with mere exist- 1
ence. Exclusive privilege has been so from
the beginning, and will continue so to the end,
Is it denied ? How many instances of arbi
trary power voluntarily relinquishing the scep
tre does history record? Is there one such in
s'ance on record? We have no knowledge of
even one. 1` one can exist save as a breach
of natural law. Slavery, teerefore, being
arbitrary and selfish in its naure, cannot
choose to stand still. It must progress or re
trogress. Founded in force, its nature is vio
lent, and it will seek to perpetuate itself by
violence when more peaceable means fail.
Such is the law.
How, then, can we rationally hope for a
permanent peace while slavery wields a con
trolling political influence ? True, the free
men of 0 - e free States can sit down dumb and
inactive and permit Ws seditious and diner
ganizing rower to absorb the Government.
With all the power and plunder. it would re
main tolerably quiet, no doubt_ But itro min
take again; for were it once ablolute in this
Republic, it would demand the re-establish-
meat of the slave trade, in the face of the de
cree of the civilized world. Thus we should
have the world in a brawl, save, perhaps,
France and England, .who might concede the
right when demanded with a throat to cut off
the supply of cotton. But none the less could
we hope to avoid the world's quarrel. rodeo
born of supine cowardice and human degene
racy—such as our REEDS and WILVRTONS pro
pese now—we might have at home. But
what would be the fate of a nation so etnasr:u
lated in a strife with any powerful nation in
the world's family
These arc questions which must be discus
sed, and at no very remote period. The in
evitable may be shuddered at and shrunk from,
but cannot be put off or avoided. There is a
work before our public men, and the world
will pause to see how they acquit themselves.
If they can rise to the level of the emergency,
the despotisms of the old world will tremble
on their bases, and the hearts of anxious mil
lions will unite iu one tutnultuons throb of
gratitude. The times must develop the men
for the emergencies which correspond to its
demands. Earnest, prompt, and decided action
is the one thing needful.
THE REPULSE of five of our iron-clad vessels,
at Fort Darling, a few miles below Richmond,
on Saturday, was an unexpected occurrence,
and to our brave officers and seameirof the
expedition was doubtless extremely mortify
ing. It is one of those events which might
have been anticipated, but could scarcely have
been avoided, unless the purpose of the expe
dition r was abandoned. The channel at this
point as narror•est, certainly not being half a
mile wide, and was perfectly commanded on
either side by high bluffs, presenting an admi 7
table site for the location of batteries. Whe
ther or not it was known to our naval officers
that these bluffs were fortified, we cannot say,
certainly we find no intimation of the know
ledge of such a fact in any of the myriad maps
of the ,‘ seat of war in Virginia" which have
been published. At any rate, it was neces
sary to attempt the passage of them, and risk
was unavoidable. The gunboats have sus
tained a temporary check, and an unfortunate
accident has occurred, which has necessitated
their retmn to Jamestown Island. It does not
appear from our telegraphic despatches that
any loss of life had occurred, except from the
bursting of the Naugatuck's one-hundred
peunder rifled gun, nor does it appear that any
of our vessels have - been crippled by the
enemy's fire. Our progress has been retarded
for a brief tithe; the calculations of General
illeCramitx have doubtless been diseoncerted,
and his movements may even for a while be
delayed, but so far as the grand result is
etneerned—the captfire of Richmond during
the present week—the check which we have
sustained can exercise but little adverse influ
ence. It is annoying, but not discreditable to
our skill, valor, or foresight ; and might have
been a successful enterprise but for the awk
ward accident to the Naugatuck. Its must
yailiful feature •is the death of seventeen of
our men, and the •wounding of a munber of
Miters, including the brave Lieut. Mounts,
who for the noble manner in which he fought
the Cumberland, when assailed by the Merri
-1 mac, received the thanks of Congress and the
nation.
TUE MEMPHIS LEGISLATURE, we are glad to
see, has evinced a disposittm to make atuands
for past reeruance by extendingaid and comfort
to the Federal Government. It has not done
so directly and avowedly, but indirectly, and
by remissness of legislation. Nevertheless,
the tendency of its action, or rather inaction,
is apparent at a glance. It has struck such a
blow at the staggering rebellion that the mou
sier might with perfect stage propriety, turn
on his heel and exclaim, , i-more in sorrow
than in - anger,"-Et tic Brute! The rebel
Legislature of Tennessee has done a notable
action. We refer to its recent passage of the
conscription act, which, by neglecting to ex
empt paper manufacturers from military
service, threatens the abolition of the South
ern press in toto—a v•:ry serious mat
ter. Paper in various shapes has been
unostentatiously the web:stay of the re
beThon. Frrighted with lailanllllahitt edi
torials, it has fired the Southern heart, and de
lighted iii the deification of treason. What
would the rebellion have amounted to urtsr3-
tained by the printing-press?—the "power
behind the throne ?" Clearly there could have
been no enthusiasm, no glorious victories
manufacturcd from defeats, nu Confederate
notes to pay the armies. There could have
been no Confederate Congress unless the pa
per mills were running; for honorable gentle •
men would not talk if their speeches were not
printed. The South would never have
known her wrongs, nor the sacredness of
her soil, nor the invincibility of freemen in
spired with the grandeur of the peculiar insti
tution. These things have been taught her by
her panoplies, and geniuses of liberty, and
Agises, whose long career of usefulness must
TIOW be closed—or, atany rate, as soon as their
stock of printing paper is exhausted. For
many months we have feared that their day of
dissolution was approaching. As the blockade
became effective; we noticed that they several
ly grew dingier day after day, as though jaun
diced with the cause they had espoused. Their
whole policy and aspect was tinged with a
coloring and suggestiveness of slavery. They
abut out the light of ye :tabu and of'
patriotism, preferring a darker hue and
coarser texture for their vehicles of thought.
The bronzed, burnt-umber title Of their
newspapers, leaving the flaming war-poetry
out of the question, and judging only by ex
ternals, was sufficient to show that they came
from the c , Sunny South." They were the
defenders of certain indescribable rights, pre
sumed to exist in the Territories, and their
utterances were looked for with tremulous
anxiety by hundrode of aubseriberst—mumtly in
arrears, but intense'y patriotic. But the
Memphis Legislature has failed to recognize
their services, and totally ignores them. The
result will be, as their papers tearfully predict,
that the newspaper press of the whole South
must yield to the irresistible logic of the law;
and that the rebellion, deprived of its only ally
in the world, and impotent for evil, in spite of
all its treachery, will be overwhelmed with de
struction like another Tarpeia, by those to
whom its life bad been devoted.
NOT CONTENT with being favorably repre
sented in the London Times, Telegraph, Herald,
and Slandard 3 while Union persons and prin
ciples are malignantly misrepresented. in the
same journals, the rebels have started a new
organ of their own, called The Index, to be
published weekly in London, price sixpence
British, in which the historical events of the
war will be ccmi*Titly tortured, twisted,
altered, so as to advance the interests of
treason. "Sir, the facts as they occurred are
'wholly different from the version in the speech
you have just made," was indignantly said to
a flowery orator, on a certain occasion. cc Have
I ?" he replied, 44 so much the worse for the
fads." The new weekly is avowedly the or
gan, in England, of " the so-called Confede
rate States." Its, publishers announce that
it will be a repository of direct news and
correspondence from the South, and one chief
object of its project rs will be to furnish the
town and country press with matter whereby
English readers may become acquainted with
the true feelings, opinions, and habits of the
Southern people now fighting so desperately
for independeboo."
At the same time, Mr. GEORGE EfAsEtriNE
has resigned the editorship of the London,
rimerican, and is succeeded by a Mr. A. Mr.
BOSTWICK, who has performed most of the
duties for some time.
As ws ANTICIPATED, the Great Eastern ar
rived at Now York on Saturday, having taken
more time to perform the shorter voyage from
Milford Haven than has been occupied by the
P. rsia, the Baltic, and the China. Her news is
scanty and not imporlant, if we except a state
ment in the Paris paper, La Patric., that the
visit of M. MERCIER, the French minister, was
yolitical, and that its exact purpose was known
to President LINCOLN. The _London Herald
affects to believe that such purpose was to
effect a compromise. The Times has nior•) tact
than to take this view, but is alarmed at the
predicted difficulties of collecting the war
taxes in the Union States, and adds, cc In the
meantime, so long as the Federals are not ab
solutely winners they are losers whereas
as long as the Confederates are not actually
subdued they may regard themselves as win
ning. These are considaratieng .x,un
teibalance the superiority of the North.”
This is remarkable logic, of its sort. We are
glad to observe that, however tardily, <the
Times does at last acknowledge the aupertority
of the North. •
LETTER FROM “00U,M4IONAL.,,
WasitimaroN, May 18, 1862.
It is suggested that the President may feel,
constrained to modify Major General Hunter's
proclamation; and in view of the position as
sumed towards Gent Fremont and Gen. Came.
roe, this is probable. But the act itself now
meets with very general approval, and will
meet with more, not so much because of the
principle, as on account of at least one of the
communitiestobe affected by it. South Carolina
has become the scorn and hatred of all good
men. Before the rebellion she was always
despiaed by the States that she afterwards
forced into it; and since that great deed of
blood, she has awakened a thousand new ani
mosities among the Border States, which
bare been compelled to bear so many of the
burdens of the war. In the free North and
Northwest, South Carolina has covered herself
with odium. Iler public men seem to have
labored for a generation to fascinate others
into political hostility to them. They have
made South Carolina not nuirely the beau ideal
of a false and upstart aristocracy, devoted to,
and built on slavery alone, but the foe of
every man and every party that did not
come under their narrow and exacting theo
ries of Government. From Calhoun to
Keift, South Carolina has thus been made
the consenting instrument of traitors to
liberty. It was in South Carolina that General
Jackson was insulted and defied. It was South
Carolina that always abused and ridiculed the
Democratic party, unless it could be used
to advance the interests of slavery. It was a
South Carolina Senator that attacked and mis
repi esentcd Daniel Webster. It was a South
Carolina Senator that denounced the people of
the free States as at mudsills." It was from
South Carolina that opposition to domestic
manufactures most persistently proceeded. A.
South Carolinian, Sprat, toiled to embody the
African slave trade into our public policy. A
South Carolina bully struck down a Massachu
setts Senator in the United States Senate. It
was in South Carolina that the Democratic
party was destroyed by the Disunionists under
Yancey and the tools of Jamessauchanan. It
was in South Carolina that the Star of the
West, with the National Flag at her mast
head, was fired upon. And it was in South
Carolina that a starving and feeble garrison
was forced to surrender to a band of cut
throat murderers, under circumstances of
unparalleled perfidy and baseness. There
is scarcely a loyal man to-day in South
Carolina, unless you seek for him among
the slaves or free negroes. If the whole terri
tory that bears the name of South Carolina
could be fenced in and left to perish for wart
of culture or population—if it could be. ex
punged forever from the map of the world,
or on Mr. Kendall's plan, 4, turned into a
negro community," few citizens, remembering
the se things, wen,ld regret it. Florida is not
so accursed in the calendar. She has loyal
men by hundreds in her midst. Georgia, be
fore she became the topl of South Carolina,
contained element's of thrift, enterprise, and
intelligence, which, it is to be hoped, are not
entirely extinct. However moditi d the
proclamation of General Heater may be,
therefore, the President Will not probably ex
empt South Carolina front its efficacious and
healing qualities.
This is the season of theories. They
bloom around us like the flowers of the fresh
spring-time. Some of them produce fruit as
lasting as truth itself. General Hunter's is
not certainly destined to kill anybody. I ve
rily believe it will be found to contain the ker
nel of a hardy and healthy doctrine, capable
of weathering more than one storm of abuse,
and more than one .“ winter of discontent."
Among the theories of a class of public
leaders; growing out of the proposition to
legislate against the slaves of rebels, is that
which has resisted such legislation on the
ground that the war power can deal with all
slave property, and that, instead of making
laws on the subject, the best way was to refer
the whole matter to the discretion of the
military chiefs. Whoa ilalleck, and Hooker,
and T. 11r. Sherman refused to use the ne,groes
RS spies or laborers, or promised all sorts of
protection to the slaveholders, this class shut
the months of objetoi•P. 13,y ill6ging that thmtu
generals knew what they were about, and that
it was showing a discontented spirit to say no
to their plans. There ought, at least on the
part of this class, to be no complaint as to
Renter. Ile has acted without legislation,
and in view of all his difficulties and responsi
bilities. I wait to see whether there is to be
any legislation to hamper him, or whether our
military men are only to he endorsed when
they move in a certain direction. As General
hunter has never been an Abolitionist, or
even a Republican, but always the reverse of
both, he ought to have the credit of doing
his duty without reference to party or preju
dice. OCCASIONAL.
TIIE UNION SENTiDIENT " of the South,
though somewhat of au ignis fatuus, undoubt
edly possesses a tangible existence. We are
sometimes disappointed_ at not finding deci led
manifestations of it- where we had been led to
suppose that much loyal feeling existed; but,
on the other band, unmistakable traces of it
are occasionally displayed where it was least
expected.
The_terrorism of the rebel ruffiAss has, for a
time, completely overawed many districts. The
nines of the people of the rebellimis Sta.td-i are
ignoratt, and they have been most cruelly and
completely deceived in 1 , - Bard to the objects
of the, war. Every inEclligent man wh') sought
to instruct them has been silenced either
by astaSPitation, by threats, by imprison
ment, or by be ishment—for all t ta,•se
means appear to have been freely
and remorselessly used. The infamous
device,s employed against our armies only
dirtily foreshadow the horrible measures
a d o pf cc t to Intimidate and to subju g ate the
Union men of the South into at least a tacit
acquiescence in the rebellion. When the feel
ings of terror that have thus been inspired
are completely destroyed by the unmis
takable and, assured triumph of our ar
mies, and all danger of future attacks
from the rebels is removed, we may look for
ward to such a developtoeut of tho' ULIiOU
feeling in the South as never before existed
there. The people have been persistently
taught for more than a quarter of a century to
iffe slavery better than the Union, and all
who have questioned or opposed this doctrine
have been proscribed. But a day is dawning
when nnWAVeI-ing allegiance to the Union will
be regarded as the highest of political virtues,
in all sections of the land, and when in the
South, as well as in the North, no man who
cannot stand this test will meat with politi
cal favor from voters or from Administra
tions.
ENGLISH PICTORIALS.—We have them, dated
May 3, from S. C. Upham, No. 403 Chastnutstreet.
The illustrated London. News, with double sup
plement, is literally crowded with views of the
opening of the International Exhibition. The
Illustrated News of the World hes only a
single eingravlog relatiing to this subject ! However,
it maintains its obaraeter in one respeet ! it gives,
engraved on steel, a fine portrait of an English no
tability, Mr. George Dawson, a popular and elo
quent lee.turer_
LARGE. SALE OF CHOICE FRENCH DRESS GOODS,
SHAWLS, VEIL GOODS, RIBBONS, FLOWERS, En
linoroartina; Taiwwiwoa,..te.—Wo Invite the oar!y
attention of purchasers to the large and seasonable
assortment of French, German, Swiss, and British
dry-goods, dress goods, silks, embroideries, ribbons,
flowers, Taney goods, ,to. ; also, a special line of
French, Cashmere, delaine, Thibet and merino, and
Stella shawls and veil goods, being of a well
known and favorite importation, embracing about
1,150 lots of choice articles; to be peremptorily sold,
by catalogue, on a credit of four months, conernene
xng with Mr .howls, this morning at 10 o'olook,
and to be coatinued , with out letaraataaloa, all clay,
and part of the evening, by John B. Myers & Co ,
auctioneers, NOB. 232 and 234 Market street.
Capture or a Band of Jeff Thompson's
Marauders.
Cars Gtaaxnxeu, )10 ; , May 17.—DespatohesjaLgt re
ceived !min Colonel Daniels' headquarters, near Bloom-
Mid, contain account,, ur UM capture or do notorious
Colonel Phelan, of Jeff Thompion's gang of marauders,
and over one hundred of his men. Fifty of the men
voluntarily gave themselves up, and expressed a desire
ib nreturu to a. q uiet sod poooofol
The Crew of the Merrimac Escaping.
Itatmmoaa; May 17.-- - -Several men, formerly belonging
to the crew of the Merriman, Came n to-day in the boat
flout ltfonroe. Some of them ure Northern men
and claim to have been imprearied.
Release of Major Helveti.
Lout 114,e, aley /T.—larder Helyett was relemed try
the rebel Morgan, at Sparta, Tenn., on Thursday, and
be is Vow at Nashville. Major Helvoti says that Morgan
bad unly men with htm when ho lett.
From Fortress Monroe—Rumored Evacu
ation of Weldon, N. C.
Wtddl3lolll.4 May 18 —The Old Point heat hag arrived
hot bo nt.W4 from ROMSlourne.
A rumor, prevailed that Weldon, N. C., has been eva
cuated by the rebels.
PRESS.--PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1862.
PROM WASHINGTON.
OPERATIONS OF THE SONTIN ATLANTIC
BLOCILIDING SQII/11111011.
DERATCKEB FROM commoDowe DUPONT
Steamer Planter Deserts from the Rebels.
The Fagitive.Slave Law in the District.
THE NAVAL BATTLE ON THE MISSISSIPPI
Official Despatch from Capt. Davis
Special Despatches to "The Press."
The itcptilse of the Irnn•clads in the
James River.
No official report of the gunbwat affair on the James
rive. r has been received at the Navy Department. The
messages received on the subject indicate an opportunity
to do helter in the future. The river is now clear of ob
itruclittue to within eight 1/111.03 of Richmond At that
point there is a heavy battery mounted on a high bluff,
and the river is temper:lli y closed to navigation by
sunken vessels (among which are said to be the York
town and Jamestown), and by piles, chains, etc. The
Alfnitor colt d not elevate her guns aufficientli to reach
the high battery, which rendered her web - sc. The
banks of the river were Mied with rifle-pits, from which
an inecotaut fire was poured upon the Hoot, a part of
whit It was I imaged at from six hundred to one thousand
yards of the main battery. After an action of four
Lours, the fleet. finding it impracticable, under the cir
ennistara es to silence the battery on the bluff, withdrew.
Ocr loss ass 13 killed and 11 wounded. Among the lat
ter wee Licnienna 11011.11.1 R, ie the leg by a MIAs
but not seriously. It is expected that full particulars
wit( be received in the morning.
Military Governor for Kentucky.
ii consequence of the removal of all national troops
from Kentucky to the theatre of war farther South. the
Secessionists in Kentucky ! numerous in many localities,
lave become very impudent and lawless. Recruits for
llc Ma Its it ALL have been openly enlisted in some
of the central counties, disloyal candidates for ci•il ollices
have declared themselves, and plunderings of Union citi-
YellS in exposed sections have taken place. Under these
circumstances, and in compliance with the request of the
Military Boa•d of Kentucky, the National Government
will probably send a military governor to Kentucky,
clothed with such Powers as Goy. JunNsmi, of Tennessee,
has, to do the duty which Macossth fails to do, and to
visit upon Secessionists four-fold the punishment that
they indict upon Unionists. A force of live thousand
soldierl; will probably back up this movement. Gen. J.
T. llovi.th of Kentucky, who led a brigade at Shiloh, is
sioken of DS the military governor. Kentucky Isle near
forty thousand soldiers in the Union army—ton thousand
more than her quota.
Fugitive Slaves Returned.
Since Friday eight or ton fugitive slaves have been re
turned to their claimants. It is estimated there were in
Washington, recently, about a thousaed slaves, princi
pally from Prince George's county, Maryland, adjoining
this District. At least forty trave.holders from that
county were at the court house yesterday, filing their pe
titions for the reclamation of the runaways. In some
cases as teary as twenty are claimed by a single person.
In several instances, alter the courts had is sued the ne
cessary writs, the marshal and his deputies were unable
to fled the fugitives, who, having by some means been in
formed of the judicial processes, removed beyond the
reach of arrest.
Postal Regulations.
The Poet Office Department lei directed that all mail
matter destined for General Iluessiox's command in
Noith Carolka rhall hereafter be dent, by way of New
York
The Pest Office Department girce notice that hareafter
the eihgb -rate postage for prepaid letters transmitted per
the Pnmeiau closed mail between the United states cud
all parts of Germany, except the Grand Duehy of "Wen,
11 h 08 insimid of 30 cants. All unpaid lotion to
lehetrver part of Germany they nrsy be addressed, and
prepaidlleturs addressed to Baden, will continue to be
charged with postage at 30 cents the single rate. Poet
matters.Mould note this reduction on their tablea of
poateges to foreign countries, and charge postage ac
cordingly,
From McClellan and HaHeck's Armies.
Advices from General axi.r.Eog's army, dated yester
day, and from General NoCi.m.r.xx'n, dated to-day,
bave been received at the War Department. The former
vas in close proximity to the rebels, but no engagement
bad taken place. '3 he latter was concentrating and bring
ing up eupplies preparatory to a movement.
Operations of the Blockading Squadron
—The Steamer Planter
Wasnlywros, May 18.—The following was received
to-day et the Navy Deportment:
FLAGSLIP WABASIL, PORT ROYAL HittilOß, R. C.,
May 13,11562.
Stu : I bavo the honor to report the rapture, on the
10th, of the schooner Maria Teresa, by the Coiled states
gunboat Unadilla. She wee formerly pilot boat No. 10.
Lieuleneht Commanding Collins sent her to New York
for adjudicatlon.
I send, by the United ti totes steamer Massachusetts,
tt e Roister and crew of the schooner irms , t, welch vessel
was ruyturtd by the 'Restless, and sent. t) Now York for
lojtotication. The crew hat abandoned the schooner,
and were escaping to the mainland with her eapera, when
ti ey were tat en by the bowls of the Onward.
I forward, by the Straillef naehaVilli , vt(S, the Moral
direttitiy Ikon to the TAM] Stottra pion coMuilooktaurs'
a; Nt w York.
I al , o stud, by the stuns steamer, five of the craw of
tlo. scorner General 0. C. Pinckney. raptured by
toe
Ottawa on the 6th instant. Alto, live of the crew of the
schooner Albeit, captured by the Huron. together with
too pmeengers who were on beard at the time.
Vet y respectfully, your ob•°d;oat servant,
S. F. DUPON f. Fla, Officer
Commanding S. Atlantic Blockading Squadron.
To the Hon. GinsoN WELLES, Secretary of the Nony.
The following interesting reportfrom Commander Par
rott has been received at the Navy Department, having
been forwarded by Coot. Dupont:
U. S. STEAMER AUGtittr.t, OFF thIARLESTON,
May 13th, ISO 2.
SIR : I have the honor to inform yen that the rebel
arnica steamer Phmter was brought out to us this morn
ing from Charleston, by eight contrabands, and delivered
up to the squadron. Five colored women and three chil
dren are also on board. She carried 1 , 111! 32-pounder and
one .d-pound howitzer, and has also on hoard four large
guns, which she was engaged in transporting. I send
tier to Port Royal at once in order to take advantage of
the present good weather.
1 send Charleston papers of the 12th, and the Very in
telligent contraband who was in charge will give you the
information which lie has brought MI. I have the honor
to request you will send back as soon as convenient the
officer and crew sent on board.
Commodore Dupont in forwarding this despatch says
iu relation to the rebel steamer Planter : Site was the
muted despatch and transportation steamer attached to
the Engineer Department at Charleston, under Brigadier
ithatia bark a Short finis wines %CU
brought out to the blockading Beet by several contra
bands.
The bringing out of the steamer, under all the eirzonn
stances, would have dune credit to any one. At four
u'rlot h in tan morninu, to 16e abeenee of the oeptute Nvhe
Ww , eu rliv( C. el;e leit her wharf, close to the aIIVirrIIIIIOSIt
office azd headquarters, with the Palmetto and Confede
rate flags flying. passing toe situce.i . h, patits, sa:utine, iie
usual, by blueing her steam whistle. Ater getting
be
~...:a 0f last gun she indeltly hauled down
the rebel flags and hcisted a white one. The Onwarj was
the inside ship of the blockading IR et in the main chan
nel. find a as preparing to fire when her commander made
out the white Hag.
be at manic lit of the steamer is a 32-poonler or plYet,
and Into *24 pounder howitzer. She lies, besces, on her
thug. four other guns, one 7-111,011 rifled, wince, wore to
to 11111(11 the morning orate escape to the new fort on the
middle grora.d. One of the four beionged to Fort inllllO
ter. end lied been struck, in the attie.k en the tort,
in the muzzle. Boliert the intelligent shim tort plot of
n•, by, 1..1d feet ee el.ll , ully.
formed me of tins fact, presenting spat it would be a mat
ter of ilttOreSt to us to have faissesdon of this gun. This
man, Robert Small, is superior to an V Nth., have come in
to our lines, intelligent as mate) of thew haye bens. His
inimmist ion has been most interesting, and portions of it
of she utmost importance.
The steamer to quite a valua'do acqnisition to the
winadrni, by her good macbi eery and Tees , lisht draught.
3he officer in charge brought her through St. Helena
sound, mid by the inland psssage down Beaufort river,
rallying here at 10 o'clock last night.
On board the steamer, when she left Charleston, wore
eignt men, fire mei three ehthlren.
1 titan continue to employ Robert us a pilot on board
the Planter for the inland waters, vvitn which he appears
to be very familiar. Ido not know whether, in the views
of tbe Government, the vessel will be considered a prize,
but if so, I recpeelfully submit to the Department the
claims of the man Robert and hie essociaiee.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
S. F. DUPONT,
Flag Officer Commanding, &c.
A W14,-brake Contraband ilecompllahes
He Huns Away from Charleeton with a Steamer,
Her Crew, and their Families!
NNW YORK, May 17.—The steamship Atlantic has
waived, with dates to the 14th instant. Aiming her pes
sengers is General thimble, who commanded at the re•
auction of Port Pulaski.
The steamer Planter had arrived from Charleston,
having been run away with by a contraband pilot and
czew. She brought papers of the 12th, and had ott board
seven heavy guns and one eight-inch tilled gun, intended
for Fort Ripley, being constructed on the middle ground,
Charleston harbor,
The steamer Plahter, which was run away from the
rebels by her pilot, Robert Small, is a new tugboat em
ployed about Charleston harbor, which was sclz,d by the
(klefixlerate Cioverumeuti 0144 Convertel into a gunboat,
mounting a rifled gun forwai a and a siege gun eft. IStie
has been in V - e habit of running out to ace to recon
noitre, and was, therefore, no uuuenal appearance near
the torte guarding the entrance. Small, who was the
helmsman and pilot, conceived um idea or running away,
shd plotted with several friends, slaves like him, to take
ttem off.
On the evening of May 11 her officers left the able,
then at the wharf la Ohaeleriton, mid emit to thehr homea.
Small then took the firemen and asristant engineers, all
whom were slaves, in his cot Silence, had the fires
banked ap t and everything made ready to start by day.
At quarter to four on Saturday morning the lines which
imagined the visor' to the dock were cast off, and ths ship
quietly glided into the stream. Here the harbor guard
hehca the veiled, Ullt hinail promptly gave the counter
sign, and was allowed to past.
The vessel now celled at &docks distance below, where
the fatuities of the crew same oa board.
- When off Tort Sumpter the ,-nary ork Ike ramparie
hailed the boat, and Small sounded the countersign with
the whistle, three shrill sounds and one hissing wand.
The vessel being known to the officers of the day, no ob.
jeetlea was eals.,d, the oelitey only eUlgilid nut, Blow
the d—d Yankees to 11-11, or bring one of theta in."
" Aye, aye !" was the answer; and every peasible effort
was made to get below.
3iartit7.l\l+o the - ft... 4 out or rangy *ohm; Cmltl rail ;As
a white flag, and went to the United States neot, where
he surrendered the vessel. She had on hoard seven
heavy guns for Fort Ripley, a fort now building in
Charkaton harbor, which were to he tkthen thither the
next morning.
Smell, with the crew and their families, sixteen ter-
WNW, were sent to the flag-ship at Port Royal, and an of.
gnat olt.s.td en heard the Planter, who took her elan to
Commodore Dupont's vessel Small in a middle. aged
negro, and hie featured betray nothing of the tiresome of
character he displayed. He is said to be one of the most
plhAn sir' Charleston, and to hare a thorough
knowledge of all the ports sod inkts on the count of South
Carol
WASIIINGTON, May 18, 1882
LATE FROM PORT ROYAL.
a Coup d'Etat.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM GEN.
McCLELLAN.
Our " Iron-Clads" Repulsed from.
Fort Darling
Esplosion of the Bangatnekta Big sun.
LEEUTENANT MORRIS WOUNDED.
WASHINGTON, May 17, 11 o'clock P. M.—The follow_
ing despatch has just boon received a tho War Depart-
WILLIAMSBURG, May
To the lion. Edwin R. Stanton, Secretary of War:
Thegunboats Galena, Monitor, Aroostook, Naugatuck,
told Port Royal, were repulsed from Fort Darling, seven
inflect below Richmond, yesterday_
A port ion of them have returned to Jamestown Island,
Hour this place, in the shUllefi river.
Lieut. Morris, commanding the Port Royal, sent oror-
land to tie this morning for intelligence regarding the
forts below the Island, and also for assistance in burying
the dead which be brought down with him. Sorenteen
bodies have been interred on the banks of the dyer, and
theroarea number of wounded on board, including Lieu-
tenant Illurris himsolf.
The 100-poutel gun of tho Naugatuck exploded at the
firet fire. DANIEL CAMPBELL,
Colonel of thu Fifth Cavalry.
By authority of Gen. G. B. MoCLELLAN.
The Advance Within Fifteen
Miles of Richmond.
Rebels Driven Across tile Chickshominy.
ARTILLERY FIGHT AT BOTTOM'S BRIDGE.
THE EXPEDITION ON THE PiIisIUNKY
[From the Army Corresimmlont of the Associated Press
• W nice Horse ; Va Sunday, May 18.—The advance
guard of our forces on the main road to Richmond, by
i,
ray of Bottom's bridge, drove the enemy across the
Chickahomiey river at that point yesterday morning.
When our troops arrived within half a mile of th- bridge,
which is burned, they were opened upon by a brisk fire
of artillery from the opposite side of the river. No one
v.aa injured. Ibis bridge is ]F miles from Richmond. -
At this point our troops will experience considerable
difficulty in crossing, as the country is low and marshy
on both aides of the river.
A reconnoissance was made yesterday by ono of the
gunboats, with two companies of infantry, under Major
and one section of Aires' battery, up the
Pationnky river, a distance of twenty-five miles from
here, at a- point known as Russell's Landing. They
found the steamer Logan, one propeller, and fifteen
ecboonere in flames. They were laden mostly with corn,
which was being unloaded. Some contrabands on shore
stated that when the rebels beard our gunboats coming,
they commenced out•iog the corn on board again, so as
to insure its destruction. A few shells soon dispersed
the remaining rebels in that locality, when the gunboats
returned to the White Homan.
The roads for the past throe days have been next to
impassable, owing to the recent heavy rains. A division
ain was thirty-six hours making its way five miles
wills teams doublkd together, and with the assistance of a
large number of troops. The edvance of the atm.!, from
this point must nermsarily be s'ow. From here it loses
the benefit of the river- transportation, requiring all the
supply trains .kt thellispo-al of the Qunitormaster's De
partment to furnish or vest a body of men with subsist
ence.
The bridge between here and the enemy has been de
stroyed, and ever) imaginable obstruction has Leon olaJed
in the way of our adValice.
The Ric Mound Dirpatch of the 12th, has a lengthy'
article on the evacuation of Norfolk awl the conduct of
the war geboally. It EIRYB by abandoning detached
forts which are within reach of the enemy's fleets, and
~1.,k1.14 le therefore InAnna,a,le to defend., we flee enabled
to couctutrate powerful furore upon essential point'', and
to battle the enemy in every attack of vital importance.
Ihe same paper makee mention of a terrible panic in
Lid:mond on Friday on the approach of out gun
boats.
This being Sunday, the army of th e Potomac has
mead its labors, the trona remaining In camp enjoying
a day of rest.
Despatch from General Geary.
SKIRMISH WITH REBEL CAVALRY.
THE ENEMY HASTILY RETIRE
Our Loss Trifling
linuronTowN,Ta., May 3.7.—A detachment of seventeen
men of Company 0, Twenty-eight regiment Pennsylvrnia
Volunteers, who reached Linden, Va., on the 15th, and
were for a short time in advance of the reinforcements for
that place, were attacked by a body of about 450 rebel
cavalry, who dashed upon them from four directions. The
men resist:4l them with sharp firing. under shelter of a
depot, which bears severe marks of tito contest. They
were Overpowered, and lost one killed and fourteen taken
prisoners.
The balance of the company came up and charged tho
t im ettle,, et.0.,111, them to hoot n hoot., retreat with oomo
loss.
•
Killed—Corporal Sneath.
Copured—Corporal E. Miker ; privates W. Glazier,
J. Salkeld, T. White, 0. Banersacks, J. M. Fuld:, W.
Cane, G. Snyder, A. Miles, S. Renard, C. Maxwell, Co.
M., and three privates of the IstMichigan Cavalry, Co.
Il and I.
WASHINGTON, May 17.—The following is extracted
from a derpatch to the Secretary of War, by General
John W. Gt ary, dated Rectortown, Virginia, May 16:
& company of infantry of my command was yester
day ordered to Linden, to remain stationed there. A de
tachment of seventeen men, guarding the company
wagon, reached there a short time before the main body
of the company, which wee on a train, when they were
attacked by a body of cavalry, variously estimated at
from three hundred to six hundred, coming upon them
from four directions.
++ Our men resisted them, keeping up a sharp firing
under shelter of the depot, which was riddled with
bullets. My men were overpowered. One was killed,
and fourteen taken prisoners, three of whom were
wounded. when the enemy hastily retired. under fire,
and with some tots.
+GI have been Informed that a portion of General
Eldeldi , ' command had a skirmish with them.
"JOH g W. GEARY,
"Brigadier General Commanding."
EXPEDITION EP THE PLUM RIVER
Two Babel Steamers and Twenty Schooners
Destroyed_
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE POTOMAC,
WHITE HOUSE, May 17, 1812-10.30 P. rti.s
To the Hon. E. M. Stanton, Secretary of War:
A cunniurd natal and army vapv-dition, aador Oaptain
Murray, United States navy, with troops and artillery
under htt‘jor Williard and Captain Ayres, of the army,
went some twenty. five miles up the Pamuuky river to
day, and forced the rebels to destroy two-steimers and
some twenty schooners.
The expedition was admirably managed, and all con
cerned deserve great credit.
We have advanced considerably to-day.
The roach ere 110 W hnproying,
GEORGE 11. MoCIELTAN,
Major General Commanding.
The Naval Engagement off Fort
Wright.
OFFICIAL PARTICULARS.
WASHINGTON, Mar 17.—Tho following report from
Captain 1.5a710, commanding the Migniaalppl
tern., was received this morning at the Navy Depart
ment:
U. S. FLAG STEAMER BENTON,
Off Fort Pillow, May 10, 1802.
Hon, Gideon lie Itch •56GrotGry of the lYncy
Sta : I hare the honor to inform the Department that
yesterday morning, a little after seven o'clock, the rebel
squadron consisting of eight iron-clad steamers, four of
them, I believe, fitted With ratan, came around the point
at the bond above Fort Pillow, and steamed gallantly up
the river, fully prepared for a regular engagement.
The vessels of this squadron were lying at the time
ttol ap to Ale hank of the riven three e., the ea,iiern tu.,l
four on the western side ; and as they were transferred to
me by Flag Officer Foote ready for action, most of the
vessels were prompt in obeying the signal to follow the
Inottone of the comnntmler-ln-ehla-
The leading vessels of the rebel squadron made directly
for mortar boat No. 16, which was for a moment unpro
tected. Acting Master Gregory and hie crew behaved
with great spirit during the action. Ile tired his mortar
eleven times at the enemy, reducing the charge and di
minishing the elevation.
Commander Stemble, in the gunboat Cincinnati, w hich
was the leading vessel In the line on that side of the river,
followed by Commander Xclty in the gunboat Mound
City, hastened to the support of the mortar boats, and
wt re repeatedly struck by the enemy's rams.
At the same time that they disabled the enemy and
drove him away, the two leading vegeole In the enemy's
line were successfully encountered by this ship. The
boiler, or steam chest of one of them exploded by our
Shot, and both of them ware disabled. .Ilier iL as well as
the first naval vessel eacanntered by Me inciunati,
drifted down the river.
Commander Wainer informs me that he fired a fifty
ming shot, ;plough the boilete of the third of the enemy's
gunboats on the WOhnlll lino. and /adored her for the
time being helpless. The action lasted daring the better
rurt of an hour, and took place at the (lased quarters.
The enemy finally retreated with heath below the guns of
Fort 11110 er.
I haVe to call the especial attention of the Department
to the gallantry and good conduct exhibited by Com
manders Stmt le and Kelty, and Lieutenant Command
ing S. L. Phelps. I regret to say that Conanaindor 4t,,m
-ble, Fourth master Reynolds, and one of the seamen of
the Cincinnati, and ono of the Mound City, were severely
wont:tied. The other accidents of the day were slight.
I have the honer to be,
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
O. H. DAvis,
Captain Commanding the DliieiKsippi Flotilla pro tem.
CAIRO, Nay IT—pr viol 'ate Olmiceyso Vribe v se.l—
gunboat Cincinnati has been got off the bottom of
the river at Fort Wright, and it was supposed she would
leave for Cairo vesterdai.
Th. memehis _Appeat of the 11th states the rebel km
is the late naval engagement to Lave been 8 killed and 18
wounded.
c Am o, platy. 17.—A despatch from the fleet oat s that
oeeeriew. +•he have arrived there Mate that the rebel
flotilla have been reinforced by the arrival of a new ram
railed the General Price, and the Iron-clad gunboat Ar
tonna', from Memphis. Jeff Thompson landed a part
of hie for Cell Oti the Arkansas shore and made a demon
stration on our lend force on Weds cedar§ daring la oar
pickets and occupy lug • part of the point, which he still
bolde.
From rieWtielli, N. v
aw YORK, Kay 18 —The steamer General Burnsi le
arrived to•day from Newbern h with dales to the 16:4
mans, obv trt9ffht 166 hick and wounded soldiers.
The tracts confirmed In goad health. Nothing
had transpired there.
From General Halleckrg Army.
I'ICI ISKIRNEISHX2irCi--
Rebel Gunboats Reconnoitring
Settoregord Recoiled to VArgiolo
BRAGG LEFT IN COMMAND OF CORINTH
CAIRO, May 18.—The steamer 2.17/1111, from Pittsburg
Landing, has strived. Her news is usimixignint.
Picket eltirwishing has taken place, lasting nearly
two days. The rebels were driven back, but nut until
they euceecded in burning a bridge over a email *dream
four miles from Corinth. Twelve of our men are reported
'Neuwied.
lit setters continuo to report a scarcity of provisions
in the rebel cutup. Many of their cattle are starving Lir
want of forage.
Gotrillan infant tap country around llickmin, New
Madrid, and other points ; committing dcprodationa.
News from the fleet state that several rebel gunboats
came around Craig Head Point yesterday to reuonrnitre.
The Benton opened lire as soon as they came within
range. The rebel boats retired.
The gunboat Mound City has been thoroughly re
paired, and goes down to-night.
Passengers by the SWIM give currency to a rumor that
Itriwg iv in C0111111:111d at Corinth, lteauregard haying
been culled to Virginia to reorganizo the rebel army in'
the vicinity of Richmond.
ri H L LA_ TEST .
ACTIVE SKIRMISIIING
BEFORE CORINTH, May 17.—The latest advices from
Gen. Curtis that Ii s forces are between dearcey and
Little neck, Ark., and rapidly marching on the State
Governor 'Rector bas called on the militia and people
generally to come out. ail large numbers have applied
to General Curtis fir protection, who desire to come un
der the old flag. _
There is a general aarance along our lines to-day
towards Corinth, much blcirrnishin; and several severe
engagements.
Gemini 4therman's division lost 44 killed and a consi
derable number wounded.
Aa attacking Rmaeli's house, which has been occupied
for some time g ant by the rebels worrying our pickets,
we succeeded in-driving the enemy from their position
back to lea soaks.
Cur men are under anus, expecting an attack.
SUND AY hi URN av G. --Among the killed, left by tiro
rcbela on the ground, was one with a swoid, supposed to
be an officer.
Our forces - under Gen. Sherman still occupy Russell's
house in skirmishing.
The Eighth Missouri is only , about 300 yards from the
enemy's breastworks. Several rifles were captured in
the skirmish on the right. They were perfectly new,
and marked Breeze & Srienttr, Bremen. They are
much superior to the rifles need by our sharprbooters,
having a range of from 1,200 to 1,500 yards, while ours
are effective at only 1,000.
In all cases the rebels left on the field were shot in the
head, obit the wounded shot in the neck and breast. The
enemy lust left on the field forty, and ono hundred
Avounded.
Deserters 'from Corinth all report the entire absence of
chloroform in the medical stores. There is probably
none in tie Confederacy. The weather is very warm and
the roads dusty.
Rebel Eviration of Pensacola.
BURNING OF THE NAVY YARD AND FORFS
Our Gunboats in Front of the City.
ITS SURRENDER DEMANDED
BEFORE CORINTIT, May 10.
The Mobile Advertiser and Register, of the 10th,
contains the following despatch:
o PENS-1 COLA, May 10.—Atli'. o'clock last night the
rer,e,,,ccos, paey-yard 1,... , 1 the fort, were net OM tire and
destroyed. When the enemy discovered what was going
on, Fort 'Pickens opened a furious bombardment, and
kept it up during the conflagration, but without - doing
any damage to any body at Pensacola. All the public
property except the custedn-house, which is incapable of
being burned, stets moved, but all the movable Con
federate property has been saved. Tint railroad track
lctalit g out of the city towards Montgomery was torn up.
" This morning a federal vtasel with a flag of truce
came up to the city demanding a surrender. Major
Bollbe refused to comply with the demand, but stated
that all the military forces had left, and he had no power
to oppose its occupation. The Federal officer replied
that they would occupy the city to. morrow, but that the
inhabitants need not be alarmed."
From Port Royal, Charleston, and
Savannah.
A NEGRO INSURRECTION IMMINENT.
OUR PICKETS WITHIN FOUR MILES OF SAVANNAH
OUR BATTERIES AURROUND THE CITY
Railroad in our Possession
Nor Tons. May 18.—Lottorg from Port Rani. by the
uteamer Atlantic, report that the accessbal of the negro
Out, small, who ran away from Charleston with the
rebel tugboat, is deemed more important than the heavy
guns she contained, as Smalt is thoroughly acquainted
with all the intricacies of the navigation in that
General llnnter's proclamation had been published
in Charleston, and a tiegro insurrection there was im
minent.
Vast preparations are making to bombard Savannah.
Our gunboats have proceeded up the river, and our
pickets are within four miles of Savannah. Massive bat
teries, mounting Parrott guns,- have been erected all
around the city. Our troops have a portion of the rail
road between Charleston and Savannah in their posses-
A negro regiment is being organized by Gen. Hunter,
it; officers being selected front the Massachusetts regi
ments, and the movement meets with favor, as they will
be able to perfoiln duties which will relieve our troops.
From the Mountain Department.
Princeton, Ta., Taken by the Rebels,
and Recaptured by Gen. Cox.
NEW Yorx, Nay 18.—Thr following_ special despatch
WO been received at the Tribune office
11.13ADQUARTURS MOUNTAIN MEPARTAIRNT, tt
Va via Baltimore, May 17, 1862. C
Despatches received this afternoon and evening, not
official, but cot trustworthy at headquarters, an
iii-,iaLze that Peinee iii. the capital of MAPCO! azurite,
where General Cox's advance was stationed, was at
tacked and captured yesterday by a rebel force under
Humphrey Marshall. This raornims the place was re
captured, Red the rebate defeated by Generel Coy. No
pa. ziculars have been received.
The scouts report that the enemy in front of us have
been reinforced.
LITER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT EASTERN
091;419139 t 9 Capt n Wiled9i, ei the pirate Peony
Bt. Pierre
Paris Papers on the French Minister's Visit to
Ricbmond.
"THE BEGINNING OF THE END NOT DISTANT."
New Yong, May 17.—The steamer Great &astern has
arrived up. Sbe experienced heavy gales from the weet
-ward necirly ail the paem‘go, and reachott equaly Hook at
6 o'clock on Saturday . morning. During the passage she
fell in with large quantities of ice.
The Great Eastern brings 107 cabin passengers.
The Asia arrived at Qneenstown on the evening of the
4th list , and at Liverpool on the afternoon of the bth.
The House of Lords was engaged on the evening of the
sth instant with purely domestic questions, and the
Douse of Commons on the education bill.
TI a folletelne hekVi is obtaleed belie the film of fo
reign papers brought by her:
The Loudon Times, in an editorial on American affairs
says:
The true test of public fooling in the North will come
when the tuxes are collected. In the meantime, so long '
as the Federals are not absolutely winners they are
losers; whrreae, so long as tire Confedm ates are not ac-
tunny subdued they may regard themselves as winning.
Those arc considerations which counterbalance the irliPe
ritlritY of the North."
Captain Wilcox, who recaptured the ship Emily St,
Pierre 11.1111 a prize crew, has been formally presented, by
numerous Liverixs.l merchants, with a valuable service
of plate and a gold chronometer; also, with a sextant
from his Clew, and with ±2.1100 by the owners of the ship.
lire Mercantile Marine Association, of Liverpool, had
announced their intention to present hint with a gold me
dal, and his cook and steward with "deer inefiels. Valu
able money presents were also made to tire cook and
sit - ward. Sp: writs eulogistic or the set were
mude on the occasion by several prominent merchants.
l he Paris Patric asserts that 11L Mercier, the French
minister, has had a long conference with Jefferson Davis,
at Richmond. The step taken by M. Mercier in this
natter is entirely or a poutto,.l olastrsstee, and is known
by President Lincoln.
Additionat arrests had been made at Warsaw for sing
ing prohituted songs.
Parliament is engaged in discussing the educational
g m-silos. The eleesHassent etewe are generally accepted.
The Afornlng Herald argues from tho reports of K.
Mercier's mission to Richmond that the beginniugof the
mod is net far distant. It says that France and England
suffer mere than neutrals ever suffered from any content,
sod both begin to regind the war as interminable end
atrocious.
The Archbishop of Canterbury has been seriously ill,
but he w i ne considered out of danger at the last accounts.
The bids for the Russian loan in all the cities was one
third litre than was required.
Cincorrs, April Ith—A financial statement estimates
a surplus in the finances of India of £1,500,000. Tire
imports and duties on cotton goods have been minced.
- Exchange is quoted at Os 3d. Freights am quiet.
CANTON, April 1,--Teit is HIM Mai
456;01.
II was reported that Garibaldi had resigned the com
mand of the Genoese volunteers, and it Netts believed that
the corps would be disbanded.
Victor EtnitainUel still continues at Vaplee, After
having visiti it the French Peet, the Nuts addressed a
tester to the Emperor Napoleon, toaakiag him for his
ceurlees towards himself, and his sympathy for the
Ind an cause.
The Rios rays ;
. is lung since I hare experienced so ninth ef notion
as I bare to-day. Tbe order which reigns in the southern
provinree, and the earnest marks of affection which 1
everywhere received, triumphantly reply to the calum
nies of our enemies. We shall convince Europe that the
idea 5.t onliy rest, o solid based. and is thorandhla
graven on the hearts of all Italians."
The King also, while thanking the Neapolitan deputa
tions which waited upon him with an aufdress, said:
' , Public safety is not yet re-established, because Route
Js the centre of conopiroclea j tort I.elieve Roo tsbore 1 sitY
that, much as the Italians wish to rocorer Rome, the
French WWI quite as much to terminate their occupa
tion of it."
The Pope returned to Rome on the 3d.
lariielnbied at he Dibrell through the streets,
SPAIN
A Spanish squadron would sail shortly with tvoops for
Cube, ready to replace the sick of the Spanish Unity. in
Mexico, or
. to reinforce it, if necessary.
Bombay letters of April 12, and Calcutta, April 3, had
reached England.
The news has Leen mainly anticipated. Theslatement
lilßl lilt' tO Vati'VFlClo.l7 deniO4 the -849-
itislanan
Tha couspiracy at nyderabad Was bttu iiarayeted.
The nutils (alrft4y tergruplted front Maim) bad reach
ed Southampton.
Peace had been porktentently eetnbligbed in the Argen
tina Itanutille.
lav ESPOOL.M ay A, A lit —Cotton yeaterda7 was easier
arid X 471 d. lower. Satre 5000 baler.
llreadattilia stall declining,
Provisions stekidy
ARID% dull; mote 334. Sugar Armor_ Rids MusalN.
Coffee Inactive. Mein quiet at Ns. Spirits of Tatou
tine (inlet a..d steady at 7wo.
LoNoOS, May 5. P. fd.—Toa tends downward. Whore
declined 2e. Coffee firm. Bice yule/ and steady. TMb
low quiet and steady at 48s 3d. Linseed 011 firmer at 3Td.
Sugar 4clning.
Combo's 93Ne94.
Illinois Central shares 47e46.1i discount. Erie]
323vag2 . X.
LATEST ST TELEGRAPH To MtLgoED HAVE:I.—
LIVRRPOL, May 6, P. M.—Cotton—Sales 4,00() hales.
Marko) dull and nuelianged. Flour decline* 6d. Wheat
irregular and easier. Cora quiet and steady. Beef, de
cluaing tendency. Port( heavy. Lard 4104 and steady.
LoximN, May 6, P. M.—Console 9331 American
securities quiet and steady.
The anotvretart Of Gafil , 5I areal a expedite/co wt
celebrant al by the pa ople tit 13eLtat on the 4th of Brian
The subecrletiaes to the great. Irrigation scheme In
lipi.Pt Italy ham beta two awl a half tittles covered In
eight days. nil has prtdluned a very favorable efroct.
A despatch frain Calcutta, dated Calcutta, A prill6,
says that Mr. Laing 11011 made his financial statement: mid
that he anticipatpe x surplus of 51,550,000. Import:Va.
ties were being ted-ac.td.
The mails (already telegraplnd from Lilibon) iMn
rrftched Southampton.
Pence bad keen permanently established In the Argen
tie Republic.
Commercial news anticipated.
VERY LATEST PER GREAT EASTERN.
[By Telegraph to Milford Haven.]
CAITOS, April I.—Tua firm and quiet. Exchange
4efiNd.
SIMVING —Arrived from New York, Catharine,
Queenstown; Flamingo, Sligo.
Public Amusements.
TS OPERA .-" Lir Favorite" drew a good home)
on Senility evening. Inneri, "Trimurti, and 811Ailli
sang extremely well. ild:mensi, as the King, was not
ennui to that ride, either in voice or ncting. Tho most
successful solo was " Spirito gentil," by Itrignoli, very
worthily mom,. Tho that in the Itrurle by D'Angri
and Brim Vieni, ah I yield," which Wag not en•
cored, was much better rendered than 4 , Me! Yalta
dor," by D'Angri and Mancusi, which was. This was
the last operaiic performance of the season, the moderato
patronage extended to Mr. Gran, the numager, not
encouroging him to run further pecuniary risk.
At WahintLstreet Theatre, to-morrow evening, Mr. J.
S. Wright, a reliable and able actor, whO istoo often cast
arts out of his line, will hike his benefit: appearing
in a 110 W dralna, called "Lost mid Found," adapted front
the French. lin this oreasion, a Philadelphiadistrutante
will appear. Mr. Vining Bowers, Stage Manager, has
his benefit on Wednesday, appearing, for the first time,
as Asa Trenchant. in " Our American , Cousin."'
At Arch-street Theatre, Miss Jane Coombs coimmnces
a star engagement this evening, taking the part of Julia
in the " limtehlatek." This lady, who is young and
pretty, has been absent in Europe for several months.
Her visit being to see theleading performers in tho English
and French theatres, she confined her own acting to a
few nights at the lfaymarket, in London.
Van Aniburgh's Menagerie i 3 announced to enter and
parade through the city this forenoon; and may be seen,
until further notice, at 10, 2, and 7 every day, in a MAY
pavilion erected in Arch aheve Nineteenth street.-
Mrs. Debren's first concert takes place at the A.endemy
of Di uric this evening. The pregranuue (see advertise
ment) is decidedly good.
Mr: Mark II Ossler's farewell concert, it la Juilien, ii
Sled - for Thursday evening, at the Academy of Neale.
Madame Johannsen will be the leading vocalist.
Mr. James E. Murdoch announces public I.ttaling
o take place at Concert Hail on the evenings of Tues
day, Thursday, and Saturday. •
On Thursday evening, at Musical Fund Hall, Dc.
Shelton blacketatie will give a Lecture, ou a popular
tubjct, in aid of the Charity Hospital.
The new' and original drawing.rooin entei tainment of
Mr. and Mrs. Peabody at Howe," the first presentation
of which, at Pelnical F and Hall, achieved a success, will
be given at the neiclecture room attached to Concert hail
to-night, and every evening this weak. This enter-
tainment pOHElttiBed all the true elements of popu
larity, whilst its refined elegance, and moral ulna,
will commend it to general approval, and home imita
tion—as It Is not a theatrical perforuinace,
CA PTA IN WILL !ANIS' LECTUILES.—The whole tragedy
and comedy of Whale-catching in the South Sea will be
delineated tins esiMing, at the Assembly Buildings, by
Captain Willieine, who has spent his life harpooning the
cetucea. The entertainment, which is said to be very
exciting, consists of a series of illiuninated panor.imits
in addition to which the implements of the beginesa, Noah
as harpoons, whale-boats, etc., will be exhibited and ina
ideuxred by the eaptuin and crew, and an explanatory
An Outline of Napoleon's Plan of Inter-
The Wax to be Suspended, and a Vote by States
on Union or Secession Taken.
[From the Edinburgh hcoteman, May let.]
Private information from Paris, coinciding with cer
tain signs and symptoms, loads to the conviction that a
strong desire to make an effort towards sonic kind of
interposition has long been enterta , ned by the Emperor,
and that, unlees some settlement shall have been reached
or brcught 'Aldan sight a few wesits new., he will
scarcely be re,trisined from the attempt. If, when the
advance of the Beason renders military movements im
practicable in the Southern Stake, at least by Northern
imps, the position of the belligerents shall be anything
like what it was at nit last Amami or in Mona! MN
position is not much more entirely altered than It would
now lie ratienel to expect, the facts will bo regarded as
insuring, in the absence of any new element, another
leer's war.
Against Emit a result it Is understood that the 'French
En.peror ix now• more than inclined nut only is prutest
lint to act. Moro than profiably no will first, propu:e to
move in conceit with GI eat Britain—but we may assume,
at least, in pa-sing, that any such proposal would be de
clined by our Government. The Emperor would, in that
ca. e, go to work by himself. Be will, pothapd, begin by
a 1/1010 friendly tetaonstrance, addressed ostensibly to
both parties, but pra,tically meant or needed only fir the
Not th—a remonstrance which there is desperately little
chance of prtdocing any effect beyond, at the belt, a
Civil expression of resentment at foreign intermeddliug.
The course to which the Emperor would thon resort is
Lel eyed to be tids—ho would throw out something quite
capable of being intermetod as a threat against which
ever pm ty should resume hostilities; and he would thou
formally propound MI advice that the whole should he
referred to his favorite tribunal, "universal suffrage"—
the vote not to be taken en masse but each SUM to voto
soemately, declaring for itself whether it desire reunion
tinder one federal or central government, or reconstrutt
Lion tinier two or more such governments. Whether or
nct the visit of the French alinister at Washington to the
Confederate Government at Richmond hits any comm.
thin .with these intentions is matter only of mum
sistul conjecture: but [Time is more than conjecture as to
something like what has been indicated being at present
not only the desire but the design of the French Govern
ment. the prospect is not a cheerful one. Though the
prol.oiesi of refer - 11*g he nigher traversal Enntrage Is
wbjcli, jlr jj@ejtt it neither is unfitting in France to
make,. nor would be uurt asouslido intim bloke to aeon
it it, after all, but a proposal to have done over ngain
what the. Confederate Slates did io the spring of last
year. They did then, as they would again do now, vote
the nwelves out of the Union—and that is just the result
wand which the North had been fighting. In a
word, for the North to acc e de to the French proposal,
would just he certainly, though indirectly, to con
cede separation. It is ciffictilt to conclude that that
which the North has refused and resisted at such enor
moue cost, it would grout at the reaueet or menace of
France; and it it equelly ditlicult to see what effective
ptepe France could take were ehe denied and defied.
As to this country, there seems no course open to her
hut inaction and &molt silence. We have no right to
venturt beyond friendly advice; and the fact that our
interests are deeply concerned inn speedy settlement of
the American strife. enijeeta to RUPDidOII and aversion
anything we say, even in the most friendly and reward
tone and forma A collation of the recent accounts, pub
lic and private, regarding the war, tend to strengthen
the conclusion that the struggle wit not be ended this
campaign; and consequently that the state of things
for which the French Inmeror Is understood to wait wilt
soon arise.
The Recapture of the Emily St. Pierre
On Eaturday the rooms of the Liverpool Mercantile
Marble emaciation were crowded almost to euffocation
. .
by the merchants and mercantile marine officers of Li
verpool, to witness the presentation of a gold pocket
chronometer and silver tea and coffee service to Oapteia
William Wilson, of the British ship Emily St. Pierre, fob
hie gallantry in recapturing his ship, which had been
Rind by a United Staten'? cruiser, and of two 011raeS 00n.
Mining 20 guinea. each to hie cock and steward. Mr.
J. Beasley took the chair. The chairman said he ques
tioned if in the naval history of this or any other coun
try so brilliant an act had been performed as the recap
ture of the Emily St. Pierre. Captain Wilsou'e eiMple
narrative would, be felt lure, make the blood tingle in
their veins with admiration for the man whose head could
devise, and whose hands could achieve such a deed. It
was wonderful that Copt- Wilson should have been able to
navigate tile chi p 'distance olefin 3,904 al flee i e the FPligh
est at flan of the year foricroesing the Mimetic, and title
with the additional help of only three trends of the
prize crew, with 13 men-of-war's men fast below, and
with the misfortune of his rudder being carried away.
He was authorized to state that the owners of the Emily
pr. t — , era latNnded to preseni Wilson with the
onto of 2,000 guineas. Captain Wilson, who was re
ceived with loud cheers, warmly thanked the 170 mer
chants of Liverpool for their hands,. rne gift. He gave the
following narrative of his exploit: The Emily St.
Pierre left Oedezdta as the 24th of November with or.
del a to make the coast of South Carolina, to ascertain
whether there was peace or war. If peace had been de
clared be wan to take a pilot and enter the port of Clharles
ton ; if there was a blockade he was to proceed to St.
John's, N. B. On the 18th of March, 1802, he considered
his vessel to be about an miles nit the load, whoa ha oar'
a gentler coming towards her, which proved to be the
war-vessel James Adger. She was soon boarded by two
boats, whose officers and crew took possession of hoe.
Filling the main) Ord, they steered for the fleet. fle woo
ordered into the boat, and told by Flag. °Meer Golds.
borough that he bad saltpetre on board, that hie ship was
a lawful prize to the Federal Government, that he could
take a peerage on board to Philadelphia. He replied that
hie cargo was not eellpetre, end that his ship was British
property. Be returned to hie ably In en leront found his
crew all taken away except the cook and steward, and a
new company on board, consisting of Lieutenant Stone,
master's mate, twelve men, and a passenger---fitteen in
all, Thiy weighed anchor and proceeded to sea. On the
morning of tee Ziet of March (treing Lieutenant Surae'e
watch on deck) he called the cook and steward into his
state room, about half past four, and said to them that
he had made up his mind to lose hie life or have his ship.
He &eked their assistance, which was obtained He
ihtn gava pqh- of i F oros and as sheet to U. and told
them to follow him. The master's mate was asleep In his
berth. After handing out his revolver tacit his sword
Captain Wilton grasped hie hands. Tne irons were fixed
and the gag wee in its place ice minute. He then went to
the 1$1120(4101. an engineer). and, having token the serene
from his berth, he secured Mtn In the came way. Ito
then went on deck as if ho had just turned out, and
walked the deck, for about ten minutes, with Lieutenant
Stone, Fo whom be made remarks about the weather.
Pe.. .tier ? he asked him down to the eabin to look at the
chart. and induced him to 60. 110 took up an IMO be.
las ing-pin on his way down. At the door of the after
cabin, where the chart was spread out ready, he
brought him tie by lidding the belaying•pin over his
him that the ship should never go
to Philadelphia. The cook and steward were both
ready, and before he could utter a word the tram were
on hie wrists, the gag in his mouth, and he pitched
into a berth. He locked him up. Three men were
wallahg the deck; one was at the helm, and one on the
lookout Ile called the three men aft, and, pointing to
the hatchway of the store-room near the helm, said that
a coil of rope was wanted up. He them shoved off the
batch, anek.pointing to a corner where is was. they all
non jumped down. Be immediately closed the batch,
and earned she man at the i 11460 of 664 0 0ffer if , 60
moved of spoke. 'The lookout was then called an, and,
as be refused to help to work the ship so a Brirish port,
be was put with the others. Wilson then called the
watch, and, an Jam de Pet crane on deck all together,
they got two alt and - secured Veft/1 - 0 any nuepicion was
aroused. The third man of the watch below drew his
knife at the steward, upou which the latter tired, and
Ike shot went through Me shoulder The others were
11001. uncured. its weal down and announced the fact to
Liseitknant Stone_ Mt told him he would take the g eft
ant of his mouth and the irons off hie wrists if he eons
teht. d himself to remain a prisoner in his berth.
Ile dined at the table under guard. The craw
were supplied daily with bread, beef, and water.
teas enitiatesesd to lend t hand_
PAM r item be in confinement, but thew, Weed latioilditail
He was 3,000 miles from home, withrut a holiest:nen.
Be exrerieteed a heavy gale of wit d, and feared that,
after ell, be would not Dekko hie presage, Si lis tiller
ti—ktu eluting Ms strain. When be wanted to east
, the lonians lee lam to take the reef. Weveto the c "Indoor
A large crowd
BRiZIL
n RAV.II,
vention.
I and Om lie aloft to VW/the earicue mud tie the Wet.
alone, at the same time keeaktp his elf'' upon the ship's
heed, end WS 7 AOR to hts faithful cook tied steward how
to move the helm. lie arrived in the Weise/ after a
aatuatat of Mists dup. fr,.... Ms renepinie. lidlitilli
Sproule, addrmaing ()entail, Wastes, said that, MA meet.
it g or tie Council of the rdercisatlie harks Sergipe
Asocietion. held on the previous day, they had regolved
that a gold medal should he presented tcrOaptato Wllsode
et,d silin r medaht, with suitable tome Wiens, to the MIK
and steward. ffillitaln Henderson bald the Ornesil atul
CIOW of the Emily Bt. Berm who bed jest arrived from
America, had delisted him to present a splendid eestent
' to Captain Wilson for hie noble conduct and for his
kindness to them dining the voyage.—London i'isier,
' Ray 6,
The Steam Ram Switzerland.
VAIIIKV !LIP, May 18.—Ther United States stemat rt
Swi,terland let aground in' the canal, provonting the
rnsomge meaner Glendale, veltli lamed
Kure., for l'ithiburg Lwuilriz, awl Milled to MOM DI
aH there i 4 but to feet of water on SO'
Falls. The Weather Fraohliv will early forward for
olureH.
.Prektdh
NFw 7exx, Nay 18.—The French Nnoboat lionandul
boo ltt rived. Another gunboat, undsm tba French Ilag,
in below.
From Jamaica..
NEW YOlOl, Mar 17.—The steamer Plantagenet, from
Kingkon, Jamaica, on the 7th, and Pert•mt Prince ea
the sth, arrive d at thin port to-ninlit, no brings no
hews.
CIIOKED DEATIL—Last elealag a
boy 1)11111! d Stockdale, madding at Eighth street, below
Cation hue, was chokr.d to death by IL piece or level pencil
whuh no amid. wally iutroUuceU into hie throat, The
',crone! Was notilic.d.
DROWNING CASE.-111C C01 . 011C7 was
notified laxt evening to hold an Itionfist on the L my of •
child foind drowned at Maylitodrllle, in tho Twenty.
fonith ward.
FinE.—Ahout half past twelve o'cloek
yr, Vll, dil l 11101 Di n¢ RO Worn) of the WISH Calblitd by MI
',lnning of t b ' rt-nr portion Of tho pottery of John Dow-
Ire,
oi.ll a hbefiwright shop owned by fl. tlutumings.ost
Ninth .tieet, above Poplar. The total loss will not ex
ceed $4OO.
CITY ITEMS.
Rev. Dr. Newton Assumes the Rectorship
of the Epiphany
There is sit interesting history connected with the
Church of the. Epiphany, located ILL Fift•culh trod CllOB4.
lint street., which it is not our purpose now to give, ex•
cepting to state that the rectorship of it, which was re
cently made vacant by the resignation of the Rev. air.
Cracroft, was yesterday morning formally assumed by
Ni. Rev. Richard Newton, D. D., for many years rector
of St. l'unl's Church, Third street, below Walnut, whore
he was greatly esteemed for his faithfulness as a pastor
and friend, and his ability asnainister of the Word.
The Epiphany, it will lie remembered, was the
some or the elder Tyug's labors for years, and more
recently of the events which resulted in the separation
from it of the late Dudley A. Tyng. The , imputation.
against the loyalty of this church, which has been freely
made in certain quarters, perhaps find their beet answer
in the fact that Dr. Newton, who It well known to be
one of the most staunch, and even onthuelastic, Union
divines in the pulpit of this city, has accepted a call to
its rectorship, by which he becomes In a nmaeure their
repreeentstive, to the public eye, not only In things per
taining to their ecclesiastical standing in the community,
but also of their attitude towards the Government under
which they live in these !lilting times.
Dr. Newton was assisted in the devotional exerolees of
the morning by his son, the Rev. Heber Newton. The
church on the occasion was filled to its comfortable ca
pacity, which may be taken as an earnest that, however
this congregation has dwindled muter the einharrasing
vicissitudes which have of late years marked its history,
tinder its new rectors h ip it will ripeedily recuperate.
Before commenclug hie sermon, Dr. Newton gave
notice that, for the purpose of united prayer for the out
pouring of God's spirit in the revival of that church,
prayer meeting would be held hereafter in ono of the
mews in thqbasernent, on every Tuesday morning. from
eight o'clock until a quarter before nine. Ho also stated
that for the purpose of becomiug better acquainted with
the individual merubt re of the congregetiou, he would be
rule dn_me r No. 25 5...4.4. Thirteenth over,
Thursday afternoon and evening, to receive visitors.
DE NEWTON'S INITIAL SERMON
Dr. Newton's initial sermon was preached from the
following - text of Ecripture—Romans xv, 29:
"And I mu sure that eihrn I come unto you I shall
come in the fullness of the blessiog of the Gospel of
ist."
When Paul bad written these words, he had not p
yieited Route. The incidents of the pestle's a:Meg:tont
visit and experience in Remo were then briefly referred
to, the preacher adding that. if Paul could tune speck of
the Chriptlans at Rome, how much more could a minis
ter today adopt his language In entering upon his lehars
among a people with whom he expects to spend the re
maining years of his life. The new rector evidently re
gaids this as his final move as a minister of the Gospel.
There were three general points in the text to which he
Invited attention:
First, the feature of the Gospel as spoken of by Paul
as the "blessing of the Gospel." The blessing of the
Gospel was beautifully blustrieted in the way of compari
son, in which Dr. Newton excels. If, for example, we
spoke of the ocean, we thought immediately of its vast
ness; it we spoke of the sun, we thought of its light; if
vie spoke of the oars, we thought of their number; if w
spoke of a rainbow, we thought of its perfection of form
and beauty of colors; if we spoke of a atone, we thmght
of its hatduess; if we spot e of winter, we thought of Its
atorma; if we spoke of summer, we thought of its heat i
101 Hid tilt preacher, IT the Ciltrintteal WllO lineirtt
character of it, spoke of the Gospel, he thought of its
power to bless.
Nor wee this bleesit:g confined merely to the converted
It was an agency of benitlceuce for the good of every
child of Adam. Although, of cruses., the more noble and
maiming blessings were limited to Christians only.
In the second place, he considered the extent to which
this element prevails in the Gospel This was brought
out by the Apoelle speaking of the " fulness" of the
bleesitg. In the case of the Pool of Bethesda. we read
that it was only "at a certain season," that the sufforing
could hope to share its power to relieve, but the Gospel
power wee perennial—as a source of blessing it was ever
pretext and always aboundiug he bleaeing to those who
receive it, and, as sire ady said, in a measure, to those
who do not receive it.
The third ;whit made WM in tho form of a query - , to
wit;..
when may a minister have the wisitrance that his com
ing to a people is in :wcardance with this principle of the
Gospel! In the first place, he thought that a minister
might know this If lie knew that his connection formed
was in accordance with the will of Cod. He believed it
was the right hand of Christ that held the ministers of the
Word, and controlled and disposed of then, at his pleasure.
This was distinctly taught in the figure presented to us In
the Apocalypse, where Christ was represented as holding
in his right hand the seven stars.
For his own part, he, the preacher, was satisfied that
the connection 119 Mai Pew i9ittiv4 tritli the arell st
the Epiphany was in accordance with the will of God.
All through the more than twenty years of his previous
pastorate at St. Paul's, be had labored under the couric
tinn that that was to be hie place to the does
of his life. ilut, within the last year, circtunstancei
bad arisen which changed his mind in this par.
ticular, and these, taken in connection with
thu value of hhi recontly-itcuptol caU SQ this
church, had Coheihted him that It teas of Gol, ja.gt as
sanely as if the angel Gabriel then and there stood before
him and announced It as such. He knew and felt, more
over, that his own motive ins coming to them was to
glorify, with an eye single, the name of his !Armed Lord
end Siemer. Ito talk, tberefero, that 1 0.d,1d cleat Ha
language of the text and say, "I am WITe that when I
come unto you I shall come in the fulness of the blessing
of the Gospel of Gl
°potter, of kild Matte aid at . blatimif with
assurance. Wbo, now, was to speak for those who heard
him 7 He hoped that they would, practically, speak for
Met/Nelsen in their daily lives and convereation.
He concluded with an earnest and eloquent exhortation
for all to co-OperatO With him in the great work he hal
tuannWod, as without Inch co•operaUon hie own arm
would be feeble indeed.
The fulness of the blessings found In the Csepel, of
Christ was the burden of his discourse, and was certain
ly rendered a beautiful and fitting flame for the pan
liarttles of the OCCIIBIOIII. The seinen MUM!) , made a
deep and favorable impressicn,
BEAUTIFUL STOCK OF L A DIES' CLOAKS.—
ISIaTa. J. W. Pat & Ce., twastiatora of the Pude
Mantilla Emporizr," are now offrriug to the 'Dulles of
Philadelphia, at their splendid new rooms, No 920 Chest
nut street, the most elegant stock of Ladies' Cloaks,
9, 54 e, ! ee .evise btessuretrwi in &he solitary_
.
Onr tuir readers need hardly be told that for eyery
in this line Proctor tt Co.'s is immeasurably the beat
place to go to. The it garments. made of the popular new
_Exhibition Olotha," are eggecialltettreclive, That in
exceedingly drew, and am getlieiently light for the
warmest weather.
PURE OLIVE OlLs.—Mr. C. H. Mattson,
_Leek and Tenth Atcsats, hat now
OD band a supply of pure salad oils—a genuine olive
cle—of the choiceet brand, which our readers will please
bear in mind,
WILLIAM HENRY PATTEN'D Shit(l4lc
V‘randah, Awning, and tlphoistery Store, 1409
street. myl7.2tie
A OwNpmar.—WllT are two young ladies
sash other an emblem of Christianity I Owasso
they are doing unto each other as they would that man
should do unto them. This is the Sallie principle on
rshich 9 T apville Stokes, the Fashioner Rlll Clothier,
No. 609 Chestnut street, AGO la OOMPH Wiol
customers. He manufactures the finest and most au
prt ior Clothing, of the latest styles and fashions, and dis
peers of the same at prices 26 per cent. lower than any
.
other establiblionut iu thc col4oFr
PICKED RAMS.—The Emperor of the French
has presented four picked rams, from the royal flock at
m i aowlet t 19 the Kind of the Sandwich Islands. Mrs.
Partial/ten is very anxious to know will finer pro
picked, when shearing would have been a great deal
better. If the Emperor will send hither a piece of
broadcloth got up from the shearing of the flock, he can
w il e • opicgdisl F ,dt. R ide f 9 ilelfiteelf et the Iteetett-etans
Clothing Hall of Itockhill & Wilson, Hoe, 003 and GOS
Chestnut street, above Sixth.
AN ARMY OF SIX HUNDRED LIQUOAND
Mali—The Journal of Commerce thus thidertakell to
give an idea of what an army of 600.000 men 4, Awe
miming the men to tall into line, single rank, they will
c ro i,f, of tie.ere,three Mile& Should the gene.
relieeime wi h to review his army, ids cliarget :loud go
on a smart trot, and it would require over half a day,
Thie respectable army, formed in hollow iquare, would
Ipt.ehaat a grid of bayonets three miles on each side, en.
cloeing. Rye thousand seven hundred and sixty acres.
Allowing two pounde of provialots per °ism for omits
men, they consume six hundred tons a day, and drink
one huudrod end SIMON 91 Well.rt" Aad
to keep ith army like this In elotlies-.welly.onaries
Stokes' extensive Men's and Boys' Clothing Betabßigt
meut, wader the „ Continental," would only be tamed to
the teak,
Tan MAGNIFICI:I7 OURTIGE OP Vin Aunt:non k
Cads BIENAO gum, led by the celebrated Van a.mburgh
is person, will make a public parade this forenoon, Mar-
Ins Wert Philadelphia at 8 o'clock, and panting through
ISe following Brenta Marko; be Ai 5t anL6 tl~saQis
Sixteenth to Spruce; down Spruce to Ninth; through
Ninth to Walnut; up Walnut to Broad; through Broad.
to Chestnut; down ChrtAnot to Sixth; through Sixth la
SPtiiBa ; Sewn SOrneo to Third; up Writ to t molar; op
Poplar to Broad ; through Broad to Ridge avenue; dawn
Ridge *venue to Ville; down Vine to Sixth; throuth
ingfti to arch; ah 4 Up , Arch to the pavilion, ttidch Ida
be enehtd foe the reesuttou otTilitors at a uvo4,