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WEDNESDAY,
THE LATEZT WAR NEWS.
The c fficiai reports of the operations of the Union
fleet in the James river, and especially at Fort Dar
ling, near rtlehtnon I, bare been received. in
WaEhirgion. Captain Rodgers reports that he an
chored his th,S Galena, within six hundred
yards or Fort Dartins, and kept up the bombard
ment until all his ammunition was expended. The
loss on the Galena was thirteen killed and eleven
wounded. The Monitor, during the action, was in
close proximity to the Galena, and again proved
that she is invulnerable to the heaviest
,shots of
the rebels. She had no casualties on board.
The Naugatuck was anchored a short distance
below the Monitor, and behaved gallantly until her
principal gun burst, when she was forced to retire.
She only bad two men slightly wounded. The Port
Royal and Aroostook, the only two wooden vessels
engaged, were anehored within Imo yards of the
battery, and kept up a well-directed and destruc
tive fire upon the raK:ls. Our brave tars on the
James river are not in the least downhearted, but
expect to renew the bombardment and drive the
rebels from their position.
The advance of tient-rat McClellan's army hare .
reached Coal Bertha., within ten miles of Rich
mond. The rebels are within a few miles of him,
and from every imlwation it is thought that they
will make a despu . ate sand before surrendering
Richmond. The members of the rebel Congress
are among the troops or tho different States, urging
them to make a tit m stand against General Mc-
Clellan's army, and Jett Davis informs the Vir
ginia Legislature that he never had the remotest
idea of abandoning the Old Dominion, even if the war
lasted twenty yesi a.
By the arrival of the despatch steamer Rhode
Island, at Fortress Monroe, we have late and relia
ble irteiligetee from New Orleans, Mobile ? Pensa
cola, and other parts in the Gulf. Several prison
ers captured at New Orleans were brought on by
the Rhode Island. New Orleans was gradually
becoming quiet. na business was slowly reviving.
The newspapers are all published yet. The rail
roads and boats have been allowed to bring supplies
to the city. General Phelps had seised Carrollton,
twentrfive miles up the river. Commodore Por
ter's Mortar Fleet bad mad() a visit to the vicinity
of Mobilo and taken soundings of the approach to
that city. Pensacola was evacuated on the 9th in
stant, after the rebels burned the navy yard and
all other combo:4l6:c p7operty. The place was
occupied newt day by thc. United States forces, un
der Uncial Arnold,
The despatch of our Fortress Monroe corres
pondent, published yesterday, to the effeot that
Ucnerai DlcclcllnCs army was within ten miles of
Richmond, bns been confirmed. The bridge over
the Chickaheminy is being rebuilt, and will •oon
be reedy for use. The enemy's pickets are guard•
ing the whole line in front of Richmond, making
it very difficult to oi - o , in any information from that
city. Ii b surr."44.l that active operations will be
commenced shortly.
Despatches from our forces in New Mexico have
Jima received• Oar troops are still at Port Craig.
General Canby is at Santa Fe. The Texans had
met a body of our troops at Adobe Hall, but they
continued their 'street without fighting.
General Banks' department is greatly troubled
with bands of guerillas. Numerous rebel cavalry
regiments have been disbanded, and their members
have become guerillas, plundering and murdering
a ll Union citizens end soldiers. Gen. Geary went in
quest of a body of these, but they fled on his ap
proach. Gen. Geary has been relieved from guard
ing the lower portion of the Manassas road, and
has been ordered to report hereafter to General
Banks.
t!.2% !+ 444 A. V LLOAYAAV-
Smcarz.—The Pacific Railroad bill was taken
up, but was postponed, in order to allow discussion
on the confiscation Lill. The latter bill was then
taken up and debt:led by several members, until
the hour of adjournmt nt.
HOUSE.—A bill establishing certain railroads in
Olio and Indi , ioe woo Colfaxreported
back the bill allowing persons of color to carry the
mail, with the ree.mmendation that it do not paas.
The bill was dehQtfA tO ?he hQur 21lit+ittri tvr tiW
consideration of the confiscation bill, and was post.
poned until to-day. The confiscation bill was then
discussed, by NeFsrs. Noel, Riddle, and Windom,
until the hour of adjournment.
Cuanacatiatarte of American haste and ; stillness of all around him. The landscape is
nervous anxiety is the inquiry now quite corn- there in all the primitive beauty of the crea
my% " Whet 01,;.il we do ror excitement when tion, but save here and there the blackened
the war is over ?" The problem is being ruins of some burned house, or a halide
gravely debated in domestic circles, and has strayed log hut, nothing indicates the presence
grown to be a standard topic of conversation, : of civilized beings. Soldiers are there, to be
ranking only second to the weather. Its im- sure. Tents crown every hill, and log-houses
portance, nevertheless, has not impressed us command every bridge and pass. Patrols scour
with serious apprehensions for the future the country, stopping every railroad train, and
welfare of society. We hold a theory, which carefully scrutinizing every passenger. Swords
may be orthodox or not, that excitement, like and muskets gleam in the sunshine, and the
any other marketable commodity, follows the white smoke curls up in all directions, as it
inevitable law of supply and demand, and can floats on the serene air—a shroud, as it were,
always be created as needed. Indeed, it is the thrown over the body of some malefactor who
life and soul et certain newspapers, whose has paid the penalty of his life to an outraged
interest it is to foster it with care, and country. But ther than these, there are no
to see that its vital spark shall never bit- signs of that rural peace and plenty one meets
come totally extinct. Even when we were in a peaceful country. Not a crop is being
at peace with all the world, and the moat sown, yet this is the planting season. Scarce
self-complacent people imaginable, railroad a single domestic animal can be seen in the
collisions happened every week, boilers ex_ thousands of miles of beautiful prairie form
ploded constat.fly, end steamships went down i' the garden spots of Missouri, Net a Sit-t
-at sea, or were Maned within sight of land; gle hay-stack dots the horizon. A carrion
crow circling over some bloody field, or a
meteors and comets were seen, and pictures
of wisps and harseataile filled the illustrated thieving hawk darting hither and _thither
papers; inundations occurred, to the great in. through the air, are but sad sights to the eyes
crease of our floating population epidemic, of civilization, yet they are all one can sue in
like the albatross, was ever on the wing; the great panorama of sorrow and tears spread.
earthquakes were distinctly felt, and testified out before him.
to by hundrsels of respectable citizens, inclu- Do not think the above picture overdrawn.
ding the olden !ali tit-tants 5 the weather was That devoted State first voting to remain in
colder in winter-times than it had been for the Union by an overwhelming majority, and
then almost forced out of it by a traitorous
forty years; Japanese missionaries visited our
shores, and puttlie dinners were tendered themOvuttlOr, has reaped the fruit of her wavering.
A
by generous, :whole-souped officials; ocean-
just Providence has visited upon her a meet
punishment for her sins. She stood by and
telegraphs were laid, and came to naught;
whales Were seen ill the Delaware—a thing aided in the immolation of suffering Kansas,
which had not occurred since 1813; oil-
and savagely gloated on the struggles of the
wells were discovered and took fire ;
Victim. She sent thousands of her pro-slavery
and other equally remarkable events trans-
fanatics over the border, to deprive a siste_
Aired, and were interwoven in our his- State of the dearest rights of freedom. She
tory's woof. The demand for these divertisse
has always been first in support of the barbar-
Inents having been superseded by the novel= isms of slavery, and when she was happiest in
her sins, Fort Sumpter's booming guns pro
ties of war, the supply has gradually di
claimed the vengeance of ajust God. Missouri
minished ; sonic of the species, indeed, would
eem to have become extinct and osterity if
has reeled and staggered under the infliction.
p
, ,
Her bleed has been shed like water—her hap
it should ever happen to come across an old
piness has been driven off before the fierce
newspaper file, might be bewildered by such
fossil relics as its philosophy would never I blast of the iron storm—and now, after a year
have dreamed of. This, however, is impro-
of the most awful penance, she is just emerge
big from the fiery ordeal. She has been suffi
bable. The species of events that seem to be
ciently punished. A quarter of a century will
fossilized in the strata of the past are merely
scarce restore her to her former lordly position,
in a state of torpor_ When the winter of 6112
and groans and wails will rise from her unfor
discontent has passed away, and the spring of
tunate people until time washes out the re
peace succeeded, they will come forth from
their old abiding places, as hears come
cut
of , membrance of her sins and their retribution.
How thankful should we of Pennsylvania be
hollow trees, and greet us with a smile of old
that no fanatical spirit prompted us to join in
acquaintance.
so unrighteous a rebellion!
supposing, however, that after the war is
over a dead Cairn follows, and that with every
THE DESPATCH of Lieut. REIGART B. LOWE - N.',
stitch of canvas set not a breath ofnews can
of this city, the executive officer of the U. S.
be caught to waft us on our course, could we
s
not possibly raise tliC wind in an aerodynamicteam sloop Brooklyn in the late splendid naval
sense ? It would not be impossible. We engagement, near New:Orleans, which we copy
might build a railroad to the Pacific ; or cats-
in another column, is one of the most coin
plate and graphic productions of the kind that
Molt ocean steamship line between Phila.-
we have ever read. It shows what noble ser
delphia and Liverpool, as has been energeti
vice that gallant ship rendered in the battle,
tally suggested by a nualber of public-spirited and what extraordinary cow age was displayed
citizens for the last fifteen years. If these by afficers and men. Lieut. Lowder modestly
efforts failed, we might have a grand World's omits all reference to himself, but we trust the
Fair, something 011 the plan of the English
Government will not be unmindful of an olli.
EXhibition, but an a more extensive scale, verso eminently deserving of recognition and
With a view nut only: to celebrate the dawn of reward.
peace, but to stimulate the arts and sciences; j +-a
or we might induce Proferaor Lowr to under- i .11AMtait'9 MAGAZINE FOR JUNE.—We have an
take another trapa.Atiaatic balloon voyage, i advance copy of this number, which commences
from Point Breeze or sand an expedition to i Vol. XXV., and contains forty-three engravings,
with articles by Dr. James Wynne, N. G. Shop
the epee Falai , to ascertain the condition
herd, , Snumel I. Prime, Harriet B. Prescott, Chas.
of the whale-fisheries in that locality; or start asordbotr, Donald G. Mitchell. H. D. Mears, Bon
a mission to laieriaboola Gha to cultivate the son J_ Lewin.. Alfred H. Guernse George Win
coffee berry; er abolish the 13oard of School Quite, J. l a C . LlL, p C h lalb id o e rn n o, b J ea . ad ß e O s SS Y co ' B n ro . W u n:e t , io T na , S o ;
Controllers and all the municipal Tite Barna- Arthur,
Iles; or delegate a commission to England, the serial tales by Thackeray, Trollop°, and Miss
France ; &Mitt and Genera. to make ingui. Alulock. These are illustrated from original draw
ries respectieg the effect of salting passenger- cogs, by Voigt, Stephens, Perkins, Millais, Me.
Leman, Jewe f tt, Goater, Chapin, and Carroll. One
ovailwaj tracks, and the best method of in
-dating, pilaaehaffa istilWalia to be more liberal o f/It:Ler o ßa t i h lr e ond illa w at h r i a c te h d hos arti ll eles loc i d s upon the
In the distribution of passes; or we might here. This is the best number of " Horpor' c ' P y lig e t t
have a amid-amnia' celebration of the Fourth pi/Ws/led.
. . ..
of July ; or, finally, We might begin our pre- i ..,
Z.•41.1P OF FLanklir MABBIA 011efAiiiiiiTS, DROXXIIiii
rarations for the. 111.1 l election, and the conse. A, c. ilhe first sale of the season of elegant marble
quent paving of our thoroughfares. Any of vans, urns, fine French bronzes, Parisian fancy
gods, .ke., of the importation of Messrs. Vid Bros.,
time prepositions (which are offered in good
will take place at the importers' warerooms, No. 639
faith) would ik perfectly feasible, and !Servo j Arch street, to-morrow morning, Pal last:., .11.1
to drive away the ennui of peace.- - o'eleck. The catalogue embraces over MO choice
The best evithnce we can have that the war
lots, and is certainly worth perusing. The collec
tion can be examined any time previous to the sale.
is approaching its denouen,iont lice in the fact AM .411 M.
that the old tenets of excitement are being To TEE Laniss.—Messrs. Birch .t, Son, auction
gradually reoptlicd, §v that the supply shall i n or t hwest will sell, this morning, at ten o'clock, at the
not fall short of the demand. Miners rise by ele gant slc.ocor o lf oa tch m a an nt Tenth 4rects, the
hundreds in cc:billion against starvation ) dis- Ober goods itable for the Itedietl l , llB) s s lt a l ° o ll a u b " s s o l lu a t n e d
•
MAY 21, 1862
astrous - fires annihilating millions of dollars'
worth of property, occur in every part of the
country, and oar shrewdest Third-street bro
kers are swindled out of thousands of dollars
by well-executed counterfeits. Very soon
steam boilers and saving fonds will ex
plode, in " the old, old fashion," and
all the floodgates of excitement bo open
ed on society. We have an abiding faith
that "about this time" (as the almanacs say)
gold mines will assuredly be discovered
in the Rocky Mountains; or that Mexico will
be restored to tranquillity, and, assuming a re
publican form of government, become in Pact
the Southern Confederacy. Tho eating of the
forbidden fruit secured to the world an inex
haustible mine of accidents. The crop for the
present year was planted, and its greatness
full surely is a ripening. The war will scarcely
blight it in the bud, and if it should, we can Co
ver up the seed again in mother Earth ; and
wait the "harvest patiently.
FEIN' WHO HAVE never seen the desolations
of war, can realize the horrors which Seces
sion has wreaked upon the devoted State of
Missouri. Twvlro months ago, sho was in
the full career of prosperitY. Her people
were happy—her treasury overflowing,—and
her name, invoked by all as a true, firm, un
yieldiag State, whose bonds to the 'Union
neither fear nor favor could unloose. Rapidly
rising in the scale of relative numbers, she
was as rapidly passing her less fortunate sis
ters, and finding fewer and fewer before her
in the race - for supremacy. With such a cha
racter and such prospects she was met by the
tempter—she forsook virtue's paths, sank
steadily downward and downward, and now
deserted by those whose gilded promises she
relied on in the hour of her shame, she lies
Weak and helpless, the scorn alike of friend
and foe. Let the fearful fruits of her evil
choice deter those who linger on the brink of
ruin.
Missouri is perhaps the most desolated of
all the States that left a good Government in
search of a worse. Her fields are wasted,
ioWat burned, and the whale country impove
rished. For six months under the unrestricted
control of the rebels, her soil is dyed red with
the blood of murdered Unionists, and to this
hour every western breeze has born to us the
lamentations of their unfortunate families.
Not until within a few weeks past, when
the gallant SIGEL earned his greatest laurels
on the field of Pea Ridge, have Union men
been safe, or their rights adequately protected.
And now, when every rebel flag has been dri
ven out of the State by HALLECK'S victorious
armies, Missouri presents a sorrowful picture
Of ruin and devastation.
At the commencement of the rebellion .Mis
souri bad one of the most fertile and best eul-
tivated domains on the American continent.
Now her fields grow nothing but weeds, and
her plantations have relapsed into wilderness.
Then her hemp, corn, and tobacco were com
manding fabulous prices—now scarce a bale,
bushel, or hogshead can be fbund within her
holders. Her hillsides pastured thousands
of f-hccp and horned cattle—her granaries were
filled to overflowing with the production of a
most prolific season; and contentment and
peace reigned through the length and breadth
of the land. Now, alas all is changed. The
prairie fire, kindled byynics's vandalism,has,
months since, swept every blade of grass
from her rich pastures—cattle and sheep have
been stolen until none are left—her barns are
burned—her crops scattered to the four winds
of heaven—and discontent and sullenness have
overwhelmed the few remaining inhabitants.
It requires only a short journey through
Missouri to realize this sorrowful picture. St.
Louis, the metropolis of the great West,
shows the desolating effect of the war, per•
baps more obviously than any other part of
the State. The Mississippi is at its highest
stage, but scarce a single'craft can be seen
floating on its bosom. Hundreds of steam
boats are tied fast to the levee—thousands of
taborer* loiter fdly ail the landlog. Net a
box, bale, or bag goes out or in. With every
means of trade, boats, men, and merehandi.se,
the city seems as if paralyzed. Not a sign of
activity or life is presented, unless it be
from the military patrol as he mounts guard
on the sidewalk of some once busy thorough
. hue. Her people, too, have lost their bustle.
! Military matters alone are active. Sending
soldiers and supplies debit the river and bring - -
1 ing prisoners and Wounded up are the substance
of the trade of St. Louis.
Leaving the city for the rural districts, the
beholder isMlXl.ost astounded by the oppresive
GETTER FROM - OcCASIONA,L.••
WASRINOTON, May 20, 1862
It the President's proclamation against
Major General Bunters order will have the
effect it should have upon the people of the
Border Slave States, it will prove to be a most
opportune State paper. I have often Gatitht
attention to Mr. Lincoln's conservative fooling,
to his intimate relations with the people of
Kentucky—a State of which both himself
and Mrs. Lincoln are natives—and to the
many manifestations of his determination to
prove that he 'lva§ pet the President of a sec
tion, but of the whole country. And while
these manifestations have given offence to his
own ultra friends, they are probably such as
tne times required at the hands of our Chief
Magistrate. If it is true that great national
responebilitics always tend to moderato, and
scanetknes change opinions, the strliggle in
which we are engaged iswonderf ally calculated
to create such impressions. President Lin
eoln's emancipation policy has not been
welcomed with that enthusiasm by the Bor
der• State leaders in Congress that it deserved.
Very few of them supported it when the ruea
lution in which it was recommended was
passed, and most of the newspapers in Ken
lucky and Missouri openly took ground
against it. how strange it is that men who
have suffered so much from Secession, and
whose States have borne the bitterest burdens
of the war, ahouhl startle at every proposition
intended to weaken the power of their own
oppressors ! Thus I have noticed, in certain
prints in the Border States, tie strongest
denunciations of the emancipation policy of'
the President, and of the confiscation bills
hit seduced iiito Congress by his Mende.
These sentiments undoubtedly result from
habit and education, and prove how difficult
it will be to remove prejudices which hare
existed so long, and that any attempt to
disturb them is always earnestly op
posed: It is to be hoped, however,
that Mr. Lincoln's proclamation, disavowing
General Hunter's order, will at last awaken
the Border States to a sense of their true con
dition. He disavows that order, but in doing
so he brings them back to his emancipation
policy, and tells them that they cannot, if they
would, e , be Hind (o the signs of the times."
And what are these signs of the times? They
are the indications of a wide spread change of
public opinion on the subject of slavery, a
change which extends to hundreds of thou
sands of men in the free States, who have
heretofore supported the South, and that has
reached the hearts of nearly all the Democrats
in the army of the Union. The rebels them
selves contribute to swell public opinion
against slavery by their inhuman barbArities,
and the slaves, as if conscious that their hour
is come, are declaring themselves free in most
or the slave States. The Border States, when
they see Mr. Lincoln restraining and rebuking
an officer for an crdor which has given the
greatest encouragement to his own political
friends, should at least manifest such an ap
preciation of his course as will show that they
are no tenger insensible to the s r gns of the
times.
In my letter of yesterday I anticipated the
step that the President has now taisca. lle
owed it, probably, to consistency, and to his
understanding of his own obligations, to issue
this proclamation, and you will perceive that,
while denying the right of any officer of the army
to issue such an order, he reserves to himself
the exerclae of all these powers. The great
question involved in the decree of Gen. Hun
ter becomes moat momentous when consider
ed apart from its mere political aspect. Re
garded as a sanitary measure, it may force it
self upon the Government at any moment.
Thtimands of our best eitiaons aro now en
rolled lathe army in the Cotton States, subjected
to the dangers and diseases of a clirnatoto which
they are unaccustomed. In South Carolina
they are surrounded by a population nearly
universally disloyal. In New Orleans they
may soon become the Victii-145 Of a fatal epi
demic, and should General Halle& defeat the
rebels before Corinth, his columns will press
forward into the lowlands of ;Ilississippi and
Alabama. It is a painful fact that treason
continues to flourish in the seceded States
in spite of the victories of our arms. What,
If. in order to punish this treason and to pro
tect the white men of the free States now in
the far South, the alternative of using the
cues of the manumitted blacks should no
presented to our civil authorities? This re
nted) may be imperatively pressed upon us at
any moment, and I believe that when that hour
comer the President will not hesitate to do his
duty, and in doing it his proclamation of yes
terday is the best proof that he will act from
the purest and most patriotic tnotives, and that
the civilized world will sustain him in taking
this step.
I notice that the Hon. Anion Kuntiall, in
the Ink/homer of thisitiorning, denies, with
some temper, that the extract which I copied
bona bin letter of the ilLth. of February last
entitled him to the credit of it having made the
proposition which General Hunter has thus
practically Carried out." Mr. Kendall says, in.
his card to the Intelligences of to-day :
"Now, I should consider myself a traitor to my
country if I were to approve the late order of Gen.
flunter, purporting to set fret) all the slaves within
his military oistrict. While exposing to Southern
rebels the gulf which is yawning before them, the
conception never entered my brain that any military
commander or the President himself eankt eonsti
tutionally, by general order or proclemation, confis
cate their property and emancipate their slaves, or
that such an object could be effected otherwise than
by conviction for treason, by clue okirdo o f
the courts or justice."
I certainly did not intend to do this vene
rable publicist the slightest injustice, but I
muat, ho permitted to say that ho u,tios in A ,
very different tone to dry from that which
animated him in February, and I regret to add
that the accumulated 'perils or our common
country seem rather to induce him to reject
the very doctrine ho was so eager to proclaim
three months ago. Ile new says, "that no
military commander, or the 'President him
self, could constitutionally, by general order
or proclamation, confiscate their property
and emancipate their slaves, or that such an
object could be effected otherwise than by
conviction tar treason, by due course of law,
in the courts of justice ;" and yet, on the
25111 Of February, lie uttered the following
language: cc How far the forfeiture of their
(Me slaveholders') slaves, their other property,
or their lives, shall be carried, as a question of
expediency only, and arvoli•es no c0n , 717/ffitionaG
questicii of power." I leave Mr. Kendall him
self to answer and to explain Mr. Kendall,
contenting myself with the remark that I am
willing to leave to the public to decide whe
ther the passage I have italicised is not what
Mr, Kendal would call abolitienitiiii i of lq not
4( the proposition of General Hunter practi
cally carried ont ?" OccAsioxia.
Congressional Nominations
[For The Pres.]
At a 'meting of the Republicans of this Congreggional
(.0111,3,1A1 of 11006 &MI Lehigh Collritk - so and
°there who unite with thorn in upholdiutl the meesaree of
the National Government, held in this place on Tuesday
lent, - George Lear, 'Be°, was nominated, by acclamation,
M their candidate far the vacancy In Gengteefi natifeAl by
the death of Thomas It. Cooper. The nomination was
immediately ratified by the conferees of the two comities.
Mr. Lear is well human throughout the district as one of
and tmee, .eed Is
highly gratifying to all true friends of the Union Being
personally very popular, and occupying a place at the
head of the legal profession in the county, ho will make
a strong run. Els opponent is Joint D. Stiles, ,of
Allentoan, once a Douglas .111 st., but now fully conunittei
to the Echemts of Biddle, Johnson, Vallotaligham,
Although a majority of the votes of the district arc un
doubtedly in favor of sustaining President Lincoln and
his measures, the vote will he light, and unless the
friends of Mr. Lear are vigilant and active, the redult
inai la. doubtful.
DOYLESTOWN, May 14, lthif2. LOYAL.
HON. JOHN Hiceufs.w.--In alluding to the deter
ml..flon of Mr. Hickman not to be again ceedi
date for Congress in this district, the Bucks Coun
ty lutellegeacer says :
1, We very much regret that Mr. Hickman has
co.oludect to withdraw- from Cortgredg. Ills &VISA-
Hence in that body, and his acknowledged ability
and ripe statesmanship, give him position and in
fluence on the floor of Congress which no new mem•
ber can possibly commend, is QUO Of the tliblelt
men of the House, and ought to remain there for
some time to came. A bold, experienced, and out
spoken man like him is wanted in Congress at the
present time."
The NorristoWn Republica,: also says :
4 . We sincerely hope that the people of Chester
and Delaware may compel Hon. John Hickman to
serve one more term, ae the present chaotic state of
the country demands his talents and inflexible in
tegrity.•
We copy these complimentary notices with the
remark that Mr. H. is unalterably fixed in his de
tor...load...a to be a candidate.—lVe.tt Chekiel.
iteptddican and Democrat.
Arrival of the Sick at Baltimore
SALTIBIOIIII, Pilay 20.-4118 steamer btato or Mine,
with 481 sick soldiers, mostly couvaloscent, and able to
travel homeward, arrived here this morning. The men
are chiefly from the 'New York and 111msachusetts regi
ments.
The following ore the death.; in the hospitals here this
morning: Wm. H. Fleming, Seventy-fourth blew York,
wounded i John Watiklatoia, and Deafer
MOTO°, EighET-Alit ]:(err Yogic ] of tyith9L4 rem
TBE PRESS. - PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1862.
Matters in Norfolk—A Visit to Suffolk—
The Diamemond — Disappearance of Co.
loud Brown—More English Arrogance—
A New Discovery—Secession Spiritual
News—More of the Naval Battle—Colo-
Awl Corcoran Coming Dome, &v.
[Special Correspondence or Tlie Press ]
NORFOLK, VI% , Map 19—P. M.
The city wears ila cu-ternary 9 910 OPPentitilOe. The
cburclice yesterday were generally well num, and the
citizens turned out in much larger numbers than usual.
The Rheas ate being cleaned, and sanitary rules aro en
forced among the troops stationed in and aromad the'
city, so as to prevent any invitation of the fell destroyer
of humanity " yellowjack."
DEFIANT ATTITUDE OF THE LADIES.
While Many of the citizens of this on thr1.1,4 city
hove the good setae to follow the lead of Mayor Lamb,
and the leading members of the City Councils, others,
rel.; ing upon the stability of the Southern Confederacy,
still hope to MN the rebel traces heck, and le n ;em.o lea
of the town, end that right soon. The ladies are especial
ly ill.natined, and are continually insulting our troops us
they pass their doors unoffendiaLly. I took a stroll over
town yesterday afternoon. According to the Southern
catkin, the ladies ware standing in the porticos, and the
stoops of their dwellings. As I approached, I observed
that almost every lady would turn her back to me—a
Southern tctty of giving ono the o sold ehbuidee_ii To
one raised in tte South this is peculiarly "cutting;" but
any one of intelligence and good breeding would pro
nounce it a vulgar expression of political animosity.
A VISIT PO §itVFOLK,
Through the kinditese of Mr. Andrew Ainsworth, of
the quartermasb is department, wo were taken on a ear,
drawn by a sort of" donkey eugine" along the Seaboard
and Ronnoho to the town of tattolic. &land
the railroad bridge over the lianaetnond partially de
stroyed. The inhabitants informed us that the rebels set
fire to it on Sunday, the 11th instant, after their retreat.
The Mutts of Sulrolk are very bitter Secessionists; they
refused either to give us food to eat or water to drink at
first, but wbev a. told that they would be force] to do so,
the proprietor of the only hotel in the place sot us a
table, uprat which he placed EOM COll 1111111) and Togo•
table a, giving us a dessert of strawberries and cream. Ifo
had no conscientious; sernplo3 about taking our specie
innayment foe hit entertainment.
The Nansemond river is navigable for steamboats and
light draught vessels up to Suffolk. There are two narrow
)10111111 in the channel, where the rebuilt have driven pileg
and connected them with chairm, making an impassable
harrier to transportation for the time being. But these
will be removed by the Government in a short time. and
then Suffolk will become a denot for army stores, in eon.
junction with Old Point Comfort.
The railroad from Norfolk to Suffolk will be put in
order immediately, and horse cars will traveree it until
a locomotive train arrives.
Our troops are encamped about a mile beyond the
town, and Col. Tryinan has 'mule a reconnoissance, re
cently, to the village of Staunton, some ten miles dis
tant, routhweeterly, but met none of the enemy's scouts
or pickets.
MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE O COL. BROWN
The well-known Cal. Drown, of the Twentieth Indiana
reoncot of infantry, a mpett at Portsmouth,
mounted his faithful horse on Saturday morning and
rode away towards the enemy's lines. But little :tuxiety
was created about him until towards night, as Le waa
1.101,n to be - a brOLVC am! cautions Alcor, but early on
Saturday morning the men of his regiment were startled
by the entrance Into camp of his horse., wounded seri
ously with two musket balls in his body.
'J'l theory Among the is that Clot Ilitsetit
was tinfleiing from temporary aberration of the mind at
the time of his leaving camp, as lie had deported himself
rather singularly for sonic days past, and that he had
tfssscitliu!' 31 111110 may to gonat 'lnutility 'Mama, whom,
getting into a parley with some of the natives. 1113
probably nmrtlered and his horse managed in Aollle AYLIT
to make his escape from the inhuman -wretches.
prorrn ne.it amown 'Ol5 111c1) 1 the porinTlid
advance and retreat of the 20th' Indiani from Chicami•
eomico to Batter..., in the part of the rebellion,
the true history of which has never been published.
Enough is known, however, of tlw affair, to prow the
inefficiency and tOlll/ 111(1111:Wily of coL H aw ki ns , his
superior officer, in sending him upon so perilous a jou: ,
De)", to a point within the enemy's lino, forty miles
front any impport. 1 1111 , rebel:, landed troop,: uheve tint
below (A. Brown's position, and iie WAS forced tv make
a precipitate retreat to Ifattertn., leaving all Ids tents
~, a - .„.od WI
the hands or the enemy. Col. Hawkins kne w of all this,
ad, instead of moving to the support of Col. Brown,
censured him for having left his position, adding that
Le have 1.4.1 JJ3 ilukttlmu
was cut to pieces by the enemy, advancing in front and
rear, and in considerable force.
The French and Norwegian yefaelo-of-war, now with
us, are content with lying safe at anchor under the VIM.
of Fortress Monroe, but John Bull asks greater liberties.
His mistrablo war.stoamer, the Rinaldo, is anchored in
the stream opposite. Norfolk, and her. cockney °Maser
aro the w lions" of the season in the w city of oysters
and soft crabs." This may be explained in many ways,
and not among, the least of the reasons for the toadyism,
u • may mention tie flick that it has been told to in by
Union men and women, that not only is a nice little mail
made upR weekly for England through the Rinaldo,
but ali:o that a sort of communication is kept up with
leading Eecessionista in the Northern States in a similar
rammer. Win en Governmont order this ye4sel to drop
down where she belongs, and not penult her to donut liar
.ditty Ii Lroes of SL °nue" in Norfolk harbor 1
A reconnoitring party on Saturday left the city of
Notfolk, inteLding to move towards Nlizabeth Oity, but
tt,e plot 7 lind lietteeely - gong, 111 miles when they - ram*
upon an immense earthwork, about four miles, and
mounted with heavy marine guns, and commanding
every possible approach to the city front the south and
Ectitheitat_ These works were ito deitht conatructed fer
[be pnrpore of repelling an advance on the part of
General Burneitle. The ',yolk ie, indeed, immonse, and
thomands of men mint harp Ueda at work on it for
mouths. It is famished with comfortable barracks,
which will be occupied tvinpentrily. by Union troops.
The news "on 'Change" in Norfolk to-day ie
im
portatt, if true. A tall man, with a sallow oomplexiou,
is enkaging the attention of crowds, in Main street, as
he narrates the news furnished him by a "very reliable
gentleman." The news rune briefly thus: Banks is
defeated, del pee, defeated ! and i PtanAlgOal Ja.*.son Is
now marching into Maryland, at tin bead of one hundred
and fifty thousand men: McClellan has received a
esters and decided check before Richmond, and his
whole army is in Atli retreat to rortresa Monroe i indeed,
McClellan bee lost a leg, and it now at the fort with his
entire Mail ilalleck, Mitchell, Grant, and Buell have
been completely squelched by Beauregard, and ha is now
a-roaring' in Tennessee, about to paw Andy Jane.n
into the earth, like a young bull r and so on, ad infin
fuse.
I heti, Lees enabled to obtain gored fat flier particulars
of the rt cent brilliant naval engagement near Richmond.
Curtain ltodgcrs bat deteru ined to renew the tight at an
rally day, Imel he thinks be would hate aucceedol in driv
log the at.enty from Liu walla if he had been mete plen
tifully supplied with ammunition.
The peop!e re ding at City Point and vicinity, were in
furor of the Union, and khowed man; kindnfsie3 to our
ECL•311,321. repo,/ a -very strong Um.. 1'46116 lii
Pa
ttrrbnrg.
noriug tLe smut naval fizlit, the robe's imitatal 11Ic.
Cisllan at Yorktown. and placed hundreds of sharpshoot
el a all aloug the Roark' to barase our ortunco rrhou work - -
leg Ott deck. In turn, the marines on baud of the Galena
acted as sharpshooters on our vessels, and did excellent
execution.
the 619ugliter of the rebels le admitted on all hands to
have been ti rribto.
It le utile:etc/A bore that Colonel Corcoran Lai been
released, and that he will be emit down the Jame. river
under a flag of tints from Richmond, m a ebort time, la
c:umany with a IWO unuil r 4t rViewivi tWoryt pri
sentre. L. W. W.
FROM GENERAL HALLECK'S ARMY.
LETTER FROMPAiIMINGTON, MIS-
The Position of General nalleek , s Army
—The Roads in Good Order—The Ap
penitence of Farmington A Deserted
Village—A Skirmish With Rebel Pickets
—culture of Farms, Ore.
[Special Correepondence of The NTH.]
When I wrote my last letter, I was within a couple of
miles of the rebel fortifications at Corinth, and, In cow•
mon with the several divisions of the centre, momentarily
expecting that something would transpire of a stirring
nature. Saturday evening, however, Generals Nelson
end Crittenden moved hacli to their encampments, and
bfcCook and Wood located in their places. This morn
ing, the whole army moved, including the reserve, under
General dinClemand, The centre awl rigt tof General
Belleckle army now occupy positions from two to tour
mike distant from the enemy.
This afterecon I raid a vieit to Gnu. Crittendea , s
composed mostly of Nentocky soldiers. The Forty
fourth Indlona haring been transferred to a brigade in
lids division, I met the colonel, who informed me that
our cavalry had taken possession of this pace this morn
comested that we should ride out and see what
hind a a 1)181C0 a - Mississippi town was,
The roads are in excellent order, no rain haring fallen
for nearly two weeks, end after aaseing the skirmish
gromd of Thursday last, we arrived at Farmington.
Within a Wall mile of The place tern nnereads- britrigit
one leading to Corinth, and the liter to Farmington.
Our infantry pickets were stat toned on the Corinth
tend, the enter line laving a full view et a half mile in
advance, while the cavalry pickets occupied positions
14011 the other toad.
- Before enteting the town we passed a most antique
sroveysza upon the h-ft waft as ertrimm 000 L
There were lint very few marble slabs visible, butt:tame
roue gothic fences and petite wooden houses.
The town is abeoluttly deserted by its inhabitants.
Not a single man, woman, or child, not even a dog, CIA
be seen. Thure are about forty houses, situated upon
both skies of the road, most of them clepboarded and
shingled—an exhibition of civilization and enterprise
E.ldcan-laine.eol In Ile eioiloo of the emtetry.
There were three stores upon the wept side of the road,
but the doors were open, the shutters swinging, and va
cancy the predominating feature.
end poetry, romance, and history, wherein it is
said that pestilence, famine, and wars have bean the fore
runners of such episodes in real life, bat I have never
IA Fore seen a deserted village
we had not mocrtded quite to the end of the town
before we were halted by soma cavalry, and learned from
them that the place was occupied by two companies - of
the Tbli4 illicbiftm Cavalry, and that we had been halted
at the extreme outyoet.
The captain in conunend was pointing to some rebel
p i c k et , i n th e e dge of the woods about a third of a mile
distant, when crack went a rifle, followed by two more
ty ja ett or CEbloulaked for flu, pertort of Col. Reed,
° W i lt% blue coat and ,word made him a target quite
tempting to the bushwhackers. Our men retttrued the
shots and both sides cracked away for ,onto minutes.
Be damage occurred ea either side, imowever i but AL*
wounding of two of our cavalry bon es.
Col. Reed returned to he camp before sundown, while
I accepted an invitation to blvouack in Farmington.
Two•thiran of the habitation loading front rittAurg
Larding, thus far, are deserted, while - those not deserted
are inhabited only by women. It is - au astounding truth
that the 'veil 12.1108 St all MO to warn
LETTER FROM NORFOLK.
MORE ENGLISH ARROGANCE.
SECESSION SPIRITUAL NEWS
MORE OP THE NAVAL PIGHT
COLONEL CORCORAN COMING ROHN,
SISSIPPI
FAILI:INCITON, MISS., May 1 - 2, 1.862
rui:tic.l , § of utavy QC !lie fortn!i arc etatiratetl i and
the groin fs already higher than it perrion'a bead. No
cotton hat been plautad, and lad year's crop has been
chiefly burned.
One of the lineat plantations I have viifitod for Florae
that is OM.wi ).Ta 111f1111 13,111."4 Hoskin, wino jolt an
arm at Donebion. Ife charges the, moat oxorbitant prices
for yegetablea, milk, elriekena,ete., and. bag a _Federal
guard to protect his well. B. C. P.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The New Governor of North Carolina.
He is Vested with the same Powers as Gov.
Johnson.
Temporary Adjournment of the House Proposed.
THE JAMES RIVER. EXPEDITION.
• •i ; I ITS OPE : TIO
List of the Killed and Wounded at Fort Darling,
THE EXECUTION OF THE FUGITIVE-SLAVE LAW
THE POLICY OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Special povotches to The Press."
WASHINGTON, play 20,1882
Confiscation in Congress.
The Senate and House both had undor consideration
to-dal • the respective measures reported by their special
committees on confiscation. but made no material pro
grres. In the Senate, Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, occu
pied nearly all day la *p i e:slo g :Anne of the features of
the bill, ' , Ade in the noose Mr. Nonm,, of Missouri,
oleo a Border-State man, and a slaveholder, took exactly
the oppoeite ground, and favored the confiscation of the
property and alaves of rade.
Railroad Bridges to be Post Routes.
The 'rouse plo.ed a bill, to-lay, declaring the railroad
bridge, now in the course of construotion by the Stew_
beEvile and ludiaea Railroad, across the Ohio river at
Steubenville, to be a lawful structure, tt public highway,
and a route for the trawnti,sion of the mails of the
United btatcs, /t also authorises any other ralronti
company, whose line may now or shall hereafter be built
to the Ohio river, to construct a bridge across the same,
declaring
such a bridge to lie a post route.
The Military Governor of North Carolina.
The Bon. EDWAIID STANLNY is on the eve of departure
for 'North Carolina. He to-day received his commission
11S Military 4:IOVPI'WU of that State_ Ha is invaded with
the powers, ditties, and functions of that station, includ
ing the power to egabliSli all necessary Cffices and tribu
nals, and to suspend the writ of habeas corpus during the
pleasure of the President or until the loyal inhabitants
shall organize a Stale. Goverinnent in accordance with
the Constitution of the United States. His powers are
exactly - siutilar to those with which Governor JOHNSON,
of Tennessee, is invested.
A Report Contradicted.
An army officer, just arrived hero from Port Royal, de
plea the published statement that, at the last accounts,
our pickets were within fonr wiled of . Savannah.
Captured by the Bloctiading Squadron.
The Navy Deportment has despatches stating that the
gunbotit Ottawa, cm the 9th, captured the echo Mier Gen.
0. 0. Pinckney, loaded with cotton. She was attempting
to run the blockade for Nassau. [The prize arrived at
New York on Suneay.]
The I.Tnived Slates Gunboat Jacob BM
on Fire.
The gunboat Jacob Bell. lying at the navy-yard
wharf, wat diecovered to be on fire early this morning
The flames were wen en ppreeeed. One woo loaded wilit
ordnance stores, And some of the boxes of diens were
considerably charred, hence the vessel barely escaped
bring blown UM The origin of tilt lira btu not been
ascertained.
A Temporary Adjournment of the Howse
An effort will lie made in the MUSD to. morrow CO
v.ru from the 28th until. the 20 of jllite, tn oraey
to enable the menthol's t 3 visit their homes, and to afford
time for potting the Hall in summer trim. Those who
favor the proposition say each an arrangement will not
deity bilaillett, at the Homo is far in &Mum] of the
Senate in this respect. The House only contemplate a
holiday.
k Dammam!, of Binalimnten, Y., has licsa
appointel assistant quartermaster, with the tank of cap
tain, and detailed to the staff of D. C. McCsithou for
duty connected with the Government ralroad service.
Tho Polz4y of the Ttdoi§diet DiTaitmciat.
The policy of the Treasury Department is to get in
all ontbtanding treasury notes bearing interest and
fond them. In this place demand notes to the sorbet of
the public wants for currency purposes will be loosed.
One hundred millions of dollars of these are now out,
and there is authority for issuing sixty millions more.
Authority to Issue further stuns, oer/elided, will doubileas
be given by Congress, and of these it is supposed there
will be ne tee of denominations lees than five dollars.
The Mails for California.
ne floc& hatin« salneuhat interrupted the tran;it of
the lu:dishy the overlabal route, the company working - it
kayo wade arrangimenie with the Pacific Mail" to
mire the carrying of all thy ielger de , tittett for the West
et slope or the eowitieut.
The Floods on the Indian Reservation
The freshets in California have played such havoc
With the lotlitin Tieservntion on the libunatb river val•
ley, that the valley of the Smith river has been selected
for the occrwarey of the dispoz,sessed Indisms.
Future Legislation_
It teems to be the impression that as 80011 as the
EmatM disposes of the confiscation bill, the House Pa_
cific 'Railroad measure will be considered atd passed
without doubt, after which the tax bill will be taken up,
debatcd, sod amended, null a final vote is reached.
Rebels Below Fredericksburg.
The detpt►tch hi OW niorphig'o Prowl, telegraphed
that the I ebele are increasing their force north of
Fredericksburg. It sheltie! .and south of that place.
The Sick from Yorktown
Information vae received bore tonight that the
steamer Daniel Webster left Yorktown to-night, under
direction of the sanitary commission, for Boston, with
200 sick soldiers, fully equipped with surgeons, nurses,
arta tespital suppßea.
The Emancipation Act
The connitisdoners under the emancipation act still
ehhitiitle to bald flints inittgintili, though tho runkney ucen
hioned by the death of tin. S. F. Vinton ho not y,t
been Mica by lIIU PreFident. 'Flit's; far One thousand pe
titions haYe been laid befiire the VoIIIMISSiOIIerS. It i 3
eery rawly that auy chtimant nme.; mum than ono Limn
Oaves.
The Execution of the Fugitive-Slave
Law.
General Wnx.cwon-rn, +he military Governor of this
District, hue informed the marshal that there aro a nom
Jeer of fugitive slaves under military protection, and that
he does not desire thorn interfered with until he has in
1-tailgated their cancv—Vite loyally of claimant. The
United States marshal assented to the request of Gen. W.
It is estimated that some live hundred claims have been
made for fugitive slaves escaping to this District. Large
numbers of the bltiVee era at MGM over In Virginia upon
roads, forts, cutting wood, ac. These cannot be re
claimed, as there is no civil tribunal to enforce the law.
The _Naval Bill.
'lb° naval wopropri alien bill, wbich pained the Home
yetterday, was refer' ed in the Senate, to day. Among
flit items are the iellmeing ! For mailmen/ of mat& In
the navy, 611,400,C00; for ordnance and ordnance
stores soxo,uoo j for the < hurter and purchase of extra
van's, ate., 53,000,000 ; for clothing, $300,000. There
ore - no ; specific approprintiona fo= Pidiadelollia navy
ytud, though IS notice numerous ones for improvements
in other yards.
Interesting Items
DKr' D. UAW), Esq., paymaster In the navy, bus been
put upon the reserved list on account of utter prostration
of Nola',
By authority of the Navy Department, contrabande
will be employed in clearing up the ruins of the Norfolk
navy-Yard.
In anticipation of a law of Congress authorizing an
il/GiCOEO or the brad.; of officers of the ne,vr, the de
partment is ready to make nominations for promotions.
It will be remembered that most important eervices have
been performed by men in the grade of lieutenant.
tasehiseuve.
Captain Jatnee L. Lardncr, of the Susquehannalt, ham
been ordered to the Se" Jacinto, and to proceed to the
Gulf to relic% at hid relined, Flag Officer McKeon, of
the Enetern Squadron. The Niagara will come North far
repairs.
Captain 'Robert Ritchie has boon orderded to take
chug' of the property at the Norfolk Navy Yarqt
Filward 'Moser, or - Portsmouth, Hew Hampshire, has
been appointed Acting Master, and ordered to Baltimore
to command the United States bark Fernandina.
James B. 14.ndtreom of Baltimore ; has been anointed
Acting Master to the eat vessel.
J. R. Lee, of Dupont's Squadron, has been promoted
to Acting, Master on board the steamer Wyandotte.
Commander B Br Hitchcock het been ordered to re-
Dort to Flag Officer Goldsborough for the command of
the Susguehannah.
Lieutenant W. F.. llopkins has been ordered to the
Philadelphia runtleATQW,
Lieutenant T. E. laßtman bag been ordered to the
United States steamer li.e)itone State to relieve Lieu
tenant Gamble.
Lieutenant Bushrod Taylor has boon ordered to Bur
deutown, IC J.
The Expedition Up the James River—
Ofßelot Reports_
WASHINGTON, May 20 —The following reports have
been received at the Navy Department, having been
rconyprod try Commodore Gohlaborough:
U. 6. 13Tsamirt tianazia,
Off City Point, James River, nay 10, 1562.
SIR: I have the honor to report that this vessel, the
Aroostook, the Monitor, and Port Royal, with the Nau
gatuck, moved up the river, getting aground several
times, but meeting with no artificial impeaimenta until
wo arrived at Ward's Bluff, (dealt eight mites from
Richmond, where we encountered a heavy battery and
two separate bar; lers, formed of eeitee, steamboats,
and tail vtasela The pilots hoth say that they
111 W the Jamestown anti Yoritwwii among the 1/1111l0Or.
The 1 finks of the river we found lined with rifle-pits,
Wall which sharpshooters snuffed the men at the gam.
There would hinder the removal of the obstructions, int
im Orinn away by a land form The Galena ran
within about six hundred ravels of the l,4ttery, so near
the stiles as it wee deemed proper to go, let go her an
chor, and, with It spring, sweat: 1101'008th° stream, which
is rot more than twir oas wide as the ship is loug. Then,
at 7.45 A M .wa °Donal IIDDII thu battery. The wooden
veseels, as directed, anchorad about thirteen hundred
yards below. The Monitor anchored near, and at nine
o'clock the passed just above the Galena, ut found her
guns could not he elevated enongh to reach the battery.
She than dropped a little 13016 W.
At five minutes after 11 "dock, the Galena had ex
pended nearly all her :on munition, alai I Mail° a signal to
discontinue the adieu. We had but six Parrott charges,
and not a single lilted bine-inch shell.
We had thiettem killed end elereit trallnded.
. .
The rifled 100-potliid Partnit of the Naugatuck 'Melt,
half of the tart abaft the trunnion going overboard. She
is, tberelere, dibabled.
Lieut. NOWM:111, the OXOCUtire officer, 'oat conspicuous
foe bid , +itlint tan,l offeelive tervies_
Mr. Washburn°, acting matter, behaved admirably.
Theta two are selected from among the number.
The Aroostook, Port Royal, and Naugatuck took the
Mallow) previontly assigned to them, end did everything
that *Ad topiible. 7he Monitor 6nuld not have done
better. The barrier is such that the vesselsof the enemy,
even if they have any, cam ot pofsinly pass out while
ours cannot pass in.
. • .
I havo tho honor to be, your obedient servant,
JO n BOP/ ERS, Commander U. H. Nary
The following is the report of Lieut. Wm. N. Jeffery,
commanding the Monitor In tie late engagement near
Richmond. It is addressed to Commander Rodgers :
UNITED STATES IRON , OLAD STEADIER MONITOR,
Jatllsa lima, Va.. May,lB, 1.1382.
urn: I submit the following report of the movements
of this vessel during the action of yesterday :
Shortly idler weighing anchor from our position near
Kingsland creek, a sharp fire of musketry was cool
. essce,[l fee., both Wilke on ail the Alpe. At half peek
,oven o'elark I discovered an extensive fortification on
an elevation about two hundred feet, with several
smaller batteries!, all apparently mounting guns of the
heaviest calibre. At the foot of the bluff, in the river,
them war au ribstrisstisti, forms,' of Mikan MARMON and
secured with chains, piled across the river. The
Galena having anchored at about one thoikand yards
distant from the fort and being warmly engaged, I
endeavored to pass ahead of her to take off
soma of OM fire, hut foood Fp.ati , 000 la
not be olevated sufficiently to point at the fort. I then
took a 'petition on the line with the Galena, and main-
Mit ed a deliberate fire until the close of the action
whtn, in company with two other vessels, I dropped
down to the anchorage of the morning.
The fire of th e enemy was remarkably well directed,
but vainly, towards this vessel She was struck three
limes—by one solid 8-inch shot immure on the turret, and
two solid shut on the aide armor forward of the pilots
tt.xlae. Neltber mmeed any dama g e beyond bending" tug
plate..
I am happy to report no casualties.
In conclusion, permit me to nay that the action wan
moat gallantly fought against great odds, and with the
maw eir,..t against earthworks. go long , 1,1 our 1704901 A
kept up a rapid fire they rarely returned it, lint the me.
inept our fire i•ltekeried they remanzed their guns. It
wan impossible reduce finch works, except with the
aid of a land tome.
ThE folio:wing la tl.e report or tiollier.ant D. C. 13 on
eiable, cow .auding the steamer E. A. Stevens (Nauga
tuck) in tbs. action. Tito report is dated May 16, and
addressed. as are the others, to Commander Rodgers:
tint : I have the honor be report the 1, in yesterday's
attack upon the enemy's battery, at Ward's Hill, near
Richmond, Va , I placed the vessel under my command
in the position assigned Hat by you in the lino of attaek,
and opened tire upon the battery. which 1 continued an
ti] the limsting of our gnu, Whilstgetting into pasition,
.1.4..4 the hombardrosht, and while fulliesh:Lek with the
Equadrnu, the vaesel was tinder Waite a hes vy fire of
noisketry , which was constantly returned by us wi•h
shell and cauieter from our light broadside guns. I have
Illtewhio to report to you!, that two of my crow are Woalid
ed—sne by a ninthet shot through the arm, met the other
by a severe contusion. They have been sent on board
the l'ort Royal for surgical operation. My officers and
crew behaved to my entire satisfactioa. I would re
spectfully ropiest that you appoint a board of °Wars to
f?ittUala, Into, and report upon . , the Galin of the baratillg
of our Parrott. gun..
The following ie the 'sport of Atitiatent Burgeon Val
Gimp, of the Ga'ena, Riving an Recount of the killed
and wounded in the late action:
UNITED STATES STEAMER GALENA.—Kii/dd.—ThOITIAS
Beady, captain of the foretop j Jamea H. Weber, third
boy Miclm.-1 Money, landsman j John Sudan ordl
nary seaman ; Robert Boyd, ordinary seaman; Richard.
A. Adams, seaman; John Quig, ordinary seaman; John
Russell. landsman; William H. Horton, ordinary sea
man Joseph Johnson, private marine IJared D. Boo
r;yom,unneDo7l.l Patterson, lank mad ; If artin
berry, landsman.
Wounded —John D. Conner, third.elass boy, burned
and iyound of tinkle joint; Win Stevens, seaman, not
seriousl r; George lilt:Donnell, seaman, slightly; Thomas
Finnigan. AiAlsl4l.h. arm gt-V.VOIS , i11j111.611 W 11.54015,
ordinary seaman, slightly ; Win. Harrison, landsman,
slightly ; Thomas Clark, landsman, slightly ; Richard
Visser, seaman, slightly ; Andrew 31cOleary,:keting eras- :
ten's mate, not Rtrionsly ; Owen Doherty, coal-hearer,
mortally; Fred. \V. Johnson, firat-elaya boy, not .4141-
M:sly.
S. STE A3IE R. POET .11.) Y A T..—Wouruled.—Goorgo
Morris, commander, flesh wound uY right leg.
Try rS, ST I.; Am nit NA un T 1: C K,--•7mnP•3wil
lon,]nittlict Shot, lilt m:riont‘i Feter Pic ii, nut m•rions.
The following hes been received at the Navy Depart
ment:
U. S. FLAGSHIP SITSQUHHANNA,
J. River, Virgibia, Sian 18,1882
S 111: In ccrisequenco - of a report from Commanler
Rodgers that there were two batteries on the south side
or this river, of at Rock Wharf landing. and the other
atlin's Bluff, or Mother Pine's lauding, which re
qiiiked Pt/hi - 644, in order to eptii the PiV4lO mul net clip
plies up to him, of which ho was about to stand id need,
1 moved up to them yesterday with this ship, the Wit
cbtset, Parotah, Martians, and tug Young . America ;
but found that both had been abandoned and left coin•
htireilvels in a unelene eetulitien_ At Itavilinle Bluff the
guns were spiked, carriages burnt. and magszines blown
up; huts little tie4Jvc it a solitary gun remained intact,
and this we put out of use.
At hock Whgrt Lauding the guns were Mao spiked
and garriow a burnt, Dna ninairr the inagaainea nor
bonib•proofe had been destroyed. This I ordered to ba
done, and it was effectually accomplished.
The James river is now open from its mouth up to.
Warl's or Di ury's Bluff, or, in tidier words, up to within
eight miles of Richmond. where, as you will perceiyo by
Corn. Rodgers' report of the fight, it is seriously ab
et, acted. I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
L. AL GOLD3I2O 'LOUGH.
nag Officer Cointnenainzt the North Allaiitie BlOokedlite
Squadron.
BOIL GTDEON WELLES, Secretary of the Navy.
THE ASCENT OF TEE JAMES ELVER
HOW THE GALENA WAS MANEUVRED
~VASh May 2g.—A private letter, from flu M
oor Olt MN of the 'vessels of Commodore Iledger'e flotilla,
WS;
The Galena (iron-elad) was admirably manneuvrech
and so beautifully saucy that who passed five or six threes
as close as fibs could get, and silenced ono of the batte
ries She then passed and repassed the second battery
pit times, but finding they wore Ming so mush ammuni.
lion, for which we bare a better use higher up, Comma.
dare Rodgers ordered the wooden vessels to run ap, whilst
he in the Galena lay abreast of the battery, and discon
certed the rebel gunners. The Galena then followed,
but tbo buoye lump boon dinkier.' and misplaced, no that
the pilots last evening run the Galena ashore, and she Is
still welled. None of our vessels were seriously in
jai ed."
[This evidently refers to the Galena's movements
when dm first left Hammon Ruda to go up the river.]
LATEST FROM GEN, RALLECK'S ARMY.
THE CONFLICT APPROACHING.
ISSFORII CORI:Mh Nay 7.o.—There bas been skirmish
ing along the whole line to-day, the result of our feeling
the enemy's strength end seekhlg more advantageous
positions. Our losses tram small.
The army in advancing slmviy.
The story about several rebel regiments attempting to
nutiny and the rending of United States forces to their
BSSilifilliCe, is false.
It hes been raining all day, and there is a prospect
of a rainy night.
The Nashville union chronicles the constant arrival
of Tennesseans in the city, sick of the Southern Con-
federacy, acd says a Mel °ugh Union man mast be
cholien for the approaching circuit election,
From General MoOlellan'o Army.
OUR FORCES ONLY TEN NILES FROM
RICHMOND.
THE ENE MY IN FORCE.
WHIM HOUSE, Va., Nay 18.—The btriny commenced
moving at an Early boor this morning in tho direction of
Richmond, and will encamp soma mica in advance of
this place. The advance of Central Stoneman reached
the. railroad bridge over the Ohickalemiiny yesterdity.
It id a Kim In Silf -iierk bridge, two Doane only of which
are burned. It can ho rebuilt in a very abort time.
The enemy's pickets are guarding the whole lino of the
river in frOlit of Richmond, making it very difficult to
obtain any intimation from that city.
General McClellan went on it reconnoiaganee b fiat
Chickahominy tc-day, and the programme of operations
in front of laiclunond will so3n be decided upon.
The Chichabominy river, at the point where the rail
road crosses it, is only ton miles from Richmond. There
aro no other streams to cross :titer passing it.
THSTALL'a EtTATtuN s Dlay 20, rim Washington.
—The advance under General Stoneman reached Coal
Harbor, on the road to Richmond, by way of New
bridge, yesterday, where he found the enemy to bo in
fere& Ile drew their Dieltete to within two miles of
their main body, and encamped for the night. Rvery
thing indicates that the rebels intend to defend Rich
mond with all the available force they are able to
bring forward.
CQT greSEMEIN and Representatives from every South
ern State are there, encouraging their troops by their
Draoncp or d counsel to a determined resistance to an
advance of the Union troops.
The two officers why came within o'er lines with a
flag of truce about a week Dlncd, on a trivial profaned,
were allowed to return yesterday.
Commodore (loldeboroligh pßid a vliat to headquarkto
bat night, for the purpose of an interview with General
McClellan.
The Richmond pavan of the ltith bare been maim!.
They contain a correspondence between the Virginia
Legielature and Jeff DBVilil ill relation to the recent
movements of the rebel army. Ile stated that ho had
never entertained the thought of withdrawing the army
from Virginia and abandoning the State; that if in the
course of events the capital should fall, the necessity of
which he did not see or anticipate, that would be no
reason for withdrawing the army from Virginia. The
war could still be succesBfully maintained on Virginia
soil for twenty years.
The rebel °moral Jobn B. F1111...1 hos been appointed
major gnetal of the Yirgluin fermi with authority to
raise a force of 20,000 men, new conaeriptii, ler the de
fence of . Western Virginia.
The engagement on Thursday, at Drury's Bluff, seven
miles below Richmond, between our gunboats and the
enmity's batteries, on the James river, produced a great
panic among the people of Richmond. They aektiow
ledge a lots t f 13 killed end 7 wounded.
FROM GEN. BANKS' ARMY.
CURIUM DECORUM TROUBLESOME.
The Movements of Gen. Geary
Sic tniirtin,Tc, May 10.—It in currently re par! ad and
credited in military circles that 2,000 rebel cayttlry,
till'hed to the differel3i cornmaud, loLve bOell tii6bandoa
and formed thto guerilla bandy, occupying Lilo various
mountain ranaen and &nine:mac
Col. Gravy, a few days eluee, learned that one of the:e
bards was in a cave five miles from Ilectortown, and
11111i10 Arrawmooto to hillrfolilld firi!d raptore them, On
reaching the cave he ascertained that they had vacated
it the previous dey. A party of forty men, with horses,
bad ovideiltly been there for some time, living somptu
oualY, judging front the empty bottles, hoxeNi, Cana, &c,
It is pre liable they were a portion of the force
which capantel Geary's guard train near Linden last
week, ai.d retreated towards Warrenton on Shields'
Approach.
General Geary has been ordered to report to General
Basil siu future. Ile bee been relieved from guarding
thelower portion of the Manassas road, which duty be
has performed for several steaks to ihe extetd. of RIO
miler.
The Blde Ridge and adjacent ranges and spurs are In
fested with gurviilaa, who watch every oppertuniti to
shoot and captrde our picketa and foraging parkinA.
Their familiarity with the mountain ilafilea and passes
enables them to elude vomit.
STIUSBC1:11, Va, Noy 20.—Laa night the guerillas
entne clown upon one Tricir.etn at the bride. wed of
Thoroughfare, end killed or rook two prisoners. Tboy
belonged to the First battalion Michigan Cavalry, com
manded by Major Atwood.
The President's Emancipation Proposi•
lion—Missouri Moving is its Favor.
ST. Lol7l.'s, ltiay. 20 —A mass convention of the friends
of the Administration; and those favorable to the ono
eiyation of the slave,., held in Missouri, under the elan
submitted to Con Veils by the President, has been called
W Meet M Jefferson city on the 16th June, to nominate
Candidates for the State Mos.
LATER FROM NEW ORLEANS.
AFFAIRS IN THE CRESCENT CITY.
DoableEs Slowly Reviving
PORTER'S MORTAR FLEET VISITS MOBILE
RETURN TO SHIP ISLAND
The Occupation of Pensacola,
FORTRESS MONROE, DIRT SO, via Washington.—The
United States despatch steamer Rhode island, Captain
TTEISCIISTCI, Arrived bora this morning, with Aisles rind
mans from New Orleans of the Bth lust., leaving South
west Pan on the 9th, Ship Island on the 10th, Pensacola
on the 11th, Key West on the 24th, and Port Royal on
the nth.
Among her passengers from Now Orleans are Colonel
Demming, of the Twelfth Connecticut Regiment, bearer
of despatches from General Buller Captain Albert N.
lado of tl.o o uid,oat Wiesal.iclas.s,, and A. G. Milo,
correspondent of the Boston dournat Also, between
forty and fifty poseermers and naval officers captured on
the . Mississippi, below Now Orleans. Among them are
Several foYill.iriso of our hAVY, Including J. IL
Mitchell, commanding the Confederate naval forces on
the Missisaippi J. W. Wilkinson, second in command on
board the tonisiana ; Beverly Cannon, of tho Governor
d1 , 101%1 - ea Wtori , -T copmnrkiviipg +6O
ram Manassas On the passage the passengers were
obliged to take their turn doing guard duty over the pri
soners.
The Deer, from New &deism" ii lint or SpPoial interest,
(ien. Butler commenced ):1./111ing on the find of May,
and 08tublisheil his heinhinarters at the twltorn home,
and took possession Or the city ball, mint, be., and COM.
1101101 the St. Olterlea Itotel. whieli was
for the aecommodathin of himself antt a„ ff ,
A conference woo tend between Gen. flitter and the. a n-
Morales of the city, with Ph:rre Soule, when the proel,,,_
nioeine , i iu limo particulars.
AN an ;Let of humanity to the muttering inhabitant.; boats
and railroad,; were allowed to Ewing supplieN to the city.
The negotiation of Confolernto scrip way forbidden, lint
cylher ~ T.,- - it-suicqirEvviry- cirell)qinn wits iillownt, Thu
newspapers continued their eirculation. The Delta was
elippre,ed for refacing to publish the proelamation, bit
litlbrequrtic Y \VA 14 :1 oil.
Algiers was occupied by our fOreo.4, and FortA Jackman
and St. Philip were garrh , otied by trin,p,i from Ship iblautt.
The Opelousas and Jackeen Iteilronds were tak e n 1, 44 _
session of, and all approaches to the city (lit off, •
General Thelpa Lail adranceil to Currolltoni twenty.
five miles up the ricer, and occupied the plan°.
There Ives very little public demonstration of public
feeling, in consequence of the uncertainty in reference to
the future. 4 great want of confidence prevailed, but
under the firm course of General Butler, business wait
slowly reviving. The city was gradna ly becoming 'inlet,
and affairs were generally in a irrreatly satiefactory
state...
Commodore Porter's Mortar Fleet had boon off Mo
bile, and in the bay, and aouudings had been made in the
channel.
On the 4th the fleet wee tired on white engaged in thin
weak by - Fort Morgan, but the mortar boats did not re
ply. The nett afterwards returned to. Ship Island.
On the night of the flh the enemy evacuated Pomo•
cola, and net fire to the forts, the navy yard, barracks,
and Maxine Muspitel. General Arnold commenced a
bombardmebt when the destruction of property began,
with the hope of !wring a portion of ttlt• felt property.
The steamer!! Bradford and Dleaflie were burnt, and
Fort Mcßae, the hospital, and navy yard destroyed.
The Marrancas barracks were saved, and also the
faiindry and blacksmith shop in the navy yard. The
city and forte had been occupied by General Jones with
3,f.C0 troops. General Arnold was to establish his
henalquartere in the city on the 121 h, and occupy the
City with 3,200 men.
There le nothing of importance from Key Went or
Poi t Royal.
A few flays ago the gunboat Warnautta lost two men
in a IlkilTaigh in Warsaw sound,,
Official Report of Lieutenant Reigart R.
Lowry.
ti,ooKt..-rs, Or,
bavr 01t1.11.1:16. April 23,10.1
: I have to report, that in the action of the morn
-
in? of the 24th inst., from 4 A. M. to 2.30 A. M., against
the rvbclfoFls WA $l . , Philip, nwhoti itoil wotor
Datlrrir, and Econ.: rii - Nitlin rebel glinhunin, thin ship
gaged the enemy, on 3.t0 A. DL, With ii tell, grape, and
cuuisl or, of which OEM hundred and lire rounds were
fired from the g•ilich guns in broad-ddo, at ono time
11.101414 MI6 ltilkifiß4l ILO (MY DIV& of Pat
lit_ P6llid-
Great difficulty woo experienced in di,mharging the 80,
poltuticr Dahlgren rifle. Phis gnu 13 dolectire in its
vent
The conduct of the mon and officers wad under your
own eye. 1 can say with pride that titer fully met my
own expectation iu their drill Mid offieletiCy ; and al
though the action was fought mostly in total darkness,
still nothing could exceed the rapid and precise tiring,
thi' PriallPt tPiliiill9ll l to remit (filliffigeli, and the me for
the seed and wounded Whin Wild IYTILLGed Dy every per•
son at the ghn divitions.
I regret to report the lots of seven most valuable
men—viz: Ihrnatil Sands, signal quartermaster, killed
by your side; John Wade, captain after guard; Theme
White (cox.), coplien of No 9 gull Andrew Bourke
(tea.), first loader of pivot gun; Daniel 9lcEmory (boy),
powder boy of pivot gun ; Henry Hoff (marine), of the
incline gun's crew No. 1; William Lanahati (marine),
marine gun's crow No, 2. Midshipman Andaman, your
aia, vas carried overboard early in the Boric], from the
poop, by a round shot. No. 9 gun had, by the striking of
a 3d-pound shot against the iron boat•davit on port side,
and breaking into fragments, immediately followed by a
Durelieg Alen in the Seine direction, Ting ciptain
se, or.a captain badly wounded, and nine men badly
dis
ahled, making el. yen men out of the crew of seventeen.
91111, the remaining six fought the gun most gallantly
until the end of the action.
Our wounded amounta to thirty, Ile pup aurgenn's re
port. No. I gun pot t was disabled by having the ferWod
axletree shot away. We encountered the boom chain,
and broke it adrift, by running over it and dislodging the
anchored hulks; this close to Fort St. Phillip's. lire
isiro to,! VII e,,Connta, lAI4 Ant an Iron- r.on,
ZinlVk its In , mare
gnneveny, hut the chain armor,
to a great extent, received the blow, and saved the frame
of the ship. The sldp was Melly struck, and cat up in
various parts. A report from Dlr. Toy. the car neater,
I hortwith make:), Both mainstays: several shrouds,
lanyards, anti sihstays, and mue`i of the running gear,
was cut by shot.
As your executive officer, it becomes my duty, as it is
my bide, to call attention to the excellent bearing of
UM dicer and num on board shin, The ltdirarming
nil 'victorious voluituron. lu tinceorodon, ran down, emir,
blew up, ortired by shells, eleven of the enemy's sixteen
gunboats. Onw—the Warrior, a three-masted pripellor
—piaceo ourself under the port broaYetee of the Itcook
lyn, when eleven 1-second File Is were exploded in her,
itriying her on Cho Lank, Dna inticaE4/1" setting
her on fire.
A second three-masted propellor escaped annihilation
from cur starboard battery, fruit her resemblance to the
In quo's, which caused us to hold our fire uutil tho cur.
rent bun drifted her down astern et us, 'neither true
character was :iscertaiued, but too late for us to destroy
her. Dir. O'Ksne, acting tecond lieutenant, in charge
of the forward divisions, was wounded in the middle of
the action, suet dicalthd, after most gallant service. I
ordered Midshipman Bartlett to take charge of his bat
tery, which he did promptly and efliciently.
In conclusion, L without hesitation, assert that the
a! tack of our sqradron 1101:1 two t trong and garrisoned
forts, Pouting within grabs and canister range, and to a
meat extent silencing their fire, and afterwards °Vat
taking and desttoying nearly all of the (meow hi flout, hi
rot to ins knowledge surpassed, if equalled, on the record
of any navy in the world. In the action of this morning
itesinet tho batteries near the city, wo engavoil at ologo
canister and so nue range, and following cicgoly the
ficiota, which gunboat finished gallantly into close quar
ters with the battery cn the right back, but between us
and the battery. co that we had to hold our fire. We
finished her work by a wet ping discharge of gralia and
nyivlig the rebels oth.mell lout of their works.
Midshipman Bartlett fought the oightY-POllUder pivot
very skilfully, tiring twenty-one shale into the battery
on the left hank with great rapidity and precision, and In
A. AKAc tesiuntre es/Wolk/A of the Aim_
happy to elate that, tholi.gli we were !litre& a Member of
times in the boll, and tome rigging cut, wo hod ye lose of
lite or blood. One man, Dennis Leary, erdiaAry seaman,
fell overboard by his own carelessness, and was drowuod.
tile howitzers in tiso tore and main-tops were mAI
served by Coxswain liamilton and. Captain Rain Top
Williams, tbrowi7g ahrapi.rl awl canister very effec
tively into the enemy on built books, without officers to
cornsna -A alem. The erewa of the.. guns are' worth., of
special 'mike.
I have to thank you, sir, for the splendid example you
gave us of coolness and masterly handling of this vessel
In both gctiene, pn4 l rim thin tpteti rem; hi mom
rneurling to onpcclel uorico knnrtrtina,cer DIME, WOO, On
fie first morning, though wounded, stood bravely at the
wheel for seven hours, and today again teak hie post
and steered the ship from early daylight until 1.30 P. DI.,
over eight bents.
rern,—The engine, berth•declr, and powder division,
were well nerved by their respective oMcers and men
stator:ell there, and everything connected with them
were]dept In perfect order.
Third Assistant Engineer Morgan stood at the bell,
and executed your orders promptly and efficiently.
I em, very, rt spectfully, your obedient servant,
It B. LOW BY. Lieutenant, United States Navy.
To cflPiftlit T, Craven, commanding United
blister steamship Brooklyn, etT New Orteauer Is.
Three Days Later from Europe.
THE SCOTIA AT NEW YORK.
1i kw YORK; May 21; 2 &do& K—The steamship
Beals, from Liverpool on the 10th Met arrived at this
port at 1 o'clock this ruorninF.
11er advice, are three days later thati those lur.d.hed
h i the etith.er Great E,e,teett
The 1 - 1111 , 11*111 1,, Iiii^Ic C ,, ar , ttilitthat awl
Tllnraa ort WETV at Algt,•ira,,at tho 4IL. Tltv eataboat
Inn Wa6 at Cadiz 1,11 thel:t•tli,
The requattr remained at tlil,raltar,
EN ER AL N EWS
In the House of Commons, Loyard stated, in re
sponse to an inquiry, that as far as the lintish Govern
ment knew, M.lttercier's visit to Richmond was without
instructions from France, and Wild attended with no
political result whatever.
The Purls correatondort of the new Confederah or.
non, the Index, published in Loudon, asserts that M.
Mercier was certainly under instructions to f181:01.1.111:1
certain points, and will report in person to the Eniper4r.
The IndonsndettcS Bulge :1111441 , 1g. Hutt thu nhiset of
Ltiritlitte'g result visit to Loodiot was to induce
to la to a collation intervoition reAptetittg tht• state
of affairs ill Alll4.llCit. aml that Englatal agreed t
it 011 !lint lie Roman question was first seek 1.
Alm) that the French tiovernittent diive oar to this lam
position, mat it has led to it eonforeiteo relative to tho in.
lua.
Mr. Layard, in announcing the conclusion of the
alave•ttade treaty In the House of (lommons, said Its
corditioue slat , every reason to hope that the traffic wilt
be Oft Mutiny suppressed.
A delete took place relative to the distress in Lan
caebire, in which it was generally argued that tile poor
law regulations at proasht tiara amply sufficient. to.
gether with the means supplied by private charity, to
meet the wants of the sufferers.
The Loudon Times, editorially, say a: • 'lt is for the ho
nor of the nation that this dintreen ehatt be known, that
the winkl ma) see it a 811011fiCed made by ,lieglitict it, Ma
Cantle Of natioualit3."
The Tinter rceerde the new elnve•trade treaty as the
flistfinlls of seta asioo, but soya it isnot a blow at the
South., but a victery over the North.
trlw a.optA,andotit of the Morning //Crab/ mire
if i, hos - teal elitstiontloll the revogobion or the Sunlit is
64. rion,ly contotorlatetl I.y till Frecieli Government.
The Pari.4 now-tu wa. that ; lieliten were totottea at 70
H Sue.
jtright &repeated the hasty statoineetg m2Qo. e. 4
to the tertelottlott of Rio uas and diaeontinuanea of tin
blockade, by tLe miniatera, ad most dbastrorta to com
merce, iu Lauceabire. lle amid that Earl Stelaelt's late
et l itvinapt, that lie Isopt•d hi a few alorghi iNf9rthorn
i
blase would allow the ndepusaleaco of the buuth, had
paralyzed basin( se in Lancashire for a time, awl allowed
how Mlle ha knew of
the sentiments osjha NOl.
ucb etattuteute eere hihly:ulpt,aa,rolh
1111:t cutrellty ml ki ihrt rorequo t3ecra ITT.
The rumors of au approaching eolittlon or She Rowan
glle.tion Mere more rind more general.
lc was reported that the Papal Government had pre
pared a sudden departure.
Tile of NnPit's had left Kemp nit SitViiP
tirai -nag
Tho health elf the King of tho Belgiine ia mere fa
vorable.
The Late Generm Wm. 1,1! ! Mint,
ruilitimintii, - Mar romaine tf Brigadier
Central Williair,ll. 'Kelm, %rho died in this city, at the
Brady Home, on Sunday afternoon, of typhoid foyer,
will ;fare ref ~frnline t 14r int rgl9llt, On Wednotai
morning. They wiq be accompanied by hit rtdoivoi and
friends, and the heada of the military and, civil depart
ments. All the flags in the city are displayed at half
.
!Apo, eats tiptt scum,' VT9i/W139r7 lAA/Mat&
v IJIU[Hi IR I [IJ
A Bill Establishing Certain Railroads
Passed by the Horse•
THE CARRIAGE OF THE MAILS BY COLOREO PEOPLE;
An Adverse tteport by the Poet-Offlee Committee.
THE CONFISCATION BILL.
Further Debate on it in Both Houses.
nENAirss.
Petitions Presented.
Mr. ',FARRIS and Mr. KING (Itepro) yrriented peti
tions from the merchants of
. New York. for a (Amoral
bap iirta irt
Mr. WADE (Rep.), of Ohio, 'invented petitions for as
efficient corporation act,
Case of Senntor Starke.
Mr, SUMNER (Boo.). of !Mynas llllo M 4 - Wm . natie 4
Hutt he should, to-niorrew, tall to) the reselittlett far Via
(.X1)11141011 of the Senator front Orogen, Mr, Starke.
The Pacific Railroad Bill.
Mr. McDOUGALL (Dem.) moved to take up the
Peelll.llL,ed L.lll.
The bill was taken na—yoss 2:3, nays 1G
Before the rending or the bill had boon concluded the
morning hour expired and the contiocation hill Wrii
taken up.
Isiona Ref44,7lin Frye - v . 44 iv Rim% at
length on the subject. Ho said the hope of a ret.toratloa
of the Union was greatly decreased from any of the
measures proposed by Congress, though lie had some
into frem the IMP? men Who Ittvl Lett their hew* It
light for the mutat+.
Views of Mr. Davis
Mr. DAVIS proceeded to review the emir,. or Englan/
toward this country. flu referred to the ili success of tin
ohm of inking cotton in Other Conntries, and to the in.
tome hate of the Cotton Stetee toward the Government.
wLich right lie overcome by proper meneuree. end the
preaerviition of the Coinstltution in all its Integrity'. H.
should oppose evt ry attempt to impair the Ilenetitution i
eia r iiki&P 11519 T , Nbt-4 1 / 4 E ~ .Y, M 4
Rona, length to the epeeck of the aerator from Meeeacint
sett, (Mr. Wilson.)
After haling npoken for three hours and over,
Mr. II ()WA lilt (Rep.), of Michigan, moved to adjourn,.
DinnijNead i6—i.41111. 17,
Debate on a roitponentent•
Mr. rowE LI, (Dom.), of K.tucky, towed to Dmit
pone tlio bill till tro morrow ' to allow hie (Alen ene to finial"
hie tantah. la thtutlititvm uhumuul to Fafaa muili
rtiatPt.
Mr. 1 0 E8.5.F.NDF.N (Rep) said R was very ironical at
this pericd of the 1301381011, on a bill which bad been dia.
MISIO d so much, for a Senator to make a speech 00 gene
ral prinaipies, home in length, and ask for more time.
Vitae of Senator Grinies.
Mr. 01113[1113 (Doi,.). of 1 0 .0, if 41,, „Is
purpose of haste on this bill was to got at tho tax bill, he
woe in nohurry, for he thought there were other thing,
!SM Impatient than the titration dour awn beanie. FU-
N% we OreCtitiled to tot the people heavily, he treated
rime policy of the Government settled so that the peo
ple may know what It is. Why, we have one order tweed
in one place and another somewhere else. As a tome
settative of a sovereign Rtate. he wanted to know what
policy the Government intended to pursue.
After further (Remission of the Merits of the question.
whicb WRI4 participated in by Dieser& Trumbull, Clark.
Feesemlen, and Wade,
Mr. CHANDLER (Rep) moved to amend Hr. Poweille
motion an es to Tostpone the bill for one week. He net&
he woe opmaell to the bill, and wanted it postponed till
the bill from the House rem:heel the Coyote
After huffier discustion, Mr. CHANDLER withdrew
hie motion, and ttio tionetto ‘ll 4 tjortrita.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The Construction of Certain Railroads
mr . BLAKE (Hopi ; of Ohio. rohorted front the Pant=
()Niro Committee a lull to equhligh Pertain railroads. It
dc•elares the loidue partly C4111, , t1 . 1111te1l :WOW, thr, Ohlo
river, .at sl , •ulamville. old., abating on the VirgMia
AlfolT, to 6r a lawful xtriirtiiro and ou'die highway, alot
tttaidimheil us a post runty for thr purpoia of thn trank.
nliasiou of the mails, anti
_tut tint N10111)(411'Ito nod
itialatok noalynot COlllOllnY 1111 , 1 Cove Rail
road Company, or eithor of thom, are authorized to
maintain NO opt•rato tLo iairl p r id cv , w h im p orn _
DINH, Pram aro to he arorithal Inc the amano of
cos boots, -
Nr. MIKE maid that the bridge did nat matorially
int,tlery I,l'ith Ow navigation the Ohio ri for.
After a tiubute the bill was owed,
Mr. OPELL (Dem.). of New York. presented four pe.
titions frolo the prineiroaHnrporterg in 'Sew York, asking
for an extetadou 4,f tint, to three yeard in which goofs
Loud.
A Member of Congress for the District of Co.
MIMI
Mr. D}LANO (Rep ), of h laritchuseth, (Liked, bat
failed to I.`B/Ave, 1.131191 lit of the Haim to ititrahtee a
rotolitikb t.tobidit.a far it delegate iii CofiAl.Adil to klitiee
scout the District of Colerubla.
The Carriage of the Mails.
Mr. LU7..VAI (11. 3 ,..), from Ma Port
Committer ' reportoi buck the genate bill providing that
'
no person, for rolison of color, shall ha dhignalliiol from
carrying t he moils, with a recommendation that it de not
nese.
the Virwo vk thr tvaNnotttre
Mr. COLFAX (flop ), of Intiona, bald that not a mingle
pert en, of any color, front any elate, had ever petitioned
for this repeal, No Postmaster General had ever Twpin
niewlvnt it, anti public opinion lied net 4mtivirv4 if, it
would not only allow uegroes to tie mail contractors, and
therefore officers of the Government, but would span the
saute position to Indians and Chinese, It would impair
the security of the Nit in flffill9 Nat', Platlrt,
Indians, and Gbinose am not allowed to teatify against
whites, and if it was robbed in their hands wo could
not procure legal testimony, as now, of the mail carrier
against the robbers. It would oleo allow Ednyeledding
cootrartoro to pm. Moir Oliver; at mail oarriPri
itodrod or rice 'iridium, IA term Shay are to to r luipu - ficd to
eln phi?, and money would thus be paid out of our Pont
Mee treasury for the tutor or oaro:, which I. now ial
Possible. And me this bill could lint even ail it directly
in crumbing out this reliellim, whi. tt lie thought, wan tine
main ilwy nor it'cilinTerl, or in crippling; 02• p,wor witch
the trevoop, Et hirgi• it Or the I'o4 I /11iC)
C:ntnditre had concurred with him in reneaninemidieg that.
it do not patio.
Mr, DAWES (Ron 1, of Mnoinchusotte, rell.rrioa to at
objection elated by far. Colfax, inquired, bo way of at
answer. Ithrtlier the lettbr F flf)081) 1 the intll depreda.
tore etc tried in the State or Milted Stites Courts.
Mr. COLFAX (Rep.), not being a lawyer, could not
fully umiak:fluid the limiter; but he understood that is
st.qt chgog th.ntitiol MN§ Conet woo gOVortitul the
rules of the State in which the trials take place.
Remarks of Mr. Wickliffe.
Air 'WICKLIFFE (U.). of Kentucky, apsrevri 4 the
a«61.-lotta the retetuittee. lle had been itifiruted that
U.i bill Weis kieCtiliall to nit. gFIIO.IO to roteeve the diet
bility of two distinguished negroes. If negrool were to
be made mail carriers, we loul better carry out the wit )10
programme, and In addition to tasiting them soldier:4 awl
ballots, we hod better threw oceu the drum here and al.
Ira tbetn se ineinhare of CommltYo.4t4. [Laughter.]
Mr. COLYA X moved to lay the hill on the tab'e, hut
the hour fixed for the consideration of the e.oulkettlime
Mlle having arrived, time vote goes over till to. sorrow.
The Confiscation Hill.
Mr. ELIOT (Eep.), of Maseachusetlo. chairman of
the e.elect committee who reported the bilk eald the war
°Henaed in the t et:el States, and woo carried on by re
bel citizene aslant the Government. Thts 14 precisely
Pm character of thv war, Apprarlatah-41 , 4ation mar
soon be demanded concerning the rebel Matey. Thew
bills concern the property and not the pereone of rob, 14.
Congreo.s nifty certainly Dicke the property of rebel, old
in Torino. the expanaos inGurra in tam rdling thr• rr`hdllod.
The lamb( owned by the rebels aro 'tied fed elrrying on the
war, and their unwilling slaved are madam toil tint our Gr.
vernment may beoverthrown Their lands awl ilaves are
made Instrunietd, for earn log on the war. Deprive
them Of 14101111 d the war Milli Milt to 01 Whit nu l nor
immense debt Unulfed of increttrie. The rehrli owe
ihreo hundred millions of dollars. Every dollar of th tt
debt has been confierated by their Government and repu
diated by the r ebel de b tors to whore honor the consti tu
ride Of the gentlemen hied ttall ru
the lunch nod pilaTre trt treitura
warlike inFtrinnenta, they elmtill be COlin weed, mi the
penning Mlle propoted. Thom, were as much the enemy's
property as it they owed allegiance to a foreign rower.
Filet ellPerto4 hit! remart!s by legal ittg.tinenti.
Speech of Mr. Noel I.
Mr. NOBLL (Dem.), of Missouri, argued the consti
tutional gneetieti, reasarhlng that rebellion not city suc
ceeds in despotic
,connities, Iwi mie the masses are
against nor 11154, OoT orroo , o in 100 is ...-
rally, golitically, nod physically imposeible, beceitie it is
the few against the niony, to destroy the Govornment
of the whole. It was in this view tint 11'; held that
although tho Constitution wan tile 11111111 in price 91
in NI or. yet its slumbering power could be nwaken
ed In thus of danger. competent for every omen
grrry. As to the policy of condi cation he was
Willing to ton to Moo wlr tin , lvrttocon
to Cestror the best Voyerninsof n rho earth, Forgive
Os; sin to wore." Ifnt be was not willing to wad
the whole gook of Ids charity upon those who are rob.
king and murdering his c mstituen ca. lie wee not will.
istt to atty. .6 You shall not be freed from your holtish
colds." lie asked Congress to do nothing in the way or
reverge, but he did demand security tor the future. If
the Covert meet has not btiength and courage to punish
clime egainst lie own authority, null Maud by the men
ho have nobly stood by It, it is unworthy the oils.
sisneo of a brave people. Ton loyal into are anti.
slid to nines contideration than a million of traitors.
Elo far frOio the ronliseatiiin hill helots
wits the ofily moan by tv111,4, loyal nom Paulo firotoidiel.
It woe his 'drum! conviction that If Cum„ rues, whon they
llurt lire last J illy. lint /Melt a measure. tonal
illtt
trcrs might have b e en ra.
lewd that reerlitly a hand of cam, to the
boupe of lee only brother, in Mir , .. , tnrif doll eflor
mint lent to 11 0110110 furred 111111 to rah - rrilo • to an oirli
gat ion tint to take part liguilimt the rebel States, This he
did, to saye• his life. llut im his way leinuc they tried to
murder him. And these our the own who are claillte4 to
lir object- of merry.
speech of Mr. Biddle,
Eft. RIDDLE (Hop,), of Ohio, illseusted the geriorel
question of relallion. He would winidi traitors and
snip tram of all their property and preclude them for
getr from boldloo 0nt0.% of Ontoltuneut and honor under
this Coverniteitit. Strike down slavery and you will
latriko down the possibility of WHIM eLlon.
Remarks of Mr. Windom
Du, wlkip94 (top.), of Minnesota, had no patience
With those who wore ever t., eor muraorar•
and traitors), nhil who never altered a word in c
lrmn
atitm of !heir crlineA. It would be difficult to convince
le) el people that they 1:1h011td ray tin expen , r,, of the
while the anti triliture who tiro iTifroinible Tor
it should etictieti the hurtteoe. The rthelo
et once be striopol of their real and permonnl pro
prriy„ for the ur*.e, of the Government. We shout
have indrtnnity for the pa. 4 and svenrity for the f uture.
lie rt•woritill ti l i4 plcilrillre of coutlscuthm an cuiculatrd
t.
the rerottriva of the rrnels all pot nu taut to •
war. Puss this bill, awl it will Purim':o, loyal melt an.
fttp.trete the attempts of tniito• 4. Ile favored the out
1 0.gr0...119 1..141014 whil •
1118 ithttes pursue the enf.nir in the healthy region.
Dlr. t it raw ,
wilt ti it a 13011n7 ttejourned.
Public Amusements.
Or, 1/B,EFIT.—Mr. VIIIIII/1 Baur
ere' benefit takes place at the Walnut thin evening
and a full home may be expected. Cameros! & rrixer
Troop. embracing many of tho most talon r
Performers In the profession, have volunteered, R.
will appear. Mr. Cameron poeseases a tenor vol
'Abseil to be unemtalled in the United States for I
plaintive eweroincea. &arca!r less ealrowils.i. Will b.
the dramatic performance, including the Babes I.
the 'Woods," and "The Midnight Picket," in both o
which Mr Bowers will appear. Mr. Dowers deserves
hnlAtuntial bontle to-night.
Nit. AND MR*, P8A1 , 01.1 . Alta AT lIuISL 4P/APY 41 , 1011
this week in their drawing-room entertainment,
the Lew Lecture /Isom of Concert 11011, which hen b •
nvio pp Nory T6e inAt of Ihl4 Mit6itMAMMA
ouch as must make it popular, The ventilation of thi
hall is Low perfect, and it is ono of the coolest places i
the city. The peiformances are in the style of thew o
popular in this city a year es 16 Un.
Y.l\ AH1)1'14 , 01'0 MKNAgnnik:.---Tbit7 splendid celiac
time of rare beasts and birds is now open upon Ar
grpot, above Ziineteenth, morning, afternoon, and eve
when it le attracting crowds of our met intent
gent citizens. It le an exhibition of groat Interest, BR. -
emit y to the young, and is, withal, im tractive as well
1111111Piltdi aprohtieue of their
wain 'pecks, The monger tent is in iteolf a woad
MA the neat and elegant appearanee of all the appoin
mehts cannot Lot gain tha commendation of vivito
Among the smaller SLIMAIA, which might be overlook
ciireory 1181M1/91 . 191 . 1100 9911fc501 , 11,1 - 0 creverat or
very rare character, while the ornithological departure
is worthy of tepecial mention, including, among oth
ruritim., specimens of the veritable rara anis, the bta•
wen, The iornagerie Will TVT..ifl 411T1MM113 , /f99G9lii
Kr. MA an 13.%3:L1C10.S Concert, to-morrow main
n.utt he a grand affeir, if its 6UCC(44 le at all proporlio ,
D I, t o the Feat preparetionsthitt have boon made tool
it eclal end altractivent 53, A CrOnTellilinlollo music
and promenade combined In one, to a specie' of on
tainment which the antureinent•going Dublin
ilia- gag raceig a 5 frOktithlt;-
WASIMIOTWIt May 20