Dai Eciegrapo).
Forever float that standard sheet!
Where breathes the foe but falls before us,
With Freedom's soil beneath ...tar feet,
And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us.
OVA PLATFOILIII
THE UNION-THE CONSTITUTION-AND
THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW.
HARRISBURG, PA
Wednesday Afternoon, April 2,1.862
REBEL GUNBOATS.
While the Merrimac, that iron monster which
done so much mischief in Norfolk harbor and
vicinity a few weeks since, was being con
structed, northern ship builders and machinists
laughed at the report of her powers, and
ridiculed the idea that the south had the force
or skill in any of her navy yards to construct
such a boat. The result, as we have seen, has
proved how much we were mistaken, and how
much wo also underrated the ability of the
mechanics of the south. it is now admitted
that the Merrimac excels the Monitor in speed,
and therefore who can safely estimste the effect
of the Merrimac declining a battle with the
Monitor, and putting out at once to sea, on a
cruise for the tubs we now have blockading
the southern ports. In fact, every wooden ves
sel, in comparison to the Merrimac, is nothing
more than a tub, sad could be as easily de
molished. 'Therefore, if the rebel monster
escapes, there is no knowing what she will do
on her cruise. Our exposed seaboard towns
and cities will be at her mercy, while the
wooden blockade will be raised at least for a
time in locaaies, without much difficulty on
the part of these pirates.
The reb-ls have protitted by their late suc
cess with the Merrimac, and are now actively
engaged in constructing other boats on a
similar plan, with such improvements, altera
tions and additions, as the force, strength of
resistance, durability and speed, may de
mand. It is repotted that two of these boats
are on the stocks in Memphis, rapidly ap
proaching completion, while twelve others
are being as speedi.y constructed in New Or
leans. With such a fleet of such boats, our
present naval force would not be very service
able, and while we are not advised as to the
preparation being made by our government to
meet such a force, we have no doubt that the
Navy Department is busily engaged in the most
liberal preparations looking to a defence against
such a piratical power. The reputation of our
northern mechanics is at stake ,n.the construc
tion of iron-clad vessels, and if they suffer
themselves to be excelled' by a section which
made their ignorance of mechanism a boast,
the blame cannot possibly be laid to the govern
ment. If there is no skill among our northern
mechanics to excell in the construction of iron
clad vessels, we must yield the ocean and the
coast to the rebels, and submit to a fate not
anticipated even by the most dismayed man
at the organization of the rebellion. Bat we
have no fears on this subject. While, as we
have written, we are not advised as to the de•
tailed movement of the government in this
direction, we hive no doubt that its prep tra
dons to meet any emergency that may grow
out of the attacks of a rebel fleet, are as liberal
as they are in every other particular for the
speedy crushing out of rebellion. Our navy
thus far hats been invincible in the waters of the
world. Our gallant tars have never met their
superiors and few equals in a fair fight. It
must not, therefore, ba reserved for a bind of
traitors to rob the nation of its nautical glory,
or prevent the stars and stripes from streaming
along our entire coast, and triumphantly float
ing oa the waters of every lake and river in the
Union.
'las DEMOCRACY of the Ohio Legislature re
fused to allow the use of the hall to Parson
Brownlow, for thepurpose of delivering a lecture
on the subject of the rebellion. The Democracy
of every state are determined to choke off every
speaker of force and tour ige who proposes to
discuss the rebellion. In this state the same
partizins*refused the House to Wendell Phillips
for the same reason that Parson Brocvnlow was
snubbed. They are determined to preserve
their friendly relations with the leading rebels,
because, looking t) the time when they may
possibly have power to compromise with instead
of solve our difficulties by threshing traitors,
they hope to be able to prove by such acts that
they never forgot the south, and therefore the
south should be once more willing to enter into
that political alliance by which slavery oligar
chists and northern dough faces so long oppressed
and delud d northern labor. In this view,
then, we regard the combinatims now forming
at the north for the purpose of bringing alamt
a compromise, as far more dangerous than the
organization of the slaveholding rebels. This
denial Of free speech in Pennsylvania and Ohio,
by Democratic legislators, is becoming of all
their other acts in the great struggle for free
government.
REBEL GkIiERALS. The lots of the rebels in
general officers, since the war began, has been
remarkable. There must have been some
twenty in all, who are lost to their service by
death in the field, resignations, suicides, sue
pensions and other causes. In addition to the
four killed, and ono or two wounded in the
Arkansas battle, we just hear of the resigna
tion of Generals I. L. Bonham, of S iuth Car
olina, and S. Jackson. The proportion in the
Union service has been extremely small. We
think there have been but two, except those
whose time expired with the three months'
men.
h ENGLAND DESIRES ONE MIND more than
another, it is the breaking up of the cotton
trade and production of the southern cotton
states. She preserves her neutrality for this
purpose,
and when the news of the resolve of
the cotton planters be grow no more cotton is
fully confirmed, England will have halt realized
her desire. If the American planter neglects
his crops for a few years, it will have the effect
of stimulating the people of other countries in
efforts of producing cotton, so that the same
result which attended the attempts of the
American tobacco growers to monopolize the
trade in that article, will overtake the Ameri
can grower of cotton. The owners of the to
bacco plantations of Maryland, Virginia, Dela
ware and Kentucky at one time sought to con
trol the world, just as a few ragamuffins in the
cotton states ate now attempting to dictate
alliances and command treaties of comity with
all nations. But tobacco could not rule. It
was not able to wield a sceptre as a king, and
soon became the most servile subject of a kingly
sceptre in other hands. The nations of Europe,
despising the attempts of the slave holders of
America to influence their actions with a chew
of tobacco or a pinch of snuff, began to culti
vate the weed in opposition to the American
monopolists, until the result ended with the
complete destruction of that trade so far as its
exclusive monopolies were concerned. The ex
perience of the tobacco growers seems to have
no influence on the actions of the cotton culti
vators. They are following directly in the same
path. Their rashness in resolving to destroy
their crops will constitute the first stimulous to
the foreign producer, and the result in a few
years will be the complete dethronement of
cotton as king
SECESSION GAUD BA GGED. —The following
named cities and towns have been taken from
the enemy since the commencement of the
present year:
Eliz3heth City, N. 0., Springfield, Mo.,
Edentown, N. C., Eastport, Miss.,
Winton, N. C., Culumbus ' Ky.,
Bowling: Green, E.y., Leesburg, Va.,
Paintvdle, Ky., Sayan nen, Tenn.,
Nashville, Tenn , Brunswick, Ga.,
Columbia, Tenn., Fernandini, Fla.,
C'arkesville, Tenn., San Augustine. Fla.,
Dover, Term., Jacksonville, Fla.,
Fayetteville, Ark., Manassas, V.i.,
Bentonville, Ark., Centerville, Va.,
Martinsburg, Va., St. Marys, G 4. ,
Leenown, Va Berryville, Ga.,
Lovettsville. Va. , Winchester, Va.,
Smithfield, Va., Ocenquan, Va.,
Bolivar, Va., Windsor, Va ,
Charlestowc, Va., New Madrid, Mo.,
Harper's Ferry, Va., Point Pleasant, Mo.,
Die Bethel, Va.., Hickman, Ky ,
P iris, Term., Newborn, N. C.,
Huttonsville, Va., Beaufort, N. C.,
Florence, Ala., Morehead City, N. 0. •
Cedar Keys, Fla.,
The following rebel forts and fortifications
have also been captured since the first of Jan
uary:
Fort Johnson, Va., Columbus fortifications,
Fort Beauregard, Va., By.,
Fort Evans, Va , Bowling Green do,,Hy.,
Pig's Point Batt..ry,Va.,Mill Spring do., Ky.,
Shipping Point Battery,Roanoke Island Batter-
Va., ies,
Cockpit Poiutßatteries,Elizabeth City d0.,N.C.,
Va., Fortifications at St. Si-
Fort Clinch, Fla., mons, Ga.,
Fort Henry, Term., Fortifications at lianas-
Fort D 'nelson, Tenn., sae,
F..rt St. Mark, Fla., Batteries at Aquia Cr'k,
Fort Warren, Fla., Va.,
Fort Macon, N. C.,
Besides a number of forts= the Neuse river.
The Federal reverses have been in New Mex
ico alone, where the confederates have occupied
three or four evacuated military posts and
towns.
JOHN M. COLEMAN, one of the most promi
nent and useful citizens of Philadelphia, died
in that city on Monday evening last. He had
been attending to his usual routine of business,
and in the evening, when he returned to his
residence, complained of slight indisposition,
sought his chamber and expired immediately
on reaching his couch. The deceased was born
in Orange county, N. Y. He left his native
home at an early age, settled in Lancaster
county, where his intellectual ability and moral
worth at once gave him a prominent position.
He had been a residentof Philadelphia for many
years, where he was known and esteemed
largely for his manly and generous traits of
character. He was County Treasurer of Phila
delphia, and left the office with a reputation
not only unblemished, but enhanced for hon
esty and correct conduct in all the departments
of that office.
UNITED STATES SINES now sell at about 95,
having risen from 88 within a few weeks. They
would be at par today, but for the issue of
notes hearing an interest of seven and three
tenths per cents Until those notes bear a pre
mium, the sixes must remain below par. We
protested earnestly, but in vain, against the
grant of authority by Congress to the Treasury
to offer more than six per cent. for money.
We foresaw then all the consequences of enter
ing upon that unfortunate policy.
THE TAX on advertizements has been so far
modified as to impose it only on such news
papers as have is circulation more than two
thousand copies, and where advertising patron
age exceeds $l,OOO. This will relieve all
country hebdomidals, and be the means of
drawing an immense revenue from the journals
of the commercial cities.
EVERY ticking of the wire from the west is
fraught with interest. The decisive battle at
Corinth is near at hand. Buell, with his well
trained and chivalric legions, was, at last as
within fifteen miles of Beauregard.
Grant cannot be much farther off, and the great
fight, assuredly, is near at band.
Two lIIINDRED and twenty-six deaths from all
causes—wounds, accidents, and diseases—have
occurred in the force under General Sherman,
In the period of four months and a half since it
t Annapolis for Port Royal.
JOHN JAN Y, says the Washington Republic,
who was President of the Virginia Convention,
when it passed the ordinance of secession, has
Wile'', the oath of allegiance to the United
States.
TWENTY-TWO HUNDRED SICK SOLDLEILS are at
present c“nfined in the hospitals in the vicinity
of W..shington.
peminitionia itettgrapiL ttlebnotap "Afttntoon, ptill 2, 1862
Pennsylvania Legislature.
REPORTED EXPRESSLY FOR THE TELEGRAPH
SENATE.
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 1862.
The Senate met at 11 o'clock, A. M., and was
called to order by Speaker HALL.
Prayer by Rev. W. C. Cat'ell, of Harrisburg.
On motion of Mr. ROBINSON, the reading of
the journal of yesterday (Tuesday,) was dis
pensed with.
Several petitions were presented, among the
number one by Mr. BOUGHTER, from citizens
of West Londonderry township, Dauphin coun
ty, in favor of a change in the place of holding
spring elections in said township.
Referred to the Committee on Election Dis
tricts.
Mr. BOUGHTER read a bill in place in con
formity with the above.
Referred to the Committee on Election Dis
tricts.
The supplement to the common school law
was called up by Mr. LAWRENCE, (Washing
ton,) and considered in committee of the whole,
(Mr. CLYMER in the chair,) when after being
variously amended, it was reported and laid
over.
A resolution was adopted providing for eve
ning sessions of the senate, and also one to
adjourn over from Friday at 1 P. n., until Mon
day at 3 P. M.
Several private bills were disposed of, but
none of general interest.
The bill to irkcorporate a military academy at
West Chesser was passed.
WEDNESDAY, April 2, 1862.
The House was called to order at ten o'clock
his morning.
Agreeably to order, the House resumed the
consideration of House bill entitled "An Act
to protect the wages of labor in certain counties
of this Commonwealth."
The bill went through a second and third
reading, and after numerous amendments and
considerable discussion,
Passed finally.
AFTERNOON AND EVENING SESSIONS.
A resolution was off-red by Mr. CESSNA pro
viding for evening sessions for to-night and Fri
day afternoon and evening, and was discussed
until the hour of one, when the House adjourned
until three o'clock this afternoon.
BUNKER'S HlLL.—Toombs, whose appeal to
the women and children of Georgia, to burn the
hou4es over their heads, whenever the Union
army shall enter their territory, will be re•
membered by our readers as the same bragga
docio who promised th It the victorious legions
of the rebels should enter Boston, where he in
tended to call the roll of his slaves in the
shadow of Bunker Hill. As the mountain
wouldn't go to Mahomet, the prophet bad gone
to the mountain, the Boston boys have gone to
Georgia to fetch the traitor to the site of Bun
ker Hill, and Col. Dimmick is preparing com
fortable quartets for him at Fort Warren. 'Tie
possible that he may call his roll ta4 promised.
but there will be another response than that of
the slave to his master will salute his ears An
evil day has this wicked war been to the slave
holder, for which he is to thank such miscre
ants as Toombs. •
THC INTENDED ASSARIN OF PRESIDCNT LINCOLN.
—Many persons affect to believe that there was
no intention to assasinhte President Lincoln
before be assumed the duties of his office. Re
cent developments have not only established
that fact, but point directly to the person who
was to perform the bloody deed. A short time
since a Baltimore gambler, named Byrne, was
arrested in Richmond for keeping a gambling
house, and for his supposed disloyalty to the
confederate government. To ploys his loyalty,
Byrne summoned Wigfall, who testified that
Byrne was not only loyal to the confederate
cause, but was the captain of a baud who were
to murder Mr. Lincoln. It was for a long time
supposed that an Italian barber of Baltimore
had agreed to become the Orsini for the mur
der of the President, but he was probably only
one of the conspirators.—Wash. Republican.
WARNING TO MIN ORB. —l3. S. Commissioner
Tuttle has recently decided in a case before him
that a minor, falsely representing himself with
out parents living or legal guardian, and there
by becoming enlisted in the military or naval
service of the United States, with the view of
receiving the advance pay from the Govern
ment, and then getting discharged on a habeas
corpus, commits an offence punishable within
the meaning of the acts ...of Congress. The
United Slates authorities have resolved to put
a stop to the intolerable annoyance of being
continually imposed upon by these minors, who,
by tin se false representations, get into the ser
v ce and cause so much delay and expense to
the government.
REBEL OUTRAGE IN KENTUCKY.—At a school at
Newburg, near Louisville, Kentucky, r. cently,
a young lady, one of the pupils, attempted to
read a composition in favor of the Union. She
was prevented from doing so, the directors, the
teacher, and a vender of blue pills, objecting
thereto, although some of them profess to be
Union men. Next a dozen rowdies or more,
inflamed with whisky and armed with 'revol
vers, invaded the exhiL.ition, which was held
in a church, and finally, amidst profanity, the
discharge of weapons. and a knock down fight,
the audience dispersed, Among the persons
present were many ladies, who, o course, were
much frightened.
FMANCIPATION IN WESTBRN VIRGINIA. —A large
meeting of the people of Upshur county, West
ern Virginia, was recently held at Buckhan
non, to take into consideration what should be
their action in regard to the adoption of the
constitution recently adopted by the convention
at Wheeling, for the new State of Western Vir
ginia. Resolutions were adopted endorsing and
accepting the Presidents emancipation policy.
Much enthusiasm was manifested.
A PRESS FOR "PARSON PROWNLOW. " —Among
the many testimonials of kind feeling towards
the patriot martyr of East Tennessee, it is pro
posed by his New York friends to give him a
"Hoe's last fast," with which to uproot the
last vestige of secession at his old home. He
has been invited to make the Astor House his
home as long as he remains in New York. His
notes of the rise and decline of secession in Ten
nessee. will take the name of "Brownlow's
Book."
WE understand that some of the prominent
Union men of Western Virginia intend to urge
upon General Fremont, who is now in the city,
the importance of arresting two or three hun
dred of the leading secessionists of this section
of the State, and holding them as hostages for
the release of the Union men arrested and im
prisoned in Richmond and other places.—
Wheeling (Va.) Intelligencer.
IR the rebel Congress, the Senate has voted
down the resolution or the House against plant
ing more cotton this year. The majority of
the rebel Senators maintained that it was the
Interest of the South to have cotton abundant
and cheap, in older to prevent its cultivation
elsewhere.
A BOILER ExpLomorr occurred at the Balti
more Houso of Refuge on Monday, by which
two of the inmates were killed, and eight others
horribly, and, it is apprehended, fatally
wounded.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WAGES OF LABOR
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Activity Among the Union Forces.
THE REBELS ADVANCE ON NORTH EDISTO, S. C
THEY CHANGE CHANGE THEIR MINDS AND
MARCH BACK AGAIN.
FORT PUI.I.SKI THOROUGHLY INVESTED.
The KOles Offer to Surrender With the
The Offer Refused by Gen. Sherman, Who
Demands an Unconditional Surrender.
ABANDONMENT OF WE COAST OF
GEORGIA BY TEE REBELS.
Thunderbolt Fort, Five Miles from Savan
nah Destroyed by the Union Troops
Adjourned
Great Panic at Charleston.
THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN
LEAVING THE CITY.
Attack on Fort Jackson at the Mouth of
the Mississippi by the Union Fleet.
Wreck of the Rebel Steamer Vanderbilt
ALL THE BELLS IN THE SOUTH ORDERED TO
BE RE-CAST INTO LIGHT ARTILLERY.
Revolt of two German Companies in the Rebel
A flag of truce from Norfblk brought down
to day letters from the United States prisoners
and a despatch from Gen. Huger to General
Wool.
The Norfolk papers notice the military move
ments at Old Point, and says that large rein
forcements are landing and that at least
one hundred large steamers and trans,mrts are
at the wharves and in the channel.
The same paper also notices the arrival of
Vice President Hamlin, with a party of ladies,
at the forties on Monday, and states that they
had a great jollification, which was the cause of
the salutes. •
A dispatch from Charleston says Gen. Evans
advanced on Saturday on North Edisto with
2,000 troops, but findit,g that the Fed rals were
at least 6,000 strung, he retired in a masterly
manner. The dispatch does not say whether
there was a flab t or nut.
The United States gunboat Seminole arrived
here this afternoon, bringing Port Royal dates
to Saturday last.
• Fort Pulaski had been thoroughly invested
for thirty days, and was momentarily expected
to surrender. It was sail that about five hun
dred rebels were in Fort Pulaski, and that they
bad offered to go out with the honors of war,
but Gen. Sherman demanded their uncoodi
clonal surrender, and would, on the first day
of April, open on the fort if they still re
fused.
The rebels bad withdrawn all their forces
from the coast of Georgia, and had abandoned
their works at Thunderbolt, taking all their
guns to Savannah.
The gunboat Seminole landed and destroyed
the Thunderbolt fort, which is within five miles
of Savannah, over a good shell road.
A refugee from Savannah says that the friends
of the rebel troops iu Fort Pulaski had offered
$30,000 to any one who would rescue them
A refugee from Charleston represents that a
great panic has existed there since the capture
of Newbern. The women and children were
leaving the city for safety, and there was a gen
eral expectation that a terrible blow was about
to fall on that section.
From Florida the intelligence is most gratify
ing, The Union sentiment was being strongly
developed.
A dispatch from Norfolk, in this morning's
Richmond papers, mentions the arrival of
of Vice President Hamlin and a large party of
ladies and gentlemen there, and the salutes on
the occasion, and in the same paragraph says
there has been no communication by flag of
truce for several days past.
There appears to be little doubt that all the
movements here are faithfully reported to the
rebel anthorities.
The papers also state that nearly a hundred
transports, Steamers are in Hampton Roads,
and that a large number of Federal trcops have
recently landed here.
The Richmond Dispatch of this morning says
the grand army of the Ftd-rals seems to have
been transferred from the neighborhood of
Washington to the Peninsula which they have
probably conc'uded is a shorter and easier road
to Richmond than that via Manassas which we
have courteously placed at their disposal.
The same paper adds that the roads here are as
bad as those on the Potomac, and refers to Gen
eral Magruder as a man not likely to be caught
napping.
There was a rumor in Richmond yesterday
that a severe fight had taken place on the pen
insula. This was probably caused by the fact
that a strong recmthoiraoce towards Yorktown
was made on Saturday. A despat.,h from Au
gusts, Ga., dated the 31st of March, says the
Charleston papers of that day contained a de
spatch, dated New Orleans, the 291 h, stating
that two federal gunboats on the 28th com
menced an attack on Fort Jackson,at the mouth
of the Missis,ippi, but up to that time nobody
bad been hurt.
The New Orleans papers cf the 27th report
the toes of the rebel steamer Vanderbilt. The
captain and crew and eight passengers are safe
on the Florida coast. One WA, with seventeen
men, bad not been heard from.
The rebel Ordnance Bureau has issued an
order calling for all the bells that can be ob
tained, to be re-cast intu guns for light artil
lery.
Troops are gathering in large numbers at
Tacksouport and Pocahontas.
Gen. Vau Dorn and Jeff Thompson were pre
paring for an early movement Oil some point
on the Mississippi river with his force.
It was colls.dered by the rebels that the Miss
issippi valley is safe from the enemy.
BALTIMORE, April 2.—The special correspon.
dint of the American at Fortress Nionroe,ays,in
connection with the knowledge the rebels seem
to possess of our movements, I may also state
that two drummer boys who were captured by
the rebels a few days goer, are known to have
given all the information Ley posstssed to the
enemy.
This fact 'cas ascertained from rebel pris n,. re
who were captured yesterday.
Honors of War.
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Garrison at Fort Pulaski.
FORTRESS MONROE, April 1
LATER.
The &minele's advicts from Port Royal are
to Saturday last.
The surrender of Fort Pulaski was daily ex
pected. For thirty days all communication
with S tvannah had been cut off, except an oc
casional row-boat, which escaped the pickets.
Several of these boats had been caught on
their way down, but some are supposed to have
escaped the vigilance of the guard at night.
The number of rebels in Fort Pulaski vies
reported by deserters at five hundred. Two
German companies of the garrison had revolted
and were placed in irons.
It was the intention of General Sherman to
summon the fort to surrender on the first of
April. if the demand was not acceeded to, he
would immediately cmamence to shell it. His
mortar and siege guns were so stationed that
the guns of the fort could not reach them.
A boats crew from the Seminole landed and
destroyed the fort at Thunderbolt, Letting fire
to the baracks and blowing up the magazine.
From the Coast of Georgia.
Capture of the Rebel Batteries on
Skidaway Island.
SUDDEN STAMPEDE OF THE REBELS
—.—
The Fort and Batteries Destroyed
by the Union Forces.
SCARCITY OF FOOD IN SAVANNAH.
TEE DISTILLATION OF WIIISKEY STOPPED
IN GEORGIA.
THE GRAIN WANTED FOR BREAD.
Fort Pulaski Still in Rebel Hands
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PHILADELPHIA, Aptil 2
The following extracts from a letter received
in this city give some interesting particulars of
the capture of the rebel batteries on Skidaway
Island:
U. S. STEAMER SEMINOLE,
Warsaw 8-rund, Ga., March 25, 1862 r
To-day, at half past 12, r.. a signal was made
f.r the squadron in Warsaw Inlet to get under
way and follow the Seminole. We proceeded
in line of battle up Wilmington river very
slowly, not knowing the channel well, Captain
Gilles being on board the Norwich, which drew
the least water, until we arrived within a mile
of the battery, when the Norwich fired a rifle
shell in among a party of horsemen near it. The
sound seemed to stagger them, for the horsemen
curvetted about in confusion and fled. Proceed
ing up a little further, the Norwich let the rebels
have another shell in an encampment that was
near the battery, when the whole party fled,
leaving the battery and the whole placesde
serted. Giving them several more doses right
in the earthworks, we cleared them out en
tirely, and then manned the boats, went on
shore and took formal possession. Capt. Gilles
planted the old flag upon,' the highest rampart
himself ; and Acting Master Steel ran up with
a picket guard of eight or ten men and planted
the old gridiron—the glorious stars and stripes
—on the rebel headquarters, amid salvos of
musketry, at the same time carrying away
the miserable worn out secession dishcloth
that was flying there. The rebels left
little behind them worth having but
their dinners, which were still - cooking
over a wood fire. Capt. Gilles then ordered
that the whole work should be destroyed, as
we did not wish to hold it, having no soldiers
with us. The batteries were then fired in the
interior, and soon burst into a fine blaze, car
rying everything before it.
Skidaway ort is now among the things that
were. The rebel houses and private property
were humanely spared, but were afterwards
destroyed by the rebel soldiery.
The works on Skidaway were very well built,
and, had the enemy remained and fought, they
could have given us some trouble.
It is evlitent that the Port Royal fight is
still ringing in th, it ears or else they would not
be put to such an ignominious flight every time
they see a federal gunboat.
The success of the achievement is great, and
Skidaway, as well as the channel of the Wil
mington river this aide of Thunderbolt is now
in our hands. Our ghirious cause is still blessed
and our arms victorious.
After all the works were completely destroy
ed, the squadron consisting of the Seminole,
Wyandott and Neruich steamed back to its
anchorage in Warsaw Sound.
We have a rebel prisoner on board who says
that they are in a bad way at savannah for
fuod.
Gov. Brown has stopped the distilling of
whisky, as they want the grain for bread, which
will be entirely out in July.
Fort Pulaiiki has not yet am rendered, but
must do so before long, as the batteries inten
ded for it; bombardment are nearly completed.
FROM VIRGINIA.
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ADVANCE OF GEN. t BANKS' COLUMN.
TEE PASSAGE DISPUTED BY ASHY'S CAVALRY
The Rebels Pursued to Edenburg.
MORE BRIDGE BURNING
WOODSIOCK, Va., April 1.
t !arm HOUSE OF SHENANDOAH CO.
Gen. Bans advanced from Strasburg this
morning towards this point. When approach
ing the town, Col. Ashby, with his cavalry,
supported by a force of infantry and a battery,
disputed the paQsage of the United States
force?, but we prisd onward through the
town, the reb, Is frequently stopping and throw
iug shells, to which we responded with effect.
Gen. Banks pursued the rebels to Edenburg,
five miles soutn of Woodstock, Ashby's men
in their retreat burning two turnpike and one
railroad bridge. All the railroad bridges be
tween here and Strasburg bad been previously
burned.
The only casuality that occurred on our side iu
this movement was the killing of a private of
the 29th Pennsylvania regiment. A private of
the 2d Massachusetts received a rifle ball on
his belt-plate, but it was hlrmleEs.
[SECOND DISPATCH.I
WOODSTOCK, Va , April 2.—Eight o'clock A. X.
Our guns and musketry drove the enemy
from Stony Creek,
near Edenburg, this morn
ing at two o'clock. The enemy were drawn up
in line of battle within range of onr guns. They
probably consisted of Ashby's command, and
were easily driven from their position. Our
forces will build a bridge over the creak to-day.
All was quiet during the night. It is not yet
known if Jackson's forces were engaged yester
day.
FROM ISLAND 10.
REBEL ACCOUNT OF THE BOMBARDMENT.
The Avalanche says the force of the enemy in
attempting to take Island No. 10, have been
throwing shot and shell for two hundred and
forty hours, without doing any damage to our
works or guns. Up to this time only one con
federate soldier has been killed.
FROM WASHINGTON.
WAR-Imo-um Apr 12
Information has just been received from the
New York Thus' correspondent on the low er
Potomac, that contrabands trout Fredericks_
•burg, - report that town now occupied by thirty
regiments of the enemy,the main part of which
have arrived there within the last three days.
They report the steamer St. Nicht.lis and one
other which formerly plied to dill -rent p)ints
on the Rappahannock, as being held in readi
ness to transport rebel troops down the Rtopa
hannock to some point. Other redel troop s
are reported as having gone down the York
river to reinforce the enemy's position at the
mouth, where the rebel batteries are tonall
'MYST° NE NURSERY.
pHE subscriber having taken the mau
l_ agement of t.,is nur,e•y ii rrepared to supoly its
old patrtms and o.hers with all the leading ar d well test
ed, besides many new and bl;hly recommended vari
tics of
FRUIT, SHADE, ORNAMENTAL
TREES, SHRUBS AND VINES
The varieties of fruit trees have been selected and groan
with t.pezila i reference t,. the waits of thhi market, and
embraces the most desirable
APPLES, APRICOTS,
CHERRIES, DWARF AND STANDARD.
PEARS, DWARF AND STANDARD,
PEACHES, PLUMS,
GRAPE VINES a ail good native varieties.
CURRAN FS, GOOSEBERRIES,
RASPBERRIES, STRAWBERRIES,
LAWTON BLACKBERRIES, & - c-
THE ORNAMENTAL DEPARTMENT,
Includes shade trees for streams and !awns, Evergreen
trees from one ta - twelve feet high, Evergreen and De
ciduous shrubs, &C. JACOB
aprg,-dIW
MEMPHIS, March 29
Fredericksburg, Va., Occupied by
Thirty Rebel Regiments.
Discovery of Another Magazine at
Shipping Point.
_o_
CAPTURE OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF SHELL,
1=1:=EI
Detachments of rebel cavalry still occupy
Aquia creek and as far up as Dumfries
Another Magazine has been found at Ship
ping Point, containing a large quantity of
shells.
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.
PHILADELPHIA, April 2
Flour dull, and none sel ing for exporta'io n
Small sales tu trade, at $5 for superfine, $.5 2.1
for extra, and $5 50@,6 for extra family. Ilv,
is steady at $3 25 ; c.irn meal at $2 73 Wheat
is in fair demand ; 8,000 bushels ri.d sold at
Si 30®1 31, and white at $1 40. S a y s . GI
rye at 70c. Corn is in good flernand, and his
advanced sales of 10,000 bushels ; yellow 5-11
cent., and damp lots at 52a532. Oat. , se.a
at 34c. Provisi ms quiet ; 5:,1,3, of pork a'
; hams in s4lt at 5i4@60 ; sidis it ,r+ r ,
and shoulders at 4i@„4.i; taut held at E" . ..ijgt.4e.
Coffee dull—pricrs drooping. Sugir is is lure
demand, and prices are a shade higher. Wi.isky
is unsettled, and Ohio commands 24;1a.2.3c.
NEW YORK. April 2.
Flour advanced five cents—sales 90u0
at $5 20®5 25 for State, $5 70(ii,5 75 f„ r
Ohio, and S 5 3505 85 for Souihere. Wheat
quiet, but firm. Corn steady— sale:: of 12 000
bushels at 58@60c. Mixed pork dull it 512 75
@l3 00 for mess. JO 00@,10 50 for prime.
Laid quiet at 7-I®Bic. Whisky uns tiled—
sales at 22®23c. Erceipts of flour, 593 bbl.;;
wheat, 2.603 bushels; corn, 1,090 bushels.
Nem abnertisments
TO RESTAURANT KEEPERS.
FOR SALE.—The stock, good will and
fixture , and lease of the Reiturant under Wy.th'.,
lierrisburg. Apply on the priruises or to
J PLC ) ,
Broid stn et, West Harr shurg
rem
FOR RENT
ATWO STORY frame house, situated
in North street. three rr Par doors from Seood,
coutainMg, seven rooms. Feat $l2O per yea.
There ss I rge amount of fruit trees i the ylr For
further particulars app'y to M. II crm 4N,
taelt* Near corner of Second an•! Ft to
T. J. HUMES,
HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTER.
HAS opened a paint shop in Strawberry
alley, near Third rreet ' where he is prepared to
promptly ea°. ute all orders , et to his care. Be is also
i.repared to whiten c flings and mato piec - s.
aprl dlw*
FOR RENT
?ME Warehouse and Store formerly
Loc
cupied by Gro.s & Kunkel suitable for a forwarding
house and commission business. havin,f 4, private s . dunr,
and being situates on the can and* Pennsrioau 13 rail.
road; there Is ovary facility for doing a forwarding Ltn , i-
MSS. ALSO
A STORE ROOM,
suitsble fbr a wholesale and reta I gracers - .
given immediately. Inquire on the premise= of
GEO. G. MINKEL.
apr2.2wd* Canal street between Etat. and Walnut
REMOVED.
JOHN B. SMITH
HAS removed. his Boot and Shoe Scot..)
Point the corner of Ferond and Walnut wr..et. to
.NO. 108 MARKET STREET,
Next door to Ha , ne's Agriculture Store, where he inters
to keepall kind. Of 800 s a^1:1 Shoes, Gait rs, en I a
larg , etotk or Trunk., and everything in hi; line of tv.
sinws ;and will be tbauCul to receive the patronaz.) of
his o'd customers and the pub i• in general at b o a sea
pla.a of bu.iness. All kinds of wo•k made to order
best etre and by superior workmen. Pep.iring d re at
Short notice. [aprzdtf] JOHN B. 8111TH.
REMOVAL.
CHARLES A. BOAS,
HAS BMOnEto nis
WATCH AND JEWELRY STORE
To No. 7, Market Square, n
below the Buehler Boras.
t te ,
ITE has constantly on hand a large stock
LA_ of
WATCHES, JEWELRY and PLATED WARE
of all descriptions. Watches and Jewelry reraired and
warranted. nor: dim*
PUBLIC SALE.
TN PURSUANCE of an order of the Or
hats' Court of L'auphirt county, will be expcled to
sole. on
THURSDAY, the 24th DAY OF APRIL, 1862,
at the Court House in the city of Ilarrisbt - rg, at 2 o'cicck,
P. at., the foil ming valu-.131e real estite, viz
A certain lot or piece of ground, sit .aced on the corner
of Walnut and Slx , h strews, is the city of Harrisburg,
bounded and described as f Bows, viz : beginning at
the corner of Wel , ut and Eix'h streets ; thence a' • ne
Wa'nut tenet towards Elflh street 25 feet, to a 1.4
D niet E. Wilt, and Thence by the line of said 1.3 Tow.trds
Strawberry al'ey 87. feet, t. 3 a lot of the heirs of J andS
de7eased ; thence by the line of cad lot partitzl
with Walnut strut 25 fett t' vix h street, god 'heves
along Sixth street 87 fa t to Walnut stv:et aforciaid, the
place of begiunivg. lher. no is e!ected
A LARGE T aitEr - -:JOEY
BRICK HOUSE
I II
a I AND LARGE BRICE BACK BUILDING.
New aced 83 a hotel end occupied by V% ilium React
Attendance will be given ant cendeion4 silt male
known by J , CO I D. Bu iß
JulIS BR 4DY,
Trcsteel,
JOHN 81. GLAND, Clerk 0. C
Harritburg, March 29, 1911'—nprl-riltkw2t