(Telegrapl) ) . forever float that standard sheet 1 Where breathes the foe but falls before' us, With Freedom's soil beneath Jar feet, And Freedom's banner streoming o'er us. HARRISBURG, PA Saturday alttrnoun, Apra 12, 1562. THE FREEDOM 01 TEE CAPITAL In the eyes of the cividzed nations of the world, the system of American slavery as nrp- . held and sustained by the several American states, has always been regarded as mon strous, iniquitous and barbarous. It was con templated as one of those illustrations of in consistency, for which there was no justifica tion, that states professing to be free should thus claim the right to deal in human flesh, and make a chattel of men born in the image of their God. The states thus claiming and maintaining slavery, insisted that the principle was among the most sacred of their sovereign rights, which no Commonwealth surrendered on becoming a party to the Confederacy or Union, and therefore the federal government *could not interfere with the existence of slavery in the states where it thus flourished. By these arguments the southern slave holder has managed for sixty years to maintain the power of this institution ; making it supreme as an element of strength in the organization of southern society, and potent in the politics of the nation, when its interests were at stake. But the spell has at length been broken. Con gress, by a solemn act, has declared thatslavery is not national, and wherever this governatent has power to reach and cruab it out, there slavery shall exist no longer th rn is required to provide the legal means for its extinction. We are led to these words by the glorious announcement, this morning, that the Tune of ElepresZatatives, yesterday by a vote of 92 yeas to 89 nays, passed the act abolishing sla very in the District of Columbia. This fact will elicit the approval of 'every honestly loyal man iu the hard, and only those will condemn the measure who can make inch condemnations a pretext for expressing their covert sympathy for the traitor foe. We give the vote on this bill as follows : Aldrich, (Rep.) Alley, (Rep.) Arnold, (Rep.) Ashley, (Rep.) Babbitt, (Rep ) Biker, (Rep ) Dotter, (R p ) Beaman, (Rep.) Bingham, (Rep.) Blair, (Rep. ) Mo. Blair, (Rep.,) Pa. RI (Rim.) Jr iwne, (U ,) R. L - Belot in, (Rep.) Campbell, (Rep ) Chamberlain, (Rep.) Clark, (Rep.) Colfax, (Rep.) Oonkiing, Fred A. (R.) Conkling, R. (Rep.) ()mid°, (Rep.) Davis, (Rep.) Dawes, (Rep.) .Delano, (Rep ) Divan, (Rep.) Dual, (Rep.) Dunn, (Rep.) TridgeFtiou, (Rep.) Atthrarde, (Rep.) Mott, (Rau_) Nnglish, (D ) Fenton, (Rep.) Femenden, (Rep.) Fisher, (Chitin) Frani:tot, (Rep.) Fratik, (R. p Go ich, (Rep Go Awl°, (Rep.) Gang-r, (Rap ) Haight, (Dem.) Hide, (Rep ) Hanchett, (Rep ) Harrison, (Union) Hickman,(Rep.) Hooper, R, p ) Hutchins, (Rep.) inlian, (Rep.) &elle?, (Rep.) (Rep.,) Minh. Killinger, (Rep.) Lansing, (Rep.) Loomis, (Rep.) Lovejoy, (Rep ) McKnight, (Rep.) McPturson, (Rep.) Mitchell, (Rep.) Moorehead, (Rep.) Morrill, (Rep.,) Me. Merrill, (Rep.q) Vt. Nixon, (Rep ) Odell, (Dem.) (Ili p ) Patton. (Rep.) Pike, (Rep.) Porter, (Rep.) Potter, (Rep ) Rice, (Rep ,) Mass. Rice, (Rep.,) Me. Riddle, (Rep.) Et Alias, (Rep.) N. H. iareeant, (Rep.) Sedgwick, (Rep.) Thanks, (Rep ) ibeffield, (Union) - Shellabarger, (Rep.) Sloan, (Rep.) Spaulding. (Rep.) Stevens, (Rep.) Stratton, (Rep.) Thomas, (Rep.,) I rain, (Rep.) Trowbridge, (Rep.) varkborn, (Rep.) Van Valketiburgh, (R.) Verree, (Rep.) Wallace, (Rep ) Walton, (Rep.) Vt. Washburne. (Rep.) Wheeler. (Rep.) White, (Rep.) Ind. Wilson, (Rep ) Windom, (Rep.) YS. Morris, (Dem.) Noble, (Dom.) Norton, (Dem ) Nugen, (Dem.) Pendleton, (Dem.) Perry, (Dem.) Prim, (Union,) Mo. (Rep.) Steele, (D.,) N. Y. Steele, (D..) N. J. Thomas, (Union,) Md. Vallandigham, (D.) Vorhees, (Dem ) Wadsworth, (Union.) Ward, (Dem.) Whits. (D..) Ohio. Wickliffe. (Union.) Wright, (Union) Allen, (Dem.) B 41,1, (Dew.,) Pa. B ddle, (Dem.) Blair, (a.) Va. Brown, (Union,) Va. Oasey, Crittenden, (Union.) Delaplaine, (Dem ) Dna tp, (Union.) Glider, (Union.) Hall. (Ur& on.) Harding, (Union.) 'Holman, (Dem.) Johnson, (Dow.) Knapp. (Rep.) Law, (Dam.) Liaear, (Dom ) Mallory, (Union.) May, (Dem ) Menzies, (ITaion.) The passage of this bill maybe regarded es the first really sturdy blow that slavery has ever received from Congress. It gives us a tree capital, and for this we have reason to thank Goi. It gives the death blow to that arrogance with which the elaveholder has ever conducted himself within the limits of the National Capitol, and declares to the world that the American Government Is determined by all fair and equitable means to rid itself of an evil which has so long been retarding its sac cessful.development and peaceful existence. As a measure of sound national policy, the Ad ministration of President Lincoln can be proud of its anomie, and as a purely Republican ques tion, agitated, advocated and prosecuted to sum, as by the indomitable leaders of the Repub lican party, we may justly Congratulate that orginization on its success. Bat again, we de alers that we should give thanks to God that the' Qaflitol of the American nation is to be bmieeforik free; .heef:eforth unpolluted by the awn of alsvary 1 .3 di., A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY. The editors of the Patriot and Union, when they are not directly eng.iged in giving aid to the common enemies of the country, busy themselves in beating every bush they discover, in the hope that they may be able to produce something in the shape of an argument or a slan der against theßepublican party. The Patriot has two hobbies. One of these is the constitutional rights of southern men and the unconstitu tionality of the policy which seeks to coerce southern traitors in obedience to the law. The other hobby is, the Republican party. Its strength, its majesty and grandly national po sition, blights the dreams and the contempla tions of the proprietors of the Union, to such an extent, that they are in daily fears that this Republican party will eventually destroy the temporal peace and personal hopes of the sages and statesmen and rheumatic soldiers who either preside over, or whose names adorn the columns of that journal. The last great discov ery of the swans of the Patriot is what we should call an Eagle's neat with crow's eggs. This le in the shape of a document which purports to be the Constitution and By-Laws of a society whose objects are stated to be the preservation of the Union. Here is the rub which scratches the consciences of the proprietors, editors, hangers-on and barkers of the Feria. A. so ciety to save the Union I That would be com petition with the objects of a society to which the aforesaid proprietors, editors, hangers-on and barkersbelong,and forthwith,therefore, the Patriot sets up a howl of the old locofoco tone. It will not do to band, organize or pledge for the safety of the Union, supposing for arguments sake,there is such &society in existence as the one referred to by the Patriotyesterday morning, sim ply because such a union organization would af fect the strength of the Knights of the Golden Cir cle. By such a proceeding, and by coming in di rect contact with that circle, the prospects and preferences of the proprietors and editors of the Patriot would be materially affected, because there is no doubt in the minds of men who un derstand the weakness and the proclivities of those gentlemen, that the Patriot has been sus tained for months by means of contributions derived from the Knights of the Golden Circle, and also that its proprietors are not only in sympa thy and communication with that traitorous league, but that they are bound to it by such obligations as would give them accommoda tions in Fort Warren, if the proofs were as abundant as their guilt is extensive and per sistent. With the consciousness of their own guilt pressing heavily on their souls, and with daily fear of incurring the suspicion and arrest of the government, they have either concocted this story on the subject of a Union league, to divert attention from their own machinations, or they have become the ready dupes of some wag, aware of their guilty fears, and seeking this 'mode to expose their simple credulity. It is a canard worthy of the object which the , Patriot hopes to achieve. And yet, when the reader fairly understands the spleen and malev olence which induced this dirty invention and mean publication, he can measure the lengths to which the Breckenridge Democracy will pro ceed to secure either the disgrace or the de struction of the Republican party. themselves bound together by oaths of the meet horrid na ture, pledged in conclaves that swear men against liberty, and hold them on the penalty of their lives, to render any aid, either of assas sination or theft, to increase the prestige and preserve the strength of slavery, they yet have the audacity to seek the denunciation of the, American citizen who may dedicate hie life, his fortune and his sacred honor to the defenoe of the American Union. We cannot answer for the wag who has played this practical joke on the proprietors of the Patriot • Whoever he may be, he should at once be presented with a medal. But in return for the anxiety and waste of room which this trick has imposed on the Union, we will publish the Constitution and By-Laws of the Knight' Art the Golden ands. The proprietors of the .Patriot have it in their power to furnish that document.— Choy are conversant with its articles and/obli gations. They understand the binding force of its oaths, and have been waiting patiently for months to carry out its objects. For these reasons, then, we are willing to give publioity to its creeds; and so far as any Constitution or By Laws are concerned, relating to a league for the defence and preservation of the Union, the proprietors of the Patriot can find its members in every loyal household, and can, if they de sire, attend its meetings daily at every honest man's hearth in the city of Harrisburg or state of Pennsylvania. Its oaths are administered by the mothers and sisters of men. They are taken in the presence of wives and daughters, and they constitute the silent invocations of brave hearts to Heaven for that aid which God has ne ver refused to vouchsafe to every noble, just and patriotic cause. It is this league which the semi traitors of the Patriot fear. It is this league which startles the snights of this Golden Circle in their conclaves and their orgies. It is this league which strengthens and animates the Republican organisation; and against this glorious ataxia lion of freemen, when the lies and slanders peculiar to locofocoism fail, the Patriot opposes its counterfeit Constitution and silly By-Laws of an imaginary society, in the hope that the prej dices of men may be excited to antagonism against that which is calculated to challenge their jadgment and win their admiration.— Truly a fitting task and worthy work for the apoligists of traitors! And thus its story of a secret league is like that "Tale told by an• idiot— Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." No ma than seventy-four negroes, mostly slaves, captured at Fort Doneloon, were trans . ported to Camp Chase, at Columbus, Ohio, and are there now in the character of servants to the rebel officers. The relation of master and slave is as rigorously maintained by the mask r and recognized by the slave as it was in Ten nessee. COMDIERATI 01117000 y—sold u keepsakes of the rebellion—is getting to be common, in New York city, and commands a price that tempts men to import it from the South, or, what is more likely, to manufacture counterfelti. Jer the Prussian seam' Ougse *done ere to be substituted foe brszid#. THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE. At the organization of the Legislature that adjourned and die at noon yesterday, a union was effected between the Republicans and that por tion of the Democracy who supported the war measures of the Federal Administration.— That union was had for the holiest and highest purposes One of the first results was the election of John Rowe, of Franklin county, a Union Democrat, as Speaker of the House, he receiving every Republican and Union Demo cradle vote, while he was opposed with rancor by that portion of the Democracy who then and now cling to the creed which made an imbecile of Buchanan andla traitor of Brecken ridge. While reposing this high trust in Mr. Rowe, the Republicans of the House were ac tuated by the single, simple object of organizing the Legislature,-best to promote the interests of the Commonwealth and secure the safety of the Union. It was necessary that power should not pass into the hands of the Breckloridge Democracy, as the suspicion was fair and justi fiable by undisputable facts and, circumstances that that clique was conspiring to rescue the south and not the country from rebellion, and by a system of compromises at once degrading and dangerous, effect a settlement of our na tional difficulties such as would again bestow power on the Locofoco party and organise that system of corruption by which modem Democ racy can alone flourish. As Speaker of the House of Repreaentatives of Pennsylvania, John Rowe has done his whole duty. When he took possession of the Speaker's chair, be was at once challenged by the Breck enridge Demociatio leaders. They sought first to cajole him into their measures, and when be spurned their attempts, they next essayed to intimidate and brow beat him in his official capacity, but here again they failed, so that before Mr. Rowe had wielded the Speaker's gavel a month, the creatures who opposed his election as Speaker, found that they had a man to deal with, and were content to wage the petty andwoonteroptable warfare against him peculiar to locofocoisha, and which always fails of its objects when waged against brave and independent men. We repeat, then, that Mr. Bowe deserves the thanks of the loyal people of Pennsylvania. As presiding officer of the House of Representatives, his acts were emi nently conservative, conciliatory and impartial. Added to these, there was a dignity and firm ness in his course which won the respect of those who understood the delicacy and impor tance of his position, and who could not refuse to acknowledge the ability and integrity of the man. No legislator of the session can go back to his constituents with a clearer claim to , com mendation than Jelmitowe of Franklin county. - K -- ._ "-; A.- .„,,,......... (1?1 f ,i . ( _ •••• <,-;"------: 1...--. --- e 6i ALT --, :-- ''' I . I'' , III• _..-_. ~,, ,- - I - The Great Battle of Pittsburg THE nEstith. OP TRH I'ICAPP. ESTIMATED UNION LOSS IN MILLED WOUNDED 3,000. THE REBEL LOSS IN KILLED AND WOUNDED 10,000. ACRES COVERED WITH DEAD REBELS. The Enemy Still in Posseenton of Corinth• ESCAPE OF 'GEL PE,ENTISS ~~~ OPKUNATI, April 12. The Pittsburg, (Tenn.,) correspondent of the Gaseas says the sum and substance of the bat tle is, that on Sunday we were pushed Irom disaster to disaster all we lost every division camp we had, and were driven within half a mile of the landing, when the approach of night and the timely arrival and aid of the gunboats, the tremendous efforts of our artiller ists, and Gen- Buell tipproaCh saved On Monday, atter nine hours' bard fighting, we simdly regained what wetted lost on Sun. day. Not a division advanced half s mile be yond our old camps on Monday except Gen. Lew Wallace's command. The loweet estimates place our loss,in killed And wounded at 8,000 and in prisoners from 8,000 to 4,000. The rebel loss in killed and wounded was probably 10.000. The rebels is their retreat left acres covered with their , dead whom they had parried to the rear. They destroyed the heavy eupply t a us they had btought up. Another Aooonnt of the Battle. Macao*, April 12.—The Trauma re, , .r has just returned from Pittsburg, and funri , thp, following: Taylor's and Waterho , .bat-' teries, supported by the Twenty-4dd. ...1. els, Seventy.seventh and Fifty-third Ottioi t pe first in the tight. Both Ohio regiments, : ,.. :' .d this Seventy-seventh, without O firl a - n, leaving Waterhouse without ettp .- He fought half an hour, however, re with three of his guns. He was - if id in the thigh by a minnie ball. nottiatelly.— 1 Chia battery Is badly cut up. 'Pay' r 8 battery continued the fight, supported sp ~ Wig by th e Ittinole regiment, until his Bit ' it was °lntl inked on both sides. He then retired cl io through a cross fire, leaving but Ormitiiin kilted and seventeen wounded. kleanthne, Water house with his three guns took peettion sup ported by the second brigade, litcterriand's division, composed of the 116th, 118th, 20th, 45th, 48th Illinois, Col. Marsh commanding. Daring the fight they were compelled tit retire through their own encampment, With heavy. loss, into some woods, where they farmed the 1 second line of battle. An advanee was then I ordered by M'Clernand, a hundred-Ode beyond them in sight of the rebels. • Here 'eaurrnenced one of the most fiercely contested. ' gligm ants of the day, resulting in the repo . of e ene my, who were driven back thro our en campment. At this point the enem . rein forcements, and rapt ammunition gbiter . ~. c lot Marsh's commend gave way to anolhipinigade..; They - were, however, compelled •to , *tea within a half mils of the liver. At this moment the gtutboata behod . rare thrhwing shells over the heads of oily . , men.— The ground was Coveted in every tiblectlon by the rebels slain. Taylor's batterp`o6,iti took position on the parade fi r ezind el, Vas . st ook vidon,:and (Veined onthe rebelVa*, - ,,,tao e d ilea hundred yards distant;. Esplonditlititillery duel took tiattardlenoad and their cauf4xopkh n y - VW,: . . ioribattery was then ordered into the reserve. During the fight several Mississippi regiments who had arrived on Saturday night, came into the fight on a double quick and were almost immediately repulsed. On Monday a Michigan battery, captured the day before, was retaken by the "Fifteenth Wis consin. The fight over this battery was con ducted in person by Beauregard, and in his ef fort to recover it he was wounded in the arm. He was successful in taking it, but it was again taken from him. It was captured and re-cap tured no less than six times. Company A of the Chicago light artillery was so Beverly handled the first day that they were only able to man three guns on Monday; but with these, after a desperate contest, they suc ceeded completely in silencing and capturing a rebel battery of six guns. They were however compelled to abandon it from lack of horses to draw it off. Their own pieces were brought off. The general retreat of the enemy commencing at dark on Monday, our cavalry following until the horses were tired out. But fur the almost impassable condition of the roads the rout would.have been made complete and we could have carried their en, repelled camp at Corinth. It will be impossible on account of the condi tion of the roads to do it now for some days. The rebel artillery is superior to ours. Theit small arms are almost equal. The rebel loss is fifteen thousand killed and wounded—tm; ten thousand. These will be fouud moderate estimates. The enemy have taken more pris oners than we. Rebel Aooounts of the Battle at Pitts burg Landing, The Death - of General Johnson Admitte The Lou Conoeeded to be Heavy The Battle bald to be a Second Bull Run Rout of the Union Forces. NO ACCO. NT Of MONDAY'S BATTLE The United States gunboat Reliance arrived here this momitur with the schooner Hartford, captured off the mouth of the Wyonues river. A copy of the Richmond Whig of the Bth, wea found on board which has been furnished the American. It contains the following In reference to the batt!a on the Tennessee river, all being dated "is the tltu, and giving accounts of the Sunday fight only : APRIL 6th, yrs Cozattra AND j CHAITA.Nooct, April 7.. f To GIN. 8. P. Cooma, Adjutant Genera We this morning attacked the enemy in a strong position in from of Pittsburg, app_ after a severe bsttle Of ten houis, thanklNZ the Mt:nighty, gained a complete victOry, 'driving the enemy from every position. The lose on both sides is heairy, including our Commander- in -chief, General Albert Sidney Jehusun, who fell gallantly leading his troops into the thick est of the fight, [Signed] Kona'. April 9th. Special dispatches to the Advertiser iff Righter dated Oorinth yesterday afternoon says the battle eoutinnes, the enemy atrongly resisting their fate, white the eoutbeins continue to press upon them with resistAeas determination slowly but surely forging them back. Oar lose le .beaxy ,. bur our-men are in good spirits and thoroughly warmed up to the work and fight well. The Alabama, Mississippi and Looisiana troore display great gallantry. The 21st Ala bama regiment have' covered themselves with glory. This regiment capta ed two batteries. The Ist Louisiana regiment also took a battery. Gen. Bushrod Johnston, one of the Fort Don elson prisoners, who subsequently escaped, is wounded, Svansi.Nmar.—The enemy are in fall retreat and the Confederates In hot parfait. -I write from the enemy's camp and on Fed eral paper. Large numbers of prisoners have been taken and we expect to capture the greater part of the Federal army. We are driving them back on the river and aball kill or kapiure their army. The battle id still raging with terrible fury. We have captured Gen. Prentiss and a large number of officers. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston fell at half. past two o'clock. Ooe of his Icgs was torn off by a shell, and a Minnie ball struck him on the body. He died while gallantly and steadily leading our victorious troops. Gen. Beauregard now commands the army. He says this is a second Manassas tight. Gen. Buell was not in time to tike part in the action. Chan. Grant was in command of the fedem (orcee. lisatsms, April4.—A despatch from Corinth dated yesterday, says that the battle com- Menced at daylight this morning. The yankees were driven hack two miles—our victorious columns are still advancing. The First Lonisi ana has taken onefederal battely,and several others have been captured. Col. Williams of Memphis was killed. Gen. Prentiss was captured. He says they. had thirty-five thousand men on the field and eighteen batteries, nearly all of which have serwcapttired. Gen. Buell bad 'a portion-of hie force at Dock orei-k. We have the enemy's map and all heir timmunitke stores, • - The battle was a very severe one, and the loss on both sides to very heavy. The H htidg isßt3M gbirigmn. -Gee. Polk is 10 the) mlittoce. . GOOL Prentlas; -Grant, Sher man, M'Clernand, Wallace and Smith com mand( d the federate. Gen. t‘mith *as sick. Two thousand prisoners have been taken and sent to our rear. It is reported here that our forces are fighting Buell to-day (Moddity)i , Ged. Clark and Cul. Brown, of Miss., and Cul. Rich ards of Missouri were wounded. The federals have been driven to the river, and are at tempting to cross in transports.. Many prisoners are still being brought in. There is no account in the papers of the Monday's battle. Huntsville, Alabama, Occu pied by U. S. Forces. TWO HUNDRED PRISONERS TAKEN. Fifteen Locomotives and a Large flaunt of 'lolling Stock Captured. , Wasawarow, April 11. The Secretary of War has received Informa tion that Huntsville Ala., wan occupied Yl6" tetdity, by Gen. Kitchell without much reaist .ce being off,red. • Twp hundred prisoners were. taken, endfif tool: booin9rivee, and a /WV ameux4 rolli n g stock ca. twed, klAntheXellifthia. elefaterleston ,d 1.4,55, 4400 AftwvA444. - 1 stoko, ...of. the oftannessee boundary, and forty4ve miles qt ilorance. BALI - I:MORI', April 12 G. T. Br.etritsamm, General Oommanding Mr. Noyes bets pievionsly lost by capture two schooners which were employed as water boats by him. The Jamestown returned from Craney Island at three o'clock. Not a shot was fired until four o'clock, when the fderrintao fired three shots in the d rection of Hampton Creek. The Naugatuck and Octurara whoa bad been sta timed In that vicinity replied with a number of shots, all of wnicb fell near the relni fleet. The whole fleet led by the Merriman returned to Elizabeth river. The name of the schooner captured was the Emily, from Washington, with sutlers' *tares. A pissenger steamboat filled with spectators came out of Elizabeth river this afternoon, and a number of small sail boats could be seen through the day off Sewall's Point. LATE PROM CAIRO TER REBELS, NOT PURSUED TO COMM PRISONERS'FROM ISLAND NO. 10 Canto, April 11. The only additional information received to day from Pittsburg Landing is that the paisnit of the retreating rebels was kept up but a lit tle distance beyond the position of our advance previous to the battle. Several boat load. of prisoners arrived here to day from Island No. 10. The generals and field cdfioers will be sent to Fort Warren, the company often' to Columbus. Ohio, and the privates to Chicago and Springfield. Generals Makall, G:irttlt and several subordi nate officers are here on parole. Tbe latter are generally very communicative. They say that our four week's bombardment killed only one man. REPORTED I.ABB cir ANOTELEVIEBNG MAL'ile i lp..ll AT Ting BAT 1.1 Ar ITTS: B'Ultsa LaiDufGl. 4 , • BersogniA April 12. • The, editgellAl9ll2,l &al' the rebel TI% WO 40P , his` arm in thelattle en Y. FROM FORTRESS MONROE. THE MERRIMAC MAKES HER APPEARANCE. THREE SMALL VESSELS CATIVIED BY IBM REBEL FLOTILLA. I== ENCOUNTER WITH THE NAUGATUCK 4: 4 19 , ;13:4:414.(6.4:inpu1pi1ff.VtW 4 1 : 41 *V4:0:011Vot FoRTRIIIS ?limos, April 11, 4 o'clock P. M. To the Hon. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of War:— The Rebel steamers Merrimac, Jamestown, Yorktown and several gun-boats and tugs ap peered today between Newport News and dewall's Point. The only damage done us Is the capture of three small Tess, la, one empty and one loaded with coal, it is said. These vessels were captu red opposite Brigadier-GeneralCasey's Division whose battery contains Pmall guns of three inch calibre, some two hundred feet from the shore. [iigned] Joas E. Wool., M■jor-General. Foam= MONNON, April 11, 6 o'clock. To EDWIN M. STANTON, &crektry of War:—The Huila:Rio came down towel& the Monitor and the Stevens battery Naugatuck. The latter flri four or five rounds, and the Merrimac one round, when she, with her coot , rr, returned to Chaney Wand. Thus ende the day. What th oly,tt may bring forth I am unable to say. (Signed) JOHN E. WOOL, Mayor Gattral. LATER Fowling Idoszoi, April 11.-2 o'clock P. Y. The return of pleasant weather to-day brought the Merrimac as was generally supposed. - She has been seen three days since under steam at Craney Island, and as the evening of yesterday promised that the storm bad ex unlisted itself, few were eurpri-ed this morning at the announcement that she was in sight coming doten. The alarm gun was fired at two minutes pest 7 o'clock and as soon as the appearance of the Merrimac was generally known the docks, beach, and ramparts of the fortress command ing a view were crowded with spectators. Tne Merrimac after showing herself beyond Sewell's Point, appeared to be leading this way. She did not long continue hor course, however, but turned towarda James river, f rl lowed by six other gunboats which had come around the point in her company. Of the latter, the Jamestown and Yorktown were recognised. Among the others were sup posed to he the Raleigh and Teaser. Arriving at a point about half *ay between Sewali's Point and Newport News t'olnt, and near the place where the French war vessels Oass•ndi and Catinett and the English steamer Rinaldo ,had placed tiled:melees early in the morning. The whole fleet *tine to a atop, while the Jamestown followed at some distance by the Yorktown and a small tug continued on her course. The Intention of the Jamestown was not at fist perceived, but as the came around, leaving N. wport News on her lett, it was seen that her object was to , capture two brigs and a schooner whiah_were anchored near the shore about two miles from the point. This was done without the slightest difficulty, and the a&htance of the small tug being rendered, the three prises were taken off under the rebel fl kg. The wholtaffsdr was concluded in lees than half an hour, and the Jamestown having re joined the II et, was ordered tolow the prizes to °turkey island. Taking one brig in tow and the others alongside she moved slowly away. Slightly alarmed at the bold dash, quite a number of schooners in the upper harbor availed themselves of the favorable wind and sailed out of danger. Up to this time the rebel fleet has remained In the poeition, in which they first placed them selves, and nothing more has been done. - The tide is now out and probably no new movement will be made for some hours. If the Merrimac should then see fit to pay us a visit, she will be appropriately welcomed. The names of the two brigs captured are the Sailed, of Providence, R. 1., and the khrrous of Stockton, Me. The former was loaded with bay on private acconnt,and the latter was char. tared by the guvurnarent, but had been no bottled. The name of the schooner has not been as cerfained. • The captains of the two brigs escaped to the shore in a small boat with four of the crew of the Marcus. Two were left on board the latter and six on board the 13albad who made no ef forts to escape. They were taken prlaonere to getber with the crew of the schoon-r. It Is said that the captured vessels were or dered last night to move down the harbor for safety. The schooner Harmony used aa a water boat by Mr. Noyes, Governme...t contractor for sup plying water to the fleet, happened to be along side of tho French man•of--war at the time the Virginia madp her appearance, and was taken under the protection of the French flag, thns escaping capture. THE VERY LATEST. FROM %LIND w BattcTj of Rifled Gun:s in the Woods. HORSES, MULES, WAGONS', Apo; \, TUB REBELS DAILY sEaacli Yesterday two splendid bitt were found in the wood; A' Large amounts of property, coL,. mules, wagons, arras, are b:ie{ in by our men. From the Army gear York, Attack on a Foragiug p The Rebels Repuis EDLNECEW, A.: The bridge across Cedar Cf” .c, hm been completed. A private of the 27th shot while on picket duty by L- Om deli from expJ.ure - - storm. To-day a foraging p a r ty Ashby s cavalry forty tt.r. repulsed. NARROW ESCAPE OF Lit: MAGanzl, .-- BALEy - - ma Richmond li-Av L.. 1, - Yorktown that Gee. M. was at the Let! /1011,4) Lica' day, and came near b. ui LL, • Gen. Keyes. The Eiwie ..t killed uudet him iu hi. t i , t _; THE PIRATE NASHVI BE AI :SEA . 13),L:r t A letter from Patton-ut.; Richmond Witlg, rays the out to tea by Lieut. Wm ebe was taken to ettarkttk:a her new owners. MARKETS BY TELEGRI There Is not mach 4 , 411.: c:. I,OOU bbls. at $5 43 ivr 6 67 ror extra at $8 25 ; arta cool uRs. dull-B'l,ooo bud. sold u: $1 ter figure f,.r sou hzra , 1 40. Rye Is a aid ) demand, and /1.0,000 011,.. 04ts are IStelddy, tic 33 a.;.1 800 bags low grade hiV b.J.d a: is firm-120 bbds. Cure to[ 2,000 bags peraumbue firm-26,000 bbld. uirs.3 l .4, , 16 ; bacon MOVeti bans sold at bets ; IVO p , a • NEW 1. Flour lower; 5,000 1413 , $4 9545 OU, ruuLd lio .0_ „ Southern $5 2545 80. A oroopiog ; for wiso.i quint,but firm and uuLLa., 5 240. salted and 2d: . NEW YOiiK li._,N:IZ.AE::' SO' Stoics are loWer quiet at 144121 p MI, 111. Ceu. ulk, Y 82*, Virginia 6'. 5;4,11. .; 6 • 341, earulivas 6J, i Ttessury 7 3-10. 99; S. s's, 1874, 87, ipteb on the 11M ,113 t., etie i•:: b - MARY . d •r o v. - - area n s, e.b muutn,,.n [The fun. rrl w,l a.e .0 - o'clock from the reitLieutr# t t : - het below Mart et. th:: In, ad Itt• . Iny t ted to attend thaluu-rr t. . Nat has claim :,r f trtet Ufa u a b And her cwt. kt t: a: K r, Are as wh tea, t. e, In et. Paul, hiloluzoott, ou T.:ur $: bliso Yams.. /NTJN, 11 formerly of Ilan • r tor, - Ne11:1 PUBLIC SALE, TREES AT NU(. l •'-° WHEN the weather : tha 5.1 b, r F ! • 4013,112 arfilt ce• ,13 EVERGREEN of all slaw, foNoOlie. :,• !! oar , f FRUIT AND S 0 4.DE; THE Oroamaaw sarubuery, • V Len Mao belles, ar..! t • !!!r I • .1/9"•Duo au lc: of LLa L 1.4 of J A • Du Ist Talegrapc . , sir r. • cat, aurd acd I qua .cy, an I a. al low Fru , as L. edlar or heve,. . • pa . . all ~,••• • MUSICAL ACALIF—,II. THE subscribar will for the tnstru_t on 01 moo. Ball (en the second 11 r,) rs• 1-; 0: from where be will ue Lai i 1. may desire an lIISLI II3O. in Ruske. A etas In wood music, coca st irg 'hi men will be forme to m .e. on IL half past maven o'clock r N. go rg ladles wll e rind to -•+ -• Thursday at fe..r o'cl Irk r Si. also & Ma , ler ci 11 lOU raesdays and Fridays at ie., tit h .•" will o g veu at the fo Tams moderate. gorly AJr - :„, ssob A IA 's The undersigned moat baton as a co upeten; a.[ 1 d:'.2 •I , hove he may meet its e u •-• mp 'name f toes ,bj .na,,a, fuolone al sn In t uut r s ) Geo. P. w r: J. , 1 . Wm.gooche. A. J. Herr. Tatenvoc Vim, C.t er. THREE CENTS PEA rtri et UR fresh stock of N../ end Ga den Seeds we ulee 12 ca can's per ps. er. C.ll at . - >o. ‘i• frailler's drag anti 'fancy •Aarai, stit • ' right place. J. Wesley Jones' fineLuble Aires -- at some price. NigorlitoCEpoTs AO LBslJll:viDiil:l4l.l,lol,C,Ocry!2tClo) the 20 11 0' eprli, by the e4P (batch, at the 0:0r o 01 or e 0 a mot teo ,he seen for ibestreet, cocuptet.on ttir , der el Pine and Se end •I. et RLStie.D, geu _ ' Old Teas d AD/ ttwt ;itij)L, ;1,, 0,019, F•oot 1:3 spleudia : Lir: 0 s( 0. and wall cared. WO I D. . us rece , ruc e Cheese,' 13 )10 A.' ti AyQT of , : e:, Not lale by Corner log AA ;~~' ~
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