(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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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 .
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Richmond Witlg, rays the
out to tea by Lieut. Wm
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her new owners.
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