ailg Edegrapt
THE PEOPLE'S STATE CO
THE PEOPLE OF PENNSYLVANIA, who
desire cordially to unite in sustaining the
NATIONAL ADMINISTRATION in its patriotic
efforts to suppress a sectional and unholy re
bellion against the UNITY OF THE REPUB
LIC, and who desire to support, by every
power of the Government; one hundred thou
sand heroic brethren in arms, braving disease
and the perils of the field to preserve the Union
of our Fathers, are request•W to select the num
ber of Delegates equal to the Legislative Re
presentation of the Slate, at such timed and in ,
such manner as Will beet impend to the spirit
of this , oall, td meet in STATE CONVENTION
at HARRISBITHE, on THURSDAY, the SEVEN
TEENTH DAY OF JULY next, at eleven
o'clock, on said day to nominate Candidates for
tho offices of AUDITOR GENERAL and SUR
VEYOR GENERAL, and to take such Measures
as may be-deemed necessary to strengthen the
GoVernment in this mann of common peril to
odmmbn country
A. K. McCLURE,
Chairmen People's State Committee.
fig• W" Hex 1.; Secretaries
Joss M. •Sorwmt;
ItARELISBURG, PA
Saturday Morning, May 8, 1562.
UNION FOR THE SAKE OF Till UNION.
The call of the Peoples' State Committee, sum
moning such delegate& as the people of Penn
sylvania may select, to meet In State Ott:lnven
tion, appears at the, bead of our editorial
columns today. We accept the . union which
that call proposes, for the sake of the Union ;
and on the issue made, of giving the National
Administration an undivided and a patriotic
support, we havera right to anticipate the m..:st
glorious moons. In this contest there are two
parties, as there are contending armies in the
country. There is a party at the south which
is battling to destroy the federal Union, while
there is another party in the north laboring to
overthrow and - demoralize the federal Adminis
tratioa. There is, no difference bet Ween the
design and the objects of these cliques, though
they seem to be marching in different direc
tiona,and fighting under different banners.
The one, with torch and sword was beseiging
the federal capital for months, while the other
with vituperation and falsehood, has been tra
ducing and assailing the federal administration
since its butugurittion. It is to crush both these
influences, that this union is now • proposed.
To crush rebellion by strengthening the hands ,
of loyai men. To counteract treason, by
shutting pp, the avenues of the goverrunent to
traitors; and to give tone to that.publio send;
mant"witich first aroused the rn ssess of Penn
sylvania in their deviotion to the Union.
The People's State Central Committee have
acted With a'wisdom, a patriotism, and a judi
cious regard for the feelings and sentiments of
thetuasses. of Pennsylvania on this subject,
whiehdeeerve our warmest approval and fullest
confidence. Their action augurs success, and
for the 'issue which they have made, we bespeak
the hearty endorsement of the patriotic people
of Pennsylvania. In the meantime, our broth.
ran of the press must not be idle. Let the
word be epolren that while our armies are strug
gling. Vttk armed traitore, the people,are nobly
contending-with those who are secretly in sym
pelt ivitli treason.
_ _
liscirArramti, the traitor, is earning only
bits* and muses,• among those whom he has
abruned`to lead in rebellion and intrust in
warfare. ' As Brigadier General, he has accom•
pIW ad nOthiog but confusion and death, • where
be bad promised to lead his men to glory and,
victory. In a late battle, in which he 'and his
•
brigade were engaged, one third of hie satellites
were killed-41116i by the indiscreet conduct
of their drunken and desperate leader, Breck
eqidge—sacrificed to the ambition and passion
wbich Made a traitor of John 0. Breckenridge.
It la eiR/Pdar that. while Breckenridge, the open
traiter,l is thus hurried to his disgraceful fate,
his *nit Sympathizers In the free states are
bit deo:nail; in the eame condition. There is
nok a leader of , the Breckenridge faction in the
north, who is not secretly engaged in giving
aid and comfort to the traitor cause. They
imagine they reader ouch aid by attacking Be •
publicans as abolitionists, and assailing all who
are engaged in the war to auppress the rebel
lion, as emancipationists. Of course these men
are understood. While the Breakenridgers of
the path, have .tbe blood of the rebellion on
their . hands, the Breckenridgers of the north
and free states have it on their souls.
T B* 8141(4.4B "DIANA Aeene-teTt d d rlog the
Mahan .war, was charged with cowardice by
Jett Da* and his Mississippians. The charge
hap liften been refuted, but never so completelY
ea hyltheprosent record of its cAcera and men.
Brigadiar-Generale , Lovell H. Rousseau and
Nathan Kimball were Captains in the 2nd In
diana, and Brigadier-General Jeff. C. Davis a
priiitte; Col. Win. L. Sandereon was a Oaptain
and Col. B. F. !Scribner s f3ergeont; Lieut. Col.-
Osborne was a Captain; Major W. T. Spicely
we. a Captain and Major D. C. Thomas a pri
vide; J. Barrel) a Lientenant t and Oaptelne
Wain Abbott and John Elungate privates
whiltLietits. R. Pennington and H. M'Ooy Go
copied the , same rank.
EDWARD STABLY, of California, recently ap
pointed militerYgeiernor of North Carolina, is
• native idthe latter state, and formerly repre
sented a strong 'Whig district in Congress.—
Illzelgreting to' California in 1849-60, he soon
Minnie Widely known there as an able lawyer.
*Oh we pelleve, the ReptibH4n candidate
for t :mem! in 1867, when he was defeated 17
seejesorZstlistn. He subskuently stinted
politioitaiiititAmOnneeil his Intentteia of hearts
lag a =Wolter of the Gospel.
THA.DDEUS STEVENS•
It is not our vocation to refute the slanders
or answer the Sang of the Patriot and Union.
Such a task would be as hopeless as replying to
the babbling of an idiot or the ravings of a
maniac. But it is pleasant, occasionally, to
turn aside from our other duties, to write and
print a just and honorable word in belmlf of those
whom that sheet delights to cover with its slime.
We experience that pleasure to-day, while pla
cing on record our high regard for and full con
fidence In the eon. Thaddeus Stevens, whom
the Patriot assailed this morning with its pecu
liar and malignant baseness. It has revived all
the old locofoco, slanders heretofore hurled
'against Ir, Stevens ; and,while in a: paroxysm
of passionete.hatred for: those Whom the Patriot
deems most tifiVrattlltti tiug to crush the
slaVeholder's nitsillionTitilFrgitis outThaddeue
Stevens forts bitterness, as if its assaults on
him'would ccoaceel - iti real , design of assailing
the governmait Which is now struggling to
save the Union. Every word of slander and
falsehOott Whialr.the.Pirtriceakilles to Madam&
Stevens is designed by that sheet to be a direct
attack on the federal administratiOn, and
through that administration, also, an attack on
the men whe are battliag.f9l4 l / 3
not the man who has struggled successfully for
thirty years against locofoco contumely and its
controlling gennts, southern slavery; it is not
the political opponent, now so eminently snc
oessful in. poaition and influence, whom the
Patriot hates and Nolo to howl down. It "is
Thaddeus Stevens, the defender of freedom and
the advocate of law and justice,' Whom the
Patriot opposes. It is Thaddeus Stevens, the
author of the common school system, whom
the, whole pack of iiemi-traitoro assail; because
by that measure the doom of modern Democ
racy was sealed, and has been steadily made to
decline as darkness declines before the light of
day. The patriot hates Thaddeus Stevens,'be
cause he has more then •onee stood alone be- .
tween the Oeniooracytiilid theydmest interests
of the country. miligus 6 - BtiattA
so often in its vile attempt' at plunder, and is
now so bnively engaged in oPPoeing a regularly
Democratic organisation 'for treason, that his
recomnienthitionnanst °Owlet; of abnee of
the Patriot, and his brightest reward be qonsti
tilted by the fact thathe is opposed by a party,
of which the' Harrisburg Patriot and Union is
the organ.
ThaddeuiStevens is now before the country
as tbe chldnnen of the moat impartial Congres
sional OOmmittee--that of Ways and . Meant.—
He has faithfully and fetirlawily disclaimed his
dray whilistipervising the financial optitations
of the government. He has paused at no labor
that promised to , relieve the masses of the-peo
ple from pui.llutiiet, of_ this struggle. , li<o hes
been indefatigable in guarding the resouFcea of
the country, and insuring for its productive
labor the largest protection -and ionsperltY. He
occupies a position, to-day, second to no other
man la 'the. ocitmtrylitil, Abe ihnportonee - - of its
responsibilities and thatagnitude of its trusts.
This does not shield him, however, from the
sharp and envenomed.tesih of the controllers of
the Patriot aid Cftio6. 7 1fisc' ipso he it an inde-
Peodent Republican, - because be dares to ascribe
to slavery 'all the Canis! of this rebellion,ondio
modem Democracy all the influence - in stimu
lating slaverj to Creation, he Must be' hunted
down, or at lout assailed by a sheet that de
fended.the peculation! and perjuriettof
cha can administration and applatuled the trea
son of John C. Breckeniidge'nale - lis 4troptie
tors were induced to dead by the threats of
loyal' men' with hoise:whifts 'Midi:tat tent id theft;
. .
Surely Mr. Stevens cannot suffer from the
tatauks of the,Patrid and Union, and yet truth
and justice disinanded that we stiOnid offer him
this small defence.
CONFISCATION.
, The people of Pennsylvania, in times past,
have stood by the people of the south, when
some of the broad issues then dividing parties
involved their' most vital interests. It 'was
always a question with the Minim Of this state,
whether it was not better to yield gredually'to
aompromise and concession, than to act on the.
Brat impulse-of a passionate claim to right.- By
such a policy Pekinsylvanialtitermied on more
than one occasion betw,een the south and a
rapture of,the Union , until-the people of - that
section imaginedthat-the neeeentry-influenceto
Garry out the policy they deekned essential to
southern omnipotence and sucacs,"wai *her
threat of dietiolution or.in attitude of" belliger
ence to the Union. This conditkon.of affairs
began its changes as the gradual arrogance and
, .
assumptions of , the , representatives and people
of. the south Inemasecl,- until now, when we
find -Pennsylvania format in those vigorous
measures which were liaised for the still•more
vigorous suppression of febellkm..
those measures, none is regarded with more
favor, by - the *lass of the people in this state,
than confiscation. They ire not' merely willing
to e nter the service for the, oierthrow of the
rebellion by the force of arms; but they demand
that the civil authority should do its duty' air
well as the military power. The idea of bat
tlitig with rebels, and risking, the llies of love
men, is one of the natural and acceptable re
sults of slavery. It was reasonable that inch
battles shouldfollow the spread of slavery on
this continent, heCiiise Wherever.theloatitutiOn
is sustained and encouraged, it must breed an
tagonism with freedom and' ' treason - against
. ,
good , government. These are truths which
cannot be gotten ,over, and while we accept
their stern- realities; we have aright to insist
that the other -reilitles growing out of 'this
struggle should also tie forced on the relielsi.
those who' : object' to, such a contingency -are
among the - meanest of those who sympathise
_with traitors ; and everi those who back theta=
shires in, their ioslticin of !opol oppoei tlon
this measure, will shortly discover that they
have incurred aload of, odium by- their con
duct, from' which they will - haVe the moat
cult work of their lives to escape. • ,
On this subject of emancipation, &lister Wil
mot made a Most admirable and powerful
speech , in Congress, on ' Wednesday. It was
direct in purpose, unequivocal in meaning,
practical in its stOstiow and peculiarly el*-
. *3l° style S * 1 4 40 5i:21404°54 that:
madlecetion'lMl not /jilt Malt was
pennovluania Math) Ctlegrap4 CS!. : 7 1aV Ahning• litlaß 3, 1862
sential to success, and of vast influence' ter"-
after in crushing out the spirit as 'wilt aithe
action of treason. If the slave property of
rebels is to be exempt from confiscation, andre
bel titles in human flesh are to hold good,
these villians will suffer no inconvenince in
flying hence to seek shelter beyond the reach
of our own government. They will be able to
live io luxury on the products of their Ameri
can slaves, while the revenue afforded from
such labor will assist them in concocting further
schemes for the overthrow of the, gnvernment
and the convulsion of the Union. These are
arguments hard to refute, and we thank Senator
Wilmot, in the name of the people of Pennsyl
vania, for the bold manner with which he has
contended for the direct punishment of traitors.
From our Evening Zdition of Ye,sterday
PROM nIITRBSS MONROB.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTH.
NEWS FROM REBEL SOURCrES,
CONDITION OF AFFAIRS AT NORFOII
Confirmation of the Capture of Fitt
- Knot, It. C.
Breckimidge and Hindman made Majo
Wilmington, N. 0, ) Captured by Gen
BUTTER ONE DOLLAR AND FORTY
CENTS PER POUND.
EXECUTION OF A-SPY
FURT:ER PARTICULARS OF THE FILL OF`
()ON. MUM% TUNS OF OATITULA
TION JI.OOIIPTED.
The City Ooenpied by the 11. 3. Marines
leayane Butler a few Riles from the City
Com. Hollins Amazed at the fall of New
IDEATE OF THE REBEL GEN. GLADDEN
' A flag of truce froniCran4 Wand this after
noon brought down an English nobleman and
several newspapers giving particulars of the
capture of Forte Mama and additional details
of the fall of New Orleans, together with other
interesting items.
The Norfolk Day Book of this • (Thurtday)
morning; says that no telegraPhie'dmpatchesi
were received last night.
An order from Provost Marshal Pashaw pro
hibits all huckstering within the military dis.
trict of Norfolk, and the privilege of selling
poultry, game, flab, fruit end - vegetables, is r&
stricted :to thosittivho , raise orzhatbii the same.
Another order eatentla the privilege of bringing
oysters to market;from lifay lat toJune Ist, and
allows butchers id briy k.
The Wilmington, (N C.j.fournai, of Tuesday,
has the following In confirmation of the report
Of the fall of Fort Macon, telegraphed fromhere
yesterday.
• "We have just learnedtintrithe fire upon the
Fort was opened at a quarter before six o'clock
on Friday morning, • and the engagement be
tween the Port and the Federal . betteries was
kept up till seven o'clock that evening; when
the Fort became wholly• untenable, and 'was
titirrenctered as above.. All the guns on that
side Of the 'Fort opposite to that attacked were
dismounted and all hut - three . of the guns
bearing upon the enemy's batteries.were also
dismounted. The enemy's central battery of
breaching guns was within eleven hundred
yards. The right and left flanking batteries
were more distant.
"It turns out that the report of fifteen of
our men having been killed in a scout some
days since against 'the enemy's pickets, is un
true. One man only was even wounded and
done were killed until Friday the last day. of
'the attack."
. '. From other accounts, it is gathered that du-
Aug the bombirdment of Fort Macon seven
ebeis were killed and a great many wounded.
Col. White and 150 men were released on pa_
:role by Gen. Burnside.
A Suffolk correspondent of the Petersburg
nas, under date of April 80, says: "All
'were expecting to hear something from the
Virginia this morning, bsit the Norfolk Day
.Book bag silent as the grffe upon the subject.
i forbear to report rumors."
What the rumors referred to in this para
graph are, may be possibly be inferred from
'the fact that the rumor was , taken from the
*forfolk papers, to Petersburg yesterday, that
Fry prominent naval officer had resigned his
, mmission.
The Petersburg Avers of to-day, says that
iany rumors were in circulation ' yesterdgei
mong them a report *of the evacuation 'of
emphis and Corluth, and a report of the cop
pare of Wilmington, North Carolina, by Gen.
Burnside,
Breckinridge and Efindman have been ep--
pointed Major Generals. and Col. W. A. Betd,rd
Arkansas, Brigadier General.
The Richmond Dispatch of to-day says that
the panic on the subject of a scarcity of food is
One of the most causeless imaginable. The
road from Danville to Greensborough is rapidly
oonstructing, and will open North Carolina
Tennessee, and soon Georgia and South Caro
lina, for supplies to feed the whole State of
Virginia.
How-causeless the panic above alluded to
tray be inferred front the fact that an adjoining
tiolumn of the same paper chronicles the Bide of
butter at a dorlar and fOrty mite' per pound in
the city markets.
Six Yankee and seven domestic traitors and
one - cement Confederate soldier arrived in
Richmond yesterday. The former belonged to
an Ohio regiment, , and were: captured in Bath
county; Va., • ' s, ;
The'Riclonotid'Ditiatch of yesterday'recOrdi
the execution of a - spy on the 29th of April;
named Timothy Webster. ' Mrs. Wetater,.WAci
Was arrested with her husband, is still at
Castle Godwin. Webster is said to be the'
Spy executed by 'the rebels. What if the e`
S. Government should -corm:uses hsighig
spies ?
The folloviing are the onlyaddittolial *Mir
regarding, the fall 'Of New Grimy;
Oommodbre'Tarraigat haditxpa
bf nag tulktioAto Mayor Monroe'
ter UeleCB - 111.441k1id the city at lad mounts,
Generals.
Blmnide,
NET ORLEANS.
~~~
Orleans•
—,......-
FORTRESS KONBOR, May 1
itaa;Thald by a. hittrilion of marines from the
iquidrort•
Gen. Butler's forces were within a few miles
of the city, having landed on Lake Pontchar
train.
Information was received in Norfolk yester
day that Capt. Mclntosh, the supposed com
mander of the gunboat Louisiana, at When Or
leans, had been badly wonnifed. en or
where web not stated.
Front the same source it Is learned that Capt.
Thos. Huger was mortally woimik4 in the same
engagement.
A note from Captain fienry A. Gadsden of
tbe stesunskip Arago, informs your correspon
'dint 'that "there is no truth in the liabltahed
communication signed by R. B. Crosby, in ref
erence to anattempt of two bolds 'crews from
that reseal to spike a battery at Sewell's point,
slew nightssince. The gentlemen named, as
in charge of the hosts, MMUS. Robinson and
Beckett are officers of the Arago, but no such
person is known on board as B. B. Crosby.
LATER.
Thrtv Yost, May 2.—A special despatch from
Fortress Monroe,dated.yesterday,days that three
or four rebel boa* were off Sewall's Point, and
appeared to be placing buoys to mark the chan
nel. Gen. .Prentiss and 700. Federal prisoners
has arrived at Selena. The officers were 'to be
sent to Talladge and the privates to Mont
gomery.
Com. Hollins passed through Columbia on
Saturday, en route for Richmond. He is
amassed at the fall of New Orleane andf stated
that there were one hundred heavy guns in
position between Fort, Jeckson , and the city,
that the steamer Louisiana was ready and
waiting,, that numerous boarding parties were
cirgoiniginir to tarn the: itatkmal vessels at all
liftman*: and that the gunboat
though '.tatifirdshed, could, if necessary, be
brought into action.
The rebel General Gladden had died of his
wounds received at Shilab.
THE WAR IN ALABAMA.
ANOT i B BRILLIANT MOYEADINT BY GU
MITCHELL.
ADVANCE TO BRIDGEPORT.
OFFICIAL DISPATCH
Ala., via Lommus; May 1
Zi) Hon. Edwin M. &anion, Sonytory of War:
On yesterday, the enemy having cut our
Wires, and attacked, durieg the might, one of
our brigades, I deemed it my duty to head in
person the expedition' against Bridgeport.
I started by a train of cars in the morning,
followed by two additional regiments of in.
(entry and two cornpanier of cavalry. I found
that our pickets bad t•ngaged the enemy's
Pickets:four miles from Bridgeport, and, after
a short engagement, in Which we lost one man
gilled, drove them across a stream, whose rail-
Way bridge I had burned.
With four regiments of infantry, two pieces
Of artillery dragged by hand, and two compa
nies of cavalry, at 8 o'clock Y. x,we advanced
to the burnt bridge and opene our fire upon
the enemy's pickets on the other side, thus
Producing the impression that our advance
would be by railway. This accomplished, the
ebtire force was thrown amen the country
ahout a mile, and put on the road leading from
Stevenson to Bridgeport.
The whole column now advanced at a very
rapid rate. Oar cavalry scouts attacked those
of the enemy, %nd forced them from the
Bridgeprt road. ~ We thus imcceeded in making
a complete surprise, and deliberately forming
our line of battle on the crest of a wooded bill,
v t thin five hundred yards of the works con
acted to defend the bridge.
At oar first fire, the guards broke and ran.
bey attempted to blow up the main bridge,
but failed. They then attempted to fire the
further extremity of it, but the volunteers, at
my call, rushed forward in-the face of their fire
and saved the bridge from the island to the
Main shore. Bat we could not save it. It is,
however, of small moment, being only about
460 feet long.
The prisoners taken report that five regi
ments of infantry and 1,800 cavalry were ate
tioned at the bridge.
This campaign is ended, and I now occupy
Huntsville in perfect security ; while over all
of Alabama, north of the Tennessee river, floats
no flag but that of the Union.
• D.M.
Brigadier General Command=vision.
DESPATCH FROM GEN. WOOL!
THE CONTRABANDS'. NEWS
Evacuation of Corinth.
&situation of the'efficers of the Ater
rhino.
gamma Holum, May 1.
To Hon. Roma M. Sums, Secretary of War:
I have just received a despatch from Brigs,
dier General Mansfield to the effect that five
uegroee have arrived from Portsmouth.
The contralninde report that Fort Macon was
taken on Friday last. Eighteen rebels were
killed, and twenty-seven wadded.
' Gen. Beauregard had evacuated Corinth and
fallen back on Memphis.
It is reported that Ciimmodore Tatnall and
the principal officers of the Merrimac have re
eigned.
, The Merrimac lies off the Marine Hospital at
Craney Island, fast to the buoy. She now
Mounts twelve guns.
There are no other steamers there.
JOHN E. WOOL, Major Gamma.
SOUTHERN NEWS
ONVENTION OF COTTO PLANTERS.
THE CULTIVATION • ON BRILADSTIIITO
ALBERT PIKE AND HIS MIAMI
Members papers of the. 26th say that the
convention of cotton planters, at Selma, Ala.,
unanimously resolved to restrict the production
Of cotton to Ave hundred pounds for each
hand employed, and' to advise the cultivation
of breadetuffs instead. A tax of $25 par bale
wet recommended on all grown over that
amount.
• Martial law has been declared in Eaat Ten
name.
The Columbus (Ga.) works are turning out
six cannon per day.
Albert Pike has issued an order complithent
ing the Indian allies for their gallantry at the
battle of Pea Ridge, in Arkansas.
FROM PORT LAND, ME'
EXPLOSION DP POWDER MILTS
PortGAZD, Me., May L
The powder mills at Budd°ld exploded on
Tuesday morning No .nartieulira have pee n
rerebred. - Conebt'Alisyipoudixtri,ol.the.-pow.Mit
inlll,atilto ra-o :14Ra yest : ezday afternoW
ilo one vt.-.
Surrender of Fort Macon, N. C.
Correspondence, between Com. Narragut
and the Mayor or New Orleans.
DIMMER OF TIER CITY DEMANDED.
LOYALTY IN THE CITY.
The following corteepondence, together with
the announcement of the surrender of Fort
Macon,N. 0,. is taken from the Richmond
likqui of yesterday, which city it reached by
telegraph The paper was received by the War
Department to-day.
The correspondence is between the mayor of
the city of New, Orleans suiti Com. Fart-eget,
thevimmmanding officer 'pf the lJoited fluted
flag aliiii-Hartfdrd, off New' Orleans, .April 116;
1862:
26 his •likaefieney the Metyor of the 'oily of Nem
Oikeous:
Sutr-rilAt my. arrival before your city; Iliad
the hotintle send tikyour honor Citittifht Bally,
United States navy, second in command of the
etxpedidon, to demand of you the surrender of
New Orleans to me, as the representative. of the
Government of the United States.
Captain Bally reported the result of an inter
view with yofirself and the military authorities.
It must, .occur your. honor that is nut
within the pro vince of a navalofficer to sesame
the duties of a militarY coMmandant. I came
here - to reduce New Orleans to obedience to the
laws, and to vindicate the offended majesty of
the Government of the United States. The
rights of persons and property shall be secured.
I therefore demand ofyou, as its representative,
the unqualified surrender of the city, and that
the emblem of sovereignty of the United States
be' hoisted over the City Hall,ldlnt and Custom
rouse by meridian this day. All flags and
other emblems of sovereignty other than those
of the United. States to be 'removed from all the
priblic buildings by that hour. I particularly
request that you shall exercise your authority
to quell disturbances, restore order, and call
upon all the good people olNew Orleans to re
turn at once to their vocations ; and I partici:L..
laxly demand that no pinion shall be molested
in 'lesson or property for professing sentiments
of loyalty to their Government.
.18h:ill speedily and severely punish any per
son or persona who shall commit such outrages
as were witnessed yesterday; by armed men
firing upon helpfessiosonen , and Children for giving
expression to their pleasure at witissuing the old flag.
I am, very respectfully,
Tour obedient servant,
D. G Feminism,
Flag Officer, Western Gulf Squadron.
The following is the reply of the Mayor of
New Orleans , •
CJrrr HALL, April 26, 1862.
Flag
,Opotr D. o—Fe:trap; United ficdeeflag-lihip
limVord: •
:—ln pursuance of a resolution which we
thought proper to , take out ,of regard for, the
lives of the Wornenand Children who still crdWd
the great metropolis, Gen. Lovell has evacuated
it with Lie troops, and rested back tome the
administration of its,government and the cue•
tody of its - honor. I have; in Coutioel with the
city fathers, conddered the demand you made
of me yesterday of 'an unconditional surrender
of the city, coupled with a requisition to hoist
the flag of the United States on the public' edi
fices, and'hiul down the flag that' still floats
upon the breath from the dome of this lull, It
becorises my:duty to transmit'thyouanansiser,
which is the universal-sentiment of my conotte
uents'nolent than the prompting of my' own
heart dictates me on this wasted solemn occe
don
' _
- The city. is without - • the means of defence,
resd is utterly destitute of the force and mate
rial that might enable it to resist -an over w+'
oiriug armament displayed In sight of it. lam
no-military man, and possess no authority be
yond tbat of executing the municipal laws of
the chy of 'New Orleans. It would be pre
riumptious in me to attempt to leaden army to
the field if I had one at command; and I know
still lees how to surrender an undefended place
bald art this is, at the mercy of your gunners
and your mortars. To surrender such a place
were an idle and unmeaning ceremony. The
dty is yours by the power of brutal force,- not
by my choice or the consent of its inhabitants.
It is for you to determine what will be the
fate that awaits us here.
As to hoisting any flag not of , our adoption
and allegiance, let me say to you, that the man
lives not in our midst whose band and heart
would not be paralysed at the mere thought of
such an act, nor could I audit:tiny entire . con-
stituency so wretched and desperatea renegade
as would dare to profane With ins hind the
sacred eteblem of our asplrations.
• Sir, yen have manifested sentiments which
Would become one engaged in a better cause
than that to which you-.have devoted your
iword. I doubt not but that they spring from a
noble,_ though deluded, nature, and I know
hoW to appreciate the emotions which
. Iniipir t ,
them. You ham a gallant people' to adoli
trate during your occupancy of this city,—a
Osople sensitive to all'that can in the least
affect their digidtts tindielkeepeet. , Pray, sir,
do not fail to regard their susceptibilities. Toe
obligations which I shall ammo iniheir name
shall be religiously complied with. You moy
trust their honor, though you might not count
on their submission to unmerited wrong.
In conclusion, I beg you to understand that
the, people of Sew. Orleans, while unable to re
dirt your. force, do not allow themselvm to be
insulted by the interference of such as have
rendered themselves odious and contemptible
brtheir &thirdly desertion of our Cause :in
the ndghty struggle in which we have engaged
or such as: mightremind them too powerfully
that they; are:the conquered, and you;the .con
querora. Zoo:l.mA order may be preserved
withoutresort to measures which I could not
at this moment prevent.
Your occupying the city does not transfer
their allegia n ce from the go‘ernment of their
choice to one which they have deliberately re
pudiated. They yield the obedience which the
conqueror is ent.tled to extort from the con
quered. Respectfully,
• JOHN F. monoE, 'Mayor.
TEE BURBENDER OF FORT 'DEACON
• The following dispatch is also taken from the
4ichmonti Requirer:
Wrlatmeron, April 29.-,For Macon was sur
rendered conditionally
_onllundayisst. A por
tion of the garrison artrvet tete atl2 o'clock
last night It is reported that Colonel White
saved all the public papers; The officers were
allowed to take their side arms.
Eleven of our men are reported killed, and a
number wounded.
Oanao, May 2.
WSLIEUNITON, April 29.—Fort Macon. surren
dered on Friday, the 25th inst., after a bom
bardment of ten and a half bonze • •
The tatteriet 'were planted 'behind heavy
Sand limas. The enemy's breaching battery
Was 1,100 feet distant, and the mortars 1,400
feet, and entirely concealed from the fort.
The garrison were allowed the honors of war,
and the officers retained their side arms and
were all paroled.
Seven men were killed, and eighteen wound
ed two mortally. The enemy's loss is not
known. ' -1
Col. White and 165 men arrived off the bar
yesterday afternoon, on board the Federal gan
boat Chippewa, and were transferred .to a river
steamer, under a flag of truce. They reached
here, as !outlasted -in the first despatch. The
otheriiita sent up the sound frontitie fort
WaammaToN, May 1
[MOND DESPATCH.]
FROM GEN. HALLLO
Gen Ptrientao LANDING, Tenn., thy] .
. Halleck has telegraphed to Se e
te
t ,
Stanton that o ffi cial information has be
calved of the defeat and tout of 600 ee
under Colonels Coffey and linwriet‘.t'—'
re
Neosho, Missouri, by 160 of the Fist iliss'osart
borsea lw
Cevatry. Sixtywo prisoners and severity'
ere captured, besides a large gra,
ty of
ATM.
Th e body of Governor Harvey, of Wiscahtb,
who was recently drowned, at Savannah,
hand
T en ,
of the river
has been foun .
d forty milpresobeepinileaoeowutoilonti.ttahhnee drtoba
is Th ey
e p e roepec weath t er of thleca improvement
and
vm
The river is falling.
Gen. T.Ww.
1.
—The
risen
P t o wo ya it l, c h b:
arrived here and taken command of brizaje.
CAIRO, ma
in the last twenty-four hours.
The steamer Belle Creole has arrived from
Pittsburg Landing. Her dates are to w e ,i,„:
day noon.
A. reconnoissance in force was made ytsterity
morning, from the right wing, fuur raile d thf s
side of Purdy, on the Memphis and Oh Nil.
mad. They met a force of cavalry, Rbo ds,,i
ie
great haste, and could not be nazi. 11,:y
Were pursued to Purdy. Our forces, on r i k tri
possession of the town, burnt two bridges aud
ten a locomotive into the river. Three
Ors were taken. Our forces then retited hark;
cut off all railroad communicstba with Its
country north of Corinth, which hx, bee i
great source of rebel supplies.
PITTSBURG LANDING April
To Hon. E. M. Srascros, Secretary of Vir
• Reliable information has been re. 142.1
Maj. Hubbard, of the Ist lais , ouri
on the 26th, with 146 moo, defeatt,l ,
and Steamwrlght and 600 Indians
Mo., killing and wounding 32, and
62 prisoners and 76 horses and a 1 , 41'1, i uatty
of aims. H. W. lIALLE.F,
DESPATCH FROM COL. THUS. A
PITTSBURG LASDING, Apt,l ! , 1
11 o'cL ck,
To Hon. E. M. STANVIN t Secretary of
Our movements continue, the road,: e- L v i
and it requires a good deal of w,ris
the heirv7 trains move.
A reconobisance to Purdy wit -
they destroyed two bridges on the .11,, t ,
Ohio railroad, captured one locoinoi,,, „:,
train, besides a number of prix ,
THOMAS A .14 . .),J1 - 1
Assistant Secretary . f
FROM WAMINGTOI
TER SICI AND WOUNDED \ULlizi!
Arkm!limo mi 7.
According to a recent order of the
partment, when the care of th- ;',ck 1,1 v,
ad soldiens is assumed by the St de ,
they come, the Subai9tvocq.
dommute their ration at 25
ftlarrit
On th• 26th of Matti, by ' be Rev. V.r.1;:..c-,
ARD JONI", Of Han laborg, to NM. Y..
On April 29th, by Rev. C A.::E a
Yramt, of the Philadelphia . 0011'27(L:t,
NONA Or Harrtiburg, Pa.
iDieb
On the let hut, MISS MARY
Etas fuueral will take p o ^ U
st 4 &clack, P x, fin
On Second 'street above Market
New tabnedlstmeuts
Notion To ADVAltTliti:m.—pai A.d.•
: t erttsentents,, BusMese Notices,
elegem, Deaths, ac., to seance insertioa
to the TELEGRAPH, omit Invariably
Ae seeempettledwite the
FOR SALE.
COL. Wm. G. sftarray'6 War H)re, at
3. D. Hotraisn'a revery. rur In orrel
sub;.; too DI,
COrnor ; -;
myl dtaw
FLOWERS I FLOOTIIS!!
3 I
. OHN LOBA.N'S first sal -3 of fli 3V L 3,31
Iles season, will lake pima i.) narr-vx a - ..,-. '
1:i
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saaricet house, clurng and al ,r M,*,^-, L. '
tidd.t,too to hts,reguier variety. h.. A 7 11 , [ ltr a 1 -. .! . .
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hrear, of rhiladolphia, Jost received - a 1.,: . '
rid,. will be POC.,tS, LANORIAF,, Ve.-.13!
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adopted for banging t aii ate, r,"::.
FISHING TACKL
OF ALL KINDS.
vines, friar and livepint Trout Rol,
'di* sod Hair Trout Linos. fr,,m lc to LO F , r l
['mood fttmt Trout Lane,.
Twisted en trout Linea,
Limns ',roes Lines,
Linen ant Cotton Linos,
Float Llnes furnish° t with 'Rooks Cor' , " , 1 -
it au Multiply ng Noels 10 to gl Y•u" .
'l lot ctCholco ?roil Fl.ot,
at k Worm Gut Irralers, hotmm Mic
" " Strands.
" " Snoods, Limerick •
Trout Baskets Kirby trout and It rer
.-
Ick Trout and liver I 0 F 14,5 gl
CUPS.ICBI.WtR'oD<CG AND F.OO ,
my 2
DANI. A, MUENCII, AGENT.,
OF the Old Wallower Line re i ii ::.
l .:
Informs the publlo that tl is ()Id D b r"` ,
lion Line, (the on:y Wallow'r Lou Low r 1 ::.. t . :
tbis Clay,) I. is In succei , ful opir.aloa. aL ; 7 . ro : .. : :
oarry freight as low as any other Ind r 1ca...,. w.
Ptilladetpbla, Harrisburg, Fnuosry, i;o.'' ; -. _.
Hamper!, Jersey Shore, Lock Hay haci a ,..,,.-
on the Northern ienual, Phdadelph aaa i ,e. , • '
'transport add Elmira llauteads.
Ze G°*ls l.l & r I g n ali C Il t ni t L ; . ll N e o W s
'MAUI, Philadelphia, by 4 o'clocg, P. 1.1 . , r 1 -
Were
B D rae d N a : . ..d.
House A B .
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1862. SUMMER 1862.
AREANGEMENTI
CUMBERLAND VALLEY AND FRANKLIN
RAIL ROADS!
CHANGE OF HOitES.—On atvl sits
Monday, Hay sth, 182, Pisseas.liri LI: a'' ''''
d.dly, an follows, (Sundays Esoeptad 1.
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Chambers'rurg,
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