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Democratic County Convention.
By direction of the County Committee, the
Democratic County Convention of Dauphin
County will meet at Harrisburg on Tuesday,
the 21st day of April, at 10 o'clock, a. m.
Meetings for the selection of delegates to said
Convention will be held in the several town
ships on Saturday, the 18th April, between
the hours of 5 and 7, p. m., and in the several
towns and wards between the hours of 7 and
9, p. m., on said day, at the usual places of
holding delegate meetings.
GEO. F. WEAVER,
Secretary pro rem.
Harrisburg, March 28, 1863.
Delegate Elections.
Sufficient returns have been received from
the elections on Saturday night to shoe that
Dauphin county has gone for Hiester Clymer
by a large majority.
Important Army Movement.
Just as we were preparing our form for press
we received very interesting intelligence by
our underground express. ileintzelman's whole
mpg has moved—in what direction we shall not
tell—but it is an important movement, and, in
connection with another recently made, will,
we trust, give us something to crow over be
fore long—a substantial victory to cheer our
hearts aad renew our almost expiring hopes.
Front Norfolk.
An army correspondent writes us from Nor
folk under date of Aprill7, as follows :—There
is still some excitement here, as there has been
skirmishing for a week past around Suffolk,
and it was supposed the enemy might attempt
an advance on this place and Portsmouth to
attack us in conjunction with the Merrimac
No. 2, whicE report said was going to pay us
a visit. But now we are in no danger from a
land force, as we are amply prepared to defend
the city against any number of troops likely to
be sent. I can find out nothing reliable in
regard to Poster—rumors are conflicting.
Tan no-partyism of the Telegraph and kin
dred Abolition papers is evidenced by the fact
that they demand for their gubernatorial can
didate a stern, unflinching Republican—by
which they mean a woolly-head of the Lincoln
and (freely stripe. When it suits these hypo
crites to flatter and deceive weak-kneed Berne
crats, they profess to disregard party distinc
tion, and care only for the Union. Hence
their Union Leagues, into which they are
endeavoring to entice unreflecting Democrats,
under the false assurance that they are not of
a partisan character. But when the nomina
tion of a candidate for any high and responsible
once comes to be discussed, they drip the
deception and insist upon confining the selec
tion to their own party ranks. Democrats who
can be deceived by the false pretensions of
such lying hypocrites as Deacon Bergner and
dog Forney are poor devils, unworthy of the
name—and to all such the Abolitionists are
welcome.
Berns County.
In consequence of the arrest of Messrs. Hu-
ber, ling and others, and the sworn testimony
of that contemptible and ignorant detective,
Lyons—who diin't know the difference be
tween abdication and abduction—the whole
Democratic party of Berke county have been
charged by the Abolition press with treasona
ble designs against the integrity of the repub
lic and with connivance in a scheme to abduct
the President. However ridiculous to unpre
judiced minds such a charge may appear, it
has nevertheless been made and is persisted in
by the radical Abolition press of the county,
and not only countenanced, but supported, by
the press of-the party outside the county.
This the sterling Democracy of Berke have de
termined they will not quietly submit to, and
hence, at the suggestion of S. E. Ancona, Hies
ter Clymer, J. Glancy *Tones and others, the
Chairman of the Democratic Standing Com
mittee has called a county meeting, to take
place to-morrow afternoon at Reading, "for
the purpose of repudiating with scorn the foul
charges brought against them."
The Indemnity AM, thiconatitetlonaL
An important decision has recently been
made by Judge Van Trump, of the Fairfield
county, Ohio, State court. Edson B. Olds,
who had been kidnapped by Bliss (a U. S.
Marshal, we believe,) and others in Ohio, ab
ducted from the State and imprisoned in Fort
Lafayette, sued Elias for the outrage. lie was
brought into court, where he plead the Indem
nity Act, and asked a certificate to transfer
the case from the Ohio State court to the U.
8. court, en provided in that act. Judge Van
Tramp ruled the act of Congress, in so far as
it provided fora transfer, to be unconstitutional,
and refused the petition.. This is the first de
cision under the act, and the case will un
doubtedly be carried tea higher court. It the
decision should be unstained by the State
oourt of ultimate resort, it will bring the State
and Federal authorities in direct conflict—fa
We cannot suppose otherwise than that the
President will endeavor to protect his snhor
dbistee7lfela in this same - boat with them as
a violator of the Constitution, and if he cannot
save them from farm neither eau be save him
self.
"vigorous Prosecution of the War.""
When General M'Clellan was removed from
the command of the Army of the Potomac we
were told by the administration and the papers
in its interest that we should thenceforward
have a "more vigorous prosecution of .the
war." The fact was proclaimed in Oongress
and announced by every Abolition orator who
mounted the stump or ascended the rostrum;
it was declared from the pulpit, dinned into
the ears of the people by every drummer and
whipper-in of the !nifty that, having got rid of
M'Clellan, our armies everywhere would march
straight forward and rapidly from victory to
victory, crushing rebellion, like stubble, be
neath their heels as they proceeded. We ap
peal to every one who has been a reader of the
papers during the past six months, whether
this was not so ? The expectations of the
country were raised to the highest pitch by
hints thrown but of well-matured plans of cam
paign on the most magnificent scale, of irre
sistible land and naval forces to be hurled
against the enemy in the South, the West and
the Southwest, and by reiterated promises of
a speedy and effectual crushing of rebellion.
And what is the result, as it may now be sum
med up ? Instead of rapid marches and gre:t
victories, there has been more delay than ever,
and wherever what we were led to believe
would be an irresistible demonstration has
been attempted, our forces have recoiled, baf
fled or defeated. For these results no blame
attaches to the army or navy. Officers and
men, on land and sea, have well and bravely
discharged every duty entrusted to them. They
are irreproachable. But a heavy responsibility
rests somewhere—rests, in our opinion, upon
the administration which, having in the first
place adopted an unwise, unpatriotic and un
ornstitutional policy, afterwards neglected the
important and serious duties committed to
them and devoted their time and attention to
carrying State eleotions and organizing politi
cal Leagues. Drivelers and traitors that they
are, they have almost ruined their country in
the vain attempt to secure a predominance in
polities for the present * and to control political
issues in the future.
What they meant originally by a " mo-e
vigorous prosecution of the war" we shall not
assume to decide—what it has proved to be is
easily stated: tardy and ill-digested move
ments in all directions—failure, defeat and
disgrace. These are the upshots, the termina
tions of all their boasted plans, their formi
dable armaments, their perfect strategy. New
Generals, pledged to the Abolition policy of
the administration, powerful armies, innumer
able ships of war, negro brigades—men and
ships and means in abundance—everything in
their own hands and managed to their own
order—they have accomplised what ? Nothing.
Everywhere they have felled, miserably, shame
fully failed. Look at the results as history will
record them :
Hunter, who commands in South Carolina,
instead of bestowing his attention upon his
white troops, preparing them for the part they
were expected to play in the capture of Charles
ton, has spent his time in futile efforts to or
ganize efficient black brigades, in conformity
With the wretched policy of the administra
tion; and the whole burden. of capturing that
rebel stronghold was thrown upon nine small
iron-cla d vessels, unassisted by any land de
monstration worthy of the name to divert the
attention of the enemy from the little squadron.
The attempt has been made, and failed of
course, because the force employed was inade
quate to the purpose—and 80 that plan for a
"more vigorous prosecution of the war," which
was more than a year maturing, at an expense
of millions of money, has come to an end.
M'Clellan, the ablest General in the army,
the only General in the east who has won a
victory worth a straw, was relieved from ser
vice because of his too tardy movements, and
Burnside put in his place. This General suc
ceeded M'Clellan at a time when the latter had
his troops in such a position that a movement
or two would have cut Lee's army in two, and
compelled him to fight a general battle at great
disadvantage, or hastily retreat with his main
body upon Richmond, leaving Stonewall Jack
son and his corps of 30,000 men completely in
the power of M'Clellan. That was the plan
of an able General, but it was repudiated by
the War Office; and Burnside, who had honestly
confessed to the President his incompetency
to command so large an army, after waiting
some days for instructions, changing the
route of the army, and determining upon ano
ther base, finally directed his columns towards
Fredericksburg, where, in due course of time,
he arrived, destitute of pontoons or any other
means of crossing the Rappahannock, where.on
ly a few thousand rebels had then been Mclean
trated to oppose him. At length his pontoons
arrived ; but by that time the whole rebel army
of Lee was in front of him, bad seized and for
tified the surrounding heights, thrown up nu
merous earthworks and dug rifie-pits without
number. But the pontoons having arrived,
and the administration and Abolition politicians
being impatient of delay and clamorous for an
advance, Burnside, just at the very time he
was least prepared, pushed his noble army
across the river and rushed them, column after
column and divisibn after division, against the
heights and formidable works of the rebels,
from which they fell back, crushed, bleeding,
defeated, after displaying the most heroic
courage and losing, in killed, wounded and
missing, at least 20,000 of their number. This
was called "feeling the enemy." Struggling
for a tim - a against fate and the intrigues of the
politicians—his plans betrayed and his order a
countermanded by the President and War Of
flee—Burnside, wearied at length with via
efforts to accomplish a movement by which to
retrieve his blundev.. and put his army in heart,
retired from the command with the President's
consent.
His successor was Fighting Joe Hooker, next
to Fremont the pet General of the Abolitionists
who had been howling for his appointment for
months before it Was made. Then we were to
have a blow, indeed—it crushing blow struck
at reteDiont—which would annihilate with the
force and suddenness of a thunderbolt or an
avalanche. But what has this fighting General
done to keep his laurels fresh and redeem the
extravagant promises of his friends? For
months he has, lain supine upon the banks of
the Rappahannock, never moving an inch to
wards the enemy, boasting of his ability to do
great deeds, but performing none.
[Since this was written a portion of the
a . my of the Rappahannock has moved.]
Foster, placed at the head of a force too
small to advance, yet too large to be cooped
up in one small place, was sent to North Caro
lina. folding Newbern, which was heroically
taken from the enemy, he has made several
advances with inadequate forces, but has al
ways been compelled to fall back upon his base,
without effecting any rseful purpose. Strug
gling to accomplish impossibilities. at last he
finds himself with a small force at Little Wash
ington, invested in front by an enemy outnum
bering him ten to one, and his water commu
nication with Newbern cut off by rebel batteries
and sharphosters that line the river banks at
every available point, so that his final safety
depends upon the chance that he may be re
lieved by a land force from Newbern, (which
is itself threatened,) cutting its'way through
superior numbers, or that gunboats and trans
ports may run the fire of the river batteries
in safety. We have now intelligence that
some succor has reached him, and we trust
in Ood that he may be' able to hold out and
escape capitulation.
Rosecrans, unable to move since the battle
of Murfreesboro', which established nothing
but the bravery of his troops, and gained noth
ing but the barren and bloody field of conflict,
is hemmed in by regulars, bushwackers and
guerrillas, his lines of communication daily
threatened, his flanks exposed and attacked—
in front an en6my vastly superior to him in
numbers, almost impregnably fortified, and on
all sides of him fresh forces concentrating.
We can only hope that he may prove equal to
the emergency. Buell escaped from a similar
snare by skilful generalship, and was relievcd
from command. What will be the fate o;
Rosecrans ?
Banks, with a powerful army and a formi
dable navy, (under Farragut,) was sent out to
New Orleans to supersede Butler, with instruc
tions (so stated at the time) to do a large-busi
ness. He was to occupy portions Of Texas,
capture Mobile, take Port Hudson, subdue or
drive the rebels out of Louisiana, anti, in con
junction with Grant and Porter, open the
navigation of the Mississippi. This was all
promised, but it has not been done. Banks
has failed in his attempt upon Port Hudson,
failed to open the Mississippi, failed to plait
the Union flag in Texas, failed to take Mobile,
or even make an effort to take it, failed to pos
sess himself of the Teche country, and is at
length, according to the latest reports, fortify
ing New Orleans against an anticipated attack
of 60,000 rebels.
Grant, with a large army, and Porter with
almost the whole river fleet, iron -clads, rams,
and vessels of every other description, were to
have taken Vicksburg long age, and to have
swept, by field and flood, down the Mississippi
to join the forces of Banks and Farragut.—
They were to have done this—it was on the bir
and promised—but what have they done ? Fo :
months past they have been digging impracti
cable ditches, sending gunboats and transpor'i
through interminable woods and barricadel.
streams, narrow and tortuous, in search of out
let and conquest-occasionally sending a ram
or gunboat clown stream, exposed to the fire of
the Vicksburg batteries, only to be capturrd
by the rebels below. They have been digging
and flooding and calculating, building levees
in one place and cutting them iu another
—and all this time Vicksburg has been grow
ing stronger and stronger, under the• superin
tendence of rebel engineers, until it is qucs
tienable whether it can be now taken by any
force we are likely to send against it, at least
before next fall or spring. This is the "vigorous
prosecution of the war" which was promised
us—these the splendid achievements which
were to render the year 1863 memorable and
glorious. What millions of money have been
uselessly flung away, what thousands of gal
lant lives have been recklessly blotted out in
these ill-starred, ill-planned and fly executed
expeditions, originated by politicians under the-
Abolition policy, and controlled by an Aboli
tion administration for Abolition purposes, his
tory will• some day inform us, and assign to
each actor and mover in the transactions his
appropriate place, discriminating properly be
tween the brave men who acted under orders
and the wily plotters and miserable drivelers
who issued the orders. Truly did that man
speak—whoever he was—that first pronounced
the strategy of the administration not a "vig
orous prosecution," but a " vigorous prolonga
tion of the war. "
Governor Curtin.
That nasty little Abolition sheet, the Pitts
burg Dispatch, for same reason to us unknown,
seems to seize with great gratification every
occasion that offers to hit our worthy Governor
a dig under the fifth rib. • Now that llis Ex
cellency is so soon t 3 leave us on a foreign
mission, from which he may never return—
and especially since the radicals have in some
sort triumphed over him by forcing him from
the Gubernatorial field—eine would e u p poce
that even the most rancorous of his enemies
might afford to show a little Christian charity,
and let him plod as comfortably as possible,
without an unkind fling or sneer, through the
remaining months of his term. The Dispatch,
however, is of a different opinion, and lets out
its venom in the following paragraph
"Whatever difference of opinion may exist as
to the manner in which Gov. Curtin has con
ducted the affairs of the State during his term,
there can be no doubt that his withdrawal will
relieve the next Republican State Convention
from a very perplexing position. Political af
fairs seem to have been so managed at the State
Capitol as to prevent the appearance of any
formidable opponent in the arena, and the
'inside track' has been carefully kept open for
a re-nomination of the present incumbent.
While a sufficient number of adherents of Gov.
Curtin might have been packed in the conven
tion, possibly, to secure his nomination, he
has by no means impressed the rank and file
of the party so favorably as to secure their
hearty and unanimous support in a popular
campaign. That the duties of his office have
been trying beyond precedent, his most bitter
opponent cannot deny ; but it is yet au unset
tled question whether those duties have been
performed in the most unobjectionable man
ner. It is alleged that no small share of the
labors of the Governor have been voluntarily
assumed in an effort to retain in his hands the
entire control of the state troops, so far as the
organization of the regiments was concerned.
That the troops have suffered, to some extent,
from a persistent adherence to this policy,
cannot be doubted, nor has his effort to secure
short terms of enlistment resulted more advan
tageously to the cause."
WILL SALTPETRE EXPLODE.—Three hundred
bags of Saltpetre; took are in New York on
Monday, and were burned np. As each bag
wait ignited, it exploded with . a report as loud
ao a musket, and with a force sufficient to ma
terially damage, if not shake down, any ordi
nary building.
NEWS OF T.HE DAY.
A portion of the Army of the Rappahannock
hae at last made a move. This intelligence
we published in advance of all other papers
on Saturday morning, but we were wrong in
our conjecture as to the destination of the
troops: It appears that Gordonsville and Cul
pepper, instead of Suffolk, were the places
upon which they marched: The New York
Tribune's special, under the date of Washing
ton, 17th, gives the following particulars :
Our'forces, comprising cavalry, infantry and
artillery, under Gen. Stoneman, after making
a feint at Kelly's Ford, crossed the Rappahan
nock higher up, and pushed on Culpepper and
Gordonsville. They now occupy the latter
place, having driven the enemy therefrom.
This breaks the line of the Virginia Central
railroad, and turns the flank of the Rebels at
Fredericksburg.
We find the following Washington items in
the Tribune of the 18th.
Those wlto are in possession of all that is
known on the subject of our relations with
Great Britain, feel that they have reason to
be more hopeful of a pacific solution of pend
ing questions than they were a few days ago.
They think that England is beginning to see
the error of her ways, and that she will either,
through the agency f the Courts or by some
ether.means, stop the fleet now being fitted out
in her ports for the rebels from putting to re
All the evidence of late points in this direc
ion.
The Monitors hereafter to be built, and, so
far as practicable, those now building, will be
required to be constructed in accordance with
the terms of an additional specification, drawn
for the purpose of obviating certain defects,
of a comparatively unimportant character,
brought to light during the recent contest in
Charleston harbor.
The President, Secretary of War, and Pro
vost Marshal Geneial were again in earnest
consultation to-day over the appointments
under the,national enrolment act. It is now
believed, although there is no official intimation
on the subject, that those for New York and
Pennsylvania, at least, will be announced next
week. The greatest care is taken to select the
best men from among the numerous applicants
for these places.
Secretary Seward, whom Mr. Evarts, coun
sel for the captors, vainly attempted to per
suade that the cargo of the Peterhoff was of
such a character as to raise a second presump
tion, at least, that it was intended for the re
bels, which the contents of the mail bag on
board might be expected to prove beyond ques
tion still insists that the court shall keep the
mouth of this witness shut by giving up the
bag to the British Minister •, per contra, the
Secretaries . of War and the Treasury are be
lieved to support Secretary Welles, to whose
department, if in that of any Cabinet Minister,
they hold that the question belongs, in his
positions that the mail, not being on board a
regular mail packet, can properly be opened,
and that it is for Judge Betts alone to decide
what disposition to make of the case.
Gen. Abercrombie is to assume command of
the concentrated forces for the defence of
Washington south of the Potomac. Gen Casey
retains his position as commander and organ
izer of the provisional brigader, with head
quarters in Washington. Both are under Gen.
Heintzle man.
The war news is scarce and not of much im
portance, with the exception of the movement
of Stoneman on Gordonsville. The latest from
Vicksburg is that the army which has been off
in different directions is all coming back to
that point ; and the gunboats and transports
are to run past the batteries for the purpose of
attacking the city from the south. Their is
not even probable ground to hope for success,
and therefore if achieved it will be the more
gratifying.
From the Indian Territory we have the fol
lowing: A telegram from Colonel Phillips,
dated Park Hill, Cherokee Nation, April 11,
says he has swept the north side of Arkansas
river clear of rebels. Part of his command
holds Fort Gibson. He has had overtures from
Colonel Drew, Captain Vaughn, and the Creek
Indians. The rebels are gathering on the
south side of Arkansas river, and held all the
fords, which are now deep.
A Salt Lake telegram, April 17, says : Col.
Evans attacked and routed two hundred In
dians intrenched in a canon seventy-five miles
south of Daybreak,.on the 16t11, killed thirty,
followed them thirteen miles and scattered
them in every direction. Lieutenant Peal
was killed and two sergeants wounded.
Dr. Woosterd and two other rebel sympathi
zers of Washington City, were arrested on the
17th, by provost Marshal Baker, and sent to
the Old Capitol, charged with recruiting for
the rebel army and being engaged in contra
band traffic with the rebel States.
By the arrival of the British Queen from
Nassau, N. P., we learn that fourteen vessels
froui rebel ports had arrived there from the
16th of March to the 10th of this month, all
bringing cargoes of cotton.
There was quite a serious riot at Halifax,
Nova Scotia, on the 16th. About three hun
drel soldiers broke from the barracks, rushed
through the streets, assaulting citizens, break
ing windows and doing all the damage they
could. The fighting soon became indiscrimi
nate between the citizens and soldiers, and
several were hurt on both sides. A detach
ment of the royal artillery finally appeared and
drove the soldiers back to their barracks.
A Washington correspondent of the N. Y.
Commercial says the President is not pleased
with the result of the attack upon Charleston,
and is determined that it shall be followed by
a bona fide attack,. (they persist in calling the
late affair a reconnoissanoe,) which is to be
continued so long as an iron-clad can fire a gun.
Anoth:r letter says the diplomatic corps have
received unofficial intimations that the Presi
dent intends to_have Charleston reoccupied by the
United States authorities. It is possible that all
this nonsense is true. The President has
proved, on more occasions than one, that he is
big enough fool to say or do anything.
There is said to be much comment in Wash
ington on the fact that Gen. Hunter remained
an idle spectator of the Charleston - conflict.
Hasn't he been an idle spectator all the
while ? Besides attending to his negro
regiments we should like to know what he has
done to entitle him to the confidence of the
President or the people. He is bosh—nothing.
By telegraph, Saturday afternoon:
A letter received in New York from Havana
states that the schooner Ann, from Matamoras
for Havana, loaded • with cotton, had been
seized by one of the U. S. cruisers and taken
to Key West.
Intelligence by the steamer Cahawba. arrived
at New York from Port Royal, confirms the
rumored return of the iron-clads to the latter
port, and reiterates the report that their next
scene of ()iterations would be the Mississippi
river, to attack P9rt Hudson and Vicksburg.
The U. S. troupes
,still occupy Seabrook and
Folly islands. Brigadier General Terry, Capt.
Worden, Col. Deforest, Lt. Col. Wheeler and
Major Parker came passengers en the Cahawba.
The steamer passed, on the 16th, off Frying
Pan shoals, the transport ship J. Morton, with
troops on board, bound to Beaufort, N. C.;
also, on the 17th, the 11. S. sloop Ossippee, on
a cruise.
CAIRO, April 15.—T0-day, at about one
o'clock, a mob of forty men, armed with re
volvers and a rifle, rescued two deserters from
the custody of an officer at Anna, on the Illi
nois Central railroad. They threatened to
hang the officer Übe did not comply with their
request, and he was forced to surrender. They
then took his revolvers away from him and
allowed him to depart.
By telegraph Sunday evening :
WAliursoros, April 18.—The rumors in re.
gard to the occupancy of Gordonsville by Gen.
Stoneman are not sustained by authentic in
telligence„ Mosely's forces were in the
neighborhood of Drainesville yesterday. The
steamer Baltimore arrived at the Navy Yard
this morning from Fortress Monroe, bringing
further particulars of the affair on the Nanse
mond. The steamer Mount Washington has
been towed to Newport News for repairs. Her
boiler and engines are considerably damaged
by shot and her wood-work pierced through.
One seaman temporarily on board was killed,
but none of her regular crew were injured so
as to keep them from duty, although many
were struck by splinters and slightly hurt.—
The pilot of the Stepping Stones lost a leg.—
The gunboats on the Nansemond have been
reinforced from the Potomac flotilla, in order
to keep the river clear of the rebel batteries.
The news from Suffolk is that on the 17th
the enemy drove back our pickets on the Som
erton road—General Circoran's front—and
opened on Fort Union with two pieces of an?'
tillery. Our forts at once replied to them and
drove them back. Our skirmishers on the
South Quay road drove them back some miles
from our lines. Deserters say that the enemy
intend to make an attack during this week.—
A number of guerillas were prowling about
our flanks yesterday, cutting the telegraph
wires, which were soon repaired—one man
was killed. Both railroads between Suffolk
and Norfolk are in running order and amply
guarded by cavalry patrols. No letters are
now allowed to be sent forward by flags of
truce, except to prisoners of war.
NEW YORK, April 18.—The Poa of this eve
ning has advicea from Port Royal which state
that a movement is on foot for the removal of
Admiral Dupont, and that General Seymour,
who has gone to New York, will urge it upon
the government. The feeling among the land
forces is said to be strong against him, and the
confidence of the sailors weakened. [We don't
believe a word of it—it's only another Aboli
tion triok to get rid of a good officer, and have
a woolly-head like Hunter put in his . place.]
General Seymour's mission is also to urge the
sending of reinforcements to General Hunter.
It is understood that the troops belonging to
General Foster's department will be returned
to General Hunter. Rumor says that the or
der for the attack on Charleston was counter
manded by the government, but the counter
mand did not reach the Admiral till it was too
late to. prevent an assault, and that it was
partly in obtelience to this last order that the
assault was not renewed. The report that the
iron-dads are to proceed to the Mississippi is
not credited in well informed circles. There is
good reason to believe that General Hunter has
not relinquished the idea of early offensive
operations ageing Charleston. [What do they
man by early ?] The Monitors oould be made
ready in Iwo or three hours, and as efficient as
before the late engagement. It Ras the opin
ion of Captain Worden—though the Post is
not authorized by him to say so—that the
Monitor fleet will be able to batter down Port
Sumpter. In his opinion nearly all the offi
cers concur. It was also believed that the ob
structions might be passed through at the risk
of rendering the Monitors unable to return.—
[Quite a serious risk.] The New Ironsides
will remain off Charleston Bar.:
Nair Yonn, April 19.—The Herald has the
following special dispatches :
A letter from Moorhead city announces that
Gen. Foster has succeeded in passing the rebel
blockade in the steamer Escort, with the loss
of the pilot killed and several wounded. The
Escort was riddled by about forty shots. Gen,
Foster arrived at Newbern on the night of the
15th, and was joyfully received. Gen. Naglee
is in Newbern. Gen. Heckman would go from
Moorhead city to Newbern with the Massachu
setts 28d and New ,jersey 9th.
A Fredericksburg letter of the 14th, to the
Richmond 1 - “,ig, reports a fight at Kelly's
Ford, 25 milel above Fredericksburg, on that
day—the cannonading was heard distinctly at
intervals. Six thousand Federal cooky of
Gen. Stoneman's corps made an effort to cross,
supported by a considerable body of infantry,
but had not succeeded to-night. Report says
the Federals are massing troops in the vicinity
of United Stated Ford. Yesterday and to. day
considerable bodies of cavalry and immense
wagon trains are moving up the river.
A dispatch dated the 18th, from the Army
of the Potomac, says that a large force of the
enemy is collected in the vicinity of the Fords
on the Rappahannock, although there has been
no attempt to cross.
The Herald's Norfolk letter expresses the
opinion that there will be no great 'battle at
Suffolk. We outnumber the enemy there, and
have the advantage of strong entrenchments.
Unless Gen, Peck advances on the enemy, we
are confident there gill be no battle.
A Washington dispatch says that Robert J.
Walker has gone to Europe - on official business
for the gavernment in connection with exten
sive piiblic loans.
Harry Sherman, one of Col. Baker's detec
tive otEcere,bas been captured near Drainesville
by Mosely's rebel cavalry, and report says that
he was hung.
It appears from the order of Gen. Hunter
that Gen. Heckman, with the 9th New Jersey,
23d Massachusetts, and 81st and 98th New
York, were ordered to Newbern for service in
relieving Gen. Foster. The brigade is eventu
ally to return to Hilton Head.
A correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser
and Register says that the wines of Ex-Preel
dent Tyler, sold at auction a few days ago,
brougl t prodigious prices. Rhenish wines
sold for $lO a bottle ; old Sauterne, "Tin Du
quesne, $11; Regalia Madeira, $l2; Ceylon
Madeira, $l6 60 ; Madeira Exploring Expedi
tion, $l6 75 ; Sherry, $l5 ; Old Port, $lB 75 ;
French brandy, very old, $95 to $lOO per gal
-1011.
A committee of investigation is about to be
appointed by the rebel Congress to examine
into alidged'barbaritylpractided upon prisoners
in Castle Thunder. A prisoner was shot id, the
building by the . guards on Monday.
DEATH OF CuL. KIMBALL.-It seems now t o
be settled that General Corcoran shot Colonel
Kimball, but the cause and manner are not yPt
clearly understood. In reference to the affair
a Suffolk correspondent of the Hartford Press
says :
In my - relation of the Corcoran and Ki m ,
ball affair I committed the error of saying th at
Lieutenant Colonel Kimball was on picket dut y
at-the time of his death. I have learned since
that he was at General Getty's headquarters at
the time of the unfortunate occurrence • th at
he halted (of course with no authority ) Gen.
Corcoran, who was riding pass, and that h e
net only used abusive language, but drew a n d
brand shedhis sword, threatening the General
if he attempted to pass. The General, whose
business was urgent, and seeing no alterna
tive; drew his revolver and shot Kimball dead.
Such, I believe, to be a true version of the
affair. "
The National Intelligence? Gaye it ie ob
served that the men who mat.e military omnis
cience their forte, and military science their
foible, are generally the men who are most
anxious to "arm, equip, and discipline . ' some
other class of people than themselves. [The
remark is equally applicable to Deacon Berg
ner and his Union Leaguers.]
Hon. John J. Crittenden is a candidate for
re-electisn to Congress in the Ashland District
Kentucky.
Illinois has been made a separate Military
District, Gen. Ammen to command. Headquar
ters at Springfield.
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