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46 Every Man Sas His Price."
So somebody once remarked—Napoleon, or
lalleyrand, or some other man equally distin
guished—and if the reference was to public
men, perhaps the assertion is more true than
false. We observe in the New York papers
that the price at which members of the EmpSe
State Legislature are purchased varies from
$5OO to $2O, depending upon the importance
of the measure which is to be put through.
We should like to know the price of Pennsyl
vania legislators—some of them sell themselves
dog cheap, we have heard and fully believe,
but we should feel obliged to any member of
Cie "ring " for information that will enable us
to give the scale of prices as near as maybe.
.There need be no false delicacy on the subject,
since corruption is no longer considered a
crime.
A VETERAN PATRIOT.—James Gillingham,
who was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
on the 27th of January, 1768, and is now in
his ninety filth year, has enrolled his name as a
member of the Pottsville Union League. His
first vote was cast for Washington. He has
attended and voted at every Presidential elec
tion since, down to the last, in 1860, when he
deposited his ballot for Abraham Lincoln, and
he no more regrets the last than the first.
We haire no doubt of the intention of Mr.
Gillingham to be patriotic—his first Tote, for
Washington, is an evidenc of that—who he
voted for in the interim between the out-going
of Washington and the blooming of Lincoln we
are not informed, but likely he has been a
_Federalist, Anti-Mason, National Republican,"
Whig, Know Nothing, Republican, People's
Party, Abolitionist and Union Leaguer in turn_
However this may be, he was old enough to
know better in 1860, and ought to be ashamed
of the vote he east. It is but a short time
since we read of a man- who adduced the fact
of his having voted for Lincoln as incontro
vertible evidence that he was a d-----d fool.
A witness in court, who was giving testi
mony in a case in which a horse was in ques
tion, being reminded that ho had contradicted
himself in reference to the animal's height,
having oEce,..stuteii that he was sixteen feet
high, and at another time sixteen hands, ex
claimed," Did I say sixteen feet 7 Well, then,
I'll stick to it " So with Deacon Bergner.
He has declared that the peace which the
Democrats want is a peace to be secured by
recognizing the independence of the Southern
Confederacy, thereby dissolving the Union,
surrendering Washington city, &c. This is an
abominable lie, for which there is not the
shadow of foundation, and well the pious Dea
con knows it; but, having said it, he has made
up his mind to stick to it, and so- repeats the
falsehood in last evening's Telegraph in a lead
ing article of miserable jargon, which we defy
any one but the fool who wrote it to under
stand. Evidently the Devil and the Deacon
are having a hard struggle; but unless the
prayers of the church are sufficient to his sal
vation we think we know who'll win in the end.
" What profiteth it a man if he gain the whole
world and lose his own soul ?" We put this to
the Deacon seriously, for well we know that
Old Nick is keeping watch and ward over him,
ready to envelope and mail him for safe deliv
ery in his dominions without the aid of frank
or postage stamp.
The County Commissioners_
The Telegraph, which has endorsed John J.
Patterson and that peculiarly chaste, honor
able, high-minded man yclept Brobst, now
endorses the County Commissioners of Dauphin
in their narrow policy of proscribing men for
opinion's sake. The Telegraph says that when
there were Democratic Commissioners they
never divided their patronage with their poli
tical opponents. This the public will bear us
out in saying is a deliberate lie. Until this
year, no Commissioners, whether Democratic,
Whig, or Republican, ever failed to publish
their report in at least two papers of different
polities, and sometimes four, when there were
so many published in Harrisburg. This is
maifeetly right, as it is the duty of the Com
missioners to act for the whole county, and
not for any particular clique. The people of
the county, whatever their polities or religion,
bear alike their burthens of taxation and have
alike the right to know from their servants, the
Commmissoners, how they have expended the
money entrusted to them, and the newspapers
they read are the only source from which they
can well derive this information.
It has been reserved for the bigoted, pro
scriptive party now in power to perform acts
which would have made all parties blush with
shame a few years ago, and to shield men from
punishment convicted of the basest crimes, if
they will only yield np their manhood, and
become the despicable tools of a corrupt
organization. We attribute these petty acts
of the Cemmissioners more to their ignorance
than to their malice, they probably have been
inliianced by their political nurraettdings, and
may have taken their cue from the Leyal
Leagues, where the most infamous proscriptive
doctrines are frequently preached. Though
these Commissioners may be excused on a a
count of their ignorance, if they can be kiln
enoed to perform a dirty trick in one i nstance
they may in another, and are unsafe custodians
of the people's money. We trust the um_
payers of the county will look to this in the
future, and elect for this important office more
intelligent and high-minded men.
The Press—lts Relations to the Public,
the Party and its Principles.
We notice that several Democratic papers of
this State are in the habit of publishing arti
cles in favor of particular individuals for Go
vernor, and broadly hinting their opposition
to other individuals talked of as candidates for
that office. Now, while we freely admit the
right of any journalist to express his prefer
ences in such cases, we regard it as impolitic,
to say the least, for any paper professing a re
gard'for the success of the Democratic party
to take a position for or against any candidate
for nomination. "Principles, not men," should
be the motto of every Democratic journal. No
man should be recognized, unless he is the
nominee of the party or the regularly chosen
eltpoisent of its principles. the efforts of a
paper to put forward any particular individual
or to put down any particular individual who
may be supposed to desire a nomination for of-
See, must, to a greater or less extent, have a
disorganizing effect. If a supposed aspirant
for a nomination, after having been denounced
by certain Democratic newspapers, should,
nevertheless, be nominated, then the denunci
ations of such papers become eo much capital
for the enemy, and the papers are placed under
the necessity of "eating their own words," or
of opposing a regular nominee of the party.
In any event, this advocacy or denunciation
of supposed candidates must tend to faction
and schism, and, therefore, should not be in
dulged in by any paper desiring the success
of the party.
The above extract from the Philadelphia
Evening Journal conveys aqueer theory of news
paper ethics. The gist of the Journal's re
marks appears to be, that the peltioal function
of a public print is properly confined to the
passive advocacy of certain political princi
ples, leaving the men who are be the embodi
ment, the agents and administrators of those
principles, to sneh interests, cliques and WA
binations as may have acquired influence suf
ficient to secure their choice. This is entirely
tee servile, and much too narrow a philosophy
to suit us. L.Prineiples, not men," is quite as
ridiculous a maxim essentially as its converse,
if the former is meant to inculcate a total dis
regard for the kind of man, his ability or
honesty, to whom is to be consigned the duty
of properly adhering to, defending and execu
ting the "principles" we are bidden so exclu
sively to worship. We don't put faith in any
political autocracy simply—any one man
whose !pee Anil is to settle and decide our
party policy. But, having settled the princi
ples on which we are to stand by the voice of
the people, we take it that it is the duty and
privilege of the public press, being but a re
flex of popular sentiment, to look out that no
man is chosen to represent the principles we
advocate who does not »himself agree with
them, or who is incapable of being the expo
nent of the probity and excellence of the party
WhOSO &often champion he is meant to be.
We utterly disparage personalities so far as
it is possible or useful and proper to avoid
them. It has been and is our constant aim to
advocate and bring about perfect harmony and
organization in the Conservative party against
thejeoming danger to the State. To this end
there are certain "principles," which apply to
men as well as politics, which we find it useful
to observe and indicate ; thole' application is
left to whom it may concern. If, for example,
- we should say we want an honest man for Qv
vernor, we would utter only a common-place
to which we feel the people heartily respond,
and with which all men must willingly agree ;
if saying we want an honest man gives offence
to a man who is not honest, we must perforce
take refuge against what may come of it in
the generality we express, leaving the assump
tion of any personal sense to be attached to
the remark to whomsoever it may fall.
The Democratic party in Pennsylvania, or
elsewhere, need not depart, in choosing their
candidates for office, from the Jeffersonian
rule, which begins with honesty and ends with
capacity. It is not necessary for it to truckle
to cliques, nor for its public prints to deal in
"denunciations," if that rule is strictly adhered
, to. Men who are above cavil are not subject
to denunciations. Such men we want in office.
To preserve the proper morale of the party we
profess to serve, and insure its success, to
perpetuate it, we must have a care to whom
we extend its guidance. These are perilous
times--they- demand caution, vigilance and
out-spoken rectitude on the part of the public
press. We cannot, and we do not mean to, sit
silent and passive when we see the people
likely to be wronged and the success of con
servative principles being jeopardized by ultra
ism, or dishonesty, or misplaced confidence, by
reckless politicians, cliques or combinations,
who lay to heart their favorites for office mere
than the success of the principles upon which
depends our national salvation—no matter how
inadequate the men whom they desire to place
at the head of our organization are to do their
duty with dignity, sagacity and honesty for
the safety of the State, the purity and perpe
tuity of the party. It is a poor doctrine to say
that the public press, professedly impartial, to
which the people look for counsel and for
truth, should wait until the error of a bad
choice is accomplished before it has anything
to say on the subject. If we apprehend
aright, the province of an honest journal is to
warn and inform, against the possibility of such
an error, those to whom it is at liberty to
speak and whose confidence it has acquired
and may not rightly and should not recklessly
abuse.
Comprehensive Democracy is not the pro
perty of any one man, or any especial class of
men; the press is its advocate and aims to be
among its guardians. Disorganizing effects
are not derived usually from the bold'and open
expressions of general truths applicable to the
fitness of men for office; but rather from the
rancor and violence of factions combinations
gotten up with a view to their own ends, ex
clusive of the public weal, and secretly work
ing to obtain their own ascendancy over the
popular will. The people are honest ; popular
instincts universally correct; dishonesty creeps
into a party by the influence of faction, and
the popular voice is usually disregarded in the
selection of our candidates by the management
and chicanery of the few unscrupulous wire
pullers atom we are enjoined not to disturb,
because they are likely to succeed. If we ap
preqind, we like not the theory--though we
will not quarrel with the expressions of the
Journal--because it proscribes the free exer
cise of that legitimate censorship which be
longs to every honest man as to every honest
press, but which need not and cannot properly
e xtend, it is true, farther than we have ex
pressly herein set forth.
The War—lts Mismanagement and Un■
success.
We might quote from a score of Republican
journals, not entirely servile as are the Pres.!
and Chronicle of Forney and the Hessian sheet
published in this city, to show that we are not
singular in our appreciation of the lack of
ability, or the absence of desire on the part of
the administration to conduct the war success
fully, but for the present we content ourselves
with a short editorial from the Cincinnati Ga
zette, a paper quite radical in its politics, and
a warm and able advocate of the powers at
Washington and their Abolition policy;
From the Cincinnati gazette
The great army of the West lies use
less on the Mississippi. while the great
shook of armies in the West will soon take
place in Tennessee. This is the whole situa
tion, and it would be difficult to describe a more
total helplessness of a great power for want of
an intelligent direction. It is hard to account
for the apathy of a military director at Wash
ington Under this state of affairs.
It is not pretended that Grant has made any
progress or any intelligent effort toward the
capture of Vicksburg. No one expects that he
will. Nor have his operations euitteleat me
nace to detain a great rebel force at Vicksburg.
We have every reason to suspect their concen
tration elsewhere. With the army of Grant
united to Rosecrans, he would be irresistible.
But with the greater army wasting uselessly
in the swamps about Vicksburg, we not only
have no reason to expect progress any where,
but we have grounds for apprehension.
The rebels have adopted the policy of con
centration, Our military direction persists in
scattering. Unless an immediate change-is
made, we must expect the waste of another
season, and serious disasters. * * * *
In its present arrangement there is nothing
to inspire hope, but everything to creato dicat
isfaction and despondency.
When the political friends of the administra
tion admit this much, we feel that we may pro
perly go a step farther, and characterise it as
a failure in every respect from its installation
to the present hour. It has executed nothing
well that it has undertaken. It seems to be
moved by impulse rather than prompted and
governed by judgment. We may safely say
that even now, in the midst of the great perils
that threaten the nation on every hand, it
has no settled purpose but emancipation, and
to this impracticable scheme every thing else,
in the civil and military policy of the country,
is made secondary and subservient.
Daniel Webster.
The great American Statesman and expoun
der of the Constitution was old fogy enough to
dread civil war above every other calamity
that sould possibly befall the nation. Had we
had in our national councils a few such men
during the Congressional session of 1860-61,
it is almost certain that the curse of civil war
would have been averted, and the Union this
day a unit. It was the mad, revolutionary
principles of fanatic Abolitionism that cut the
golden cord that bound the States together in
harmony and severed them into hostile and bel
ligerent republics. It is the same mad policy
now that forbids the hope of reunion, and chills
the heart of the patriot with dread apprehen
sions of the future. During the agitation of
the Texas question in Congress, Mr. Webster
made a powerful speech, intended to soothe
irritation, from which we take a short extract
which may be read with great profit at this
time :
In March, 180 Q, When/ found it my duty to
address Cong.tess on these important topics, it
was my conscientious belief, and it still remains
unshaken, that if the controversy with Texas
could not be amicably adjusted, there must, in
411 probability, be civil war and bloodshed; and
in contemplation of such a, prospect, although
we took it for granted that no opposition could
arise to the opposition of the United States that
would not be suppressed, it appeared of little
consequence on which standard victory should
perch. But what of that? I was not anxious
about military consequences; I looked to the
civil and political state of things, and their
results, and I inquired what would be the con
dition of the country, if, in this state of agita
tion, if, in this vastly extended, though not
generally pervading feeling of the South, war
should break out and bloodshed should ensue
in that quarter of the Union ? That was enough
for me to inquire into and consider; and if the
chance had been one in a thousand, that civil
war would be the result, I should have felt that
that one thosandth chance should be guarded
against by any reasonable sacrifice ; beaattSe,
gentlemen, sanguine as I am of the future pros
parity of the country, strongly as I believe
now, after what has passed, and especially af
ter the enactment of those measures to which I
have referred, that it is likely to hold together,
1 yet believe that this Union, once broken, is inca
pable, according to all human experience, of being
re-constructed in its original character, of being
re-cemented by any chemistry, or art, or effort, or
skill of man.
NEWS OF TBE DAY.
The N. Y. Herald of yesterday contains the
following as "the very latest from Now Or
leans," being to the 14th :
The news to-day from Brashear city is of
the utmost importance. The enemy evacuated
his works at Centreville last night, but will
probably be captured entire, as he is enclosed
between General Grover's forces on one side
and those of Generals Emory_arid Weitzel: on
the other. He is leaving his guns and ammu
nition behind him.
The steamer Diana, lately taken from us,
will certainly be recaptured, as the United
States steamer Clifton has removed the obstruc
tions in the river and is rapidly approaching
her.
The ram Queen of the West was captured
from the enemy in Grand Lake at ten o'clock
this morning. Capt. Fuller, her commander,
and add her crew and officers, numbering ninety
souls, are now prisoners at Berwick Bay.
The capture of the Queen of the West is
most important, and I consider the whole affair
as a victory of immense advantage to the Union
•
A Washington dispatch, April 21, gives
particulars of the running of the Vicksburg
batteries by our gunboats and transports, ad
ditional to those published in our paper yes
terday morning:
On the night of the 16th Admiral Porter
Succeeded in running the Vicksburg batteries
with seven fine gunboats of his squadron and
three transports. The Benton, his flagship,
got opposite the upper battery, leading the
line of mole, before the rebels opened fire.—
The rebels then continued firing from eleven
P. M. until two A. M. upon each succeeding
vessel as it passed. The only damage done ns
was the firing of the Henry Clay, one of the
transports, and the temporary disabling of the
Forest City, another transport, and also a shot
through the Benton's hull. The Henry Clay
was fired by the enemy's shell. All hands
were saved. The pilot remained until the
flames forced him to leave. Our loss was but
one man killed and two or three wounded.—
The rebel fire was far less effective than was
anticipated. They burned two or three houses
in the town, as our squadron was passing, to
light the river so as to enable their artillerists
to get good view of our steamers as they went
down within range of their guns. On reaching
Warrenton Admiral Porter b3mbarded that
village; with what effect is not known.
Gov. Wise has been recalled from the com
mand of the rebel army in front of Williams
burg. General Hood supersedes him. [Old
Blowhard seems to have poor luck. Like some
of our own Generals, he ill better at boasting
than executing.]
Admiral Lee, commanding N. A. B. squad
ron has communicated an account of the com
bined land and naval attack upon the fort at
West Branch, on the Nansemond, by General
Getty of the army and Lieutenant Lamson of
the navy. He confirms the statements of Gen.
Dix, published yesterday, and adds that on the
19th the rebels erected a new battery' on the
head of West Branch, commanding the lower
Nansemond, from which a sharp fire was opened
on the gunboat Barney, without, however, in
flicting much damage. Two hours later the
Admiral telegraphs that the number of field
pieces taken in the captured battery referred
to above Was Ave, and the exact number of
prisoners 161; also, that Lieutenant Cushing
reports that the new battery mentioned in his
previous dispatch had been removed, that the
enemy was in retreat, and that the army might
out off a rebel brigade.
The following Pennsylnania soldidrs were
reported killed and wounded at Suffolk and on
the Nansemond up to the 16th : Theodore How
ard, 166th regiment, flesh wound, arm; Israel
Emery, 166th, wounded in arm, amputated ;
John Wickart, 166th, wounded in left foot;
Henry Allen, C. C. Swarthe, 11th cavalry,
killed ; John W. Yateman, 11th cavalry, woun
ded.
The New Orleans Era, April 9, gives the fol
lowing information in regard the Admiral Far
ragut and the flagship Hartford :
Tuesday the Hartford came down the river
to a point, a few miles above Port Hudson, and
Tuesday night Mr. Gaberton, (the Admiral's
secretary,) with a negro as oarsman, embarked
in a skiff, intending to communicate with the
fleet below Port Hudson. They were success
ful, dropping down in the darkness of the
night, and passing the batteries without de
tection. We now know the actual "situation"
of the Ilartford. In passing the batteries at
Port Hudson, in going up, she was hit only five
times, and lost but one man killed. In the
eubsequent Werrentori and Grand' Gulf fights,
four men on board were killed. The Hartford
is in excellent order.
A telegram from Fortress Monroe, April 20,
states that General Foster left Newbern on the
19th at the head of a brigade, for Washington,
N. C., and that on the 16th our Monitors were
all off Hilton Head, and the Ironsides and the
blockading fleet at ther former anchorage.
A Washington dispatch, April 21, says Gen.
Hurlburt telegraphs from Memphis that he has
information from the rebels that the enemy
are evacuating Vicksburg. [lle may have had
the information, but we don't believe the fact.]
Highly important. Let the nation breathe
freely.. A dispatch from Washington says it
has been so arranged that the President can
see Gen. Hooker at any time in the most expe
ditious manner. [How will the distinguished
gentleman travel—by telegraph ? that being
4, the most expeditious" mode.]
By telegraph, yesterday afternoon :
The U. S. steamer Vanderbilt captured the
schooner Gertrude on the 16th, off Harbor
Island, after a chase of several hours. The
Gertrude was bound to Charleston, and on ar
riving off that port and finding it so closely
blockaded, steered for Nassau. She-is of 250
tons burden, and has a cargo of gunpowder
and military stores.
BA,NDY Hem, April 22.—The royal mail
steamer Persia, from Liverpool on the 11th,
passed here this morning.
The Governments of. England, France and
Austria sent dispatches simultaneously to
Russia on the 10th instant, relative to Poland.
They are said to be friendly in their language,
but all convey an intelligible warning. Active
military preparations are being exhibited in
Russia.
In the British House of Lords a debate has
taken place on the course of the Government
in allowing the building of gunboats for the
rebels. The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce
have adopted resolutions calling on the Gov
ernment to make the foreign enlistment act
more stringent.
The steamer Japan, otherwise known as the
Virginia, had been lying off the French coast
for three days, and proceeded to sea on the
9th. She is said to have received a large sup
ply of arms and ammunition.
The Council of the Liverpool Chamber of
Commerce have adopted a report relative-to
the doings of the Alabama and the protest of
the New York Chamber of Commerce. The
report sets forth that the building and equip
ment of such vessels as the Alabama manifestly
contravene the provisions of the foreign en
enlistment act, but that the provisions of the
act are susceptible of easy evasion, and that
this inefficiency exposes neutrality to the
harge of insincerity and establishes danger
ous precedents ; consequently the Chamber
should memorialize the government to endea
vor, in concert with the American government,
so to alter the acts as to prevent its eva
sion, and secure a strict neutrality.
Although the government seized the Alex
andria, on representations that she was inten
ded for the rebels, the work on her was allowed
to proceed until the 9th, when it was suspen
ded. The government have been in corres
pondence with the Lairds, (ship-builders,) of
Birkenhead, relative to the work going on in
their yard. The Lairds formally assured the
government that they were building the ves
sels for the Emperor of China. [Over the
left.]
The London Daily News strongly protests
against the article in the Times complaining of
the defensive preparations made by the 11. S.
government in California, and shows that
America has equal grounds for complaint
against the militia &mares progressing in
Canada.
The Morning Post says the blockade is the
only efficient mode by which the North now
carries on the war, bat the maritime powers
may in time have to consider how long such
mode of warfare is to be endured.
There is considerable activity in the Con
federate loan in the London money market, it
being quoted at I@li per cent. premium. It
is about the same on the Paris Bourse.
The Shipping Gazette points to the expe
diency of convoys for British and French ship
ping in the West Indies. [They are alarmed
at the seizure of the Peterhoff by Admiral
Wilkes.]
Muirms, Tsruassug, April 21.—0 n Satur
day evening three regiments of infantry and
ene of cavalry left Memphis on a reconnoitering
expedition. When near Noncena (or some
such name) the cavalry came upon a detach..
meat of Blithe's rebel cavalry. A fight ensued
resulting in the repulse of the rebels. On the
next morning the cavalry again attacked the
rebels, killing twenty, wounding forty, and
capturing eighty. The rebels fled in great
confusion across the Coldwater river. After
crossing they receeived reinforcements, and
our troops fell back to Hernando. The rebels
were so severely handled that they did not
attempt to follow. At Hernando we were also
reinforced by a detachment of infantry and
artillery under Col. Bryant, who moved to the
Coldwater and attacked the rebels on the op
posite aide of the river. The fight lasted until
sundown, and was confined chiefly to the in
fantry, as the artillery could not be as success
fully used as was desired. Our loss was five
killed and fifteen wounded. Col. Bryant now
holds a strong position.
A highly important arrest has been made in
New York by U. S. Marshal Murray, the gen
tleman seized being no less a personage than
Captain A. S. Parker, of the rebel navy, who
had been in the city a few days awaiting the
arrival of other parties, and perfecting arrange
ments preparatory to le . aving for England,
where he was going for the purpose of bringing
out one of the new iron-clads which John Bull
has been building for the Confederate States.
Parker was astonished at having been disco
vered, and protested he was not the man they
took him for, but the Marshal was positive and
inexorable, and the gay rebel was sent to Fort
Lafayette.
The defeat of the French at Puebla on tho
27th of March, published in our paper yester
day, is confirmed by advises from Matamoras
April 6th, and by an official report of the Mex
ican General Ortega to General Commonfort.—
The loss of the Mexicans General Ortega states
at only sixty men. It may be be possible that
the . French subsequently recovered and re
turned to the attack, and on the 31st, as 'repre
sented by news via. San Francisco, published a
few days since, attacked and carried the outer
works as represented. We trust, however, that
the San Francisco news is not true, and shall
rejoice if the Freneh invaders have been com
pletely whipped with the loss, stated by the
Mexican account, of sixty, pieces of artillery
and 8,000 men. Indeed we should be pleased
to learn that the whole French army had been
annihilated.
CaroAoo, April 22.—The total vote cast at
the election yesterday for city officers was
20,300. Sherman (Dem.) received 188 ma
jority. The balance of the Democratic ticket
was also elected. The Council. stands 20
Democrats and 12 Republicans.
CINCINNATI, April 22.—A brisk cavalry skir
mish took place near Helena on the 20th inst.,
in which the rebels had several killed and
wounded. The Federals lost none. A detach
ment of about two hundred of the 89th Ken
tucky, mounted infantry, under Col. Dills, iron.
the command of Gen. Julius White, made a
forced march on - Piketon, Pike county, and af
ter a sharp fight on the 15th inst. captured
seventeen rebel officers and sixty-one privates,
horses, arms, &c. Not more than a dozen re
bels escaped. About the same time, eight
men, scouts from Gen. White's command, be
longing to the Fourteenth Kentucky Infantry,
captured in Breathitt county a rebel captain
and twelve privates.
FORTRESS Monnon, April 21.—The flag of
truce boat State of Maine left this morning
for City Point, with about 600 paroled rebel
prisoners, including the 200 captured on Sun
day night, with the rebel battery on the Nan
semond.
Two rebel deserters are upon the Minnesota.
They state that they belonged to the Merrimac
No. 2 ; that they had recently left her lying at
the obstructions near Fort Darling, on James
river, and when they left a large number of
workmen were engaged removing the obstruc
tions from the river at that point, for what
purpose is not stated. The steamer Carrie
Martin arrived at Fortress Monroe at 1 o'clock
this afternoon with Gen. HaHeck, where he
wan joined by Major General Dix, and they
both proceeded to Suffolk.
The skirmishing on the Nansemond ceased
yesterday about noon, and has not been re
newed to-day.
WASHINGTON, April 22.—The Navy Depart
ment has received the following dispatch,
dated,
TT. S. STRAW SLOOP PiestidoLA,
Off New Orleans, April 13.
On the morning of the 27th ultimo, about
daybreak, Admiral Farragut, in the Hartford,
engaged the batteries at Warrenton, three miles
below Vicksburg, and passed below IL
On the morning of the 29th,before daybreak,
the Albatross, having taken in a full supply of
provisions, from a barge which had been floated
down the previous morning by Admiral Porter,
also passed the Warrenton batteries and an
chored near the flagship.
It was blowing quite heavy from the north,
and on the morning of the 26th, abbout 1 a.
m. the wharf boat Vicksburg Wing broken
adrift from the moorings at the city, floated
down and ran ashore opposite to where the
Hartford and Albatross were anchored. Du
ring the day an officer was sent on board of
the 'Vicksburg, but found that her machinery
had all been removed, and she had nothing on
board save four muskets and accoutrements,
which probably belonged to the guard. While
the Admiral was hesitating as to the propriety
of retaining her as a wharf boat, or rather
depot, the rebels came down on the night of
the 18th and burned her.
The Switzerland, Hartford and Albatross,
being all filled with coal and provisions, floated
down, passing Gen. Grant and Admiral Porter
in bargee.
The damages to the Switzerland being fully
repaired, the vessel passed Warrenton on the
morning of the 31st, and at daylight the little
squadron got under way and proceeded down
the river as far as Mr. Turner's plantation,
where, on our passage up, we saw the wreck
of the Indianola. We found no traces of the
wreck, but learned that it had slid off into
deep water during the late gale.
We anchored at this plaoe, and remained
until about 6.30 p. m., when we got under way
and proceeded down, and engaged the battery
at Gk and Gulf. This battery consisted of some
two or three heavy guns, sent down from
Vicksburg. One of these guns was mounted
upon a steamer, which had been concealed up
the Big Black 'river. The enemy also had a
light field battery. They struck the Switzer -.
land, doing no damage. The Albatross'wai
not struck at all. The Hartford . was struck
only once, but this shot struck an iron ham
mered stanchion, threw a fragment forward
nearly half the length of the ship, and killed
.ones, a landsman. This Was the only casu
alty.
We passed this battery in about fifteen min
utes ' and anchored below Grand Quit for the
night. At daylight on the let instant we got
under way, apd proceeded to the Month of the
Red River, where we anchored about. sundown,
destroying in our passage down a large num
ber of skiffs and flatboats. We remained
blockading the river at its mouth
got
the
morning of the 6th instant, when we got under
way at about 4.30 a. m., and proceeded down
to Bayou Sara, where we stopped, seized.
upon and threw into the river about 10,000
sacks of corn, and then proceeded on our way
to Port Hudson, where we anchored, about five
miles above the batteries, at 3 p. m. on the 6th.
On the evening of the 7th, at 8.15, the wri
ter of this communication, the - Secretary of
the Rear Admiral, left the Hartford and board
ed the Richmond off Baton Rouge, about 2 .
a. m. on the Bth inst.
The health of the squadron is good.
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