pan. over their spirits, andiadded to this their
own experience of the rapidity and accuracy
of our firing was more than they could stand ;
and in thirteen and a half minutes from the
time we opened upon her she was firing her lee
Bans—the token of submission. The order to
pew firing was passed, and with three times
three hearty cheers for Dixie, we lowered our
boats, as they were anxiously calling for as
sistance.
None but an eye-witness can conceive the
appearance of the wreck. With no standing
rigging left, her entire broadside crushed in,
sad in one place under her guards an immense
hole where our entire battery struck almost
the•same instant, presented a scene of confu
sion and destruction perfectly indesoribable.—
Many of our shell struck and passed through
both sides, tearing and smashing everything
in its way, and exploding on the far side of the
vessel. Six shells passed through the engine
room, five exploding and breaking everything
to stems; two others, entering and exploding
in the coal bunkers, set fire to her in different
parts. Their condition was truly horrible,
with the ship on fire and her bottom knocked
cat. We scarcely had time to clear the wreek
after receiving the last man, when with a heavy
lurch she went down, leaving visible a small
pinion of her top gallant masts. The engage
ment lasted thirteen-and-a-half minter, and the
entire time occupied in fighting and rescuing
prisoners was fifty minutes.
You will be able to form some faint idea of
the affair when I tell you the engagement was
begun at a distance of forty yards, and at no
time were we at a greater distance than seventy
yards. The most astonishing thing is how
little loss of life there was. Their loss was
two killed, one severely wounded and six
slightly, with twelve missing. We had one
shot through the stern, passing through the
lamp room, smashing everything to pieces; one
shell a few feet abaft the foremast, passed
through the bulwarks ripping up the deck and
lodging in the port bulwark with3nt exploding,
and, in truth, had it exploded I would scarcely
have written you this. A second shell struck
a few feet forward of the bridge and tore up
the deck.
A third and fourth in the main rigging—one
Striking a chain plate and doubling it, both
entered the coal bunkers, but only one explo
ded, and that did no damage further than ma
king a hole in her side. A fifth shot passed
through our midship boat, and striking the
smoke stack passed through and through,
Scattering iron splinters around like hail. A
Math and last struck the muzzle of the after
broatiside gun, causing it to run in the truck,
passing over the foot of one man and bruising
it considerably, without incapacitating him
from duty. Oar casualities—one men wounded
in the chest by a splinter from the smoke stack.
Not unto us, not unto us, 0 God, but unto Thee
be all the praise After receiving the prison
en on board, we immediately shaped our course
for the island of Jamaica, at which. place I will
mail this. Your sincere friend,
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Letter f•.om Norfolk.
We have received a letter from our attentive
army correspondent at Norfolk, dated 21st.—
Most of its contets have been anticipated by
telegraph. Speaking of the rebel prisoners
captured by the forces under General. Getty
when the West Branch battery was stormed
he says : " They were brought down to this
place last night in the nine o'clock train. Ten
men of our company and myself escorted the
officers to their place of confinement, and after
wards took the privates to the boats, and they
'were shipped off under a guard from Suffolk.
They had no regular uniform, neither officers
nor men, but nevertheless were reasonably
well elad. They were quiet and submissive,
but seemed to be in good spirits—probably
thinking they would have some rest from the
toils of war."
The Soldiers want 1117C/ellau.
A friend has sent us, from Eberly's Mills,
Cumberland county, a letter from a soldier of
the army of the Rappahannock who, he says,
"-wee one of the most enthusiastic in flourish
lag his cap, cape and lamp at New Cumber
land- and other places during the last Presi
dential. campaign." We extraist that portion
of the letter which is not of a strictly private
character. The letter is dated April 11th, or
11th; we can't determine which, but take it to
be the 11th, as about that time a movement of
Hooker's forces was first hinted at by the Me
tropolitan army correspondents. The writer
says:
"We are now about to depart from this
place, where to I don't know, but it is some
place where fighting is to be done, for we got
a hundred rounds of rebel pills yesterday for
a start. If we get at them again we will feed
them powder and lead till they get tired of it
but this army will never do what it has done,
and I will tell you for what reason—every two
weeks we get a new General, and that won't
work. But give ne Oeueral trelellan and we
will fight every battle over from Williamsburg
to Fredericksburg, and do it better than ever
we did. Take this army to Fair Oaks and
give us zlattle Mac,' and we will go to Rich
mond. He is the man we want, and he is the
Ma who will be President of the United
States if soldiers have anything to say. There
is another man the 93d wants, and that is Col.
Johnson, who said to us at Williamsburg,
'Give them h--11 boys ! they shot my horse I'
Old Abe was down to see us, but we all would
sooner see Gen. ht'Clellan."
In the sentiments of this soldier, written
perhaps on his knapsack in his tent, to a friend
at home, without the least idea that it would
appear in print, we have the sentiments of the
whole army of the Rappahannock Despite all
the efforts of the administration, the Abolition
volideistta, the Officerti who are playing toady
to gain promotion, despite all the resolutions
which have been published, all the honied
kliraxo of th - Abolition press addressed to
theri, all the lies of the administration press
and one-sided committees of Congress circula
ted through the camps, the heart of the soldier
beats for 111'Clellan above all others. He is
the idol of the camp—the man whom they have
tried, in -whom they have confidence, and no
effort of his enemies can shake their faith in
him for a moment. "Old Abe was down to see
As, but we all would sooner see General It' Clel
tan." Here we have it, the genuine sentiment
of the army in a nut shell. What a mistake
was that of the President—what an awful re
sponsibility he incurred when he took from
that noble Army of the Potomac its trusted and
adored commander 1 That army is composed
of brave men, well disciplined and inured to
hardship and danger—it will fight, and fight
well, perhaps, under any commander who may
be assigned to it—but it " trill never do what it
has done," because it reposes in no other Glen
oral the confidence it gave to Gen. M'Ciellan.
[Abolition papers that have been publishing
bogus resolutions from the army are respect
fully requested to publish the above letter,
fresh from a true soldier's heart.]
Judge Pearson's Charge.
Judge Pearson has been ventilating himself,
on things pertaining to loyalty, in a charge
delivered by him to the Grand Jury of Lebanon
county. We make no objections to the opin
ions expressed by the Judge in reference to
the duty of the citizen to yield obedience to
the law, and we agree with him that secret so
cieties, bound together by oaths or pledges to
resist the law or in any manner hinder its exe
cution, are wrong and dangerous, and that
those who belong to such societies are properly
subject, by law, to severe punishment. But
without the slightest knowledge, or even a
well-grounded suspicion of the existence of
such illegally organized bodies in Lebanon, we
think his allusion gratuitous, and his remarks
impertinent and calculated to incite to anger
and resentment, rather than calm the public
mind. Then again, who aro those public
speakers and editors, or writers for newspa
pers, who so flippantly advise resistance to the
law ?" Certainly outside his own political
party there are none in his district ; and if he
alluded to Deacon Bergner and Worth, of the
Courier, he is simply ungenerous and ungrate
ful. Evidently the Judge, although he dis
claims it, is a very ardent Abolition politician,
imbued with all the heresies of the sohooi and
deeply tinctured with the old Federal, aristo
cratic idea that the people owe reverence,
amounting to almost abject servility, to the
servants, whom they have temporarily placed
in power. We repudiate and spurn such doc
trine, whether taught by a Judge Oa the bench,
or a Parson in the pulpit. We have no persons
among us who rail against the govern
ment, notwithstanding the Judge alleges
that it is a mattter of almost daily
occurrence. There are many who revile and
condemn the administration, our servants who
are abusing the trusts committed to them ; we
do it ourselves, and intend to do it, in spite of
the suggestion of Judge Pearson that such
persons should be taken before a magistrate
and bound over, under good behavior, for trial
at the next court. We claim the right to ex
amine, criticise and condemn—nay, even re
vile, if we think it necessary, and the facts
are clear and strong enough—the conduct and
opinions of Judge Pearson, the Governer, the
President, and all others holding official posi
tion by election or appointment; and when the
time comes that we cannot do so without dan
ger of liberty or life, bonds or prison, it will
matter little by What name the government is
called—it will be in fact and effect a despotism,
and Judge Pearson, holding the doctrines he
does, would be a proper ruler to reign over the
people. We are heartily sick of Bench and
Pulpit politics, and we trust that hereafter,
until our Judges and Parsons of the Abolition
school can put their fingers on persons ex
pressing sympathy for the rebels or pre
ference for them, we shall hear no more slan
derous charges of the kind from expounders
I of the Law or the Gospel.
Sequestered Lands in South Carolina,
After numerous delays the first sale of lands
sequestered and confiscated from fugitive rebels
hag aotually taken place at Beaufort, Sit The
sale was made under the direction of the tax
commissioners of the United States, Dr. W. H.
Brisbane and Judge Wording. About one hun
dred and seventy lots were offered, mostly on
the islands. Terms cash down. Rev. Dr.
Peck, of Boston, gives in the N. Y. Examiner
some of the results :
"About eighteen thousand acres were sold to
parties other than the United States, in sepa
rate lots and tracts, for slP,ooo,or at an average
price of little more than one dollar per acre.
The United States bid in' about nineteen
thousand acres, at an average price of fifty-two
or fifty-three cents per acre, or an aggregate of
$lO,OOO. These last included, apart - from the
town of Beaufort, some of the plantations ad
jacent to it, six or seven plantations at and
near Land's End, on St. Helena, various large
tracts of timber lands, and certain choice plan
tations reserved for special purposes. Fcur
of the plantations were struck off to freedmen
or their agents. Clue of these is on St. Helena,
'Orange Grove,' and brought $225; two are on
Ladies' Island ; one, the Inlet,' sold at $305,
and the other, 'Oakland,' $4OO. The fourth is
on this (Port Royal) Island, called 'Edgerly,'
which was bid of at $7lO. The last named
purchase was made on behalf of contributors
from Edgerly, associated with most of the people
of a ne!ghboring plantation, The Red House,'
who supplied part of the requisite funds."
Dr. Peck describes the process by which
these freedmen raised the money to make their
purchases, every adult contributing to the com
mon stock, that they might be enabled to re
main in or near their old homes, to which they
are passionately attached. Dr. P. visited the
last named place when the two companies who
bought it had met to arrange for their future
proceedings.
"The 'Red House' company prepared to
remain where they are for this season, as their
plots are already pttnted or prepared for plant
ing till after nest harvesting. Tice proprietors
next selected their foreman for the year, ono
of their own number ; and then - determined
the rates to be paid for hired labor ; providing
also for allotments of ground, and rentaee,
and purchases of draft an('
Discuseion was further bad
to provide for themselves, t
longer paying them wages,
doss. But this was of eh
One and all they repelled the
log at all on government. A .oey
the liberty of buying, 118 heretofore, at the
gOirvrtitnent . Store ; (*bleb the duvernor Se
mmes We will he freely granted;) or, if need
be, they will go • a fishing or oystering.' In
one or two pArtioubirs, of some significance,
they reocianized, nevercheltee, eitncinued need
of the counsel and superintendence of a white
man. They needed, they said, a protector from
injury and a helper in business transactions,
especially in the sale of their cotton. They
would need a friend and counsellor in home
matters and difficulties. And for those reasons
they were disposed to make a generous re
muneration for the presence and aid of such a
friend in the use of a house, lands, &c. Never
theless, they would have no overseer.'
• The experiment of self-support and self
direction, by these freedmen, has thus been
inaugurated. It is an interesting experiment,
and, I venture to say, a hopeful one. In an
ticipation of such efforts, inquiries had been
repeatedly made of the most intelligent and
reliable among the colored people, whether the
experiment would be a safe one. Will the
people work? Can they provide for them
selves Y And the answer had been, invariably
and emphatically, 'They can they will l' God
grant that so it may prove !"
0, certainly! these "freedmen" would "need
a friend and counsellor," and ( 1 a generous remu
neration" being in prospect, the white-choker,
Yankee, Abolition, war-preaching priesthood,
who have done nothing but howl for emanci
pation and blood for the past twenty or thirty
years, will flock to the south to make them
selves useful as "friends and counsellors" in
consideration of the "generous remuneration"
offered by their sable dupes, who, in the end,
they will probably cheat out of their property
without, in the least, having benefited their
Settle. Of all the humbugs ever practiced upon
simple, unsophisticated human nature—of all
the scoundrely operations ever put in practice
with the connivance and sanction of civilized
government—of all the crimes ever perpetrated
against God's apparent law and the plain dic
tates of humanity and reason, this emancipa
tion scheme of the administration and the
Abolitionists, is the most stupendous. The fruit
of folly and crime, it can have no other result
than the ruin of the race for whose elevation
and benefit it was professedly instituted. Nor,
we fear, will this be all. If the signs of the
times are not the merest illusions, the downfall
of the Most promising, free and prosperous
empire ever founded by the wisdom of man,
and the ruin or enslavement (perhaps both)
of thirty millions of white people will as as
suredly follow as twilight follows the setting
sun or thunder the lightning's flash.
HOOKER'S DISMISSAL RECOMMENDED.
It will be remembered by our readers that
in the report of the Committee on the Conduct
of the War allusion was made to an order, No.
8, wkioh General Burnside had drawn up, and
held ready to promulgate, with the assent of
the President ; which, however, was withheld,
and so the order never was published. Soon
after the report of the committee appeared in
print, Gen. John Cochrane, of New York, who
held a command tinder Burnside, wrote and
published a letter in defense of himself against
reflections upon his conduct for the part he
took in defeating a movement , which Burnside
had planned and had very muck at heart, by
representations to the President, which induced
him to countermand the order for the march
ing of the expedition. In the course of his
defense, Gen. Cochrane said of Order No: 8, it
"dismissed from the service and relieved of
their commands twenty general officers of the
Array of the Potomac, who had disturbed Gen.
Burnside. At tho head of this stood the
eign ti
cant name of Gen. JoE HooKER."
This ttonorkmation somewhat startled the
public, and much anxiety was evinced to see
the order, but it was not to be seen. Some
questioned the fact, so far as related to Gen.
Hooker, because the President, when he re
lieved Gen. Burnside, put Hooker in his place
at the head of the Army of the Potomac. But
now the cat is out of the bag—the New York
Herald has, by some means, got hold of the
Order, or what is said to be the Order, and
published it. We give it as it appears in that
paper of the 224;
GENERAL ORDERS—No. 8.
First—Gen. 'Joseph E. Hooker, Major General
of Volunteers and Brigadier General of the
United States Army, having been guilty of un
just and unnecessary criticisms of the actions
of his euperior officers and of the authorities,
and having, by the general tone of his con
versation, endeavored to create distrust in the
minds of officers who have associated with him,
and having, by omissions and otherwise, made
reports and statements which were calculated
to create incorrect impressions, and for habitu
ally speaking in disparaging terms of other of
ficers, is hereby dismissed the service of the
United States, as a man unfit to hold an im
portant commission during a crisis like the
present, when so much patience, charity, con
fidence, consideration and patriotism are due
from every soldier in the field.
This order is issued subject to the approval
of the President of the United States.
Second—Brigadier General W. T. IL Brooks,
commanding First Division Sixth Army Corps,
for complaining of the policy of the govern
ment, and for using language tending to de
moralize his command, is, subject to the appro
val of the President of the United States,
dismissed from the military service of the Uni
ted States.
Third—Brig. Gen. John Newton, comman
ding Third Division, Sixth Army Corps, and
Brig. Gen. John Cochrane, commanding First
Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Army Corps,
for going to the President of the United States
with cririciams upon the plans of his comman
ding eMeer, are, subject to the approval of the
President, dismissed from the military service
of the United States.
Fourth—lt being evident that the following
named officers can be of no further service to
this army they are hereby relieved from duty,
and will report in person without delay to the
Adjutant General of the United States Army :
111:.jor General W. B. Franklin, commanding
Left Grand Division.
Major General W. F. Smith, commanding
Sixth Army Corps.
Brigadier General Samuel D. Sturgis, com
manding Second Divisio - n, Ninth Army Corps.
Brigadier General Edward Ferrero, com
manding Second Brigade, Second Division,
Ninth Army Corps.
Brigadier avneral John Cochrane, comman
ding First Brigade, Third Division, Sixth Army
Corp.
Lieutenant Colonel J. H. Taylor, Acting Ad
jutant Geueral Right Grand
By command of
Major General A. E. BURNSIDE.
LEWIS RICHMOND, Assistant Adj. GM
uis with'Simon Cameron, also an Adju
tant General in times gone by ? Was he not,
by the Telegraph, and dispatehog to all the
newspapers,' a sympathizer with the rebels?
Ask the IThitideiphis Inquirer, the New York
Times, World,' .Tribune, .Herald, ands Ocea.
THE FAMOUS ORDER NO. S.
- -
11RADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THR POTOMAC,
January 23, 1863.
* *
For the Patriot and Union
knows the warlike deeds of Adjutant
.1 Thomas, a Major General by brevet in
'my of the United States? What is he
mi what was he (Vier the trtg) he made to
sional," that rascally moo of the Pray ?" Who
is great at weddings or christenings—at re
sponses or funerals—who but Adjutant Gene
ral Thomas ? Who is a ladies' man—who is a
a duck of a soldier"—who looks after and
lodges with contractors—who but Adjutant
General Thomas? But what says the Army
Register ? Never a battle—never a siege—no
thing but West Point at the nation's expense
ever heard of Adjutant General Thomas ? The
hero of a speech at Lake Providence, in Lou
isiana, a place so small, so utterly a desola
tion, that it would have cost less to purchase
its site and all the surroundings, than it will
when the Treasury is called upon to pay Adju
tant General Thomas's bill of expenses after
negro recruits. Who is Thomas ?
Tux KIND or num—The New York World
holds the following on the peace question :
And now for our very brief say on the peace
question. We will never, either with a major
ity or against a majority, consent to peace on
the basis of disunion until ono of two things
are apparent which we connot see now. If we
should be so whipped by the rebels as to take
away all reasonable hope of destroying their
armies we should consent to peace, perforce,
and eat, with the whole North, the bitter bread
of humiliation. Or if, by the loss of the next
Presidential election, it should be made certain
that conciliation will not be practiced toward
the South after its armies are subdued, thus
precluding the possibility of its government
without a subversion of our republican insti
tutions, we should then• be for peace, whether
acting with majority or against a majority.
We had rather see two free republics within
the limits of the United States than one cen
tralized military despotism. But we do not
yet so far despair of the military spirit or the
public virtue of the people as to see no escape
from despotism but in the gulf of disunion.
It is certain that, in the'present temper of the
South, peace is attainable only on the basis of
separation. We are wholly opposed to separa
tion, and will never voluntarily consent to it,
except in the last resort as a refuge from des
potism. If the loss of the next Presidential
election should put us "between the devil and
the deep sea" we will then entertain the ques
tion what is to be done next. But at present
to advocate peace is simply to acquiesce in dis
union.
-ATE TVS OF TEE DAY.
Among the Washington items in the Phila
delphia Press, under date of April 22, we find
the following:
Rev. Mr. Martin, residing in Maryland, op
posite Alexandria, has been arrested by order
of the military authorities, on the charge that
Ile and his family had been holding a secret
correspondence with the rebels, and freely
avowing that they are secessionist a. Orders
have been given to send theta beyond our lines.
Fifteen refugees from Richmond, all of whom
were foreigners, were picked up eighty miles
down the Potomac, and brought to Washington,
to-day. They had converted their funds into
gold and State stock, wed appeared very term
ions to go further North. They paid $5 in
rebel money for a dollar in gold, and $3.50 for
a dollar greenback.
It appears by a Muinfordville, Tennessee,
dispatch of the 22d, that the expedition to
Celina was a complete success. It had re
turned with a lass of but one wounded and one
missing, and reported ninety rebels killed and
the destruction of the town of Celina, one hun
dred thousand pounds of bacon, twenty thou
sand bushels of wheat and corn, one hundred
barrels of flour, the same amount of whisky,
sugar, coffee, tea, salt and other stores, and
forty bouts used by the rebels to transport
euppliez.
A.1.7.1uV0 from i'ort ißoyai state that all the
monitors are being iron plated on the deeps.
The rebels at Charleston had made an attempt
to raise the .Keokuk, but with - what success is
not stated. [This should have been prevented
by at least one iron - clad remaining to keep
them off. It is strange that our commanders
could not blow herup, or even raise her guns.
The Richmond papers claim that the guns have
been raised by the Charalestonians, and will
soon be put te.use.]
HELENA, Ark.,
April 7.--SPECIAL ORDER,
No. 3.—The following officers., nonfbommis
sioned officers and privates, are announced as
the officers of the Ist regiment of Arkansas
volunteers of African descent. They will be
detailed from their respective regiments to
raise. the troops, and as rapidly - as the com
panies, battalions, and regiment are organized,
they will be mustered out of service and dis
charged, and be mustered into the new regi
ment : Colonel, Lieut. Col. Wm. F. Wood, let
Indiana cavalry; Lieut. Col. Capt. James
Campbell, 24th regt. Indiana infantry; Major,
Capt. Geo. Benson, 46th regt. Ind. infantry ;
Adjutant, Sergt. Major Win. Lyon, Ist Ind.
cavalry; Regimental Quartermaster, Com.
Sergt. Edw. M. Burr, let Ind. cavalry; Sur
geon, Asst. Surgeon J. J. Patterson, let Ind.
cavalry ; Asst. Surgeon, private J. A. Martin,
11th Ind. infantry.
. The New York Tribune's special communi
cates from Milliken's Bend, Louisiana, April
13, as follows :
The expedition of am Steele's division in
the neigborhood of Greenville, Miss., (one
hundred and twenty-five miles above here,)
and the region of the Great Sunflower river,
has now been absent for eight or ten days, and
has met with remarkable success—having cap
tured twelve or fifteen hundred head of cattle,
three or four hundred mules, and several thou
sand bushels of corn, in addition to destroying
ten or twelve thousand bushels belonging to
the foe.
Nearly eight hundred sick soldiers from the
Lower Potomac arrived in Washington on the
22d. Col. Baker's detectives arrested John
Rabotean for disloyal language. Declining to
take the oath of allegiance, he was sent to the
guard house.
Gen. Thomas, the government's negro agent
in the Southwest, arrived at Milliken's Bond
on the 11th. Besides his authority to organize
negro regiments and punishing white officers
and men for - incivility to colored soldiers, the
special of the Tribune clothes him with full
power to " examine into the competency and
loyalty of the officers, and to remove all, how
ever.high their rank s who may be found guilty
of disloyalty, or any practice unbecoming their
position." This is on the principle of setting
a thief to catch a thief. It is only a few
months since Gen. Thomas was denounced by
half the Abolition press as a disloyal man and
traitor.
The proxy soldiers bill reported in the
Senate of New York by Senator Low, and pas
sed through that body some days ago, was car
ried in the Assembly on Wednesday (22d) by
a vote of 05 yeas to 59 days—four absent.
The Tribune rejoices at the passage of this ab
surd and unconstitutional act, and remarks :
IL It `only requires the Governor's signature to
make it a lihr." The 7'ribune will please in
form us of the fact when Governor Seymour
signs it.
A Chattanooga (rebel) dispatch April 15,
says mail boats between Louisville and Cincin
nati have been pressed to carry Grant's army
to Tennessee. [We should like to to believe
this, but it strikes us the movement is alto
gether too wise to be thought of by our military
managers.]
By telegraph yesterday morning:
NEW lona, April 23.—The steamer Eagle
from Havana, with dates to the 18th, arrived
last night. The advices from Mexico are to
the 12th. According to the French accounts,
[for which due allowance must be made,]
Comonfort was defeated in the attempt to join
Ortega in Puebla. Ortega attempted a sally in
the direction of the Capital, and was driven
back. It was said Ortega had offered to capit
ulate, but this was refused by the French Gen
eral, who demanded an unconditional surren
der. . A deputation of women asked Gen. Forey
not to bombard the city, which request he com
plied with, having sufficient appliances to com
pel a surrender. A rumor prevailed in Havana
that Gen. Forey had suffered a defeat. [So
the accounts are about as complicated as they
were yesterday.]
From Richmond papers of the 20th, we learn
that the new canal started by Gen. Grant at
Milliken's Bend will reach the Mississippi near
New Carthage; It is believed, on the authority
of a Jackson dispatch of the 17th, that Vicks
burg will be attacked within ten days. The
Federal batteries opposite Vicksburg fired on
the city on the 17th without effect. A Jackson
dispatch, 18th, says : Col. Coswell (rebel) is
at Grand Gulf all safe. The Federal gunboats
are thirty miles above. Scouts from the Upper
Mississippi report troops still coming down.
The battery opposite the city had a good range
to • day, but - no damage was done. The Federal
gunboats are at New Carthage.
By telegraph yesterday afternoon :
t r .EW YORK, April 23.—At a meeting of gen
tlemen representing the Erie, New York Cen
tral, Pennsylvania Central, and North and
South Shore lines, held to-day, it was resolved
to hold a convention at the American House,
Buffalo, on the 29th inst., to consider the sub
ject of paying commissions upon passenger
traffic and proposed advance of rates upon
emigrant travel. The Presidents of all rail
way lines between Boston, New York, Phila.
deladelphia and Baltimore, and Cincinnati,
St. Louie, Chicago, and connecting lines be
yond these cities, are invited to attend, or to
send one delegate, with full power to act on
subjects 'submitted for consideration.
ST. Lours, April 23.—There has been no new
movement of the enemy in the vicinity of Pilot
Knob. Gen. M'Niel's forces from Bloomfield
were expected to reach Pilot Knob yesterday,
and a heavy force of cavalry from Rolla are
moving in the rear of the rebels. Although
the enemy is suppased to be several thousand
strong, no apprehension is felt for the safety
of Pilot Knob or the Iron Mountain railroad.
Major M'Co nnell, who was reported mortally
wounded, was taken prisoner and paroled, and
is now at Ironton.
CAIRO, April 22.—(8pecial to the St. Louis
Democrat.)—Our gunboats have destroyed the
rebel battery at Warrenton, below Vicksburg,
and the fleet was lying at anchor before Car
thage on the 17th. General Grant was to go
down on the same day. Gen. Ellett's marine
brigade 4/141 Gen, Fitch's light draft gunboats
have nearly swept the Cumberland river of
rebel cavalry, who were sent out on both sides.
Some severe fighting occurred, and many priso
nra_ were taken. Florence, Tuscambia, and
of.rler places were visited.
WasurnaroN,April 28.—Dispatches received
from Admiral Wilkes state that he was at Eleu
thera, one of the Bahama Islands, on the 16th,
having left Havana on the 11th inst. As he
makes no mention of having been on parole at
Havana, the report to that effect is doubtless
founded upon -error.
• NrAT YORK, April 22.—Tle paper manufac
turers held a meeting yesterday, and agreed to
stop half their work on writing paper and quar
ter of their work on printing paper. - The ob
ject of this movement is to increase the price.
FORTRESS DIONROE, April 23.—The Richmond
papers to-day contain felegraphie information
from Port Hudson confirming the loss of the
Queen of the West and Diana. The former
got aground in Grand Lake, and was blown
up by shell from the Federal gunboat Calhoun.
The Diana was burned by the rebels. 116
prisoners, including 7 officersovere captured
from the Queen of the West, including Capt.
Turner, commandant of the fleet. A dispatch
froth Berwick bay, 15th, reports the Federal
force beyond Franklin, La., and . marching on.
No reports from Charleston. •
CINCINNATI, April 23.—The Gazette's Nash
ville dispatch says—Gen. Mitchell has issued
an order that all citizens must take the oath of
allegiance within ten days or go South. Six
hundred citizens took the oath on the 22d.
Oui. gunboats destroyed the rebel casemated
works at Warrenton, on their passage down,
and now lay at anchor at Carthage, La. Gen.
Grant has gone there. Troops are moving in
that Airection, and hot work was expected
soon.
Burnside has issued an order forbidding the
traffic in Confederate scrip in his department.
BRITISH EXPERIMENTS WITH IRON TARGETS.
—The British still keep up at. Shoeburyness
their experiments, trying the effect of big guns
upon iron targets. On the 17th of March the
most complete and most decisive experiment
was performed, and the results are particularly
interesting to this country, which has just
Witnessed the great but indecisive fight at
Charleston. Whatever may be the opinion,
from the experience of that fight, that our iron
clads are able to stand:any fire from Fort Sump
ter and the surrounding batteries, it is certain
that the British improved guns have penetrt.
ted iron only an inch less thick than that
which composes the Monitors' turrets. The
iron plates did not all back each other. The
target, however, was differently constructed, the
center of the target was seven and half inches
of rolled iron. Then ten inches of teak wood,
backed with inside plates three. inches thick.
The iron was superior to any formerly used,
And the distance was two hundred yards. The
shot fired from Armstrong's 300 pounder, load
ed with a conical shell shot 296 pounds weight,
was fired, with 15 pounds of powder, struck
with a velocity of 1298 feet per second full
upon the center of the ef inch piste, where it
was backed, driving in a circular piece of iron
10 inches in diameter quite through the plate,
bending in the whole plate itself to the depth
of an inch and a half, and buckling its ends
outwards more than an inch. The massive
wrought iron girder which creased the whole
back of the target horizontally, was bent. out
and broken in several places, as were also the
inner ribs, the 2 inch skin was bulged and
cracked, the rivet heads loosened, and many
knocked off altogether. The examination show
ed that the target had received a meet serious
shake, though, from the wonderfully good
quality of the iron, there was little of actual
fracture, except in the spot on which the shot
itself bad struck. The next sh(.t from the
same gun, loaded with a shell weighing 28
pounds, and charged with 11 pouiids of Powd er,
was fired with 45 pounds charge, and struck
upon the part of the target 51 inches of iron out
side, backed with 10 inches of teak and yt
inches: of iron. The shell rtruek with a
loony
o f law feet per second, went complete
ly through the outside iron, then burst in the
inside, blowing the teak to minute fregi nente,
setting it on fire, breaking off many of the
rivet heads, and tearing the inner skins of iron,
21 inches thick, into rough shredded gap e,
as if they had been so_ much cardboard. The
target being so much injured, the other cap e _
riments were less conclusive, but the practical
results elicited by the day's experiments seem
to be these—first, that iron plates of 71 inches,
or greater thickness, can be produced with D,4;
much perfection, as to quality and strength,
as those of 4 inches ; secondly, that there are
guns the fire of which the strongest armor.
clads could not face and float for ten min
utee.—Ledger.
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