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pendent* for the county of Allegheny, will men
at the ST. CHARLES HOTEL, in the city of Pitts
burgh. on SATURDAY. the 10th at! of MA Y
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THOMAS DONNELLY. Chairman.
FORNEY ON CORRUPTION.
The reports of the investigating com
mittee, in Congress, revealing, as they
have, an amount of corruption in the War
Department altogether incalculable, have
. at length attracted the attention of the vir
tuous Forney. - lint does honest John--
that fierce patriot and foe to traitors, lend
his pen to expose and denounce those who
luti , e been preying spon the very vitals of
the government? Does he lash the crew
of cormorants, who, while professing the
most ardent patriotism, were engaged in a
eMmiracy to speculate upon the country's
neeSludties? Nothing of the sort; he sim
ply sinnounces the fact of the Van Wyck
Committee having made a report, which
hatiAMen noticed by the "Breekinridge
pre*"
.Of Pennsylvania, and then pro
ceects as follows:
."And upon the revelations of this com
mittee and the vote of censure in the
House, they propose to arraign the whole
Repdgican party, and to prepare for the
coming elections on the encouraging theo
ry that the Republicans are a set of per-
Instant .scoundrels."
It is, very . evident that this renegade.
Forney, has his whole heart in the enter
prise -of keeping the Republican party in
power, His "Douglas Democracy" is at
length "played out;" he has removed that
long worn mask, and comes out squarely
for what he has been laboring for since
1858.
But Forney is mistaken when he says
that the Democracy "propose to arraign
the whole Republican party " fin• the
crimes of its leaders. This might (14) for a
corrupt demagogue like hintself—hrraign
ing as he does the thousands who favored
Breekinridge's election for that, traitor's
subsequent revolt to the rebels—but the
Democracy have no intention of holding
the honest Masses responsible for the nu
merous infamies committed by those in
. power. On the contrary the Deinoeracy
in Pennsylvania intend to inform the mass
es of all parties of the stupendous and
systematic assaults made upon the finan
ces of the government, by an organized
band of - plunderers, who have succeeded,
according to investigation, in filching from
it no less than sixty millions of dollars.—
This is what the Democracy intend doing;
and judging by the temper of the people
at present, we are inclined to believe that
they are in an admirable mood tbr receiv
ing this sort of information. - The people
of all parties wish to know why certain
gentlemen_think that Cameron's -appoint
ment to the Cabinet was the "best that
could have been made for Pennsylvania."
Upon iiiVestigtition it will be found that
tholes who think so have not been neglect
ed in the distribution of patronage and
contracts; it will be seen that Forney him
self is handsomely interested—not, per
- haps, directly, but by a convenient deputy;
it will be seen that numbers of Congress
men, too t .have been affectionately remem
bere'd, and newspapers, like the Pittsburgh
Gazette, have to keep silence upon these
enormities, because of their proprietors
being in the service of the War Depart
ment, These, and many other interesting
particulars, will be given to the people
prior to. the fall elections. The war being .
over, we will have time for investigation
and reflection upon the details of the in
numerable transactions mentioned, and if
the m a sses do not conclude that we have
in Pennsylvania more scoundrelism, hid
under the flimsiest covering of patriotism,
than anyone State can well bear up under,
then we shall conclude that public virtue
has departed from the people and that self
government is a miserable failure. This
is simply the enterprise in which the De
mocracy of Pennsylvania will soon be en
gaged, and not as the suckling renegade
Forney atates—holding the Republican
masses responsible for the acts of their
lesdere." Little as we think of Forney's
honesty, we do not feel justified in holding
him responsible for the treason of his Vice
Presidential candidate, Herschel V. John
son.
GEN. MoCLELLAN
_ —The Abolition hounds are still after
McClellanLsome of them openly de
nounce hit t because the enemy retreated
from Yorktown. The savage persecutors
of the ablest . ..wen:in the field would have
been pleased if McClellan had. been
drivaßmith••slaughter from the field, if
only to gratify their partizan hate of
him. The. New York World, a Repub
lican paper, alluding to the evacuation,
says:—
But why were the rebels permitted to
escape freak'. Yorktown at all? The an
swer is :at hind, and the time has come
when it should ke.metle public. The rebel
army has escaped Only because General
McCiellan's plan was interfered with, and
in an essential particular upset, by the
Secretary of Itrar. General McClellan
proceeded down the Potomac with the
understanding that General McDowell was
to follow him with his corps it armee. It
was intended that the operations against
Yorktown should be preceded by the tak
ing :at Gloucester Point by McDowell.
Had.: ehis
.plan - been• adhered to, retreat
wonkkAave been impossible. It is the
SecritarY of War who is Answerable for
the amaze of Johnson's army—a blunder
which leis defrauded our brave soldiers of
figh c
th e -! of that valiant and vigorous
•• - . r- which Mr. Stanton professes
so urn admiration.
Tan mottim-growing movement is pro
iVassijiAvorably in Jamaica.
WHO PAYS P
Mu. Enrroa—l hear a great deal of talk
about the want of funds for the-relief of
the families of soldiers now in the service
of their country. There appears to be some
holding back on the part of county agents
in calling upon the people to provide
means for women and children whose hus
bands and fathers arc now doing the work
which permits the farmer to raise his crops,
and all other men to pursue their vocations
in peace and with profit. There is no hold
back on the part of the city—men and
money have been provided lavishly, anti I
have been almost tempted to say, a foolish
expenditure of money (vastly dispropor
tionate to the minty) ins been frequently
exhibited. Early in the campaign up
wards of twelve thousand dollars were sub
scribed and paid, in a few days. for the
relief of tilmilies of volunteers. This was
all expended in providing outfits to several
regiments going from this place, with the
expectation that the State would return
the money, that it might be applied to its
original purpose. A good deal of this was
expended to buy uniforms for Colonels,
Captains and other officers who receive
excellent pay and are obliged to furnish
their own clothes. Kill they return this,
that the families of the poor privates may
buy bread; the State certainly will not?
Again, the city generously stepped fin•ward
to relieve the government of the cost of
maintaining, a portion of sick and wound
ed, which will cost, lam informed, up ,
wards of six thousand dollars. Some
might say this large amount of motley
would have been more properly applied
to our Own poor people, as the State and
General Government have made ample
provisions for all actually in service. I
think not; money is plenty, and all our
people want to know is where they may
apply it most effectually to advance the
cause.
As the subscriptions and exertions are
voluntary, my experience is that the most
generous have been most frequently called
on; they are expected always to subscribe.
and they do. A large number of wealthy,
and some of them very noisy patriots, in
town, but particularly in the country, have
not subscribed a cent, nor devoted an
hour to the advancement of any benevo
lent enterprise connected with the war—
the only way they can be reached is by a
general levy. It is not. oppressive and
they should not grumble, particularly as
it equally applies to those who have given
from the beginning. There is a necessity
for a little well digested public opinion on
this subject, fin. the liberal should not be
fleeced to death, whilst others equally in
terested refuse to give a dollar to poor
women and children and to whom it would
be no crime to give even if they were not
the thmilies of volunteers.
THE RECENT NATIONAL
SUCCESSES
English Views of the Surrender
of Island Ten, the Rattle of
From the London Times, April '22.
The tiding"; of a great battle fought in
America, and the report of tens of thous
ands slain, wounded and captured. conies
to spur our flagging interest in the transat
lantic civil war. The indecisive and un
certain skirmishes of the last six months
had induced the English public to wait
with patience for ultimate results rather
than to Ibliow with excitement the vicis
situdes of the contest. The gradual ap
proaches, by river and by sea, the landing
of isolated expeditions upon different por
tions of the coast, the advance of gunboats
pushing their way up great- rivers, and; the
sudden embarkation of the great army of
the Potomac, if they were parts of some
grand scheme, were parts of a scheme so
vast in its whole, yet so delicate in its de
tails that it could not be comprehended at
this great distance, anti with the imperfect
geographical knowledge of the villages and
townships of America which
.is possessed
in this country. The English people have
been content to wait and see what this
opening of the game was to lead to.—
Hitherto only the pawns had been pushed
forward, the important Confederate pieces
had been driven back upon the board, and
the important Federal pieces had been
worked into a position for attack. A few
pawns haul been taken on either side, but
we had for the most part begun to wait
until some great swoop of the queen or
some'
‘dangerousL - check from a knight
should recall us to the table and give an
anxious interest to the game.
At last this has happened. The China
brings us news of three great events. 'flue
first- seems to be clear enough. On the
stli inst. Island No. to surrendered to the
Federal gunboats. The Mississippi,there
fore, is to this extent clear of Confederate
obstruction, and the gunboats of the Fed
erals can descend the great river until
they meet with some new impediment, or,
if they think it wise to trust themselves so
far, until they gain the neighborhood of
New Orleans.
From the Times of the 22,1.
The great battle of the Tennessee seems
to deserve the fume that has been claimed
for it. Divesting it of its span g les and
blue fire, the simple fact comes out in
ficient grandeur. There was two days'.
conflict between two very considerable
armies.
It was a drawn battle, and the first cred
itable encounter on either side which has
taken place during this war. We have
too much blood relationship with these
men on both sides, although the South are
snore purely English than the others, not
to wish that, if they will fight, they may
fight well. Apart from the facilities which
the great navigable rivers give to a power
ful invader, this would be a great Confed
erate victory; for to an invader, under the
ordinary conditions of invasion, a check is
defeat, and defeat is ruin. But all former
rules of warfare are set at naught in thii
strange New World struggle. When na
val supremacy can be made available many
hundred miles from the sea, and an army
can be sustained in the midst of a great
continent by supplies brought by steam
boats from depots hundreds of miles dis
tant; and when gunboats can run up and
dcwn throughout that continent, and take
part in every battle that happens within
cannon-shot of a river, the laws of Euro
pean tactics do not apply. With such fa
cilities in the hands of the Federals, Gen
eral Grant may be able to afford even such
victories as those he claims on the Ten
,itessee. But we should he very much
mistaken if we thought that this affair is
calculated to bring the war to an end or to
discourage the Southern people. Already
it had given far more apprehension than
hope in the Korth; and it will ,be seen
from a private telegram which appears in
another column that reports were rife in
Bid imore of new achievements by the
Merrimac and a repulse of McClellan at
Yorktown. These are probably but indi
cations of a state of public feeling not very
confident of an earl• consummation of the
great Southern conquest.
. ,
IT ill now repotted that the tax bill will
be brought before the Senate on Wednes
day next. Bettet late than never. A
tax bill Of some kind is imperatively tie
:
eessary to duet Our immense debt. fin
less this matter . is attended to the bears
will soon have as tine a time in the stock
market as the bulls are now having. Tax.
senators, tax.
liMi=l:=MMl!
Gen. Blenker not Superseded.
The story that Gen. Bleaker has been
superseded by Gen. Roseerans in the com
mand of his division is a mistake. Gen.
Blenker's division :has been ordered to
join the command of Gen. Roseeraus,wh o
ranks Gen. Bleaker, and therefore, when
they may he together, will command both,
Gen. Bleaker covassinding kis own divi
sion as before., under *us.' =
What the Loss of The Rhombi
sippi Will Do Towards Crash
ins the Rebellion.
From the Vicksburg Whit, April ZS. -
If we lose the Mississippi, we lose
Louisiana. Arkansas and Texas. We
lose all the sugar., and much of the stock
and grain growing lands of the Confeder
•acy. They will he cut off and of nobetteOt
to us. The East will be severed from the
West. A complete
.possession of all the
territory west of the Mississippi is a
physicial and moral essential to our cause.
The bra aches of a mutual commerce, of
idea, sentiment, trade and blood are
warped together more closely than the
gnarled boughs of those kindred forests
which stitch a twining brotherhood along
our border line.
NV° must not allow apathy and overcon
fidence to cut them off from us. They
must remain with us. Our present life
and flan re career are slaked upon the
issue. Ii we lose them now it will take
years of fighting to regain them. Every
thing then would be at the mercy of the
enemy, and all our "pleasant places"
would be tilled with Vandals, while misery
and ruin would mark their every step.—
We hope our authorities will look to this
matter at once, and place the Mississi..i
river in a proper state of defence. - et
every available point be fortified, and
with brave and invincible hearts and strong
and powerful arms, we can hold our
own, though the world should be arrayed
against us.
From the Petersburg Expreas Mug?.
Water Approaches to Richmond
' to be Closed.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Common Council was held yesterdayatler
noon. The important subject of obstruct
ing the water approaches to this city and
Richmond was introduced and considered,
and the Council appointed a committee of
- -
t free. consisting of Messrs. Lemuel
Peebles. D'Arey Paul and FL W. Siggins,
to confer with the proper authorities rela
tive to the propriety of so obstructing the
Appomateox and James rivers as to pre
vent the approach of the enemy's gun
boats. This is a step in the right direction,
and one that deserves the earliest atten
tion of both the government and the coot-
Mittee.
Fruto the l'etersburg Express. May 2.
Petersburg. in Danger—Rebe
Gunboats Wanted.
We hare a city of nearly 20,000 inhabi
tants, situated on a water course easily
ascended by the light draught gunboats of
the enemy. Our position is very import
ant, insomuch that if Petersburg should be
captured by any possibility, Richmond
would certainly fall. Then we would be
no inconsiderable prize to the enemy
either. Our immense storehouses and
their contents would offer some induce
ments to the Yankees to pay us a flying
visit, to say nothing of the great advan
tages thew would gain and the tremendous
injuries they would inflict by getting pos
session of our railroads. We believe a
sufficient Fnm could be raised here and
it. the South• Side counties to build a
very formidable gunboat. Who will broach
the matter. aml who will make the first
deposits?
FIRST WARD
Frew
the Richmond Enquirer, Mos 2d.
l'nion Prisoners to be Released.
The live hundred and odd Yankee pris
oners confined in Richmond have been in
particular high gleu within the past few
I days, at the news that they are to be imme
diately sent home on parole. They, or
I rather the most of them, have enjoyed the
pleasing advantage of a residence in Rich
mond for several months, and when they
get back home will doubtless spin out many
a direful yarn of their sufferings, which, in
the monotony of their prison ease and re
laxation, their imaginations must have
conjured up for the occasion. They will
be sent down the river, we understand, by
way of Yorktown, where they will be hand
ed over to their evil genius, Gen. McClel
lan.
Frew the Alentgetuery Advertiser.
Colton Cowing into Fedora.
We learn from an officer just from North
Alabama, who is well acquainted with the
country, that the enemy aresecuring a con
siderable amount of cotton by means of
threats to the planters should they burn it.
Quite a number had burned their cotton,
and some of them had been captured. The
Yankee forces are spreading through the
country in the neighborhood of Tuscumbia,
which is in their possession, but they are
closely observed by Colonel Ileim's Kan-
tueky cavalry. A skirmish occurred a few
days since betwet-n a party of these and
striae Yankees, within the limits of the
town. There were twenty-one of our men,
Dull tour of whom showed themselves.—
The enemy, after five of their number were
killed, fell back, with the intention of
drawing our men into ambush, but they
were too shrewd for them. We under•
stand that the bridges at Florence were
burned by our men.
From the Millechterille..(oa„) Union.
Loom of Officers.
During the past three months we have
lost many valuable officers. It is beyond
question that the Yankees have sharpshoot
ers, wearing bullet-proof breastplates,
whose especial business it is to pick °Wont.
officers. At the battle of Shiloh an unu
sual number of our officers were wounded.
In sonic of the Alabama regiments every
field officer was wounded. Is there no way
to put a stop to this mode of warfare f If
the Yankees are allowed to fight us with
breastplates, should they be treated as pris
oners of war when caught? We say not.—
When one is taken with his steel life-pre
server on he should be hung to the first
tree. And why may not our army organ
ize, a corps of sharpshooters also, to pick
ofrthe Federal Generals. It is a game two
can play at.
Buckner and Tilghman. *-
A Fort Warren correspondent of the
Plymouth (Mass.) Rork says that Gen
erals Buckner and Tilghman take a daily
promenade on the parapet of the west cur
tain or side of the fort, between the hours
of nine and twelve in the forenoon, and
thus tells how they may be distinguished:
Should any ofyour readers Ross between
the hours named, and see a single person
passing backward and forward, with an
easy, pleasant carriage of person, and
wearing a light-colored sort of Kossuth
hat, they have seen Gen. Tilghman. If,
on the contrary, it should be a man with a
kind of Scotch cap upon his head, and is
cool winds a plaid scarf around his neck,
large enough for u lady's shawl, with the
energetic, regular step of a cadet, and
looking like a • Highlander of good pro
portions, with a dignified, erect, military
bearing, that man is Gen. Buckner. In
variably they are alone, as there are but
two or three allowed to speak to or be with
them under any circumstances. A
CUSTOM HOUSE,
Pittsburgh. April lith, 1862.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN
th-',7 that "SEALED PROPOSAL/3" accom
panied by proper guarantees according to forms
to be furnished on application at this Office, will
he received thereat. until 12 o'clock— meridian, en
the FIRST TUESDAY OP JUNE N'EXT. for the
supply of Provieions, Medicine. &e., enumerated
in said forme, for one year. commencing on the
first of July next, and ending on the thirtieth of
June following. The quantities stated are esti
mated with reference to the usual number of pa.
don'ts in the Hospital; but the United /Naas re
serves the right to take more or Isis of mod arti
eles. mwordingly as they may be moire& If the
articles delivered at the Hospital are not in the
judgment of the Phisician of the best smear and
edentate the Hopwitai, howill be' at libeo in
reject the teptse other artiekeht their
steed. and to thoeuntrarder with any ex
cess ofeest osier theileltdriset 'lst*s. The United
States nooryeetho4hpit to secHt Rs •
the whole or eaypeetlegAlSOlMl eyed-
Sed. • -
8111541 . Surveyor lid •
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SOUTHERN NEWS.
Hands.
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Twenty mortar and three gunboats were
engaged against the forts, silencing them
after six days incessant fighting. The
chaine across the river were removed by
our gunboats. The rebels sent fire rafts
down the river, but they did but little
damage. One set fire to the Hartford, but
it was speedily extinguished.
The United States gunboat Verona and
the rebel iron-clad steamer Webster had a
splendid engagement. The Webster run
into the Verona and sunk her, but before
I going under the Verona's crew poured in
la volley of eight guns, so destructive and
crushing that both the Verona and Web
ster went down- together. -
Arrangements for the surrender of Forts
Jackson and St. Fhilip'were to be made on
the 27th alt. The day after the steamer
D. Jackson left Fort Jackson, the Ram'
Manassas was sunk by the U. S. steamship
- MiSsissippi. •- 4- 1. - ..:e : t • - -- -
Our forces sent small boats to. the pia,
and towed thim out of the way beton
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First Edition'
LATEST NEWS BY TELEMPI
ANOTHER BRILLIANT ENGAGEMENT,
OUR OCCUPATION OF WILLIAMS
BURG.
700 PRISONERS.
Enemy's Loss Very Heavy
OUR CA VALHI'
PWRSUIT.
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
Particulars of the Taking of
Forts Jackson and St.
IP4rbur liundrod Prlt4onereb 91.`tt
ken undone nlboat Lost.
ELEVEN OF TUE ENEMY'S GEN
(MATS BUNK.
Splendid Engagement—Two Boats go
Down Together after a Terrific
Broadside.
WASHINGTON, May 7.—Dispatches re
seived from 'Gen. McClellan announce
the evacuation of Williamsburg by the re
bels and that our army is following them
vigorously on the the road to Riehmond.
The battle of Monday was very severe
and the loss of the rebels proves to have
been large.
The following has been received at th
War Department :
HEADQUARTERS ARMY OF THE PoTOMAC,
May 6th, 1862.
To Hon. EDWIN M. STAXTOS, SeeTetary o
War:
I have the pleasure to announce the oc
cupation of this place as the result of the
hard fought action of yesterday, The ef
fect of Gen. Hancoek's brilliant engage
ment yesterday afternoon was to turn the
left of the enemy's line of works. Ile was
strongly reinforced, and the enemy aban
doned the entire position during the night,
leaving all his sick and wounded in our
hands.
His loss yesterday was very severe. We
have some three hundred uninjured pris
oners and more than four hundred wound
ed. Their loss in killed is heavy. I have
sent cavalry in pursuit.
The conduct of our men has been ex
cellent, with scarcely an exception. The
enemy's works are very extensive and ex
ceedingly strong, both in respect to the
position and the works themselves; our
loss was heavy in Gen. Hooker's division,
but very little on other parts of the Geld.
General Hancock's success was gained
with a loss of not over twenty killed and
wounded.
, The weather isgood to-day, but there is
great difficulty in getting up food on ac
count of the roads. l ery few wagons
have as vet come up. Ain I authorized to
follow the example of other Generals. and
direct the names of battles to be placed on
the colurs of regiments? We have other
battles to light before reaching Richmond.
(EO. B. MeCLELLAN.
Major General Commanding.
NVlLmAussr no, May 6.—The enemy
evacuated this place and their works in
front last night, the rear-guard passing
through about six o'clock this morning.
At nine o'clock General M'Clellan and
escort entered the town and took posses
sion. About one hundred and fifty of the
enemy's sick and wounded were left behind.
without any rations, medieines or surgeons.
They also left a number of their dead un
buried.
All of our wounded in yestirdav's en
gagement who fell into their hand's, were
left behind.
Col. Dwight, of the Excelsior Brigade_
who was severely wounded in the engage
ment, of yesterday, and taken prisoner,
was also left in the hospital.
The enemy suffered terribly. Genera
Ricketts was killed.
The enemy had a force here yesterday
of filly thousand men, and only decided to
eyacuateafter the gallant bayonet charge of
Gen. Hancock.
The town is very pleasantly located, and
the majority of the white inhabitants are
remaining. The number of the enemy in
our hands is about one thousand, including
the wounded.
WAS N I NGTON, May 7.—The Fortress
Monroe boat, which left at eight o'clock this
morning, has arrived at Cherry Stone,
bringing the following:
WII.I.IAMSBURG 2 May 6.
To Hox. EDWIN M. STANTON, Secretary of
War:
Every hour proves our victory more
conwlete. The enemy's loss is great, es
pecially in officers. I have just heard of
fire more of the enemy's guns being cap
tured. Prisoners are constantly arriving.
G. B. M'CLELLAN,
Major General Commanding.
Nsw Vous, May 7.—The steamer Co
lumbia from Havana, with dates to the 3d
inst., has arrived.
The United States gunboat Daniel Smith
arrived at Havana on the 30th ult., from
Fort Jackson, with dates to the 26th.
The attack on .the rebel forts below New
Orleans commenced on the 18th. On the
23d Commander Farragut, in the United
States sloop Hartford, with thirteen steam
ers,passed the forts, and Gen. Butler land.
ed 4,000 men above.
The rebels lost eleven gunboats and the
Hollins turtle, known as the Manassas rain.
Our force took 400 prisoners. We lost
150 men, and one gunboat, the Verona,
was sunk.
On the 24th a flag of truce was sent to
Commodore Porter, asking the condi
tions for a surrender, to which Com. Por
ter replied, "no con ditions."
Our flag now waves over the Custom
House.
An American war steamer reports cap-
turing three rebel steamer, and sending
them to Key West.
Another rebel steamer was chased into
Bahia Honda.
Second Edition
TOE I'Elll LATEST TELEWPII,
MERRIMAC OUT AGAIN.
GALLANT CHARGE OF NEW I
M • CLELLAN IN CLOSE PUR
SUIT OF THE ENEIIT. TREI
BURNING BRIDGES.
IN CLOSE
FoaTnE;i: Mosnou. May 7.—The Nor
wegian corvette Nepion arrfyed this morn
ing and the commander visited Genera
Wool and salutes were exchanged.
The Merrimac was out to-day hut di
nothing
Rumor brought by the mail basal from
Yorktown. The enemy have crossed
Chickahomin g and destroyed bridges in
their rear. McClellan still pursuing.
The four o'clock boat Iron Fortress
Monroe brought us authentic news front
Williamsburg. The eorrespondents are
probably with the advance,, which is dis
tant from telegraphic communication. It
will be cone time before a correct list of
the casualities can he forwarded. •
NEW MARK' ET, May 7.—Yesterday after
noon a detachment of the sth New York
Cavalry made a reconnoissance towards
Harrisonburg. When five miles on this
side they encountered upwards of 200 of
Ashby's Cavalry. They charged on them
and pursued them within two miles of the
town. Ten rebels were killed and six ta
ken prisoners. Our loss was one killed
and a battalion Adjutant. taken prisoner.
The work on our side was done with the
sabre and was a very gallant affair.
An officer from Mount Jackson this
morning says the guard at the bridge near
town reports that some guerilla cavalry
attempted to hurn the bridge last night but
were repulsed. NO ntli ein COn tirmation
has been received.
Gen• Grant's Report or the Hat
tie of Shiloh the only' oue Re
turned to Washington.
WAstnwros, May ;.--The Secretary
of War, in re.4ponse to a resolution of the
I louse, calling fn• the regimental and brig
ade reports of the battle of Shiloh, says
that the report of General 'Grant is the on
ly one received up to the 2d inst.
The Speaker has appointed Representa
tive Bingham and Pendleton to present to
the Senate the Humphreys impeachment
question alluded to in the report of yester
day's proceedings in the House.
France at War with Mexico.
New Yea e, May 7.—Vera Cruz dates o
the'24th. received via Havana by thesteane
er Columbia. state that the French have
opened hostilities and taken possession of
Orizabog.
Cordova has declared for Almonts.
The British Minister is said to be hold
ing a private interview with I Blado at
Puebla.
The Mexicans have received reinforce
ments of »,»00 men, and Oen. Zaragosa
would dispute the march of the French.
The Spanish troops on the Island of St.
Domingo hail attacked the Haytiens, and
a form, of several batteries and a number
of troops hail been sent there.
The Spanish claim the title to certain
lands which the Millions will not yield.
Indictment for Treason.
CisciNx.vri, May 7.—The United States
Circuit Court, April term, ISLA, the Grand
Jury found an indictment of treason against
James IV. Chenoweth. for furnishing sup
' plies and munitions of war to the rebels.
At the present term Ex-Senator Pugh,
counsel for the defendant, moved to quash
the indictment, on the ground that the
first clause of the third section, article
third, of the Constitution, which provides
that treason shall consist only in levying
war, refers to rebellion, while the second
clause, on adhering to their enemies in
giving aid and cornibrt, relates only to a
public war with a foreign enemy. Justice
, .
Swayne gave hit: oeconon yesterday, sus
taining the :notion. by quashing the indict
ment. To-morrow's Enquire,- will contain
the decision at length.
Nol Taken Prisoners.
etscissATl, May D.—Capt. Hazlett, of
the Second Ohio, arrived here on a sick
furlough. Neither himself. Capt. ISFKin
tn..). nor Lien?. I tyal wt t,. takenprisoners
at Pula-1 r 4.1 from Lou isvi Ile
yesterday. ca ;t. Ha.dett regrets'the re
port of Ili:. tal.io.: ! - parole.
Thirty-Ses•enth Congresm,
Wesnisurox. May 7th.—lforsE.—Trie
House resumed the consideration of the
Nebraska contested election ease. A de
bate ensued, Mr. Richardson and Mr.
Pendleton advocating the claims of the
contestant. Mr. Morton, who also argued
his right to the seat occupied by Mr. Daly.
Mr. Dawes replied to Mr. Voorhies'
speech of yesterday.
Mr. Washburne moved the whole sub
ject to be tabled. Curried: ayes 64, noes
38.
This vote retains Daily in his seat.
Mr. Crisfield caused to be read the re
solutions of the Maryland Legislature ap
propriating $lO,OOO to those of the Mas
sachusetts Sixth Regiment, who suffered
by the riot in Baltimore on the 19th of
April, 18111, and the response of the Mas
sachusetts Legislature acknowledgment
of the generous sympathies and kind fra
ternal feelings thus exhibited, which
should always prevail among the States
of the Union.
Mr. Crisfield said these proceedings
afforded some sign of a restoration of
peacefid relations, while we were receiv
ing accounts of the glorious success of our
arms.
Adjourned.
SENATE.-A message was received from
the House. announcing that the House had
resolved that a committee of two be ap
pointed top House
to the Senate and in
the name of the people and the of
Representatives, impeach W. H. Hum
phreys, a Judge of the District Court of
Tennessee, &c., and that tile House had
appointed Messrs. Bingham and Pendle
ton a committee from the house, to ap-
pear at the bar of the Senate.
Mr. Bingham said, being ordered by the
House of Representatives to appear at the
bar of the Senate, in the name of the
House of Representatives and of all the
people of the United States we do im
peach W. H. Humphreys, aJudge of the
United States for the several districts of
Tennessee, of high crimes and misde
meanors.
p The President pro tem, Mr. Foote, pre
' sented the petitions of •citizens of New
, York in favor of a bankrupt act.
Mr. Kennedy of Ind. or Md., presented
the petition of citizens of Maryland asking
for the immediate and unconditional re
peal of the law abolishing slavery in the.
Dist. of Columbia and better enforcement
of the fugitive slave law. Also a petition
from N. D. Bowie asking compensation
for a slave who had been appropriated to
the military service of the Government.
Mr. Fessenden from the committee on
Finance reported a bill to make anapprol
priation to reimburse the sinking fund for
extra expenditures, and for the employ
meat of temporary clerks in the office of
Secretary of the Treasu4. Passed. Also
the House bill to provide for thepayment
.of the troops in the western Perajment.
Thie „bill appropriates something. ,ever
thirty million dollars.
The House of Representative ill
duo time, exhibit the particular ,
impeachment against him anitinakelood . ;
the same; and we do demind that the'
Senate take order for the appearance of
the said W. H. Hu m phreys to answer the
said impeachment. The President, Mr.
Foster in the chair, the Senate will take
proper order on the premises.
Mr. Wilson, of Mass., introduced a bill
for the appointment of Military Store
keepers.
On motion of Mr. Wilson, of Mass.,
the bill to limit the number o f Brigadier
and Major Generals was taken up; the
question being on Mr. Hale's amendment
to make the number of Brigadiers 180 in
stead of 200.
The President pro tem announced 'as
the Select Committee on the Confiscation
bill: Messrs. Clark, chairman. Collamer,
Trumbull, Cowan, Wilson, Massachusetts,
Harris, Sherman, Henderson and Willer.
Mr. Trumbull asked to be excused. He
bad voted against the Committee, and
thought. he could do no good upon it. He
was excused, and Mr. Harlan appointed
instead.
After an executive session the P.en
adjourned.
• Latest from Europe.
NEW Youx, May 7.—The Australian ar
rived to-day with Liverpool dates to the
231 ult.
The steamer Tubal Cain,
with arms and
ammunitiou, had sailed for Nassau, but
doubtless intended for the South.
The London Star gives a report that
Austrit has demanded explanations rela
tive to Lord Pulinerston's late speech, so
far as it regards the retention of Venetia.
The London Times has a sarcastic edi
torial on President Lincoln's proclamation
for a day of thanksgiving, and says it was
quite premature, as affairs at the time were
most critical and battles were impending.
It asks the meaning of that part of the
proclamation which refers to the deliver ,
ance from foreign invasion and interven
tion, and scarcely thinks it can be for the
tardy justice done in the Mason and Sli
dell affair.
Nearly all the Irish members of Parlia
ment had signed a petition to the House
of Commons for the restoration of the Gal
way subsidy in France.
It is reported that the bill placing at the
disposal of the Emperor the amount in
tended to reward the army and navy, will
be immediately placed before the French
Chamber. It is proposed to consolidate
the public debt of France in one uniform
security at 3 per cent.
Irm.r.—Garibaltli has renounced his in
tention of going to Southern Italy.
It is reported that Victor Emmanuel
will remain at Naples, and from thence go
to Rome.
The French and Italian troops had come
to an arrangement for the suppression of
the reactionary movements on the Papal
frontiers, and were acting in concert.
C/JINA.—A Shanghai dispatch of March .
13th, says that it is rumored that the rebels
made an attack on Foo Chau.
1 he itussian loan of ten millions was to
be announced in London on the 28th, but
for this it was supposed that the Bank
Minimum would have been reduced to two
per cent.
TIIE LATEST. — Livenporm, April 26.
The American Minister has taken for a
terns of years a house in Upper Portland
Place, 'London, whither the office of the
united States Legation will be trans
ferred.
The Times has an editorial on the
American struggle, and sees nothing for
the blacks but slavery, extermination or
expulsion.
A weekly journal is to appear in Lon
don, next week, advocating the cause of
the rebels.
The Literary Gazette is defunct, after
an existence of 45 years.
Prince Dolgoronski has been banished
for life from the Russian Empire, for re
fusing to obey the Imperial order to return
to Russia.
The treaty of commerce between Russia
and Turkey has been ratified.
A battle between the Turks and insur
gents had taken place in Albania. The
Lurks lost four hundred men and four
cannon.
The Calcutta and China mails have
reached Marseilles. The American por
tion will be sent by the next steamer.
LIVERPOOL, April 25. Cotton.—The
sales during the week have been 59,000
bales, closing buoyant and with an up
ward tendency. Prices have improved
fd. The sales to speculators were 20,000
bales, and to exporters 5,500 bales. The
sales to-day were 7,000 bales, prices still
advancing; the sales to speculators and
exporters were 2,000 bales. The closing
quotations are: New Orleans fair,l44cl.;
13k. ; middling, Mobiles t'air, 1-1; mid.:
dlin *. gs, 131; uplands fair, 13t; mi ddlings,
13
BusADSTU FPS.—Messrs. Wakefield &
.Nash quote flour dull, and 6d. lower.
Sales at 265.6.075. Wheat very dull.
Mixed corn dull at ld.E.2d. lower; white
corn nominal at 335.
Avkateoot., Saturday Evening, April 26.
—Coton is firm and unchanged, -sales 5,000
bales including 1,000 bales to speculators
and exporters.
Breadstuff:s quiet and heavy, but without
alteration -in sales.
2,000 Prisoners Taken by General Pope'
Near Farmington; Tenn.
- •
CAIRO, May 6.—The steamer Ella arriv
ed from Pittsburg Landing at nine o'clock
last night.
On Sunday afternoon General Pope, by
placing a battery of artillery in an open
field, near Farmington, in sight of three
regiments of rebels, succeeded in luring
them on to take the battery, when he took
the whole force, numbering two thousand,
prisoners.
Deserters report great dissatisfaction in
the rebel army, both among officers and
men. Beauregard had made a speech to
his troops, saying that he would make a
desperate stand and force the federal army
to retreat. He appealed to his men to
stand by him.
Orders had been issued to the Federal
troops to march Sunday night : but they
were prevented by the condition of the
roads, which heavy rains had rendered
impassable.
h Considering the Tax Bi lll.
Wastrixcrox, May 7.—The Senate will
without unnecessary delay proceedto con
sider the action of the tax bill, and it is
thought the report of the Committee of
Finance will be adopted without material
change. The tax . of 20 cents a gallon on
whisky end 20 on a pound of to ba cco, it
is estimated, will yield forty millions.—
Should the, views of the minority com
mittee prevail, it is supposed the revenue
from these resources would be considera
bly increased.
Antieipating Trouble.
PHILADELPHIA, May 7.—Three eompa.
nies of Home Guards have gone to Potts
ville on the requisition of the Governor to
prevent outrages by_ the miners, who being
on a strike, have stopped the pumps so
that the mines are being flooded with
water.
At Smith's Ferry, May' Ilth, at 111 'o'clock, Capt,
SAMUEL SMITH, in the 57th year of his age.
He was one of our most sneeestful steamboat
captains and owners.
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Gen. Welellan Mr. McManus
EV.DIPiTRICT ATTORNEY .11101 IN
JI. KIRKPATRICK will be a candi
date for nomination to the above office, bethre the
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