DAILY POST. The adieu ea it wars The Ceastitatien ma It Ist SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 17 mirErrasena * co.. NO. $7 v..' PARK ROW, NEW YORK. and • STATE - • - STREET, BOSTON are our sande for the Daily and Weekly Pest in those cities, and are an thorned to take Advarthiements and Subsetiptiotui kr us at our Loren Rates. aeadllag matter an every page PICAYUNE BUTLER " The selection of the St. Charles Hotel by • Gen. Butler as his headquarters, must be, to the residents of New Orleani, " the unkindest cut of au." Only a few months since, the journals of that city positively slanted the General was no more nor less than an aged colored barber named Pica yune Butler, who some years previously kept a shop under the hotel which then occupied the site upon which the present St. Charles Hotel was subsequently built. The story was widely circulated through the South and as widely believed."—ln wirer. This General Butler appears to be one of the hardest headed officers in the ser vice; from his first achievement at Hatteras, until his entrance into New Orleans, he has not made a single blunder. While our fussy, blatherskite pretenders ma- demagogues, like Fremont, John Cochrane and Cameron, were indulging in empty speeches and proclamations, Butler, and other sensible men like him, were making an impression upon the rebel strongholds. Although a capital talker, he has refrained from making speeches, except to encourage his countrymen in joining the service and crush the rebellion. He is just the kind of stuff required for war purposes. Gen. Butler is an ugly creature, but he can't help it t any more than the country editor of the Gazette can prevent his being handsome. The homeliest feature of the General is his eyes ; they are quite small and, sunken and provokingly . crooked. They point right in towards the point of his nose, and when gating right at one, he seems to be looking out like a fowl in a thunder storm. In this way he fools the rebels, beerinse, when apparently looking out for squalls, he makes out to see "all that's going on " among them. He is just the man for New Orleans 5 full of re sources, and havinra previous knowledge of Southern character, together with polit ical antecedents, not objectionable to Sonthern.politicians, we should'nt be sur prised to hear of him within a few weeks ironer supplanted the rebel chieftains in the affections of the people, and bringing back the folds of the Union the erring though repentant State of Louisiana.— Shoalii _be accomplish 410-7-thereby . . re dicing the present absurd price of sugar— we will be the first to order out our Home (laird Invineiblex, and give hi tn a triumphal entry into our city upon his return to his tranqiil home in Massachusetts. There, in, his native New England, he can, like a true - Democrat, spend the remainder of his . days, in the sweet contemplation of issOng .. , reclaimed a commonwealth fr om rebellion, the acquisition of which, by President Jefferion, *as by that great man repelled as the crowning act of his mag nificent administration. Ma STANTON. The,New York ,papers are still dial* it into:the Beeretary . of War. One paper says that although he was always burly ano bulky, requiring an unusual amount of cassimere to properly embellish his fair proportions, of late he has swelled to such an extent as to be entirely too ponderous for the latest fashions; which means, we presume, getting too big for his breeches. The Worktsays: "The country will learn with profound astonishment that, the correspondents-of newers will not be permitted to tele- Srsh au of the coming bode at Uonnthilitterlt - has taken place, until the. , report islirst revised by a military censor at Cairo. Mr. Stanton is evidently d!temined to doctor the news before it is given to. the country, but why he should want to do so is a mystery that passes comprehension. If we are beaten the fact must come - out. It cannot be con cealed. -If we ire victorious the sooner it is know* the better." WHITE . DESTITUTION. The New 'York World contains the fol lowing, and we direct the attention of the Pittsburgh Casette to it especially. That paper'is in Lvor of bringing four millions of slam into the Free States, because "therein enough for us all," and because they are 'entitled to "natural and political equality." The World says : "Rig a saindialtothe city that thousands of women should be daily besieging the Major's•office fin. money to support them selves aad families in the absence of their husbands at the seat of war. It is quite tithirtlits — matter was understood, and if the soldiers-WI not provide for their wives and &Wm they mart - apply for relief to the us 'llokitj , charities." Whaidoee our abolition philanthropist say . _to this ? No word about "lordly masters,", "cringing slaves," and "clanking chains;" as is its sympathy is all reserved for imag inary evils at, a convenient distance. ilk. The Garet*, having killed off Mc- Clellan, is now engaged in the congenial tackofpliinizingthat virtuous man, Cam eron. An editor who could slander a gal lant'and successful soldier, and then prop Cameron, aftorthereport of &Congression al Committee on his official oonduct, is be yond hope of forgiveneas in "this world, or the world to come."- Bereti Howard on VionirCloUan Wisemerow, May 14. Senator Howard of Michigan ; mites to the 'National Int e ligeacer of to-diyto con tradict its statement that the Military pom mittee of the Senate,. who lately visited Yorktown, were 1 11111,111mous in the opinion that the L. ..reatsat possible credit was due to General Mc Clellan for compelling the iintc nation of so importanta stronghold with so iftde of Mk; and that they umpressed the utitinitkoonfidence in - the complete suc cess of his plans for the subjugation of the rebellk, e. The Senator says th a t, so fir , asheis chniernedi thestatentent is with ti authority. The frie - 141 of Gen. !Catal an to act feel AIMING 'TEM =MOW • Al ar m Notwithstanding the tire - helm ing triumphs of theltaign d the .7,7„. striking indicationiCt .iiim of•dannbelliabt • in still insists upon l a n nin glit• -.1 :di*, if fir no &Mil purposithanhAskii dim our heroic ~ .__ . ~ soldiers a portion ottheigloitY achieved by their effortiffo destroythe hiniteeltion.— This questbn being up for _Consideration in Congress, on Wednesday !mt. Mr. Phelps, of Missouri, said: "This is a war of white men, not of Indi ans and negroes, and the proposition to employ negroes to fight against white men is worse than one to employ Indians to fight against white men. During the American Revolution, when a proposition was made to employ savages for the pur pose of putting down the rebellion of the thirteen colonies, it was denounced in the British Parliament. The slaveholders, or a majority of them, were the last to give in to this rebellion, but those who from the first plotted this rebellion placed them selves at once at the head of the State gov ernments in nearly all the Southern States. They had the executive and other State officers, andtheycontrolled the legislature, and they could do, therefore, whatever they saw fit to do. When the people of the seceding States met in convention and passed the ordinance of secession, by which they declared that they no longer owed allegiance to this government, they enacted the necessary ordinances to adapt themselves to the condition in which they were then placed. There are laws on the statute books of every State pnnishingper sons for treason against their State gov ernments, and a Union man in anyone of these rebellious States, if he had risen up to assert the supremacyof the United States, and declared allegiance to the gov ernment, would thereby subject himself to threefold punishment: First, the punish. ment oftreason against the so-called Con federate government; secondly, for trea son against the government of his State; and, third, the punishment of being ar rested by the military authorities, of the Confederate government, either to do ser vice or be despoiled of his property. As to the employment of negroes, the people were compelled to give the labor of their servants to aid in the construction of for tifications and intrenchments in the vicini ty of the rebel armies. They did not do so willingly. They were coerced by mili tary authority, for the people themselves. or a majority of them, were opposed to the rebellion. It would be wicked and unjust to turn the arms of these negroes against their former owners on the plea thit they were opposed to and in arms against the government. .Chaa. H. Foster Snubbed The following letter from General Burn side shows that he is as good a civil as he is a military manager: HEADQCARTERS DEPARTMENT OF N. C., NRWEERN, April 21. 1862. Chas. Henry Foster, Esq.: SIR :-I see by the Newbern Progress of Saturday morning that you propose to speak to a political assemblage in this place on Wednesday next, which I think would be very . unwise in you to do, and decidedly unwise in me to allow. You occupy no official political position in the State, as was evinced by the refusal of the House of Representatives to grant you a seat in that body. The President of the United States has very wisely appointed a Provisional Gov ernor for this State, who is a native there of, and was at oue time•.one of its most prominent and influential citizens, and represents at this moment the views and feelings of a majority of the people of the State of North Carolina. • The Government will•doubtless indicate its civil policy to Governor Stanley, and I cannot consent, in the meantime, to em barrass either hint or the Government by initiating myself, or allowing, any one else to initiate any civil policy. From my own experience in matters of this kind, I am sufficiently embarrassed .already in ts king note of civil cases that absolutely require immediate attention. The occupation of North Carolina, thus far, is: purely military. Another very serious objection to tile assembling of such a meeting as you pro pose is that I have never beeni nformed by any one that it was in contemplation. None of the citizens have represented to me that they desire a,meeting of this kind, and officers and soldiers of the army have no right to originate or organize political ' assemblages. I beg to say that I do net question the honesty or disinterestedness of yonr inten tion, but the wisdom of your course is to me clearly open to criticism, and the meet ing cannot be allowed to assemble. (Signed) A. E. BURNSIDE, Maj. Gen. Commanding Department, N. ('. The Williamsburg Battle.. A correspondent "states : Hre'we got the first Philadelphia newspaper which professes to publish accounts from the ground of the recent battle near Williams. burg. It is astonishing that even Ameri can history can be written so falsely and so unjustly. The reader of the reports in The Philadelphia Inquirer would certain ly suppose that Gen. Hancock's tight on our right was the principal battle. Hew easy it is to correct this error. Hancock had only between twenty and thirty killed and wounded, and only four regiments en gaged. His,affair was but & skirmish. On the left, Heintzelman was compelled to fight- a great battle of vastly more con sequence than Bull Run, and he won it, too. He bad seventeen regiments engaged from first to last—twelve of Hooker's and five of Kearney'n; and his loss in killed, wounded and missing, was two thousand andfortyliz ! I have told the story of this bloody battle that the'conrage of our men enabled Heintzelman to fight for six hours against the odds of , three to one, and against other and greater odds. than disciplined troops ever before encountered. And wider and wider spreads the opinion through the army every hour that it only needed that Sumner should have spared Heintzelman a third or a half of his force, standing idle in the woods, only a mile off, to have enabled him to crush the enemy right at Williamsburg, and have taken or dispersed the great Williamsburg , which we may now have to fight again on Sunday in the Chicahominy swamp. . While quartered at Williamsburg, Gen. ...McClellan rode out on Wednesday, while the troops were on dress parade. He rode along the lines of Hooker's division until he.reaohad the brigade in which the -Fifth ,Wisconsin regiment was drawn up, and near where I was standing. Then, rais ing his cap, he pronounce(' in clear and sonorous tones the followingirords : General McClellan's; Address to Me Troops that Fought at Wilhowiallourg. My lads, I have come to thank you for your gallant conduct the other day. By your bravery and steady discipline you saved the day. You have gained honor for the army, for yourselves and for the States which are proud .to own you as their sons. You shall-lime Williamsburg emblazoned m 3 .1 your banners .. You have stood by me f aithfully: Continue todo so, and your gfstefnl country will never forget you. I neet , pot say that this stirring . ..li . ttle speech allied forth the utmost enthus iasm : ' I whole iy idolizes McClellan, and to be thin oompented by him was felt be as honor indeed. _ -' • o f Nan Tae.sin? after 00 , 141 / 4 , be ‘l an th Aotbuglesi-smooreiv.• -Plainfie ld,fun: 14 44. e1eP 4.. .......... .. ,..t ,hant 71P.IPMt: "toinj COM of '`.` -7-philsosi or too a dosio'.o4 •A- div : tom utfimitlf i a t ,mr• that ~. rel. kt~" t GREAT NAVAis mir TIOTORT AT PORT Narrative of Um) Engagement : PARTICULARS AND INCIDENTS; The special correspondent of the Chica go Times gives a graphic description of the engagement at Fort Pillow, under date of May 11th. We give a few extracts: The Attack. The sun rose clear yesterday morning, though its early rays scarcely penetrated the heavy haze that spread over the entire surface of the river. The morning air was hot and murkish, inducing lassitude, and almost faintness withal. It was after six &clock when the mortar boats---but two this time—were towed down to their posi tion. The haze still covered the river, making it impossible to see with distinct ness more than half across the river. Cap tain Davis, for prudential tOasons, ordered the.gunboat Cincinnati, Captain Stetnhel commanding, to convoy the mortars down, and remain with them as u guard. The mortars reached their positions, and were moored to the timber, the Cincinnati also running her bow into the shore near them and making fast to the trees. Having ob tained what she bad reason to consider her position for the day, the awnings of the gunboat were spread, and the crew were set to work washing down her decks. In the midst of this occupation, the look out discovered the enemy coming around the 'point only a mile astern. The boat was immediately cut loose from her moor ings, the crew beat to quarters, and such preparations as could thus quickly be made for action were made. The enemy appeared with three gunboats and a ram—the latter a powerful contri• ranee, combining immense weight and strength with high speed and admirable steering facilities. ller hull and boilers. as those of all the rebel rains, were those of old New Orleans' tow-boats. The up per works of these -were cut away; their sides protected, in some instances with a laYer of railroad iron, and in .other:i only with bales of tightly compressed cotton, hooped and bound together, one -to the other, with iron bands. Their bows are pointed and sharp, and apparently of solid iron. At their first appearance, the gunboats manifested no disposition to come up the river, but sent the ram ahead to tackle and destroy the Cincinnati, thinking then, doubtless, to run up and make easy prey of the defenceless mortar boats. The Cin cinnati perceived the movement and ap prehended its intent. The ram was already half way up to her before she was cut loose, and then the accumulated drift-wood on her bows prevented her getting out into the stream. fo back out would be to run di• rectly upon the enemy while they were seeking to run into her, thus adding to the force of the blow with which they would strike her. In this dilemma, she let fly her stern guns full into the face of the reb el, and at the same time attempted to crowd along up the shore, hoping. before moving far, to succeed in getting tier head out. Her guns made not the slightest ap parent impression upon the ram, which still held its course and was rapidly coming upon the entangled gunboat. Again the steam guns were let go full into the face of the enemy, but still her progress ; was not retarded in the slightest. A moment more and her tremendous weight came with terrific force upon the starboard stern quarter of the gunboat, but, without inflicting any serious damage. The three of the blow, however, threw the stern of the vessel in and enabled her to get headway from the shore. Then, in tnrning out, bang,,bang, went herbroadside, directly in to the saucy rebel craft, which was hacking off preparatory to renewing the assault. The Engageinent. The heavy and frequent firing of the Cincinnati quickly attracted the attention of the rest of the fleet, lying from two to four miles above. These and all vessels in the service are required to have fire - in their furnaces eonstantly, and a low head of steam on. On this occasion it seemed a long time while they were firing up and in creasing their steam and getting under way. Yet within ten minutes after the time the first gun was fired, the Benton was in ino tion,headed for the scene of action, and before twenty minutes had elapsed both she and the St. Louis were engaged. The Carondelet and Mound City were:not far behind: The Pittsburgh was moored high the stream, and was longer in getting to the scene of aetiom . The' Cairo ' through some misunderstanding of signals did not leave her moorings. While our boats, were thus falling into line, one after the 'other, the rebels were also being reinforced. Three more rains soon appeared around the point and also the gunboat Van Dorn. The rebel gun boats steamed off into the hay cau ,, ed by the abrupt bend in the river at this point, and lay off as a reserve corps, while the rants alone• were sent forward for close action The Cincinnati and the Mon. Again the gunboat prepares to open fire on her assailant, and the ram seeks an op portunity to renew the assault. The Cin cinnati has worked herself away from the shore, and is now afore easily handled.— Turning to and fro. she ,gives her antago nist broadside after broadside, with no ap parent result. Still be comes on. As he nears his object, his'steam apparatus . is . gcit 'ready, and his - crew, armed with small. arms, prepare to board the Federal craft. Captain Stembel, seeing these demonstra tions, orders out carbines, boarding-pikes. - and cutlasses, and also put his steam bat tery in readiness to give thwrebels a warps reception. On they come, closerand closer, and chug! The boats collide with fearful violence, followed by the crashing of tim bers, and the bending of iron, and the shouts of men, and the discharge of mus ketry, and, above all, another broadside directly into the enemy, now immediately alongside. Amid this general uproar, Capt. Stembel rushes upon deck, and, seizing a pistol, with admirable aim dis charges its contents into the head of the rebel pilot, killing him instantly. The pilot's mate seized a gun, in retaliation, and shot. the gallant Captain, just as he was turning to give his attention to some other-duty, the ball entering high up on his shoulder behind, and, passing in an upward direction through Ins 'neck, came ourunder his ehin. lie fell instantly; and was carried below. In the meantime, the.enemy, in attempt ing to get their steam battery. into play, met with a serious casualty by its:explos sion, by which a large number of their crew were badly scalded. To add 'to their consternation and dis comfiture at this unlooked-for catastrophe, the steam battery of the Cincinnati was opened upon them, deluging the craft with scalding water and steam, in the midst of which they were glad to withdraw. There were probably not enough men on hoard the ram left unhurt to work her, as she did not again come into ac tion. Sinking of the Mallory. The Cincinnati, thus released from her butting antogonist, was left free to pay her respects to the rest of the strange visitors. Although leaking badly from the effect of 'the concussions of the ram, her first offi cer, who assumed command when Captain -Stembel was wounded, kept her in action, sad did;excellent execution' with her long range . guns against the rebel gunboat fleet Ipat off in the bay. I wish I could recall .this name. which has now escaped me.. 4e s a gallant fellow, and deserves eilnaltiL natation- On "win" command• he.,401..t0.: dmi k ee P li tr i reA 4 .o96l/Elliw p :1,41 lksit;:nittl' 41/111TO She. , Itiastat_gnit Alias • Mare Imam and • . , termined bravery werenever compressed into so few words. +a It was soon aiterthis withdrawal the ram that the Mall*, which is also'-ffitted Oa WillUM l ol/041111 - carrying a heavy .Mina mthig, moved its and singlid out the.crip- Cliteintidt as'. her special victim.— Thiicraft; was morlumbering and slower than the ramaproper, and could not be so easily worked about. She worked very hard to get her nose into the Cincinnati's side, but every time was foiled by the movements of the latter. At last she had apparently secured the desired opportuni ty, and was crowding all steam to make good headway, when an unlooked for ad versary appeared. The St. Louis bore down upon her, unseen until close to her, and then the came the unavoidable collis ion—the rebel was cut half in two „and sunk immediately. Her ere* perished with her, but half a dozen or so escaping by clinging to the St. Louis. This Was a most brilliant manoeuvre on the part of the St. Louis, relieving and probably saving the Cincinnati, whieh was already halt sunk and almost unmanageable from the weight of water in her hold. Seeing her condition, the Acting Flag-Officer signaled her to withdraw, and she . 141.4 run upon the shoal at the foot of the island, where she now lays upon the bottom. The General Engagement. Language is insufficient to do justice to the general engagement" which was in pro gress while the incidents narrated above were enacting. The .rebel gunboats fired but few shots, and those fell harmlessly about our boats, or if striking them glanced off without damage. Their rams, on the contrary, were constantly busy, flying about in all directions, seeking opportunities everywhere to do some butting. Indeed, this was the main reliance of the enemy ; they had calculated, with these heavy and swift vessels, to ride our fleet down with little or no difficulty. But they had a big job on hand. The Federal fleet was averse to being thus summarily disposed of. They obstinately avoided their assailants whenever it was possible, and, when this was impossible and they were struck, they refused to sink. All this was doubtless very provokingto the rebels, as it was grati tying to the Unionists. It was the more galling to the enemy . because of the per sistency of our boats in firing heavy broad sides in quick succession, and then follow ing it up with bow and stern guns, creating a din and roar, terrific, grand and destruc tive. The sixteen guns of the gehtou, and the thirteen of the other boats of our fleet that were engaged, nearly seventy guns in all, and all in constant play it may be well , be imagined caused au uproar in which a single report was scarcely distinguishable. In the midst of all this din and apparent confusion two of the rebel boats were wholly destroyed. Who or what boat should have the honor of destroying them cannot well be determined. Shells were Hying thick and fast from all our boats. The denseness of the smoke rendered ac curate aiming an impossibility. Suddenly there was an explosion which proved to be ' one of the rebel gunboats. A shell had reached her magazine, and exploding there had blown the craft to atoms. Her crew were all lost. Scarcely was the ex tent of this disaster realized, when another i of the same fleet met an almost similar I fate. In this case the shell struck her boiler, causing a steam explosion, scalding and burning the crew, and turning the vessel into a wreck. Many of the crew jumped overboard, but the majority perished with the boat. The Mound City and McCrae. During the engagement of the McCrae— ex-revenue cutter at New Orleans, a pow erful three masted screw steamer, now the rebel flag-ship—attacked the Mound City. As she came upon the little Yankee gun boat she seemed like a huge elephant at- I tacking a horse, so great was the disparity in their sizes. On she came at full speed, headed directly upon the Federal boat. The Meant! City greetotherwith a broad ! side, without in the least checking her advance. Her bows had evidently been i greatly strengthened inside, and were I plated with heavy iron, furnishing a per ' feet resistance to our missiles. The. Mound City was put about, and another broadside fired, this time at very close range; but with no better success. Her head was put about, and her three bow guns had scarce !ly discharged their huge missiles cruse against the huge prow ot. the vessel, with out producing the slightest damage, when the boats struck.with a tremendous crash, making a bad breach in the starboard quar ter of the Mound City. The McCrae then backed off not daring to expose her sides until a sale distance was put between her and her adversary. It is supposed ; that she was herself damaged, us in backing off she hauled down her flag and did not again come into action. The Mound city was ran upon the shoals to prevent hsr sink ing. She has been pumped out tn-day, and is now on her way to Cairo for repairs. The Euewy Retire. The action hid now lasted about forty five minutes. One of the enemy's boats had been sunk and two blown up. The rest of their fleet was sadly crippled. They had lost huudreds—perhaps three or four hundred—of men. •To prolong the fight was to ensure the destruction of their entire fleet, and the sacrifice of hundreds of more men. They therefore gradually fell hack under cover of the smoke, and what was left of them skedaddled around the point to the protection of their land batterie, and we were left the undisputed victors. The Cost. The cost of this most signal victory was but trifling. We lost one man—one of the gallant officers of the Cincinnati. He was her fourth master, Mr. Jennings, shot by a musket ball through his abdomen. He lingered until to-day, when he died. The brave Captain Stembel also received a most severe wound. He has been sent to Cairo and will recover, should there be no further hemorrhage from his wound. Two seamen on the same boat received slight wounds. This is the complete list of our casualties throughout the fleet. The only boats that sustained any dam age were the Cincinnati and Mound City the latter is already afloat and will be re paired within a week. She has been sent to the government ship-yard at Mound City. The Cincinnati lays with four feet of water on her gun-deck. The only pump here has been at work on the Mound City, but being released there will go to work at the Cincinnati immediately. That ves sel will be afloat by to-morrow or next day, and can probably he very quickly re paired. PROM WASHINGTON The Hopes and Fears and Plots of the Radicals. The breakdown of the Arnold-Lovejoy bill is the cause of 'exultation with all border State Unionists; but other schemes to Africanize the South are in the abolition budget. Fears begin to be expressed that General Halleek may have to wage an un equal contest at Corinth, and that General McClellan must fight a desperate battle at Richmond ; yet the radicals insist that the war is substantially at an end. At one moment they are depressed by fears, and at another wild with schemes to confiscate property in States which have not yet been recovered. It was not from principle, but policy, that many radical republicans signified to i Mr. Lovejoy that he must abandon his 1 .sweeping measures of abolitionism. They I had ascertained they would be beaten bya small vote; but so far from giving up their cherished schemes they will Prosecute them ander other foram The abolition of slavery here has made Washinotin, the *glum of riatma _. - . . 4 11•11conStatrt „ - • ', • T .4lWhigtiPPAgiliOars 2 Firms.. LATEST NEWS BY TELEGRAPH. Preparations far Battle by the two alaAd Armies. WASHINGTON, May 15.—The news re ceived-at the War . Department to-day, dated yesterday, from the armies of Gen erals McClellan and RaHeck, indicate preparation, but no movements or engage ments of importance bad taken place. The News from Corinth. CAMP ON CORINTH ROAD, Mi 55., May IE4 —The following ; is a paragraph of a special Gehl order just issued: " Guards will be immediately placed along the line to Chambers' creek. No officers or, soldiers will be permitted to pass to the rear, and no citizens to the frontef the line, without special authority. Commanders of army corps and divisions will see their camp cleared of all unauthor ized hangers-on, and any one attempting to evade this order will be compelled to work on the entrenehinents, batteries, or in the construction of roads." This is understood to apply to all per sons, correspondents•included. Fifty-three privates, three corporals and one sergeant, captured at Dresden, Tenn., are coming in this morning under a flag of truce. An equal number will be sent to morrow in exchange. Colonel Jacob Thompson, of Beaure gard's staff, formerly Secretary of the In terior, accompanied the flag of truce, and admits the fall of Norfolk, New Orleans and Pensacola, but denies the fall of Richmond. Deserters are coming in by squads daily. All agree iu stating that the rebels are still there fortifying. The pickets skirmished all day—half a dozen were wounded on our side.. The weather is very warm. From Fi. Monroe and Norfolk. FottritEssMoNtmE,Mayl6.—Coldnorth east wind and rain. In consequence of the 'storm no dispatch was sent to Cherrystone this afternoon. Secretaries Seward and Welles l and At torney-General Bates, arrived this morn ing. and proceeded to Noyfolk with Com modore Goldsburough. General Woo also visited Norfulk to-day. All quie there. Orders bare been issued by thine& Wool, prohibiting the sale or distribution of newspapers in Norfolk or surrounding country, and prohibiting the transporta tion of supplies or merchandise of any kind, whether by sutlers or otherwise, and prohibiting officers, soldiers and citi zens f'rom visiting the city, except on bu siness connected with the troops belong ing to the Department of Virginia. We understand that the embargo upon travel to Fortress Monroe will soon be removed, and free transit to and fro re sumed. The Adams Express Company having secured a location in Norfolk, will open an office to-day in that city. Lieutenant Carncross, one of the most useful members of the staff of General Wool, has been appointed Acting Assist ant Adjutant. General. Thirty-Seventh Congress. WASHINGTON, May IG.—gorse.—The Speaker laid before the Rouse a:commu mention from the Secretary of War, em bracing a report from General Geary, con cerning the homicide of Robert E. Scott and a man named Matthews, reCently in Farquicr county, Virginia, from which it appears that they were killed by two pri- Yates of a Wisconsin regiment, as they, with arms in their hands, were entering a house where the soldiers had taken shelter to capture them. One of the latter was shot and tile other escaped. It ie added that they had been guilty of marauding in the section through 'which they ;passed, while seeking to join their regiment. SENATE. —Mr. Sherman, of OhiO, made a statement in reference to a remark made by Mr. Holman, of Indiana, in the House, who said, speaking of investigating com mittees, that Mr. Sherman's committee received eight dollars per dad•. Mr. Sher man said!that he had been into two com mittees, one the Kansas Committee, and the other called Naval Investigating Com mittee, but neither committee ever charged or received a cent of compeisation or Mr. King, of New York, presented the memorial of merchants of New York, asking the speedy passage of the Pacific Railroad bill. The resolution offered by Mr. Sumner, of Mass., that the bills of the Senate and House be enrolled on paper instead of parchment, was taken up, and Mr. Sum ner spoke in favor of the adoption of the resolution. Georgians Oppose Destruetion of their Property. LOUISVILLE, May 16.—A gentleman liv ing at Augusta, Georgia, says property owners in that State are adverse to the destruction of their goods. None has, as yet, been destroyed. Nobody favors such destruction but reckless and propertyless persons, whose designs will . be thwarted by owners of cotton, &c. Jell: Davis' Secret Circular. CHICAGO, May 16.—A special to the Times from Cairo, says: The famous se cret circular, purporting to emanate from Jeff. Davis, was gotten up in this city by a reporter as a sell. On Friday morning, May 16th. of Infiamation of the Lungs. ELMER Euswoirre. aired 10 months, son of Henry and Jane E. Rea, Jr. The funeral will take place this afternoon at two o'clOck. The friends and acquaintances are invited In attend without further notice. On the 14th inst... at _Harrisburg of Typhoid Fever, Capt. WILLIAM HAYSBROWN. eldest son of Mansfield B. and Jane W. Brown, of Com pany R.. tad regiment. Pennsylvania Volunteers, iu the 225 year of his age. The funeral Will take place from the residence of his grandfather. James Brown, Eeq., South . Commons, Allegheny city, on Saturday. 17th in stant at s o'clock r. m. Funeral service at the. house will take place at .2% o'clock. On Friday morning 16th inst.. at 134 o'clock Mr. JAMES HOLMES. in thedith year of his age. His funeral will take place from his late resi dence South Common, Allegheny,City, it 4 o'clock P. M., to-day. The friends of the. family are re. spectfully invited to attend. SODA PILLS Fog ACIDITY OF THE STOMACH: ' ' • • Oxygenated Bitters contain no alcohol; Covers Covers Pills, for rheumatism; Lindsey's Blood Searcher. genuine: Bunyin and Corn Plasters. warranted:* Insect Powder. certain death to Roaches. &e. Benzine, milled; removes grease, ake.: Vowell's Bat Paste._ only 20 cents: Bedford Water, fresh froin the spring: EdinburgAle. very superior Elixir of Bark, a tonic and stimulant: Msgnolia Balikyamoves pimples. &e. For sale by SIMON JOHNSON. myl2 Canter Smithfield and Fourth street. STATE SZNATIC TI E. I n l 4 o ; Z se Ar i STATE reNATSR. fqr a ismer PITTSBURGH THEATRE. I LIMB AND MANAGNI ..... -..WM. EMINMNISON. Pasco or Atimeatom—Privata bate% $ Slade Seat is Private Boa. sl,l* Pareaett• Miele Cuebe, chain. 50 oat* Fitisib' ate* W eentta Wend chain. amber Colored- mire 50 eon* Mailer,' Mama rim linlinixe• uNcz,4 Tors CABIN. Eva -Mao Motor &int Doom:- ..77.77-"A 4 , • 4 2,0 1 1100 Wi1 4 00 9 7 ,444traitiOAN D &cud Fr Noildea insigado—lialitaan as an EnpodlUon and In Sae. cassia'. • ~. WASHINGTON, May 16.—The following dispatch has been received at the War De• partment: HUD QVARTIVA or THE THUM DIVISION. llinateritle, cazTai s t . b i t }- To Hoa. EDWIN H. Sratrins, Secretary of War: At six p. m.„on the 13th inst., General Negley's expedition from Pulaski, sup ported by Col. Little's expedition from Athens, entered Rogerville, driving the en emy across the Tennessee, and destroying a portion of their ferry boats. Having learned of the approach of Col. Little'S forces khe enemy succeeded in re moving their'artillery, baggage and stores before the arrival of Gen. Negley's. I expected an obstinate defense at the passage of the Elk river and accoMpanied in person Colonel LittWs expedition, but without crossing. The enemy fled as usual at our approach. I ordered on yesterday an expedition to move promptly from Rogersville to seize the bridge across Shad Creek and the fer ry below the mouth of said stream. This duty has been promptly executed and the ferry and bridge; are ours. No more troops will enter from that re giontand we have now upon this side of the river twelve or fifteen hundred cavalry of the enemy in, bands of three or four hundred, whom we will endeavor to hunt down and destrOy or capture. The gun boat which I have extemporized, will be ready for service to-day, and I wi ll soon be able to pay flay respects to the enemy in the Eastern Side of this region under my 'command. Signed, 0. M. MITCHELL, Major General. On inquiring of the War Department it is ascertained that the order of the Assist ant' Supervisor of dispatches at Cincin nati to the operate: at Cairo, was not issu ed by the 'Mil*. Supervisor at Washing ton. It was issued by the Assistant Su pervisor at Cincinnati under a misappre hension of instrue!inus received from the Military Supervis , which were intended to stop the forwarding from Cairo to the newspapers of fa!se and improper military intelligence and sensational dispatches re lating to militarymatterssuch as had on several occasions. created' public anxiety and alarm, without cause, and of which great complaint had justly been made. There has been no change in the orders of the Department and there is no inten tion to withhold anyauthentic information from the public, except such as could not be published without embarrassment to military operations and danger to our armies. The Secretary of War, upon the appli cation of Representative Mfy, has ordered the release of Colonel W. F. Baldwin, of Va., to exchange for Colonel Corcoran. Capt. Farrell and Lieut. Dempsey, lately released as prisoners 'of war from Rich mond, and who have been a week in Wash ington, had represented to the Pres;dent and Secretary of War the necessity and justice of this arrangement, on account of Col. Corcoran's health. Aided by Mr. Ely, they have succeeded. Representative Kett-igan to-day received through one of the lately returned Union prisoners, a letter from Richmond, dated May 12th, which was hid in apiece of soap urging him to use his political influence to effect the release of Capt. Downy and Griffineand Lieut. Underhill and kap, of the New York regiments. He also receiv ed two photographs of Union hostages as they appeared in Castle Pinckney. • Statements of Denorters from Corinth. Came :same CORINTH, May 16.—Several Frenchmen, members of the Thirteenth Louisiana regiment, have arrived here- Three companies of that regiment, are composed of Frenchmen, who, unable to obtain work, tood or money, were obliged to enlist for thirty days, and the conscript law compelled them to re-enlist for the war. They report the whole army without coffee, and that at one time it was nearly three days without rations. They say that Van Dorn and Price left Corinth eight days ago, but do not know where they went. ag o, weather is very clear and hot; roads very dusty before Corinth, it having been satisfactorily Shown that spies have visited our camps, crossed the Tennessee river and prooseded in the night by dug outs to Florence, Ala., where they hold easy communication with the enemy. It was deemed necessary . to exclude all civil ians from the vamps in order to hit spies; hence the general order mentioned yester day. An intelligent Federal Sergeant, captur ed at Shiloh, escapedyesterfty. He says he was taken from Corinth to Jackson, Mississippi, thence to • Jackson, Tennes see, ind - then back to Corinth again. He states that from the time he left Corinth until his return there, he wasguarded by unarmed men. A contraband, the inti mate friend of Gen. Hardee's servant Jack, arrived and reports to have been told him that Hardee was very Sick of war and would leave, but Beauregard wouldn't let him. Nmidinenions Confirmed. WASHINGTON,3I4 . I6.—The Senate today confirmed the nomination of Major Getter etal Wool to be Major General of the army for gallant'conduct on the 10th of May, in taking the city of Norfolk, and other gal lant services. Also of Charles Chase as Postmaster at . Manchester, Va. The mail for New Orleans will be made up at New York, to be foirarded by sea on eveiy steamer which may leave for thAt port, therefore the communication between these cities will be frequent. Postmasters are requested to forward all mail matter for New Orleans to New York Post Office. Isaac Newton, atpresent connected with the agricultural br a nch of the Patent Of fice, has been nominated - by the President as Commissioner of Agriculture under the law recently passed Establishing a Depart ment oi Agriculture. Benjamin' Wood, not wishing to con sume the:•Vii II of the house in delivering a speech oaths . conditions of the Union, obtained loseitiiiion to print it. He says .it has been Rd to him to - speak the first conciliate*, word in behalf of-his suffer ing countrynten: There were gentleman within his vision whose swofn purpose and greatest desire, paramount even to pres ervation of the Republic, is emancipation. They, first applied - the torch, and are now more busy than ever with throwing fresh fuel to the flames. Should hiitory ever trace, which God forbid, the record of , this country's ruin, that page will seem the stroegest to thoue-that read, which tell of the madness and' wickedness of the arch filiation of Abolitiosism. In the dark recesses of the teasels of luta ' my, the gloomielt niches'will, bear the inscription of their' names. In place of Making the negro question the . subject, . matter of debate, Congress should taste into earnest, edema consideration some expedient for secarinu peace; and be. lieved success Would crown - limit Oats. An hOnorable police was withiktheir gesipti: and when the people`,o44lll4l thaiii IS only the' inramo4kOtiilP49. - -, ' tlim slavery movement an sai rt to °Maier peace, wee to • *WI of th e abolithin party. Bat, work Are *own " t re e. away on stubborsa fbt i - ,. ea t° gr4 4 **lopiik - !um Mir** iu. i ttrilipii et-uses •,*. . ea I f , ' itaillii „ ... .. .... . . _.. .... . alitdead ''''", • a le IGTON, May 16.—The lion. Hen has received a letter.from a Mild his old regiment, the Twenty _ lassachneetts, claiming the honor raising the first National mi,c on the rebel works at Yorktown. At six o'clock on the morning of that day, Col. Grove and the Twenty-second relieved Colonel -Black, and the advance guard. -Soon after the rebel works were occ upied . ei Grove, who planted thiitN be longing to hisFegimentlipo • Where ifiemained during the only,Ystional gag raiaedzi_nimp the Werke or in the taint until the Foe -!Barth New York cams nil in the afternoon:- The officers of the regiment claim thatike offi cial record will prove this. The fagitive slave law is being , quietly enforced in the district to-day, r , The wily tary authorities are not interfering with the judicial process. There- are at . least 400 cases pending. It is maid that some of the uegroes, whose owners or agents from Maryland are there seeking their recovery, mysteriously disappeared this morning. Paragraph two of general ordeas No. 102, dated in November, having bees. re voked, the o ffi cers and men . transferred to skeleton regiments under its optcration will be assigned to their original rimiMents as fast as vacancies occur. Federal Soldiers Captured by &lumina, May 16.—Yesterdity' after noon a band of about 300 mounted:guer rillas made a dash on the Railroad guard beyond Front Royal, killed and took 14 prisoners, all belonging to the 28111-Penn sylvania. The railroad bridge over the North fork of the Shenandoah was completed .41;0;64 the track will be laid and traintrpaia to. morrow forenoon. The bridge is three hundred and fifty feet long and fi ftyfeet high, and was constructed in forty ours under the supervision of G. N. agle, Government bridge builder • All is quiet in front to-night. It is currently reported that GensMil roy and Schenck are in occupation of Stan ton. Beauregard Risks an Ariallattee of Ten Days. Cmcsuo, May 16.—The Cairo special to the Tribune says: The steamer Gladiator, from Pittsiu rg, has arrived. There was a rumor at the Landing that Beanregard had rent &lag of truce to General Halleck asking an 'ar 7 inistice of ten days. This was subsequent ly corroborated by deserters. It was an der consideration when the Gladiator left. Clearances to Southern Ports, WAsiiiscaos, May 16.—The Secretary of the Treasury has issued full instruction to the various collectors,respecting clear ances to ports opened y Proclamation of the President. These instructions author ize the clearances at any time before the first of June , but vessels so cleared are not to enter such ports until on or after , that. date. Obituary. : This community of which be has been felinity Years an honorable and exemplary mensbarosaa deeply pained to learn on Friday morning, of the sudden death of Mr. JAMES HOLMES. But a few days has pawed mince he was is our midst in full health and usefulnens, and today h. lias pale and silent in tho tomb, atricken down in the prime of manhood by the hand of Provldefte . Mr. HOLMES was a native_ of Baltimore; Md. but OMEN to Pittsburgh in his boyhood And dad here until death, engaged actively as a business man. For many years the writer of this was intimatelY connected in Innineas with the deceased and c bear testimony to the spotless integrity of his dm racter the geniality of his friendship. seethe earnestness and truth which marked all kis haw course with his fellow men. He immodest and nnawamiagie hlgdjeteanor, Prompt and upright in all his deems. a aped Mit imn, • kind husband and father, and a true Chris tian gentleman. The many who have known and este= in life both in the city and ebewhere in deep and heartfelt regret for bis mod, and in kindly sympathy for the laniatird whom he has left behind. 114 1 3, • _Loy a Slight Coldle, Gt t c - -aug , "Lamm BRON3HIAL or Wave whichmight be checked 'OC' \ with. a simple npipigg s if .2, often, terminates seriously. Pew are aware of the introdanas of stopping a Waugh. or 41I'Vrighi. W'alci in its Chat stage; that which in the beginning wankl yield null remedy, if not attended to, .11100il ' i attacks the lungs. ,groature a 4' Alma hied peroaaliza were first introduced eleven pan It has been proved that they ate' the best article before the publio ;rm . ffamohe,•4 2 4l/-dat .o.l o c.nett44 l ,Yiallanta, AOatecoolt, ths Cough i Haskpig • in wanasinothu,, - dia numerous affections of the oho l ak gioin.g immediate relief. Public Speakers a: agnierro wal find - them eireotlzarftorcikarihe and atr. , Lgtheninif the voice. • `-" Bold , : al gista in jlerecticirte, atiV cents per , de9-6mUw- .181X1L — • D A. K. ne- • ' to": PLANTATION BITTERS, Exhausted Natureb great restorer: Thoir /milt rate. strengthen and purifythe mites'. erne *s perm* Acidity oftheStosiach. Diarihom. tea . .4l whet appetiser and tonic. They invigorate the body, without stimulating the brahC Thieire compound of pure St. Croix Rum. Rook ank Herbsr and am receommended. by them. Adapted to old or young, but pardoning,' recommended to the weak and languid. Sold by all Grocers, Druggists. Hotels and Saloom. my7-3mixxl rues cowed by !Spandrel's's Pllll. De. B. Examota-ro—Dear : I wooers*. bring for many years from hereditary hemorrhoi dal effanions, of which I had the Int ittadi ti .1816. Since that time I was regularly visited with& such conudaiate Woriwb. glsg Ms a mast severe pain in the biek.bilftlielOWer oinw of the spine were broken or bruised, and am asthmatic proem en the chest. • °lrbil ta . 10 4 4 cumstion which keeps , me all dertitgr' direr doors. and entirely distrusting any m caltad "retro- Lir treatment" that would Wm' MAMA to ay house. I thought of following a plan of my own. which might cure me without the in...wisd om to my busitem, attending the trsabbart of a "regular practitioner.' So I put an Alloookw Piester eight over the groin. relewbgi it tired ' fortnight: every Saturday night I took adose of Brendrethb Pills. three or four. asl thought lOW+ . easy to a dose. which operated on me , after getting uP, three to IVO Linn ID the fbromait Say. Tuesday aid Mundy sights/ likens Life Addition Pill, which produced one large wramsa tioa -I' pursued this coarse for all wetant. Alit; tr amid attend to my business without hitiori I workal:nte ant drank la./ inandly and swakednyet:fday withtsegpaim end , new I lrnow mdldniref .1 het obliged to male you thin-sYbi ni r.i proper mom that this simple pmendlag 4 .- -4 may base* way said bee dare I an dearstrAinue melt IL A ; A A w WN big DA- Malt 141.111 =n. ,csA ow aopia ...111111113/ .;" e ' • of 111481alsg die Ila- Flag at Yorktown 'la. Guerrillas. For the Poet. EiEiißiEl
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