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THE NEW
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YORK HERALD.
YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1862. / ? - - PRICE TWO CENTS.
All W NEW ORLEANS.
ting Details from the
ebel Newspapers.
ted Destructipo of the Iron
Clad Boats.
ion of the r ' on
cc Poii*'
of tb? - by
ramodore.'
ling Effect of the Capture
irooghoBt tbe Sooih.
OP THE BEBKL PRESS,
Ac., *??
to tbc I'tteribnri CV?>) Kx
prcss*
ekCkt at new Orleans. *
Mobils, April 26,1842.
?tch from Fort Jackson to the Advertinr
he tntmy't 5unheal* anchored oppotilt On
int. A proposition had been mad* to
r by the Confederate*, and which to now
1 are various netting rumors afloat.
I w ever, to reliable.
JAND ST. PHILIP IN OUR P08SKS810N.
Richmond, April 28,1802.
?cial despatch Was received this morn
jceneral Cooper from General Lovell,
Camp noons, Aprtl 27,1802.
(1 St. Pbiljp are still in good condition
Dutoiana and ifcFae are pafe.
?ttoat the city, but have no forces to
? are staunchly loyal.
BDKKAI. FLEET 'PORE THE C1TT.
SBCOMD BHW .'
pril 27, 1892.
jmmand' omiscd Mayor
?y, wl> dcr a Hast of
ro* rrender of
lib. uig Lour, five
lcRae,t. . the forts under a
t forty weu. .d-iers, and coruraubi
AeraJ flaguhip. AfiRult unknown. It to
federals refused to let her return.
fiun are keeping guaid over theclly,
tier.
4>at Fort Pike has been evacuated and
| to unreliable.
; held with one of the federal officers
fosdenee between Mayor Monroe and
Agut, the officer loft, declaring that be
(the flag on the Cltjr Hall if not banled
(y brought bto ships in range; but he
> thus far.
it the French and English men-of-war
a protest against shelling the city,
st the Yankee vessels ars short both
nmnnitioB.
ably orderly; but the excitement Is
feeling of humiliation deep. Further
: is the same as whea the vessels
iwaltmg lbe shelling of the elty, if the
iHm> DMFAira.
Mosiu, April 28,1842.
ke Pentehartrain were all evacuated on
wm considerable loss of supplies,
i tbe guna were dismounted, but not
all the buildinrs were burned, tnclud
loffico. The operator ban gone to tba
} to epen an office if possible.
on the lake have baen burned by our
a
iWhileman and Brown,and another,
Ith sover&l otbart, are removing troops,
^ nance to Mancbac, after which It ia
tlao be burned.
let, which hod left Ship laland, are again
?tat Ion.
trbel Paprri Bay About the
ill of Hew Orleans. ?
te Norfolk Pay Book, April 29.]
lfcwnaolation wo can draw f< om the above
i clad ate&mer Louisiana ia "safe."
^Safa," where? Wm it a " aafo " plan
i<awky from tbe city which she was built
! part of tho river where the enemy
iltig hurried operations for ita de
ll'. tbey were operating ni'ioh mora
cfor tha* city. The tavisiana is "safe!"
oftew Orleans "sara," with th? enemy'a
jo ifcralening iia bombardment every
thundering management Is this? Is tbe
? jvy responsible for this; If not, who ief
ogfri this subject we would like to know
achat our Iron-cUd vessels are not per
ai|nch unless by the orders of the S"cre
y? 'We have heard It announced as a fnot
ctfe, and that their commnndcrs are tied
lstuctloni and restrictions aa to oom
tfyn proving of any value whatever as
ir(g the enemy. If this ia really so we
r va procure giasa ca*es '.o pit our Iron
I, t keen tho enemy N v oodeo gunbo.it*
?a', tbe l>?uer
iMftMhmnnd Mspntch, April 28.J
J NKW ORLKANP.
taytbat ihn n?'ws w? hivo this morning
tgpenbls Ojficta' >1 pat Vi< TDcrire-i jm
*Jill of y. u> Orlta <-. contrary to our be
if tf nino-tantha of this ounarinily. Tha
>ptHK.h*d tbe tity snd dainandad a sur
al 1/OvoM rafus -<1 to surrender, but
llywlth Uit troop*, faUmg back to Camp
?klon Railroad ,Attar destroying cotton
\ In -">? unaMa to ramoTS. IV iron < tad
pi Mi nt (a /?rtvenl htr fallin9 into tlw
Mmy. Nothing is Mid about lh? Lo llat
ippo*i on at praaent la that aha wan
M at TaDRtpafaA, seventy-et^ht ntiira
ua, 00 lha Jackson Railroad. (Janaral
re pausad at I'oncbatoula, forty eight
on tlia saino road, which is a high
ittjr.
Mid fain l?e Informed of tba cause* of
irleans. Ooa rumifasya that the "iron
I" steamer Ijoumkana wm sank tlio flrit
fny's mortar boats, and It would be a
keth?r, In fact, sha played auy part in
*aa believed bara that she was testod
si fb.nl of ona hundrad and Mty four
wilho-.t doing bir any damage, and
!ora expected from liar. ITe ??f?<*tkr
tit wkcii im tap tlutf tint
rVnti* \ou''l nctiv* a tfettiy Minion.
[Krom the lamnpaper.]
KALI. OH NSW OM.KAW8.
I? of suspense in which thla city oxlsied
flays haa at la-t rnded. tftn r*rf?m* it
of thr trump. It wna evacuated by
wh> haa rumored his forcaa to Gump
:kaon Kaitraad.
r blow ; It la uaotaaa to deny It. B it wa
g It, and the public mind hadalraady
Ml for it, before the trnth had baan fully
la a heavy blow, but it ia ytrj far (rem
being a feu) blow. Wa may ex pec I to hear of dieastcri"
wherever the enemy's gunboats can be brought to bear
on all the points still In our possession. Give him *11 or
them-?every one?and still be Is as far from bis object as
he was this time last year. J tatter at fdl, HilU * Utad feti,
Rvvnok* Island fell, Danelsun ftll, New Orleans has fallen
Bat our great armies are still la the field. Ttosy have not
fallen?they have not been worsted?they have always
beaten I be enemy wherever they have encountered him.
When they shall have been beaten aud dispersed so that
they can never rally again, then it may be time to feel
gkxmy about our prospects. Until that time shall have
arrived it wore uumanly to despond, far less to think of
abandoning tbo causo. Even then the last resource of a
brave cation,resolved not to be enslaved, remans to us
We can even then, as rtber nations have done before ua,
resolve ourselves isio a guerilla force, composed of the
whole country, awl fight the battle for life or death
throughout a mi/lion of square miles. But that time Is
i?>t come They have not beaten our armies in pitched
battle*, nor do we believe tbey will ever do it. fkaure
gurd, Kith a powerfvX foree, it ttill the guardian of
the Southwest. Johnston, with a fort* Hill mot?
poweifut, farr* McCtillan at York. Stoneuwll Jack,
vn promts an undaunted front w? the valley; our
armies in Georgia and South Carolina are unsubdued, and
we continue to bold our own in tbe Ok! North State
He enemy has nevor been able to obtain sr U vantage
over us, except by means of bla gunboats. Take bim
?way from them, and we can always defeat him.
D* the lot* of New Orleans we an sepiraled from
West Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Missouri. But
many or the brave troops from tbat side of the river
are with us, tad those that are there will still keep up
tbe light, la splto of their isolation. Tbey will thus
constantly employ a large portion of tho enemy 's army
and serve as a powerful diversion in our favor.
If every seaboard town in the confederacy, and every
river town which can be reached by gunboats, were
in the fos-eaion of the enemy tomorrow, it would
not have the slightest effect upon the i'sue of
this qpntest. It would not be so disastrous ss a
defeat of Beauregard's army, or give half tbe same causo
for despondency. Fortunately, they took do prisoners;
eur troops remain to reinforce Beauregard or to go rise where
as they may be ordered.
The event of this war is still as much in the bunds of
our people as it wss before the fall of New Orleans.
Having made himsslr master of tbe river ami seaboard
towns, tbe enemy, if be wish to conquer us, must come
into the Interior. There be will have to beat our swmitss,
without the aid of his iron-clad boats, before lie can boasl
of having subdued the country. In the meantime the oc
cupation of so many points must necessarily tend to
tho weakening of bis strength upon those )>oiuts on
which tlie grand issue ia to bo decided, and thus lar his
success is scarcely a disadvantage to us. Let our country
men imitate tbe firm and magnanimous conduct of our
sires in the Revolution, and we doubt not to see our cause
gloriously triumphant.
[From the Norfolk Day Book, April 29.J
Our anticipations from tbe imperfect nows of yesterday
havo been realized. The city of New Orloans has fallen,
and tbo sudden shock falls upon us unbroken by any
previous foreboding. This is by fur the most serious rnxrse
of the tear. It sugijei-ts future privation and want to all
?Utut nr mrielu: btU. lnod to be tarn, n'ed of all, it threatens
amy supplies t Nor is this all; when tno lamm ms
completed their iron-clad navy they will take every im
portant point upon the coast, except in those cases where
a wise discretion may permanently obstruct our harbors.
It will be remembered by our readers that immedi
ately after the 8th and 9tb ult., we took the
position we have bere restated. Wo must obstruct
the channe'g leading to tbe soar-oast towns wo wish
to preserve, and abandon the impracticable at
tempt at holding any point which cannot be
thus protected. It is true that it is a sad picture to con
template. but reason arsures us that it may yet be held
up for oar reluctant contemplation. As we fall back wa
shorten our lines: as we shorten them tbey are strength
ened. Tbe reparation of this disaster, so far aa it may
bo repaired, rests not with tho Executive, nor with the
Cabinet, nor with Congress, nor with any headquarters,
but with tbe people.
Tbe arms-besring part of our population must rally to
tbe flag of the republic, and the planters must concen
trate their energies upon tbe production of meat and
bread for our Srmies. )Ve confess that we, in common
u-iih wiser nten, were deluded into the general beli'f in the
suprematy of cotton. We had high authority for theboliof.
Tbe "commerce of the world bangs by a thread," said Mr.
Dickens, and the truth of this declaration may yet be
come manifest; but cotton as a political agent is done
for. "None bo poor to do it reverenoe" as a blockade
raiser,but thousands to appreciate the fact that when
the war does end a large cotton supply on hand will be a
large fortuue. .
The fame applies to tobacco planter! in a more limited
degree. They rau afford to wait, seeiug in tbe future a gol
den harvest Tor the holders of tbesi staples. Rut to roalire
they must actually hold, not as trustees, under the con
fiscation act,for Lincoln, but for themselves?hold as
owners. T? do this they must interpose armies between
tbe enemy and their plantations', to i-.tefpore the armies
they miirit feed them; to lead them they must plant
corenh1, and lot tbeir dreams of fortune be somewhat
modified in their msgniOccnt proportions.
Hog and hominy aic far more important than Citlou
and ubnccn.and by the extent of the supply to be fur
nished by tbe os-Missiwippi rogion wo moat measure
the extent or our calamity. With an ample preparation
for the supply of uur armies, we shall bo able to achieve
our liberties.
Disasters to a bravo people are but tbe falls of An -
tans, from v.bi h they rise with renewed <nergi<a mid
a llriner purpose. We havo faith in our ultimate sue est.
but fehoiild this provo fall&etrus wo ran remember tbe
example of Paragon, remember and emulate it. I?t us
put our humble tru.-t in (ind,aad fight from soocoast t>
Interior,leaving monuments to commemoiato our rc*-<
lution n|?on evory tiold. Animate.i ly.this determinate i,
we can say to their boasts of conquoHt in the heroic lan
guage of Wise, at Roanoke?Never, uc\ er. nevnr.
|Krom the Atlanta (fia.) intelligencer, April 27.]
Th" telegrn| h tells us that the enemy are bofore Now
Orleans?probably they are now in po^se^ion of the
Crescent City. What resistance lina been made theia
to its occupation wc know not. With their f.unboais re
sistKtice may have lieeu useless, and it in more than pro
bable none waa made. Having parsed Fort Jack.?>n, it
seems from the enemy's rapid approach to the city but a
fa'We defence was madoon tbe river from that poiut to
the city. H'r. AttU looked for a Aiff'ctnt irmlt. Time and
again wo hid b?en advised that tbe enemy 's approach to
the rity, -bould they succeed in passing Fort Jackson,
would bu hotly conte-tod?thst oven stronger works of
defence than st Kort .In.kion had been erected?that
heavier artillery waa planted on the batteries upen the
bank' of the river?that obstructions of a most for
midable character were on the river?and that a sue
<.essfol resistance to lis capture would he made.
Tn this It appears that we have beon de
luded, as in every other rasa where a fort
has been assailed upon which reliance waa put
lor tbe defence of a town or city. Modern invention*, It
seems, render forta useless for defence. Iron clad gun
boats destroy, or pass them by with certaiuty. Memphis.
we <nfrfhm4, will rkiirn the fa't of Aew Orlti.tf. To de
luito ourselves with any other hope is now a folly. We
ought and must prepay rot the worst?that w*rst is the
occupation of m<et of our cities, with water approaches,
by the enemy. A sound |?>llcy would dictate, what pa
triotism and self-prerervailon|dcm*nd, the destruction of
every speriee otyroparty that would benefit tho enemy
ere ibeyget possession of any city, and the lemoval
tbeiefn in of everything of value to our-eives. I?t
noihing fail iuto their hands of value to thein?snvc all
we can of valuo to us. Charlrrlm. Xavfttinah n*d Mm
I ?hit are now imm iHalrly thrrntriicd. Wo hive no foars
that In these citlcM so wise and patriot to a policy, a d-ity
in fact, will be neglected. When the enemy ent- r New
Orleans, we hope that they will be sadly disappointed tn
the "booty and beauty '' they expect to derive from ibe
achievement of their gutiboits.
[from the Petersburg (Va.) Fxpress, April 20.)
TI1K NEW ORI.ISANM DIMA8T3R.
The captura ?f New Orleans by the enemy is, under ihe
circ msianees, one of the mini minvrdi <v y ennit iuhah
(*!<! tcoi /io*1 ro'ifht forthf We could cons ime column in
commenting ui>on It, and tn do ng so we would necessarily
have to iodulgo In a variety of remarks far from being
I compl.mciitary to ilie conductors of (be defencea of this
ail} But as ?? fcttonrsh ng a mult must have been pro.
duoed in a moat astonishing way, w? muat await full ex
planations before expressing a harsh Judgment. In the
absence of all information aa to particulars, we are un
willing to denounce Id uuspairlng terms tho conductor
the garrisons in the forts and of the commander of the
city forces. It will be time enough to do thia after hav
ing been put in possesion of all the facta. Meanwhile we
have to look the (llaaster full In the face, and consider It
In its important connections as to the future.
The blow which has been struck ua ia undoubtedly a
very severe one; bat if General Lorxii and all his army,
munition* and stores art safe?if all the cotton, tobacco, dec.,
u.ert destroyed , the coin of the bantu tocured,nnd everything
flse that would be of value to Ihe enemy put out of his reach,
the How hat hten stripped of more than half of tit terror.
We will be undoubtedly subjected to new and gnat ineon
veniencea by tbo Iofs of that city, bat Its occupancy by
the Yankees will be anything elae but an agreeable one,
now that the yellow fever season is near at hand, which
for months will prove fataMo the Northern untiee!(mated
troops by which it will have to be held. They have got
(he olopluuit, it Is true, but it is a prlzo which will eoet
them vastly more to keop than the aniutal ia worth, if his
Sotfron Majesty s'>?'i make hia usual annual visit to Ike
cj<v aud wave his scspw* Jwspitaia there.
What dry straw ia to the ttamei ynfi ?"*?;
raw, uninured Northorners, be to the Gulf pes
tilence when it breaks out amongst thorn. Even ooe
half of the old resident population of the city have here
tofore fled every eummer to higher latitudes to escape
its ravages. So, in this point of view, the enemy han
very little causo to exult over hia succoss. He will be,
too, in the midst of a.hostile people, who will not trade
with him, and his acquisition will be aa valueless in a
commercial as in a sanitary sense.
But thore Is auother aspect of the matter still mere
cheering to the Confederates. The large and fine army
which M'O.1 assigned for the defence of Tftio Orleans can
now bt tini'rd with the nrmy at Cur in'h in time to
a<H*t tn Ihe grtcU -.cork of driving the Vandah out of
Anilities and Kentucky, and in a march acr<.s the
Ohio?a movement which, wo cannot doubt, will be
commenced and carried through aa neon as tho Ton
iiesece, Cumberland and Ohio rivers become too
shuliow for 6unbent navigation. Then will be our op
portunity for btriking a crushing blow tbat will more
than ri?lneni all our louse?. We want to see a column of
150,000 Southern troops led onbv Beauregard through tht
Aor'hivesltrn, and ai'Othrr column Of the saint ttrength
(hrouyh the Northern Skitfj by Johnston, so that whilst
i ho Yankees are inking our C0c6t and river cities, wo
will be sweeping theirs; nnd then we would see who
ul.l suffer most aud endure their sufferings longest*
Tho Romans, in a iuemorablo crisis, fought the battles of
Italy in Nutniriia, and thus drove their Carthagemnn
(almost) conquerors from their own gates. Let us tli;ht
tl:c buttles of the South upon Northern soil. The capture
of Philadelphia or New York would be to us a guarantee
of peaco in thirty days upon our own terms. We ha>*
400,000 soldiers in the field of whom Napoleon,
in tho zonith of his glory, might have been
proud. They would movo with alacrity in
the direction of Yankeo land, if the word
was jugt*given them from Richmond. Oh, that it may
be given ! as it ought to have been twelve months ago
Besides this huge army, which.could easily support itself
In the enemy's country, wo would have a reserve suili
nUintly nnworful to protect our vast Interior, comprising
a compact and populous territory vctrnm ?*?
sippi and Atlantic, equal in extent to that of France,
Great Britain and Ireland (leaving out half of Virginia
and all Kentucky and Tennessee), whilst our trans-Mis
sissippi territory (leaving out Missouri), comprised a still
larger area. The idea of a conquest of snch a country is
preposterously absurd, nnd Ihe fall of New Orleans,
although to be muchRunented, does not put the invaders
an inch nearer the consummation of their ac
cursed purpose. II may, in the dispensation of
Providence, turn oat to have been for ua an
advantageous event. The ways of God are
mysterious, and He directs the affairs of men so as often
to lead them to consider an evnnt calamitous which
Afterwards proves the happiest that could have occur
red for their welfare. We have long since "Sled our
mind" down to the belief, tbat if the cause of ihe South
is Divinely favored, it win and must triumph, if not, it
will and must perish, were it supported by millions of
armed men and hundreds of iron clad war vessels of the
most powerful description. So far we have had alter
nate successes and reverses which have not been de*
eisivo. We must flgbt on with a more terrible energy
than we have yet done. We must now concentrate our
forces at fewer points, and hurl tbom upon the foe. We
must abandon the merely defensive policy, and assume
and maintain at all hazards the position of bolli;eronts,
able to give as well as receive bloWs. With half a mil
lion of men prepared and eager for action, we can make
ourselves felt beyond the limits of the confederacy.
ADnirxmi.
Sine* the above nag written wo hive received further
intelligence fr<?m Now Orleans, which represents tjjal al
though the loilcrn) fleet wag before the city the enemy
bad not taken po*s<-ssivn, becauM they hive no forces to
occupy it. It la rumored that we had mvrral itry formid
able yunlxtab at tort Pillem when the federate paued thr.
foiii l? low .Vt OrUatu, an<t that a portion of three have
br?n, er'lhii, d-jspatehed to Item Orleans. They may be
enabled to destroy a portion of ti.e Yankee vessels, If not
ail, and thus pave the city. We trust that the rumor
mity prove true, aud tliut our flotilla may accom,.ii'h ai'
that is hoped for.
The rumor regarding tha protest of the French and
Kngli>h men 01 war, mentioned in our despatches, nm*
be corn ct. It is staled thnt no civilized notion wit ?v<w
known to shell a city after it had boon evacuated' by tlio
troop* collected for Its defence. Whether the Ynukoe
nation will conform to usage in tiiid matter remain? to
besocn. We fear that wo have but littlo to expect from
so bloodthirsty and unscrupulous a foe. At farthest, !
the fate of New Orleans must be deflii'toly aece.talcwl in
a day or two.
ink talk or tirr d*t.
The common " talk on 'Change" Jj o( course the ren
dition of afntirs in aud around New Orleans. The official
d)'H|atch exhibited cn our bulletin board yestjrdoy
moriiing, while it gives a ray of hope, serves only to in
u<\.re the anx>ouu interest fell, io tho fate of thia groat
commercial city. But all is mystery yet, aud all the
arguments ;ind discissions on the street corners and in
I he hole's, or elsewhere, cannot clear away the impeoe
traljg >hroud thaj covcrs this affair. It is our ualnre
to clinR to the "lightest hope iV the best, but we feor
wo are depending upon a slender thread indeed-If we
anticipate a successful resistance now to the Yankees
there. Of course trade is affected by the news, but to
whit effect w* are not at present able to say. Sugar and
niolasjes will undoubtedly advnnce in price, and the
holders <f these articles will profit largely by thcafblr.
Nc.wa from Worth Carolina.
SKMIMISH BUT* BEN TIIR RKDKT.B AMD VMOH TROOPS.
lKrt.ua the Raleigh standard, April 96.]
We kain that our balajr Kuigtdfc, near Tusca
rora, Captain Andicwa' complny, Second cavalry, had
two sharp skirpiiahe* with the enemy 's pickets on Sun
day and Monday last. On Snnday they killed four
Yankees, and three on Monday. CfcpUin Andrews bad
his horse shot, but we hear of no other casualties on ear
side.
Additional from Rurope.
rt)? Hcr?w ateumxhipCity of W.uhington, Oapt. Br >ok?
which B.ulo l from Liverpool at noon on iho 10tb,aml
from Queenstown on the l'lhof April, arrived at tbix
port very oarljr yesterday morning, having made o:r tbo
lightxIUp at eleven o'clock on Tuesday nlghi.
Ibof'lty of Washington brings th? Unllod Ptate? mails,
* general cargo, 196 sienrage and 43 cabin passengers.
J bo Htnaiur bip Edlubnrg arrived at QueenMown on the
10th utt.
'Iho news by tbo Oily of Washington lias boon fuity
anticipated.
A sulo of fifteen bales of Mameaibo cotton had been
made In Liverpool at the late of 3s 5d. per lb.,avenging
f.CO sterling per bale. It wn? grown I'rom Sea Island
cotton need, ami ejnalVxl the flnest He i I sland snraplea.
Bootom, April 30,1MU.
Tbo steamship North American pooled Father Point at
flfteen minutes past eleven o'clock last night, bo<md to
tjuebeo.
The steamship Saynla, from Mew York, arrived at
?outhnmptnn on the I8tb iMiani.
f.itMrooi, April M, 1803.
Arrived from Mow York, Te.itonia.at Dublin; Dun
italic, at Water ford, kammergier, at Belfatl, M. NMtiloff,
al riushinf.
IMPORTANT FROM THE 80UTH.
Arrival of Refugees from Tennessee at
Fortress Monroe*
All the Union Families Ordered to
Leave the State.
Massacre of One Hundred ILefagees
by the Rebels.
SCARCITY OF PROVISIONS IN NORFOLK.
Depression Among the Bebels
at Memphis,
$*>t 4c., *0.
tmmuM Vcmmi, April 28, ISM.
A tag CM Norfolk to day brought down tbo
wife sad fan.ily of Purton Brownlow, and obo the wife cf
Congressman Mayuard. The party?consisting of four
ladies, two f^nt lemon and six children?aro all from Ten
mmN. Tfcey br.ng the report that all the Union fami
lies of Tenner eoe have been ordered by proclamation to
leave within thirty six hours. Kighteen hundred Union
men left for Kentucky a week ago Friday. Of a party of
Ant hundrtd tMmptvig to leave, one hundred had been
kilkd.
In a local paragraph the Norfolk Day Book, undor tho
head of ?'Marketsmentions the very small supply of
ediblOH exposed for sale, aod says it becomes a question
of gravo importance as to whero and how the people are
to be fed.
The death <>r Samuel II. Todd, brother of lira. Lincoln,
la announced. He died on the battle Held, from the ef
fects of the woiindb be recc.ved at Shiloh in the battle or
April 7."
The Charleston Mercury says i hat nine schooners left
tbo city on the previous Saturday to run the blockade
Tho Guide, Wave and two others wore takon. The crew
of the Guide wore lauded on Gibbe's Island ou Wo'lnos
day. On Friday they were seen by our pickets and fl.'ed
on under the supposition thai they were Yankees, liavid
Kauflbr, of Augusta, was killed. Tho tbrco other vosse's
were sent to Port Royal.
The gunboat Mount Vernon arrived from iho blockade
off Wilmington on Saturday night. She left thore the
Jamestown and Victoria. Tho Cambridge .tailed hcuco
for Wilmington on Sunday.
The Mount Vernon's boilers are defective, but fhe will
return to her station in a few day". There in hut little
nows. ? .
FortCasvrell is being strengthonod by the rebels in ex
pectation of an attack.
The rtchoonor Kate, irom Nassau, wag captured by tho
Mt. Vernon, about two weeks ago, whils attempting to
run the blockade.
It is ropoi ted by Hag of tnico that the Sf?rrlm?o
has steam up. It was expected in Norfoi K last nicht she
would come out to-day. She bar not ico<ie her sppoar
uuco, however.
It is new raining.
One hundred of tho Vermont wounded soldiers leave
to-night in the stou;aer Richard Welling, for New Vork,
via Chesapeake Bay and the canals.
Interesting News from Mcuiph.i.
i'Aino, April 30,1602.
A refugee from Memphis reports tbut Humboldt is oc
cupiod by a small rebel fores, who or* engaged in throw
ing up defensive works. He h. ings Hempbis papers <f
tbe 26th Inst. They contain little matter of interest,
further than a confirmation of tbe fall of New Orleans.
'Ibo Avalanrhe grumbles tbit tbe rebel authorities sup
press the details in regard to nilUirs, and says tb.it noth.
ing but tbe bare fact of tbe surrender is known.
Tuo same paper says that tbe Southern people are rast
losing all confident* in tbeir river defences, and H is
generally admitted tbat tbe Union army cau be no
longer successfully rcsistod, and also intimates a lack of
confidence in tbe stability of tbe Southern confederacy,
by advising its patrons to invest whatever money they
have in real estate, while purchases can be made with
the money now in circulation, which Is principally rebel
l/ensury notes.
Ihe inscription law is rigidly enforced,s:,d^,'n,oi
men are secreting themselves or flying fo avoid iflFope
rations.
This refugee nys that merchants of avowed secession
proclivities aro removing tbeir goods to places of con
cealment and security, and tbat large uumbers of fa
milies are moving away daily.
Tho idea o? burning tn? iSwn is abandoned iu corM
querce of the determined opposition of property bo der*
It is currently reported in Hempbis tbat Beauregard
bus over W),000 men at Corinth, and no hope is foil of his
successfully resisting General llullixk, who is believed to
have 200,000 tuen.
As our Informant left Memphis it was rejiorted that
die rebel gunb? at fleet Irom New Orleans waj in sight,
and wore bound up the river to join Hollins' fleet.
The Arrest of Col. Jcnniioni
I.nvkxwoHTii, April 2t*,ltl<2.
A circular Just publixhod by (General Rturgia
says tbat the arrest of Qilonel Jenuison was
tbo result of representations in.uio by I.ieutcnaut
Colonel P. R. Anthony, of bis own regiment, and
Colonel George W. l^oitzler, bis limne'iate coin
tnambug oliicer, avi wax tu i le at tbo earnest s h citation
o' ibis latter oHlcc, who, in his appoal to mo ot tiio 16ih
inst., demand- bU nurnudute arrest, and charges liim
with the uio<t grave and seriouscrime known to military
law.
Hiram Rieh, an oli resident.of the West, and for a
number of yenrs sutler at Fori hcavenwortb, died sud
denly yostcrday morning of apoplexy.
Tbe river at this point is at a stand and tbe t<anks full.
Tbe neather w pleasant.
Colonel Lit and Major llevcre.
Bo-ton, April a0. HMJ
Colonel Lee and Major Revere, of tbe Massachusetts
Twentieth regiment, have been exchanged,and start to
Join their regiment at Yorktown immediately.
Soiling of tile Steamship ( anuria.
Bflemi*, April 30,IMa
Tbe Canada sailed at ten o'clock this morning, with
ten passengers for Halifax and eighty -nine for Liverpool,
ribe takes out $?0,000 in specie.
The Ship Mont Blaac.
Boarow, April 30, 19*2.
Tbe -hip Mont Blanc to full of water. Vessel and oargo
will he a total loss
Pol lee Intelligence.
A Dwr.nmi.* Hwsi Cijukbii Oct.?A bouse bearing
tbe clasetoal appellation of the "Dirty Spoon, ' situated
at M Cherry street, was clesned of ita occupants on
Tuesday night last by Captain Thome, of tbe fourth pre
cinct police, lite house wus the resort of thieves of all
cleaser, together with women of the lowest character.
Otptnin Tliorne arrested twenty-six ineu and ten womon,
and took them before Justice Brranan yesterday
morning for examlnulnn. The men were discharged,
with the einepllon of John Smith, the proprietor, who
was held to bail in I&00 to awntr the charge of koeafcirf
n disorderly house: all the women lieing also retained.
CiunuK or tJunuxuaOWT. ?In this ease, whero the
d'fendant ts cbsrgod with havingembesxlcd money to
the amutint of several thousand dollars, fiom bis former
employers. Wm. O. l.ane It Oo. and Jamna BoycoACVi.,
And which has boen a considerable time an lor examine*
turn, the Justice, on Monday lout, rendered bis decision,
holding the accused to b?tt in f.1.000 t>> answer the
eliarpo, 'ind directing the p iperx u> be sent beforo the
Crand Jury. The prisoner ens defended by Messrs.
Jus. B. Whi'leg and Abljah Maun.
Maihets.
raii.iDm.ru* mot nosnn.
PmutPttApril !K), IM3.
Ptocks (km. rennsyKanla ?>, Jfljf: Reading Kali
road, VttX; Ho?rla Canal, 44, l ong fslund Railroad,
I3'i; Pennsylvania Railroad, 4?'t. Right exihaBge
on Nsw York St par.
PMOAMLrns, April .10,1862.
Flcnr dull st (0 13X a |6 M for superfine. Wheat
steady red si |1 IT ? |l 30. white, |l 38 a |1 49
Corn quiet at Me Mess perk, |M >0 Whtkey Arm ?t
Mc a 34c
IMPORTANT FROM GEN. HALLECK'S ARMY
Skirmish Between Large Bodies
of the Hostile Armies,
THE UNION TR00P8 VICTORIOUS.
A Large Number of Eebels
Captured,
&c, &c., &c.
Cjufo, April 30,1862.
A steamer juat Arrived from Pittaburg reports a
serious skirmish between the advance of the fede
ral army, 6,000 strong, and a large body of rebels,
five miles from Corinth.
The federals were victorious.
No mention h made of losses on either side,
The federals took a lurge number of prisoners.
Cannonading was still beard when the steamer
left. _
The Oouiag Battle In the Southwest.
IiOCisvuui, Ky., April 30,1882.
The etoamer Telegraph No. 3 left for Pittsburg, Tenn.,
with surgeons, hospital stores mil nurses, under the di
rection of Pr. W. 8. Chlpiey, to bring back the Kentucky
wounded, or await tho result of tbo next battle if noces
sary.
Reported Naval Engagement near Fort
Wright.
OnicA?o, April 30,1862.
A special despatch from Cairo says that an arrival
from Tiptoavillo reports that heavy cannonading was
heard throughout Monday night and Tuesday in the
direction of Fort Wright. There being no arrival from
the fleet since Monday noon, it is apprehended that the
rebel lloot at the fort has been reinforced bygunboate
from New Orleans, and attacked our fleet. This was not
expected. The iast advices from the fleet say that Com
modore Koote Ik fully prepared to meet the enemy.
NEWS FROM GENERAL BANKS' CORPS.
Rniuortil Arrest of the CSov< rnot* of North
Carolina by tlic Rcliels.
IIaumpo.nm-ko, Va., April 29,18d2.
General Banks visited (Altera! Williams' division here
last night and returned to New Market to-day. V.'hi'io
here he received a despatch from Wm-hrngton announc
ing the occupation of New Orionna by the Union force*.
The intelligence caused groat joy among our army, und a
corresponding depression among the inhabitants here,
who have been for days past congratulating themselves
and each other that iho next news wi>ul<l i>? our d?r?ni
At v. ikt'Twii. A tiatiou.il ??!??? Uuuor *of the event
win be ftr?a m noon to-morrow.
Through secosslon channels it is learned that the Gov
ernor of North Carolina w^x arreted and imprisoned iu
Richmond two weeks ago, on account of his Union sontl
ments.
It wnii observed to-day that Jsckson had removed Ins
wagon irilrs back scmo six miles since yesterday, fndi
eating an intsntion to retire still further rearward, or
cine entertaining a dread of an attack upon him by our
forces.
A squadron of cavalry was the only rebel fores dis
covered to-day on the right ride or the Shenandoah.
These, with one wag' n, entered the village of McUaugh
eystown, where they remained till about dark. Tbey
camo by the Port Republic route.
We have aolbiug coufirm.uo, y of the leport of the
occupation of Staunton by General Milroy. The river is
still too high to attempt a paseago with ssfsty. A denre
smoke wss teen in that dircetion to day, but the cause Is
unknown.
Celebration of the Fall of New Orleans?
Poult Ion and Strength of the Rebel
Forces, Ac., 4te>
Hariwnomm no, April 30, IMS.
At noon to-day * national ra'ult km flr?<l from an
puitucncp nwr the town. The regimental bam!* iumm
bloJ in lb* Court Hoirse niniri and played "Hall Colum
bia." The soldiers gavo nine cheers, when the bands fol
lowed with the "Hod White and Blue," "Dixie" end the
?'Star 3;>ang!ed Banner." Altera rece=s the bauds con
solidated, and marched through the streets playing
"Yankee Doodle," much to the disgust of certain promi
nent inhabitants. The day was pleasant, and the bright,
iiew uniforms presented a striking contrast to t^t sombre
linos of the former occi^KUits of tho town.
Tnrce thousand reb la, tinder ileneral Kdward Johnson,
formerly of the Union army, are posted a few miles from
anuinton, to ;t in n poeitiou exsliy acres.-iblo to escape in
care" Tj Coners'l M_iljoy > api'ro^)^ ..
The mcst reliable nu-A from (iotuonswilo is to the
ellect that there are oi.ly four brigades there, not num
bering 13,000. General LonfSUcet, with his command,
has giHie to Yorktown. should Oineial Johnson retire,
hi ?ill probably leinfoixo General Jackson on the Blue
Ridge.
The Richmond Kcaminer of the 'JJd inMatt "ays. in
eife< t, that the deMiny of the confe lorac.T !? trembling
on the rnuK of Yorktown. If successfu', it ?III give us
six months for carrying out tho conscript on act, arming
and equipping a large army, and launching a iket o'
M< rrlmacs; but, If unsuccessful, Virginia is lost
Vo<linr|(li CliasKcuis, Fifth Regiment
Kittle Urlgair,
This 3ne regiment, named in hooor w the lamented
Colonel Abraham !. Voslmrgh, wh > diet', while In com
mand of Die Seventy first regimeut, ?t Washington, in
May last, numbering about fl*o hundred men, is com
mand d by Coloiiol George A. Buckingham, late Majnr of
tho Seventy first, We see, by tho ann^sed official com.
m meation from the War Department, that Colonel Hue Is
iuglinm is exempted from th ? reccnt onler stopping re
cruiting, and he 1* dlrecied to complete his regiment. A
well de?e:re<l compliment to the colonel and bis com
mand:?
Aiui'tatt Guciuts OiTirs,)
W.?siimo?n, April as, Ii
I in.i tenant (oU.nel W. A. Ntcnou-, IJ. 8. A., No. TV White
street. New York.
Colons' The Secreta-y of War direets that Colonel
Buckingham bo autborixed to complete hlsrngtmet.t, now
kt.owo as tho Vosburgh Cha-senrs, Fifth regiment Knglc
brlga ie.en-l to be known as the Fifty-thfrd rrgimffi:
Neve Yoik Volar tee 17. i am, Colonel, very reojWctfnlly,
your obedient servant,
GEO. D. RUGGLW, Assistant Adjutant General.
The Torf.
KAf>?IOT< FLIArtUKE 0K01ND ASSOCIATION-TROT
TtNtt.
Wkim*pat, iriia 90, purre f 100, mil? heaie. bent
ttare# In Ore, towaaous. ? ?
I>. Ttllmao entered e. m. Gl t ] ] 1
F. J. Nodino entered ?. m. IaU\ Lincoln 2 2 2
II. Woodruff entered * g. Tom Murphy .1 drawn. '
8. Mclaughlin entered n. g. Nimble Di?k lirawu.
Time2 51M?i 49-2 67*.
tillt tu decidedly the beet liorM In the race, trotting
arout.d the olbere In tbe tiret quarter, showing mnre
ppeed then wne required, and entirely destroying the
tOMreet In the rare Nimble Dick did not etart. Toin
Murphy pulled out after the flrat beat, eud lady Lincoln
mnde a |'0>>r attempt at a etrro charr. Heuiiig. during
the ra< e, run up to tirty to t.ne on Gilt. I
Court Calendar?Thte Day.
ricPKNU'OorKT-^Cinocrr.? Part 1?.\<t>mrn?d for term.
I .'rt 2?No- . 2120, 2IW. 2IS6, 21M<, ai?0, 2l?fl, 21*0,
2172 , 2174 , 21*0, 2180,2181,2188, 2190, 16ft4, 1182, 2192,
2104. *19#, il?8.
UsmnPTATW Rt*:anTO'Hi*T.?(<ote? of >anue for tbe
May term tnu*l be flitd with the clerk on or betore
Friday.
Flr? at Berlin, Wlm-oiialn.
ItaRUlf, Wl*., April 30, 1802.
A fire tliM tn.rnhig burned out Muasre. Alexander
Uro# ,.l. A K. VM'l.Dr Burr, F Higg* nod A. J Woik,
Whether wMl> many otberl. I??* |30,(JOS.
The llfaMatlilMrtt* Leg lelature.
ItOftTux, April 30, IfWW
Tbe Maranchufette legltletwre cloeed It* eeeekm a few
nilnutea betore twelve o'clock leet night, bavtog Ueted
? ne hundred and twenty <!?)?, dm Ing wbleb the tlovern
or signed two hundred and twenty flv# bills and ooe
hundred and ??renters resolution* which were pureed
IMPORTANT FROM RICHMOND.
The Reported Preparations of the
Rebels (o Resist Generals
Banks ami McDowell.
Impending Battle North of
Richmond.
THE LIKE OF THE CHICXAHOM1NY,
Ac., Ac., Ac.
(From (lie Richmond Examiner, April 23"]
The clouds of war thicken each moment. The enemy
are pouring largo forcoa into the valley of the Rappt*
bannock from several direction!. McClellan is reported
to have despatched a body of troop* up the Rappahan
nock from the bay to reinforce McDowell's division at
Fredcrlcksburg. A citizen of Fauquier, who arrived
yesterday, reports a large army is advancing from War*
r en ten. Gen. Jackson Is r.uld to have fallen back from
the valley to Gordonsvllle before Banks, who follow#
after him with a oolumn of about thirty thousand men.
If Banks and McDowell should combino their division*^
which is probably their purpose, Richmond would be
threatened from the direction of the Potomac with sixty
thousand men. .
Our yoMrnmetU hat ordered heaiy rein/orcemmts tt
nuet these approach xng e c/ui.in?, and it is wry proMbie thai
a decisive battle may be fuvohl north of Richmond befori
that on the Peninsula has transpired. Oar beet lighting
generals havo pursued tho policy of giving the enemy a
fierce fight before falling back under the pressure of
superior forces. This was the tactics of Jackson at WiM
chestor; and if ho is let alone, will doubtless be hi*
tactics again before falling back behind the line of tlx
Cliickahcminy.
Tlio eirort of the enemy will doubtless be to effort a
junction of his forcos under Bauks and McDowell
somewhere In the county of Louisa or Oare*
line. We supposo it will be necessary for General
Jackson to withdraw until he can get both of these
column* in his front. This done, the Uiatinots of the man
will, doubtless, induce him to offer a battle. Ou*
Corinth is on tho Chlcknhnminy, and our Shiloh some.
*liero in advance in Caroline or Louisa. H'e ihould not
If. surjnit'd itt hearing within a iceek of a Jieice bW.lt on
this advanced theatre, wherever it may be.
Wo augur well for the result nf any engagement thai
ir.ay como oil in that region of country. The enemy
will bo far from his water baso of operation*. He will
bo compelled to meet u* on eq al tonus in every respect
excopt hi; superior numbers, and w> can manage pretty
heavy odds of these. A col lier accounted in a soldier's
saiiKla. tory way for our yielding at last in ouo of our
most l:iii>ori?\ui battles. He said we whipped them lb*
best i art of the timo, and as long as we could
fivht.and ?<? Should have whipped ttirm nil cb? <im? if Off
had not "out reinforced" until there was no cud to litem.
They got toe better of us on th?recou4 day at Shiloh aim
ply by this process of '?out-reinforcing" us, which their
proximity to tho river enabled them to do. If they com*
iu upon us ii" far as Caroline or Luiisa, thoy will be so fa?
from their water transixirtatkin that this favorito plan o
"out reinforcing" will be Impracticable. Whatever odds
thev open the battle with, those odds only will.they hold
against us. The men that fight and ?r? whipped one day
will havo to fight and be whipped the next If tbey renew
the encounter. A whipped army will not rest while ?
fresh army comes forward to engage our troope, worn
aud weary with a day's exertion and excitement, as aa
otbsr ore*: ions.
It is n<; for us to dirulge the tinnier of our ownUfpt
thai art (Oncentrating on the linet north tf Richmond.
Suffice it to sap, that we bdie.ee them to b? ample towHp
stand am? repulse the enemy. Thero is this further
coursging feature or the campaign in that direction,
namely: that both Generals Jackson and Ewell have lb#
reputation of being fighting generals. Karneat and vigo
rous work on our side is all that is wanted. Dlepute every
mi'e of the rood, sell every foot of territory for blood, la
the true tactic*. The sage policy of the back track may
do very well at times, aud the virtue of spades and sand
bass may l>e very great in the proper place; but here is
a campaign In open Hold, where numbers will
not l>o greatly unequal, and where neither sidd
has had time for engineering and dirt digging.
That country, too, oilers many battle fields;
and, as this war at last must be decided by battles, bet
ter i hat they should bo fought promptly and bravely
than postponed to more convenient seasons aid
localities.
If Kichmoud is to fall by the want of va'or in tioopt
or conduct in general.", It may as well fall this mont'
the next; and if the enemy is to bo driven '?M(j|rMI||
disgraced from our .oil, far belter -?|at u ^<lM b,d0D,'
wheu thty bave^fr-.^^ entered thin after they have
! ")f> -ouutry by <? long occupation of it. H'e lvtt
1 ttie hj ilrlay th in thry tlo. Their expenses go on, w ho
I ther their armies are within our teriitory or hanging
upon our borders. Wo lose thousands of dollars in valud
every day the marauders remain iu our midst.
I he Mratcgy of the Viuck truck is a very coetl) one to
i*. It exhausts tho pocket, it crt she* thu heart oftbe
country. Tho woaf and tear ut fteiing TTonta?iM i:iTearV
ful. It protracts the work of ruin, It lutensltle* nnd pro*
longs inUeti'iUely the agonies of exile, which is W.e citi
zen's living death. Invasion should be the signal of
bloody aud dvtfperiUo work; ot llerco encounter and
w.-athful blows, not of cold strategy aud impossible
cflictnl policy.
[From ihe Charleston Mercury,]
We may mention that lienors) Lee. Genoral Johnston
and (leueral Randolph, the Sec retary of War, concur iu
tho confident belief that we shall ? niainly b.at the in
va<iint) armies in t'irgi.iia, and that Richmond cannot b*
la'-.en. We liavo this encouraging statement from high
authority.
IFrom the Norfolk Day Rook, April 29.]
New* has reached us that the enemy were vigomuely
bomb."jrd lug York town yestorday, but with what effect
we are unable to say.
[From ths Richmond Dlspetch, April 28. |
We are reqnested to *ay that planters would do well f
send in some of their tntiaoee, since there is room tor if
In the warehon***, an* a moderate demand. In the pro
ton! aspect of affairs, homevr, we art not prepared to Odette
them to thit ttep. Better far that every particle of tobacoo
*hould be destroyed than eent where there 1c even a
faint prospect of Its contributing to tb? aid and oomftrl
?f the enemy.
Th? PMMiirWaala Traapi la tk? Field*
htimrM, Pa., April 30, 1802. .
Governor Curtta but ordered that "Sbllofc" b? la.
rcrihed on lb* banner of tbe Seventy aeventb PenneyU
TMita regiment, and "Falmouth, Ta." on that of Mm
Firm T'ennaylvania rivalry, in aoknowMfisaat of their
gallnntry at the battlM i>f tboae placet.
Tbf Governor baa received tba meal irratlfying Inte'*
llgenoe from Yorktown In relation to tba perfected
arrangement* for tba rare and prompt traaaportation of
the killed and wounded Pennsylvania aokllera to points
within tbo Slate Tbe flnatmg hospital will sccommo
daie over three hundred patients, and con reach Phlla?
delptila via the lvlaware aud the>upoake canal, avoid
ing tbe roughn?ea of a sea voyage. Burgeon General
miinh *?jrt that Pennsylvania is the onlyftate oo th?
penlnenla prepared for every emergency.
The Vreahet at Call*.
Cairo, AurU 30, 1803.
The water In theohw roe* an inch last and ia now
from ?1* to ten lnoh<* abwi tbe old leve?: * Tbe water M
?uyed by tbe vigilance and oxertWna of tbe Mayor, who
la constantly at work with large gahga of men ratalnf
tbe low plaren and throwing op additional embankment*.
It I* confidently expected that In tbia way the danger
will be avorted, though a very alight wind would inevl
lahly Innndate lhe city. Inside the levee the water ta
?comnuiattng rapl.lly, and to many placee la several
1 lichee deep lb* principal streets are aavtgated bf
akiOk. Long trtltw of freight care stand on tbe leve?j
and are occupied ae dwellings by tbe remittee *ho have
been driven from tllelr home*.
A Steamer Paeeed Cape Bar, IV.
Sr. Jam**, V. F April ?, lMt.
A large sletmrr passed Cape Ray, f?o??4 wett. tb s
,Tne*tl-y) nx rniog. aauie uMMWB.