The New York Herald Newspaper, February 26, 1862, Page 3

MEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Progress ef the Burnside Expedition— The Expedition Up the Chowan River— The Enemy in Force at Winton—The Town Shelled, &e. For muss Monon, Feb. 24, 1862. ‘Tho steamer Baltimore, which left here several days ago with ammunition for the Burnside expeditin, re- cpa The News of the Evacuation of Nashville Confirmed. © THE SIECE OF SAVANNAH. Progress of the Federal Expedition—-Fort Pulaski Beleaguered— Savannah River Commanded by the Union Forces. The storm which raged in this city on Monday after- ‘noon and evening was of » mueh mre serious nature than we supposed, one house having been | lown down, another umroofed, chimneys dem» lished, the shipping ‘They sent boats to take pos- hed, were fired on by pany, the Ciiy Troop, in ambush on the shore, and wore driven off with wounded. Later with all the hoats and launches of two large steamers, Detween two and three thousand mon. ‘ihe ‘ate troopers fought them until their ammunition ited, when & hawser was carried out toa and the schooner hauled off—a costly prize, for tweive bodies of slain Hessians have since dritted ashore, and doubtless many drifted to sea, or were carried off by their comrades, ¢ bodies were of those who jumped or foll overboarT when shot, or were dead in the boat which was capsized in the eonfusion of the fight by the stricken wretches, The schooner has been claimed ap agent of the British Consul here, under a of i considerably damaged, and several persona injured. Great havoc was made among looge sign boards, and the steeples of the different churches rocked to and fro in the most fearful manner, some threatening to come down. It was certainly the severest gale we have experience? rls season, and was accompanied with @ biting frost. ‘the wind continued to biow @ stiff gale yesterday, and the air was piercingly cold. The following is a Yet of the casualtics as far as we could learn:— At about five o'clock # new: five story building, be. longing to Horatio N, Hurdle, in Fitty-seventh street, near avenue A, was blown down by the force of the wind, ‘which, in that seetion of the city, raged with terrific vio- lence. John Mclaughlio, who wag at work in the build- fg at the timo, was burled beneath the ruins. Several others escaped with but slight injuries. McLaughlin was ‘akon to Baliov ve Hopital undred feet of the roof of the carpet factory, foot of Forty-third street, North river, was blown off aud carried intu the yard. were one hundred ope- ratives at work when the accident occurred, but no one ‘was injured, ‘The roof of the Cattiolic Orphan Asylum, corner of Fifth avenue and. Fifty-tirst street, was partially tora off by the violence of the storm, feveral smaller butidings in tho vicinity wore slightly damaged. A sign at No. 18 White street was blown down, striking John -Mills on the shoulder, and injaring him aly. ‘The chimney of the house No. 26 West Houston street "The United ‘tates trignt dragged ‘ni oe frigate St. Lawrence her anchor, and drifted to near the Battery enlargement, but persugh the exertions of her officers abd erew sustained no damage. turned from Hatteras about twelve o’clock to-day, hav- ing left yesterday a‘ternoon. ‘The news by the Baltimore is not of speeial interest. The burning of Winton by the Union forces is con- farmed. 4 The Ninth New York regiment had made an expedi. tion up the Chowan river, with three gunboats, but hav- jag found the enemy in full force, returned without making an attack, The object of the expedition of the Ninth New York re- giment was to destroy the railroad bridges on the Biack- water aad Chowan river, The euemy, however, was discovered in large force at Wintom, aud no landing was made. ‘The enemy fired at our gunboats, and in retaliation the town was sheller’, ‘The greater part of the Burnside expedition was still at Roancke Island, and General Williams? brigade at Hat. teras, had received orders to pro eed there. ‘The 8. R. Spaulding left Roanoxe Island on Fiiday for Elizabety City, with the prisoners token by General Burn- side, They were paroled for exchange. The Spaulding had left Roanoke Island for Fortress Monroe, and will be due hore to-morrow. Among the passengers by the Baltimore is Chas. Henry Foster, who was yesturday reported killed at Winton by Southern papers, The election ordered by the Provisional Governor of North Carolina to take place on Saturday, resulted, as far as the returns have becn received, in the re-election The City in the Possession of the Union Troops. : The Rebels Reported to be in Force Twelve Miles from Nashville. The Rebel Tennessee Forces Orderea vo Disband and Go Home, WHITE FLAGS FLYING AT MEMPHIS, deo Mery Kee. Cato, I, Feb. 24, 1862. An arrival from Fort Donelson reports that the enemy has strong fortifications on Pine Blufls, twelve miles this sida of Nashville, and were concentrating a largo force there and would make a desperate stand, ‘The report that General Buell occupied Nashville on Saturday night was premature, as he could not reach that city by forced marches before to-day. Although Columbus is not yct evacuated the Memphis Papers predict that the rebel forces wiil have to abandon that stronghold, They say there is great dicaffection to the rebel cause, and compiain bitterly of the Confederate poe Bese emer ects os ie ape a ate od The Bremen. bark Elward, lying at pier No, 6 North of Mr. Foster to Congress. ‘The ordinances of the Conven- money, which is uncurrent in Memphis, while on the = ekteaoninn Yoo wit tna ine cpoints of the aim | river, bad her stern stove ia, talrail eapried away, and tion were also ratified other hand, United States ‘Treasury notes command 25 engin, in @ late jepue of the Advertiser and of eed eee npepeen — sone Captain Howard’s baitery went to Newport News to- | per cent premium. 3 , Escort day. : change a teooph sehooner, the Jessio Richards, loaded with | "aie paren ame in at soe No, 6 isle The Mississippi, from Boston, arrived: here about noon. jesus tes eatin eke pct ay Saatelse is rameter the Mactan ne harbor at night, | ger, and arifved foul o io" lnvincitves 3 ier ; : or rH 1 gutead cenunri ‘sad being in range of the blockaders next morning, was | No.6. She had her Jibboom varied & ly ing at pior to-day, Sv. Lovis, Mo., Feb, 25, 1862. ete Cry to moat) her falling into the fans be the mre yee aa eager Sa ap A fire broke out here in the sbuilding oecupied by the | ‘Tho Republican’s Cairo despatch says the occupation of Sig manamntes Glave tetived antoiph trem lsven in ins suarter badly damaged. os hegroes opposite the hotel, about haif-past four o'clock | Nashville is confirmed. Our troops took possession with. Porta fow days before. Another rho Lee, ac. | yawood me , ying a8 plore Nos, 20 and 98, this afternoon, which, with all the adjoining buildings, | out opposition Floyd fled as usual, Sugieiet no 1os9 4 feat than running tho bl kgde with ‘The British brig Boston Soaps ins lying at Tucker's : was entirely destroyed. Tho buildings were of little ‘The report that Governor Harris had ordered all the sacabié nie > Red Hook, is cohsiderably damaged avout her stern.” value and the loss is fully covered by insurance, ‘Tennessee troops to lay down their arma and go home is Passenger by this schooner rela‘es an incident of ¢ . Ihe British brig Karl Mulgrave, lying at pier No. 14 ‘The laying of the telegraph cabl ry i ped voyage from Havana, which smacks con. ¥ Nora “Iver, had her stern badly ehated and port quarter sanssactiy idgenans SiG ic uiteton ee Went eee ly romance seas, Un the night | 5 - . nts, ‘The Teunesseo Legislature is called for next Monday. Defore they approached the coast, when da:k and ugly } Proken in. i . ———— ‘ ’ ‘Weather prevailed, a little stir was heard on deck which” Bimini 5 East —. several a paried their APE itl ity tg Bay Hg No opyernin to Union movements is made anywhere on Drought him up from the cabin. The schooner was roll- gy Wemaebnenenneiie ana 40 THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. tho Cumberland. pg in tho trough of the soa, with her sails shivering, in : It ia reported that white flags are flying at Memphie. tein Effect of t! Brooklyn. Fourness Mownor, Va., Feb. 23, 1862. try neg: like « tom shi jveamer—dart’ PIVE TWO GTORY BUILDINGS AND A CHURCH STREPLE FED—INJURY TO A recent order from the War Department prohibits the Carmo, Feb. 25, 1862. bull of a Lincolp ¢ruiser—as: in, BLOWN DOWN—BUIU) # : Neashvilie was yesterday occupied by 10,000 troops apidiy past, her gine grinning from, her open por's, acd} Te FEL) R, FTC. ETC, babe Ys of private letters through the lines of the | 16: General Bueil, Tho Union flag le now fying over = sagen le oh hes eck cy ithe ugh af the hip ; idlent gale which prevailed in Brooklyn on Mon- penn at Lana fo perros ae in the ons H the State House terns. crew tie schooner ir Di eee, +s « A Tequires officers of the army to send soc! + fa, auspense, and moved bot until the dr crwag cea: [day afterniopa and evening did's large amount of damage Jetters tothe Dead Tetter Ofc tn the city. of Washing. | _TH¢ Tennessee Legivinturé adjourned Saturday week fearing that a whisper, or the cr hor wacko, of | 12 the City of ee Re ere: eeegwe wie ton. Exception to this roto im made in tevor of letiers | 4™#t again at Memphis. the Sapping of @ s4, would botray her presence. ‘the | shutters, boxes and sign Windows were shat- addressed to officers and men dotained as prisoners by | _ I 18 Feported that commissioners have been appointed 5a cual - Hight kabonr’s mre tat 1 inthe | tered, awnings torn into strips, buildings blown down | the insurgenta, 7 | toconfer with the federal authorities at Washington to ‘watch of the steamer. 7 and houses unroofed. Indeed, so strong was the wind It fs, therefore, usolees to end private letters to this | S'"#Dg® terms for the tresefer of allegiange, and that A splendid gunboat, christened the Morgan as she | that pedestrians had considerable to do to keep their post to be transmitted by ‘flags of truce” to Norfolk, as Governor Harris offered to turn tho rebel forces over to ‘Vouched the water, was launched day before yesterday, She was planned and constructed by Mr. H. D. Bassett, States naval ferns nord and all those 3 i ff ye Kbout five oc equilibrium. Many pérsons hid narrow escapes of being killed ; several were struck with flyiug missiles; but as far as we could learn no serious tojury was sustained by in the afternoon the fve two story they must either be returned to the writers or eeut to tho Dead Letter Office. Please publish the foregoing in your next issue for the the Union. A gentleman who escaped from Columbus, arrivin; here last night, represents a genera) Union sentiment in Tennessee, and thinks the Legislature will acquiesce in information of pereons having correspondents in the the.” perfection of all tho ‘ointe which ure | fraine Dulldiuygy which, woe in course of erection, on rebel States, Very iapemur as | re tho reexmmendation of Governor Harris, because fearfuy Prerequisites of ‘and strength, | 9Pevcer btregt, near Willoughby, were blown down. The r spied of « rising Union sentiment. When he left Columbus & more beautiful craft never floated. ‘Thad | buildings were inclosed, the windows rey aS bag J. ROBERTS, Madr United Gates Army. | | os were hb 00 rebel reegn Gate, abe is a perfect wonder of shipwright skill you will a!- | Deen placed In them. The eatima’ 8 in $2,000.- They 1, aa - detachment of EET oF i were owned by Mr. Charles H. 5 IN j Rectient, Third Rhode Island and a de! Another gentleman, who arrived from Nashville, re Sted besdeee tect bunds’: maturenen a ber araught, | ihe Toor ofa tenant house in Van Brunt street, near THE SIEGE OF SAVANNAH. Col, Sertel' Volunteer, Engineers, for operations oo the IMPORTANT FROM KENTUCKY. ports that the rebels will make another stand at -Mur- ‘with machinery, ‘armament, stores; coal and crew ou | Commerce, was blown off, ; re 5: | BOC DAR SB ee caataath elves Be Oeritn a P01 tain aed adap gee freesboro, All the rebel troops had left Nashville, ex Board, will be seant five feot. Vet'she insharp 2s the | _ 4 largefeuco on the corner of Commerce and Van Brunt | We present to-day to the readere of the Herat an a. | tovcnd in comunidad of Shosmat “no tivops before mea. | Gamboat Reconnolssance Towards Co- | oo, police force. When Governor Harris fled with the Sespiet clipper sficet, and will carry an srmament | re Tones ately torn down. antic Doska were | CTH ™AP, showing the topography and seth there | timed. ‘The General was in command. Cen, Viele, who, | Iumbus=Prolonged Comference With iit i oh be beemh, the: Beane METAS: tie wer ‘an o! An sleop-of war would ae partly unroofed. of the approaches to favannah, and the progress made by | by the way, is one of the best military engineers in the the Rebel Officers. iS > 4 — bre nm - Saves move'yaritonier deresip- ‘The roof of the new wing of the Lunatic Asylam in | the Union forces in the besiegement of the city,and the | army, was eharged with the duty of putting uP Cuscado, Fev. 24, 1862, distributed a large amount of commissary stores an: ear jeyal mails dnverwavion oo. trababd under | Flatbush was also sown of Felative positions of the.federal fortifications on Long | bresstwork for a battery at Jones’ Islund. The thing Se » Feb. 24,1862. | provisione among tho citizens, Stores were closed and The irentoned act of Congress. T only wiah that Me, | _ The Toot of the north wing of the City Hoe. | Seiand and Jonee’ Inland,” Accese to Savannah by wey of | St,Utst ight logked like an impoeaiblity ut oar TAPS, | AR expedition, composed oF er ree eee ovomiy | business entirely suspended. The rebels: were leaving a 5 : ‘ 5 b 7 ail is at rt ts, witl it moi t ol % Bossy Sey sos 2 i enews | plan jem uymena ey arch ne |Meat meyer | to, ot nA he Twenty arent in| i sr atc and he ginal Fb uate dtanins ae ove wound order two | oiPried a disiance ci twenty feet, ‘The apartments were | weeks of reconnoitering by the Union flvet, umder Capt. | tbe uninitiated insurmountable diftenities. ‘The topogra: | Aue ® UN Fight Wi i a army. dozen like frer at once, and pat Bassett at the | Tt'ecpoved to the elements, however, ag that part of the | tc; . > phy and situation of the isiand and the swampy charac- | a recounoiesance down the river this morning, and dis- Lovins, Feb. 25, 2862. ‘ead of his whole corps of architects, The ‘gan building waa provided ‘with’a ceil ‘at avis, to be impracticable, by reason of the obstructions | ter of {ts soil acemed to forbid the landing of troops ©n | covered that the revels had seized all the flatboats ana ‘A deserter from the rebel army arrived at Mumfords beg feet extreme length, ae ae The steeple of the Unitarian burch in Pierrepont | placed in that channel hy the rebels. On the 7th inst. | the island, much more to erect batteries and mount heavy | ims as far up as they dared to.como; also, that there | ville to-day. He ta the Union fiag fying ever Nash. ‘Anouber gunboat of about the came size, but of Sam: pire at blown off, but nofurther damage was sus» | Commodore Dupont determined to reconneitre the north Or ax Of the hydrography ia proximity to | had been © movement among the Sietinaa teouanen. hen sad y: ake oe bela ‘pretend to be cenventrnliog rent el and ‘by a different sont , wil be The cupola of the City Hall rocked to such an extent bank of the Savannah and the creeks and cuts inthat | ih, island. In the first place, there is a passage called | whether reinforcements had arrived was not learned. 200 C00 men at Murfreesboro, intending to give battl® launched here ins few days. There ig emotber nave! | inat at one time fears wore entertained aa to ita being | vicinity. He accordingly desyatched the guubeate Ot | Wall's cut, which counects Wright, river wih | oye gunboats and mortar boats were getting into posi | there : “arrangement? a ’ : : vocta ! Bull river, and has heretofore, in ord i 5 ‘say 20 more about it. It is State job, for Alabama in- lyn pee grey eing teeter Se eek ak | erase tepeteammnlan » Hine, Webiasa Henle MPP) | been tsed as a short cut from Warsaw Sound to the | tion on the Missourl side of the river, when arebel | wizrrany AID FOR THE LOYALISTS IN SOUTH TEX Serene measure is one of the orig id and the steamer May flow er— e latter with adetath- | savannah river and shore to the city of Savannah. The | steamer, with « white flag, made iteappearanoe. Som NES8ER AND NORTH ALABAMA. — Se areet ‘to maze" ‘rénsetc- The roof of the Tabernacle in Fulton street was also ment of the Forty-eighth New York regiment, Col, Perry, | water in Wali’s cut is very shallow, and not over fifty rebel offers came on bord the Cincinnati, and.a consulia ‘Wasmcron, Feb. 25, 1963, Tage ber teceeneed Ares A thought to be in danger, but, by mesns of bracing, it es- | on board. The Mayflower had afiatboat in tow, with | feet wide. In the marrowest part of it the rebels had 2 able discoverics. They have found out—at least some of vee fs» 7 Saelaiat » Z Srows! , driven thirty-two large piles, besides having eink the | tion took place, lasting over two hours, with what result has | ‘The Navy Department to-day received the following»=> ces in_many parte of the city, particularly in the siege guns on board,to be landed at such place ar it might be determined necessary to cut off the rebel com- in it. ‘Genera! Viele’s attention these obsiacles. He husk of an old vense! was atonce directed to remov’ not been made known; but the expedition has returned. Camo, Feb. 24, 1088. quently, the prices of the greater and less:r articles of | Pastern duatrict, wore u 4 ts | peocspalived the eet, auamining fs im detail. Heceme . Lovisynax, Ky., Feb. 25,1862. | ‘fo Hon. Giovon Wa1xs, Secretary of the Navy:— supply have Meadily 10 slide down the seale of | Tt sen places ancall connection Fre mens ee ee e eetemt the inch | 60 the ronelusion int this channel was’ tbe bert, | The Ninth Ohio and Second Mionesota thie afternoon | TJeutenant Commanding Gyws, with the ‘Ty. Seinen teense die Of tho city with the Inspector's office in the City Hall | °*vedition rom Dawfuskje Island, al ani indeed the only pursivle route over which | received two splendid tings from the loyal ladies of Louis- | ter, has just arrived from Tennessee, Mississipp) ‘aaenaunt one dos ae i Fente | cut off ‘ of the Cooper river, and proceeded in the route as deline- | to araraport materiale for. building et hee Tile, ta eouanseanecalion af toate eiigboies, 1hll Scans ccd riporta: the Chibi sevtinsilh aad article eared te Buckerdom, found Mack: . a | works on Jones’ Island. He ordered the pile , y | bama, Fopot Shectber pretty nearly a8 good ax that churnedin O:ange | ,,h® [tof the Koma) ot Mts atta pet x86 Seah alot BY foe, ee as oR Wie soespenor ee | tae ‘Awn of below. the bed of the stream, | January 19. Considerable enthusiasm attended the pro- | neseo and North Alabama tobe very strong. abgli pend Tevet it be, and dhe, provision prospect generally aambeana taattas, patyh City ets dark an stormy. ve gundoata preceded the troops, | ‘This being accomnpitshed. bet Eada Gnemnage ber =i ba sins bien "veek “to-day, beer per atngg com eee Weve ooh prove omen or the consumptida of | ° the taunery of Graham m Cotkotber, tn Fwen ‘street, | passed successfully through Wall's Cat, but on reaching | mat Jorseverance, the, way war clear for progreative THE FORT. DONELSON FIGHT. pis res tpoapraaspr _ Pot cmphaie! ord victuale—a to which weare all more or ess ad. | Whose loss is estimated a it $500. the junction of Wright ana Mud rivers five of them | “Myint : cid etek ine ~_ - 7 : ‘The house formerly occupied by Hook and Ladder Com- a epee ’ jon the trooy ¢ band the island they sank knee “ an their borders. A. H. FOOTE, ieted.. Patriotiom on an empty stomach ia rather 8 | 0)" No, 2, in North Second aireet, was also. blown | Founded (se map—A, B,C, D, Ih) and stuck fast in the | deep in mire, and only here anv there could secare foot | qe Loss im Gen. McClernand’s Division, Flag Oficer Commanding, ke. = — ~ best ; but po such drawback | few) mud. ‘This caused the temporary abandonment of the | ing be had. ‘General Viele ordered the construction of a ia iki ated an prevail in the cotton States of the conf> | “OR aoe of the dwelling house of Mr. W. V. Wood, in 7 gee at errdnroy road extending distance of three miles, nCAGO, Feb. 25, 1862. St. Loms. Mo., Feb. 26,1062. deracy. uals plenty and good. North Second atreet. near Lorimer, wes blown off.” Sata - the en ba Pee . y jays h heavy, guns have been transported, ‘The oMicial returns show 221 killed, 1,054 wounded: | pwo old citizens of St. Louis who left Memphis on ‘The high board fence at the Orphan Asylum im Cum- ry pmecnehenc settee ont sernsilinlindeecnenr ana edt (the Btars waving over | 4nd 150 missing in General MeClernand‘s division, at the ed here. The: that Coroners’ Inqueste. derland street was blown down. firs ition t0 proceed on a reconnoissance to Jones" Islan, | i) ly ready Tor operation: Against Who | ee eae enelaon, Tuesday last: have arriy y report that the ase of Patrick McGrath, of No. 564 West Broadway, who ‘was fatally injured while engaged ina fight with anac- -quaintance named James Kennedy, on the evening of the 4th inst. , was concluded yesterday befere Coroner Wildey, The bridge of the South ferry (Brooklyn side) gave way, and lies im the plip. ¢ South ferry boats ceased ronping for a couple of hours during the night, and wefe several times during their trips stuck in Whitehall slip. ‘The vessels in port sustained no further damage than chafing. and, if practicable, erect # battery there, so as to com- | mand the Savannah river. This was to be done without | the arsistance of the naval fleet. ‘hie expedition was j placed under the command of Brigadier Genera! Viele, | York Volunteers, Communication is now entirely cut off between ork was communicated to to report that « Inptaxaporss, Feb. 25, 1862, ‘The official list of the killed and wounded fm tne In- diana regiments at the battle of Fort Ponelson is as fol- leventh, killed, 4; wounded, 26, Twenty-fifth, aay they left Memphis the legislature arrived there from Nashville, They were to meet op the following day to discusg.State affairs, They state people were rapidly or” riving from Nashville and in large numbers. ‘All the gold and and silver that could be got hohio® ———— and consisted of the Forty-eighth we guns were | vied 15; wounded, 100. Thirty-first, wounded, 8. For- “ and dered & verd! st night placed. in pout ue fort and batteries con ; had been moved to Memphis. A panic of eolossal dimen. the jury ren & verdict of ‘Death from blood The Gale Elsewhere. Col, Perry (a graduate of West Poi audigy ikeniver Voy rerpenuitiie, your ovedientrere't, | ty fourth, wounded, 9 Fifty second, killed, 3; wound" | 0 Oe as oe tho state, and Confederate * and inflammation of the lungs, induced by vio- THE GALE AT WABRINGTON City. Brig. Gen, Com, ed, 62. ; : jen. T, W. Snemuax, Co a" no value whatever. : sate et ieoieeas etiee-nian years age. Kennedy wan | 1% Washington, D. C., several houses south of the | Rhode Island artillery. The sroops, with six large guns me peda emanate deat pp ‘cay three thousend rebel treope st New valso born in Ireland, and is forty-eight years of age. On | Capitol were blown down,and@ number of rocfs torn off | (thirty-two pounders), were embarked in flatboats ut The Nav). General Bockner and staff, including Majors Casby, li Gantes, Rarthworks werd: Being ‘the rendition of the verdict he was recommitted to prison | in various parts of the city, trees torn down, signs dd in tow of Hight draught s ARKIVAL OF ANOTHER NEW IRON-CLAD SYRAMER. Hays and Cassidy , Captains Thomas J. Clay, Charles John- | Madrid under Colonel y at Dawfaskie Island, and in ¢ 8 2 7 ‘to await the actiou of the Grand Jury. * Seicis By Taxina ‘Porson.—Coroner Naumann beld an nquest yesterday at No. 316 Houston street, upon the body of Francis Moos, a:native of Germany, aged twenty one years, who commi: ‘ed suicide by taking a quantity of paint koown as ‘Paris grep,” in which arsenic enters largely a8 a cOnponout part. Dr. Wooster Beach and nwnings “ostroyed. roofs of the Washington Gymnasiam and the house of Mr. Adams, on Four-and.a- half street, were demolished. ‘Trinity church was eon- siderably damaged by ¢he upsetting of two wooden pinacles on the towers, and the throwing down of ove of the brown stone blocks from the front. "A portion of the roof was also broken, ‘The steople of the Baptist church on Thirtonath street was biown down, and entirely | | ‘The expedition reached Jones’ Island. a preliminary re connoissance was made of all the points on the isiaud and a site at Venus’ Point, as shown by the position of the Volean battery on the map, was selected for the | erection of # fortification. The thing at first sight looked | like an impossibility. ‘The swampy character of the | but las not as yet received her name, Another of the three irop-elad steamers which are au- ler an act of Congress approprinting $1,500,000 porpose, arrived in thie cily on Monday last, mn Mystic, Conn t, where she has been building Inst, She wax launched a few She is at son, and F.H. McDonald, aad J.N, Gallagher, General Buckner’s private secretary, reached here at one o'clock this morping, with 900 other prisoners among whom are Major Cranberry, of General Tilghman's staf; Major Herbert Pallam and Captain Moorman, of Buehrod John- son's staff; Captal y formerly of Garibaldl's erected at a short distance from New Madrid, Jef. ‘Thompecn held no commission there. On Sunday evening last thirteen steamboats landed strong force of federal troops at Commerce, afew mi above Cairo, whose destination is supposed to be some point in Arkansas. rtem exaraimation of the body, an i | crushed the roof and side walls. The slamage ix estimited " " * | \ving at Greenpoint, and hae the greater portion of her | staff; Captain Ranes Ingrean Stanwitz, Joel Chapley, of ‘THE EXCITEMENT IN NASHVILLE. pn Longe the tbolacn’ tn tne 9 4 ——_ £1 $12,000, The north wall, in itp fall, crushed the back | #il seemed to forbid the landing of troops on the island, | |¥'nk eenpoint, a ® “0 taf pa in i cay aunianaliss ony A military correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal, ‘whatever could be assigned for the commission of the | building ot a dwell ‘on that vocupied by the faint. | much more to erect batteries aud mount heavy “ave ines are finished and the greater part | Tennessee and Kentnoky artillery and infantry; Sargeons s Munfordsville, KY., states that juat before, wach rct. The , in rendering @ verdict, took occasion | ly of Mr. Smart, bat fortunatel, one of the family ware | thereon. It was determined, however, (o erect the bat- | iv, and quite a large under of workmen are employed | Charies Widney and WG. Owen, of Washington City. writing from Munfordsville, Ky., al ne Ye to find ,anit with the law in relation to the sae of poisons, | hurt. Considerabie damuge was done to vesvois lying at | (3 ready designated, and carry the guns | © beard for the purpose of hurrying up her completion. ‘Among the prisoners arrested on Sunday and yesterday | he left our Greew river camps, a geutl juse which allows paint dealers and others to dispose of | the wharves. tery at the point already designated, and carry the gun ‘The vessel has been constructed uncer « contract of mage Right "| peachod there, who had left Nashville on the day.of ine poisonous goods without any restriction whatever, Wasmmerox, Feb. 25, 1862, | a distance of a mile over a swampy roud. To facilitate hnelt & Co., and waa designed by Hi, Pook, of | 8 sda mastic ttf of the news of tho fail of Fort Donelson. He Payercun F Drowwen.—The body of a Ger The damages by the northwest gale Of yesterday are | matters, Col. Perry, the energetic commander of the | Borten, who siperintended the constrve:ion on the part | Colonel John M. Litlars ; Lioutenant Colonel Abernathy, | reception of 1 ’ a pam tiseho ne ly of @ German | extensive. The Iofty steeple of the Thirteenth street ¢ New York regiment, was requested to aur | OC tegovernment. ‘The desicu wast #0 comstract tho | the Fiftv-third Tennessee, and Lieutenant Cokimel is a ver strong Union man, and had premeditated an os- physician, named George Flicshmann, was fourtd floating | Baptist church was blown down; its weight and massive | Forty-oighth New York regiment, Fequested 95" | sides that they rhouki slope inward from the water'a | ¢ , caps to one linos Fome tiuie since, but the strictnens of dei the water at the foot of Market #troct yenterday marn- | bell entircly crushed in the roof and gide walls, leaving | perintend the construction of « corduroy rond from the | tune cause the missiles whieh should otfilke them nal guanéé hed prevented the eccoummmibtiihweDAs Deceased, tt appeared, hai beon “missing from hig | only the frout and east walla standing. ‘The injury ix e6- | place where the troops landed on the Mud river side of | ame which lies on 4) Buckner is confined alone in @ room of the | qbe rebel gu rpeere , Behe since the'3d of Deceuaber lant, and when last noon | tiwtcd at on thousand dollars. “The ngrth wall fu fall- | Tso tand to Venu Point. The road was constructed, ” two or three feet fom the | Pnjted States Court building. ylang, until everything had been thrown into confusion alive ho was somewhat intoxicated. It is supposed that he was drowned while ov Lis way home from a lager bier ing croshe? in the walls of an adjacent dwelling. A schooner which had anchored eff the Arsenal, drag- and.by the untiring labor of the troop he guns were at | Ht fifteen inches thick, feet above the gun deck. whieh thickness extends tw ‘There are now tn this city, Lafayette and Terre Haute, by this, to the rebels, most terrible news. He represents the state of ‘excitement at Nashviile as ‘anparal- saloon jn Jackscn street. Coroner Na‘ mann ‘an in- | ed six anchors and driftedashore. Maced in ‘battery. While the construction of the | The walls extending to the upper nearly six thot pri " fect ic reigned throughout whole upon the body, when the jury rendered pay CO neiterable damage was dope to other vessels tying vaaatoune i Ata detechment of Col. Perry's | urtecn imehes thick, and at the fade oar she’ atreatenere thronged with people wild with supposed drowaihg. Dr. Flicshmann was fifty-four | at the wharf. bie Rati. Yin Pearce PPh ea sz TY'F | whole being as solid as the sides proper. News from chiy, ee isading rabels were Leakage i years of age, and was 2 ent of No. 289 Monroe | _ Steamers were compelled to cease runing, and a | regiment attempied to erect breastworke to cover the | — The following is her ditnensious, so far & cau be axcer- | RVACUATION OF CHARLESTOWN, VA., BY THE | sipre goods boxes, , Rage dept ‘corners, to the ex- Street. freight train com ing up from Alexandria could with diffi | gung. fhe mud, as fast as it was piled up for the hat- prevent:—Length over all, two hundred feet; REBELS. Cited populace, stating that the + federals”” were upon Fatat Fant om 1m Jon.—John Simpson, a native of | “Wty make its way against the gale, tery, slipped and sunk away; but the platforms were inid ® breadth of beam, thirty-seven foot; depth of Suxpy Hoox, Md., Feb. 25,1862. | them, the city was defenceless, and to every Ireland, aged sixty eight years, died at Kellovue 1k spital BOSTON, SY Yonded at th Swale Riek a inches, and Bet eve wagecky, 2 r ‘i the ferry during the gale | an who had any species of firearms to rally to the de- yesterday from the effects of injuries accidentally ro- ‘The large tower of ‘the Roman Catholic church in Fast | “4 the guns mounted. The guns were landed atthe | thonsand tour, She is pierced for eighteen guns, but it While attempting to cress th y during Hane of thie gence ws these appeals had but ‘eoived.om the Sth inst. by falling on tho ice. Deceased Reston was blown down, demolishing the mailer tower point A,as shown in the accompanying may, on « wharf is generally supposed she will not carry so large an arma yesterday the boat swamped, and five soldiers and one ys that very little effect, and there scemed to fractured his thigh, aud, be' & man .of jatemperaiec | in its fall. Several -chimnies were aleo blown down. made.of bags filled with sand and long planks laid acrosg | mont. b's citizen were drowned, The ferryinan, wh was with Mr, | system abont anything that looked Cer habits, he sank sath fat Sirapson wa pyr ‘ BALTIMORE. Nadia. Saisie Wied td dadag 9 that oxnete Ble | puitodeips, and fo to be clad with iron, platen Winuiee to | Rokr whan shot by the rebela, was the only one who the confusion he made good his escape to . eT ORRTA tn pe ners mem, tn the Monumental City many houses were unroofed. — | or nienks twenty feet Jong, laid in parallel fines; twouets | those used on the British steamer Warrior. cocaped. ‘FHM UNION FERLING IN NASHVILLE. Personal Intelligence. ‘the ohh nih aan bete on ts biden freight car, | of Shere Parallels were used foreach gun, andas fast an MOVEMENTS OF GUNBOATS. ‘All rebel families ar# evacuating the town of Charlog- | The following letter was found in Fort Henry after the Lioutevant Aimar P. Webster, Ninth regiment New | which was sanding on the turnout, up to the main | the pieces were dragged over one ret it was taken up and | _ At Walf past, six oclouk on Eatininy, teat the Unked | town, Va. battle:— Naat; Tet Seat", York Voluntesrs (Hawkins? Zouaves), who was wounded | tack, when the engine of the New York train struck it, | placed still further in advance, Holes were drilled im | Facyson, which have been lying off Staten Island during | Three companies of tebelfeavalry are tho only enemy | fyeay Sox—T received your always wéloome: letter dashing it. in pieces. ‘Uno baggage and moking car in the brilliant chargo of his regiment at Roanoke Island, | Were conaiderabty broken, but fortunately no person the planks and ropes looped through the holes, #o that .gotonderway, They will probably go toKey | in sight, Thoy are about three miles from the ferry, yesterday, and 1am Going 0 aS ad tre ook 1 4 -arrived in this city last evoning. After tho attack on | w&s injured, the planks might be more easily dragged by the troops. pry \Ciny MaNiASaadion,. collet ins aoe eh Tee glad that Cf Fort Sumter he left his class in Columbia Cottege, and has Iw sHREKY. In nia manner the gue were conveyed scrote Jo” | We trae oe the Sons of Mal Kuscnon or ST Exciter Tho firemen, on | woll and that you are well, but 1 tremble when T deen constantly with his rogimont since. He wasat the | aeintud Newark Railvond, wae conplety’ blown domn | Hind to their present position. Colonel Perry, Mewte | neaxgeMENTs FOR THE RECEPTTO Monday evening, throughout the dgpartmont, held ihetr | of you being Am ‘le. horrid war. my taking of Hatteras—his company, with Captain Jardins at | by the gale yestorda: ‘afternoon. Much damage was also nant J. H. Wileon, of the United States Engineers, and MASSACHUSETYS PRISONERS, = for Aw ened rod Saat ts ate a oe ives wae yuawverbeber we dicta, te Oe sum bead, being the first to land, Gane to'the opot at MoutcInir, the terminus af tne road, | Lieutenant Horace Porter, of the Ordnance Departments | purmuant to a call a meeting of the “Sons of Massachu- At och hong, engine and truak houne,, trom seven to; | guneole ornal¥se wubae "ea: , Goserad ieetieien bas ‘Among tho werivale by the United States ateamn trans. | PY "b? destruction of tie ehimneys and parLof the roof.” | yuperintended tho removal of the guns. On the first | settq' was held lam! evening at the Fifth. Avenue Hotel | vassars before twolve o'clock the same night, at Hrooks | and is oxercising great genoralship, 1, tear thet port Countitution, Captain A. 'T. Fletcher, from Ship YRAVHL:ON TH SOUND. | night the heavy guns were dragged two hundred yards | for the purpose of making arrangements to give. gut. | Asseinbly Room oc Aree, Andee ak aoe | Se ag ef you BB nb Pah | x faland, we notice Moses Hates, Fxq., boarer of despatches | ‘the wightoverland mail train from New Yark’ arrived | The ##oond night the work procesded, aud the guus were | able recoption (9 the released Massachusetts soldlere— Pee winan' the old and uew candiiates, Owing to tho late | would resigh, and we will move North, No one here to Major General @utlor. Lieutenant Bates je xtopping.at | at noon to-day. it dragged the remainder of the route, aod betore morning | omcersand privates—on their arrival inthis city, from | jour at which the returns wore handed in the canvassers | suspects my Union proelivities. 1 am eon for the the Aster House. , The steambuat ony ao Peng Mesh Mt seven | af} were in position. The work of tugging the guns was | the jails of the South, did not complete their Iabors = tate Can gh A 9 po! es 06 peers, Pe a alee Massachusotis, E,W Giibert, of Utica, W, Williams, of ‘The Stonington steamboat train had not arrived at one | memt,who were cemmanded and encouraged ‘by Colonel Colone | F. E. Howe was called uponto make @ siate” | names of those who constitut: the new Board of Engineers | of the Soath, A interest is felt here as Butlo; FP. Koss. of Auburn; ©. Gook, of Bath, S.¥., | oreloek this alusrnocn. Perry, In the morning a rebel gundeat came down the | ment of what would be necemsary to be done towards re- | for the next three years:— your position (Fort ); it that Is taken, ‘ihe Sonth is and HT, Whoeler, of Bel dgeport, axo stoping at ‘the si: MARINK SISASTERB. “ less ving the released prisoners ina fitting manner. Danie van, Wm, Hackett, surely conquered. ‘Can poo this ax well as others. iy) sp OR PR Nong, Heb 26, 662. er iadon hea codhnaeing: x dae, Aree TN waa decided thatthe meeting should apotnt « com | John atic” Biha Kingsland, Destroy this letter, as it may get you into trouble ‘4 c} a ; A.W. N rics 5 ive for the purpone o! iy necessa; % i imothy L. % jonate father. srieanigiainnes Bao ay trny | expen tetas cn | ements cer ee ermal | EE eee eae | Rpm Herat erie - bene D en ; Gray, ree schooners and two brigs are ashore at thomsine | nyyging the western bore of the river auccessfully | ‘helr arr! nnect fonry 5 | V. Robjvins, of Cine! a W. C % a ew York #hould , 6 IMPORTANT FROM deen ene oe ee Gioag ets | Diaoe, with the nea reaking over them passed te atiery an proceeded to Fort Pak ign“ seat eng a hp aha New t ‘jenn Bree i | aT i » Colonel HL P. Hubbell, of Baltimore; © - Look wand, of Brooklyn City News. wan discovered by this ceenrrence the guns on meget Sed ta P vt oh) Iprocate on ‘The highest v i... A i.” os waa receiv tone W b iendlog. fhonign: dames 8! Boyer erent, Concent at THR AcADraY oF Music—The cenccrt of | Jones’ Island id not completely command the river: | "Ae sotamitan was then appointed, consisting of the | Mean Dousvany. AIK ngs, rie Haale and Reciee je enacted om the ley. engo, and G. A. Dixon, of New York Lavarge House, ‘lea Wesson, of the United States ia 4 ian , 0d P. Kirby and wife, of California; C. P. Fast . man, of ; D. Robbins, of Boavan; N. f. R. Kinney, © Sowa; L. H. Romriil and party, of Baffalo, re -atopping at she he Broaklyn Public Sehool No. 18, Mr. A. B. Clark, Prin, cipal, will take piace tommorrow (Thursday) evening, at the Acadewy of Music. Tho programme is an exceedingly attractive ane, and an interesting feature will bo « po! vd from “ hence it was determined to erect another battery on the west end of Long Island, aud which, erethis in com. pleted, cute eff all communication between the rebele at Savannab ed Fort Pulaski. ‘This accomplished, Fort Pulaski is beleaguered, favennal), in tie nature} bey gentlemen :—Co!. F. E. Howe, James Sturgis, ©. Holbrook, H. 8. Hallett and ©. 1, Jeb the meeting adjourned. Perkins, atter Hackett meets with great favor, bot department, uit a Bight Avenue Ratiroad. ‘TO THE RDITOR OF THE HERALD, It would almost seem as if it the intention of the in and ont of the ‘and Charles rezia Borgia,’’ on violin and pianoforte, ARRIVALS. has been driven from his Ketmtf B ‘tiny are ying ot tw Mtroan | SSpogaznue amour Hada ane Danonoa Ss | ce of events met serrate Sere, pacs te Banya | servant en Skeet ioe eae | Senn Gen Born, tos ome Ah Oo . « ‘ aa) HAd Wolfe, Cage T W Williams, TF Rand, WP Thy » bi 4 Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut; @, € Daviteon, | BMOKLEN AmmELAtY.—At the annual election, held | THE Heconmetesanee af the Water Aue | KiagileNérion and chil, Nie Behineis v* | of ueevCenatal Part, Une ihe lee wae Je seqneneaice | and wouided'end'secte‘wleres aa hd Sosalilen Geatey, Hoon. ¥. V. Sackot aud F,ank Chamberlain, of Albany; J! | January 21, 1862)sne following gentlemen wore elected Lavunsent—Atvamer Niagara, at Bosion—Mr Sirickand tnt chett cafe, announcing this fact, but‘on inguiry, | He burned this extensive barracks af that place to prevent & ¥ JH. Bruco and Iady, and Hobert Seyret und | 4, ustees of this institgtion:— and wite, Mr Coilts, wife, wo children and nurse; Mv Duval | boing made by the passongers, persistently asserted the | our troope ocoupying them, Gen. Curtis says most of »! as eee c. Wannemac! ry J. Seah B, Etitt frusee—Lra Smit. J. 8. T. mes P. Wal- ahd Wife, Captain Lambert, Vinowga de, inva a Joutenant ) there was ho skatng on the Park at all. ‘ihe object of | our provisions for the last tendays have boon taken from wa ane RY pet dips Cb mom, | ao Yambert, fH Reraell, 1. 1. Hougttes, Daniel | Aver, dew des ‘ont ig iain Foe eee ante Mears Young, | isooduet was, dountier, to provant. thanececity of | fh gremy. and. H. Bowers, of Hartford, J. Mi. Nicholas, of ew es ae, ment lervie, mAs Billi TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. Arago, AP Montant, Re Atkineor Thomas Chariton, foe eda terchas ten itty Pred ee 1 or Selnaned Balent, a9 stopping at the Avior House. HOFF gan dha Tapior Hehe CockesCormeiog J. Sprague, | y noreyith aond to the Hensto a few brief extracts | Fr, Divgts, rian sianien, Cinch YBa tan | trast belng Une stopping place dering skatrg day Movements of Gens. Hanter and Lane, yr eee Inspector haries Condit, H. HC. Diekirgon, 1.8, Hub- | trom a private letter of the 12th inet., writteit by an off. | Bowker, John MeDunald, W ae, Alien, Ht Wal palo wii soon earn how to pun sh such cond Leavexwortn, Fob, 26, 1862, < t Calendar—This Day, bard. Ab asibsequent mooting of the Board of Trustees of Gon. Shermait’s division, operating ncar Reyannah Pee See, Dees Saucon and Would bo better-—and [for ne am willing to dv %—t0 | 1, understood that Gen. Hunter will leave here fOp Bermmwn Ce VO ROL —Lart te-No8, 418, 1567, 1793, | Hon, , T. Stranihan was prauimourly ro-ciected | °° ‘ “1 Memern hn’ Cromman, Demixe, © walk advors two avenues, than enoourag monopoly |g. Lule to-day, and Gon. Lane: for Washingtu to-mor, 1622, 1500, 869, 1145, 1982. 4010, 357, 6036, 1977, 1360, | Preside i, 8 Burnham, Treagare and J, 1, ‘The writer enya— ferringt ton, Cimmoson, POF pt that is uiaed with an insolent carelessness for the com | °* ‘ / fe 3162) 1168, 1264, 4466, 1280, 1916, 1842, Saoretary. 1 left Hilton Head in company with the Seventh con: ! Rowen Ph ‘rotal. fort oF eunvgnienes of parsougers 10". o