The New York Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1862, Page 6

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CRYSTAL PALACE CONCERT HALL, No. 45Bowery, ~ Bymizsquus, Songs, Danous, &0.—Deas as a Post. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, Broadway. Open daily from 10.4. M. til OP. M. Rarer NOVELTY MUSIC HALL, 616 Broadway.—Bug.esquss Sonce, Daxoxs, £0. re TRIPLE SHEET. Now York, Wednesday, April 16, 1862. THE SITUATION. The Union armies havo achieved another tri- umph, which places in poasession of the govern- Ment one more of the forts plundered from it at the opening of the rebellion. Fort Pulaski, which commands the city of Savannah, was uncondition- ally surrendered by the rebels at two o'clock in the afternoon of Friday last, after sustaining a fire from our batteries which perhaps no fortification in the world could withstand. Seven large breaches were made in the south wall by the Union battery, of eight Parrott guns, at King’s Landing. All the barbette guns at that side were dis- mounted, and also three of the casemate guns, leaving but one gun bearing on that point. Three balls entered the magazine, and a clean breach was made init. The balls from our guns were pro- pelled with such force that they went clear through the walls at nearly every fire. Colonel Olmstead, who was in command of the fort, telegraphed the Previous evening that no human being could stand upon the ramparts for even a single moment, and that over one thousand large shells had exploded within the fort. These facts come from the Savannah papers, and are therefore entitled to full credit. We give in another page a description, accompanied by seve- ral plans, of Fort Pulaski and the defences of Sa- vaanah, with the position of our batteries on Ty- bee Island, which will be found highly important at this juncture, when Savannah is left almost helpless within our grasp. Affairs at Yorktown intimate the coming battle. At two o'clock on Monday morning a section of our artillery threw fifteeen shots into the rebel earthworks, the enemy not responding until our battery withdrew. The old works used in the siege of 1781 are plainly discernible, and are mount- ed with heavy guns. Our flotilla was engaged Monday shelling out a number of rebels who were constructing a battery four miles below Glouces- ter. Nothing of importance occurred at Fortress Monroe yesterday, as we learn by a despatch from General Wool. The weather was quite favorable. The Merrimac was not seen either yesterday or the day before. A Richmond paper expresses considerable fear for the safety of the rebel capi- tal, intimating that the Monitor and her attendant iron-mailed vessels might easily ascend the James river and take possession of Richmond. It sug- geste that the river should be immediately ob- structed by sinking stones to prevent such a catas- trophe. It may be that the rebels would have no objection to see the iron-clad vessels up the James river, and thus leaye Hampton Roads open to the Merrimac. We give to-day another account of the late bat- tle at Pittsburg Landing, which comes from a cor- respondent of the Cincinnati Gazette, which will be found not only highly interesting but remark- able, from the fact that, with the exception of our own cortespondent’s report of the affair, which we published on Wednesdcy last, it is the only detailed account given to the pblic—all the other state- ments being a mere compilation of bits and scraps, without beginning and without end. It will be found that this account of the battle tallies with our original statement, and bears evidence that this writer also witnessed what he describes. Our plan of the battle field at Pittsburg to-day will be found very valuable in illustrating the fight. A correspondent of another Cincinnati paper, who eft the battle ground om Thursday last, estimates our loss in killed at from 1,200 to 1,500; ‘wounded, 3,500 to 4,000; missing, 2,500. The rebels lost more in killed than we did, but not so many ‘wounded. About !,000 wnwounded rebel prisoners wore taken and about ,200 wounded. Up to the time he left 2,200 rebels had been buried. Our troops retook on Monday all the batteries lost on Bunday, and captured twelve pieces from the enemy. He says that the day after the last ight— that ia on Tuesday —General Beauregard sent a flag of truce, requesting permi and saying on to bury his dead, -“Owing to the heavy reinforcements yr received Sanday night and Monday, and the fariquo of my men, deemed It prudent to retire NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APKIL 1, 1862—TRIPLK SHEET. and not renew the battle.’ The permission was not granted, The bearer of the flag admitted that General Beauregard reeeived a slight wound in the left arm. Our troops at Pittaburg Landing are notidle. A force of four thousand men, on five transports, left there on Saturday night, accompanied by the gun- boats Tyler and Lexington, and proceeded up the Tennessee river to a point near Eastport, Miss., where they landed, and proceeding inland to Bear creek bridge, destroyed the two bridges on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. A cavalry force of one hundred and fifty men was found there, but they fied. This operation completely cuts off com- munication of the main rebel body at Corinth with Alabama and all the southern frontier of the con- federacy, except New Orleans. According to latest accounts yesterday our army was eight miles in advance of Pittsburg, and within two miles of the rebel position. Another battle was therefore imminent at any moment. We are in possession of additional news from Newbern, N.C. Preparations were in progress up to the 11th inst. for the siege of Fort Macon. Heavy guns were being put into ‘position by our troops. The health of the army was good at that point, very few cases of sickness being reported. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday, Mr. MoDougall, of Cali- fornia, called up the resolution asking the Secre- tary of War for information as to the cause of the delay in the trial of General Stone, and if the latter has not applied for a speedy trial. Mr. McDougall defended General Stone in a lengthy speech. Mr. Wilson offered a substitute for the resolution, calling on the President for the desired information, and on Mr. McDougall’s request the subject was laid aside until to-day. The Naval Appropriation bill was reported back by the Con- ference Committee, but no action taken. , In the House.of Representatives, the motion to reconsider the resolution relative to Union prison- ers of war was called up, and after some conversa- tion was amended so as to request the Secretary of War to inform the House what cause, if any, has prevented the exchange of Colonels Corcoran and Wilcox, and the other prisoners of war held ince July last. The bill to regulate the franking privi- lege waa taken up; but as the House has already passed a bill abolishing the franking privilege it was laid on the table. The bill amendatory of the act establishing the Court of Claims was passed. It authorizes the President to appoint two addi- tional Judges, and the Court to have jurisdiction of all claims for which the government would be liable in law or equity, if it were sueable in courts of justice, except such claims as Congress may by joint resolution Specially declare shall be dis posed of by act of Congress or otherwise; and shall also have a concurrent jurisdiction with the Circuit and District Courts of the United States of all suits or cases against the United: States for the title ¢o real estate, or for muniments for title tothe same, and in all_such cases the judgment shall be final, subject tothe right of appeal. Dis- loyal persons are excluded from the operation of the act. The House concurred in the reports of the Committee of Conference on the disagreeing votes of both branches’ of Congress to the Post Office and Navy Appropriation bills. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. One year ago this day was published the pro- clamation of President Lincoln calling for seven- ty-five thousand men and ordering an extra session of Congress. In the Senate of our State Legislature yesterday, several bills were passed, including the Congres- sional Apportionment bill, those for the extension of the Chenango Canal, the licensing of ballast lighters in this port, and that extending the time for the completion of the Erie Railroad. Among the bills ordered to a third reading was the Pablic Defence bill; also that to allow the Children’s Aid Society of this city to share in the common school fund. The bill to reorganize the State militia was debated in Committee of the Whole and afterwards made the special order for this evening. In the Assembly, the greater portion of the day’s session was taken up in a discussion Over the bill to amend the assessment laws. It was finally re- ferred to a select committee of nine, with instructions to make certain amendments and to report complete. The Supply bill was taken up out of its regular order and passed. A debate took place on the bill to allow the loaning of sma amounts of money at more than the legal rate of interest, the bill, among several others, having been reported to the House by the Committee of Nine. It was finally stricken from the report. The bill to prevent the swill milk traffic was passed; also the bills authorizing the city of Brooklyn to issue bonds for the relief of volunteers’ families, to incorporate the New York Commercial Associa- tion, and to amend the act relative to the rates of wharfage in New York and Brooklyn. The screw steamship City of Baltimore, Captain Jeffery, which sailed from Liverpool at noon on the 2d and from Queenstown on the 3d inst., ar- rived at this port at half-past nine o'clock last night, bringing mails, newspaper files and passen- gers. Her news has been anticipated by the tele- graphic report of the Norwegian at Portland, published in the Heratp yesterday morning. A report was current in England, but could be traced to no reliable foundation, that a” steamer, built at Liverpool, armed with twenty of Blake- ley’s 100-pounder guns, had gone to Gibraltar for the purpose of having an encounter with the fede- ral war steamer Tuscarora. By the arrival of the Plantagenet at this port last evening we have Jamaica papers tothe 5th inst. A great fire occurred in Kingston March 31, consuming all the buildings between Church street on the east, King street on the west, Harbor street on the north, and the harbor on the south. All the houses on Port Royal and Little Port Royal streets and Temple lane wore burned, with all en the south side of Harbor street, the west side of Church street and the east side of King street. The loss is estimated at £300,000. There is no other news of interest. The prize schooner Napoleon, Acting Master F. 8. Wells, nine days from Newhern, N. C., with a cargo of cotton, arrived at this port last evening. The N. was captured at Newbern by our forces when they captured that place. She had been used as one of the rebels’ harbor de- fences, she baving mounted a large pivot gun forward. The United States iron-clad gunboat Galena steamed from the pier at Green Point to the Navy Yard yesterday morning, where she will receive her armament. Her performances were highly satisfactory. Beauregard seoms to have as many lives as a cat. Thetelegraph, since the attack on Fort Sum- ter, has killed him eight times. The next will pro- bably finish him, When our victorious army marched into Nash- ville, John Bell, who in 1860 was 80 strongly in fa- vor of the ‘enforcement of the laws,’”’ ran away, “to avoid the insults of the Yankees.” He brought op at Huntsville, Alabama, which has re- cently fallen into the hands of Gen. Mitchell. Where he has now fled to wo have yet to learn. It is said there are one hundred and four briga- dier generals in the rebel army. If they have each a full command, the entire strength of their force is over five hundred thousand men. Governor Sprague will probably be chosen by the Legislature of Rhode Islapd to Gl thg goat ia the United States Senate now occupied by the Hon. James F. Simmons, whose term expires with the present Congress. ‘The Nova Scotia Legislature has decided favora- bly upon a plan to construct @ military telegraph from Halifax to the boundary of New Brunswick, which is to connect with other lines leading to Montreal. The whole line will be remote from the American frontier. The Quebec Mercwry admonishes the Canadians to take a lesson from the bulldog spirit which ia manifested by the Yankees in the present strug- gle. It says the ridicule of Bull run, which would have crushed @ more delicate race, seems to have had no effect but to determine tho North- ern people to try again. The New England Soldiers’ Relief Association held a meeting last night at 154 Broadway, the new building fitted up as a hospital forthe recep: tion of wounded soldiers in transit through New York. Mr. Charlea Gould occupied the chair, and explained the objects of the association. Our de- scription of the building and report of the pro- ceedings are unavoidably crowded out this morning. Suffice it to say the building, under the supervision of Colqnel F. A. Howe, is fitted up in the most comfortable manner, and that $2,455 have already been subscribed to carry out ‘thie ob- jects of the association. "4 The Postmaster.of Shandaken, Ulster county, [New York, rejoicing in the. euphonious ‘patro-' aymic of Tubbs—sponsorials Lysander O.—was ox- amined before Mr.Commissioner Osborn, on a charge of abstracting a letter containing money. The defence was a conspiracy against Tubbs, and Tubbs was accordingly restored to his Standing in society. ‘The case of John S. Cole, indicted for the homi- cide of Thomas Morton, and tried in the Oyer and: Terminer before Hon. Judge Barnard, was finished yeaterday afternoon. District Attorney Hall ask- ed for a verdict of manslaughter in the third de- gree, arguing that the evidence clearly established the fact that the accused inflicted the stab which caused the death of the deceased. A number of witnesses for the defence gave Mr. Cole an excel- lent character for peaceablencss, and Mr. Clinton contended that the facts and cir- cumstances developed by the testimony fail- ed to show that the defendant oaused the death of Morton during the affray, in which the friends of both parties were engaged. The jury rendered a verdict of guilty of manalaughter in the fourth degree, and recommended Cole ta the mercy the Court. Judge Barnard, in view of the conflict of testimony and the unexceptionable character of the defendant, sentenced him to imprisonment inthe City Prison for three months. The wheat and fruit crops in the West never pro- mised a better yield than they do at present. Stocks were better yesterday, the news from Alabama andGeorgia having imparted more tone to the market. Governmentd closed at an advance of % per cent. Ex- change closed dull at 1125{. Money is very easy at 586 percent. Gold at 101%. The exports of the week wero $2,458,530. The cotton market yesterday was firmer, and closed at an advance of full half acent per lb. The sales em- braced 3,300 bales, about 1,500 a 1,600 of which were made to spinaers,and the remainder chiefly on specula- tion. Prices closed stiff on the basis of 28c. a 28%¢c° for middling uplands, and one smali lot (probably @ little better than middling) was reported at 20c. ‘The flour market was again heavy and lower, and closed ata decline of 5c. to 10c. per bbi., especially for common and medium grades. Wheat was easier and prices irregular, while sales were limited. Corn opened at 58c. @ 60c. for mixed, im store and delivered. At the close 60c. was asked for the article delivered: Pork was heavy, with some more inquiry, at the late decline. Sales of new mess were made at $12 75a $12 873¢, and of now prime at $10 12% 9 $1037. Su- gars were in moderate request and steady, with sales of about 200 bhds. at full prices. Coffee was steady, with limited sales: 500 bags Rio sold at 203¢c. The stock of Rio amounted to 89,934 bags, and packages of all kinds to 132,975. Freights were firmer, especially to Liverpool, with more offering, The Reduction of Fort Pulaski—Another New Lesson in the Art of War. And yet another important Union victory. From the seaboard of Georgia our indefatiga- ble soldiers and seamen are bravely responding to the great achievements of their gallant breth- ren in the West. Fort Pulaski, the main de- fence of the city of Savannah against a hostile approach from the sea, is ours; and doubtless the city now, like Nashville after the fall of Fort Donelson, will speedily be abandoned to our advancing forces. From the facts which we derive from rebel sources of the surrender of Fort Pulaski, and from other items of information in our posses- sion, we have no hesitation in saying that the reduction of this stronghold of the enemy was very beautifully managed and conducted. The attention of the rebels was first diverted to the movements of our gunboats and land forces among the creeks and islands be- tween the city and the fort; but, having cut off the communications of the garrison with the city, General Sherman, under cover of the night, and from night to night, proceeded to plant his batteries of heavy rifled Parrott guns on Tybee Island within deadly range of the sea front ofthe fortress. When ready for their work his guns were uncovered, and their bom- bardment of a single day appears not only to have rendered the fort untenable, but it seems to have proved conclusively that against. our latestimprovements in artillery stone forts are as defenceless as are wooden ships against iron- clad battering rams. It is confessed in England that the sea fight between the Merrimac and the Monitor has revolutionized the whole system of naval warfare; and accord- ingly England has suspended the building of wooden vessels for war purposes. In this connection, too, it has been suggested in Par- liament that the work be suspended on the stone fortifications which the British government is building at Spithead; and all doubts as to the expediency of this suspension will be removed with a very little reflection upon the details of our bombardment of Fort Pulaski. The sea- board granite defences of all the maritime na- tions of the earth must henceforward be pro- vided with artillery which no ship can conve- niontly employ, or they must be abandoned for iron-plated towers, rams and gunboats. Such are the sweeping changes in modern war ships and fortifications inaugurated by the inventive genius of this country in the prosecution of this war. The civilized world will realize the necossi- ty for these changes with the re“ection that a dozen fron-plated vessels like the Monitor could have accomplished in a few days at Sebastopol the work which oocupied, in the most tremondqus gad bloody siege of moderna times, for nearly a twelvemomth, the combined fleets and armies of England and France, to- gether with the armies of Turkey and Sar- dinia. Ina word, haviag proved by our recent warlike invontions and experiments that wooden ships and stone forts, as now armed, are henooforward useless for offensive or dofen- sive purposes in war, we have neutralized the great navies of England and France, and we bring them within the reach of our superior naval resources, and reduce them to the necea- sity of new defences against each other. But, applying the capture of Fort Pulaski to our more immediate object—the suppres- sion of this rebellion—it shows, in ocon- nection with some others of our late achievements, that there is no _ position for the rebels, however strongly defended by natural advantages, artificial additions, ar- tillery and mon, which cannot be turned, and thatthere is not a atone fortress slong thé South-, Fott Siimtor was not vory materially damaged ‘by the two dsys’ encircling ‘bombardment of Beauregard; but, with the exception of one amall rifled field piece, his guns were all of the old. fashion. But Sumter, when subjected to the tire of our heavy rifled Parrott artillery, will soon become as defencoless as Pulaski. The only serious impediment to our onward march into the very heart of this rebellion is the rebel army in front of General McClellan at Yorktown. With the news that that ob- struction has been removed, and that Jeff. Davis and his confederate rulers have fied in dismay from Richmond, we believe that the rough work of suppressing this rebellion will be finished, and that we shall only have to glean up some scattered guerilla fragments of our routed and broken rebel armies. Mean- time, we expect that the fall of Fort Macon will in a day or two add another contribution to the enthusiasm of General McClellan’s well equipped, disciplined and reliable army. Pu- laski is a good day’s work, and it gives usa new stock of patience and confidence in regard to Yorktown. “ aE Awmerioan Arvatr§ ww Eorore.—The govern- ments of Europe are just beginning to_appre- ciate this country and its resources. A short time ago the American war was a thing for the aneers of Punch and the satire of the Times. Now it is the all-important, all-absorbing topic in the highest European circles. The questions of cotton and the blockade are entirely forgot- ten in the furor about iron. The arrival of a steamer from America is now an event. Par- liament stops business until the news about our iron-clad batteries has been read. A late copy of the New Yor Heratp is of far more conse- quence than Lord Lyons’ official despatches, The announcement of the naval combat in Hampton Roads acted like an electric shock upon all Europe. England ceased completing her wooden ships and suspended work upon her stone fortifications. France compared her iron. clad ships with our models, and was especially anxious about her Plongeur. Russia, alway, anxious for a navy, will be sending over short- ly ¢o buy an iron-clad battery from Erics- son, as she did a first class frigate from Webb. Already, too, the immense cali- bre of our newly invented ordnance is making a sensation in Europe. The anxiety with which our citizens await another conflict be tween the Monitor and the Merrimac is more than equalled by that of all classes in England and of the rulers of France and Russia. We are trying experiments for the benefit of all the world, and England especially. There is not an Englishman but will leave his beer or his business to rush out into the street and devour the American news as soon as the arrival of the steamer is announced there. A few of our newsboys might make a good thing of it by tak. ing a bundle of extra Heratps across the At- lantic if we have another naval battle shortl y. Furruer Exriorrs or Gexerat Mrrcee.i.— We published yesterday a despatch from Nashville to the War Department, from which it appeared that General Mitchell, who had seized Huntsville, in Northern Alabama, and thus cut the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, hiad since sent out two expeditions. One of them went east to Stevenson, the junction of the Chattanooga with the Charleston and Memphis Railroad, which point they seized, capturing five locomotives and a large amount of rolling stock. The other, we are informed, proceeded west to Decatur in time to save the railroad bridge, which was in flames. By these move- ments General Mitchell holds one hundred miles of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, and the junctions of two important arteries. This is a heavy blow to the rebel cause. Not only is the line of communication between Charleston and Memphis severed, and communi- cation established between Mitchell’s corps and Nashville by two railroads—one to the Decatur junction and the other to Stevenson—but he is in a position to advance beyond Chattanooga to Cleveland, which would effectually cut off the communication between the rebel army in Virginia and the force under Beauregard, and at the same time open the way to Knoxville, thus turning the rebel force at the Cumberland Gap and rendering it of no account. Such is the brilliant movement of Mitchell, with only a small body of troops. Genera Porter’s BaLtoon ReconnoissaNce or Tus Evemy.—The ascent of General Porter ina balloon to reconnoitre the works of the enemy at Yorktown, on the 11th instant, was attended with an accident, which, though it created alarm to everybody but the intrepid voyager himself, gave him a better opportunity of accomplishing his purpose than he would otherwise have had. The rope was only nine hundred yards long, and only gave a limited view; but the accident of its snapping caused tho balloon to ascend to an immense height, while, at the eame time, it was moved by the wind right over the enemy. This, however, was an inconvenient point at which to effect a descent, and, as good luck would have it, when the balloon ascended a little higher it struck a counter current, which bore it east- ward and over the Union camp, where ho de- scended, highly delighted at the trip, and laughing and joking at his adventure, so coolly did he take his perilous journey. This is the right sort of man to lead troops into battle, We have no doubt that, one of these days, he will give @ good account of himself, Tue Raver, Gams ow Basg.—Sickened of the game of bluff, won by Commodore Foote along the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, the rebels fall back upon their old game of brag. The Richmond Whig roundly asserts that the rebels “have been often defeated by the Yan- koes, but never yet whipped in a fair fight.”” Has the Whig heard of Roanoke Island, Fort Donelson, Newbern, Winchester, Pea Ridge, Pittsburg Landing and Fort Pulaski? Or is the Whig satirical, and does it mean that the rebels always surrendered or ran away before they could be “whipped?” “But,” the Whig continues, “our defeats have proven the supe- riority of our fighting qualities.” Certainly this is a strange way of proving superiority. Does a man prove hig bravery by running away, a genoral prove his éuperiority by being defeated, an army prove ita courage by laying down its armat According to this rule, Floyd, Pillow and Wise must be the greatest generals the world ever saw, and the fame of Alexander the Great, Napoleon and Wellington is totally eclipsed. At last we oan comprehend why the rebels always claim s victory when they-bave | ‘ho Writmphed at Pittsburg Landing. ‘It is the superiotity, aud therefore they oontinue to more auperior and get more de- feated day after day. By thia process they will. succeed in achieving their in- after they are all brought back into the Union, and Jeff. Davis and his cabiaet will rule the Southern confederacy comfortably after they are hanged. What a consoling belief, to be sure. When success is achieved by defeat, no wonder the rebels never gain a victory. “Yes,” says the Whig, “we always believed we could whip the Yankees, and nothing has done so much to strengthen and confirm our belief as our disasters.” This is of a piece with the philosophy explained above, and must make all Confederate readers feel happy, even though they cannot exactly see it in that light. “The men of the South,” says the Whig, “are accustomed to the use of arms, and to the contemplation of death by the bullet or the knife.” What a happy picture of seceasion society. We Suppose that the reason why the rebels run now-a-days is because they are so much accustomed to contemplate death from the bullet and the knife that they can take no interest in contemplating it any more. The Americans lost the battle of Bladensburg from a similar want of interest. Poor rebels! they must be very much tired of contemplating death from the bullet and the knife; and, if only to revive their contemplative faculties, dulled by stupid custom, we ought to show them death in a new phase—from the halter. Seriously, if this article in the Richmond Whig is not written by a sensible man, who mintics, in order to laugh at, the rebel braggadocio, then the Whig must be conducted by lunatics. Tax Banxecrt Law.—In another column we publish two letters on the Bankrupt law which has been so summarily disposed of in the House of Representatives. It is another me- lancholy evidence of the unfitness for legisla- tion of the men who pretend to represent the people in Congress, and another proof of the neceasity of the public hurling such men from power, and placing in their stead men of prin- ciple, intelligence and character. The sort of Congress we have had for the last few years has ruined the country. It bas divided it by @ geographical line, and has kindled a civil war in which upwards of a million of men are in arms. Having thus ruined the business of the merchants and commercial men of the coun- try, it now abandons their interests, though many of those men have largely contributed to the sustainment of the government of the coun- try in its darkest hour, by supplying the sinews of war when there was not a cent in the treasury. The merchants and traders, moreover, are compelled to pay a heavy war tax besides, while their embarrassments loave them but lit- tle able to meet such a burthen. Whatever cripples the commerce of the country is neces- sarily injurious to the government, especially at a time when it is necessary that every branch of business should be prosperous in order to sustain the financial pressure pro- duced by the war. How the want of an equitable bankrupt law operates against the majority of the creditors, as well as the honest debtors, is clearly shown by one of our correspondents. The present system merely enables the swindling debtor to escape through the meshes of the law, while all others suffer from it. We hope that some honorable man will move for a re- consideration of the vote, in order that the yeas and nays may be taken, and the people may form a correct opinion of the character of the men who misrepresent them in Congress. Revert Canxanbs.—It is amusing to notice the devices employed by the rebels to keep up their courage. The rebel generals, like Beau- regard, transform defeats into victories in their reports, and the rebel editors back up these misrepresentations by weak inventions in re- gard to the spirit and health of our forces. Thus a correspondent of the Knoxville Regis- ter crowds three palpable falsehoods about the Union army into as many paragraphs. He re- ports that a Kentucky Union regiment rebelled near Nashville; that two Indiana regiments were called out to suppress the rebellion, and that a fight ensued, in which the Indianians were defeated. How true this story is the rebels learned at Pittsburg Landing, where the Kentucky and Indiana regiments fought gal- lantly side by side. The correspondent of the Register goos on to narrate the ravages made by the smallpox in our army, having discovered this disease in advance of our surgeons and soldiers, who know nothing of the agonies the correspondent describes, and are not aware that they are all dead and buried. The Register man concludes by stating thet our army is be- coming demoralized. Probably he had not yet heard of the capture of Island No. 10 and of the Pittsburg battle, or he would have con- cluded that our demorélization was a conta- gious disease, and that the rebels had caught it from us. If Satan is really the father of lies, we congratulate him upon the flourishing con- dition of his numerous progeny in the Southern confederacy. Old Ananias could not hold a candle witha rebel editor or a Confederate general. Te Resets Sri. im tae Vicinity or tan Lower Poromac.—Notwithstanding the report from Washington, it is evident that the rebels have not all left the Lower Potomac, and our commanders had better look out for their rear and flank. On Friday afternoon and Saturday the United States steamer Jacob Bell discovered rebels, and evon two hatteries. at Potomac cregk, 2 et near Aqu‘4, one of them a water batlery aad the other oa a igh hill, That the. enemy bas @ foree atill in te direction of Fredericksburg there can be no coubt. In fact, they appear4o be as thick as biackberries im every part of Virginia, and wherever our troops move they are sure to meet them How rar Ruwais Oprane Tasm News. —The intelligence which we published yesterday about the Hercules capturing several schooners and sloops in the vicinity of Smith’s Island, im the Chesapeake, is not intrinsically of muck importance; but the circumstances attending the capture of one of them impart an unusual interest to the exploits of the Hercules. Oo the Velma was found a large mail, containing about two hundred letters, in charge of a cap- tain of the Confederate army. This vessel had cleared from Baltimore .for Pocomoke Sound, with » cargo consisting of provisions of various ‘kinds. Instead of being discharged in a Mary” land port, she was taken over to Great Wicomico river, and there discharged in Virginia. The ‘sloop‘was retarhing ‘in ballast for'a new cargo, ;| ‘this correspondence. for five months, .-And hit. is .the way. that the rebels in Virginia have ‘obtained their information of the movements, numbers and destination of the Union troops. If the War and Navy departments had looked a little sharper in that direction, instead of vainly © wasting thunder upon the newspapers, mack valuable information might have been kept from the enemy. Frese DxveLorments ov THe Usion Sent mENT.—In the letter which we published yester. day from our correspondent near New Madrid, there is a remarkable example of the existence of the Union spirit where it might be least expected. In West Tennessee the secession sentiment has been very strong and very gene ral; yet here is the case of an interesting young girl of eighteen years of age avowing, in the presence of the rebel prisoners, that she was in favor of the Union, and so were her sisters, buf they could not so declare themselves om account of their secession beaux. But, as ‘our correspondent remarks, “the beat evidencer "we have of the disposition of the rebels te secure any terms of peace, are to be found ia the eagerness with which property owners aut for protection.” Thus is secedsionism gradu ally collapsing under the shadow of the “Stan ‘and Stripes.” Arrest of Ex-Secretary Cameron at Parapecrais, April 16, 1863. Ex-Secretary Cameron was arrested in this city te day, on a warrant issued by the sheriffs officers, ot complaint of Pierce Butler, for alleged illegal detainer is Fort Lafayette. To-night a hundred citizens, headed by a aumber e Public officers, visited the residence of Mr. Butler aaé regaled him with the noise of horns, fiddles and other discordant instruments. be y Mr. Cameron had made ready to start for Europe at an early poriod, and this arrest will materially inter: fore with his arrangements. Mr. Wall and friends, of Burlington, N. J., bave bees in town all day, waiting to castigate Mr. Cameron fos the arrest of Mr. Wall last fall. ‘The ex-Secretary is guarded by the United States Marshal, the District Attorney and others. For the pre sent Mr. Cameron has declared his intention not to eaé for Russia until the case in questior is disposed of. The arreat took him entirely by surprise, and cece sioned much mortification. Obsequies of Captain livan, The remains of Captain Maxwell O’Sullivan,of th Kighty-sighth regimont, (Irish Brigade), who died oe Sunday at Fairfax, will, we understand, arrive here from Aloxandria to-morrow or Friday, under cacort of bis friends, the regiment having gone to Fortress Monroe Majer Bagley , commandant of the Sixty-ninth New York Militia, tn which corps the gallant deceased fought ané was wounded at Bull run, has’ kindly placed the armory at Renex Market at the disposal of Captain O'Sullivaa’s friends, and the remains will be deposited there upoa their arrival in New York. Wé are informed that Com pany C, of the Sixty-ninth, to which the deceased offices was formerly attached, will act as an escort in conveying his body from the railroad depot to the armory. The time for the funeral has not yet been fixed, but will be announced as soon as the arrangements are completed. Maxwell O’sale REeMrrraNces FROM THE ARMY.—Many a family who have father, husband or brother in the Burnside expeditios will be made glad this morning by the receipt of a re. mittance for them through the Adams Express Company, Over 2,000 money packages were received yesterday by their expreas, in charge of a special messenger. E. @. ‘Westcott, the company’s agent at Newbern, writes that by the next steamer he hopes to send double the above number. The company’s office at that place was Crowded by soldiers sealing and sending packages te their friends and relatives when the steamer Peabody sailed, April 11. Paymasters left Washington for York: town a few days ago. There will be @ rush of money packages in a few days from that point. It is an incen: tive for the soldier to fight knowing that his family le taken cre of through the paymaster and the Adame Express Company. Am ror THe Wouxpep or THe West—Doit.ar Sonscar, mons Souicrren.—The charitable of this city are exerting themselves to raise money and other contributions fos the Western Sanitary Commission, and there is every prospect that a respectable sum will be collected. The ladies of this city have issued the following circular:— - DOLLAR SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE WESTERN FLOATING ‘ROSPTTALS. A Coy Agee gd contributions of one dollar om der is now 0} at wall, Black & Co., Nos. 665 and 567 Broadway; Tiffany & Co., Nos, 560 and 652 Broadway; Lend [bal z. pit ee) ‘Arnold, Constable & Co.,No. '300 danal street; ‘A. Rankin & Co, , No. 96’ Bowery; Park & Tillford, No. 112 Sixth avenue; Hazard & Caswell, Fifh Avenue Hotel; Roesevelt, Jr., No. 04 Maiden lane; Hegeman & Co. orett House; in Connection with the Western floating hospitals foe the relief of the wounded soldiers, whose suffurings ap most strongly for immediate aid. . H. W. Halleck, Mrs. Francis Lieber, Mrs. Schuyler Hamilton, Mrs. Lewis Jones, Drs. Jas. A. Roosevelt, Mrs. Henry Farnum, Mrs. Joseph Sampeon, Mrs. John T. Johnson, ComPLimentary TastiMosiaL TO Tan Winow np Om> Pans ov 7H" Late THOMAS J. MonGan.—There will bee performance thir evening at the Winter Garden for the benefit of the widow and orphans of the late Thomas Ji Morgan, the fireman whewas killed a short time since while in the discharge of his perilous duty. The object, not to speak of the programme, offered to the public ‘ought to insure ® crowded heuse. The programme com sists of Tom Taylor's ‘Still Waters Run Deep,” singing by Maggie Haight, Miss Hallock and Mr. Charles Lock: wood, the performance to conclude with “Robert Ma~ caire.”” —$—$— ! Barrauiow Daint or tan Savantr-vest Recmsxt New ‘Yonx Stars Muitia.—The armory of the Seventy-Grat regiment, corner of ‘Thirty-ffth street and Seventh avenue, was crowded to excess last evening in order te witness @ battalion drill of this faverite corps. The yarge drill room was #0 crowded that hundreds had to ga away unable to gain admittance. Bight full companies of tho regiment were in line, and mado quite an imposing appearance, The movements of the evoning principally consisted of oxorciaes in the manual of arms, firing by companies, by fla und by Dattalion. In consequence @f the crowded state of the drill room it was impossible “ go through any battalion movements of consequence, 1% j8 needioss 40 remark that the regiment manwuryred with exce’ient precision. Next Monday afternogr, they givean exhibition drill at East New York. ‘The flag which was 90 gallantly borne by the memjere of the efeonty-first at the battle of Bull run was 7 their rauke fast qyouing, apd yas jug object of m¥at Natercet,