The New York Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1862, Page 1

~ THE NEW YORK HERALD. LE NO, 9365. "ALL OF NEW ORLEANS. ting Details from the cbel Newspapers. © ted Destruction of: the Iron- Clad Boats, * on of the To!" ce Pont: pen » of the wan, by mmodore spuate ‘ een oe sing Bifect of the Capture woughout the South. OF THE REBEL PRESS, &., &. to the #etersburg (Va.) Exe press. “ ENEMY AT NEW ORLEANS. Mose, April 26, 1862. atch from Fort Jackson to the Advertiser ‘he enemy’s gunboats anchored opposite the ms. A proposition had been made to r by the Confederates ,and which is now | are various exciting ramors afloat. wever, is reliable, ST. PHILIP IN OUR POSSESSION. Ricaxonn, Apri) 28, 1862. ial despatch was received this morn- Cooper from General Lovell, Camp Moons, Aprtl 27, 1862. 1d St. Philip are still im good condition uisiana and MePae are safe. t+ isat the city, but have no forces to $ are staunchly loyal. BDERAL FLEET ‘FORE THE CITY. SBOOND BRAP «1 pril 27, 1862. ommande omised Mayor ‘'y, wh M ec Aer a flag of \rer BAL rrender of be * “asi hour, five . the forts under a sdiers, and commaui- Fort Pike has been evacuated and is unreliable. held with one of the federal officers mdence between Mayor Monroo and it, the officer loft, declaring that he the flag on the City Hall if not hanled brought his ships in range; but he thus far. the French and English men-of-war ‘&@ protest against shelling the city. the Yankee vessels are short both ition. orderly; but the excitement is jing of humiliation deep. Further isthe same as when the vessels iting the shelling of the city, if the | THIRD DEsPA TCH. Mosnz, April 28, 1862. Pontchartrain were a}l evacuated on ‘was considerable loss of supplies, the guns were dismounted, but not ‘the buildings were burned, includ- office. The operator has gone to the to open an office if possible. on the lake have been burned by our . Whiteman and Brown, and another, ith several others, are removing troops, fjfance to Manchac, after which it is * Biso be burned. let, which had jeft Ship Island, are again tation. bel Papers Say About the 11 of New Orleans. - Norfolk Day Book, April 29.) lation we can draw from the above clad steamer Louisiana is ‘ safe.’’ Safe,” where? Was ita “ safe” plan way from the city which sho was built part of the river where the enemy 1g burried operations for its do- i} they wore operating much mori that city. The Louisiana is ‘safe jew Orleans ‘safe,’ with thé enemy's threatening its bombardment every eelundering management is this? Is the © Avy responsible for this; if not, who is? gh this subject we would like to know ae hat our jron-clad vessels are not per- arjnch unless by the ordors of the Secre- y?/We have heard it announced as a fact as and that their commanders are tied asfuctions and restrictions as to com- Proving of any value whatever as wig the cnemy. If this is really so we OP Prooure glass cases to put our iron, b keep tho enemy's wooden gunboats the better. heRiehmond Dispatch, Apri] 28.) ) SEW ORLEANS. it the news we have this morning ible. Qfficia’ pat hes received yas- epi of New Orlea i, contrary to our be- nino-tenthe of this community. The wipached the city and demanded a sur- voll refused to surrender, but with his troops, falling back to Camp okjon Railroad after destroying cotton «2 Pevasunableto remove. The iron-clad Pi) § Ournt to prevent her falling into the tmemy. Nothing is said about the Loximi- Uppors'ion at present is that she was ie at Tangipaha, seventy-cight miles as, on the Jackson Railroad. General ve paused at Ponchatoula, forty-eight y,on the same road, which is a high ity. Ki fain be informed of the causes of loans. One rumor says that the ‘iron- )’ steamer Loujsiana was sunk tho first y's mortar boats, and it wonld boa fees fact, she played avy part in as believed here that eho was tostod fof bail of one hundred and fifty four without doing her any damage, and lore expected from her. We enprase the when we say that the mystery allending leans showld receive a speedy solulion. [From the same paper.) PALL OF NRW ORLEANS, fe of suspense in which thie city oxisted Mays hea at last ended. New Orleans is of the enemy. It wos evacuated by who has removed bis forces to Camp okson Railread. 1 Diow; it is uscloss to deny it. But we @ it, and the public mind had already 24 for it, before the troth had deen fally im ®beavy blow, but it is vory far from | being a fatal blow. We iay expect to hear of disasters wherever the enemy’s gunboats can be brought to bear op all the points still in our possession. Give him all or them—every one—and still he is as far from his cdject as ho was this'time last year. Hatteras fell, Hiliew Head fet, Roanoke Island fell, Donelsom fell, New Orleons has fallen. But our great armies are still in the field. They have not failen—they have not been worsted—ihey have always beaten the enemy wherever they have encountered him. ‘When they shall have been beaten aud dispersed so that ‘they can never rally again, thep it may be time to feo) gloomy about our prospects, Until that time shall have ‘arrived it were unmanly to despond, far less to think of abandoning the causo, Even then the last resource of a brave pation, resolved not to be enslayed, remains tous We can even then, 23 other nations have done before us, resolve ourselves into a gucrilla force, composed of the whole country, and fight the battle for life or death throughout a million of square miles. But that timo is ptcome They have not beaten our armies in pitched battles, nor do we believe they will ever do it, Béaure- gard, with @ powerful force, is stil the guardian ¥ the | Southwest, Johnston, with a force still more powrful, faces McClellan at York. Sionewal Jack. son presents an undaunted front in the valley; our armies in Georgia and South Carolina are unsubdued, and we continue to hold our own in the Oki North State, ‘The enemy has nevor been able ‘to obtain ur dyantage over us, except by means of his gunboats. Take him away from them, and we can always defeat him. By the loss of New Orleans we are sep ated from West Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Missouri. But many of the brave troops from that wide of the river are with us, and those that are there will still keep up the fight, in spite of their isolation. They will thus constantly employ a large portion of the enemy's army» and rerve as @ powerful diversion in our favor. If every seaboard town in the confederacy, and every river town which can be reached by gunboais, wer, in. the yossession of the enemy tomorrow, it would not have the slightet effect upon the irsue of this contest. It would not be so disastrous as a defeat of Beauregard’s army, or give half the same cause for despondency. Fortunately, they took no prisoners; our troops remain to reinforce Beauregard or to go elsewhere as they may be ordered. ‘The event of this war is stillas much in the hands of our people ag 1t was before the fall of New Orleans. Having made himself master of the river and seaboard towns, theenemy, if he wish to conquer us, must come into the interior. There he will have to beat our armies, without the aid of his iron-clad boats, before he can boast of having subdued the country. In the meantime the oc- cupation of so many points must necessarily tead to the weakening of his strength upon those points on which the grand issue is to be decided, and thus far his success is scarcely a disadvantageto us. Let our country- men imitate the frm 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.] Our anticipations from the imperfect nows of yesterday havo been realized. The city of New Orleans has fallen, and the sudden shock falls upon us unbroken by any previous foreboding. This is by fur the most serious reverse of the war. It suggests future privation and want to all clase af society: but. moet to be lamented of all, it threatens avmy supplies! Nor is this all; when the rarxves neve completed their iron-clad navy they will take every im- portant point upon the coast, except in those cases where awise discretion may permanently obstruct our harbors, It will be remembered by our readers that immedi- ately after the 8th and 9th ult., we took the position we bave here restated. We must obstruct the channe's leading to the ecacoast 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 assures us that it may yet be held up for our reluctant contemplation. Ar we fall back we sborten our lines we shorten them they are strength- ened, Tho reparation of this @isaster. so far as it may bo repaired, rests not with the Executive, nor with the Cabinet, nor with Congress, nor with any headquarters, but with the people. ‘The arms-bearing part of our population must rally to the flag of the republic, and the planters must coneen- trate their energies upon the production of meat and bread for our drmies. We confess that we, in common with wiser men, were deluded into the general delicf in the supremacy of cotton. We had high authority for the belief. The ‘commerce of the world hangs 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 so poor to do it reverence’’ as a blockade raiser, but thousands to appreciate the fact that when the war does end a large cotton supply on band will be a large fortuve. . The same applies to tobacco planters in a more limited degree. They can afford to wait, secing in the future a gol- don harvest for the holders of theas staples. But to realize they must actually hold, not as trustees, under the con- fiseation act,for Lincoln, but for themselves—hold as owners, To do this they must interpose armies between- the enemy and their plantations; to interpose the armies they must feed them; to feed them they must plant cerenlx,and let their dreams of fortune be somewhat modified in their magnificent proportions. Hog and hominy are far more smportant than cotton and tobaceo, and by the extent of the supply to be ture nished by the cis-Mirsissippi region wo must measure the extent of our calamity. With an ample preparation for the supply of our armies, we shail be able to achieve our liberties. Disasters toa brave people are but the falls of An- tous, from which they rise with renewed energies and a firmer purpose. We haye faith in our ultimate success. but should this prove fallagsus wo can remember the example of Sarason, remember and emulate it. Let us put our humble trust in God, and fight from soaconst t> interior, leaving monuments to commemorate our rea- lution upon every Geld. Animated by,this determination, we can say to their boasts of conquest in the heroic Jan guage of Wise, at Roanoke—Noever, pev over. [From the Atlanta (Ga.) Intelligencer, April 27.) The telegraph tells us that the enemy are before Now Orieans—probably they are now in possession of the Crescent City. What resistance has been mace there to its oceupation we know not. With their gunboats re- sistonce may have been useless, and it is more than pro- bable none was made. Having passed Fort Jackson, it seems from the enemy's rapid approach to the city buta feable defence was made on the river from that point to the city. We had looked for a different resuit. ‘Time and again we had been advised that the enemy’s approach to the city, should they succecd in passing Fort Jackson, would be hotly contested—that even stronger works of defence than at Fort Jackson had been erected—that heavier artillery waa planted on the batteries upen the banks of the river—that obstructions of a most for- mulabio character were on the river—and that a sve cossfnl resistance to ite capture would be made, to this tt appears that we have been de. luded, as im every other case where a fort has been assailed upon which reliance was put for the defence of a town or city. Modern inventions, it seems, render forts useless for defence. Tron-clad gan- voats destroy, or pass them by with certainty, Mempiis, | we opprehend, will share the fa'e of New Orlane, To de. | judo ourselves with any other hope is now a folly. We onght and must prepagg for the worst—that worst is the cooupation of most of our cities, with water approaches, by the enemy. A sound policy would dictate, what pa- | triotiam and seif-preservationfemand, the destruction of | every species ofproperty that woul! benefit the enomy ere they get possession of any city, and the removal Uherefrom of everything of value to ourselves. Let nothing fall into their hands of value to them—save all we can of value to us. Charleton, Savannah and Mom. phis ave now immediately threatened, We have no fears that In these citios #0 wise and patriotic » policy, a duty in fact, will be neglected. Whon the enemy enter New Orleans, we hope that they will be sadly disappointed in the “booty and beauty” they oxpect to derive from the achlevement of thet gunboats, (From the Petersburg (Vo.) Exprose, April 20.) THE NEW ORLPANS Disaster. ‘The captore of New Orleans by the enemy js, under the CirovmBiancer, one Of the mot extraordijary evente which the war has brought forth? We could consume columms in commenting upon it, and in doing #0 we would Necessarily have to indulge ina variety of remarks far from veing complimentary to the conductors of the defences of this city. But 08.20 agtontybing @ result must have been pro. scans iptitaseners tose Anticipate @ successful NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1862. / uced in a most astonishing way, we must await full ex- planations before expressing @ harsh judgment. In the absence of all information as to particulars, we are un- willing to denounce in unspairing terms tho conduct of the garrisons in the forts and of the commander of the City forces. It will be time enough to do this after hav- ing beon put in posseusion of all the facts. Meanwhile we have to look the disaster full in the face, and consider it Jn its important connections as to the future. ‘Tho blow which has been struck us is undoubtedly a very severe one; but if General Loved and alt his army, munitions and stoves are safe—if ail the cotton, tobacco, &e., were destroyed, the coin of the banks secured, and everyihing #lte that would be of value to the enemy put out of his reach, the blow has been stripped of more thaw Wall of is terror. ‘We wil! be undoubtedly subjected to new and great ineon ‘veniences by the'loss of that city, but its occupancy by the Yankees wiil be anything else but an agreeable one, Dow that the yellow fever seasen is near at hand, which for months will prove fatabto the Northern unucc!imated troops by which it have to be held. They have got the olophant, it is true, but it isa prize which will cost them vastly more to keop than the animal is worth, if his Saffron Majesty qhe't his usual) annual visit to the ity oud wave oy. acearely there, What dry straw is to the os Taw, uninured Northorners, be to the Gulf pes- tilence when {t breaks out amongst thom. Even one- half of the old resident population of the city have here- tofore fed every summer to higher latitudes to escape its ravages. So, in this point of view, the enemy has very little cause to exult over his suceess. He will be, too, in the midet of a hostile people, who will not trade with him, and his acquisition will be as valuoiess in a commercial ag in @ sanitary sense. But thore is auother aspect of the matter still more cheering to the Confederates. The large and fine army which was assigned for the defenceof New Orleans can now be united with the army at Corinth in time to assist im the great work of driving the Vandals out of Tennessee and Kentucky, and in @ march across te Ohio—& movement which, we cannot doubt, wil) be commenced and carried through as soon as the Ten- nessee, Cumberland and Ohio rivers become too shallow for gunboat navigation. Then will be our op- portunity for striking a crushing blow tbat will more than redeem all our loeses. We want & see a column of 150,000 Southern troops led on by Beauregard through the Northwestern, and another column of the same strength phrough the Northern States by Johnston, 80 that whilst the Yankees are taxing our coast and river cities, wo will be sweeping theirs; and then we would sce who would enffer most aud endure their sufferings longest. ‘The Romans, in a memorable crisis, fought the battles of Italy in Numidia, and thus drove their Carthagenian (almost) conquerors from their own gates. Let us fight the battles of the South upon Northern oil. Tbe capture of Philadelphia or New York would be to us a guarantee of peace in thirty days upon our own terms. We have 400,000 soldiers “in the jield of whom Napoleon, in the zenith of his glory, might have been proud. They would movyo with ailacrity in the direction of Yankee land, if the word was justgiven them from Richmond. Ob, 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- eiontly nowerful to protect our vast interior, comprising @compact and populous terrnury weeween we aresne 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- sicsippl territory (leaving out Missourl), comprises a still Jarger area. The idea of a conquest of such a country is preposterously absurd, and the fall of New Orleans, although to be much famented, does not put the invaders aninch nearer the consummation of their ac- cursed purpose. Jt may, in the dispensation of Providence, turn out to have beep for us an advantageous event. The ways of God are mysterious, and He directs the affairs of men so as often to lead them to covsider an event calamitous which ‘ Afterwards proves the happiest that could have occur- red for their welfare. We have long since ‘filed our mind” down to the belief, that if the cause of the South is Divinely favored, it will and must triumph. If not, it will and must perish, were it supported by millions of armed men and hundreds of iron-elad war vessels of the most poworful description. So far we have had alter- nate successes and reverses which bave not been de eisive. We must fight on with a more terrible energy than we have yet done. We must now concentrate our forces at fewer points, and hurl thom upon the foe. We must abandon the merely defensive policy, and assume and maintain at all hazards the position of bollizerents, able to give as woll as receive blows. With balf a mil- lion of men prepared and eager for action, we can make ourselves felt beyond the Itmits of the confederacy. ADDITIONAL. Since the above was written wo have received further intelligence from New Orlcans, whigh represents that al- though the federal fleet was before the city the enemy had not taken possession, because they have no forces to occupy it. It is rumored that we had several very formid- able gunboats at Fort Pillow when the federals passed the forts below New Orteans, and that a portion of these have been, ere this, despatched to New Orleans. They may be enabled to destroy a portion of the Yankee vessels, if not all,and thus save the city. We trust that tho rumor may prove true, and that our flotilla may accomplish al! that is hoped for. The rumor regarding the protest of the French and English men-of-war, mentioned in our despatches, may becorrect. It is stated that no civilized nation was evor wn to shell a city after it had beon evacuated’ by the troops collected for tts defence. Whether the Yaukee nation will conform to usage in this matter remains to besoen. Wo that we have but little to expect from so bloodthirsty and unscrupulous a foe. At farthest, the fate of New Orleans musi be definitely ascortaingd in aday or two, THE TALK OF THE DAY. The common “ talk on ‘Change’’ js of course the con- dition of affairs in aud around New Orleans. ‘The official despatch exhibited on our bulletin board yesterday morning, while it gives a ray of hope, serves only to in- crease the anxious jntercet felt in the fate of this great commercial city. But ali is mystery yet, and all the arguments and discussions on the street corvers and in the hotels, or elsewhere, cannot clear away the impene- trablg shroud thay covers this affair. It is our uature to cling to the slightest hope for the best, but we fear woare depending upon a slender thread indeed if wo istance now to the Yankecs there, Of course trade is affected by the news, but to what efiect wa are not at prosent able to say, Sugar and molaesos will undoubtedly advonce in priee, and the holders cf these articles will profit largely by the affair, Noyws from North Carolina. SKIRMISH BETWREN THE REBELS AND UNION TROOPS, {From the Raleigh Standard, April 26.) We learn tbat our pigkets below Kinetéh, near Tusca- rora, Captain Andrews’ company, Second cavalry, had two sharp skirgishes with the enemy's pickets on Sun- day and Monday last. On Sunday they killed four Yankees, and three on Monday. Captain Andrews had his horse shot, but we hear of no other cazuaities on our side. Additio: from Europe. ‘The screw steamship City of Washington, Capt, Brooks , which sailed from Liverpool! at noon on tho 16th, and from Queenstown on the 17thof April, arrived at this port very carly yesterday morning, having made off tho lightship at eleven o'clock on Tuesday night. ‘Tho City of Washington brings the United States mails, a goneral cargo, 596 steerage and 43 cabin passengers. ‘Tho steamsbip Ediaburg arrived at Queenstown on the 16th ult. ‘The news by the City of Washington has been fuity anticipated. A sale of fifteen bales of Maracaibo cotton had been made in Liverpool at the rate of 98. Sd. per Ib. , averaging £60 sterling per bale. It was grown from Sea Island cotton seed, and @ yialled the finest Sea Island samplos. Bostow, April 30, 1863. Tho steamship North American passed Father Point at fifteen minutes past eleven o'clock jast night, bound to Quebeo. The steamship Saxonia, from New York, Southampton on the 18th instant. Byvenroor, April 16, 1662, Arrived from New York, Teutonia, at Dubdlim; Dan- daik, at Waterford, hammergier, at Belfact, M. Nivziof, at Flushing. rived at Depression Among the Rebels ‘wife and family of Parson Brownlow, and also the wife of Congressman Maynard. ladies, two gentlemen and six children—aro all from Ten- meesee, They bring the report that all the Union fami- lies Of Tennessee have been ordored by proclamation to ‘men left for Kentucky a week ago Friday. Of a party of fur hundred attempting to leave, one hundred had been killed. head of Markets,” mentions the very small supply of IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTH, Arrival of Refugees from Tennessec at Fortress Monroe. All the Union Families Ordered to Leave the State. Massacre of One Hundred Refugees by the Rebels. SCARCITY OF PROVISIONS IN NORFOLK. at Memphis, Gx &e., &. od see Fontamms Monror, April 20, 1962. A fing of troee fee Morfok to-day brought down the The party—consisting of four Jeave within thirty-six hours, Eighteen hundred Vnion Ina local paragraph the Norfolk Day Book, under tho edibies exposed for sale, and says it becomes a question Of graye importance as to where and how the people are to be fod. ‘The death of Samuel B. Todd, brother of Mrs. Lincoln, isannounced. He died on the battle fleld, from tho ef- fects of the wounds he received at Shiloh in the battle of April 7." ‘The Charleston Mercury says that nine schooners left the city on the previous Saturday toran the biockade. Tho Guide, Waye and two others were taken. The crew of the Guide were landed on Gibbe’s Island on Wodnes- day. On Friday they were seen by our pickets And fired on under the supposition that they were Yankeos, David Kauffer, of Augusta, was killed. Tho threo other vessels were sent to Port Royal. ‘The gunboat Mount Vernon arrived from the blockado off Wilmington on Saturday night. She eft thore the Jamestown and Victoria. The Cambridge sailed henco for Wilmington on Sunday. ‘The Mount Vernon’s boilers are defective, but she will return to her station ina few days. Thero is but little ows. . Fort Caswell is being strengthonod by the rebols in ex pectation of an attack. The schoonor Kate, trom Nassau, was captured by the Mt. Vernon, about two weeks ago, while attempting to run the blockade. It is reported by flag of truce that the Merrimac hag steam up. It was expected in Norfolk last nicht she would come out to-day, She has not made her appear avec, however. It is now raining. One hundred of the Vermont wounded soldiers leave to-night in the steamer Richard Wolling, for New York, via Chesapeake Bay and the canals, Interesting News from Memph.s. Camo, April 30, 1862. A refugeo from Memphis reports that Humboldt is oc. cupied by a small rebel force, who wre engaged in throw- ing up defensive works. He brings Memphis papers of the 26th inst. They contain little matter of interest, further than a confirmation of the fall of New Orleans. ‘The Avalanche grumbles that the rebel authorities sup- press the details in regard to aituirs,and says that noth, ing but the bare fact of the surrender is known. ‘The same paper says that the Southern people are fast losing all confidence in their river defences, and iv is generally admitted that the Union army can be no Jonger successfully resisted, and also intimates a lack of confidence in the stability of the Southern confederacy, by advising its patrons to invest whatever money they bave in real estate, while purchases can be made with the money now in circulation, which ts principally rebel treusury notes. ‘The conseription law is rigidly enforced, pees men are secreting themselves or flying fo avoid it ope. rations. ‘This refugee says that merchants of avowed secession proclivities are removing their goods to piases of con cealmont and security,and that large numbers of fa- milies are moving a ily. ‘Tho idea of oifnng fs wo is abandoned iv conge- quence of the determined opposition of property ho'ders. It is currently reported in Memphis that Boauregard has over 80,000 men at Corinth, and no hope is felt of his svecessfully resisting Geueral Halleck, who is believed to have 200,000 men, Asour informant loft Memphis it was reported that the rebel gunboat fleet from New Orleans was in sight, and were bound up the r to join Hollins’ fleet, Tho Arrest of Col, Jennison. Leaver wortn, April 20,1962. A circular just published by General Sturgis says that the arrest of Colonel Jeuuison was tho result of represeutations made by Lieutenant Colonel D, R. Anthony, of his own regiment, and Colonel George W. Doeitzier, his fnmetiate com- manding officer was mule at the earnest solicitation of this latter *, who, in his appeal to me of tho 16th inst.,demaads bis immediate arrest, and charges him with the most grave and serious crime known to military law. Hiram Rich, an old residenteof the West, aod fora number of yoars satler at Fort Leavenworth, died sud denly yosterday morning of apoplexy. ‘The river ot this point is at a stand and the banks full. ‘The weather is pleasa Coloncl Lec and Major Revere. Boston, April 30, 1802. Colonel Lee and Major Revere, of the Massachusetts Twentieth regiment, have been exchanged, and start to Join their regiment at Yorktown immediately, Sailing of the Steamship Canada. Boston, April 30, 1862. ‘The Canada sailed at ten e’clock this morning, with ton passengers for Halifax and eighty-nine for Liverpool. She takes out $50,000 in specie. The Ship Mo: Boston, April 30, 1962. ‘The ship Mont Blanc fs full of wator, Vessel and cargo ‘will be a total lose. A Disonpenty House Curaxgp Ovt.—A house bearing the classical appeliation of the ‘Dirty Spoon,” situated at 60 Cherry street, was cleaned of ite cocupants on Twortay night Inst by Captain Thorne, of the Fourth pre- cinet police. The house was the resort of thieves of all classes, together with wornen of the lowest character, Captain Thorne arrested twenty-six men and ten women, and took them before Justice Brennan yesterda: morning for examination. The men were: dischar; with the oxception of John Smith, the proprietor, who was held to bail in $500 to anewer the charge of Kooy a disorderly house; ail the women being also retained. Cuanak oF Exneaziement.—In this ease, where the defendant is chergod with having embezzled money to the amount of several thousand dollars, from his former employers, Wm. G, Lane & Co. and Jamos Boyea & Co., and which has been a considerable time ander exainina- tion, the Justice, on Monday last, rendered his decision, holding the accused to bali in $3,000 to answer the charge, and direoting the papers to be sent before the Granda Jury. Tho prieconer was defended by Mosers. Jos. B, Whiting and Abijah Maun. Markets. PALADELPHIA STOCK BOARD. PwILADELrHA, April 90, 1862. Stocks #m. PennsyWvania 6’, 86); Reading Rati- toad, 22%; Morrie Canal, 44; Long’ island Railroad, 3g: eae aie Railroad, 46/5. Sight exchange on New Yorls at par, ‘ Put.avenems , April 30, 1862. Flour doll at 1234 2 $6.25 for superfine. Wheat steady: red ot $1276 $1 20; Pre £8 ® $145. Gre wat at B60. ‘Mess pork, $33 50. ' Whiekey 0 240. 477 2 5 IMPORTANT FROM GEN, HALLECK'S ARMY Skirmish Between Large Bodies of the Hostile Armies, ae THE UNION TROOPS VICTORIOUS. .A Large Number of Rebels Captured, &6., &., ’ —_——- Carmo, April 30, 1862. A steamer just arrived from Pittsburg 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 is made of losses on either side, The federals took a large number of prisoners, Cannonading was etill heard when the steamer left. The Ooming Battle in the Southwest. Loumswits, Ky., April 30, 1862, The stoamer Telegraph No. 3 left for Pittsburg, Tenn., with surgeons, hospital storee and nurses, under the di- rection of Dr. W. 8. Chipiey, to bring back the Kentucky ‘wounded, or await tho result of the next battle if neces- sary. Reported Naval Engagement mear Fort Wright. CnrcaGo, April 30, 1862. ‘A special despatch from Cairo says that an arrival from Tiptoavilie reports that heavy cannonading was heard throughout Monday night and Tuceday im the direction of Fort Wright. There being no arrival from the fleet since Monday noon, it is apprehended that the rebel flect at the fort bas been reinforced by gunboats from New Urleans, and attacked our fleet. This was not expec! The last advices from the fleet say that Com- modore Foote is fully prepared to meet the enemy. NEWS FROM GENERAL BANKS’ CORPS. Ramored Arrest of the Governor of North Carolina by the Rebels. Maunsonpuna, Va., April 29, 1862. General Banks visited General Williamy’ division hero last night and returned to New Market to-day, While here he recejyed a despatch from Washington announc- ing the occupation of New Orleans by the Union forecs. The inteltigence cansed great joy among our army, and a corresponding depression among the inhabitants here, who have been for days past congratulating themecives and each other that the next news would be our defeat oe Yorktown, AfAtional salmts to tower sof the event will be fired at noon to-morrow. Through secossion channels it is learned that the Gov- ernor of North Carolina wes arrested and imprisoned in Richmond two weeks ago, on account of his Union sonti- ments. % " It was observed to-day that Jackson bad removed his wagon traing back somo six miles since yesterday, Indi- cating an intention to retire still further rearward, or else entertaining a dread of an attack upon him by our forces. A squadron of cavalry was the only rebel force dis- covered to-day on the right side of the Shenandoah. ‘These, with one wagon, entered the village of McGaugh- eystown, where they remained till about dark. They came by the Port Republic route, We have nothing confirmatory of tho report of the ovcapation of Staunton by General Milroy. The river is still too high to attempt a pacsaga with safety. A dense smoke was soen in that dircetion to-day, but the cause is unknown. Celebration of the Fall of New Orleans— and Strength of the Rebcl Hanrrsoxsvna, April 20, 1862. At"noon to-day a national salute was fired from an emlnencp near the town. The regimental bands acsem- bled in the Court Horse equare and played Hail Colum- bia.” The soldiers gave nine cheers, when the bands fol- lowed with the Red White and Blue,’ “Dixie” and the “Star Spangled Banner.” After a recess the bauds con- solidated, and marched through the strects playing ‘Yankee Doodle,”’ much to the disgust of certain promi- nevt inhabitants. The day was pleasant, and the bright, new ugiforms presented a striking contrast to tke sombre hues of the former occupants of the town. Ormer OCCNED rs © 1 ‘Three thoueand reb is, under Cenoral Edward Johnson, formerly of the Union army, are posted a few miles from Staunton, ut ina position easily accessible to escape in case of General Milpoy’s approa: eet ae? The most reliable nows from Gordonsville is to the effect that there are ouly four brigades there, not num. bering 15,000. General Longstreet, with his command, has goue to Yorktown. Should General Jobison retire, ho will probably reinforce General Jackson on the Bhie Ridge. ‘The Richmond Beaminer of the 22d metant says, in effect, that the destiny of the confederacy te trembling on the result of Yorktown, If suecessfu’, st will give us rying out the conscripson act, arming »ping @ Jarge army, and launching a fleet of Morrimacs; but, if nugaccessful, Virginia is lost Vosburgh Chasscars, Fifth Regiment Eagle Brigace. This fine regiment,vamed in honor w the lamented Colonel Abraham &, Vosburgh, who diec, while in com. mand of the Soventy-first regiment, st Washington, in May last, numbering about five hundred men, is com. manded by Colonel George A. Buckingham, late Major of tho Seventy-first, Wesee, by the annexed official com. monication from the War Department, that Colonel Buck- inghiam is exempted from ths recent order stopping re- cruiting, and he is directed to complete his regiment. A Well deserved compliment to the Colonel and bis com- rani Wasninoros, April 23, 1862. Lioutenant Colonel W. A. Nicnons, U.S. A., No. 70W t, New York. Cound 38 of War directs that Colonel Cotoxr:—The Secretary Buckingham be authorized to complete his rogiment, now ADJUTANT GENERAL'S waa} ite known as the Vosburgh Chaseeurs, Fifth regiment Eagh A to be known as the Fifty-third regiméft ‘York Volunwerg. iam, Colonel, very reafectrally, your obedient servant, GEO. D. RUGGLES, Assistant Adjutant General, The Turf. PASHION PLEASURE GROUND ASSOCLATION—TROT- TING. Wanwnspay, Arnit 30, puree $100, mile heats, best three in five, to wagons. =e D. Tallman entered F. m. Git. 111 F, J. Nodine entered s. m. Lady 222 H, Woodruff entered Tom Murphy. 3 drawn imbie Dic 8. McLaughl Time 2:61 5—2 19—2:5' around tho othors in the first quarter, powiag more epeed than wos required, and entirely dostroying the yntorest in the race, Nimble Dick did not start. Tom Murphy pulled out after the first heat, and Lady Lincoln made a poor attempt atastern chase, Betting, during the rave, ran up to fifty to one on Gilt. Court Calendar—This Day. Scrrate Covet—Cineert.—Part 1—Adjourned for term, Fort 2--Nor, 2120, 2164, 2156, 2158, 2160, 2166, 2170, 2172, 2174, 2176, 2190, 2184, 2188, 2190, 1654, 1182, 2192, 2194) 2196, 2198, Unrren States Prernct Covrt.—Notes of issue for the May term tnust be filed with the clerk on or before Friday Five at Berlin, Wisconsin, Banu, Wis., April 90, 1862, A fire thie morning burned out Mossrs. Alexander Brow, J. & f. Field, Dr. Burr, #. Higgs and A. J. Work, together wh many others. Loves $90,000. The Massachusetts Le Bostox , April 30, 1868. ‘The Massachusetts Legislature clored its session a fow minutes before twelve o'clock Meat night, having lasted one hundred and twonty days, during whieb the Govern. or signed two bills and one Dundred and seventecn resolutions which were paseed. "= postponed to more convenient } i PRICE TWO CENTS. IMPORTANT The Reported Preparations of the Rebels to Resist Generals Banks and McDowell. Impending Battle North of Richmond. THE LINE OF THE CHICKAHOMINY, &e., &c., Xe. (From the Richmond Examiner, April 23°] ‘The clouds of war thicken each moment. The enemy. hannock from several directions. MeClellan is reported to have despatched a body of troops up the Reppahan- nock from the bay to reinforce McDowell’s division #@ Fredericksburg. A citizen of Fauquier, who arrived yesterday, reports a large army as advaneing from Wars rénten. Gen, Jackson is said to have fallen back {rans the valley to Gordonsville before Banks, who follow’ after him with a column of about thirty thousand men,’ If Banks and McDowell should combine their divisionsy which is probably their purpose, Richmond would be threatened from the direction of the Potomac witb sixty thousand men, . Our government has ordercd heavy reinforcements ‘meet these approaching ¢olurans, and ic is very probable @ decisive daltle may be fought north of Richmond veford that onthe Peninsula has transpired. Our best fighting generals havo pursued tho policy of giving the enemy # fierce fight before falling back under the pressure of superior forces. This was the tactics of Jackson at Win? chestor; and if he is let alone, will doubtless be his tactics again before falling back behind the line of the Chickahominy. The effort of the enemy will doubtleas be to effect a junction of his forcos under Banks and McDow somewhere in the county of Louisa or line. We supposo it will be necessary for General Jackson to withdraw until he can get both of these columns in his front. This done , the instincts of the mam will, doubtless, induce him to offer a battle. Ou? Corinth {son the Chickahominy, and our Shiloh somes where in advance in Caroline or Louisa. We should nof yt surprised at hearing within a week of @ fierce batile om this advonced theatre, wherever it may be. We augur well for the result of any engagement that may como off in that rogion of country. The encmy will bo far from his water base of operations, He will be compelled to meet us on equal terms in every respect excopt his superior numbers, and we can manage pretty heavy odds of these. A soldier accounted ina soldier's satisfactory way for our yielding at last in one of our most iuuportanc Dattles. He said we whipped them the best part of the time, and as long as we could fight, and we should haye whipped them att the time if they had not ‘‘out-reinforced”’ until there was no end to them, Thoy got the better of us on he recond day at Shiloh sime ply by this process of ‘‘out-reinforcing” us, which their proximity to the river enabled them to do. If they com@ in upon us aa far as Caroline or Louisa, they will be 80 fat from their water transportation that this favorite plan o “out reinforcing” will be impracticable. Whateverodds they open the battle with, those odds only will,they hold against us. The men that fight and are whipped one day will have to fight and be whipped the next if they renew the encounter, A whipped army will not rest whilee@ fresh army comes forward to engage our troops, worn “nd weary with a day’s exertion and excitement, as om other occasions. It is nct for us to divulge the number of our own troops that are concentrating om the lines north ef Richmond, Suffice it to say, that we believe them tobe ample to witg- stand and repulse the enemy. Thero is this further em- couraging feature of the campaign in that direction, namely: that both Generals Jackson and Ewell havesbe reputation of being fighting generals. Earnest and vigo- ous work on our side is all that is wanted. Dispute every mi'e of the road, sell every foot of territory for blood, is the true tactics. The sage policy of the back track may do very well at timee, and the virtue of spades and sand bags may be very great in the proper place; but here is A campaign im open field, where numbers will not be greatly unequal, and where neither sidé hos had time for engmeering and dirt digging. That country, too, offers many battle fields; and, as this war at last must be decided by batties, bet- ter that they should be fought renee veasons localities. If Richmond js to fall by the want of valor in troops or conduct in generals, it may as well fall tha mont’, in the next; and if the enemy is to bo driven ‘eq; ‘and disgraced from our soil, far better “at it choulkd bedone wheu they have f° suy éflerod than after they have ral the O8dhtry by a long occupation of it. We lose 1 ii%e by detay than they do. Their expenses go on, whe- ther their armies are within our territory or hanging upon our borders. We lose thousands of doliars in valne every day the marad remain in our midst, ‘The stratogy of the back track is a very costly oue to- vs, It exhausts the pocket, it crushes pie oh the country. Tho woat ahd torr of Mécling Wontails is Year> ful. Tt protracts the work of ruin, it iutensifies and pros Jonge indetinitely the agouies of exile, which is the citis zon’s living death. Invasion should be the signal of blcody and desperate work; of fierce encounter and wrathful blows; vot of cold strategy and impossible official policy. {From the Charleston Mercury ,] We may mention that General Lee, General Johnston and Geueral Randolph, the Secretary of War, concur ia the confident belief that we shall certainly beat the tne vacding armies in Virginia,and that Richmond cannot be taien. We have this encouraging statement from high authority. {From the Norfolk Day Book, April 29.) Nows bas reached us that the enemy wero vigorously bombarding Yorktown yesterday, but with what effect we are unable to say, [From the Richmond Dispatch, April 28.) Wo are requested to say that planters would do well to end in some of their tobacoo, since there is room for it in the warchouses, anda moderate demand, In the pre sent aspect of affairs, however, we are not prepared to advise them to this step. Bovter far that every particle of tobacco pews be destroyed than sent where there-iseven @ faint prospect of its contributing to the aid and comféré °f the enemy. The Pennsylvania Troops im the Field. Haaemevea, Pa., April 90, 1662. Governor Curtin has ordered that « be ite scribed on the banner of the Seventy-seveoth Pennsy!- vania regiment, and ‘Falmouth, Va.” on that of the First Pennsylvania Cavalry, m acknowledgment of their gallantry at the battles of those places. ‘The Governor has received the most gratifying inte!+ ligence from Yorktown in relation to the perfected q | arrangements for the care and prompt transportation of Gilt was decidedly the his horse in the race, trotting | Pt tho killed and wounded Pennsylvania soldiers to pointe ithin tho State, The floating hospital will accommo. date over three hundred pationts, and can reach Phila. Girne via the Delaware maa Ginsapenie cane) avoids the roughoess ‘voyage. General Beeuh raya that Peunsylvania is the cnty heats en tbe peninsula prepared for every omergency. The Freshet at Catro, Carmo, Aijtd] 90, 1962. ‘The water in the Ohio rose.an inch last. and is now from six to ten thohes above the old lovee!" ‘The water ie stayed by the vigilance and exertions of the Mayor, who is constantly at work with large gaigs of men raising the low places and throwing up additional embankments, It is confidently expected that tn this way the danger will be averted, though a very light wind would inovi- tably inundate the city, Inside the levee’ the water is accumulating rapidly, and In many places is several inches deep. The principal streets are navigated by skit, Long trains of freight cars stand on the levee, ‘and are occupied as dwellings by the families who bave been driven from tHeit homes. A St ry Youn A large steamer pasrod ie$ ing, nano ‘Ray, fre pouring large forces into the valley of she Rappa- ©