The New York Herald Newspaper, May 4, 1862, Page 4

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We publish to-day very full and highly interest- (ng details of the capture of Fort Macon by our special correspondent, who was present during the affeir. General Burnside advanced from Core Sound, under a fiag of truce, towards the fort on the 23d ult., when he was met by one of the rebel Officers. The tetms proposed were such as given fn our previous report, a conditional surrender, which was for s time declined. A personal inter- view between General Burnside and the rebel com- mandant of the fort, Colonel White, took place on the 24th, daring which General Burnside in- formed the latter of the recent victories of the Union armies st Corinth and the surrender of Fort Pulaski. The interview, however, had no ami- cable result. On the. following morning our mor- tars, siege batteries and gunboats, comprising the Dlookading fleet, opened fire on the fort, which was responded to by the rebels until four o'clock in the efternoon, when, their guns being .ailenced ono by @ne, a white fleg was hoisted and the fort sur- fendered upon the original terms proposed by General Burnside. We refer our readers to the map of the vicinity and the elaborate description of our correspondent. In connection with the affair at Fort Macon, we @ive interesting details of the battle at Camden—or South Mills, as the rebels call it—which preceded the reduction of the fort by six days, accurately described by the same correspondent. A full list of the killed and wounded sccompanies our ac- oount. ‘The occupation of Fort Macon opens another Southern port to the Union arms in addition to New Orleans and Savannah, and it is believed that the government will avail itself of the opportunity to open the leading commercial cities of the South- ern States to the commerce of the world imme- diately. Despatches from Corinth, dated on Monday, State that General Beauregard was moving large bodies of his troopssouthward. Purdy was evacua- ted and the town burnt on the night previous. It {a quite possible that Beauregard was endeavor” ing to form a junction with the forces of General Lovell. The Memphis papers express the utmost indignation at the abandonment of that city by General Beauregard, and such is the condition of public feeling there that we should not be sur- prised if an attempt is made to fire the city, in ac- cordance with the recent decision of a meeting of citizens, that a domestic broil will be the result. The Unite’ States steamer Santiago de Cuba ar- tived at this port yesterday, from Port Royal, bring- 84 prize the celebrated rebel steamer Ella Warley (formerly the Isabel), which she captured while on her way from Havana, laden with Enfield rifles, can- gon and ammunition for the rebels, and bound for Charleston. This formidable rebel cruiser—which has for months past been endeavoring, and often, @o doubt, successfully, torun the blockade with arms from the nentral West India Islands—now lies at the Brooklyn Navy Yard: her career of mischief ft an end. The Santiago de Cuba also captured two or three smaller rebel vessels, laden in part with arms and cotton—all of which are on their way to New York, with prize crews on board. The Santiago had an exciting chase: after the privateer Nashville before she fel! in with the Ella Warley; but the Nashville was too swift for her, We publish in another column a most interesting account of the exploits of the { portion of her cargo, consisting of a number of cases of dry goods, before a clearance could be obtained. The goods were purchased for and on account of a Charleston merchant who has recent- ly run the blockade at that port, and is now re- siding temporarily at Nassau. Southern accounts inform us that William L. Yancey, ex-rebel commissioner from Secessia, will soon be appointed a brigadier general in the rebel army. This honor is to be conferred upon hint, according to a letter from Jeff. Davis, for the ‘dis- tinguished ability he has displayed in representing in an eloquent and a forcible light in the courts of Europe the claims of the Southern confederacy to recognition by the foreign Powers as a sovereign and independent nation.”’ If the arch rebel meets with no better success in the field than he did while representing the interests of the bogus con- federacy in Europe, he will never hold a place in history among the “Generals of Our Day.”” The only military experience Yancey ever had was as an honorary member of the Montgomery (Ala.) True Blues, in which capacity he never faced any missile more deadly than the cork of a champagne bottle at the annual supper of that corps. The Commissioners of Excise and the police have commenced active proceedings against the unlicensed liquor dealers, many of whom were ar- rested last week. They seem determined to en- foree the law this year, and compel ail persons engaged in the business te obtain license immedi- ately, Blank applications and all necs:sary infor- mation may be obtained free at tle oflice of the Board. ‘The stook market was again rampant yeoteway, and the volume of transactions very large. Governments sold at par and at premium, and all the speculative stocks were higher. Money easy at4a5. Exc! cy firm at 11234 a 112%. ter, closing at 102! ‘The export of the day was 000. Mr. Cisco sold an- other million of 7.30 notes fa? gold at par. The cotton market wag cOmparattvely quiet. Asusvual on Saturday, but few spiuners were in the market. The same vague feeling regarding the possibility of some in- crease in s:pplies—though exactly in what way, or by What means, no one seemed to be fully satisfied in hs own mind—c ntinued to overhang the market and check sales, while the stock has become exceodingly light and confined to comparatively few hands. The sales yesterday were confined to sbout 300 bales, in small lots, at 27ic.a 28¢., closing main- ly at the inside figure for middling uplands, The flour market was less active and buoyant, thouga without change of moment in quotations. Wheat was inactive and the demand limited, while supplies con tinued to be light. Corn was in moderate request, with sales of Western mixed, in store and Solveress at 58c. a 59c., with Jersey and si Pork was heavy ani! prices dull, salos of new mess were made at $12 50a $12 75, and of prime at $10 | $10 25 sligars were quiet but steady, with saies of about 500 hhds. and 21 boxes. Cuffee was quiet, and no sales of moment were quoted, Freights were firmer, while the enhanced views of ship owners tended to check transac- tions. Wheat was engaged to Liverpool, in bulk and ‘bags, at 8d. ; lard, 22s. 6d., and bacon at 25s. The Approaching Dissolution of the Rebellion. We publish this morning a highly important despatch from the Corinth correspondent of the Savannah Republican, dated 29th of April, stating that our army was then advancing against the rebels, and that skirmishing had commenced; also"anotber despatch, equally im- portant, from the Corinth correspondent of the Memphis Argus, dated April 28, showing that Beauregard is retreating southward from Corinth, some of his troops proceeding by rail- road and others by foot, while some are going west, probably as far as Grand Junction, to take the Central Mississippi Railroad there—an arrangement which would give him two rail- roads to move in a southern direction. We said yesterday we did not believe, as had been reported, that Beauregard was falling back on Memphis. That opinion is now con- firmed. So far from retreating to Memphis, the rebels of that city contemplate its destruction by fire from sheer desperation. Yesterday stocks received au immense impeo- tus in Wall street. Not only did they go up, but sales were very large. This was the resnit of the cheering news from Corinth and from all other points. The rapid succession of unex- ampled victories, crowned by the capture of New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the capital of Louisiana, followed by the flight of Beau- regard’s army before the onward mareh of Halleck, could not fail to produce a marked influence upon the stoeek market. The darken- ing prospects of the rebels and the bright vista that now opens into the future for the glory of our arms, and for the triumphant vindication of the unity of the republic, cannot fail to give confidence to all who survey the theatre of the war with an intelligent eye. If we turn to the Southwest we find Beauregard so crippled and embarrassed by the reduction of New Orleans and the atrategical movements of Halleck on his wings and flanks, that he is compelled to shift his army from the boasted strong position in which he said he would await the advance of the Union troops- His telegraphic despatch after the battle at Shiloh, whose genuineness was at first doubted, but is now fully authenticated, proves that his situation was then desper: unless he was largely reinforced from gia or Bouth Carolina, He has not since reveived réinforee- ments equal to those which have swelied the numbers of the Union army, and the capture of New Orleans, giving possession the | Lower Mississippi to our arms, has enbanced his difficulties, and circumscribed within nar- row bounds the points from which he can ob. | tain any further supplies and reinforcements, and both these of the most limited description, He is cut off from Tennessee and Northern | Alabama, and henceforth all the country west of the Mississippi will be to him as a sealed of book. Texas, so rich in provisions of all kinds for an army, is effectually severed from him, and the same is true of Arkansas. Even if he could cross the Mississippi. be could not move so large an army on the western side, owing to the want of transportation. East of the river he has | McClellan soon set at rest all hopes of their Santiago, which we commend to the attention of our readers. Tho British steamer Bermuda and the steamer Florida were also brought into Philadelpbia yes- terday as prizes, making four contraband steamers in all which arrived under charge of prize crews ‘at the two ports of New York and Philadelphia, including the Signora Nostra de Regie. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Our Furopean despatches and files of papers to the 17th ult. brought by the America, reached this city last night. The advices have been anti- cipated by telegraph. By an arrival at this port we have news from Nageaa, N. P., to the 19th ult. Business was ata stand still, save with those engaged in farnishing to the vessels engaged in running the blockade of United States ports. The rebel steamers Nashville and Cecile were at Nassau, ready to es ae ron the Uigekade, The Canard steamsh nak ha tak given up to ‘the wreckers/and would prove a total loss. The British schooner Evelina, for Nassau, was i by the Custom House authorities of sterday, and compelled to discharge a Overhan! thia por a em of railroads for the moving of his snp. plies, and the rapid concentration of troops: west of it he would have no railroad to depend upon, and even the water courses would be for- bidden to him. It is certain he could not pro- cure wagons for the use of so large an army before Halleck would overtake and compe) him to give battle. But when Beauregard fights again it is all over with him. If he did not feel this to be the case, he would have fought at Corinth, or somewhere between that point and the Tennessee. Such is the situation of affairs in the Southwest, If we direct our vision to Eastern Virginia, where is to be found the only other army on which the oause of the rebellion depends what do we see! Tere, too, the affairs of the insur- gents are equally desperate. They admit them- selves that if they lose the impending battle the game isup. Desertery from their army state that Magrader and Johnston have addreseed the troops and declared to them that avictory at Yorktown is the last hope of the cause, for if the battle should be lost irretrievable ruin would be the consequence. The Richmond NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MAY 4, 1862. Examiner makes the same admission. It says, “If the confederacy loses Virginia, it loses the back bone and right arm of the war. * * * The wisesi plan of the South is to place all its force on the peninsula, stand the hazard of that great throw of the dice without flinching, and think about flight only when they are sure to have lost it.” That they are pretty sure to lose we have the guarantee in our splendid army, splen- didly equipped, and the ample preparations of General McClellan. That the rebel leaders at Richmond have no hope of success is clear enough from the hasty adjournment and precipitate flight of the Con- federate Congress, leaving very important busi- ness undisposed of in their anxiety to reach some place of greater security than the capital of the confederacy. But whether they will be safer at any point further south is extremely doubtful. The Richmond papers cover them with measureless ridicule, and remind them that by fleeing south they will “be caught in a snare by which goslings would not be entrap- ped.” The Examiner says:—“ The dispersion of Congress is a most untoward event. It is an odious example to all classes.” The Whig says the members left on the canal boats, from fear of accidents on the ; that a regiment | of ladies has been ‘by General Winder to protect them in their flight to some remote village, where they will be taken care of by the children, the women then returning to de- fend the country. How like the abolition lead- ers at the North, who did their utmost to pro- duce this civil war, but keep aloof from the dangers of the battle field. The Hraminer de- nounces not only the cowardice of the rebel Congress, but of the government, which bas evidently shown symptoms of weakness inthe knees. It says, with great force and truth, “they had better seek death on the field that will decide the fate of the capital than attempt to prolong a nomadic resistance at Montgomery.” And ia it true, then, that it is in contemplation to remove the government back to Montgomery, after failing in Richmond? Perhaps both the government and the main army are already on their way south, and that only a few troops have been left behind in the fortifications to delay the pursuit of McClellan. As to falling baek on Montgomery, that city is just as accessilfie to our gunboats as New Or- leans, and the new capital must be fixed at some other point. It may be that the last desperate chance is a junction of the army of Virginia with the army of Beauregard, in order to crush Halleck before McClellan could come up; and that this ex- plains the retreat of Beauregard from Coriuth, in order to gain time and space to effect the desired combination. But we think Halleck will keep too sharp an eye upon Beauregard, and that McClellan will have too bright a look out for Johnston, to let these generals slip through their fingers, and thus prolong the struggle to fall campaign. All tho indications from the seat of war go to show that the days of the rebellion are numbered. It has already: received its death blow in the capture of New Orleans, under-which it wHl reel and stagger 4" till it falls. To complete the pacification of the South it is only necessary to open its ports and permit the planters to sell thcir cotton and tobacco, and all the world to trade with them as before. This would be so much better for them than the destruction of these staples by the rebel leaders, that it would induce them to abandon the insurrection and cling to the Union, which can protect their property. That our government is shortly to take this step we have every reason to believe, and, when it does, that will be'at once the fluishing blow to the rebellion and the beginning of a new era of good feeling between the North and the South, whose fruits will be the rapid development of the greatest and most powerful government the world ever sa’ ‘The “Skedaddling” ot the Rebel Congress. ‘Fhe extracts which we published yesterday from the Richmond (Va.) papers, commenting upon the sudden flight of the rebel Congress; furnish an amusing picture of the fright of those gentlemen composing the one horse Con- gress of the Southern confederacy. and the final loss of all faith in the cause they have so long been aiding Jeff. Davia to sustain. No one act singe the commencement of the rebellion has given greater proof of the ultimate success of the plans of General MeCleHan, and the speedy crushing out of the unholy and wicked conspi- racy against the best government in the world, than this—the sudden’ departure of the law making power of rebeldom. When the rebettion first orgauized, their Con- gress met at Montgomery, Alabama, and there deliberately planned and matured their arrange- ments for a grand government, suited to their own taste, to be made the home for all the con- spirators. Montgomery being too small a place for their ambition, they sought a more flourish- ing town further north, and finally moved their documents, chattels, &c., to Richmond, Virginia, and there hung out their fag and flourished in all their grandeur. They had not rested long in that city before they manifested a discontented spirit, and commenced sighing for Washington, with its marble building and well arranged rooms, and its Pennsylvania avenue, in which to flourish their cages and yellow kids and ex- eveise their legs. The masterly skill of General wetting up shop in the federal capital; but still clinging to the idea that they must have a new capital, they resolved in secret session upon moving to Nashville, Tennessee, to pre- vent being bagged by our Commander- in-Chief. But the movements of our Army of the West were too rapid for them, and before they could carry out their design that city was in our possession. Then {t vas reported that they were going to Raleigh, North Carolina; but Burnside's operations on ‘he coasts of that State no doubt drove from thelx minds all hopes of peace if they went there. ‘ihe next that we hear from them is through the rebel papors of the 23d ultimo, giving an account of their sud- den departure for parts unknown. Thus, with all their vain boastings of the power, strength and invincibility of their grand Southern confed- eracy, after spending one short year in adopt- ing plans and devices to keep up their courage, they have suddenly taken ‘o their hecls, and ave no doubt at this time dodging about in the dismal swamps and bayous of the South, in- forming the alligators and bullfrogs of their brilliant victory. The cause of this hasiy stampede wo will let the Richmond examiner tell in its own lan- guage:— They have boon brave ns jious—ayo, as tigers-—and, alas! they hove rua away, the Lord knows why, to the eurprise of their friends and the entertainment of their enemies. It would be amusing, if it wore not sad, to read and bear their protests that the opinion they ran from ‘ apprehension’ was altogether an ‘out. side idea,’ and that their adjournment was due to the simple fact that they had nothing to do.” The same article goes on to show that there was a large amount of work before them left undone, even some one hundred military ap- pointmonts of the President laying on the table unopened. “ Want of occupation,” continues the Examiner, “ certainly was not the reason of the ‘scampering’ adjournment; and if appre- hension had nothing to do with it, then the Lord knows why Congress is gone, and the Lord knows when Congress will come back to us.” From the tone of the same article it is evi- dent that the editor of the Examiner only looks upon this stampede of the rebel Congress as the precursor of a grand flight of the leaders and the army. A little’ further along the editor makes an appeal to the Confed- erate army, as though there were alroady misgivings that all the boasts that one Southern- er could whip five Northerners, and such like braggadocio, no longer deceived themselves; for it adds, “It is hoped that at least the Confed- erate armies will not bounce off after burning a steamboat or two and a bridge the moment they learn the enemy are in the neighborhood.” Then comes the evidence of the lack of faith in the Confederate government by ite dupes, and a warning to tho leaders of what they may expect unless they protect Richmond, as follows:—“If the Confederate government is worth a rush, it will defend Richmond to the last; for, in leaving it, nothing will remain for the heads of that gov- ernment but speedy resignation to escape a load of execration and infamy such as would crush the greatest conqueror and despot that has ever ruled the world.” What blacker picture could be painted than this of the doom that awaits those who have led the South into the rebellion, and, through their will 0’ the wisp delusion, led them on step by step to ruin and disaster. Surely they are ina desperate plight—their Congress faded away, their government net worth a rush, and their armies preparing for a sudden flight. It needs but one more squeeze of McClellan’s anaconda for the boasted gy ab rrmenateatne to vanish. Ovr SuaRrsHoorERs. —So far our sharp- shooters have supplied us with the greater part of the romance of this war. During Gari- baldi’s Italian campaign the adventures and exploits of a sharpshooting Englishman who went about, with all the sang froid of a sports- man, picking off the Austrians with his uner- ring rifle, attracted a great deal of attention and interest. We have three thousand such sharp- shooters in the field now, and the people read with avidity the tales of such men as Califor- nia Joe, who brought down the rebel negro rifleman, and of Old Seth, who captured a rebel gun by shooting down all the gunners as fast as they showed themselves. tion novels of forest life have no such stirring scenes and incidents as those daily recorded in ‘our columns $f the Berdan sharpshooters- Cooper’s sensa- _——— IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTAWEST. The Biiguation of Corinth by the Rebels. Beauregard’s Army Moving Southward. Skirmish Between the Union and “his Well” in General Halleck’s Army. BUBEL ACCOUNTS FROM FORT WRIGHT, Rey den kee Wasmmaros, May 3, 1862. The War Department has received messages from General Halleck, dated at Pittsbarg anding to-day. Tho army was well, in high spirits and eagor to mest the enemy. Camo, Mdy 3, 1862. The latest nows from the Tennessee river, brought by a contraband, says thas there was no fighting up to five o'clock yesterday afternoon. Carmo, May 3, 1862. ‘The river bas fallen two inches in the last eighteen hours. A deserter at the fleet reports shat Hollins continues his preparations to attack Commodore Foote, loudly ‘boasting that he will sink the entice feet or drive them toCincinnati. Tho rebels are continually throwing shelis into the woods botween the fleet amd the fort, and occ.- sionally fire in the direction of the flotilla, but without effect, as the boats are all out of range. Rebel Accounts. Cmcaco, May 3, 1862. The Memphis Argue of the 20th of April has the fol- lowing despatch:-— Conners, April 28, 1862. General Beauregard is moving large bodies of troops southward. Some go by railroad, othere on foot. A few have gone West. It is generally understood that ho evacuating the place, though he declives answering ques- tions. He says that President Davis understands his movements. Purdy wasevacuated last night, and has since boon burned. Every building is said to be destroyed. The Yankees are moving in that direction, Our outposts had a rkirmish with their advance early this morning, cap- turing sixty prisoners, including nine commissioned off- cers. Savannant, Ga., May 1, 1862. A despatch from the Corinth correspondent of the Re- publican, dated the 29th of April, says that fe onomy have been reinforced and are advan There is heavy skirmisning daily. Quite an affair ocourred to-day this side of Monterey. ‘The Richmond Enquirer of May 2, contains tho follow- ing — Monte, May 1, 1862. 4 apectal despatch to the Mobile Advertiser, from Co rinth, on the 26th ultimo, says that Col. Scott's Louisiana cavalry, cont ng of two companies, had driven out a regiment of foderals from Tuscumbia, killing several and taking forty prisoners, The evemy burnt their stores, and were pursued by the confederates. The result is unknown. Fort Waicnt, April 26, 1862. Thoro bas been no change in affairs here since Satur- day. The steamers and gunboats from below have ar- rived. Tho Yankee fleet has gone bighor up the stream, and is now lying opposite Osceola, excepting their mor- tara, which keep up their harmiers firing. The Defences of Fort Wright. Doworters from Fort Wright say that the rebele have, only twenty-six guns mounted in seven batteries, ae fol- lows — Back casoments sunk in bli, one ten-inok ri. Jownbiad. Shore battery, five thirty two pounders, sow res but frou two ten-iuch columbiads. 4—Two ten-inch columbiads, one rifled sixty- , two thirty-fours and five thirty-twos, No. 5—4ne ten-inch columbiad, ‘two sight-ined do., one thirty-two and one thirteen-inéh mortar. No. 6=F! ifled twenty-fours. No. 7—One sixty-four. ‘The two last battorios are on the bluff, and the first five aro shore batteries, ‘Tue Disrarcr Arronvey Rroovengxa.—We aro happy to say that District Attorney Hag ta rapidly recovering from bis teeent illnos, ary will probably be able to resume hia officlal duties ‘oefore the close’of the proseut month, |. Charleston, witha valuable cargo, by the United Statcs HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM THE GULF. Arrival of the Gunboat San- tiago de Cuba. Capture of Several Contraband Ves- sels by Commander Ridgely, The Rebel Steamer Isabel, alias Ella Warley, with a Yuluable Cargo of Arms, Ammu- nition and Other Contraband Goods, Taken by the Santiago de Cuba, HER ARRIVAL AT THE NAVY YARD: The Other Prizes on Their Way to New York. EXCITING CHASE OF THE NASHVILLE, &o., &e., &e. —— ‘The United States gunboat Santiago de Cuba, Comman- der Daniot B. Ridgely, arrived last evening #4 this port from Port Royal, bringing a8 a prise the rebel steamer Isabel, alias Ella Warley, which was captured while on a Voyage from Nassau, N. P., for Charleston, 8. C., laden with arm:, ammunition, wines, sogars, modicines, &c, She has boen one of the most sucoessful of the rebel steamers in carrying on trade between Charleston, Ha- vana and Nassau, Sho is im charge of Licutenaat Wil- lam Gibson and Acting Master George R. Schenck. ‘The Santiago chased the Nashville several hours on the 23d ult., but was unablo to overtake her, On the same day the Santingo de Cuba captured a schooner from Charleston, lorded with cotton, which was put in charge of acting Master 4. W. Muldaur, with T. Dwyer, Master's Mate, and sent to Key Weat. She also took two other schooners, with assorted cargoes for Sovthorn trade, both of which are now om their way to New York—one in charge of L. Coggeshall, tho other in that of Wim. N. Ellory, Mastor’s Matos, The Santiago de Cuba has been out now sit months, most of the time in tho Gulf of Mexico and a# Havana. She ia now attached to tho eastern division of ko block- ‘ading squadron, under Fiag Officer McKean, ‘Tho following is a list of hor officers:— Command-r—traniel B, Rtdgoly. First Lieutenant—Wm. Gibson, AMasiers—Wm. 8. Chsesoman, Goo, R. Schenck, & W. Muldaur. Engincers—Solon Farrar, Chief; Wm. E. Moore. wp Aiststant Engineer. E. A. Baslwell, Joun McCourt, B. lorritt. Gunner—Stephen Young. . Master's Mates—Wan. He Hllery, Thos. T. Dwyer, Law: ton Coggeshall. Commander s Clerk—Wm. J. Ridout, Paymaser's Clerk—Jobn M. Baker. Many of tho above officers are away on prizes, but they are the roguiar officers of the ship. ‘The Santiago de Cuba left Port Reyal April 30. Thore was nothing of importance tranapiring at that place. The United States steamships Susquehanee aad Keystone State sailed for New York April 29. Arrival of the Prize Steamer Eis Warley. ‘The prige steamor Ella Warley, in charge of Lieutenant Gibson, from Hayana, via Port Royal three days, arrived at this port fast evening. Tho Elia Warley was formerly tho steamer Isabel, which carried the United States matte betweom Charleston and Havana. She has several ‘mes run the blockade at Charleston, carrying arms, ammunition, &c., to aid the rebels; but was captured April 28 off Havana, while on @ voyage from Havana to gunboat Santiago de Cubs, Commander Daniel B. Ridgely. The Kila Warley now Itee at tho Navy Yard, Brooklyn: Interesting. Particulars of the Chase and Capture of the Rebel Vessels. The United Statos steamer Suntiago de Cuba left Ha- ‘vana on the 6th: of April, for ® cruise off the Florida coast. For tho firet: five daysshe boarded only one ves- aol, and abe an honest molassee droger. But from the 11th to the 15th sho boardod:quitea number of schooners and barks, principally laden: with ‘“swoetening,”” and howeward bound. On the 13th of the same month she Spoke the Havana mai! stoamer Columbia, bound for New York, and the United: States transport Phila- deiphia on the 16éh, aleo bound North. On the 10th jostant abe fell im with: the United States sup- ply ship Rhode Island, and obtained fresh beef for rhe crow. On the 234, while running along under easy steam, making about five miles an hour, a¥out ten o'clock A. M. the lookout at the masthoad gave the welcome cry’ “Sail, ho!” «Where away?”’ shouts the offfdorvaf the deck. “About one point on our starboasdibow."’ «Can you make her out?’”? “She looks like @ steamer, air,'” ‘The quartermastor went stoft withrs glass and report- ed that he could soe the: masts and smokestack of a steamer. The order was immediately given to stir up the fires and put the ship im the best condition for a @hase. We supposed her to bethe: Fila Warley, alias Isabel, or the Austin, both of which rebel vessels we le‘t in Havana. As soones she was “hull up’? we saw that it was neither tho one nor the other. We wore steer ing directly across her bow and ‘picking her up’? fast, She continued her course until she was near enough to scan us well, when, apparently net being pleased with our appearance, she turned and fled with all speod, shifting her course from north by east: north half west. We were now about oight miles apart. ‘The chase now commenced in good earnest. Our awn- ings were taken down, our top and lower yards sent on deck, our wheel sexens hauled up, and everything that could impede ‘he progress-of the ship removed. Tho sea was smooth, the sky cloar, and the air cool and bracing. Tt took us an hour to get up a full head of steam, daring which time tho strange steamer increased her distance q little, For the next three hours we were steering direet- ly in her wake, holding: our own certain, and perhaps gaining a trife on ber. We wow made her out to be the Nashviilo, and knowing the speed of that famous versel we had little hopes of overbauling her, She was evidently gauging our speed, and keeping us at @ proper distance until nightfall, when she would elude us, under the cover of darkness, change her course ead rin into Charleston, We continued in the same rela- tive position towards enol othor until four o'clock in the afternoon, when sie suddenly left us, at the rate of at Jeast three miles au hour, We were making eleven and a half. At sunset sho was “hull down’? to the northwest, latitude 28 20, longitude 77, It was useless to pursue hor further, and seeing ® guspicious looking sail about six miles distant, on our port bow, we hauled up, and were soon within bait of a small white schooner. We learned subsequently that 4he Nash. ville conled outside the barbor of Nassau, N. P., fow days previous to, our chase of her; she, being heavily laden, could not pass (he bar with her coal in. She had ‘& valuable cargo of arma, ammunition, ko. We ware now within hail of the schooner. «Schooner ahoy?’’ shouted the officer. “Ay, ay, sir,’’ wae the repty. «What schooner is that’ «Don't know.’” “Where are you from?” «Don’t know.” “ewhere are you bound?” Halifax.’ «Holst your ensign.” ‘ain't got any”? ‘Heave to,” ay, ay, sir’? jowering our beat to board Bor the lookout peelhouse sung out ‘Cotton, cotton on Sure enough, dusk though it wae, the sticking deck.”? ends of ootton bales could be seen out from under the scanty covering with which the rebels had attempted to aonceal their deck ; wad. The schooner proved to be. (rom Obarleston, bound o left Charles\eo. the day previous. Ske had no name, no papers, mo flag, no nothing. Mer master’s namo is William,Stasoman, and she bad a orew of sixmenm, Her cargo gonsisted of 170 bales of cotton: ‘Tho master and crow/were takon on board the atoamer? Midaur, master’s mate Dwyer, and a | prize crow of *4e men put on board the schooner. Wo thea took her, in tow aud headed for Koy West, Tp. eri ext morning, having towed her out of danger of recap. tur’, and the wind being fair to take hor to Key West, wo on,‘t her off, to make the best of her way alono, while the Sant, *#° Put about in search of the Austin and Isabel: Wo had a "4rcely got back to our cruising ground when wosaw our Iv." Sought friend, the Isabel, or, as sho is now called, the 8 Warley, at a distance of about tom miles, making for CC@rleston as fast a8 she could, We knew her in an instant, and knew also that there was a0 escape for her. lf not geod for the Nashville, we cao boat the Isabel as bad as the Nashville beat us. When sho first saw us she mistook us for another steamer: Our yards being down disguised us. As soon as she mide us Outshe changed her course, but instead of trying to get away she gracefully mot us half way, avd submitted without murmur, When in Havana last wo lay along side of her and cosled from the sante wharf. Lieutenant Gibson, Acting Master Schenck, Sergeant Hamilton, seven marines, and @ crew of sixteen men wore immediately put on board the Ella Warley, and the captain, mate and pilot of her takon on board the Santi- ago. All boing ready we headed for Port Royal, wheae we purposed getting a crew to take the Kila Warley to New York, as we wore too much crippled for active ser- yice with so many officers and seamen out of the ship. The next day (April 26) wo fell in with the schooner Mersey, with a blockade cargo. The account they gave Of themsclves not being satisfactory, we took possession of the schooner and put her in charge of Acting Master's Mato Ellery, and a prize crew, and then took her in tow for Port Royal. The weather was exceedingly rough, the schooner towed badly, aud our Progress was very slow. We did not reach the light ship off Port Royal until mine o’clook Sunday evening. On the 27th we anchored outside the harbor and waited for daylight, At daylight we got up anchor and attempted to got in, but in about Af teoa minutes we struck on the north breakers. The tide wae full flood and we went on nearly the longth of the ship before the engine could be reversed. Our prize, the Ella Warley, seeing us strike, avoided the breakers, got safely ino the harbor and anchored alongskle the fiag- ship, Aftor casting off the schooner we backed off the Lreakors without difficulty. The #aatiago got several sovese bumps, but received no injury of consequence. Fearing to-make another attempt, we anchored and waited for # pilot. We learn that one of the uoys has been removed, com: sequently the chart misled us. Having obtained a pilot, we went into the harbor and’ enchored. We could not obtain officers and mon to manour prizes, therefore we were obliged to convoy thom to New York ourselvew: Spent the next day in coaling the Fila Warley and giving: her water, and on the morning of the 30th left Port Roya for New York. Before leaving, however, we sont Mr. Coggeshall on board the schooner Mersey, in place of Mr. Elicry, who returned on board the steamer. The gchooner was ordered to make for New York. We passed her as we came out of the harbor, beating out, When off Charleston, the same day, wa made a small schooner, whose movements were suspicious. We bore down for her, and in answer to our hail she said she was going in to the blockading squadron for weter. Wo sent our officer on board, who found hor papers to be evi- dently bogus, and her cargo well auited to the Charloston market. She was on blockade ground, about twelve miles from Charleston, We took pos- session gof her, and put Mr. Ellery on board as prise master, with a crew of six men. The cwner of the vessel and cargo was on board as s passenger. We took him on board the steamer, and made him oomfort- able, in the company of eighteen other prisoners belong, ing to the different prizes captured during this cruise. All being arranged, we steamed on again, with the Ella Warley following in our wake. The weather for the next two days was whet the sailors call ‘‘nasty’’—squally* rainy, with sevore thunder and lightning. This, with thenight fogs, made our pregress slow. We gavorthe land'a wide berth, which made the passage from Port Royat longer than it would otherwise have becn. We had atxty officers and mem outof the ship, which made the labor much hardor for the eficers and men remain’ ing ou Soard. OMictal Report of Fing Officer Piacsme Wavasm, Pout Kora, Hannok, Adril 28, 1808. Sm—t have just timo this morning, before the depar- ture of the Susquehanne, to: inform the department of the arrival liere of the rebol steamor Isabel (Ella War-- toy), in ctiarge of Liout. Gibson and @ prizc crew, she having beon: captured by tho Santiago de Cuba, Com. mander Ridgely, one hundred’ miles north of Abace. She is deoply loaded with Enfield rifles, and has, it is supposed, rifled cannon in’ Ker forehold, which has not yot been examined. These arins-wers taken on bourd, of course, at one of the:neutrai colonies off our coast, Tam informed’by Lieutenant Gibson that the Santiago de Cuda discovored and chased the Nashville, but the latter was much too swift for Ker. The Nashville also had arms on board:for the rebels, inseuding to run the blockade if posstble.. Vory respectially, your obedient servant, 8..F. DUPONT, Flag Officer commanding Souttiorm Atlantic Blookading ‘Squadron. Hon. Givnow Weiies, Seoretary of the Navy. Arrival of the Empire City from Port Royal. THA PRIZ8 STWAMER NOBTRO: SIGNORA DE REGLA TOWED TO THI8 PORT, RIC. ‘Tho United States steam transport Empire City, Captain Barton, from Port Royal, April 30; with passengers com- signed to the Uuited States Quartermaster, arrived at this port Inst night, ‘On the 8d ines., at 12:30 P. M., Absecomb bearing W., spoke schooner United States, frou St. Augustine for New York. ‘Tho Empire City towed the prize s‘eamor Nostro Sig- nora de Regla from Port Royal to this: port. The prize steamer was in charge of W. A. Wells. ‘The Empire City brought the following named passen- H.C. LeBoy, of the United States.steamer Keystone Mr. H. 0. Briges — Mr. Jobn 8. Sammis ” Moody, of ike, Florida; Colonel J..N. Bird, of Charleston , fA Cravan, Brigads Surgecn of Generat Gilmore's Division, at Fort Pulaski; ‘suoee Jt., Paytaster of the United States ship Wyan- “Captain Travis, of the Forty-eigith regiment New ork ‘Volunteers; Captain O'Connell and Captain sg of the Fittysfirth Pennsylvania Volupteers; .T. B Bronson, of New York: Mr. J. N. Mesrriman, of George. town, S. C., United States Collector ;. Mr. Wm. T. Baker, Mr. Wm. Tee and Mr. Cogswell and ‘wile, of Port Royal. She also beings the following prisozers: tain Renton, privateer Dixie, prize to United States « steamer Keystone State, Jomes White, John Kane, John Jones and John Nelson, seamen on board the Dixie. Captain Ryan. prize’ schooner Weare, Mike Guinn and ; Pat. Sullivan, annem on board the Wa: Win, Uptigrove, mute prize schooner Bella, Frank: Sara, Jolin Morris and Antonio Leo, soamen on board the, Georgetown, 8. C. Arrimal of the Prize Stoamers Bermudas and Florida at Philadciphia, Pumapecenta, May 3, 1862, teamer Bermuda, winich sailed from Liver+ est of April for- Dormnda, was captured Sunday last off Hole in the Wall,, by the stoamor Meroe. dita, Commodore Stellwagen).and brought here to«lay in-oharge of Prize Master Abbott. Her cargo was ptim. cipaily powder, muniticna. of war and arms. Thecap~ tain, crew, and twelve passengers on the Bermu tastere also taken ‘The steamer Florida, captured at St. Andrevis.Bay, Wa., also arrived at the navy yard this afternoon, im ehrge of Prize Master Lowis. ‘She has aboarcstwo. hun. dred bales of cottow, William H. Harrison, the. pidot, with engineors and nine of the crew, took the oath of ance and cal aboard the steamer. The nimeo; ms crew who refused to take the oath wena.pub sehore in St. Andrew's Bay. News from N. , Nn We, ‘The schooner Levi Rowe, Capt. Keller, arriwed at this port yosterdag from Nassau, N. P., whisiaport ste satied from on the 2th of April. She brings uathe Nassau Quordion of that date and the folluwing wmtelligence from our Conant at that pince:— All bagiaess is nt a deadlock, save, that of furnishing euppli the rebel Wockade runners. The Toure of Assombly ig still in session, and mighty specimens of Bahame,cloquence amuse the American visitors. ‘Tho-weather is cool and pleasaut, thongh the Amerwan visitora are wurning their stops homeward, and filling, alk thasailing vessels northward bound, ‘uhe steamship Karnak has deen giwen up to the wreck» ors, and will proven total ives. ‘The pilot is mel con~ sured, as Captain Le Mess waned him that he was keeping too far tothe westward, A flattering teatimo- nial to Captain Le Me: jor has been signed by ail the Americans here whe have soiled with bitn. Dusiness at the Cut Islands is stagnant, and provisions, ro acarce. “ihe British steamers Southwick, Bile Warley, and Gladiator, ail engaged tf bringing arms and munitions of war for the rebel Statas, aro in port, Alae the Con fedorato ateamors Nasty villd and Cecile, ready to rua the rT . Her British Majesty's steamer t Pall Dog, Com: mander McKillop, ‘will anil soon for Now ‘Kork ON Pie ete put