The New York Herald Newspaper, May 30, 1862, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR, OFFICEN. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS, S.cash imadoance. Money sent ty mai] will be at the nde. None tnt Bunk ville current im New York taken. THE DAILY HERALD, two cents per copy. $1 per anaien, THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Salurdty, at ote canta per py, or $3 per anu; the £ jan ‘ednesilisy, at os cents por copys Sa pe im part of reat Brkeain, or $6 12 toany part of the California Kédition on the st, Volume XXVIII. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING, ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Irving Place.—Hemnaamx. NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Tux Excuanraxss, WINTER GARDEN, Broalway.—Rosa Guecoxio— Lonron AssuRaNcK, WALLACK’S THEATRE, 344 Broadway, -Rowaxce or 4 Foun Younc Man. LAURA KEENE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tux OLD GuAsp— ime Bives. NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—ConroLasus— TAMING A Sasxe—ALonz0 sNv IMOGINE, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Waen Bors—Wiearp Skire—sixteee Stung Jac. BARNUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—Com Nore—Living Wate, do., at all hours,—AveLaipy or Dsuspss, afternoon and evening. PRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanio# Hall—s72 Broad: Way.—W008 IX OLD a-¥-KY. GAIETIES CONCERT HALL, 616 Broadway.«Drawixa Room BxreetainMents, PE 3 MUSIC HALL, 45 Bowery.—Sones, Dawcxs, Bor: RS, &C. PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway. = Onna hoe a Me iis TRIPLE SHEET. SHEE THE SITUATION. General McClellan effected a brilliant achieve- ment yesterday by burning the bridge over Anna creek, on the line of the Fredericksburg, Rich- mond and Potomac Railroad—thus cutting off all communication by railroad between Jackson’s army and Richmond. He also sent a squad of cavalry along the same road, eighteen miles from Rich- mond, and burned all the commissary stores of the rebels stored there. Our correspondence to-day furnishes a fine de~ scription of the late battle at Hanover Court House. General McDowell was at Manassas Junction yesterday with a large force, quite sufficient to assist in bagging the army of the rebel Genera! Jackson in the valley of the Shenandoah.” Our news from General Halleck’s command to- day is highly important. On Wednesday morning three strong reconnoitering parties from the divi- sions of Generals Thomas, Buell and Pope advanc- ed on the enemy in front of Corinth, and, after a severe contest, drove them back with considera- ble loss, although they hotly contested every foot of ground. Our advanced posta reached to within gunshot of the enemy's intrenchments before night, and it was con- fidently expected that they would open fire on our troops yesterday morning. They did not do #0, however, and General Pope accordingly opened ‘apon one of their batteries, and they responded with twelve-pounders. After a heavy shelling from Pope of an hour’s duration the rebels hauled down their flag, and our troops now occupy the position. General Butler is pursuing a strong and docisive course in New Orleans. He has suppressed the Delta and the Bee for advocating the destruction of produce. He has arrested several British sub- jects for giving aid to the rebels. He has seized @ large quantity of specie belonging to the rebels from the office of the Consul for the Netherlands; has stopped the circulation of “Confederate” paper money, and has distributed among the suilering poor the provisions intended for the sup- port of the rebel soldiers. And more: he has taken the wife of General Beauregard—who was found to be in New Orleans—under his care and protection, just as General McClellan has done the wife of the rebel General Lee, in the neighborhood of Richmond. The large amount of news from New Orleans which we publish to-day will be found full of interest. ‘The letter of Jacob Barker, of New Orleans, takes strong ground against cotton burning. He also shows up the treason of the Southern mem- bers in the last Congress. This letter is an admi- rable preparation of the way for the avowed ex- pression of Unionism wi isi has been heretofore compulsorily dormant in Lonisiana and other por- tions of rebeldon. The article from the New Orleans Bee—a covert justification of the destruction of cotton—which caused the suppression of that paper and the Delta, will also be found among our New Orleans news. The reader will be fully satisfied of the justice of General Butler’s course in suppressing such jour- nalg as the two before mentioned, after perusing the Dee's editorial of the 16th. Our Fortress Monroe correspondent mentions the fact that Colonel J. FP. Hanson, of a rebel Kentucky regiment, who was sent by a flag of truce to be exchanved for the gallant Colonel Corcoran, has become disgusted with the rebels and the rebellion, and wili take the oath of alle- giance. He returned to Fortress Monroe when the rebels denied an exchange for Col. Corcoran, and was sent to Washington at his own request, after having been offered his parole, which he rofused. He says that ‘he would rather be a Prisoner among gentlemen than @ free man among villains.’’ From General Burnaide’s expedition we have an interesting letter, dated at Newbern, N.C., on the 24th of May. Our correspondent states that on the 234 instant a scouting party, consisting of a company of the Seventeenth Massachusetts fegiment, was sent out in order to capture or burn a quantity of stored at Pollocksville. ‘The met by the rebels a few miles from the Union outposts, and exposed toa gall), | cotton men were by whieh tree were killed aud eight wo? ‘vy somainder forced fo retire. The rob ¥ sort of deadly eartidge, which is « ‘| in our correspon- dence. The let er, wives we publish to-day, epntains a complete ist | oil the deuths which oe qrrred in General burnsile’s army during the faangh of April. It is taken from the report of the Medien! Director, and possesses a melancholy in- eres (or the relatives and frieuds of the gailant NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1862.—TRIPLE SHEET. men who have given up their lives for their country, Another capture of a British steamer has been made off Charleston harbor, while attempting to run the blockade with a valuable cargo of salt” Petre, brandy and wine, worth half a million dol- lars, from Nassau. The steamship in question is the Stellin, of London. She was captured by the Bienville, and was brought into this port a prize Jast night. We give to-day descriptions and a map of the three islands which were bombarded by our gun- boats near Charleston, as we announced yesterday, together with an account of the rebel defences at Charleston. Our latest news from the West states that trouble is breaking out in Western Tennessee, and a con- siderable force of rebels is said to be at Trenton, ready to march on Union City and Hickman. Union men from Weakley and Obion counties were flocking to Hickman for protection. Four or five hundred rebel cavalry are stationed near the mouth of Obion river, awaiting the draining of the swamp in that region to plant a battery to prevent the passage of our transports on the Mississippi. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday Mr. Willey ealled up the memorial of the loyal Legislature of Virginia, ask- ing for a division of the State, and spoke in favor of it. The memorial was referred to the Territories Committee. The Senate then continued the con- sideration of the Tax bill, and the proposed amendment to lay no tax onslaves in States which have adopted the President’s system of gradual emancipation, was rejected. An amendment was offered to make the tax on slaves two dollars cach, instead of five, as proposed, which, after con- siderable discussion, was adopted, by twenty- eight yeas to ten nays. The amendment of Sena- tor Simmons, proposing to levy the tax on fewer articles, was then considered, and it was rejected, by fourteen yeas to twenty-two nays. The Senate then held an executive session, at the conclusion of which an adjournment took place. In the House of Representatives the Speaker laid before the House the resignation of Represen- tative Walton, of Maine, he having been appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court in his State. The Senate Dill establishing a land office in Colorado Territory was passed; also the bill allowing the State of California three representatives in the House. The bill for the more effectual suppression of the African slave trade, reported from the Judiciary Commit- tee, was passed, by a vote of sixty-three against forty-five. The bill making farther provisions for the Courts of the United States in the State of Pennsylvania was passed. The House then re- sumed the consideration of the bill providing for fhe purchase of what is known as the Douglas Hospital, in the city of Washington, which, after a discursive debate, was defeated, and the House adjourned till Monday. - MISCELLANEOUS NEWS Radski, accused of the murder of Sigismund Fellner, is in prison in New Jersey, awaiting his trial. The extraordinary circumstances surround- ing this mysterious murder will excite much inte- Test. The suicide of Albertina Phlaum, the young girl who arrived in this country with the murdered man; the attempt at suicide by Mrs. Marks, who was arrested on suspicion, and who has since gone to California, and the large amount of property known to have been in the possession of Fellner, and which has remained undiscovered, will render this case one of our causes celebres in'the criminal history of this country. It is said that there are parties now at large in the city who are implicat- ed in this tragedy. Messrs. Stuart and Burling have been employed to defend the accused, and Mr. Edwin James is retained toconduct the de. fence. The Board of Aldermen held a session yesterday afternoon, with a very fall attendance of the mem- bers. Not much business was transacted, however. A report was received from the Joint Special Com- mittee on National Affairs in reference to the Soldiers’ Hospital in Central Park. The com- mittee state that the building will be ready for the reception of patients some tine next week. A report in favor of continuing the work on the park on Fourth avenue, between Thirtieth and Fortieth streets, and appropriating $12,000 therefor, was laid over. The Councilmen’s appropriation of $250 for a presentation testimonial to Morgan Jones, Esq., ex-President of the Board of Council- men, was concurred in. The Board also concurred in the resolution of the Councilmen to authorize the purchase of @ lot on Elizabeth street for the ac- commodation of hose companics. Mr. Edwin James will respond to-morrow (Saturday) morning to the reqnirement of the Su- preme Cour‘ respecting the allegations made by the Committee of the Law Institute against his eligibility to practice at the New York bar. Mr. James will explain his position as a member of the English bar at the time he was admitted here, and Mr. James 7. Brady will speak upon the question of aljenage, which the Court have particularly de- sired to bo discussed. By the report of the proceedings in the United States District Court, it will be scen that the 70,000 Southern bonds have been restored to Mr. Guthrie, the claimant, who suffered two periods of imprisonment in Fort Lafayette as a supposed se- cessionist. The weekly statement of the Commissioners of Public Charities and Correction was presented yesterday, and shows that 2,210 persons were ad- mitted to the different institutions during the week ending on the 24th inst., making a total of 6,918 remaining there on that date—a decrease of thirty- two on the preceding week. The ship Franklin, from Hamburg, arrived at New York yesterday morning, bringing four hun. dred and seven Mormon passengers, Stocks wore higher yesterdsy, and the tone of tho market was stronger, The bears are disappointed im not getting a supply of stock from tho bulls, whose loans have been disturbed, and tho outside demand continues trong enough to support tho price of the favorite fancies. Money was easy to-day, the supply on call at 4 was in ovens of the wants of the street. Exchange was steady at 114% 4115. Gold rather lower, on the news from New Orleans, which, if confirmed, will cause a sudden all in both gold and exchange. Tho cottoa market was unsettled yosterday and prices irregular, owing in part to the character of the Southern jews and to the absence*f spinners, who have recently supplied themselves to some extent. The stock on hand, however, was quite limited, and any material inorease in nd would enhance prices. The sales wore ufined to 800 bales, spread over the day, in small jots, hardly suMcient to establish prices, wiieh, according to circumstances and quality, ranco all the way from 30}c. a 3140. Including a’good partat Sie. The flow market was firm for common g odes of State and Western, whilo the medinm and higher brands were heavy and pricos unchanged. The demand for export was light, while the chief sales were mde to the home trade, Wheat was loss active, and fell off Le. @ 20. por bushel. Corn was also oastor, thong in good request, with sales of new at 46\c. a 47¢., and of old Western mixod at 4734. a 48. Pork was dull, at $12 26 Cor mons and at $9 625; a9 75 for prime. sugars wore steady, with sales of 1,000 bhds., $1 boxes and 15,500 bags Manila. Coffee was quiet and prices un. changed. Freighite wore heavy and easier, espovially to Liverpool. Corn was engaged in sbip’s bags at oda Oigd., and wheat do. at 10d. a 10344. in ship's bags, and flour at 2a. $d. a 28. 6d. To Glasgow wheat was takea in ship's bags at 11)p@ Progress of Affairs in New Orleans—A Budget of Interesting News. We devote a large portion of our availa- ble space to-day to a budget of very interesting letters from our correspondents, and newspaper extracts, showing the progress of affairs in New Orleans under the active, emphatic and decisive military supervision of General Butler. Touching here upon some of the most im- portant of the various and numerous items of information thus grouped together, it appears that General Butler had smoked out of the office of the Consul of the Netherlands a lot of “Confederate” specie, in silver, to the amount of eight hundred thousand dollars, and that the Consul concerned and a score of other con- suls had entered their protest against this fro- ceeding. But we presume that General Butler will hold on to the money in behalf of the go- vernment of the United States, and leave to Mr. Seward the settlement of the claim in ques- tion. Next, we find that certain British sub- jects had sent down to New Orleans some four hundred bales of cotton, and were not very fastidious either in placing this property of theirs under the protection of the flag of the Union. It is to be hoped that the London Temes will soon have its stupid eyes opened in contemplation of such interesting facts as these. We are rather inclined to think, however, that that blunderer of a Thunderer will find some- thing more agreeable to its morbid secession stomach in General Butler’s arrest of several British subjects because of their active services rendered in or to the rebel army. Queon Victoria’s proclamation of neutrality of May last, however, settles this matter; for we find, on recurring to this proclamation, that any of her subjects who shall violate this neutrality, by assisting cither party in this war, “will do so at their own peril, and of their own wrong, and that they will in nowise obtain any protection from us (the Queen) against any lia- bilities or penal consequences, but will, on the contrary, incur our displeasure by such con- duct.” Next, we find that the circulation of “Con- federate’’ paper money was ordered by Gen.” Butler to be stopped in New Orleans on the 27th instant—Tuesday last; and it will be seen that such shinning and shaving immediately commenced as the financiers and lame ducks of Wall strect have never dreamed of. Doubtless a host of Confederate swindlera will have feathered their nests by this “Confederate” paper trash, while a multitude of their unfor- tunate dupes will have been reduced to star- vation. The New Orleans banks, in this swindling business, seem to have been playing the game of sharper and artful dodger on a grand scale. We find next that, in view of the thou- sands of the population of New Orleans re- duced to absolute destitution under their Southern millenium, ushered in by this rebel- lion, General Butler had seized a considera- ble amount of provisions of the “so-called Con- federate States,” and was distributing them among the poor. Cattle dealers, too, with their beeves, were finding their way into the city from Texas, and eggs, &c., were also coming in from the interior. It will not be long before the river will be reopened through to Cairo, and then the descending provisions of the great West will prove a convincing argument in support of the appeal of old Jacob Barker against the suicidal expedient enjoined upon the Southern planters of burning their produce “to save it from the enemy;” that is, the enemy of Jeff. Davis and his fellow conspirators. The Delta and the Bee newspapers were sup- pressed by General Butler for advocating this incendiary policy on the part of the Southern people of reducing the masses to absolute beggary and starvation, This burning them- selves out of house and home, however, is con- fessedly the last ferocious alternative of the rebel rulers; for it will be seen, from the letter of the rebel diplomatic emissary Rost, of New Orleans, written at Madrid, that all hopes of European intervention in support of Jeff. and his interlopers are gone. In still another matter it will be seen that General Butler will have no diily-dallying or dodging. We refer to the cleaning of the strects. He will not have the responsibility of neglect shuffled off from one set of officials to another; but he substantially warns the city authorities that the work must be done or they will all be cleared out without ceremony. In this point of view a Military Governor, one like General But- ler, for a while, would not be a bad institution for the city of New York. Hackley & Co., under such a regime, would have to be lively or leave. Many other interesting topics, subjects, facts and curious discoveries and developments will be found in this interesting budget of New Orleans news which we publish to-day. The con- clusions which we draw from it all are these: that General Butler, with a mistake here and there no doubé, is performing his duty of Mili- tary Governor with vigor, vigilance and discre- tion; that, finding a great city turned upside down and inside out, demoralized, plun- dered, and in utter poverty, chaos and filth from this rebellion, he has a great work upon his hands to restore said city to order, cleanliness and anything like prosperity; but that he is getting things into. an orderly shape, and that New Orleans is getting sober, as from @ fearful, stupefying drunken debanch. This good work of “the sober second thought” will begin to go on rapidly and universally throughout the South with the expulsion of Jeff. Davis from Richmond, and that event is so near ‘that the news thereof may come to us at any day of the present week, or at any hour of the day. Two Distixovisnap Sovtnern Lanes Uxver Ovr Cans—By aur news from the South to- day we learn thats. Beauregard, wife of the famous General, was discovered to be in New Orleans, in occupation of the honse of Mr. Slidell. General Butler, on ascertaining this fact, removed the guard from the house, and treated her with distinguished considera- tion, ordering ber to be protected against insult or injury. From a letter published in our columns it appears that the wife of another distinguished rebel leader, Gen. Lee, was dis- covered by the troops of Gen. McClellan in the vicinity of Richmond, from which she had re- tired on the approach of our army. It appears the lady possessed no information of the move- ments of the rebel army. There was much speculation some time ago as to the where- abouts of these two ladies. Some located them in Boston, some in Brooklyn, and some in other places; but now their local habitation js discovered by the progress of our arms, which are every day bringing strange things to light, and the public curiosity will be satisfied on that point. The ladies are both South, and not at the North, as had been so generally believed Insane Legislation in Congress—-Effect Upon the Destinies of the Republic. The motion to reconsider the Emancipation bill, defeated in the House of Representatives on Tuesday by a majority of four, was fixed for Wednesday, and it was expected that, with the aid of two radicals, before absent, and one eonvert gained over, there would be a tie vote, and that the Speaker would then give his cast- ing vote for the bill. Owing to some disar rangement in the programme the bill was postponed for a week. We wish it had been postponed till the Greek kalends. Such & bill is unworthy of any civilized nation, and is without a parallel in ancient or modern times, Even a Congress of barbarians would enact something more in accordance with com- mon sense, to say nothing of humanity. It strikes at the property in slaves of the whole people of the South at one fell swoop, making no distinction between leaders and followers, those taking an active part in the rebellion, and those giving aid in the most indirect man- ner ; and, in fact, there is no real distinction made even between rebels and loyal men, for the latter, if claiming the service of a slave, must first prove his loyalty, which it would be impossible for him to do. The drat section provides that whoever ‘shall wilfully engage in armed rebellion against the government of the United States, or shall wilfully aid or abet such rebellion, or adhere to those engaged in such rebellion, giving them aid or comfort, every such person shall thereby forfeit all claim to the service or labor of any persons, commonly known as slaves.” In some of the Southern States this section would include ninety-nine out of every hundred of the owners of slaves, for the troops in the field are aided by nearly the whole of the remaining population. But if there should be any Union man who rendered no aid or comfort, and did not adhere to the rebels, he is caught by the following section, inasmuch as he is compelled to prove a negative. It runs:— Sno. 2, And be it further enacted, That if any person claiming to be entitled to tho service or labor of any other person shall seek to onforce such claim, he shall, in the first instance, and before any order shall be made for the surrender of the person whose service or labor is claimed, establish not oniy his claim to such’sorvice of labor, but nlgo that such claimant has not in any way aided, assisted, or countenanoed the existing rebellion against the government of the United States. A man might be as innocent as the child un- .born, and yet he could not prove that he “has not in any way aided, assisted or counte- nanced the existing rebellion.” By every principle of American law the citizen is to be regarded asinnocent till he is proved guilty; and the onus lies upon his accusers to prove their case, and not upon him to first prove a negative. There is not a man in the whole of the Southern States who would be able to establish his innocence by this rule; and if justice is not to be circumscrib- ed by geographical boundaries, would it not be incumbent on Congress to pass an act permit- ting every man in the Northern States to be robbed of his property with impunity if he cannot prove that he never gave aid or comfort to the Southern rebels? Where is the man who can prove this unless by his own testimony, which, of course, would not avail him? By a side wind this bill aims at the overthrow of the constitution and the destruction of the entire slave property of the South. Why not do it openly and above board bya bill simply eman- cipating all slaves, instead of thus whipping the devil around the stump? The title of the bill ought to be “a bill to aid and extend the re- bellion and to protract the war to an indefinite period.” If it should be adopted by the House, and also by the Senate, and come before the President for his approval, we trust he will give it his veto, and that he will do the same in the case of the absurd Confiscation bill. The whole course of Congress since the civil war began, and indeed before the commence- ment of our national troubles, has tend- ed to widen the breach and ,make it irre- parable. Before the breaking out of hos- tilities everything was done to exasperate and to alienate the South. All compromises calculated to reconcile existing differences and to carry out the spirit of the constitulion were treated with scornful contempt. War was de- signed from the beginning by an unscrupulous faction, who saw in it a boundless sourco of public plunder, and the means, as carried on under their auspices, of extinguishing the Union and securing for a long series of years the reins. of power in the Northern section of the republic. Their programme was either to Teduce the rebellious States of the South to Territories, without representation in Congress, in order thay they might abolish negro slavery and retain possession of the spoils, or to effect acomplete and permanent separation between the North and the South. Nothing they so much dreaded as the simple restoraiton of the revolted States to the Union, under the autho- rity of the constitution, with the same reiations to the federal goverument and the other States as existed before the rupture. Upon no other theory can their conduct be expiained. If the war should be diverted from its original purpose—the purpose proclaimed in the proclamation of the President—then they wish it God speed: but if not, not. Governor Andrew, in his recent letter to the War Department, put the matter in a nutshell He said that to fight for the mere restoration of the Union the men of Massachusetts would feel to be “a heavy draft upon their patriotism;”’ but that to fight for the abolition of slavery would be glorious ahd call forth their utmost en- thnsiasm. In the one case he had “no inaterials for an intelligent reply.” In the other he un- dertook to say that “the roads would swarm” with recruits for such a holy war. Hence it is that the radicals do not desire the success of the war; and, by their intrigues and meddling with the movements of troops, they are contributing to the defeat of our arms. In another way they are aiding in the same object. By their exasperating speeches, aud by their sweeping measures of confiscation of property and emancipation of the negroes, they are driy- ing the rebels to desperation and enlisting Union men in their cause by thousands; and, if they proceed much further in their insane course, the alienation of the South will be ren- dered complete, the Union element will be- come utterly extinct, and the work of subjuga- tion in the border States will have to be done over again. What our army is achieving by hard fighting, and our generals securing by their moderation after victory, is counteracted and undone by the radical representatives in Congress, who have not @ statesman among them, and are more like crazy lunatics, fit for bediam, than members of a deliberative assem- biy. They will not pass the Tax bill, so neces- sary for the sustainment of the war and the na- tional credit. They will not pass a tariff nor a bankrupt act, nor anything in the shave of | shortly after ‘Mexican expedition. Had his advice been Practical legislation. They seen 1 to think that their whole business and the very end of their existence is to talk and legisla about the nigger, while the interests of the w bite men of this great republic are neglected an d ruined, Visit of General Prim to th ¢ United States. The Spanish war steamer, the . Ulloa, is due here to-day, with General Pr. im, late Commander-in-Chief of the Spanish fe '7ce3 in Mexico, on board. This distinguished soldier will be accompanied by his lady and t ‘everal members of his staff, amongst whom is G. 2neral Milan de Bosch, @ name also ranking high amongst the military notabilities of Spain. The antecedents of the Conde de Reus en title him to a cordial and hospitable reception in this country. His sword and his politi cal talents, which are of no common order, ha ve always been employed in the cause of freedo ™ and progress. When the Carlist and Christin 0 struggle broke out in Spain, he embraced witi ardor the liberal side, and rapidly rose to dis - tinction in the army. After the flight of the Regent, Maria Christina, he associated himself with the measures directed by the progressista, party against the dictatorship of Espartero; and, being threatened with arrest, took refuge ‘ in France. Elected in 1843 Deputy to the Cortes by the city of Barcelona, he returned home and en- tered into the alliance formed against Espartero between the Christinos and the progressistas. On the fall of Espartero and the return of Maria Christina, he was pro- moted to the rank of General and- appointed Governor of Madrid. In the troubles that fol- lowed the reactionary movement at Barce- lona he fell into disgrace, unmeritedly, we think, considering the difficult position which he occupied between the Queen—to whom he owed all—and his: former political associates. Condemned to six years’ imprisonment, on a charge of conspiring against the government, he was released six months after, at the earnest entreaties of his mother, and for the next nine years took but little part in politics. In 1853 he went to Turkey, and acquired fresh popu- larity by taking service under the Sultan against Russia. Absent during the Spanish Revolution of 1854, he was recalled to his own country by his election to the Cortes, where he was always found voting in favor of liberal measures. In 1857 he was the only member of the progressista party who was re-elected after the final victory obtained by the royalists and the accession of Narvaez to power. In the war with Morocvo he was named to an im- portant command, where, as usual, he honorably distinguished himself. On his return to Spain the uprightness of his character and his mode- ration were again displayed in the opposition which he offered in the Cortes to the taken that enterprise would never have been entered upon. Named, however, by the Queen to the chief command of the army, he did not hesitate a moment as to the course that his duty dictated. He accepted the post; and it is, no doubt, to his sense of justice and his appre- ciation of the difficulties into which Spain was certain to be brought by further concert with the French, that the withdrawal of the Spanish troops from the expedition is due. Indeed, all along General Prim has evinced the greatest admiration for, and the friendliest disposition towards, this country. Ata banquet given by the American Consul at Vera Cruz he gave frank expression to these feelings, and pro- posed, proprio motu, the health of the President and prosperity to the Union. The General is, in fact, more of a republican than a royalist, and his go-ahead tendencies may be judged of from the fact that in his campaigns he always carries a printing press about with him. It was to his forethought in this regard that we are indebted for the Eco de Europa, the first number of which was issued at Vera Cruz on the 4th of February last. General Prim comes to this eountry to see and judge of us with his own eyes, and to examine more especially the organization and condition of our army. He is preceded by Senor Justo Miguel, who is making all the necessary preparations for his reception, During his stay in our city he will put up either at the Brevoort House or the Fifth Avenue Hotel ;, but will probably remain here only a few days, as he will naturally be anxious to push on to Washington. We trust that the brief time he will pass in New York will be made the most of by the Corporation and our leading citizens to render fitting honors to @ guest whose political principles are so strongly in unison with ours, and whose integrity and firmness have been the means of averting difliculty between this country and Spain. The President and the military autho- rities will, of course, take proper care of him when he visits Washington aad the army. And in this connection an idea suggests itself. We have as members of the latier the Prince de Joinville, the Comte de Paris, the Due de Chartres, General Havelock, besides no end of German Princes and Barons. What if the Conde de Reus were to take it into his head to offer the President his military services? It would not be more unexpected than the course of the eminent individuals referred to, and would be quite consistent with the political an- tecedents und the dashing and chivalrous character of the General. Tux Loyan Atriupe or Marynaxp—The raid of Jackson’s force down the valley of the Shenandoah has been attended with good effects of two kinds. In the first place, it has demonstrated that the sentiment of loyalty in the North is as true and enthusiastic as ever to the cause of the Union. Secondly, it has de- veloped the marvellous change that has taken place in the case of Maryland. It will be recollected that a year ago our militia on their way to the defence of the national capital were assailed in the streets of Baltimore, and the greatest violence prevailed. After the open expression of disloyalty was cowed down by overwhelming numbers the population; re- mained sullen, and it was predicted by many that whenever the Southern rebels march. ed into Maryland the poople of that State in general, and Baltimore in particular, would rise to welcome them and join their ranks. This prognostication is now tested, The news of the retreat of Bank, and of his pursuit by Jackson's force, which reached Baltimore on Sunday last, so far from having the effect anticipated, was attended by a strong Union demonstration, and secession was either extinguished or dared not to show its head. There was a furthor gratifying evi- dence of this remarkable change in the recep- tion given to the Seventh Now York regiment on its way to Washington. Let the secessionista bo convinced by ocular demonstration that North- ma 0 differout State agents fn this oly py such wounded and sick saidters who may come under his charge, for tho tr. friouds and rolativos. Ho also freely expressed his grate, fleation at and commendation of tho aystem adotd ay the Now Bngland Roomg for the tare ant attonticn to the wants of sick soldiers, and 80 oflicieut ye the volunveer cofnm of nurses and medion — ee ern men are not the savages and barbarians which the rebel leaders have painted them, and they will soon change their demeanor, become reconciled to the Yankees, and think them ex- cellent fellows. Meantime, it is absolutely necessary to protect the Union element in those parts of the South where our flag is planted, and not abandon it to persecution after the ad- vance of our troops has emboldened it to declare itself in favor of the federal govern- ment. Gexenat Borner axp tus Wowun or New On —Our advices from New Orleans, published in another column, confirm the re- port which reached us from rebel sources, that General Butler had issued an order command- ing that all women who insulted our soldiers should be treated “as women of the town ply- ing their trade.” With this confirmation, how= ever, comes an explanation of the meaning of the order. It seems that Mayor Monroe at first regarded the order as an outrage upon the women of the South, and remonstrated against itin an in- sulting letter, The Mayor soon after recalled what he had said. Then he repeated his re- monstrance. To this General Butler replied by an order deposing Mayor Monroe and send- ing him to Fort Jackson—the Fort Lafayette * of General Butler's department. This brought + he Mayor to his senses, and he immediately vm tanaged to construe the offensive order cor- re ctly, and begzed General Butler’s pardon for ii} mistake. 11m New Orleans, by a municipal regulation, women of the town found plying their trade upo a the streets are liable to imprisonment im the calaboose. siraphly to this, therefore: that if any wo- in New Orleans shall so far lower hersekf as to behave like a degraded cour- tezwa .upon the publis street, she shall be arrestec | and imprisoned like any other woman of the &#own. No true woman, then, need be alarmed by this order, for she cannot by any chance {be interfered with by it. How Gen. Butler treats a lady may be seen from his- action intregard to Mrs. General Beauregard,. who is now stopping at Slidell’s house in New Orleans. Assoon as Gen. Butler heard of her presenee he withdrew the guards about her’ house, and ordered that.she should be allowed. the fullest liberty. Gen. Beauregard, whose- wife is thus cared for by our soldiers, did not, it seems, concoct this order in regard to wo- men, bat he has grossly misrepresented it, He knows the customs of New Orleans quite ag well as Mayor Monroe, and he was aware, from: the first, of the correct interpretation of Gen. -Butler’s order. subject, therefore, is of.a piece with the other devices he has been obliged to. employ to inspire his soldiers with a false sort of courage. The matter His proclamation upon the’ Additional by the Europa. Haurax, May 29, 1862. Tho steamer Europa arrived here this afternoon and sailod’at half-past nine for Boston. The following is ad. | ditional to her latest intelligenco:— Loxpow, May 17—Evening. In‘London to-day funds opened buoynatly at an im- proveinent, and American securities advanced in some- instances two per cont, but afterward. there was a slight reaction. change. The London produce markets ‘The Army and Navy Gaz tte gives currency to a report. showed no that on the 28th uit, orders were givon to tho fedsral Obief of Ordnance to send tify thousand stand of arms: and a8 nany old uniforms to Port Royal ior the use of the slaves. The Gazette regards this as‘searceiy credible,. but has it from good authority. Maprip, May 16, 1962. A ministerial couneil was held immediately on receipt of official reports from Mexico.. Tao ccmduct of Generaly Prim finds pumerous admire:s in Madrid, ‘The Senate without discussion, passed the bill for the settlement of the dobt of 1823. Arrival of the Kangaroo. ‘The screw steamship Kangsroo; Capt. McGuigan, which: left Liverpool at eleven A. M.on the 14th and Queens- town on the 15th of May, arrived here at noon yester- day, bringing mails and passengers. The City of New York arrived at Quoenstown early on. the morning of the 14th of May. The nows by the Kangaroo has been anticipated by her own report and that of the Europa olf Capo Race. The Turf. UNION COURSE, L..I.—TROTTING. ‘TnvrspaY, May 20.—Purse and stake $800; mile heatse- best threo in five, to wagons. D. Péffsr entered bik. m. Sunnyside. Jas. L, McMann entered g. g. Ka. 1 3. McLaughlin entered br. in. W. ‘Time 2:37{—2: The above race was very uvsatisfa: ctory in rogara.te. time, yet pretty well contested. Sunnyside, although. ‘tbooked’? to win, performed some quocr antics not bargaived for by those who laid the long odds on the rosult. She was either amiss, or neds more racing prac- tice, Eddy, also, was far behind the expectations. of his friends, a number of whom were sanguine enough to. bet that 2.30 would be mado during the race. Any good second class horse could haye pocketed thy making much of a splurge. ‘They wore forty-four sec nds. going the first quarter. to the seratell on account of lamoness, or she would mos* undoubtedly have carried off the prize, ‘The attendance was rather sllm—hardly enough to pay expenses. re without Witow Machree did not come A good rags will take place this afterncon at the, Fashion, between Jiit, Lady Emma, What ia It? and Nimble Dick. Socom pe Densvatsance.—Hermani’s entortalnment im aid of the funds of this admirable institution, comem: off this evening. From tho progr: ghat it will be one of tho most interesting and amusing, porfermances ae yot given by the great escumoleur. we should judge Woern Gappex.—3tr. J. W. Wailack, one of the best, and most popular of our Amorican actors,takes. his Denelit to-night. THe will appear ta ihe character of Al bort de Seuneville, in“ Rosa Gregoria,”’ to his admirable, performance of whieh the succass of thopiece is in ne rmall dogreo due, Miss Batoman takes ber farewelk beaciit to-morrow. - Ted City Intelligence. ‘ Langs’ Home For Sick AND Wouxpmo Soros. Th@ . lady directors of this agscotation gratefully acknowledge the receipt of contributions in clothing and many other , comforts from various Ladies’ Relief Societies ia thia city and Brooklyn, alse from similar organizations: in neigh doring States. They also express thoir thanks for single offerings from inlividuols of both sexes. Affecting inck dents are connected with many cf thee gifts, A mother | whoae son yielded his life on the Dattio-fleld, has sont clothes for the comfort of his remaining comrades wh@ have suffered in the same glorious savings bank, containing $2 37, has boon ‘Adams? Exprese from an unknown 8 honrts ef vhe young havo res) onded moat liberally. primary department of Wooster stroet school has fur- nished, in contributions of three coats ant upwards $10 05. ‘The young gentiom: mide (he splendid sionation department, #26 60, making from the sehocla eam total of $243 31, The scholars of Nes. 10,11, 12 and 45 have also contributed liberally. Carriages for the nse of tha convalescent jatienta Rave becn gonerously fussished by the gentlomen of thetew York Club. It is Roped that thove «xcinpies may stimuiate others to similar acta of, benefice! if Ward school No. 36 1 $216 8%, and the primary noo. ‘Vit ov Sungeoy-Geseran Hayoroxp, U. S.A., To News Youn.—Surgeon Goneral Hammoud, of tho United Staus, Army, arrived in this city yesterday, to personally ‘a. spect the hosyitals for the reception of sick and woundody soldiers, and to inform himself as to the dotails of aljar~ rangomonts connected therewith. In company with,Ool, Frank F. Howe, he paid a vinit to the varjovs hospitala, ‘then procealed to David’s lecathoen of Pastents are wuler the care of lhc, Jones. mr Diiildings now $n course o Be cha view ta & more hiealth(ul veutilation, and expressed himself much giatitied at land, where mond ordered important alterations heey erection on a yr tare catia, wit Wh A Hist ements there. Lt. Jones, at his aut by Winer® amounts vmatt not then,