The New York Herald Newspaper, May 31, 1862, Page 4

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The evacuation of Corinth by the rebel army ‘ander General Beauregard is announced officially by General Halleck, in a despatch received at the War Department yesterday evening. The Thirty- ninth Ohio regiment, the advance guard of Gene- ral Pope’s brigade, entered the city at a few min- utes before seven o’clock yesterday morning, and planted the Union flag on the dome of the Court House. The enemy had abandoned the place pre- viously. The last display of resistance they made ‘was in responding to the batteries of General Pope on Thursday morning, as we announced yesterday. To what point the rebels have retreated re- mains, up to this time, uncertain, Rumors are float that Beauregard has made ao march upon Richmond to join General Johnston. It is possible that he may have been forwarding a Portion of his force, in small bodies, in that diree- tion for some time past; but it is quite probable that the main force of his army is still in the vici- nity of Corinth, at some point on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad. In one of his despatches to the ‘War Department General Halleck says that the enemy arte evidently in strong position some four or ive miles south of Corinth, on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, and that he (Halleck) anticipates a flank movement from Beauregard. This surmise of Gene- ral Halleck is based evidently upon the knowledge he has gained from contrabands and prisoners from Corinth, to the effect that General Beaure- gard had been for the past two months fortifying the hills on the line of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad for twenty-five miles south of Corinth. The object in thus intrenching himself can only be explained by supposing that General Beauregard hopes to entice General Halleck’s forces far enough from the river, so that a flank movement from the di- rection of Jackson, Tenn., would compel the federal army to retreat and fight their way back to the river at Pittsburg Landing and Hamburg. Another report says that the rebels are falling back to Okolona; but the latest news by telegraph does not seem to confirm it. However, as the strategy of the leaders of the rebellion has been all through so mysterious, it would not seem strange if such was the fact. Okolona, to which place Beauregard !s reported to have gone, is a small station on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, sixty-seven miles south of Corinth, and two hundred and sixty-one miles north of Mobile. About. ten miles south of Okolona, at West Point, the Nashville and Jackson Railroad leaves the line of the Mobile and Ohio road, and runs southwesterly to Canton, Miss., a few miles aorth of Jackson. The only advantage to be ob- tained by the occupation of this position is, that there are two roads leading southward from it— ‘one to Mobile and the other to Jackson. There the Tombigbee river and swamp flanks the posi- tion upon the east, making it necessary for Gen. Halleck to march down from the north via Corinth. At all events the rebels thus gain time, and unless they are, as General Halleck sup- poses, ‘“‘in force upon his flank,” no news of great Anterest need be looked for from this quarter for ome time. Our map will illustrate very plainly the whole scene of the late operations around Corinth. We give inanother colamn 8 highly graphic ac- count from our special correspondent of the re- lease of fourteen hundred Union prisoners from Salisbury, North Carolina, and their arrival at Newbern. The soldiers so released, however, do not include a single commissioned officer. Colonel’ Corcoran and all the officers are still retained as hostages at Salisbury. The prisoners are on their way North, and o full list of their names will be found in our columns to-day. Our despatches from General Banks’ colamn at ‘Williamsport contain some very interesting de- tails of the causes and circumstances of his recent retreat from Virginia’ It would appear that com munication with the enemy as to the movements of our troops was freely held by ® woman, well known at Martinsburg, and that she was observed subsequently at” Front Royal—where the attack of the rebels was commenced—making fignals to the enemy from o hill in the vicinity. Although suspected by our officers of meditating tmischief, she contrived to evade punishment by @n assumption of innocence and the absence of Povitive proof against her. ‘i We ptblish some additional news from New Or- leans to-day, showing the manner in which Gene- al Butler doals with the bankers and brokers in as city. ! Fen a SR EAR IS aE ES SS, 2 cn a Sm SR A CONGRESS In the Senate yesterday petitions were present- ad respecting the alleged seizure of a vessel and argo, asking indemnification therefor, and from a omale slave whose name had been omitted from ,¢ emancipation list. The bill for the better tion of the Adjutant Ge 8 Departiwwent as reported back from the Military Committee. iesolutions were offered that the Secretary of War sommunicate to the Senate a copy of General Hooker’s official report of the battle of Williams- burg; that the Secretary of the Interior furnish a copy of the correspondence with the War De- partment respecting the imprisonment of soldiers in the District penitentiary, together with @ cepy of the District Attorney's opinion theron; and that 1n inquiry into the expediency of donating lands for the benefit of antiquarian societies be made by the Committee on Public Lands. After some dis- cussion upon the Agricultural College bill, the Tax pill was taken up and debated until the hour of adjournment. There was no session of the House of Repre- sentatives yesterday, that body having adjourned over until Monday. ¥ MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Colt’s Armory Band, escorted by the Light Guard, serenaded Mrs. George B. McClellan, in Hartford, Conn., on the 26th inst. ‘The old Massachusetts Sixth regiment, on their way to Washington, insist on marching again through Baltimore. Mr. Solomon Sturges, the wealthy banker of Chicago, has been declared insane by a compe- tent jury. The Grand Jury of the General Sessions were discharged yesterday for the term, after having presented a batch of indictments. The case of Robert W. Butler, who put in a special plea for an alleged violation of the Concert Saleon act, was submitted to Jadge McCunn by Mr. Brady, without argument, on an intimation by the Assistant Dis- trict Attorney that the prosecution had nothing to say upon the matter. Counsel will submit printed points to the Judge, who will furnish a decision as soon as he thoroughly investigates tho constitu- tionality of the law. A very interesting case of grand larceny was tried ia the afternoon. Patrick Kane, a raw looking young Irishman, was placed atthedar, charged with obtaining $100 in gold coin from Cyrenus Tiffany, a native of Iowa. The complainant gave a detailed statement of the man- ner in which the money was obtained, stating that on the 14th of May he met the accused at Albany and accompanied him to New York, he having learned that Tiffany was going to California. When they arrived at New York they stopped at Crook’s Hotel, and on the following day the ‘‘ con- fidence man” represented to Tiffany that he want- ed to pay for a bill of goods, and, as his ‘‘drafts’’ could not be changed in California, where he was also going, he wanted him to give him $100in gold. Tiffany complied, and in a few moments got the slip, and woke up to the fact that he had been swindled. Three days after Tiffany saw a man in Chatham street whom he charged with robbing him, and caused him to be arrested. The keeper of the hotel said that the prisoner was the man; but Mr. Spencer called four witnesses, who swore that on the night of the alleged larceny Kane was at his boarding house in Washington street. The jury, however, believed the witnesses for the pro- secutfon, and convicted the prisoner, who was re- manded for sentence. The stock market improved yeaterday, partly on the news of the occupation of Corinth by the Union forces, and closed quite firm. Governments sold at 105, an ad- vince of fully cne per cent, and 7.30 notes at 1053. Confidence appears to bo reviving and speculation to bo recovering strength after the recent lud. Money was very easy; 3,334 © 4 percent, Exchange dull at 114%; gold, 103% a %. The cotton market opened in the morning with an un- steady feelmgand some irregularity in quotations, but the news of the evacuation of Corinth imparted more confidence to dealers and rallied prices from the appre- hension that the event might tend to prolong the war. ‘There was also increased activity in the sales, which embraced about 1,200 a 1,500 bales, closing on the basis of Sle, a 81}¢. for middling uplands, the latter figure mostly for even lote. Common to fair grades of shipping flour were firm and without change of moment in prices, while medium and ordinary extra brands were dull. ‘The sales were moderate, and chiefly to the home trade, Common grades of wheat were heavy, and prices favored purchasers, while good to prime qualities were rather firmer. Corn was in good request, with tolerably free sales, at 48c. a 400. for Western mixed, in store and de- livered, with Western yellow, a little mixed, at 50c., and Jersey yellow at 530, Sic. Pork was quite dul, with sales of new moss at $12, and $9 50 a $9 75 for prime. Sugars were less active, while prices were steady, and sales confined to about 300 hhds. and 90 boxes. Coffeo was quiet; a sale of 300 mats of Java was made at 25c. Freights were easier, with some less offering. To Liver- poolcorn was engaged at Od.,in ship’s bags, and 9d.a Oigd. for wheat, in bulk and bags, and flour at 2s. 3d.; and wheat to London was taken at 10}4., in bull; and to Havre wheat in shippers’ bags was taken at 200. and tobacco at $9. Evacaation of Corinth—Thé Movements and Designs of the Rebeln The news of the evacuation by the rebel army under Beauregard of their stronghold of Corinth created in this city yesterday quite a breeze of excitement, and every variety of speculation and conjecture as to the present designs and plans of Jeff. Davie and the move- ments of his armies, The prevailing idea was that if Beanregard kad abandoned Corinth it was becanse he had transferred a laf¥8 proportion of his army to Richmond. There is, too, some plausi- bility in this theory, if we may judge from recent events and revelations in Virginia. While General McClellan’s pow- erful army is close upon Richmond, and is steadily and solidly approaching nearer from day to day, we find that the rebel leaders in that quarter have contrived not only to main- tain all the appearances in front of a superior opposing force and of an impending desperate struggle for their “Confederate” capital, but that they have also contrived to reinforce very heavily the columns of Jackson, Ewell, Johnson and other rebel guerillas among the mountains of Western Virginia and the Shenan- dosh valley. Thus they have not only pre vented the junction of General Fremont with General Banks, but have managed, with over- whelming numbers, to drive the latter, by forced marches, day and night, completely out of the Shenandoah valley and across the Po- tomac river into Maryland—involving the loes to us of several depots of valuable: military stores, a considerable proportion of prisoners of war, the protection of large numbers of sick and wounded soldiers, and all the moral ad- vantages which had been gained among the local population of ® conquered region of ten thousand square miles. Such events as these are well calculated to strengthen the impression that Beauregard, from his camp at Corinth, has of late been so reinforcing the rebel army at Richmond as to enable it to provide for these successful Vir- ginia forays in the rear of Washington, and at the same time to exhibit from day to day « bolder front against General McClellan. We incline, however, to the theory that Reaure- gard has his eye upon Memphis, and is only manouvering to secure the back door of escape for his army and to Jef. Davis & Co. across the Mississippi river. Once over that stream, he can find subsistence in Arkan. NEW YORK HERALD, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1862. Texas to carry him safely into Mexi- co. But be bas no time to lose. Com- modore Farragut’s gunboats from New Or- leans are steadily moving up the Mississippi. A few dys more and the gap between them and Memphis will be closed—an operation which, if he does not move at once, will en- close Beauregard, and cut off his escape in that direction and his present sources of sub- sistence. In his camp at Corinth his principal sup- plies—collected in the surrounding counties of Tennessee and in Arkansas—are drawn from Memphis, because the cotton region of country south of Corinth to the Gulf was, even a year ago, short of provisions for {ts local population, although receiving constantly large amounts, now cut off, from Tennessee and Kentucky. Of course, then, with the country south of him exhausted, and with the region to the west- ward, which only scantily supplies him now, in danger of being cut off, Beaure- gard must move forward and fight or evacuate, or he will be starved out. Hence our impression that he retains the bulk of his army, in order to work his way to the right bank of the Mississippi before it js too late; and the probability is that he has commenced that undertaking. There is nothing to eat for his army of 150,000 men to the eastward, or we might assume that he has been and is moving it to form a junction with the rebel army of Rich- mond. We dare say that the chief object of these late rebel raids in the Shenandoah valley and in the mountains of Virginia farther west was the capture of our depots of provisions at various pointa; for the rebel army at Rich- mond is upon short rations, if we may judge from the famine prices of provisions of all des- criptions there, as published in the Richmond newspapers. But whatever the designs of the rebels may be, East or West, we see from their recent operations, from Winchester back among the Virginia mountains almost to Kentucky, that they exceed us in numbers at every point of collision. It follows that if, with half a million of soldiers in the field, we cannot spare enough from other quarters to overwhelm at every point the rebels in Virginia, the Pre- sident has acted very wisely in calling for more troops from our loyal and patriotic peo- ple to supply all these deficiencies in Virginia, from General Banks to General Fremont. We hope, therefore, that the President will en- courage the splendid volunteering now going on until at least two hundred thousand addi- tional troops are in the field; for then we can so strengthen our surrounding cordon of armies in every quarter as to enable them to move all together upon the beleaguered enemy, and, ina single dash, to crush out this rebellion and utterly destroy its means for any further re- sistance, even of guerilla warfare. We are prepared, meantime, for such news from General Halleck and General McClellan at any moment as will substantially end this war; but the complete work will only be tho more speedily and cheaply accomplished with an additional army force of two or three hun- dred thousand men. They can be raised in thirty days. Our late expensive reverses are due to the malign influences, intrigues and schemes of the abolition faction of Congress against General McClellan. We have had enough of this. Now let us go forward and put down at once this rebellion, and thus put an end to these abolition schemes for the de- moralization of our army and the overthrow of the Union and the government. GexeraL Burter mt New Onzeans.—The famous song ef Christy, the negro minstrel, Picayune Butler’s come to town— may now be sung in New Orleans as an his- torical ballad. General Butler began the prac- tice of the legal profession by compelling a large manufacturing company to come to terms and pay a poor factory girl her wages, by clapping an attachment upon the water wheel of the manufactory and stopping the whole concern. Picayune Butler has put an attachment upon the water wheel of secession now, and the Union could nat have a cleverer lawyer to manage its case. We cannot call Butler the right man in the right place, for be is the right man in the wrong place; but he will make it a right place by and by. Tae Presmpest’s Last Mrssaor.—A great many thickheaded logicians are puzzling themselves about what the President meant in his last message defending Cameron. The President only says, in his peculiar way, that he entirely agrees with the Henao in its state- ment that Congress had stultified itself by the Fotes defending Welles in the Morgan affair and inculpating Cameron in that picayune business of confiding gs, which Was much less heinous than Morgan’s. Congress had better reconsider the whole matter, there- fore, and pass the same vote in both cases. We are sure that no one cares which way the vote may be. Tux Trrevxe’s Gun Facrony.—We have a long account from our Willimantic correspond- ent of a visit to Greeley’s gun manufactory, at Eagle village, Connecticut. We have no room for our correspondent’s letter to-day; but it ap- pears that Greeley has obtained a second con- tract for forty thousand more muskets, and that there is no machinery at all in the factory build- ing, as poor Greeley has turned contract bro- ker and sub-let his jobs. None of the guns have been finished, and consequently none have gone off yet. When they do go off there will be a big explosion somewhere. GeveraL Burter.—Our political generals have been, as we predicted from the outset, costly, and in some instances troublesome encumbrances to the army. We must make one exception, however, to the remark, and that is General Butler. He has shown himself not merely a dashing soldier, but an able ad- ministrator. His measures at New Orleans prove that his sagacious mind has grasped ull the delicacies and difficulties of a most embar- rassing position, and that he is equal to every emergency. If any one can exorcise the spirit of rebellion from the Crescent City it is General Butler. Poriteness or OvreGenerats.—General Mc- Clelian has paid his respects to the wife of General Lee, commanding the rebel Army of the East, and General Butler has introduced himself to Mrs. Beauregard, the wife of the rebel leader of the Army of tho West. Now, General Burnside is also a very polite man, and it is decidedly probable that he will leave his card with Mrs. Jeff. Davis as she passes through North Catolina, and eagerly embrace the op- portunity of showing her every possible atten- eas to carry him into Toxas, and in | tion Liegr Breaxtye Iy,—The Tribune, in its leader of yesterday, bas made the remarkable discovery that the aggregate number of troops in the federal urmy is unequal to the exigencies of the campaign. McClellan, Halleck, Banks, McDowell, Ilunter, Mitchel, Curtis—we won- der it did not include Fremont—have, it ad- mits, all been hampered for the want of men. But for the influence of the Tribune and its abolitionist co-workers in Congress which was brought to bear on the War Department to stop further enlistments we should have heard nothing of this complaint. We have reaped the first fruits of their spite against McClellan and Halleck for not conforming to their views on the contraband question, in the expulsion of Banks from the valley of the Shenandoah—a reverse the full consequences of which we have as yet toappreciate. It is probably not the only one that our arms are destined to sus- tain from the trattorous course pursued by the Tribune and the faction of which it is the or- gan. Tas CommanpeR o THE FReNcH STEAMER Mrian.—Some of the petty newspapers of this city are still indulging in vulgar and insulting attacks on Commander Cloue, in consequence of a protest which he never wrote, and which has been repeatedly denied, to the knowledge of those editors. These men, who can boast as little of good breeding in their treatment of gentlemen as of ability in their editorial pro- fession, cannot be expected to use language and adopt manners foreign to their natures or characters. Commander Cloue may rest as- sured that persons of this class possess no influence or weight of any kind among the educated and intelligent classes of our Empire City or any part of the continent of America, where none have a greater claim to kind and generous treatment than the brave and cbival- rous compatriots of the Commander of the Milan. 5 AN OVERHAULING oF THE Press.—The Presi- dent has, we see, appointed a military tribunal for the trial of those newspaper editors and correspondents who have been aiding the strategic movements of the rebels by violating the government regulations in regard to the press. The investigation promises to be a very fanny and interesting one. We are curious to know who will be arraigned first. If there is one class of delinquents more than another that is entitled to precedence it is the corres- pondents of the St. Louis, Cincinnati and Chi- cago journals. They have done more than all the rest of the newspaper confraternity put to- gether to keep the enemy enlightcned as to the movements of our troops and to thwart and defeat in every way possible General Hal- leck’s plans. Avorger Frvancrer Mave Immorrat.—tIt is now ramoreq that the illegal isane of Indiana State bonds amounted to about two millions of dollars. Thus Senor Stover, the last State Agent of Indiana, takes a niche in the gallery of immortals alongside of Schuyler, Redpath, Swartout and Floyd. But who are the two Wall street brokers who are implicated in the affair, and will stand beside Scnor Stover in the temple of financial fame? Gregtey’s Last New Ipea—Poor crazy Greeley has a new idea about making anti- slavery partisans. He intimates that every de- feat of the Union troops increases the number of the abolitionists. No doubt of it. The only question is, whom will partisans, thus made, abolish first? Gruerer’s Niccer BrioapE.—Why did not Greeley’s famous nigger brigade march on to Washington during the recent alarm? Is luxu- tious ease to be preferred to the safety of our national capital? Where is Greeley’s patriotism, if his brigade won’t move? Wureuiere Patriotisu.—See the last two pro- clamations of the mighty Governor Andrew, of Massachusetts. Acavemy or Music.—Herrmann’s entertainment im aid of the Societe de Bienfaisance eame off at this house last night. It was @ very successful affair, great exer- tions having been made by the patrons and friends of the society to dispose of as many tickets as possible. Mr. Herrmann was very warmly received, this being his first appearance here since his retarn from his Western tour, The feats performed by him during the evening did not differ materially from those exhibited by him on ‘Somewf them were old acquaintances only in the mode of ere so ingen ‘the audience in a contin ry . The sum realized by the peorformaace must have been very cousiderable. Sicyon Arpavam’s Beverit—A concert for the benefit of the popular baritone, Ardavani, will take place at Niblo’s on Thursday evening, June 5. Miss Patti, Signor Sbriglia, Madame Hermann, and others, have offered their services; so that the affair cannot fall to be attractive. fies ne ase Qeorma Inerrura—Mr, Rarey gave the sees o> 4 Lygg taming exbibitions at this establishment last evening. There was « good attehdanée. from Chari oO OUR BLOCKADING FEET OF? OHARLES* TON. The Charleston Cowrier of the 18th instant notices the arrival in that city of Mr. M. B. Hasloop, a passenger on board the schooner Mary Theres, of Charleston harbor, He was sent ashore under a flag of truce. He re that the schooner Mary Thoresa left Nas- sau with @ valanble assorted cargo about the 2d inst., of harbor OPERATION! i z : i i ge Pp was det: and says that eight days, greater posible kindness, perly, still romaining in that city, deeming. it right to Siar tassutined wevnesiouiers The Fort Lafayette Prisoners. DISCHARGE BY ORDER OF THE SECRETARY OF THE NAVY OF FOREIGNERS CAPTURED ON BOARD THE 1LA WARLBY, NOT CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES. L. 8. tBtienowich, second officer, Austria, residence at sea. Dominic Sbaskie, seaman, Austria, residence at sea. Joseph Michael, seaman, Austria, residence at sea. Chas. Ludowich, seaman, Trieste, residence at Trieste. _ Matthew, seaman, Dalmatia, residence at Dal- moat Joseph Martinez, seaman, Dalmatia, residence at Dal- mation Samuel Frow, carpenter, New Brunswick, residence at sea. David Ferguson, Second Assistant Engineer, Scotland, residence at sea, John O'Rourke, Third Assistant Engincer, Ireland, residence at sea. John Heeney, fireman, Ireland, residence at sea. yy, fireman, |. Teside an, Ireland, residence at soa, Andrew Harris, fireman, Ireland, residence at sea. Jumes Flynn, fireman, Ireland, residence at Nassau. John Meagher, fireman, ireland, residence at New William Johnson , fireman, Liverpool, residence at soa, James Martin, fireman, Ireland, rosidence at sem. Matthew Halloran, fireman, Ireland, residence at Naseau. Stanists Pons, fireman, Paroelona, residence at sea, James Casey, fireman, Ireland, residence at sea. Joeeph Alphonse, steward, Marseilles, resiience at (Marleaton. Francisco Romano, first oook, Stet Joseph Lappardo, second cook, Palermo. John Redmond. porter, Iroland, residence at Nassau, » Fosidence at gon, mw, residence at NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. ‘Wasmcron, May 80,1862. THE DEBATS IN THE SENATE ON THE TAX BILL, BTC A little discussion in the Senateduring the morning hour showed the drift of certain Senators. Mr. Fesseo den wanted speedy action on the Tax bill, in accordance with the desire of the country, He was pearly worn out with labor, night and day, upon the details of the bill which has been maturely cousidered by committees of the two branches of Congress, who bave been in contin ual communication with Secretary Chase. ‘the bill is thus pronounced a good measure. Mr. Sumner this Morning opposed speedy action, saying that the scheme of Mr. Simmons and that of Mr. McDougal required mature consideration, Mr. Trumbull chimed a Mr. Sumner, the object of both being to stay end agitate the slavery question and dra goon the Executive. These Senators said they were opposed to tedious sittings of the Senate, but they are willing to sit out confiscation and emancipation bis. Mr. Sumner shows by his action on the Excise bill that be has less sympathy for white men thar for negroes. He is for relieving New England manufac turing monopolists of @ tax upon cotton that would amount to several millions of dollars yearly. He is also for any meagures that take off the burden of supperting the war from men of property and puts its upon labor. Mr. Simmons, of Rhode Island, who bad much to do in fastening the present protective bill upon agricultural industry, is now working to get the manufacturing interest exempted from its just share of taxation. He stated yesterday that the tariff would bring ina hundred millions of dollars yearly; but there is not @ man in the Treasury Department, from Secretary Chase down through all the officials experienced on this subject, who will say that the Customs will yield fifty millions yearly, There is not one who will agree that there is a Prospect that the national budget will be early reduced toa hundred millions a year, as estimated by Mr. Sim mons. Nor do thoy agree with him that the national debt can bo paid off in ten years. Thore was ashort and sharp debate this morning in the Senate on the bill to grant lands to States for the purpose of; founding agricultural colleges. The members from the Wost, that have public land: in abundance within their limits oppose the setting aside of considerable portions of ther for disposal by State permits as they may see fit, but desire that lands stall be immediately occupied anc cultivated by settlors. Jim Lane said that the adminis: tration of Mr. Buchanan offered Kansas five mi'lion: acres of land if they would abide by the Lecomptor swindle; but he had promised the people of Kansas bet ter things at the hands of the republican party. This idea brought out Mr. Clarke,of New Hampshire, ina forious interpolation that the republican party was ac- tuated by high principle, &c. ‘There are not wanting indications that the dominecring of Wade, Sumuer & Co, is creating an ill feeling toward them in the Senate. The Tax bill lobby is increasing. If the bill should, as it probably will, go to a conference committee, the com mittee will be besieged by an army of agents of every interest affected by the bill. Thoy aro patriots all, and want to raise # sufficient revenue, but each one is anxious that the others shall pay it. The greatest diMoulty expertenced is in so arranging the tax as to make a due proportion of it fall upon the Southern States—this can best be done by a per capila taxon slaves; but that would be a recognition of the institution which cannot be tolerated. Thus at every stop in legislation the irrepressible contrahand shows his wool and opposes a barrier to practical and wholo- some law making. He has beon a greator bother to the radicals duriag the last few weeka than ever beforo. Many of them are already weary of trying to manage him. COMMODORE FARRAGUT'S EXPEDITION UP THE MIS- sIssivrr. ‘Some anxiety is felt concerning Captain Farragut’s ex pedition up the Mississippi, on account of tho iron-clad rebel vessels that he may have to encounter. They dic our partially iron-clad gunboats much damage in the fight above Fort Pillow; but in operating agalnst Farragut they will have to come ‘bows on.’? This exposes them to being turned around by the curreut, which destroys nffich of their effectivencss. It was this that caused them to work ao badiz below Now Orleans, THE STRATEGY OF THE REBELS. Army news is the only thing asked or looked for here to-day. The feverishuess occasioned by the first intelli- gonee of the raid of the rebel guerilla Jackson upon Winchester has passed away, and the public pulse beats regularly with confidence that Jackson’s force lins fallen into a trap and cannot return up the Shenandoah. The intelligence of tho evacuation of Corinth-has not, how- ever, produced much excitement. It had been preceded by the predictions of secessionists that the body of the rebel army at Corinth was hastening to Richmond, where the whole rebel force is to be consolidated for one grand effort to break the Union lines, and bogin Jeff. Davis’ promised offensive war upon the loyal States, It appears from the accounts received from secession sympathizers that Maryland is thespecial aversion of the rebel leaders, and their great desire now 1s to be able to transfer their army into Maryland, and make it the scene of their last struggle. Unfortunately for all their calculations, General McCleilan’s phalanxes hem them in at Richmond. His foresight has completely precluded their advance into the valley of Virginia, and they will be compelled to make their partially abandone! capital the last ditch. There is a deep policy in thus massing the whole rebel force for the last final catas- trophe. It will at least give dignity to the death struggle of the rebellion. Tho President hag taken recently no more active part in the conduct of military operations than ho has taken ever sinceGeneral McClellan assumed the particular command of the Army of the Potomac. Fis vigilance is sleepless. His strong practical sense enadles‘him to appreciate the advantages or disadvan. tagos of every movement proposed, and if his orders were strictly obeyed and executed there would benothing to regret in the conduct of the war. MORE PRIZES. On the 12th inst. the United States steamer Fintteras captured the rebel steamer Gey. A. Moutan on Berwick dav, hound there from Sabine Pass, She wag Joaded with Confederate government provisions, Algo, on the 1s fnst., tho rebel sehooner Magnolia, while attempting to leave Berwick bay, Sh¢ was loaded with cotton and turpentine—262 bates of the formé?. On the 6th inst. the same United States steamer chased on shore the rebe! steamer Fashion, also loaded with cotton and turpentine, ‘She was there firod by hor own crew. THB SLAVE TRADE. The Secretary of the Interior responds to a reso- jution of the Senate for information relative to persons who have been arrested in the Southern District. of New York, from the first of May, 1852, to the first of May, 1862, charged with being engaged in the slave trade, with the names and number of veesels arrested and bonded charged with being en- gaged in that traffic. Forty-one porsons are namod. none of whom were convicted or their bonds forfeited, which ranged from $260 to $20,000. In some cases they “| were tried and soquitted. One or two oscaped, but moat of the cases are marked, “‘Tond not forfeited; complaint dismissed."’ The number of vessels is forty-six. THE TARIVE BILL. ‘The Commitsee of Waye and Means will net complete. ly frame their Tariff bill until that for laying internal tanes shal! bave been (isponed of, as the policy to By on foreign products the same rates as those on domestic articles of similar character. DEATHS OF SOLDIERS IN HOSPITAL. ‘Tho following deaths of soldiers in hospital bere are reported:— 0. C, Pairbrother, Co. B, Twenty-ninth Ubio. 8, Woodruff, Co. A, Sixty-seeond Ohio. Moses Jones, Co. A, Niath New York cavalry. E. Winslow, Co, H, Thirteenth Massachusotia, DO ¢o. G, Nineteenth Massachusette, |. K. White, Co. A, Fifth New Jersey. KS Levett, Co. D, First Maino cavalry. J. B, Johnston, Co. D, Eleventh Pennsylvania. John Jobnson, Co, D, 109th Pennsylvania, APPOINTMENT OF A COMMISSIONER UNDER THE EMANCIPATION ACT. John M. Brodhead, of the District of Columbia, has ‘peen appointed by the President one of the Commission- ere.under the act for the emancipation of slaves in the District of Golumbia, tn place of Mr. Vinton, deceased. ACTION OF THE CIRCUIT COURT ON THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. ‘The Circuit Court to-day formally refused a writ of ha- eas corpus for the discharge of an alleged fugitive slave. Subscriptions of money are being pledged to employ emi- nent counsel to test the legality of the application of the Fugitive Slave law to the District of Columbia before the Supreme Court of the United States. The claimant of the formals slave recently arrested from Marshal Lamon by the military authorities is about entering s suit against im for the recovery of the value of the woman, Se RHIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS, ‘ VinsT SESSION. Senate. Wasmworos, May 80, 1862. Mr. Cuarx, (rep.) of N. H., presented » petition ef James F. Simmons, asking indemnification for am ale leged seizure of a veasel and cargo. Mr. Wiison, (rep.) of Mass., presented the petition of Eliza Diggs, a female slave, who is owned in the Distrio® of Columbia, but hired out in Maryland, and her owner has not placed her name in the List of those to be emane cipated under the act, REORGANIZATION OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL'S DEPARTHRST, Mr. Wusom, from the Military Committee, reported back the bill for the botter organization of the Adjutant General's Department. GRNESAL HOOKxR’s REPORT OF THE BATTLE OF WILLLAMD + BURG. Mr. Tax Evox, (rep.) of N. J., offered @ resolution thas the Secretary of War communicate to the Senate a copy of the official report of General Hooker, relating to the recent battle at Williamsburg. { LAND DONATION FOR ANTIQUARIAN BOCTETIBG, Also @ resolution that the Committee on Public Lan4@ inquire into the expediency of donating lands for the be» efit of antiquarian societies. IMPRISONMENT OF SOLDIERS If THR DITTRICT FENBTENTIARY? Mr. Wiaon offered @ resolution that the Secre tary of the Interior communicate to the Senate a copy of the correspondence with the War Department on thé subject of the imprisonment of soldiers in the penitene tiary of the District, and also a copy of the opinion of the Attorney Genoral on the subject. Me said he understood there were seventy or eighty suidiers imprisoned in the penitentiary here. TUR EVACUATION OF CORUITH, Mr. Sneruan, (rop.) of Ohio, sent to the Clerk's dest pores despatch concerning the evacuation of Co» rint TSE AGPICULTURAL COLLEGE BILL. The Dill donating lands for the benefit of agricultural colleges, &c., was taken up and discussed till one’o’c.ock, when the Tax bill was taken up. Mr. Ctanx, (rop.) of N, H.,sucgested that they should ry (0 Sian the Tax Vili this'wecke TRUMKULL, (rep.) of Iil., did not see any necessity for extraordinary baste on the Tax bill. Congress wap ot bound to adjourn at soy particular time, and he did aot think that Congress ought to adjourn in the pres:nt condition of things, and leave the post of duty. He was opposed to any pushing the bill through by night seesiona, Mr. Sumvex, (rep.) of Mass., was also opposed to any anste. Thore were very important principles to be considered. Mr. Drxox, ree), of Conn., spoke in favor of early action on the Tax bill. Congress bad been in session siz months, and during the whole period the people had eon demanding a tax bill. Why delay it lenger than is requisite for wise and considerate actiont As to the new cessity of Congress remaining in session he beiieved that if the pubiic business was properly finished the ment of Congress would be a ridief to the country, Snamoxs, (rcp.) of R. T., moved to amend the tax om whiskey so as to make it twenty five cents until the lat of January, 1863, and after that thirty-flve cents a gilons Mr. SHERMAN Opposed the amendinent as being too high a tax on one article, and would operate injuriously on the agricultural inter... Mr. Harari, (rep.) of N. Y., said he had some dificulty to know how to vote,, His people were willing and anxious to have a proper tax bill. He had heard various stories about the great debt of the country and never bo- lieved them. He had made some inquiries, and found that the whole debt of the country at the lstof July would not vary $5,000,000 from what the Treasurer estimated, which was $517,000,000. He had also heard a great deab about a great debt to the army, but found on inquiry that the army had been paid up to the Ist of the preseat month. " The money is in the hands of the pa; Mr. FEsskxpEN, (rep.) of Me., said at ythe oxtra session and this session we had appropriated $535,000,000 and over, and last March we made the regular appugpriation, not less than $65,000,000, and the debt was then $120,- 000,000. He thought, taking all the odds and ends, the debt at the 1st of July would be about $720,000,000. ". said he would assume that expenditures would go on, and the debt become $1,000,000,000. ‘That was certainly enough to satisfy anybody. He thought this bill was ¢alcul to raise more than was actually needed to pay the current expenses of tho government and the interest on the debt onda emall sinking fund, He was willing to vote every dollar that was necessary, enh pe moead aaa to the already heavy load on people. ‘Yhe discussion was continued by Messrs. Cnaxpiam and MoDovaat, the latter speakfhg at length upon the merits of the bill, and contending for the superlorjty the substitute propésed by him as ratainy a rest reveuue, and taxing only those things which are legiti- mate subjects of taxation, while the bill from the House preposed to lay @ tax on everything which should cncouraged and advanced, and not loaded with tax or, and by agreat mass of machinery, and detail rative. itself practically useless and in Mr. Tremcvi, moved (lessre. Browning, Harris, King, § Trumbujl, Wage, Wilmot) 8; nays 28. Mr. Sntwons’ amendment was then rejected. Yeas 15; nays 21, jar. Cuaxprmn, (rep.) of Mich , moved to adjourn. On a yote being taken no quortim was present. Mr. Foore, (rep.) of Vt., moved that the Sergean' Arma be directed to notify the absent mombers t! their presence was required to perform public business, Fro ne hoped not. He thought nothing would gained. ‘Tne Senate then adjourned. New York State Militia. ‘This company, which remained behind to recruit te the full regulation standard, will proceed to the seat of war to-day to join their comrades, as will be seen by the following order:— COMPANY ORDER—XO. 3. Twaetr-Seconp Reciuent N.Y. S. M. went, Members of this company are directed to re] atthe ree gimental armory, corner of Seventh street and Hall place, af one o'clock precisely. ‘Uniforms and a will then be furnished, A few recruits of the same class as compose the will also be reccived. Keeruits for other companies are likewise requested to re port, as transportation will be furniabed. By order of Captain ASA B. GARDNER, Guerilias to be Shot on Sight. A NAPOLEONIC ORDER. thej armies of the insurgents, and other disa! disloyal personsyare, throughout this military district, organizing bands to act during the ensuing seagon as gu- erilias and banditti. It is intended to resort to the mos eG supreme see Satews and to this en ined upon all commands, scouting parties, officers and soldiers, whien these outlaws are dotected im bushwhacking, marauding or committing other cepredae tions, a8 guerillas or bandits, the peaceable inhabi- tants of the country, to shoot them when found. All able bodied men in the vicinity whore acts of mur- der, marauding, robbery or larceny, shall be committed by guorillas or bandits, are required to make immediate pursuit, and render all assistance in thoir powor to se cure the destruction or capture of the criminals. a «+~ hn are kKDOWD sobave her Cap foot Ty teers no at tot such assistance with the rebels, and wno ... * Will be arrested, and the facts rep, 6 hese head- quarters for final disposition. Murderers, robbera and thieves have become so nu- merous on the border, and fo bold and daring in the com- mission of crime, that it is utterly impossible for the civil tribuoais to punish the perpetrators of crime witt sufficient promptness and severity to deter them from committing further outrages, and to furnish protection to the citizens. Hereafter the perpetrators of such crimps when arrest- e4 will be tried and punished at the discretion of a mill tary commission. By order of ler General LOAN, Jaume Rarvaronrn, Assistant Adjutant General. The Weather at Cape Race. Sr. Jonvs, N. F., May 29, 1808, Weather very fine here now, but thick at Cape Reee up to three P.M. It was very dusky last night, and por thing wag seen of the Edinburg, bound east, Sr. Jonxs, May 30—A. M. Blowing « gale from west. Weather clear. ‘The Niagara Outward Bound. Haurax, May 30, 1862. ‘The Cunard steamship Niagara sailed at cleven a. M. to-day for Liverpool. aper. The State per. ALUANY, May 98, 186%. Two of the three State officers, authorized by law te desi the State to have made a contract wits the Journal. Comptroller Robinson denies the legality of the contract and refuses to recoghiae it, Fire in Chicago. Curcaco, May 36, 1862. fire last night in the Wost Division destroyed the it of Me Walker, Washburne & Co., also fi Stocks strong. Pennsylvania 6's, 83. road, vi , 88; 24%; Morris Cabal, thi: Lane ila Ralrond 8; Peun- eyivania Railroad, 4134. Sight exchange on New York ‘at par a 1-10 per cent premium, . & B4e., white 176: “tard a8 cee Flour quiet and steady. Wheat mand: loa * @ 36 for old an si for yellow «lo. Oata quiet. Bar’ Cancl treights, Arm at 12340. y+ d Say won oora, Canal freighte firm , . ta New ‘York, Tmporte—42,000 bb's. flour, 19,008 posbeld wheat, 6,000 bushels barley. Rx] rWlay flour, 107,000 bushels wheat. 64.500 hywbelacarm.: