The New York Herald Newspaper, June 9, 1862, Page 4

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General McClellan has furntshed to the War De- partment a statement of the killed, wounded and missing at the battle of Fair Oaks, which he esti- mates in the aggregate at 5,739, which were divid- @d among the different corps engaged, as follows : Killed, Wounded. Missing. «183 804 146 980 155 1788 921 ‘Total.. ++ 890 8,627 627 1222 Everything was quiet in front of Richmond yesterday, except an occasional cannonading upon our troops engaged in constructing bridges, which, however, did not retard their operations. Despatches from Flag Officer Dupont yesterday G@tate that the gunboats have possession of Stono, wear Charleston. Letters from the Gulf announce the capture of the schooner Newcastle by the brig Bainbridge, nd the schooner Jane by the steamer R. R. Guyer. The particulars of the capture of Memphis were received in Washington yesterday from Commo- dore Davis, in which he states that a battle took place between,his fleet, aided by Colonel Ellett’s Bam flotilla, and the rebel fleet of eight gunboats mnd rams. The engagement commenced at half- past five on the morning of the 6th instant, and ended at seven, in a running fight, the end of which ‘was the capture of four vessels of the rebel fleet, the sinking of two and the burning of one. One escaped by superior speed. Colonel Ellett, who is seriously but not dangerously wounded, is highly complimented for his gallantry and skill. Memphis was surren- dered by the Mayor immediately after the en- Bagement, and was placed under military autho- rity. - despatch from Mobile to the Petersburg Exz- press states that the Union fleet has passed the Jower batteries on the river and attacked Fort Morgan. The Union meeting announced to be held in Shel- byville, Tennessee, has come off. Three thousand people were present, and the Union sentiment ‘was strongly manifested. Governor Johnson, Col. May andJ. L. Scudder addressed the meeting, the latter gentleman having been # prominent seces- sionist previously, and an official under the rebel Governor, Harris. An extra was published by one of the city pa- pers yesterday afternoon, containing news from Front Royal, Va., dated June 4, and relating the story of a spirited contest conducted by Colone! Bayard, a cavalry officer attached to Genera McDowell's command. The action, which was re- ally a brilliant and important one, occurred in Gen. Bank's department, to which a portion of McDow- ell’s and Fremont’s troops are now attached, for strategic purposes. It happens, however, that the principal points of the news of which so tanch was made in the extra referred to were pub- lished in the Heratp on Thursday last, the 5th inst. We give to-day some later news from that part of the Department of the Shenandoah in ‘which General Shields is operating. A scouting party visited New Market, via Columbian Bridge, and discovered that the rebel General Jackson, at the head of five thonsand men, had retreated thence three days since. It is supposed that the rest of his army had scattered; but they may be far from routed if they are not closely watched nd followed up. During the chase the enemy's ‘wagons, prisoners and supplies had been captured by our forces. We have in type the official reports of Generals Banks and Saxton describing the retreat of their forces from Front Royal, Va.—a temporary disas- ter which has since been gloriously retrived—but ‘want of space compels us to defer their publica- tion until to-morrow. We call the particular attention of our readers fo-day to the important rebel correspondence Bddressed by Judge Rost, from Madrid, Bnd Captain Hose, from Liverpool, to Mr. BR. M. T. Hunter, concerning the prospects of tthe would-be Southern confederacy in Europe. hese letters fell, by some accident—it matters ot how—into the hands of the State Department iat Woshington, instead of reaching their destina- ion at Richmond. Their contents will doubtless Be pernsed with mach interest, as they show the plans, the hopes and the calculations of the rebel semissaries in ®urope, which recent events prove tobeve been utterly discomfitted in every par- ticular. The news by the North American is unimportant as regards the aspect of the American question in Europe. A member of the English House of Commons had given notice of a motion for an inquiry into “* the relations between England and the federals and Confederates.” The London News takes much comfort for the Exeter Hall abolitionists from the operations of the Union army in New Orleans and near Corinth, while a wbel sympathizer, writing in the London Times, finds great comfort in specu- lating upon a victory from the strategic plans and actions of the Southern leaders at Rich- mond. In afew weeks from this both journals may be enlightened considerably upon the ques- tions they so flippantly discourse about. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship North American, from London- derry the 30th of May, was boarded by our news agent off Cape Race on the 7th instant, on her voyage to Quebec. A telegraphic synopsis of her news—which is one day later—forwarded from St. Johns, Newfoundland, appeared in the Hxraup on Sunday morning, and the full details are given to-day. Consols closed in London, on the 30th of May, at 935% for money. American securities were steady. The Liverpool cotton market for the week had been irregular, but closed at an advance of one- fourth of a penny on American and one-eighth of apenny on Surat. The stock in hand was esti- mated at 313,000 bales. Flour had advanced six- pence a barrel, and breadstuifs were looking up- ward. Provisions remained dull. The most important feature of the news by the North American is the statement that the Austrian Cabinet had informed the Committee of Finance of the Empire that the government was engaged “in providing by diplomatic means for a settie- ment” of the Italian difficulty, and that the “questions at issue had reached a crisis,” and matters would be soon easier, and ‘‘a war in Italy averted for a long period.” The Count de Monte- bello had been appointed, it was said, commander of the French army in Rome. The family of the ex-King of Naples was about to leave Rome. The Grand Duke Constantine, of Russia, has been ap- pointed Viceroy of Poland. A letter from Killarney, Ireland, of the 23d of May, says:—Within the limits of the county of Kerry the rush to America is very much on the increase. On Wednesday morning the train from Killarney conveyed away a larger number than I remember leaving for a long time. The class of persons now leaving this part of the country, seeking for a home in a new world, is composed not entirely of farm servants, but of farmers, tradesmen, laborers and house servants, who cannot procure a decent living in the land of their birth. I have inquired into the causes of this increased emigration of farmers, and, from all I can learn, I have come to the conclusion that it is attributable to landlord extermination in the midland, northern and west- ern parts.of the country.”’ We have news from the South Pacific, dated at Valparaiso the 2d, Callao the 13th, and Guayaquil the 17thof May. A ministerial crisis had occur- red in Valparaiso, the chief members of the Chi- lean Cabinet having resigned. The President had not yet completed his appointments of a new mi- nistry. The indignation against the idea of Euro- pean interference—much less invasion—in the re- public was progressing and becoming more in- tense daily. Societies were being formed with the object of perfecting a union against the dread- ed aggression. An official report on the condition and yield of the mines of Chile was very satisfac- tory. Peru was quiet. The Presidential election had passed over in peace, but the result was not known. The action of the Peruvian Minister in London, in endeavoring to prevent the negotiation of a public loan in England, was highly disapprov- ed of. From Central America we learn that the Nica- raguan mines in the department of Chontales, and near Libertad, were attracting considerable atten- tion from American capitalists, particularly in Ca- lifornia. It is said that the mines are very rich, and that the aid of coal and machinery alone is required to render them profitable. The news from New Granada is dated at Pana- ma and Aspinwall on the 30th of May. The Gover- nor of Buenaventura had arrived on the Isthmus, on aspecial mission to the Governor of the State of Panama. General Arboledsa had cut off all communication with the Mosquera party in the interior of the State. So there is little to report. There was a small force in Buenaventura. The liberals had still the use of a fleet. The rainy season had commenced with great violence in Panama. Trade continued dull. Some official communications, exchanged between the govern- ment of the United States of Colombia and that of Keuador, were regarded as satisfactory, showing that both are anxions to reconstruct the old Union under more favorable circumstances. Mr. Vincent Colyer, late overseer of the poor in North Carolina, but who recently returned to this city, as his “occupation was gone” and his vocation had been stopped by Governor Stanly, delivered a very lengthy address on the condition of the contrabands and poor whites in that State last evening. The chapel next to St. Ceorge’s church, where the address was delivered, was crowded to excess, and hundreds went away from the doo unable to find entrance. Mr. Colyer made many interesting statements, some of which were loudly applauded. The Executive of Minnesota has revoked the commissions of all the secesh commissioners for that State in the State of Missouri. This ought to be a hint to some of the Governors of other States. It may be a piece of interesting information to many of our soldiers who are daily parading the streets to read the fact that the government has given the army paymasters strict orders tO witthold the pay of officers or soldiers who are absent from their regiments on sick leave or fur" lough. The defiant resolutions passed by the rebel citi- zens of Memphis were carefully worded. The one wherein they declared their intention to hold on to the city reads as follows:— Resolved, That we will never yield while we can de- fend, and will never voluntarily surrender this city into the hands of the enemy. It is but justice to those brave men to suppose that they did not yield the city until they were forced to do so, and that they did not “volunta- rily”’ surrender it. ‘The stock market opened weak on Saturday morning, but rallied in the course of the day, and closed strong at anadyance. The money market was casy at 3a 4 per cent. Exchange closed firm at 114%; gold, 104. Tho usual tables of the trade of the week will be found in the money article. ‘The cotton market on Saturday, as sual on the last day of the week, waa loss buoyant, while prices wore without change of mo to hold off until the The transactions embraced abowt 600 bales, closing on the basis of 3le. a 31 e. per Ib. for middling uplands. ‘The flour market was steady, especially for common brands of State and Western, while medium grades wero dull, The bigher clacs of extra grades were firm, while sales wore made toa fair extent. Wheat was steady, os cially for prime qualities, though not quotably higher, while low and modium grades were irregular and lose active. Corn was firm, but saios were levs freely made, while prices were unchanged: ‘sales of now Wostorn mixed wore made at 460. a 48¢., and old do. at 600. a Bic. Rye was active and firm at 660. a 68¢. for Western, and at Tic, for State. Pork was easier, but active at the concession, with sales of mess at $11 26a $11 50, and prime at $9.8 $9 50. Su wore steady and prices un changed, while the saleg embraced about 860 bhds NEW YORK HERALD, chiefly Cuba. Coffeo was quiet but steady, while sales ‘were confined to small lots of Maracaibo, St. Domingo, Rio and Jamaioa. Freights were without change of mo- ment. Corn and wheat were engaged for Liverpool at 83d. a Od., in ship's bags, and flour at 2s. 134d. a 23. 3d., with a small lot reported at 2s. 44. To London flour was pretty freely taken at 2s. T3¢d. a 2s. 94. Capture of Memphis—The Approaching Consummation of the Campaign. The news which we publish this morning of the capture of Memphis is of a highly important character. Memphis, with its railroad, was the point on which the left wing of Beauregard’s army at Corinth rested for support, and which was supported in turn by his troops. In con- sequence of his flight the forts which protected it from above were abandoned without a strug- gle, and the rebel flotilla having been all cap- tured or sunk, except one fast sailing boat, Memphis had no option but to surrender, not- withstanding the recent gasconade of its rebel- lious citizens. Tho flag of the Union now waves over every point on the Mississippi, from its head waters near the Canadian frontier to its mouths in the Gulf of Mexico, with the single exception of Vicksburg, which comparatively has lit- tle strength to resist, and will speedi- ly surrender or be captured so soon as the descending flotilla appears bofore it, and meets the ascending squadron of Farragut. Its importance to the rebels consists in the fact of its being the last link by which their communication is maintained between the left and right bank of the Mississippi. On the op- posite or western side of the river is the ter- minus of the Texas Railroad, by which their Southwestern army derived a large portion of its supplies. But that last link will soon be severed, and the means of subsistence cut off from the already half-starved insurgents hem- med in on this side. No longer will there be even any escape for Jeff. Davis & Co. through Texas to Mexico. Thus will the bosom of the Father of Waters, closed by the rebellion, be immediately opened once more to the commerce of the world; and by this devoutly wished consummation one of the grand objects. of the war may be said to be already accomplished. One by one the strongholds of the rebels are captured or surrendered in the Southwest— Bowling Green, Fort Donelson, Nashville, Co- lumbus, New Madrid, Island No. 10, Corinth, Forts Wright, Kandolph and Pillow, New Or- leans, Baton Rouge and Memphis. And now we have news by way of Petersburg, Va., s0 late as the 4th of June, that Mobile was in im- minent danger, Fort Morgan having been already attacked by the Union gunboats. The surrender of that weak old fort is a foregone conclusion, and no doubt by this time the prin- cipal port of Alabama is ours. To crown all, Charleston is invested, attacks having been made by our fleet both at Stone and Sulli- van’s Islands, and the vessels being with- in six miles of the city, of whose capture we may hear at any moment. Savannah is destined soon to share the same fate, or to surrender like Norfolk; and Burn- side is not advancing further into North Caro- lina, only because, under her patriotic pro- visional Governor, there is a prospect of her speedy return to allegiance. Thus are the Gulf and the coast of the Southern Atlantic com- pletely in our power, as well as the waters and shores of the Mississippi. The centre of the Southern States, upon which the leaders of the insurrection depended, as their last desperate resource, is already successfully invaded by Mitchel, who has extended his operations as far as Chattanooga, driving the rebels before him. This is a naturally strong and central point, of great strategic importance. By our possession of it Knoxville and East Tennessee are threatened. A little further advance north- ward, and Cleveland, a point of railroad junc- tion, will be held by Mitchel’s enterprising divi- sion, and the communication between Rich- mond and the South will be completely cut off by way of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad; so that if Johnston's army is not already rein- forced from Beauregard’s by that route the game is blocked. Only the route throagh the Carolinas would remain open. How long it will be till even that is closed remains to be seen. ‘Thus on every side is the rebellion being crushed. At all its extremities it is paralyzed. Its heart still beats at Richmond; but after the next encounter it will forever cease. There the insurgents must fight one desperate battle or give up their cause at once. It is their last move on the chessboard, and they must make it or be checkmated. They will bring into ac- tion all their forces, and make their final stand at the rebel capital for weal or woe. Whipped there, they admit there is no redemption for their cause. The numerous battles they have already fought with McClellan’s army, each increasing in flerceness and magnitude, prove that they are prepared to give the decisive bat- tle before Richmond; for the mora) effect of its surrender would be death to their hopes at home and abroad. Their determination and the reason of it are well expressed by the Dispatch of that city in the following words:— “To surrender Kichmond would entail conse- quences that we fear to look at. They may be too disastrous to contemplate. It is too plain that the handing over of the metropolis to the enemy would bring upon us embarrassments so great that rather than place the State in such an exigency as that we should fight before Richmond as though all wore lost if we were defeated.” It must not be assumed that because the rebels abandoned Corinth they will in the same way give up Richmond without o terrible struggle. The army of Corinth defended New Orleans from invasion by the west; but, that city being captured by our fleet ascending from the Gulf, there was no longer any ade- quate object to risk # battle for against the well appointed and powerful army of Halleck. On the eontrary, Richmond was now in dangor, and Johnston’s army needed reinforcements against the steady advance of the legions of McClellan, before whom the rebel jiost has been compelled to retreat from point to point up the peninsula, till now it is held at bay before the very walls of the Confederate capital. That lost, their cause is lost, and the campaign won by the Union troops, Hence they will strain every nerve to save Rich- mond; and we have no doubt that, with the ex- ception of the reinforcements sent to Mubile and Charleston, a large portion of the demoral- ized army of Beauregard is now in @d around the doomed rebel capital. Every moment, therefore, may be now expected intel- ligence of the greatest and bloodiest battle ever fought on this continent-—a battle which is to decide the fate of the rebellion, restore to secu ‘ty the imperilled Union, and bring back pea): and prosperity to our distracted country gee Se MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1862. The Union Address to the People of Ten- mossee. The address to the people of Tennessee, is- sued by the committee of eight appointed at the recent Union meeting held in Nashville, published in yesterday’s Heraup, is well cal- culated to work out great good among the peo- ple and secure a more rapid development of the Union sentiment in that State. Its clear and concise statements of the facts connected with the rebellion, the deception of the leaders, their professions compared with their prac- tices, especially commend it to the care ful consideration, not only of the people of Tennessee, to whom it is specially ad- dressed, but to the citizens of every other Southern State who have been led into the maelstrom of secession. It is a document that will apply to every seceded State, and, if it could be laid before the entire South, would do as much towards restoring the Union as the victories of our armies. The address commences with a statement of the condition of the State before it was forced into the rebellion, its prosperity, power and influence, compared with its present deplora- ble condition, in the following language :— During the timo she claimed membership in the federal Union ee population iacreased more than fourfold. Her free schools, academigs, colleges and universities were multiplied in numbors and magnified in their benign in- fluences, Her manufactories grew in extent and ex- panded in their good effects. Her Lg was reward. ed. Her agriculture prospered and her commerce ex- tended Her orodit was respected and her arene honored; and, as the natural result of all these blessings, our people ‘were contented and happy. Such, say the committee, was the enviable condition of Tennessee before the rebellion, which they contrast with its condition after fourteen months’ reign of Jeff. Davis in the fol- lowing style :— Onr common school fund, for the edccation of our poor and helpless, has been abstracted and carried off by un- authorized and irresponsible persons beyond the contrel of the legitimate authorities of the State. or even their own control. The funds of our State Bank, our only, financial agent and place of safe keepin; = ed the money of the State, have been seized and carries he ci trol of mon at war against the government. “Our St: debt is increased by millions without a dollar consider tion. Our cfedit is dishonored and our currency ruined. Our commerce is cut off and our manufactories shut up. Our fences are destroyed, bridges burned, private pro- perty taken and crops consumed, uncer the plea of mili- tary necessity. Our folds are uncultivated’and the hand of industry is still. Our Governor, Secretary of State. Comptroller and Treasurer, with the public records of the State, are missing. Our courts are suspended and we are without a regu'ar government. Added to all this, mi- litary edicts have heen issucd, calling upon the people to burn the products of their own hard earnings. Having drawn this contrast, the address goes on to show that secession is the work of thirty years’ preparation, and exhibits the fraudulent appliances made to bring it about, and that, through the mockery of a vote of separation forced upon an unwilling people, desolation has been brought upon the State. In their regular order the committee take up the plea of the Southern leaders at the outset— that there would be a peaceable secession, that the North would not fight, her people were cowards, and that foreign nations would recognize and assist the South. Peace- able secession they prove from history as being impossible. In answer to the assertion that the North would not fight, they refer to the batile fields of Yorktown, Roanoke Island, Fort Donelson, Pea Ridge, New Orleans and Corinth as proof to the con- trary, and that the plea of foreign interference was only a delusion got up to deceive the masses, when the leaders knew there was no prospect of auything of the kind. The credit and flourishing condition of the United States government, with its finances in better condi- tion than before the commencement of the re- bellion, are dwelt upon at much length, and its resources shown to be endless and its power daily and hourly increasing. Then comes the refutation of the cry of “beauty and booty,” so often used by Beauregard to incense the army, as follows:— From fifty to seventy-five thousand federal troops Lavo passed through our State, and you have seon no motto of ‘beauty ani! booty”? upon any banuer borne by them ; nor have you heard any such word as subjuga- tion of the South or freedom to the slaves. It fs utterly untrue that any such demenstrations have been made by any division of the United States army by authority of the government. That the war is waged for the destruction of the peculiar institution of the South they conclusively show to be false from the mes- sages of the President and the action of our military authorities, and that the small band of raving fanatics of the North do not represent the government. Thus we might go on quoting from this document, and continue to give its thorough refutation of the accusations made by the leaders of the rebellion against the North, the utter disregard by the managing spirits in the so-called Southern confederacy of all State rights and professions made at the com- mencement of the rebellion. A true and loyal spire pervades it from first to last, and its wholesome truths and common sense argu- ments cannot fail to have a telling effect upon all who read it, and lead to a general convic- tion among those who have been led off by the will-o’-wisp delusion of peace, happiness and prosperity, under the reign of Jeff. Davis & Co., that their only hope rests in their return to loyalty to the Union. As the history of one seceded State is the history of all, this docu- ment will apply to the other States, and should be promulgated to the people whenever an opportunity is offered. Ove Exrorts to Evrore.—The shipments of breadstufls continue exceedingly large, the enormous amount of one million four hundred aud thirteen thousand four handred and eighty- four bushels of grain, and thirty-five thousand four hundred and thirty-two barrels of flour having left this port for Europe since Monday last, nearly the whole of which went to Great Britain. Those figures approach very closely to the almost fabulous shipments of last fall, when our exports of grain were larger, by far, than at any former period in our history. And as they are continually on the increase, it is pro- bable that even these figures may be exceeded in supplying the extraordinary demands for the staff of life from the other side of the water. With a war raging within our borders sur- passing in immensity and wickedness anything the world ever saw, by which more than three- quarters of a million of our men, the bone and sinew of the grain producing States, have be- come consumers and non-producers, we yot ean farnish another half million of volunteers, if necessary, to put down the rebellion, and still have men enough to cultivate our lunds and supply ourselves and the demands of our transatlantic neighbors with bread. ‘The immense territories of the West still un- developed by the husbandman, and which only await his hand to make them teem with the rich harvests of golden grain, are not yet needed for our support or to aid us in furnishing subsidt ence to hungry Europe. More independent and more self-reliant than any other nation on the face of the globe, with resources beyond those of any land ever dreamed of by the in- habitants of the Old World, we can feed our enemies, fight our own battles, and the qv°s- tion need not be asked whether or not we will see that the constitution is upheld, our laws enforced and the government sustained. Geverat MoCLELLAN AND THE SECESSION AND Apotition Prxss.—The operations of Gen. Me- Clellan, it seems, are as distasteful to the secession press as to the abolition journals. Both dislike his ways for the same reason— his sure and steady progress in the work of crushing the rebellion and restoring the Union. The Tribune has never ceased to assail him for the slowness of his movements. That journal has now cordial allies in the Richmond papers, who, strange to say, make the same complaint. They fear Richmond will not be captured soon enough, and say they prefer the short and sharp process of the guillotine to the slow tor- ture of death by the rope. The Dispatch of May 23 says:—‘We regard McClellan, with his slow, tortoise-like movements, as equal to an army of fifty thousand well equipped soldiers on the Southern side.” Perhaps he will be sooner in Richmond than the Dispatch will want him. The truth is that the rebel journal- ists are appalled at the anaconda slowly but surely encircling them in its coils. The fable of the tortoise and the hare, no doubt, occurred to the Dispatch. The hare was great at run- ning, like Johnston, but lay down to sleep at last; the tortoise, slow and sure, won the race; and so will McClellan. Heuce the rebel and Jacobin pregs fear and hate the leader of the Army of the Potomac. Sovrnern Ports Orenep.—The President, by proclamation, has opened to the trade of the world the ports of Beaufort, North Carolina; Port Royal, South Carolina, and New Orleans, Congress now intends making Brunswick, Ga., the port of entry for the Brunswick district, as follows:— Be it enacted by the Sonate and House of Representa- tives of the United States of America, in Congress assem bled, That from and after tho first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, the port of entry for tho district of Brunswick, “Georgia, shall be Brunswick, and tha! Darien shall be abolished as the port of entry. ‘And. be it further enacted, That there shall ben deputy collector appointed, according to law, to roside at Darien, aud to exorcise such powers as the Secretary of the Treasury, undor the revenue laws, may prescribe. Darien has heretofore been the port of en- try for that district; but owing to the strong secession proclivities of its inhabitants it will be abolished as a port of entry. and Bruns- wick, with its magnificent harbor, substituted for it. The custom house for that district will now be established at Brunswick. This opens to the commerce of the world four Southern ports, and we shall soon, no doubt, add to these the ports of Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, and other important points on the Southern coast. LATEST FROM THE PENINSULA. Arangv. eae June 8, 1862. ‘The rebels opened with artillery yesterday afternoon on the pickets of General Sumner, they having ad- vanced to a new position. No harm was done, and the firing soon ceased. A Richmond paper of Friday has been received. It gives mo details of the late battle. They claim,as usual, & obrilliant victory. It states that the federals were driven into the Chickahominy and White Oak Swamp; that Gencral Mo‘ lollan had sent flags of truce, asking permission to bury his dead, both of which wore false. It givon the loss in one regiment at one hundrod and forty killed and wounded, evidently showiug that thoy considered it to their interest to dis- close tho nows of their dofeat to the public by dogrees, thus preventing a panic. Genoral Prim and staff, of Spain, arrived to-day, and paid their respects to General McClel!an. ‘Three deserters, who arrived to-day from Richmond, stato that there was great excitement in that city for foar that the Jamos river would rise sufficiently to atlow our gunboats to pass over the obstructions. The excite- ment was #0 gréat that many of the citizens were leav- ing. They confirm the wounding of Goneral Johnson. ‘This being Sunday everything is quiet. INTERESTING FROM TENNESSEE. Another Great Union Meoti Progress of the Union Sentiment. SHELBYVILLE, Tenn., June 7, 1862. ‘The great Union mootmg has boon held here. There were three thousand presout,a large number of whom were ladies. Governor Johnson, Colonel May and J. L. Seudder were the speakers. The latter was the former Inspector of Guns under the rebel Governor Harris. He has renounced secessionism. Thus the ball rolls on. Six hundred of Stearn’s rebel cavalry attacked sixty scouts of Lister's Third Minnesota, while breakfasting near Reading, twelre miles from Murfreesboro’, killing six and capturing all the rest but five. The scouts be- longed to Wynkoop’s cavalry. An attack on Murfroesboro’ is expected, and forces de- spatched. The course of the Vallandigham clique excites great in- dignation among Tennesece loyalists, NEWS FROM GEN. BANKS’ COLUMN. The Retreat of Jackson. Froyt Rorat, Va., June &, 1862, News from Genoral Shields’ division states that a scouting party crossed the rivor at Columbian Bridge and went to Now Market. They found that Jackson hal retreated through thero three days ago. His army had been reduced to about five thousand mon, the remaindor having scattered through the mountains tc save them- selves. General Fremont's army had followed thom all the way, capturing wagons, prisoners and supplies. From General Shicld#’ Division. Frone Rorar, Va., June 7, 1862. Some excitement was occasioned last ovening by a re- port that a foraging party were fired upon by some rebel cavalry some six miles out of this town. A report alse stated that some rebel troops wore encamped | stweon two hills eight or nine miles distant. A body of infantry and cavalry wore started this morning to soe if they could find them; but no signs of the enemy were dis. coverod. Three men were drowned in attempting to cross the Shenandoah last night, named John Brown, Sergeant iv Company A, Twelfth Mass.chusetts regiment; Sergeant Fulier, Company C, Thirteenth Magsachuetts, and ths other, name unknown, belonged to the Ninety-sighth New York. A doat with fiftoon men was carried away, but went ashore sume two miles below; all saved. IMPORTANT FROM NEW MEXICO. Kavsas Crrv, June 7, 1862. ‘The Santa Fe mail, with dates to the 26th ult., has arrived. The Texans had reached Mesilla with five pisces of artillery and seven wagons. It is said after stopping at Fort Fillmore to recruit tneir exhausted onergios, they will continne their homeward bound Sibley is reported to be at Fort Biisa, ce of his command, taking care of i Captain Crayton, who followed the trail of the @nomy’s retreat, reports that 1t bears evidence of sufter- ing and destitution from one end to the other, Some rermaing of men bad beew found which had not been in. terred, while othors partially interred had been ex. bumed by wolves and the flesh devoured, The ruins of wagons, ambulances, caissons and abun- dance of clothing and arms, carcasses of mules and hoses marked the lino of their retreat. Great discontont provailod among the people of the Territory, owing vo the partial disbanding of the yolantoers. Fort Craig advives vo the 24th state that, early on the morning of the 23d, Captain Tilford, who was stationed with thirty ow forty mon on theonst wide of the Rio Grande, seven miles below Fort Craig, received a summons to surrender from a band of 200 fox to be straggling bands of guerillas of mined. Tie refused to do #0, and imme le and 5 foucht three hours, when he retreated to Fort Craig, with @ loss of throe wounded. ‘Three of his mon were drowned while crossing the rivor, The Téxans’ loss is not known, Two cvinpauion of Colrado volunteers wore immediately eeut in pursuit of the Texans, DAY LATER FROM EUROPE. eee THE NORTH AMERICAN OFF CAPE RACE. The English Parliament and Press on the War Affairs of the Union. Austria to Settle the Italian Question, The Emperor’s Cabinet Pronounces the Crisis as Reached and “a War in Italy Averted,” Ker Rey hee Cars Raos, Juno 7, 1862. The steamship North American, from Liverpool May 29, via Londonderry 30th, was boarded off this point a& oon to-day, en route to Quebec. She reports having experienced strong westerly gales. ‘The Parliamentary proceedings of the 28th of May were unimportant, The British Defence Commission, appointed to inquire into the relative efficiency of iron-plated ships and fort” fications, had unanimously concluded that fortifications must continue to form an essential feature of the de, fence of the country. They recognize the importance of tron-cased ships and batteries. ‘The iron-plated frigate Black Prince was about to be commissioned, The Japanesc Ambassadors were om a visit to Liver- pool, The steamship Nova Scotian, from Quebec, arrived at Londonderry on the 29th of May. The steamship Hammonia, from New York, arrived a8 Southampton on the 29th of May. The steamship Etna, from New York, reached Liver- pool on the morning of the 29th of May. The American Question. PARLIAMENT AGAIN TROUBLED IN THE WAR MATTERS OF THE UNITED STATES-—-NEWSPAPER SPECULATION ON THE TACTICS OF OUR GENERALS ANDTHE FERL- ING AGAINST ENGLAND—A BRITISH SYMPATHIZER ON THE REBEL PLAN OF ACTION AT RICHMOND, Notice nad been given in the House of Commons of @ motion for an inquiry into the relations between England ‘and the federals and Confederates. Butler at New Orleans against tho attacks made on it. ‘The News says there is nothing whatever in the terms of General Butler’s proclamation to explain the wrath or Justify the indignant criticism of rowdy sontimentalists. It contains provisions ustial and necessary in such cases, and nothing more, The talk of coercion and tyranny is utterly absurd. In another article tho London News reviews with satis- faction what has beon done towards emancipation, and speculates upon what is to come. It looks upon the mean whine of the South as the greatest dificulty, Te London Times replies to an article in the New York Journal of Commerce as to the hostitity to Englan which prevails in both sections of the Union. It deeply regrets this hostility, and argues that no wilful provocation has been given. But as to the course which the Jowrnad recommends England to pursue to remove this hostility, the London Times points out its unreasonableness, regrets that it cannot be complied with, and hopes that calmer and more reasonable pretensions may soon prevail. Mr.Spence had addressed another communication te the London Times. Referring to the tactics of the con- foderates, he says it was plainly uscless to continue the war on the principle of two mon ‘fighting three and « gunboat; hence they resolve to in their rces and concentrate upon Richmond, with the view also of falling back from there unless tempted bycircum- s'ances to engage tn @ general action. ‘The buniness of tactics in am unoqual war is toexhaust the strength of the enemy before grappling him in action. Goneral Hal- lock, at Corinth, appewrs unaccountable. He remains stationary on a ground fortile with fever, and there may be ae in the statemont that half his’ army ison the siek list. France. Prince Carignan had been received by Napoleon at a private audience. Paris journals state that tho Count of Montebollo has ry appointed Commander-ia-Chicf of the French army me. Italy. ‘The Austrian government, in reply to the Committee of Financo, declared it was incessantly engaged in viding by diplomatic means for a seltlement of Tatton affairs, aud had reason to hope its efforts me be suc- that all the questions at issue reached @ crisis, and in a short time would ier. They consider of war in Italy as averted for a = to realizo the roduction of soale. According to news from Rome, the family of Francis If. is preparing to leave. Russia. The Gram Duke Constantine has been ngecttal Vice- roy of the kingdom of Poland. i Spain. ‘cna government is about to build seven iron ‘Toe entireSpanish press refutes tho lato article in the Paris Patrice, India. Bounar, May toad 1862. The cotton market is wild, at 12a 16) rupees advance. Wa supplies, Freighta weak and lower. Exchange <4. higher. Commercial ee. Livgeroo, May 30, 1862. In the London market consol were steady and rather firmer, Stocks very dull, with a Ce labeigg tondenc IN, May 30, 1 Consols closed at 9354 for money.: - Amorican securities unchanged and steady. ‘The bullion in the bank has decreased £166,000. LIVERPOOL COTTON ag Lavervoor, May 30, 1868. ‘Tho Brokers’ Cireutar reports the sales of "he ‘wook at 47,000 baies. The market has beon irregular and dull, aud quotations were, in the early part of the week, barely maintained, ut closed with an advance ie ob one eighth on American aud one-fourth of penny on Surat. Speculators took 11,000 and exporters 4,000 bales. Tho sales to-day (Friday) arecstimated at 10,000 bales. including 6,000 to speou- lators a exporters, closing buoyant at the following quotations:— Orleans... 103,760 are American. Breadstuffs have an upward tendency. Flour is firm at6.advance. Corn ia quiet, but steady at 6d. ad vance. Provisions dull. Funeral of Colonel ‘The funeral of this gal will take place at Elizabeth City, N. J., this day, at two o'clock, and, by the arrangements that have been made to do henor to the ret of the brave soldier, it will, we doubt not, and respectable. Mayor Grier and the members of the Common Council have determined to pay it last tribnte of respect to so deserving and worthy an officer as the deceased has ever proved himself to be. Colonel Loomis, of Fort William, Governor's Island, has kindly intimated that a military: band and escort shall acoumpany the remains to their last rosting place. The soiemn procession will leave Bayway House (Mr. Hotchkiss’) at two o’clock, from whence the corpse will proceed to the First Presbyterian church cometery in Flizabeth fer interment, and after their arrival nk propriate address will be delivered by tho minister the donse multitude who will accompany them, It will bo seon by this morning's paper, in our list of doaths, we all tho necessary arrangements have been com- pleted. Personal Intelligence. Since the arrival of General Scott at Woat Point, on Tuesday Inst, ho continues to enjoy excellent hoalth, and the change of air, it would appear, has much recruited the venerable soldier's physical energies. fo has taken apartmonts at Cozzons’ Hotel for the ion, where he continues to receive many friends and visitors. Gonoral Cass is recovering from his recent severe at- tack of illness. Drs, Wheeler and Boyd, of tho United States Navy; @. L nee “9 family, of Michigan; W. H. Thayer and ir. and Mrs. Page, of Bell, of San Franciseo; A. B. H, b. Lawton, United States Army, and 0. A. Bonton and family, of Vermont, are Stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel, C. L. Weller and family, of Califoraia; Colonel Wilkin. son, of England; Mous. Savarcsse, of Pacis; Edward Riddle and faaily of Boston; Judge Sherman und family, of Newbarg; D Elwell, of San Francisco; A. Meppin, . B. MoPhorson, of Missourt; N. W. J. Cooper, of Nushvillo; B. Po. ebec, and Mra. Donovan and’ family, vo arrived at tho Fifth Avenue Hote), J. M Wrightman, T. R. Rich, E. T. Wilson, J. Jones, MLC. Fi a, BP, kdwards, H. M. Wightman, J. F. Pray, ond Y, Hh Speer, all of the ‘Boston Common Connell, at J. Leoman, of California; Cuptain’ Fleming, ‘gy GC, Listand fa iy. of Virginia; i. AS 0. Rie, oF Providence, and 1, Rw the guests at the St. H. Niohoias Hotel. Fire Hv ware to bo paid morning ai No. 6 State street. Attention!