The New York Herald Newspaper, February 17, 1863, Page 1

\ THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO, 9652 for desertion from the Tenth infantry was duty chronicled some weeks since, has been released from confinement and ordered to Hamilvon’s batiery, where, as a privals soldier, be will serve out the unexpired term of his en: iY Among the resignations which have been acobptor during the week are those of Lieutenant W. W. Meeker, Sixth Connecticut Volunteers, and Lieut t_F. NY Bar- ne, See rong ai Lene gy * jartermaster A. H Young, of venth » jamp- Th ble About the New. | shire Volunteers. has been’ promoted to the position of of Trou A Assistant Quartermaster, with the rank of captain. Expedition. WEWS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMSHIP MATANZAS ‘The proceedings of a recent court martial, whereof Colonel E. Metcalf, Third Rhode Island artill , was Pre- sident, have been promulgated. Captain Joha ¥. Wilbur, of the Third New Hampshire Volunteers, was found guilty of *disobeaience of orders.” and of “conduct prejudicial ‘to good order and military discipline,” and sentencetl ‘to ‘be dismiesed the mili of the United States.” Captain Israel G. Atwood, of the First New York Volun- leer Engineers, on the charge of ‘conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentieman,”’ or, tn other words, going shares with an enlisted man in the arising from the sale of whiskey to officers and soldiers , was found guilty and sentencea ‘to be dismissed the ser- General Hunter Assumes Command of General Foster’s Troops. THE BLOCKADE OF CHARLESTON NOT BROKEN Oficial Reports from the, Block- ading Fleet. Sinking of the Rebel Steamboat W. i, Starke. -plecsure of the President of the U Cousternation and Activity at Savannah. Rey Ree Tho steamship Matanzas, Captain Liesegang, from Port “Royal 12tb inst,, and twenty-four hours from Fortress Monroe, arrived'af this port last evening. ae Our Hitton Head Correspondence. | Hirron Hap, 8. C., Feb. 11, 1863. | td Misunderstending Adjusted—General Foster and the h Yenth Army Corps—Contruband News and How the Rebels | Ovtain 1t—Beauregard’s and Ingraham’s Joint Procla- mation—The Gunboat Isaac Smith—The Pataysco— Affairs in Onibow and Warsaw Sounds—Arrival of | Obdurate Rebels frim St. Auguslina—The Suspended Lani Bales and the Defiant Tax Commusioners—Colonet Geod in Command at Beaufort—Resignations—Promotions—Sen- tences of Court Martial, dc. , éc. ‘There seems to have been some misunderstanding as to whom belongs the command of the reinforcemonts for this department which have arrived from North Carolina @uring the present month. The fact that the divisions of Genorals Naglee and Ferry, recently constituting a por- | tion of the Kighteenth Army Corps, arrived here nearly a | fortnight since, I have -hitherto allowed to pass unmen- Yioned in my letters; but as their advent is by this time ‘as well known in the rebel lines as in our own, there can ‘be nothing contraband in any allusion thereto. ‘The vessels composing the expedition which sailed from | Beaufort, N.C.,on the 29th ult. have lain quietly at | anchor in Port Royal harbor ever since their arrival. Up to to-night the troops on board of them have not in a single instance reported for duty to Gen. Hunter, in whose | department they are located. General Foster, their former | commander, followed them hither a few days after their arrival, made an excursion to Warsaw and Ossibaw tounds, went on a reconnoitering trip to Folly river, and left yesterday for North Carolina again, having, dno- ting bis stay, not only failed to report for duty to Gen. { Hunter, but, as I jearn, having issued an order, jnst prior to his departure, placing his corps under Gen. Naglee’s | ommand, and assuring his troops that his column was in | every way distinct and separate from General Hunter's | department. Méanwhile his troops were getting short supplies, and requisitions were made upon the chief commissary and quartermaster but one of the paragraphs in the revised army regula br requires that ev: requisition shall be compared | wi the field returns approved, and as no returns bad been received of course the requisitions } \ i | a ‘went unnoticed and the soldiers went hungry. so thugs went on until to-day Gen. Hunter issued an order settling reinforcements became a part ot Jearn the loug reports: .4 coupes are Doginning and the question of rank and is nr | an of the two divisions are slowly landing at . city on St. Helena Island, though the greater por are yet on transports in the stream. Some first ashore were guilty of a mean trick in spon the pouliry yards of some contrabauds ueur pon the latter's remonstrating, in tearing down ties Over their. heads. the knowiedge amovg the rebels . It seems ible to prevent acquisition of contraband = infor They are always forewarned and fore Such reports as the New York Jimes published | Port Royal correspondent about the iron-ciads always reprinted with great avidity iu the Coniede. Fate journals; but a more speedy aud almost as correct a | .of jbformation is found in the persous of the dusky natives whom we have so affectionately taken to our bosoms. Their dugouts and canoes ply between the hostile shores with the utmost reguiarity, aod though we do sometimes by this means obtain a late secession pa per or an important rebel ivem, the account in the long has generally 1ooted up more to their profit than to Hunter, I believe, is convinced of this, for seizure of all the dugouts aud iat j,and is further arranging the details of the negroes may be isolated aud reudered ‘a8 possible to our cause. jon of Beauregard and In blockade of the city of Charleston | superior force of the Confederate States, | tarough av ‘@ Charleston pa 7th instant. he bas | an effort at an instaut. Not half the fleet slipped ‘the action on the morming of the Skt | from their anchorage during the day. river, in whose waters the Isaac Sm'ih again reoce |, and Union sailors and sol on at James Island. 8 = Ea a E [ “8 i ! zs gs & g iH io i pi & I nll ed it Ltd —_ aac of syed nor tl neg! of duty ou the part ne: ‘The first shot fired at her struck her | part, carrying away her steering g the ship. The fourth penetrated ded by the | digablin, a ), a8 well as the remain in Charleston jail, aud will uot The men are treated with more Lumanity. Ammon, arrived safely in having left Beaniort, N. C2, on ig im the best condition, and action. 1 learn that the blockade ante 18 tobe muintamed. thovgh made eflective without the aid of tiie Passaic, which can be of more service in another quarter. Heavy land batteries like Fort MeAllis- ter ean easily be erected, and a sufficient number of u spared man them. The same means employed rebels to prevent our ascending the Ogeechee and iimington rivers will be used by our forces to prevent > 4g , Captain Johnson, returned this morning from St. Angustine and Fernandina, where she haz been engaged for several days in transporting the rebel population, male and femaie, from our*ines to the rebels’, Some obdurate Cases Of secrasionism wi brought to thie point for Gen, Hunter's disposal. Among them were lr. Weems and his son, and Mr. Using, | Jong residents of Florida, who refused from conscientious seraples to take the oath of allegiance, and preferred rather a cotiess lodging in the guardhouse at Hilton Head, They professed to be non combatants—neither | for us or against vs—intereeted neither oue way mor tue | other: but the teat of the oath brought ent their trux Hunter's erder suspending tue land sales baw not had the intended effect, it seems for to-day—the day advertised for the sale of Beaufort parieh Port Royal island, Ke., to commence—the Tax Commissioners oon before the curious multitude aad bid off a te 7 j learn, was six dollars. It cheap. and the multitude were in wor of continuing the auction; but the Commissioners adjourned (he sale watil to-morrow, They argue that the aale was © mere form, iu to satiaty the law, but General Hunter does not see it in teat light, and hae ordered their arrest and condmement if ret continue furtber to yyy deg od i fix companies of Colonel Good's Forty-seventh Penney! vania regiment arrived trom Key Wee inthe Seaecs | on Monday night, baving been relieved at that pout > Colonel Morgan's entire rogiment—the Ninetieth New York, Colonel Good, immediately apon bis arrival, war ordered to Boaw ind to the command of the forces on Port Roye! islaud is disposition of Colonel Good must | be slightly distaateful to General Saxtow, who lent his In. | fluence to get Morgan revurned to Flurida, and at tho | fame time sought the cominand which Golonel Good has | received. General Hunter, {from some cause or other | weerns (© be cutting himself aloof from Gen. Saxtan’s crowd. His recent suspension of the Iand wales: his de. | molition, practically, of the famous Agricuitural’ Bureau instituted by Pierce snd potronised by Father French: his decree that black mon shall fight and black women til the flelds, that corn instead of cotton shall be the atapie ail thego indicate that he prefers to take (he mapagemeat | of affeirs into hie cwn bands rather than longer to permit the sway of the cormorants who have clustered about General Saxton and himeelf, Liqutenant Uregine, aling Sergeant Wade, whose arrest | water; three gct_on fire | @ great deal of attention o | ing ber, and will soon have viceof the United States.” The proceedmes and find inge in both the above cases are approved. The sentence im Captain Wilbur’s case is suspended, however, till the vd States can be made known, while in the case of Captain Atwood it is centirmed and:ordered to be carried into eflect. GENERAL HUNTER’S GENERAL ORVERS. GENKUAL ORDERS—NO. 1 Hranguanrens, Derarrunnt ov tie Sour, Hu70x Heap, Port Koval, 8. °0.. Feb. 10, 1863. 1, The orderly hours at general headquarters are from nine A. M.totwo P.M, Tlose having Dusiness with the Chief of SiHf can transact it from nine A. M. to twelve M. 2. The attention of officers is called 0 the impropriety of visiting or seeking interviews with the Major General Com. manding wpon points of duty which should properly be #ub: mitied for decision at staff headquarters; and hereafier no ollicer will communicate on business with the Major Gene: ral Commanding except in the manner preseribed by para. graph 438, Revised Regulations for the Army, or by the ad vice and dn the iniroduetion of proper staff officers, without being subject to the usual iilitary penalties for neglect of duty. By command of Major General DAVID HUNTER, Cuas. G. Haring, Assiv Ad). Gen., Tenth Aimy Corpe. GENERAL ORDERS—NO, 12. Heapqvanrrns Devanrayt or te Souri, 7 Hivtow Heao, Pout Rovar, 8. C., Feb. 10. 1863, "4 A board, to consist of B. fred H. Terr: United States eral Sievenson, United States Vol ty-sixth Pennsylvs 1 ‘Third Rhode Island artillery; Maj ‘Third reghnent New Hampsiiite Volunteers, is lereby or dered to convene at Hilton Head, 8. C., at ten A.M. on t 1ith instant, for the purpose of examining Into the capacity, qualifications, propriety of conduct and eticieney of such of 18 as may be bro ‘once repo as they may cousider sminded that they ean best promote nands by complying fully with the tax expressed in the act authoriz~ <1 of val DAVID H it Adjutant Gemer Avmy Corps. GuNeRAL ORDERS. 1. Hravovawtrns, Derarraxnr 6 «Hav, vour Rovat ed upon. and a ielney of their ing such boa Cuas, G NTER. ai Havrixe, 1 Tepth The undersi forceinents recen Carol leparn r arrival here, having b Army corps. M. Nagle and Orris 8. Ferry, ig divisions, will ea ands to report and make due returns an’ their com: t reports termasiers of their divisions to turn ov portation br down with them to Li Elwell, Chief Quartermaster of this d divisions Commanded by Brig jagiee and Orris 8. Perry will rems organized—General Nagle, as seu mand of all the United States : with the exception of those stau continue 10 veport to. Post Mi island, until further orders, D. HUNTER, Major General Commanding. fail marine tans itenant Colonel J com add wild dat Bay Joint, w! Our Port Royal Correspondence. Porr Royat, 8. C., Feb. 12, 1863. La'e News from Chavieston—Beauregard’s and Ingra- ham’s Wonderful Proclamation— What the Foreign Con subs Did Not Stom—News from the lac Swith—-The Killedand Wounded on Board—A Daughter of South Carolina—Naval Affairs, de., de. From late Charleston papers which baye fallen into our han ds we get all the news {rom the world without us that has come to us since the first of the month, ‘The rebels admit the suceess of the Vicksburg canal, | | and acknowledge that the gunboat ram Queen of the W: has passed Vicksburg, and had cleared out the Mississippi river of a jargo number cf steamers and other cratt ply ing on it between Port Hvdson and Vicksburg. The damage inflicted on them by her sate passage of the batteries and the sudden raid down the river must have She kicked up a great uproar, and they | been iinmense now plainly see that our guuboats will soon go (hough free trom any damage their batteries It is «a sore reflection for them that their little trade between the trans Mis«issippi Statew and middie confederacy is broken up, in spite of their frowning batteries, erected at so much expense, on the binffs of “impregnable Vicksburg.’ but inthese moments of despondency they teem with undi- Minishad joy at what the; ji their destruction of our Charieston blockading squadron. Thet was the grandest aMur of ihe war. ‘The Confederate navy is something. The Savannah papers modestly claim that two vessels were capiured and subk—ibe Mercedita in tive fathoms of the balance dispersed. ve declared the blockade Beauregard «nd Ingroham raised, but dow’t invite any neatral Englishmen to attempt to run'a ship i in the daytime, AS none of our vessels were sunk and but o1 captured, pone dispersed or driven off, and were out of sight only beeause the rebel | rams ran into their den beluie the duy broke, the im. pudent cooluess of the a faintly a ed. Captain Ingrat may not re. collect that he ran into the harbor of Charleston with the Palmetto State when the Hoveatonic closed down and cpened fire on his ironclad. If he does not his memory i very bad. As to the fleet deing out of Sight during the day, as the foreign consuis are said to have stated, it is simply not true “Five ves sels were necessarily abseut—the two disabled ones, the we proclamation inay be despatch boat and the two steamers which towed down | tw Port Royal the Mercedita aud Keystove State, The others were at their stations, So that yarn ts not to he accepted as true, even if Beauregard and Ingraham give it circulation The Isaxc Smith was at Commercial wharf, attracting HMuudreds visited ber aaily, The Mercury states that Chief Engineer ‘Turner’ was | itled, and as it does not _meution the dewth of any other officer it is presumed that nove were killed, Jthonk the Lof the death of Ashistaut Paymaster Hills was erroneous. He is probably with the viber omer: Charlegton jail, and, tke them. will not be parole men have becn paroled aud seot North for ex Ibe Hor steering apparatus war shot away early in the fight, and she ran ashore, ese she would have come through safely, bit with hes alties. ‘Th ‘The officers of the Paimet(o State bad received from the jg} ladies of Charleston and danghters of South Carolina two | laurel wreaths. for which they return thetr thanks, Tho steamboat Wm. H. Starke liad been gunk by a soag hear Angusta, Georgia, with heavy load of corp, She was en) in running between Savannah and the Shel Bluff fortifications— wherever they are—and is regarded a @ very serious lose to the rebels, Gen, Mercer. commanding revel forces ot Savannab ,catle on every able bodied man to raily to the defence of savan- bh, wihich is to be attacked very soon Charlestou papers aswert that it wos believed in the Navy Department, Richmond. that it really was the Bri Gish grnivoat =pitfire that sunk the Hatteras, off Galves ton. ney *tate chat the Florida was not ont at thas time and the Alabama was not likely to have beeu Ww that quar ter at that time Among naval circles at Port Royal the poasilility of the thing is not questioned. It is believed among many that it really might have been the Rugs ho sunk the v Hatteras, and then slipped away, But all thix will be determined before long. [In our issue of Sunday tast our Kingaton (Jamaica) news settles the question Ky. Han ann. A gen cheerful miaded lady from ¢ district, 8. C., writes the following to t Convie [propose to spin the thread to make the cord 10 exe cute the order of President Davis, when old Kutler caught, and my daugliier asky that she may lowed to adjust \ around hie n A DAUGRIER OF SOUTH CAROLINA ‘The waval forces in Stono river have beeu augmented aad we will continue to hold the river against ail odds. There is no additional news (rom the Ogeechee. Affaire remain in much the same condition aw when | list wrote There ia little prospect of unoth ML Very eOuN ‘The Mercedita leaves for New York to morrow, aud will tow French steamer which put in here two or three days siver with machinery disabled. She was bound from Mex! co to Cherbourg, Franee, tut will new go to New York for repairs. ul it well worthy the examinat ot cor New York. Every bleckade runner capty quantity Of friction matebes manufactured are the only style of match found nuers,”’ and where and how do they gei A singular fact has Beem noticed by the naval ofteers here an York among Use them The Alleged Break of Blockade. Fiacau Wanasit, Por Rovat Flannon, 8. C., ) Feb. 11, 1863, e Charleston Sin—In my peewious despatch, No. 70, written just as | y | the mail was closing, | informed the department 1 ld send a rofotation, in official form, of the statement made in General Beauregard’s proclamation as to the bicckade of Charleston, pubiiabed tn the Charleston and Savannah papers, and ‘accompanied by assertions mado With the apparent eanction of certain foreign funetiona. wou rigs. The emphatic letter of Captain Turner (No. 1), the thar and decided statement of the (No. 2), which hetorwards. together with the previous inquiriee and ex. ‘amination of log booke made by Captain Gordon, of the bresent previous and whom {had Powhatan (who was the senior ofl 40 the arrival of the New Ironsides) de hed to Charleston ths of the raid, leave me nothing to add, save to cali the especial attention of the department to the facts thus elictted Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 4, ¥, DUPONT South “Athurtio Block Rear Admiral commanding Squadron Hom. Gunmen W ibe, Seeretary of the Navy. the various staf officers of | quarters, Hilton Head | cam inthet. | m | ‘Unrrep Staves Steam FieGate New TRONSIDES, Rap A = Cuantasion, Feb. 10, 1868. . F. Duvowr, commanding South Al 0 Monkading Squadron. * ApwRal—I have the honor to forward to you a certifi- | gate, signed by all the commanding officers of the vessels: that were lying off Charleston bar on the morning of the attack of the rams apon this squadron, excepting only three, one of whom is on duty at a distance, and the other two the commanders of the two vessels which were sent Port Royal to repair damages, and which were the anly two were injured, notwithstanding the report of the enemy in the Charleston papers, as the result of the engagement, that two vessels were sunk, (our set on fire, and the remainder driven away. Your personal know) of these gentlemen, and your entire confidence in truth and uprightness of character, will give to their statement the force that is necessary to refute satisfacto- rily aud effectuaily that which bas been to the world by the authorities in Charleston and their pa- thizers.” It is with unaffected pain that | am called upon to forward a document reflecting so severely, but a upon functionaries holding the high position of y and oxe of them, if this statement has been made by bis authority, the commander of a vessel of war of ber tanic Majesty. Nor can I account for it any other way than its being a premeditated act on their part, with foregone conclusions, to draw up a report that would pre- jndice our cause in the eyes of the world, or that these events were seen by them with the distorted optics of prejudiced and partisan witnesses. The facts are so clear, both as to the disposition of the Dleckading squadron dur- ing the day succeeding the engagement nid as to the amount of damage doue our vessels in it, that it docs not admit of doubt that these gentlemen have given the seal | of their high oilice w the \ of the affair which could not have been, by any possibility, either by in- ference or personal observation, torced upon their con- victions as truth. I have the honor to be, very resy y, your obedi- ent servant, 7. eR, Captain. Unresp Stas Sy x,aen Now TRoxerpes, & pect (ull, Tt Ory CHantistox, Feb. 10, 1863 We, the undersigned, ofti luman ting the varfous vessels of the blockading Charleston, have ; Seen the proclamation of General Deauregerd and Com- | modore In. raham, herew ith appended, as also thorresults of the so cailed engagements, viz —"' Tvo vessels tour set en fire, and the reminder driven away,” and also the Statement thet the British Consul and | the commander of the British war steamer Petrel | had previously gone five miles beyond the | usual anchorage of the blockade and gee nothing of them with their glasses. We di ur duty to tate that the so-called resuits are false in every particu- No vessels were sunk: none were set on fire geri- exploded t | the only gun tired at her, when surprised by an attack at | might. A thick haze was prevail ‘Phe steamer Key- stone Staie also had her steam chest injured at the m0- ment of attempting to run down one of the rams. The Keystoue State was at once asisted by the Memphis, | which vessel exchauged shots with the iron ram as she was withdrawing towards the bur, after having fired at | the Keystone State, as did aise the Quaker City, So hasty wus the retreat of the rams that although they may have eived that the Keystone State had received se- rious damage, ho uiempt was even made to approach Stettin and Ottawa, at the extreme end the line, did not get under way from their | positiin tillatter the Grins had ceased, and the Stettin merely sawthe bluck smoke as the rams disappeared | over the bar. The Flag was alongside the Mereedita | to these headquarters, They will also cause the chief quar- | after it seems she had yielded to the ram, supposing herself sinking. ‘The rams withdrew hastily towards | the harbor, and on their way were fired at by the | Housatouic and Augusta until both had got beyond Teach of their guns, They anchored under the protection of their forts, and remained there, No vessel, iron clad or | other, passed ont over the bar after the return of the | rams. Jn short, the Unadilla was not aware of the at tack until ue Housatonic commenced tiring, when sho | moved out towards that vessel trom her anchorage. ‘The | Hoosatonic was never beyond the usual line of the | blockade. The Quaker City in the forenoon picked up her anchor, which she had slipped to repair | w the pomt or the — firing. he Flag com- | municated with senior officer on bourd | Housatonic that forenoon soon after the fring bad ended, |'and the blockade continued as bolore. No vessel rau in | or out of the port that day, nor was any attempt made to run the blockade, The Keystone State necessarily was ordered to Port Roval for repaire The Unadilia returndd to her usual aueborage after communicating with the senior officer, where she remained durmg the day, ‘Throughout the day two small tugboats remalued, appa- really in attendance on the ram, onder ovver of Forts Moultrie and Beauregard. ‘The prize steamer Vrincess yal, which liad been alongside the Housatonic, war patched to Port Royal one hour and a half after the | rams bad retired to the cover of the batteries, and the | firing tid ceased at about balf-past nine A. M. These are the jacts, and we do not hesitate to state no vessel | | i | did come out beyond the bar after the re turn of the rama, at between seven and eight o'clock =A, M., to the cover of the forts. We believe the statement that any vessel came any where near the usual anchoroge of apy of the bloc %, up to the bur alter the withdrawal of the sate, to be berately and knowingly juise, If the statement (rom papers, as now belore us, bas the kanetion of the tre] and the foreign consuls, we can only deplore that spreading before the world, for ab unworthy object, un- truths patent to every officer of the WM. ROGE t, Captain, commanding U. ©. steamer Housatonic J. STRONG. Commander, commanding U.S. steamer Flag. JAS. MADISON F A | Commender, commandwg U.S. steamer Quaker City. ] FG. VARKOR?, Commander, commanding i. stootner Augnsta, | PG WATMOUGH, Commanding U.S. steamer Memphis Cd. VAN ALSTINE, Commanding U.S. steamer Stettin. | Tr of Deserters, &e. | The accompanying list of soldiers have been tried by court martial, (ound guilty and sentenced as follows:— Private John D. Otis, Co. A, Fourth battation New York artillery, absence without leave, thirty days hard labor and forfeit one month's pay. Private Albert B. Sandford, Co. C, Fourth battalion New York artillery, absence without leave, thirty days hard | labor and forteit one and & halt mouth’s pay, Coporal Frank Harrington, Co. A, Fourth battalion New York artillery, absenco without leave, reduced to ranks aud forfeit two mouths pay. | Private R. V. @enson, Co. B, Fourth battalion New York | artillery, druckennese, sixty days bard jabor | Private Jas, M. Muadieton, Co, D, Fourth battalion New | York artillery, absence without leave, sixty days bard | javor and forfeit one month's pay. | Private Lewzearn A, Stewart, Co. D, Fourth battalion | New York artillery, absence without leave, sixty days | hard labor and forfeit one month's pay Priva Oliver Wescott, Co. D, Fourth battalion New York artillery, absence without leave, thirty days hard labor and torleit ove mouth’s Private James M Wright, | Vork artillery, absence without leave, sixty day | labor and forveit one month s pay. | Private Emery W. Carke, Co. 0), Fonrth battalion New | York artillery, abseuce without leave, sixty days hard | labor ang farieit one month's pay. Private Richard Barker, Co. A, Fourth battalion New | York artiliery, abeenoe without leave, sixty days bard | labor and ferteit two months pay. vate Richard Wengers. Co. B, Fourth battalion New York artillery, absence without lave, thirty days bard inbor agd forfeit two mouths pay. | _ Private Win. G. Pardee, 1, Fourth battalion New | York artillery gibsence without jeave, thirty daye hard lavor and forfeit one month's pay. Private Levi C, Clintzman, Co. B, Fourth battalion New | York artillery, leaving post, forty days bard labor aud | forfeit two mouths Private Hora | York artitiery . Fourth battalion New hara y. Lee, Co. D. Fourth battalion New ence without leave, thirty days hard labor and forseit one month & pay. Private lsane © Washbufwe, Co. 1), Fourth battalion New York artillery, abxewce without leave, thirty days | hard inbor aud (oreit owe month's pay. rivate Was. Patterson, Co, D, Fourth battalion New York artillery, abeence without leave, #itty days hard labor and fe month’ pay. ids, Co. D, Fourth battalion New Without leave, sixty days bard h’s pay. Private Jas . to, D, Seventh bat New York artillery, leaving his post, ninety days bard |abor and forieit two months pay. Obituary. PATA OF AN OLD NEW YORK MERCHANT. Mr. Dkake Mots, a well known merchant of this city who carried on the wholesale grocery business for a number of ye died on Sunday morning last at the | re Brevoort House, in the seventy first year of hie age. Mr. jille was the father in low of ex Mayor Wood. He leaves | a very large and valuable estate to be distributed among | the members of nis family pk. Groner i AMMANN, Among the recent deaths In this city we notice that of Dr. George P. Cammano, long ixwoctated with the Demilt y and other kindred) benevolent institutions. memory, owary met ray, and passed resolutions of rympathy and can dolence with bie bereaved family. The Meta! tard have also resolved to attend bie funeral rt of Common P' Before Hon. Judge Daly. Fen. 16. —Jokm Lyors et. The Liverpoot York and Philadelphia Steamedip uo viny.——Thie tw recover damages for personal jojures received Ly play tif Crom the alleged negligence of defendant's vervants or agents, | din unload to ing the hoisting | | The jury | Against defen: Arrival of the f & morn) ts for $78 Amertean. Me, Feb, 16, 1 The North Amerie P.M. with eighty u , lav weather, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, EBRUARY 17, 1863. PRICE THREE CENTS NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. Navigation of the Mississippi Before the Rebel Congress. Bill to Sequestrate the Property of Union Men. Commitment of a Clergyman on n Charge of Treason to the Confederacy. WHOLESALE DESERTIONS, &e., &e., ae. den ft, sg Richmond Enquirer of February 13 we extract somo interesting items of intelligence. The Free Navigation of the Mississippi ver. Mr. Sparrow of Louisiana offered the following joint resolution:— Whereas, the several Confederate States contiguons to the | Miasissipp! river have, by order of their respective Conven- Mons, recognized the right of all frlendly people livin ts reot t the tributaries the the provisional g by un act approv placefil nav gation of the Missiasippt rens of any of the States upon ite bore ders of its iributaries;" and, whe }, th sakl several States, and the'aet of t ment tonebing this’ Lmportant and serious: neytly rightand just; now, therefore, be it waived, by the Senate and House of Representatives of Jonfederate States of America, That this Confederacy All times maintain and support the right to ‘ation of the Mississippi river as declared and set forth in the saidact of the provielonal govert \t. On mevion of Mr. Oldham, the above was referred to the Committee on Commerce. 4 or Upon the bo: finance of the nestion are © Sequestration, Mr, Conrad, of La., offered the folowing — Resclved, That tho Prosidant be requested to inforin this rt if Consederate tates, and persons aiding the ame du r with the United States, before August 30, TS61 the amount paid {ato the Trea@ury from proceeds nthe sales under the #aid act, mith, of N. (., introduced a bill to alter and a an act for the sequestration of the estates, prop- erty and effects of alien enemies, and tor indemnity of of the Confederate States, and persons aiding ne in the existing war with the United States, ap proved February 15, 1862. Referred to the Judiciary Committee, The Case of the Rev. R. J. Graves. The Charlotte (N. C.) Democrat states, with reference to the charge of treason to the coufede.acy against Rev R. J. Ve notice that Governor Graham has made a speceh in the Legislature in regard to the late arrest of Rey. R. J. Graves, a Presbyterian preacher, living in Orange county. It'will be remembered that Graves was returned to our State authorities, and a letter frem the Secretary of War to Goverror Vance states the cause of his arrest. The letter stated, among other things, that Graves was accused, on the authority of « returned Con foderate prisoner, of giving information to the enemy the injury of the Confederate cause, and that he gol a per- mit to go North by representing bimeelf as a citizen of New York desirous of returning home. We did not in tend again to a lude Lo the ease; but Governor Graham, speaking in defence of Graves, and in commenting on the letter of the Secretary of War, omits entirely to notice che false statement rude by Graves to General Winder in order to Ket a porinit to go North. If the statement of Graves that be is a citizen of New York is trne, why then tbe Confode authorities very properly suppowed that Uhey had a right to arrest him a4 an alien enemy: but if that statement was falxe—and it seems that he now claims to be a citizen of North Corolina—then it appears that he fas certainly been guilty of deception ond wiitul hood. We are sorry that Governor Grabain, whi e speskin in Graves’ favor, did not explain this Mr. frievds claim that be i# a citizen of this State, and Graves hunself has taken protection under that’ islet, thereby acknowledging Ubat be mode a (aise statement in order to visit the North We know nothing of the matter more than we see inthe public papers: but inasmuch as Governor Graham and others continue to blame the Con foderate anthorities for taking the arrest, we feel justi THE NAVY. Arrival of the United States Steamer 5 Jacinto. ‘The United States steamer San Jacinto, Captain Ronck- endorff, arrived yesterday morning from Lobos Light, OM Bahama Chanvel, under canvass, having broken her Propelier shaft on the 20th of January, when near the above locality. The accideut ocourred off soundings and about six miles from the edge of the bank. The shaft broke off close to the hub of the screw, and, by a most fortunate circumstance, in falling, jammed between tho stern post and the rudder, eo that by skil(ul management Captain Ronekendorff was enabled to secure it with chains and hawsers, and, with canvas, got inom the bank, where he anchored in seven and a half fathoms of water. Tho immense screw, weighing above eight tous, was then dropped to the bottom, and by a scientilie arrangement of spars, ropes and chains was afterwards hoisted over the side of the ship and landed in eafety on the deck, where it now lies, uninjured. The shaft was broken off tush with the bub of the propeller, ax smooth and square 8 could be done with a turning lathe, When the screw dropped off the engine started up with immense velocity; but the engineer, being at hand, shut off the steam immediately, preventing any injury to the machinery. As far a8 can be ascertained, the vorsel has sustained no injury other than the breaking of the shatt Much credit is due to Captain Ronckendorff and his exc tive officer (Mr. Chandler) for the skilful manner in which they saved their valuable wiggle waggle. . Tho San Jacinto left Lobos Light on the 4th instant, under canvass, and bas experienged light and adverse winds during the whole pas ‘The United Btates steamers Wachusett and Oneida left there on tho 3d inst ona cruise. Tho Santiago de Cuba and the R. R. Cayler loft together on the 4th inst. for Key West. Paymaster ©. M. Guild has been detached from the Santiago de Cuba,and, with bis clerk, came home pas senger in the © The following |x a list of the officers of the San Jacinto-— Comma nder—W in. Ronckendortt, Lieutenant Con Paymvisier—ramer bi Chief, Bngincer—Mort Captain of Marines Second Lientonant of Ma: merhorn .. W. Powe ‘Acting Masters). J, Mo¥uteher, H. J. Coop and Joba Baker Assiont Surgem—Ira W Bragg. ting Ensign—Wm, H. Herbert. Second Assistant Engineers—H. 8. Davids and H. ©. Melivai Third Assistant Pagincers—Fawin Welles, Henry J. Scott, 1Chi J. Coney . A. Stevenson, Captain's Paynes man. Aciing Master's Mates. H. Fuller, H. T. Reeve, Thos. C, Jones and Jo ph D. Weed. Two More Ivon-Ciads Turned Over to the Navy. Cansort, 2—iron-clad Eries#on battery—having been finished by the contractors, will proceed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard to-day or ow, to be formally delivered over to the repreventatives of the government. Her tur- rets, eutand ail other appendages are on board completed, so that she will be able to leave here to rein force the iron-clads in the South Atlantic before the week expires. The Catskill i# an exact copy of the Passaic and Montauk, except that her sections have been quaterially Strengthened within the past few weeks. Her battery consists of one 6 and ope fifteen inch gun, both mounted on the new Ericsson carriage in the turret. The compuss ik arranged in the inanner recently adopted on veovols of her clos@gand the impregnable chimuey, the Iwek of which was av dirastrous to the Monitor, is also up, ‘The vessel steamed from Greenpoint to the Delamiter Iron Works last week to receive ber muzzle box, which is now finished, Aunexed is a list of her officers, as far as reported — eorge Rogers. lenaint Commander—Chas, ( ing Assistant Peayinistcrmos Carp PW A y “ Seo wt Avtsiant Engineer (Acting Chiel)—Geo. D, Frm hed i alluding to the false re, resentations of Graves to show that he is not as envtirely guiltless ax some seem anxious to make it appear. Since the above article was put in type we find the follow ing mn the Kaleigh Progress, which indi ‘eme® tual there is good cause for the arroxt of Graver: — Fucianono, S.C., Feb. 4, 1862 ‘The examination of Rev. K. J. Graves took place to day before the Hon, M. B. Manly—-George V. Strong ap pearing for the proseention, and Hon. W. A, Grabam for the delendant. ‘The veeused was bound over w the Con foderate Court at fichmond to stand bis trial on a charge ‘ot treason Wholesale Deserters. ‘The Atlanta (Ga. ) Confederacy gives the following evi dence of the compulsory nature of the service exacted by the rebel military authorities, and of the whole desertions therefrom — ‘There was a large nuwber of deserters inthe It is estimated that over ball the men sho went inte servieo from the northeastern eo nties in the ~tate ere at home without leave, aod mort of those were sl ap the mountains who bad beea inst noted to tthem. Orbers, une eos, had banded togethar to resixt’ any at tempt that might be made to arrest them, or to rel from the jails those who had been arrested. Some of those bands had arms and ammgnition. aud were subsist ing by plunder. There were also a few meu who were enemies 16 the Confederate States, promiveut amoug whieh is the notoriour Jef Anderson, who ereaped jail from thie city lot spring with the ors. ‘There ure also a few men acu were prisoners of war at Carp Chase, Ohio, bad taken te cath of ailegiance to the United stator , and were there upon releared by the Voukees. Wherher these bed been active, oF in any Way instrumental in eugendering or tar thering the disturbances, or iryipg to spread disaffection, or whether they themsclves Were really hostile to the Confederate States, has not been definitely sscortained. Most of the deserters are men who have volnuteered— very few among them being conscripts. ludved, the jon iawe in that seetion have never been ew forced. Avoid the evroiling off Ls 5 The Mobile Adorrtiser and hegirter learns thut a good many negroes in the reuion above Okalona haye found their way beck to their masters. completely diegusted with Yankee freedom and it* attendant hardships, With the propeosity w embellishment for which the African race are #0 noted, they tell dvlorous stories of the treat mont they have experienced and that which they diseo ered was instore for them. Cue of them asserts that it iw the enstom of the Yankees to dispose of the surplus negro women and children by blivdfolaing them aud driving them into the ri The Lat from the South. Heapoc aurers Ajoay oF tux Potomac, ) M.S Feb. 16-10 F Richmond papers of the 14th od, The following is from Charleston, §, ¢ ‘The French war #teamer Milan paxeed our day, from Baltimore, bound to Hort Nuyal ed here this week ‘The frigate Irensides maintaina her position perm: ly among the blockading squadron off Charleston A Yankee picket was eapiured on Wednesay by our scouts on Hilton Head island, He intelligence of an impending attack on Charleston, aud thinks it will he made iu «bout a fortuight In the rebel Senate the Committes on Miitary reported adversely upon the bill enre white mnale persons in the emp: ready in the military verviee In the House @ resolution of thank Gew Morgan for his services in the Wee introduced ‘The bill authorizing the impresement of property for the om the army was parsed. a Intion adopted instructing the Comm ities vr to report a bill providing for the sale of in arma against the confederacy divided among the captors. ‘The Virginia Legisiatore has & the State line to the Confedera' © bill authorizing the ivsue by the State o notes, redeemabie in Confederate Treasury noter The Riebmond Pnquirer says —mformation from North Carotina leads to the impression that the Yaokers cently threatening that section are moving in the direr tion of Charleston, Two thomand dollary for substitatcr, and large rewards are offered prehension of deserters Adar ing an conscripts y the government al to the rebel wo laves and the fore ita bill government, and paswed one do ar oe offered ve a Interesting from Fortress Monroe. Moxkow, Feb. 14 The jron-clad Monitor battery arrive Hampton Rouds at #ix o'clock bunt The (anawbe arrived last night f Head, a Kier eon ah ee Pe nem state of Maine . ' od theme rep tin and Secretary Seward, HH aeweme . 16, Dae verwort Cor toe ar ce Ow part y with to Warr he hw eward mn mons. Other Pagencere—Goo. WH. White, J.B. Linares and N. B. Buekhout Nasroow the Navy yesterday, as we learn (rom Boston. Ste stem od from Loring's Works to the Charlestown Navy Yard, making exceliont Lime on the way. Her preparations for Hea will bo finikhed on Weduesday, and on Friday ehe will gail for Fortress Monroe to jouw the Swngan when the Catskill reaches the same destination it posed that all, with their convoys, will proceed South ‘The Nantucket i® the sister ship of the Nahant, which was built sh nh all respects ike the ot Capt. Fair'ax commands her but all her other officers bave not yet reported MOVEMENTS OF GENERALS. Movements of General MeCletlan. DEPAKIURE OF THE GENERAL FLOM NEW YORK POR RUINEUECK HIS RWCEETION ALONG THE ROUTE DEVOLION OF OLDIES TO MCLELLAN, BRC. Aibany, Feb. 16, 196 Geveral MeCivilan jet New York this morning by the ten k tran for Rhinebeck, accompanied by Mr Moan, President of the Hudson River Rattroad. He goer to Rhinebeck as the guest of Hoa, Mir, Kelley, The Gene ral was dressed in citizen's clothes, and every precsution was taken W prevent its being Known that he was on the tram But thie did not prevent it being known in ad vance of the arrival of the train at the several towus along the fine that Geavral McClellan wae aboard At alinost every stopping place the arrival of the train was greeted with cheers for McClellan from the bwrge crown gathered there 2~iron clad battory—-was turned over w | } mu | 0 THE LOSS OF THE HATTERAS. Official Report of the Action Be- tween the Privateer Alabama and Gunboat Hatteras. Two Killed and Five Wounded om Board the Hatteras, THE REMAINDER OF THE CREW RESCUED, Rey key Re Report of Commander Biake, of the Hat- ter Oyrren Starrs Consunate, KINGetom, Tages} Jan, 21, 1863. Sm—tIt is my painful duty to inform the Department of tho destruction of the United States steamer Hatteras, re- contly under my command, by the rebel steamer Ala- bama, on the night of the 11th inst. off tho coast of Texas. The circumstances of the disaster are as followe.— Upon the afternoon of the 11th inst., at half-past three o'clock, while at anchor, in company with the feet under Commodore Bell, off Galvoston, Texas, I was ordered by signal from the United States tlagehip Brooklyn to chase a sail to the southward and eastward. 1 got under way immediately and steamed with all speed in the direction indicated, After some, time the strange suaib could be seen from the Hatteras, and was oreertained to be a steamer, whieh fact I communicated to the flagship Dy signal. 1 continued the chase and rapidly gained upon the susp ¥ Knowing the slow rate of specd of the Hatteras, 1 at was being practised, and for action, pielous veRw pion once surpected that de hence ordered the ship to be cleared With everything in readiness for a determined attack and vigorous defence, When within about four miles of the vessel Dobserved that she had ceased to steam, and was lying broadside to and awaiting ue, It was nearly seven o'clock, and quite dark; but potwithatanding the obsen- rity of the might [felt assured, from the general charac- ter of the vessel and ber mancvavres, that I should soon, nter the rebel steamer Alabama. Being ab&e but four gun on the aide of the ‘two short thirty two-pounders, one thirty- pounder rifled Parrett gun and one twenty pounder rifted gun—I concluded to close with her that my guna speaking range nd pom ask> Ing, “What stoomer ie that?” reeeived the answer, “Her Britannic Ma emty's ebip ¥ tact would senda howt abourd, and imu . In the meant ine sitions, the mi pdeavoring to gatn a desirable pomt too for a raking fire, Alinoet xinultaneourly wilh the piping away of fhe boat Le strange eraft again rephed, “We ar Ponfederate stesiner Alabama,” which wae accompenied “ith 4 vroadeide, Tat the same moment the tire well aware of the tar 1, by elon able to board ter onl thus craft. [steamed dir enabled by ber great #pe of the Hatteras, and cc w thwart my atte tunes of bat thirty range musket ana pistol — shots ‘The firing continued with great vigor on At length @ shell entered amidships in the held wetting fire to 1, and, ot the samme insiant—ae Dean bardly dh de Ung INg Uelr pO vulnerable poiuta of the ith the Alobama; to be cons of thin piratioal labora, but shew: and the foalness sequently ber diminished upeed, when I bad gained @ dine At yards from her this the time—a shel parsed through the sick bay, exploding in au ay COmpartinent, wise producing fre. An- ov t Linder, fling the engine rom and a depriving me of any power Hy ma n work the pumps, upon whieh the reduction of the fre depended With the verre! en fire ia and Weyond hotian power @ hopeless wreck with ber walking bon shot away and er engine rendered uncles, 1 atill maintained wn active fire, with « doable hope of disabling (he Va Dama tnd attracting the attention of the fleet of Catves: ton, which was only twenty eight sntlen distant 11 Way soem reported to te Coat Uae abetle had entered the Hatteras ut the water line touring off outire aboot of two plows upon the walor water was curbing in, utterly defying attempt we evil, and that’ #he nidy sinking. Learning this melenebely truth, merviay that the Ajebome wae On my port bow, eut of my guns, doubtiews peopar he deck, | fon f had no right to sacrifice useloewly ood without any desires oeult the lives of all or my command. To pre pt the blowing up of the Hatteras from the fre, whieh Was taking much jroton. | ordered the magazine to be flooded. and afterwards 4 lee gun to be fired. The Ala- bara then asked i osaietance woe desired, to winch an affirmative apawer wax given The Hatioran was now going down 4 1 the on the port oo 1 om omtide ut down with many brave Alter considerable delay that & stoamer war econ Comic Alabama sont ie omentance, aod | have the pleasure of informing the Department that every living bet g was couveved «ately (rom (he Hatteras to the Alabems Tet minutes afer eayine (he Hatteras he went d wn, bow +t, With bor penwant at her must head, with all her ket and alores o every oly bin, ow sg be her rapid rity acter, the enemy net to obtain & ingle au e battery apon the Alabarna, brought into setion the Hatteras, numbered seven guns, eon- four long «thirty two | pounders ~~ rel pounder, ome Kunty eight pounder, aod ove r pounder rifled gan. ‘The great superiority of the Alabama, with ber powerfal battery, and se inder (he water line, tush be at eves recognized departrnent, who are familiar with the commrnetion the Hatterar. and ber tots! unfitness for a contest with « regularly bolit vewse! of war, The distauee between the Hatteras and the Alabama during the section varied from twenty five to one hundred yards. Nearly fifty show were fired from the Hatteras, aud! presume @ greater number from the Alabatoa Senator Kell iting at Ros I desire to reter to tue eficwut and active manner in nator Kelley's nicigh was io waiting at Rhioo | | I dexiee te eater ie vieary basseuive Olltee, por heck ou the arrival of the train, The General | formed his duty thee ety ye nee abitonens i wax but 4 momeat elepping from the oars to the | Matthews, both dur ite ection aod after wards, ia attend sleigh, when the driver started at rapid speed for the residence of Mr. Kelley, pursued by an immense crowd, making tbe air riog with their cheers for MoCle!ian Heveral interesting incidents tovk place ou the route in cougection with soldiers returning tryin thearmy Seve Tal @ptered into conversation with the General, the latter | aaking questious about tne com tition Of ibe army and ity | | the | diftertu: 4 von, with aa wh interest as thowgh be was still its commander A wannded soldier in anther car, ou being lold that General MeCleliaa was on the trai, wept like» dectring that he caulda't ueip it also that if Gepera? MeClelian war agato placed at the head 4 the army be would go end Sight woder him if be had 10 4o on une ley Governor Seymour uae cous to Rhinebeck under an ia vitation of Mr. Keliey, waking a gathering of a ul of rlant personages at that point bolletio anneneed the fe the coming ot the train. T ever, aud a great ¢ Orunreee ail the pmesagen of the station house. The know ing ones | must rel 1a \amenne force sume way down the ‘rack , bn the belies that the General would ap of the ‘at ear inevead of he rear platform e wae whimpered tle ting B00 total din eu. Worneide was ea uiited with goxd humor to the and made a few remarks, io ing to the woruded, demands my onqaalified commends Lon. | would also bring to the favorable pote of the Departinent Acting Master's Mate T J. MoGrath, tempo. rarily performing doty a» gumner (wing to the darkoe-s ef the oight and the peculiar commrartion of the Hatteras T atm only to refer to the conduct of (heee officers whe came ander ny special atrention but from the character of the nnd the amount of damage dewe © the Alabama, | baw i Maer 4 prae LD arta aod bravery war ot the highest order Lancione the report af Avsistant Burgeon Eaward # Matthews, by which you will obeerve that five meu Their euthy were wenoiet ead two killed, The mineing, it hoped, have rescued the feet at Galves: va ' «|| communicate to the department in aneparate report the movements & myself aot com m1 from the oar traneter © the Alabama until the departore ot mall from this place to Ube Loited au How tom, 14 Cosas om Hoard » ote Comme Late, Korres, | Janene ah, he. | om the annered Niet of casual coent brilliant, but @isastrom have to report to y led severe wound in a yin boy. b4ward Matlock sight wound ) CUrimtopher Bteptowick, seaman DA wood in the leg hapa contra, aright wound and, ight wound in the o miening, all of the feet of Galveston, Late 8 (avoranle condition, and will ema 8 O8Ly the merece Of bei eoumey wan oxperioneed in « wopply of medvemes oar Ainponns by jot the one of the Jom, Very renpectty WARD 8 MATTHEWS, Aw stant Surgeon, United Mates Navy ont Cotnmnmdiog RC Buaam, late command niled Peato wranener Hatteras “ we at Warr aces ketone foprearicos ren Bet (aren, cniled "Married Life,” wae reyived ong at Wallack © new theatre, 1 was moseally 4 open the wage, and wan reomtyed wiib conten anier wha applause by @ ange andie a m ¢ . ‘ 2 omnecteg with the will give « pal newt wong oulog at the Compan deat wut be