The New York Herald Newspaper, March 29, 1863, Page 6

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WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Etgiorian | Sones, Dances, &0.—Lanv or Faexpox. THE NEW IDEA, 485 Broadway.—Sonos, Bunesavxs, pTHe NEN way.—Soxas, BURLESAUas, HOPE CHAPEL, 720 Broadway—MacEvor's Hisegst- con; oR, A TouR IN InxLanp. AMERICAN SHEATER. Me. 44 Broadway.—Baters, Pantoumes, BuRLESQUES, PARISIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway.— Open daily from 10 A.M. ilL19P. Ma. HOOLEY'S OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyn.—Ermiorian Bonas, Dances, Buxtxsqurs, &c, WASHINGTON HALL, Astoria.—Gxo. Curisty's Min STRELS. New York, Sunday, March 29, 1863. THE SITUATION. By the arrival of the Anglo-rebel prize steamer Peterhoff at this port from Port Royal yesterday, we have the important information that on the 23d inst. all the Union troops at that point were em- barked on a number of transports—their destina- tion, of course, not being made public. The Union iron-clads had left Port Royal the previous day, and the Peterhoff while on her way, about eighteen miles off Charleston, at night, saw the flashes of guns and shells bursting in that vicinity. These demonstrations probably were made by the iron-clada reconnoitering and secur- ing position to protect the landing of the troops, which were following in the transports. Ournews from Charleston via Richmond is to the 25th, and does not mention any attack as taking place on Charleston at that date. That it cannot be far dis- tant, however, is now morally certain. Whave some exciting news from the South- west. Despatches from Cairo yesterday state that eur forces are within one and a quarter miles | of Haines’ Bluff, on the Yazoo, and have landed at Eagle Bend. A despatch from Vicksburg says that two of our gunboats attempted to pass down the river on the morning of the 25th, and that one of them was sunk and the other badly damaged by the fire of the rebel batteries. The same intelli- gence reached Richmond from rebel official sources at Jackson, Miss. A despatch from Mo- bile says that three of our gnuboats were destroyed by the rebel batteries at the junction of the Sun- flower river and Deep Creek, and the balance driven back, on Saturday last. From Kansas City we learn that the steamer Sam Getty, while passing Sibley’s landing, on her way from Independence, was boarded by a force of guerillas, who killed five infantry soldiers, ifty cavalry and twenty negroes, and robbed all the passengers of their property, at the same time throwing overboad one hundred sacks of flour and @ number of government wagons. a Several paymasters arrived at Fortress Monroe yesterday with money to pay off our troops at Suffolk, Norfolk and Yorktown. Most welcome inessengers they will prove, no doubt. ‘The news of the destruction by our fleet of the rebel steamer Georgiana, off Long Island beach, South Carolina, reached the Navy Department by telegraph from Fortress Monroe yesterday. In- formation had previously been received that she left Liverpool on the 21st of January, and that at her departure many secessionists were pre- sent, who waved handkerchiefs and made many other manifestations of their delight. She wasa powerful steamer of four hundred and seven tons burden and one hundred and fifty horse power, and it had been represented to the Navy Depart- ment that she was more formidable than the Alabama. ; Gen. Schofield, lately commanding the Army of the Frontier, has arrived in St. Louis, his nomina- tion asa major general not having been confirm- ed bythe Senate. Major General Herron will pro- bably be assigned to the command in his place. ‘The fatter officer is familiar with Southwest Missouri and Northwestern Arkansas, having serv- ed there ia three separate campaigns. At Wilson's | creek he commanded company in the First lowa dvfantry; at Pea Ridge he was Lieutenant Colonel of the Ninth Iowa, where he was wounded and captared, but speedily exchanged; and at Prairie Grove he was in chief command until Gen. Blunt arrived on the ground, near the close of the bat- tle. Subsequently Gen. Herron led the advance upon Van Buren. He onght to take Little Rock as his next move. General Totten, lately commanding a division in the Army of the Frontier, has been ordered to Washington. Gen. Totten holds his commission from the State of Missouri, his rank in the regular army being that of major. He was: present witl Gen. Lyon at the capture of Camp Jackson and at the battles of Booneville and Wilson's creck. At the latter engagement the skilful handling of his battery prevented the rebels from winning the day, repulsing them in three successiwe assaults. He will probably be axsigned to daty in the Army of the Potomac, EUROPEAN NEWS. ‘The steamship Asia, from Queenstown on the 15th of March, arrived at this pert yesterday goorning. Her news is two days later than the ad- vices of the Bohemian, published in the Hgnanp of yesterday morning. The Confederate Southern loan of three millions af pounds aterling wae expected to be introduged NEW YORK, HMRALD, SUNDAY, MAROH 29, 1963. ‘Twenty-scoond streets, on “The Truc Oondition { this subject, let us once more remind | ‘Tam Busormay Sovraman Loan 4 Homa.— ==" in Paris ead London in seven days after the Asis eniled. Aseries of diplomatic correspondence relative te the American war had been submitted to the English Parliament. It embraces a despatch from Earl Russell to Lord Lyons on the subject of the emancipation policy of President Lincoln, a letter from Lord Lyons to Earl Russell relative to the general condition of political parties in the United States, and letters from Mr. Mason, the rebel com- missioner in London, to the English Foroign Office, assailing the blockade and calling on the Queen's government’ either to disregard or raise it, as being inefficient. Farl Russell's reply to Mr. Mason is also given. Farl Russell, speaking of the emancipation pro- clamation, says:—‘There seems to be no declara- tion of a principle adverse to slavery in this procla- mation. itis measure of war, and # measure of war of @ very questionable kind. As President Lincoln has twice appealed to the judgment of mankind in his proclaination, I venture to say 1 do not think it can or ought to satisfy the friends of abolition, who look for total and impartial free- dom for the slave, and not for vengeance on the siaveowner.”” Lord Lyons, writing on the position of the politi- cal parties in this country, says:—‘‘The democratic party seeks to profit by the difficulties of ita oppo- nents, without committing itself to any very defi- nite policy. Thus its attacks the arbitrary arrests and the other extra legal measures of the Cabinet, and, above all, the military administration; but it does not risk its own popularity by declaring against the war, or pronouncing the word ‘separa- tion.’ There is nothing at present to show whether or not there is likely to be in the meantime a con- juncture at which foreign Powers may step in with propriety and effect to put a stop to the effusion of blood.” To Mr. Mason Ear! Itussell replies, on the subject of blockades, thus:—‘‘The adequacy of the force to maintain the blockade must indeed always, to a certain extent, be one of fact and evidence; but it does not appear that in any of the numerous cases brought before the prize courts in America the inadequacy of the force has been urged by those who would have been most interested in urging it against the legality of the seizure.’’ In the case of the British prize bark Springbok, captured by the United States oruiser Sonoma, the English government has advised the owners to watch the progress of the case in the American courts by their agents, and to put inaclaim for damages and loss caused by the seizure of the ves- sel. When the Prize Court makes a decision the executive of Great Britain will take up the case. On the subject of the fitting out of war vessels for the Confederates in England, Earl Russell offi- cially states that some overt acts in breach of the Queen’s neutrality proclamation must be proven against the partics accused before the home gov- ernment can interfere with them. Miss Slidell, daughter of the rebel commission- er in Paris, was thrown from her horse, in the Bois de Boulogne, and sustained a fracture of the skull. When the Asis sailed she was improving. John Smith, a Washington market dealer, com- mitted suicide at his residence, No. 572 Third ave- nue, yesterday, by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. Deceased was forty years of age, and was a native of this State. No cause could be assigned for the commission of the rash act. The Mexican war was growing more unpopular in Paria daily. It was believed that Napoleon con- templated the withdrawal of his troops from the country whenever he could do so without positive disgrace. Others, again, said that he contemplated the removal of General Forey and the appointment of another commander more rapid in movement and more economical of his cash resources. Ge- neral Neil was mentioned in this connection. It was asserted in some circles in Paris that the Em- peror was even preparing to undertake a war with Russia as an agreeable military cover under which he might abandon the Mexican enterprise. ‘The most interesting and important points of the news by the Asia are to be found in the details of the progress of the Polish insurrection, and its gradual assumption of the character of a great European question, A portion of the revolution- ary troops encountered the Russians at Sosnowitz, but were routed after a sanguinary engagement. Some of the retreating soldiers of Langiewitz were driven on to Prussian territory. On the other hand, the Poles had defeated a body of Rus- sians near Mysozowa, killing over one hundred of them. Langiewitz held a good position and was prepared for a great engagement at the latest dates. Garibaldi had written him @ letter of sym. pathy, in which he held out a promise of acti personal assistance. This the Dictator of Poland declined. General Dembinski had published a letter in Paris, in which he classes every man- Kossuth, Ladislas or else—who seeks to stir up the Hungarians against Austria at the present moment os an enemy of Poland. Meanwhile the Cabinets and people of England, France, Austria of Amorican Loyalty.” He laid down the princi- ple that all idea of the supremacy of the national rights, or powers, or interests, when founded on something not embraced in thé constitution, was purely visionary, He believed that either the in- stitutions of the cowntry would perish or the par- ty undcrtaking to repress all freedom of discussion would perish; and ho alao declared his belief that it was tho iuiasion of the democracy to save the constitution of tho United States for the whole Union, with every right which it protects com- pletely re-catablished, The democracy was to seek, by every constitutional and upright method, to obtain the control of ail the organisims of 4 government, and, if it could not induce the present .Execative of the United States to change his poti- cy, then it was to posaessits soul in patience till it could give him a constitutional successor. The de- mocracy should rightfully demand that the con- stitution, with all its guarantegs, be tendered to the revolicd States, and thia without calling upon the government to change ita milftary attitude. Application has been made to the Governor of Delaware for permission to raise a negro regiment in that State, Counterfeit ‘fives’ on the Bank of the Com- monwealth of this eity made their appearance yesterday, and many shopkeepers suffered in con- sequence. The stock and gold markets were both better yestor- day. Stocks rose %4a1% per cent, and gold 234. Ex- change did not quite follow gold, and was quoted at the cloge 166.8 15634. _Monoy was worth 6 per cent on call. The slight rise im gold, and consequently im sterling exchange, caused more activity in breadstuf’ on Satur- day, with an advanco on flour of 10¢., on wheat of 2e., and on corn ‘of ic. There was also more doing in prgvisions, and Increase’ Armneas discernable in pork, tard, bacon and out meats. Wiiskey was a trifle higher and in better request, Cotton was tolerably steady ia price, but was inactive. The grocery trade was ro- stricted, in part by the storm; sales wefe moderate and prices depressed, The demand for most other commodi- ties was limited. The freight market was dull and rates wore heavy. The Financial Coniition of the Coun- try. That there is, both at home and abroad, a healthy revival of public comfidence in the sta- bility of eur government and the success of our efforts to crush the rebellion, must be evident even to those least observant of popular senti- ment. We have had no great victories lately, and have, on the contrary, been subjected to numerous trifling but annoying reverses and delays; but still the revival of confidence is an acknowledged fact, and its cause must be found ina better appreciation of the power and re- sources of the American people, both on our own part ‘and on the part of Europeans. We now begin to understand ourselves, and Europe begins to understand us. How this result has been achieved we shall not at present consider; but its influence upon our finances is 4 matter of the utmost importance and the sincerest con- gratulation. Hitherto we have neither asked nor recejved any financial aid frem Europe. The press of Europe has repeatedly warned capitalists not to invest in American securities. Now, how- ever, we find all kinds of projects on foot among foreign bankers for the purchase of large quan- tities of our stocks, and by every steamer come orders from individuals in Europe to agents here to invest freely in United States bonds. This foreign demand for our securities has caused an average advance of seven per cent, and already foreign capitalists are ealling upon us to offer a loan. At home the financial pros- pectis still brighter. The conversions of legal ten- der notes into five-twenty bonds, solong and so | foolishly neglected, are now remarkably active. The subscription agent announces that one mil- lion two hundred thousand dollars were thus con- verted on Tuesday, two millions of dollars during the last two days, and five millions with- | in the past ten days. These conversions will | probably average over five hundred thousand | dollars a day during the short time longer that { they will be permitted. Assistant Treasurer | Cisco is receiving money on deposit at five per | | cent interest. On Friday last he received a | million of dollars, and the deposits at all points | will probably average fully that amount every | day. The receipts from taxes will average | three hundred and fifty thousand dollars a day from this time forth, and by midsummer this amount will be increased to five or six hun- dred thousand. The receipts from customs du- ties average three hundred thousand dollars a day in gold. Sum up these amounts of con- | versions, deposits, tax es and customs duties, and it is clear that the Secretary of the Trea- sury is now receiving over $2,150,000 every day—more money than the government ex- pends. If we have a financial croaker among us, lot him digest this fact. The sunshine of spring lighiens up all our and Prussia were very much agitated and alarmed | by the situation of affairs in Poland. Lord Pal- | merston declined to state his opinion to a deputa- | tion in favor of the Poles; but the London jour nals seem to indicate a non-intervention policy for England. Paris was full of rumors, and it was even said that Napoleon and Austria had deter- mined to restore the nationality of Poland, even at the cost of a war with Russia and Prussia. The King of Italy had sanctioned the project of a government loan of seven hundred millions of lire, of which it was thought five hundred millions would be taken up. The Liverpool cotton market was buoyant on the 14th instant, atan advance of one-half of # penny per pound. Breadstuffs were quiet and steady. Provisions remained steady, with » quiet market. THE LEGISLATURE. . ‘The State Senate yesterday, in Committee of the Whole, devoted a large portion of another session to the Broadway Railroad bill. A substitute was pro- posed, to the effect that hereafter all the city rail road franchises applied for shall be given, by a State commission to be established, to the highest bidder, the receipts from such sales to inure to the benefit of the Croton Water Department and the Central Park. This was rejected by a vote of nine toten. An amendment prohibiting the running of cars on Sunday was adopted; also one making it necessary, before running the road through Fifth avenue, to obtain the consent of majority of the property owners on that street between Twenty- third and Eighty-sixth streete. The bill, after some other amendments and considerable debate, was given in charge of a special committee, to, be } reported complete. This committee consists of Senators Connolly, Folger and Murphy. Much other business was transacted, but most of it was not of general interest, The proposition to give State aid to the families of drafted men received a | favorable report. é The Assembly passed the bills giving the mem- * our Common Council annual salaries of $2,500 . and fixing the terms of office of the heads of our city departments at four years: also the bill amending the act for the construction of the South and West Streets Railroad. A number of other biils were passed; but they were princi- pally local or special ones. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The Swedish st hip Ernst Mersch, from Li- verpool, arrived yesterday, has on freight 1,560 bales of cotton, The French gunboat Renandin, Commander Le Cardinal, in three dgys from Charlesten, 8. C., Srrived at this port yesterday. Mr. George Ticknor Curtis, of Massachusetts, made a specch last evi before the Demoora- Hig Uniga Associa’ “prner of Brondwar end | affairs. The speoulation in gold has practically | ceased. The prices of all staples, no longer | obliged to fluctuate with gold, are now gradu- | ally and surely settling down to reasonable rates, and thus relieving the masses from a grievously heavy indirect tax. During the past two years the government has issued over four hundred millions ef dollars’ worth of six per vent bonds, 7.30 Treasary notes and six per cent debt certificates (one year), besides legal tender notes, and our own people | have not only bought up ad this paper, but | have also absorbed over two hundred millions of dollars’ worth of Ameriean seeurities sent over here to be sold during the panie in Eu- rope at the beginning of the war. It is a glo- | rious thought that we are at once our own | debtors and creditors, and that, after these im- | mense investments, there is still wealth enough | in the country to keep most of the government | securities above par, and the whole stock mar- | ket buoyant, New Jersey disposed of a small | War loan a few days ago, at an average pre- | mium of thirteen per cent. The war loans of all our States and cities have been admira- bly managed, having commanded pre- miums, averaging from eight to thirty per cent. With « single decisive victory as a basis, the government could negotiate a loan at six per cent, and our bankers would take it up with an avidity which would make the world wonder. More than this: specie payments could be resumed by the gov- ernment, and. ought to be, without un- necessary delay. In @ word. our financial condition is now most promising. With proper management on the part of our finan- cial officers there need be no more trouble about the sinews of our war. With proper management there would never have been any trouble, and we wish it to be distinctly under- stood that Secretary Chase is in no degree re- sponsible for the present hopeful condition ef our finances. We have saved ourselves from ruin rather in spite of Secretary Chase than by his aid. It is the country, not'the administra- tion, which has proven itself great. The people may thank themselves, not their rulers, for their salvation. _ Without dwelling upon the deductions President Lincoln that now is the golden moment to «trike down the rebellion. Our finances are prosperous; those of the rebels, with gold at six hundred per cent, are most de- plorable. We have an immense army in the field, with power to increase it at pleasure; the rebels have exhausted their conscription lists and are offering two thousand dollars for sub- stitutes. We have unlimited and inexhaustible resources; the rebels are now forced to con- script grain and meat. In short, the rebellion is now staggering to its final fall, and only re- quires ono decisive defeat te annihilate it. The North is once more united. The abolitionists have apostatized from their emancipation idol ; the copperheads have slunk to their holes ; the conservatives are again in the ascendancy. Pre- sident Lincoln must do the rest. We warn him that his responsibilities are as great as the means with which we have provided him, and that, while glory awaits him if he sucoceds, no disgrace wil! be too severe for him if he now lose the cause through mismanagement or neglect. The South Forced to Abandon All Hope of European Recogaition. Aside from its momentous results in Europe, the Palish insutrection will have a lasting effect on this continent. The rebel agents abroad were but a short ‘time ago jubilant over the chances which promised to their government a recognition by France, even if England and other great European Powers did not join the Emperor Napoleon in some overt act in favor of Davis. They felt sure of success in their re- bellious schemes, and announced loudly that ere many months, nay weeks, had passed the Southern confederacy would be received among the established Powers. All these bril- liant hopes and aspirations have been dashed to the earth by the sudden and overwhelming in- surrection of the Poles. Napoleon finds, as a result of this movement, interests near his throne which require his every care and thought, and hence he will abandon his scheme in favor of the Davis government. He fecis that at the present time he could not risk any broil with the United States, and this he causes the rebel agents to understand. The hope of a speedy foreign recognition has alone kept the traitors of the South—those prominent as guiding spirits—in the continuance of their abominable struggle. Now that they are made to understand they must continue it alone, and with no hope of ultimate,assistance from Eu- rope, they will surely despair. There are thou- sands, nay, millions, im the South who would have demanded a cessation of the war long ago had not their hopes of recognition and sub- sequent assistance from European Powers in- duced them to strive a littlelonger. All chances of such a consummation are now extinct. France will have all she can attend to near at home, and will not risk any further complica- tions on this continent by interfering in our troubles. The people of the South must, and doubtless do, fully understand that henceforth they can but defer the hour of their entire sub- jection—escape it they cannot. We predict that profound discouragement will ensue in all parts of the South, and that ono decisive vic- tory gained by us will make them sue for peace. The Polish insurrection has, diverted public opinion in Europe from the American rebel- lion, and henceforth the Confederate States must depend upon themselves alone. There is no Southeraer but understands that, un- aided by some European Power, the Davis gov- ernment must succumb. This certitude will do as much and more towards reducing the rebel- lion than ,would an army of Yankees. Hope deferred maketh the heart sick. Where there exists no longer any hope the heart perishes. Just so will this bad, wicked animus of the Southern rebels die out at the conviction that Europe will do naught for them. Even were he ever so disposed, Napoleon cannot, while Eng- land dare not. The sooner the rebels now lay down their arms and beg for readmittance into our glorious Union the less will be their snf- fering. That they must ultimately come to this is now as evident as that day succeedg the night. Tue Two Sines or tHe Rappawannock.—The Union army on the north side of the Rappahan- nock is now better clothed, fed and cared for in every way than any army in any other country | of the same proportions in the history of the world. The best of fresh beef, fresh soft bread, vegetables, coffee, and even butter, are common among the supplies of our soldiers. But on the south side of the river, from the badly clothed rebel prisoners falling into the hands of our troops, and from the groans of the Richmond newspapers, there canbe no doubt that the rebel army is reduced to a very scanty ration, often consisting of nothing but a small supply of corn bread. We are therefore strongly in- clined to believe that General Lee is aa likely to repeat the evacuation game of Manassas and | Corinth as to stand his ground for another bat- | tle on the Rappahannock. Goverxuusr anp tHE Army.—It will have been seen by the statement which we pub- lished on Friday last, from our correspondent at the headqudtters of the Army ef the Potomac, that nothing can be more satisfactory than the present condition of General Hooker's cem- mand. The regiments composing it are all comfortably clothed and are provided with abundance of everything. The paymasters are busily at work amongst them, and in a week, or a fortnight at furthest, the arrears due to the men will be all settled up. We have similar accounts from the Southwest and from all other points where any important foree is sta- tioned. This is as it should be, and we trust that for the fuiure we shall hear no more com- plaints of the indifference of commanding offi- cers to the comforts of their men, or of neglect of their duties by the goverament officials. While the welfare of our troops in the field is thus carefully provided for, we hope that the settlement of the claims of the families of those who have lost their lives in the service of the country will not be subjected to any unne- ceswary delay. We know that in quite a num- ber of instances the arrears of pay due officers and soldiers whe were killed in battle some twelve or fourteen months ago remain still an- settled. This {s mot creditable to the govern- ment, and we trust that steps will be at once taken to redress co well founded a subject of complaint. “Tur Gorn Srecutatoxs.—Gold went up a little yesterday. Cause, no news from Vicks. burg. The gold speculators are watching closely the movements of our armies. A great Union victory will create as groat stampede For some time rumors of a loan of several mil- lions of pounds, to be made by Buropean oapi- talists to the Davis government, have been in- dustriously circulated both abroad and here by the rebel agents. It was first asserted that the well known banking house of Fould & Co, in Paris, had takea this loan; then, when that was .proved false, is was said that Ehrlanger & Co., ef Paris and Frankfort, were the partios wpo are to take the loan. We are assured, on good authority, that neither one nor the other have taken any steps in the matter, and that they are not 80 Quixotic or willing to lose their money as to advance it to the Davis government ou the contingency of precuring cotton at some later date. The fact is, as the Polish insurrec- tion has destroyed all chances for a European recognition of Davis, so it has ruined his Gnan- cial arrangements abroad. He will get no Reported Fight on the Sunflower River. money in Europe. a THE SIEGE OF VICKSBURG. Our Troops Within Cannon Shot ef Haines’ Bluff. IMPORTANT REBEL REPORTS. Fight Between Ganboats and the Vicksburg Batteries. One Vessel Sunk and Another Disabled. f Tar Cusvacmer Forxry a Livres too Fasr.— | The Union Forces Repulsed and The Chevalier Forney boasta of the Union Leagues of the day as covering a grand Pre- sidential movement for 1864, But the Chevalier Forney is a smail beer politician, who sees in everything a movement for the spoils, He is of the same school, in fact, as the copperheads and the astivd obicfs of the abolition faction, who ook first for the spoils, and then for the ways and means to get the spoils. The businéss now before the congtry is the suppression of the re- bellion, and Forney and every other spoils poli- tician, of every faction, must fall in with this idea or get out of the way. These Union Leagues, too, must stick to this one idea, or, instead of doing any good, they will do much mischief. We must put down this rebellion, or the Presi- denglal election of 1864 may not be worth squabbling about. Forney is a shaMow poli- tician and a bad adviser. Tux Broapway Rattway Souxmes.—From present appearances it is not unlikely that one Three Gunbeats Destreyed. dy &e., ae. Naren Cargo, March 28, 1668. It Is reported via Memphis that two divisious of our troops have entered Yagoo via Suntiower river, aud that { thoy lunded at Eagle Head, just above Haives’ Biull, one and « quarter miies from the reboi fortifications. Our Memphis Correspondence. Mnurnrs, Mareb 23, 1868. Our Forces Erect a Batteryin Rear of the Rebeb ‘Ford Pemberton’ —Preparations for Rencwing the Figh—4 New Route to the Yasoo—Haines’ Bluff ¥lanked—Arvi- val of Farragut's Fleet at Vicksburg—Levee Outting— Rebel Guerilla Operations in West Tennessee—Oapture of a Wood Train and a Paymaster—Railroading— Rebel Programe to Get Supplies—Kxtensive Smuggling, de. Vicksburg has not been taken yot; but, unless alt the signs of the times are deceptive, that rebel stronghold will soon be ocoupied by Union troops, and the Stars and of the Broadway Railroad bills now before the | giripes float from ita highest hilltop. Our tatest a@- Legislature will be passed ‘during the present session. its sanotion that will not. embody two provi- sions—first, that the franchise shall produce its full value to the city; and, secondly, that the maximum of fare charged shall be only three cents. The enormous traffic that the company ‘| shoot accurately. The dredge boats are performing ele. obtaining the grant will immediately enter upon will enable it to comply with both these conditions, and mothing that can be urged will justify the Legislature in departing from them. We trust that no measure will receive | greatly improved, and distrust add doubi have given vices are all encouraging. The health of the troops has Place to the strongest confidence in assured triumph. The canal opposite the city is progressing slowly, the rebels having planted guns which annoy our laborers not a lit- tle. Tho consequence is, most of the work is now done om it at might, when the enemy cannot so easily see how to gantly, and it is now believed that in afew days eue gunboats and transports will be able to go through, ex- posed, however, to one or two rebel batteries, instead of the entire armament on the hills of Vicksburg. ‘The probable success of the canal supersedes the neces- bity of seeking to flank Vicksburg by the Lake Providence A Specimen ov Tar Beauties or tHe Davis | end Red river route. But this has not, until withia a few Desrorism.—The Columbus (Ga.) Sun of the | ¢*¥8 Past, induced s suspension of operations at Lake 13th of March says:—“Considerable excitement Providence. Last Thursday the water was let into the canal, and already it is lange enough for the largest eime , prevailed on the streets yesterday im con- | steamboats to navigate. Still it is doubtful if it will now sequence of the seizure of bacon in the hands of | be used, as other and more practical routes of attaining private parties by a person claiming to be an | the camo advantages have since been devised. The water agent of the Confederate government. made several seizures, when his authority was doubted, and he was arrested by the civil au thorities and held over for trial.” “Thus,” says the paper aforesaid, “the matter stands. and Fort Pemberton, at Greenwood, the confluence of Bacon was retailing before the seizure at eighty cents a pound. We venture the prediction it will be up to $1 26 in a few days—all the re-’ that | the rebel fort, but bad not succeeded fully, as He had | 20W overtiows « large extent of country, and the planters , along the proposed route have had to run to the bills te avoid being submerged with their lands and crops. Our advices from the Yazoo Pass expedition are to the day before yesterday. The fight between the Chillicothe + the Tallabatobie and Yallobusba, had not been renewed. Our forces nd attempted to baid s bettery in the rear of was little land to work upon and the water was conta rising. Still they wore engaged tn pul up the taken the guns off the DeKalb sults of seizures.” This, too, in the heart of | having already the armies and guerillas of Davis for two yeara have been scouring the country and eating out or wasting its substance. ; Tae CoprerHEaps AND THE ConsTITUTION.— The noisy orators of the copperhead peace fac- tion, while preaching resistance to the laws, pro- fess to be great sticklers for the constitution | tion still “— * alte ta meantime retaforoe- and State rights. In a gentle way we would a Atta Toate, and omy ll ag abiding’ i i fidence call their attention to article six, second para- | Compiance, Uiat we, anal ae ta tina! Be graph, of the constitution of the United States, | must capture their fort and go ou. e Uni which shal m pur- “gy geaticsagdie comer aggge = more suance thereof, and all treaties made or which ‘iterent”vamey “ur gunboats "rap Yao rivet Ve 's bayou, jobnston’s 5 7 shall be made under the authority of the United | Secu ’tavonsttrom that to eet creek, trom that es States, shall be the supreme law of the land, er, and from Sunflower into the Yagoo river, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.” Santiows striking {t about fifteen miles above Haines’ Blatt, which, NEWS FROM WASHINGTON. is now strongly by the rebels, The Chilitoothe dismounted; now they ‘are said to have tem guns, and the work their was that this plan was entirely feasible, and that our troops could be tre ‘ted from Eagle Bend, on the Mis¢ sissippi, near Island No. 100, over land and water, in one day , to Yazoo river. Once on Yazoo river they can fol- tow ft till they make a junction with our forces now tm front of Greenwood, and the united army march om eugaged fortifying. Yazoo City is said to many advantages for successful fortifying; our heroic forces have no doubt of taking the place aod marching on to cut off the communication bee tween Jackson and Vicksb and open the way te the bagging of the whole rebel force. No one now doubts Wastincton, March 28, 1863. REPO...ED APPEARANCE OF THE REUELS IN THE SHR- NANDOAH VALLEY. For several days reperts have been rife here of the presence of a large rebel force in the Sheuandoah valley, but there is no reliable information to confirm them, To-day a similar report was circulated, bat It is believed by the General-in-Chief to have been started by the ins habitants of the valley with « view to produce a stam. entire success at Vicksburg; but suob is the nature ny 7 immediate events of the Present week or next. ‘ Last Phursday morning two of Commodore Farragut’™ fleet made their appearance at the canal at Vicksburg, having passed both Port Hudson and the Warrenton tories. Their appearance was hatled with joy by oar troops: but as to the nature of their reports from below the publie as yet know nothing, aud speculations are The levees have been cut tv some half dozen tween Young’s Point and Helen: all lauds for scores of miles around the damage thux sustained by i Ag a war it tw severe, and it ix to be hoped effective. Notwithstanding the recent dispersal of se of queries in West Tennessee, there are loft of the same sort, Sauistreet, a famous guerilla, ie their leader. For weeks past they bave been watchi for an opportunity to make a raid upon the Memphis Charleston Railroad—the only communication bet our troops at Corinth and Memphis, but they néver got | ap unity till yesterday. A wood train coming from Jackson t Memphis was thrown of by their veting rail ern bree miles from Grand Juncti yesterday, immed satel rich “Gh eles er aes eee sae negroes, They set two of the Gfieen carson te, pede of the federal treops in that vicinity. LETTERS OF MARQUE. ‘The question in regard to issuing letters of marque is still under consideration. The government has not, as has been stated, determined not to iseue them. DRESTRQCTION OF THR STRAMEK GRORGIANA, OFF . CHARLESTON. The Navy Department has received intelligence to-day con firming the report of the capture of the rebel steamer Georgiana, near Charleston TERIBLE RAILROAD CATASTROPRE. A terrible accident occurred on the railroad near Camp Convalescent, Alexandria, yesterday. Just as the train, filled with convalescent soldiors, was moving at rather & rapid rate around the curve near the camp, the coupling became detached, causing the cars to run off the track, and resuiting in a general smash up, the death of David Frauhenfield, of Company F, One Hundred and Twenty- ninth Pennsylvania Volunteers, and the wounding of the twenty following named soldiers:—Joseph Dearth, Co 1, Nine- | and left w capture a road paymaster train just comhg teenth New York, slightly injured: Solomon Clark, Co.D, | UP. Im this latter pro failed , eee Twelfth New Hampehire, dangerously; Jobm Long, | fw “houre alter ont cavalry weut in ppracit, asd ine Co. A, One Hundred and Ninth Peunsylvania, slight- | be hoped they will make clean work this time. 16 Jy; Elwood Walton, Co. D, Que Hundred aud Four. | 's really astonishing that ouly seventy-five or one hun- teonth Pennsylvania, dangerously; George Panglor, | {he waye “or cur’ keiny. abd senay us ion ait oe Co, C, Twenty-fires New York, slightly; David plane. There are. solders ‘edough in | Bradly, Co. C, Seventeesth Convectiout, dangerously; ¢, , vlean t oat, aud it seems that no pr com, E. Tilton, Co. G, Thirty. Oth Marsachosotte, badly, C. Me. | Mander,,would Permit them te go longer “‘uawhipt places be- the low. Cali, Co. 1, Twenty -gighth Penneyivanin, apme injured; C. | Me-all, Jr., son of former, broived not dangerously. TRIED BY COURT MAKTIAL. Among those tried by the Court Martial ordered by | Major General co with Colonel Korpovay, ‘Twenty cighth Pennsylvania regiment, presiding, was [), Turner, Esq., editor of the Daily News, of Alexandria, , Va. The offencé was the publication of the roster of General Heintzetma’s command for February, 1863, | Mr. Turner pleaded gitity, and wae sentenced to one | year's hard labor at the Rip Rape, or some other military station, to be designated by the general commanding Private Henry Vanderwater, Company G, Firet District | of Columbia Volunteers, was tried at the same time and | by the same court, and convicted of furnishing this | roster to Mr. Tarner for publication. He war sentenced to forfeit to thegUmited States all pay now doe, or that may become due for the «pace of three years, and to be | confined at hard labor at the Rip Rape, or some other | military jon, to be designated by the Commanding | Gonoral, during the same period of three years, | In confirming these proceedings Genoral Heintzelman | draws a distinction between the culpability of the civilian and the soldier in his knowledge of duty in matters purely military. The sentence of Mr. Turner is, there- fore remitted, and that of private Vandewater is miti gated to forfeitare of all pay now due or to become dae itn from the United States, and to confinement at hard Jabor for three months, at the ond of which time be will be dishonorably discharged from the servic. SAILING OF THR OBBIPRE. ‘The stoam vloop Cesipee left be to-day with sealed orders, . There is a xcheme on foot to keep up our railrond eo minieation between Columb Jack seems likely to prove have abandoned that part and w the citizens propose tw take it and on their own account ee upon road, and that if they re it they wil do their prevent ite interruption by marauding bands no doubt shat the plan will be successful, and that in meave whereby to reconcile many of the secedere tothe beneficent sway of the constitution the Union, ‘The opinion universal here in secession circiée their revel ‘lord aud master,’’ Jefferson I., will do hi divinest to obtain control of the Gbio, Comberiand ‘Jeoncasce rivers, and thus obtain supplies for ‘ horde, Already they ay wat rae in from crans bas been increased twent) thoneans intimation fs giveo ge? ja the will be large enongh to Tuy are bongry and they wi! without making some efort obtain supplies, their programme js to fight Rosecrans no well it believes; but that choir real purpore fs to hia fear and cut off his supple’ is now dent. through the lines is still carried arming egtont, and at, to, notwitheamning strictly prohibited by #! rules regulat: see ror by the circumstances of the case, A man from Arkansas reports that near! fortunes made; but it is only when wkd tw inquire “Where have the goods gone tar’ ‘and so many