The New York Herald Newspaper, April 16, 1863, Page 4

4 lila a IR neem NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PsOPRIRIOR. OvvI08 NM. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. MIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway.—Caxttum, WALLACK'’S THEATER. broadway.—Busrsopr. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Satan ix Panus—Loaw or 4 Loven. phe tt LAUBA KEENE'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Tax Rivas —Tus Last Max. WEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Satanas—Oup Som anv Youn Joe—Uastitias Banat, BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Jaox amp tux Buan- erace—Sianpy Maguiax—Jack Cape. BARXUM'S AMEBIOAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Munxts Waanex. Com, Nore, Livinc Hirrorotamus, @c, at all bowrs—Mitiess Mato—Doxe Belin. Alierneon and BRYANTS' MINSTRELS. Mechunics’ Hall, 472 Broad. 3 Gongs, Buaiesquas, Dances, 40.—BLscK ADE. eee Olé Broadway.—Braiorian , 485 Broadway.—Sonas, Bug JES FEW ms. wii a3, BuRiesauns, HOPS OHAPBL, 190 Broadway—MacEvor's Hisxaat com; om, & Toum ut IezLann. AMBRICAN THHATRE. No. 444 Broadway.—Ba.iara, Pasromimns, Burtusquas, &0. iy PARIBIAN OABINET OF WON 263 a ‘Open daily (rom ae M. iloP, ss abanatieg HOOLEY’S OPERA HOU: = ‘ sts Ly a Brooklyn.—Brmsortas New York, Thursday, April 16, 1863. THE SITUATION. Our latest news from General Foster at Wash- ington, N.C., up to the 12th instant, states that he can hold out for three weeks; that he has plenty of supplies, and can resist any force the enemy have to bring against him. On the other hand the rebel accounts represent his position’as most cri- tical. The Wilmington Journal of the 9th says that Washington was actually in the hands of General Hill on the day previous; but this is not probable. |Our Newburn correspondence to-day gives a full secount of the fight at Blount’s Mills, from which our troops. were compelled to fall back to Newburn, and wore thus unable to reinforce General Foster. ‘There @ase pretty heavy skirmishing going on during Tueadsy and Wednesday on the Black- water, near Suffolk, in which the forces of General Peck engaged the attacking party of the rebels ‘with come success. Our Suffolk correspondence * ‘Contains @ very full account of the affhir. i We give numerous extracts from the Southern fournais to-day, and despatches from different geints in Rebeldom, incinding Charleston, Mobile, ‘Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and Jackson, ‘Mississippi. ‘The affair at Charleston forms the principal sub- Ject of-comment in the Richmond papers. They ‘sre exaltant over the failure of our iron-clads to Capture the city, but erroneously credit it to the Gring of the forte; whereas it is known that it was owing to the obstructions in the channel that our boats did not knock Charleston to pieces. ‘The Richmond Whig repost that a fight took’ Place at Williamsburg on Satarday, the 4th inst., between the forces under General Wise and our troops; that at an early hour on that morning the eebels drove in the Union piskets and occupied the town, the latter retiring to Fort Magruder, from which point they commenced shelling the place. General Wise took « position near the cel- lege and replied to their fire. On the night ef the 12th inst. the steamer Stone- wall Jackson (formerly the Leopard), while at- tempting to ran into Charleston harbor, was chased by half a dozen blockaders, which fired at her, and she received several shots through her bull. The captain, finding it impossible to escape, tan the steamer on the beach and burned her. ‘The cargo consisted of several pieces of field sr- tiltery, two hundred barrels of saltpetre, forty thousand army shoes and a large assortment of merchandise. It does not appear that the Navy Department teceived any despatches from Admiral Dupont by the Arago relative to the attack on Charleston. General Shields has resigned his commission in the United States army. He arrived in San Fran- elaco on the 20th ult., but occupies no position in the Military Department of the Pacific. Jefferson Davis has issued an address to the peo- Ble of the Southern confederacy, which we pub- sh im another column, urging them to devote their agricultural labor to the production of food. He says that although the soldiers are on half rations of meat there is plenty of it in the con- federacy, but that ® difficulty exists in its trans- portation, which is now about to be remedied. By the arrival of the steamer Melita from Ha- vana, we learn the curious story that Admiral Wilkes is a paroled prisoner there until he can ex- Plain why the Vanderbilt fired a shot at a Spanish coasting steamer a short time ago. THE LEGISLATURE. Our State Legislature will probably soon bring its present session to ® termination, as yesterday was the last of the one hundred days for which, by law, the legislators are entitled to compensa- tion. As the time for their final adjournment draws near, the members appear to manifest in- creased industry, and a great amount of work is gotten through with each day. In the Senate Yesterday a nuffiber of bills were passed; but nearly all of them affected only matters which @re not of interest to the general reader. The Brooklyn Firemen’s bill was passed, and also the bill incorporating the Union Trust Company of New York. The bill giving the New York Super- Visors annual salaries of $2,000 was ordered to a third reading, and is expected to pass to-day. The amendments to the New York City Unsafe Buildings act and the bill giving the Mayor and Comptroller of New York the power of ap. | pointing mershals, were also ordered to a third reading. The Assembly amendments to the bill to promote volunteering and re- enlistments | were concurred in. The bill to regulate our city dis- | trict courts was reported favorably. The Supply | bill was lost. The Attorney General sent in a | communication expressing the opinion that tie | bill to permit soldiers to vote by proxy was un- constitutional. The New York City Tax Levy bill was passed by the Senate on Tuesday night. Among the bills passed by the Assembly were the Across Town Railroad bill, the vote being Seventy-nine yeas to twenty-seven nays. The Assembly also passed the bills authorizing dammy engines on the Brooklyn Central Railroad; for the pop of New York harbor, with an one million dollars; amending the statutes rela te burglary, incorporating the Mechanics’ and ~ ders’ Exohange, and amending the na Lien law for this city. The committee’s the Broadway Railroad bill is sald to be com- pleted, and is expected to be presented to the House to-day. The committee have several amendments im the bill, it differs materially from the form it passed the Senate. Among the amendments one giving the surplus revenues ef the road to sol- diers and their families, instead of to the Central Park, and another prohibits the ruming of oars in Fifth and Medison avenues. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. The steamship Bremen, Captain Wossels, from Southampton on the lat of April, arrived at this port yosterday afternoon, Her news has been anticipated by the City of Now York. ‘The seventy-fourth session of the New York An- nual Conference of the Methodist Episcopal church was opened at half-past eight o'clock yes- terday morning, in the church of which Rev. Dr. Newman is pastor, in Washington square, Bishop Scott presiding, and the proceedings were opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Clarke. Rev. A. H. Fer- guson acted as secretary. There were gbout three hundred clergymen in the body of the building, the gallerios being almost exclusively ocoupied. by Indies. Tho usual standing committees to present reports on the state of the ohuroh, education, &c., wore appointed, after which a special committee, consisting of the following gentlemen, was in- structed to prepare a report on the state of the nation:—J. W. Lindsay, J. P. Hermance, L, W. Peck, C. Paimer, M. D. C. Crawford and C, Jost, After the transaction of some unimportant busi- ness, the Convention adjourned to half-past eight o’clock this morning. In the case of William Grosvenor against the New Jersey Transportation Company—an action for injury, by running over plaintiff's foot—the jury in the United States Circuit Court yesterday, be- fore Judge Hoffman, rendered a verdict of $1,000 for Mr. Grosvenor. It was tried on a former-dc- casion; but the jury did not agree. In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, be- fore Recorder Hoffman, James H. Burke was tried and convicted of grand larceny, in stealing $30 in Treasury notes from @ returned soldier; scn- tenced to the State Prison fortwo years. George Stanley was tried and convicted of burglary in the third degree; sentenced to the State Prison for two.years. William Smith, a stage driver, pleaded guilty to two indictments for grand larceny; re- manded for sentence. Willam Peters, an Irish laborer, pleaded guilty to. an indictment for re- ceiving @olen goods. The prisoner is alleged to have induced persons in the employ of a hatter on Broadway to sell him hats worth $5 for fifty cents each, which he then disposed of for three dollars. Mary West, a passer of counterfeit money, indicted for forgery in the second degree, was allowed to plead guilty to the minor offence of forgery in the fourth degree. Georgiana Brooks, » woman of loose character, pleaded guilty of grand lstceny, in stealing $26 from a man named William Riar- don; remanded for sentence. At the meeting of the Board of Education last evening, s communication was read from the Sec- Tetery of the Board of Education at Melbourne, Australia, expressing a desire to exchange com- munications with the Board. A reselution ‘was edapted authorizing the clerk to exchange docu- ments of this character and preserve those receiv- ed. ‘The other business that came up was cutirety routine, and void of interest. J. McNaughton, a surgeon, who is suspected of having stolen $680 from one of his patients, who had cut his throst, was arrested yesterday by detective McDougal, and detained for examina- tion. i Henry Halfpenny, a rigger, fell from the fore- topaail yard of the ship Richard Alsop yesterday, and was instantly killed. ‘Wall street was not very active yesterday. Gold feil to ‘WWIK, rallied to 16454, aNd clowed 108% DI. Exchange was relatively lower than gold. Stocks were irregular, some higher, ome a fraction lower, but generally firm at the leading the market. Money was ; Cals loans 5 a 6 per coat. ‘The demand for flour and grain was limited yesterday, and prices were generally © shade cheaper. There was Jean doing in provisions, at decitaing rates, and more in Groceries, at steady figures. The cotton market was quite dull at 676, a 68c. for middlings. Hay was in fair de- mand. Most other articles were very lightly dealt in, though buyers had any existing advantage. The freight market was inactive, Are We Drifting in a War with Eng- a? The American people are proverbially a sus- ceptible race. Eighty years of such prosperity as the world never before witnessed have @aused us to become somewhat vain of our power and strength. We know that our re- sources are incalculable, that the energies of our people are indomitable; and hence we the more readily resent real or fancied insults. We wonder at the want of foresight in any nation which seems to set our power and influence at naught. We know that the gigantic struggle which has been going on now for two years in our midst has in no way impaired our resources. In fact, we are fully aware that as yet this war -| bas Been carried on with no singlenese of pur- pose—with no determination, with no set prin- ciple. Blunders have succeeded blunders, er- Tors crowded upon errors, millions of treasure been uselessly flung away, and, alas! hundreds of thousands of lives been sacrificed, and yet we feel, we know, that we have not as yet begun our work in earnest. Conscious, then, of our immense power, we chafe at the display of ill will towards us made by the English government, aristocracy and press, and long for an opportunity to convince the world that the American people will and must be respected. Cannot the statesmen of Great Britain foresee that their S11 concealed animosity sgainst our republican institutions and our gi- gentic strides towards commercial prosperity must im the end bring about a collision between us? Are they so senseless as to suppose that we will ever forget or forgive their avowed encour- agement of the traitors in the South? Do they imagine that twenty milfions of freemen will not punish at some near date the foul wrong Committed by the English government in letting loose the‘Alabama to prey tipon their commerce ? A day of.reckoning must come. We can arm thousands of privateers, and destroy England’s commerce as she is endeavoring to do by ours. We are aware that large number ef powerful iron-clad steamers are almost ready to sail from English ports, where they have been constructed and paid for with money lent to the rebels by Englishmen, and that these steamers are to break | our blockades and prey upon our commerce, What shall we do, then, with our ships? Why arm them, and where one of our vessels is de- stroyed by these British pirates we will sink and barn a hundred English vessels. We are not a nation to submit tamely to disgrace and Insult. We scorn and despise-a hidden, cow- | would in eo dastardly a manner take advantage of thelr hour of trouble anf accomplish their ruin. To oneand all they must ory out : “Stand aloof—we shall deem these our enemies who by word or action afford encouragement or ald te our revolted people.” Let this be no mere threat. We must convince the world of our determination to conquer the rebels, reconstruct the Union, and that in spite of all our enemies, avowed or concealed: We are drifting into war with England, because we supinely allow her to insult the*majesty of our government, and because we allow her to blus- ter and bully us. Give baok threat for threat, menace for menace; capture and hold all Eng- lish vessels which are found near our coast with munitions of war for the rebels. Make and Rufl’s Mills. favor of this programme. The rebel army of Bragg must be routed or moved off before June, or reinforcements to General Rosecrans to the extent of at least fifty thousand men will be needed to enable him to hold on to Five Thousand Additional French Troops Arrived at Vera Cruz, STATE OF AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTG: General Foster Able to Hol Out for Three Weeks. "j REBEL AccOoUNTS, &., &o., &e. Singular Report About Admi- > val Wilkes, Ren be, &o ‘Tho British steamship Melita, Captam Corbett, from prompt and determined demands for repara- tion in those cases of robbery committed by that English pirate vessel the Alabama. Thon, and mot till then, will we find England neutral. As we assumé thé dignified &hd bold position we should ever hold, England will re- spect and fear us, and we shall then eee her neutral indeed. We must not tolerate tnsult.- The people will hold the administration respon- sible for any further continuance of the dis- reputable appearance we are now making in Europe. Let the President of this great re- public act with the dignity which his power should oonfer upon him, and which the people expect in their representative. Then we shall find all Europe respecting us, and then we shall hear no more of mediation, intervention or neu- trality. If this course is not pursued we shall be at war'with England, and perhaps France, in six months. It is in the power of our gov- ernment to avert this calamity by a proper course. We hope it may be adopted. ly. f tham were built for the Admiralt - during the w have been employed en active service, essistance from the people of England,.and at importance to us” (the rebels). any connection between these two statements ? Movemants.—From rebel sources we have some very interesting informa, tion of Gen. Grant’s movements. It seems that he is at length going to work. in earnest; but whether to make a junction with Gen. Rose- crans, or an inland movement into Mississippi from the north, remains to be seen. We are glad to know that his fine army is in motion; for it has been abundantly demonstrated that any movement on his part in any direction Gavane on the Oth instant, arrived at this port yes- terday morning. The California mail steamship North Star arrived at Bavans on the morning of the 9th for water, The North Stor ‘8 (remendous hurricane to the southward ot Hatteras; lost ber quarter beat, stove in after porte, and broke her condenser for making freak water. She put into Key West, but could mot gete supply. Osptain Sones atopped at Havana. Ghe was to call agaia for Aspinwall the came day. It was currentiy reported im Havene that Admire! Wilkes is @ paroled prisoner-there until he can explain why the Vanderbilt fired a shot at « Spanish coasting steamer a sbort time ago. ea SS y ‘The Unites States steamers Veaterbit aud Socom wore in the harbor. Tm consequence of the Baster festivals being barely oon - eluded, business was vory,dull in Havana, 4 of Havana, @. By the steamer Roanoke, which left here yesterday, 1 gent you ia a condonsed form the details of Mexican news Tecetved by the last British steamer from Vere Crus, and these few lines I Kad by way of appendix. Our Newborn Correspondence, Newsxan, N.C., April 11, 1868, The Overland Eupedition—fho First Day's March— Shirmith ab Blount’s Mill—The Artillery Fignt at ‘Mill—Our Losses, Bo. Uur expedition left Fort Anderson, on the Nouse riv? ‘opposite Mowbera, at three P. M. 0a Wodnestay. +] inat., for the parpose of Woeabington, ty f wae ‘We road -am ter og Now edhool house, On ° what a‘ part of the command, through Inrercerte> Reset Correspoypence—-War, Fasuion anp Love w Drxre.—In another column will be found a most interesting sketch of the contents of a rebel mail bag, intercepted in the region of the Blackwater, and which bas found its way into this office. It relates to three of the great motive powers of the human mind— war, fashion andlove. Under the first head we find numerous revelations of important move- ments by the rebel army against Norfolk and will be more profitable than wasting inaction | On the 26th uit, five thousand additional French troops any lenger under the bluffs of Vicksburg. ‘arrived at Vora Craz in the abips-of-the-line Wagram. St. © Interesting from ‘Kontacky. “ Lousviaa, April 15, 1663. Rev. Edward Livingston Wells, Episcopalian, of this city, baving taken the oath of allegiance, has received permission from General Burnside to return to Louls- ville. According toa letter received by the Hoo de Comercio of Vera Cruz, Juares had ordered Comontort to take com- mand of the garrison of Puebia, but Gen. Ortega bad re- fused to comply. Im consequence of this, it is added, a '~ Comonfort retired from San Martin, taking with him three All reports of-eoasiderable numbers of rebels attempt- | thousand cavalry—an example which was followed by ing to cross the Cumberland river within the pestfew | Carvajal, who took away with him ¢wo thousand more, days are false. If thie be true, it te possible that the two or three thou- who remaived have been dispersed by Gen. Suffolk. One letter says that our (the rebel) wae Weulieaeneeas: Bor Bee. generals intend a forward movement in the Manowny’s Unrversa. Ineravoriow Boos. ; ine Neco ens sewmpapers contain * cond many a direction of Suffolk, and are massing large bodies of troops and bringing down pontoon bridges. Another says that the troops have orders to get ready for an active spring cam- paign, and that they weuld wake things up in Suffolk and. Norfolk before many months. Another has orders to join his regiment in North Carolina, and says he will have to parti- cipate in some of the desperate battles which will probably fill the annals of the coming campaign. He anticipates @esperate and tloody battles, more horrible and decisive than any ‘that bave yet taken place. Amd then peace is to come, Many of the letters express the same idea of a near peace, as if that assurance had | This excellent elementary work will be found tosim- | put ali these must be doubted or entirely ri plify greatly the task of musical instruction. It is Captain General eee, ae divided into three parts, the first containing all the rudi- mated — Kiron ~ vrata epeeliathnarnasiunaanisaybeiosaabinl fhe nee a exam: onary of musical ‘terms, &c.; the second, pianlet. Terees Carreno, gave “4 crowded w capacity. fingers and musical recreations; and the third, exergiees nb ‘was a perfeot success, the little actiot in chords and in thirds, sixths, octaves, chromatic for . changing and crossing the hands, It is pubiisbed by if) | been given to them for the purpose of stimulat- ing their fisgging veal. And even the story of a miraculous spring somewhere near Fréder- | ickaburg, whose flow is a sure presage of peace, bas been circulated among the credulous sol- diery. Some of the writers declare that the soldiers on both sides of the Rappahannock are heartily tired of the war. In these letters, too, we have corroboration of the reports as to the riot in Richmond, and as to the fact that John Letcher and Jefferson Davis made speeches to the rioters.” The opera- tions of a cotton speculator ana of a counter- feiter in extensive business are also noted. There are two curious letters showing the fashion’ble movements and extravagances in Dixie. The wife of rebel adjutant general, writing from Petersburg, describes a fashionable wedding in that city, where five hundred guests were entertained in the lavish style of former times, where champagne flowed like water, where the oranges cost each a dollar and a half, and where the whole expense of the marriage entertainment was estimated at twenty thousand dollars. Richmond, we are told, is very lively. A band plays every afterneon on Capitol square, which is thronged with the fair sex and their gallants. Lastly, we have two love letters from a lady in Baltimore to a reverend D.D. in Portsmouth, bringing to mind, in their passionate phrases and in some of their circumstances, the famous epistles of Heloise to Abelard; for in this case, as in that, the lover had taken the vow of celi- bacy, and ought to have known and practised better things, His is a case which certainly ought to have the attention of his spiritual supe- tiors, particularly if his special occupation throws ‘him much in the way of making such conquests. On the whole, this overhauling of How To Conpvcr tas War.—An evening con- temporary has at length made the wonderful @iscovery that the war is conducted upon a false system—that instead of operating around the edges of the rebellion for the purpose of capturing towns and cities, and holding them each with an armed force, at great "expense of men, time and money, the government should aim simply to crush the armies of the rebellion, inasmuch as when they are subdued all the re- bellious States and everything therein will fall into our possession. We have over and over again endeavored to beat this ides into the heads of the War Office; but they are too full of their own conceits to listen to the plainest evi- dences of their folly. So we must still trust to luck and the anaconda, and to the chances of some powerful revelation to President Lincoln as to what he ought to do. Warne ror Low Warer.—Isham G. Harris, the wandering rebel Governor of Tennessee, has at last turned up at Tullahoma, under the protection of Bragg’s army, and has issued a letter in favor of a secesh election for Governor, State officers, &c., on the regular day for Tennessee, the first Thursday in August. He endeavors to encourage his friends to hold their ground; for, says he, “long before August the rivers (the Tennessee and the Cumberland) will huve fallen to low water mark, giving us an open field in which to meet the enemy;” and he says he is confident ‘that before election ardly foe, and loathe a government which, while it strikes us, cries out, “ We are neutral, we are ever neutral !” Does England, jealous of our power and fu- ture pre-eminence among the nations of the earth, wish to assail us? Then let her do it openly, bravely, above board. The American people have arrived at that crisis in their ex- istence when soft words are of noavail. They must now rise in their might and impose respect and neutrality upon those governments which | — ee ‘The United States Raflroad Hospital car, with thirty- five sick and wounded soldiers from Washington, arrived at Jersey City at a quarter past seven o'clock on Monday morning, Sol. Andrews, Jr., A. A. 8, United States Army, in charge. The following is@ correct list of the patients, as obtained frem an offer of the car:— Connecticut; Louid Helm i Aes Ed feo "909 4 Bs A qo! ee ; Reduction im the Welland Canal Tolis, Oswroo, April 15, 1968. ‘Thera han been « reduction in the Welland Canal tolls on wheat equal to twenty per cent. A Lerat Revvons Fawr raow New Onna @ De Txwe.—Mrs.R. T. Ventress, an invalid husband and two Regulations for the Assessment of the Imcome Tax. Wasurxcrom, April 15, 1868. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has just issaed | (otal income, so far specifying the sources from which it (a derived as to enable the assistant assessor to decide what deductions shall be made therefrom. Persons whose income dovs not exceed the sum of $1,000, and who reside in the United States, will be subject toa duty of Ubree per cent on such portion thereof as is liable to taxa. tioa; provided, however, that upon the income derivea from interest upon notes, bonds, or other securities of the United States, a duty of one and a balf per cent will be levied. Persons whose incomes exceed $10,000, will be subject toa duty of five per cent on the portion thereof HH Hi Hie ees ii i al i i i HI i He i ii] t tl ae i i : ! li i s f3 eit f i ae Ream pon Inssmp.—Wo learn that A. T. Stewart, Eeq., Das ordered tle brig Jeasie Banfield to be chartered and loaded with a {hil cargo of corn and provisions for the re- Nef of the poor in Belfast. This munificent donation for the suffering poor uf Ireland is at the sole expense of Mr. Stewart, whose benevolence ts ever on @ acele commencu- rate with his success: merchant i i : ‘We think the boys with Geveral Foster are sale (rom @apture, but wait anxiously to hear from them. Amory’s ‘Started overtand this moraing, to draw the revels Acavalry reconnolssaace proved that some two thop- sand rebels were between here and Washington. The re- Port to-day is that our Colonel Lee was killed in a charge on the rear of the rebel battery. There has been so firing to-day. ‘Thus far later advices de not conérm the reported death Reperts. Gouvesono, MN. C., April 18, 1868. The news of @ partial victory over the abolitionist: sear ‘Washington reached us to-day. It appears thet the Yas. kees under Foster marching to the relief of Weshingtos, now invested by our troops, were met en route last Thors- day eveuing near Bland’s creek by Gen. Pettigrew. No