The New York Herald Newspaper, April 22, 1863, Page 6

a 6 NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2%, 1863.—TRIPLE SHEET, NEW YORK HERALD. (0 Satan, weno semen t JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PKOPRIE.OR. held the outer works at Puebla, but it does not follow from this that they were not severely repulsed on the 27th of March, as General Ortega states. That the Mexicans have made a noble = | stand in defence of the city of Puebla is, however, quite manifest, from all the news which we are en- abled to give to-day. The important case of the British steamer Peter- hoff, seized as a prize, was before the United name States District (Prize) Court yesterday, Judge LAURA KEENE'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Couresx | Betts presiding. It will be recollected that the ten hie aan ee 2 Peterhoft ia: been the subject of diplomatic and NEW BOWERY THEATRE. Bowory.—Husaew's ConsieBasaven Guvrwin—B. Hyper, OFFIO’ N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU BTS. Volume xxvnr. AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN. Broadway.—AvRons Fuorp. WALLACK'S THEATRE. Brosdway,—My Novi Bon- unbLaw. WINTER GARDEN, Brosdway.—Faexoa Sry—Ror commercial correspondence, and involves some principles of international law which may be either easily magnified into a disruption or amica- bly settled by legal jurisdiction, The govern- ment, through its representative, United States District Attorney E. Delafield Smith, proposed to hand over to her Britannic Majesty's Consul in this city the mails which he said were duly authenticated as coming legiti- mately from the Post Office, London, England, to cROPE CHAPEL, 720 Brosdway—MacKvor's Hiszamt- | Matamoros, Mexico. This proposition was dis- sented from by Mr. Upton, on the part of the BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery—Jacx anp tnx Bran- eTALK—Casin Bor—J Ack Cave. ‘8 AMERICAN MUSEUM, Broadway.—Muwt= eee on Nor Livia Mirrorocamus be, at ail hours —Daxx CLouv—Lo @nd Evening. BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad- Seer Songs, Buriesqums. Dances, 40.—Biace RIGADR. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Brmioriax Bomas, Danoxs. &0.—B. KK. THE NEW IDEA, 685 Brosdway.—Soxas, Burixsauae, Batters, 40. IM ALL CoRNxRS, Afternoon AMBRICAN THEATRE, No. 444 Broadway.—Ba.uers, Pawroaimms, Buntxsovms 20. PARIBIAN CABINET OF WONDERS, 563 Broadway.— Open dil rose 10 AM, M119. Me HOOLEY'S OPERA HOU! Brooklyn.—Ermoriax Songs, Dances, Burcesques, a TRIPLE SHEET. New York, Wedmesday, April 22, 1863. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. Advertisements for the Wxexiy Heratp must be band- © in before ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its Circulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the Country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- @erted in the Waxy Hsracp will thus be seen by a large Portion of the active and energetic people of the United THE SITUATION. The city experienced no little excitement yes- terday, after a lull of some days, from the news whioh reached here from different quarters; each of ® highly important and interesting character. For example:— 1.—New Orleans. 2.—Vicksburg. 3.—Nansemond river. 4.—-Washington, N. 0. 6.—Mexico. 6.—Europe. It is rarely that so large an amount of intelli- gence of like interest arrives in one day. The news from New Orleans comes by the steamship Geo. Washington, with dates to the 14th inst, The campaign has been gloriously open- ed by Gen. Banks. The rebel forces of General Sibley have been so completely hemmed in by the armies of Generals Grover, Emory and Weitzel that their annihilation or capture is almost certain, Generel Sibley was abandoning his position near Brashear City, leaving his guns and ammuni-- naval captors, who contended that the District Attorney had no power to impair the legal rights of his clients by giving up tho mails which might afford convincing evidence for the confiscation of the vessel and cargo (valued at about $600,000), and thereby enhance the claim of the captors; and that once the case was before the court it was not in the power of the Dis- trict Attorney to withdraw it from the adjudi- cation of the Prize Judge. The Court was im- . pressed with the very great importance of the question at issue, and was desirous that the matter should be ealmiy and dispassionately submitted by counsel; he would give it every consideration, as he was unwilling to precipitate the two govern- ments into any difficulty in this matter. The case was then postponed for a few days. The steamships Kangaroo and City of Baltimore, from Queenstown on the 4th and 9th instant re- spectively, arrived at this port early yesterday morning, and the Hammonia, from Southampton on the Sth instant, reached her dock last night. The steamship Jura, from Londonderry on the 10th inst., arrived at Portland, Me., yesterday morning. By these arrivals we have very interesting news from Evrope—five.days later than the advices of the Arabia. A slight accident had occurred to the Great Eastern, which will prevent her sailing on her ap- pointed day for New York. Messrs. Pile, Spence & Co., owners of the captured steamer Peterhoff, had submitted copies of all the papers connected with the clearance and veyage of that vessel to Earl Russell, at the Foreign Office, London. The Earl, in reply, states that in his opinion there was no prima facia case for her seizure. He adds, however :—“It is the right of the belligerents to capture all vessels reasonably sus- pected of either of these transgressions of inter- national law”’—either @ breach of blockade or the carriage of contraband; ‘‘and, whenever any cause of capture is alleged, the case cannot be with- drawn from the consideration of the prize court of the captor.” The English government will “ in- struct Lord Lyons to make an immediate represen- scripts. The concurrent resolutions in relation to claims of soldiera of the war of 1812 were | adopted. In the Assembly, 4 number of bills were passed. None of them, however, were of general interost. Third readings were ordered on the bills to pro- vide additional means for the relief of sick and wounded soldiers, establishing @ quarantine for this port, to amend the Militia law, and to assist the Ontario, Auburn and New York Rail- road. A lirge portion of the day’s session was devoted to a debate on the Broadway Railroad bill. The proposal of Mr. A, T, Stewart and associates, to pay two million dollars for the franchise, was offered a6 & substitute for the first section of the bill, but was voted down bya large majority. Various other amendments were pro- posed and considered, and the discussion was con- tinued till half-past eleven o'clock at night, when the bill was referred to the Railroad Committce, with power to report complete. The conference committee's report on the New York Harbor Pilot- age bill was conourred in. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ‘The Broadway Railroad project has passed both branches of the Common Counoil, notwithstanding the ineffectual attempt to serve the members with copies of an injunction restraining them from pass- ing upon the scheme. The Boards had each three meetings, andin addition to these the Aldermen had one secret conclave. The uninitiated could not divine what move was on the ‘‘board,” and it was not untii the nine P. M. meeting that it was ascertained that the pascage of the Broadway Railway project was a foregone conclusion. At the first meeting, which was calied impromptu, & series of resolutions were passed deservedly eulogistic of the late Golone! Kimball, who soig- nobly fell by the hand that shou! a lim, and who had so often peri!!cd his life at hia coun- try’s call. At the second meeting there wass little municipal and legal cpisodt, A deput; sheriff made his appearance with the injunction before referred to. He was aske failing to comply with the request andy little Sergeant-at-Arma, Mr. Terrance Smith, ejected hia with just as much force as was necessary ‘to brush the vexatious intruder away.’’ The Aldeimen, feel- ing satisfied that they had performed a good day's work (three open meetings and one secret, inde- pendent of other ‘‘considerations’’), agreed to ad- journ to Monday next at one o'clock P. M, Miss Anna E. Dickinson, tho young politician in petticoats, who has been stumping it recently in Connecticut, made a speech last evening at the Cooper Institute before a crowded audience, in which she gave her criticisms upon the democratic and republican generals, being rather severe upon Generals Halleck, Porter and McClellan. " The Board of Supervisors met yesterday after- noon, but adjourned without doing any business, out of respect to the memory of the late Liente- nant Colonel Kimball, of the Ninth New York Zouaves, + The Methodist Episcopal Conference held their sixth day's session yesterday, bat transacted business of a special character. ak) In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, be- fore Recorder Hoffman, William Brown pleaded guilty to picking Gustavus C. Brown's pocket of a gold watch valued at fifty dollars, while attending the sparring exhibition in the Stuyvesant Institute, on the 26th of last month. Sentenced to the State Prison for two years. Henry Brower, a dry goods clerk, pleaded guilty of burglary in the third de- gree, in having stolen fifty dollars worth of dry goods from the store of his employer in Bank street. Sentenced to the State prison for two years and six months. John Dailey, a boy fourteen years of age, pleaded guilty of for- authority the Sictoeeeaten ti based. The attack | relative to harbor defence ‘and Commissioners of | ‘The Opening of the Grand Campaigna— | Deeds were reported unfavorably, and the reports | agreed to. A favorable report was made on the the 1st inst., to the effect that the French then | Dill providing relief for the needy families of oon- Cheering News from the Kast ahd the eet. The grand campaign, upon which the rebel- lion has staked its strength, its resources, its fortunes and its destiny, opens obeeringly for the Union cause, East and Weat. The cooperative movements of General Grant and Admiral Porter, General Banks and Adwiral Favragut, in Louisiana, lead us to an- ticipate very soon the tidings, not of one, but of @ series of great successes in thatquarter. A powerful fleet of Porter’s gunboats had run the gauntlet of the Vioksburg batteries in safety. The rebels were caught napping, doubtless under the impression that our gun- boats had gone up the Mississippi on some dis- tant expedition, The reader will readily com- prehend the importance of this movement, in connection with the special news from New Orleans which we publish this morning and the accompanying illustrative map. Some seventy-five miles west of New Orleans, among the lakes and bayous which, through the Atchafalaya river, are connected with the Gulf of Mexico, the rebels had a strongly forti- fied position at a place called Centreville. This position they were evacuating on the approach of the Union forces, but would probably be captured in the lump, as they were enclosed between Gencral Grover’s column on the one side and those of Generals Emory and Weitzel on the other. That the rebels were intent only upon escaping is evident from the fact that they were leaving their guns and ammunition behind them. The gunboat Diana, it was also expected, would be speedily recaptured, al- though, as a last resort, she may be destroyed by the enemy. The ram Queen of the West had already been recovered, and her rebel captain and crew were prisoners of war at Berwick Bay. This item of nows is exceedingly important, considering the locality in which the Queen of | the West was recaptured; for it suggests a variety of the most desirable military combinations against Port Hudson and Vicksburg, in addi- tion to the complete clearing out of all the country between the Mississippi river ond Texas. Doubtless Porter's gunboats, with a strong co-operating land force, will speedily proceed up the Red river to look after the enemy’s defences and depots of provisions along tbat stream, and intended for the subsistence ef Pemberton's army at Vicksburg. Already those indispensable supplies from Western joulsiana and ‘Texas are completely cut off from Vicksburg, and thus the enormous bat- teries there and at Port Hudson, erected ex- preasly to cover and protect their Red river communications with Texas, have ceased to be of any practical use to the enemy. : Now, therefore, the idea may be entertained that the next move of the rebels will be to abandon Vicksburg and Port Hudson—as they “have been turned—and to hurry up their forces from those two points to a junction with Bragg for a crushing attack upon Generdl Rosecrans in Tennessce. We would accordingly yet once more call the attention of the government to the saving pre- caution of holding the army of Gen. Grant within supporting distance of Gen. Rosecrans; for at this time he holds the position of the greatest importance of all our principal gene- rals, because it is the position of the greatest danger, the most tempting to the enemy, and has been received since the outbreak of the re- bellion, and it would not be surprising if the next few days should witness quite a stampede among the hoftiers of the precious metals. There is good ground for a panic in this regard. Everything indicates a marked improvement in our relations with England. Earl Russell’s latter in reference to the capture of the Peterhoff, the seizure in Liverpool of the Con- federate gunboat Alexandra, and the discredit into which the Confederate loan has already fajlen, after an emission of only $15,000,000, all go to prove a powerful reaction in English sentiment in our favor. Onoe the rebels are cut off from the facility of supplying themselves with privateers and vessels-of-war from Eng- land, their cause becomes hopeless. Without a navy they can do nothing towards permanently maintaining themselves. It was the aid that has hitherto been furnished them from abroad in this connection that buoyed up their courage. Now that a stop has been put to the pro- ceedings of their agents, and that those sbipbuilders and other contractors who furnished them with vessels and war materia have been reimbursed by the proceeds of the Confederate loan which the simple minded have been duped into taking, they will find but little further help there. We can now tn- derstand why Jeff. Davis and his organs talk On the whole the news is of grant significance and intorest, as it proves that the Mexicans are ably performing their part in keeping the threatened intervention of Europe from these shores. . The Famous Order Number Eight. We have come into possession, im a very mys- terious manner, of a document purporting to be & copy of General Burnside’s famous Order Ne. of the War. There is something exceedingly strange in the whole affair, and nothing stranger in any part of it than in the mode of our coming into possession of the document. Where di? come from? Who knows? It may be that Se.s- tor Wade, who is said to be quite a good sort Person in his social intercourse, has taken tiue mode of supplying what has been regarded as ® biatus in the history of the war. It may be that Secretary Stanton, in some of the leisure moments that he permits himself to enjoy, in the intermission of his labors, has theught proper to furnish it to us. Or it may even be that it has come from some of the radicals, who wished to nee the famous order printed in a good Union newspaper. But, from whatever quarter it came, here is the dooument:— GENERAL ORDERS—NO. 8. - Ssunqracng, Ano tn gory. , 108 fon behind him. The fine ram Queen of the tation of the circumstances to; the government at ‘Woet was retaken in Grand Lake by our Washington, and, if no legal ground of capture troops, and her captain and crew are now | should be alleged, then to press for the release of gery in the fourth degree, for passing a counterfeit | the particular point at which they calculate five dollar bill on the Bank of the Commonwealth, | upon turning the tide of the war against us. New York. He was sent to the House of Refuge. prisoners in Berwick Bay. The capture of the steamer Diana, lately seized by the rebels, was also almost ensured, the United States steamer Clifton having removed the obstructions in the river and closing rapidly upon her. This is the substance of the news from the extreme South- ‘west, and it tells well for the activity of our army and navy there. The full details will be found in our New Orleans correspondence. We give, in illustration of this valuable intelligence, a map of Brashear City, Berwick, and the surround- the vessel and her cargo, with compensation, and without the delay of proceedings in the prize court,’’ It was understood in London that two financial agents ofthe government in Washington—one from New York and the other from Boston—had placed & proposal for s loan, ranging from fifty to one hun- dred millions of dollars, before the houses of George Peabody, the Messrs. Barings and others. It was said also that these gentlemen were instructed to dispose of £2,000,000 of six per cent American bonds, with which they are furnished. The com- missioners in question were expected to employ part of the £2,000,000, which'they were instructed ing country and waters, showing the posi- | positively to dispose of, in buying up the gunboats tion, fortifications and force of the rebel | now building in England for the rebels, and thus General Sibley. It is ‘impossible to calculate | disarm Jeff. Davis on the ocean. the effect of these operations upon the The rebel loan had rallied from the decline, and entire phaso of the war in the Southwest; but it | Tent vremiam, tar’ St rom Par fo one per must tend greatly to the advantage of General The Englisif government had made an active and Grant and General Rosecrans, and may eventuate | very important movement towards putting a stop in the abandonment of Vicksburg and Port Hudson. | * the furnishing and equipping of war vessels in the United Kingdom for the rebel service. On the Indeed s despatch was sent from Memphis yester- 5th of April one of the customs surveyors at Liver- day by General Hurlbut to the effect that he had | pool seized the Alexandra, a amall gunboat, re- information from rebel sources that the enemy | cently launched from the yard of Messrs. Miller & were then evacuating Vicksburg. We must wait | ©°- The officer acted on the instructions received foPconfirmation of this report, however, before Wivicdaea Uis'ck oe ton according full credit to it. the Alexandra was Being fitted for the service of It is certain that on Thursday last seven gun- | the Confederates. The matter will be fully inves- boats and three transports of Admiral Porter's | tigated by the law and other officers of the crown. floct ran by the rebel batteries at Vicksburg and salty befapinerny cop So haa beorbreays on got safely down between that place and Port Hud- | are diecandee ino Coad nae ane the fact. son to assist General Banks. With the single ex- A vessel called the Japan, or Virginia, supposed ception of the loss of one transport—which caught | to be destined for the rebel service, Mad got out fire and was destroyed—the fleet passed gallantly | fom the port of Greenock, Scotland. The govern- through the fire of the batteries, which lasted for te vichewraraa an ae ea ee over three hours, as the vessels were running | ‘The revolution in Poland had extended all over down. On reaching Warrenton Admiral Porter | the country, and embraced in its ranks all classes bombarded that village, with what effect is dot | of the people and men of every profession. aeons In the Liverpool cotton market the sales for the week footed up thirty-five thousand bales. Prices Another despatch reoeived at Cincinnati yester- | neq declined from one-fourth to one-half of a day, from General Hurlbut, at Memphis, reports | penny on American during the period. On the 10th that General Dodge, commanding at Corinth, at- | instant the market closed quiet and unchanged. tne near nd oho om Durr | etry at ey nr to Crane creek. Our lows was one hundred killed | gon, on tho 10th instant, nt 925 for money. Mr. Wm. Boeckel, of the marine revenue service, while on board the Bremen bark Peter Rohland, just arrived from Bremen, discovered among a passenger's baggage about twenty thousand se- gare and a large quantity of valuable cutlery, which—not being entered on the manifest of the veasel—are liable to seizure and forfeiture. The trial of Ignatz Radsky for the murder of Sigismund Fellner was continued in the Kings County Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday. About a dozen witnesses were examined for the -prosecution, when the Court adjourned until this morning. Action is to be taken in Missouri for the recoyery of the forfeited bonds of rebel sympathizers in that State. It is said that they amount in the gate to several millions. There appears to be some doubt about the abili- ty of the contractors to get the Erie canal ready for opening on the lst of May. A great deal of work is necessary to be performed on some of the sections to render the banks capable of retaining the water. Owing vo light receipta the market for beef cattle was buoyant under an active demand on Monday, when prices ruled 3c. a 1c. per pound higher than last week. Nearly all the cattle sold on Monday at from 10c. a 13¢.—chietly at llc. a 12c. There were a few scallawags which Drought only 8c. a9c.; but they were not really worth reporting. ‘The market ended dull yesterday, as but few butchers were present, having satisfied their wants on Monday. Ip consequence of this the market ruled dull and prices ruled lower; but there was not cattle enough to affect the average price materially, which was nearly Or quite llc. The butchers will bold a convention in New York on May 25 to devise some protection apeculatore—they will endeavor to buy direct from gra- zers for cash. This is an excellent move. More than threo quarters of the cattle were from lilinois. Two lots were withdrawn yesterday for higher prices. Mich cows were tolerably active atfull prices. Veals were steady at 4c. to 6c. a 70. Sheep and lambs were scarce, active, and 26, & 50c, higher. Sales at $6 50 9 $12 75, Bcallawags, sheared, bave sold at $1 50 a $2. _ Swine were active and rather higher; corn fed, 41;c. a83c.; still fed, 5c, © 5igc. The total receipts were 4,245 beeves, 120 cows, 623 veals, 4,459 sheep and lambs and 11,400 swine. The stock market opened dull, lower and almost panicky yesterday morning, but rallied in the afterncon, and closed strong. Gold fell to 14534, rallied te 1473, and Closed at 6 P.M. at about 1463;. Exchange was in fair demand at 100)4 a 161. Money was abundant at 6 per cont. We have now the opportunity speedily to finish up the war in the Southwest; but our complete success in that quarter mainly depends upon securing success to Gen. Rosecrans. Our news from North Carolina and Virgins is equally encouraging. The campaign of Gen. D. H. Hill against Little Washington and New- bern has ended in a failure. He has abandon- ed his siege of Washington and his batte- ries on Tar river. Failure has also attended the campaign of Longstreet against Suffolk and Norfoik. Completely foiled in all his move- ments, he has retired with considerable losses in men and artillery. We conjecture that Hill and Longstreet will return with the bulk of their forces to the army of General Lee. En route they may, perhaps, make a formidable di- version against Fort Magruder, at Williame- burg; butin this event we dare say that the garrison will be prepared for their reception. Meantime, as the season has arrived when a single day of sun and wind does wonders in drying up the roads of Virginia, we may at any moment expect to hear of a general advance of the Army of the Potomac, that splendid army upon which we maiuly rely to give the death blow to the rebellion. We are inclined to believe, from the inter- cepted rebel letters on the subject which we published the other day, that Lee has been pre- paring for some time to fall back, and that Gen. Hooker may not be able to overtake him this side of the Richmond peninsula. Within a very few days the question will, in all probability, be settled; and, whether a battle or retreat on the part of the enemy, we are confident that the advance of the Union army will not be ar- rested. The spring campaign opens promising- ly; the advantages of the general situation of things are all with us, and we expect soon to be the herald of great and glorious events: Bast and West. Reaction in England in Favor of the North—The Tide Turning. By the arrival of the Kangaroo, Hammonia, City of Baltimore and Jura, we have advices from Burope to the 10th instant. Alarmed by #0 despondingly of a two years further pro- traction of the war in the face of their Gharles- ton triumph. The accounts which they have lately received from England prove to them that the game is nearly up as far as further a8- | Siidtinns aud cthoraien cade ema) and having, by aistance from that country is concerned. which,were calculated to create Rewmetanmeanen end for babi States, a6 aman unfit to hold an important commission during a crisis like the present, when so much patience, We do not know that we have any great rea- son to be grateful for this change of policy on the part of the English government. It has charity, conddence, consideration and patriotism are due been dictated by its fears rather than its sense | 7m every soldier in the feld. ig issued subject to the of the President of the United sunen cams Serko Deigntien Geveral W. T. H. Brooks, ing First division, Sixth army corps, for complaining of ce pose, of bese items erage using es piace] demoral command, is, subject to the approval of the President of the United States, dismissed frem the myhind.—Origasler Goueral Joba Nowtot, jeneri Third division, Sixth army corps, and Drigecter Geversl John Gocbrane, commanding First brigade, Third of justice. It has at last become alive to the fact that the practices which it bas winked at for the purpose of crippling us can, by and by, be put in force against its own navy and mercantile marine, its only bulwarks. The for- tunes of England are, as we have always main- ee tained, closely bound up with our own, and | division, Sixth army corps, for going to the President of anything that tends to weaken the one must | the United states with orlticisms upon the plane of bis imperil the other. It is well that this truth has itary service of the at last made itself manifest to the English aris- tocracy. Their blindness has been near involv- ing both countries in ruin. this army, they are hereby rekeved from duty, and will report in eines without delay to the Adjutant General of the United es 24) i JN SN RSG States Army:— The War in Mexico—The French and | g May, General W. B. Frankia, commanding Lett Mexicans in Mortal Combat. Major Gonerai W. F. Smith, commanding Sixth army We have received very important news from the republic of Mexico, contained in an official despatch of General Ortega, commanding at Puebla, to General Comonfort, commdnding at Santa Clara. This despatch records a despe- rate fight between the French army of attack and the Mexican forces under Ortega defending the fortified post of Puebla. Many persons will regard this news as intimating a complete rout of the French. “But we need not be too hasty. It must be remembered that we have previous- ly been in possession of news by way of Aca- pulco which comes down to the lst of April, four days later than the intelligence now re- ceived. We give the particulars in extenso to- day, as it is important to keep up a perfect nar- rative of these events, and to show what the news really means. According to our advices elsewhere pub- lished, it seems that General Ortega’s letter to General Comonfort is correct in almost every particular so far as it goes; but as it does not refer to any military operations beyond the cor Brigadier General Sam. D. Sturgis, commanding Second bare nny mene, corps. brigade, Second division, Ninth seuiy oorpa, ier Genoral John Cochrane, commanding First evidence of authenticity; for we could hardly believe that any “of our generals, more espe- cially one with the reputation for modesty of General Burnside, could have penned such an to the operations of the Army of the Rappa- bannock, the report contains the folowing cu- 27th of March, and as we have dates extending | doning the the almost to the let of April, on which day, it is said, the | fraiy’pue ‘nto eae a eee French troops bad occupied all the outer works | 7%. In consoquence of this, and also what Bad taken ot the citadel of Puebla, there is room to syup- pose that they had obtained some advantages from the service, es to the President, ever thelr Menton <n also ein ea Kate mesa There is no doubt whatever that the Mext- | who had been tried and convicted. © ® The order wae cans have exhibited remarkable endurance, pluck, vigor and patriotism;-and there are seve- ral advantages still in their favor, as they are operating on their own soil, and can be strengthened from time to time by numerous re- inforcements. The French, on the other hand, despite all boasting, can only rely on the re- serve of five thousand men lately arrived at Vera Cruz. All their ether available troops are fully and continually employed. Thus we find that the position of the French army in Mexico is far from being as favorable as its friends could wish it tobe. The Mexicans are every day gathering more confidence, and are fighting with unity, skill and vigor in defence The necessary complement to all this infor- mation is, of course, the production of the order itself, which was “duly signed and issued, and is now supplied through the means of our mys? terious correspondent, whoever he may be. It seems to us to be a very droll document, and we even yet hesitate to lend to it a full measure of belief. Its authenticity, however, can be easily either affirmed or disproved, and we shall be very happy to have au opportunity of satis- only waited publication;” and this public want. of their nationality, liberty and independence; and men struggling for these great principles are not so easily put down, even by French or Roman legions. This, then, is the aspect of the news. well deserve, what is to be the result? In an unpublished epeech of General Forey, address- ed to the French troops on his first arrival at Vera Cruz, he openly declared that the design of the Emperor Napoleon was to conquer, Mexi- co, and to impose such » government upon it as its people (under the guidance of his troops, of course) would choose to adopt. These are afew of the words which General Forey then used:— “To fulfil this mission” (the overthrowing of the wretched Juarez and his followers) “the Emperor has charged me to promise you the aid of 25,000, 50,000, 100,000, 200,000 soldiers! Of whatever number, in short, that may be ne- cessary, if in the course of the war greater difficulties than those naturally expected should arise!” Such words are of the highest significance in But supposing that these accounts are altogether reliable, and that the French under Forey have received the coup de grace which they so fying our owx and the public mind in regard to it whenever we are furnished with the neceasa- ry proofs. Assuming it for the moment to be tic, it is one of the most extraordinary circum- stances in the whole extraordinary affair that, while some of the officers who fall’ under its condemnation have been either relieved from duty, as General Franklin, or bave resigned, as General Cochrane, the officer who was singled out in it o6 the special object of disgrace and punishment is the very officer chosen by the President to take command of the army of which General Burnside was relieved. That officer is now on the eve of giving to the world an opportunity“of judging whether he is really possessed of those fighting qualities that are popularly ascribed to him, or whether General Burnside’s definition of his character as being “q man unfit to hold an important commission” is the correct one. We will watch with en- hanced interest the operations of the Army of the Rappabannock, and will await @ further elucidation of this mysterious affair. Personal Intdligence. Governor Coburn, of Maine, accompanied by the Hon. Charles Holden (of Portland, Maine), of the Executive and wounded. The rebel loss is not stated. Our intelligence from North Carolina comes by the steamer Augusta Dinsmore from Port Royal, with dates to the 18th instant, Affai the Nansemond river are full of interest. Oficial dea- patches from General Dix and Admiral Lee contain the important information of the capture of a rebel battery at Weet Branch, containing five field THE LEGISLATURE. In the State Senate yesterday, among the bills passed was the one giving the members of our Common Council annual salaries of $1,200. A number of others of no great importance were passed. Third readings wore ordered on several bills, including that amending the Mechanics’ Lien law for this city and the Annual Tax bill. The ; Assembly was requested to return the bill relative The cotton market yesterday was inactive, without | the tone which the liberal press are adopting por pcre csporn rtp cl ager ther: in reference te its alleged connivance with the - restricted, though = of the Alabama, the British government lower. Provisions were quite heavy, with a downward pong | tendency. There wos a prey fair business reported in rt last oe pareitaa aad Temonstrances sugar, coffee and molasses, while tens, tallow, metals and Minister, seized Confederate gun- whiskey were inactive and depremet, The inquiry for pe- | boat Alexandra in its dock at Liverpool. The | troleum was move animated at advanced Rice uae | im lesarequest, as also were hops, fish cad forage beers. in pate hep cle Borodhges-sscamme named, On getting connection with the advices we publish to- day. Hf it should turn out that the French have been as thoroughly routed at Puebla by their poorly armed and generally con- temhed Mexican antagonists as has been represented, and if no bouleversement occur im Europe to occupy the forces ef the different empires, it is almost certain that the Council, and Mrs. Moody, of Saco, Maine (thé latter of whom has been for months in the army hospitol at the seat of war), visit the Maine soldiers to-day at Fort Schuyler and David's Island. It is hinted that these visite are with reference to establishing a State hospitat. Governor Coburn and Councilman Holden leave for Wash- Obituary. German art has just sustained a heary loss. lieory pieces and onc hundred and sixty men. They were | pte mage oe egg ‘aged , a8 the clause ing their sala- taken by the gunboats under Lieut. Lamson and | ries was inserted without the knowledge the Innd forces under General Getty. The enemy | of tho Senate. The Excixe, law amendmont bill have retreated from their position around the town | was taken up, and the clause permitting » majority of Washington, after a siege of three weeks. Their | Of the voters of any election district to decide as to batter Ae . whether the sale of intoxicating liquors should be atteries on Tar or have been abandoned. Ge- permitted therein was stricken out, and “4 neral Foster left Newbern on the 18th for Wash- | tions wore given the committee to ingert a clanse ington, North Carolina, with ® brigade from Hilton | to meet pending litigation. Governor Seymour Tiead, to relieve his army, but it is not probable | sent inthe nomination of James A. Farrell, of that he will require this reinforcement except to | Som wane" hae aaet yr nergy Ben- | ry Gen lov- Pursue the enemy, Our map of the scene of ope- | ernor's nomination of Daniel Young for } rations on the Nansemond will be found most valu- | York Pors Captain was taken up, debated able in comprehending the recent movements in | and Isid on the table. The previons day's that vicinity. vote on the bill making an appropriation for The Mexican news details the defeat of the | 126 824 equipping the State Militia was recon sidered, an amendment adopted making the French army at Puebla, after » desperate Contest | 9500,000, and the bill was then defented. The bille A Worn or Apvicg—We advise Prosper M. ' Wetmore and Sas Temalns of the Shod | Committee, who are now getting up Laja | League meetings, to follow Gen. Sickles’ sug- | gestion, and find means to send,the thirty-eight | thousand soldiera, soon tp be discharged, back | into the army. If Prosper will only prosper in ; that sort of business be will do much more for his comtry thane can by putting up a few stands | for windy orators in Madison square, «oan Van Buren Next Presipency,— | What ia the reason why John Van Buren, who | nominated McClellan for the next Presideney during the last political canvass in this State, now forgets to mention the General in cenneo. tion with that office? John Van Buren talked about the next Presidency at the Loyal League meeting on Monday, but eo vaguely that nobody with the enemy, ander General Ortege.apom whose | legalizing the action of our Common Council | could understand him. What does he meant The freight engagements were limited. wind of the fact, hurried off and escaped to sea. Concurrently with this gratifying news we | tearm that two American merchants—Captain R. B. Forbes, of Boston, and Mr. W. H. Aspinwall, of New York—had arrived in London, and had emitted in the market federal bonds to the amount of £2,000,000, with which they had probably been furnished to carry out the ob- ject of their mission. It was reported that bad been successful not merely in dis- of their bonds, but in arranging satis- factorily their other business. What the nature of this is is not stated; but it is known to be on government account, That it is connected with | the Navy, Department is to be inferred from the statements from Washington to that effect which we recently published. On the receipt of thie news in Wall street gold went down to 146% It is justly regarded there as the mast forerable to the Nerth thet Emperor will attempt to carry out bis pro- gramme in Mexico, and we may see, as a result of this defeat, the appearance on this continent of the threatened army ef 100,000 or 200,000 Freneh soldiers, avengers of their fallen com- rades, In, any way this resistance of the Mexicans at Puebla is an important thing for us—far more e0 if the French defeat be confirmed; because it shows that our European battles, in connection with the great struggle now going on north of the Rio Grande, are being splendidly fought by our Mexican allies, and that, if the French have to contend,thus fercely in order to be success ful against a weak nation and a disunited government, it will cost them far more serious efforts than the French people will permit to wage successful war against this country. They will, therefore, éop to think a good macy de Beas, the fameus battle painter, died receusly at Mu nich, aged 65. He was for many years director of the private J. ©. Marden, eetia regiment, guilty of repeated desertions aud pen. | tenced nim to be shot. The President commuted his the sentence to forfeiture of pay and discharge from |t Three Rivers comserabre damage has been dene bq “eis ranresramms se ai antennae