The New York Herald Newspaper, May 1, 1863, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PKOPRIBiOR. OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. TERMS cash in advanoe. Money sent vy mali will bo pie risk of the sender. None but bank bills current in New York taken. THE DAILY BRRALD, Tunas cents per copy. THE WEEKLY BERALD, every Saturday, at Five cents per copy. Annual subsoription price: — Any larger number, addressed to names of subscribers, @1 SOcach. An extra copy will be sent to every club of ton. Twenty copies, to one address, one year, $25, and any larger number at game price. An extra copy will be wont to clubs of twenty. These rates make the WaNKLY ‘Hmran (he cheapest publication in the country. ‘The Furorgam Epon, every Wednesday, at Five oents per copy; @@ per annum to any part of Great Britain, Or $6 to any part of the Continent, both to include Postage, Volume XXVIII ........... steveeeeses Os 120 AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. NIBLO'S GARDEN. Brosdway.—Avzoxa Frorp, WALLAOCK’S THEATRE. 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Bince the announcement in the radical journals, and in the Washington and Richmond papers, that General Hooker’s splendid army was in motion, all sorts of reports have been in circulation. Among others are statements of s heavy cannon- ading in the vicinity of Warrenton, of « serious fight at Kelly's Ford, of # sharp skirmish ® few miles below Fredericksburg, of the crossing of the main army over the Rappa- hannock at Kelly’s and United States ford>; after @n obstinate resistance from the rebels; of the entrance of half a dozen Union brigades into Fredericksburg and of the commencement of a great battle. If the Army of the Potomac has made movement, we must of course expect resistance, skirmishes, fights, and even battles. If the rebels are anywhere around they must fight, and we hépe that the last report—that & great battle has commenced—is true; for it is only by # great and decisive battle that we oan expect to gain what we are struggling for. Whatever news comes to us from the Army of the Potomac, not detrimental to the interests of the Union, will be found in another column. General Stahel’s expedition into the country wost of the Shenandosh was successfully accom- plished. He had several skirmishes with the rebels, in all of which he was successful, capturing forty men of .the rebel Colonel Mosby's command and some of White's guerillas. The news from the Mississippi is interesting, Rear Admiral Farragut reports to the Navy De- partment that on the 8th inst. he captured the steamer J. D. Clark. She had on board at the time Major Howard, of the rebel Commissary De- partment, who was making extensive arrangements for the crossing of cattle over to the eastern shore of the river at various places. Admiral Porter algo sends official despatches of tho passage of his fleet by the Vicksburg batteries, the leading points of which we have already pub- lished. We learn by despatches from Cairo yesterday that the whole force of Gen. Grant’s army are under orders to march, with six days’ rations. The rebel rama were then expected to make their appear- ance down the Yazoo river. Much doubt is thrown upon the statement that the six transporte which attempted to run the batteries at Vicksburg on the 23d instant succeeded. It is said that the fire ‘was terrific, and that four of them were known to be sunk. . Deserters from General Bragg's forces coming into Murfreesboro report an advance of his army toa point north of Duck river. They say that General Polk’s troops have moved eight miles north of Shelbyville, on the road to Murfreesboro, and that General Hardee's are at War Trace, Gene- ral Bragg’s at Bell Buckle, and that General Breckinridge is at Manchester, They also state that the rebel commanders talk boldly of their in tention to drive General Rosecrans out of Ten- nessee if they can. Our correspondence from Tennessee to-day gives a fine account of Gen. Bragg's robel army, ita strength and the material composing it. Despatches from Cairo also assure us that Gen. Ellet’s Marine brigade has been most effectively occupied on the Tennessee river, He destroyed every grist and saw mill, and distillery on the apper Tennesseo, besides five handred thousand feet of lumber. The towns of Ham- burg and Eastport were also destroyed. On his return down the river his brigade was fired on by the rebels, under Major White. The fire was ro. turned by the gunboats. The rebels fled, with » loss of ton killed and twenty wounded, Major ‘White mortally. Our loss was two killed and four wounded. EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship Europa, which left Queenstown on the 19th of April, reached Halifax Yesterday on her voyage to Boston. Her news is three days later than the advices of the Edinburg, and is ofa very important character, both as regards the Probable advent of serious complications in Europe, prising from the Polish revolution, and the new attitude likely to be assumed by France and Eng- land towards the government of the United States. Mr. Adams, United States Minister in London, had given a special written license toa vessel to carry a cargo of munitions of war, intended for the use of the Mexican army against France, to the port of Matamoros. The license seems to have been in the Gressed to Admiral Dupont, guaranteeing the character might pass the tificate was granted at the | Mesars. Howell and Mexican—contractors, who found some difficul- ty in obtaining an insurance on the cargo. Mr. Adams’ letter was made public, and its contents shape of @ letter ad- of the Union cargo, so that she cruisers. This cer- instance of and Zerman—an American created quite an excited and irritable state of feel- ing in England against the United @tates, more particularly when contrasted with our action ip the case of the Peterhoff, A deputation of British merchants and shippers engaged in the Mexican trade had mentioned the matter iman address to Earl Russell, aad the London Times had furiously assailed the action of Mr. Adams in attempting to grant ‘tickets of leave’’ to Englishmen to trade to the “neutral territory’ of the Mexican coast. The London Z¥mes saye there has been nothing equal to his assumption ‘since Popish bulls were issued from Rome overriding the laws of England.” The London News says “the irritation between Eng- land and the United States is increasing.” The Paria Moniteur of the 18th of April pub- lished a very significant paragraph on the subject of the relations existing between the Cabinota Moniteur observes:—“The growing hostility of the United States towards England is exciting uneasiness in London. . The last despatches from the Washington government have a character of increasing irritation.”’ in Washington and London. The The English Parliament was to consider the case of the alleged privateer Alexandra. The govern- ment had denied that spies were employed to watch the Liverpool dockyards; but inquiries were to be made relative to the fitting out of priva- teers at that port. Mr. Cobden was to bring the question of breaches of the Foreign Enlistment act before the House of Commons. The ‘“‘greenbacks”’ forgery case was being investigated. Large amounts of the counterfeit bills had been issued. The Poles still maintained their position. The notes of England, France and Austria were pre- sented to the Czar on the 17th of April. His reply ‘was not published. A Vienna despatch says the question “threatened to assume greater complica- tions.” Italy and Spain have adhered to the position of the great Powers. Sweden was placing herself in a state of maritime defence. Bavaria had protested against the exclusion of her family dynasty from the Greek throne. The British Chancellor of the Exchequer had made & very favorable financial statement. The Liverpool cotton market remained buoyant onthe 18th of April, and holders demanded an ad- vance. The stock on hand was estimated at three hundred and fifty-one thousand bales. Consols closed in London on the 18th of April at 92% 8 92% for money. Breadstuffs were dull and easier in price and provisions heavy on the 18th ult. The Paris Bourse was very dull on the 16th of April. ‘The latest reports relative to the wreck of the steamship Anglo-Saxon state "that thirty-three cabin, one hundred and three steerage passengers. and seventy-one of the crew have been saved, leaving two hundred and thirty-eight to be so- counted for. A list of the names of the rescued rs and seamen, together with an account of the disaster by the first officer of the vessel, may be found in another columa. The mails, ship and carge are s total loss. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Governor Seymour has signed the bill to tax the ‘eapital stock of the banks, also the bill to give them the power to deposit United States secu- Tities equal to two-thirds of the whole amount with the Banking Department at Albany. The shipments of specie from San Francisco are five millions of dollars in excess of those up to the present date last year, while the falling off in the amount which has arrived in this city already reaches the sum of nearly three millions. The bulk of the treasure has been shipped direct to England, on orders from this city, to avoid the tisk of rebel privateers. The new Confederate tax bill bears pretty heavy on some branches of business, and it is thought in Richmond that it will have the effect of breaking down many persons who have heretofore carried on @ suceessful trade. The follewing area few specimen bricks from the new rebel tax law:— The business of arresting secession sympa- thizers, blockade runners, rebel mail carriers, pa- role breakers, contraband thieves, &c., continues to be brisk in Baltimore. On Tuesday three girls were taken into custody, charged with attempting to goSouth without # proper clearance; one man was seized for loading a vessel with forbidden goods; another was charged with breaking his parole; one was locked up for shouting for Presi- dent Davis; and three others were found in the streets who had previously been sent beyond the lines for treasonable practices. Parson Brownlow, in a letter toa League, says: ‘ Loyalty leads to the field.” The Mayor of Baltimore has vetoed the resola- tion of the City Council to defray the expenses of the members while on a visit to New York to at- tend the Union League celebration. On and after to-day all postages due on unpaid letters from Great Britain, Ireland, France, Prus- sis, Hamburg, Bremen and Belgium are to be paid in gold or silver coin, The Samuel Chase Barney litigation has now got into the courts of » A writ was issued on Tuesday, directing Mr. Barney to bring his four children before Judge Bond, and show cause for their detention. The next State Fair in Ohio will be held at Cleveland on the 15th of September, continuing four days. The Western Division of the LaCrosse and Mil- waukee Railroad, ranning from Portage to La Crosse, was sold on the 26th ult. for $2,800,000. The water is flowing freely into all the levels of the Erie canal, and it is thought that navigation will commence to-day or to-morrow. <A great number of boats are loaded, and ready to startes soon as & sufficient depth of water is obtained. Thirty guns have been mounted on the earth- works around New Haven harbor for the proteo- tion of the city. The work of defence will be p the shots took effect in the loft breast of Bray, ten Sicting ® probably fatal injury. Turner was ar- Tested and held to await the resalt, Coroner Wildey took the ante-mortem examination of the J 2 Bell la ; ‘ames Bell, a lawyer, of this city, was scciden- tally killed on Wednesday evening, by being ran over by stage No. 780, of the avenue A line, while attempting to cross at the corner of Palton and Greenwich streets. Coroner Wildey held an in- qnest on the case, when the driver was exonerat- ed from all biame. Deceased was « native of Ire- land, thirty-five years of age, and loaves « wife and four children to mourn his loss, NEW... YORK. HERALD, Important News from Europe—Threat- ening Aspect of the American Ques tea, The Byropean news by the Europa, at Hali- | fax, which we pubiish this morning, is of more than ordinary importance in reference to American affairs, That most embarrassing and intolerable an- noyance to England, our Southern blockade, had assumed in London @ very unique and lu- dicrous shape, yet withal somewhat serious and menacing. It appears that a Mr. Howell, a citizen of the United States, we believe, and a Mr. Zerman, # Mexioan adventurer, had fitted up a ship for Matamoros, Mexico, with a cargo of goods contraband of war. They could get no insuranee of the ship, however, in conse- quence of the seizure by.one of Captain Wilkes’ equadron of the Peterhoff, But Messrs. Howell and Zerman hit upon the brilliant ides of lay- ing their case before our Minister, Mr. Adams, und asking of him a pass to and through the fleet of Admiral Dupont, commanding our South Atlantic equadron. The pass was se- cured, and with it an insurance on the ship; but the transaction leaked out, and great was the indignation of England’s merchants and shippers engaged in’ the Mexican trade. A deputation of them waited upon Earl Russell, who promised tq look into the matter. The London Times-seizes upon this affair as & godsend, and with the real of s purchased confederate of Jeff. Davis endeavors to torture it into » casus belli. That most active English colaborer for a Southern confederacy indignant- ly declares that Mr. Adams bas introduced “a system of passes for English geods and mer- chandise, without which they are not to reach the Mexican coast;” that this thing is not to be tolerated for a moment; that “it is a most arro- gant assumption;” that, in fact, “there has been nothing equal to it since Popish bulls were issued from Rome overriding the laws of Eng- land.” The temper, drift and purpose of such denunciations and comparisons cannot be mis- understood. They betray a malignant deter- mination to stir up througbout England another war fever against the United States like that of the Trent excitement. We presume, however, if necessary, that a word from Washington re- garding this extraordinary proceeding of Mr. Adams will satisfy Earl Russell that it is no part of the policy of the United States to set up in England an office for passports to British vessels trading with Mexico. The idea that Mr. Adams dreamed of sy such “Popish bull over- riding the laws of England” involves a most ridiculous stretch of the imagination. The denunciations of the London Times, how- ever, betray. in a strong light the reckless and unscrupulous spirit of the aristocratic war party of England. Meantime the Paris Montteur informs us that “the growing hostility of the United States towards England excites unea- siness in London,” and that “recent despatches from the Washington government have a char- acter of increasing irritation.” Our interpreta- tion of this is that the British government has” been admonished that the sending out of any more Alabamés from British shipyards to prey upou American commerce will be followed by American privateers and reprisals; and we are therefore inclined to ‘believe that Earl Russell will act with becoming caution in regard to this Mexican passport of Mr. Adams. * ‘We have another safeguard against the aristo- cratic English war party in the prevailing pub- lic opinion of England; another in the warning mutterings of Ireland, and yet another in the extensive continental complications which are threatened bythe expanding circles of the Polish insurrection. The Europa’s news upon this subject is extremely interesting and sug- gestive even in reference to American affairs, In « word, looking from this new American war excitement in London to the broader isshes which He behind it, touching the affairs of both hemispheres, we think the time has arrived when the United States, conceding to England her just dues, may peremptorily demand of her an bonest and consistent neutrality or the last alternative of war. : Tax Pomc Apverrisiwa.—The Legislature has inserted o clause in the city tax levy regu- lating the expenditures for the public advertis- ing for this city. It provides that ten papers shall be chosen for this purpose by the Mayor and Comptroller, four of which shall be the pa- pers having the largest circulation. The ope- ration of the act affects all the expenditures which may be paid out of the moneys to be raised by tax .or assessment in the city and the county, and will materially abridge the outlay on this account. The Mayor has strenuously contended for some reform in this matter, and bas at last the opportunity to carry out his views. The increase of power conferred on the Comptroller in this, as in the transfer of the Bureau of Markets to his control, was unso- licited on his part. The change beeame neces- sary on account of gross abuses. The number of papers is still too large, but a great redue- tion from the list of twenty or thirty benetofore employed. The amount of the expenditures for city and county advertising last year exceeded eighty thousand dollars, and an equal sum, chargeable to assessment, election and other accounts, should be included. Beside these regular ex- penditures, some fifteen or twenty papers have been irregularly employed. As the law now places the whole subject in the concurrent action of the Mayor and Comptroller, there will be no exeuse for disposing of it otherwise than in accordance with the Mayor’s repeated public declarations. In the Supervisors’ levy a clause is also in- serted qualifying the expenditure of $30,000 for advertising so that “no one paper shall receive more than $2,500 thereof,” which will make a thore judicious division of the entire appro- HHH AHOY Waa FRIDAY, .MAY..1, 1863. Brench—The Time for Negotiations. ‘The news froin Mexico, by way of Havana, which we published yesterday morning, and which brings the military operations before Puebla down to the 9tb inst., leaves little room to doubt that the French army has at last, after @ terrific struggle, obtained possession of that city. They bad carried all the outworks, bad penetrated to the Plaza del Armas, and held one-balf of the city; but that half was under the guns of other Mexican fortresses, which might at any moment be turned upon it. The French troops, with their characteristic dash, were expected to have made light work of thé Mexicans; but they found in the latter qualities of heroism, endurance and discipline which they had not at all calculated upon. Every house in the streets through which the French cut their way to the Plaza was con- tested, and it was only after a sanguinary hand- to-band conflict that the Mexioans fell back. ‘The soldiers of both nations have well main- tained the honor and glory of their respective flegs, and the war has been brought to a point at which negotiations may properly commence. After the disastrous repulse which, in the be- ginning of hostilities, the French army, under General Lorences, received at La Soledad, Louis Napoleon expressed the determination to press on and capture the capital of Mexico at any cost, and there to give to the Mexican people the opportunity of reorganizing a respectable government. His military representative in Mexico, General Forey, is known to have been animated by the same idea, which was not sup- posed to be very difficult of realization. But the slow progress made up to this time, and particularly the bitter lesson acquired by the French before the walls of Puebla, which resisted their most determined efforts for over a fortnight, taken in conjunction with the grow- ing dissatisfaction of the French people at the enormous expense ef the Mexican expe ition, and with the possible complications threatened by the Polish question, will probably change the whole programme. Puebla may be, and probably will be, to the Mexican campaign ‘what Villafranca was to the Italian—the point where an armistice will come in, and where terms of peace will be agreed upon. The mill- tary reputation of France has been maintained, and Mexico has also given a proof of national vigor and bravery that was entirely unexpect- ed. Both have done enough for glory, and neither can wish to drive the other to despera- tion. It is therefore not at all unlikely that, Puebla being in the hands of the French, Gen. Forey will offer such terms of compromise as may be acceptable to the Mexicans, and there the French expedition will end, much to the relief ef Napoleon. If so, it may prove to have a good effect, by showing to the Mexicans the necessity of their organizing ® permanent, strong government, and enter- ing upon that career of peacefal progress ‘and prosperity all the elements of which nature has 80 lavishly bestowed upon their country. ‘That is “ consummation devoutly to. be wished.” But we shall see. ‘The Loss of the Anglo-Saxren—To Whom / fs the Blame Attachable? | We have already alluted to the total wreck Of this fine vessel, some four miles east of Cape Race, snd the consequent loss of 8 large num- ‘ber of valuable lives. The Anglo-Saxon left Liverpool with no less than four hundred end forty-four persons.on board, The first accounts from the wreck informed us that only one bun- dred and eighty of this number had been saved; but we are glad that a subsequent despatch from Montreal reduces the total of lives lost to two hundred and thirty-seven—a frightful figure for contemplation, under any circum- stances. For a long time past it has been the practice of the American press to use all its exertions for receiving and publishing the news from Europe brought by these fast ocean steamers with the slightest possible delay. In order to facilitate this design, they have for many years kept a news boat at Cape Race, which goes out to meet the steamers that pass this danger- ous coast, and thus obtains the news for trans- mission by telegraph long before the vessel Ahat brings it can reach her destination. The Associated Press have even considered the pro- priety of Keeping a fast steamer at the Cape, for the purpose of anticipating these European steamebipe—a purpose which they may yey carry out. The continual daager incurred by the mail steamers which pass by this route, from the precipitous cliffs and dangerous break- ers which exist all along thiq part of the coast, as well as from the impene- trable fogs which so frequently prevail there, induced the Associated Preas some time ago to propose that one of Daboll’s powerful steam whistles, or alr trumpets, shoald be pur- chased and erected at Cape Race. The propo- sition was made in the interest of humanity, of European and American commerce, as well as for the advantage of the press. This invaluable apparatus, it was intended, should have been connected with « caloric engine, by which it would be put in motion and sounded during foggy or perilous weather—the power of the whistle being such that it can be heard ten miles out at sea. To secure against unforeseen accidents, it was also agreed that an extra en- gine should always be kept on hand, in case the other should be at any time temporarily dis- abled. The project was generally admitted to be an excellent one, and met with the warm support of all the European and American steamship lines. On the application of the As- sociated Press, the Cunard line, the Montreal steam navigation companies, the Inman line, and the Bremen, Hamburg and other companies all concurred.in the idea, and, with the Associated Press and underwriters, readily subscribed the amoant of money necessary to put the scheme wes ready to carry out wise pie caution, it was decided that, in order that this improvement should not assume too much the appearance of Yankee enterprise, and as the steam whistle was to be placed on British territory, the consent of the British government should firet be obtained. This they positively refused to give, alleging as a reason that they could take care of their own consts, with sundry other objections. Therefore, for the time, the matter had to be set aside. Now weare once more confronted with an awful catastrophe—one of those terrible evils which might bave been prevented if the humane proposition of the press had been carried out. But the English government would not permit the precaution of the steam whistle, although two thirds of the expense was to have been paid by the subjects of Great Britain, who are more | interested in the safety of cooap stem naviga. | of Pucbie by the | tion than we are, We firmly beliove’that if this THE SIEGE OF VICKSE The Entire Union Foro dered to March. powerful elarm whistle had been shrieking off the coast when the Anglo-Saxon became en- veloped in the fog we would not have had to record the loss of that noble ship. In view of the fact, however, and of the constant danger of shipwreck incurred by all vessels coming by Cape Race, we hope that the British govern- ment will either place one of these warning whistles on the coast themselves or allow the original projectors of the idea todoso. No time should be lost in so serious a matter; and if the matter be left in the hands of the press it will be attended to at once; for the money is Failure of the Transports the Rebel Batteries, ready and can be instantly applicd. Rebel Rams Expected Do Secretary Chase on a Tour of Observa- Yazeo. tion. Mr, Chase, the great magician of the Cabinet, ee, &o., whose wand controls everything, has been here yn a por Camo, for a few days—not examining the finances, but the defences, of New York. About the ways and means for carrying on the war he appears not to have troubled himself. Certain it is he has done nothing during his sojourn to replen- ish the almost empty treasury. But he has been very active in inspecting the fortifications of the harbor. Had the Secretary.of War or the Secretary of the Navy come hereon this mission, nobody would be surprised, exoept, perhaps, at the extraordinary exertion of the two gentlemen ; but that the Secretary of the Treasury should so busy himself about the mili- tary and naval defences of the Empire City has surprised a good many persons‘and givon riso to curious conjectures. It bas been said, indeed, that Mr; Chase has at length discovered that he has mistaken his place in the Cabinet, and thinks he ought to have been.appointed Secretary of War, if not the principal commanding general in the field. But this is all a mistake. Mr. Chase has come here for a very different purpose. He has come to examine something more important to himself than our military and naval defences. The object of his visit was to inspect the de- fences of that one of the two Loyal Leagues known. as “the Union League,” and carried on under the auspices of George Opdyke; Hiram Barney and Horace Greeley, in contradistinction to the Mcdison square Loyal League, conducted by Prosper M. Wetmore, Heary J. Raymond, R. H. McCurdy, Simeon Draper, Hamilton Fish, Robert B. Min turn, Gulian C. Verplanck and Andrew Carri- gan. The one isa Chase League ; the other is a Seward League. The Secretary of the Treasury is-well satisfied with the former, but greatly disgusted with the latter. There is a bitter feud between these Leagues, and tremendous exer- tions are being made by each for the candidate for the Presidency whom it represents. That the object of the establishment of the Union Loyal League is to inaugurate the election campaign we are assured by Forney’s journal, the special organ of the Secretary of the Trea- sury. All radical hands are therefore at work for Chase—all in the Tribune office and all in the Oustom House. But as Thurlow Weed leads the Seward League in the rural districts, where ie xaows the ropes, thet League will probably come out victorlois. Weed, however, cannot be on hand at all points, and {t Wout be well for Mr. Seward to appoint some good man as leutenant of Weed for this important city, to look after his interests here. He ought to be as sharp as @ needle,and to have his weather eye always open. 4 Mr. Chase is represented as, being somewhat dissatisfied with the managers of his League, that they did not contrive to get the Henan into the concern; for that unmanageable journal oon- tinues to be outside of both Leagues, and out- side of the Cabinet, hitting all round when they deserve it. Having minutely examined the outer works and the citadel itself of the Union League, the Secretary of the Treasury left for New England, to establish similar leagues, and thence he will Proceed to the West and complete the cordon of defences which he deems necessary to secure the election of Mr. Chase. We understand it is his design to tell the leading radicals wherever he goes that if Hooker does not do something soon, or if he should be whipped in a great battle, the Secretary of the Treasury himself will assume the command of the Army of the Potomac; and. then let the rebels look out. Thus the struggle for the Presidential election has fairly opened, and tt will never cease till it in deqigeg ja November, 1864, peratn nat St Se Fam Pray 1s 4 Jewet.—The Tribune disap- pointed us by not publishing General McClel- lan’s evidence before the War Committee in yesterday's issue. Cannot poor Greeley do the fair thing in this matter? Having abused Mo- Clellan so constantly and unjustly, he ought certainly to give the General’s defence. Be honest for once, Massa Greeley. ‘The Indians Again on the War Path. OUR BT. PAUL CORRESPONDENCES. 82. Pav, Minnesota, April 19, 1863, Attack on @ Military Outposi—Litile Crow's Scout Oop- tured—A Strong Force Sent in Purewit—Litile Orow tn Council with the Hudson Bay Compamy’s Agents, dc. ‘The Indians have opened the spring campaign on a small scale. At Wedalis, situated on the south branch of the Waterman river, a company of soldiers is stationed, and twelve miles beyond a detachment of twenty soldiers are loeated. This outpost was attacked by Indians at two o’clock on the morning of the 16th and Prised. One soldier was killed and two badly wounded. One of the settlers houses was also attacked, and a boy ten years old killed and two women wounded. The attacking party is reported by the captain com- manding the detachment as consisting of fifty; but this is doubtless exaggerated. Ove of Little Crow's (the leader week, and he A special Memphis deapatch says:—Adv' Young's Point to. Sunday say that Gen. Grant Carthage. Ii was thought that the robo! ‘Yazoo wore ready tocome out. A raft has b pieces, baving floated out. A despatch from Milliken’s Bead of the 2éth were yesterday tenued for the whole army to wix days’ rations. . It is doubtful whother any of the six transports tempted to run the batteries of Viokbburg om the 284 sucoceded in passing. Four of thom. sunk. The other two, if they got by, are badly ‘The fring on the transports was terrifie. © midnight, It continued till daylight. The Transport Fleet. ‘The correspondent of the Chicago Zribune, Milliken’s Bend, on the $84 instent, says that ports selected for running the rebel batteries at ton. ey rt Mabang, Pa, ad worth in Pittsburg, coterie pent in The Aoglo-S is in Cincinnati, is old, and worth $15,000. ‘The Moderator is. eix years old, worth $16,009) fed, ‘Obgotia lent years old snd owned ia Cl int of the z Seuss und of Made ennooenoope as trey soldiers, The values given above are those of of experience, and are doubtless somewhat oxi Important Oapture by Admiral ‘Wasmwatom, April Rear Admiral Farragut reports to the Navy D that on the 6th inst. he captured the steamer J. She had on board Major Howard, of the rebel department, who was making extensive ‘the crossing of cattle over to the enstern river at various places, all of which was f partment, The vessels con:p ‘ising the ex; tm the following order, Afty yards apart ‘the General Price lashed on the starboard sido; sccont Commander Owen; ‘Mound Gy "1 Whsoa; Fittebarg, ‘Leu. Hall; Onrondale aot Murphy, and Tuscumbia, Lloutatant Shirk, with the tug Day, whicn was lashed to ‘The throe army transports were tn the rear of i ii iis ual fice. H ir # ate ie ? g 5 i ir i ' i i i i i i i r, i g i i i i f H ! if R ins Hi i te Ht Hatt Hib i ie