The New York Herald Newspaper, May 8, 1863, Page 4

| Texas, where they are erecting batteries, extend- | ing from the city to the fort on the point. The NEW YORK HERALD. , Go | Horriet Lane, disguised’ somewhat, has been re- JAMES GURDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPKIELOR. | | down the bay. - | MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. No. 127 | Aregular meeting of the Board of Councilmen == | was held at five o'clock yesterday. A resolution AMUSEMENTS THIS BVENING, | of concurrence was adopted directing the Harbor e.—Ttalian Opera,— | Defence Commissioners to memorialize the Gover- nor for the purpose of ascertaining what propor- tion of the sum appropriated by the Legislature for the general defence of the frontier will be ap- | plied to increase and strengthen the harbor de- | fences of New York, and how soon the work will | be commenced. On motion of the President, a re- OFFIOR N. W. COKNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. Volume XXVIII .. ACADEMY OF MUSIO, Irving plact Exvant Dr. NAb. NIBLO'S GARDEN, broadway.—Lxan, WALLACK’S THEATRE. Broadway.—Lost axp Won. WIN1ER GARDEN, Broadway.—Paut Pay—He's Jace Suxrraxp. LAURA KE. ENE’S TUEATRE, Broadway.—Sxcoyp Love —Natons ay Anr, NEW SOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—Rigyat—Brack duct Department to repair all the streets ia the Pasorics—Cartix DEALENS, | city where necessary. A resolution was adopted “BOWERY TRE, | directing the Committee on National Affairs to DA Roneee Hee rey ie = make preparations for the suitable reception and BARNUM'S AMERICAN MUSEUM: Broa¢way.—Mixst®. interment of the remains of the late Colonel Warnes. Com. Nurr, ac, at all bours—sietens Ke VENGE—STKREOPTICON. Afternoon and Evening. Ringgold, of the One Hundred and Third regi- BRYANTS' MINSTRELS. Mechanics’ Hall, 472 Broad. mont New York Volunteers. A resolution of Pays Emuorian Boxas, Buntxsauws, Dances &o—HisK concurrence was adopted tendering the hospitali- ‘ ALL. 614 a ties of the city to Capt. Jose Polo de Bernate, of cng eg Tee Buse Buaase puimyacucmet , the Spanish frigate Carmen, now lying at this SHE NEW IDEA, 48 Broadway—Sonds, Burixseues, Port. A resolution came up for adoption that the Bariers, dc, pei Comptroller be directed to pay to Lord & Taylor pfmartcan, TEBATRE. ae 44 Broadway.—Batiers, i the sum of $306 for gloves and crape furnished on — ~~ the occasion of theefuneral of the late Lieut. Col. Open dally tom 10 Arak, WI9E Me er _—. ng a pas gras Pang of > Gnas Danes, BUSOU kee: Broklyn.—Erm1orue | ives at twenty-one dollars per dozen. A lively === | debate ensued, during which the President stated he thought it about time extravagances of tha | kind were put a stop to; and the idea that ten | dozen gloves were necessary to supply each mem- ber of the Common Council and the heads of de- The news of General Hooker’s retrograde move- ment to the north side of the’Rappah: k, after , Partments with a pair was simply preposterous, <ul ei | as they would only number, all told, about fifty sustaining » loss of ten thousend men ormore dur- | persons. The paper was referred to the Committee ing ® contest of three days, created an intense on Finance. excitement in the city yesterday. Our latest news | The Chamber of Commerce, held {ts annual mect- report the army safe at Falmouth. The artillery, ing yesterday afternoon, the President, Pelatian 5 Perit, occupying the chair, and elected Mr. A. A. ammunition and trains were brought over without Low, President; Wm. E. Dodge, First Vice Presi- »38. The river had risen ten feet, rendering | dent; Jonathan Sturges, Second Vice President; & pursuit by General Lee next to impossible. | Edward C. Bogart, Treasurer, and J. A. Stevens, The failure of General Sedgwick to support | Jr., Secretary. General Hooker, owing to the overwhelming force In the Court of General Sessions yesterday, be- | fore City Judge McCunn, Thomas Roach, of 95 brought against him by the rebels at Fredericks- | worry street, was arraigned on an indictment burg; the absence of Gen. Stoneman’s splendid | charging him with receiving stolen goods. On cavalry force, which was employed on an expedi- the Ist of March last sixty-three barrels of tion that roves to have been quite apples were stolen from 104 Barclay street, and fol, end ee NiBees ve ink of spsthia kas thirty of them, valued at $80, were afterwards 4 pclisissibieeiusiagle 'y Longstreet, | found in the possession of the prisoner. The case and the delay in bringing up Heintzelman’s re- Gerves, all combined to render Gen. Hooker’s po- will be give to the jury this morning. The General Committee of the Mozart Hall de- sition on the other side of the Rappahannock no longer tenable, and his withdrawal became « pain- mocracy held their regular meeting last evening. ful necessity. He crossed by the United States Anumber of resolutions in favor of peace were presented and unanimously adopted. Addresses end Banks’ fords in a terrific rain storm, the sud- den rising of the waters rendering the use of the of the same tendency were also delivered by mem- Pontoon bridges exceedingly precarious. bers of the committee. At the meeting of the Commissioners of Chari- ties and Correction yesterday, the President in- The success of General Stoneman’s expedition Septee oa satelite eat + 9m {s admitted bythe rebels themselves. His forces | brought here by emigrants, which had already were divided into three squadrons—one command- ed by himself and the others by Generals Averill and Buford. All performed their work gallantly by outting the railyoad communications between Droved fatal to three surgeons and one attendant ‘at BAlevne Hoapitaf: The Mayor replied, stating Lee's army and Richmond and destroying all the bridges to within five miles of the rebel capital. he would bring the subject before the Board of One party of the cavalry went to Louisa Court Health at their first meeting. There are 6,523 persons.in the institutions—sixteen less than last House, cutting up the railroad there. Another push- ed on to Columbia and Goochland, on the James week. Admitted, 1,612. Discharged, transferred river, breaking the canal at the former peint and or died, 1,628. : At the anuual meeting of the American Geogra- capturing rebel stores at the latter. A portion of the force are said to have actually got to within a mile phical and Statistical Society, last evening, Capt. John Mullan, United Statés Army, read a highly and-a quarter of Richmond. General Stoneman thea pushed on for the peninsula, and it was re- interesting paper onthe geography, topography and resources. of the Northwestern Territories of Ported in Washington yesterday that he had got as far as Williamsburg. the United States, Captain Hall, our American ‘Arctic explorer, in compliance with « resolution offered by Judge Daly, was promised the co-opere- ‘The loas of the enemy in the three days’ fights ia estimated at fully twenty thousand men, s0 that their loss is double that of our side. ation of the society, and a committee—consisting of Judge Daly and Messrs. Beekman and Wad We give in another column very full accounts from the rebel journals of the battles at Chancel- dell—appointed toreceive the necessary funds to lorsville and Fredericksburg, and the operations fit out the expedition. The annual meeting of the Magdalen Female of General Stoneman. In connection with our ‘army correspondents’ descriptions they make a Benevolent Society was held at eleven o'clock yesterday morning, in the institution, on Eighty- perfect history of the whole affair, and of the most interesting character. eighth street, near Fifth avenue. The report of Treasurer showed that the institution is in a The heavy rain storm which visited General Hooker's army on its retreat, extended, not only ishing condition. In 1831 there was a mort- to Washington, where it was very severe, but all gage of $2,000 on the lots purchased by the so- ciety, which was reduced, in 1835, to $1,000. The along the railroad line from here to the capital. The streams and rivers are @wollen and overflowing building now occupied was erected at a cost of $9,185, the chapel which was added to the estab- their banks; the country is flooded, and the track of the New Jersey Railroad, at Trenton, is cover- lishment in 1858 having cost $1,600 extta, From ed to the depth of two feet for over a hundred 1 to 18— there were received into the institu- 1,345 females, out of which number 298 have yards. The trains yesterday passed safely through however. been placed in good situations, 242 were restored to their families, 192 were discharged, 187 were We publish to-day an interesting communication from our correspondent at Richmond, where he sent to Bellevue and the penitentiary, 20 were ex- was well received by the authorities, a house hav- pelled, 300 escaped, 27 w with the church, 23 were married, 29 died were unaccounted for. The cash balance in the hands of the Trea- ing been furnished him—we will not cal it a prison—and being sent back to our lines under eacort and on a special boat. surer is $887 45. The stock market opened weak and lower yesterday We learn from the Wheeling Jnteltigencer of Wednesday that the rebels are still at Weston, in morning, but gained strength as the day advanced, and West Virginia, and that they are seven thousand was quite rampant in the afternoon at a general advance. It closed buoyantly. Governments were steady; $1,200,- 000 of currency were funded, notwithstanding the bad news. Gold sold early in the morning at 167, but after- ward declined, and fluctuated between 16434 and 1554, closing at tive P.M. at 1565. Money was easy at6a6 per cent for call loans. There was more activity yesterday in cotton, which advanced to 66c. a 66c. for middlings, under the influence Of the unfavorabie war news. The demand for flour, wheat and comm was not quite so brisk; but prices opened with more firmness. Sugars were more inquired for, and were a trifle higher. Pork and beef were inactive, while strong, the forces of Jones and Imboden having united. There is another rebel column under Gen. Wilder, numbering about four thousand, hovering in the vicinity of Summerville, along the New river. This latter force is acting in conjunction with Jenkins and threatens Charlestown. By despatches from Cairo yesterday, we ascer- tain that our troops have positively captured Grand Gulf, taking 500 prisoners, and all the guns, am- munition and stores. The rebel accounts from Jackson, Miss., on the 2d, state that their troops had then fallen back within their intrenchments, and had then repulsed lard, bacon and cut meats were freely purchased. A mo- derate business was reported in hay, tallow and whiskey. three assaults of the Union forces. Guerilla forces at Greenville, Miss., destroyed the transport Min- Other articles were quiet. Freights' were much firmer; Qsota on Sunday; but the gunboats scattered the but engagements were less extensive. enemy soon after. Our gunboats at Grand Golf stood fire for eight hours, and then passed safely on, with transports and troops. Our news from Arkansas is interesting. Colonel Phillips encountered and defeated the rebels at Weber Falls on the 24th ult., capturing all their hnp equipage. We ha¥e dates from New Orleans to the 30th wit. by the arrival of the Columbia, Captain Garton, yesterday, from Havana. General Bauks bas been issuing some important gene- Bowery,—Sarax 1x Paris— sx ox Evrick Vat, New York, Friday, May 8, 1863. THE SITUATION. Geverat Hooxer anv His Rosicon.— On the 28th of April we published soveral extracts from General Hooker’s evidence before the Committee on the Conduct of the War. Amongst them was the following:—Question—“To what do you attribute the failure of the peninsular campaign?” Answer—I do not hesitate to say that it is to be attributed to the want of general- ship onthe part of the commander.” The effect of the depressing news received yesterday was to revive in the mouths of many a similar inquiry relative to the brief eampaign just concluded on the Rappahannock. The reply exhibited a remarkable concurrence of opinion with that made by General Hooker on the occasion re- ferred to: “Want of generalship on the part of the commander.” Tus Barries or Cmaxce.vorsvinie—Tar Weskty Heravy.—The present number of the Waexty Herat, in addition to the latest po- litical news from all parts of the world, con- tains a most graphic and detailed account of the battles which have juft taken place between General Hooker's forces and the rebels. This correspondence is superior te any which has emanated from the pens of the most renowned writers. It is remarkable for the clearness of the details, the forcible manner in which each tal orders, condemns to death all who event if described, and for its terse and com- yepply aid to enemy; another orders the | prehensive style. There has never appeared in Fogistered enemies of the United States govern. | ®Y journal, either country or abread, & more stl or description of ment to leave the department by the 10th of May, and another forbids sheriff's and others to con- script slaves for the rebel army, ig pursuance of positions of the contending forces, and render the action of the Louisiana Clear movements which oiherwise might not be The rebele are buay in the tcipity of Galveston, | really updersiqe® cognized by our fleet off the port plying up and | | solution was adopted directing the Croton Aque- i NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY “8, “1863. ’ The Retreat of General Hooker—Now What is to be Done? The news of General Hooker’s retrograde | movement across the Rappahannock without a general battle, and with the enemy en masse in his rear, created throughout this city yesterday a profound sensation of disappointment and despondency, Confident hopes of great victo- ries were changed again to painful anxieties for the safety of the army; for the news of the morning left our forces crossing the swollen river on two narréw pontoon bridges, in broad daylight and in view of the enemy. We experience no emall sense of relief in being able to announce to our readers that the army is safe in its old camp at Falmouth. That it wag permitted to recross the river without a determined effort of the enemy to cut it to pieces satisfies us that Gone- ral Lee was not disposed to risk the experi- ment; for he has shown from the beginning a remarkable knowledge of every movemept of our forces. It is said that General Hooker was in a. measure compelled to recross the river, because, with its flooded condition, and the almost impassable roads between it and his depots, he was in danger of being cut off from his supplies of provisions and ammunition. After the events of the last ten days it is easy to eee that General Hooker might have done better. For instance, had he avoided any signs of an advance until General Stone- man had cut the rebel railway communications with Richmond and returned to the afmy, tho reinforcements and supplies to Lee from below might have been cut off until too late to be of any service to him. Or had General Hooker retained the powerful body of Stoneman’s cavalry to guard his flanks, that disastrous rebel flank movement of Friday and Saturday could have easily been prevented. We appre- hend, however, that General Hooker’s greatest mistake was an underestimate of the strength of the rebels, or he surely woukd not have ad- vanced beyond the river to draw them out without the support of Stoneman’s cavalry. From the moment he touched the south side of the river that formidable body of horsemen would have been invaluable in scouring the country and in keeping General Hooker ap-~ prised of every movement of the enemy in season to meet it. As the matter stands, Gene- ral McClellan needs no other defence against the testimony ef General Hooker before the War Committee of Congress than his Rappa- hannock campaign as companed with that of Richmond peninsula and that of Maryland. The responsibility, however, for this unfor- tunate movement on Richmond, as for every other belongs to the War Office at Wasiington. Secretary Stanton and General Halleck are the parties to be arraigned as the contrivers of this deplorable failure of General Hooker, with the “finest army ‘on the planet.” ( Had they ‘per- mitted General McClellan faM to go on with his-own -plans, and bad they supported him in. his movements, the war in Virginia would have been over menths ago. Or had they moved down in season Heintselman’s re serves from Washington, or brought up to sid in the great struggle upon which the life of the rebellion depended the available forces of Gen. Peck, from Suffolk, and of General Keyes, from Yorktown, General Hooker might have en- vel the rebel army with his superior m But what might or should have been done is now a matter of small importance, compared with the question what is tu be or should now bedone. We think the Army of the Potomac sbould be immediately reinforced, and that it should be advanced again upon the rebel army before it can recover from its losses, or recon- struct its shattered columns. We think that the campaign in this way may yet be madea decisive success, and especially should Stoneman be informed of the late events on the Rappahannock in season to cacape the snares of the enemy with his splendid corpsof cavalry. From the facts in our possession, the losses te our army, except in the veteran spldiers who have fallen, may be readily repaired. { We look to the President to meet the exigencies of the day. Time is precious. The work required to repair damages and to restore the confidence of the country must be commenced at once; but that this work demands the removal of the pre- sent incompetent heads of the War Office must now be manifest to President Lincoln. The whole system upon which the war is conducted needs reform, and this reform can only be effected by a complete reorganization of the War Office, Taw Aragst or VaLLanoicHaM.—There is no necessity for any fuss, excitement or indigna- tion about Vallandigham’s arrest. If he bas the consequences of his folly. The democratic party bas only to keep cool; for the persistent blundets of the administration render it the complete master of the situation. All cases of arbitrary arrests will make political capital for the Presidential oanvass next year. Then, when the democrats come into power, they can serve the abolitionists as the abolitionists have served them. Those must be very poor laws which will not work both ways. A little pa- tience, and the radical faction will receive the justice it has so long merited. ~ An Orenina ror Szorsrarr Onise.—Tho retreat of General Hooker from the rebel army offers an opening to Secretary Ohase and his partisans, who are sald to be in favor of peace with Jeff. Davis upon the baste of aseparation of the Union into two or three confederacies. The Hon, Masea Greeley some time ago announced that if we could gain no decisive victories over the rebellion by the Ist of May it would be advisable to make peace upon the best terms wo could get in the Southern market, end we dare say that Secretary Chase at that time was of this opinion. Now, therefore, is the time for the Secretary to state his views to President Lincoln. The Ist of May bas passed, and Fighting Joe Hooker has been turned back on his road to Richmond. What says the Hon. Masse Greeley? Peace or war—one cdnfedera- oy or half a dozen? qn McCieitan on Faesont.--The fallure of General Hooker brings President Lincoln to the alternative of the abolition abandoning and thei i fhe'end; and thos the shaple alternative of McClellan or Fremont. Tribune, byt here / correspond- ents, declares any time between Friday evening and Monday morning, General Hooker Sea ae es a generat it. This te we feared befall fthockert de cought It, acd myst boar the consequences, our State Iegisiaturé The proposition that any public Tus War News iw Wau Sreser.—In Wall street, as in every other part of the city, the war news produced a very depressing offect yesterday. Gold fluctuated with every rumor, and sold at about 156 at the four o’clock board. All stots were high except those of the gov- ernment; for stocks now sympathize with gold. To-day the news will .bo move- thoroughly un- derstood, and its effects will be still more ap- parent, Radical stock is out of the market completely _ THE BROADWAY RAILROAD BILL VETOED, Mossage or Goverdidr Seymour. + Exsconive Cusmusr, ALBAny, May 7, 1863. In view of the importance of the measure, I have given a full and pationt hearing to the friends and opponents of tho act te authorize the construction Of a railroad tn cer- tain streets and avenues in Now York; I have come to the conolusion that { ought not to approve of the bill. hold it to be unconstitutional, as it permits tho use of @ueh sticets and avenues without the consent of the Meyor, Aldermen and Commonalty of the city of New York, and without providing for any compousation for Buch use, In thf respect I deem it en invasion of the corporate franchises ana property of the people of that city, against the protest of ita local government. Tho Dill haa other objectionablo aspects. It grants co persons therein uamed valuable and im- portant pniviloges which have been earnestly Bought for by different parties at different vimes, and it ae cyncerns the intdrost and comfort of the Arrival of Duryce’s Zouaves, Fifth New York Volunteers, PROGRAMME OF THM 8AMM, BTO. The Fifth Now York Stato Volumteers—tamiliarly known aa Duryoo'’s Zousves—arrived in Jersey City at six o'clock Jast evening, by rail from Wasbin, . They participated in tho battles of last Saturday and Sunday, and left the jocality on Monday last, being sent home by General Sykes, in command of their division (their time of gervice having expired), who issued a complimentary order to them on thoir departure. They come home, with their arms and equipments, about two hundred abd fifty strong, and will receive au enthusiastic reception at the hands of the city govgrnment and the people to-day. The regiment was not expO.ed to arrive in the city until this morning, and accordingly preparations for the reception hadnot boon completed until today. The following is the pro- fromme which has been adopted by the Committee on ‘ational Affairs of the Common Council relative to the matteri— PROGRAMME OF ARRANGEMENTS for the rec:ption of the FIFTH REGIMENT NEW YORK VOLUNTBERS by the MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES OF THE OITY OF EW YORK, under the direction'of the JOINT COMMITTEE ON-NATIONAL AFFAIRS, onetheir RETURN TO THIS CITY FROM THE WAR. The resiment will be reviewed by the Mayor and Com. mon Council, in front of the City Halt, at four o'clock P. M., on Briday, the 6ch mstant, ra e review the regiment wil proosed in procession as follows -— 4 ORDER OF PROOESSION. ‘The escort, commanded by Colouc] Jéha E. Bendix, Acti irigadicr jonsisting of the Seventy-fret regime ne) Thirty-seventh regimen Trafford. el Chorio Roome. Jo of the oity of Now York, If these franchises uro ] Tenth New York Voluntee: wtenant Colonel Marshall, tote fisbeorg should be done under the pe dovver | Diasbled vie Careagen. regiment, Gesiguated to secure the largest revenue or the cheapest mode of conveyance. Tt is notorious that propositions to gudcr command of Golouel Cloveisud Winslow. secure these objects ‘were rejected. Public interest and New York Fire Department. in uniform, without morals demand that all such grants to individuals or cor- ‘Apparatus. under the direction.ot porations be carefully guarded against avy preference or Jobu Decker, Esq, ee. Engineer. fayorilism. It ia urged with trnth that somo parties in- terested in this bill have streng claims upon public fa and justice. The owners of stages and omnibusses, who, for many years havo promoted the growth and prosperity of the city of New York, should be p:otected. The pronerty thoy have acquired by long years of patient Iabor oughtnot to be destroyed without just compensa- tion. 1 trust and beliove this meritorious class will be amply and liberally remunerated, should thoir tranchises and property be impaired by the introduction of railwé While I fee! a strongeinterest in their bebalf, this feature of the bill does not overcome the grave objections to its approval as @ whole mensure. It is also urged that the city government has granted to the Harlem Railroad Company the right to run ite tracks through the samo streots without giving any protection to the owners of stage lines; and that the grant was made Sergeantat-Arms, Members of the Common Counoil. Citizens Generally. The procession will take the following route:—From the Park through Broadway to Union s,uare; around the square through Seventeenth street to Fifth avenue; through Fifth Foureenth street to Rooms, avenue to Fourteenth strest, through Broadway: through Broadway to tne City Assembly an "the Keepers of all public buildings, the proprietors of i tels and other publio ft anv the raand owners anne ing in the harbor, and our cltitens geperally, are requested lay their flags during tl ny. fu roscton wil Ce tapes ‘The Superintendent of then Kept en- r anything calculated to retard or delay the progress of th see that the route taken tirely free from vehicles The Mayor and the corporate authorities of the city will entertain the Fifth remenent ‘at a banquet at the City Assem- bi Rooms in the even! covertly and in a monner to evado the process of courts M e FAL and the degisions of judicial tribunals; and that there are | peRENGE FARLEY on NATIONAL ABrALnS. ample ot ces that such grants were obtained by cor- PETER MITCHELL, ALEXAND' ANDON, b - | PL A. Be JOAN H. It is also foared that further action of similar charae John’! ie PRLE, 7288 Dn ter may be had by the city government which will give to the Harlem road the privilege of laying its tracks in the different streets and avenues in a manner iojurioua to public interests and public and subversive of the rights and fravchises 0: individuais avd corporations, If this bill becomes a law, it is claimed that the power of the city government to make guch injurious and cor- rapt grants will be annulled. It is my duty to guard against improvident, unjust or unconstitutional action by TERENCE FARLEY, 0 Bawore T. Wensten, Secretary. merry § Tho bravery which the men and officers of the gallant Fifth have exhibited during the present war titles them to thiar . ‘The Fifth w one famous of the splendid regiments which New York has contributed to the war. Its monced in April, 1861, by Abrai former ‘Po tional ly filled up, oun! “young men throwing up lucrative situations to enlist as ivates. After a few weeks probationary dri! huyler, it left m the early part of May for Monroe, thea the juarters of General Butler’ tary district. There it saw three months of arduous officer should sanction an im; Y Measure to prevent ap abuse of power by other omoiis, isfuil of danger. It furnishes a plausible pretext under which corrupt or in- jurious legislation or public action can be shielded. ‘This very case is a striking pecet [tel gt Lon The H thorities, u| the grou would pro- bal iy become a law, made the grant to the Hariom Rail- | Vice, taking part in tr reconnoisaances and in the road under circumstances above stated, although they | Dattle of Big, Betnel. it was sent to form part of had before retused to make such grant, and the Mayor the garrison of Baitimore, in which city, juattfies bis approval of the measure on the ground of an. | 600d conduct poco dine! ee ticipated legislative abuse in the enactment of the bill in am question. ‘I am now urged to approve this act for the of ting improper action by the city govern- a vicious reasoning, two public mea- in itself, are to receive the sanction apprehensive that |. the ent, bat. , by sures, each improper of two official bodies, because each is the other is about to consummate a wrong. ‘The dasger ous facility which such reasoning lexds to, tho adoption of bad measures, under tho color of preventing wurae by ; how. it. misleads the conscience of those who 2 it cre.tes a scramble conde a e' fall He eee He F Prince ‘ond Howe: Hail, Broadway, between and Hous- ton streets, this morning at half-past ton o’clock, in order to take part in the \. Coione! Bendix, of the Now York Volunteers (re- turned regiment), bas issued the following order:— Texte eee: Nationa Zovavns.—PThis w isiation, and with tho jus and spirit of , Should be Uisoouraged and abandoned. of loca! vay tegen re sect Ct jon of power, bave proved destructive of our legisiation, und endangered the proser- our rights and the maintenance of ou ities! - HORATIO SEYHOUR. rT 1 the purity vatin of Institutions. Extraordinary Case of Suicide at the Metropolitan Hote}. A Frenchman named Edmend Baron committed suicide at the Metropolitan Hotel on Wednesday undor somewhat extraordinary circumstances. Deceased, it appeared, was ence & milljonaire; but reverse of fortuno reduced his in- come to such a low figure that ho was obliged to emtgrate to this country for the purpose of making a livelihood. He arrived in this city about two years ago, and by means of alittle movey which he had managed to save from his creditors in Paris bo contrived to live in com- fortable circumstances. The loss of bis fortune preyed upon his mind day and night, however, and finally drove him to despair, When the Freuch army invaded Mexico Peep grag ad ig on seinies ranks of bis coun- foi but he was dissuaded Tom delng 99 |. Some twoor three months ago he went to ington on business connected w: his return to New York he took at J A, V. Mantra, Adjutant. NEWS FROM TENNESSEE. Caio, Ill., May 7, 1863. Affairs in Galveston. [From the New Orleans Era, April 26.) THE REBELS BARD AT WORK--BATTBRIEG BEING ERRCTED—THE HARRIET LANE I GIG: AT WORK ON THR WRSTFIRLD, RTO. We bave reliable intelligence from Galveston 5 g & £F E EE ! j i i | i 3 i PI i 0° zf aE i rege titi i i 5 i f i ij i i i fi i i : 3 Saf i 33 jl gE Drowning of Twenty-five of the Twenty= seventh New Jersey Regiment, Omcrmmani, May 7, 1863. ‘The Commercial of this city has the following special Sr. Ioan’s Fraay, Comnantany River, i i i a i il i a i t i ris sie teks chia MaSEVAChURSS | rap resniygretn Yor ter rg ce i pie deh i City Intelligence. ‘Tas A reper or CaPrain Grit, or rum Steamer Komecec— -—The statement which appeared in yester- day's issue, that Captain Gill, of the steamship Edinburg, bad been arrested for kidnapping sailors, was incorrect, ‘The charge preferred against him is il! treatment of 3 Bi 55 | | x 3 2 i " t i : i AY = THER RECBPTION TO TAKE PLACE THIS AFTERNOON ~ Capture of Grand Gulf, with the J Garrison, Guns, Materiel and Suppli Goneral Sherman's Attack on the Haines’ Batteries a Feat. Union Troops Moving Port Hudson, &e., —- Camo, May 7, ‘The despatch boat Wilson, from the feet, br: spatches to the government and important have captured Grand Gulf, with five hundred and all the guns, ammunition and stores. Advices via Milliken’s Bend are from Grand Guif| 30th of April. Our gunboats, after shelling the @ight hours on that day passed below the b duringsthe night, with transports with troops on ‘The casualties on our side are reported at t killed and fifty-four wounded. The gunboat Tu was badly crippled during the engagement. In the late attack on Haines’ Bluff five threo mortar boats were engaged. The attack simultaneously with that on Grand Gulf, but was tended to be pushed to any length. _We learn that although the Chottaw was struck times in the Inte attack on Haines’ Bluff, she injured 80 much as was stated yesterday. General MoClernand’s corps and General sion were on the march to Port Hudson, The geod spirits. The steamer Majesty was burned ) Hickman, 1bo fire was first discovered in a pile tresses, and was doubtless the work of an inc Shoyhad about 1,400 toms of commissary stores horses, all of which, except two, were burned. Querilias At Greenville; Miss. , destroyed the ‘Minnesota on Sunday. The gunboats ecattered the enemy. Ei Gr. Loum, Mo., May 7, | Gen. Blunt telographs to Gen. Curtis from that Col. Phillips crossed the Arkansas river on of April 24 and attacked the rebel forces that concentrating and fortitying at Weber Falls, in Territory, routing them and capturing all equipage. . A gentleman who left Shreveport, La., April 3, the rebels to have one gunboat and thirty tras tween that point and Alexandria. Ten thousand wore reported at Houston, Texes, At D under Standwater and Cooper, were sixteen. Fort Smith, Prive’s troops for the invasion of are all to-be mounted. They were expected to the 16th of May and move up east of Black fi all disavow § 4 ti 2 ! it i fi Hl a i it Hi Ti in | F il 53 i t i F Hj i i