The New York Herald Newspaper, March 10, 1864, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. — WHOLE NO. 10,036, KIEPATRICK’'S EXPEDITION. REBEL ACCOUNT OF THE AFFAIR. Colonel Dahigren’s Operations and Death. WHAT HAS BECOME OF HIS BODY? FIERCE REYALIATION RECOMMENDED, ae, ae, a. + QOMclal Despatch of Genornl Butler. Porrress Mowror, March 8, 1864. ‘Mon. Epwamp M, Stanton, Secretary of War:— ‘The fag of trace boat 1s iv, bringing over forty-eight officers avd over six Hundred privates. delivered for ex change, ‘The Richmond papers give an account of Colone) Dabi- (greo*s death ond Major Cook’s capture, ‘TRo Richmond papers o! to-day say that on the 6th of Mar’ General Sberman was at Canton, on the Mississippi Gontral Rajiroad., That he has taken a large pumber of @ogroes, and leaves the country impoverished. The papers also stale that the rebels bave ordered al) General Kitpatrick’s oflicers whom they have captured ‘0 be paced » irons. BENJ. F, BUILER, Major General Commanding. (Whe Kilpatrick Expeditios—Who Be- trayed [ut [Vrom the Foston Courier.) We quoted a paragraph from the Springfield Republican jerday, the correspondent ef which paper, writing rc Meade’s headquarters, predicied the tailure of Kil ick '@ expedition, owing to the fact that the secret of wus communicated tothe Indies’? ut a great ball given the mght of the 22d of February, Whether “the ‘tadies”’ sn Goestion were of a description to be very much confided in may be judged about, perhans, by the follow- ‘ng extracts which we take irom a communication wade to us by “one who was Lbere.” Referring to the para- graph above mentioned, be says:— It te fortunate that a republican paper exposes the man- per ie winch this are conducted at neadquarters in front of tbe cnemy. Your papers, perbays, would not be deheved. The only error of omission in the account o: the gracd theatricals in which * Kilpatrick acted as magayer, ’ is Ube character of at least a portion of tweee ladies ("). A'yentiemun of this city, who was on the tram going from Alexandria to Frandy station, recog- nized a female of private notoriety, belonging to Boston, es aire stepped into tne ladies’ car. Surprised to see such a gross violaticn of general and spec.ui orders, and bay- 4ng 1 ap official capacity passed said temaie outside our Iwes on ao former occasion, be requested to see ber pass. Without suspecting anything, she remarked, “Ob, we get our passes from the secretary of War,” end banded pass to the gentlemav. Not till the pass was in bis band did she suspeet; when, with a conceited uir, she remarked, ‘Js it not curious ‘that ny name is put in as Hob. Mrs. So-und Su’ Her pass was signed by ‘ olonei Hardee, and included three ‘others. The honorable applied to a Uiited States Senator: ‘the other “ladies” bad very romantic names. The geo- ‘Ueman joguircd of the officer of the guard f such things were allowed. He replied, -*1 passed over the road yes @erday eighty-three, aii with passes from the War De- partment, and many benring names of memb Con ” |p the common car he found there was a de- looking man from Elmira, New York. who was in Search of @ litte boy, fourteen years old, who bad run ‘away, and was at Brandy station. He hud been three days besieging ‘be War Departiwent for a pass to go and Fecinim thre last of bis family, the others having been Billed at Gettysbor. and Antietam: and even then would ‘Bot have succeeded but for the earnest aid of is general SOUTHERN ACCOUNTS. Col. Dahigren’s Operatio id Death. [From tbe Richmond Examimer, March 7.) THE RAIDBRs—-INTERKESTING STATKMENT OF GRENS EXCURSION AND DEATH. ‘The coluuny of Yankees upaer Dabigren took on their Toute two prisovers,‘ aptain Dement and Mr. Mounteas- ‘Ue. who accompanied the force from Geoctiand to the debut at Walkerton. From these gent! fod other Pources of informution we gather some ‘Interesting ac- couvis of Dabigren’s excursion Deblgren cime down the Westham plank road, with etgbt buodred or a thousand men. ‘The Armory battabon was cn the-enemy’s flunk, and appears to have been com pletety surprised. but wuen the enemy cume in cout with Henley’ battalion the cavalry oroke at the Lrst fire. ‘The Gret volley of musketry seems to have dove all the disaster that occurred There were eleven Yankees killed ‘and some thirty or forty wounded. the afinir Dahigren seemed to be anxious for his aud divided his forces, sO ws 10 ‘nerense the Feseape, The force ander his iminediate com mand moved down toe south bank of the Pamunkey and ‘crossed the river at labpey s Ferr faTbeIr exactniomber way net at firet easily ascertatped, Shi, as usaai, the MEST Exaggerated accounts were scon eirculited throughout the city, incressing as they eprend, until ibe miserubie fugitives from tbe Rehm: defences sere maymitied joto u fall brigude. F tb ferry they priceeced by the most direct route to Aylow’s, On the Matrapooy, watened closely at every step by ‘scouts detached irom Lieu 1 James To! lord's company 6 fee's Rangers, now on picket duty and recruumg service 1. King Wilham, we re dence «i mest of a8 members. The ferry beat having heen uly resoved, and Lieutenant Polard’s or pase ve when they {the river being sas hed across the river as precipita’ powible, ueder the feo: a small squad of rangers left ov Abe south pank for that purpose. While passing through King Withum they captered one prisoner, Nr. Wilham Bawavas severai horses, and mortal y wounded a Aan altachet to ihe signa! corpe, whose name we could ot learn. Sobseqently Colonel Dabigrea, in command of tho ;ertyardered the release of Mr. Edwards and the restoration of big horse and of some valuab es which swore forcibly taken from bis person when eapwired ihe Yaokeos had no scover reaebed King und Quee county than \wey were bararsed, both front and re ébowing fight tard was rejuforeed by Mu compauies of the Vorty second Virgin pow on picket duty in King und Queen, an pany of Frith Virgina eavairy, on furlough DARL- comity. Here the fight becaine general, resalting in ihe death of Colcvel Dablgreen, and the capture of the grenier umber o’ the party, the rest having fled ju disoruer and panic (0 the it few. i auy, will re Gloucester Por the Home Guard of K y '¥ wee congpicn ous during the whole ullair, are scouring the country and cutting 01! escape. A iarge bouy of this raiding party was pashing towards the peninsula ut the rather Lazardes attempt to reach Gloucester Point amecvaed King Woitatn and King and Queen, We recret thie very mech. o@, (6 both counties, edequate pre; Looe were made to peveut the wuil of ether covaty from Deing converted into a bighway, as in the earlier pe tbe war, x for Yankeo robbers, whose tr r € is WRATH The podbiiention y's prosranme for the & of Kiehmord was sion of copstunt exeiten: Saturday, wl curiosity to know what course ties would pursue towards Loe thiee o hundred land pireves put ui curanceat Libby fo Daighren’s budvet of Willnny wow re wre to be wide conn den: wh the most striking cojors, the mander. ared at Prederick’e Hi ebaracter © Wher captured (here Captain wt and this prise a taken w company with Duhigeen over the whole of his |: foule. Captian: Her porte that he w © the negro jnde, and that Dab h the uniappy vu mm was hic A bilo Lement elected his efeape in the fight near Walkerton, het Famgren foond the smail boay o Gouieder te caWsizy ID his rent, be thsieted upon Captain Der snide. os be adveneed to demand riding by t reply © one Of Our Offers to the was “Give them bel). boye * Dabi | ereo eli we tet the horse of Cuptii bement | wor ebot , the rider fortunately escaping win. | entry. Pabigee eived two bullete jn the bead, tee inthe body, and one inthe hav. He died est ently Cipton Hemmer wed ty @ shirt Pome of tie Doin and vo var ward and received the Pure oder ol witnost (he entire purty. tatngre Hedy bas been eriuped hake! aad Was IVIDE OM The Fond, Hwee ry Caplan Sement’s orders that it war mn ter ed. Hoth Capinim Rement and Me, Mountcastic describe Dabiy op ing viluin, He Selvit we the prisoners. shared bis food with mpi@in Lement. amd op kevern| ocoesions invited Him to CRe wipe whikoy with him, He was a fair haired, Very young loki ¢ Hoag. with munner® a8 FO bas a Cut’, COLONEL JOUNSUN'S 4) PAIRS VTE THR RNEMY We iourm that ai! the boats on tbe Pamunkey were fecored by Col GG! Hradiey Johnson's command, with Khe exceptin. # stupie one at Vabney's Kerry, wbICL Lbs ene y vsed and atierwards destroyed yhe weeneed tn Colove! Beadiey 2, sebreon’s emalt oui tune of fely four men, in he attack npon Mae enemy fat Old Charen. was Copt, George i. Proeck, of Mince George veunty, Marylan , #hot om the thumb aad ede, Lent, ev, shot throngh thighs, serenely Ker aabre cut ever the head, and R.A. (ing, cot cyer the bend nud ehonider, ‘The Yankees eharged be through ihe commucd epeatediy, a8 though 0 wxcertan fe force, Out every Line the enemy charger the eum oad divided, Beaver ivg @ Ceadly volley of | the 6 preter of ster nin the pr Owens f padvies bat ine bravery spon every reEw), The enemy were in free He rAwee Abd cowariien 1 Col Johnsen 8 ture of the Yankees Based thom fom i plure. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1864.—-WITH SUPPLEMENT. the Cang.i, River | enemics may deserve, but what it becomes us, as Christ- yang and-gentiemen, to inflict.” Ob, bypocrisy, and thou forty parson power which alone cap sound its praise through thy forty noses! What cant is this? We wonder whether Mr. Davis is aware of what many very honest begin to mutter and murmar. They gay, gan tbl “man be saving up for himself, in case of the worst, & gor! of plea in mitigation of punistment? Jf the cause for CONDUCT OF THE BNEMY IN THE LAST RAID, (From the Richmond Examiver, March 8.) ‘The depredations of the last Yankec ers, and the ‘wantonpess of their devastation, equa! anytb. berewo- fore committed during ibe war. At the farm bouses visited by them in Goochland ¢ destroyed the pro- visions. up ee prey eta which a hundred and fifty thousand of us bave died, ver. Mr. James M. Morsou’s bouse they set fire to shape be borne down at last, is this Christian meek tumes, but the were fortunately a8 oiten ext bess of bis intended to save bis own life? They, say what comfort are these fine sentiinents to the houseless families who have been driven from their bomes in Tennessee or Virginia, when they Ood that our armies, eveu on the exemy’s seil, are witbbeld from giving tbe invaders & tasie of real war in their own quenched beartas and biazing barns’ For what have we get over us a governient at all if it be not to protect us Against our enemies, Lo avenge us of our evemies when Beed is; 10 uphold our cause in all its fusness and gran- deur, and to keep our banner fying high? But this is lowering the cause and draggipg the banoer through the dust; this is encouraging, inviting our »nvaders to ravage and pillage us at pleasure, sure that they will pot be Visited with the !ike in their turn, aro by tbe bouse servants. They tired Mr. James . Seddon’s barn, cornhouge and stables. The barn was consumed, but the negroes succeeded in saving the other buildings. But it would be endless to at tempt to particularize their acts of vandalism, if, iwdeed, many of their deeds were not too revolting to be recited in a Ubristian community. The disgusting orries ip which they epent three bours in the veighburhood of Dover Mills should bring the blush of shame to the brows even of Yankee women. ‘Picked men,” indeed. They must bave been picked out for their jow tastes and brutal natures. It ie for the fuvure historian to gather the sepa- rate facta and show up this atuir in its true colors The Yankee trail trom Dover to Atice’s Station is mark- ed by devagiation as completo as their fears would per- mit.” In the neighborbood of Atice’s they eeized and des- troyed everything that would gsuetain the life of man and boast. We will mention one case, which may be taken as a men of their wholesale plundering aod barbarous cruelty, William Chesterman, an old ‘man with five children, a carpenter by trade, lives near Atiec’s water station, They came to his house on Tuesday eveving, took every mouth{ul of bis small stock of provisions, every grain of his corm, every fowl); ripped up bis beds with their sabres, and threw the feathers into the road; ‘tore up every etitch of big children’s clothing, actually taking them off the children for the purpose, and broke up bit Garventer’s tools before his eyes. On ‘Wednesday the old man bad to go forth to beg bread for bie children. He is pow dependent on the charity of the world, tbe very implements op which he relied for a \ivelibood bav- ing been destroyed. A heavy debt is certaicly mcurred. to be liquidated when our men again visit the bursting barns and farmbouses of Penveylvania, A War of Ferocious Retaliation Recom- mended. [From the Richmond Examiner, March 7.) Perhaps the peovle—perbaps even the government of the Confederate States—are now at length awakened to the trne nature ot the struggle in progress. We have been in the habit of regarding 1 a8 a war between mations our enemies have all along looked upon it a3 @ military ex- ecution upon a ‘matinous crew.'’ The means by which Ubeir soldiers are desired to ‘‘write (heir names in in. effaceable letters on the bearts of tbeir countrymen,’ are by rushing at night upon a populous city, burning it down with turpentine and oakum ‘in gonked balls,” wrn- ing loose sore thousands of ruffian prisoners, brutalized to the deepest degree by acquaintance with every horror of war, who bave been confined on an isiand for ayear, far from all meaus of indulging their etrong eensual appetites—inviting this pandemonium to work their will on the unarmed citizens, on the women, gentle and simple, of Richmond, and on all their property— in a word, to sack with the usual accompaniments at- tending that operation—to kil! Jeif. Davis and his muti- nous crew, and slp away as they came. To burn not only houses and bridges, but everything else which might be of vse to the “rebels,” barnes, boats, stores, provisions, and to slaughter iil horses aud cattle which they could not carry away with them. Ybe resuits, indeed, of this tremendous imtention of ravage and buichery were coutemptible The “picked command, selected from brigades and re- Major Cook and Other Prisoners, (from the Richmond Examiner, March 8.) The raiders concerned in the last ‘op to Kichmond’? had been cooped at the Libby to the number of three bundred and twenty-one up to last night, with about fifty more to be beard from. Ninety-one were received on Saturday, with forty stolen negroes, recaptured, who were sent to Castle Bhunder, to awart the claims of their owners, who bave no feur of the Ape’s ernancipation pro. clamation before their eyes. Among 5 gg were three commissioned oflicers—Major . Cook, Second | Biments’” for the thieving and murdering expe- New York cavairy; First Lieutenant H. He J. Merrett, | dition, wag vot guite up the mark, “the Fifth New York, and Secoud Lieutenent 2. Bartiey, of | braves who were to have swept through Richmond” were very casily swept away from before Richmond and their balls of oakum and turpentine, instead of biss- ing and flaming in our dwellings, and amidst territied women and children, as was expecied, had to be tbrown into the Pamuukey for the present. Nevertholess, the minute programine of that piece of business cannot 1211 to be instructive. After our government has existed for three years, and has all that time maiutained lurge armies to movt and baile their tar greater armies in falr fight on the field, they think it still an aliowabie, pay @ virtuous aud glorious proceeding, to steal upon our chief ma; trate and his Cabinet io their beds. acd, after burniog their houses, to hang them 1p on the vext tree, just as the French in Alciers woud do toaKabyie chief and his encampment in the desert, or the Euglisn in India to x ib or Ghoorka marauder. is as well to look our position straight in the face—we are barbarians, in the eyes of cur enemies, Our way of life is, according to the dictum of one of these philogophers, ‘the sum of all barbarism.’” Against us, everything is far. We aiso, though we have news: papers, and oratorz, and a certain cyummand of the Eng. high language. are yet 0 bemmed%n, for the present, by Diockading fieets aud armies, that our protest, if we at jes away in silence wo Itis the simple fact, let ns take it as we will, that those enemies against whom we fondly believe we are waging an houorabie war, aS nation against nation, are carrying on Againet us the very same sort of wariare wat Euglish arreies think good en ugh for the revolted Sepoys and Inutipons hill tribes. If trey can surprise, by any sort of artifice, our kraal of Richmond, and deliver it over to the mercy of their troops, i id jp it Ove good carni- val of lust apd rapine, they will write their names in ira perishable jetters on the hearts of their countrymen. ‘This situation of afairs was always well known to us; but it wae doubted or denied by many Confederates of leebie brain, Lo they beheve it now, understand it Bow, that we bave it under tne band of federai officers charged with the tusk of breaking up thi “hatefu!’? cen o! Rtcb. mound, buruing apd robbing our houses. stepping aud violating the vir often refived Christian women of this place, shoouing, stabbing, banging the bighest civil officers of Jaw, and massacring todiscriminately the popniation. This is a wholesome kind of reflection for cur own coun trymen, We belive it will sting them. We think it biguly probable that they wii! peremptorily demand of their gov- ernment some practica], unmistakubie assertion of our full determinacion to be treated as honorabie enemies and civilized peo Je. Aud whut—ome may us:—whut thea would you bave our government to do?—(u/m the war the Signal Corps. Officers and men are kept separate from the cther prisoners captured in legitimate warfare, Colonel Dahigren’s Body. {From the Richmond Examiner, Mareb 8.) Dabigren's body was boxed up at Walkerton on Sunday and brought to Hichmond, with the object, we under- Stand, of its positive ideotitication, and the establishment of the fact of the fiuding of the infamous documents pon it. all of whieh has been attested by witnesses Henceforth the name ot Dablgrea is linked with eternal infamy, and in the years to come deteoceless woman and innocent childhood will peruse, with a sense of sbrinking horror. the story of Richmend’s rescue {rom the midnight sack and ravage led by Dahlgren. it would seem something of the curse he came tw bestow upon others lighted upon bis own carcass, when it fell riddled by avenging Southern bullets. ‘Stripped, robbed of every valuab.e, the fiagers cut off for the sake of the diamond rings that encircled them. when the body was found by those sent to take cherge Of it, it was dying \n 4 Geld, stark naked, with the exception of the Steckiugs. Some humane persons bad lifted the cory from the pike and thrown it over into the field, to ea it from the bogs. The artvicia! leg worn by Danigren was removed, and is now at General Elzey’s beadquar- ters. Itiso most beautitul cesign and fiuish Yesterday afternoon the body was removed from the car that brought it to the York River Railroad depot and given to the spot of earth selected to receive it. Where that spot is no one but those concerned in its burial know or care to tell. Jt was a dog’s burial, with- out coffin, wincing sbeet or service. Friends ana reia- tives at the North veed inquire no further, this is ail they will know—he is buried a burial that betitted the mission upon which he came. He bas ‘swept through the city of Richmond” 6p ayine bier, and «written bis name” on the scroll 06 infamy. instend 1 ‘ou the hearts of his countrymen,” never to be er@sed: He ‘tasked the blessing of Almighty God" on bis mission of rapine, murder and blood, and the Almighty curred Bim instead. Whe Negro Guide. [From the Richmond Exemmer, March 8.) Dabigren’s guiae, recommended to Bim “at the Inst moment” as the “very mun Le wanted,” by ove “truly yours, Job C. Babeock,”” bas reached the Libby, in com- any with the two of three hundred be at. empted 10 guide joto the heart of Richmond His paine is Jobo A. Hogan, s Irishman by birth, nwenty three years old, tali and lithe. with a fine, opeo counte. nance. When asked his rauk, be declared bimseif afvil, | into a war of «xfermination? Certainly, certainiy; it im Ligh private, and did not aspire to anything else. Being | already a war of extermination, of indiscriminate wiaugh- wierrogated o# to bis knowledge of RP. nd and \ts | ter and plunder on che purt of our enemies, {heir eparing suburbs, be said he knew it “like a bog,’ be was a k est at the Hote! de Libby in July, 1865, und kuew the offers ot the prison, Then recognizing Mr, Ross, th clerk, Hogan broke out, “How do ve do, Lieutenant Ross; glad see you.’’ " Hogan boasted of bis narrow escare, haviag bad four Duwcets put through bis cloching and hair. in reply to @ question as te what be was fght- When eve ast it will, Hogan will the lives of prisopers und oceasiunal exchanges, form bat a temporary suspension of the rcle, necessitated by our holding prisoners also; bat the true animus. the autben tic Yankee theory of thie war, i manifest m the actual pro- ceedings of our evemy wherever he Las the power, and especially, and most siznally. im this ede of instructions: for suck @hd maseacre in Richmond. Our government owes il (0 is cwn army aid to Us ow Zeople, If it cannot at the moment retaliate such atrocities tn kind, at least to briny to condign punishment the rothers who, in the guise of soldiers and under pretence ef war, have bech canght lurking avout Richmond with Uwir oakum balls and turpentine, and thet writen projramme for murdering ‘he chief megistrate amd, setting fire to ail the houses ill the city is burnt ima hun. dred places at once, ond then inviting eight vhousand bicod thirs y, lustful rupions to gut the Liazing mansions, rape their mistigsses, and inock ihe masters in the head am the dreadful confusion. ing tor, be roped be was fighting for tun. fur ends in a hempen rope, as w If found, he shouid certainly be higren, er broarht to Niemen to erfate a ts the ontlaws of bis . own boree to Dabigren sent headlong atter | partici ate in w hate command held here. OMciai Notification of the Failing Back of Buticrrs Forces. But sf we bang these wretches then the evemy will (Frew the }ucbmond Sentinel, Mareb 7 select an equal pamber for the galiows’ Not while we An oMe.ai report to Geveral Hunton, of date March 5, by Lieutenant Colone! Rebing, says: — ‘ il have the honor to report that the enemy bas reireat ed to Willumsbarg ‘This pews was brought to me by my feonts, who followed then sume miles below Slaters- ville, and ti ‘ormation that they were below Purnt Ordiory, rapidly talling back to Wilhamsburg Two reeimerits of infantry (negroes) Oame up ob the Hasouna Ag lar as Drasoond bridge, abd remained there until the whole force fell back. hold sixteen thousand ages. Potif we sbrink from that re is anoter al‘ernative, and the only one left us— MENICAN AFFAIRS IM EUROPE. The Archduke Still Hesitating Abou the Acceptance of the Thr {From the london News, Feb. 26 Bavsers, Feb. 24, 1864. In a recent number of one of tbe London daily journals The Rebet Wa Department Blamed for! ‘a oud Sentmel, March 6.) {Prom the Rict If the Couredesace ca ital bag been in'the closest danger | yp Im eteted that ti * det bave Tun a serious risk of being hanged at their own | who, duly adtborized by ibe Emperor ecet, has granted doors. do we wot ore tt chicfiy to the mith and water spirit | the concessioll of the pew bank od yo abd “trustworthy in formation jeads to the belie! that by mutua: co-operation and combination the bondbolders may obtain terms in every way commeusurate wiih the sacrifices ibey have endured with this debt. As my name bsg been ientioved io connection with the preceding assertions, I beg to state that | am in a porition that evabies me to uxsure the public that all that bas Leen said in the article in question 1 incorrect, and that bis Imperial Ligbnese the Archduke Maximian bas not authorized General Almonte either to gravt privi Jeves to the above mentioned bank, or to enter into any lement witb the English bondboiders, his imp:riat Highness not raving as yet @-finitively accrpted the throne of “Mexico. I request you, tir, to have this lettor published. Fr ARRANGOIZ, THE AKCHDUKE’S DELAY. {Parle (Feb. 25) correspondence of London News.) The Archduke Maximiiian and his wile are expected to-morrow at the Tuileries from Brussel. | still contioue to think it very doubtfa’ indeed whether he will ever be Emperor of Mexico. ‘The explanations giveu by the M-no- rial Dipiomatique of the reasons why bis reception of the deputation come from Mexico to offer him we crown # delayed until after big visit to Paris are hesitating, avd bet-ay much want of confidence, That journal, which 18 not joaptiy styled the Archduke’s Monijeur, says that be js deeply imbued with a sense of the “difficulties” 0; bis task, and that be wishes, before seving the deputation, to have @ thorough understanding with the Eroperor: The **difficuities” are indeed so great that | yet suspect they will tarp out to be impossibilities. The youug Archduke i# probably @ Jesuit: and atall events, accord ing to outwurd observances and professions is a very extrome Komanist. Whutever he may be perapn ally, it 18 ceriam tbat the Jesuits fixed upou him a8 | Welr tool; and if they find they cannot use bim to re- store the odious clerical government which reduced ed brigand lay waste and bork atd plunger severnicoun- | Mexico to ite present cegraded state they will vove of on North Alwbame—they are ikem and treated ae | Dota, si sonore Of war. stoncrnan. Spears Kiipatrick, ride when oa ine iz ¥ please up to"the f rtitications of Kehmond, rovbing The Tennessee Election. the bi and beneope he very spoons ond ec thing, carry tog off at herr pleusure horves, mules, St. Lovis, March 9, 1864. at btn thas wear hes Weheto ben conducted? tis time to ask, in what ligbt are the people of the Contederate States regarded by (oeir own government As Uelligerenis resisting DS war av invasion from ople—or 4s @ BaD postponing the penalty ef tucir erimes? el the answer Is net so dietnct as ihe evemy’s government. we kuow, jew of o&r position the Washingtou are simply crit )oais awaiting punisiment, woo may be bauged. or may be pardoned. In their eyes: our country is Let our's, Lut ibeir’s. The hostitities Whieb they carry ou are pot properly war, but iniliary ul coercion. There i8, 10 their opinion, vo {ri bis between Us HO InoTe than between the gang of garroters whom the police is broving en the one sympttm of apparent recognition, ar-mak ing people change of prisoners (a measure to which hitle white), is atan end, meral Butler | ndeed, pretend to tastes and preterences as i polic® constables stall be gent to fastidious creatures demand to be uty by gentiemaniike officers, and to be bandied wiih kid gloves, do they it the present matter in bond is not the position ch the Yaukeer assign to us. foes the Contederae kovernment take any dicerent view Of the case” [oes it & recognize U8 as belligerents What a questio ee yours 0! fleree avd deadly war Now, m sub mitting to ‘uke ap iniertor poxiiion. im euflering our ene- mies to do tings which We may notor dare not do, tn shriuk y a 6 down, ' upon their part, of cur watds a8 & namely, the © volley competed them fe We would not treat, forsooth, wih Muor ¢ the aie penitentiary as a felon to await bia tial asa robber. Streight abd hie mount slaves. Some of the theves are apprehended, but wi The Momphis Argue claitos © iiumph in the recent care they? Their officers are conducted to the Libhy e ” : ie ant orou witht dist guished copsideraton. The piv ‘A election of what it calls the National Union Conservative thieves are sure © the treatment of hoperabie enemies | HEEL, being tn opposition 10 thet supported by tbe Au! and prscners taken in butte. Several hundred o: unis Wing PANE Are Row in the Copredcrace prions Thee are net chained Op in @ pepitentiary bet har ded over to be Gealt with by the out. ot Vieginin. Why net’ Merhars this tate lunobd js not the irne ge ver nment of segemnin 18 (bab one at Whee ing or at Alexandria, or at Sorfoik abd these ho robbers Have curMM ited No ollence AEinEt pment or agwinst the people Of the real State (ein, KbOwD a6 the Uroonditional Union weket, The Argus claims the election of Sherif, Clerk of the Criminal Court, County Court, County Regieter and Trustees, two out Of four magistrates, one out Of two constabies, Judge Triggs, of Knoxville, bad arrived at Memphis to open the bistriet Court of the Western owtrict of len neasce. It 8 Bald that G. R. Underwood, of Heleva, de sos becoming a candidate for United States Sevator toged overnment at f porbapys the tue poverntn of Virginye—chat ys the “loyal Stave This 18 the theory at Weehingt those in “rebellion have wo Mgbie, avd | Hem Arkensos to Go by there caitifls ae wee done bY Mor 1 Ohie, - ter rage DY rebei® woud not vb met he } doubtless, of the wretches were barged an equal © be regeracd as merenis. Dub w a Large Fire in Meriden, Con the w New Haven, Coon, , March ®. 1864. trous tire broke out in Meriden, between twelve Hook Chie morning, In the drug More of Hart & H consumed twr or three blocks AMOHE the Property destroyed are the Vor! Mber of Confederate officers of the bighert rank they PAVE Rot Wonld swing: ard Cur fevernMment knows It, aod fh Ns butmanity and Christwn ebarty subroits. Again, two Yankee officera are rciennly lekgpated bY Jot to b@ e@xecuied WH Feiaiation [or LWO Of GUTe HOB foully mw But, wn the eves ol cnr epemier, we have fo rphes of retetintion. nor any other rights. #6 they coolly inform ue tit if we do we we have ibreat | | ened they will LOL regard it Ae retaliation, but ae a and on 0' Houte, nene the depet of bundinge. b iret Naviobal Bavk, tbe West Meriten Bou. vb Othee. it Ty Bere OF HL. T Wreox, Ube jaw o + Liatt, the awelling apd dev goods store © » Voter, and the stores or Megsrs 1) 1 Soutbwiek ord Hurlee & Co. book and ete dealers Amu naniet! h wae killed. and Mr. Newton F. tart wax xe crime. te be eeverciy puniehed, Shey chose ent | rowely flored by ltting bee officore Of fark .0re & briadier geners!— atl «| she ess by thivthe t reverty two thon that there jee ell woewer for the two whom we pro | send dona JG im op for tty seven thousand pore to exoruie Welle Mt, ater me doting. ies way, ets the 6: pie fOr us, wid i Our tl Om Meviefactis Hot we are to conbuter,’ The Cytier Miams ot Mor . Fowrrasn. Mbivele 9, 1864 from New Vork for 86. Jot peeilom ot re The iteeome, “Hot what wieked FN pb mention Mam arrived to diy PRICE THREE CENTS. GEN. SHERMAN'S EXPEDITION. What He Effected in the Enemy’s Country. tle, Mules, Bight Thousand Negroes and Four Hundred Prisoners Captured. Gencral Grant’s Opinion of the Military Situation, ae, &., &e, Owcnwart, March 9, 1864, Aspecial despatch from Columbus says:— General Grant, op bis way East, in conversation with a istinguisbea Ohio officer, expressed himself entirely satisfied witb the situation of military affairs. He spoke in the highest terms of General Sherman's expedition, which had given the rebellion the severest Diow since the capture of Vicksburg. Gen. Sherman has destroyed forage and provisions enough to subsist the rebel army from three to six months. In one place General Sherman destroyed over two mil- lions of dollars worth of property. Jn other places be destroyed immeuse etores, Thou- eands of bushels of corn and large quantities of wheat were set on fire and consumed. He brought in large droves of cattle, several thousand head of mules, eight thousand negroes and over four bun- dred prisoners, with buttrifing loss in men and mate rials on our side, In addition to this, by the destruction of very import. ant ratiroad jines, Geveral Sherman has released General McPherson's corps (rom doing guard duty along the Mis- sigsippi, and restored them to active service, St. Louis, March 9, 1864. The eteamer Summary, from J.ower river, brings intel- ligence vbat Genera) Sherman and staff left Vicksburg on the 28th ult. for below, designing to have ap interview with Genera! Banks or Admiral Porter, or both, with reference to bis future movements. NEWS FROM CHATTANOOGA. Attack of Rebel Cavairy. CratranooGa, March 6, 1864. All ia quiet in front, except an occasional exchange of shots between the advanced cavalry pickets, To-day a jarge rebel cavalry force appeared before Nickajack Gap and pressed our gavalry out. Deserters from the rebel army continue to arrive at the rate of thirty a day. Ouartanooga, March 7, 1864. The rebel cavalry have retired, and our forces now hold Nickujack Gup. It js not unlikely that the rebels may assume the offensive. A collision occurred between two freight trains near Stevenson, Ala., on Saturday night, killing four ladies aod two men, and wounding several otbers. A large forge of rebel cavalry attacked ninety-throe men of the Third Tennessee, at Pavtber Springs, on the bth inetant. Our joss was two killed, eight wounded and twenty-two captured. The rebel loss was thirty killed apd wounded. INTERESTING FROM FORTRESS MONROE. Arrival of Released Union Prisoners— Move ments of Ge: 1 Butter, &e. 7 Fortress Moxror, March 8, 1864. ‘The fiag of truce steamer New York arrived this even ing from City Point with seven hundred Union prisoners, exchanged for am equal pumber of rebel prisovers, who were taken up Major General Botler and staff and Quartermaster General Meigs left this morning for Yorktown on the steamer Charles Chamberlain. Thomas Abrahams, private, One Hundred and Thirty- ninth New York regiment, was shot at Yorktown yester day forenoon, in accordance with tie decision of the court martial, There were about three (dousand soldi present at the execution, wbich passed off quietly, Twenty rebel prisoners arrived on the Yorktown boat this morn'ng They were capvured by Goueral Kilpatrick in the Grst Ime of fortilications around Richmond. Lieutenant Israel Ludlow, of the artillery, who re mained by his guns almost alone at Chickamauga until wounded and taken prisoner, has been exchanged and has arrived at Fortress Monroe. Arrival of Released Union Prisoners at Annapolis. Annapous, Md., March 9, 1864. The steamer City of New York arrived this afternoon ‘With 660 prisoners from Richmond, including forty seven officers, and among them are a great many Marylanders. Sergeant Livearon, of the Ninth Maryland, has the colors of his regiment, which be kept concealed during three months’ imprisonment. NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC COAST. Advance 1 Flour ‘and Wheat—Tcie- graphic Communication Opened Be- tween San Francisco and Portland, Oregon—Severe Ri Storm, d&c., &c. San Francisco, March 8, 1864. ‘The steamer America, from Panama, arrived at Monte- rey to-day. She is due bere to-nicht, Sajied, sbip Lydia Scofield, for Callao. Flour avd wheat are rapidly advancing. The latter brings two and @ quarter cents jer pound, witb large trausactions. Butter bas an opward tendency, Sngar is upeettied. ‘Telegraphic communication ts now completed between San Francisco and Portiand, Oregon. The line will be continued northward to British Columbia. A severe rain storm bas prevailed throughout Oregou during the past three days, notwithstanding which the river steamboats for the mines have been crowded with passengers and freight, Five bundred sailed from Port. jand im one day. Stringent OMictal Order of Gcnerai Rosecr: Sr. Louis, March 9. 1864. General Rosecrans has issued a special order requiring all persons attending religious conventions, assemblies, synous, conferences and other convocations held in bis departmeot, to take the most stringent oath of allegiance; and «oy violation of this order will subject the assem- Diage to digpersion by any provost marshal. The Opera Siander Sui COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—CHAM Before Judge Daiy. March 9.—Annie Wilson vs. Henrietta Sulzer.—The ar- gument on the movion to vacate the execution against the body of the defendant was resumed again to day. Me, Galbraith offered additions! authorities to show that a married woman conld not be arrested for debt ex cept where she has # separate estate of ber own. Now the doleodavt having murried while the auit was pending ceased to be responsible, Aer antary asa singer coakl not be called ah estate, ae it was movey to be acquired wd BOL In ACLUal PoRseRkion, Mr. Brivbt argued that @ salary of $6,000 a vear, paya- | bio fortoiehtly in ad vaner, Was an estate, vod that the de'endant, in ewearing (bat she was unable to inest Une amount of the jutement, 8202, was merely evauing the jaw. He beld (hat (he rLeould not extend any pro tection 1b 4 caso Of Uhis Kind, apd urged the denial othe mOLION, Wilh coets, Jndge taly remarked that i view of the defendant's stn continuine 10 8InE, Thereby earuing money ont of which Ihe indsthent meht be nade, he would deny the motion of the defendant s conse) but would grant en additional stay, fet allowing Lhe counsel on dott rxles AD OPPortwMiy tw draw Up aildayits avd col- Jeet Wirther antheritves, Fatal Kaiteowd Ave Went. Ihe presen last Combos, ndiaier, abont wideig ht, by the ciate Of tha wwitel The Hind nF wast tntersected by 4 tree er trie fewing ve heats the Track, Jolin: (ue persons and wounding sever where Ww xs unded wore be wht Lo Columbus, NEWS FROM WEST VIRGINIA. SOUTHERN NEWS. Tho Recent Destryclion of Rebel Salt- Petre Works, &e. Wasnixcton, March 9, 1864. Ao official despatch from Colonel Mulligan, dated New Creek, Va., March 2, gays that fourteen deserters and conscripts, armed, have just come tn {rom the neighbor- hood of Staunton. They report that on the 20th of laat month One hundred and ten deserters and couscripts left Mount Solon, in Augusta county, armod, and resolved to fight their way ihrough to our lines, OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM GENERAL KELLEY. Cumnnetanp, Md., March 6, 1864, Brigadier General G, W. Cv11 Chie: of Stat:— A cavairy scout, nnder command of Lieutenant Colonel Root, of the Fifteenth New York cavalry, bas just re turned from Hardy and Pendleton connties, They offec- tually destroyed all the saltpetre works near Fravklin, in the latter county, Refugees aud deserterg are covstan tly coming in. General Crook reports the capture of fifty rebele a few days ago by his scouts in the Kanawha valley. B. F. KELLEY, Brigadier Genera INTERESTING STATEMENT OF A REBEL DESERTER. The Rebel Raid Along the Chesapeake. Negre Troops Recognized as Prisoners ef War. INCENDIARISM IN RICHMOND. The Kentucky Delegation to the Next Rebel Congress, &e., &e. Rebel Haid Along the Chese- peake Shore, [From tbe Richmond Fxaminer, March 8.) We have just learned the particulars of a very dasbing and successful descent upon the enemy on the kastern shore ot Virginia, by Captain Thadeus Fitzhugh, ef tbe Vitth Virginia cavalry, and thirteen of lis men, ‘Captain Fitvhugh was at nome, In Mathews couuty, oa furiough. Getting together fourteen of his meu, he Crossed Chesa- peake bay to Cherrystone wharf, in ‘Northampton coua- ly, and there surprised and captured 2 Yankee picket of twenty-nine meu, aud destroyed « large amount of com- missury and quirtermasier’s eters and six wagons, One schooner aud two steamers were lying at the whasf, He burnt the schooner, bonded one of the steam and ran the other across the bay and ve bed it high up on the Pianketapk river, with the devign, if possible, of saviog its moctunery, which is very valuable, Captain Fitzhugh would have extended his raid beyond (berry- stone, but oneo: his men haying deserted, ‘he felt sure Fort McAllister and the Ogeechee River— The Destruction of the Nashviile—Tne Engage t Between the Fort and the Montauk—The Damage to the Fort— The Amnesty Preciamation, &c., é&c. The following statement of affairs in that portion of rebeldom situated along the Ogecchee river and within the lines of Fort McAllister—under whose guns the cele- brated rebel ram Nagbviile lay, but which they were unable t) save from destruction—is given us by a former resident of this city, a true and loyal mau, who, being at Georgia at the breaking out.of the rebellion, was con that ‘the information he would furnish the enemy acripted into the rebel service, in which be served for | woutd very soon bring down an overwbolm- some two years and a hilf:— ing force upon his little party, He returned sate- ly to Majhews without any other casualty than the de ace fession of a teacher in I was pursuing the poaceful profession of c fa Mathews wi Savannah in the fret days of secession, Iwas then a member of the Republican Blues, a company which visit ed New York some years ago, When the idea firet began to be entertained that with the eecession cf the State might come the necessity of arming in The Unton Negroes Recognized mers of Wa (From the Richer Yesterday the first yer were received at the Libby. members of the original (orp earnest the company to which 1 belonged oilered | Mer et er bread brown to tobi their services to the State, But few reasoning | oud smelling, encased tn blue unitorms, close buttoned, 1h mii ired on the 2d instant, g. with arms in ard by Massa “and thiev- and mibtary eoppection James, Corm and P, Stuaw v pteers; RP. Bix ted: tates Volun- teers. AS they clitmed to be utier’s pets,” and it being understood that a great ailection and fou loess for up to the cmp. within a few y wore i 3 ot Will people dréamed that anything like a struggie would eu sue, and the most loyal in the city gave way a moment to the excitement of military parade and warlike display, just as tha citizens of New York would on some occasion of a military gala day. J, with Ligmyeelings, cutered into the excitement of the moment volunte for six months’ service, But the preparatioas on the part of the North to suppress rebeltion, while it inflamed the pas- | oc otner existed between ihein oud the ullicers & sions of those who desired separation, began to tell on | tured trom the recent sacking and plun xpediticn, the feelings of those who wonld gladly have clung, as Major, Taree vary cousiderately ordeved that thay pe placed in the ceils occupied by their white copatr iot citizens of the South, to the old flag, but with far greater | oi. being uccommodat: e boon companion. force on the temporary sojourners there, whose homes | Weare glad that our oticinls are juchued to carryout were in the free States, but unfortunately whose lot was | Grceley’s idea of the amalzutustion 0 tue racos, # far then cast among a people with whose treasonable | 48 it ailects the: Yankee prisoners ; nowt designs they could have no symputby. But tor the | result im toutual good. ihe ouly party likely to be latter there was now no escape. Before the expiration | seriously attected, either in stufys er moruis, is tho HEgTO of our voluntary service the couscription came intotorce, | ‘The Yaukee canoot be degraded lower—the negro proba- and I was compelied to join the rebel army for three | bly cau be. years or dunng tue war. Tie Grst actixe duty upon which the company I belonged to was ordered was to 0c cupy St. Catharine’s Island, from which we moved to Warsaw Isiund, and subsequently to Fort Jackson. Here we remained on duty for twelve montis. when we were ordered to Fort McAllister, on the Ogeechee river. Twelve moaths of uniutorrupted tranquillity eusued; but on the 1th of November, 1862, we beheld tbe Union gun- boats approach our citudel with the evident design of attacking us. Takiag up their position within range, the gunboats opened upou us, and at once their terrible mis- Stlee vegan to tell. Considerable damage was inilicted. their hands, baying been } Butler with a vegro comruuned ou § ing expedition, Their names teliows. United Incendiarism in Richmond. (From the Richmond Examiner, March 8 4 Incendiary contiagrations were Lue order ot te night on Friday night last. Turee occurred ju as many ditler- ent quarters, aud ail beyond We city tin Alarm occurred at balt-pust eight o'¢.0 the burning 0; sowe outbuildings and Une wood yard om the farm of Mr, Bridgewater, in Heurico, beyond Stony rub, about five miles from Ube city. i 4 suutheasiwardly direction, Mr. Bridgewater lust, tuchiding his tepements, a large amount Of grat and provender. Several horses ‘The trout parapets were almost leveiled; the magazines | and mules burned to death, besiies between Bmx aud were several times in danger, while the officers’ quarters. even thousand dollars’ worth of corded wood. bis lees and the tents of the troops wore entirely destroyed. 0; not less than ten or twelve thourand dollars. men ail the time fought with determination, buoyed up | The second alarm was sounded at about ven o'clock, with tbe cons¢iousuess that it was only at long range they could be aitacked, aud when the boats retired from the conilict their spirits were considerably elated. No further demonstration w: inade against us till the 27th of January foliowiug, whet the Montauk unexpectedly engaged us. Iu the interval tacks the devences had been greatly garrisou working vight and day to the Montauk 0; upon as there was litte fear entertained as to the result, The Montauk did not come to any thing like ciose quarters, and after a short engagement at jong range she teft, having iufiicted little or no damage upon our works, This we lovked tipon ratber as atrial of her guus and their range than as a reguiar gage of battle, And this conjecture was right: for on the 2d of February follow ain appeared in the Ogeechee, just across the neck of laud formed by the eibuokities 0 the river, and mach closer thao before. it was apparent that this time she was determined Jo try her own meta! and the weight of the armameut in the and, a8 we learn, arose ruin the destrucuion of @ portion, of the government stabliug at Bacon's Quarter Braneh, Seventeen of the goveruineut auimals, horses and males, perished in the dames be ore ail of them could be rescued, ‘The logs ig not Jess tha (ity thousand dollars: ‘The third alarm, which joliowed jamueciately apen the second, or ubout eleven o'clock, arose from tbe burping of the barn, granary und siabling ou Wwe furm of Mr. J. We Randolph, bookseller in tis city, in *hustery Hens co county, several miles frou the ci:y. dir, Randolph lost by the coniagration two very hoe milch cows, three horses aud mies, beswes much prov- eoder, grain, aud all his sarin, . valued wt Bitoeo thousand five thousetd at ue present standard, of money. ‘The barn was tired trom the reer, wud the fiames being thus bict, did noi wttract the a:teation of the fnmutes of the family until the whole strocture wom ablaze und the flames beyond tue power of arrest by bu inan agency. fort, ‘The engagement commenced about eight o'cbck in | 1h-ge three contlagrations, the ™ roing. aod Jasted: with great and compass poiuts from the bourse uuremitting spirit’ till thrge in the afternoon. | of each other, leads to the bel Gur loss from the fire of the Montauk was Major J. B. Lio, Commandant of the fort, killed, and some eight «r nive men wounded. Tbe Montauk tue next morning dis- appeared, but returned soon after, and was Rubsejuentiy seen from time to time till the 29th of February, when the attack was made upen the Nashvilie. The rebel sveamer then lying pabout three-quarters of @ m) from the fort, stranded, and she soon feil wader the ter. rible cannouade of the gunboat. With her destructoa the hopes and spirits of the garrison in the fort fell be- jow zero, and nothing was thought of but the length of time the fort itself could hoid out against an of the terrible gunboats. The expected attack was made on the 34 of Murch. Fire was opened on the fort at uuif past seven o ciock A. M., which was responded to wiih ali the guns 10 the fovt, the men at the baiteries being relieved at stated intervals during the day. Not- withstanding this the men were severely tricd, and at the close were vreatiy exhausted, The ire of the boats very destructive, The ramparts were ai- most levelled. “Two of the guus were dismautied—an eight-inch and Aa thitty.two-nounder. Consiaerable damage was also done to the interior. ‘The oflicere’ and privates’ quartets were desiroyed, while eveu the bem: proofs were greatly iujurcd and were bevinning to be un teuable. There is no doubt, speaking advicedly, that bad the boate coutmued the attack but @ brief time looger the fort must have surreudered, for, io tact, the by skutking Yankees, who. pera in the late raid, adopted this v other aud getting togecber Of & county’ pateol to prot from such Visitations us lizute untry on Friday night, but we do not know that anytinog bas coisa ot it. Had euch a patrol been in existence Cu Vriday might the ove hundred thousand dolars © property deseoyed, might have been saved, or the wre.cves WOO apphed the torch swung from the nearest troe Complains of ien.. (From the Ricumoua seatin The Wiimingtoa Jour Bight last a boat load of Y adiug vessels, slipped in forts and up to Smithy off Captain Kelley, of Geo negro mau. Captain he ud of signatbog each rd ued talk 18 0° Henrico egligemees chi} yé thut on Monday frou obe “of the oleek er tie mitin bar, past the from which plave iney carried Hevert’s stut!, isu & y Was Geueral lebertis Chel the Richmoud Seaticel March 7.4 + Macon, Ga , March 5, 1864, The following centlemen bive beea declared elected to represent Kent ky iu the Lex! Congres — Animunition in the fort was almost exkausted, while tbe a > slacken, fo i men themselves were searcely able to relies b other . 4 Puce. ai the guns, This was the end of the attack on Fort 2—G. Er} Triplett. 8—Hunphiey Sarsball, McAllister 3—H. E, Reid. 9—F M. Bruce, The amuesty proclamation has received greater pub- ( om ae rane Emi be in lieity South than is generally suppore!, aud im the army +e L perce. 33. Mia It is not openly but very freely discussed among the con- scripts, thousands and thousands of whom would e brace its conditions if they could but succeed tu rea the Union lines, it bas bad. however, 4 somewhat dii- ferent effect on the slavebolders aud on the bigher otticers, whose hatred to tne North it bas, if that were possible, more aud more embitiered, but 1, never theless, deom this demonstration, to a certaiz extent, “put on,” and that if the proclamation bad inetuded colonels and brigadier geverais \: woud at least ha ceived greater dissemination in the camps. As it is openly bantered about, while at beart the men de nothing more than the it. ‘The troops stutioned have been for a long um (ions, and the quality even at that very poor, causing the greatest dissatisfaction, There w no lack of ammu- nition, so far as | could ever aacertmin, anywhere throughout the South It is, however, “bomemade,” and of inferior quaiity. ‘The war $, progress and probable termination, is contin subject of aia cussion in garrison, in the cainy aud On picket, and the prevailing hope i# that it may be epeediiy brought to a close, Afver tuirty mooths’ compulsory seceice im the Contederate army Thave no hesitation in @aying that, were the urmy vod people at liberty to return to the Union, accepting even ail the disabilities resulting from the course of the rebe ths of all T have come ju contact with would gladly returu vo Ube old flag. The Latest Rebel Despatch ‘The Richmond Sentinel of the Sth instant has the fol- lowing despatebes:— Mekiptan, March 6, 1864, , Sborman wag at Canton last Wetuesway. Our cavalry ire fighting bimon all sides. Taere was beavy capnonad- jog at Canton all day Weduesday. Sherman has taken @ large uumber of negroes, He leaves the country per- fectly impoverisned wherever he has bee. Wit Nevo, Mareb 7, 18 A blockade steamer was suk off Capo Fear yes. terday. yportunity to avail themselves of Cranteston, March 6, 1864, Two hundred and five she! Lave been fred at the city sivce our last report. There iv nothing else pow. ‘The Ricumond Whig of the 7th inet say Eight bundred and sixty-one prisoners arrived bere yesterday, wuder charge of Major Mullord, to be ex- changed under the stipliations of the cartel. It is hoped that regniar exchanges wii be resumed for the future. The body of Colovel Pabigren was brought to the city on Sunday, Obituary, PELATIAN PEMIT. atin Perit, Esq. , whose death was avocuoced te, al? the morning papers yesterday graphic despatch from New Haven, was ove of the oldest and best known werchunts of this city, He wae for ten yours President of the Chamber of Commerce, « position wbieb be flied | with emivent abjity and vatsiaction, Re was also | president of the Binle Soeety, Tract Society, and other charitable institutions, He was a native of Connectient, fa graduate of Yale Cullege. ane » mage of very fine attain ments, At the tune of bis death ce was eogaged i the preparation of a work on the commerce of the Uoited States fis funeral wiil nke plice to-day, from bis jate residene A meeting of the Cham- ber of Commerce bas been edlied for Urnlay (lo-merrow), to give expression to the sentiment: ef respect enter- ed. Military Affairs. RECEPTION OF THK FIFTY-FOURTH NEW YORK BTATS VOLUNTEERS. Tho Fifty fourth regiment New York state Volunteers wore formally reveived yesterday morning by the city authorities, At eleven o'clock the veterans were re viewed Jp tbe City Hall Vark by the Mayor and Common Council, The Bieweuth regiment, New York State Na (ional Guard, together with Captain Otto's troop of Huse Cort apem the occasion? After parading cipal streets (he regiment partook ot & Bowery Garden, ihe men looked ro dons duties in the Helv. REGIMENT Ubroe cohal tmarkably wel after their They return home on a thirty days’ furlough, having re- enlisted for the war. D REGIMENT Pine ZOUAYRS. will eave the erty on f eight o'clock (or kort Schuyler, th eharge of Lieutenant Z net Michwe! Buras, their furlough The members are particularly requerted to assemble wt | Lah ea tor the dece: oe heir headquarters, Jeter; Market, on Friday, at seve a lorie toa Gansta ‘we. - avow acd Chas. Lam- O'elvek A, Me 1k 1s preeuined that Lhe regiment wil res | o% tuem tue Sel fr AA. Low i the Preaklent. coive'an @ecort {rom the Fie Lepartment ou their depar- | There is po doubt that there will be & in wltendauce. ture for the veat of war 4 ~ wd THE FIPTY-NINTH REGIMENT NEW YORK STATE VOL- The Late Elections, UNTRERS. « MUNICIPAL BLBCTION IN sYKACT! sR. Syeectsk, March 8, 1864, bas Si majority. Five of Ibe Beard of Sa- Nemecrats, 6; regiment ja expected to arrive in this city seat of war cn Mondsy next. Preparatione are now being made to give the sidiers an enthusiastic re Powell, Union, for Mayor | the eigbt Aldermen are re; pervisors of Unondaga co wid Hetand cepion. A mactin: of the yore of range aod Suliena | rs Courier was ber ut the Aster @ Yesterday arternoon, | republicans, 22. when it was determined by al) preseot to hin Out ag an TOWN RLECTIONS TN NEW Ivis jntenved to give the Rokijera commmans of Colonel Van Pans APRIL PA The Union party elected to-day their candidate for Mayor, Alderman and the whole Couneil Heket m Crm. Covert 10 the regiment. & banquet. ibey are under Wryek, and jert tt NINTH AKLY COnNS | den. io Salem county (he ce abe majorty is much In another vo WIE be fond Ay adverticoment coll. | reduced, ing for recruits or the Sit army corps the headquar Wen iveroy, March 9, 1864. fers UN e sbighed jo the City Hall | the town elections jn this county yeste reanited i@ Vork, Tho FR ure Guergene and itte anon gain, bo this township the majority Is two buns en, ard there cam seareely bea dey dred, Ihe Ueieo men alge gau in ibe Board of Free fully succeed 1 ther end Avors Ww reur | hosters.