The New York Herald Newspaper, April 26, 1864, Page 4

CORNER OF FULTON AND NASBAU BTS. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1884—Wira SUPPLEMENT. the [awa snd customs of war, and spies murderers. The bill was referred to the Committco on Military Afire. The Internal Tax bill was then takes wp | to Defeat the in Committes of the Whole, Amendments were adopted taxing eales of gold, silver, bullion and coin, sterling ox change, promissory motes and securities of every de. scription one fifth of one per cent; slaughtered awine ten, and sheep end lambs five couts per head; and increasing the taxes on various other articles, The & Aftat: jorth § Oarelina— What It Means, and What to Required 'e Destgay. : Tho recapture by the rebels of the town of Plymouth, N. C., with the reported loss to the Union side of twenty-five hundred mon, the fort, thirty pieces of artillery, @ gunboat or two ands large amount of military stores, all seve 116 | At tne evening soasion & joint resolution 1-| things considered, isa more mortifying mis- creasing the duties on all imported morohandise, except | fortune than the late disaster in Florida. Aa AMUSEMENTS THIS BYENING. BIBLO'S GARDEN, Brosdway.—Conms Soocag. WALLACK'S THEATRE, Broadway.—Rosgdats. WINTER GARDEN, Broadway.—Sorcarxss. Ph - seasiead THEATRE, Broadway.—Ovk Wirs—Lora- NEW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—! mowras—Wanpenina Minsteat—Igisn Doctor. BOWERY THEATRE. BoweryFour or Ounso's Cave— Kosves Two Giants, Two 4 at hours, Cuavo's BRYANTS' MINSTRELS, Mechanica’ Hall, 472 Broad. way.—Brarorian Sonas, Daxoxs, BuRLESQUES, 4c.—Llow Ane Tou Gresnoaces! WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Ernioriuas Gores, Dances, &¢.—PUILMARM ONICGERMANIAREHRARSAL, BALON DIABOLIQUE, 585 Broadway.—Rosert Heices. AMERIOAN THBATRE, No. 444 Brondway.—Batusrs, Pawroutuxs,-BuRiEsques, &c.—Don Joan HIPPOTHEATRON, Fourteenth street.—PeRrorMIna ap Moxkxrs. "Afternoon and Evening. HOPB CHAPEL. 718 Broadway.— Breagoscorricoy on ‘Mugzor or Universe. Afternoon and Evening. MBW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Cumtosiries ann Lecrunes, from 9 A. M, till 10 P. a HOOLEY’Ss OPERA HOUSE, Brooklyo.—Eraiorian Boxes, Dances, Beriasques, &c. “WITH SUPPLEMENT. Now York, Tuesday, April 26. 1864. ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY, Advertisements for the WeExiy Herat must be hand- «Gin bofore ten o'clock every Wednesday evening. Its circulation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, Merchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements ta- serted in the Werciy Herat will thus be seen by a large | portion of the active and energetic people of the United | States, THE SITUATION. Tt does not appear from late despatches that General | Lee has changed, or is likely to change, his position on the Rapidan. His forces are said to amount to eighty-five thousand men with his recent reinforcements. From | reports received-at Williamsburg it appears that tho ene- my are strengthening themselves at various points on the Peninsula, to provide against an attack in that quarter. The Navy Department received yesterday an official ‘eccount of the recent expedition up the Rappabaunock from Commander Fox, of the Potomac fotilla. He re- ports as the result of his expedition two ferries broken up, seven large lighters, each capable of carrying a hun- dred men; t'r:e pontoon boats, twenty-two large ekiffs and oancer, two hundred white oak beams and knees, large evough for the construction of a sloop-of-war; “twenty two large boats, one of which is capable of car- rytog small arms; a large amount*of bacon and wheat, | Judge Hilton was perfectly just and legal, and that it was | of the law of July 1, 1862, in selling liquor without printing paper, Gity per cent, till July 1, was adopt- ed, with mot more than @ dozem dissenting votes. There appears to be no doubt whatever but that iron-clad rebel ram, of which Seoretary Welles the | has had six months’ warniag, has, with this Sonate wil! speedily concur with the#louse oa this im- | rebel success at Plymouth, passed out of the portant subject. The assignment of @ou. Biair to the | Roanoke river into Albemarle Sound. i is command of the Beventeenth army corps by the Presidoat ha caused quite @ sensation, and on motion of Mr. Dawes a resolution waa adopted requesting the President to ocmmipicate to the House whe. | bern, and it is shrewdly suspected that, unless from j speedily disposed of, the Roanoke ram will Missouri, vow holds any appointment or commission in pass over into Pamlico Sound, and, ascending ther Hon. F. P. Blair, representative the military service; aud if so, whether he if now acting under any such appoimtment. Mr. Fernando Wood's resolution for the protection of the government's intercet in the minora! lands of Colorado and Arizona gras laid oa the table by a vote of sixty-two against fifty. Tho joint resolutions of the Maine Legislature, asking for the pro} ‘The capture of Newbern is the mata object tection of the northeastern boundary of that State, were referred to a gelect committes of seven, and tha House adjourced. MISCELLANEOUS .NEWS. The Councilmen met at two o'clock yesterday, President Hayes in the chair. The Mayor transmitted copics of & correspondence between Major General Dix aud himself, in which General Dix asks permission to erect three Duildings on the Battery for the reception of sick and wounded soldiors previous to thoir transfor to the hoa- | Nerth Carolina railroads; and a flank move- pital. Referred to the Committee oa National Affairs, ‘After transacting a large amount of Foutine business, the resolution directing the Clerk of the Common Couneit to | Washington, or Newbera, prepare the Annual Manual of the Corporation, and cause nine thousand cop'es t» be published under his direction and supervision, was called up and adopted. The Buard then adjourned until Thureday ext at two o'clock. ‘The Greeley contempt case was on again yesterday be- fore Judge Barnard, The defendant neglected to answer the interrogatories served upon him by order of the Court, and through his counsel asked for a delay of a few days, so that the matter might be brought before the general term. Judge Barvard was not disposed to grant the motion, and issued an attachment against the de- fendant, returnable at eleven o’clock on Thursday. An effort was mado to obtain a writ of probibition before Judge Marvin, which would bave the offect of taking the case out of Judge Barnard’s hands; but the Court decided not to interfere in the matter until he had given the papers his careful consideration. The argument on the appeal from Judge Hillon’s de- cision iu the case of Clark vs. Brooks commenced yester- day im ghe Court of Common Pleas, generalterm. Mr. M K on appeared for the defendants, add argued that the order for the sale of the paper wotld be detrimental to the interesta of the defendants, without doing the plain tiff'a particle of good. He too the ground that the issues framed are yot undetermined, and that oa their tria! the necessity for a sale might be obviated. Mr. Rovinson appeared for the plaintiff, and argued that the order of the only way Mr. Clark would ever come into possession of his share of the business, The argument was not cou. cluded when the Court adjourned. Several cases for the infringement of the United States Taternal Revenue law were disposed of yosterday in the United States Circait Court, before Judge Hall and a jury. The severa! par ies in the gaits were indicted for breaches | Tinceses. None of the accused were present, and each, | on proof of the case, was mulcted in a penalty of sixty | dollars, being thrice the amount of tho lincense fee | waich they were required to pay for the legal carrying on of their business. ‘The case of the United States against Captain Cunning. ham, for the alleged scuttling of the ship Senator, was again up before Judge Hall yesterday in the United States Cireuit Court. Tho District attorney expressed his intea- dad a large lot of amalier articles, which were brought off at Bobler's Point. Tho Governors of the different States are exhibiting their loyaity by tendering the services of the militia to the geueral government, All the companies of heavy artulery in Massachusetts bave been ordered to Washing- toa. Asuiicient number of the State militia will take their piaces in the forts. Governor Parker, of Now Jorsey, has received in- Structions from the War Department to raise one regi mest of twelve batteries of heavy artillery by the 10th of May, which, no doubt, be will accomplish , Our correspondents at Plymouth,N C., give a very Tull and detailed account of the surrender of that town by General Wessells to tHe rebel forces on Wednesday last, aftor a severe and protracted defence of four dayr. The whole garrison, two thousand strong, was taken by the enemy. The defences of the town were captured ip detail, and every inch of ground seemed to be contestéd by the Union troops. We give a map of the place to-day. The rebels lost one thousand five hundred men. Our loss in killed does mot appear to exceed one hundred and ‘Ofty.. Some reports got abroad that the negroes in Ply mouth were murdered by the successful rebel soldiers, but they are not confirmed. General Peck, commander Of the district, officially announces the disaster in these words — i “With foolings of the deepest sorrow the Commanding Genoral announces the fail of Plymouth, N.C., aod the | capture of its gallant commander, Brigadier General H. W. Wossel’s and his command, The result, however, as dot obtained anti) after the most gallant and deter- mined resistance bad been made. Five times the enemy stormed the lines of the general, and as many times were (hey baadsomely repulsed with great slaugbter, and bot ‘or the powerful assistance of the rebel ironclad ram, snd the Goating sharpshooter battery, the Cotton Piant, Plymouth would still be in our bands.’ Cairo despatches of day before yesterday state that it ‘s generally conceded that the late battles in Louisiana were not favorable to General Banks, inasmuch as he tetreated forty miles, for want of water, while the soomy maintained their ground. The steamers Rob Roy and Mattie Stephens, which arrived at New Orleans ‘rom Red river, had to fight their way down through o constant fire from guerillas on the banks. Momphie dates to the 22d say that Forrest was still taoving towards Alabama, followed by General Griersen, who had « Gghf with them on the 21st, near Hudsonville, Mies, and captured a gumbor of prisoners, wagons, Borees and mules. Gonorai Price has evacuated Camden and General Steele bas taxon ; ossession Of it. CONGRESS. In the Senate yesterday a bill establishing ® commis ‘sion to adjust the claime of aliens for damages to their property or persons by the civil, military or naval au- thorities, during the war, was introduced and referred to the Committee on Foreign Reiations, A bill to facilitate postal and military communication among thejstates was introduced and referred to the Milttary Committee. The subject of the disagreeing votes of the two boures on the bill to provide a territorial government for Montana was take up aod Mr. Doolittle, of Wisconsin, made an effective speech in Opposition to tbe extension of the right of suf. frage to negroes, Mr. Wi kinson, who offered the amend- ment perpilting Degroes to vote, replied briefly, and the Souate agroed to the request of the House for another | tion, the bigh price of gold and consequent de- | our own go to show that the garrison of committee of conference. Two or three private bills | preojation of our currency, our importations of | Plymouth, not much short of two thousand, ‘wore then pasred, and the # nate adj. b adopt vorned, 6 House of Kepresentatives,a reeolution was |, lostructing the Committee on Military AMuirs fm consequence of wounds received or injuries in the service and in the line of his duty; and a pro raa share of said bounty of one bundred dollars to any ceeding three months, ae ie now provided by law for tose serving two years. A bill was introduced PA viding for the more specdy punishment of guerillas, It aatnorizes the commanding generals in the field to carry {ato execution @otences against guerillas and persoos tion to have a nolle pros. entered in the case, but which he wished to have adjourned one day longer. Tho case finally comes up to-morrow, when there is little doubt but the charge against Captain Cuauingham will be dismissed forever. The iuvestigation foto the causes of tue explosion on board the Chenango was resumed again yoagerday bofire Coroner Norris, in Brooklyn. ‘The testimony of several | atmed forces of a great rebellion, and that little engineers was taken {a reference to the character and | defenceless rebel towns and cross roads in his qualiications of the class of boilers with which the Chenango was provided, their evidence being principally composed of technicalities peculiar to their profession. The examination will be resumed at three o'clock this afternoon According to the City laspector’s report, there wero } 446 deaths ia the city during the week ouding April | 25—an incregge of 5 as compared with tne mortality of the week previous, and 71 less than occurred during | the corresponding week Iast year, The recapitulation | table gives 3 deaths of alcoholism, 1 of diseazes of the | bones, joiuta, &c.; 860f the brain and nerves, 6 of the generative organs, 21 of the heart aod blood vessels, 141 Of the lungs, throat, &c.; 11 of old age, 45 of disouses of the skin and eruptive fevers, 5 premature births, 63 of | Gigenses of the stomach, bowels and other digastive Organs; 39 of uncertain seat aud general fevers, 8 of digeares of the urinary organs, 12 from violence, &c., and 2uoknown There were 207 natives of the United States, 83 of Ireland, 8 of England, 1 of Scotland, 31 of Ger many, and the balance of various foreign countries. The stock m rket was again buoyant yesterday, and, ‘with tre good feeling that prevailed, nearly every share on the list advanced, Tkere was. some ex-itemont in the gold market over the news from North Carolina, and the premium advanced from 78% to 834;. Government sec rities were inactive but firm. Money was easily obtained ‘at the legal rate of interest. The ups and downs of-gold and the rainy weather | combined bad the ffect to restrict commercial transac tions within a narrow compass yesterday, and the gales | reported were very moderate in nearly al! kinds of do- mestic and imported gcois, but especially in imported, which were unsettled by the big changes in goid. Pe- troleum was irregular, Cotton was firmer. On 'Change all the leading commodities were upward, apd some were active, in sympathy with the rise in gold. Flour closed Ge. a 10c, better, Wheat rose lc.a2c. Corm was firm. Oats were active and lc. dearer. Whiskey was active, but 00 higher. Freights were a shade better, The faijare Of s leading ebtpping house was announced, and some fear was expressed lest the suspension would lead to trouble ‘among Other firms. A petition in favor of a more prompt dismissal from ‘Change ater the last gong was circmared on ‘Change, and was very generally signed by the busi- Deas nea. A Hist ror Tae War Deraniwpst.—At the close of the Crimean campaign Jouis Napoleon addressed to the French Minister of War a Jet- ter, in which be expressed his sense of the eacrgy and promptnees with which the efforts of bis generals bad been seconded by the de- partment. “Had it not been for the activity | and devotion displayed by you,” added the Em- peror, “our brave troops might have been sub- jected to severe disasters, The success of a campaign depends as much upon the punctu- ality of its supplies as upon skilful strategy.” We trust Secretary Stanton will not lose sight of this important truth in the tremendous con- test that is impending. 1t will compensate tor many past blunders if at the close of the pres- ent season’s operations the commander of our armies is enabled to pay him the same compli- | ment. Enormovs Importations.—Spite of the con- tinuance of the most gigantic war the world has ever witnessed, spite of our beavy taxa- foreign luxuries surpass all precedent. ‘Silks, satins, laces and rich goods of such a descrif- | amount of stores have fallen into the power of to report @ bill giving the bounty of one hundred dollars | tion as to be termed mere luxuries ade more | the enemy. Also we have lost a numberof to any non-commissioned officer, private, musician or | generally used now than at any previot® date | gunboats sunk by a rebel ram, which has been artificer who shail bave been honorabiy discharged | in our history, as may be witnessed @ the | the principal cause of the disasters, above de- Opers, the theatres, the Park and in the stteets, | tailed. Months since it was known that this the ladies trailing through the | ram was being completed; but the people of volunteers for the proportionate term of service eg. | dust and mad with the riehest and most ex-| the North depended upon the unceasing vigl- where we find pensive dresses, A spirit of unbounded ex- travagance is certainly displayed, whioh gives | millions on iron-clads, to destroy this vessel rise to the largely increased importations we | and defeat the purposes of its construction. notice. The result of itall will doubtless be | The result proves how reliable our venerable Gillty of robbery, arson, burgiary,"rave and victation of | apparent by and by. Look out for breakers, | Seoretagr ia, known, too, that the enemy have another ram at Kinsten, on the Neuse river, above New- the Neuse to Newbern, will be joined by the ram fgom Kinston and by the twelve or fifteen thousand troops of General Hoke ia a simu!- taneous land and water attack upon the town. of these rebel movements. in North Carolina, and the importance of this enterprise to the enemy will be understood with the simple ox- planation that its success is indispensable to the subsistence and safety of Lee’s army in Virginia. That army. is now fed mainly from the supplies of Georgia, through the gent of qur forces’ from Plymouth or Little upon those roads, in cutting off the supplies of Lee, might compel him to abandon Virginia, even without a battle, to recover his arteries of subsistence and to save bis army. But should General Hoke aud those rebel rams succeed in an attack upon Newbern, the “Yankees” will be removed from North Carolina, her railroads will be safe, and large additions of rebel troops relieved from the duty of guarding them, and large supplies of captured artillery, munitions of war and provisions, if time be allowed them, may thus be secured for the army of Lee. We are there- fore waiting with some interest for further in- telligence of tho movements and fighting quali- ‘ties of the Roanoke ram; for upon that single rebel craft may depend the issue of the cam- paign in North Carolina. As this matter stands, however, it exposes the drowsy inca- pacity of Secretary Welles, @ the head of the navy, in the boldest relief. General Grant is thus called upon to repair the blunders of the Navy Department as well. ag the budget of blunders of the War Office. These last named blunders may be reduced to the single bluader, persistently followed up, of frittering away great armies in such exposed and secondary places as Harper’s Ferry, Win- chester and Front Royal, only to be captured by the enemy—troops by the thousands, artil- lery, ammunition and provisions to the extent of millions of dollats—and while so far weak- ening at the same time our main Army of the Potomac as to bring upoa it the heaviest bat- tles of the war with the smallest results. This disastrous policy of scattering our troops all over the enemy's country, to be “gobbled up’’ at useless towns and cross road post offices, we are satisfied General Grant has abolished. It is evident that he enters upon the work of this campaign, not with the false idea that this is a war for territorial conquests, and that every foot of ground we gain must be guarded, bat that it is a war for the suppression of the raar go for nothing while there is a great revel army between him and the rebel capital. We need not here remind our readers that this policy of abandoning all these little side expeditions and secondary places for the pur- pose of massing an overwhelining force against Richmond, or the main rebel army of Virginia, which is the same thing, bas been again and again urged upon the administration by the Heraro from the begioning of the war. We rejoice at length to know that coneentration— the Grant system of warfare so splendidly suc- cessful in the West—has, with General Grant himself, been introduced into Eastern Vir- inia. We expect sach glorious fesults that we are disposed to regard these rebel demonstra- tions in North Carolina, even if completely suc- cessful, as really amounting to nothing; for a decisive victory over Lee demolishes the rebel- Loa. e Exvortioss oy Gas Companiss.—From evi- dence recently given before a commiitee of the British House of Commons it appears that, al- though the maximum price of gas furnished by the thirteen London companies is only a dollar and a half per thousand feet, the average divi- dead paid by them is ten per cent. In Liver- pool the price ranges under a dollar, and the average dividend is also ten per cent. It is the sume in Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol and Wolverbamptén. In some places the pice cuns as low as fifty-eight cents. Making due allowance for differences in the price of coal, transportation, &c., there is no just reason why gas should cost with us two dollars and a half and in some places three dollars a thousand. The gas companies lay in their stocks of coal at low prices; their facilities of manufacture are a8 great as, if not greater than, those of the london companies, and the competition is. less. There is not a company in operation in any of our seaboard cities which is not in a position to furnish gas as cbeaply and pay as large dividends as the London companies. If it were not for the corrupt influences prevailing at Albany we might now be in the enjoyment of chedp light witbout interfering with the just profits of the capital embarked in these speculations. It is disgraceful that the consumer should be com- pelled to pay for bis supply more than double -what it is worth by the shutting out of compe- tition. We trust that in the next Legislature some one will be found bonest and energetic enough to expose the combinations by which the price of this indispensable article is kept up, and to introduce a measure by which they may be defeated. Tur Loss or PiyMovra.—Rebel reports and twenty-five pieces of artillery and @ vast lance of Secretary Welles, who has sixty ‘allowed full voice in the next Presidential con- tended them. They took the form in some cases of typhold, aad even the mere virulent stage of typhus fever. In others affections of the throat were prevailing characteristics. It fs somewhat ble that in a season not partioularly unhealthy saoh mortality should prevail. In the cases at Long Branoh alluded to the pbysiolans, after mature deliberation, appear to have been unable to arrive ata positive diagnosis, and could frame no stronger theory than that the mysterious disease arose from the gas evolved by kerosene lamps left burning im the sleeping rooms of the viotims. We do not know whether this theory is ao- cepted by the profession, bat it seems to us that, considering the extensive use of kero- sene oll, and the infrequency of dangerous reaults therefrom heretofore, we must fall back on ome other theory for the cause of the dis- case and mortality at Long Branoh, as well as for the numerous cases of low fevers and other complaints which now prevail in this city. Can it be that a shoddy plague is creepjng stealthily into our midst?—some unknown terror, which medical science has not contem- plated or provided for; @ combination. of dis- cases, originating from a cause hitherto not oxisting in this country; the poison of the hos- pital and the battle field, conveyed in the form of shoddy blankets, shoddy flannels and shod- dy muslin goods? We believe there is no doubt that the mato- tials of which these articles are composed come mainly from these sources. We have it on the authority of one of the managers of a prominent shoddy factory in Pennsylvania that the shirts, blankets, and even the bandages, of the wounded, dead and diseased, both on the field and in tho hospitals, are received there actually moist with blood and corruption, and in this state are tora into shreds in the ma- chines, and manufactured into shoddy flannels, blankets and cotton material. If this be true, then the shoddy manufacturers outvie in their hideous but profitable trade the exultation of the wreteh Chowles in his subterranean orgies, as Ainsworth describes him, during the plague of London. ~ Such material infected as it must be with the virus ofall kinds of disease—smallpox of course included—for we must not suppose that the harpies who follow this line of business are at all scrupulous—must fearfully affect tho systems of those who wear them, because the natural heat of the body will necessarily ex- tract the polson. We trust that the mysterious diseases which now afflict the community may be traceable to some less horrible and inhuman cause; but we trust also that the medical faculty will diligently investigate the matter, for it is one of a very grave and startling char- acter. ry Tux Rerosticans Trying to Paevext Our Sonorers rrom Votine.—The leaders and or- gans of the miscegenation party have of late been expressing great anxiety as to the vote of the soldiers in this and other loyai States. Poor Greeley, who “was born black asa coal,” oa the authority of bis biographer, Parton, has been particularly exercised about the mat- ter. Halt a gozen times he has quitted his moral history of this immoral conflict to can- tion his party associates of the dangers to be apprehended from the conservative instincts of the army. He knows that the good sense of Generals Grant and McClellan is opposed to his fanatical chimeras, and {s not without fear that the army vote, honestly cast an i recorded, would be all but unanimous in favor of one or other of those great national heroes. Acting on Greeley’s hints, therefore, and yet anxious to throw on the democratic party the appareat responsibility tor denying the right ef suffrage to our soldiers in the field, the republicans of our State Legislature put into their bill for en- abling absent soldiers to vote a pro- vision flagrantly in violation of the State constitution, this provision being nothing less thana gift of the right of suffrage to every colored soldier sent from New York, while our State constitution emphatically declares that no negroes but those possessed of real estate to a certain specified amount shall possd&s the right of voting, or be otherwise considered as citizens. This unconstitutional provision, the republicans hoped, would compel the Governor to veto the bill and send it back to them for amendment, which they would pretend they had not time to give it. But the Governor has signed the bill, although bis concurrence will be of no value, as the act is unconstitutional, and therefore null and void on its face. There are other objections to the measure hardly less serious in their nature. It gives all the power of casting the votes of absent soldiers te the clerks in our various post offices, and should really be entitled “An act to enable the Hon. Montgomery Blair, Postmas- ter General, to become political attorney for the army, and cast its vote as he pleases.” It is to the interest of all true lovers of our country that the men who understand this rebellion best—our soldiers in the fielde-should be test, and it is, therefore, a pity that an uncon- stitutional law has been enacted in this State, Ganwatp! 1v Exauanp.—The recent recep- tion of Garibaldi by the English people, viewed in the light of the whole history of England and of Italy, is a very curious spectacle. Italian unity is an idea of very recent growth in modern Italian politics. It is an idea that has lain dormant im the history of that beauti- ful land since the great days of Rome. By the social war the minor Italian States compelled Rome to acknowledge their equality, and when Rome accorded the franchise to the citizens of those several States Italy was as distinct a unity asthe United States have ever been. But as the old Roman power died away so did the unity of Italy, and through all the centuries fn which the Church has been dominant the several cities of Italy have been divided by sectional jealousies, and have waged bitter wars against one another, All those ventures of sectional strife have their reaction now, and it is at once & reaction againet the Pope and in favor of Italian unity. The representative man of this idea in Italian politics ts Garibaldi.» Garibald! is unlike modern Italian. In no lineament does his character answer to that received ides of Italian character that has been current since the time of Machiavelli. But he is like an old Roman. He ts as simple minded, as pure, as upright, a8 Fabricius or Regulus. ‘And it iy « daaulge ciroustence a history — eee, - Tas Reoznr Sworp Conrest.—The ao-called loyal men of New York mado“s grand rally round General Grant, or rather his sword, and by coming in at the proper moment, gave bim @ majority of fifteen thousand dollars. We hope that these very loyal people will continue to show the same geal in favor of Grant. Also that they will see that he obtains all that he needs to carry out his plans successfully. NEWS FROM THE SOUTHWEST. Affairs on Red River—What Is Said of the Recent Battios—The Army Fortify- ing at Grand Boore—Oaly Five Foot of Water im the River—Activity of the Guerillas—NowUricans Markets, dc. Sr. Loum, April 26, 1864. Cairo dates of yesterday by mail say the steamer Vou Phul, from Now Orleans the evening of the 16th, had ar- rived. It seemed to be generally conceded that the battles in Louisiana had been against General Banks, for, while the enemy remained om the ground after Saturday’s fight, Banks rotreated forty miles. ‘The transport Biack Hawk suffered considerably above Alexandrif’ from the enemy, besides baving soveral killed and wounded, f The report that there was another ight oa the 10th was a mistake. . The steamers Rob Roy and Mattie Stephons had ar- rived at Now Orleans from the Red river, tiving rua the gauptlot of a large number Of querilias on the banks. Tae Rob Rey had four guns, and fought most of her way down. A cannon ball passed through the olerk’s office. One soldier was killed and fige wounded on the Mattic Stephens. ‘The rebels were atill in the vicinity of Pleasant Ridge. Our army was at Grand Kcore, for tifying on both banks of tho river, Admiral Porter reported that there were only five foot of water at Grand core. The gunboat Eastport was aground there. All the large boats were below, but those of light draught were above. Prisoners say that Kirby Smith and Sibley were killed in the recent battles. ‘The steamer La Crosse, from the Red river for New Or- leans, baving stopped at*Plant Station to take on cotton, the crew and soldiers got drunk ata distillery at that place, when a company of the First Louisiana rebel cavalry made a descent on tho boat, and the passengers and crew were robbed and paroled. Tho New Orleans cotton market had aectined, prices ranging from 66c. for low mrddling to 760. for strictly middling. Sugar active and advanced 18¢. to 233¢0. for inferior to white clarified, Molasses scarce at 860. a 89c. Movements of the Rebels in Missis- sippt-Skirmish at Hudsonville—Occa- pation of Camden, Ark., by General Steele. do. St. Lows, April 25, 1864. Messra. Wade and Gooch, of the Committee on the Conduct of the War, arrived at Cairo on the Ztst, to invas- tigate the Fort Pillow massacre. Generate Huribut aod Leggett had also reached thero. Nearly two thousand bales of cotton bad arrived singe the 224; about one thousand werd for Cinciwmati, four hundred for Louisville and two nuadrea and eighty for Kvansvitie. Momphis dates to tho 22d say that Forrest's entire force was moving towards Alabama, foliowed by Griog 800. Polk ts said to be marching North, Forrest will probably join him. ‘On the morning of the 21st Grior- ‘s0n’s cavalry camo upon some of Forrest's troops near Hudsonville, Miss. A sharp fight ensued, and the rebels retreated in the direction of Jacksoo, passing throygh Lagrange. A number ot prisoners, horses, mules, wagons, &c., were taken and carried to Memphis. . General Price has evacuated Camden, Arkansas, and General Steele occupied the place. ‘The Memphis cotton market was firm. Considerable inquiry. Holders are keeping beck stock for higher prices. Receipts, 140 bales, Prices ranged from 64c, a 6c. The steamer Idaho collided with a gunboat and was sunk at Paducah on Friday. be can be raised. About one hundred guerillas burned a large lot of wood near Barfield Point on Friday, and captured a number of citizens of Brownsville. ‘¢ Mempars, April 22, 1864 Grierson bas picked up @ {ew of Forrest’s men; but Forrest keeps bis troops well together, and is tow strong for essiul attack, His headquarters are still at Jack- son, Teun, Cairo, April 25, 1364. The steamer Darling, from Memphis, paszod b five hundred bales of cotton for Cincinnati. Inauguration ef Gov Arkan Lite Ruck, April 19, 1864. Governor Murphy was inaugurated yosterday. Over ten thousand citizens and soldiers were present. A grand Procession of the military, mombers of the Legisiacure, State officers, frecdmen, &c., preceded the ceremonies, which were very impressive, and elicited the most en- ‘thusiasti¢ cheering. The city was brilliantly illami nated at night. The Governor’s message was sont to the Legislature lagf week. NEWS FROM GALVESTON. nor Murphy, of ours, April 26, 1864. Galveston dates of April 4, received at New Orleans, gay the schooner Mary Sorley, with two hundred and fifty bales of cotton, was captured on the night of the 3d it, while attempting to run the blockade. The Harriet Lane, an English steamer, the Isabella and ‘ bark wore lying bebind the forts, waiting for aa oppor- tunity to run the blockade, The Navy. The Monitor Canonicus and steamer Osceola, from Bos- ton via Long Island Sound, arrived at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, yesterday. The following i# @ list of tne Osceola’s officers:— ‘ Commander—J. M. B, Clits. Lieut nan—Joba Wiedman. Paymaster—Eaward Bellows. Acting Assiseant F. Winslow. Acting Master—E. B, Hussey. A Ensigms—J. Arnold Cross, Charles 8. McQuia, Setn 1 LaDion Engineers—¥irat Assistant, Thomas MoCausian Second, Richard Doran, Robert Paliett; Acting . J. Cooper, Robert Benjamin. Gunner—J, C. Bresign —— Mates—Thomas Rogers, H.G. Rovinsoa, Chas. h iy. Paymaster's Clerk—Wm. M. Good. Caplain’s Clerk—=A. G. Emerson. Canonicva—iron ciad, & guns, This vessel arrived ot the Brookiyn Navy Yard yesterday, in tow of the Osceo- la, from Boston. The following is a list of her officersi— Commander—E. G Liewsant—R. 3. jurphy. * Acting Ensigne—F. 1. Harris, M. W. Wold, R. C. Daws. ineers=Chief, D. B. Macomb; Acting First Assist- ant, C. G, Conklin; Becoud Assistant, 8. R. Brooks A. Hutebinsow, Third Brown, —A News from California. Saw Francisco, April 23, 1866 Salled, the opposition steamship Moses Taylor, and the Pacific Mail Company's eteamship St. Louts, The latter has six Iwodred and twenty-five passengers, the forter more. TheSt, Louis carries $1,240,000 in trengure. © ‘Tho ships Franklin and Twilight have sailed for Manita . Flour and wheat are firm, 4 ‘6th state that Colonel Paaten tad party for 8 campaign againey the A dates to arrived at Lapas with @ hostile Indians. eterna 17 Tas Hearts or Beisvoe Hosrita, —Wp ere glad to Jearn that the inroads of typhus fever at Bellevy.e, Hospi.’ tal have sob been #0 sorious as represented. ‘Wipe .pte- cautions have beem taken by the Commissiony,rs of Chat." ties and Correction to prevent the spread @% the disease by the erection of tents on Hlkckwell’s Ielaaya for the trekts ment of fever patients applying for admYasion to tbe Hos- pital, By this moans not only will the ‘spread of the oon- tagion be arrented, but the percentye of recavories will yo larealt \norossed. Important Amendments to the Tax Bill. Raid on the-Money and 8toe! ‘Brokers. j ni ase Temporary Increase of the Tari@ on Imports. A Resolution Adding Fifty Per Cont to the Tariff for Sixty Days Adopted by the House. Speech of Senator Doolittle in Op- position to Negroes Voting, Bes Ree oe WAR GAZETTE. OFFLOIAL,. my GBNERAL ORDERS—NO. 154. ‘Wan Daragrmawr, Ansorawr K. D. Townsanp, Assistant Adjutant General. MEMORANDUM TO GENERAL ORDRRS—NO. 12, 1864/ Quanracuasrern Gewerat’s Wasumaron, Aprit 13, 1864. The cleventh paragraph of the circular of the Second Comptroller, dated March 1, 1864, published in Geueral Orders No, 12, ourrent series, kag boon ome to rena —Soldiers rendering little or 00 service on the dey or discharge, payment for both by the isc! government is unjust. The of enlistment, own pen will hereafter be allowed, the of discharge ajuded. 7a ie a OMB. Qeacterssnetal| snare United States Army. GENERAL NEWS. ‘Wasamanom, April 25, 1866. THE INTERNAL TAX BILL. ‘The Houso bas kept at work pretty steadily to day om the Tax bill, with the exception of'aa hour, from haif-past one to half-past two,to see the negro troops passing through the city. A good many of the members forgot to come back at the end of the hour, and the consequence was that the committee was practically without a quo- rum during the rest of the afternvon. The committee foomed to be particularly savage on the stock brokers, and, at the instance of Mr. Finck , voted # tax of one Gfth of one por centon all gales made by them by a large majority. Other taxes were considerably raised, some to double or more than double the rates of the Committees of Ways and Means. If ali the taxes imposed by the bill, as amended, are paid, there will be no question hereafter about the oredit of the government. No attempt was made to reduce the Tate of the income tax; but, on the contrary, there seemed to be @ diepositipn rather to Increase the tax om incomes derived from interest on government securities. Without finally deciding this poiat the committee rose, and it will come up again te morrow, INCREASE OF THE TARIFF ON IMPORTS, Contrary %o expectation, the House to-night passed ar. Stevens’ resolution to increase the rates of duties om ian- ports @fty per cent untii July 1. Mr. Morrill, from the Comimittes of Ways and Means, reported a bill makiog discriminating advance on the leading articles, and this led to a very lively debate, in which tho advocates of protection to particular interests participated a& , great length in Gve minute speeches, Finally, ag it became apparent that no satisfactory result would be reached, all parties took up Mr. Stevens’ substitute an@ passed {t ag the best measure under the ciroumstanees, ‘There was no ‘opposition to the proviso proposed by Mr, Kasson exempting printing peper from the operation of the resotution, There ie little doubt of the prompt pas- gage of the resolution by the Senate. 1 SENATOR DOOLITTLR'S SPRECH ON NEGRO SUFFRAGS. | ‘The conservative speech of Senator Doolittle om uegre suffrage in Montana Torritory has caused a profouné sea- gasion among the radicals, some of whom affect to regard him as a backslider from the miscegenation faith, Mr. Wilkinson, a few days since, made a desperate effort te convince the Senate that the negro population of Moa- tana, limited to two men, was the most respectable of that community, asserting that one who died a fow weoks age was worth fifty thougand dollars. The pub- licity of the fact that said negro and riches consisted of an unworked claim of speculative value, and that he was indebted (0 uearly every miner of his acquaintance for pecuniary contributions, detracts nota little from the foree of that Senator’s argument, and has modified to @ considerable extent the views of magy hitherto favorably disposed towards the measure. There is little doubé that this proposition will be ultimately defeated, the majority of the republicans fearing to raise an additioual issue with the conservatives by obnoxious logiaiation apoa an abstraction. THE STATUS OF GENERAL PRANK BLAIR. ‘There 18.an evident disposition on the part of a ma- jority of .the House to contest the action of the Prosiaens - in rescinding his acceptance of Frank Blair's resignation of bia commission as major general, The resolution of ta- quiry introduced by Mr. vawes in reference to this matter has a bearing on the pending contest & bis right to ssoat as Representative. It is not probabie, if re. nominated by the President, that be would. be condrmed by tho Senate, his violent aitacks on Secretary Chase paving made him many enemies. ; ALL THE REQUISITIONS ON THE TREASURY PAID. ‘The’statement that the United States Treasury is large- ly im arreara is without foundation. We leara that there fs not a single requisition for a dollar due from the gov- eroment now unpaid at the Department, nor has there been for Several days. The balance at the disposal of the Treasury is cow not less than twenty miliioas, THR CASE Of SURGEON GENERAL HaKuofy. General Starkweatner, of the Hammond Court Martial, loft for the West last night. The court has adjourned tit ° May 3, (n order te enable the defence to arrange print their evidence. CAPTURE OF GUBRILLAG. a A scouting party of the First Michigan cavalry, under Lieut. Jacoxon, went out from Alexandria on Saturday night and attacked a band of rebel guoritias near Occoquan, ‘capturing four prisoners, one of whom has sigee died of bie wounds. Two,of our own men wereslightly wounded, BIDS FOR THR FLOUR CONTRACT. Bids for furnishing the government. with flour were opened here to-day at the Quartermaster’s office, Twemy~ ix thousand barrels of No. 2 flour-wore offered at prices: ranging from $8 50 to $9 15. A CASB OF CONSCIENCE. The Secretary of the Treasury acknowledged the reeeips of two dollars and fifty cents from @ clergymen of tbe Catholic church, to whom the mosey. was returned — through the confessional, by @ person whe acknowledged 1 to be due to tne Upited States. BLOOKADE OF THE ISLAND OF. PRMERN. ‘The State Department bas been officially. informed that the island of Fomern, which was m the first instance ex- ‘empted from the blockade by the Daatsh: government of the porte and inlets on the east const: of tho duchies of Sebleewig and Holstein, is now also. blockaded, the blockade baying been ordered to commence on the 22d ultimo, CAPTGRED PRIZES. ‘The following captures have Leon roperted ad the Navy inten Mary Dartey, by the United States steamer, Rejota, off Galveston, Toxas, on the 4th jest. She wae P formerly the United States revenue cutter Dedga, aed whs o0ized, by the revels in Galveston bay At the omm- / tmeneement of tile rebelline. i d ‘The British schooner M. P. Burton, by the ‘Suited Gtétet ateanibe ATodstook, loaded with tron and she, She ‘dented ttoms Bevand, and purported to ba bound, yo Mata- mors. / ! p SENTENCE OF COLONEL WISH Genoral Sohénok, has been sentenced “by curt martial ta one year in the Albany Penitentiary . | @e CASE OF PROVOST WaRGsiAL BAKER. ‘Tho three indictments st Ontonel T., O. speeial Provost Marshal of the “War Department, for tmpeisonment, Koel 0 ay ete kine Crom the Pong, / polanel Fab, late Provost Marshal of Baléaore, under |