The New York Herald Newspaper, March 27, 1865, Page 4

4 NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, \ EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR Orrick N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. ..No. 87 New York, Monday, Mareh 27, 1865. = = THE SITUATION. ' A brisk engagement on last Tuesday, the 21st inst., pear Mount Olive, N. C., between a portion of General Bherman’s army and the rebels, in which the latter wore flanked and overpowered, is announced in a despatch from Newbern. Tho rebels retreated in confusion towards Raleigh, and General Sherman’s troops pushed on after them, reaching and taking possoasion, it is said, ‘of Smithfield, on the railroad from Goldsboro to Raleigh, ‘half way betweon the two towns. Goldsboro was occu- pied by General Schofeld’s forces on the same day, ‘and in his despatch published in yesterday morning's Herat, it will be remembered, he stated that ho had ‘heard from General Sherman’s right wing in the Micinity of Mount Olive, and that fring had been heard in that direction on that day. This was no doubt from ‘the engagement now reported from Newbern. Gencrals Sherman, Schofield and Terry were within hourly com- Munication at the date of: latest accounts, and were ©0-operating in @ vigorous pressure on General Jobn- Bton’s rebel forces, sweeping all before them. It was Considered certain that Raleigh would soon succemb to them, which it has probably done by this time. A Newbern despatch of the 21st inst. alludes to firing jhoard in the direction of Goldsboro on Sunday, the 19th. This was, doubtless, from the fight at Bentonsville, already reported in the Hinaup, though at Kinston there ‘was a rumor that on that day a brigade of rebels endea- vorod to cut their way through to Sherman’s army, and ‘that in consequence a battle ensued between thom and another force of rebels. We have some additional rebel details -of the fights between a portion of General Sherman's left wing and the enemy’s forces under Hardee, on the 16th and 16th inst., at Averysboro, N. C., and on the 19th inst, at Bentonsville, reported in our columns on Saturday and yesterday morning; but they are as wild, exaggerated 8nd unreliable as those previously given. A despatch was received in Washington yesterday from Prosident Lincoln, who is still with the armies on the James riyer, stating that the left of General Grant's lines had been advanced so as to occup#the ground previously held by the enemy’s skirmishers, and that in the move- ment between fourand five hundred rebels were cap- tured. There were also rumors in Washington yes- terday, which probably grew out of this affair, that the entire rebel right wing had surrendered, and that Leo had evacuated Richmond. These latter reports, though premature, will probably be realized ina very short time. In their dash on Saturday morning into the lines of the Ninth corps, and subsequent sanguinary ex- Ppulsion therefrom, the rebels lost at least six thousand in killed, wounded and prisoners, The national loss in all’ was less than five hundred. One of our correspondents in the Army of the James bas ascertained that up to last Wednesday morning the febels had succeeded in drilling, uniforming, equipping ‘nd placing in the Richmond defences six hundred tolored soldiers. The white rebel troops do not like this kind of accession to their numbers, General Lee is said to be now bustly engaged in reorganizing all the scat- tered fragments of his army for the last and desperate bampaign. . We publish this morning a map illustrating the exten- sive but daily contracting field of the grand co-operative movements of the military columns under the direction of Generals Grant, Sherman, Schofield and Terry, show- ing how rapidly and surely the armies of Lee and John- ston are being encircled and driven to a point from which there can be no escape but in overwhelming de- feat or surrender. + A New Orleans despatch of the 18th inst, states that the movement of General Canby's troops against Mobile Commenced on the day previous, Portions of both the Thirteenth and Twenty-third corps were in motion, and two brigades had started in the direction of Bon Lecours, on the eastern side of Mobile bay. As auxiliary to the Operations, two brigades of national troops, under General Andrews, had moved from Barrancas and occupied Pen- Bacola, Fla. An immense force of national cavalry belonging to Genera Thomas’ army was to start on an expedition into the heart of Alabama on the 2ist inst, Our correspond- ent who accompanies it says it will form the largest cav- pry raid of the war, ite numbers boing sufficient to over- ‘whelm everything the rebels can possibly throw in its way. The men took a very small amount of supplies with them, intending to forage for these on the rich val- loys of the State, Thofrebel General Forrest is reported to have been very recently encamped at West Point, Ga, where ho had eight effective regiments, four of which were negroes. Tho rebel schooner Anna Dale, of seventy tons burthen, Otted out and fully supplied to operate as a privateer, ‘and which was to have sailed on her work of plunder and burning on tho next day, was cut loose from under two rebel batteries in Matagorda bay, Texas, on the 19th Inst., by two boats’ crows from the United States gunboat Pinola, under command of Ensign James W. Brown. After Ensign Brown and his men had secured the com- mandor and crew of the intended privateer, they started to take her out to the national fleet; but she ran aground, nd had to be burned. Bands of rebel guerillas are atti! prowilng through dif- ferent parts of Kentucky. Several detachments of Union froops are now scouring the Western part of the State for Bho purpose of clearing out these marauders, one band of whom, numbering seventy, were attacked thirty miles from Paducah, on last Wednesday night, by twenty na- tional soldiers, In the fight twenty of the guorillas, in- Cluding their chief, Captain McDougal, were killed. Only one man, Captain McGregory, is reported as being killed ‘On the Union side, Mr. Agnew, one of the agenta of the Sanitary Commis- Bion, in a letter from Wilmington, N. C., describes the Condition of the released Union soldiers now in hospital fn that town as horrible in the extreme, About nine thousand of our soldiers were exchanged at this place by the rebels. Of this number about six thousand were sent North; but tho remaining three thousand could not be moved. They have been starved by the rebels till their bodies aro reduced to skeletons, and their minds to idiocy. When brought into the Union Jinos their persons were covered with filth and their ays. toms filled with disease. Many of thom were almost hakod, and what remnant of clothing any of them had on was nothing but rags, In many the intellect was vo far gone that thoy were unable to tell their own names, EUROPEAN NEWS. The steamship America, from Southampton on the 16th of March, reached this port last night. Hor news 4s throw days later. The question of the dofences of Canada gave rise to an Important debate in the English House of Commons on fhe 13th instant, during the progress of which the inter- pational relations how ‘existing between England and the United States, and the probable tone and bearing of the diplomacy of the two Cabinets after the conclusion of our war with the rebels was fully discussed by Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Bright, Lord Palmerston and others. It was acknowledged that Canada could not defend herself and could not be defended successfully by Great Britain if the United States invaded the territory. This event it was thought would not soon occur, as Mr. Lin- coln and his party were for peace, and if there was a war party, Mr. Bright said, it was the Irish party in Ame- rica—men who had been told by Lord Palmerston that the rights of tenants were the wrongs of landlords. Mr. Disraeli thought that Canada should be jealously watched, although he did not impugn the conduct of the United States, which he thought had been characterized by great amity and discretion. Ho did not think the Union would be restored as it was, Lord Palmerston said that England will not seek any grounds of complaint against the United States; for there can be no well grounded apprehensions that the peace which prevails between the two nations can be interrupted. The rela- tions between the two governments at the present time are perfectly satisfactory. Great Britain has no com- plaint to make of the goveament of the United States, for it has acted in a fair mannor towards her. The ac- cordance of belligerent rights to the South was a matter “of necessity, not choice,” Canada would be supported. ‘The announcement of a new United States loan slightly depreciated the value of American bonds om the Conti- nent, The rebel cotton loan advanced one per cent in London. ‘The funeral of the Duke de Morny was conducted with great splendor and éclat, at the cost of the French treasury, by decree of the French Emperor. Consols closed in London on the 14th of March at 88% a 883 for delivery, and 88% » 88% for 6th of April. The Liverpool cotton market was firmer, at an advance ranging from one half penny to one penny per pound experienced from the previous Friday. Breadstuffs were quiet, with a steady and more firm market. Provisions were easier. ‘The steamship St. David, from Londonderry March 11, reached Portland, Me., yesterday. Her news has been anticipated by the report of the Australasian. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. Major Dodge, Assistant Provost Marshal General of the Southern division of th's State, has addressed a commu- nication to Mr. Blunt, Chairman of the Supervisors’ Vol- unteering Committee, asking the latter to inform him positively as to what prospect thero is of sufficient funds being kept on hand to pay bounties to two hundred men daily in this city. If money enough to insure enlist- ments at this rate cannot be furnished, Major Dodge says {t is useless to longer defer the draft; for, though the government does not desire to enforce it, men for the army must be had immediately. The American Telegraph Company, after superhuman efforts, have got their lines leading to Washington in good order again. The terrible freshe}s in the Susquehanna greatly interfered with the river cables. Now all are right and capable of doing all that is required of them. Ina recent gale at the mouth of the Rio Grande seven vessels were driven ashore. The burning of the steam: lighter Mexico and the drowning of every person on board, outside the bar at the mouth of that river, is also announced, but the date is not given. Robert C. Kennedy, the rebel spy and incendiary, exe- cuted at Fort Lafayette on Saturday, in his confossion, alluded to in yesterday’s Henaxp, and published in our columns this morning, acknowledges having set fire to Barnum’s Museum, Lovejoy’s Hotel, Tammany Hotel and the New England House, on the night of tho 25th of last November. From his statement it appears that his accomplices did not perform the share of the incen- diary work allotted to thom; for he says each of them only fired the house in which he was stopping, and then ranoff, ‘Had they all done as I did,” he states, ‘‘we would have had thirty-two fires, and played a huge joko on the Fire Department.’ His confession does not give the names of his co-operators. Early on Sunday morning a fire was discovered in a room occupied by a sailor named Patrick Carr, on tho third floor of No. 18 Monroe street. On bursting open the door Carr’s dead body, considerably burned, was found lying on the floor, and the fire had made considera- ble headway in the room. It is supposed that the cloth- ing of the bed was accidentally ignited from a cigar which the unfortunate man had been smoking, and that he was suffocated by the smoke while asleep, The fire was extinguished after doing trifling damage. The subecriptions to the seven and threc-tenths per cent government loan on Saturday amounted to over two millions of dollars, and during the past week to nearly seventeen millions of dollars. The Battle at Petersburg—The Opera- tions in North Carelina. Once more active operations in front of Petersburg are in actual progress, and already the enemy has met with & repulse there that has doubtless decimated his army. Ever since last November Lee has been scanning Grant’s lines in search of a “vulnerable point,” where he might hope for success and not merely waste his men against Grant’s heavily fortified lines. He took his time, because it was neces- sary to be very careful. He could not afford to lose a chance ora man, And yet the point that he finally chose was not s0 vulnerable as it might have been, after all. But the fact that Lee did have a temporary success is something in favor of the keenness of his eye. His attack was apparently timed on the sup- position that Grant bad very greatly weak- ened his own lines fh his eagerness to help Sherman; but that little delusion is dispelled by this time. Lee’s attack was no doubt made in very heavy force. We must wait for the accounts of our correspondents for particu- lars. But the whole affair was a splendid one for us—both the severe repulse of the enemy on the right, and the attack by our left that finally compelled him to give up his attempt. His loss in prisoners and killed and wounded will foot up six thousand, and that, at the present time, is a terrible loss for Leo. The news from North Carolina shows the steady progress of our operations in that State. General Schofield occupied Goldsboro on Tues- day, the 21st, without a battle, and on the same day General Sherman beat the enemy in a severe fight at Mount Oliye. This is a later battle than any that we have heard of through the Richmond papers. Mount Olive is nearly south of Goldsboro, and at perhaps about twenty miles distance from that place. At the latest account Sherman’s right was at Mount Olive, while his left was pushing forward in the line of Averysboro and Bentonsville. The line of retreat of the bodies beaten by Sher man’s left was of course northward, towards Raleigh; and as the battle by his right was fought two days later, it must have been with another body of the enemy. We thus see that Johnston had elther not been eble to concen- trate in Sherman’s front, or that he had been bewildered and outwitted by Sherman’s move- ments, If the body engaged by Sherfnan’s right on the 2Ist retreated toward Raleigh it had to pass entirely across Sherman’s front, and was, in all probability, scattered. These small battles—of which there have now been four—have very likely exhausted the power that the enemy counted upon to fight one great battle, NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1865. Oar Quota, the Dreft and Enlist- . ments. Never was there a greater muddle than that which has characterized the under the last call for troops, The bungling manage- ment has seriously interfered with the raising of the men. Those officials who, by their exer- tions, filled all of our former quotas have been compelled to spend so much time in getting the affair out of snarls that they have bad but little time to attend directly to recruiting. The ma- chinery for volunteering has been arranged and placed in working order time and time again, only to be as often disarranged and thrown out of gear by some inconsiderate or incompetent official. The call was issued and the quota for this city announced by Provost Marshal General Fry as little under five thou- sand. Under this arrangement recruiting went on, bidding fair to fill our quota long before the day fixed for the draft. But in the midst of this success, without any forewarning or appa- rent reason, another order, was promulgated by the same official, increasing our quota four hundred per cent, making it necessary to raise over twenty-one thousand men to escape the draft, This enormons increase was apparently 80 unjust that considerable valuable time was taken up in endeavors to reduce it and obtain the facts upon which it was based. The State Committee finally succeeded in securing an or- der from the President to set to one side twenty-five per cent of the latter number. The Supervisors’ Committee, seeing that the in- crease was based upon an excessive enrolment, applied for correction. After considerable de- lay they obtained a promise that if the enrol- ment were corrected in time the quota would be adapted to it. Recruiting was continued, but the labors of the local officials were divided be- tween securing recruits and correcting the en- rolment. This was finally concluded, when, under the united effofts of the committee, volun- teering became quite brisk. Then came the en- forcement of the draft, not, however, on the basis of the corrected enrolment. The wheel began to turn in several wards of the city, and the names of the conscripts were: paraded by the column in the newspapers. Recruiting al- most entirely ceased and substitytes demanded fabulous sums. The result was that but few men were obtained in any form. The number of men added to Uncle Sam’s warriors was not sufficient to show any perceptible increase. We were then informed that the enforcement of the draft was a mistake; that Lieutenant Colonel Brownson, who ordered it, had been removed for his presumption. Another barrier, however, presented itself. THe capitalists sub- scribed for the State Bounty loan instead of that of the city. No paymaster was sent to the city by the State authorities, The result was that the counties outside of the city re- ceived the benefit of the subscription to this loan. The Supervisors’ Committee visited Albany; and we are now informed that this difficulty has been overcome—that the State funds will be on hand te-day. All necessary arrangements have been made to pay the vol- unteers as fast as they present themselves. It is to be hoped that there will be no more obstacles placed in the way; that our quota will now be speedily filled, and further enforce- ment of the draft avoided. The committees are doing all that lies within their power; but in order to make their success certain it is ne- cessary that they should have the co-operation of all classes, Capitalists and politicians, drafted men, as well as those whose names did not turn up in the recent revolutions of the wheel, should lend a helping hand. Money is wanted, men are demanded. To secure the latter the former must be obtained. Almost every person can assist in securing one or the other. The Washington officials seem deter- mined to throw all manner of obstacles in the way, and prevent our escaping the conscrip- tion. Extra efforts are therefore needed. Our quota should be filled in spite of the impedi- ments placed in the way. There is no time to be lost. Every man should put his shoulder to the wheel. Unless the number of recruits ob- tained daily materially increase those who were recently drawn will receive orders to re- port at the Provost Marshal’s office. Let us make a united effort to escape conscription. Victoria of England and Eugenie of France on the Holy Sepulchre and Railway Accidents. The Empress of the French has just issued a circular to the queen sovereigns of Europe re- specting the condition of decay and dilapida- tion into which the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has been falling for many years past. This interesting document we pub- lished yesterday. In it the Empress makes an earnest and forcible appeal to her sister sove- reigns to unite and repair the holy places, ask- ing how it is that the Christian Powers have not hastened to put an end to a state of things afflicting to the faithful of all communities. The devotion of Eugenie to the Church and its traditions is beyond all question, and apart from the great honor and fame which must attach to so devout an aspiration as the renova- tion of the Church of the Sepulchre, she is doubtless actuated by sentiments of true piety and veneration for the burial place of the Saviour. Her appeal to the Christian queens of Europe will attract general attention, and in all probability will meet with a generous re- nse. . The proposition, however, is not merely to re- pair the decaying dome, but to rebuild the church on an entirely new principle, so as to afford abun- dant convenience to the pilgrims of every com- munity of Christians from every clime freely to visit and worship there. “It would be advi- sable,” says the circular, “after having obtained the consent of the Sublime Porte, to entirely rebuild the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on a new plan, and on a larger seale, so that it might afford accommodation, for all communions. Thus, for example, there should be on one side a chapel, and even a nave, consecrated to the use of the Latins, and on the other a nave and a chapel reserved for the use of the Greeks. The principal nave should be open to all, and the access of the faithful to the Holy Sepulchre, at present so difficult, giving rise to frequent disturbances, would be freed from all hin- drances, The majesty of the new sanctuary should as much as possible equal that of the sacred associations which are recalled by these sacred places. For these reasons competition might be opened in which the architects and artists of all countries should be invited to take part, and an international jury might select from among the designs sent by them that which, in a purely artistic point of view, might be deemed the most worthy of so great an idoa. As to the funds necessary for commencing and tompleting without delay the new Church of the Holy Sepulchre, they could be furnished by ® universal subscription, at the head of which all the Christian princesses would no doubt vie with each other in inseriking their names.” In accomplishing such @ work the Empress will be entitled to the thanks of all Christendom ; and the glory which in fature times will be con- nected with her name shall be only second to that of Helena, the mother of Constantine, who is reputed to have been the original discoverer of the Holy Sepulchre and of the true cross. er since that distant period the strifes of tian communities among themselves, and the bloody conflicts between “ the crescent and the cross” have rendered the holy places a bone of continual contention, and the Empress of the French will fully earn the gratitude of posterity if she can succeed in quelling all these contend- ing passions, so as to restore unity, peace and harmony among Christians of every denomi- nation, whose'duty or piety may call them to a land and to scenes enshrined forever in the history of all time. ‘Thug we have the two leading female sove- reigns of Europe engaged in works which claim attention and merit apptobation. While Queen Victoria of England is, with an admira- ble spirit of humanity, exerting all her high influence to put an end to the system of rail- way slaughter which is becoming pretty general in her dominions—but which, by the way, is as nothing to the perfection of the thing on this side of the Atlantic—her impe- rial sister across the channel is sorely troubled about the condition of the most famous tomb in the world. The one is striving to diminish the increasing number of tombs in her realm; the other satisfies herself with repairing a sin- gle one. Both are actuated by laudable mo- tives, well worthy of such distinguished women, and therefore their designs have our unquali- fied approbation. Queen Victoria, however, is the most practical of the two. On the broad grounds of the public safety, she appeals to the managers of railway companies to consider that human life is not as cheap as the dead freight carried on their cars, and asks them to stop murdering people by steam. If Eugenie’s proposition to repair the Holy Sepulchre meet with the favor of all Christians, and they are certainly numerous, the appeal of Queen Vic- toria will be sure to receive the sanction of all men—Christians, Jews, Turks, infidels and all others who travel by the slippery and danger- ous paths of railroads. We would suggest that these two distinguished ladies—Eugenie and Victoria—hold a private conference immedi- ately, not on a raft, as the sovereigns at Tilsit, nor, as at Hampton Roads, on a steamboat, as some other sovereigns recently did, but quietly and snugly in a parlor at Buckingham Palace or the Tuileries. After embracing, let them agree to assist each other in carrying out each other’s ideas, which must be classed among the great enterprises of the day, calling on all well disposed Americans to aid and assist them, and as they will, so the im- provements desired will be accomplished. Then, before adjourning, let them address a joint note to the managers of all American rail- way companies entreating them to abolish the slaughter of innocent people by preventible accidents on their railroads, This will, we think, help a much needed reformation on this side. In this way we shall not only have the Church of the Holy Sepulchre properly and promptly repaired, but railroad slaughter by steam in England, France and the United States will shortly be abolished, and hereafter be only remembered as a frightful custom which used to prevail in the “olden time.” The Execution of Kennedy—The End of Rebel Guerilla Warfare. Robert Cobb Kennedy has met the fate of Beall and Sue Mundy. He was hanged on Saturday last at Fort Lafayette. We gave yes- terday a very interesting biography of the culprit and account of the execution. Ken- nedy was one of the rebel incendiaries who attempted to burn down New York city. He was the man who fired Barnum’s Museum. When detected he fled to Canada to avoid arrest, and was subsequently captured at De- troit while acting as s rebel spy. Being brought to this city he was tried by @ court- martial upon these charges and was found guilty, The President would not interfere to pardon or respite him, and he was accordingly executed. He died as he had lived—reck- lessly and “trusting to luck.” Beall died like @ man and a gentleman; but both Sue Mundy and Kennedy quitted this world in a most dis- gusting manner. As Kennedy was jerked into the air he sang in a quavering voice this fare- well to life:— Trust to luck, trust to luck, Stare fate in the face; For your heart will bo easy If it’s in the right place, From the beginning of Kennedy’s career in New York he has seemed to be either intoxi- cated or nervously deranged. After his arrest he alternately confessed and denied his guilt. He left a written confession, although at the gallows’ foot he stigmatized his execu- tion as a jpdicial murder. To the officers he said that he would ‘have sprinkled the phosphorous upon ladies’ dresses at the Museum if he could have done so without danger of being discovered. Again, he said that the affair at the Museum was merely a lark; for he had tried the phosphorus on wood and found that it would not ignite. After his sentence he would appear at one moment perfectly resigned to his fate, and the next moment he would try some wild scheme of escape, such as burning off the lock of his cell with a red hot poker. On the day of execution he vacillated between the hero, the baby and the reckless rebel. For an in- stant he would be as brave as a lion, then he would cry like a child, and then he would in- dulge in secession ravings. The doggerel which he sung at the gallows was probably in- tended as a bit of bravado; but it astonished and shocked the spectators, and disgusted the friend whom he had begged to stand by him till the last moment, The minister in attend- ance prayed for him; but Kennedy was by turns an infidel and a Christian, being apparently as undecided upon this as upon every other sub- ject. The pity which all must feel for him is not unmingled with contempt, His last request was for liquor, On the whole, wo'must pro- nounce this a fitting end for one who could deliberately conspire to set fire to a building crowded with women and child: in order to burn them to death, as a mfice upon the altar of an infamous rebellion. We have no doubt that the hanging of Sue Mundy, Beall, Kennedy and Burlay, who is to be tried at St Albans, will effectually pre- vent any further rebel guerilla sions into the loyal States. These four will save many ers. The rebels will understand that those who act as spies and violate the laws of war will receive no mercy. Nor will such examples be without « permanent effect in closing up the war without unnecessary de- lays. There are those who hold the opinion that after the main armies of the rebellion are defeated and dispersed the conflict will be carried on by guerilla bands, who will sally out from strongholds in the mountains to ha- rags the people and annoy our troops. Rebel editors, both in New York and Richmond, please themselves with graphic pictures of this style of warfare, and with calculations as to how long these guerillas may be able to keep up this partisanship. But we believe that if anything ofthe kind be undertaken these “farmers by day and soldiers by night” will have a very hard time of it, Undoubtedly they may rob and murder their own people in the extreme South, for a little while; but they will certainly be hung on sight if captured. The Southern people even now dread Wheeler’s cavalry more than they dread the Yankees. The rebel soldiers are decidedly more terrible to their friends than to their enemies, But the fate of Beall, Sue Mundy and Kennedy will be & warning to them not to commit outrages upon loyal soil, and in a short time the South- ern people will hunt them down like wolves, Thus,.we are persuaded, will end the rebel dreams of a guerilla warfare, and this will be one of the good effects of the execution of such a man as Robert Cobb Kennedy. TEXAS. Capture of the Rebel Privateer Anna Dale. Her Crew Taken, with Her Guns, and the Rebel Craft Burned. Gallant Conduct of Officers and Men from the United States Gunboat Pinola, &., &., Our Galveston Correspondence. Orv Gatyeston, Texas, Fob. 24, 1865. Yesterday the gunboat Pinola arrived here fromthe westward. She reports a most gallant affair in the cut- ting out of the rebel privateer Anna Dalo, from Matagor- da bay on the 19th inst., while lying close under two batteries, by two boats of the Pinola It appears that this schooner had been seen from the Pinola for several days, beating down at night, and showing It to be her in- tention to run out. Captain Erben, commanding the Pinola, determined to send in and destroy her or capture her. ‘Two boate were thorougly armed, and the best men in the ship were selectod—twelve in all—and placed in charge of Ensign James W. Brown and Master's Mate Roslin. Captain Erben saw the boats properly fitted out with everything, the men properly armed, and then gave Ensign Brown his orders and started off the expedition. The boats crossed the bar, pulled close to the beach until they reached a shore battery. Men were seen and lights passing, but the boats waited until all was quiet, when they pushed on. The vessel was discovered at a wharf, a littie further up, under anothor battery. Her forward, was distinguished. ‘boarded her quietly, her captain was seized, and the crew were fastened below. The vessel was cul from the wharf and sail hoisted on her to bring her out; but she struck the bank, and nothing remained to be done but to burn her. Her gun, @ long twelve-pounder pivot, was put into the steamer’s boat, with some arms and her crew, or the few who were on board at the time she was captured. She was then set fire to and burn She was the privateer Anna Dale, seventy tons, full &e. gun,a vot, The boats of provisio1 and all ready foracrnise at sea, com- manded by a Lieutenant Stephens, who claims to be a rebel officer. He says the rest of the crew, twenty- five men, were to have reached his vessel at sundown; but somehow they did not come, or else we never could have taken him, He says he would have been away the next day; and as she was a fast vessel, she would have done great mischief before being caught. Her gun is said to be a vet ro one. Ree crew are a most rascally lookin; ly for anything. The baste under which the Anna Dale was made fast has a fow howitzers; but the one passed by the boats has large guns and one hundred men to man them. Great credit isdue Captain Erben for success- fully planning the expedition, and to Ensign Brown for successfully carrying ‘out the detalles of operations in such gallant style. There is one lees pirate upon the high seas to prey upon our commerce. One short cruise of such a tat would run up long bills for insurance com- panies and shipowners to settle. a Who Wrote “Corporal Carto TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. At the close of your very kind and complimentary notice of the new military drama, “Corporal Cartouche,” produced at the Winter Garden on Saturday evening last, was a paragraph so greatly in contrast with the tone of the rest of the article, and so evidently mistaken in its statements, that I must beg to be allowed to correct ita errors and to explain the ‘‘mystery’’ to which it alludes, and which, in fact, it creates, “Corporal Cartouche,”’ as your critic observes, ‘is very ovidently a French play ;’’ but I bolieve him to be utterly wrong in asserting that “several translations of the ‘play have been made and performed in England.” If such translations have been made and performed in England, I confess myself ignorant of the fact, and I have also the best reasons to know that the leading London manager is equally ignorant; for he now has in his possession a man- uscript adaptation of the play, which he intends to pro- duce, and which, he says, that he reserves as a trump card when his “stars” shall fail to attract. But your critic proceeds to state that ‘“‘ono of these English translations, somewhat altered by a veteran actor, is the play now at the Winter Garden.”’ This I distinctly deny. The play as produced at the Winter Garden was ada by me for the American stage. Taking a literal translation of the original French drama, I entirely rewrote it; rearranged the incidents when nec }, contrived climaxes; cut away the super- fluities, and made it, as your critic kindly acknowledges, “a very decided success, exciting the interest of a de- monstrative audience and at times eliciting the most vociferous applause.’ I claim no more than your critic acknowledges. Ihave simply taken a popular French play and made it a popular American play. ‘hus far there is certainly no '‘mystery’’ about my share of “Corporal Cartouche,” nor was there anything mysterious about the announcement that it was my ‘‘pro- duction.” Stuart inserted this announcement ‘according to the usual theatrical custom. I had nothing whatever to do with it, But ‘Corporal Cartouche” has clearly as fair a claim to such an announcement aa have almost all Mr. Bourcicault’s moet attractive dramas, “The Duke’s Motto” of Mr. John Brougham, the “Hen- rietta’”’ of Mr. E. @. P. Baer “Gamea”’ of Ma- tilda Heron, the one thousand dollar prize drama of Misa Laura Keene, entitled the ‘‘Workmen of Now York,” re- — acted here; “The Streets of New York,’ now running at the Olympic; and, in fact, almost every popu- Jar piny which has been produced on the New York stage within my recollection I remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, & R. FISK. City Intelligence. Cworncn Denication.—Yesterday dedication services were held in the Church of the Pilgrims, West Forty- eighth street, This church, a neat and commodious lit- tle building, was erected about two years ago, by the unaided efforts of one or two members of the congrega- tion, and was designed for mission purposes. About eight or ton Thousand dollars have poy Senge on the —— o bullding, aviarge Sunday school has been nd until eaterday no appeal bad been made for elp. Rev. Dr. Smyth, of coeliac ter in the mornin, and the Rev. Dr. Armitage, the Fifth avenue Bapti church, in the evening. The Rev. of the church, took part in the services, Lacrons on Soctat axp PoumicaL Somnca,—Mr. Simon Stern will commence # course of lectures to-night on ‘Social and Political Science,” before the Cooper Union, for the advancement of science and art. Tho lectures eral public will be supplied with will be free, and the tickets by members of the Union. Arrival at Philadelphia of the Blockade Steamer Massachusetts, ParLapenrnta, March 26, 1868, Arrived, United States steamer Massachusetts, Lieuten- ant Commander William H. West, with one hundred and officers, discharged and invalids, from the South out of Charles- foultrie, the Mas- fachusetts struck on a torpedo, but it did not explode. ‘Tt was @ barrel with a cope on oach end, with a brass ppored to be quite a number fire; Atlantic squadron. On the 20th, comt ton harbor, between Forts Fumter and Mi Bieta top. There js the channel, which have not yet been found, t of $1,200 remained to be cleared off, and the services yesterday went far towards that end. The L, A. Baker, minister OUR QUOTA. The Supervisors’ Committee Visit to Albany. INTERVIEW WITH THE GOVERNO THE MONEY FORTHCOMING. Important Letter from Maj Dodge, &o &e., ae. Volunteering was renewed on Saturday with much activity, The treasury was, in a measure, replenish and new life was infused into ali the departments. Supervisors’ Committee, in its visit to Albany to lay b fore the Governor and the members of the the wants of the county of New York to insure succ fal efforts in securing volunteers, were well reccived, & disposition evinced to do all that could be done to ward the views of the city officials, whose plans and p Jects have been so well arranged, and whose success far has boon #0 pre-eminently successful. Supervisor BI was agsured that the action of the committee of which was chairman was fully appreciated, and, as his dem were but reasonable as well as right, there could be little if any doubt of an immediate, compliance them. ‘The great object and purpose of the committee was secure immediately the county’s proportion—some or three millions of the State loan of $30,000,000. loan, or a verconsiderable portion of it, was for; but befof® parties would actually subscribe to it amedment to the law was found to be requisite. was probably moved yesterday, and if the two ho are ag fully impressed with the importance of thi action as are the State officers and heads committees there can be little doubt of its stant adoption, when every obstacle to a full ply of funds will be removed, and volunteering wi go on with rqnewed vigor. At the request of the com mittee, Mr. Blunt stated to the Governor that ‘t woul be desirable for a State paymaster to be appointed to di burse the State funds to be placed in the hands of th Supervisors’ Committee for the payment of bountie ‘The Governor readily assented, and to-morrow an officer © this kind will take bis place with the board and perfo the duties assigned. So everything is arranged, and interests are again in harmonious and progressive actio provided the Legislature has acted with the promptne expected; and nothing that we can see can now prevel . Blunt and the committee carrying on its impor business with renewed @P¥ray and activity, unless som new order is interposed by Provost Marshal General Fry, who is so prolific in devising whys and means of show how “not to do it.” The chairman as well as the others the committee—Supervisors Purdy, Stewart and and Comptroller Brennan—will now have their hands: and, we trust, will progress with the business of volu teering beyond all precedent, and eomplete our hea quota at an early day, But the public must not be idle,| The people must use every means of encourazeme! fhrough public meetings and by individual exertions, not sit idly by, leaving all matters to the committee, I must have help and assistance from all quarters. Let i be given with no niggardly hand, and especially lot ove drafted man work manfully ; for it is all important to hit that the quota should be filled without the conacrip being called upon. Letter from Major Dod Orrice A. A. Provost MARSHAL Gexgmat, UPERINTENDENT VOLUNTEER REORUITING SERVICE, THERN Division or New Yor«, New Youu, March 25, 1865. Mr. 0. Biowr, Chairman Supervisors’ Committee, New York city:— Sm—I have the honor to request that you will inform| me positively and immediately what prospect there ts ef} your obtaining and keeping on hand sufficient funds te! pay the bounty to two hundred volunteers daily. The arrangements for recruiting in the several wards had Just been comploted and recruits were beginning to come in, when the whole thing is brought to a dead stop by the failure in the supply of funds. However fect the other ing, men will not now volunteer wu! they receive the bounties. If, therefore, you cannot obtain the money te py ‘these bounties it is useless to defer the draft longer. © government does not desire to enforce tho draft any+ where. It prefers that recruits come in voluntarily. But the men must be had immediately. For myself, I hi been exceedingly anxious to see this war ended without the neceasity of another resort te the wheel in New York city. I have done all in my wer. The alternative is before the people of the city. 2 quotas must be filled immediately; if not with unteers, then with drafted men. I must and will have the men. : I air, ver fully, your lent serv: Am, air, Very reepectt ay TED DODGE, Major Twelfth United States infantry, A. A. Provost Marshal General, Meeting in the Thirteenth Ward. ‘The meeting in the Thirteenth ward on Saturday evem- ing last was a very carnest and enthusiastic one. That # was vety large one may be estimated by the fact that within its limits are the City Flour Mills, Hoe'’s Printing Press Foundry, Singer's Sewing Machino Factory, an@ other extensive establishments employing vast numbers of men. This great throng of mec! and other cith zens assembled a ee oe ae ithe 9 - for the purpose of ning to and carrying int practical suggestions for the relief of the Fiith Congres ‘sional district from the ill effects of the threatened draft, One of the school officers of the ward, Joseph H. Tooker, Esq., was called to the chair, and ex-Assemdlymam Lynch acted as secretary. Mr. Tooker addi the assemblage in a plain, straightforward and practical man- ner, making some very common sense suggestions He had chosen a finance committee of two from each eleo- tion district, of the more prominent men in the ward, representatives of both political parties, and an execu- tive committee of forty, or five from each district? He stated that at the last Presidential election the vote of the Thirteenth ward was four thou and recommended that each voter should be asses five dollars, which would create a hand money fund twenty thousand dollars. This could be raised in one week. Some citizens would subscribe as bigh as one hundred dollars, others probably not more than one dol- lar; but he was certain that the fund would be fo lese than twenty thousand dollars. The quota of tho ward is five hundred and sixty-eight. Adddresses were also made by Councilmen omer oop Brady, Messrs. Campbell, McAlear and Colonel Ste One of the citizens announced that a recruiting office for the ward had been opened at the station house, corner of Delancey and poten streets, where the finanee com- mijtee would assemble for organization this (Monday) evening. ‘The following is the committee as announced from the latform:—Alexander H. Germann, Thomas Brown, Robert Fair, James H. Cook, John F. Thall, Reynolds, Thomas Kennedy, Charles Koster, Eliphaiet 8. Nevins, Simeon Levy, K. nkle, Louis Hollander an@ Charles Merrill. ‘One of the principal features of this meeting was the evidently deeply concerned the mbensom of a large number of femal i meeting ad terested in proceedings which vitall fate of their brothers and husbands Journed at half-past nine o'clock. Meeting fn the Sixteenth Ward. The citizons of the Stxteenth ward held another meet ing on Saturday evening in the court room, at the cor ner of Twenty-second street and Seventh avonue, Alder man Lewis R. Ryers, presided; Mr. H. C. Parke, Secre . The Chairman stated that the Hon. James 7. ‘Brady bad been invited and had promised to be — to address the meeting, but,, being unexpectedly upon to leave the city, he would be unable to be prosent, ‘A. Adams, W. R. Stafford, Esq., and others, addressed she meeting, ureing upon those present to continue in the work of ing enlistments, contributing towards increasing the ward bounty fu and thereby eck the ward from the enforcement the which could pe done, ff Mr. Blunt would sup the district with sufficient county bounty funds. on. Charles 8. “pencer having been called upon to ad a the meeting, responded by ong thee the present time required action, not speeches; he, therefore, pre- vented the committee with the sum of three hum dred and fifty dollars; and further stated that rather than see poor men with large families obliged to ge to the war, he would give a further sum of one thousand dollars, or two thousand, if mecessary ; aud as an evidence of his sincerity, he tendered @ one thousand dollar note, which elicited tremendous cheers and applause from the audienee. Tho:sum thus contributed by Mr. cer amounted to the handsome sum of one thousand three hundred and fifty dollara ‘Several other donations in sums varying from five dol- lars to two hundred ioe ig ved, inaking quite \dsome amount for the evening. " Tmineut ere wore ai to address the meet. ings every this week. Hon, H. J. Raymond te is Senet fod to wait upon the sove- toon ni w 0 ral = men Td ladies the district, and solicit their interest in the cause, Also to wait upon the officers of the several Now York regiments in the district, and Jearn their opinion in to their serving for one ean; after which the (meeting adjourned to mect om evening. e wulnens the Sixth district, whieh comprises the Minth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth wards, aro confident thy thoy could fll thelr quota ina week, if the county wi only furnish the money to pay the bounties.