The New York Herald Newspaper, April 3, 1865, Page 4

, 4, NEW YORK HERALD. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. “OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. senceee sO OF New York, Monday, April 3, 1865. s a es ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE COUNTRY. - Advertisements for the Wexxty Heap must be banded im before ton o'clock every Wednesday evening. Jts cir- oufation among the enterprising mechanics, farmers, morchants, manufacturers and gentlemen throughout the country is increasing very rapidly. Advertisements in- serted in tho Waewiy HucaLo will thud be scom by alarge * portaon of. the auiive and energetic people of tho United Biates. THE SITUATION. ‘ In oxtes issues of tho Henatp were given to an excited’ and jubiant public yesterday successive telegrams: ohropiglag the national teiumphs south and wost of Pe- torsburg in the three days of continued fighting of the most sovere Gbaracter. We havo, \ however, still later and more important intelligence, contained in last evening's despatches from President Lincoln, All along the Hines the rebols have been pushed beck, and their captured works are now occupied’ by the troops of the armios of the Potomac and the James, While the Ninth ‘and Tweaty-fourth corps were advancing directly In front steam transport General Lyon, from Wilmington for Fortress Monroe, having on board between five and six hundred persons, including a number of soldiers and male and female Southern refugees, caught Ore when off Cape Hatteras, and was entirely consumed. The flames were ignited by a light coming in contact with a kerosene barrel, and in a very short time the whole vessel was enveloped. The Gone- ral Sedgwick and @ schooner were both near the General Lyon while she was burning; but, notwithstand- ing every ellort was made to give succor, very few of the unfort:mate passengers could” be rescued, owing to the h gh wind and the heavy sea, The scene is described as most heartrending, Many, including women and chf- dren, in their terror jumped into the water to escape a | others remained on board and were devoured by the | flames. Out of the entige number only thirty-five or | forty are so far known to have been saved, though hopes are entertained that some others may have been Picked up. ‘There were several fires in the elty yesterday, at ail of which the firemen promptly appeared, and iabored with thei acoustomed energy. A fire broke out about eleven o’élock in the forenoon on the corner of Broad- way and Houston strect, and extended to the adjoining buildings, destroying altogether property valued at about seventeen thousand dollars. Other firea occurred at 219 Fulton street, 260 Greenwich street, 335 First avenue, and at the corner of Third avenue and One Hundred and Eighth street; but they did trifing damage, and five hundred dollars will probably. cover the losses by all of them. ‘A crowded moeting of the American Union Commission was held Inst night in the Academy of Music. Dr. Curry, from-Charieston, and Colonel Taylor, from East Tennes- soe, gave graphic descriptions of the utter disintegration flory death, only to be swallowed up by the waves, while | NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1865. Anorusr Front én Tax Ooxax.—Our epecial from Ferrol and Corunna, Spain, fur- nish very interesting information relative to the rebel iron-ciad ram Stonewall and the arrange- ments made by United States naval officers to have a fight with her. Our accounts are illus- trated by a map and an engraving of the rebel iron-clad. The United States steam frigate Niagara, Commodore Craven, and the Sacramento, Captain Walke, were awaiting the teries upon her. Bho fight will be am important one. It will demonstrate the value of itron-clads as compared with wooden ships; and from the experience of Farragut, who only wented “iron hearts in ribe of oak” in a naval engag¢ ment, it is not difficult to imagine the result of the combat, Unless the Stonewatt seccumbs sho will doubtless be “subjugated,” but if she should escape, the amount of damage he can commit on our commerce and coast before she is destroyed may be im- mense. Néxt to the naval fight between the Kearearge and the Alabama the’ anticipated conflict between the iron-sided rebel and wooden-sided Union ships will mark an im- portant epoch in American naval history. It seems unaccountablesthat a vessel withouta nation and without a recognized fiag should be permitted to have a harbor and receive suc- of Southern society which resulted wherever the Union arms went, and urged the necessity of immediate action of Petersburg, the Sixth corps moved up, struck and de- | and relief. ‘The organization has lately undertaken the stroyod the Southside Railroad, and Sheridan's cavalry and the Second and Fifth corps swept in on the right of the rebels, flanking them, driving them from their in- care of the rebel deserters, and proposes to establish schools in the South. One hundred thousand dollars are needed for these ends. " ‘The spiritualists held.a meeting tn Hope Chapel yester- cor in any civilized port, and especially with- in the dominions of a Power like Spain. Our government should send a fleet of one or two hundred ships, Monitors and ironsides, wooden and otherwise, on a cruise to Europe, and of course up the Mediterranean. European trenchments, and making large captures of men, | day afternoon, Dr. Heller in the chair. Mra Fuller, of | Powers and people would thus be made to un- cannon and stores, At eleven o’clook yesterday forenoon General Gaant telegraphed to the President:— Chicago, read an appeal in behalf of the sanitary fair to .be held in Chicago on the 80th proximo, at which the spiritualists are to be represented. A committee was derstand that the stories of our naval great. ness 4nd prowess were not fables, as they have “We aro now closing around the works of the | formed to collect subscriptions, and a collection was | been: taught to believe. The navy can be re- lino. immodiately enveloping Petersburg.” At half. | taken up for the furtherance of tliat object. The tele- | lieved of a couple of hundred ships at this past four yesterday afternoon he said:—‘We are ow up and have # continuous line of troops, and grams from the front, as published in the Hzraup, were read by a gentleman present amid deafening applause. ‘The official vote im this State on the proposition to time without detriment to tbe public service, and 79 saggest to Seorgtary Welles that it will in a few hours will be intrenched from the Appomattox | amend the constitution by providing for the appointment , bé much better to snd them Be samy mer on a delightful and potential a hglow Petersburg to the river above,”’ thus showing that of five Commissionsrs of Appeale 1 9g folona > he has not only reached the Southside road, that grand ‘Object go long contended for, but has actually crossed it ‘and = erected «= his Ss works = north «of it = to the Appomattox. Ho : a Against be se eeeveeeees! 25,046 ‘The Legislature of Arkansas will meet in extra session, says the entire captures | agreeable to the call of Governor Murphy, to-day, to take ie Mediterranean than to lay them up in ordi- —— | nary. We need a demonstration of this kind as @ warning to those European Powers that har- bor rebel cruisers or any other class of pirates. of men and cannon from the enemy since | action on the constitutional amendment abolishing sla- ALL Honor 70 Tax Garuanr this Iast and most important movement commenced, will very throughout the United States. A very destructive fire occurred at Barkersburg, West | Conduct of the firemen under present oircum- 0b to Got amount to less than twelve thousand of the former | virginia, om the morning of the 28th ult. A block in the | Stances—which must be regarded as a great centre of the city was entirely destroyed, entaiting a loss | crisis in the histo! their organization— are trifling in comparizon with the importance of the | of two humdred thousand dollars, on which there was no | worthy of all pe Ms There were st and probably fifty pioces of the latter, These, however, rebel fortifications taken and positions gained. insurance. The Cleveland Athensum was destroyed by fire on last All these encqnanes of Gon. Grant's tweens. Reve been Wednesday morning. The loss on building and other Achievedionly after continuous sanguinary fighting, last- | property, including wardrobes belonging to actorsand | Would have been resistance, and perhaps ing through Friday, Saturday and Sunday, in which they ‘were met with the most stubborn resistance, the soldiers on both sidos, it is said, exhibiting unsurpassed valor. We have yet no estimate of the casualties suffered by either our own or the rebel forces; but they must of course be heavy. © Woe accompany the official and the Haranp despatches descriptive of this last’ and apparently most important movement of General Grant with a map showing the Meld of the several severe conflicts. President Lincoln still remains at City Point, Itis Teported that General Grant has promised him that he shall enter Richmond within a very few days, and that he will fom that city issue another proclamation offering amnesty to the rebels, on the condition of submission to tthe national authority. The effect of the news from before Petorsburg yester- <dmy was to cause great oxcitement and rejoicing, not only in this city, but throughout the North, every por- ‘tion of it bearing a most favorable character. ‘The advance of General Stonommn’s cavalry force, which recently moved from Knoxvills, Tenn, and which tho rebels have reported as designed t strike at Lynchburg, Va., entered and captured thetown of Boone, North Carolina, on the 27th ult., after routing ‘the rebels stationed there and inflicting on them a loss of ton killed and over sixty wounded. Boone is the county town of Watauga county, in the north- western part of North Carolina, and is two hundred miles from Raleigh, in @ direction ® Métle north of west. The rebol papers report that Btoneman's command consists of about six thousand cavalry, and that he is accompanied by the Fourth Corps of national infantry, under General Stanley, num- bering at least fifteen thousand men. A despatch in rebel newspapers from Montgomery, Alabama, says a Yankee raiding column, estimated at twenty-five hundred, principally infantry, struck the railroad twenty milos below that place on last Monday morning, the 27th ult, captured two trains, and then moved on down jouards Greenville, Great alarm was + Caused by ig Yhnkeo apparition, and Governor Watt shad Cited on-the people to organize for resistance © "In view ofan anticipated engagement between the Cnited Statog naval steamers Niagara snd Sacramento ‘and the rebel ram Olinde, alias Stonewall, still lying in the port of Ferrel, Spain, at the date of latest accounts, our Corunna and Ferro! despatches and the accompany- Ing illustrations will prove interesting to the American public, Tho Stonewall, which is » rather formidable vessel, having s spur twenty fect in length and fifteen to twenty miles in extent, will do boing furnished with two stationary: turrets, ome | ome day. Lee, closely ggrnered last night in | the Fifth and part of the Second corps, actresses, was between forty and fifty thousand dollars. An extensive boiler establishment, together with eight adjoining tenement houses, was burned at Pittsburg on Wednesday. who supposed that upon the passage of the bill abolishing the volunteer department there. riotous conduct on the part of the firemen. So far from that, they have exhibited the finest spirit, submitting cheerfully to the change, and consenting to falfil their duties to the last in Victory! Vietory!—The Dying Struggles | the protection of property and life. Their ac- of the Rebellion, the Crowning Victories of the Union. tion proves—what we have always believed to be true—that the Fire Department proper was Now let the country rejoice. The great composed of a gallant, fearless and honorable jubilee of our final deliverance is at hand, body of our citizens, and that whatever may have been alleged against the body was the Yesterday was @ glorious Sabbath day for the | result of the disturbing clement which bung cause of the Union, the brightest in the ealen- | upon its flanks, in the shape of rowdies and dar since the beginning of this terrible war ; for & opens wide the way to peace and the complete vindication of the republic. . disturbers of the peace, who were to this gal- lant army of brave, self-sacrificing men, what camp followers and plunderers are to a regular | army. The course which the members of the Between the two Union armies immediately | department are now pursuing entitles them to under the eye of General Grant, and the rebel | the highest praise which is due to Inw-abiding forces under General Lee, there was a tremen- | “itizens; and although the volunteer firemen’s dous struggle yesterday for Richmond, woods and fields, hills and valleys, and on the roads and creeks a few miles south and west of organization is no ldnger to comprise one of | reragocs, has ftirnishod the following intorosting or our local institutions to have beens member | partioulars:— See of it will be a lasting honor. Error or raz Wak Naws YesTerpa¥.—When | eleven officers of the Wifty-aixth Minois regiment, who’ Petersburg, and from twenty-five to thirty miles | |. 625 enabled to isme to the public, in an | bed been mustered out of service and were on. thelr way beyond the rebel capital. The movement of | oxira Henarp yesterda; y forenoon, the glorious General Grant in force against the Southside | news of the successes which attended the ne- Railroad, the most important to Lee of| tional arms around Petersburg in the three | sixty-seven male refugees, and fulty one hundred refugee days” fighting, the effect upon the whole city was | women and children, on their way North. Besides these electric. The utmost excitement prevailed in | were two commissioned officers and eighteen enlisted his last two remaining arteries of sub- ststence, reduced him to the alternative of a all circles and all quarters of the metropolis. fight for the road or the evacuation of Rick | There came as an instinct to every one the con- mond. Grant, if permitted to occupy the | viction that the issue was at band; that the | that wom saved, the sea rolling so higli and the steamer fight which had raged since Friday morning, | being s0 near the tine of brealsors that it was impossible Southside road, would be in 9 position to com- mand, oceupy or destroy the Danville road; and was continued yesterday, was to be the final one of the war. Crowds filled our office, and Lee, thus completely isolated from his eagerly waiting for mote news, while upon the communications, would be driven to the expe- | sidewalks, and in hotels and restaurants, On | jag from a light coming in contact with a barrel of kero- dient of leaving the city by cutting his way | the steps and in the veetibules of churches | sone tn the porter's room, and, spreading with great re- out, or by a stealthy evacuation, in order to secure his necessary supplive. General Lee accepted the wager of battle, despatches. They give us a birdseye view of the whole feld of the army’s operations, and ore. portootiy prisoners and work of carrying difficult positions and power- ful fortifications, over a line of battle from for e carrying » three hendred pound gun and 1% Bciersbuag, wi, in all probability, before to- other two two hundred pounders, arrived at Ferrol on the 4th of last February, where she still re- mained on the 12th of March. During that time she had beon receiving ropairs, and it was thought that men and munitions had been secretly placed on board of her. She is commanded by Captain Page, formerly of the United States navy, dnd was expected fo go to sea about the mid- @le of March. A small and very swift steamer, called tho Louisa Fanny, supposed to be the tender of the Btonewall, had visited Ferro! harbor, communicated with her, and then sailed away. The Niagara and Sacramento werestying at Corunna, sufficiently near Ferrol to watch the Stonewall and to attack her when she moved out, Our next forsign news may therefore bring us accounts of another battle between national and rebel vessels. ‘News from Savannah and Charleston to Friday last was ‘at by the steamship Arago, which arrived here yes: ‘om Hilton Head. Everything of o military “wine quiet in that portion of the South. ‘nterior, who are now satisfied of the the rebellion, are Constantly arriv- * wae a report in Charles. crovumdiess, that some, derday pharacter rm People from the . tomplete failure of 5 Ing at Gavennab. Ther, jon, which appeared to be . yebole tate Georgetown, Ug ra Fe tonlpiaaag SE Of all persons ia Charleston implicated im Wade Fun- Bing operations had created much excitement, i Somonsiration in that city on the 28d ult. of the polored poopte, in honor of their etnancipation by the Rational army, Was an extensive affair, Their procession wag about four miles in length, Tho railroad between Charleston and Savannah, and the other railroads run ping out of those cities, are being rapidly repaired. \ MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. By tho arrival hore yesterday of the transport steam ip General Sedgwick, from Wilmington, N. C., on the rm wlt., We are informed of a mort frighiful calamity mt which ocgurred on last Friday. On thet day tie morrow morning, if he can get off, be on the road to Lynchburg. That now is his only line of escape, The end is indeed near at Governor Warts, or ALapama, Grves rr Ur.— there was but one tepic of discussion, and that the probable issue of the great es, Se going on ; for people knew that all the Hghting portion of the rebel armies were engaged ; that | and children ran shrieking about, imploring to be and the results are before our readers in Presi- all the master minds of the enemy, from General part ege mshporssinoly eed eet dent Lincola’s brief, graphic and admirable | Lee down, were concentrated and that the result of the battle must be decisive, | _S¢ore* sprang from the burning vessel only to be on the one point, ‘When, at a later period during the day, enemy’s lines from the Appomattox to Hatcher’s Run, and were tearing up the Southside’ Rail- | isch ine; yy and two or three others got. The boat, how- road ; that Sheridan was sweeping up on the | ever, wastnstantly upset, they being unable to detach enemy’s flank with his splendid cavalry and | the painter from the burning steamer, and all on board the ex. | but Mv. Williams were washed out. He succeeded in citement intensified, for the feeling was univer- sal that momentous events were transpiring which bellion. ‘ Paeswent LIxcony AND tam OFFICE SHRKERS— | wend, now battling in front of Richmond. His expe hand. Let the people give thanks'and rejoice. | m1. ome and spoils and plunder-eekers at | rience on board the burning steamer was @ life-long one, Washington are represented as getting out of pocket and out of patience in consequence of In the address of Governor Watts to the people | 1... president's prolonged stay down at oftAlabame, which we published on Seturday, | t's pep egrene grigy sngser on he fairly gives it up. His appeal for anion | |, nome, and if he won’t hurry back to oblige against the invader is the appeal of a Governor | i145 and if they can’t get passes to the front in the last extremities of despair. He says pelled te do, I fear that Alabama cannot be | , 1) carry them to “Old Abe” departure of the Stonewall to open their bat- | "| of the greatest cxeitement and confusion ensued immodi- we the burning mass nearer and nearer to the roaring and issued extra after extra announcing the pro- | surging breakera satisfactory, Twelve thousand | gross of the battle—that Generals Parke, fifty pieces of artillery in the | Wright and Ord hed broken through the Lyon, assisted by'some soldiers, but was instantly stove, would soon decide the fate of the re- | boas seven persons were rescued. Burning of the United States Transport Steamer General Lyon Off Hatteras. OVER FIVE HUNDRED LIVES LOST. Names of a Portion of the Saved and Lost. INTERESTING STATEMENTS BY SURVIVORS. ‘TERRIBLE SCENES OF SUFFERING, ke, key ae ‘Phe United States steam transport General Seagwiok, Captain Starkey, from Wilsaington, N. C., 80th ult., with refugecs and troops, to United States Assistant Quarter. mastor, arrived a} this port yesterday, She reports as foliows:— On tho 3ist ult., at half-past ten A. M., off Cape Hatteras, latitude 35 05, longitude 75 35, discovered a steamer in shore on fre. Immediately bore down towards her, and found her to be the United States steam transport General Lyon, from Wilmington for Fortress Monroe, with trogps and refugees, to tae number of some four or five hundred. ‘The weather at the time. was very boisterous, the wind blowing a gale from the southwest. ‘Wont as near her as possible. Found it impossible to lower any boats. Picked up as manyas we could from boats, spars, planks, &o. ‘When wo left her she was burned ‘almost toa shell, and was fast drifting in among the breakers. There was a sohooner near by, picking up persons, but could not tell how many she saved. ‘The following is « listof the names of those who were left behind in hospitals at Wilmington :— ‘ John Haydon, first officer. Philip Smith, first assistant engineer. Geo. Gilespic, second assistant engineer. Owen Duggan, oiler. Willem Brown, sscbnd cook. Almo Deo, waiter—ali of steamer General Lyon. % ‘The following isa list of those picked up by the General Sedgwick :— Barnet Loesey, private, Co. @, Fifth Virginia. M. H. Orwent, private, Co. E, Fifty-sixth Illinois. John Kreusen, private, Co, F, Third Pennsylvania heavy artillery. Ira Lowis, Co. A, Eighty-ninth New York. Michael 8. Brocket, Co. F, Fifty-sixth Illinois. Robert Simpson, corporal, Co. G, Fifty-fourth Ohio ‘Thomas Farrar, refugee, Wilmington, N. C. James Edwards, sergeam, Ninety-ninth New York. Silas Galloway, Fifty-sixth New York. Clarence Duna, refugee. Geo, Murphy, private, Co. A, Sixth New York heavy artillery. Goo. Goole, Co. F, One Hundred and Forty-fourth New York. . C. M. Dodson, Third Pennsylvania heavy artillery. Joseph Fitzgerald, Co. K, Fifty-second Illinois. James Dempsey, fireman, steamer Genoral Lyon. Stephen Russell, refugee. ‘Thomas Cooney, sailor, steamer General Lyon. Nicholas Brown, sailor, steamer General Lyon. Geo, W. Williams, private, Co. G, Fifty-sixth Mlinoia Patrick Bryan, coalpasser, steamer General Lyon. Richard Clarke, Co. F, Second Illinois light artillery. John Peoples, oiler, steamer General Lyon. Isaiah Cleolly,private, Co. K, Fifth Ohio cavalry. Cyrus P. Williams, Co. F, Third Pennsylvania artillery. James Gtbles, first officer, steamer General Lyon. ‘Wm. Granston, chief engineer, steamor General Lyon. Samuel Presse, first cook (colored), steamer Gen. Lyon. Charles A. Brady, refugee. Statement of One of the Saved. Mr. Cyrus P. Williams, a member of Company F, Third Pennsylvania artillery, who was acting quartermaster and issued rations to the eecaped Union prisonem and * "Phere wero on board the steamer General Lyon, besides the officers and crew, two hendred and four men and home, their time of enlistment having expired; sixteen men of the Third Pennsylvania artillery; one hundred ‘and fifty seven escaped and paroled Union prisoners; men of the Ninety-ninth New York, acting as = guard, making in all rising of st hundred persons on beard, of whom the small number mentioned above is probably all for'the unknown schooner mentioned to render any as. sistance. Our informant thinks that in spite of all her @fforts she was unable to rescues soul. © The fire broke out at about ten o’clock on Friday morn- pidity. Within half an hour the vessel was completely in flamea, The sea was roldng mountains high, and a scene ately tt was discovered that the vessel was on fire. Women “The sea opening like « hell.”” swallowed up by the maddened waves which still bore ‘One boat was launched by the captain of the General the captain being kitled. Our informant and on» of the mates succeeded in getting over ® metallic lifeboat, into Glinging to the boat, the steamer still rushing with fear. ful velocity towards the breakers, After many efforts Ite broke loose from the steamer! and by the aid of the ' ‘The detachment of Pennsylvania soldiers to which Mr. ‘Williams belonged was on its way to Gen. Ord’s com- ‘and the brave soldier's lip quivored as he related some of the harrowing scones which occurred on the ill-fated gteamer. Farther Particalars., From other survivors of this most disastrous calamtty— the following addittonal information. This gallant reg as citizens, their only chance—that is, for each | rent tno Fifty-sixth—who formed a considerable por- that “unless the people of Alabama will d0 | grichodied fellow—is to pocket the bounty | ton of the unfrtnate pawagers of the t-tued veeses, voluntarily what they cannot by law be com- | 41.4 obtain the pass of a soldier. That paper | were on their way from the front, baving nobly dis- suceessfully defended ;” that the State “is now thing else fails. . threatened on the north (Wilson’s great cavalry expedition), on the south (Canby’s army and the navy in Mobile bay), (Grierson).” The Governor therefore upon hig reserves to come forward to save Richmond. He has Sours Sian Taat THE ‘and on the west | In the determination or necessity which has calls | fallen upon General Lee to fight it out foF | the moment the vessel started on her voyage the no other place of refuge, | weather was rough Gnd boieterous, and great num- tl; State. And what do they amount to? All | or he cannot get away. the white reserves as soldiers that the “ Con- federate”’ authorities have left him in the whole sonwealth are “four thousand boys, be- | Nimvo’s Savoow.—The first of the two farewell com- certs of Mile, de Katow and Mr. Wehli, announced for |*the trrible sq¢0% on this evening, will not take place on account of the ill- when every- charged their duty to the country—and, indeed, had ex- ceeded their term of service—to be mustered out at Springfield. Two hundred and fifteen enlisted men and Enp 1s Oxose at Hawn officers embarked at Wilmington fot Fortress Monroe on the 20th ult. bar at the mouth of the river whiting for the tide From in additional horrors to , as the great majoriy of Those (YU? Zonfined were, in the éxcitement and Leor bors of th passengers wore below suffgring from which — anbsequent pt tween ay of cixteen and) sevew 7 ete a = g xe moment, ‘unable to make their way to the deck, on he says, “ this appeal is made.” Gortecrank’s Fareweut tx Brooxiry.—An titmense " and thus fell victims to the smoke and flares without a ‘o this clam, = «, confession! What a picture | audience assembled at the Brooklyn Academy on Seg. | chance or effort to escape. The fire having broken out ‘ day night to take farewell of Gottschalk, Muaio ar labama! But her politl- | fihone, previous to their departure from qr, cctrery. it 80, and such are | The programme of the matinéc in New “york was ro- ated, with the exception of the overture to William ‘mn confederacy. | eit ty Gottschalk anisanderson. | Tie artiste did not " seem fatigued after the kevere Inbory inn dead cock they wore they must have been of ihe day, and if sk nificent reception they got. The ‘as above described, spread with great rapidity, It wae, however, immediately detected, and the efforts of the «first mate, to whom our informants arcord all praise, were gt once directed to ite extinguishment, But alarm usurped the place of coolness and disoipline, and all the offorts of the mate and a few of the crew, who ran to the hone, wer od abortive by the aifrighted passengers, What a lamentabn. nf the exhaustion of a. eal cha. “#08 would have the blessings Of their Sonthy. . , 4 pirited by * Alabama, like Sou‘) Carolina, is Sign Po Nm waked | vn thele ustnl quaker ike propetety, and applauded | | inthe pit” Saar tine iis, nelferously, until every piece had tebe per: y pen and women, who Fan About (he deck, wnd thas pr A Caxapian Oprxton,—T0e Montro@l Gazette | eee ‘ao ewbecmee wth baie y wenden Himely spplication of the means of safety till af thinks that when the “Confederates” get their | with ua ct Tdipetasiec cg’! “4 boamgeine hie ae er yo get three hundred thousand slave soldiers in the (ott thelr pative country without Banya Bre aM Me Rg he pron bow ‘ com field fighiing for freedom they Will astonish | stration o "fori A ean voy wl all o-day, at 1000) | TO “the ship # gomelowor wway tho Uoats!” the “federals;” und so they will. On the Arie, | (oF Californie A wild, disorderly rush to the boats followed, the cap- -tain of the General Lyon, as it is stated, being among the most eager to abandon the vessel and seek safety in the first boat lowered. The moment the boat touched tho water he was overboard; but in the next, the boat ‘camo in collision‘with the steamer's wheel,-and the cap- tain was thrown out, the whee) str.king him and Captain Weber, of the Fifty-sixth, and instantly sending them lifeless beneath the waves. The engincer and first mate ém vain attempted to restore something Like order. Major James Fyles, in command of the Fifty-sixth, made a like vain endeavor to quell the insane tumult that pre- vailed; but all such efforts were usciess in tho presence Of tife Gery clement that was now fast gaining the mas- tery, and. whose inevitable approach deprived the unfor- tunate people of all hopo from human aid. Of the majority of those below secking rest but a few escaped, and these only by rushing on deck at the dre alarm. Through some agency or othor the hatches were closed, and as the alarm spread tho consternation of those below broke all bounds. A rush was made to the ladders, but the wild instinct of self-preservation deprived the unfortuaates df facir only chanoe.of escape to the deck. Those foremost om the laddors wore putled back by the crowd who pressed be. hind, and ia the struggle that fokowed the ladders were pulled down and every attempt to replace them was thwasted by the blind and desyeuring efforts of the unfor- tunates themselves, The cries from belew became heart- rending; but they were unheeded at that terrible moment of common danger to all. Within half am hour the ves- so! was wrapped in flames, and those on deck had disap- peared in the enguiphing waves, very few oscaping to the boats; and even many of those who first gained them were by tho roughness of the sea capsized, thoir places being ta- ken by those who wereable to combat for a brief space the wavos, which were theo running mountains high. Michael 8. Brockett, » member of the Fifty-sixth regi- ment, and one of our informants, entered the first boat lowered, along with the captain of the steamer. He and eight others were in the boat for nearly four hours, and it was only at intervals that the burging steamer could be discerned as she drifted away on the breakers. The steam had not been turned off; and thus impelled by wind, steam and tide, the doomed vessel, one broad sheet of flarat, hurried to twofold destruction. ‘The screams and iunploring cries of help, shouted in vain, coming more and more faintly over the stormy waters, Besides the first boat. lowered, in which Mr. Brockett was, there wore two others got clear of the steamer, containing about thirty-five persons in all, and these were all thet escaped. There were about fifty Gromen and ghildren on doard, to coming North, but mot. one was saved. Mr. George W. William, of the Fifty-sixth, gallantly risked his life in an effort to rescue one woman. He succeeded im getting her on the aqme plank as he himself tlung to, but when finally aid cam ae was past all succor, the immersion in the water and the od! done thelr fatal work. ‘here were sixty-seven mal 1 , but three of whom were saved, ‘There were twonty-six enlisted mren of the Tenth Mis- souri en route to.their homes; none of these were saved. From the exhaustion they had undergone and tho suf- ferings they wore enduring in their half-submerged boats, every moment threatened with destruction, all hope of being rescued was dying out of the few survivors of this terrible calamity, when at last the steamer Gene- ral Sedgwick came in sight—almost unseen until the moment she threw out the means of escape. The boat Mr. Brockett wasin was the last hailed. Ho managed to catch the line thrown to him, and in an instant” the friendly coil was round his body, but ere he was drawn up the boat capsized, apa while in the water he was grasped by two of Ifis compwnions in mis- fortune; with the clutch of drowning men they clung to him, and when drawn upon deck he was unconscious, the terrible stress of the others causing the rope to tighten so as to almost deprive him of all respiration, ‘Tho terrible scene on board, the harrowing cries of men, women and children for help, where no help cold come; the almost hopeless struggle for life through which they passed, have left such an effect on the hearts and memo- ries of the survivors that many of thé; details and cir- cumstances of the moment are in the whirl of emotions created yet unremembered; but enough has been told to class the loss and fate of the’General Lyon and its ill- fated passengers among the most us calamities that have occurred at sea for years. ‘The survivors received all the attention from the captain and officers of the General Sedgwick that their unhappy condition demanded. NAMES OF A PORTION OF THE LOST. ‘The following names of mombers of the Fifty-siath Illinois are furnished by a surviving comrade, Major Jas, Files. Sergeant Joh: john Captain Weber. ay ee a Captain 4 1, Perry. Ljeutensnt H. S. Dantap. J. Helloms. Lieut it Onder! Soret) ER D Boyd tenant Lieutenant HaulBeek. Pal Maddox. it Joiner. Corpl. Albert Lieutenant McKenzie. ‘ih! Lieutenant Jos, Griser. Corp. M 8S. F. Phumme. COMPANY B. John Fields. Androw Nations, Jesse Veitch. Frank 3 Stratbern, } peothers John Miles. Re ‘Stratbern, } Calvin Stevens. Gilbert J. Heeney. Jos, J. Cutill. Felix Davis. Jno. T. Selvidge. Marshall Rawlings. 7m. Stephenson. Sit, Te cme Semi. Ir. D. Miles. sy } i Son. Porry. Tthow taro Jan Bangock. Matthew Humphrey. Selomon Harding. August Dressel, John Lacer. David Morgan. ‘Wm. Crawford. Sami. Williams, Hansen Raines. Thos. Burksler. Robt, Evans Thos. Redder. Simon Williams. Richard Larks. Robt. Davis. Robt. Branch. David Williams. Edw. Mitchell. Howell Wasmnctox, April 2, 1866. THB ARMY OF GEORGIA. By order of the President the Fourteonth and Twes- {icth army corps are to constitute the Army of Georgia, and will be commanded by Major General Howard. FUNDS POR SHRRMAN’S ABMY. Two and a half million of dollars have beon sent to pay off Sherman's army. FINANCIAL MATTERS. During the last week $3,264,800 of currency were ta- sued to the national banks, The wholeamount furnished them to April 1 is $11,694,610. HANCOCK’S CORTS. ‘The work of raising the First corps of veterans, to be commanded by Major General Hancock, is procceding vigorously. The large bounties and the persenal efforts of tho officers are bringing in the men quite rapidly. ‘Two regimoats of this corps are now in the Shenandoah valley with General Hancock. Captain Finley Anderson, the Adjutant General of the corps, is at his post early and late, and laboring with energy and ability to imsure its success. GENERAL AUGUR'’S BRADQUARTERS. Genoral Augur’s headquarters have been removed to Fourteenth street, between @ and H streets, The damages to the building formerly oeoupigd for this parpoee ean be repaired in about a week. A FEMALE EMPLOYR IN THR TREASURY DEYanT- MENT ARRESTED. A female employed in the Treasury has been detected fm abstracting fractional currency, and arrested and com- mitted for examination, The amount taken is smal. hardly foil to make hei We ne Huxn’s New Snvaarion. —Hetler Ly sation this evening at the Balle Diabolique, which ats ghosts, upon which occasion we would much rather be & spectator than the maa, even thongh he had sack enough to satisfy Jack Falstaff, A new programme of magio—in the Helier style—is also promised. MAILS FOR THE PACIFIC. The mail steninship Ariel, Captain Jones, will leave this port at noon to-day for Aspinwall. The mails for Central America and the South Pacific will close at half-past ten o'clock this morning. ‘The New Yous Hrrato—Edition for the Pacifle— will be prbdlished at balf past nine o'clock this morning, Single copies, (a wrappers, ready for mailing, Gx QOQM is The Spirit Sack, or a man sealed up in a bag full of VICTORY. ADDITIONAL PARTIOULARS OF THE MIDNIGHT 5 < ie FA z rite H F u i ei i Hi43 them, and, line, who blazed away also. Our men supposing the enemy were ad’ to assault, on i 3 i H i ih altses H te it i Rieies sol lost seven men wounded. that no charges curred, We Sheridan’s Movement Against the South- side Railroad. [From the Richmond uirer, March 31.) During yesterday the enemy kept up acontinual fire on the lines, especially on the Te without result. Sheridan was reported to have Sowtnside roid. It was also reported that Fitz’ Hugh Leo had at tacked bim, and captured seven hundred prisoners, ‘THE SKIRMISHING NEARQINWIDDIE COURT HOUSE. From the Richmond Enquirer, March 31. ‘An official despateh from General Lee last night states that there was skirmishing near Dinwiddie Court House yesterday, without decisive results, Lee’s Official Report of Operations om March 29. Heapquartsr:, March 30, General J. C. Brecxtxripar, Secretary of War:— General Gordon reports that the enemy, at clever o'clock P. M. yesterday, advanced against a par’ of his line defended by Brigadier General Lewis, but was re- pulsed, The fire of artillery and mortars continued fos soveral hours with considerable activity. No — on our lines reported. RE. Mosby’s Operations. ONE OF HIS CAPTAINS KILLED. {From the Richmond Sentinel, March oe We are informed by citizens from Upper Virginia that on Saturday or Sunday, the 18th or Noses with ‘bout two hundred men, fell upon the Bighth Ilinole cavalry, near Hamilton, in Loudon county, and punished them severely. The Yankees broke under his charge, and ru ch eA ig baw is at , er in e support of two infant wi losby drew off his men. The loss of the federals is sisted at ome hundred and four in killed, wounded and captured. Among the killed it is reported there were ‘one licutenant colonel and two captains. Mdbby’s loss was two killed and four wounded, and was sustained A ‘ew ceaneremmaa: iting party of the enemy few re ly a scouting came ron Waller, 6f Mosby’s command, and killed bins as he was attempting to ‘From the Richmond Sentinel, Loe John T. Waller, son of Mr. William Waller, of Lyncb- burg, of the late ox-President Tyler, waa killed two or three weeks agoin one of Mosby's ments with the enemy. He was severely wounded at battle of Williamsburg; was afterwards in the ~ bud, preferring @ more active fleld, was transferred to where his life has beon given to the country. He-wase brave youth. A ‘The Crenshaw Battery. (From the Richmond Sentinel, March 31.]' This battory, as usual in such was in the engage ment which took place with the Yankees last near Jones’ Houso, about two miles and a» half west of Petersburg. During the terrible shelling to whic they were subjected four members of the battery were severely wounded, two of them supposed to bo ge Their names are: W. E. Hargrove, of Richmond; @. F. Coleman and Wm. T. Lewis, of Spottsylvania. They by one shell, which exploded near them, Private GC. W. Smith, of Henrico, was ly burned an@ Jost three angers of his left hand by being too far in frowt ‘of his gun.when " it was fired. The Victories of Grant in Brooklyn. The news of the great battles in Virginia, and victories gained by our armies, created’ the greatest excitement yesterday afternoon. The despatches contained in every successive extra Heratp which was issued were cagerlp devoured and their contents commented upon. Quites soone was enacted in Rev. H. W. Beecher’s church. The clergyman gave out the hymn— @ur country, ‘tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing, When he announced the welcome news to nis congrég® tion a scene of intense excitement ensued, and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. Not only in Plymouth church, but everywhere about the city, as well as in the metropolis—and the news spread like wil were the livehest manifestations with anxiety for later news in regard to the great battle of yesterday, Fires in the City. f Our fire companies were kept pretty well on the rum during Sunday, there having been no less than six firea and fire alarms; and in every case the firemen conducted themselves in the most orderly manner and with thets accustomed aotivity And promptness. FIRE IN BROADWAY. At about half-past eleven o’clock on Sunday morning a fire broke out suddenly in or near the storeroom of Flor- ence’s saloon, corner of Broadway and Houston street, Kept at present by William Mitchell & Brothers, seems that the saloon occupies the three base ments under the buildings numbering 603, and 607 Broadway, the latter number the corner of Houston street, The ——— and burnt with much vigor, the smoke becoming 80 fiense that for some time. it was found imposeble_ to advance near enough to throw water on the fire. The store room, where the fire seems to: have was directly under the India rubber goods store ‘Tathill Bi No, 003 Broadway. Their ever, was pretty much all carried out a Ae and conv: across the street @ his cacape, Mise Manta Bratxann.—This vocalist, who is well 4 known in,Now York, has been sing! in Chicago the with a great deal of success. Her rendoring of the in Rossini’s Mapes Miter, the scena and SCERING 2 BAER. er from, very bigniy' SS ae an bt At about three o’elock on Sunday morning some city. ‘Miss Brainard is ceNent artiste, and can rie ais Mien weil’ wea Oe e ; lose about $260, No insurance. IRE IN, FULTON STRERT. About eight o'clock on Sunday morning & stight fire occurred in the bakery of Peter Townsend, 219 Fulton fireet, caused by the heat of the furnace, Damage about $50. FIRE IN GREENWICH STRERT. ‘The alarm for the Eighth district, at balf-past stm o'clock last evening, occurred from Ron dato attic bed- ‘ occupl yy Mr. Rosetter. isan gy tr ph Pr) by carelessness. FIRH IN FIRST AVENUE. Between seven and eight o'clock last evoning 9 fire occurred in Mr, Greestein’s fancy goods store, at 825 First avenuo, caused by a child at play with matches, Dam- $40, Loss covered by Insurance. Wine alarm ‘of fire for the Seventh district, at about font o'clock yesterday afternoon, was cauget, Wa clynaey Wing te a 94 Rag HS dfire—there of rejoicing, couple® . i