The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-13 00:00:00

_ifpnriEspA.7 F.VENIIG, I,AFRIL 13, 1i64.

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I ?MIMICS.
ATTEMPTED ASS LITLT ON THE
ENTRENCHMENTS.
00P10/11AGEN, Ana 11, 9 Ax.

This morning the enemy attempted an assault
upon Bastion No. 8, which totally failed. A
weaker attack on our left wing likewise failed.
The Minister of War has received the following
report of the affair from the commander-in-chief :
" Early this morning the enemy alarmed both
wings of our position. Being met by a cannonade
from our batteries and approaches, he retreated."

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ADIEBRiCA.
(sssieve ramosatts.)
The Arabia arrived at Queenstown at 9 p.m.
yesterday, with 180 mangers and 18,300 dollars in
specie. She landed 106 sacks of mails and 11
passengers, and proceeded for Liverpool at 9.15
p.m. All welL
The Arabia had experienced very severe easterly
gales-
(Per tie Arabia.)
NEW YORK, Masai 29, Exam.
Forrest's cavalry, estimated at 5,000 strong, his
captured, burned, and sacked Paducah and Union
City, Kentucky. Forrest afterwards attacked
IFort Blow, Paducah, occupied by 800 Federal", but
wali repulsed.
The Federal gunboats subsequently shelled
Paducah, calming Forrest to retreat towards
Columbus.
The Confederates are in strong force at Dalton,
Tennessee, in the Federal front. They have 3,000
cavalry beyond Dalton.
It is reported that Bishop Polk is reinforcing
Johnston.
Longstreet's cavalry has arrived at Marietta,
Georgia.
General Grant has visited Washington, but has
returned to the army of the Potomac. It is re-
ported that Grant will appoint bl'Clellan and
Fremont to active service.
The Federal army on the frontier of Arkansas
has left Fort Smith for Northern Texas.
President Lincoln has issued a proclamation
announcing an amnesty.
The proclamation does not apply to persons in
military, naval, or civil custody, or on parole.
Commissioned civil, naval, and military officers
can administer oaths.
The steamers Alice and Haase left Wilmington
on the 12th. The America and City of Manchester
have arrived out.
(Par the Ana, by telegraph to Halifax.)
NEW YORK, Hawn 31, Roman.
General Banks's advance has reached Alexandria.
Money easy. Gold 643 per cent. prem.
NEW YORK, Masai 31, Evalmex.
Forrest's cavalry, after burning Paducah, Ken-
tucky, has advanced within eight miles of
Columbus. Another large Confederate force is
concentrated at Pound Gap, supposed to be
intended for the invasion of Kentucky.
Serious riots have taken place at Charleston,
Illinois, caused by disputes between the Copper-
head and Repulican politicians. The Copperkad
rioters, 1,500 strong, are entrenched "hear
Charleston,
A large number of troops has been sent to quell
the riot.
The Africa and North American have arrived out.
The Assistant Secretary of the Treasury at New
York has been issuing gold certificates for duties,
fixing every morning at per cent. below the
opening market price of gold.
Gold has fluctuated since Monday between 68
and 63 per cent. prem.
NEW YORK, Aran. 1, Mozmwo.
Generals Grant and Meade have left Washing-
ton for Fortress Monroe.
Money easy. Gold 673 per cent, prem. The
government rate for gold was fixed this morning at'
65. The market has since advanced to the above
quotation. . .

IEW YORK, APZIL 1, Arrvoom.

Money easy. Gold, 66i per cent. prem. Ex-
change on London, 180}. Stocks very firm ; New
York Centrals, 144 ; Illinois, 149 ; Erie, 124 g.
Six per Cent. United States Bonds, 114.

NEW YORK, Aran 1, livanira.

The Confederates have made a reconnaissance
from Alexandria up the Red RivertoNatchitoochee,
capturing 200 prisoners and four cannon.

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PERVERTED HElitk WORSHIP.
Day by day since filineral Garibaldi's arrival in
d he has been deluged with correspondence
lolifir kinds. Not merely has he received letters
having a definite and legitimate aim, but advice,
tracts, prophecies, and pamphlets have poured in
with a fecundity perfectly astonishing to those of
his staff whose duty it is to open and submit to
the general the communications sent. Pre-eminent
amongst the letter-writers have been enthusiastic
autograph-hunters, who, without previous know-
ledge of the general, without either introduction to,
or the faintest claim upon him, have written in
shoals for specimens of his handwriting. He begins,
with characteristic good nature, by readily complying
with these somewhat inconsiderate requests. The
autographic &melte has, however, grown by
what It fed upon, and the number of
daily applications has; increased almost with the
rapidity of the nails in the horseshoe. As it would
probably keep a clerk of average industry fully
employed were written answers to be sent to each
of these applicants, and as the gentlemen who act
as private secretaries to the general are already
worked to the full extent of their powers, it is
hoped that the non-acknowledgment of requests
for an autograph will be attributed not to dis-
courtesy, but to its being as impossible to comply
as it is to give a written refusal. The physical
powers even of heroes are finite, and as no one
would wish that during the remainder of the
general's stay in England he should be excluded
from visitors, shut out from seeing and being seen,
and be chained to his desk solely to gratify young
ladies by writing "Giuseppe Garibaldi" for their
albums, it is to be hoped, in the interests of the
public at large, that he ill see the wisdom of
abiding by the resolution hinted at, and will
peremptorily, but silently, decline requests which
it is scarcely delicate to make. Whilst on this
subject we have to allude, as we do with infinite
pain, to an act of Vandalism such as we would have
fain believed impossible in England. The tree planted
by General Garibaldi in the garden of the Poet
Laureate on Friday last, had two of its branches
torn off during the night of Saturday. It was
carefully watched by Mr. Tennyson's gardener until
after dark, but between bedtime on Saturday and
the morning of Sunday was so mutilated that the
beauty of its foliage is permanently and seriously
marred. The tiny tree itself possessed previous
interest of association : it was valued for the Cal,
cumstances under which it had been procured and
presented to Mr. Tennyson, who has now the mor-
tification of feeling that its crowning honour—that
of being re-set by Garibaldi—has been its bane.
Whilst the injuries done to this plant (Wellingtonea
girsdes) were being pointed out to the present
writer, be heard with mortification of the indecent
intrusion to which Mr. Tennyson is exposed.
Strangers are found from time to time seated
in his garden, peering in at his windows,
wandering freely through his grounds. From
the lawn in front, when conversing with
his family in assumed privacy, he has, on
casually looking up, discovered an enterprising
British tourist taking mental notes of his conver-
sation from the branches of a tree above. Mr.
Tennyson has been compelled to make fences, raise
embankments, train foliage, and in fact half fortify
his house, and in spite of all is not permitted to
' enjoy what azy of our resident so circumstanced
would expect to enjoy as a thing of course—the
quiet freedom of a country home. We have given
the date of this last outrage, the place of its
occurrence, and a description of the thing stolen.
If we cannot bring the paltry offender to justice,
we shall at least prevent his boasting of his pilfered
treasure, and it is for Mr. Tennyson's admirers to
consider whether, for the sake of our reputation as
a not uncivilized people, it be not possible to teach
the album-fillers, autograph-bunters, and relic-
mongers of Cockney drawing-rooms, that neither
burglarious entrance nor felonious abstraction is a
form of hero-worship consonant with the national
taste.

MUSIC.