The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-08

was over eleven hundred. Inc Wnallng season
ceased on the 18th ult, and was considered salts
factory.
The agents in New Orleans of the steamship
General AiramOn received despatch from Passe-
aPOutre on the 3lst ult. stating that that vessel
had been captured and sent North by the govern
ment steamer Brooklyn. The General Miramon
was owned in New Orleans, but had been sailing
between that port and Havana under the British
flag. The New Orleans papers also state that the
schooner Mary Clinton, with cargo of rice and
peas, bound from Charleston to New Orleans, had
been seized and sent North. The Bremen ship
Bremen and the bark Everhard had been ordered
of, and the bark Il. E. Spering, from Rio, with
cargo of forty six hundred bags of coffee, was re-
ported to have been captured for attempting to
run the blockade. The rebels in New Orleans
have been for two or three weeks chuckling over
the capture Of Northern vessels by their licensed
buccaneers. The laugh has now changed on the
other side. 1t is stated that the steamer Brooklyn
intends to ascend the river to the head of the
passes, where she would be equal to half dozen
vessels outside the bar.
Major General s. R. Anderson, commanding in
Middle Tennessee, has ordered the raising for the
rebel service of two thousand riflemen, the men
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cavalry, each man to arm himself with double
barrel shot gun, and furnish his own horse.
Massachusetts, has accepted one hundred and
ninety companies for the war, all up to the maxi
mum of one hundred and one men each. Aggre.
gate nearly twenty thousand.
There is no doubt that General Beauregard has
been assigned to the command of the rebel army
in the West, as, in his general order issued in
Charleston on the 9th of May, he says that As
sstant Adjutant General Jones will accompany
him to Corinth, Miss.
Upwards of seven hundred slaves have escaped
from Virginia within the past two weeks, and are
| now held by the government forces as contraband
of war. Value to their owners, seven hundred
thousand dollars.
Colonel Bartlett has entirely recovered from his
injuries, and left Washington for Fortress Monroe
on Thursday afternoon.
Daniel G. Taylor, Mayor of st. Louis resigned
his office on the 4th inst, in consequence, as he
says, of there being settled determination on the
part of the Common Council to embarrass his
actions as chief executive of the city.
Hon. Gilman Marston, member elect to Congress
in the First district of New Hampshire, having
been chosen Colonel of the Second regiment of vo.
lunteers in that State it is thought he will resign
his seat.
l. H. Burch & Co., bankers, of Chicago, have
made an assignment, as they say, for the benefit of
their creditors.
To-day the people of Tennessee will vote for or
against the declaration of independence" as it is
called. Those who cast their ballots against it are
to be marked by the rebel leaders and are threat.
ened with terrible retribution." Under the
fear of consequences, the people will probably al
low the State to be forced into the bogus confede.
racy of jeff Davis &; Co.
William p. Preston is the secession candidate for
Congress in the Third district of Maryland. he is
put forward on peace" platform; but this word
peace" in the connection in which it is used,
means disunion, and nothing else.
The funeral of Lindlay Murray Hoffman, one of
our widely known and highly respected merchants,
took place yesterday afternoon from the Church
of the Holy Communion corner of Sixth avenue
and Twentieth street. It was very numerOusly
attended. The remains were conveyed to Trinity
Cemetery.
The Senate Harbor Master Investigating Com
mittee have again resumed their investigation as
TO alleged corruptions of the Harbor Masters of
this city. On Thursday one witness testified that
he had not feed the Harbor Master, but had paid
bonus to the collectors or agents for the owners
and lessees of the piers. The Captain of the Port,
Archibald Hall, testified that Van Valkenburg was
in the habit of leaving his duties in the hands of
person by the name of Weed, and that he had not
seen the former at his post since the lst of May.
he had forced one Harbor Master to refund twenty
dollars of bonus money that he had collected.
The young man named Clinton Reutch, who was
killed at Williamsport, it has been satisfactorily
ascertained was spy. He was from Harper's
Ferry, ard had important documents about his
person. He was armed with dirk, two slung
shots and brace of pistols.
From the quarterly report of the Coroner of
New Orleans we gather the following statistics of
the number of cases of violent deaths to which
that officer was called during the months of March,
April and May
Accidental deaths. .l3
FOund drowned
Total Observation-Disclosures. 65
The Excise Commissioners met at one o'clock
| yesterday, granted several licenses and adjourned
! to this day at one o'clock. The Attorney to the
Board has prepared for delivery to the Sheriff over
2C0O executions against unlicensed liquor dealers
The cotton market yesterday exhibited frmer feel
ing, without quotable change in prices manufactur
ing establishment, having contract with government
for the production Of tent CLOTH purchased bales
from store, and another 900 purchased by spin
ners, and 200 do sold to the trade These
ments have led to reduction of stock fully equal
about 600 bales The footDgs Of the weekly consump
ton in Great Britain, noticed in yesterdays edition.
were accidentally transpoeed They should have been
set down at 4134 Of all kinds for 1859, So 600
bales in 1860 The weekly consumption Of American
cotton 1860 43 1C0 bales, while the stock the
oath May last was only sO3 $40 bales Ths, should the
ratio of consumption continue, gives supply of
fraction twenty weeks From the Oath May to DC.
| tober p gives twenty weeks, whom the sup.
| ply at this rate, would become exhausted,
| batting the supplies at This estimate makes