The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-27

| bingham, OF the South Baptist church Twenty.
fifth street. The body was then laid in state for
several hours in the Governors Room, at the City
| Hall, where thousands Of citizens had ar oppor-
tunity Of seeing it. The funeral procession Left
the City Hall at three o'clock. and the body was
carried through the principal parts of the city, and
thence to steamboat at the foot of Cortlandt
street. for transmission to Albany.
The First regiment of New Hampshire yolun.
teers arrived in this city yesterday forenoon, on
board the Sound steamers Connecticut and Com.
modore. They were received at the wharf by the
sons OF the Granite State in this city, aud escorted
to the Brandreth House, where they were present
ed with flag by Sidney Webster Esq, on behalf
Of the citizens of New Hampshire at present resi-
dent in New York. They were afterwards enter
tanned at dinner given at the Arsenal. The regi
ment presented q splendid appearance, and the
troops are, in addition to being most completely
armed and equipped, fully professionalism thirty
days. Accompanying them are one hundred aud
sixteen horses, sixteen baggage wagons, carrying
the tents, provisions and stores, and one hospital
wagon. They also have sixteen nurses with them
The regiment left for Washington at seven O'Clock
in the evening, by the New Jersey Railroad.
The schooner Crenshaw, Captain Winter, from
Richmond, another prize from the Chesapeake
blockading squadron, arrived in this port yester
day, in charge of Lieutenant Hunter, of the steam
frigate Minnesota. She was laden with tobacco,
and was taken in Hampton Roads while attempt
ing to run the blockade.
An enormous rihed cannon ia just being finished
at Pittsburg for Fortress Monroe. The length of
the gun is l6 feet length of bore IA feet diameter
Of bore IL inches diameter of the gun at the
breech AZ inches, diameter at the muzzle Is inches
The ball will be II inches in diameter and the
weight about COO pounds. The rough casting
of the gun weighs $4,000 pounds; finished, it
will weigh $4,000 pounds. The chamber has
81 grooves.
A negro instruction was recently discovered in
Des Arc, Arkansas. The punishment Of the Of.
tenders was summary and severe. One white man
and three negroes were hung, three more negroes
banished, and number Of others were severely
| whipped.
The Inspector General of Kentucky, ID a com
munication to the Legislature, says whether the
State sustains, by its military arm, the policy Of
the federal government, whether it withdraws
from the Union. or whether it takes neutral 20.
sition, in either case three million dollars will be
required to maintain its position. The Legislature
uu HOt ucCu iuc oVf&Voy Uut pdoScu MA appTO-
priating one million and sixty thousand dollars to
arm the State.
Samuel A. Purviance, Attorney General of Penn
sylyania, has resigned his Office. In his letter to
Governor Curtin he says:-"For reasons which ap.
peal to my self-respect cannot consent to con.
tinhe any longer in connection with your admins.
tration.n
Ii is said that the secession members of the Ken.
lucky Legislature have received fearful warning
thai if they 60 into secret session. with any trea-
sonablc design, they will come out more dead than
sliye.
The Tennessee papers are little dubious about
the success of the hay and corn crop. They have
Intelligence that the army worm IL making sad
havoc in the meadows all over the State, and the
cut-worm has attacked the corn to such an extent
that in some localities farmers have plowed up
| their fields and are replanting. The wheat crop
has now nothing to fear but the rust.
The vote in Clarke county, Eastern Virginia, on
the going over to JEFF. Davis question, was as fol-
lows:-For secession 553, against 3. On the Presi-
dental question Clarke county cast G23 votes.
There is strong desire in the West for the pos
session Of the city of Memphis Tennessee, and it
| is said that General Mcclellan intends soon to
make an advance movement towards it with the
Wisconsin brigade. Memphis is two hundred and
fifty miles below Cairo, on the Mississippi, is plea
sanity and healthy located, and would be just the
place for twenty thousand troops to dictate to the
rebellious Southwest.
The Pensacola Observer of the 18th inst says
that prize captured by privateer has been
brought into Apalachicola.
Yesterday the annual sermon OF the Baptist Pub.
LEGATION Society was preached by the Rev. s. W.
Swain d. d. of Massachusetts,, in the Strong place
Baptist church, Brooklyn. The reverend gentle
man selected his text from the fifteenth chapter Of
Matthew and thirty cond verse, and proceeded
TO show that as Jesus had compassion upon the
multitude on the mountain, so did His great love
! continue, and was manifested in many ways every
hour Of mans life. II was the especial duty Of
| the society to further the work of the Gospel by
disseminating the great truths inculcated therein.
That duty they had endeavored TO fulfil to the best
Of their ability, and to-day was the anniversary Of
the first undertaking to publish and circulate the
| Scriptures. As they had worked In the past, 80
would they continue to work with fresh and in.
creasing earnestness in the future humbly trusting
that the Lord would bless their efforts to the glory
| of His name. The society meets at the church
this morning for the transaction Of business, and
in the evening addresses viii be delivered at the
| same place by several eloquent gentlemen OF the
! society.
The foreign news had perceptfble eject upon the
cotton market Saturday Holders continued TO be arm
in their views tho sales In lots, embraced about 900
bales, closing the bash Of 14c. for middllng up.
| lands. Flour exhibited more buoyaney and nrmness
for common grades while sales made 10 fair ex.
tent, Wheat was without change Of moment; common
| grades continued heavy and somewhat irregular,
| while primo and choice lots Of white were
scarce and firm. Corn was Hrmer though with.
out change Of consequence In prices sales were
| made TO . fair extent, including some lots for
export. Pork was heavy and nominal, a, sl1 FOR mess
and sl2 rs for prime Sugars were unchanged and in
fair demands the sales embraced about 635 hhds ncud.
ing Porto Rcos and CubAs, nj steady prices with 100