Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1862-02-06
LATER FROM MEXICO.
THE SPANISH ARNT DEFEATED.
The Battle Lasted Five Hours
LATE MISSOURI ITEMS.
RumOred Capture OF Gen. Rains.
Gen. Price Intends to Fight.

BosToN, February 5.-There was an i'm.
mense Corcoran demonstration in Faneul
Hall, this evening. About four thousand
people were present. and much enthusiasm
prevailed.
New YORK, February 6.-Private advices
from Kansas state that General Lane was
there about the lst, and announced that he
had accepted his commission as Brigadier-
General, and that he visited the State only
as a member of the Senate Military Com
mittee. He declined to assume auy military
character, but maintained the most friendly
relations with General Hunter, between
whom there is no practical difference OF
sentiment with regard to the relations OF
slavery and the war.
The report that General Scott is going to
Key West is erroneous He did intend to go
for the benefit of his health, and the Govern
ment offered him passage on board OF the
Richmond but the preparation of the vessel
was delayed ill the season was too far ad-
vanced, and he has resolved not to make the
voyage.
Gordon, the SLAYER, was notified yesterday
that respite was granted by which his exc
cution is postponed from to morrow till the
The Board of Education have decided to
memorialize.
Especial to the New York Herald.J
WASHINGTON, February 5.-The only event
yesterday was the assumption of his com
mand by General T. F. Meagher, who, &C.
companied by General Shields, took com
mand of the Irish Brigade amid great
enthusiasm. General Shields addressed the
troops in most effective terms.
Captain Grifin's Battery did some more
splendid shooting to day at Miners Hill
BE fired dozen rounds with shrapnel shell
from two l2-poupder Parrot guns at a tree
sixteen hundred yards distant. Allthe shell:
but one exploded, and every shot struck
within a few feet of the tree.
New York Tribune's Special Dispatch.I
Rumor grows into belief that Secretary
Stanton will speedily take in fact, as he ha:
commenced in form, the conduct of the war
which usage and departmental law give him
the right to do.
The scene at the close of the expulsion O
Senator Bright was dramatic. There wal
desperate decsiveness in the 'No" with
which Baysrd answered to his name. When
Carlisle, of Virginia, voted "No" the hutter
was significant and loud. He had been
counted only among the doubtful. The
Californian, McDougsl, and Mr.. Simmons
were at first absent, but, not a moment too
soon, came in, and thirty two votes decided
the law that ia the American Senate here
after no traitor shall have seat When the
result was announced the gallery burst into
applause, but was checked instantly. Bright
then bundled up the portable property in his
desk, turned his back upon the court which
had tried him, went to Secretary Forney's
room, drew pay 70 the last cent and with 9
defiant stride passed into the Public Land
Committee. room, where his wife waited him
In her presence the actors costume fell-the
ruined politiOian sat down, and, haggard and
contain a ha hoJ
made of his fortune.
MIR. Arnold was authorized to-day to re-
port fully the views of the Lake and River
Defense Committee upon the Notifications OF
the frontier and the armiDg and equippinR
of vessels for the lakes. Their recon mends.
tions will be thorough.
1t is said that Governor Morgan's nomina.
tion as Major General will be rejected by the
Senate. If it is confirmed it is apprehended
that every Governor of every free State will
claim this rank and emoluments beside.
The New York Times Paris correspondent
states that a secret document from JED. Da.
Wis has been furnished the Governments o.
France and England, which gives the full
details OF the military and commercial re.
sources of the Confederacy, and which points
out in detail the advantages which France
would derive by aiding in the establishment
of the new government. In its details o.
military resources, France is expected to SCI
that the Confederacy is able to resist thC
North forever, which entities them to a re
cognition; while in its commercial details ar
seen the ensicing phantom of free trade anC
commercial riches.
Times Washington Correspondence
Representatives Vallandigham, Pendletor
and Corning, with Morrill,, both Conklings
Horton and few others held caucus this
afternoon, and agreed to comprise all theil
proposed amendments of the demand of the
Treasury. note scheme in one bill, with the
view to manage q stronger combination
against the bill of the Committee of Wayl
and Means, which the Administration ha.
indorsed as indispensable to maintaining the
Government and carrying on the war. Tue
vote msy be close, but the chances are de,
cidedly in favor of the Legal-tender clause.
John A. Parker, United States Consul a
Honolulu, has arrived here with importan
information for the Government. He saw
agents have been sent to England, TO by
pothecate the entire group of the Sand wicl
Islands to Great Britain.
SAN FRASCIscO February "A courier
arrived at Acapulco previous to the 26tt
ult. with the intelligence of the defeat of tht
Spanish army in severe battle at the ma
tional bridge near Vera Cruz. The battl
lasted five hours. Accounts from Western
Mexico generally represent the termination
of international dissensions and union O
all parties to resist foreign invasion.
FoRTREss MoSRoR, February 6-The Con
stitution, which sailed yesterday A. NJ. TO
Ship Island, spoke the gunboat Mami abou
| forty miles north of Hatteras last night, In
sinking condition, and unable to make steau
enough to take her into port. The Consttli
tiOn arrived here this evening with her il
| tow.
The rebel feet in Elizabeth River has beef
moving about considerable all day.
This morning heavy firing was going o.
at Sewails Point anc this evening a tug wa
seen steaming arounG, and at one time tow
ing something, supposed to be a foatin
battery.
GCorrespondence Of the Missouri RepublicSn.I
RoLLA, Mo-, February 5.-The remaindt
Of General Sigeps division started West
Sunday morning under command of actin
| BriRadieT General COler. Asboth's diVisio