The New York herald., 1862-04-26

tnat ne VIII support the Union only because ne Is
compelled to do SO. This fellow should be
watched.
The secessionists in Nashville seom determined
to keep up a show Of feeling against the govern
ment. Many Of them say they viii man the house
tops and shoot down our soldiers when the ooca-
sion presents itself for them to do with safety to
themselves.
The "fre in the rear'' OF General Halleok ID
getting very warm. As soon as he left St. Louis
to take command Of his forces at Pittsburg Land.
ing. the abolition papers opened on him, and they
are keeping up the attack with their heaviest
guns. The Cincinnati Gazette. has charge of the
battery in that quarter.
Mr.. John G. Bull, of tho firm of Bull Graham,
commission merchants in St. Louis. with his whole
family have been placed under arrest and confined
In their own house, with orders not to leave 1t.
Their offence was displaying secession flag.
Among the wounded soldiers who arrived at st.
Louis on the 18th inst, on the steamer Empress,
was woman who hadfollowed her husband to the
war and received . gunshot wound in the battle Of
Pittsburg Landing. On the way up the Mississip.
pi she gave birth to fine, healthy female child
which was named Empress. Her husband was
killed in the battle.
Our correspondent at Bridgetowr, Barbados,
writing on the l4th inst, says -" The weather for
the last two weeks has been very favorable, being
attended with cOpious showers of rain, which are
of the greatest benefit to the growing crops. But
very little sugar remains in port. The crop has
yielded about 55 600 hogsheads. The growing cane
is very favorable. Fresh water and stone ballast
are plenty and Of the best kind. Several Light
vessels have here and left for parts unknown,
after throwing overheard their ballast. 1t Is ru-
mored that several large vessels deeply laden, dur
ing the last four or five months, have been seen
off this island, and the conjecture is that they
have discharged their cargoes into those schoon-
ers, which have, in all probability, proceeded to
the rebel States, at The hazard of running the
blockade. Business is dull and the island il
healthy"
The census returns from Barbados, as taken on
the 7th April last, exhibit population amount
ing in the whole to l35, $50 persons; making an
increase during the last ten years of l6,760.
The new crop of sugar is said to be of good quality,
and the shipments to latest dates amount to-
Sugar 2,096 hhds. l22 tierces 42e bbls. molasses,
26 puncheons, Is bbs. The public health is gene.
rally good but some cases of smallpox are report
ed as existing in of the parishes. The bark
Candidate, which sailed for London on the 9th
ul, took out four packages containing articles for
the great exhibition. They consist Of the fruits
OF tie island, in wax; the flowers in feathers and
the flower, or, as it is termed, the arrow of the
cane in its natural state; shell work, and spec-
mems Of indigo, ochre fibre, and starch made
from the sweet potato.
The Paris correspondent Of the London Herald
writing on the Sd of April says the seventeen
millions Of francs assigned by the extraordinary
budget to the navy thus divided-l2 500 ,0o0f.
for the transformation" of the feet, and $780,
oOof for the building of docks sufficiently large to
receive the vessels now constructing.
According to the returns Of the chief constable
Of Manchester, England, made up to Tuesday,
April g. upwards Of eight thousand workmen are
totally out of employment in that city alone, while
nearly double that number are on short time.
A Brussels letter has the following:-The pre-.
sent manufacturing crisis is the subject of general
preoccupation. The city of Ghent 10 the place
most seriously affected. The situation of Lyons
aud Saint Etienne cannot be compared to the hor.
rible state of misery into which the civil war in
America has plunged the workmen Of Ghent.
The st. Georges Society Of this city did not
this year celebrate the day dedicated to their pa.
tron saint in their usual manner It has been Gus.
tomary for the "jolly Englishmen'' TO sit down to
"jolly good dinner" on the evening Of the 23d
Of April but this year they have dispensed with
that part Of their celebration. The cause Of this
action has been officially stated as follows:-" On
account of the death of his Royal Highness Prince
Albert, the members of the ST. Georges Society
forego their usual festival on this day.i
In the Court of Oyer and Terminer yesterday,
before Judge Barnard, David Lotus and John Ell.
lis were tried for felonious assault on Martin Wa
ters, in a groggery, on election day, by striking
him with the butt ends Of pistols. 1t appeared
that the accuser was as rough as the accused, and
had offered TO fight them with the same weapons.
Upon the whole of the evidence the jury did not
think that there any rstrbutive justice due to
Mr.. Martin Waters, and they acquitted his equally
desperate assailants.
John Morris, the militia man, who has been q
terror to male civilians and civil maidens, in the
peremptory extortion of money for militia fines
from parties who are legally exempt from duty,
was arraigned yesterday, in the Court of Oyer and
Terminer, on an indictment found against him by
the Grand Jury The accused pleaded not guilty,
and said that he was acting under the law of this
State. No particular day was named for his trial.
1t will be well for the militia authorities over the
river, in the model City of Churches, to take warn
ing by this act of our Grand Jury. Instances
have been furnished US where parties who have
paid exemption fees are still summoned for duty,
and threatened with all the pains and penalties Of
militia despotsr, even to the confseation of their
bed and bedding, if they do not attend drill or
step up to the "captain's Office" This humbug
has been long beyond endurance, and it is well
thatthe law is about to interfere.
An action was commenced in the United States
Circuit Court yesterday, before Judge smalley, at
the suit Of William Grovoner, against the New
Jersey Railroad Company for injuries sustained in
September, 1860, through the alleged negligence
Of the defendants servants. Itappearsd from the
evidence that the plaintiffs foot was SO injured
that his medical attendant found it necessary to
remove some Of the small bones The case will
be resumed this morning.
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