Daily Nashville union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1862, 1862-05-30
By Last Nights Mail.


CAPE RACE, May 27ih.
The Europa, from Liverpool the I7th and
Queenstown the 18Th, was Intercepted OF
here.
GREAT BRrrAIN. May 10Th. In the House
Of Commons, Mr. Layard said the Govern
ment had received from Lord Lyons a COW
Of the report Of committee Of to- House Of
Representatives of the United States on the
Reciprocity Urea y, and bad no objection 10
lay IL on the table. The Times editorlallv
says The advantages gained ia the West by
the Federals have been such as Il ia impos-
sible to overrale, and are in singular con.
trast to the slow process made In virginia
1t also expatiates on the importance OF the
capture Of New Orleans, aud says the North
has a right TO presume the hour of inal sue
Gees is approaching. The Times also says
the rebels are apparently as determined as
ever, but from The manner in wh ich The mill
tary leaders have allowed them elves TO be
worsted on the Mississippi, the confidence Of
their own people and foreigners must be
shaken 10 their intimate suecess.
NEW YoBE May %
Sick and wounded men escaped from
Strausburg say that the rebels deliberately
attacked our sick, firing into The ambulances
and upon the fainting men by the wey sid,
killing in cold blood men incapable OF MAX
ing rests ance The traitors displayed A
white flag with black bare.
A letter from Union prisoner At Rich
mond, dated the FIRST day Of May, describes
with graphic force The terrible barbarities
inflicted upon our men now in their hands
WASHINGTON, May 81.
Refugees from Richmond report both that
place and Petersburg evacuated by the reb
els, Where they are gone no one knows or
whether they still talk of making desperate
defence. Citizens are without food or pro-
lection against marauders. fN.
Rebel barbarity was exempli6ed at Fred
ericksburg, where a magazine was blown
up by a torpedo, building demolished and
the sentry guarding it blown TO pieces The
guard at th, railroad station, only two hun
dred feet distant, luckily escaped. The tor
pedO had been placed under The building
since the thoI Ough examination after the
occupation by our troops.
Two more torpedoes were Subsequently
found under the railroad track. The sol.
diers are greatly exasperated, aud were wth
! difficulty prevented from burning the town
The impression given by those who eseap-
I ed from Front Royal ID that about $50 men
| got OF, out Of the whole force of about one
thousand men, and that of those four-alhs
were killed. The cry of the enemy was
No quart ~
CoRIATH, Miss, May 27.-Gsn. Halleck
has Issued an order prohibiting picket skir-
mlshiQg. Tue pckets are now quite tiiend-
| ~, ana daily hold communication with each
other, GA, plckets in front OF Pope's forces
induced live Rebels, including Que sergeant,
to desert last night. In no place from right
to lett are our lines two miles from the enc
my's works, aud 10 some places our heavy
| guns are within battery distance, though
dense woodlands prevent either party nom
| openi fre.
NEw YORK, May 2S-The Baltimore
American OF the 9th says Gen Banks has
already received reinforcement Of ut least
900 well disciplined troops ut Harpel's
Ferry. Several car loads of siege guns,
each weighing about six tons, have also
been sent up from the Washington navy. Ia
one OF the trains for Harper's Ferry was As.
sistant secretary of War, Watson. aud Gen.
| Hamilton and s,alf OF the regular army.