The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1862-07-10

The steamship Great Eastern, from Liverpool,
will come to this port via Long Island Sound and
may be expected TO anchor In Flushing Bay on
Friday evening or Saturday morning Her agent,
Mr.. C. w. Whitney. has sent forward two OF the
most capable Sound and Hegats pilots TO meet
her at Montauk where the ship will await orders.
Complete arrangements have also been effected
with the customs officers, the Health Ofdoer and
the Commissioners of Emigration.
We notice by our files that the British schooner
Anna Sophia, referred to by our correspondent at
Nassau, was cleared 81 this port for Nassau on
the 18th ult. by J. Mays Sons, with the follow
ing cargo:-5 cases dry goods; so cases boots and
shoes; 30 boxes candles; so boxes soap; kegs
butter; 80 dozen cards. 5000 bricks 5000 feet of
boards IL bales hay; cases fancy goods; l65
bsls. -four; 200 bushels corn; As bbls meal; so
bbls. carbon OIL 10 bbs. potatoes; bbls. hams;
10 boxes bacon; 10 kegs lard; $40 pieces paper;
s cases letter paper.
We have advicss from st. Thomas to the Gath Of
June. The market was well supplied with all
kinds of provisions, and there was no sickness In
the place. No .freights were offering. Advices
from Porto Rico, received at st. Thomas, state
that the crop Of sugar was nearly done.
The ship Western Empire, from New Orleans.
arrived at this port yesterday afternoon. She has
on freight l 800 hhds sugar, 292 bales Of cotton
and los bales Of moss.
mass meeting OF the citizens Of New Haven,
Conn.,. was held at Music Hail, in that city, on
Tuesday evening. Commodore Foote presided,
and was enthusiastically welcomed. Resolutions
were adopted responding to the call for more
troops, and pledging the State to raise its full
quota. A letter from Commodore Gregory was
read amid enthusiastic applause. He closed by
saying :-'I shall sustain the government, right or
wrong, in crushing this rebellion. Ny keel was
laid on Union blocks, and my course will be true
to the Union always"
Seizures of concealed government arms were
made in some Of the palatal residences OF rebel
sympathizers in Baltimore on Monday last. In one
house were found fiftyseven Harper's Ferry mus
kets. loaded, with accoutrements complete. The
arms were taken, and the sympathizers will be
brought before General Wool for investigation.
The Mississippi river is lined with men who are
trying to escape the CONSUMPTION of the Southern
confederacy. North of Vicksburg men hail the
Union boats continually to take them and their
cotton on board. The people everywhere are re-
presented a. suffering the greatest hardships and
in consequence of this widespread suffering they
are beginning to long most earnestly for peace.
Jennison, the Kansas Jayhawksr, seems to
have received an .enectual quietus. After having
been arrested by General Sturgis, and released
therefrom, he sought to be confirmed as brigadier
general; but he has failed in this; as by order
addressed to Gen. Ketchum, Acting Inspector
General, it is provided that the order Of May
26. by which Jennison was reinststed in COM
mand Of the Seventh Kansas regiment, be re-
scinded, and that If he has been mustered into
service, no be mustered out"
The Memphis Avalanche has passed into the
hands of the former editor Of the late Nashville
Bulletin, and, bearing the latter name, is now
steadfastly loya! paper.
The Seventeenth Virginia (rebeD regiment, re.
cruited In the neighborhood of Alexandra, Vir-
| gnia, at the outset of the rebellion, and which
left that place in May, 1861, eight hundred strong,
was in the late battles before Richmond, and had
but one hundred men left at the battle OF Turkey
Bend, all of whom were taken prisoners.
George Baber, Esq, formerly editor Of the
Nashville Banner. and secessionist made pub.
lie recsntaton Of his political errors at, Pulaski,
Tennessee, few days since, and is now editing
new Union paper-ths Constit,aion-in Nash.
Vile.
Some Of the Massachusetts, and Connecticut
journals recommend that drafting be mediately
reinforcements required from them under the last
call of the President.
The New Haven Journal says that Commodore
Foote is gradually recovering from his debility
and wound, and If his ardor does not hasten him
too quickly into service he will again play lead
ing part in the suppression of the rebellion.
The elevation of the mercury in the thermome.
ter was not quite great yesterday; but the heat
was nevertheless quite oppressive. II was very
steady all day. only varying about five degrees be-
tween ten o'clock in the morning and six o'clock
in the afternoon. About eleven o'clock A. M. q
light sprinkling Of rain occurred, and there was
some prospect of pleasant day. But the hope
not of long life, for the shower lasted only few
minutes, leaving the streets extremely dry and
dusty. The heat in the shade yesterday was as
follows, as indicated by one Of our thermome-
tiers
10 A. M. Observation-Disclosures. "a degrees.
IL u ......sss.......s. 20 degrees.
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