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The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1862-04-08

WASHINGTON, April 1.-THE following in
regard to the Merrimac has been received at
the Navy Department: When she ian for
Norfolk on Sunday, 9th of March, in the
evening, she had Z feet of water in her
hold. One shot from the Cumberland rid
died her and one shot from the Monitor put
a ball through the boiler of the Patrick
Henry and killed three and scalded several
others.
The steamer Freeborn has arrived up from
Liverpool Point bringing some additional
particulars of the skirmish at Stafford Court
House.
Gen. Sickles troops captured some forty
horses belonging to the enemies cavalry, a
number of small arms and the mails in the
Stafford Postoffice, in which are many let
tiers, some of which will probably be of inn
portanee TO the Government
Six prisoners were also taken, who were
brought up on the Freedom and sent up to
the Old Capital prisoners.
AS the crew of the Freedom were get
ting off the horses and other property cap
tured, the rebels opened a heavy FIRE upon
them from thicket, but the Freeborn re-
turning the compliment with schrapnell,
the enemy hastily disappeared.
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az Mr., Adsms, sA5 A5aeflGaA AfSIssyT, foI
tue poor of London. -
Lord Palmerston is again suffering from
govt. ,--~r~ q
The King Ofthe Belgians is reported criti-
caliy ILL., =
Rumors of Ministerial changes in France
are auth0ritatiVely contradicted. =s
The Bourse was for Rentes TOE
Agrand banquet had been given Carl
baldi at Milan. He and others made pa
triotic speeches, indicative of approaching
movements. -a sezsr. %
Austria has taken another step favorable
to the freedom of the press.
Prince Windeschgratz and Count Nes-
selreed are dead.
The Spanish Government has ordered
Gen. Prime not to negotiate witt. the Mexi-
cans till the troops have entered the city of
Mexico.
The London Times has letter from Rus
sell, dated Washington, March 18th, which
says the passage of the Federal army over
the long bridge was magnificent and most
imposing display of military power
Russell says whatever may happen, Gen.
Mcclellan can never loose credit, for hav-
ing formed disorderly masses of men into
an amy, aud having instilled into them
principles Of soldier-like discipline.
The battle 30 many were looking forward
10 is indefinitely postponed, and there is no
telling when it may be fought.
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killing thEea Ct the msn, ana disabling ii so
that it floated down toward the foot OF the
| Island. 0FFf@s
The firing to-day has been more active,
and has done good execution.
A messenger from New Madrid, this even
ing, report that the rebels erected battery
last night, opposite Point Pleasant, and this
morning opened furiously upon our works.
After firing for some time, the battery was
silenced by our guns, aud warehouse on
the Kentucky shore was fred by our shells.
It and itS contents were consumed. No
casualties on our side reported, and the loss
of the rebels is not known. Nonews form
Tennessee. /
: A despatch of April 9Th states that the
gunboat Csrondolet ran the gauntlet at ISL
and No. 10, and is now available for Gen.
eral Pope. She vas fred at, but was not
hit once.
There is authority from the War Depart
ment for saying that dispatches from Fort
ress Monroe dated three o'clock Sunday
afternoon, had been received, and that re-
con noissance had been made toward York
town SsJGF3sA - 3a4
The headquarters: of our army are now
about FIVE miles from Yorktown.
There had been some cannonading, but
without injury on either side.
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EDEEBURa, Va, April 6.-The enemy at
tempted to retard the operations of our
bridge builders, to-day, but we shelled
them eff. One of the enemy's videttes was
killed 600 yards distant, by sharp-shooter
of the Wisconsin Sd.
The enemy are encamped near Mount
jackson.
The positions occupied by our advanced
batteries, commanding all the elevations
beyond Stany Greek, were selected by Gen.
Banks on Tuesday, amid the hottest fire of
the enemy.
Jackson's force is principally composed
Of impressed men, who refuse to fight
against the United States. Those from
Page and Rockingham counties retired 10
a point between these two counties, and
there intrenched themselves, defying Jack
sons attempts TO compel them to john him.
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NEW york MARKET.

New York, April 7.
FLOUR Sc lower for common grades, mar
ket closing dull with no buyers at the out
side quotations.
WHISKY without material change; sales
at 22@23c.
WHEAT-There is q little more doing,
but no material change in prices.
RYE steady at 8O0sIc.
BARLEY dull at $50.
Corn market rules quite grim with fair
export demand. s...5a
OATS in moderate request at 39@41.
CoFFER-RiO active, other kinds in mod
crate demand, and market very firm.
PORK less active and prices without de-
cided change. ISL
LARD steady and unchanged.
MONEY steady at 6@Tc per cont. on call,
on loans and discount on strictly prime
Sterling Exchange firm with moderate bn-
siness at 123 for bankers bills. American
gold in moderate request at q per cent.
prem.
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PORTLAND, April THE steamship Hi
hernia, from Liverpool March 9th via Lon
dondeFry, arrived here this morning. Her
mails will be due at New York to morrow
night. The Astna sailed on the 26lh via
Queenstown on the 10th, for New York
The annexed is a summary of news sent
out By her: a..
In the House Of Commons Mr.. Gregory
asked if the Governments attention had
been called 10 the capture of the British
steamer Lal1aun, in Mexican waters, by
Federal cruiser. Mr.. Layard said the gov
ernmenfs attention had been called to the
matter, and Lord Lyons had been directed
to communicate with Mr.. Seward on the
subject. He was unable to state yet what
course would be adopted, but the govern
ment had thought it right to order vessel
of war to Mattamoras for the protection of
British interests in American waters. The
English journals criticise the commence
ment of the campaign in Virginia.
The Daily News eulogizes General Nc
Olellan's tactics. Thinks the crisis ap-
preaching, and believes the Confederates,
though retreating, have prepared the field
for great battle. The same journal re-
joices at the adoption by the House of Pres
ident Lincoln's emancipation project as an
immediate step In favor of human rights
fThe Times reiterates its belief that moth
ing will be made of Mr.. Lincoln's PROPOSE
tion, but regards it as important in admit
ting the principle of an accommodation be.
tween the North and South. -i.ase2
The Times believes the real defence of the
Confederates will be found in the yastness
and the desolation of the country, and adds
that If they are really in earnest, the North
must look for bootless victories and ex-
hausting conquests.
The Herald thinks that peace may prob
ably be conquered by one side or the other
in or about Richmond
Mr.. George Peabody sunprecedented mu-
nificencs has been formally consummated
in correspondence, just Published, in
which he places 9l6O,O00 at the disposal
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NEWS BY LAST NIGHTS MAIL

~. CAIRo, April 9Th.
ON BOARD U. s. G UNBoAT OARONDoLBT, !
New MADRID, April 9th. I
At last the blockade is passed; the
gauntlet ia run; the navigation of the Mis-
sissippi proved possible, spite of rebel guns
and rebel Notifications.
The United States gunboat Carondolet,
Captain III. Wake, arrived this morning at
l o'clock, having passed the Notifications
at Island No. 10 and the batteries upon the
main land opposite, and now lies safely
moored to the shore under the guns of the
upper fort at New Madrid. The Carondo-
let left the feet last evening at 10 o'clock,
during a terrific Thunderstorm, and having
taken barge in tow laden with hay and
coal as a protection from the enemy's
balls, extinguished her lights, put on
steam, and rapidly sailed down the
river. 5a
The first intimation the rebels had of the
tempt to run the blockade, was the FIRE
which issued from the burning chimney of
the gunboat and Immediately thereafter it
was greeted with a shower of balls from
infantry stationed at the upper battery, the
same which was SO effectualTy spiked few
days since by Col. Roberts. A signal rocket
was then sent up, and instantly a line of
batteries were blaze of fame. Four bat
teries on the Kentucky shore and one on
the point of the island fred in quick sue
cessiou, but the CaroudolSt passed them all
in safety, and unmindful of the leaden and
iron hail which fell around, passed through
the fiery ordeal unhurt. Not man was
injured, and excepting a few musket balls
which struck the iron plated sides of the
gunboat, she was untouched.
The floating battery is located three
miles below the Island, and bestowed a
parting shower of blazing compliments as
the Carondolet glided quietly by. The
Hollins ram Manassas did not open.
The officers and men acquitted them
selves with admirable courage and fidelity.
Owing to the intense darkness, officers could
not make an extensive and satisfactory re-
connoisance, but the enemy probably did
his best. The FIRE was tremendous.
Mr.. o. T. Fishback, of the Missouri Dem
ocrat, was on board the Carondolet while
running tue blockade, and to him we are
indebted for the above particulars.
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NEW YORK, April IA special dispatch
to the Philadelphia inquirer, dated Thor
ough-fare Gap, Virginia, April I'd, 1862,
via Baltimore April 9th, says:
A rebel force of seven regiments Of
infantry, two regiments of cavalry and
three batteries were thrown across the Rap
ahannock to cut off Col. Geary's command
at White Plains. By forced march they
reached Salem, within Eve miles of the
Union band last evening, with the intention
of attacking Col. Geary in two columns, by
cutting off his retreat and then seizing this
formidable Gap with the object to obstrnct
the project of reconstructing the Manassas
Gap Railroad las
The attack was to be made at daybreRk
this morning. Their movements were
made secretly with the intention of max
ing dash and cutting the Union command
to pieces.
Col. Geary, become appraised of their pres
ence and designs and moved bis whole COM
mand off quietly during the night, and bat
tied with the mountain roads and wading
streams of mud for five miles, and by day
light occupied this Gap where he proposed
to make a firm and determined stand in the
mountain defles. The. movement was most
important, frustrating design to accom-
plish victory by the destruction of a
much dreded command, to revive the droop-
ing spirits of the Rebels in Virginia.
The calls were beaten in the evening
and the camp fires left burning as usual,
after the command marched. Although in
such superior force, the rebels had the te-
merity to follow and attempt an entrance
into the ragged defiles here. 1t is supposed
they returned at once to their original po-
silon south of the Rapahannock.
One of the Union scouts was killed, aud
three of she rebels.
Tboroughfare Gap is a station on the
Manassas Gap Railroad, IA miles west of
Manassas, and is a gap in the Bull Run
Mountains.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
SESSION
WAsHINaros Anrl

Is. l.=.a-a WAsHIEeToN, April 2. s
HoUsE.-Mr. Wickliffe requested that his
name should be omitted in the organization
of this committee, and as a matter ofsonnd
parliamentary practice that no member be
appointed who voted for the following res
olutiou which he would read from the
Journal: - s--.
ResotUed, That neither the Federal Coy
eminent nor the people of any non-slave-
holding States, have the constitutional
power TO interfere with slavery in any
State in the Union I; and that those persons
who do not subscribe to the above PROPOSE
ton are too insignificant in number to ex-
cite alarm; and that the increase of such
number does not keep pace with the aggre-
gate ircrease of the population of the Un-
ion, ~
Mr. Voorhees, offered a preamble, setting
forth that the tariff bill passed during the
extra session Of Congress is unjust and OPP
pressive to the agricultural portion of the
country, and concluding with the resolu-
ton that the Committee ON Ways and
Means be instructed to report bill at an
early a day as practicable repeating
said law, and substitute therefor a system
founded on the principle of yielding an ad-
equate amount of revenue and not on that
of protection only of the manufacturing in
terests of the country.
Mr.. Stevens moved to lay Mr.. Voorhees,
preamble and resolution on the the table
SO to So.
The house then proceeded to act definite
ly on the amendments of the Tax Bill here
tofore reported from Committee of the
Whole.
The following are among the amend
ments concurred in:
The duties and taxes to be assessed in
pursuance of this act shalt be a lien on the
and subject to the duty or tax
from the time of the assessment till it is
fully paid . The sum of $4,000 heretofore |
for the legislative purposes
of Nebraska, for the year 1868, is to be APP
propriated as that Territories proportion.
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New YORK, April IA letter has been
received in Mystic, Conn, dated Bordeaux,
March IL, which states there was a large
English steamer in that port, having on
board 5000 tons of cargo worth 5 ,0O0, 900,
and was about ready to sail for market,
intending to run the blockade at New Or
leans. i.-4f B@ Eta
A letter received from Hilton Head says
from North Edisto we have stirring news.
The rebels have come down in considera-
bic force and succeeded in cutting off, the
other night, nearly an entire company be-
longing to the 18th Pennsylvania sregi-
rnent, which was on Little Edisto Island as
a picket. Strangely enough they neglected
To guard the bridge between them and the
main force, and the enemy succeeded in
burning that, and then surrounded the
picket. killing three and WOunding a dozen,
and captured about thirtyOf our men. The
balance ESCAPED TO North Edisto. Since
then, there has been skirmishing, but with
no result Ample reinforcements viii be
sent to Col. Moore by Gen. Benham-
Fifteen of the 46th New York were cap
tured, together with a field piece, yeSter-
day, on Wilmington Island on the Savan-
nah river. COL Ross took the responsible
ity of landing thirty men on a reconnois-
sRnce on Wilmington Island, without or
| ders, and was there surrounded by a snpe-
riOr force of the enemy, and half his men
captured. All the officers and. the balance
of the men escaped. The field piece was
lost, and 1t doubtless is now on exhibition
| 10 the city of Savannah. This is one result
of this crazy mode of conducting affairs.
Tybee remains quiet.
A Port Royal letter says an iron-cIad
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LAST NIGHTS REPORT
Gen. Mitchell's Division at
She1byville, Tennessee -
T Rebels retreating from Gen.
Milroy-What the Merri-
mac suffered Sickle's re-
connoisance - Col. Geary
moving Federals at Wash
g ington, N. C.

WAsHEeToN. April THE mails for Gal
ifornia, Oregon and Washington Territory,
are now transported overland from Saint
Joseph, No.: to which place correspondence
can be sent from any p0stoffice.
telegraph dispatch was received in this
city yesterday announcing that General
Mitchell with the forces under his COM
mand had reached Shelbyville, Tenn, and
had been received with great enthusiasm
by the Inhabitants. -
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spEc1AL ro n. Il. TLMRs.

WHEELING, April IA telegram just re-
ceived here informs us that the rebels are
retReatiRg before our forces under General
Milroy, who has advanced from Cheat Noun
tain and now holds Camp Allegheny lately
evacuated by the rebels. The rebels have
also fallen back from Montery and Hunters
vile and seem to be aiming for Staunton,
where they will have railroad escape
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4 - Iaii = IN = ls65
Tsasl H6oss Skaas rs appearance Ga the
Savannah river, coming down. iaat week,
near the head Of Elba Island, where it was
plainly seen from on board our vessel,
which lay in Mud river supporting the bat
teries, and drawing Of it was made, and
it Is described as very much resembling the
Merrimac in appearance, but is much small
or in size, and Is considered to be in every
way less formidable.
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NEW MADRID. April 3, I


The telegraph between Birds Point and
this camp to-day was discovered cut in at
least a dozen places, between this place and
Sikestown.- @-a g-- saE *
General Pope Immediately issued special
order, directed to the residents along the
route, that they will be held responsible for
the safety of the telegraph that if any
damage was done to it near their farms or
residences, their houses shall he burned,
themselves aud families arrested, brought
to camp, and visited with the severest pun
ishment.as.-.4 .-.-aj --.s--s7= - az
No change in the position of affairs at
the fort or at Points Pleasant and Riddle.
Rebel gunboats and transports pass with
out difficulty our batteries at Point Riddel'
None have come above Point Pleasant.
CAIRO, April 4-The firing at Island No.
10 last night disabled floating battery of
the rebels, One shell struck directly in it,
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CHICAGO, April GA special to the Post
from Cairo says that Daniel Wright, for
merly a sailor from Oswego, arrived here
to-day, having deserted Beauregard's army
a week since. He says about 60, 900 troops
are at Gorinth. No heavy guns or field
works there. One regiment was under ar
rest for disloyalty to the rebel cause. Their
army is represented SIS in a state bordering
on insubordination. Cur informant thinks
they will stampede if attacked.
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CLNGKNNAT TT MARKET.


OANOAnHAIAi AptH "a
FLOUR in moderate local demand at 4 20
G}4 Is for round hoop Ohio. 7r.1,
WHEAT 90(995 for red and the demand
is moderate. -
OATS SOC and firm.
Corn 23c firm.
WHISKY in good demand at tic.
MESS PORK in good demand at $40 20,
but it is held at 10 90 The demand for
bulk meats fell off and prices are lower /;
sales of 100000 pounds at Be for shoulders,
42@4k for sides, the latter an extreme rate
at the close.
LARD is held firmly hut the market is
quiet at T(@74, city is held at "A.
SIDEs-20, 900 bbls clear bulk sold at
So, and 30 hhds clear bacon sides sold at
81 cents.
GRooERIEs--No change except salaratus,
which is shade higher.
EXCHANGE quiet at &c prem.
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FoRTREss MONROE, April 5.-Cannon-
aiding has been heard all this morning from
the direction of Yorktown, No official re-
ports have been received, but it is rumored
that the town has been burnt. This is
probably incorrect. Another report says a
fight is taking place there this afternoon.
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CAMP. ALLEGHENY, April 2, 1862.

EDs Con-: : Our flag waves over Camp
Allegheny. The rebels have evacuated.
Their quarters are now occupied by General
Milroy. Their quarters remain intact
The rebels are still retreating beyond Mon
terey. The boys are in good spirits and
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TRIBUNE's DISPATCH.

WASHINGTON, April 6.-Mr. Russell, OF
the London Times, sails for Europe In the
steamer China, on Wednesday.
Assistant Secretary Fox, NJ. Grimes of
the Senate Naval Committee, and Mr. Sedg-
wick chairman of the House Naval Commit
tee, went to Fort Monroe this afternoon.
Pleasure touring and sight seeing at
Bull Run and in the vicinity of Manassas
are not yet safe. A private of the Lincoln
Cavalry is said TO have been shot dead
yesterday upon the former field, and one of
the Harris Cavalry was shot at long rife
range from the cover of wood, two miles
from the junction.
Soon after the publioail n of Montgomery
Blair's letters to Ger, r." mont, in which
the writer criticised sen. What freely the
President, the Post N-,s,er General tender
ed his resignation. Nj. Lincoln refused to
receive II, and il is said the relations be-
tween this Cabinet Minister and the Presi-
dent were never more kindly than at pres
emit.