The New York herald., 1862-04-29
TRIPLE HE EFT.
New York. Tuesday, April 30, 1864.
THE SITUATION.


The capture of New Orleans is fully confirmed
from every quarter but the official reports from
Commodore Porter and General Butler may not be
received at Washington for some days to come.
from the Ship Island expedition and all the infor-
nation which we have received from every source,
go to prove that all the plans foreshadowed more
than month ago have been strictly carried out,
and resulted with the success which we announced
yesterday. We commend the correspondence re-
ferred to to the attentive perusal of our readers
It will be found though reaching as far back as
March IL. to embody the whole programme of the
capture of New Orleans precisely it was per-
fected. even to the detailed action of the gun
boats and the landing of the troops. The maps
which we give to-day fully illustrate the entire
locality where our conjoined naval and military
operations put US in possession of the great
commercial centre of the rebel confederacy,
the leading cotton port Of the entire South.
Rumors were in circulation in Washington yes
serday that the rebels preparing to evacuate
Yorktown and that since the recent news has ar
;ived they are terribly troubled as to their con-
dition
The latest accounts which we have-up to Sun.
day night-say that firing had been going on all
day in front of the rebel works. Our naval yes
sells, with their superior armament. were doing
fearful execution on the rebel batteries, while the
ire of the rebels falls far short of their mark.
skirm;sking between the land forces is kept up
sery brisk, and it cannot last many hours before
general and terrific engagement will be brought
On. The details which we publish from our corre-
spondents of the late brilliant attack upon rebel
'edoub. on the 26th inst. and the successful re-
suit of the movement, will be read with interest
The rebel papers are commenting freely upon
the possible chances of defeat at Yorktown. The
Mobile Ne,cs says:-"Probably at least two hun
lred thousand of the best men Lincoln has under
lrms compose the forces which threaten the con-
,ederates 4, front and flank. If they have taken
ap the advance line of march they must fight US,
DR. retreat dishonored and defeated without blow.
IF we decline TO fight them, we must yield Rich
nond, and that is giving up Virginia. II we fight
them and are sgnally defeated, Richmond and
Virginia are lost for nothing will exist to stem the
hpouring of the horde of victors. RI we fight
them and defeat them, cripple, perhaps fatally,
the war power and war spirit of the North"
The European news obtained from the North
American at Cape Race, and telegraphed to the
HERALD from St. Johns, Newfoundland, is dated to
the 18th of April-fve days later.
The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society of
England exeter Hall abotionists) had addressed
Mr.. Adams. United States Minister in London, on
the subject of the American war, recommending,
Of course the extinction of slavery by our govern
ment a. a pacificatory measure and radical cure.
Mr.. Adams reply was deemed in the main salts
factory; but the London Times reads in it the ex-
preston Of a non-committa policy on the question
by the Cabinet in Washington.
The British war ship Plover in the China seas
reports the appearance of rebel privateer offthe
rosstof Borneo. The occurrence was deemed un.
tortunste for American trade as the federal govern
enent had not q vessel in thoSe waters except the
Saginaw, which, il is said, is uns>aworthy.
The iron.clad war ship exctemenSstiIlc continued
d England and France. The Prince o~ Joinville
Rss about TO publish a pamphlet on The naval
revolution, IN which, IL is said, he will endeave, TO
Ihow that such vessels are not necessarily invu.
perable. y .
1.-THE Senate yesterday, communication rela
kte to the number and ages of the slaves in ths
District Of Columbia was presented and re-re
f1rred. The bill organizing the Army Signal De
bartment was Indefinitely postponed. A bill tc
prevent the importation Of adulterated liquors was
Introduced. Resolutions directing inquiry as II
tba a axnadiencv of rsatoriuo tho Armorv at Har