The New York herald., 1862-05-30
TR IPLE SHEET
New York, Friday, May 80, Is62.
THE SITUATION.

THE SITUATION.
General Mcclellan effected a brilliant achieve
ment yesterday by burning the bridge over Anna
creek, on the line of the fredericksburg Rich
mond and Potomac Railroad-thus cutting off all
communication by railroad between Jackson's army
and Richmond. He also sent a squad of cavalry
along the same road, eighteen miles from Rich
mond, and burned all the commissary stores of
the rebels stored there.
Our correspondence to-day furnishes fine de-
scrption of the late battle at Hanover Court House,
General Mcdowell was at Manassas Junction
yesterday with large force, quite sufficient to
assist in bagging the army of the rebel Genera
Jackson in the valley of the Shenandoah
Our news from General Halleck's command to-
day is highly important. On Wednesday morning
three strong accommodating parties from the divi.
sions of Generals Thomas, Buell. and Pope advanc-
ed on the enemy in front of Corinth, and, after a
severe contest drove them back with considera-
BILE loss, although they hotly contested
SvoAy ioos VI SIouuu. OuE duVduCeu pOSS
reached to within gunshot of the enemy's
intrenchments before night, and it was con-
fdently expected that they would open fire on
our troops yesterday morning. They did not do
30, however, and General Pope accordingly opened
upon one of their batteries, and they responded
with twelve-pounders. After heavy shelling
rr,,v ID, 30
down their flag, and our troops now occupy the
position.
General Butler is pursuing strong and decisive
course in New Orleans. He has suppressed the
Delta and the Bee for advocating the destruction
of produce. He has arrested several British sub
jects for giving aid to the rebels. He has seized
large quantity Of specie belonging to the rebels
from the Office of the Consul for the Netherlands;
has stopped the circulation Of "Confederate-
paper money, and has distributed among the
suffering poor the provisions intended for the sup
port of the rebel soldiers And more: he has taken
the wife of General Beauregard-who was found to
be in New Orleans-under his care and protection
just as General Mcclellan has done the wife of
the rebel General Lee, in the neighborhood Of
Richmond. The large amount of news from New
Orleans which we publish to-day will be found
full of interest.
The letter of Jacob Barker, Of New Orleans,
takes strong ground against cotton burning He
also shows up the treason of the Southern men,
bers in the last Congress. This letter is an admi-
rable preparation of the way for the avowed ex-
preston of Unionism vi i,l has been heretofore
compulsorily dormant in Louisiana and other por-
tions Of rebellion.
The article from the New Orleans Bee-a covert
justification Of the destruction of cotton-whch
caused the suppression of that paper and the Delta,
will also be found among our New Orleans news.
The reader will be fully satisfied OF the justice OF
General Buffers course in suppressng such jour.
mails as the two before mentioned after perusing
the Bees editorial of the 10th.
Our Fortress Monroe correspondent mentions
the fact that Colonel J.. F. Hanson, Of rebel
Kentucky regiment, who was sent by flag Of
truce to be EXCHANGED for the gallant Colonel
Corcoran, has become Disguised with the rebels
and the rebellion, and will take the oath OF alle-
glance. He returned TO Fortress Monroe when
the rebels denied an exchange for Col. Corcoran,
and was sent to Washington at his own request.
after having been offered his parole which he
refused. He says that che would rather be
prisoner among gentlemen than free man
among villains"
From General Burnside's expedition we have an
Interesting letter, dated at Newbern, N c., on The
24th OF May Our correspondent states that on
the 23d instant scouting party, consisting OF a
company Of tho Seventeenth Massachusetts
regiment was sent out in order to capture
or burn q quantity Of cotton stored at
Pollocksvillc. The men were met by the
rebels a few miles from the Union outposts,
and exposed to ga.Ep. fire by which three were
killed aud eight woastsi .a ~ remainder forced
TO retire. The rcbe .i-,.y new sort Of deadly
cartidge, which is t..tf,nd in our correspon.
dsnce. The letter, winra We publish to-day.
oontains complete i.st y. Az tic deaths which oc.
crred in General BufnAlc's army during the
rsqnsl OF April. II is taken from the report Of the
Wsd,cal Director, and possesses o melancholy in.
eese.s fog the relatives and friends of the Valan,