The New York herald., 1863-05-26

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Our correspondence from General Dx's depart
ment to-day will be found very interesting. giving
in detail the description of Colonel fitzpatrick
brilliant cavalry raid into Matthews aud Gloucester
counties. o.s t
The news from the Army Of the Potomac is that
all is painfully quiet along the lines" and that is
rather old news now. a.ss.a t.ees ..
despatch from St. Louis. dated yesterday, says
that band of rebel guerlss captured the town
of Richmond, Clay county, Mo-, on Tuesday night.
together with the Union force which occupied it,
Two officers of the Twenty fifth Missouri were
killed in the Aght and another lieutenant was shot
after the Union troops surrendered. 1t was feared
that the whole force would be treated in the same
manner. Tho greri.las made clean sweep of
the whole town. The same band also plundered
the town of Plattsburg, Clinton county. on Thurs
day night. and took sll 900 from the Court House
belonging to the State. g.t-
| Mr.. vallandigham arrived at Murfreesboro about
eleven o'clock on Sunday night by special train;
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and after soms hours conversation with General
Rosecrans and others, he was put into an open
wagon, and was thus conducted, surrounded by an
escort Of cavalry, to the outposts Of the Union
army. and delivered yesterday morning, at nine
o'clock, into the hands of the enemy, according to
Mr. Lincoln's fat private soldier Of the Con.
federate army received him, to whom Mr.. vallan.
digham introduced himself as citizen Of Ohio,
sent into the enemy's lines by force and without
his consent, and therefore surrendered himself as
prisoner of war. .8g .e ,4S-.s isE s.si.6
Our advices from st. Thomas via Colon state
that the Alabama is at the Mouls (Guadaloupe),
blockaded by the United States steamers Oneida
and Alabama. Admiral Wilkes reached st.
Thomas on the sOth ult. from Havana via Ponce,
Porto Rico, and after communicating with Mr..
Edgar, the United States Consul, proceeded
to Guadaloupe in the Vanderbilt, in search of the
pirate. Should abe be met at that place by the
brave old Admiral, there will-be no chance of her
committing fresh depredations on the merchant
vessels Of the United States. gi
EUROPEAN NEWS.
The steamship Hibernian, from Londonderry on
the 18th instant, arrived off Father Point yester-
day morning, on her voyage to Quebec, and the
steamship Asia, from Queenstown on the 7th inst.
arrived at Halifax yesterday evening. The news
by the Asia is one week later than the adyices Of
the China.
The steamship City of Baltimore, Capt. McGui.
ouI
inst, arrived at this port at an early hour this
morning. Her advices have been anticipated.
English reports from America caused q heavy
fall in the rebel loan in London At one moment
it had gone down to four per cent discount. It
subsequently closed at from three and half to
three discount, experiencing fall of three per
| cent in one day.
| Commissioner from North Carolina had is
sued in Manchester an Invitation" for subscrip-
ton to cotton bonds of that State for the loan of
| three hundred thousand pounds sterling. ~
| The New York correspondent Of the London
| Times informs that journal that the telegraph
censor in this city had prevented him from for
warding to Halifax the news of the commence
ment of General Hooker's advance to cross the
Rappahannock. rrI
A correspondent Of the London Times in Rich
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of the rebels lest vicksburg should be captured
by the Union troops. He also blames the military
arrangements Of the rebel war authorities relative
to the disposition Of the troops in the Southwest.
A special correspondent of the London Herald
had arrived in Richmond after passing the federal
lines. He promises letters frequently. and with
regularity, to that journal. In his first communi-
cation he speaks rather nervously about the situa.
ton at vicksburg.
II was reported that another rebel pirate cruiser
was ready to leave the Clyde, under the command
of Captain Bullock.
Mr.. Cornell Jewett had arrived in Paris in order
to renew his mediation propositions. The
French people spell his name with a. 2.
The Mayor and Corporation of Liverpool denied
that they had actively employed their police
authority in "hunting down" Confederate agents
in the town.
The Palmerston Cabinet stated in the House OF
Commons that government refused to permit the
New York Associated Press to erect "fog
trumpet" of Cape Race because 1t was not
thought fit to allow foreign company to do it,"
Francis Joseph of Austria had modified the sem
tence of persons convicted of high treason from
| lS44 to 1868.
The conflict between the Prussan Chambers
and the Cabinet Of the King continued.
II was said that the victory Of the Russians
over the Poles at Kaesch on the 18th inst. was
attended with heavy loss to the Czars forces.
Prince Gortchakoi, in his replies to the notes Of
the rulers of Sweden, Italy and Spain on the
Polish question, calls their attention to the inu-
ence of outside agitation in prolonging the
struggle In Poland, and illustrates the effects Of
the revolutionary movement by illusions peril.
nent to the case Of each of the soveregns. II was
said that Russia had conceded to Napoleon the
principle that European congress should as
semble on the subject.