The New York herald., 1865-04-09
THE SITUATION.


The regarding the pursuit Of Ice and his fraction
of an army contained In the despatch from General
Grant, dated At noon yesterday, at Farmvie on the
Lynchburg southside Railroad sixteen miles west Of
the junction Of that road Burkesyile, with the Dan
viHs roaA From the the rebels bad been entirely
pushed and wers being pursued towards Lynchburg and
General Grant very confident Of capturing the whole
OF them, with Leo himself
Highly interesting accounts OF the progress Of opera
tons against Mobile both by the army and navy, up TO
dispatches Of correspondents brought by the steam
ship Mermac which arrived here yesterday, from New
Orleans the ID inst Tho Investment Of tho strong
rebel position Of old Spanish Fort OF the principal
dsfsnces Of tho city, on tho east side Of Mobile
bay, By tho Thirteenth and Sixteenth army corps,
took plsoe tho 27th ult. and on that and
the four succeeding days heavy skrmhng and artillery
firing botween besiegers and beseged kept up The
national troops gradually appr aching the work,
on the 20th inrenched within seventy yards Of
the enemys rife pits The Union killed and wounded in
the two corps up the a1st estimated at about eight
hundred Two national iron clads, the Monitors Milwau-
kee and Osage blown up in Mobile bay the 2stn
and 10th ult by rebel torpedoes killing four and
woundng seven As tho vessels sunk In shallow
water, It is thought they be raised. AS at every
other point where the rebels establish themselves both
water and land for miles around Mobile thickiy
planted with these Internal contrivanccs. On shore
several aes from them had occurred and the troops
had dug up alarge number. Tho navy actively
operating with the army, and kept up vigorous
Smelling Of both sides Of the bay. feet
Of rebel vessels, of them no mean an
tagonsts, lying Blakciy river, below the city,
and battle between them and the national gun
boats hourly looked for In fact II was believed
as Dauphn Island the sst ul the date of latest
accounts that had taken place very heavy firing in
the direction Of Spanish Fort heard during the
whole Of that day.
Tho column OF national troops under General Steele
which left Pensacola Fla, the Goth Of March, arrived
In ront Of Mobile opened Communication with General
canbys force and commenced hostilisies the 2sth
skirmehing. bat met with no serious opposition
Az on4 point on the route the rebel cavalry
wers found drawn up as IL determined on dcs-
psraas work; bat At the first charge from the ma
tional sreeps they broke in confusion somc Of them
hed instaney others surrendered without firing shot.
while many threw down their arms and begged for
mercy Altogether General Steeles captures one
orisadisr general twenty-five other officers four hun
dred and four hundred and nfy horses At another
point his march General steeles mon cut the Mobile
sraina We accompany Dispatches with . map Of
Mobile bay and Spanish Fort
Another interesting despatch from our correspondent
in Richmond appears in this mornings Herald Two
lately prominent rebels Judge Campbell and Mr. Myers
have bsea admitted to audiences by President Lincoln
for tho purpose supposed Of laying before him prop
osons for the submisson Of the rebel chiefs but ths
result Of the conferences cannot yet be made pub
iio. On the Presidents second visit to Richmond
he was received with wild enthusiasm by both
that the evacuation Of the city by the rebels
regarding which the citizens blinded by its being
called merely "removal," had been going on for a
month previous the na abandonment The specie of
banks which also stored there was not removed till
last Sunday morning when 1t hurriedy sent of ON
the DanviIie railroad. An immense number Of rebel
bonds, registered and signed thrown into the
during the grand scramble OF the chief conspra
tors Sunday afternoon TO escape from the wrath to
oomc and wore left lying there for any one pick up
VINO thought then worth the trouble The Rchmondles
bewildercd by the astonishing good forune which
has befaen them In plentiful supplies Of provisions and
marveIlousiy low prices from Union occupa,o on. As
scarce M twenty-five dollars a pound and twenty-five
dollars dozen respectively abundant At nfty
cents per pound and thirty per dozen. Richmond
now has daily mail communication with the North, via
Fortress Monroe.
despatch from Wilmington, n. C., Of the I'd inst,
Gays that largo quantities OF secreted cotton are being
discovered there, and that both British and American
gold and silver the fruits Of the blockade running bu
moss plentiful About twenty pilots charged with
having been employed on blockade running steamers
been arrested at Wilmington and smlthvie.
THE LEGIsLATURE
In the Senate yesterday the bill for the protect of
the New York Fire Department Fund reported The
bill 10 provide for the payment OF certain extraordinary
expenses In Brooklyn ordered 10 n third reading
the New York Riot Bonds bill and the Gettysburg
National Monument bill he latter sppropra,es twenty
ave thousand dolars) were adopted The Now York
Railroad Consolidation oct made the special order
for Tuesday next
In the Assembly bills were passed relative to tho
Howard Home for Little Wanderers In New York also
granting the consent Of the Stale to the sale Of certain
lands In the city OF New York TO the I'm ted States
Custom House. motion made and adopted thai
shc New York and Brooklyn Ferry Railroad bill he read
OFT OF ts order. Tho bill was then passed by vote Of
-Ueaa "a uavs a. On motion the bill rc,tivo 10 the