with, with 26,000 men. All heavy artillery is 
being removed from Kingston to Altona. 
Federal scouts have proceeded four miles be¬ 
yond Bull’s Gap and report no signs of Long- 
street’s forces. 
Gen. McCulloch is reported en route north 
with 3,500 men to re-enforce Forrest.. He was 
reported near Jackson, Tenn., on the 3d inst. 
Grierson has his cavalry force out watching and 
harrasslng Forrest, but his division is much 
reduced by veterans home on furlough. 
On the night of the 28Lh of March, a hand of 
guerrillas captured and burned a trading boat 
seventy miles below Memphis. The Captain 
and crew were paroled. 
Arkansas. — Private advices from Little 
Rock say General Steele’s forces, 15,000 strong, 
left that place for the South on the 23d of 
March, and will unite with the troops from 
Fort Smith at some point in the south-west 
part of the State. 
About 10,000 effective troops have gone south 
from Fort Smith. The whole number in the 
department under Gen. Steele, now moving 
southward, is from 30,000 to 35,000. sufficient to 
overpower any rebel force opposed to thorn. 
A scout from Price’s rebel army reports that 
Gen. Cabell's rebel force, composed of seven or 
eight regiments, is fifteen miles this side of 
Washington. The rebel troops were being 
moved toward Camden. The rebel Generals 
Marmaduke and Shelby are at Camden. A 
large number of negroes are being concentrated 
at Camden. Quantrell is south of Red River. 
Xkw M rxico.— Another light is reported to 
have taken place in South-western New Mexico 
between the troops and the Apaches. Forty of 
the latter were killed. 
Major Mcl ’errin, Chief of Gen. Carlton's staff, 
has arrived and reports the unconditional sur¬ 
render of the entire Nava|oe Nation, numbering 
nearly 6,000 Indians, who are being collected at 
Fort Sumner. Some of them have large Hocks, 
but the majority are in a destitute condition. 
To feed them, Gen. Cavleton has beeu obliged to 
put the troops on half rations. Col. Carson is to 
have charge of them until turned over to the 
Indian Bureau. 
List of New Advertisements. 
the continued force will proceed westward by 
land, the supplies going by river. The rebels 
north and south of Red river are concentrating 
at Shreveport, except Gen. Harrison’s cavalry, 
at Columbia. 
The gunboats made a prize of all the cotton 
captured, amounting to 5,000 bales. 
Fort Do Bussey w T as accidentally blown up 
on the 17th, killing four and wounding six. 
The Navy Department has received informa¬ 
tion from Lieut,-Col. C. II. Brown, of the 
steamer Virginian, off San Luis Pass, Texas, of 
the capture of the schooner Sylphide, from 
Tampico, ostensibly bound to Havana. Her 
cargo consisted of salt, bagging, coffee, cigars, 
Hat and bar iron, and percussion caps. 
Franklin, La., had been evacuated, and the 
government stores there removed to Brashear 
city. 
On the 21st, Gen. Mower made a reconnois- 
sance up Red river as far as Natchitoches, which 
a rebel force was occupying. Two hundred 
prisoners aud four cannon were captured. It is 
sixty miles above Alexandria, and refugees 
from there state that large quantities of cotton, 
etc., remain on the plantations in that vicinity. 
The rebel force was part of Gen. Smith's in¬ 
fantry, and our force was a portion of Gen. 
Lee’s cavalry. 
The weather on Red river was cold, and the 
water in the river w’as rising rapidly, which 
will much assist gunboats moving. 
Rebel guerrillas at the Provost Landing on 
the Tech® fired into one of our gunboats, but 
fled after a well directed fire of grape. A party 
landed who burned the buildings in and about 
the place. 
Gcu, Franklin's column lias passed through 
Opelousas. 
Gen. Banks has issued an order establishing a 
bureau for instruction of freedmen. 
Conbmecr 
rinivcr.-al Clothes Wringer—Julius Tves.tCo. 
The HniiUerlioff Churn—Jacob Brinlcerhoff. 
Sheep Wash Tobacco—Janie-. F Levin. 
Depot for S. S. Books amt Paper 1 —Adams Ellis. 
Grain Binders--Allen Sherwood. 
Woodlmrv institute.—P P. IliiHe. 
Brlnkerhoirs Churn—\\ m KitunUouse. 
Stammering— 11 C I. Meal'S. 
Patent••Star'' \ 1-U1 linnet Ranter—P Esslg & Co. 
Apple Tree* for ~ tie- At. Skinner. 
Land for Sale I. Btcknell. 
Hedge Phntls —\1 M Bctiut'htitlip. 
875 a Month—Bovlan A Co. 
Short-Horn Bulls fur Sale—C 1C Ward. 
SPECIAL NOTICES. 
Trv it once.—Dl! l>eT,and A Co. 
Elmira, N. V 
, has been made a city. 
— Only five slaves are left in Polk Co., Mo. 
— Butter is up to (Vi cents a pound in Boston. 
— Albany brewed •10,000 barrels of ale last year. 
— A new Capitol building at Albany is projected. 
— About two hundred wagons leave St. Louis daily 
for Idaho. 
— The Boston board of brokers now ask $2,000 as an 
admission fee. 
— A large emigration is going on from Ohio to North¬ 
west Missouri. 
— The State of Minnesota has contributed 17,000 
men to the war. 
— Now York city has a groggery for every one hun¬ 
dred inhabitants. 
— It costs $1,770 to hire an able-bodied slave for a 
year in Richmond. 
— One cargo of over 1,200 bales of cotton arrived at 
Memphis last week. 
— A woman aged one hundred and twenty-one years 
has just died in Rome. 
— The Rothschilds have arranged for the purchase of 
all the Italian railways. 
— The city of Philadelphia has paid $2,119,750 in 
bounties for volunteers. 
— The question of creating a new State out of East 
Tennessee is being agitated. 
— The Ohio Senate passed a bill lately prohibiting 
the marriage of Qrst cousins. 
— Town temperance leagues are forming in all the 
principal towns in Vermont. 
— There tire t wenty-five thousand soldiers at the va¬ 
rious rendezvous in this State. 
— All sutlers have been ordered to leave the Army of 
the Potomac by the 4th Of April. 
— The damage by the Slonx outbreak in Minnesota 
is officially stated at $1,870,000. 
— The wife of Hon. Thomas Ewing of Ohio, died on 
Friday week after a long illness. 
— The French savans express their full belief in the 
practicability of aerial navigation. 
— One thousand recruits for the Federal army are re¬ 
ported on their way from Germany. 
— There are over 3,100 negro soldiers at the Connec¬ 
ticut conscript camp in New Haven. 
— Nancy .lames, a colored woman, has jnst died at 
Philadelphia at the age of 210 years. 
— There is a sensation in Paris caused by the discov¬ 
ery that, the grave of Voltaire is empty 
— There are 8,90S sick and wounded soldiers in t lie 
army hospitals in and around Washington. 
— Leonard Sweet, a prominent Illinois lawyer, is 
spoken of as the successor of Owen Lovejoy. 
— The California Sunday School children have built 
a missionary vessel called the Evening Star. 
— The Union State Convention of Missouri is called 
to meet at St. Louis on Wednesday the 27th inst. 
— A. C. lirown of Minneapolis, Minn., has seven 
sons and four grandsons in the army of the Union. 
— A general Congress of Free Masons of nil coun¬ 
tries is proposed to take place shortly at Lcipslc, Ger¬ 
many. 
— The Provost-Marshal of St. Louis has issued an 
order declaring that all disloyal newspapers will be 
seized. 
— The Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention 
unanimously nominated Gen. McClellan for the Pres¬ 
idency. 
— There are in Rhode Island thirteen fish-oil facto¬ 
ries. The fisheries of that State nre constantly in¬ 
creasing. 
— It is estimated that an underground Railroad, 
five miles long, could be built under New York, for 
$4,280,000. 
— Lake Champlain is clear of ice. It has been closed 
only three weeks the past winter—a remarkable cir¬ 
cumstance. 
— Eighty-three steamers, carrying 40,000 tuns of gov¬ 
ernment stores, were dispatched to Nashville during 
last month. 
— General Lee has declined a present of a house 
which the city Council of Richmond proposed to pur¬ 
chase for him. 
— The New Brunswick papers are loudly lamenting 
tlie increasing emigration of young men from that prov¬ 
ince to the L . b. 
— The manufacture of boy’s hoops has become an 
active trade in Connecticut. The price is from $3 to 
$5 per hundred. 
— A gipsy fortune teller at Detroit, Mich., swindled 
a farmer out of f 2,500 under promise of giving him a 
boundless fortune. 
— A few days ago $120,054 in duties was paid at the 
N. Y. Custom House on an invoice of pepper—the lar¬ 
gest amount on record. 
— Toe number of National Banks authorized tip io 
the 28th ult. was three hundred and forty-seven, with a 
capital of $48,500,000. 
— A wicked little scamp, only 12 years old, has been 
detected in setting fire to houses in Lynn, Mass. lie 
thought it “ good fun.” 
— The farmers around Nashville are going to work in 
a lively manner this spring, protected by Gen. Rous¬ 
seau's stringent orders. 
— The robins have appeared in flocks around Balti¬ 
more, and the gunners kill hundreds every day. Who 
will pepper the gunners? 
— The latest, returns of the vote of N. Y. on the sol¬ 
diers’ suffrage show a majority of 101,000 in favor of the 
constitutional amendment. 
— A case of starvation in the streets of London is 
called by an English paper "death from a morbid an' 
tipathy to the work house.” 
— St. 1’atrick's Day at Richmond passed without any 
recognition. Not. a sprig of " shamrock ” was risible, 
and Erin yo Eragh was mute. 
— There were manufactured last season on the Upper 
Mlsslflslppl and its tributaries, the enormous quantity 
of 900,000,000 feet of lumber. 
— The colored orphans’ asylum burned in New York 
during the July riots is to be rebuilt on an enlarged and 
improved plan upon the old site. 
— The Cape Mail, which has just arrived in England, 
brings no decisive news iu reference to the fate of Liv¬ 
ingstone, the eminent African traveler. 
— The provision trade of Chicago is immense. Last 
year over 9UO,000 hogs and 70,000 beeves were packed. 
Total receipts of pigs for the year 1,377,052. 
— There are4,080 men In the frontier garrisons of Gen. 
The main force of the summer ex 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL 9, 1864 
The Amy in Virginia. 
Ma.t.-Gen. Meade has issued an order for 
expeditiously carrying into effect that, part of 
the enrollment act which provides for transfer¬ 
ring sailors from the army to the navy. 
A letter from the Army of the 1st inst., says 
the rebels for the last two days have beeu busy 
digging rifle-pits along the south side of the 
Rapidan, iu the vicinity of Raccoon Ford. It is 
also reported by deserters that they are tearing 
up the railroad between Fredericksburg and 
Hanover Junction. 
Gen. Grant, accompanied by Gen. Meade, 
reviewed the 1st corps (now a portion of the 
6th) on the 29th ult., near Culpepper. 
General Grant left for Fortress Monroe on 
the 1st inst. 
Maj.-Gen, 8mith has been assigned to duty at 
Fortress Monroe. 
The N. Y. World says the hasty departure of 
the double turreted Monitors is in consequence 
of the report that the rebel iron-clad Merrimac 
No. 2 is ready to make a raid on our iron-dads at 
Newport News and Hampton Roads. It is also 
reported that rebel iron-clads in North Carolina 
will also make a simultaneous appearance. 
A Fortress Monroe letter to the N, Y. Herald 
states that there is quite ait excitement there iu 
consequence of the arrival of the rebel commis¬ 
sioner Ould on a visit to Gen. Butler, relative to 
the exchange of prisoners. Commissioner Ould 
has books, papers, &c t , and it is expected his 
stay will he at least a week. 
Acting Master Williams, during the late 
storm, made a night expedition up the Nanse- 
raond River, and captured 20 men at a rebel 
signal station, bringing them safely to our lines, 
although there was quite a force of rebels in the 
vicinity. 
A Washington correspondent of the N. Y. 
Commercial states that the Government intends 
to call out all the organized militia of the States 
for 60 days, to occupy certain fortified points, the 
forts around Washington, etc., so that all vete¬ 
rans can be put into the field. 
General Ord is to command our forces in West 
Virginia, Gen. 8igd is to command that De¬ 
partment, but not to conduct military operations. 
Markets, ittomntcrce, &c 
Burnt Now-Yorker Ofll.e, > 
Kocuestkh, April 4, 1801. 1 
Flour—W e note a decline in brands made from in¬ 
ferior winter wheat and an advance in suck as nre 
made front choice. 
MEATS—Dressed Hogs are 50 cents per cwt. better. 
Hams and Shoulders have also advanced. 
Dairy—B utter is still moving upward. Cheese has 
advanced 2 cents per pound. 
SEEDS—Returneo to our table will exhibit a general 
advance. 
HAY Is plenty, hut the demand is good and $20,CO per 
tun is paid for choice. 
Rochester Wholesale Prices. 
Flour mid Groin. Eggs, dozen.18<a’2Cc 
Flour, win. wlfL *6,5tLi9.l«) Honey, hox.tfoj-14 
Flour, ;.priug do. 6 ,<xv.j. 8,25 Cam lies, t">x.lS.Sqi 
Flour, kali Wheat AOUiik. 00 Caudles, extra.14<&Uj£ 
Meal, Indian.2,9X32,18 Frnll and Roots. 
Wheat, GcnC-«!C..LSti@lj85 Apples, bushel.oOffiSOc 
Best white Canada hTiXadJO Do. dried ^ lb-8 , 
Corn.a.ysSi.OO Peuehci, do . 17ij18 
Rye ,60 ft.s. *J l:m..Lida 1,15 ('berries, do .ItUiSli 
Oats. b> weight . 68.1-70C. riunjs, do —H MB 
Bariev-. 1 . 20 , 1 . 12 *) potatoes, $) bush ..40&50 
Beaus.2,00uti25 Hide* tuid l»Lln». 
Buckwheat. 55,a,flue. Slaughtered.8?£@S*.*C 
Meat*. tain. 150.15 
Pork.old mess .00,iHLi'0O,OO Sheep Pelts.50,.74.00 
_ 1 . . rviilil 54 I IU) T It.ltn *ll". O IV 1 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Kentucky.— In pursuance of directions 
from Gen. Schofield, and in accordance with 
orders from Lieut-Gen. Grant, Kentucky has 
been divided into two districts. The western 
district comprises all between the Nashville rail¬ 
road and the Cumberland river, under General 
Ewing, with headquarters on the railroad. 
The eastern district comprises all between the 
Nashville river aud Big Sandy river, under 
Gen. Hobson, headquarters in the field; the 
whole under compiand of Gen. Burbridge, with 
headquarters at present in Louisville. That 
part of Kentucky west of the Cumberland 
river belongs to the Department of Tennessee. 
In the Rural of the 2d hist., w o gave a brief 
account of the capture of Paducah, and the re¬ 
pulse of the rebel* attacking the fort below the 
city. Our forces under Col. Hicks comprised 
the 1st battalion 10th Illinois, numbering 300 
raw recruits, under Major Barnes, three compa¬ 
nies of the 322d Illinois, 120 strong, under Maj. 
•Chapman, and 250 of the 1st Kentucky heavy 
artillery, (colored.) under Lieut. Cunningham. 
On the enemy’s advance into the city the fight 
became furious. As soon as the enemy took 
position they advanced in column against the 
fort, were repulsed, and fell back. About three 
o’clock in the afternoon, Maj.-Gen. Forrest -ent 
in a flag of truce, with a communication, de¬ 
manding a surrender. The following is a copy 
of Forrest’s communication: 
Headquarters Forrest s Cavalry Cords, ) 
rADUCAH, March 25, istw. y 
To Col. Hicks, commanding Federal forces at 
Paducah — Colonel : — U»\ iug force amply 
sufficient to carry your works and reduce the 
place, and in order to avoid unnecessary effusion 
of blood. I demand the surrender of the fort and 
troops, with all public stores. If you surrender 
vou shall be treated as prisoners of war. but if 1 
have to storm your works vou may expect no 
quarter. " N. 1$. Forrest, 
Maj.-Gen., Confederate Troops. 
Col. Hieks replied to this modest demand in 
the following terms: 
Headquarters Post Paducah, ) 
Paducah, Ky., March 25, I8b4 y 
Major-General N. 1L Forrest ? commanding 
Confederate forces :—I have this moment re¬ 
ceived yours of this instant, in which you de¬ 
mand unconditional surrenderof forces under my 
command. 1 can answer that I have been placed 
here by my Government to defend the post. In 
this, us well as all other orders from mv superior 
officers, I feel it to be my duty as an honorable 
officer to obey, and must,* therefore, respectfully 
decline surrendering as you require*. 
Very respectfully, 
8. g. Hicks, Col. 
When the foregoing response was received by 
Gen. Forrest, a general charge was ordered, and 
away the whole line dashed upon the works. 
The fort is a small, low earthwork, surrounded 
by a shallow ditch. The fierce onslaught was 
met by a sheet of flame from the fort, which 
made many of the assailants bite the dust, but 
it staid them not; on they came, yelling like 
demons; many of them crossing the ditch, and 
were killed upon the walls of the fort, before, 
broken and repulsed, the thinned ranks of the 
enemy sullenly retired. 
General Forrest’s forces are now scattered 
through various parts of Kentucky. He has 
a force opposite Cairo stealing horses and con¬ 
scripting all men they can lay hands on. 
Gen. Brannan has issued orders to prevent the 
shipment of goods to the interior of Kentucky, 
and also for the better protection of the public 
property, by the expulsion of persons having no 
visible means of support from posts in the 
district. 
The express train which-left Louisville on the 
3d inst. for Lebanon was captured by ten guer¬ 
rillas, and the two passenger ears burned. A 
guard of 17 Federal soldiers on the train surren¬ 
dered without firing a gun. Tills guard lias 
been ordered to Louisville under arrest. 
Several hundred rebels occupy Hickman, Ky. 
Tennessee.— The Chattanooga Gazette, says 
the rebels claim to have 50,000 men at Dalton 
and vicinity, and that they will capture Chat¬ 
tanooga and Eastern Tennessee when Longstreet 
moves into Kentucky, which he will do lbrtli- 
THE I'KOVISION iUAKKKTN. 
NEW YORK, April 4.-ASUrs—Quiet andSttady; 
sales at $S,H7‘< for pore, ami $l(',80 lor pearls. 
Flour—M arket may be quoted lino, with onlv a mod- 
oratedemand. Stales at $6.553'0,7" lor superfine State; 
$6,80jra.' 1 for extra State; SWmu 6.7" Tor superfine Weut- 
ern: .-'..15 for common to mediumextra Western; 
$7,l"«7.:io tor shipping brands extra round hooped Ohio, 
and $7, fi- it .-.25 for r ratio brands, tile market closing quiet. 
Sales choice extra Stale were made at $6,w»>i7.l5. Cana¬ 
dian Flour may be quoted quiet mol linn; sales at $6.90 
.it 7,UU lor enuuuon, and f 7.1 i),a8.25 lor good to cttQlce ex¬ 
tra. Uyr Flour rules quiet and unchanged; .sale- at 5,- 
5001,6,25 for Inferior to choice. Com meal rub - quiet; 
sales at $6,15 for Brandywine ; $5,flUU8,60 for Jersey; $5,- 
95 lor common State aud $6,15 lor Marsh’s calorie. 
GBAIN—Wlteat market may he quoted rather more ac¬ 
tive and linu. >»les al $1,603 l.ul lor Chicago sprlne; 
$l,63(a 1.41 for Milwaukee tank : Jl.lkVn 1,66 for amber Mil¬ 
waukee; $1 67; j, 1,70 for winter rerl Western; $1.70, 1 ,72 
for amber Michigan. Rye rules quiet aud unchanged ; 
sales at $l, 28 w 1 . 2 H. Barley rule- null: sales, at 1.20 j 1.50. 
Barley Malt rales quiet and steady at $1,40. Peas rule 
(lull At $1.1’ for Canada. Corn ,|i:tml, .* h.-n-,« 
lower; sales al *l.rA" L29‘, lor old shipping mixed 
Western, In ‘tore, and # 12 '* i lJrv.S: l«r new yellow Jcr- 
sev and S.ulhern. Oats dull and liravv; sales at rA.flS9 
for Canada; MXgHUc for State, and Mt&flOc Tor Western. 
Provision- — Pork market quiet aud lc*» arrive; 
sales at $22.25. '2i.<e forme;.-; $34,(XK224,60 for new prime 
mess, and $Ls,aYu2U,75 for prime. Re. f ih m; salt ; at 
$ 5 , 01 X 06,011 lor country prime; $7,50s9,ml for country 
mess: SiOAOjJOJI) for repacked mess, and $16.o. * 1X00 
for extra mens. Prime mess beef unchangedsales at 
$24. >26,00. BeefHiatus quiet: sales Stale mu! W estern 
at $22.lXf j’ 24.50. ( tit meats rule firm: sales at Idut-llc for 
shoulder*; I3uil4c for tminr-. Bacon sides rule ri mi; sales 
at H , It Vic for Western Cumberland cut middle;: !2-*c 
for do short ribbed middles, and H'„m litre tor do. long 
cut bain*. Lard market quiet and Heuuy: sales at 13 
(a'IS'jcfor No, 1 io choice. Butter selling at Jo . me (hr 
Ohio, and 4tv u *8e lor State. Cheese firm at lJorlSc. for 
common to prime. 
Hops Market heavy and dull; sales at 2>X.225e for 
common to prime. 
TOHON TO, March 30—Snportin' $3.60 for ship¬ 
ment, re barrel: $3,7<k<£kH$fbr home consumption; Extra 
$1,40.,HA"; Fancy $4.1<CvL2<J; Superior $t,75^t5,l0; Bag 
Flour $1,00 tier 200 tt,-. 
Grain—F all Wheat KVa96c common to choice; $0.97® 
0,9s good to choice; $l,0d« 1.02 extra. Spring W heat In 
good demand ul 75<iS2e, Barlty TVXJHOc. Oats38y<440e. for 
common to good ; 40.,i -t6c for good toextra. l*eus 45y:AOC 
common to good; extra 52(*56c. 
Provisions—H ams so.ixg., io.oo per loo ihs. Bacon 
$7,5U,J A.OO. Cheese $HJ,0U(u ll,0U wholesale; 12> 8 ,«15c per 
lb retail,— Globe. 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
An authoritative denial is made that the 
United States will send, a Minister to Maximil¬ 
ian’s Mexican Court. Our Government will 
recognize only the Republic while there is any 
struggle going on. 
The House Naval Investigating Committee 
have made important discoveries relative to the 
manner of purchases for the Naval Department. 
There is a prospect this will be the means of 
breaking up an alarming system of frauds. 
Col. Frank E. House,scut to New Orleans by 
Secretary C hase, to inqiire into the condition of 
trade and operatic;, >u trade regulations in 
Southern Mississippi ri\or and the gull', and to 
inquire what burdens were imposed upon com¬ 
merce by military onlers, reports that Gen. 
Banks does not obstruct the proposed trade re¬ 
forms. ami that there is u reasonable respect for 
the government, both in trade and public feel¬ 
ing. 
The committee charged with the investigation 
of frauds at the New York Custom House, will 
soon return aud finish the examination of Stan¬ 
ton, ex-Deputy Collector. The committee dis¬ 
covered that certain rebel agents succeeded in 
bringing seven thousand bales of cotton to New 
York, selling it, and pqcketiiag the proceeds. 
Gov. Brarnlctte and ex-Senator Diven left 
Washington the 29th, on their return to Ken¬ 
tucky. It is understood they had free inter¬ 
change of opinion with the President and Secre¬ 
tary of War, and both parties are in accord and 
harmonize in regard to the enforcement of the 
draft in that State, under the amendatory en¬ 
rollment. 
The Secretary of the Navy, in his response to 
a Senate resolution of inquiry, says: 
‘‘No transfers of seamen from the army to 
the navy have been effected under the recent 
act of Congress, and thirty-five vessels are now 
waiting for complements of men. Not only are 
these vessels waiting for crews, hut the terms of 
many of them now in the service have expired. 
Many are detained, though entitled to discharge. 
Were they not detained, many of the vessels on 
blockade duty would have to go out of service. 
This is to he deplored, and is mostly attributa¬ 
ble to bad legislation, for the enrollment act, of 
the last, Congress so utterly ignored the naval 
service, that enlistments in that service were 
not permitted to be credited on the quotas of 
those communities from which they were 
drawn when the draft came, to be enforced. 
‘‘In addition to these obstacles, the appro¬ 
priation for extraordinary bounties for army 
enlistments, while not ft dollar was paid to the 
sailor, operated to the discredit of the naval 
service, aud held out strong inducements for the 
military service. The fact that a rigid enforce¬ 
ment of the law would he disastrous in all its 
effects upoil the navy, was so obvious that 
attempts were at once made to procure Buell 
modification of the draft, or the manner of its 
execution, as should prevent the withdrawal of 
murines from their profession and the incorpora¬ 
tion and absorption of them in the army, thereby 
weakening and crippling the navy. But the 
military authorities objected that, as the strict 
letter of the law permitted exemption of ma¬ 
rines from the draft, no credit was due to any 
place for naval enlistments. Nor in the execu¬ 
tion of the law' w its there any relaxation of the 
enrollment act whereby the navy could bo 
strengthened and maintained. Earnest appeals 
were made by the executives of several mari¬ 
time States, and many of the municipal authori¬ 
ties on the seaboard, claiming that, the naval 
recruits ought justly to ho credited on their 
quotas. But, they were not allowed. Conse¬ 
quently the local influences became adverse to 
naval enlistments, and the army itself soou be¬ 
gan to feel the effects of this policy.” 
Department of the South. 
The N. Y. World's Beaufort correspondent 
mentions that re-enforcements have beeu sent to 
Florida, and that the next movement will be 
led by Gen. .Gilmore himself. It is reported 
. the troops will soon advance from Jacksonville. 
The steamer Cosmopolitan, from Florida, re¬ 
ports a naval expedition up the St. John’s liver, 
a# having captured the rebel steamer Hatty 
Brooks with 100 bales of cotton. 
The Navy Department has received informa¬ 
tion that on the 11 th inst., off’ Musqiiito Inlet, 
Fla., the U. S. schooner Beauregard captured 
the schooner Lyndon from New Smyrna, Fla. 
Also captured, on the same day, by the same 
vessel, the British sloop Hannah, of Naptun, 
X. r. The vessel had on boat’d a small quantity 
of cotton, but the Captain threw it overboard 
befoi’e being captured. 
A letter dated St. Mark's. Florida, 17th, states 
the Unionists of Central Florida have organized 
and gone into camp and commenced operation* 
against the rebels by a raid on the salt w orks 
and capturing a rebel tax collector. They had 
two engagements with the rebel cavalry, beat 
ing them handsomely and capturing their provis¬ 
ions. They lately captured their army wagons, 
30 mules, 10 horses, 150 contrabands, and destroy¬ 
ed and captured a large amount of rebel subsis¬ 
tence, These Union men only ask protection, 
arms and ammunition from the government. 
A Florida letter of the 2L'th to the N. Y. 
Tribune states that the rebel steamer Hattie bad 
been captured by an expedition from I’ilatki. 
She is a very valuable boat. 
A night attack was made by a small force of 
rebels on the 20th at I’ilatki, but our forces 
drove them oft’ promptly. 
The rebels are reported to have erected large 
earthworks ten miles from Pilatki. 
The Richmond Inquirer states that official 
information was received at the M ar Depart¬ 
ment concerning Ihe landing of a large force of 
the enemy, under General Burnside, in Waslring- 
ton, North Carolina, The recent heavy fall of 
snow, the Inquirer says, will stop any movement 
into the interior for some days. 
THE CATTLE IttAKKETS. 
NEW YOBK, March29.— Hkke Cattle—T he current 
prlct-s for llii; week at all the luarkt re are as follows re- 
Extra. $0u.iX»a.W,09; First quality. *152HV,il5,W; or.it- 
nary. $13,00(2)15,131; common, fclcyidi'LQO; lnb-rlor, $ re,0U 
@10,50. 
Cows AND CALVES. — Extras, $<4)@00: First quality, 
$56@65; ordinary, $iTe 5o; cou.iuon, $£0v. i5; Inferior, 
$3U@4U. 
VEAL calves— Extra, rh.OOSOO cts; First qnnl- 
tty.9@9Xc; ordinary, -$>$(«9; common, 7>i@$c; inferior 
7(al7 V’. 
BliKKP and Lamms—E xtras, V bead, $9,00@12; prime 
quality, $7..v» \5H; ordinary, $6,<X>@7,50; common, $5,50 
@6,00; Inferior. $i,.’&@5,25. 
Swink.—C orn-red, heavy, 7*i@9c; it Ill-fed, s* 4 c 
HIUUIITON, Man h 3(1.—BKEP CATTLE—Extra, f 11.50 
@12,00: HI quality, $10,50.11: 2.1 do, $2..vre n jo; Id do, 
$8.75,19.25 H 100 lbs Stores—Vr-ftrllnifs. $o».,i.o; 2 years 
old, $0di mi; three Tears old, $oo.y»i. Working Oxen— 
Sales a! $140. $l95:.d $261. MUch Cow»—PricM nmaliijr 
fYoni $40 to $100. Bni-qp and Lainb!< Prices In lid;, at 
7vraS.' ‘-J lb; extra 9V. Swine—wbol<-»ub,7L .y^c 
V' It': retail. 9, ;W)c (■ tb. Choice lot* to peddle sell from 
iV'i'.'.qe i>i It. : fat boy-. -till fed, 9 - 0 ,r f. fN Lamb¬ 
skins, 4.25;i.bccpiktut, $3,50.^0.25. Hide-, lie D tb. 
Tallow at 9c. 
OAMJUUPfiE, March W-BekF Cattim -Extra $11,50 
@12; 1st quality $lureVtilL00; second quality $9.50" 10,W; 
third (lU.illn $t„VV"Working Om ii-I" 1 , $IU", 2uo. 
Cows and CalveB-sao.OtVy.u.viii. YVnrllnae, $0da0U:Two 
years oil $00.00; •»U.M; three years old $auXto$7.iXl Sheep 
and Laron* $4v50to)6JW e-acli; extra $7.5dj,lU,o),or from 
6q to oc >4 it. Illdc. ireD.e V »>• Tallow 9w-9. L «e $.• lb. 
Pella $3,544*4,00 each. 
TOKOYl’O. MarchInferior $5 '6»Jcwt; 
e.xlra $5,50..:d£0 f> cwt, wholesale; $5,i»4.,i S4*' , rdinary; 
(l.OOri lO for superior, retail. Calves scarce at $4 to $6.00 
each. Sheep *1 f.:.,oi» "‘>,90 each according to size and 
quality. Lambs $ 2 ... SSo each. Hboep and Lambskin* at 
Department cf the Gulf. 
Ot R army was still pushing up Red river. 
The steamer Luminary had on board 122 bales 
of cotton and 300 rebel prisoners for New Or¬ 
leans, including 25 officers captured on the 21st, 
28 miles back of Alexandria. The gunboats 
having commenced destroying property, the 
troops now follow the example, and the inhabit¬ 
ant destroy all private cotton to prevent its 
falling into our hands. Among the prisoners 
is Gen. Taylor’s Chief of Staff. 
The 83d Ohio Volunteers, in advance of Gen. 
Banks’ forces, reached Alexandria on the 14th, 
mai’ching 170 miles in live days. F.ighty or 
ninety prisoners were taken, and skirmishing 
lasted several days. Our troops were never 
healthier. , 
Alexandria was occupied by our troops on 
the 16th. The enemy, under Generals Taylor 
and Folignac, crossed the river, and retreated 
to Shreveport by land. Several rebel gunboats 
that were there have gone up the river. 
The steamer New Falls City, laden with cot¬ 
ton, is reported burned. 
Banks’ cavalry, under Lee, arrived at Alex¬ 
andria on the l’Jtli. The remainder of the army 
is within two days’ inarch. When it arrives 
the wool itiahkets. 
NEW YOKE, March 30.—There lias been more activi¬ 
ty iu this article since our last: buyers have been rather 
more disposed to meet the views of sellers. The market 
was better 111 the early part of the week, In sympathy 
with the rl.-C in kohl a'" 1 vxehtiuge, but closes rather 
unsettled, .sab -of 24.0.000 lloeces at 67@7Uc for coar*e 
State, Ohio and Michigan: 7l.it 75c for medium Hue, and 
76@82c for filit Saxony ; lOCUWults pulled nt (i2-, l ..' 7-c for 
heavy No. 1 to extra: Wi,(O0 P -- heavy to medium l alt- 
fornla at .xi .yitU’; 30,6011 fb„ floe. Iu light COmli I Ion. a l .V*-: 
41 x 1 hales Mestizo at35ffi41c for medium to selected ; Six) 
halee wlilto and gray Douxkol at 48q »64ie. 4<*i do. t ape 
alSftyioc; 5X1 da. line, unwashed Odessa at 4lj>,43c, and 
600 do. Alrlcan. 
miterON, March The followlnE are the quotations 
of wool for this week:— JMmutUc—i Saxoiiy nud Merino, 
flue, W !T>, 78®82c; full blood, 7(X<i_?8c; half and three- 
fourlns Mood, 7Mh 73c; common. (>5(Sl7Uo; pulled, extra, 
HO@86o; do. tupirtine, 750h v dc: Western mixed, 6foi7Uc. 
Fm'eian— Smyrna, washed, as - .vie: do, unwashed, -L- 35c; 
Syrian, 2lKa42c: lupe. 34yj-15c: Crimea, 19^35; Buenos 
Ayres, 17id,i'ic ; Peruvian, tUfjiUc. 
ALBANY, March 34k—The market !•> very dull will) a 
good supply ottering, particularly of pulled. Holders 
arc Inclined to succumb to the views of buyers, and tlie 
sales show n I'lUllug oil from last Week’s prices. We 
notice sale* of J.ilOU lb.-, super. Pulled on )>. I., 6.51X1 lbs.— 
Mixed lU-eoe at 76c, mid 15,1 xk) its, MLddguu fleece at 75c. 
TOltONTO, March 30—Wool scarce ai.35j.-41y it.— 
Globe. 
Pope’s department, 
peditlon is with Gen. Sully on tin; Missouri. 
— Saturday week in New York, n little boy who was 
flying Ms kite from the roof of a five story building, 
fell to the pavement and was instantly killed. 
