bered us two to one. and were commanded by 
Pegram in person. Night stopped the pursuit, 
which will be renewed in the morning. We cap¬ 
tured two standi? of colors. Our loss in killed, 
wounded and missing will not exceed 30. Scott’s 
famous rebel regiment was cut off from the rest 
and scattered. Gilmore, Lrig.-Gen. 
The rebel force has been driven nut of Central 
Kentucky, and much uf their plunder has been 
re-captured. I have this moment received a sec¬ 
ond dispatch from Gen. Gilmore, dated this 
morning, from Stagul’s Ferry on the Cumber¬ 
land, as follows: 
U I underrated the enemy’s force in my first re¬ 
port of yesterday's fight ‘They have over 2,000 
men, outnumbering us more than two to one. 
During the night their troops recrossed the Cum¬ 
berland in three places. We have retaken be¬ 
tween 800 and 400 cattle. Peg ram’s loss will not 
fall short of 600 men. Gilmore, Brig-Gen.” 
The alacrity with which the troops have con¬ 
centrated, and the vigor aud gallantry of their 
attack, are highly commendable. 
A. E. Bokxbiok, Maj.-Gen. Commanding. 
The Cincinnati Times' Lexington dispatch 
says Gen. Gilmore arrived from the battlefield of 
Somerset on the 2d. The enemy, numbering 2,- 
600, were overhauled four miles north of Somer¬ 
set. Skirmishing commenced, the rebels falling 
back to a position on a hill, a mile and a half 
from Somerset, where'they made a stand, and the 
battle began in earnest After five hours' figbtr 
iug the rebels fled, pursued by our cavalry, to 
the river. Night coming on, and arrangements 
having been previously made, they effected a 
crossing, leaving 500 cattle. They had no train. 
Their loss was 6()ki'’'ed and nearly 400 prisoners 
including 20 commissioned officers. Our loss was 
21 killed and 26 wounded. Our force number¬ 
ed 1 200. 
Clukc’s band of rebels have been completely 
dispersed by the 10th Kentucky cavalry. 
Tennessee.—T he Memphis Argus says the 
Sunflower expedition is a failure, and the troops 
LIST OF NEW Am 
of the several vessels which attempted to run U ia V^ e i r**? 1 a. y \ mer ' < ? a an ^ people of 
... * ; England feel themselves bound together by a 
past Tort Hudson on the night of the 14th of stronger lie than poliiical alliances can furnish 
March, from whidh it appears that they bad or than political differences can break, 
reached the last and most formidable batteries. I , TJiej honestly hope that such distress as has 
and w-ore congratulating themselves upon having Ihir/r.-nTnev’-r'C an vof^h^ 
gained the turn in the river when the Mississippi whom they address; but should the time unhA- 
gromuled. Fearful that this vessel, under the I'i■ y arrive when such help as has now been 
mauling fire of the enemy, would fall into the ^ , l,e acceptably returned, by none 
enemy’s hands, she was deliberately destroyed San b/tb?iwkto?'Sep 6 on5'!>gffi rly 
by her commander, after the removal of all on In behalf of the Working Men s Institute, 
board. No private effects were saved. This Darnton Luptox, President 
mishap to the Mississippi caused a derangement Lwds , Feb. 12 , ises. 
of the well-contrived programme of Admiral President has issued a proclamation de- 
Farragut for the passage of all the vessels of the f ''£ na ^ n £ ^e 30th inst as a day of national 
fleet The fighting on the par! of our men isde- |> u ™0!atioD T fasting and prayer. The following 
scribed as in the liigbest degree creditable to * 8 ^ Ie document: 
them, all striving to exhibit superior prowess, IFTwrcus, The Senate of the United States 
The following has been received at dc I°? U ? recognizing the Supreme authority 
iuulouowuig uaa w en rocuvea at. and inst vrivornment nf A m biv r.rm oil 
Strawberry Plants -J Knox. 
Jy Bk , A b fia . , ' ch ' Bankers, New York Citv 
Han'I-Book of the IT. S. Tax t.nw-Johng 
K, . W Jirl’V/ n M'xCnltnrp-ri P T Moore, 
lyu-'-ell s Strawherrv—lieoTi'.. ciarm 
LiesreiobrabiU drain Drill-R R Triicv 
bone PnPt M i nun—C C OonCale. or Jo*,.p 
The Adirondao Grape-John W Bailev. 
irofessor Hopkins. Family School for'BojB 
Produce Wanted N G Shnone. J 
Bean Planar Whiteside, Barnett k Co. 
Situation W r anto.I—Wm H ['nee 
Stencil Plates—N E Baker 
Peach Pits Wanted- O Wanncmacher. 
Special KOI lee*. 
Atlantic Monthly -Tidttior A Felds. 
Con^hs, (olds Brown » Bronchial Troche a 
A Saccessfal Merchant—D R Pc Land & Co. 
Sheep Farmers—J hh F Levin. 
Leaves fall, but lo. the yontig buds peep I 
Flowers die, but stiU their seed shall bloom 1 
Prom death the quick young life wiU leap, 
When spring shall come and touch the tomb. 
The splendid shiver of brave blood 
I* thrilling through onr country now, 
And she who In old time* withstood 
The tyrant, lift* again her brow. 
God's precious charge « sternly keep 
Unto the tmal victory; 
With freedom we will live, or sleep 
With our great dead who set us free, 
God forget us when we forget 
To keep the old flag flying yet. 
&l)c Ncrus Condenser 
Mrssonu 
the headquarters of the army in Washington; 
St. Loots, April 8, 1803. 
To Maj.-Gen. IT. IF I faJIcrA: —Col. Harrison, 
commanding at Fayetteville, telegraphs that. 
Capt. J. .T. Worthington, wifhjlwo companies of 
the 1st Arkansas Cavalry, returned to-day from a 
scout in Carrol Co,. Arkansas. In skirmishes 
with the rebels be killed 22 and took 7 prisoners. 
Captain Smith and McFarlain were killed, and 
Capt. Walker is a prisoner. Onr loss was one 
man wounded—not dangerously. 
&• It Ouktih, Major-General 
St. Lon April 3, 1803. 
To Maj.-Gen. H. W. IIalle.dc:— A band of 
guerrillas took the steamers Gain and Murdock 
and several soldiers and nine contrabands. Gen. 
.Sloan telegraphs that Col. King is in pursuit. and 
had two fights yesterday with the guerrillas, 
totally routing them and mortally wounding 
their chief S. I L Curtih, 
Major-General Commanding. 
— A traitor has been convicted in Kentucky, and will 
be executed. 
The confederates have been successful in negotiating 
an European loan. 
In Richmond oranges and lemons were recently sold 
at auction for $75 per box. 
— The Federal Council of Switzerland has ceded the 
Valley of Dapples to France. 
— The Union League Societies in the State of Ohio now 
number over 100,000 memhers. 
— It is said that the Empress of the French has invited 
the ex Queen of Naples to Paris. 
— Col. Clark, Chief of Gen, Banks’ staff, killed at Port 
Hudson, waa a citizen of Auburn. 
— All the steamboats at Cincinnati are being pressed 
into tiie service, of the Government. 
— Vessels are arriving at Oswego from Canada. Nearly 
ail the porta on Lake Ontario are open. 
— The ladies Of Paris are collecting linen and lint in 
large quantities for the wounded Poles. 
— Only about one hundred rebel prisoners remain at 
Johnson’s Island, near Sandusky, now. 
— Marian Laugicwioz, Dictator of Poland, is only 33 
years old. He is the son of a physician. 
— The cifizenB of Key West have contributed $1,S00 to 
the Soldiers’ Relief Fund of New York. 
— A letter from Port Royal lays the number of freed 
slaves in that department Is nearly 17,000. 
— All disloyal residents of counties in front of Wash¬ 
ington are to be rent to the enemy's lines. 
— Several Medical students are leaving Paris in order to 
atteud upon the wounded patriots in Poland. 
— Gen. Grant's medical director reports that the siek- 
uess in his army ha* been largely exaggerated. 
— The expenditure* on the geological mi rvey of Califor¬ 
nia up to the pre*cnt time, have been $46,749. 
— Gen. Si gel lias withdrawn his resignation, and his 
friends apply for a command in Texas for him. 
— George Long Duu'ltincU, an eminent literatenr, in N. 
Y. city, died Monday week after a brief illness. 
— Counterfeit $5 bills on the Bank of (fie Common¬ 
wealth, of New' York, have made their appearance. 
— It is not impossible that, a uegro regiment may be or¬ 
ganized in one of tire Jo) a I Slave State*—Delaware. 
— Fresh strawherrie* have been for over a week on the 
hill* of lore of the leading restaurants in New York. 
— Eleven barrels of whiskey sold in Atlanta, Ga., a 
few days ago, for $8,000, being more than $700 a barrel. 
— Valuable salt springs have been discovered near 
Leavenworth, Kansas. They are said to bo inexhausti¬ 
ble. 
— A bill which grants separate schools for Catholic 
children in Upper Canada has passed the Canadian Parlia¬ 
ment. 
— A goose, owned by Daniel Palmer, of Buxton, Me., 
died on the 19tli nit., at the extreme age of fifty-two 
years. 
— A large emigration to the State of Illinois is taking 
place from the States of Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky 
and Missouri. 
— Serfdom expired in Russia on the 3d inst. The event 
was celebrated in all the churehes, and complete tranquil¬ 
lity prevailed. 
— Six women lost their lives by suffocation in the crowd 
in London, during the royal procession at the Prince of 
Wales’ marriage. 
— The St. Louis Democrat is joyful over the resumption 
of navigation on the Western rivers, and the improved 
pro> peers of trade. 
— In the town of Berger, in Prussia, is an elegant church 
i a iable of bolding 1,000 persons, constructed—statues and 
all—of papier mache. 
•— The English papers state that the royal plate on the 
Prince of Wales' marriage breakfast table was of the value 
of ten million dollars! 
— Secretary Chase has placed in the hands of the Pay¬ 
master General a sufficient amount to pay the entire army 
up to the 1st of March. 
— The London Zoological Society aro preparing tanks 
for forae white whales, twelve feet long, which are coming 
from the St Lawrence. 
— The English Government is opening a negotiation for 
the purchase of the Hudson Bay Company’s charter. The 
company ask £1,600,000. 
— The board of visitors of the public schools of New 
Orleans have decided to require the scholars to unite in 
singing the national aire. 
— Nathaniel Fillmore, father of Ex-President Millard 
P lltnore, died at his residence in East Aurora, Erie Co., 
on Saturday week, aged 92, 
— Mrs. Jane O. Swisshelm, of Minnesota, has lately 
been appointed to a position in the War Department, with 
a salary of $1,000 per annum. 
— Kansas has a variety of soldiers in the field, namely: 
a dozen regiments of white men, five regiments of Indians 
a id two regiments of negroes. 
— The exchange of prisoners of war goes on briskly on 
the Jiunes River. On Tuesday week two or three boat- 
1 a is were paused up and down. 
— It is said that some of the testimony taken before the 
War Gwmittce, concerning ihe early conduct of the war, 
is too disgraceful to t.e published. 
— Miss Elizabeth A. Richardson, of Manchester, N. If., 
has been appointed copyist in the War Department, Wash¬ 
ington, at a salary of $600 a year. 
— It is estimated that there are twenty million of grape 
v ues planted in California, which will produce twelve 
m llion gallons of w ine annually. 
— The Virginia Legislature have agreed upon a bill to 
take possession of the salt works in Washington County, 
and to work them upon State account. 
— Tiie Commissioner of Internal Revenue has decided 
that- any gift enterprise in which prizes are to be drawn is 
a lottery, and 6trhjectto a tax of $1,000. 
— Nineteen Federal and twenty one rehel generals have 
been killed in battle or died from the efl'ects of wounds 
since the commencement of the war. 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., APRIL 11, 1863. 
The Army in Virginia. 
An attack by rebel cavalry 100 strong was 
made ou the 29th ult,, on our cavalry patrol on 
the telegraph road between Dumfries and the 
Occoquun. Eight of our men were captured. 
An expedition from Gen. Hooker’s army, under 
Col. Fairchild, which was sent out recently to 
Northern Neck, returned to Belle Plain on the 
2!)tb, after a successful forage, in which they got 
possession of 300 lbs. of bacon, 1,000 lbs. of pork, 
230 bushels of wheat, 3,000 bushels of corn and a 
large quantity of oats. The cavalry seized a 
large number of valuable horses and mules, cap¬ 
tured several prisoners and broke up the ferries 
at Union Wharf and Tappahannock. Col. F. 
also burned a schooner engaged in smuggling 
goods into Virginia. 
The following lias been received at headquar¬ 
ters of the army: 
Gkn. Sou hack's II kaikrj a htkrh, < 
Baltimore, April 4th. ) 
To Maj.-Oen. II. IF. Ifalleck. Gen-in-Chief :—1 
have received through Brig.-Gen. S. Cameron. 
Capt. Carter’s acoomitofthc Point Pleasant affair. 
Capt Carter had CM men, and rep oris two killed, 
three wounded and six taken prisoners: making 
our total loss eleven. The rebels lost In killed 
and wounded and prisoners twenty-two, and so 
their raid with their largely superior numbers 
was handsomely repulsed. 
Rout. II. Sobenck. 
Muj.-Qon. Coin'd’g. 
The late attack on Point Pleasant, Ya. was 
made by 250 of Jenkin's caval ry. They ransack¬ 
ed several houses and stores and burned 7,000 
bushels of corn belonging to Ihe Government and 
were finally driven out after a conflict which last¬ 
ed several hours. 
Telegraphic communication is cut along the 
Kanawha from Charleston to Point. Pleasant The 
Government steamer Victor No. 2 was fired into 
at Hale’s Landing, 40 miles above Buffalo, on the 
Kanawha. One man was killed. The boat was 
completely riddled by musketry fire. The Victor 
No. 2 and Gen. Meigs finally succeeded in reach¬ 
ing Gallipolis. The Victor and B. C. Levy are 
still up the Kanawha. It is rumored that, they 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
made us! 
It behooves us. then, to humble onrselves be¬ 
fore the offended Power, to confess our national 
sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness. 
Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, 
and fully concurring in the views nf the Senate. 
I do bv this my proclamation, designate and set 
apart Thursday, the 3l'th day of April, 1863. as a 
day of natinnal humiliation, fasting and prayer. 
And I do hereby request all the people to ab¬ 
stain on that day from their ordinary secular 
pursuits, and to unite, at their several places of 
public worship and their respective homes, in 
keeping the dav holy to the Lord, and devoted to 
ihe humble discharge of the religious duties 
proper to that solemn occasion. 
All this being done. In sincerity and truth, let 
us. then, rest humbly in ihe hope 
est, 6 per cent. Certificates, $273,880,17(1; aver¬ 
age amount of interest, 6 6-10. United States 
notes, $316,553,500; no interest. Requisitions, 
$46,640,615; no interest Aggregate amount, 
$1)29.186,147; aggregate amount of interest, 3.33. 
100 per cent. This amount is less than the pub¬ 
lic was led to apprehend from the speeches in 
Congressional debates. 
An Intercepted document addressed by Judah 
P. Benjamin, the Confederate Secretary of State, 
to Hon. Q. L. C. Lamar, tiie Confederate Com¬ 
missioner at SL Petersburg, has lately come into 
possession of our Government. 
It shows the prudent anil significant reserve 
which the Confederate authorities prescribe to 
themselves in refusing to enter into any engage¬ 
ments with foreign nations not to renew the 
American slave trade. Mr. Benjamin says Mr. 
Lamar is well aware how firmly fixed in their 
Constitution is the policy of the Confederacy 
against the opening of that trade, but he re¬ 
marks, we are informed, that, false pretenses and 
invidious suggestions are made by the agents of 
the United States at European Courts, of the 
intention to change our Constitution as soon as 
peace is restored, and of authorizing the impor¬ 
tation of slaves from Africa. If. therefore. Mr. 
Lamar should find, in his intercourse with the 
Cabinet to which he is accredited, that any such 
impressions are entertained, he must use every 
proper effort to remove them, and if any attempt 
is made (o introduce into any treaty which lie 
maybe charged with, negotiating stipulations on 
the subject just mentioned, he will assume the 
position that the Constitution of the Confederates 
is an agreement made between independent 
States. In other words, no power is delegated 
to the Confederate Government over this subject. 
In the course of his instructions, Mr. Benjamin 
says:— We trust that no unnecessary discussions 
on this subject will be introduced into your nego¬ 
tiations. If, unfortunately, this reliance should 
prove ill-founded, you will decline continuing 
negotiations on your side, and transfer them to 
ns at home—where, in such event, they could be 
conducted with greater facility and advantage, 
under the direct supervision of the President. 
The Government has received an official copy 
of the Memorial of the Deed's Working Men’s In¬ 
stitute to the following effect: 
The members or the Leed’s Workingmen’s In¬ 
stitute have heard with Pleasure which they 
cannot readily describe, of tlio contribution made 
by the people of America toward the relief of 
tlieir distressed fellow laborers in Lancashire. 
This act of sympathy so spontaneous and so 
gen earn is. has excited through the country enor¬ 
mous Icelings of gratitude. Thu (hanks of the 
... authorized by 
the Divine teoehirurs, that the united cry of the 
nation will lie heard on high, and answered with 
blessings, nn less than the pardon nf our national 
sins, uml restoration nf onr now divided and su* 
faring country to its former happy condition of 
unity and peace. 
In'witness whereof l have hereunto set my 
hand aud earned the seal of the United States to 
be affixed. 
Done at the City of Washington this thirtieth 
day of March, in the year of our Lord one 
[l. 8. J thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, 
and of the independence of the 'United 
States the eighty-seventh. 
Arratiam Lincoln. 
By the President: 
Wm. II. Seward, Sccrcfary of State. 
It is usserted in quarters entitled to credit, that 
a draft will soon be made to fill up all regiments 
now in tho field decimated by the casualties of 
war, to their proper standard. It is not yet 
known how many it will require, but probably 
200,000. The drafted men will be sent at once to 
the regiments, where they will Ire taught the 
military tactics upon the field, and notin camps 
of instruction as has been proposed. 
Gen. McClellan’s official report of the seven 
days’ fight on the Peninsula, and his falling 
back to Berk el y, dated July last, was published 
on the 3d lost Hu says to the calm judgment ol 
the future historian he leaves the task of pro¬ 
nouncing upon the movement, confident that its 
verdict will be that no such difficult one was 
more successfully executed; that no army more 
repeatedly, heroically and successfully fought 
against such odds; that no men of any race ever 
displayed greater endurance, and with such 
cheerfulness,.and under such hardships. 
60 siege guns in position. At Bridgeport also 
there has been constructed some fine earthworks, 
and at Stevenson, Ala,, Shelbyvillc, Tullahoma 
and Dcckhart. 
Bragg’s loss at the battle of Stone River, was 
15.000 killed, wounded aud missing. This is the 
official figure. Seven hundred officers were kill¬ 
ed, wounded and missing. Two Generals were 
killed and three wounded. 
The rebel army in Tennessee consists of 190 
regiments of infantry, and 75 regiments of cav¬ 
alry, the latter under Gen. Wheeler, Gen. Van 
Dorn being second in command. 
Mississippi— A Cairo special of March 31st 
says:—Last Wednesday morning the rams Lan¬ 
caster and Switzerland undertook tu run by the 
batteries at Vicksburg. Soon as they came with¬ 
in range, the Confederates opened a tremendous 
fire. The Lancaster was struck 30 times; her en¬ 
tire bow was shot away, causing her to sink im¬ 
mediately, turning a complete summersault w hen 
ihe went down. All ihe crew except two escaped. 
The Switzerland was disabled by a 64 pound ball, 
penetrating her steam drum. She floated down! 
(lie batteries still firing, striking her repeatedly. 
Finally the Albatross ran along side and towed 
her to the lower mouth of the Canal. The loss 
of life was not ascertained. 
On the way up the Hartford and Albatross en¬ 
countered a battery at Grand Gulf more formi¬ 
dable than at Fort Hudson. The Hartford was 
struck 14 times. Three men were killed. The 
vessels returned the fire vigorously; both were 
more or less injured. 
Rear Admiral Porter telegraphs to the Navy 
Department that the rams Lancaster and Switz¬ 
erland would not have been allowed to go down 
tho Mississippi had he been on the spot to see that 
his orders were obeyed. He adds that the rains 
were totally unprepared for the voyage, and that 
it was madness to attempt to pass the batteries in 
broad daylight. These rams were not transfer¬ 
red with the gunboats on the Western rivers to 
the Navy Department, but still belong to the War 
Department, and are under the command of 
Gen. El let. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS 
Some ingenious German has invented a paper 
cup, which will completely hold a draught o! the 
hottest liquid, and can bo bought for a farthing. 
By means of this invention, the good people ol 
Berlin cun take up and drink at their ease, as 
they go along the railroad, ihe cups of coffee 
which we Americans find it impossible to sw al¬ 
low without scold tng our throats. 
In Boston, during tho year 1862, there were six 
cases where a white woman was married to a 
colored man, but not one of a marriage between 
a white man and a colored woman. 
Th k V ote-Y ourself-a 1 .ihrary resolution, adopt¬ 
ed by Congress before its adjournment, will give 
to each member between $300 and $400 worth of 
books belonging to the Government, many of 
which have been stored in Washington for a long 
time. They embrace works of Jefferson, Adams 
and the other Fathers; Statutes at Large, Reports 
of Exploring Expeditions, etc. 
The Common Council, Board of Trade, and 
citizens of Chicago have organized several com 
mittees to make arrangements for the great Canal 
Convention to be held at that city next June. It 
has been resolved to erect a building for the ac¬ 
comodation of the Convention, as large as the 
Republican Wigwam. 
Government is purchasing fast steam tugs in 
Chicago, for the Mississippi. They are to be 
iron-clad, so as to be effective against light ord¬ 
nance, to be used in the fleet to be employed 
against river guerrillas. 
mons feelings of gratitude. The (hanks of the 
people at large will bo conveyed to the people of 
America through other appropriate channels. 
But the working people of Leeds can at least 
bear witness to fhe feeling which lias been 
aroused in a large section of their countrymen 
bv this instance of good will on the part of the 
American people. 
In justice, no less lo their order than to them¬ 
selves, they venture to give expression to that, 
feeling in the present address; and in the first 
place they beg (o offer their heartfelt thanks to 
those who have so gracefully ministered to the 
wants of a nation connected, indeed, with them¬ 
selves by blood, by language aud by laws, hut of 
late too much estranged from them by political 
differences. 
They cannot but. remember that this assistance 
is rendered at a lime which makes it particularly 
valuable as a token of sympathy, when other 
claims which might well be considered para¬ 
mount are pressing on the American people. 
They would gladly see in this matter of kindness 
an assurance that, however the officials of the 
two countries have differed or may differ on 
Movements in the West and South-West 
Kentucky. — The following dispatches have 
been received at the headquarters of the army: 
Lori8V7M.R, April I, 1863. 
To Maj.-Gen. Jin’leak —The following dis¬ 
patch has been received from Gen. Gilmore, giv¬ 
ing the details of his successful attack upon the 
enemy in Central Kentucky; 
Somerset, Ky., March 31, 1863. 
1 attacked the enemy yesterday in a strong po¬ 
sition of his own selection, defended by six can¬ 
non, near this town; fought him for five hours, 
driving him from one position (o another. Fi¬ 
nally stormed his position, whipped him hand¬ 
somely, and drove him in confusion toward the 
liver. His lisa is over three hundred killed, 
wounded and prisoners. The enemy outnum- 
