report that new obstructions were placed in 
Charleston harbor, which would not allow the 
smallest craft to pass. 
Our troops are being conveyed to Falley, Coles 
and Kiawab Islands, and North Edisto is occu¬ 
pied by a considerable force. The troops on 
Folly Island are entrenching. 
Five of the monitors are at North Edisto, two 
at Port Iloyal, and the Ironsides remains off 
Charleston. Two monitors have been filled with 
shot and shell, and in every department the 
greatest activity prevails. 
The pilot of the iron-clad Keokuk is under 
arrest charged with running her ashore on Morrn 
Island, so that the rebels might capture her. 
By the arrival of the transport Escort, from 
Newbern, N. C., intelligence from that region is 
received up to the 29th ult. Gen. Palmer made 
a successful reconnoissance toward Kinston, and 
returned after driving the rebels from their 
position behind earthworks, within eight, miles 
of that place. 
The chief participators In the affair were the 
45th Massachusetts and the 54th Pennsylvania. 
Skirmishing, to a great extent, had been going 
on Jn the vicinity of Newbern and Washington. 
The enemy had been repulsed at every point, and 
considerable numbers of rebel prisoners have 
been taken and sent Into Newbern. 
From Florida it is learned (hat (here are no 
armed rebels east of St John's River. Colonel 
Putnam, in command at St Augustine, is to 
return to the command of his brigade in General 
Terry’s division. Sufficient force will still be 
left to hold St Augustine and Fernand ina. 
There were in port at Key West on the 21st 
tilt., about 50 prize vessels, whose cases were yet 
to be disposed of by the court. 
The gunboat Sagamore, during a cruise up 
the w 7 est coast, destroyed two blockade runners 
loaded with cotton and grain at Bay Port, after 
a sharp contest with the rebels. 
An examination of the Tndianola shows that 
sbo was much shattered. The rebels got her two 
9-inch guns, and one 11-inch gun was burst and 
lying on the deck. The other fell overboard and 
now lies alongside in nine feet of water. 
The ram Switzerland is still in company with 
the Hartford and Albatross, blockading Red 
river ; and the movement of Banks’ army to¬ 
wards the same point, will tend materially toent 
off rebel suppliesfrom Texas and West Louisiana. 
A dispatch to the Hon. John Forsyth, of Mo¬ 
bile, from citizens of Brookville, dated 22d of 
April, Blates that the Unionists captured May- 
bew, on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, twelve 
miles from ColumbuH, Mias. Twenty miles of 
the Central Mississippi road, from Duckfown to 
Winona, has been destroyed by Unionists from 
Corinth. 
Tennessee. —Gen. Eliott’s marine brigade, on 
returning from an expedition up Tennessee riv¬ 
er, were fired on by the rebels under Major 
White. The fire was returned by the gunboats, 
and the rebels lied with a loss of ten killed and 
twenty wounded, Major White mortally. Our 
loss amounts to hut two killed and four wounded. 
Gen. Ellett lias destroyed every grist and saw 
mill and every distillery on the Tennessee, be¬ 
sides half a million feet of lumber. The towns 
of Hamburg and Kastport were also destroyed. 
A part of Gen. Grecnclay Smith's brigade, 
consisting of 250 cavalry, commanded by Col. 
Watkins, of the Gth Ky., made u dash 
Churchill, who will be exchanged for General 
Willich. 
The New York two-years’ regiments are to be 
sent home between the present, time and the 1st 
of July. They are to be mustered out. of service 
at the following places: 
At New York—1st, 4fb, 5tb. 6th, 15th, 17th, 
20th, 25tb, 29lb, 31st, 32d, 36th, 37tb, 38th. 
At Albany—2d, 3d, 14th, 16th, 18th, 22d, 23th, 
30th. 34 th. 
At Elmira—12th, 13tb, 19th, 21st 23d, 24th, 
26th, 27th, 33d, 35lL 
They will be subsisted at these 
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depots till mustered out and paid, and transpor¬ 
tation will be furnished them to their homes. 
The officers who shall re-enter the service will 
have their rank recognized from date of original 
muster. 
The Treasury Department has placed in the 
hands of the Pay master-General funds to pay in 
full all troops about to be mustered out of the 
service. 
Jhiee hundred and thirty-nine rebel prisoners 
were taken to Washington, May 4, including one 
Colonel, one Lt.-Colouel, one Major, and forty 
other officers. This makes a total of about 600 
since Saturday. 
— India rubber money has made its appearance is 
Troy. 
— A league of loyal Swedes has been organized in 
Chicago. 
Bamum’s Museum lias its present* excitement in a 
dog show. 
— The Legislature of Connecticut met in New Hartford 
on the 6th inst. 
— The product of wheat in Upper Canada, in 1862, wae 
24,620,000 bushels. 
— Dog owners in Massachusetts paid to towns last year 
$23,404 for licenses. 
— Gov. Andrews’ colored regiment has received fifty re¬ 
cruits from Cincinnati. 
— The tax on dogs in New Hampshire will, it is thought, 
yield an income of $25,000. 
5V. L. Leach, of Troy, Vt, claims to have discovered 
the secret of perpetual motion. 
— The rebel Secretary of the Treasury estimates his 
wants at $50,000,000 per month. 
— Two full regiments of loyal men have been raised in 
Arkansas, and a third is now forming. 
— The prospect of a good crop of cranberries on Cape 
Cod this season is said to be flattering. 
— The cost of preparations for the marriage of the 
Prince of Wales is computed at £23,450. 
— Private letters from Nevada confirm the reports as to 
the great mineral wealth of the Territory. 
— The Charleston Courier of a recent date annnounces 
its probable suspension for want of paper. 
On the 19th of May the American Baptist Missionary 
Union holds its 49th anniversary in Cleveland. 
— It Is yet good sleighing from Wells River to Barton, 
and four miles above Bellows Falls, Vermont. 
— It is said the Mormon emigration nromisea to he lar. 
Lxavks full, but to, the young buds peep I 
Flowers die, bnt still their seed shall bloom I 
From death the quick young life will leap, 
When spring shall ootne and touch the tomb. 
The splendid shiver of brave blood 
Is thrilling through our country now, 
And she who In old times withstood 
The tj rant, lifts again her brow. 
God’s precious charge we sternly keep 
Unto the final victory; 
With freedom we will live, or sleep 
With onr great dead who set us free, 
God forget us when we forget 
To keep the old (lag flying yet. 
NEWS PARAGRAPHS, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y., MAY 9, 186a 
Tite export of gold from New York has been 
Since January 1,18(13, 
Same time in 1862, ... 
Same time in 1861, 
Same time In 1860, *.* 
Same lime in 1869, 333 
Same time in 1868, 
Same time in 1867, 
Same time In 1856, 
Same time in 1866, ... 
Same time in 1854, .[3 
Same time in 1853, 3” 
Same time in 1862, ’ 
Watkins, of the Gth Ky. 
upon a 
reliel camp of the 1st Texas Legion, eight miles 
suuth of Franklin, on Carter's Creek Pike, and 
captured 128 rebels, Including three captains, five 
lieutenants, the same number of horses, 50 mules, 
one ambulance loaded with medical stores, and 
burned eight wagons and the arms of the rebels. 
A detachment of Gen. Gordon Granger's cav¬ 
alry, under Col. Campbell, of the 2d Mich., dashed 
among Gen. Vnn Dorn's rebel pickets, near 
Thompson's Station. May 1st. The enemy were 
vigilant, owing to the late surprise, and were 
prepared to run. Fourteen rebels were killed, 
30 wounded, and 11 prisoners taken, including 
one officer, all of the 4th Miss, No federal* hurt, 
Letters from East Tennessee say that there 
are but few rebel troops there, who could be 
easily driven out by 5000 men from our own side. 
Though still tyranically oppressed, the great 
mass of the people remain loyal. 
Western Virginia. —The latest information 
from Western Virginia, up to Friday P. M., is 
that the Union forces under Gen. Mulligan were 
repulsed near Fairmount. and that the Baltimore 
and Ohio railroad bridge at that point was en¬ 
tirely destroyed by the rebels. A large force of 
rebels now occupy Morgantown. 
The Ballimore and Ohio railroad has suffered 
severely. The bridge over the Cheat River was 
The Army in Virginia. 
An expedition under command of Maj.-Gen. 
Stahl, which left Fairfax Court House the 27 ih ult., 
returned the 30th. The object of the expedition 
was to patrol the country to the west of the 
Shenandoah, which was successfully accom¬ 
plished. Skirmishes took place between this 
force and Moseby's command, which resulted in 
the capture of several of his men. The results of 
the expedition in prisoners and spoils are40 men, 
mostly Moseby’8, some of White’s guerrillas, and 
100 horses. Among the prisoners is a rebel con¬ 
scription officer, upon whose person was found a 
list of the names of conscripts, and papers of 
importance. 
Richmond papers of the 27th, admit the loss of 
five Napoleon guns and 140 men on the Nanse- 
mond. 
The N. Y. Herald learns that Col. Robt. M. 
West, commanding Fort Magruder, made an 
attack with infatltry and cavalry on ibo enemy 
at Williamsburg, recently, and succeeded in 
driving the rebels two miles beyond the town. 
Our pickets are at. present stationed there, and 
ordered to maintain Lheir position at all hazards. 
An important move has been made by the 
Army of the Potomac. On the morning of the 
29th ult., the 5th Corps, under Gen. Mead, the 
Uth, Gen. Howard, and the 12th, Gen. Slocum, 
effected a Crossing of the Rappahannock at 
Kelly’s Ford, a few miles above Fredericksburg, 
on pontoons, which had been laid the night pre¬ 
vious. This portion of the nrrnv advanced nnH 
7,177,128 
The Secretary of the Interior has declined the 
execution of the joint resolution of Congress for 
the distribution of all the books and documents 
possessed by Congress, ami published by their 
order,among the members of the present Congress. 
The measure is impracticable as well as illegal. 
It would give $15,000 worth of books to each 
member. 
The New Albany (Ind.) Ledger says that it is 
ascertained to be a practice among dishonest 
army paymasters to conceal fron the soldiers the 
dales when they are likely to be in funds, in order 
that a set of rascally brokers may be “ rim in” on 
them to cash their orders at a ruinous discount 
1 his villainy has been practiced oven when the 
paymaster baa been in receipt of his funds from 
the Department, and the soldiers have been thus 
cruelly plundered of large amounts which 
would otherwise have gone to the relief of their 
families. 
Tub Due de Grammont has been condemned 
to pay the mother of Mr. Dillon, a newspaper 
editor, whom he killed in a duel near Paris, the 
sum of $20,000. M r. Dillon was his mother's ouly 
dependence, and he earned about $ 5,000 a year. 
The verdict will be a severe blow to dueling in 
France. 
In the examination of a paymaster's account 
in the office of the Second Comptroller of the 
Treasury, the following declaration was set op¬ 
posite the name of James Kennedy, Farrier, 
Company II, Purnell Legion, Maryland Volun¬ 
teers, on the pay roll as received at the office. 
“ Will not receive his pay for his services, having 
joined for the good of the cause and not for pay.” 
Against which declaration the paymaster has 
noted “never paid.” 
A late number of the Richmond Enquirer has 
a philosophical article upon the bad habit of eat¬ 
ing three meals per day. The editor argues that 
two meals are amply sufficient, adding that, under 
the present condition of affairs, and the shortness 
ol provisions, “it is nearly as bad to grow fat as 
to get rich on the Confederacy-’ 1 
The sum of $5,000 has been subscribed in Phil¬ 
adelphia lor the relief of the distressed cotton 
operatives and muslin embroiderers in and 
near Belfast and Lisburn. It is expected and 
Department of the Gulf. 
The National Republican ol May 1, publishes 
a semi-official dispatch from Gen. Banks, dated 
near St Martaiusville, April 17th, from which it 
appears that when ho left Baton Rouge, three 
regiments ol colored troops remained for its 
defence. 
The results, 
among others, of Gen. Banks’ 
march of over 300 miles, are beating the enemy 
in three battles, two on laud and one on Grand 
Lake; dispersing the rebel army; utterly destroy- 
ing the rebel navy; capturing the foundariee of 
the enemy at Franklin and New Iberia; demol¬ 
ishing the salt works ten miles southwest of the 
latter place; capturing the camp equipages of the 
— A large amount of arms and ammunition are now 
being stored in the United States arsenal at Augusta, 
Maine. 
— The value of property liable to confiscation in the 
District of Columbia is estimated at seven millions of 
dollars. 
— Dr. Auguste, the black surgeon commissioned in our 
army, has been assigned to duly in the contraband camp 
at DUca 
— Thirty three hundred citizens, male and female, have 
taken the oath, and given bond to General Mitchell, at 
Nashville, Tenn. 
— Tlie Bishop of Galveston, Texas, has lately returned 
from France to Ills diocese with fifty-two missionary 
priests and nuns. 
— At McMinnville, Tenn., (a place recently captured 
from the rebels,) Hour sells at $80 a barrel, and lady’s 
slices $35 per pair 
— Oswego deserves the palm on longevity. Peter Ros- 
2,000 prisoners; and so deranging the plans of 
the rebels that they cannot for some months, if 
forever, re-organize their force in that part of 
Louisiana. 
Our loss in the two land battles was 600 or 700. 
Nothing could exceed the conduct of the officers 
and privates in Gen. Banks’ command. 
The dispatches say we have not only destroyed 
the army and navy of the enemy, and captured 
his materials of re-organization, but we have also 
in our possession bis ablest officers of sea and land. 
Later news from Gen. Banks states that on the 
21st of April, he occupied Opelousas and Wash¬ 
ington, 
Accounts from Gen. Banks’ command of April 
18th, state that our gunboats had captured a for¬ 
tification called Butte le Rose, constructed for 
dm purpose of guarding the entrance to Red 
River. Fifty prisoners, and a considerable 
amount of munitions of war were captured. 
mount, is said to have boon the largest iron 
one in America. It was 650 feet long. The 
Cheat river bridge isdeseribed, also, as an exten¬ 
sive structure of wood ind iron. 
Accounts state that in the recent raid to Mor¬ 
gantown, Va., the rebels numbered about 2,000, 
all cavalry—no infantry or artillery—under 
guerrilla Jenkins. 
They shot Lieut. Denninc of the lstVa. (loyal) 
regiment, who was visiting his home on a fur¬ 
lough, stole 50 hones and all available property. 
Alabama.— Special to Cairo, via Memphis, 
gives the news ol' the capture of Tuscumbia re¬ 
cently. It was held by the rebel Col. Chalmers, 
whose forces have been very troublesome lately 
in the vicinity of Tennessee river. Gen. Dodge 
This portion of the army advanced, and 
at Crooked Run, a small stream about three 
miles beyond the Rappahaunock, encountered 
the rebel pickets, and captured a number of 
prisoners. When within a mile of the Rapidati 
River our men were fired upon from rifle pits. 
The enemy were charged upon, when they fled 
to Germania Mills, where a bridge was being 
constructed by the rebels. A skirmish ensued, 
when one rebel was killed, several wounded and 
126 taken prisoners. Federal loss one killed. 
Other skirmishes took place on (lie march to 
Chancellot ville, a few miles further on, where 
the throe Corps formed a junction. Two rebel 
brigades had been there the night before, and 
attempted to throw up earthworks, but the sud¬ 
den movement, of Gen. Hooker’s army warned 
"jem of them danger. Movements in the West and South-West. 
The 1st Corps, Gen. Reynolds, the 3d, Gen. 
Sickles, and the Cih, Gen. Sedgwick, crossed the T Missouri.— The correspondent of the SL 
river some four miles below Fredericksburg, ‘ j0ai8 T)emocrat > with Gen. Dover’s command, 
simultaneous with the other three Corps. ’ Bayfl that . about ten o’clock un Sunday night a 
The movements of both wings of the army, so rtbt ’ 1 regiment under Col. Hunter, the advance 
far, are considered successes. Gen. Hooker, it gUar f ul ^ en ' Marmadnke’s army, then re¬ 
appears, is satisfied, as will be seen by his treatin £ ft ‘ om Ca P p Girardeau, were surprised 
announcement to the troops: three miles west of Jackson, while cooking sup- 
. per and loitering around the camn fires 
Thursday, April 30, 1863 . J I wo small howitzers, loaded with musket 
General Orders , Ho. 47. — It is with feelings kails, and hauled by hand to within .hirty yards 
of heartfelt satisfaction that the Commanding of them, were simultaneously discharged killing 
r T? n ? a ia r r n r- ai * « 
the enemy must either inglorionsly fly or come tlmt! t u ‘ . a Cavalry charged, and not a 
ontlrom behind his defences and give us battle hiuu of their entire reginierit, it is sunnosed ps- 
Corps have been a succession of splendid ' AM the horses, guns, camp equipage, and 
achievements. By command of several thousand dollar’s worth of stolen plun- 
0 nT Mai.-Gcn. Hooker. dor were captured. 
iluams, Adj.-General. Early the next morning Gen. Vandever ad- 
A dispatch received on the 5th inst., states that vanced and saw the main body of the enemy in 
Fredericksburg is occupied by Gen. Corcoran’s full retreat lie immediately followed, keeping 
old brigade and the troops of Newton’s division, ”P ft constant artillery fire on their rear. At 2 
and that the rebels have removed their guns from R. M. Gen. McNeil joined Gen. Vandever, and 
the earthworks above the city. A pontoon bridge the combined forces continued in pursuit Fir- 
has been thrown across th&rivei ai lliin Tun'ni m.fl iiur was heard nil (in* nfn.m, ,,,n :. . 
AFFAIRS AT WASHINGTON. 
The Tribune special says that Chief Engineer 
Wood, of the U. S. Navy, now on duty in con¬ 
nection with iron clad vessels, has made a prop¬ 
osition to the Secretary of the Navy, to the Pil¬ 
lowing effect:—He offers to take a Monitor up 
the harbor of Charleston, removing on his way 
any obstructions that ruay impede the progress 
of ships ; or if the Department only desires the 
destruction of Fort Sumter, ho will accomplish 
that 
A State Senator of California, who enjoys to a 
large degree the confidence of the engineer, also 
offers to accompany Mr. Wood on the expedition 
It. is understood that the President and 
have been sent off 
The six Ohio soldiers, the survivors of the 
eighteen sent out by Gen. Mitchel, a year since, 
on a dangerous expedition in Alabama, and who 
were captured, have beeu breveted Second Lieu¬ 
tenants, given tbeMedal of Honor, and $100 each. 
They called on the President, who praised their 
heroic devotion, and are receiving the kindliest 
attentions of the Government. One of them 
bears the marks of a hundred lashes inflicted 
upon him by the rebels. Eleven of the original 
number were hung as spies. 
Letters have been received in Boston from 
St. Johns, N. B., announcing that crowds of 
young men are daily arriving at various ports of 
the British Provinces from the United States, in 
order to avoid the impending draft. One steam¬ 
er arrived with two hundred passengers, and an¬ 
other wit h six hundred. There is no employment 
for them at present in the Provinces. 
The Anglo-Saxon, which sailed from Liverpool 
on the 16th, with 360 passengers, and a ship’s 
crow of 84 men. was wrecked four miles east of 
Cape Race at noon on the 27th ult, during a 
dense fog. 
named. 
Secretary Welles look on the proposition with 
favor. 
The following has been received at the head¬ 
quarters of the army in Washington ; 
*r- --- Loci*. April 28, 1863. 
man 
To Major General llaUeck:— Gen, Vandever 
came upon the enemy's rear near Cape Girar¬ 
deau last night, aud attacked and routed him, 
taking a large number of prisoners, horses, arms, 
<Lc. U lie enemy retreated towards Bloomfield in 
great disorder, pursued by the victorious and 
combined forces of Generals Vandever and 
McNeil. s. R. Curtis, Major General. 
M. Romero, Mexican Minister, has had un in¬ 
terview with the President, and complained of 
A dispatch from the mail officer of 
the Anglo-Saxon, at Montreal, April 30, says all 
