During the skirmish a new battery which the as to who authorized the arrest of Gen. Charles rebels had erected during Sunday night, and P. Stone, the ground upon which he was arrest which interfered with the working party of the ed, and the reasons why he had not been tried Nationals, was most effectually silenced and the by court-martial. The President said the arrest guns dismantled. was made by his order, upon good and sufficient evidence; and that the only reason why he had not had a trial was because the public interests would not permit it. The officers required to hold the court, and who would be called as wit in the midst of active operations. The President stated, in conclusion, that it was his purpose to give the General a fair trial as soon as it could be done in justice to the service. -THE Santa Fé, New-Mexico mail, arrived at Kansas City, Mo., with dates to the twelfth inst. Col. Slough and Gen. Canby formed a junction at Galisteo on the eleventh. Major Duncan, who was in command of Gen. Canby's advance-guard,nesses, perhaps on both sides, were in the field, encountered a large party of Texans and routed them. Major Duncan was slightly wounded. The Texans were thirty miles south of Galisteo, in full flight from the territory.-Official Despatch. -THE rebel steamer Ella Warley (Isabel) ar- -COL. DAVIDSON, of the Third Mississippi regirived at Port Royal, S. C., in charge of Lieut. ment, who was captured at Fort Donelson, died Gibson and a prize crew, she having been cap-at Fort Warren this day.-Boston Post, May 3. tured by the Santiago de Cuba, one hundred miles north of Abaco. --AN expedition with the gunboat Hale was made this day, to capture a battery on Grim -FORTS Jackson and St. Philip on the Missis-ball's plantation, near the junction of Dawho-powsippi River, below New-Orleans, surrendered to pow and South-Edisto River, S. C. The rebels the National fleet under Flag-Officer Farragut.-opened on the Hale when within one thousand (Doc. 149.) eight hundred yards, and continued their fire as and was making a straight course for the battery, the rebels fled in haste. Lieut. Gillis landed with a party of men to destroy it. The work was about three hundred and fifty yards from the river-bank, and mounted two long fine twenty-four-pounders on excellent field-carriages. So rapid was the flight of the rebels that one of the guns was left loaded and primed. The Hale returned to her anchorage without having a man injured.-Report of Com. Du Pont. April 29.—At Harrisonburgh, Va., to-day, a she wound her way to engage them at close quarNational salute was fired from an eminence ters; but when the Hale reached the last bend, near the town by the troops under General Banks, in honor of recent Union victories. The regimental bands assembled in the Court-House square and played "Hail Columbia." The soldiers gave nine cheers, when the band followed with the "Red, White, and Blue," "Dixie," and the "Star-Spangled Banner." After a recess the bands consolidated and marched through the streets, much to the disgust of certain prominent inhabitants. The day was pleasant, and the bright new uniforms presented a striking contrast to the sombre hues of those of the former occupants of the town.-Boston Transcript, May 1. --MONTEREY, Tenn., was visited by the National forces under Gen. Pope. The rebels fled on the appearance of the Union forces before the town, leaving a quantity of baggage and supplies. Fifteen prisoners were taken by the Nationals, who returned to their camp near Pittsburgh, Tenn., having destroyed the rebel camp.-Sec'y T. A. Scott's Despatch. -TIMOTHY WEBSTER was executed as a spy at Richmond, Va. Webster is said to be the first -A BATTLE took place this day at Bridgeport, Ala., between the National forces under Gen. O. M. Mitchel and the confederates under Gen. E. Kirby Smith, in which the latter was defeated with a loss of seventy-two killed and wounded and three hundred and fifty taken prisoners.— (Doc. 154.) -THE Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser of this date contains the following on the cotton question: We have understood that an agent of the French government is in this city, authorized to purchase an indefinite amount of cotton. The designs are evidently these. The agent is spy executed by the rebel government.-Rich- to purchase a large supply of cotton, and then in mond Despatch, April 30. -PRESIDENT LINCOLN sent a Message to the Senate to-day in answer to a resolution of inquiry case of a threatened Yankee occupation of the city, he would hoist the French flag over it to prevent it from being destroyed by our authori ties and the citizens. With Montgomery and the Alabama River in the hands of the Yankees, and the cotton in the hands of the French agent, it could be at once shipped to Europe, and the necessities of the manufacturers there relieved; the Yankees would not, of course, object to such a 'cute scheme, seeing at once, that with a supply of cotton sufficient to meet their requirements, England and France would lose all their interest in the American question, and Lincoln would no longer be troubled with fears of a foreign inter vention. It is doubtless a very nice arrangement on the part of those who wish to relieve themselves from a very disagreeable dilemma, but we can assure the French agent and all others that the scheme won't work. The question concerning the protection of foreign flags has already been decided. The President having authorized Gen. Lovell, at New-Orleans, to destroy all cotton and tobacco belonging to citizens or foreign residents, indiscriminately, where it was in danger of falling into the hands of the enemy. The same course will be pursued here, and the French flag or any other, will not save the cotton from destruction in case the enemy threatens to land at this point. April 30.-The schooner Maria was captured near Charleston, S. C., by the U. S. steamer Santiago de Cuba.-N. Y. Tribune, May 6. -A RECONNOISSANCE in force was made this morning from the right wing of the National army, near Pittsburgh, Tenn., four miles north of Purdy, on the Memphis and Ohio Railroad. The National troops met a force of rebel cavalry, who fled, and were pursued to Purdy. On taking possession of the town, the Union troops burned two bridges and threw a locomotive into the river. Three prisoners were taken, and the Unionists retired, having cut off all railroad communica tion between Corinth and the North.--Baltimore American, May 2. -A. G. CURTIN, Governor of Pennsylvania, has issued a general order in acknowledgment of the gallantry of the Seventy-seventh regiment of infantry, Pennsylvania volunteers, Col. F. S. Stambaugh commanding, at Shiloh, Tennessee, and of the First regiment of cavalry, Pennsylvania volunteers, Col. George D. Bayard commanding, at Falmouth, Virginia. He orders that "Shiloh, April 7th, 1862," be inscribed on the flag of the Seventy-seventh regiment of infantry, and that "Falmouth, April 18th, 1862," be inscribed on the flag of the First regiment of cavalry, and that this order be read at the head of all the regiments of Pennsylvania volunteers. -IN the United States House of Representatives, the following resolution was passed by a vote of seventy-five yeas against forty-five nays: Resolved, That Simon Cameron, late Secretary of War, by investing Alexander Cummings with the control of large sums of the public money. and authority to purchase military supplies without restriction, without requiring from him any guarantee for the faithful performance of his duties, when the services of competent public officers were available, and by involving the Government in a vast number of contracts with persons not legitimately engaged in the business pertaining to the subject matter of such contracts— especially in the purchase of arms for future de livery-has adopted a policy highly injurious to the public service, and deserving the censure of this House. -THE report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, in reference to the treatment by the rebels at Manassas of the remains of officers and soldiers of the United States killed in battle there, was made public.-(Doc. 155.) |