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KEWS OF HE DAY. THE REBELLION. Oar dlapatch from Fortress Moaroe, dated St-tordtr, state that eannonwding had been heard all lh morning in the directioi of Yorktown. Aru-inor was current that the place had been barn but it was not generally credited. A later dis-pttch, recelred by way of Waa Morton, states that o'clock yesterday afternoon the headquarters four army was within fiw mile of Yorktown.

The cannonading spoken of had been apparently without effect on either side. A. dispatch from Gen- W0L to the Secretary of War, dated Saturday afternoon, also announces that firing had been heard in jthe direction of York-town. The General further states that all is go-Ing on smoothly, and that he does not believe the army of the Potomsc' will find many troops to contend vwith. He has learned that the rebel teaiuer Mtrrimeu: was oii the dry-dock at Norfolk, loaded with coal, and ithat she was to come out of the dock Saturday with two more large fma on board, oueof thenv of heavy calibre.

We occasionally receive an intimation from the VeWls of th nahire of the paovements cow going a La Southern Tennessee, in the vicinity of Corir.th and the other positions of the rebels in the Gulf States. A dispatch from Memphis to the Mobile Advertiser announces that Gen. 5alX' army had arrived af Savanna, and that thr had been brisk skirmishing preparatory to the great struggle. Later intelligence from I the srene of Oen. BosAsini's operations is received, by way of Fortress Monroe.

It was feporjod at Nrwbern that the rebel commander had ordered Gen. Bcrx-tni to evacuate that city kithia six days, and that he had returned answer that he would meet the rebel commander at Goldsboro and Ealeigh. Ettensiv preparations for Uacou were in progress, he'ilshai been thrown into the siege of Fort and already several the works. From Gen. Banks', Department we learn th detached patties of the rebels vere still in the vi cliiliy of EJcnburf On Friday they ujimasked battery upon our right wing near the town but were shelled out in short order.

Our ad-Vance batteries command all the elevations be-' 'jroni Stony Creek, snd are by the enemy. The position was selected by Gen. Banks uuJer a hot fire of the.enemy. There Is a rumor that part of the rebel Jackson's force have ie- fused to serve him longer, and have intrenched themselves in Page and Rockingham Counties, snd defied him. By way of Washington we have important news Trom the Mississippi River, A dispatch to the Secretary of War states that, on Friday night, the gunboat Caronielet succeeded In running the1 gauntlet of tins rebel batteries at Island No.

10. an I joined Gen. Fofk' forces. She will doubtless be made available in shelling out the rebel batteries on the opposite side bf the river, preparatory to a' crossing of a portion of Gen. Popf'? command.

A reWl dispatch from Motil announces that two thousand of Gen. Bctlk's force landed on XVelnesday at Biloji, and severed the comnmnication between New-Orlean? and Mobil Wehave advices from Tort Royal. S. tv the 1th it. and from Jacksonville, to the let, rthe arrival at this port of the sHFm-tranpcrt iJiLUntic.

late in command at Port Royal, came as a passenger. The news from Part Royal is not irr.porittnt. From Jack-ouvitle, we learn that the rebel were threat-fvniug an attack upon that place, but that Gen. who Is In command of the Union forces was confident of his ability tc sustain himself, and protect the towrv and jits inhabitants. The arrve at this port Warsaw Sound, below Savannah, on the S9th Everything at that time was in readiness for the bombardment of Fbrt Pulaski, and Xh -Oth heavy cannonading was heard in that direction.

It was reported that the residents cf Savannah had advanced their oflei the release ot ithe beleagured garrison to 1 100,000. Thf troops ordered to Kaoca some time since fr the "Lane ExpeditiWA, are jiow iing sent to Wner and more active, fields of operation. Fcr mm wkelhey had been collected atTorr Scott, 'kut at Ust accounts they had been divided into fceeaty -equal portions, to, reinforce Gen.CAr, aad Gen. Crmt at PeaBidge. Richmond IirU cf the ltth ult which twe hare received with dther Southern papers, ar-ue Hut th Merritnt should be tent out iol- low up its first Wow, break jthe llockade and Ink th whele-Yankee navy, jihe littla Aim-ler la etidently deemed, a troublesome customer.

JCV XHyacA' says The Xottior mut be dis-oaeii of tn sous way or othe, II our fertility I cantrivance and resources Isj eual to that, of Yankees, there is no impossibility In accomp-lWung that object." The ZijrA is furious vst ihs disasters of Batteras, Fort Ilenry, aaoks Uland. Fort Donelsori. mandina mr. fswhsra, aad says they present a catalogue wunoers aM default that tpKteacl miUtary govsremeati would under ex- be fatal to all by The DipdJi "V0 thy'wro omamlttod PVK of dUpatch received at Rich- hkJ r'SAKiag that tw9 thousand Coufed- erstes were about to bag tire thousand Federal and thinks such an achievement would com. pensate for the sbandonment of ths fortifications below the town adding sadly, however, Bat the telegrapher has not yet finished the job.

Csu't It hurry 'up?" Soperintendent Wai. N. Braoo advertises for 10,000 sUls, delivered on the line of the road between Richmond snd Aquia Greek," and wsuted Immediately." The Savannah correspondent of the JDipmtck (March 14) eomplaina that the military draft has crippled manufacturing establishments to such an extent that they cannot can-y on the almost essential business of the This correspond' ent says that the defences of Savannah extend from the Savannah River north of the city to the Louisville road, thus finishing the circuit of earthworks extending from river to river. A dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette, dated Savanna, Ten n.r April 1, states that the rebel advanced camps at Corinth, where Beausxoakd is in command, sre within six miles of our advance from Pittsburgh Landing, and that there is but five miles between the pickets of the respective forces at Purdy, where the rebels have four or live regiuieuts, mid at Crump's Landing. The rebels claim a force of one hundred thousand, all told.

On Sunday last, one division of Gen. army was within a Hay "a march of Savan- -na. RepurU were circulation, that immediately upon Gen. Hallkck's assuming command in person, four or live cwn d'armee would be organized, with Giiant, Smith. Wallacf, Bdkll and McClhexand, as commanders.

There was now a little skirmishing with the rebel batteries at E.ictpurt, Mis. A telegraph to waa in course oi construction. A gentleman who reached New-Albany, on Tuesday last, alao makes some highly interesting statements regarding the position of affairs up the Tennessee. He states that on the evening of March 29, the cf Gen. army arrived on the Tennessee, opposite Savanna, and commenced crossing the river on Sunday morning, thus forming a junction with Grant.

Gen. Grist, in the early part ol last week, sent a force to destroy the Memphis and Charleston which they accomplished, tearing up ten miles of the track, and thus breaking the connections between the rebel lines. But before Saturday morn-ng the rebels had repaired the track and restored connection between their and were" constantly receiving reinforcements of men and munitions ria this road at Corinth. The enemy are said by scouts to be strouglytfbrtified at Corinth, and among the hills for sixteen or eighteen miles toward the National camps at Pittsburgh Landing. Their available force is believed to be from 75,000 to 80,000 men.

The united forces of Gens. Be ell and Gram are sufficient to meet and conquer this large army-of rebels, snd the National aupp'y of artillery is superior both in calibre and the number of pieces to that of the enemy. A battle is imminent, and the beet-informed say that it cannot be delayed longer han Tuesday or Wednesday of this week, and that it might occur at any moment after the National troops had commenced their movemeut toward Corinth, which was to have been begun on Monday last. A gentleman who arrived at Cairo on April 3, from the Cumberland, represents the secession element as rampant in that region. Since the withdrawal of the National troops, increased surveillance and violence haa been exhibited on every hand, and the rebels are inaugurating a system of gv.crilla warfare exceedingly annoying to the few remaining troths.

Union men are again subjected to persecution, and have been compelled to taketo the forests and swsntps to avoid it. The Confederates sre jubilant, and threaten to raioe forces to attack our troops in the rear. They think they are able to retake Paducah, and even talk of visiting Cairo, while Gen. Grant is paving his rejects to Corinth. The first conviction under the order of Secretary Stamox, rrtetive to the publication of dangerous war news, is that of Edmund Ellis, publisher of the Boone County (Mo.) Standard, as announced in our Washington dispatches.

Ellis is sentenced to be placed and kept on It id the lines of Missouri during the war, and all his material is confiscated. The Bremen bark Capt. Wkxche, which ai rived her Saturday, reports that on the 27th in latitude 53', longitude 30 3', she saw a side-wheel steamship, painted black, showing the American ensign at her peak. On her forcnust she had a red flag, with another red one below, and a ted pendant beneath she ap-Par iu be one of the Chaileston or Savannah line i-t Capt. Wexciic thcight it might ii the XhrUle privateer.

She was spoken but did not reply. The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin gives currency to a rumor that Dr. Finlat, late Surgeon-Geneial of te Army, has been sent to Fort Warren. THE hTATE LEGISLATURE. In the Senate onSaturrday, very little business of importance was done.

A memorial from the New-York Chamber ot Commerce, relative to the Usury law's, was presented. The bill to incorporate the State Convention ot Universalists was passed. The bill to appropriate money to pay the National Government the State's quota of the General Tax, as ordered to a third reading. The Congressional Apportionment bill was made the special order for Tuesday. In the Assembly a large amount of routine business was gone through with.

The bill to suppress Concert saloon was reported complete, and or-deredto a third reading. Among the bills reported favorably, was the one to authorize the payment of interest on protested Canal drafts, and the one to authorize the building of wharves, basin, Ac. in front of the Twelith Ward in Brooklyn: A bill to authorize incorporated companies, formed to navigate lakes and rivers, to charter any vessel for the use of the United States, and a lili tc provide military education in the higher institutions of learning in the State, were reported from the Military Committee and mad the spe cial order for Monday. A report in favor of the nlargfinent of the Champlain Canal, so as to allow thf passage of gunboats, and recommending that the attention of Congrrss be called to the subject, as made from the Canal Committee, and made a special order for Tuesday. The bill to allow aliens to hold real estate was killed.

The Supply was then debated until the adjournment. 1 GENERAL NEWS. A letter from Bordeaux, dated March 12, states that a British steamer of 1,500 tons was in port, loaded with a valuable cargo, estimated at part of which was brought from England. She was ready to leave for the South, intending to run the blockade. Since the naval fight in Hampton Roads, some 1 500 different schemes for sinking, or otherwise disposing of the Mcrrunat, have been offered to the Navy Depart went by Yankee inventors.

Uon. Judge Hi-TTOX, Jodge of Franklin County from 1S51 to 1n5, died at Maloneon Apnl 1.. He was about fijty years of age. The fire in the locomotive house of the Michigan Central Railroad Couipany. in Detroit, Mich was not so serious ss was st nrst reported.

Fourteen engines were in ths buUliog ume. but five of them were got out uninjured. Jbe remaining nine wtre injured to the exJent of 10,000 or tiYooe. The image to the building will amount This is entirely covered by insurance, aud it supposed that that to the locomotives is alas CoL Earssnt liASirrui, Mi-eouri rebel, hoM brother Governor of Kentucky, snd vb was convicted of violation of bis parole and sen tenced to bo shot, has been respited by ths President At Chambers of the Supreme Court, on Saturday, before Justice ths Hackley ooo-trsxt injunction, or ths return to the order therein, was postponed until Saturday next, at 10 o'clock, P. on account of Mr.

Hackxet's present illness. The Stock market recovered from the dullness of ths previous day on Saturday, snd closed fitjn in the afternoon Gold, 102 cent. Exchange, 112J11JJ cent. Business was impeded by the rain storm on Saturday. Less activity was discernible in Breadstuff's.

Pftces of Flour snd Wheat favored buyers. Cotton was in demand. Sugars were active and buoyant. Proviaions were less freely purchased, at essentially unchanged rates. Coffee, Hay, Fiih, Molasses, Tallow, Wool snd Whisky were in moderate request Resin snd Spirits Turpentine were rather more sought after, and were dearer.

The freight engagements were limited, with 492 vessels of all classes in port. The Pending Battles. The two great National armies the Artry of the East and the Army of the West are now In the situation promised by Oen. Mc-Clkllas In his address to the soldiers of the Potomac "face to face with the rebels;" and it is evident thatit cannot be long before they meet the rebellious foe on the decisive battlefield." In the East, the late Army. of die Potomac a host greater than that sf eitWcr of the belligerents at Waterloo and under commanders of approved loyalty, skill amd courage, is moving upon the strong places and key positions of the audacious enemj' who, for over a yoar, has stood before the Capital defying the National power and insidt- ing the flag of the Union.

At an? hour the wire may tremble with news grander and more momentous than it has ever yet borne since lightning was used as an agency for transmitting thought. TVhen it photographs before us the scenes of the great day and the great field a day and a field upon which will be decided the fate of this Satanic revolt-we shall see not merely legions of men, and miles of steel, and an hundred parks of artillery in collision, but principles and idea? greater and more enduring than these, contending for the supremacy. Our army is strong, not merely in numbers and cquipmeni, but In courage, and in having a just quarrel. The enemy is inspired only by the lust sf Slavery, and stimulated by desperation. WV have met him this year already on twenty fields we have fought lam, with the odd in iis favor, at Newbern, and at Winchester, and at Pea Ridge we have conquered him behind intrenchments at Donelson and a Roanoke.

In no instance has he stood Use onset of our columns, or, the contact of the bayonet. In every case he has given way before the invincible men of the Nojth and the great flag of the Republic. With this prestige on our side, our troops now advance to meet him in general battle and, if he dare to face us at all on either of the lines, East or We6t, on which he is now showing fight, like results must inevitably, under Provir rience. crown our arms. There are however, and they are likely enough to be correct, that, as our various Eastern corps d'armee advance southward, the rebels are preparing to flee from Virginia altogether.

They see. not only that their late boasts of conquering the North, are false buj that they are unable, even with all their forces concentrated and planted behind intrench- incuts, to make a successful resistance our army. They think that by re-i tiring Westward and Southward. army? will be unab'e to follow them anion" the' mountains of the West, and into the alligator wainps and under the hot Summer sun of the? Gulf States. In making this confession, and in acting upon it.

they virtually give up the' whole Contest for, with our array advanced to the line of the warm States, and with our seaboard navy and army acting en the coasts of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Louisiana, and our river nary and our Western army acting on their a residence for the rebels in the everglades and alligator swamps would be as fatal as for us. If, moreover, they really mean to leave Virginia without giving battle, it would be well for them to be in haste. In the Southwest the contest is hardly less imminent than it is in the East. The forces on either side there are equally strong as in the East and they are both inspired by the same purposes and resolves. Our soldiers on the Tennessee though it is hardly half a year since most of them left the plow and the workshop are already veterans.

They have, during the bygone Winter, marched over more than a hundred and fifty miles, in latitude, of the enemy's country, and he has everywhere fallen or fled before them. On the new rebel Southwestern line, from Corinth to Memphis, the whole force that can be enlisted by fair means or by foul, (beyond those now In Virginia, and acting as ITome Guards,) are concentrated. There are the ablest rebel Generals, and there is the strongest natural line of defence. The stake is the Mississippi Valley rather it is Jiff. Davis' throne.

But there, too, is a National army stronger, in every sense, than the enemy, greater than either belligerent at Waterloo, -and trery regiment equal in heroism to Naf-olios's Old Guard. It Js now "face to face with the If, simultaneously with the late Atmy of the Potomac, our Army of the Tennessee measures swords with the enemy, the reult, we undoubtingly believe, ill be in both cases a triumph that will be decisive and final for the rebellion. I Foreign writers and statesmen, ignorant of the scoe aal conditions of thu war, argue thai even if these rebel anniea in Virginia and La the Southwest are defeated, we will still hare to meet and fight hostile armies and populations in every other rcbsl State. They interpret Mr. Lincoln's late emancipation message to mean that we are merely fighting for boundaries for the Border States and that when these are settled, the "South "proper will be allowed to set up a Gorernment for itself.

This is a misconception. T7e battles that decide the fate of the Border States decide also the fate of the Gulf States of all the rebel Slates. The fighting men, the great bulk of them, from all the seceded States, are now in -these two armies, and other formidable armies cannot possibly be raised in the South. The overthrow of the two rebel armies, which ottr two armies now confront, must virtually end the rebellion, in its military aspect. The hours now are big with vital issues.

And the week is not likely i to pas away ithout events which ill r-- joice the heart of the nation. The Evidences of Southern 'iviIi7Mtion. The King of omey orname nts hi- with the of his enemies. The mloi o' the new Dahomey, is striving to '-v. itself into a nationality at the -xurh.

vet progressed so lor into thi'. but the custom appears not to huve hec iiu-known or unpractical among those of subjects who whilod away their tinio for s-nnio. months back about Manassas- and CcnlreviHc The tale was too horrid forbcluT at first, and though we never exactly agreed with some of the English papers in their opinion that the rebels had carried on the warlike a high-minded and civilized people, yet we could hardly believe that any human bein, who was not an acknowledged savage, would be guilty of taking the skulls of fallen foes for ornaments, making castinets out of their ribs and tpurs out of their jaw-bones and there are those in our community to whom the whole story is still only an enormous canard. It not possible," they say, that such tilings can be. The rebels were our brothers, living in peace and amity with us little more than a year ago, and is it to be supposed that they should so soon have lost all feelings of kindliness, so soon have degenerated from our boasted American civilization so far as to be guilty of such deeds as these And w'e see that even Dr.

Bellows disposed of the matter by saying that there were doubtless barbarians In both armies, and that the Virginians with whom he had conversed expressed the greatest horror at such atrocities We doubt not that this is so. We know that there are among our lower classes at the North men whom vice and crime have brutalized and who, in the license of war, would show themselves barbarians. And yet, from all the evidence that has come to our knowledge, we protest against any such equulization of the two armies. We believe that when the story of the time comes to be written, the impartial historian ill be compelled to admit that in all the elements of civilization, in patient endurance and firm courage on the battle tield, and in kindness and gentleness and true nobility toward those whom the fortune of war placed in their power, the Union troops were immeasurably the superiors of the rebels. Tor cruelty, for malignity, lor use of both hand and tongue for evil, for deeds of atrocity and barbarity, the rebels, on the whole, will easily hear orl" the palm.

Tsot only does the evidence of sui-h acts oh their part already abound in over measure, butall the analogies show that this would be so. Ignorance the fruitful mother of all such deeds. Isted we go to the figures of the census to show which sriny would be most ignorant If one white man in live ia South Carolina could not rend and write, while only one in over two hundred is so ignorant in Massachusetts, what wonder that in Massachusetts regiments every one of the soldiers should sigu his name to the pay-roll, and the South Carolinians should mainly make their mark. So with the other State and we doubt not that it would be found that the standard of education was lowest of the low in that Georgia regiment who we're guilty of the atrocity committed upou the remains of Major Ballou, of the Second Riiodc Island. And we can never forget that the rebels have lived under a social system hugged to its bosom the twin relic of barbarism," with all its nameless cruelties and atrocities, and many of them must have become familiar with barbarities of which we have only read in books.

Such a system of itself could never fail to barbarize the people. And when upon such a people is brought the forcing heat of a civil war, how could any other result be expected than the sudden starting into new and ranker and more monstrous growth of all those dark plants of evil for wlich Slavery is so fertile a soil If the cowardly and brutal act of Phkston S. Bbooks was glorified throughout the South, if the F. F. tanned the skin of Joux Brown's son ajjd afterwards set up the ghastly remains in the Medical College at Winchester, with the inscription, "Joux Browns son thus always with Abolitionists thus desecrating the halls of science by gratifying spite at the expense of all decency if such things are done in time of fieace, what could we expect in time of civil war If such thing aie done in the green tree.vi hat shall be done in the dry And to all these tendencies we have to add the powerful assistance of a Press.

One can hardly read an article from a South-era paper which does not directly appeal to jthe fiercer passions, and strive to stimulate their fire. Kot to speak of the infamous false-boods which have filled their columns, attributing to us motives and purposes, which of themselves would stir up an ignorant people to frenzy against us, they have continuously and directly excited to the greatest bloodthirstrness, and, with tongues "set on fire of hell," they have cultivated malignity, and rolled cruelty as a sweet morsel under them a terrible cultivation.which has brought forth terrible fruits, and of which the end is not yet eu hardly the beginning. And. alast there has seemed to be but little I DPposUida to thess evil tendencies iuoa? quar- tcrrom which we should naturally hope much. The influence of the women has not been to humanizing'' as we should have expected.

Slavery and secession, which have made devils of so many men, seem to have made furies of the women. The letters- to soldiers, gathered up by our victorious troops from Virginia to Missouri, tell a sad story iu this respect. While there are many which breathe of home and affection, and the softening influences for which we liave learned to look to woman, yet there is another and a large class, which breathe forth only threateninga and slaughter." What good influence can come from a woman who hopes her lover will fetch her I.inken who, acknowledging the receipt of a letter written in blood, only regrets that it was not Vankee blood. And everywhere that our forces penetrate, they report that th- women are worse than the men. relying upon their sex to protect them from the results of acts of, to ay the least, and indecency.

And uhnl can be expected, when women urge men evil its rail of away from it We do not ant ii b.tn'n tor Uie better in litis direction at present. On Ihc contrary, with th more litr.i'.-, and the waning fortune ol the rebellion, '-ve Jk to we yof more Terrible deveiopiTH nt ot evil tltinx. for tiir fjrc if i will be added 10 Hit- tendencies -u Inve vvro.iqlit such lireadfiil Wc for and nerve to ot it. And i'ustf ad being ppi Mb by the of' our fv s. ii iuust only make us hold nu.e f.fn.ly to our purpo-c.

VV not it to us fori; el that we are. ne their and we m- -t he adr more to ov, rcoim eil with good, upon the nuns ol th.it social which ll.r war was Intended by its authoi protect and perpetuate, but which it will Inevitably destroy, to build up a truer, more humane, sweeter and nobler civilization. The Statu I.igtm.aicrf. The session of the State Legislature is drawing a close. Both Houses will probably adjourn the last of next week.

According to present appearances, nearly all the bills of public importance will have received attention and deliberate action. Thus far, the session has been entirely free from the influences and corruptions by which former Legislatures have been disgraced. The Health bill will come up In the Assembly early this week; for its final reading. No doubt is entertained of passage by a decisive vote. It will have the most important consequences upon the heakh atiii cleanliness of our City, and ill, if due caie bo taken by the Governor in selecting the officers who are to carry it into effect, vindicate itself, by its practical results, as thoroughly as the Metropolitan Tolice bill has already done.

The only objections that are urged against, it come from partisan sources, and are bsed upon considerations purely partisan in thlr character. The day has gone by, for the present at all events, when such motive "'Wi outweigh reasons based 011 the public good. There are several oilier bills of considerable 'importance to this City, which we trust will receive attention. One relates to the assessments tor street opening, which is im peratively demanded to arrest abuses which 1 have reached an enormous magnitude. Another is the bill to regulate the Corporation advertising by confining it to three or four papers having the largest circulation.

and to reduce the expense of Public Printing by ie- 1 quiring it to be given out by contract to the lowest responsible bidder. A very important bill, reducing the emoluments of the County Clerk and Chamberlain, is also ready for immediate action and should receive it. It is not probable that anything can be done lo make any material amendments in the Charter. certainly none that contemplate the ttnnsierof political power from one party to ano-hr. The Republicans la six or eight a majority in Xf Assembly, and the Union nun proper, vho hold the balance of power, are very careful to do nothing which shall put power into Republican hands.

Their relations ith the democrats proper are much more marked and tolerant. The Axti-Mxxicax Coaliviox. The few peaceful indications we have been receiving from Mexico are deceptive. The French Government declines to recognize the validity of the preliminaries arranged by Gens. Prim and DoBi.Ano, and is hurrying forward reinforce-ionl.

obviously with design of carrying the war into the interior before midsummer shall render the coast untenable. We do not learn that Spain has strengthened its contingent, or that it has consented to disregard the negotiations of Gen. Prim. It is tfu'ilc possible, indeed, that the Spanish army may be withdrawn from-Mexico. The understanding between the Tiiileries and the Ksou rial is not at this moment entire'y cordial.

The Emperor is pressing the id chiim for indemnity arising out of the French expedition into Spain, in 182" claim, the injustice of which is vehemently. urged by the mott conservative and judicipus of Spanish statesmen. It is hard to pay a Bonaparte debt due to a Bourbon and still harder to pay for an act of violent and unsolicited intervention, bich held the Spanish people baek twenty years from the career of prosperity and progress upon which they have since entered. The sudden pressure lor this money, prompted by the poverty of the French treasury, must seriouslj disturb the relations of the two countries, and may lead to a dissolution of their anti-Mexican alliance. It is needless to say, this result is of all things most desirable.

FiTzJAJiis O'Briex. Ihe death of this gallant young eeu tie-man is announced by telegraph this, morning, from the fleets of a wound recently received in a cavalry skirmish on the Upper Potomac. It will not be forgotten that, in the combat referred to, he met the rebel leader hand to hand. They" fired simultaneously, the rebej r.flicer being killed on the spot. The wound of Lieut.

O'Bkikx in the shoulder was not at rst believed lo be fatal His gallantry' in the affair was at one acknowledged, by special dispatch, by Gen. McClxli.av. The wound continued to grow worse, and after the amputation of the arm at the shoulder, lock-jaw intervened from the intense irritation of tliV "wounattd so of augerjr ca iM Ave him. Lieut. nao on recent! received a Jieatem.

I ancy in the regular service, after Toranteeriat I In one of the Kew-Tork regiment last Sma! I mer. He waa an Irishman by birth, ana eaai II to New-York about ten years ago, wlicre jj, good scholarship and fine literary and critical I taste gave him varied employment oa the Press, in contribuUona to the leading montWy magazines of the country, as well aa to the daily journals. Ills first essay, ia thi City appeared in our own columns, soon after thl CBIBUIimmeDl Ot IDS 1IHLS. 'j i laser. Wobpex.

The country will heai with pleasure that this gallant officer ia recovering from the serious injuries received ia action with the Mcrrimac, and that' wl soon be ready to resume eomrnand of the Monitor. We trust that In the distribotion of honors and rewards he will not be overlooked by the Government or the country. The er-vice has no more gallant, devoted or disinterest-ed member than he. At the very outset of the rebellion he incurred, knowingly and witboat a moment's hesitation, the pains and depriva. tions of a long imprisonment, bycooveyirif through the rebel lines orders to the commander of the squadron at Fort Pickens, led to the reinforcement of that work, and immediately after his release rendered an equally signal service In command of tie We commend his'ca'se to the attention of the merchants andothersof our public-sjuritcd citizens who are raising money to ure a testimonial for Capt.

Eaicssos. This is well-deserved but Lieut. Woabiv's c.isc is equally meritorious and still more pressing. He has nothing but the pay of bis minor office to support and educate a largt fumijy his health is delicate and probably bfj eyesight will be affected for life by the wounds he received at Hampton Roads. lie It ia modest as he is brave, and would be last man living to present any claims on the grati- -tude of Congress or the Bat he should not be allowed to suffer oa that account.

Ibox-Clao Stkami rj Xeczssitt or Hastx- The public mind is impatient of the slow ac-. tion of Congress in regard to a supply of iron- clad steamers -of-war. Under ordinary eir- cuuistances, this action would be deemed quite as rapid as would be consistent with economy and efficiency but there Is a special emergenoy to be provided for, and every day 7 lost may involve the most serious conse- quences. It Is very well understood that the Merrimac has been repaired, and is ready another dash upon our fleet at ITampton Roads and it is further reported that Iwa other vessels of the same general character have been prepared at Norfolk. At New-Qr leans, moreover, it is 6aid, four vessels have been clad with iron and are ready.

for a era-sade up the Mississippi. It is impossible to predict the injury which these vessels may in. flict upon 4he Union cause and not a day an hour should be lost in preparing for. their reception. The Executive of the Gov ernment should act instantly in in- itiating such 'measures.

The danger would justify such action, and Congress and the would sanction it. The QaDEa of thi Secretary of Waa. The enemies of Oen. McClellax are at a loss for the material of warfare. For the of anything better offering Just now, they seize upon the creation of a new military district for McDowell, and a new department for Banks, as evidence that the Commander of the Army of the Potomac is in disfavor with the President, who thus seeks to curtail his author ity.

The truth is, the new arrangement is simply an affirmation of the obvious fact that it is impossible for Gen. McClella to be in three places at Should "his advance carry him to Richmond, there are palpable reasons why he should be unable to control the operations in front of Washington, much less the movements of Gen. Bakes beyond the Blue Ridge. The President merely con- -suits public necessity in making the change. The fact has no personal significance what-' ever.

Docbifpl RcMoa. The telegraph yesterday morning repeated a report published in ths Philadelphia Bulletin, on the authority of a gentleman from Washington," that Dr. C. A. Finlat, Surgeon-General of the United Slates Atmy, had been arrested and sent to Fort Warren.

We have no reason for saying that the report is not true, but it is. only fuir to remind the public that there is not, as yet, any sufficient ground for saying that it is. Dr. Fwlav is a native of Ohio, and has livod for many years in Philadelphia. His service on the medical 6tatT of the army haa been long and honorable and we shall be very slow to believe that he has done anything to tarnish his character, or cast just suspicion upon his loyalty.

We shall not credit tho rumor until it receives further confirmation. I Very latest rtrMutrt at 1TALT OARIBALDl IS VILAS, i Milax, aVatarday, March tU The Milanese students have had an interview ith Gabis vlsi, Informing him that tbey have formed themselves Into a company of carbineers. aAarSAisi recalled the events of 1659, and ecccorars4 the stu- dents. A number of ladles bar MsocUtsd themselves with the institution for National Rlfli Clabs. A crowd tins assembled before the hotel of Oastsals shouting "Catted Italy," "Rome and Venice, A distribution of medals was appointed to taks pUe 2 o'clock to-day.

THE raJUS BOCM. Paris, Saturday, Mare The Bomrse haa been dull. Rentes closed at TOC 5c. lower than yesterday. ISPL4.

1 Calcvtva, Saturday, Hare i. (Bt Telegraph UPwimt 4GttsA fchirttngs active but unchanged. Mule Twist, market Improving. Indigo and Copper dull and oncaaaged. Saltpetre quiet Linseed arsa.

Freights decltomg- Castos, Saturday, Feb. IV OrtfSWrtogsdeainIng v- WsUr Ttst, market I as proving. i dull and declining. Total export to date TV I OSGOOD BS. E.onlndon,4i Cray Mrtme.

dullat COHgOS! Btrm, DOT Uttie rlrtmUHL X.J09. Export to 4ae, i a- 4.