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hViUMT 'I'll il If hiWtTMmaaa BUFFALO, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 10, 1864. VOL XIX NUMBER 948. Sundries. BUFFALO, MAY 5, 1864 Political. The Pay of Colored Troops.

PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY BY in check. When we get out of it, and how we can do it, will be the subject of my next letter. Official List of the Casualties in the 116th Regiment. We are indebted to the politeness of Mr; Hugh B. Nial, for the following official list of the killed and wounded in the 116th Regiment, in the re Army Correspondence From the 116th Keglment.

We have received the following letter from an officer of the 116th, giving many interesting details of the two battles recently fought in Louisiana, which have not heretofore been published: Two bloody fights have been fought iu Louisiana, with alternate disaster, and victory to our arms. On the morning of April 8th our forces were situated as follows: Our cavalry division, about 8,000 strong, with some flying artillery, under General Lee, was in "the advance about 8 I The Minnesota Democratic State Central Committee have issued a call for a convention to be held at St. Paul, on the 25th of May, for the purpose of electing six de legates to the Chicago convention. The Vermont Union State Convention it called to meet at Burlington, on Tues day, May 17, to nominate candidates for Governor, Lieut. Governor and Treasurer, and also to elect delegates at large to the lialtimore Convention.

llie Aeto JSalion (the organ of the Fremont movement) announces that the "People's Convention at Cleveland will be held on the thirty first, in line of the twen ty-first of May, as heretofore announced." 1 he Boston Journal says: "It is said that Fremont has expressed a determina tion to run for the presidency if Lincoln is the candidate of the Union convention. but not if any other candidate is, brought, The Washington correspondent of the Nashville Times describes Mr. Lincoln's political position as given by himself: I have no leanings, I can have none, From the first I have been like Blondin walking above Niagara upon a rope, compelled to keep upright to avoid the abvss yawning an me time oeneatn. The following is the third resolution passed at the mass meeting held in Knox ville ou the adjournment of the receut East Tennessee Convention Resolved. As African slavery was the fruitful cause of our ruin, and experience nas uenionstrated mat iu existence is in compatible with the perpetuity of free and republican institutions and, as it has now been strangled in the house of its own friends, we declare our purpose not again to resurrect it, and hereby pledge ourselves to use all fair and honorable means to secure the electron of such delegates to the Convention, when called, as will forever prohibit iu existence in the State.

The Democratic Address to the People of the State of Ohio has been issued, aud unequivocally plants the party in that State upon the peace and disunion platform distinctly declaring approval of the doctrine of secession and preference of a divided Union to the continuance of the war. Here is a portion of its language That we regard the existing fratricidal war of the North and Northwest upon the South to be wholly unconstitutional, as well as fruitless, wasteful, cruel aud ruinous to both sections of the United States. That the democracy of the State of Ohio have heard with dismay the doctrines of its advocates, aud shrink with horror from the sanguinary scenes which have deluged the land, by the hands of brethren, in brothers' blood. That many democrats were them-solves surprised into its qualified support at the begiuning; but that long since, seeing their constitutional mistake, and realizing the utter hopelessness of coercion, they have now concluded to make what amends they could, by organizing themselves into one compact, rugged, unflinching peace party, lor stopping the war at any terms whatever that would be fair between man and man. They are distinctly for peace and peaceable separatiou and they will positively and unanimously resist, by all suitable means, the further destruction of property aud of life iu such a cause.

Military Items. Five thousand troops left Indianapolis on Saturday. Their destination is not allowed to be made public. All the troops at Albany, Elmira and other posts here and in other States, received orders several days ago tp leave immediately for the seat of war. This will add it is said 100,000 fresh soldiers to the army an undoubtedly exaggerated statement.

A Chattanooga correspondent in a letter dated April 25th, states that refugees just arrived report that there aro only 000 rebels at Daltou. large forces having been withdrawn to join I.ee in Virginia, and that the report of the refugees is, in the main, confirmed by intelligence from other sources at Federal command." This is very im portant news if the inference be sustained by the facts. The Chicago Journal of Monday says: If our. from C'hattanoosra and Nashville are correct and we believe they are our forces in Northern Alabauia and Northern Georgia moved forward to-day in three grand columns, to give the rebels battle. P.

S. Since writing the above we have received a private dispatch from Chattanooga, indicating that a new order has been issued. Tne great movement has possibly been postponed. -A Columbus dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette states that the number of the Ohio National Guard who reported for duty on Monday, so far as heam from, was thirty-five thousand, aud that when all the reports are iu the Guard will muster forty thousand men. Interest of New York State Stocks.

To the Editors of AT. Y. Evening Post As I am a holder of New York State stock, self-interest prompts -me to desire that the interest and principal be paid in coin. The heading to your editorial re marks of yesterday, "Is New York Bankrupt?" was rather an alarming one to me, and of course I read them. It was satis factory, however, to find that any fears which the idea of "bankruptcy" might have suggested were not confirmed by what vou had written but, per contra, the desire to receive my interest and principal in com was not encouraged or strengthened by your arguments, nor by the remarks of the "Governor, in the extract you gave from his recent message.

Unless the premises on which they were apparently based were true, tney could not be convincing. The Governor says, when we sought the markets of the world with our securities we pledged ourselves to redeem them in the currency of the world. Now, so far as the present existing debt is concerned, pray let us know when il was, and where it that the State of New York sought a market for her securities, or offered them for sale, or stipulated to pay iuterest ou them, outside of her own limits Her stocks were not negotiated iu loreigu markets. They were taken at home, and if some small portion of them have by purchase passed into the hands of foreigners, that does not, in mv opinion, place them in a position differ ent from that of our own people who hold tho stocks ot the State nor does it corner on such foreign holders any just right to expect or receive payment in any manner ditferent from our own people, gone word in reference to the pity you ex press for "jNew loruers now in r.ngiana, who will be overwhelmed with scorn when they are told that Alabama pays her inter est in gold, and Virginia has honorably paid her foreign creditors." Is there no difference between our case and that of Alabama and Virginia? Let us see: They did "seek the markets of the world with their securities;" they negotiated them abroad. They did more.

They made the interest payable abroad, and in a certain specific amount of foreign currency; and if they have paid what was "nominated in tne borfd." they are enttled to no particular credit therefor. Until it can be shown that New ork has deviated from, or failed to perform the stipulations in her contracts, her citizens, abroad or at home, will not stand in need of "pity," and will not be moved by the scorn of England, especially if they should chance to reflect that it was her hostility to us that caused her to recoamze tne rebels as a belligerent power, at a time when they had not a vessel on the ocean; and subsequently to furnish them with vessels, by means ot wmcn tney nave almost driven our commerce from the seas, aud in other ways have helped to increase and protract the burdens and derangements, fiuancial and otherwise, which the "rebellion" has brought upon us. In conclusion, I will not object to receiving my pay in gold or silver, or any other commodity worth 80 per cent, above the current par value ot the money ot the country, if the State is willing to pay it to me. But I am more than doubtful as to mv riirht to ask for such a oavment: and. unfortunately, my doubts have not been lessened by what the Evening Post has said on the subject, nor yet by what the "patriot," who is now Governor, has written.

The British export of beer and ale for the last year amounted barrels. The East Tennessee relief fund in Boston now reaches the handsome sum of The fair for 1864 of the Michigan State Agricultural Society is to be held at Kala-mozoo. The State of Michigan is 2795 men ahead of all demands upon her from the Government. The Philadelphia Historical Society have bought the old William Penn house for $30,000. A Knoxville army correspondent writes: "One cry came up from all the camps Send us vegetables The amount of cotton received in Liverpool iu-two days, recently, was 96,000 bales.

Of this 89,000 bales were brought from Bombay and China ports. The Copperheads feel so bad that Mc Clellan didn't get the Sword at the New York fair that they are taking subscriptions to buy him another. They have raised 41 for it. "One of the most beautiful and productive estates iu Maryland," 15 miles from Baltimore, consisting of 1.470 acres, was sold the other day for 78,000 nearly 857 per acre. Two American dictionaries.

Webster's and Worcester's, are now considered more valuable than any other in the language; the Emrlish critics calling the author of the first the Johnson and the other the Walker ot America. The two cent pieces will soon be In cir culation, bearing on one side, United states of America, 2 cents, on the reverse, a shield and the words God our trust This is the first one of our Nation al eoins which recognizes the existence of God, in either legend or device. The site selected for the Maryland State monument upon the battle field of Antietam, is about the centre of the battle field, and upon the right side of the road leading into the town of Sharpsburg, and is said to be especially appropriate for the ob ject desired. Prince Napoleon having lately made an indiscreet speech, at Paris, the Emperor sent for him and remonstrated. "But does not your majesty think exactly as I do about Poland, Italy and the Pope?" asked the Prince.

"Perhaps so; but at any rate I hold my tongue In a late letter John M. Botts said "From the portico of my house I and my family have seen nine battles fought on my own fields, and just before my own door, between hostile troops, who but yesterday, as it were, boasted of a common "history, a common nationality, and a common destiny. The Commissioner of Agriculture has recently received a very superior lot of black and white oats from Stockholm, Sweden, weighing forty-five pounds to a bushel, which will be distributed among the farmers in quart packages, upon application to the department. Letters from the army say that the soldiers are delighted at the result of the contest for the sword at the Metropolitan rair. Tney expected tuat in sucn a city as New York the candidate of the Copper heads would be far ahead, but when it became known- that their own live General was the succesful competitor, they were highly rejeiced.

The familvof Mr. Flagg, of New York. were poisoned a few days since by eating raw ham. A irirl of two years old died. The rest were saved by the use of emetics.

A microscopic examination revealed the fact that the ham was filled with poisonous animalcule. The meat looked well, and seemed perfectly good. Russia and France. A strikinsr in stance has been presented lately of the increasingly bitter feeling prevailing iu ussiau omcial circles toward ranee. The 31st of March was the fiftieth anniversary of the taking of Paris by the allies.

Au order was issued by the Government order ing its celebration with especial brilliancy. A grand review of the Russian regiments in St. Petersburgh was to be held, and they were, particularly commauueu to appear, not with their new banners, but with the old flags which had been tattered and soiled iu their long' struKirle. with the French. rhe official organ does not attempt to soften the meaning of these celebrations.

but reealls to the yoger Russians the memory of the heroic days when "Russia expelled one army and twenty people from her soil, aud over the ruins of her burning villages, appeared on the Niemen, to bring Dai? it peace and order to hairope." it is intimated that Russia has still the power to serve civilization again, in a similar man ner, it tne necessity arises. Such a grand national celebration-, and such words at this time from a semi-official source, can have but one interpretation. The French journals do uot hesitate to draw it. They see that Russia is girding herself for the great struggle which is being threatened again, between the Powers of Western and Eastern Europe. Jiew York Times.

The Coles County Rebels. Our Springfield dispatches, a few days ago, stated that the Coles county rebels had taken the oath of allegiance and been discharged. stated at the tune we had little faith in the efficacy of an oath of allegiance administered to a Coles county traitor. We since learned that only those were discharged against whom proof of guilt was not established; thirteen of the twenty-nine were sworn and let go for the reason named. It did not appear by the testimony given be fore Gen.

Oakes that they had taken an ac tive part in committing the murders. They were undoubtedly part oi tne gang wiio as sembled on the summons of the O'Hairs, but they Had uot engaged in tne riot, a n-teen of the twenty-nine still remain in custody, aud one has died. Gen. Oakes will try these prisoners by court martial if Gen. Heintzleman so orders, and if found guilty of the alleged crimes, they will be punished by military law.

There will be no farce performed of swearing them and turning them loose providing always they are proven to be guilty. Chicago 'tribune. Shad. Let us speak of It is a fish much maltreated of cooks. In boarding houses kept by feminine vandals, it is sliced and fried.

Tasteful reader, we need not tell you that this is a sacrilegious abuse of Heaven's bounty. A being that can deliberately hew a North river shad, or its still daintier brother of the Connecticut, into fragments, put them into a pan and try them, is one whom it would be a gross reflection on the savage race to call an outside barbarian. To be partially choked by a forked bone of the outraged alosa is the onlv iittinsr retribution for such a de d. There are but two christian ways to dress a shad. Me, or rather she tor the lady shad has the finest flavor, to say nothing of the delicious roe should either be broiled on a gridiron over the red hot embers of a hickory fire, or stuffed with a compost of bread crumbs and yolks ot eggs, navored with salt, pepper, mace and thyme, and baked in an oven.

Either way it is a rare dish, but we prefer it broiled. Round Table. Labor in the Interior. Some of the Ohio papers state that the calling out of the militia in that and other estern States, just at the present time, is likely to cause a gooa ueai oi emoarrussuieiit in iuh agricultural districts. It is iust now the sea son for putting in the Spring crops, and any great lack of labor will make itself seriously and disastrously felt in the dimin ished returns of next Fall.

It is a matter cf very great importance to the country that the harvest of this year should be as large as possible. Whatever labor can be procured in any part of the Western States will be used to advantage. JV. Y. Times.

The Arizonia Mines. A letter has been ved bv the Hon. F. W. Kellogg of Michigan from a gentleman of Tucson, Arizona Territory, containine very impor tant information in reference to gold mines in that vicinity.

He was shown twelve nn trirota taken from the AnteloDe Moun tains, worth 8700. Two men, lately, with hntaher-knivea. in three hours, took out thirteen pounds of gold, worth about About 33,000 has been taken out of the surface in coarse gold. The editor of the Richmond Dispatch, the most ferocious of the rebel papers, is said to be Oliver P. Baldwin, formerly a resident of Cleveland.

Twenty-five years he was a law student in that city, but subsequently studied divinity and went to Virginia, where he became editor of a literary weekly journal. Baldwin was distinguished as a fine scholar, and a handsome but not a very forcible speaker. He is now the bitterest rebel in rebeldom. Sir William Blackstone, the glory of jurisprudence; says "If neither captivity nor contract can, by the plain law of nature and reason, reduce the parent to a state of stavery, much less can they reduce the Affairs iu Europe. A note addressed by the Emperor of the French to his Minister of Finance, upon the happy solution of the Mexican question," closes with an oracular allusion to the prospect of affairs in Europe, intimating that the hopes of peace become "every day more certain." This imperial utter-once has produced, of course, an instant elevation of stocks in the markets, and is accepted as an assurance of the pacific set tlement of the Dano-German disturbance so fully is Louis Napoleon's mastery of the European situation recognized and acknow ledged.

He need not, however, ground an expectation of the arrest of the Danish war, and a peaceful adjustment of the questions involved iu it, entirely upon his Latin Majesty's oracular words. Events are iu agreement with them. The reduction of Duppel, or Dybbol, by the German forces, is so decisive against the ability of tho gallant Daues to resist the German invasion that it is quite impossible there should be much obstinacy, either on their part or iu their behalf, exhibited at the Conference which was to assemble in Loudon upon the 10th ulU Betrayed by England and cheated by all the Powers which signed the Con-tion of 1S54, after haying exhausted her strength in a plucky defeuse, Denmark must yield to the terms which Germany arranges with France, England complacently agreeing. On her side, Germany, satisfied with the shape which affairs have taken, is unexpectedly docile to the Conference, aud her representative has been sent with no arbitrary instructions, the Diet negativing a proposition to uphold the claims of the Duke of Augustenbergby a large majority. To all appearauces, therefore, that very threatening muddle, the Schleswig-Hol-stein question has about subsided in its fermentation, and the Loudon Conference will havelittle difficulty in disposing of it.

This settled, there seems to be every prospect of a decided calm in European politics for the lime being. The Polish insurrection is nearly extinct. We hear little from it, and although, the indomitable insurgents may keep up a desultory warfare iu that unhappy country for some time yet, there is not the remotest probability of anything arising from it to become a question between the powers. The Italian question rests quiescently, and we have no idea that Garibaldi's recent visit to England, nor his sudden departure, whether officially urged at the dictation of Louis Napoleon or not, will affect it There are all the signs of a period of quiet in European politics the temporary relapse from an agitation which has ex pended itself in nothing, because the ele ments of revolution were not fully ripened. We look upon this prospect of a calm in Europe with some anxiety aud apprehen sion.

It may leave mischievous bauds in too much idleness. With nothing at home to busy the attention of the imperial iuter-meddler of France, we shall have reason to look for more oftieiousness on his part. to settle "the American question," "in the interest of civilization and humanity," than he has hitherto manifested. He has seated his Hapsburg protege upou a Mexican throne, and now, for the security of that gingerbread erection, it is very necessary that the great American Republic should be permanently crippled. Let there be a summer of peace in Europe and we may be assured that nothing but a victorious aud decisive campaign against the rebellion can save us from French intervention.

Gov. Seymour and the State Debt. A correspondent of the Albany Journal make the pertinent point that Gov. Seymour, in endeavoring to raise from private sources, on trust of the State, the means for paying to foreign creditors of the State their interest iu gold, is guilty of that very contempt of constitutional law and usurpation of power which he and his par ty so freely charge upon the Federal Ad ministration. "He appeals from the decision of the legislative department of the government and the highest judicial tribunal in the State to a conclave of bankers and merchants.

He assumes official functions that do not belong to him, and arrogates duties that are conferred by the Constitution and laws of the State upou other officers than himself." "The Governor is bound to expedite all such measure as may be resolved upon by the Legislature, and take care that the laws are faithfully executed aud uot The power of appropriating money belongs exclusively, aud cau only be exercised by legal enact ment, and the authority to contract new debts is strictly inhibited by the Constitu tion, except iu two specific, instances, nei-their of which can be relied upon to uphold the Governor in his efforts to involve the State ill obligations entirely unauthorized, and wholly prohibited." The Courier, which last fall indulged in very gross and vulgar reference to Miss Dickiusou, on account of her political discussions, now seems to be very much enamored with her, because she pitches into Mr. Lincoln and his administration with much spirit. To this we do not object. It was not natural for the Courier to look with affection upon this lady while she held herself above its sphere, but, as she descends and the distance shortens between them, it is not strange that assimilation and affinity should ensue. Miss Dickinson has chosen her part, and we certainly do not object to her playing it.

We do uot ex pect that she will do all her scoldiug on one side. The Albany Argus grows daily more malignant, more stupid and more into the likeness of the bull-headed Tories of Eng land, towards whdm it cottons." Taking its cue from one of these latter, it actually charges upon Secretary Seward the forgery of the bogus rebel Navy Department Report which went the rounds of the news papers some time ago. We have questioned sometimes whether the Argus was most kuave or most fool. We are about con vinced that the fool predominates. A Slight Change of Tune.

The cry, in the days of Democratic rule, was, gold for the office-holders and rags for the peo ple. The tune is changed. The people who have lent their money to the government, are now receiving their interest in gold, while the office-holders are receiving green backs for their salaries. This is all right, and only shows how tunes change. S.

M. Clarke, the head of the Bank-note Printing Bureau in the Treasury Department, has been dismissed from his place and duties by the voluntary act of Secretary Chase, upon the close of an investigation into the abuses charged against the admin istration iofJisbjireau. Hiram Benson Smith, one of the promi nent citizens of Avon, died at his residence in that village, last Wednesday, after brief illness of only four days. A Praiseworthy Regulation. Colonel Forney, the Clerk of the Senate, has made the death of the lamented Mr.

Pierce, of the Stationary Department, the occasion for putting in practice his rules of promo tion for merit in the line of promotion, and the giving of the primary offices in his gift solely to soldiers who have been crippled by wounds in battle. John W. Jones, so long a model as a messenger, succeeds to Mr. Pierce's place, and aone-armed private soldier from Massachusetts has been appointed Senate Messenger, in place of Mr. Jones.

The action "of the House on Saturday, agreeing to the Senate amendment of the army appropriation bill, by which the pay of colored soldiers is made equal to that of white, from and after the first day of January last, we heartily approve, not only as just but as expedient, leaving the consider ation of its justice entirely aside. It conies, however, too late for any effect, since the Attorney-General had just decided that the colored troops are entitled to the regular wages of the army, from the beginning of their service, without any special enactment. The justice of equal pay for identical ser vices is an axiomatic proposition, the self evident truth of which cannot be obscured by miserable appeals to any prejudice of race or bigotry of politics. The question of the intellectual or social status of the negro does not enter into the determination of his just wages when enlisted to perform the service of a soldier. The one has nothing whatever to do with the other.

As a soldier, he is entitled to the pay of a soldier, whatever may be his social position as a man and to give him that pay no more legislates his "equality" with the white race than the fixing of common wages for all white soldiers legislates the equality of the vagabond "substitute" with the pa triot volunteer who shoulders a musket in the same ranks. It is not the white soldiers of the Union army who will question the justice of this measure of equalized pay" to the colored troops, or resent it as au insult to them selves. They are too intelligent and too manly in spirit to entertain so contemptible a jealousy of race. That which concerns and affects them is the pay which they themselves receive. If it is an adequate pay and contents them enough.

The fact that a negro soldier receives the same cannot alter its adequacy or diminish their contentment with it. But the equalization of the pay of our colored troops with that of the white is de manded not less by policy than by abstract justice. If we are going to employ colored troops, and turn the negro element" to profitable account in our work of war, we must make our black soldiers fit for the character and service of soldiers by devel oping in them, so far as possible, sent! ments of manhood. Ihey can't be soldiers with the servile feelings of the slave re maining in them. They can't be soldiers with the influences of a condition of chat-telism clinging to them.

Unless we can make them feel that they are men and not men-serving animals unless we can excite in them a manly spirit of pride and ambition we cannot make soldiers of them, and the whole scheme of utilizing the black population of the South in our war for the suppression of its rebellion must fall to the ground. But this we cannot hope to do if we begin our dealing with them by cheapening their wages in the service to which we have enlisted them, and thus powerfully impressing upon their minds, at the very outset, a sense of inferiority. So practical an intimation that little is expected from them and small value placed upon their soldiership, cannot fail to more than neutralize all the heroic appeals by which we endeavor to cheer and stimulate them to the fight. Clearly we must persuade them by a practical proof that we do expect them to stand up in the field of battle like white men, and behave as sturdy soldiers, or we cannot hope that they will. Hence the policy of this measure of equalizing the pay of colored troops is identified with the grand policy of enlisting negroes in the war.

Political. The New York Xeirs declares that the war is now being prosecuted for partisan purposes, and every death blow that is struck is murder." The eight Democratic members of the House, who voted for the tax bill last Thursday, were Odell, Ganson, Griswold, Kernan, Steele, Nelson, Radford and Win-field. The Yolksfreund, the German Democratic organ in Cincinnati, has come out in a strong article for the amendment of the Constitution to abolish slavery. 1 1 declares that the conflict between freedom and sla very, whether irrepressible" before the rebellion or not, is now irremediable, and that both forms of society can never again exist in tranquility under the same government. The Detroit Advertiser states, upon trustworthy authority, that Vallandigham, upon the invitation of leading Democrats, paid a surreptitious visit to that city, one night last week, and addressed a secret Democratic meeting.

It adds "Our information comes from a loyal Democrat, who was invited to be present, but who would scorn to be found in such company. are not able at present to mention the names of those Democrats who were present at this meeting, or what Mr. 1 -i n. i. i.

means he was conveyed between Windsor aud Detroit, but of the main fact, that under the cover of night, at the invitation of leading Democrats of Detroit, he came here and made a speech, we have no doubt. In a public speecn at Indianapolis last week, Gov. Morton of Indiana asserted it to be an unquestionable fact that a secret revolutionary "organization exists iu that State, embracing many thousands. The leaders, he said, are not in it, but stand in the vestibule to avoid danger. This organization is a conspiracy against the Government, and if we shall have a disastrous campaign this summer, it will assert its ob jects and seek to take possession of the Government.

The Copperhead scheme of a Northwestern Confederacy is not abandoned. They know that a peace with the rebels is an acknowledgment of the independence of the Southern Confederacy, and theu it will be easy to detach the Northwest from the East. A scout from our army at Chattanooga reports to the Chattanooga Gazette a conversation which he had, upon a recent visit to the Confederacy, with a prominent rebel of Georgia. Said the Georgian "If Lincoln is re-elected we may just as well give up the game, for we can that case have no hope of gaining our independence. We have been trying to keep up appearances with the hope that the peace men of the United States would be able to carry the election.

Our all is staked upon the issue; for it is an absolute impossibility for us to hold out anotner tour years, liod grant that our fears be not realized. For my own part, wouia rauier see tue sun plucked from his orbit than to see old Abe If we have to return to the hated Union, I would rather submit to any other man than Indiana is responding nobly to the State call for the hundred day service. Lafay ette is ablaze with enthusiasm. Seventy patriotic ladies of the youth and beauty of the city have volunteered to take tne piace of the clerks who go, and patriotic pro prietors pledge them their situations and salaries. Thk Finance Committee of the New York Sanitary Fair, after looking over the receipts and expenses, have ascertained that the net returns will amount to The Treasurer will not be able to complete his account until some time this week, It is reported that no correspendence will be allowed to leave the Army of the Potomac for a period of sixty days Gen.

Grant having issued an order to that effect. Pennsylvania has bought a resi dence lor ner woyeraox-, AI. CLAPP Office No. 154 3Tai Exchange Builtiinp. TERMS SI SO PES ASNUSI, IN ADVANCE THE BUFFALO SIOEXI.fO EXPRESS Is published at th sunt place, (daily) at Eiglit Dol- 1 ars per Annum.

THE TRI-WEEKLY EXPRESS Is published on Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday moraines, ai four uwuua 1- Advertisement Inserted on reasonable terma. BUFFALO, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1864. A Move ill the Right Direction. The present high price of gold has the effect to greatly enhance the cost of all im ported articles, while the recent advance in the tariff rates of many articles of luxury, that are of foreign ibrication pushes, their value to a still higher point.

Prominently among these articles are silks. Under the recent action of Congress, the merchants all over the country resorted at once to the rubber and pencil, aud old price marks were superseded bv new ones, offering to a suffering people silks and other expensive goods at fifty- per cent, advance, without their cost ou the shelves beiug increased, in fact, a farthing. This temporary increase of duty has tempted the dealers in dutiable foreign goods to an exercise of cupidity by speculating largely out of the consumer, upon the hypothesis that if they purchase these goods hereafter, they must add the new duty to their coat. To have been consistent with itself. Congress should, if it was practicable, have imposed this increase of duty upon the stocks of imported goods on hand, or have made the tax upon whiskey prospective, and not made the holders thereof sufferers by the change, to an almost ruinous extent.

In one case it has legislated money into the pockets of the vender, and in the other out of them, a condition of things that does not square well with the principle of equal and exact ustice. But, we have digressed from the intended subject of this article. We started off to call the attention of our readers to a very important and timely movement now being made among the ladies of New York city, in view of the great increase in the cost of expensive fabrics imported from abroad, and which enter so largely, just now, into the consumption of the country. The Timet says that they propose to confine themselves, so far as possible, to the use of home fabrics, while the war lasts. Such a movement among the ladies, if it becomes at all general, will do good in many ways.

It will relieve their husbands from paying a good many very heavy bills. It will thus keep gold, not only within the country within their private purses. And it will tend to build up and encourge the manufacture here at home, of a great many articles which are now imported. Few persons probably are aware of the extent to which the manufacture of a great many things supposed to come exclusively from abroad, is already carried on here at home. This can and will be very much enlarged by such action as the ladies propose to take.

We are told that already a great many of the silt fabrics sold here as of foreign importation, are actually made in Connecticut, and so far as quality is concerned, nobody could tell the difference." Whether this has taken form beyond consultation and proposition, we are not advised, but whether it has or not, the wealthy and fashionable who control the popular taste and wants, should at once resort to domestic goods for consumption, utterly discarding foreign fabrics until the war is ended and prices descend to a standard more consistent with, the condition of the country. Not only the women, but the men of this country should resolve to purchase nothing from abroad, that they can possibly dispense with or obtain from our own manufactures. If the ladies cannot obtain American silks, let them resort to American calicoes; and establish the standard of fashion iu dress on a cotton basis. Let the men of the country resort to American cloths and cassiiners for their apparel, until peace returns and taxation decreases in volume. In this way we can keep our gold at home, and reward our own enterprise and industry, instead of pouring the auriferous stream into the pockets of foreigners, to sustain their laboring classes and enrich their manufacturers.

Better to save the life of the nation clad in coarse cloths, than labor for it clothed in purpleand fine linen, while the substance of the nation passes away to enrich the monarchies of Europe. This suggestion is worth thinking and acting upon. Self preservation is the first law of nature, and it is high time we brought that law into exercise in all the duties and relations of life. ISTSKEiT ok oca State Debt. The entire amount of interest due on our State debt is onlv about $400,000, and the amount due to foreign creditors is only $25,000.

The premium on gold for the latteramount would be something under and it is for this paltry sum that the fame and credit of the State are to be prejudiced. Exchange. The logic of the above is peculiar to this question and its1-treatment by those who would discriminate between foreign ana domestic creditors. It appears from this that the State owes interest on its debt to the amount of $400,000 $375,000 to our own eitizeas, and 25,000 to foreigners. It is held, in the above, that the State should stand a shave of $20,000 to get gold with which to pay foreigners, while our own people should be turned off with greenbacks at par.

We do not want to see the State discredited, but if it becomes necessary to commit a palpable wrong to pre serve its fame and credit, we prefer to end ure $25,000 worth of foreign prejudice to worth of the American article. This jealousy for our -credit doesn't amount to much when it proposes to discriminate in favor of foreign stock speculators, and would turn American capitalists away with a currency less valuable than they insist Bhallbepaid to Europeans. We say pay all or none in gold. Thk report of Mr. J.

E. Seymour, General Agent of the Soldiers' Relief Asso ciation of this State, shows that in September last there were 1,053 of our soldiers sick in the Norfolk hospitals; but three months later the number had been reduced to 89(5. The number of New York soldiers admitted to the different hospitals at Washington from Jan. 1 to Nov 30, was 12,732 of whom 11,000 returned to duty, 5,506 were absenton furlough, 320 were discharged by reason of wounds, 331 died, -while 4,106 remained in hospital and convalescent camp. Death op Commodorb W.

D. Porter. Commodore W. D. Porter, the eldest son of old Commodore David Porter, and the elder brother of Admiral David D.

Porter, Red River, died on Sunday morning at St. Luke's Hospital, New York, of disease of the heart. Commodore Porter was one of the naval heroes of the war. He "commanded the redoubted gunboat Essex in the attack on Fort Henry, and through all the contest for the Mississippi, from Cairo to New Orleans. Among his exploits was the destruction of the rebel ram Arkansas.

Some of the Washington ladies propose to stop using silks, satins, and foreign gewgaws generally. Exchange. If the Washington ladies propose this reform of dress extravagance there really is some hope of a movement of the kind among the women of the country. Highway Robbery, It has fallen to the lot of James M. Law ton, a resident of the town of Evans, to give $48 worth of additional evidence of the reliability of the venerable admonition which saith, "put not thy trust in strangers." Lawton, it seems from hisown showing, came to town day before yesterday, aud received a "flowing bowl" introduction, amongothers to two brothers named Abram aud Albert Vedder, one of whom won his particular confidence by declaring himself a member of the Masonic fraternity." After indulging iu divers potations in a saloon on Exchange stroet, the brothers, about two, o'clock iu the morning, kindly volunteered to show their friend James a suitable place to lodge.

The trio left the festive scene, but had proceeded but a short distance, when the brothers made known to James a peculiar "grip," which, when fastened upon his funds, was uot to be loosened, and also required the fraternal pair to abruptly leave James, without evn saying good night. Yesterday Lawton sought the assistance of the Chief to find his friends, and they were subsequently discovered by detective Reilly in a placo ou Jefferson street. Law-ton readily recognized them aud they were sent to jail. Albert Vedder, we learn, has recently been released from an apprenticeship to virtue in the stone house at Auburn. If the charge made against him is warranted, he has not profited from the instruction be received and will have to take a few more lessons.

Suicide. Yesterday afternoon an old German about filly years of age. whose name we could not ascertain, hung him self with a rope in the out house back of the residence of John Ziniiner, with whom he resided. Using a piece of wood as a peg he fastened one end of the rope to a beam and tied the other round his neck. The building was so low that his feet rested on the floor, and in his death struggles he kicked so violently as to alarm a woman in the neighborhood who ran to the spot, and thence to the house to get assistance from Zimmer, who went and looked at the unfortunate man but refused to cut the rope, saying it was against the law to do so.

The woman then went iu search of some one else, and met Policeman Funck, who made all haste to save the unfortunate man, but in vain. Whether life was ex- tict when Zimmer arrived we do not know. Sone of tho neighbors state that deceased was rendered insane by the death of a son' in the army. An inquest will prabobly be held to-day, when the true facts in the cat will be made known. The Horrible Treatment of- Uniou PrUo ti ers at Belle Isle.

The Baltimore American publishes a sickening narrative of the horrible barbar ity experienced by the Union prisoners on Belle Isle, near Richmond It is an unvarnished statement from one of the recently released prisoners from Belle Isle, now recuperating at Jarvis Hospital, Baltimore, named John P. Kuhn, of the 126th Regiment, Ohio Vol. Kuhn was taken prisoner near Orange Court House on Nov. 27, 1S03, having been severely wounded and unable to fall back with his company, who were attack-by the enemy greatly, outnumbering them. He arrived at Richmond on the 29lh and was taken to an old tobacco house called Military Prison Hospital, where he got a piece of bread to eat, the first he had eaten since being captured.

He states the average number of deaths in aud about Richmond to have been about one hundred per month three-fourths die of starvation, ono-half of the remaining fourth of cold, and the remainder of wounds and natural diseases. Some were literally eaten up by vermin. He thinks if the men bad received the right kind of treatment, such treatment aft was due to prisoners of war, nine-teen-twentieths of them would not have died. The prisoners on Belle isle suffered beyond description, from hunger, thirst and cold. Not unfrequently prisoners wer shot at and either killed or wounded by the rebels, without the slightest reason or provocation.

The prisoners captured last winter were put on Belle Island, but first robbed of their money and clothing. They had no tents to shelter them from the frosty nights: companies ot twenty or more together would lie down in the sand, taking turn in rotation for sleeping on the ends of the rows, which were the coldest places. Here without coverinir of any kind the men died from cold and exhaustion. Hardly a morning passed when in getting up but they would find five or six out of each row of twenties dead and cold. The greater num ber of those who did uot die, froze their feet and hands.

The rations were not fib for a dog to eat. The meat was rotten or decayed. The most of it was never butchered, aud whenever tbey got raw meat, one-third of it was alive with maggots eating at the other two-thirds. Many times tne rations were one-nan worms. Their drinking water was obtained at the same place where they washed themselves and their privy.

The starved wretches were constantly going over the Island begging and trading for something to eat brass buttons, blankets and overcoats that had not been stolen were exchanged with the guard for something to eat, and when these were gone tbey could but freeze and starve. All except the wounded men were robbed of their money, and so none but the wound- ed men had means to buy bread. Wheat bread cost $8 per pound a common sized dog cast from $25 to $-'(0. Some of them liked dog meat better than the wormy mule meat. Some of the men would go to.

the dead house and kill the rats that had been eating dead men all night, skin, wash and eat them. The dead from the hospital were carried into an old wood shed many were carried out before they were really dead and left to die. Their clothing was stripped off by the nurses and sold to the guards. The dead bodies accumulating in the dead house during the night would have their ears, noses, fingers and portions of their bodies eaten by rats. I the morning the skeletons were thro wn into rough pine boxes and carted off aud dumped into a pit.

Sometimes the hogs would break in and feed upon the dead bodies which the rebels guards thought good joke, saying the Yankee make good feed for our hogs." The above is ouly a portion of the horrible atrocities mentioned in the narrative as having been systematically practised upon prisoners by the rebels. The only wonder is how human beings could have endured these cruelties and been able to come out alive from their sufferings in this Hell upon earth." Manufactures from Corn Husks. Mr. Canisius, American Consul at Vien na, has sent to the Department of Agriculture at Washington a communication upon the subject of manufactures from the husks ot Indian corn at Schloegeimuhel in Austria. The enterprise appears to have been successful beyond the most sanguine expectations.

Among the articles manu factured from tne nusk uore, are yarn, paper stuff, linen, drillings, oilcloth, knap sacks, lirebuckets, tar-covers, letter-en velopes. Bower-paper, cigarrette papers. and photographic and parchment paper. Tne linen aoes nor appear to oe or nne texture, but is well adapted for all common purposes. It is of close textur, heavy and very strong.

't (Jorn-nusK paper is sold at Vienna it prices as low as paper matte from rags, -and is said to be equal to the finest linen paper. For tracing and. drawing papers it is said to be superior to tne article now in use. Mixed with rags the husk-fibre produces the finest kind of fancy paper. The cost of the manufacture last year at the imperial mills at Hcnioegetmubel was 740 florins, and the amount of the product 379 000 ftnrinu Tnnlrincr nrofir 1 lAtMl 2 norms, st per cent.

The Nashville Times is as sensible aa it 1st practical. It talks in this way "General Chalmers alleges in excuse for the Fort. Pillow masscre, that the rage and idigna tion of his soldiers at the sight of black: -troops could not be restrained. There is one way to restrain it knock their infernal brains out." i The annual meetings of the religiouar and benevolent societies, commenced, ia New York on Sunday, and will continue, through the ensuing week. cent battles, sent to him by his sou Ad jutant John C.

Nial: List of casualties in the 116th Regiment New York Volunteers, for the 8th and 9th of April, 1804. April 8th, Sabine Cross Roads, April 9th, Pleasant Hill, Killed Co. Private Chas. Ledner. Wounded Co.

A Serg't John H. Diug-mau, leg slight. Co. Serg't Charles D. Standart, neck mortally; PrivateSilas H.

Arnold, chin aud left forearm flesh Jacok Fromweller, forearm, breast and back serious; John Thompson, left side slight James II At-wood, hip flesh. Co. Corporal Samuel Young, breast severely. Co. Serg't William Holden, groin slightly.

Private Lewis Hill, right hand severely George Rowley, breast and forearm flesh. Co. Corporal Miles Skilliugton, leg slightly; Philipp Lehman, foot severely. Private Joseph Bretcher, leg slight. Co.

II Corporal Jacob Gamel, right hand slight. Co I Private Joseph Swing, right cheek slight; William Putnam, left thigh slight; Theopbilus B. More, right cheek slightly. Co. Serg't E.

P. Smith, arm slightly. Corporal H. M. Crawford, leg slightly.

Private John E. Butler, hand slightly. April 9th. Killed Co. Private John Bushard.

Wounded. Co. A Second Lieut. J. C.

Newton, elbow slight. Private Andrew Barley, hand slight. Co. Corporal Fletcher Montgomery, left leg flesh. Private John Richardson, right leg flesh Gregory Fray, upper part left lung serious.

Co. 1st Lieut. John II. Rohan, side slight. Private George Warren, hip flesh Co.

Corporal Nicholas Gitterie, back severe. Co. Private Frank E. Griffith, both legs slight. April 9th.

Missing Co. Private Jos. Raymond. Co. Private Anthony Cramer.

Co. I Private Lorenzo Helfter. GEORGE M. LOVE, Col. Commanding 116th N.

Y. V. Jjjo. C. Nial, Adjutant.

Inquest. Coroner Edmonds held an inquest yesterday afternoon on the body found in Smoke's Creek, on the Buffalo and White's Corners Plank Road, about six miles from the city. It was that of a man, and not of a woman as we were first informed. Mr. Rodney testified that when he went to bring the body to the city, he was informed by different persons that it was that of a woman about fifty years of age, named Mrs.

alters, who had lived with Squire Long, at White's Corners. She was subject to fits and was thought to be partially deranged. Dr. King made an examination aud found the usual signs of death by drowning. A verdict of accident al drowning was consequently reudered.

Found Drowned. The body of an un known boy was found in the feeder gates of the canal, at North Buffalo, on Monday evening, and an inquest held upon it by Coroner Edmonds vesterday. It was so much decomposed as to be unrecognizable, but is thought to be that of a driver who was drowned on the second of last Novem ber, by falling from the canal boat Bayou. Deceased was 5 feet 3 inches in height, apparently about seventeen years of age, and was dressed in a blue check shirt, heavy cotton pantaloons, new kip boots and blue woolen socks. The Rebel Forrest a Cold dcrer.

Blooded Mur- The following letter from Major-General Stanley, which appears iu the Cincinnati Xtmereial, describes the character of the rebel General Forrest and gives an incident of his career "Headquarters 1st Division 4th A.C., Department of the Cumberland, Blue Springs, April 21st, '64. "The late butchery at Fort Pillow, by to have filled the community with indignation and surprise. To those in the front of our armies who know Forrest, there is nothing at all astonishing in his conduct at Fort Pillow. I know that this very much respected Confederate hero has, upon a former occasion, condescended to become his own executioner. To show the style of man Davis and the Cincinnati Enquirer delight to honor, I will relate the following, which was stated to me lust summer by a rebel citizen of Middle Tennessee, a man of high standing in his community, who had it from his nephew, an officer serving under Forrest.

About the middle of the summer of 1S02, Forrest surprised the postof Murfreesboro, commanded by Brigadier-General T. T. Crittenden, of Indiana. The garrison was composed mostly of the Ninth Michigan and Second Minnesota in fantry and the Seventh Pennsylvania cav alry. After some little fiirhtiujr, the troops were surrendered.

A mulatto man, who was a servant of one of the officers of the Union forces, was brought to Forrest on horseback. The latter inquired of him. with many oaths, "what he was doing there?" The mulatto answered that he was a free man, aud came out as a servant to an otneer naming the officer, rorrest, who was on horseback, deliberately put ms nana to ms noisier, arew ms pistol, anu blew the man Drains out. Tne rebel ol- ficer stated that the mulatto man came from Pennsylvania, and the same officer de nounced the act as one ot cold-blooded murder, and declared he would never again serve under Forrest. This murdered man was not a soldier, and indeed, the oc currence took place before the United States government determined to arm ne groes.

Of he truth of this there is not the shadow of a doubt, and it can be establish ed any day by living witnesses. our ooeaient servant, L. Stanley, Major General." The Blair Matter. The Cincinnati Commercial takes this sensible view of the Blair matter: The President disclaims any intention of indorsing stair nostinty to utiase, Dy sending the former to the army. It has.

probably, been generally observed that the President is not sensitive on matters of personal dignity regarding himself, and it is not surprising that he should be found wanting in appreciation of the sentiment of others in that regard. He nas an oft Hand, often odd way of doing things, and it is not incompatible with his character to presume that his idea in returning Blair his Major General's commission was that he might be transferred from a position in which he was making mischief, to one iu which he would be out of the wav and of service to the country. It is a matter of history that Gen. Blairwas a brave and efficient officer in the field, and has, during the winter, made himself rather a disagreeable member of Congress. So we may presume the President meant exactly what he said when he disclaimed any intention of treating the Secretary of the Treasury with disrespect, in the disposition made of Gen.

Blair. The Secretary will, we are certain, upon mature reflection, take this 'View of the case. Condensing the Army Food. Professor E. N.

Horsford, lately Rumford Professor in Harvard University, and therefore especially devoted to "the application of science to the art of living," has, at the request of army officers, investigated the question of an improved army ration, and in an interesting pamphlet, published by Van Nostrand, shows that, with great saving to the country and increased comfort to the soldier, the present marching ration which weighs from thirty-two to forty ounces, and occupies about one hundred cubic inches may be reduced in weight to thirteen or sixteen ounces, and in bulk to thirty-five cubic inches, without diminish-ine its nutritious value, by simply remov ing the inedible portions and the water from it, and compressiag it. miles beyond Pleasant HiH aud the same distance from Mansfield. Two divisions of the 13th army corps, under Generals Ransom aud Cameron, took tho advance oi me uiiantry. TLe 1st division of the 19th army corps, under Generals Fraukliu and Emory, took up the line of march, about six miles in rear of the 13th corps. General A.

J. Smith, commanding the 16th army corps, was about 20 miles from Pleasant Hill. On Mie morning of tho 8th General Banks passed on to the front, and as soon as he arrived, heavy skirmishing commenced. The cavalry advanced steadily, shelling the woods as they passed ou, the enemy falling back without much resistance. In sight of Mansfield, however, he made a stand, having here massed his infantry support.

Our artillery, consisting in part of Nim's Boston Battery, Chicago Mercantile Battery, Battery 1st U. S. Artillery, and some Missouri Mountain Howitzers, opened a terrific fire as the ene my charged with his cavalry, but bis in- fulltrv kimrinrl. u'ua ulnca of I 1 1 overwhelming masses were rapidly pushed lorwaru, completely surrounding and capturing 22 pieces of artillery, and routine our whole cavalry force. An enormous train of ammunition and supplies belonging to this division and which, by the way, has been the cause of- much annov- ance and delay ever since we left Alexandria was a rich and easy capture.

To us it is a heavy loss, they were entirely new, and contained nearly all our medical stores for the campaign. At tne time 01 this attack the 13th A. C. were about three miles in the rear, but at once advanced to support. Scarcely had they got in link, when the cavalry, in pre cipitous hate, broke through them, throwing them into confusion, from which they had not time to recover when the enemv charged upon them with numbers 10 to 1.

Anotner route was the result, and they in turn tied in all directions. To add to the unfortunate position in which this corps was placed. Gen. Ransom was wounded in the thigh, in the very first of the engage ment, xie was me very soul oi ms command a thousand of the enemies bullets could not have inflicted a more fatal blow. The ammunition and supply train of this command was now the enemies.

Mark, they knew its whereabouts, and instructions were given to every officers to press ou with his men regardless of life and take possession of the prize, and well nigh was the purpose accomplished, but for the timely arrival of the 1st Division of the 19th corps. About 2 clock in the afternoon Gen. Emery was ordered to bivouac in a small clearing about eight miles from where they were afterwards encased, and where the cavalry were camped the previous night. They had been therescareely anhour when they were ordered to the front. Soon the booming of cannon aud rolling of musketry told that a desperate conflict was going ou, and a step but little short of double-quick was kept up till he arrived at the scene of action.

Tho whole country is an almost unbroken pine thicket throuirh which troops can onlv ad vauce in single tile, excepf by the crooked i unu, men, tnouju it nas iieeu tra eneu for nearly a hundred yeaas, fs iu a misera-condition, and so narrow that two wagons can barely pass. Arriving at a small Sabine Cross-roads, and where the 13th corps train was left we were rushed into line of battle on the east side of the clearing. In less than five minutes the enemy appeared on the opposite side. Not aware of our arrival, aud catching sight of the train, thev rushed in thousands out of the woods, butstagger-ed as volley after volley were steadily poured into them. Their killed and wound ed must have been immense.

They now inea nrsr, to turn and tnen to nank our right, but in both attempts they were siur nally repulsed. Darkness at last closed the bloody scene, both armies lying down on their arms within half a mile of each other. The 101st N. Y. was the only regiment in the 1st Division that charged the enemy, consequently their loss was the heaviest.

The rebel General Mouton was shot in the early part of the action. At ij v. al. a retreat was ordered to i-ieasaut lull, at which plaae the Cavalry and 13th N. C.

were directed tore-organize. For want of transportation a great number in our wounuea were leit, in tne enemy's bauds. At 10 o'clock on the 9th we reached Pleasant Hill the Saratoga of Louisiana the resort of those who can not afford a more expensive summer residence. Here we were reinforced by General Smith with the 16th N. C.

It was now our turn to select our position, and well was it chosen and maintained. The enemy followed up our retreat cautiously, but steadily; and at 4 P. M. auother battle was fairly begun, which will mark'a shining page iu the history of the battles of the Union. Taylor had been reinforced by Price, of Missouri.

Couple this fact with his immense success of tho previous day, and you can imagine how much enthusiasm the rebels had to tire and urge them on to further victory. AU day long an almost uninterrupted fire was kept upon the picket line, but they were now driven in, and a brigade of the enemy charged upou Battery U. S. Artillery. One brigade of the 16th corps was supporting this battery, and resisted the first attack, but gave way on the second charge, and 2 of the guns were captured.

The enemy now directed his whole force on our felt wing, evidently with the intention of turning it and getting in our rear. The 3d Brigade of the 1st Div. of the 19ih corps held this position, but gave way and retreated in very bad order. Col. Benedict, of the 102d New York, was commanding tne brigade, but leu early in me action.

The enemy seeing that he was gaining ground, now rushed furiously forward, but was sternly met by the 1st and 2d Brigades of the 19th corps'and the 4th Division of the 16th corps. All the batteries now opened. A tropical thunderstorm is a calm to sucn a peal as burst lortli, and continued without intermission for at least au hour. Charce after chartre was made on both sides, and repulsed in turn. Wo recaptured the two pieces of Battery besides 19 of the pieces we lost yesterday.

Our mistake oi yesterday was tne enemies mistake of to-day. Vesterday we did not know that Price had formed a junction with Taylor, tayior was ignorant ot tue fact that Smith had joined Banks to-day. Some effort was made t5 turn our right, but the advantage ot our position enabled us to hold this, and at the same time remain incomparati ve security. When night closed upon the scene of carnage we had driven the enemy entirely from the field. Thus ended one of the most obstinately contested battles of the war.

The rebel forces consisted principally of Texans, but there were also troops from Arkansas and Misssouri, as well as Louisiana. The 15th Missouri, loyal, met tho 15th Missouri, rebel, steel to steel. Owing to the loss of our wagon train on the first day, our supplies and ammuni tion were all but exhausted. Uut lor this, our course was now to tolio up tue enemy. They too had nothing upon which to subsist an army, and consequently oy ciock on the morning of the loth both armies were on the retreat indirectly opposite directions.

About 500 of our wounded were left at Pleasant Hill for want of ambulances to transport them. Estimates of our loss differ widely. As near as can' be ascertained, ours in killed and wounded in both fights is missing probablyall prisoners without wounds 2,000. I can almost vouch for the correct ness of tnese ngures. to having 1,500 killed anf wounded.

We have taken about 1,000 prisoners. It is rumored to-day (April 16th) that they are to be exchanged. Comment on the disposition of our forces. or the distances at which they were kept apart, would be improper. At no distant day perhaps, the Committee on the conduct of the war will express an opinion.

It is told by prisoners that were taken the second day, that Taylor made a speech to our men the night of the first fight. He said that they would be well treated, but perhaps they would find it hard to grub on their fare after the slick living Uncle Sam save them, but that he had iust made a re quisition to Gen. Banks for some commissary supplies, which would be dealt out to them in small quantities as long as they lasted. We are now under cover of the gunboats at Grand Ecore. Grover has arrived with two brigades, and more troops are daily expected.

A messenger has reached here from Steel's command. Every hour the plot thickens. At present we are the party if I.