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HIE HERALD OF THE I'MOX
W, LMHGTOS, H.; t., TUESDAY 5I0RSOG,. APRIL 11, 1805.
PRICE TES CEVTS.
APRIL 11
LO ; A ! L I NT El-H552
Z's Jvumcroas comp.a-nts have beea made to
us 0Q the object of the S furnished our city
Before the advent of the union troops under-
sold to consumers iv-
id feet. ow tne
.lanJ it Tvas
; .npr ner moaau
v . - . difference in rates
certainly not compensated for by tho
,ttaii,y of the gas at leasi we juu , , -
Aeiiifl at present furnished is an improvement,
s,ncereW piiy our beB.g T 'VZ 1
or
irbich is
- . : ,.55 lrtinaer
Twas U the coming oi me umm .
..r mle the sas was worth only
(lie uirncuHiea
THE PIRATE SHfiIAIDOAfI.
llcr Arrival jit Ulcibonrne He r
Captures Statements ly UcrjCap-
tain. - ,i iL
TA letter from Melbourne, Australia,. m the
E"Hsh papers?, gires fome account of tho 4o
intf of the Shenandoah, which has arrived in
Hobson's- Bay. The Shenandoah, formerly the
Sea King, was fitted out at Maderia last Octo
ber, ana tas since that period captured and
destroyed ten or eleven Federal rnercnatuimn,
amongst others the Alma, the Charter Oak, the
Godfrey, the Susan, the Kate.Prince, the Lizzie
M. Stacey, the Edwards, tho Helena, the Ade
laide and the Delphiner All these prized were
burur, with the exception of the Kate l Prxnce
aud the -Adelaide, 'which,! havinjr English goods
on bonrd, were allowed to proceed on their
iriv ftfror ransom. The writer sayn':
44 Captain Waddell icadily affordedf;me all
inforniation.v ' Speaking of the Kate 'Prince and
the Adelaide, which he jraaaomed. the .tormer resp0nsit,le autkorities .here is but one course
for forty thousand dollars and the latter for j H,eQ that of strict adherence to the spirit of
tone or two, and they are of coure, absolute
ly cut off from the" harbor of their own coun
try. Thev may obtain a brief shelter in neutral
ports, indeed, but only on sufferance, and under
rPfr;otnn Trhich make it impossible for them
to replaces single gun. which may have become
disabled. The example of the Alabama hw
what their fate must be. if they should chance
to encounter a regular . man-of-war, and but for
the blockade and coast operations ."V faave
hitherto engrossed the nayal energy of the fed
erals, they must long ince have been swept
from the ocean: The pleasure of burning prizes
and the consciousness of inspiring terror among
their enemies may, for aught wc knor, be an
ample reward to Captain Semmes and his com
rades for the miseries of a Flying Dutchman's.
Kiit snch it is at the best. We shall be
curious to learn what reception thsse selfjinvited
Visitors have nret with m the commercial ana
dpmoeraticcommunitvof Melbourne, butforthe
, ' ;hnd the nreseat
are uo wt ,
.... t.tY enaitllla.
if the rtiflereoce,
United States
two dollars
high latcs even
mr create between
notes, is taken into consideration.
specie and
suQcient to guarantee a crowded house.
tad Naval Engagements were
The tbk. The benefit for the sick and wounded
soldiers in our hosfitals takes place to-morrow
:lf We think tbe simple" announcement of the
fr? ia SI
l'nhM-t Macaue a:
.iren last evening. , TLe programme to-night em
braces a very ent-rtairiing bill of comedy, farce
and Jancing. Charles II. is to be presented, with
the amusing farce of Make your Wills.
Fori New Youk. The iron screw steamer Ceres
Vill sail for New York on Wednesday next. She
ioneof the $r-est vessels of her class and Las
accommodations for passengers. Appuca-
C2M vc maue uu.uuiuu
cood
for state-rooms
Teel now'ljing at the wharf, foot of Princess
"at-eet. Captain Sherwood and Turser Frank
Cleary will do their ntmosi for the comfort of all
rho takpassagc with them. -
' ' 4fr ; 1
. Pae In Waihlngtoii.
Wasdingtos, April 1.
Military regulations concerning, the local af
fairs ot Washington have ben considerably tp
laxedoflate; and on. and after-. Monday no
passes will be required to visit, Alexandria.
-o
InteruAtlonal Exhibition at Cologne.
WAsnixGTOK.- April 1.
It has been officially announced to the State
Depnrtruent that an international exhibition of
machinery, implements, and productions of hor
ticulture, agriculture, and forestry, will take
lO-if nt Cologne- on the lain oi .may nexi
' i-w o . .
OI 1110 ..VJunM ,a
irnnt.V.thrPA thousand collars. CaDtain' Waddell
expressed his intention of, not so acting for the
future, For,' siiid he, 4 in the time to come I
must not regard neutral cargoin federal botUms.
An Piifmv's shin makes enemy's goods. I I hare
Lord John Itiftsell as my authority for thus act
ing. It is only giving our enemies an opportu
nify to save their property,,; and work against
us. I have sii)(fe been very much vexed that I
did not hare those vessels. Let our enemies
look out for the future, Speaking of his vessel,
I asked him was she not the Sea King? ( There
ii i i U .Ali'afl T lnr'r
was a twmKie irnis vyvs ua uc icpmu. . -;
want to know ; shfe is now the Shenandoah, a.
Confederate war sif amer I find, said Capt.
AVaddell, 'not thcrfclightest difficulty in obtain
ing men - half the crews of the captured ves
sels jump at tho offer to enlist.' . !
" Judging from her appearance, the .Shenan
doah is all her Captain says of er one; of the
fastest, tautest and smartest vessels auuai, u
up to the present time she has not been! put to
her utmost speed. In capturiug the Kate1 Prince
she overhauled her although the Katel Prince
-was a remarkably fast sailer, and had, a lair
wind, with ever stitch ol canvasin less inin
1,-MT-a Thri nrew of the Shenandoah con-
sists of seventyifive men, and a -finer fc ft ot let
lows Inever trod a deck. She will probably
romnin a weirt this nort, as the band of her
HcV is broken, and several small
repairs are required to her machraery. Smoe
1a incr. Madeira sho has not tuuched.fct any
nrf 'lif! lwa Kf- rnnrse kent a shari) look-out
lor ehemy's vessels. From this port Captain
VVaddell purposes going lor a cruise m iumau
andj'hinesc wutcrs, and expresses a confident
i.tinf that mi Yankee vessel anoai can wuc
near him if he chooser, to make a run for it.
their institutions.!'
man-
under the-auspices
Prussia. "-.
Waddell bewailed bitterly the
nor in which bis . consort the Florida had been
t rcate'd. ' What was the conduct, of her rascal
ly, blackguardly cuDtors but cold-bhioded mur
de'r in shooting down her defenceless crew ?
t. nt the wav I
Ana yei tuu vj - -. t . -fnf f i,;nn,
. 1 . Vk T- Al 11 fl 1 1 T 1 1 1 1 T4 Ij I UWWfc ci v - . '
UUk uyj v" r" r-r-- , "... m,r . rM,nlil.0 linim thi sub ect : ana
lULaillT muo.v " v T , " . j'
The Schleawls-Holsteltt frlaR. ;
Wasuisctgx, April 1.
OfBcial information has been received that
tlie cabinets of Vienna and Berlin, accepting the
prposition-of their respective commissioners in
charge 'ad interim of the administration of the
j.k;o f TTnNfrmn and Rhleswir -have asrrecd
.
U X T yJ" v . j
to one single instance in tvuicu i, v. WT "
of the Confederate navy; have in th'e slightest
de-ree overstepped the-bounds of recognised
wuf ho si'd were i. m-i
The President on Mlaaouri "Affalrai
LETTER FKOil MR. LINCOLN TO GOVERNOR FLET
CHER.
The St. Iouis Republican publishes the fol
lowing correspondence: . , 11Qru !
' " Washington City, March 15, ISOj.
"Editor Jlepublicany St. Louis, ilo.: :
"Dear Sir: Enclosed I send to you a copy-of
a letter recently addressed -by President Lin coln,
to Governor. Fletcher, and which has been
furnished to me with authority to publish it.
Its suggestions are all good, its, tone genial and,
kindly, and the effect of its publication will be
in aid of the restoration of peace and quiet m
Missouri.. ',,
Tn PrAKident most earr.eslly desires the
prosperity of our people, and to this end there )
nnfhincr that he would not do to . bring back
bxus theorder and good fellowship which re
liilon ant nivil war has broken up.
I hope tho people 'will' receive and read this i
lAtfer in tho same spirit which prompted the
President to write it, and that they will noton
ly carry out its timely suggestions, but co-opei-ate
also, with the civil and military authorities,
both at home and m Washington, to prevent a
recurrence of those scenes of strife and disorder
which disgraced Missouri the lat year.
"I ain, most respectfully, your obedient ser-
vant,
1James S Rollins."
mr. Lincoln's letter.'. '
Executive MansionV f.
"Washington. February 20, 1865. , j
'His Exctlltncy Governor' Fletcher : - -
It seems that there is now no orgiuiicii iui-
tjir v force oi the enemy in juiuwj
that destruction of property and life is rampant
everywhere.' Is not the cure for this within
easy reach ot the pcopie ucuiseivc-s
not but le tLat every mau, nuu uii-j - .
ber or cut-throat, wouni gladly put an end to
A large majority in every
The I&icltmoiiIi Virlorv How the
Sewi was receive! Iu5cv York.
j fFnm the N. Yl Herald, ApriU. '
It would be hniH)sKlblo thr ugh. tho medium
of peri, ink and paper to co vey to our raadcjN
anything like! a full description ol the unbourul
ed enthusiasm that prevailed in this city yes
terday'. To do io would require more than ;v
hundred editions of -the Herald. To do so it
would necessary ti-eall into the service, a
hundred vigilant rcportt-rs, each with more eye.n
than ah Argus to view the exciting scenes in
- every1 psrt of!th city, and more arms and hand,
than a Br i; reus "to take a noti on it." To do
so we should have to'iecord the, sayings and
doings of thecrowds on every street corner; wo
should have had to travel in veryliailroad car
ot- the several lines tiiat run through the crowd
ed streets of our metropolis; we should havehad
to remain in all the hotels froni eleven o'clock
yesterday morning until bedtime lat night; we
should have had to enter all the privaio resi
dences of opr citizens to see the joy; expressed, '
the opinions. uttered and; the i-rayeii otfered up
for the grand triumpliunt ciose of the bloody
drama of the rebellion. In short,; we should
nave possessed the pover of ubiquity, which is
an attribute it divinity aud not ot Iiiumahiv.
There is nb anguage capable of expressing
ihe ydd Scenes. ol exaement and the joyful de
monstratit'ns'of pati iotism, frni the Battory to.
'SpUVten Duyjel creefc. I People fairly danced.
hi me ex issi oi eniiiuMusiu. losiaiu uiai. ujc
howled4 would sound ' Haihly and 'flat, but it
Would nevertheless be a simple truth. Some are
so rg&hizedrUhat under extraordinary emotions,
words will not suffice for their purpose; they
must roar,. r choke in tho ctfo; t ;to expre
themselves tlirough the customary channels.
This 'seiehtihe theory isfthe best we can oiler, in.
Aar wkmI. to seize, burn: oraes
COUlUiHlvt 'i ' T - ' I a
trov the dozen-yanked vessels now in" this port!
There is, or wouta oe, -noiuiug iu -T
of. th a most it , would be, lagical.y s
w -a rpnrisal r but. sir. the Confederates are,
T am haoov to sav. gentlemen, and please
if so, they only need to reach an understanding
one with another.; Each leaving all others
alone solves the problem ; and sureiy earn
would do this "but for his apprehension inn
others wiU not leave him alone. Cannot this
:iv;xron rlwtmst he removed? Let nfign-
I1L 11. IIUU aim un.ii.v - - ii i .111
neakinc, borbood meetings be everywhere called and held
b n ntoWomJnn- a sincere purpose lor mutual
God
to adopt as the provisional flat of those (Tuchie?, wtt shan aiways act up to that standard,
tho colors blue, white and red. disposed in . uTn further conversion he said, Had we a
horizontal stribes. bearinir besides a yellow field dozen or a score of vessels we could man them
near the flag-staff-
A' Japauctc Fleet. tr
' A correspondent of the -London limes says:
"The purchase of steamers by powerful dai
tnios seems to have gone on moro or less briskly
in Japan'. No less than' ten Japanese steamers,
we learn by this mail, were seen at anchor in
the Straits, by her Maiestv's steamer Arrow,
which happened to be on a cruise of inspection jUS3,.li for thus, aclin
a t . r i . .
dozen or a score
Id we but iun
I.U-UJUI I u II ) . - - i i .
caimorx wo wou Id soon urive vankee mercnant-
When I wss . taking my
leave he said, - Mind, I notify, and I ofc you to
n,n Thi f.rr the future enemies hot-
tiu :u iw tm., ...... . 1 , , .
toms make enemies' goods; and, that under no
.:.n.Bt!n,w shall I otherwisfe .YeardT vessels
sailinc under a Yankee flag, for ' (again he re-
neited 'I iiave' the authority ol your
across a lew
Lord
in order to ascertain the reliability of some re
ports to the effect that the Prince of Nagato
(Chiusiu) had begun rebuild his batteries.
Theo reports were found to be incorrect. The
steamers at anchor were said te be a portion of
a fleet assembling under thirty daimio, for the
pUTDOSe Ct puniuioj; uaw, lur ivoeiiiou
arainst the lycoon
already assembled
eotcmoorw : Lotas
RfArlr Tarthaire. Co
, O . . , i-i t
The UUtcn uonsuiaic uuuuings
The names of the vessels
are thus given by a Japan trouble caus-
, Iio One, barah, iohkien, ft! in an j
smopoute, laotai, Gazelle nLnnPi(
1 l it .
v,. nf hrwtirrs canturea irom mo
XV. UU1UWI v. - . , .
--:o..,o .coi, tnl-n were landed, the excite
m,.r.t in KrMlbmirncia intense: the Shenandoah
: . r,i.i xrith rrntrds of boats : but up to
l v ..nioca nndpr verv Peculiar
circumstance has ben allowed io put;foot on
i v.t - -
The London Times editorially Dcwau
d bv the arrival ot tne oueumuu
i.i:., m nir the evens au
woe " one. It adds :- I
tt in Tiiwnn's Bav was cn
ui ait ..........j, i. , i
security in the future, whatever they may nere
tofore h ,ve thought, said or done aooui .
or abput anything else. Let all such nicer, anu
ivairinn- all else, pledge each io cease uaw.iii.
others, and to make common cause against who
ever pend.-ts in making, aiding r encouiagmg
further disturbance. The practical mtans me.
11 best know how to adopt ana appiy. aiu
meetings, old .friendships will cross the mem-
or, and honor : and uurisHan ciminj
m to help. . ; .. t.. ii
"Pleasecnsider wnetner u may uui.
to suggest this to ine no.y buhuvu purv-
iiissoun. , - , - T
Yours truly, a. i-
explanation, of the patriotic exhaustiioli of lungs
that occurred yeaterday'.- Huzzaing and cheer
ing were heard as never they were -heard before.
Singing also formed pan t of the popular mode of
letting off the exuberauv feelings y i the masses.
Down in wall street a ch&rus, which Maretzek
can never hope to rival, . almost made the' an
cient piles of stone and brick tremb'e in sympa
thy; j More than ten i thousand human being-i
chaunted, as with one viee, the iibw favorii4
national hymn of " Glory Hallelujah," with 'an
accompaniment of shouting and j4mpmg and
stamping beyond all description Those who
did not hear if will have to imaginie the effect
ot such a union of throats' in a locality Vv hero
such different performances are generally wi.t
nes ed. ' ' '
:Thi rage. fr flags was immense. ; The news;
of Saturday Mid Sunday hady he effect of indu
cing hundtedis to niakeiaraid on the fl'g tores
early i yesterday morning, and tte consequence
was that the supply on hand was very nearly
exhausted before the intelligence of Richmond's
fall arrived. Half an hour nfer thei receipt of
the capture-of the rebel capital there was, not
a single large flag of a national character in! th e
whole ciiy left unpurchased. Every ihousekeep-.
er .showed his loyalty and satisfaction by exhib
it in'g the Stars and Stripes from soriic port urn
of his establishment. . -The City Hall prouflly
diRpHyed her usubI quota of national, State and
municipal banners. The Custom . louse, Post
QlEce; .exchanges, hotds, churches and ail pub
lic buildings were crovvned with 'the.! victorious
ensign of the Union. 'Some houses had a flag
from every window, two or three on the roof
and more over the stoops' and doorways. .Tho
railway cars and ; horasis ere decorate 1 with
miniature flags. , Carts, stages and wagons all
over the city displayed the fame symbol of loy
alty, and indeed it.Vrould be more difficult to tn
uil' cerate the places1 that did not have flags oa
them than thoe which did. Every spot where
a piece of bunting could' properly b fifctmei
was so decora tea. ? .
Tle Cotton 1 tle JXetoel Ste- , .
The supply of cotton on hand in the rebel
states has been, and must remain a moovcu 4uT
Ltion at least, Parties who have made the suo-
iect a study, and who have, pernap, gouu
portunities ior compiling sum m. -Sown
the supply at I,2u0,000 bala; others yut
the amount as fiigh as 2,000,000. The quesUon
of the supply is discussed by the Memphis
A .a no filliVMra
y l- .i cim rnr i.,. n iiKii estimate.
it Desima (Nagasaki) are announced for sale t- unexpected, and she ? s f me Jf If tne rebel authorities are really
and will probably be brought by ihe Eoghsh for nother vessel, and reported by the aune rf lUVent cotton from falling into or
fovommmt" ih Rnval Standard. Btlore long ner ic-. r.jrtiaaa
o' I T . . . i . nHioor WOD 1 tan
ft-pr w fiiscioseo. anu, wo
determined to
our hands, they
jactTtiv several nun-
chief officer y, can ouuv . TT Ia matfrillIy
While Genetft Grant w on a trlaUla onshore toxoid an JW " ,ess0 ,he .oprfr. rBcsidc. comparatirely WUe
liovcrnor. is wus uuucnw . - , 1 nn,tnrt ; m rw! in the soum.uiis yc( "
. . . .uonnpa GATrSi ! W.w.. .
J .
youthful book-peddler traversed the cars, crying.
Jjlie Oi uiiw. . i -j . - . , , a( .
ladia flCiUDVins tneoesv
f .v.A 4u. - i;Vo fonv Gene- f the Shnonrloah- to take in coal, and to re
uuymu wiah-.6r----:r!r. , , :- - -- ,rhoM Pmtn(1s were
ral Grant turned ever, tne pages oi pair . W9. oiacuiujr . . D ,
osnallv asked. no 13 mis -an auuu. .uuuti iud vwuiuwttuu" v iL
casuauy asiteu, .,u;,. . .j ,C r rnnt when the mad
a IO0K Ot inoiguaiioii iiiiii ilij liu jjacuuib -vv-v.., - ;
. . 1 . . . k n I I 1 II 1.1 111 1 J .1.1 a.. w. w .
t :r ir i . cnt , miscnicvous. iv maiiv rpfnfrpa leave io kiuv iavv..-r - . anomi lirvn what ine reu-f
uuc Hi vi:i.-i . . .i . I : " Wt cahin I cuuuuj v...- t - -
i - ... . i . n I T ri a -ww ii u
a. 4 v...-i Dm TrtTP n Ln kiiuui t uv ' 1 "
h ctnr.V is flnrmented-by tno-orop
of I860. - These facts induce i the belief
II M.tv Cf VtBCB IllM.I. I LI11A 11V
any weii-yutotvu uuoiuvo-t
m
hot. Hrin" him
eust reolicd- "Yon must be a darned greeny left: r . , . ,!
rSttokoWGeneR,! Gran. !" After thU volley, VIt is stated that the. Shenandoah has coe
the Lientenont-Genera of course turrenderea, 10o late mair;.
; I merce in tne Ausirauan se. rr
how trade with those colonies under the Atner-
andtwught his biography .
ilirjbaldl will revisit -England during this
xonth or next- lie will go .to Liverpool, New
castle, Glasgow; and some other towns, where
he has private friends, whom he much desires
to see; '
Potatoes aro seventy fi,yg TVi eig Ti t v rppf s Tra i
out reason,) that as soon as the present
which cannot much longer, endure, subsides,
cotton will again fate the upper tendency ariC
Litpriallv advance.. That it., will attaia the
rt . n mhiithft since we presume
vtTi;aM prices will doubtless further
descend; but we can find no reason Act the
lief that the present low rates wui ioag f
i
van. , . . ,ti.ir
ThU' however, nvtv be taKen as a.
any designs upen these,-but we are m muen of ttoa question.,. - ' . - r
afriiid that Carrfain Semmes. u VjM
ican flg, and six vessels that wers , nearly
from New York and Boston were expected
nrrirA 11 III1 r English or Butch
titli.v- " w ,
iin to ha seen whether tne .neuaii
ma
to
civlorsJ It re-
doah has
not much
One! of the .asl Crows of tSic Bebcl,
- t xuiii-t;oci. .
From the lUchm nil Whig, '3Iarch 31;
A Yankee campaign was fievrr known to fail
nml whv should thev Stall tncso
rjienuiu inonuoiuui
of strategical; kill
J.A lirt n shnrrie to mar their elaborate
,1 vuivl w . . . . : . . i.
harmonious propositions by tne intronncuon .j
IWkat, ftr
more
. ' it. - .
It
and
of
any disturbing element- Uwyiootsoiairincy
are So captivating, they involve so marry- deli
cate combinations and i movements, that they
n,ast be the works or genius ; ana must inevi.-
ably'be successful, unless seme nnmiBsccn usk-
ter fchonia mierveni-. ( j-u bui,
Feen disaster has invjiriably happened just at
the-time when yankee hopes were at their cul
minaiioa ; but, as such irccidentJ are not by
any means to be considered in the future, bow
over often they may have happened in the past,
no account is to be- taken ot tbem in these
beautiful plans which yankeedom is always
so busily constructing. 'If the cotifederacy
could have been conquered by a programme, its
fate woald have been scaled long agM. Nothing
was ever conceived more perfect, more copsist
ent.Tnore.logjcal, thMU the various, rn-ogramnies
wnich have been cocsMucted for the capture oi
liichmond ahd the sulPSation of this obdurate
confederacv. And perhaps, nothinghas had a
.tfevt in stiniulatihs vatke hatred
asaihst
i
rfiarri
t h esei plendidly conceived pb
jcclntl v irTeitible broirremmcs.
ixi.-v-- J -- . . J ': 1.
instance, could have teen more pcrlect.
harraonioa?. more beauti.ful m
.rvfl. r4an of last venr. Wrant crossing. 1
Tlapidau with one hundred and forCv thcusand.
i L hU Lack, and marcbins Straight on H;ch
mohifnwn the northJ f Butler. wiOl an armynC
j. nmi
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