We have received New York papers of Monday, the 12th instant.
They contain no news from
Sherman or
Nashville.
Grant's last Move.
The correspondence from
Grant's army gives very little about the recent failure of
Grant to get a portion of his force South.
A letter says:
‘
The two corps, during the first day, moved respectively on the
Halifax and Jerusalem roads, both running parallel with the Weldon railroad, and on Wednesday night they formed a junction. --Nothing has been made public regarding
General Warren's destination; but no doubt of his success is entertained in the army.
’
The intelligence of the repulse and return of this expedition, of the success of which "no doubt was entertained in the army," had not gotten to Yankee dom on Monday.
A paragraph in the Philadelphia
Inquirer shows what was expected from the movement.
It says:
‘
The body of Federal troops, under
General Warren, which left
Grant's lines on Tuesday night, it is now believed is destined for
Weldon, North Carolina.--The distance from
Petersburg to
Weldon is sixty-four miles. The troops engaged in this service were in light marching order, and they evidently departed
expecting to be absent some time. ’
Beauregard reported Moving on Fort Pillow--a terrible Joke on the "Colored" troops.
A telegram from
Cairo, to the St. Louis
Republican, says that
Beauregard is marching on
Fort Pillow with siege guns.
Osceola has been occupied by the
Confederates.
The telegram gives the following about another slaughter of innocent "colored troops" who had been sent out merely to kill a few "rebels":
About twenty-five rebels appeared on the river bank opposite
Memphis, waved their hats and hurrahs for
Jeff. Davis.
A force of about one hundred and fifty negroes was sent on board a steamer about a mile lower down the river, and landed.
When they filed out on shore, the rebels broke and ran, apparently in the greatest consternation, hotly pursued by the negroes, till they came to a thick bush place, where the rebels had a large force secreted, who suddenly rose and fired on the negroes, when they fled in the greatest consternation, the rebels hotly pursuing and slaughtering them at a dreadful rate.
A number rushed into the river and were drowned.
One report says seven of the negroes returned, and another says that none got back.
Some of the Yankee Senatorial Celebrities.
The
Washington Jenkins of the Philadelphia
Inquirer sends that paper the pictures of several of the prominent members of the
Yankee Senate.
We take some paragraphs from the letter:
‘
Talking to
Mr. Thomas Webster, of
Philadelphia,
Chairman of the
Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Troops, is
John Sherman, of
Ohio, and the two men look sufficiently alike to be readily mistaken for brothers.
John Sherman is not much of a talker, but talks good common sense, and has thorough financial qualifications.
He was formerly
Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means in the
House of Repre sentatives, and rumor says is to succeed
Secretary,
Fessenden as
Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance.
He is an accomplished parliamentarian, and was, it will be remembered, the
Republican candidate for
Speaker of the
House during the great contest of the Thirty-sixth Congress, which terminated in the election of
Mr. Pennington, of
New Jersey.
He is but thirty-eight years of age, being the youngest man in the Senate, except
Harding, of
Oregon.
’
Henry Wilson keeps up a continual restless, unsettled sort of motion in and out of his seat, to and from the
House chamber.
Since anti-slavery sentiments have become popular, and
Wilson is relieved from the necessity of continual outcry and exertion against "the peculiar institution," he is becoming stout and portly.
This may be one of the benefits of "the anti-slavery legislation of Congress." Talking to him just now is his colleague in the lower House,
George S. Boutwell, former
Commissioner of Internal Revenue.
He is a tall, thin, dark-haired, dark-skinned man, said to be one of the hardest workers and profoundest thinkers in Congress.--There, too, is
Hale, of
New Hampshire, one of the old original abolitionists, the candidate of that organization for the Presidency in 1852.
George W. Julian, who was then his associate on the ticket, is now a member of the lower House.
General James Lane does not by any means look like the ferocious "jayhawker" he has been painted.
He is about the most quiet member of the Senate.
He sits at his desk reading or writing, paying little attention to what is going on around him. His colleague,
Mr. Pomeroy, is, the active man of the
Kansas delegation in Congress, and is a thorough-going Union radical.
In his seat is the venerable
Reverdy Johnson; his appearance well known.--One of his eyes has been removed — a painful operation necessitated by some ocular disease from which he was a sufferer.
In polities,
Mr. Johnson seems to follow an entirely original and independent course of action.
He voted at the last session for the amendment to the
Constitution abolishing slavery, and, yet, returned to
Maryland and used all his influence to prevent
Maryland from becoming a free State.
He is a very old man, however, and much allowance can be made in his case for vacillation of political purpose.
He is one of the most courteous and courtly of our statesmen, and belongs rather to a class departed than to one in vigorous or flourishing existence.
Sitting next to
Mr. Johnson, and wearing a hat, though the Senate is in session, is
Mr. Lazarus W. Powell, of
Kentucky, who is probably the least Senatorial in mien of all the members of the august body of which he is a member.
He is a conscientious defender of the institution of slavery and all its concomitant evils.
He was formerly Governor of his State, and has always been an unvarying Democrat.
Engaged in earnest conversation with some visitor is
William Sprague, of
Rhode Island, famous as the son-in-law of that distinguished statesman,
Hon. Salmon P. Chase.
Mr. Sprague is not at all striking in appearance, but he must undoubtedly be a man of talent, as he has been thrice made Governor of
Rhode Island before reaching the age of thirty, and that, too, by a nonparty movement, embracing alike Republicans, Democrats and
Americans.
This hasty record of the result of glancing around the aisles of the Senate must be hastily brought to a close, however, for the hour for the reading of the message approaches.
It will not do, however, not to notice
Garrett Davis, the greatest talker of the Senate.
He is a brisk little old man, reminding one, so far as face and form are concerned, of
John J. Crittenden.
He is a bitter pro-slavery man, having been continuously imbibing fresh prejudices in behalf of the "peculiar institution" for the last sixty years. He is a most inveterate talker.
He speaks on nearly every question brought before the Senate, and that, too, at great length.
In this respect he can hardly be considered an acquisition to the party to which he belongs.
Miscellaneous.
General Rosecrans has been superseded in the Department of Missouri by
General G. M. Dodge.
Gold was quoted in New York on the 12th at 232 7-8.
