Still later from the North.
We have received copies of New York papers of the 10th.
Gold was quoted at 210 3-4.
The Reception of the result of the Hampton Roads mission.
The New York papers publish in full the proceedings of the meeting at the African Church on Monday night last and the comments of the
Richmond press on the result of the peace mission.
The New York
Times says:
‘
The resolutions passed at the meeting were of like desperate character with
Davis's speech, and so, also, it appears, were the speeches of
Stephens and the others.
’
The Richmond press, it will be seen, are in a fearfully excited and belligerent condition of mind, and if it is possible now to fire the embers in the
Southern heart, it bids fair to be furiously done.
The
Tribune says:
‘
We fill a large portion of our news columns this morning with extracts from the Richmond papers of late dates.--What they think, or affect to think, or think proper to say about peace, the reader will learn who takes the trouble to go through these various extracts.--What their editors really know of the recent conference in
Hampton Roads may be seen in the message of
Jeff. Davis to the rebel Congress and the report of the commissioners themselves.
If the object was to conceal the details of that conference, they have succeeded perfectly.
If the commissioners merely went there to learn that
President Lincoln would treat for peace only on the basis of the
Union, they might, one would think, have saved themselves the trouble of the journey.
If they learned anything else, we must await
President Lincoln's communication to Congress, for the rebels shed no other light upon the subject.
’
From Grant's army.
The latest news from
Grant's army is given in the following paragraph:
The Army of the Potomac still held, on Tuesday evening last, all the ground along and west of
Hatcher's run, which it so bravely wrested from the rebels on the two preceding days, and it was believed to be
General Grant's design to permanently maintain the new position, which the men had already strongly intrenched.
The troops effecting this extension of the left of the army of the Potomac lines were the Fifth corps, two divisions of the Second, one division of the Sixth, and
General Gregg's cavalry.
The fighting on Monday of the Fifth corps and the cavalry, with the rebels, was of a very severe and stubborn character.
The only disturbance of the quiet on Tuesday was caused by an attack of the enemy on a portion of the Fifth corps and the cavalry, which was soon repulsed with trifling loss on the
Union side; occasional brisk firing between the pickets and the opening of some of the Second corps artillery on the rebel works occurred, to the last of which no response was received.
A heavy rain, hail and snow storm prevailed during all Tuesday in the army.
We have no record of Wednesday's operations.
The Union losses in the fighting on Sunday and Monday are estimated at a total of eight hundred.
Miscellaneous.
It is reported from
Washington that military and naval operations have commenced below
Wilmington, North Carolina, and news of the capture of the city, it is said, may be expected shortly.
It is stated in our
Washington dispatches that
General Sherman was expected to reach
Branchville, South Carolina, on the 6th instant.
A correspondent at
Key West informs us that the wreckers have set fire to and totally burned all that portion above water of the
United States steamer
San Jacinto, wrecked a short time ago on No-Name Key,
Bahamas.
They afterwards attacked the shipwrecked officers and crew, but were stoutly resisted.--Though a number of shots were exchanged, no one was reported as injured.
Two more English blockade-runners, the schooners
Augusta and
Fanny McRae, captured by the
United States steamer
Honeysuckle and schooner
Fox, had arrived at
Key West.
The Baltimore
American of Friday evening says: ‘The notorious rebel guerrilla, Marry
Gilmor, who arrived here at a late hour on Wednesday night, yesterday left here for
Fort Warren, in charge of
Major Young and three Federal scouts in rebels clothes.
Captain Wiegel learned that
Gilmor's life was endangered at the
Relay House, when he proceeded to that post with an armed guard and protected him from danger.’
United States Marshal
Murray, in obedience to the instructions from
Washington, left New York for
Montreal, to take charge of twelve of the
St. Albans raiders, who will be delivered to him there, and brought to New York by him for trial.
Captain J. M. Gillis, superintendent of the naval observatory in
Washington, died suddenly of apoplexy on Thursday, aged about fifty-three years.
Admiral Porter has made over the prize money due him for the capture of the ram
Albemarle by a force under him to
Lieutenant Cushing.
General James S. Negley has resigned.
