Late Northern news.
Northern dates of the 24th inst, have been received.
The news is not of a very interesting or important character.
Gold in New York went up on the 23d to 182⅜ closing at 182½ The
Heraldcontinues to buoy up the spirits of its readers by telling them that the Army of the Potomac is in a splendid condition, and stronger than before the campaign.
It also has the mendacity to claim successes on the
Southside of
James river; says the rebels made an assault on Saturday night and were repulsed at every point; that they also made an attack on Fort Powhatan with a similar result; and proclaims in flaming type that "the colored troops thrash the chivalric sons of the
South." The same paper gloats over the explosion of a rebel caisson, which, it says, did ‘"extensive damage; "’ but we happen to know from the lips of an officer who stood near the caisson at the time that very little damage resulted.
So much for the truth of the New York
Herald.
It further says, in its account of operations on the
Southside, that valuable documents from
Gen. Hoke were found on the person of
Gen Walker, who was captured.
The Yankee gunboat fleet has succeeded in reaching the mouth of
Red river.
This was done by means of a tree dam, six hundred feet in length, across the river at the lower falls, thus enabling the boats to float over the shoals and obstructions.
Well, let the gunboats go.
Gen Dick Taylor has administered such a lesson to
Banks that he will not be in a hurry about repeating the experiment of a "
Red river expedition."The Yankee army (what was left of it) was reported to be at
Simmesport, on the
Atchafalaya.
The New York
World and
Journal of Commerce have been suppressed by the military authorities because they published too much truth for Yankee digestion.
Governor Seymour has written a letter to the
District Attorney of New York, directing him to procure indictments against all who were concerned in the seizure of these offices.
The Northern papers announce that
Belle Boyd, who was captured on board the
Greyhound, is a prisoner in
Boston.
She is reported to have several servants,
black and
white.
