From the North.
The Norfolk
Day Book extracts the following from the New York
Herald, of April 14th. We would remind our readers of the fact that the
Herald announces the steamer to leave for
Europe on Wednesday.
This fact will explain the big lie about
Island No.10.
The
Herald says: ‘"A vague uneasiness with regard to the
Merrimac and the success of
Major-Gen. McClellan's operations on the
Peninsula operates to check business"’
The British war ships from
Vera Cruz have brought the great bulk of the
English contingent from
Mexico to
Bermuda, who are said to be in a bad plight, suffering from yellow fever.
The steamers
Bermuda and
Herald, under English colors, were recently loading at
Bermuda with military stores, intending to run the blockade at some Southern port.
The prisoners and property captured by
Gen. Pope and
Commodore Foote, at and in the vicinity of
Island No.10, are summed up as follows:--
| Major-General | 1 |
| Brig.-Generals | 3 |
| Colonels | 10 |
| Lieut. Colonels and Majors | 15 |
| Captains | 46 |
| Lieutenants | 64 |
| Second Lieutenants | 84 |
| Privates | 5,500 |
| Cannon | 125 |
| Arms | 10,000 |
| Steamboats | |
| Floating batty | |
| Horses, mules, | 2,000 |
| Wagons | 1,000 |
--besides forty thousand dollars' worth of provisions and ammunition unestimable.
The regiments captured were the Fortieth, Forty-sixth and Fifty-fifty
Tennessee; Third, Eleventh and Twelfth Arkansas; the First Alabama, and the
New Orleans Pelican Guard.
The situation.
The rebels, if the following be true, are again on the retreat without a fight.
Gen. McDowell sends a dispatch from his headquarters, indicating the fact that
Fredericksburg and vicinity have been evacuated by the rebel troops, who had gone down to
Richmond,
Yorktown, &c. In his dispatch the
General states how he obtained the information, which, if the source be reliable is very important.
The news from
Yorktown is not of a very material character.
Three slight skirmished occurred on Friday, but resulted in a trifling loss to our forces.
One thing appears certain, that the rebels are concentrating their troops to resist the onward march of
General McClellan, and by
Gen. Magruder's orders, which we publish to-day, it will be received that the rebels had their defensive works in good order, and ready for action on the 13th of March, in anticipation of this very movement so recently made by
Gen. McClellan.
It also appears certain that one hundred thousand rebel troops are a Yorktown, and about fifty thousand more in the neighborhood of
Richmond and
Gordonsville.
It would further appear that it is not the intention of the rebel leaders to allow the
Merrimac to come out and engage our vessels in the neighborhood of
Fortress Monroe, but merely to keep our ships-of-war all there; watching the actions of the rebel trait, so that if it should be part of the of
Gen. McClellan to have the gunboats to assist him in his movements along the
Peninsula, the presence of the
Merrimac alone, it is supposed, will keep them at the station and prevent such a co- operation.
The impression was general yesterday that the
Merrimac was aground off
Craney Island and, if this should be so, there is but little excuse for our naval force if the opportunity is not taken advantage of to destroy her.
From
General Banks the War Department are in receipt of a dispatch which states that in
General Jackson's rebel camp it was believed that
General Beauregard was dead — It is probable, however, that there is some mistake in the news, and that the intelligence of the death of
General A. S. Johnston which has been confirmed by
General Beauregard's dispatch, has in some measure been confounded with that of
Gen. Beauregard himself.
Later intelligence from
Port Royal indicates that the operations of
Gen. Hunters department are progressing favorably; but to enable him to carry out to the fullest attend his programme, and facilitate mastered the coast, it is necessary that he should be speedily reinforced with fresh troops, and we presume the War Department is not blind to the necessity.
