Further from the North.
the Rhode Island election — from the West--Financial,&c.
[from our own Reporter]
The Rhode Island election.
The Herald says this election has fallen like a wet blanket upon the Copperhead, and has utterly confounded all their calculations. In its results perfectly consistent with the results of the Northern elections of last October and November, it marks another popular reaction in behalf of a more vigorous and decisive prosecution of the war, and against a disturbing political faction. Elections last autumn, which broadly and plainly expressed the dissatisfaction of the loyal States with the bordering, squandering, and disastrous way in which the war had been conducted, were construed by these deluded Copperheads into a popular reaction against the war itself and in favor of peace with the rebellious States, even to the extent of civil war in the loyal States of the North.-- The real conservative sentiment of the whole country has just disclosed itself in this Rhode Island election. It means an earnest, active, overwhelming prosecution of the war until the armed forces of the rebellion are put down. The rebel chiefs have defiantly announced that this issue must be settled by the sword, and the people of the loyal States have simply resolved that it shall be to settled, inasmuch as it can be settled in no other way. This puts an end to all argument in favor of armistices or Conventions, or mediation in any fool. The Copperheads, rise the Abolitionists, last fall, have received their instructions from the people — that too agitation of peace with the rebellious South, at the expense of civil was and mob law in the North, is little better than open rebellion. Let President at Lincoln fall during this spring and summer to achieve the grand results which the country has the right to demand, and he will not escape the judgment of a disappoint people in our State elections of next October and November.
Army of the Potomac.
"In pursuance of instructions which have been received from the War Department, there will be a general muster of all the troops, serving in this army on the 10th inst., and the muster role will be immediately thereafter sent to the Adjutant General of the army for the use of the Provost Marshal in making drafts to fill up regiments and batteries to the proper complement."
Headquarters Army of the Potomac April 3. --A force of rebel cavalry is reported to be on the Northern Hock, in the vicinity of King George C. H., engaged in seizing supplies and enforcing the conscription. The enemy has in the last few days displayed a large body of troops in the neighborhood of the fords above Falmouth, but the impression is it is only a ruse to conceal a retrograde movement.
Vicksburg.
Tennessee.
Murfreesboro.April 3.--It is rumored that a number of bridges are being constructed across the Tennessee river, above Florence, to connect the rebel armies of Tennessee and Mississippi. Col. Lane at Fort Donelson, telegraphs that the enemy are apparently in force.
Clarkesville Tenn.,April 3.--Last night the steamers Eclipse and Lizzie Martin were fired into below here on the Cumberland. Both escaped. The Glasgow was fired at at Harped Shoals. The pilot and several of the crew were slightly wounded.
Moshy's List Raid.
Washington.April 3.--On Tuesday last, the rebel Capt. Mosby visited Centreville with sixty guerillas, dressed in Federal uniforms. On Wednesday a squadron of the 1st Vermont Cavalry came upon then near Drainesville, dismounted. --They received our cavalry with a fire from be and lances, which asempaded some of the raw soldiers. The fight soon because desperate — Mosby threatened his men with death if they flinched and himself wounded Capt. Fint five times with his revolver killing him. Lieut. Grant, of the Vermont cavalry, and seven men, were also killed. Our loss was about sixty killed, wounded, and prisoners. Mosby was surprised, but he rallied his men with lightning, like celerity, and when our squadron broke he pursued and hacked them severely. The guerillas of received a severe sabre our on the forehead. The Vermont carbine companies delivered their fire with good effect, and then opened to let the sure companies charge; but they did not come up to the work.
Gen. M'Clellan's report of the seven days battle.
Gen. McClellan's official report of the seven days battles on the Peninsula, and of his fallingback to Berkeley, although dated on the 15th of July last, has just been published. He says:
To the calm judgment of history and the future he leaves the task of pronouncing upon the movement, confident that its verdict will be that no such difficult one was ever more successfully executed; that no army ever fought more repeatedly, heroically, and successfully, against such great odds; that no men, of any race, ever displayed greater discipline, endurance patience, and cheerfulness, under such hardships.
Financial.
Miscellaneous.
On the 1st of April the entire indebtedness of the United States was $929,000,000.A correspondent of the New York Post says when Pensacola, Fla., was burnt, the troops were in an "utter state of demoralization."
A muster roll of the whole army of the Potomac is to be made out on the 10th, to be rent to the Provost Marshals, to be used in drafting to fill up regiments.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, speaking of Richmond, Charleston, &c. says the "new Gibraltar of the rebels are thus far too strong for us."
Fifty negro recruits for Gov. Andrew's Massachusetts regiment passed through New York on the 3d inst.
