GENERAL NEWS.
Date: 18 May 1862
The steamship Great Eastern arrived at this port yesterday morning, having left [???]-Haven on the 6th inst. Her advices are two days later than were received by the America. The news is of very little importance The principal item is the assertion of the Paris Patrie, of the 4th inst., that M. MERCIER, the French Minister to this country, had a long conference with JEFF. DAVIS, on the occasion of his late visit to Richmond, and that his visit was entirely of a political character, and understood by President LINCOLN. The Captain of the Emily St. Pierre, who recently recovered his ship from a prize crew and took her to Liverpool, has been the recipient of marked honors, a service of plate and a gold chronometer having been presented him by merchants of Liverpool and others, together with other marks of appreciation of his conduct. The owners of the Emily St. Pierre had made him a present of L2,000, and intended to provide handsomely for his companions. There had been a decline in the Liverpool Cotton Market, and American Securities were strong.
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GENERAL NEWS.
Date: 17 May 1862
A steamer has been chartered by the Government and is now loading at the Navy-yard, Brooklyn, for the Gulf Blockading Squadron, to sail on Monday, the 19th inst., and will take the mails.
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GENERAL CITY NEWS
Date: 18 May 1862
THE LAST MOMENTS or CANTERBURY MUSIC HALL. -- It would have been impossible for the action of the State Legislature, with regard to the sale of liquors in places of public amusement, to have been more speedy in its operations. Several of the smaller pustules upon the social condition of New-York, it effaced immediately, and on Thursday last, the most prominent of the plague-blotches in our daily life was forever, as we sincerely trust, obliterated. We of course allude to the Canterbury Music Hall. Those luxurious embellishments of the saloon which had been provided to heighten its temptations to the younger and laxer portion of our citizens were on Thursday finally dispersed by the auctioneer's hammer. Surgeons had been of no benefit to the patient. Its constitution had been so rapidly broken up, that the last official had been summoned by its friends to "lay it out," as deenetly as possible. We are happy to say that the mourners were few, with the exception of those more immediately concerned. In other words, the auction was scantily attended. Large plate mirrors -- these surrounded the walls of the saloon -- fetchedfabulously low prices. The smaller minors, on the exterior of the boxes, averaged fifty to seventy-five cents apiece. Chairs went for a mere song. Everything exposed for sale, tempting as its appearance and actual value might be, brought in a merely nominal amount. For the first time since these social ulcers sprung into existence, we looked upon one of them. Let us hope that its extinction was final and complete.
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The English News Packages--Vexatious Delays at the Custom-House.
Date: 17 May 1862
To the Editor of the New-York Times:
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NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE.; Another Storm--Distinguised Visitors--Affairs in Norfolk--Trade Regulations There, &c.
Date: 17 May 1862
FORTRESS MONROE, Thursday, May 15.
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NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE.; The Provost Marshal's Office in Norfolk Probable Establishment of Gen. Wool's Headquarters There, &c.
Date: 18 May 1862
A recent order appoints Major RICHARD NIXON, of the Ninety-ninth New-Fork Volunteers, Assistant Provost-Marshal of the Department of Virginia, for the City of Norfolk and the surrounding country.
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NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.; THE PROCLAMATION OF GEN. HUNTER. HIS IMMEDIATE RECALL PROBABLE. OUR SPECIAL WASHINGTON DISPATCHES.
Date: 18 May 1862
Observations from Washington
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MATTERS AT HUNTSVILLE
Date: 18 May 1862
We find the following in the Mobile Evening News, of the 24.
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THE REBELLION.
Date: 17 May 1862
The capture of Pensacola is announced in a dispatch from Gen. HALLECK'S army. This news was brought to the Union lines, from Corinth, under a flag of truce.
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