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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1801.
EXTRACT FROM THE LAST SPEECH OF
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS.- 64 The conspiracy
to break up the Union is a fact now known to
an. Armies are being raised, and war levied
to accomplish it. There can be but two sides
to the controversy. Every man must be on the
side of the United States or against it. There
can be no neutrals in this war. There can be
none but patriots and Ms'
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The Latest War News.
The success of the rebels in eapturing the
steamer Fanny, tender circumstances which imply
gross neglect, treachery, or cowardice on the part
of those in charge of her, stimulated them to make
another hostile demonstration on the North Caro
lina coast. Their expedition, however, proved dis
astrous, and Colonel Brown not only extricated his
forces from their perilous position, but terrible
havoc was created in the ranks of the enemy by the
shells of the Monticello. It is supposed that
between two and three hundred of them were
killed or wounded, and a shell passed through the
wheel-house of their new prize.
The recent demonstrations of the enemy in Ken
tucky and Missouri have created in ninny quar
ters the belief that, utterly despairing of suc
cess in their designs - upon Washington, they
were about to abandon offensive operations in that
quarter and send large reinforcements, even from
Virginia, to Buckner and Price. The Western
papers generally have recently very earnest
ly advocated this theory, and we are somewhat
surprised to see the Louisville Journal, which is,
of course, specially interested in the defence of
Kentucky, expressing a different opinion. In an
able article, published on Monday IA while it re
iterates the belief that the rebel forces desire to
winter in that State, it says there is reason to sus
pect "that the invasion of Kentucky was and is
designed in the first instance to serve as a diversion
in favor of the long-meditated attack on Washing
ton, to be followed up by proper reinforcements if
the attack should be victorious, and by the whole
rebel army of the Potomac if the attack should fail.
There is, as we have said, reason very strongly to
suspect that such is the immediate design of the ig-
VFIEl011; and not only t..41°, but that the rebel chiefs
of the Potomac, stimulated by the imagined success
of the stratagem and under cover of characteristic
feints. are now well nigh on the eve of attacking
the capital, or of attempting some other im
portant forward movement an the vicinity of the
capital, with their columns undiminished and
ammeakened."
The reasons given for this view are as follows
"We may mention several facts and eensideec
tions that render the justness of this view at least
probable. In the first place, the rebel army could
not retreat silently before the silent guns of Mc-
Clellan without a loss of prestige and of every
other description of power that would in itself at
once break the backbone of the rebellion ; and this
the rebel chiefs know full well. In the second
place. Zollieoffer's decampment, which is announced
on credible information, and Buckner's conversion of
his enterprise into a huge marauding expedition,
- which is announced by the report of the exploding
Socks and burning bridges whose ruins fortify the
Vandal free-bootee in his i'li'Vqes, show that neither
has been reinforced from Virginia or elsewhere, as
has been suggested. In the third place, it is known
that the rebel army in Virginia, notwithstanding
the symptoms of retirement or of reduction that
have so piqued speculation in loyal quarters, is
drawn np in two columns, under Beaurogard and
Gus. Smith respectively, the crack divisional offi
cers of the rebels, headed by Johnson, the ablest
generalissimo amongst them. It must be owned
this attitude betokens almost anything rather than
voluntary flight_ Finally, we arc assured 611 oa
cellent authority that the impression in General
Buckner's military family is, that the whole war
will soon be ended by a coup-de-main—an im
pression which unquestionably points to the move
ment under notice. All this together certainly
renders probable, at any rate, the View we have
expressed."
This theory is certainly worthy of attention;
but, even if' correct, we believe with the Journal
that neither "the stratagems of the foe, or the im
portunities of friends, or both emnbined, will In
duce Scott and McClellan to so lessen our army
on the Potomac as in any event to endanger the
capital."
The tone of our late Missouri exchanges is de
cidedly cheerful. They express the opinion that
General Price is not only anxious to retreat, on ac
count of a consciousness of the inferiority of his
forces to the Union army ; but that it is doubtful
whether he will be able to escape destruction in
what is termed " the embraces of Fratent's Boa."
11 eeetlid that trio or three bodies of Union men oc
cupy positions among the strong fastnesses of the
Southern border, and it is supposed that, with their
aid, Price will be hemmed in on all sides.
We find in an able article in the London Specta
1n3.7 reeeived by a late steamer, ithttitelittit in - Idedide
that the spirit and purposes of the loyal portion of
the American people are not wilfully or ignorantly
misunderstood and misrepresented by all the Eng
lish journals. After giving us due credit for our
ablllty /!to repair disaster," and to not only cheer
fully submit to, but to demand, that the hands of
the Government should be so strengthened as to
enable it to deal effectively with the rebellion, it
Nye ;
" With its Eastern army reorganized under a
new and stronger discipline, its Western position so
improved that it has become the attacking instead
of the resisting force, with a fleet collected, and put
successfully in motion, with the people surrender
ing their dearest prejudices in order to strengthen
the Executive, mud with the crusading spirit slowly
but distinctly gaining ground among its supporters,
the Federal Government has no reason to despair
of its cause, or to doubt its own ab.lity.to learn
the lesson which precedes military success. If it
can but find money, it is strong enough for the work
it hao to do, and with all duo deference to the
financiers who so roundly declare that money can
not be obtained, we must matntain that on this
point nothing is yet dander!. We know, indeed,
that Europe will lend nothing for the war.
We know that the American banks cannot
long keep pace with the enormous demands
now made on them. Ent we de stet know,
cannot, with any reasonable accuracy, even guess
what the effect of open loans may be. The savings
of a thrifty nation form often a colossal reserve.
France has over and over again responded to de
mands of this kind, as if subscription were a privi
lege instead of a tar; end the stocking foot of
American farmers hold more than the earthen pots
of the French peasantry. An average subscrip
tion from each family to the extent of three
months' wages is certainly not beyond the bounds
of possibility, and that alone would amount to fifty
millions. Even should specie fail, there remains
the resource of subscriptions in army stores, of
revenues devoted solely to military purposes, of
requisition upon the States as they are-occupied,
and of assignats secured upon the Federal lands.
Quarrels have never been stopped yet by look of
money, and the Americans are in the mood when
men discover that money is only the second neces
sity, that war can be made now as Attila made it,
' whose exchequer bills were never at par,' and
that with bread and iron one can get to China.
The party which looks to financial difficulties to
solve the problem of the States reckons without
taking into account the first figure in all political
ealenlationa—the roused passim IA taatikled."
Difference of Opinion
The last number of the quarterly Ibview,
the organ of the Conservative party in Eng
land, devoted an elaborate article to show that
the failure of Democracy was shown by
the anti-Union rebellion of the South. Sir
EDWARD BULWER. LYTTON, the eminent author,
and so much a leader of the Qemervati ye a th a t
he was one of Lord Dratex's Cabinet (Secre
tary of State for the Colonies) from June, 1858,
until June, 1859, made a speech, just a fortnight
ago, to his Hertfordshire constituents, in which
he avowed that “he had long foreseen tho 'rup
ture in America, and he thought it would lead
to happy results, both for the safety of Europe
and the civilization of America. The break
ing up of the American Republic was not a
failure of .Democracy." He attributed our
troubles to the vastness of our territory and
the conflicting interests of various localities.
Sir EDWARD is a little premature, though, in
imagining that our Republic has broken or is
breaking up. It has already outlived a score
of Kingdoms and dynasties in Europe, and
will last, at least, as long as the British Em
pire, which is full of discordant elements.
TIIF OFFICIAL RETURNS of the vote of the
soldiers at Washington have not yet been re
ceived, and a despatch sent from that city at
a late hour last night said they were not ob
tainable, but the impression PNYiIIiVI that the
People's ticket had obtained a majority of the
votes cast by the troops from Philadelphia.
COMP.ARATIVELY FEW RETURNS Of the re
sult of the election in the interior of our s ta r e
have been received but enough is known to
indicate that wherever an earnest movement
in favor of Union tickets, regardtess of old
partisan distinctions, was made in good faith,
it was very cordially sustained.
SALE OF VALUABLE HORSES, CARRIAGES, tkO.-
Mr. Harkness' sale at the Bazaar, Ninth and San
som streets, on Saturday, will include four pairs of
valuable matched , carriage horses, (one belonging
to the estate of the late John Laudall, Esq., de
ceased :) a pair of trotting horses, said to go in 2.50,
and cost $1,600, besides several desirable single
harness and saddle horses, and a varied assortment
of new and second-hand carriages, wagons, harness,
and saddles.
IMPORTANT SALE OF CARRIAGEN....Mr: IL will
also sell, on Wednesday, the 16th inst., a collection
of over one hundred fashionable light carriages and
wagons, from makers of acknowledged reputation
in this city and Wilmington, most of which will be
warranted, and will be sold peremptorily.
European League against Mexico
The latest news from Europe, by the
steamer Not rregi«n, to the 37th ult., Was
telegraphed from Father Point on Tuesday,
and conveys, in a condensed shape, something
more definite than we have hitherto received
respecting the tripartite engagement (between
England, France, and Spain) for the invasion
(1 military occupation of Mexico. For some
cause or other, the semi-official Paris news
papers deny that France and: Spain have any
purpose of interfering, as England proposes,
in the fining of Mexico. The London Times
not only repeats that such mutual intervention
is a fixed fact, but asserts that it will be made
as with the full concutterta of the AixierWili
Government," which we consider more than
doubtful. Then, to place the matter beyond
question, the Morning Post, the special organ
Of Lord PALMERSTON, has published the terms
of the anti-Mexican Treaty between England,
France, and Spain.
In a few days we shall have this document
before us in full. At present we have to state
its substance, as given by the telegram. It
amounts to this that the three contracting
Powers immediately make an armed interven,.
tion in the affairs of Mexico, but it is de
clared that cc there is no intention of waging
a territorial war; but the combined naval
forces of the three Powers will occupy the
principal ports on the Gulf, and will seques
trate the customs revenue at such ports, re
taining one-half and paying the rest to the
Mexican Government. If Mexico sets the
allied Powers at defiance, an effective block
ade will be instantly established."
This is a very plain statement. The Mexi
can ports are to be taken possession of; a
moiety of the customs revenue at these ports
is to be plundered, (for ccsequestration,"
under such circumstances, is plunder); and
if Mexico should resist this buccaneering ac,
tion, an effective blockade is to be instantly
established.
What the three parties to this Treaty mean
as to the future of Mexido is hard to deter
mine ; but it is a fact that a project has been
on the lapis to change the Republic of Mexico
into a Kingdom. Queen ISABELLA of Spain,
who is not without considerable craft, has a
wholesome dread of a certain Don JrAzr ng
BOURBON, her cousin—the only son of the late
Don CARLOS, her uncle—who has brains, and
bravery, and conduct. To get him out of the
way, (for he has offered himself as candidate
for the Crown of Spain, on the deposition of
ISABELLA, and the setting aside of his elder
brother, the Count de MmirEmmax), the
Queen of Spain would be glad enough, no
doubt, to see him in supreme command of
Mexice, and the European opinion is that,
tired of democracy, the Mexicans would be
satisfied to have their country placed under
the sway of an Emperor or a King, seeing
how well Brazil has thriven as a monarchy.
But Don JUAN has no idea of such expatria
tion as this arrangement would impose. He
has published a letter declaring that he should
feel more out of place in Mexico than any
where else, and that he bides his time, a po
litical Micawber, for ,4 something to turn up"
out of the bad government of Spain under
his stout cousin ISABELLA. He avows,
iii a highly' linpoiing manner, ee The true
foundation for the grandeur of a prince lies in
the affections of his people." Wholly un
known as he is to the Mexicans, except as a
pretender to the Spanish Crown, Don JUAN
DE BOURDON feels that • it would be a difficult
enterprise to convert him into an efficient Em
peror of Mexico. He is a sensible man; a
Bourbon out of place cannot be strong enough
to restore order in such a land of chaos as
Mexico.
At all events, it is almost certain that
France, England, and Spain will interfere in
Mexican affairs, occupying the territory, con
fiscating the customs revenue, and waging
war if the natives show themselves disinclined
to sit down quietly under invasion and rob
bery. What interest France has in this ex
pedition does not appear upon the surface,
but Spain and England have a very great stake
On the board. Spain has a slave-trade, (in
Cuba and Porto Ricod which she hopes to ex
tend to Mexico, and thence to the Southern
slave States of America, and England avows,
in the remarkable manifesto to which we
lately drew attention, that Mexico owes
$00,000,000 to British subjects, all of which
indebtedness it now hopes to clear off.
Perhaps, too, a little cotton and tobacco
may be at the bottom of England's inter
ference with Mexico. The production of
good tobacco in that country, now chiefly
confined to what is required for home con
sumption, would speedily supply England with
an article on which the English duty is over
seventy cents a pound. &ado this, with an
English fleet in the Gulf of Mexico, large
trade might be done, " on the sly," with the
Southern States, for cotton, the continued
want of which must cause an insurrection
in Lancashire. Commercial communication
might easily be had from the Mexican ports
with Texas and Louisiana, Mississippi and
Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and the British
flag might cover the trading. To get cotton
and tobacco, England will desperately attempt
almost any thing.
Meantime, she would not have attempted
any thing, if she had not believed that we are
too much occupied with the rebels to mind
her. We very greatly doubt whether France,
England, and Mexico will be allowed to violate
the Monroe principle.
STRANGE as it may seem, the advocates of
and sympathizers with Secession, in the State
of Delaware, are as vindictive and almost as
public in the utterance of their treasonable
sentiments as even the South Gar°lina and
Mississippi nullifiers themselves. The true
friends of the Government in that quarter
should be on the alert. At the Presidential
election a majority was pronounced against
BRECEINRIDOE, and it is believed that, of those
• VllO. VOW for that candidate, many hundreds
are now anxious to co-operate with the Union
party against the Secessionists. No time should
be lost in making the necessary arrangements
for such an organization. The Delaware In
quirer; published at Wilmington, by lone
MONTGOMERY, Esq., is making a gallant fight
against the Secessionists. In the last number
of that paper we find the following paragraph,
which is well worth the attention of the ofh"-
cers of the Federal Government in that State
"RED-Nacss.—Throughout - Kent county the
rebels are known by the name of Red-Necks. The
Red-Neck is an officious fellow who is always yra
ting about Lincoln and his Abolition war; the right
of the South and the necessity of conctmling a
peace Ainong other pstriotio movoinerits he is
very industrious in persuading men not to enlist.
If it were not for this class of men—who continu
ally go about among the young men and persuade
them not to enlist—there would be no difficulty in
getting men to fill up the ranks of our regiments.
There are any number of men, who would be wil
ling to fight the battles of their country, if they
were not tampered with. Great complaints are
made about the interference of the Red-Necks by
the young men engaged in recruiting. Govern
ment should be informed of this, so that in the fu
ture this nuisance - Luny be abated. Red-Neckisin
must be put down in Delaware, or it will be the
height of folly to attempt recruiting in the lower
counties. For the credit of te State this thing
should be suppressed. It is graerally understood
that those who prate the loudest about the rights
of the South are men who have no slaves to lose by
fugitive-slave laws; they are the lick-spittles of an
antiquated aristocracy; men ' who bend the supple
hinges of the knee' to power. They are bent upon
ruin, and will not look upon our present difficul
ties as anything else than a political squabble."
Pubno Aiiitiments.
The play of . 4 Jeannette" will be withdrawn after
Friday night, but its great scenic and dramatic ef
fects entitle it to a revival, which it will probably
obtain. On Saturday night Murphy's fine old come
dy of " The Way to Keep Him" We. ll l l 'rrr4 P 1.4,70 4 1., for
the first time in many years, the cast embracing
every member of the stock company, including Mrs.
Drew, Miss Wells, Miss Thompson, and Messrs.
Gilbert, Mortimer, Shewell, Scallan, and Frank
Drew. 219 afterpioco for the same evening will
be "Mazeppa," with local and national hits, fine
scenery, AC. In the meantime "Jeannette" will
be performed, with good houses to witness it, as
heretofore. .
At Musical Fund Hall, RuckerOth'g Matinie will
take place on next Saturday.
LARGE SALE OF DRY GOODS, FRENCH MERINOES
HOSIERY, STOCK OF Goons, &c.—Theattention of
purchasers is requested to the large anti varied as
sortment of British, French, German, India and
domestic dry goods, housekeeping linen goods,
hosiery, &c.; also, 150 pieces French merinoes,
dress goods, shawls, &a., embracing about 775 lots
of staple and fancy articles in woollens, worsted,
linen, cotton, and silk ; also, stock of dry goods
from a house declining italableu bo peremptorily
sold by catalogue for cash, commencing this morn
ing at ten o'clock, the sale to bo continued without
intermission all day and part of the evening, by
Myers, Claghorn, & Co., auctioneers, Nos. 232 and
2'44 Market street.
lIANDSOMP. RESIDR?:CE.—We invite the attention
of those wishing to secure an elegant and commo
dious dwelling, beautifully situated, on the west
side of Rittenhouse Square, to the advertisement
wbith will be found in our real estate colons,
ri LE IL S.-ITHLA _DELPITIA, TIMESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1861.'
LETTER FROM “OCCASIONAL.'
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 1661.
The Secessionists, not content with threat
ening the capital, and forcing tteelve States
Out of the Union, have laid violent hands upon
the Territory of Arizona, have invaded New
Mexico, and claim to hold it large portion of
the Indian Reserve. In the late message of
Governor Connelly - , the new Executive of New
Mexico, appointed by President Lincoln—
which is one of the ablest documents I have
ever read—he refers to the operations of the
traitors in that section as follows :
"Our local affairs are peculiar and most extraor
dinary. In addition to our traditional enemies,
the Indians, there is now a foe within the limits of
the Territory, which has in view the avowed object
of transferring our allegiance from the only Go
vernment we acknowledge, to that of one which is
not only not acceptable to us as a people, but which
is not recognized by any of the Powers in any por
tion of the globe. Those who, a few months since,
were our friends and 00-patriots, who stood side by
side with us under tho protecting folds of our na
tional banner ; who, with us, considered it a proud
boast to say they were citizens of the United States
of America; are now the invaders of our soil.
Without provocation, they hate marched Armed men
into our Territory, and by violence, have seized po
sitions and property that had been provided for the
defence of life and possessions against the marau
ding savage. Without warning of hostile intent,
they have usurped military rule over the whole of
Mesilla, and trampled established laws and autho
rity under foot. This, I am pained to say, has
been accomplished, not by their numerical strength
or superior bravery, but through the dastardly con
duct of one whose name will be recorded by the
future historian in the list of those who disgrace the
rallitai , yprofawion, and whose craven heart could
not inspire one patriotic impulse, or move hint to
strike ono blow in defence of the Government which
had entrusted him with a charge of the highest re
sponsibility in times of national peril. Lynde's
surrender will be remembered for its infamy long
after noble deeds and brave encounters of this year's
war shall have passed into oblivion. A regular
bred officer, with 700 well disciplined and equipped
men, he sought safety in flight before three hun
dred raw volunteers, and when overtaken by the
pursuers, ignominiously surrendered his sword and
delivered himself, inferior officers and men, up as
prisoners of war, without exploding even a single
cap in resistance. This subject, I know, is as pain
ful and humiliating to you as. it is to me, and I
will pursue this branch of it no further.
" A plain duty lies before us. The invaders
must be repulsed from our soil. The integrity of
New Mexico must be re-established. What has
been lost must be recovered, as far as the nature of
things will permit. Strong arms anti bravo hearts
will be required to meet the foe and drive them
without the limits of the Territory. The General
Government will, I feel confident, permit that por
tion of the regular army that is now here to remain
and assist in retrieving our lost position. But more
than this will be necessary for the accomplishment
of the work. The hardy sons of the soil must put
forth their own exertions in defence of their own
rights,
liberties, and possessions. These are not
HO Mfor vacillation and indecision. Every inspi
ration of patriotismcalls for an individual partici.
potion in the sad drama that is being enacted.
There is no neutral ground in the contest upon
which men can stand and discharge the obligations
which, as loyal citizens, they owe their Govern
ment. Whatever military requirements, there
fore, the Executive may make upon the people for
defence against a foreign foe, he anticipates they
will be met with alacrity, and that regiments of
ready hands will be found to do battle in behalf of
a cause, for the establishment of which the bravest,
wisest, and purest men that the world ever saw
shed their blood and sacrificed their fortunes and
lives.''
I have just seen a copy of the Mesilla Times,
a Secession paper published at Mesilla, Arizo
na Territory, dated on the 10th of Anglia last.
From this it appears that a complete Secession
Government has been organized there, from
Governor down to justice of the peace—the
Governor being the notorious John H. Baylor,
well known for his violent pro-slavery foaling.
The Times calls for troops, in order to enable
the traitors to hold the Territory, and appre
hends an attack by way of Southern Califor
nia, and by the regular troops still quartered in
the New Mexican department, now on the bor
ders of Arizona. It appears that three regi
ments of these troops are in New Mexico,
and it is supposed they could be largely in•
creased from the floating population of the
neighboring Territory of Colorado. The
Times demands the extermination of the whole
Indian race. It boasts that, by the abandon
ment of Fort Staunton by the United. States
troops, on the Bth of August, property equal
to three hundred thousand dollars has fallen
into the hands of the traitors, including the
fort, and adds that ttot 61agto Federal soldier
is now left on the soil of Arizona.
I allude to these facts for the purpose of
apprising you of the extent of the conspiracy,
and to give you a proof of the secrecy and
skill of the preparations of those who are at
the head of it. Under Mr. Buchanan's Ad
ministration nearly every official was more or
less involved in these preparations. The Go
vernors of the Territories were either violent
Southern nien, or men who had acted in con
nection with the Secessionists for many years.
It was a very easy thing for Cobb, or Thomp
son, or Floyd to give warning to these faith
less public servants of their intention to die.
locate the Government ; and when it is re
membered that a number of the officers of the
regular army, as you will perceive by the ex
tract from Governor Connelly's message, had
been tampered with in the same way, the sud
denness and completeness of the usurpation
may be accounted for. Fortunately, the Go
vernor of Colorado, Colonel Nye, of New
York, is a bold, brave man, and still more for
tunately the late vote of the people of Cali
fornia is the best assurance that could be
given that the Secession poison cannot spread
in that quarter, but tray be extirpated, even
in Arizona, by prompt anzl vigorous move
ments on the part of the Federal Government.
The fact is well worth recalling that nearly
all the men in the last Congress who voted
against the prosecution of the war—with the
exception of those from the free States—have
either entered the rebel army within a short
time past, or are preparing to do so. Both
Mr. Burnet and Senator Breckinridge, of Ken
tucky, are believed to be now holding emu.
missions under Davis, and it is asserted, with
some confidence, that Senator Powell, of the
same State, and Senators Johnson and Polk,
of MisSouri, will follow their example. Here,
then, is a fitting c eitiraent upon the professions
of these men in faior of the Constitution
during the special session. Mr. Breckinridge
has probably been the most illogical of the
set: His cry was ce State Rights," and yet
lie 16 now one of those who are calling upon
the rebel troops to invade Kentucky, thus
ignoring and rejecting the action of the con
stituted authorities of his own State. Here
after the men who have taken ground against
the war in the free States, and denounced the
Administration, according to the teachings of
Breckinridge, will either be compelled to take
sides boldly against the war, or else to admit
that they have been shamefully deceived.
The City Election.
laptain D. M: Donovan, Democrat, is elected Se;
nitior from nit: city by a majority , stated to be 1,807.
The De.'..4erats are said also to h.ave gained several.
membeii of the Legislature, but the voting of the
r, , ,;diers may change tit
fhc following is a list of the names of the Sena
tor and Representatives elected within the bounds
of the consolidated city. The army vote may change
the result in some of the Representative dis
tricts :
M. Donovan, Dem
REPGESENTATIVES.
Districts. Districts.
Ist. Joseph Caldwell, D. 10th. *T. Greenbank, D.
2d. Thos. E. Ctskill, D. llth. Jos. Hopkins, D.
3d. Sand. Josephs, D. 12th. hided. Wilder, P.
4tb. S. C. Thompson, D. 13th. F. V. McManus, D.
Sib. Jo, 'Moore Jr, P. 14th. Jos. tonnellii D.
oth. Ba ugh, l P. 811. 15th. Win. F. Smith, P.
7th. Thos. Cochran, P. 16th. T. W. Duffield, D.
Bth. W. L. Dennis, l'. 17th. Chas. H. Abbott, P.
9th. Geo. Quigley, D. *Doubtful.
Treaty with Venezuela.
The treaty of amity, commerce, and navigation,
and for the surrender of fugitive criminals, between
the United States and the Republic of Venezuela,
is officially proclaimed. Its liberal commercial,
civil, and religious features are calculated to con
summate its objects—viz: a firm, ifficittbk, and
universal peace, and a true and sincere friendship
between the two countries. The citizens of each
shall be prohibited from applying for or taking any
commission or letters of marque to act as privateers
against the commerce of either republic from any
prince or State with which the United States ev
Venezuela may be at war. It is also declared un
lawful for any foreign privateers who have com
missions from any prince or State in enmity with
either nation, to St their ships in the ports of either,
to sell their prizes, or in any manner to exchange
them ; neither shall they be allowed to purchase
provisions, except ouch as shall be necessary to their
going to the next port of that prince or State from
which they have received their commissions.
B. numays DAY.—We had the pleasure of
a visit, yesterday, from Mr. DAY, who has been in
this country since the beginning of June, as special
correspondent of the following London daily jou
nals--/tiorniwg Chronicle and Morning- Herald.
Ile returns to England on Saturday, and has made
"troops of friends" during his visit here. Mr.
Puiwars DAY, who is an Irish gentleman, is au
thor of "Juvenile Crime; its Causes, Character,
and Cure;" of "Monastic Institutions," and other
valuable and popular works.
THOMAS Seas' BALES—EXTENSIVE AND VA
LUABLE LAN. LIBBARY.—To•nIarTOW (Friday) af
ternoon, a large and 'valuable collection of law
books, including a library. Catalogues ready and
the books arranged for examination.
Bale of furniture, this morning, at the auction
store.
Sale of furniture, Friday, Tenth street.
Sale of bulbous roots, Saturday.
Mr. Lutz's stock of elegant furniture, Tuesday.
Stocks and real estate—a large sale on Tuesday
next.
Bee advertisements of the six sales.
LATEST NEWS
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM WASHINGTON.
special Despatches to " The Press."
IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON.
THE ELECTION IN THE PENNSYLVANIA CAMPS.
The People's Ticket Probably 51,1c
cessful in the City Regiments.
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OFFICIAL REPORTS OF THE HATTERAS AFFAIR.
Great Loss of Life of the Rebels.
THE ARMY SOUTH OF THE POTOMAC ADVANCING.
THE ENLISTMENT OF FOREIGNERS.
WASHINGTON, October 9, 1891.
The Army South of the Potomac.
There is a gradual and steady advance of our
army upon the receding lines of the army of the
enemy, south of the Potomac. Iteghnont after regi
ment, and occasionally whole brigades, strike their
tents and advance a mile or two towards the enemy,
and there commence cutting down the trees and
strengthening their positions. Where the pickets
of the rebels stood three days a i r out Midi
were at work yesterday. There is a general
and a successful crowding of the enemy off. As
an illustration of the manner in which this is,
at least in some cases, done, I will state an
incident in my experience yesterday, I Was riding
beyond Falls Church, and met two Pennsylvania
soldiers, who cautioned mo to proceed no farther,
as our outer pickets had just informed them that
the rebel scouts were within half a mile of us, and
?Mid probably fire upon us from the thicket if an
opportunity occurred. I turned to retrace my
steps, but had not gone half a dozen rods when
I met a full regiment advancing, each man with
a musket in one hand and an axe in the other.
With a bold front they pushed on directly towards
the rebel scouts, who retreated before them, and
our troops commenced cutting away the trees
that had afforded the enemy good hiding places,
from which they had been firing upon our men
The regiment that on this occasion took up an ad
vance position was the Massachusetts Ninth,
Colonel CAss; an Erie, Pa. ; an Indiana, and two
New York regiments supported them, in case of
an attack.
Three Pennsylvania regiments had orders yester
day to advance to new positions last night, quite near
Fairfax Court House, to be supported by two full
batteries which were advancing as I passed in to
wards Washington in the evening.
With the exception of one Michigan regiment, in
which there were a number of cases of fever and
ague, the troops generally are in the enjoyment of
excellent health, and are in fine spirits. The army
is well clothed and fed, and there is no word of com
plaint.
Advance of the Army to Lewinsville.
About six o'clock this morning the division un
der command of General WM. F. SMITH, at Chain
l3ridge, advanced, and occupied prominent posi
tions in the neighborhood of Lewinsville,
On the advance arriving at Langley's, which has
hitherto been the outpost of our army, the division
was divided, a portion of them continuing up the
Little Reek run turnpike, and occupying Prospect
Rill, the other part of the division taking the now
Artillery road, and occupying Smoot's and Max
well's Hills, a mile and a half this side of Lewin--
The batteries were drawn up on prominent posi
tions, and the infantry placed in situations to sup
port them. After remaining about three hours
waiting in rain for the rebels to make an attack—
in fact inviting them to it—our skirmishers ad
vanced and occupied relni forgoe
retiring,
Lewinsvillelvill be retained as well as the other
positions taken by our forces to-day.
A portion of the troops under Brigadier General
PORTER alto advanced and occupied Mime§ Hill,
to the right of Falls Church, and commanding that
village and Barrett's Hill, which latter is now in
the possession of the rebel pickets.
General MCCLELLAN and his staff, accompanied
by Captain BARKER'S McClellan Dragoons, crossed
over Chain Bridge early this morning, spending
the whole day in making reconnoissances of t'he
new positions taken by the Federal forces.
About 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon Captain BAR
NEY, of the Twenty-fourth New York Regiment,
advanced three miles beyond Falls Church, on the
Leesburg turnpike, with ten men, where he sur
prised a picket guard of
: eight of Col. STEWART'i
Cavalry. Three of them were killed, and one
taken prisoner. They also captured five horses.
ecralpped, thirteen nab pieta; four aabrea, one
carbine, and one telescope. The horse killed was
a white one, which has been often seen by our
pickets, and is believed to have belonged to Captain
POWELL, of STEWART'S Cavalry. The capture
took place within half a mile of a retie' encamp
ment.
So sudden was the descent of Captain BARNEY
upon the rebels, and so much were they frightened,
that they had not time to draw their pistols. Only
two hones out of' the eight escaped.
The Army of the Enemy.
The careful surveys made by our balloons indi
cate a large concentration of troops at Manassas
Junction, and north and south of that point. The
stow - 4 i 6 dOVeke4 with tante for miles iu extent,
The Enlistment of Foreigners—General
The policy of the Government in regard to em
ploying foreigners in the military service is as fol
lows, the statement tleing l 4o 011 good authority:
Ist—No one has been authorized to enlist or raise
troops in Canada, as has been affected to be under
stood there.
2d—No commissions have been offered or other
overtures made to military men in France or other
European Stable', as has been assumed there.
3d—The Government has not tendered the com
mand of the army to General GARIBALDI, as has
been represented in Europe.
What is true is—first, that every foreigner who
has come with a good character and eredentials,
and offered his services to the Government for the
support of the Union, has been accepted, and no
other is in the military employment of the United
States.
second, General GARIBALDI, being a natural
ized citizen, it was reported to the Governmentby
one of our consuls that the General was contem
plating a visit to this country, and that he had in
timated, conditionally, a disposition to °nage in
the service of the United State& lie vnt ipfurm
ed that if this was so his services wf-146-aorept
ed with pleasure, and he woitbi-rec, , t inns
Mon as Major General, / 11;6 sa7blltiarii that
was conferred on Gentiral utr4...rnrrr. in the army
of the Reveleroll,.
OCCASIONAL.
nest (4.lqii.tint upon oonsid.oratioit ditt
seibjeet haeatotteluded not to offer his services at
present; but . thinks he may by-and-by revisit the
United States.
The Military and the Courts—Gen. Gra
ham's Contempt Casa:
Brigadier General GRA.ltax appeared before
Judge MERRICK to-day to answer to a charge of
contempt of court in detaining the minor JERE
auAn LYONS in the camp of the Twenty-third
Pennsylvania Regiment, after the court had,
under a writ of habeas corpus, ordered his release.
General GRAHAM answered by filing an of
disavowing any intention of contempt, claiming
that he had acted in strict conformity with the law
and literally obeyed the order of his superior
officer. In this connection be quoted general order
No. 73, emanating from the Adjutant General's
office. It is dated Sept 7th, and s:ays "Here
after no discharge shall be granted on the ground
of minorit)%"
General GRAHAM'S counsel argued that the court
has no jurisdiction in the ease, it being one of a
purely military character, to be determined alone
by the military authority, the power of discharge
being specially vested in the War Department.
The met diffotod altogether from the argument,
maintaining that, undisturbed by the clamor of the
multitude, and sedulously guarding against dan
gerous precedents, justice should be administered
according to the Constitution and the laws. No
political motives, no reasons of State, nor pleß, of
necessity could justify a disregard of the solemn
duties of the judiciary. He showed that the power
of discharging minors by judicial process had been
exercised in various States, not only during the
war of 1812, but aim the commencement of the
present civil contest; and he himself had re
peatedly exercised this jurisdiction without any
question being raised as to the propriety of his
course. The solemn decision of the entire Supreme
Court was that the military cannot be exemptell
from subordination to the civil tribunals; and at
no time can a military officer purge himself from an
illegal act by quoting the order of his superior
officer. Following the example of Chahcellor
KENT, in the CRBO of Commodore CHAUNCEY and
0-obetal .TAWM, the court sel4l that if by noon to
morrow the minor, jERENIAH LYONS, shall not be
surrendered to the court, to be dealt with accord
ing to law, and to carry out the previous order, the
rule for attachment against GRAHAM, for contempt
of court, shall be made absolute.
Arrest, for Purennautg Government Pro-
J. W. GRYMES, of Georgetown, has been arrested
on the charge of purchasing Government property
of the quartermasters, etc., which they have had
no right to sell. It is said his books have been
kept with owls precision as to afford clear proof
against the parties implicated.
The President has appointed Toils DELA MON
TAGNIE, of New York 'United States consul at
Nantes, Franco.
Garibaldi.
Consul at Nantes, France.
Affairs Along the LiiNs.
FALLS Cutmett.—Tayler's Rill affords the best
view of the country westward from this place, and
from this point the rebels are occasionally seen
steeling along the heights and watching our move
ments from Barrett's Bill, though their pickets are
much nearer the village. All the timber (which is
quite heavy here) is being cleared away, in order
to perfect the swoop of our batteries now being
constructed with great skill upon commanding ele
vations, and many of the soldiers are still busily
engaged fitting up in their new quarters those little
conveniences so conducive to the comfort of soldier
life.
The first signs of the encampments recently oc
cupied by the rebels on the road from the George
town Aqueduct sib found just this alas of Bell'e
Cross Roads, consisting of rails set up and covered
with straw, and of brush huts sheltered by thick
overhanging cedar and pine. A few rods east of
Upten's Bill there aro quite a number of these
rail huts, covered with corn fodder and rye straw,
capable of accommodating about ono regiment.
A ridiculous specimen of Confederate earthworks,
consisting of a little ridge of dirt, thrown up
about two feet high, runs along the side of Up
ton's 11111—the atiiy : , ,igne or rebel fortifications in
that vicinity, though it is believed that in the dense
pines on Barrett's Bill, and beyond the Dulaney
place, there are masked batteries of a more formi
dable character. From Taylor's Bill, through a
gap ill the heights, the Blue Ridge Is UN, in diroet
line with which is visible at times the smoke of a
large encampment, apparently not more than six
miles distant.
how long our troops will remain here it is im
possible to learn ; but I think we shall stretch on
soon, though how far, and in what force, is known
only to the powers that be.
The Capture of the Steamer Fanny—No
U. S. Naval Officer on Board.
Ma. JOHN F. _Dorm, Okiiii%lKE of tho
gating Committee of the House of Representatives,
on the Bth inst. called the attention of the Navy
Department to a statement in the newspapers, that
Capt. J. H. MOERISON, of the steamer Fanny, re
cently captured by the rebels off Cape Hatteras,
was imprisoned at Fortress Monroe for refusing to
take the oath of allegiance, and inquire if the
statement was true in whole or in part. The Depart
ment to-day replied as follows :
NAti l' DriPARDIENTI October 9,186 L
Sin Your letter of the Bth instant, relative to
the newspaper reports concerning the master of the
steamer has been received. The steamer
alluded to was not, at the time of her capture. in
the service of this Department, and has never been
employed by it, and the sumo may be said of her cap
tain. This Department has no knowledge of him
whatever, and I have no reason to suppose that at
the time of the capture of the Fanny a single per
son in any way connected with the navy was on
board of her. Very respectfully,
PIDEON WELLES.
Cavalry.
Not a week passes but which adds one or more
cavalry regiments to the army here. This feature
is new in our army, and there is a difference of
opinion among military Men at to the advantages
or disadvantages of cavalry. Their VaNO will cer
tainly depend wholly upon the amount of their
training. Well-trained cavalry are invaluable in
the field ; but if not trained ; they are not only useless
but dangerous.
The Vote of the Soldrers—The People's
Ticket Supposed to Have a Majority—
Insubordination. a Result of the Elec
tion.
No official returns aro obtainable, but the impres
sion is that the People's ticket has a majority in
the Philadelphia camps.
some insubordination in Colonel BIRNEY'S regi
ment, at Bladensburg, grew out of the election ex
citement.
Winter Clothing for Our Prisoners
Permission has been given to Wsr. F. MARTIN,
who was in command at Hatteras and is now in
confinement, with his 700 associates, at Fort Co
lumbus, to furnish winter clothing for the prison
ers, with funds to be received by him from North
Carolina.
The Richmond Prisoners.
This morning, Privates PRATT and Woonsunr,
two of the fitty•seven prisoners released from
Richmond, arrived in the city and passed to their
regiment, the Second Vermont.
New Laboratories
Three new laboratories on the site of the one
blown up are nearly completed at the Washington
navy yard, and the foundations for a fourth one
have been laid.
From Missouri.
Sr. Louis, Sept. 9.—The Memphis papers pub
lish a proclamation from Ben McCulloch to the
people of Arkansas, dated Sept. 25, asking for three
regiments immediately to serve for one year.
Despatches from Fort smith, Ark. ? say Ben
McCulloch, is in want of men, his present force be
ing only 3,500 strong. This would seem to prove
that McCulloch is still alive.
The officers of the Fremont Light Guard deny
that the recruiting officers of that regiment closed
the rendezvous on the announcement of the re
moval of General Fremont, and state that the en
listments are going on rapidly.
JEFFERSON CITY', 00t. 9.—The surrender of the
Federal oamp near Hermann, reported this
Morning, proves not to have been so serious
an affair as at first stated. Colonel Matthews
simply abandoned his camp on the approach of the
rebels, and retired to .I.lursounn without loos of any
kind. The three cannon mentioned in a previous
despatch belonged to the rebels.
Colonel Harding now telegraphs from Hermann
that he has no apprehensions of an attack on that
place, and that the Gasconade and Osage bridges
are well guarded and secure against the rebels.
From Kentucky.
LortsviLLE, Oct. 9.—The city is quiet. No
news has been received from below.
LOUISVILLE, Oct. 9.—The Richmond Enquirer,
of the 28th ult., says the privateer Sompeer coat
ed at Trinidad on the 14th September.
The Nashville Union and American, of the
2d inst., says two gentlemen arrived last evening
from Fontras county, who report the Union men
there as very refractory, and that they have killed
four or five Secessionists and the county sheriff.
Jeff Davis had not returned to Richmond up to
the 3d inst.
The Evansville (Ind.) Journal says that Col.
Harris, a rebel officer, has been arrested at Padu
eah, Kentuaky.
The steamer Curlew, loaded with wheat and
obacco, ran into sunken flat-boats on Saturday,
and sunk. The loss, which amounted to $50,000,
was uninsured.
The New Orleans Pienyugm mire the city au
thorities to extend the chain of forts to the Belize,
and says the taking of Washington or occupation
of Maryland is of no consequence compared with
the loss of New Orleans, and the security of the
cotton and tobacco there.
Tho Marlboro, (Md.) Gazette says the tobacco
crop has been materially injured by the August
rains.
FROM CAIRO.
Expected Attack on Paducah, Kentucky
---Our Troops Prepared.
CHICAGO, Oct. 9.—The Cairo correspondent of
the Tribune says advices from Paducah represent
that the troops there are preparing.for the reception
of the rebels, who, in heavy f 9549, tiro Said to be
advancing against that place. The women and
children have been sent away, and everything in
dicates an approaching struggle.
General McClernand will lone to-morrow a pro
clamation closing all the drinking and gambling
Loam in Cairo.
The State Election—Legislative Vote.
BEDFORD AND SOMERSET LEGISLATIVE DISTRICT
Shrank (Rep.) is certainly elected.
John 'Osamu (Dem.) has 1,000 majority in Bed
ford county. Four districts have not been reported.
Householder (Rep) is reported to have 1,000 ma
jority in Somerset. So the result is at present
doubtful.
LiNeAmit, Oct. 9.—The entire Union Assem
bly and county ticket is elected, except the city
treasurer, which is still in doubt.
CUMBERLAND COUNTI
CARLISLE. Oct. 9.—The following is the veto for
the Legislative ticket !.
Rhoads (Dem.) COO majority.
Singer (Dem.) about 300 majority.
In this county the whole Democratic county
ticket is elected.
PITTSBURG, Oct. 9.—The election yesterday re
sulted in the success of the Itoputilioark Union
ticket, with the emeepticts, perhaps, of the City
Treasurer, which is still in doubt. The vote is
much smaller than usual.
The Fremont-Blair DiffieultY
CINCINKAT/, October 9.—The Cincinnati EU'
wcirar, the pipet- in which all dm Blair acid Fre
mont charges, letters, b.e., appeared originally, in
answer to General Fremont's despatch, exculpates
the General or any members of his department un
qualifiedly, from any responsibility in their publi
cation. The papers, it says, wore obtained through
an androly drEforont source.
Municipal Election at Baltimore.
UNION TRIUUPR.
BALTMORB, Oct. 9.—The election for members
of the City Councils to-day was quietly conducted.
The Secessionists made no opposition. The total
vote polled was 9,587, and the whole Union ticket
was elected without opposition save a few scatter
ing votes.
This vote exceeds by 338 the Secession vote of
last April by which the members of the Legislature,
now in Fort Lafayette, claimed their seats.
Arrival of Dr. Hayes' Polar Expedition.
HALIFAX, Oct. 9.—Dr. Hayes' Polar expedition
arrived here this morning, in the United States.
The party are all well. Two have died—August
Solltaitg, the astronomer, and Gibson VArnitoo.
Dr. Hayes reached smith's Straits on the 26th of
August last year, but could not penetrate the
strait with his vessel either last season or this. He
wintered at Port Foulke, near Cape Alexander, and
with a dog-sledge reached latitude 81 degrees, 35
minutes on May 18th of this year.
Seizure or the Irituk Texan Star
BOSTON, October 9.—The bark Texan. Star was
seized to-day, charged with landing a cargo of
powder at Galveston, and returning to Liverpool
with a cargo of cotton, running the blockade both
ways since the war. She arrived to-day from
verpoel
AFFAIRS AT HATTERAS.
OFPICIAL ACCOUNT Or TILE ENGAGEMENT
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.—The following despatches
were received to-night at the Navy Department :
UNITED STATES SHIP SI:SQEEDANNA.
OFF HATTERAS INLET, Oct. 1861.
Sin : Late in the afternoon of the 4th instant I
received information that the enemy had landed a
large force at Chicominica and Kine Keet, and
that the Indiana Regiment posted there was in full
retreat before them; also, that our three tugs
in the lhlet were aground or disabled. The steamer
Panay had been captured the day before.
I at once got under way the ship and the Mon
ticello and anchored for the night close to shore,
in Hatteras cove. At daybreak, I found our
kappa in and about the light house, and in distress
for want of provisions, which they had been with
out for twenty-four hours. I supplied them with
food, sad, at the request of their commanding
officer, remained for their protection during the
day.
Learning that the enemy were still in large force
at Dine Keet, I sent the Monticello to drive them
off, which important service was performed by Lieu
tenant Commanding Brains, with great effect and
good conduct. His report is enclosed.
I am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
_
J. LARDNErt, Captain.
To Flag-Officer L. M. Goldaborough, &c., &e.
UNITED STATES SIIIP MONTICELLO,
Off Cape Hatteras, N. C.,
October 4", 1/301,
sin: I have the honor to inform you that in
obedience to your order of this morning, I stood
through the inner channel of Hatteras shoals at
12.30 P. M., and stood close along shore to the
northward, keeping a bright lookout from aloft.
At 1 30 P. M. we discovered several tailing vet.
sels over the Woodland Rine Keet, at the same
time a regiment marching to the northward, car
rying a rebel flag in their midst, with many strag
glers in the rear ; also two tugs inside dying the
some flag.
As they came out of the woods at Rine Keet, we
ran close In shorn and opened a deliberate fire
upon them at the distance of three-quarters of a
mile.
At our first shell, which fell apparently in their
midst, they rolled up their flag and scattered,
moving rapidly up the beach to the northward.
We followed them, firing rapidly from three gum,
driving them up to a clump of woods, in which
they took refuge, and abreast of which their
steamer lay.
We now shelled the woods, and could see them
embarking in small boats for their vessels, evi
49ntly in griint %%Wein, and eudering greatly
from our fire.
Their steamers now opened fire upon us, firing,
however, but three shots, which fell short. Two
boats, filled with men, were struck by our shots and
destroyed. Three more steamers came down the
sound, and took a position opposite the woods We
were shelling also two sloops. We continued firing
deliberately upon them from half past one o'clock
P. M. until half past three P. M., when two men
were discovered on the sea-beach making sig•
nals to us. Supposing them to be two of the In-
diana regiment, we sent an armed boat and crew
to bring them off, covering them, at the same time,
with our fire.
Upon the boat nearing the beach, they took to
the water. One of them (Private Warren 0. Haven,
of Company 11, Twentieth Indiana Regiment,) was
auccenful in reaching the boat, The other man,
Private Charles White, Company H, Twentieth Re
giment Indiana troops, was unfortunately drowned
in the surf.
Private Haven informs me that he was taken pri
soner on the morning of the 4th, and that he wit
nessed our fire, ntieh WM very destructive, Ho
states that two of our shell fell into two sloops load
ed with men, blowing the vessels to pieces, and
sinking them ; also that several of the officers were
killed. Their horses were seen running about the
beach. lie had just escaped from his captors after
shooting the captain of one of the rebel companies.
He states that the ebeiny were in the greatest con
fusion, rushing wildly into the water, striving to get
off to their vessels.
Private Haven now directed me to the point whore
the rebels were congregated, waiting an opportuni
ty to get off. I opened fire Emilia with success,
scattering thorn, We were now — close in three fa=
thorns of water, and our shell told with effect.
Six steamers were now off the Point, one of which
I recognized as the Fanny.
At 5.25 P. M. we ceased firing, leaving the
enemy scattered along the beach for upwards of
four miles. I fired repeatedly at the enemy's
steamers with our rifled cannon, a Parrott 32-
pounder, and struck the Fanny, I think, once. I
found the range of the piece much short of what I
had anticipated, many of the shot turning end eve: e
end, and not mooding much the rangy_ of the
smooth-bore 32-pounder.
I enclose herewith the mecnbrandum of the am
munition expended to-day.
I am very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Lieutenant D S 13
—RAINE,
Commanding 1.1. S. steamer Monticello.
To Captain J. L. LARDNER, commanding U. S,
steamer Susquehanna, off Cape Hatteras, N. C.
FROM CALIFORNIA.
A Million en route for New York.
PACIFIC SPRINGS, Oct. 9.—The California pony
express passed here at aeon tb-day, With the M.
lowing advioes :
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2.—MARlNE.—Arrived 29th
Sept., ships Storm King, from New York ; ; Santa
Claus and Win. Star, from Boston; bark Comet,
from Honolulu. Spoken, ship Magnet, from New
York, Aug. 20th, lat 1810, long 91 94; whale bark
Sap Hole, idroonthe out, with 100 bbla. oil. Sailed,
brig Theresa, for Hong Kong.
The United States sloop-of-war St. Mary's
sailed on the 28th, to cruise along the Southern
coast.
The steamer Uncle Sam sailed for palming 011
the Ist, carrying 250 passengers and $1,115,000 in
treasure, of which $1,000,000 was for New York.
The principal shippers were :
Wells,Fargo, & t.,6 $331,000
Donahoe, Ralston & Co 127,000
Parr9tt 4 Qv 107;270
author & Church 91,550
B. Davidson 80,000
J. Seligman & Co 58,158
Alsop & Co 65,621
&ball & Bros 57,100
Levi Strait o . 81,30-1
James Patrick k Co 30,000
Mark Brumagin & Co 20,000
Among the cabin passengers for New York were Capt.
Geo. Thorne, Capt. W. Myers, Capt. I'.ll. Sheridan, C.
I'. Poston, Lieut. K. W. Forsyth, all of the United States
army : J. P. Dewey, wife t eon, Thomas Sunderland .3:
wits, and Meg. P.C. Washl.o e ue,
Ibe following passengers were for Europe: Rev. W.
A. Scott, D. D., wife and four children, A. Scott, Chat
ders Scott, Mrs. T. 11. Silby and five children, and Mrs.
A. 13. Reese.
CONDIERCIAL.—The San Francisco market con
tinues quiet; Me was refused for 3,500 boxes of Candler,
ifdlintllB Butter tic. Cotton duck, No. 1,
37 c. High proof Whisky' 20e. Spirita of Turpentine
81.50 V gallon.
GENERAL NEWS
The California news has been of no importance
since the last express.
The Legislature of Nevada Territory was con
vened at Carson city yesterday.
Governor Nyce sent in his message to-day, and
recommended the adoption of a California mining
law for that Territory, and speedily getting rid of
the Utah statute, which is now the prevailing law.
lie also recommended the passage of a Sunday
ifilr) MI treated tile affairs of the nation in a pa.
trietie manner.
OREGON
The steamer Cortez brings Oregon dates to the
29th ult. The news is unimportant. She brought
$90,000 in gold, and a variety of Government
stores, together with 100 mules and 5.5 horses for
the arsoly—the latter cost MI per head.
SANDWICH ISLANDS
The Sandwich Island dates are to the 7th ult.
The bark Zero arrived at Honolulu on the sth,
from the Arctic Ocean, bringing the first report
from the whaling fleet- 41 wag with the first
advises from the North, it is very brief and un
satisfactory—as good, however, as the first report
last year. August and September are the best
months for whaling in that ocean.
T.ll. Dryer, the American commissioner, was so
seriously ill as to be unable to attend to the bu
siness
Business appears to be very dull at the Islands,
and will continue so until the advent of the vessels
of the whaling fleet, in October and November.
The remnant of a small town had been discovered
on Malden's Island, which is supposed to have been
a atoppinrplace for the buccaneers; three centuries
ago.
The ship Storm King, from New York, reports
having encountered a severe gale off Cape Horn.
She was compelled to throw 30 tons of freight over
board.
PASSENGERS By THE UNCLE SAM
The following is a correct list of the passengers
whe left upon the steamer Uncle Sam yesterday
morning :
T. P. Satterson ' A. H. Patterson, G. W. Reed, W.
Reed, E D. Gird, A. 11. Yon Walhiey, wife, and eon,
ChM lic . 3 Train, Colo - mil". f 3. kosten, U. S. A., Captain
Geo. Thorn, U. S. A., wile, and 3 children and servant,
Capt. W. M. Myers, U. S. A., wife, and 2 children and
servant, Capt. P. 11. Sheridan, U. S. A., Lieut. G. W.
Forsyth, U. S. A., K. P. Dewey, wife, and son, Thomas
Sunderland, wife, three children, and servant, John
Dever, H. Webster and wife, D. M, Smith, C. B. Walter,
Wm K. Wagner, Meg. R. 0. Waelstatette, B. W_ Buell, 9.
J. Sparrow, Mr, C. M. Strader, J. B. McCune, A, J.
Compton, wife, child, and mime, Miss Ada Laming, U. K.
Urltham ' M.
Itesseckel, Miss L. B. Webster, J. IL Reese,
Francis Prehaus and brother, Mrs. J. C. Bunderitoff
and son, K. A. Campbell, Rev. W. A. Scott, D.D., wife
and four children, Willie Scott, Chalmers Scott, Am
brose Miehbrnd, Mrs. A. Dateciie, J. G. Yostner, G. B.
Goodrich, Walesa, A_ A. Alleey, JeWaine 1...L.0e, J.
Cameron, L Hutchings, J E Smith, H Dodge, J F Tho
mas and wife, Capt. C. E. Mowrey, Mr.. Mary A. Lamb,
J. T. Ryan, G S. Lawrence, John Wilson, Mrs. H.
Michells, 4 chit, and svt, Wm. Billings, Jr., J. It:Effinger,
wife and 4 chi, Mrs J McClure and 3 chit, Mrs S. 0.
Besworth and two children, P. A. Raymond, S. Marks,
Mrs. B. B. Lairon, J. W. Fisher,
Mrs. T. Underwood,
T. Dn*enpoet and wife, S. A. EdmunJeon, A. W.
Campbell, Juan Singer, J. McKenaie, J. Lockhart,
D. E. Neal, S. H. Downing, L. T. Barron and fancily,
Jnhlla Bristand, Andrew Lerome, Mrs T. H. Selby
and live children and servant, L. Revard, T. 33. Cal
van, John W. Duncan, W. Wright and daughter.
The National Loan in Boston—lncrease
in Subscriptions.
&wow, October 9.—The subscriptions to the Na•
tional Loan are corning in faster now than at any
previous time.
Arrival of the City of Washington.
NEW Tonic, Oct. r9.—The steamer C ityof
Washington arrived this morning. Her ativices
have been anticipated. She brings 600 bales of
cotton.
Resumption of Specie Payments by the
Pittsburg Banks.
PITTSBURG, Oct. B.—All the banks in this city
have resumed specie payments.
The lowa Election.
Cimino, Oat. 9.—Thc returns from the (Aeolian
in lowa, yesterday, coma in slowly. Those ro
nixed indicate the election of Kirkwood (Repub
lican) for Governor..
The Steamer Ertcsson Chartered by the
Government.
EIY ToRK, Oct 8.-4 ha stortwor Ericsson has
been chartered by the Government. the will load
with horses.
Departure of the Persia.
New Youtc, Oct. P.—The ettalaOr .forsia raile44
1•:or Liverpool this morning,
General Fremont and Colonel Blau
coLorizu EL/1110 SZOOND MSP56er - 1113 cabincvs
AGA.OOI' OENEnAL PlikafONT
When Colonel Blair's letter to . Adjutant General
Thomas was made known to General Fremont, he
issued the following order for the Colonel's re-ar
rest :
"HEADQUARTERS WESTERN DEPARTMENT,
Sr. Louts, Mo., September 26, 1841. 1
" SPECIAL ORDERS NO. 268.
" Colonel F. P. Blair, Jr., First Missouri Light
Artillery, Li hereby placed in arrest. He will pro
coed without delay to Jefferson Barraeks, and re.
port himself in arrest to Lieutenant Colonel S. Bur.
bank, Thirteenth Infantry, commanding.
" His limits will be those of the post of Jefferson
Barracks.
By order of Major general FriMOtit,
" CHAUNCEY MCKEEVER,
" Assistant Adjutant General."
Immediately upon his rearrest, Col. Blair pre
pared the following charges and specifications
against Gen. Fremont, and forwarded the same to
M ashingtork
COL. ELAIR'S CHARGES ACAINST GEN FREMONT
Charges preferred by Frank P. Blair, Jr. colonel
of the First Regiment of Missouri volunteers,
against Major General John C. Fremont, of the
army of the United States, commanding in the De
partment of the West :
CHAXGrE 1. Neglect of duty and unofficer•like
conduct.
Specification 1. In failing and neglecting from
the 3d day of July, 1861, to repair to the city of
St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, the headquar
ters of the Western Department, and there enter
upon the duties belonging to him as the military
chief of said department, to the serious injury of
the public service therein and the loyal people
thereof.
Specification 2. In failing and neglecting to in
form himself of the wants and necessities of the
said Western Department, from the 311 day of July,
1861, to the 20th day of July, 1801, to the groat
detriment of the public service and the injury of
the said department.
:Specification 3. In failing and neglecting to
take proper measures to reinforce and succor Briga
dier General Nathaniel Lyon, commanding a part
of the army of the United States, at Springfield, in
the State of Missouri, from the 3d day of July,
1861, to the 10th day of August, 1861, the said post
of Springfield being all the while in immediate
peril from the enemy, whereb the forces of the
United States at or near said Springfield were,
many of them, sacriGecd, and the residue compelled
to abandon said post, to the serious detriment of the
Government of the United States and the State of
Missouri and the pookle thereof.
Specification 4. In failing and neglecting to
take proper measures to reinforce or succor Major
Beeken, earaniasilleg . ia past of thit army of
the United States at Lexington, in the State of
Missouri, from the 15th day of August, 1861, to
the Ist day of September, 1861, the said post at
Lexington being all the while in imminent peril
from the enemy, whereby said post was left to the
power of an overwhelming foe, and was assaulted
by said foe and preserved from destruction only
by the heroic valor of the officers and men of the
post after they had been so grossly abandoned by
the said Majc . a. General John C. Fremont.
Specification 5. In failing and neglecting to
take proper measure's to reinforce and succor Col,
James A. Mulligan, commanding a post of the
army of the United States at Lexington, in La
fayette county, in the State of Missouri, from the
10th day of September, 1801, to the 20th day of
September, 1801, ,the said post at Lexington being
all the while in imminent peril from the enemy,
whereby the enemy were suffered to assault the
said post, and conquer and take the seine, to the
great disgrace of the national arms, and the detri
ment of the service.
Specification 6. In suffering one Martin Green
and other guerilla chiefs of the enemy to recruit an
army in Northeastern Missouri of from 3,000 to 5,000
inen l and to overrun and ravage Northeastern Mis
souri on the day of August, 1861, to about the 10th
day of September, 1861, without taking proper
measures to suppress the bands of said Martin
Green and other guerillas, whereby a vast amount
of the property of the loyal inhabitants of said sec
tion of the State of Missouri was wasted and de
stroyed. Many of raid inhabitants were driven out
of said Northeastern Missouri by the enemy, and
many were compelled by the enemy to take an
oath of allegiance to the pretended traitorous and
insurrectionary gevernment balled the Confederate
States of America.
Spneijietrtion. 7. In suffering and permitting
one Stephen A. Hurlbutt, a brigadier general in
the army of the United States, and his authority,
to be and remain in command of the forces of said
Government of Northern Missouri, from the 10th
day of August, 1801. to about the 10th day of Sep
tember,lB6l, knowing him, the said Stephen A.
Hurlbstt, from the official report of his superior
officer, Brigadier General Pope, to be a common
drunkard, and unfit all of said time to command,
to the great detriment of the service of the loyal
people of Missouri.
Specification 8. In neglecting and refusing, on
sr about the Ist day of September, 1861, when a
post of the army of the United States, at Lexing
ton, in the county of Lafayette, State of Missouri,
was in imminent peril from the enemy, and in need
of immediate succor and reinforcements, to re
ceive or hear one Richard Vaughn, Esq., who had
come from said Lexington to us.; hf.'!.‘knritire in
the city of St, Louis, to Ia before him, - the said
Misjoi-General J. O. Fremofft, the distressed con
dition of said post, to solicit succor and reinforce
ments for the same, he, the said Major General J.
C. Fremont, pretending and insisting that he was
too busy to receive or hear the message of said
Vaughn ; and although he, the said Major Gene
ral J. C. Fremont, was informed that the message
of said Richard Vaughn related to matters of most
urgent necessity, and demanded immediate action,
he, the said Major General J. C. Fremont, would
not receive him, the said Richard Vaughn, nor
hear him ; nor did he give any assistance to the
said post in Lexington, so in imminent peril.
Spieeifieataau 0. Ia appointing, on or about the
6th day of August, 1861, to a high place of confi
dence and , trust under his authority, viz : master
of transportation in the Western department, one
Doctor Edward H. Castle, a person of disreputable
character ; in keeping the said Castle in said office
and place of trust after being fully informed of his
character, to the great detriment and disgrace of
the service.
Specification 10. In establishing . about his head
quarters in the city or wt. Lowy, A barricade,
whereby . information absolutely indispensable to
the public service was repelled and shut eat from
his mind ; he, the said General Fremont, refusing
and preventing himself, by such means, from being
informed of matters of the utmost importance for
hours and even days, to the great detriment of the
public service.
Specification 11. In not taking proper mea
sures, while in command of said Department of the
West, to put down rebellion within the State of
Missouri, drive out and expel the invaders from said
State, and re-establish the authority of the United
States therein.
Speciicatiort 12. In this, that Captain Willard,
of the steamboat Sunshine, a steamboat in the em
ploy of the United States itovernment, was sent by
Colonel Mulligan from Lexington, on or about the
10th day of September, 1861, to convey certain
officers with despatches to Colonel Davis, command
ing Jefferson City, in the State of Missouri. And
when the said steamboat SI/AA/lige vd•adie,a OW
gow, in the State of Missouri, on its way to Jeffer
son City, it was fired into and upon by the armed
enemies of the United States Government, and
compelled to land and transport the forces of the
enemy from the north to the south side of the
Missouri firer ; that the said Captain Willard,
obtaining the despatches from Col. Mulligan to Col.
Davis from the officers having them in charge, and,
making his escape, came without delay to the city
of St. Louis, and repaired immediately to head
quarters, and then addressed a note to the said
Major General John C. Fremont, stating briefly the
facia above recited, and that he had important in
formation in regard to the movements of the enemy
to communicate to him, and also the despatches of
Col. Mulligan to Col. Davis, the said Major General
J. C. Fremont refused to hear or see him, and in
formed him that, if he was an officer of the army,
he could take the train the next day for the city of
JefferSeit, with the despatches to Col. Davis; and,
if not an officer of the army, he could leave the de
spatches there, and call and see him, the said
Major General J. C. Frimont, on the next day ;
that by the refusal to see Capt. Willard, and re
ceive the information which he was prepared to
give, the public service was deeply injured i that
the succor demanded in the despatches sent by Col.
Mulligan to Col. Davis was not sent, and Col. Mul
ligan, with all of his force at Lexington, in the
State of Missouri, was captured by the enemies of
the United States Government.
CHARGE 2.—DiSObedienCe of orders.
•
Specificationl. In this, that the said Major
General- John C. Fremont, when ordered by the
Secretary of War, on or about the 3d day of July,
1861, to
_proceed to the city of St. Louis, in the
State of Missouri, from the city of Washington, in
the District of Columbia, did not and would not
comply with said order; but. in disregard thereof,
went to the city of New York, and there remained
until about the 23d day of July, 1861, to the great
neglect of the duties belonging to his department.
Specification 2. On the 30th day of August,
1861, the said Major General John C. Fremont
issued the following proelnmation
[Here follows the proclamation, which was modi
fied by the President, with respect to declaring
slaves free belonging to persons in arms against the
United States.]
That on the day of —,1864, the President of
the United States ordered the said Major General
J. C. Fremont to modify the said proclamation, so
as to make it conform to an act of Congress enti-
tled "An act to confiscate property used for insur
rectionary purposes," approved August 6, 1861,
which the said Major General J. C. Fremont has
ever since failed, neglected, and refused to do, in
disobedience of amid order and in contempt of the
authority of the President of the United States.
Specification 3. That after the order aforesaid
of said President of the United States, commanding
the said Major General Fremont so to modify his
said proclamation, he, the said Fremont , did, on or
about the 21st day of September, 1861, cause to be
printed and circulated alarge number of his yoro.
elamations in original form, contrary to the order
of the President of the United States, and in con
tempt of his authority.
CHARGE 3. Conduct unbecoming an officer and a
gentleman.
Bpm:ft - cation L In declaring to Oliver 11. Filley,
on or about the let day of September, 1801, after he
bad appointed the said Edward 11. Castle, that he
had suspended said Castle from: said appointment,
when in fact he had not suspended the said Castle,
and said declaration was false
Specification 2. In totmg oat to Leonidas Has
kell a Governmenteontraet for five thousand 011.1109,
to be purchased by the said Leonidas Haskell, who
was a contractor of the Government, appointing
him, the said Leonidas Haskell, to a place on the
staff of him, the said Major General John C. Fri.
mont, to the common scandal and serious detriment
of the &wise.
Specification 3. In countenancing and encomia
ging officers and privates of the army under his
command to write letters to public newspaperain
praise of himself and in denunciation of all, who
differ from him.
Sped/t - cotton. 4.
- %Mining and OCaMtegalleiwgi
and not prohibiting officers and privates of the
army under his command from holding meetings in
their camps, and passing resolutions adulatory of
himself, and publishing the said resolutions, con
trary to army regulation 210, and in contempt and
disregard thereof.
Cnancn 4. Gross extravagance, waste, misma
nagement, and misapplication of tha publie me.
net's.
Specification 1. In this, that be bas surrounded
himself with men of disreputable character, his
former dependents and hangers-on from the State
of California, with whom he vas connected in bu
siness, and with whose character and reputation fur
fraudulent dealings ho was well neguamted, and
has bestowed upon them large contracts and jpbs
for supplies for the army, and fbr making forgica
bons, and for other expensive anti unnecessary
work, without adyertbeinent, bidding, or competi
tion, whereby the Government of the United Stater
has boon despoiled, the soldiers delapd in receiv
ing their pay, and his own attentirA and time alb
sorbed, so as to prevent him from attending to the
great work to which he was 1189igued tv the (iv
VI3IISM4SISt of the United States.
CHARGE 5. Despotic and tyrannical conduct.
Specifi cation 1. In this, that he issued an Blvd/
order on the day of September, 1861, forbiddittig.
oFicers of the army from corresponding with AIL
cid% of the State and other governments, to the
and that his errors might not he exposed, and hie
conduct controlled by his superiors, whereby the
Government of the United States and the people
have sustained great detriment.
Speifieation 2. In this, that he ordered a üb
lio in the city of St. Louis, State pf Mis
souri, called and known as the Evening Item,
to be suppressed, and its editor and proprietor to
be arrested and imprisoned, for a fair and just criti
cism upon his conduct, although ho well knew that
said newspaper had always given a fair and loyal
support to the Government of the United Skates,
and its only crime was in making publio his errors
of judgment and incompetency to command in this
department.
I have the honor to lay before the President of
the United States the above charges and specifics-
Soria Agnintal Major General John C. FrCrnont, com
manding the Department of the West, which are
respectfully submitted to the President's con
sideration. Respectfully,
FRANK P. BLAIR, JR.,
Colonel First Reg't Missouri Light Artillery.
Aeeompanying the above charges wee the follow
ing letter from Colonel F. P. Blair, Jr., to Briga
dier General L. Thomas :
44 Brigadier General L. Thomas, Adjutant Ge
neral of United States Army, Washington,
“Guitrnal. I have the boner to trenatolt to
you, through the proper channel, certain charges
end specifications implicating the official conduct of
Major General John C. Fremont, of the United
States Army, commanding the Western Depart
ment, and beg that you will, without unnecessary
delay, lay them before the Preehlerat of the United
States for his consideration.
. . . .
"Respectfully, FRANK P. BLAIR, Jr., 11
" Colonel First Regiment Missouri Light Artillery.
" St. Louis, Sept. 26, 1861."
The Rebel Sequestration Act,
The following are the inetructions of Attorney
General Benjamin to the ".Receivers" under the
Sequestration Act, passed by the rebel Congress at
the late session :
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE,
RICHMOND, 12th ScipteMiTef, TON,
Instructions to Receivers under the Act entitled
"An Act for the Sequestration of the Estates,
Property, and Effects of Alien Enemies, and
for the indemnity of citizens of the Confederate
States, and persons aiding the same in the ex
isting war against
. the United gq,loo,"—Ap
proved Ntli March, 1.80 - 1.
The following persons are subject to the operation
of the law as alien enemies :
All citizens of the United States, except citizens
or resident of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, or
Missouri, or the District of Columbia, or the Terri
tatie9 of Now Wake, Arizona, or the Indian Ter
ritory south of Kansas.
All persons who have a dentine within the States
with which this Government is at war, no matter
whether they be citizens or not : Thus the sub
jects of Great Britain, France, or other neutral na
tions, who have a dOntiOie, an Catfylag on busi
ness or traffic within the States at war with this
Confederacy, are alien enemies under the law.
All such citizensler residents of the States of De
'aware, Maryland, Kentucky, or Missouri, and of
the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, awl tha
Indian Territory south of Kansas, and of the Dis
trict of Columbia, as shall commit actual hostilities
against the Confederate States, or aid or abet the
United States in the existing war against the Confe
derate States.
Immediately after taking your oath of office, you
will take possession of all the property of every na
ture and kind whatsoever within your district be
longing to alien enemies as above defined.
You will forthwith apply to the clerk of the
court fur writs of garnishment under the eighth
section of the law, and will propound to the . gar
nishees the interrogatoriex of which a form is an
nexed. These interrogatories you will propound
be the following persons, viz :
lst. All attorneys and counsellors practising law
within your district.
2d. The presidents and cashiers of all banks and
principal administrative officers of all rollr 9 g4 aAd
other cooperations within your district.
All agents of foreign corporations, insurance
agents, commission merchants engaged in foreign
trade. agents of foreign mercantile houses, dealers
in bills of exchange , executors and administrators
of estates, assignees and syndics of insolvent es.
tates, trustees, and, generally, all persons who are
known to do business as agents far others.
.kk the first week of each month you will exhibit
to the judge a statement showing the whole amount
of money in your hands as receiver, and deposit the
same for safe keeping in such bank or other de
pository as may be selected for that purpose by the
judge; reserving only such amount as may be re
quired for immediate necessary expenditure in the
discharge of year duties as receivers.
Whenever, in the discharge of your duties, you
discover that any attorney, agent, former partner,
trustee, or other person holding or controlling any
property rights or credits of an alien enemy, has
wilfully failed to give you information of the same,
Sou will immediately report the fact to the District
Attorney for your district, to the end Iket tb_§
guilty party may be subjected to the pains arid
penalties prescribed by the third section of the law.
J. P. BENJAMIN, Attorney General.
The following interrogatories to garnishees have
been prepared for your use, together with a note
annexed for the information of the garnishee
1. nave you now, or have you had in your pos
session or under your control, since the twenty
first day of May last (1861), and if yea, at what
time, any land or lands, tenement or tenements,
hereditament or hereditaments, chattel or chattels,
right or rights, credit or credits, within the Con
federate §tetee 4f ha:aeries, hold, owned, peenenied,
or enjoyed for or by an alien enemy; or in or to
which any alien enemy had, and when,
since that
time, any right, title, or interest, either directly or
indirectly?
2. If you answer any part of the foregoing in
terrogatory in the affirmative, then set forth, ape-
CifiCally and 'Particularly, a deaoription of such pro
perty, right, title, credit, or interest, and, if you
have disposed of it in whole or in part, or of the
profit or rent or interest accruing therefrom, then
state when you made such disposition, and to
whom, and where such property now is 014 by
whom held?
3. Were you, since twenty-first day of May,
1861, and if yea, at what time indebted, either di
rectly. or indirectly, to any alien enemy or alien
enemies ? If yea, state the amount of such in
dcbtedneog, if one, and of each indebtedness, if
more than One ; give the name or names of the cre
ditor or creditors, and the place or places of resi
dence, and state whether and to what extent such
debt or debts have been discharged, and also the
time and manner of the discharge.
4. Do you know of any land or lands, tenement
ce teßeteffltii, beritiitemorit or harcaltamonts, chat
tel or chattels, right or rights, credit or credits,
within the Confederate States of America, or any
right or interest held, owned, possessed, or enjoyed,
directly or indirectly, by or for one or more alien
enemies since the twenty-first day of May. 1661, or
in or to which any one or more alien gpiemjec hag
since that time any claim, title, or interest, direct
or indirect? If yea, set forth specially and parti
cularly what and where the property is, and the
name and residence of the holder, debtor, trustee,
or agent.
5. State all else that you know which may aid in
carrying into full effect the sequestration act of the
20th August, 1331, and state the same as fully and
particularly as if thereunto specially interrogated.
A. 8., Receiver.
NOTE —The garnishee in the foregoing interroga
tories is specially warned that the sequestration act
makes it the duty of each and every citizen to give
the information asked hi said interrogatories.-1 Ai at
of 30th August, 1861, see. 2.
And if any attorney, agent, former partner,
trustee, or other person holding or controlling any
property or interest therein of or for any alien
enemy, shall fail speedily to inform the receiver
9.f the fable, find to rondo' him an account of auoh
property or interest, he shall be guilty of a high
misdemeanor, and, non conviction, shall be fined
in a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, and
imprisoned not longer than six months, and be lia
ble to pay besides, to the OonfederateStates, double
the value of the property or interest of the alien
enemies so held or subject to his neutral.—[Sob, 11
In his letter of September 10th, to the London
Times, Mr. Russell writes as follows respecting
THE RETIREMENT OF THE REBEL LINES
All that can be seen or heard leads to the belief
that the Confederates are preparing for some great
effort, and that they have retired portions of their
force from before Washington, either as a device to
blind their antagonist while making it, or to col
operate with the rest of the army by a serious
demonstration above and below the city. If the
Confederates have moved, they mean to do some
mieehief. 'Toy can ecarcely retire and hope to
make a better leap by doing so. In inactivity on
both sides, coupled with prodigious expenditure,
are the best if not the only chance of compromise
and peace. Success en either aide revives the hopes
9f q4Mplele , nitimeto triiwph of the one, and stun.
Riau the animosity eoliths display ef the resources
of the other.
There is one thing to take into consideration as
an element of peace. During the winter, the ar
mies must go into quarters. Even so far South as
Virginia the weather is frequently very severe; -
anew Bee many feel deep on to ground for weeks
at a time. The Potomac le occasionally fronen
over completely. The roads, always indifferent,
become rivers of mud and slush, through which it
would be nearly impossible to move men, or guns
and baggage. When the armies are in winter
quarters, will the politieiang work for pease or
war? Or will the leaders of divisions be permit
ted to carry on operations in the ice and anew, re
membering the great success of Washington after
the traject, which is so often represented in bad
engravings all over North America ?
It is obviously the intere!t. of Bea uregard . to
strike a great blow before winter sets in; Ind thus
strengthen the base for negotiations ; but General
McClellan, I am satisfied,. will not move a man, if
he can help it, until the very end of this month, or
the beginning of October. About that time there
will be kind inquiries about the second fifty mil
lions of the national loan, amino doubt inereved
rigor on the part of those who are opposed to the
war. But, if General McClellan obtains any very
considerable victory, and is able at the first stroke
to break through the shell with which the Confe
derates have covered their soft parts in the interior
of the States, some measure short of secession and
independence may satisfy thew,' aLkIl wit they
are menaced. with destruction, they may put up
with an offer to live on fair terms with their eon
querors. It is to be seen whether the latter will
then offer them what they might have easily ob
tained at an earlier stage of hostility.
CITY ITEMS.
THE ELECTION IN THE CAW...S.—The result or
the soldiers' vote in the camps of thePenusylvattla roe.
wide lips not been fully received, lil2ollll.
}merce, to make it certain that cyery soldier from tho
old He stone has declared in unequivocal terms that
Nockbill & Wilson, of the Brown Stone Clothing Hall,
Nos. 803 and 666 Chestnut street, above Sixth, are
entitled to the ilietinction of getting up the most elegant',
sersicenble, and becoming ulsifoiuse that haw been fur,
nimile to the defenders of the Union from this or art,r
totbor 6tatn.
TiiE SOLDIERS' VOTE.--The result a bhp
vote taken by the Pennsylvania volunteers who Venoms
at the seat of was hut not yet been definitely aseertalned,
although it is thought that their ballots will not muck
&fleet the result as already announced,
itnewn facts however, that our soldiers have anosevel of
the excellent military garnlents manufactured at the
Palatial Clothing Store of Granville 54okes, 609 Cheating
street. Large numbers of our acsoy and navy °Mora
daily visit this establishment and leave thelr orders far
these Sopprio, and la far thbuboarat unifortu 4 . Ilit
City.