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rs
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duct of every European State ; and the arrival
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words) c , With regard to the Confederate pri
vateer, I said that I could . not see that our
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Lord PALMERSTON and Lord RUSSELL appear
to have got into what may be called cg a
bad fix" respecting the affair of the Treat.
On November 30th, a few days after news of
the capture of SLIDELL and MASON reached
Washington, Mr. SEWARD addressed an offi
cial letter to Mr. AnAms, our Ambassador
to England, which was submitted to Lord
RUSSELL by Mr. ADAMS, on the 19th Decem
ber. That day, Lord RUSSELL informed
Lord LYoliS that, from Mr. SEWARD'S des
patch, "the Government of Washington had
not authorized the capture of, the two insur
gents, Masos and SLIDELL, and that the
United States Government stood quite un
committed at the time of sending the des
patch"—that Mr. SEWARD therein declared
cc that the American Government value highly
the friendship of Great Britain, and lament
that certain causes of difference have arisen,
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VOL. 5.-NO. 155.
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1862.
British Ministerial Trickery
As to the Trent, Lord Emma, specifically
tells Lord LYONS the substance of Mr. SEW
ARD's communication, written for the purpose
of being read to the Foreign Minister of Eng
land. He says: llfr, SEWARD then proceeds
to the case of the Trent, from which ship the
two insurgents had been taken. He affirms
that no instructions were given to Captain
WILKES which authorized him fp act in the
manner he had done..Rither had the United
States Government committed itself with regard
to any decision upon the character of that act.
The Government would wait for any represent
ation the British Government might make be
fore coming to any positive decision. He de
sires that if Mr. AnA.sts should think it desi
rable, this despatch shall be read to me, and
also to Lord PALMERSTON."
In corroboration of Mr. SEWARD'S sincerity
stands out the fact that, some days after this
despatch was sent to England, distinctly - de
claring that Captain Wrnass had acted on his
own impulse, and that the United States Go
vernment had not committed itself by- any de
cision on his act, the President's Message
anpeared, and exhibited equal reticence. In
short, Mr. SEWARD had anticipated any formal
complaint from England, by himself making a
tOneession in' advance, and the British Go
vernment must hence have ascertained that
Mason and SLILELL would be surrendered,
when officially demanded.
The Morning Post, which is believed to be
not only Lard PALMERsToN'S Picklithpieee but
his actual property, has been writing in favor
of a war between England and the United
States, on account of the Trent affair.. On
December 21st the following semi-official arti
cle appeared in the Morning Post
"In the present state of the public mind the
craving for news from America is naturally so great
that every word that comes with any authority from
the other side of the Atlantic is invested with an
undue importance. Thus it happens that, because
Mr. Adams has received a despatch from Mr. Sew
ard which is of a friendly character to this Country,
and discusses, in fair and pleasant terms, the mat
ters with which it deals, exaggeration is swift to lay
hold of the circumstance and paint up to the largest
dimensions. People whispered, yesterday, and then
said openly, that the American Government had
written to disavow the act of Capt. Wilkes; that
Mr. Lincoln was ready to apologise, and that the
whole difficuity was settled. We are sorry to have
to dissipate these too-easily raised illusions. They
are quite ungrounded, for, if we are not misin
formed, the despatch an question does not in any
way whatever refer to the outrage on our mail
steamer. It deals only with some of the current
business between the two Governments "
When news reached England, on January
Stb, that MASON and SLIDELL were to be deli
vered up to the British, it also transpired that—
long before England had made any demand on
the United States in favor of these two trai
tors—Mr. SEWARD had actually volunteered a
disclaimer of their capture. cc Yes," the
Morning Post says, cc some such despatch was
written to Mr. ADAMS, who did not communi
cate it to the British Government." But Lord
RUSSELL'S letter, of December 19, to Lord
I Lyons, which gives the very words of Mr. SE
WARD'S disclaimer, asserts that Mr. ADAMS did
read it to him, and thereby gives the lie direct
to Lord Favrasawrort's ownnewspaper. More
over, as we have already shown, the Morning
Post, of December 21st, two days after Mr.
ADAMS had read Mr. SEWARD'S despatch to
Lord RUSSELL, strongly affirmed, ccif we are
not misinformed, the despatch in question does
not in any way whatever refer fo the outrage on
our snail hiletittler." Yet, as our readers have
seen, this same as outrage " formed the lead
ing subject of the despatch !
What could have been the motive of thus
leading England to imagine, on the authority
of P ALlannwron's own journal, that America
was evidently inclined to risk a war with Eng
land for the sake of retaining two such
cc worthless fellows" (in the Times' language)-
as SLIDELL and Mason The London Standard
truly says that Mr. SEWARD'S candid despatch
of November 30, read to Lord, II.VSSELL by
Mr. ADAMS on December 19, ( 4 was not only of
general moment, but of individual interest and
concern. It tended not alone to the saving of
millions to the national treasury, but it led
directly to influence every enterprise and
every mercantile transaction in the Kingdom.
More even than this, it bore information which
would have brought comfort to many a deso
late heart, and which would have allayed or
entirely removed rising ill-will and animosity."
It adds: cc There could be no- war after Mr.
Szwann's despatch of the 80th of November
was written. Lord PALMERSTON knew this.
His Cabinet knew it. The people only -were
hoodwinked and made tools of."
The Morning Post, driven into a cut de sac
by these and similar reproaches, turns round
and impudently admits that Mr. SEWARD'S
despatch was read to Lords Bassani, and
PALKERsTON, (a copy is invariably left with
the person to whom a despatch is read,") but
these used their discretion in keeping its con
tents secret. It says We are asked by the
Daily News and Morning Star how it was that
we denied the communication to the British
Government of an American despatch disa
vowing the act of Captain WILKES ? To this
we reply that the paper in question was not an
official despatch; that it was not communicated
to the British Government as such, and that it
had no real bearing upon the act of Captain
Wrtmes." If that despatch did not disavow
Captain WILKES' act, language is of no use
to express ideas. PALMERSTON and RUSSELL
concealed a political communication from the
United States which, if made known, would
have assured the British public that
_there
would be no war, and would have saved pro
bably half of the $20,000,000 rashly and ea
gerly expended in the British preparations for
war.
L.
Why should PALMERSTON and RUSSELL have
acted thus unjustifiably The English news
papers do .not speak out—but darkly hint at
immense sums of money realized, by parties
connected with the Ministry, by buying when
he prices of stocks were low, about the 19th
December, and selling when they rose—these
speculators ktiewing that war had been averted
by Mr. SEWARD. We repeat, what wp have
asserted from the first, that PALMERSTON, fear
ing a defeat in the House of Commons, from
his avowed enmity to Parliamentary Reform
and Vote by Ballot, seized on the pretext for
war to regain his popularity, as a vindicator
of the honor of the British flag, and kept up
this war-delusion, and these costly war-prepa
rations, only for the meanlypersonal purpose of
keeping himself in office. Of course there will
be a Parliamentary inquiry into this Palmer
ston-Russell most nefarious act.
Academy of the Fine Arts
We doubt whether our citizens thoroughly ap
preciate the value of the Academy of the Fine
Arts, though for fiftysix years it has been acknow
hdgCtr a 9 the best art institution in America. If it
has not fulfilled all tin; duties of such an institution,
the public are chiefly to blame, in denying the sup
port its purposes deserve and require. Yet, what
it has done is no trifle. Its annual exhibitions in
terest intelligent classes of the community in art,
end give to our artists excellent opportunity to
make their merits known. Of late years the Aca
demy has bad the judicious management of such
men as Caleb Cope, John Sartain, Wm. Struthers,
John T. Lewis, Samuel Welsh, Af. W. Baldwin,
and Joseph Harrison; and a now spirit of enter
,prise has greatly increased its usefulness. Art
schools, for the study of the antique, the living mo
del, and anatomy, have been established, and are
free of cost to students. A fine collection of casts
(the most complete in the country) was obtained
with great difficulty and expense in Europe, and
no effort is spared to make the Academy a first-class
institution
The pictures belonging to the Academy are of
great value. Some of the beet works of West, All
ston, Stuart, Neagle, Sully, Hamilton, and other
American artists, are now upon its walls. Criticism
Would find an almost endless task in commenting
upon the many noble paintings in its possession.
There is now in the Academy ono of the finest
full-length portraits painted since Sir Joshua
Reynolds laid down his brush. We refer to the
picture of George Frederick Cooke as Richard
by Thomas Sully—a work of genius that Mr. Sully
himself has never surpassed, and that few artists
could equal. The originality-of the attitude, the
beauty of the composition, and the purity and per
fection of the color, deserve the highest praise, and"
will bear the strictest analysis- -As a portrait, the
testimony of those who reaioiuber Cooke is unneces
sary to prove its value, far -in the character of
feature and expression we find an individuality that
must have been true to the life. Yet it is not
merely a portrait; it is a noble Shakspearian illus
tration. Mr. Sully has condensed into this won
derful face and figure all the cunning, cruelty, and
exultation of the traditional Richard, and has
caught one of those moments of soliloquy in which
the whole spirit of the man is revealed. The
Boyden Gallery has no picture which stands so
close to Shakspeare, and so fully interprets the
text.
It has been many years since this picture was
painted, yet Mr. Sully still lives, an honor to
American art, and an example to American artists.
lie paints, daily, with all his former grace and
vigor, and his portraits are as true and beautiful
now as when Queen Victoria sat beside his easel, or
the classic features of Nicholas Biddle were pie
tured on his canvass.
The spring exhibition of the Academy will open
in a few months ; but, in the meanwhile, lovers of
art cannot better gratify their tastes than by a care
ful examination of this picture and the hundreds
of others that fill the spacious galleries.
A Case Similar to that of the Trent
The London Gazette, of the 17th ult., publishes
the official correspondence relative to the taking of
Messrs. J. W. Zacherio and T. J. Rogers, American
citizens, from a British vessel. The following offi
cial letters will explain the whole case :
FROM LORD LYONS TO EARL RXISSELT,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 1861
(Received Jan. 15, 1862.)
MY LORD: The Secretary of State of the United
States has informed me that, having learnt that
Messrs. J. W. Zacherio and T. J. Rogers, Ameri
can citizens, were taken from a vessel called the
Eugenia Smith., under the British flag, and under
circumstances similar to those involved in the case
of Messrs. Mason and Slidell, and that they are
now confined in .Fort' Lafayette, he has caused
orders to be given for their discharge, and permis
sion for them to return to Norfolk, in Virginia, by
-way of Fortress Monroe. I have s jaws.
EXTRACT OF A. DESPATCH FROM. LORD LYONS , TO
=M!
WASHINGTON, Dee. 31, 1861. I
(Received Jan. 15, 1862. -
I have the honor to enclose herewith to your
Lordship a copy of a note from Mr. Seward to the
Secretary of the Navy, which has been communi
cated-to me to-day by Mr. Seward, referring to the
fact of a British schooner, the James Campbell,
captured for breach of blockade, having been
brought into New York, with the British flag flying
under that of the United States ; Mr. Seward con
demns this act in the strongest terms ; the act was
disavowed with equal promptitude by the naval
authorities of the United States, nil tier whose notice
it watbroughc.
ENCLOSURE IN LOUD LYONS' DESPATCH
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31, 1861.
Sin : This department has received unofficial in
formation that the schooner James Campbell, cap
tured by the blockading squadron, was carried into
New York with the British flag flying under that
of the United States. This Unseemly act must have
been occasioned by a misapprehension of his duty
by the officer who ordered or allowed it. I will,
consequently, thank you to give such orders as may
tend to prevent a repetition of the same.
I have, &c., WILLIAM H. SEWARD.
To Bon. GIDEON WELLES, Seeretary of the Navy.
ENCLOSURE IN EXTRACT . FROM LORD LYONS' DE..
SPATCH OP DzeratEmp, 31, 1661
DErAirruurcr OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, December 31, BBL
Sin : This department has been informally ap
prised that Commander Woodhull, of the United
States steamer Connecticut, recently exacted as a
condition of the release of members of the crew of
the British schooner Adeline, captured fora breach
of the b.leekolitle, that they Should enter into an en
gagement not to be employed in a similar proceed
ing in future. It occurs to this department that,
as the requirement referred to is not warranted by
public law, the commanders of blockading vessels
should be instructed not to exact any similar con
dition for the release of persons found on board
verrelo charged with a breach of the blockade, It
may he lawful to detain such persons as witnesses,
when their testimony may be indispensable to the
administration of justice ; but when captured in a
neutral ship they cannot be considered, and ought
not to be treated, as prisoners of war. Angus
Smith, John Mooney, and John H. McHenry, the
alleged British subjects above referred to, are con
sequently to be considered as absolved from the
Ofigal3oll represented to have been required of
them by Commander Woodhull.
I have, &e., WILLIAM IL SEWARD.
To the Hon. CiinEpic WELnas :
What a Southern Woman Says.
The Baltimore News Sheet publishes a letter
from a Southern wums , n in Nubile, which contains
this passage:
" We need nothing—except a glimpse of dear
familiar faces. We have suffieleist for all the
body's wants—food, raiment, and homes, in whose
defence our proudest, our bravest, and our best are
armed.
"We give them up in our country's need—our
brothers, husbands, and sons; and if they should
fall, even amidst our tears we should not dare to
murmur, for ours is a holy . cause and must
triumph. We shall never again form part of the
Union'--I mean the ' Yankee Union.' We are,
as a people, united, until our hearts beat as one
in the determination to resist to - the death the
boasting invaders. We can never be subjugated.
We are willing to endure privation, poverty, sor
row—anything but the shame which would cling
to our borders forever did we bend our necks to
the tyrant's yoke. We teach our little children to
pray, even as we do,•for the dawn of the glorious
day which shall herald to the world our indepen
dence; nor is it, we trust, very far distant.
"Miss Evans, authoress of 'Beulah,' presented,
at Fort Morgan, a flag to the Beulah Guards. There
was considerable speechifying on the occasion; in
deed, I do not think I could have done better my
self than the gallant Bonner."
The New Secretary of War.
In a familiar letter to a friend, Judge Kelley al
luded to lion. Edwin M. Stanton as follows!
it Our new Secretary of War is the right man in
thearight place. He is honest, methodical, and
energetic—fully aware that we are at war, and de
termined to inspire the army with honorable ambi
tion,
and to conquer an early peace. He will see
that promotion rewards'marked exhibitions of skill
and courage; and that whoever or whatever stands
in the way of the supretuaoy of the Constitution be
swept away. I em not mistaken or deceived in
WE LEARN, says the Quebec Chronicle, that
Mr. Blackwell has, in consequence of continued
ill health, sent in his resignation as general MR
hailer of the Grand Trunk hallway, and that ho
will leave Canada in the spring. It is rumored
that Mr. Brydges will succeed hum.
A CIIRIOSITY.—George Tarr, of Cherry-tree
township, Crawford county, Pa., has a curiosity in
the shape of a calf with two heads, joined together
in the upper part, but having two distinct under
jaws. It baa also three ears; two in the usual part,
and another between them, in the centre of the
head. The body is perfectly natural.
Sous of the Ministerial press in Canada, having
made a great hullaballoo about the hopeless weight
of debt that was hung like a millstone about the
neck of our Government, they are reminded by the
Toronto Globe that Canada herself happens to live
in an unusually brittle glass-house, inasmuch wish°
rejoices in a snug little "national debt" of seventy
milligllo of dollars, sad that it is increasing at the
rate of five to six millions a year ! As the popula
tion of the Provinces is only two and a half
million souls, it follows that in order to camel this
obligation a tax of nearly thirty dolldre would have
to be levied upon every , man, woman, sad child!
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1862.
THE. REBELLION.
!Letter from Munfordsville, - Ky.
ANOTHER EXPEDITION TO START FROM CAIRO.
GEN.' HUNTERS EXPEDITION.
NEWS FROM TILE REBEL STATES.
REBEL VIEWS OF GEN. MCCLELLAN.
THE MORTAR FLEET.
&e., See.
GENERAL BIJELL'S DEPARTMENT.
Interesting Letter from Munfordsville
[Correspondence of The Press.]
CAMP WOOD, MUNFORDSV/LLE, Ky., Jan. 27
From the picturesque banks of Green river goes
up the cry, Long live the Republic ! Excitement
and enthusiasm run high. Frequently the neigh
boring hills are made to resound with the loud, va
ulter+ shvuts of our brave 'Volunteers.
We are almost hourly in receipt of news from re
liable sources to the effect that the death-throttle
has seized upon its victim, Secession, in Kentucky.
We have reliable information from Bowling Green,
from a refugee just escaped from there, that they
are trembling in their strongholds for fear of an
early attack. Scouts, just returned last evening,
report the advance of General Hindman, with a
strong force, which, if so, is probably intended for
a feint, to attract attention from some other point,
or a blustering process to delay an advance of our
foram vntll they are better prepared to meet us,
their army at Bowling Green being composed, in a
very great degree, of sixty-day recruits, trans
ferred recently from Columbus to that point, in ex
pectation of an early attack from this division,
whose periods of enlistment have about expired ;
And, from all accounts, it will be almost an impossi
bility to re- enlist them, without resorting to eon
soription or drafting.
They also report the late Mill Spring victory, at
which Zolliooffer and his command were completely
routed and demoralized, as a complete Single&
victory. Tim refugee aforenamed was completely
astounded upon hearing. the true version of the
affair.
Rumor also reports the resignation of General
Buckner of Kentucky notoriety, and several other
generals at Bowling Green. The reports however
need confirmation.
Much has been said of their vandalism, but the
half has never been told. Daily our generals are
importuned for aid by professed Unionists from the
surrounding country, complaining of their vandal
acts. The burning of houses and barns, destroy
ing cattle, and throwing into streams what wag not
needed for their own consumption, burning of fodder
that they could not transport in their hasty flight
from justice, are a few of the grievances of
which they complain. What a fearful retribu
tion awaits them, if death should not over
take them in battle ! They must eventually
be either exiled from the land of their na
tivity, and subject to the fearful pangs of
remorse or dread among men who are now the
subject their vandalism and terror, who can ne
ver again extend the cordial hand of friendship to
these. We have refugees among us now who have
witnessed the burning of their dwellings, the deso
lation of their firesides, and the abuse of their fa
milies, by former neighbors, who swear by all that is
holy that they can never dwell in peace with them
i again—that time can never efface the bitter wrongs
they have endured.
Civil law will have its hands full at the expira
tion of the rebellion, and homicides and shooting
affrays cannot help but be of frequent occurrence.
How terrible the fruits of secession ! How terrible
the curse they have brought upon our beloved land !
May God deliver us !
Our lines are occasionally visited with flags of
truce, 71*h, however, do not meet with much gra , -
pathy ; they are gemerally sent back with a very
small supply of consolation.
The health of the advance, since it left Camp
Nevin, has improved very materially. Our troops
have pretty nearly all undergone the process of
acclimation, and tke boys begin to look robust..ani
hearty, plenty of pure air and exercise agreeing
with them.
We are expeoting an early advance, when some
thing of more interest may occur than this article
presents, of which you will be duly notified.
Row Zolueoffer Came to his Death
The Louisville Journal says:
Mrs. Fry, wife of the gallant Colonel S. S. Fry,
of the Fourth Kentucky Regiment, received aletter
at Danville, on Friday last, from Colonel Fry, writ
ten after the battle near Somerset. lie details in
the letter the manner in which he killed General
Zollicoffer, which varies somewhat from the many
statements we have aeon. Colonel Fry was in the
act of leading his regiment into a charge upon the
Mississippians, when General Zollicoffer, accompa
nied by his aid, rode up to him and said : You are
not going to fight your friends, are you ? These men
[pointing to the Mississippians] are all your friends.'
In the 'meantime Zolliooffer's aid fired upon Col.
Fry, wounding ,his horse, from which wound the
animal died. Col. Fry then turned and fired upon
Zollicoffer, with fatal effect. Gen. Zollicoffer evi
dently labored under the impression that Col. Fry
was a rebel officer. The stories about the old inti
macy of the two officers are all untrue. They had
never met before, nor did Col. Fry know the rank
of the officer upon whom he fired, as the evidences
of his rank were covered by a cloak which General
Zollicoffer wore in battle."
The War in Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. party of rebels, under
J. C. Morgan, of Lexington, captured five United
States army telegraph operators near Campbells
ville, and all their implements and wagons. The
same party subsequently burned a church at the
station.
The reports from the army represent that all is
quiet.
. .
The Rebel Defeat at Mill Spring
The Louisville Journal, of the 30th ult., says :
We have received several letters claiming for this
or that regiment particular credit for its share in I
the glorious siotoryachisived by Glen. Thomas' corn
mend on the 19th inst. We can see no good to be
accomplished by the publication of these counter
statements, as the information already received
shows that every man engaged did his duty nobly,
while the official report from the commander-in
chief, when sent to headquarters, will give such de
tails of gallant demeanor or skilful co-operation
with the general orders as may be neeessary to in
sure the most ample justice to all who deserve indi
vidual recognition. All accounts agree that the
fight was commenced by the advance of Zollicoffer
on the pickets of Col. Wolford's cavalry, who were
dismounted, as the ground was unfavorable to the
movements of the horses. The Tenth Indiana, part I
of which was also picketed, advanced promptly to
their support, end for nearly an hour bore the
brunt of the battle, and expended their last round
of ammunition, when the Fourth Kentucky,
Ninth Ohio, end Second Minnesota were en
abled to come up with them, commence the
general engagement, and drive the rebels to
their entrenchments. We have already stated
what laborious exertions were made by some of the
regiments under Gen. Sehisepff, near Somerset, to
reach the scene of..nction, but. they were prevented
by the swollen streams and the bad condition of
the roads from getting up until near nightfall,
when the Tenth Kentucky, Col. Harlan, and the
First and Second Tennessee, reached the ground,
but they were not allowed the privilege of partici
pating in the battle, and by the next day dawn the
rebels were in full retreat as a disorganized rabble.
We glean a. few item 'of interest from our let
ters. Up to - Saturday last our troops had buried
two hundred and seventy-eight dead rebels on this
side of the river. Upon their retreat they were
followed, as far as heard from, twenty-five miles
over the Tennessee line, and every day they left
numbers of those who had died of their wounds on
the route. They were found by the wayside
through Wayne county, sometimes three to six in a
heap, covered with blankets, and the entire road
was strewn with guns, wagons, and equipments
abandoned. Nearly seven hundred prisoners bad
been secured, and the number will be largely in
creased. It is supposed that three or four hundred
Confederates were drowned in the precipitate rush
to the steamboat sad coal barges on Sunday night.
Another most cheering incident resulting from
this crushing defeat is the receipt of several com
munications from our old subscribers, dated, joy
ously and exultingly, "At Home Again," "Home
Reached, Thank God !" Zollicoffer's Embargo
Broken," "At the Old Fireside," and, most touch
ing of all, "With my Wife and Children." Zorn
eoffer'e defeat had opened the mails through Rua.
sell, Pulaski, 'Wayne, and Clinton counties, and the
orders are coming from all quarters, "Send wiethe
Journal again." The spirit of all these letters shows
that the proclamation issued two weeks before the
battle, from Mill Springs, by the rebel " ingrate son
of glorious sire , ' General George B Crittenden,
has bad no effect on the loyal masses in the valley
of the Cumberland. They are as staunch as the
mountains that surround their beautiful hornets, and
as free as the eagles that make their nests among the
°sags.
Hon. Charles Schaffer, State Treasurer of Min
moots, who wes in the late battle of Mill Springs,
bas arrived at Chicago en route for Minnesota. He
furnishes the Chicago Times with an account of
some of the scenes and incidents of the aliktr, from
:which we copy the following extracts :
. The battle took place in a cleared field, contain
ing one hundred and twenty acres. At one time,
and just before the rebels broke and run, the com
batants were so near each other that the fight be
came almost a hand-to-band conflict. The Missis-,
sippi and Minnesota regiments were facing each
other at one time, but a few feet apart, and with
a rail fence between their racks. The former re
giment did, by all odds, the best fighting of any of
the rebels engaged. The Tennessee Weep had
no heart for the fight. The Mississippi troops were
armed, in addition to their rifles, with heavy bowie
knives fifteen inches long. So close were the com
indents that several of the Minnesota men were
'ounded by these knives. It was while so engird
that the rebel commander at this point, Baillie Pey
ton, Jr., was killed. lie wits a young, spleridid
looking, and brave man, and when shot was in ad
vance of his command, with a sword iu one hand
and revolver in the other, urging, encouraging, and
cheering his men onward. A rifleman in Company
D, of the Minnesota regiment, sent a Minie ball
orasbing through his brain. The g allant rebel fell
dead, and the "Mississippi Tigers " joined in the
retreat which their comrades had already com
menced.
The only bayonet charge made during the en
gagement was by Col. McCook's regiment of "Bully
Dutchmen," as they are milled. It decided the
day..
Mr. Schaffer carries home with him to Minnesota
numerous trophies of the battle, which are to be
deposited in the State Capitol. Among them are
two rebel flags (one the regimental banner of the
"Mississippi Tigers"), the sword of Col. Baillie
Peyton, several of the bowie knives referred to,
letters and orders found in the rebel camp, and
many other articles. Tho sword of Col. Peyton is
a very *Mit weapon, of the regulation pattern,
and was presented to the colonel by the citizens of
New Orleans. It bears this inscription :
Presented to Gel. Baillie Peyton,
Fifth Regiment Louisiana TolanteerN, National Guard,
By his friends 04 New Orleans.
Bic country required his ncrriCtM.
His deeds will add Meer to her name."
This sword was captured by Lieutenant Tuttle,
Company D, of the Second Minnesota Regiment.
One incident related, and of which our inform
ant was an eye-witness, indicates that there is a
Union feeling lying dormant in many. of the Con
federate officers and soldiers. After the battle,
when the Minnesota regiment returned to its
quarters at Camp Hamilton, they marched past the
colonel's marquee with banners flying and their
plehdid hand playing "Hail Columbia." Stand
ing front of the tent were Dr. Cliff, Zollicoffer's
Brigade Surgeon, Lieutenant Colonel Carter, of the
Twentieth Tennessee (rebel) regiment, and several
of onr own officers. " Hail Columbia" affected
both the rebel officers to tears—they wept like
children, and Carter remarked that, 4, Although
compelled to fight against the old flag, he loved it
still. '
GEN. HALLECK'S DEPARTMENT.
Another Expedition Preparing to Start
from Cairo
CAIRO, Feb. I.—Anotber expedition, which will,
perhaps„be larger than the recent reconnoissance,
is evidently in the course of preparation from this
point, but its real strength and destination At 4 kept
secret.
The troops at Fort Holt have been removed in
eonsequnnee of the high water at that point.
The Expedition that was Sent after Jeff
Thompson
The Chime Tribune of Friday has the fallowing
despatch. from its Cairo correspondent
CAIRO, Jan. 29, 1862.
Your correspondent arrived this morning from
the forces which lately went out in pursuit of
Thompson. The army, consisting of Colonels Wal
lace's, Oglesby's and Purcell's regiments of infan
try', one battalion of the Seventh, and two compa
nies of the First, cavalry, are now returning. Part
of the cavalry reached Bird's Point last night, and
most of the infantry came in this morning on the
cars from Charleston. The force penetrated to
within a mile of Sykeston, without meeting any
body of the enemy. A half dozen or more of
Thompson'e men were captured at different points,
having in their pockets considerable quantities or
Price's Missouri scrip, in payment for their ser
vices, and also discharges from Thompson's army.
The force at New Madrid is entirely , disbanded
and scattered over the csuntry, according to the
report of all the people seen, and the returning
soldiers who were arrested.
About aoo Arkansas men, who formed park of
Thompson's mob, have dieided into squads and are
engaged in plundering both friend and foe, making
whole sections subject to a reign of terror. Even
prominent Secessionists are leaving and preparing
to leave, everything they owned being taken or
destroyed. Prisoners are bung, without trial, by
tbese Arkansas desperadoes, and wunzen have lately
become their prey also. We passed spots where the
bones of half a dozen or more human bodies were
lying exposed beneath trees, said to be those of
Union men mnrdered•by the prowling gangs. But
few farmers, whatever their politics, have .a horse
or mule left upon their farms. Land holders are
compelled by threats to bring a certain quantity of
grain to mill, where it is ground and sent to the
rebel army. The whole country is a perfect waste,
and at least three•fourths of the inhabitants were
reduced to a state of desperation.
Thompson's men were enlisted, it appears, for six
months. Their time has expired, and they will not
again enter the service.
Manning of the Gunboat Fleet.
ST. Louis, February I.—The intelligence from
the Southwest is meagre. Several dgye may
elapse before the occurrence of anything import..
ant.
Commodore' Foot being in want of men for gun
boat service, General lialleck has issued a general
order, in which the commanders serving is this de.
partment are ordered to take immediate measures
to ascertain what men in their respective commands
desire to be transferred to the gunboat service. Care
will be taken in this selection, preference being
given to the men best fitted for such service. The
men who may be selected are ordered to report to
Lieutenant Q. M. Brichett, United States Army, at
Bt. Louis, by whom they will be enrolled and
shipped. 'A list of the names of the men furnished
from each command, stating in each case the com
pany and regiment, is to be sent to headquarters, so
that orders directing such transfers may be issued
without delay.
GENERAL HUNTER'S EXPEDITION.
Its Prospective Operations
[Correspondence of the New York Times.)
LEAYENWO/tTII CITY, Kansas, I
Saturday, Jan. 26, 1862.
The action of "the wise men of the East" is
very slow ; but there are indications that Kansas is
to be the basis, if not the scene, of stirring ope
rations before many months. Two Northwestern
regiments, the Twelfth and Thirteenth Wisconsin—
about one thousand strong eaoh—have already ar
rived ; and we hear, through Eastern papers, that
six or eight more regiments, including some cavalry
from Ohio, are on their way to join lien. Hunter's
command. Let us only have enough troops to
make a decent beginning with, and there will be
to Cahn for complaints of inactivity in this depart•
went.
With the co-operation of Gov. Robinson, Gen.
Hunter is as rapidly as possible reorganizing and
consolidating the disjecta membra of the Kansas
brigade and Kansas regiments. These were indeed
in a pitiable state—some of the ree ' iments having a
strength of only three hundred men, broken up
into the fell number of companies, and with a cap
tain and two lieutenants each: In some oases, as
I have beard, the pay of the field, staff, and line
officers, in these irregular commands, reached an
aggregate in excess of the whole pay due to
the privates. By "General Orders No. 9," how
ever, from Department Headquarters, this evil is
abated; and the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth
Kansas Regiments are being reorganized and re.
mustered in companies of the requisite strength—
the surplus or supernumerary officers being mus
tered out. The Second Kansas, also, has been con
solidated with the First New Mexico—Gov. Robin
son consenting—the regiment hereafter to be known
as the Second Kansas. with Col. Graham for its
commander, vice Col. Mitchell, who was both mus
tered out and bras resigned.
The famous old warrior 0-path-ly-o-ho-10, other
wise known by the less romantic name of " liouge,"
is staying in town, with a staff of smaller Creek and
Seminole chiefs around him. The old man who
was one of Andrew Jackson's friends and allies in
early days, is now over ninety years of age, and ex
tremely fat. But his spirit holds up undauntedly
under the joint burdens of time and misfortitica—
his visit here being for the purpose of obtaining
blankets and equipments for his warriors, and sub
sistence for their families while the "braves"
march down to renew the war with the rebels of
Arkansee and Texas, assisted by the rebel Indians.
The old Chief's account of his negotiations with
Albert Pike, of Arkansas, is very shrewd and full
of humor ; and as he relates the inducements held
out to his tribe to renounce their allegiance to the
Union, his whole vast bulk literally shakes and
rolls itself about in the struggle of suppressing in
ternal laughter. Most of the young Indians who
accompany him wear the war paint and carry their
tomahawks continually, having sworn never to
know peace or lay down arms until the defeat of
9t7ders ELUL and the colthblooded massacre of
their squaws and papooses, which followed that
rebel victory, have been bitterly and bloodily
avenged.
It is altogether likely that General Hunter will
take the field in 'person at the head of all his avail
able forces, be they many or few, within the next
fortnight or three weeks. He is now working in
cessantly in the elaboration of all the necessary de
tails, and is denied to all visitors save those who
can prove military business of the utmost urgency
and importance. With less than five thousand or
ganized troops in his entire department, and these
scattered over hundreds of leagues of land, the
task before him is not merely to lead an army suc
cessfully ; he must first create it, and organize
out of the scantiest materials an abundant basil of
suppliee.
The Chicago Tribun4, of Friday, has the follow.
ing editorial in relation to the expedition in its
columns :
Major General Hunter, in command of the De
partment of Kansas, announces that the Cherokee
Expedition, heretofore pepularly known as "
rid Lane's," is General Lane's no longer, but his
own ; as he himself will take command in person.
Ills special order to this effect, given in our tele
, graphic despatches, lays down the details of brigade
organization and equipment. He will divide the
column into six brigades, one of which will be com
manded by Lane, another (probably) by Tennison ;
and the other four by the senior colonels, unless (as
has been requested) the Government gives him brie
withers enough to fill the bill. This action of General
Hunter has not been unexpected, either by Gene
ral Lane or his friends, and it argues nothing
of a change of policy, under whichever the column
shall move forward. The relations of Hunter and
Lane are most friendly, and the Government (as also
Gen. Lane himself) expressly deferred to the former,
as an officer of higher rank, to decide for himself
whether he would take the chief command. The
troops are rallying at Leavenworth, and the
column, which more than any other carries along
with it the here; and prayers of' the country, will
move forward with as little delay as possible. Gen.
Lane had arrived at Leavenworth before the issue
of this order, and it was probably made as the re.
sult of a conference between the two gentlemen.
In this connection, it is proper to say that Gene
ral Lane, when in this city, was asked as to the
probability of General Hunter's taking eernmaud,
and replied that there was work enough for both,
indeed tee muoh for one; and that he should pre
fer to be relieved of the thousand and one details
that must devolve upon the senior offioer, in order
to devote himself more wholly to his own ooze-
Mend. no said those was the moot porfoot aoooa
between General Hunter and himself; and that,
whether General Bunter took the field or remained
at Leavenworth, he had no doubt they would work
harmoniously together for the success of the expe
dition. The fact, therefore, that General Hunter
is to take command, seconded by such officers as
Lane, Jennison, and four others like thetn t is en
couraging of the result.
FROM THE REBEL STATES.
Froth Fortress Monroe
FORTREes MONROE, Jan. m.—Yesterday was a
bright and beautiful day at Old Point—a fine spring
atmosphere—to-day it is cloudy and chilly, with an
occasional gleam of sunshine.
Return of Epineuil's Zouttres.
The principal incident to-day was the return of
the steamer Ericsson from Hatteras Inlet, with
Col. Epineuirs Zoueves. The Ericsson wasunablo
to am the bar, and the weather 156isg too rough to
land the troops, Gen. Burnside ordered her to re
turn to Fortress Monroe
It will be remembered that the Ericsson left
Fortress Monroe four or five days after the de
parture of the expedition. She lay oft' fiatteral
until Sunday last, when alto was ordered to return,
and consequently brings no later news from the ex
pedition. She has been delayed by rough weather
which compelled her to run out to sea. The
troops aro in good health, and much disappointed at
their return.
Most of the vessels had started from the mouth of
the inlet towards Roanoke Island, which it was said
to be their intention to attack first.
Statement of Mr. Taylor.
An old gentleman, about sixty years of age,
named Taylor, of Cincinnati, Ohio, who has been
for over six months confined in one of the tubacoo
warehouses in Richmond, arrived by the flag of
truce to-day, having been released in exchange for
a rebel officer. He states that he was visiting the
house of a friend in Fairfax county, two days after
the battle of Bull Run, for the transaction of some
private business, where he was detained by a
sprained ancle. .lie was not connected with the
army was not at the battle of Manassas, and con
siders himself to have been very harshly and bru
tally treated, both at the time of his arrest and
since, considering his age and physical infirmities.
Mr. Taylor left Richmond at five o'clock this
morning, and was accompanied by a detective, who
was instructed not to allow him to carry any papers
with him, or hold any communication with others on
his way to Norfolk. As papers have been regularly
received by flags of truce all this week, he pre
aumed that there must have been something in them
to-day which it was not desirable should cross the
The panic in reference to General Burnside's Ex
pedition was
uncertainty of Y 9
rYgroat at /indent and Richmond,
the
its destination and magnitude of
its proportions causing general consternation. The
reports from Hatteras represented it to be much
larger than it really is.
It was understood at Richmond that General
Beauregard would arrive there on Saturday, on
his way to Kentucky, and that fifteen thousand
of the troops at Manassas would accompany him.
The inauguration of Jeff Davis as permanent
President is to take place at Richmond on the
twenty-Second of February, and it is said that he
will immediately thereafter take the field in per
son as commander of the forces at Manassas.
With regard to the steamer .Merrimac, with her
encasement of railroad iron, Mr. Taylor is of opinion
that the report of the contrabitind as to her efficiency
is not reliable. As he came out of Norfolk he saw
a vessel in the stream, near the navy yard, which
be presumed was the Merrimac, but he says she is
regarded in Richmond as a failure. Her load of
iron is said to be too heavy, and that she would not
, answer her helm during a recent trial trip. As she
is intended to be used principally as a " ram," this
is regarded as a fatal defect. Her draught of water
is also so great that she cannot pass the obstructions
that have been placed in the Elizabeth river to pre
vent the ingress of Federal vessels.
Rebel Views of McClellan.
Mr. Taylor says that whatever may be the esti
mate of the policy of <lettered McClellan in the
loyal States, he is regarded by the rebels as pur
suing a policy moat destructive to all their hopes
and expectations. His " masterly inactivity" for
so long a time, which he has used to strengthen, or
ganize, and equip his armies, they regard as a
stroke of policy that indicates fearful results to
themselves. They admit that time has weakened
them while it has strengthened him, and they look
with fearful forebodings to the fact that the term of
enlistment of fully one-half the troops they have
in the field expires before tie 25th of February.
They regard his resistance of the demand for a
"forward movement," and the silent energy he
has evinced, as marks of generalship of the highest
order, and of a determination to work out his plan
of operations despite the complaints of those who
do not comprehend his purposes.
The Rebels Dispirited.
Since the defeat and death of Zollicoliel, in Ken
tucky, the entrance of Burnside into Pamlico Sound,
and the news of the threatened position of Savan
nah, Mr. Taylor assures me that there has been a
narked and undisguised feeling of despondency
among the rebels at Richmond, n o greatest fear
rests on the probability that railroad communica
tion will be interrupted by __General Burnside in
North Carolina, and General Buell in Tennessee,
which they admit will render them helpless, and
break the back of the rebellion.
To within the past ten days there has been an
abundance of excellent beef furnished to the prison
ers at Richmond, and good broad, but latterly the
beef has been of the most inferior quality and very
scarce. The reason given for this is that the roads
were too bad to drive cattle, and the railroads are
occupied with the transportation of troops. Mr.
Taylor was assured that their troops were faring
badly, and that great dissatisfaction prevailed on
this account.
Sufferings of Loyal Vittinitsike.
Whilst the Federal prisoners have been badly ac
commodated, and have undoubtedly suffered very
much, Mr. Taylor assures me that their sufferings
heve been nothing to compare to those one hundred
and sixty loyal Virginians who are still confined at
Richmond. They have been thrown into jail with
out a bearing, and compelled to prove their inno
cence of the charges against thorn. The charge of
disloyalty against them has shut them out from all
aid from their friends, as any evidence of sympathy
with them brings suspicion on those who may evince
it. One old man, nearly seventy years of age, both
blind and deaf, is said to be among them.
Mr. Taylor, in describing his feelings when pass
ing again under the protection of the flag of his
country, after six months' imprisonment, was most
affecting. With tears rolling down his cheeks, he
spoke of his sensation as that of passing from the
infernal regions to the joy and gladness of the abode
of the blessed.
Mr. Taylor,
like all the prisoners from Richmond,
speaks in the highest terms of the kindness of Gen.
Winder and Gen. Huger, and also of some other
Southern officers, who protected him from the bru
tality of others.
Tho okpedition of General Jackson to Romney is
said to have been without the sanction of his supe
rior officers, and has resulted in peat suffering and
loss of life to his command. They were caught in
the mountains in a heavy snow storm, many were
frozen to death, others frost-bitten, and all are re
ported to be in a deplorable condition. A greater
portion of his force had returned to Winchester
broken down with the exposure, fatigue, and hard
ships they had been called upon to endure. The
withdrawal of the Federal forces from Romney on
Jackson's approach is regarded, in military circles
at Richmond, as having been another evidence of
General McClellan's military superiority.
MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS.
Affairs in Washington.
A committee of Representatives called on the
Secretary .f War yesterday, in behalf ofa large num
ber of the House, to urge upon that officer the pro
priety of adding Hon. Alfred Ely to the Committee
of Two Hen: Hamilton Fish and Bishop Ames,
of Ohio—recently charged with the duty of going
South to promote the comfort of the Union soldiers
now prisoners of war there.
Hon. Schuyler Colfax, their spokesman, urged
the propriety of the proposed addition to the com
mission, but the Secretary satisfied him, and those
with him, of the impropriety of including upon the
commission any gentleman who forms a portion of
either branch of the Government, the mission being
wholly one of religion and philanthropy.
He freely offered to include Mr. Ely, if that gen
tleman would divest himaelf of his publio character,
as a member of the cePgreel of the United States,
recognizing as he did that his late experience in the
Richmond prisons would make him of valuable as
sistance in the work of benevolence.
The States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey are,
by an order issued yesterday, added to the limits Of -
the army of the Potomao.
The Seeretely of War directs that the officers and
soldiers of the United States who are, or may be,
prisoners of war, shall, during their imprisonment,
be considered entitled to receive the same pay as
if they were doing active duty.
Mr. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the lecturer at
the Smithsonian course last evening. Bhp discourse
was a Meat powerful argument in favor of eman
cipation.
It is reported that facts have transpired going to
show that the transports of the Burnside Expedi
tion were nearly all of heavier draught than their
owners represented. Hence came the difficulty at
Hatteras bar.
The Ways and Means Committee of the House
are now more confident of their ability to put
through the "legal tender" clause of the bill for
the issue of $150,000,000 of treasury notes.
The Potter report has made a stir among a Glass
Of Government officials here and their friends. In
their rage some of these gentlemen make a groat
ado, and indulge in threats against the committee,
and especially against the clerk, who is charged by
them with divulging the report prematurely. A
story has been set afloat in the newspapers that the
clerk of the committee is to be brought before the
bar of the House for the alleged offence.
The story is entirely false from beginning to end.
The committee and its chairman have made no com
plaint, and, until they do, the House will not con
cern itself with the matter. This hubbub is made
by two classes of persons here—the representatives
or agents of unenterprising newspapers, and dis
loyal clerks, reported against, with their friends.
Private advises, received here from the agents of
the Government in England, state that the rebel
commissioners,and other friends of the Jeff Davie
Government in Europe, are very muoh discouraged
with the result of the Trent affair, and thatthey
are spending money very freely to create a public
sentiment in England favorable to a speedy reeog-
Win of the 11910404 ?patina Catedersoy. Thu
TWO CENTS.
a considerable portion of the noise made in certain
quarters about our "stone blockade," and "ineffi
cient blockade," is manufactured by rebel agents.
The Mortar Fleet.
NEW Ironic, Fob. I.—Tbe greatest activity pre
vails at thetreoklyn navy yard in getting Captain
Porter's mortar fleet ready for sea. The sehooners
Arletta and Sarah Buren were put into commis
sion yesterday, and, together with the schooners
Carlton, Henry James, and Dam Smith, will
sail as soon as they receive their powder. Four
teen mortar vessels have now been put into com
mission, and six remain in the hands of the work
men at the yard, but will be turned over to their
officers in the course of a week.
The preparations on board the sloop- of-war Rich
mond, for the accommodation of eeneral Scott and
two aids-de-camp, are progressing rapidly. The
msfilie guard of the Richmond has been reinforced
by a detachment of fourteen privates from the
Flushing-avenue Barracks.
Gen. Lander.
There is evidence that Gen. Lander, commanding
at Cumberland, and in that vicinity, means to have
a fight. The mud, which prevents hint from
making a forward movement, must be very deep
and tedious, and the orders from headquarters that
restrain him must bo explicit and peremptory.
One of bia_whrlike-looking directions j'a, that the
troops must keep three days' cooked rations on
hand.-Ccncinnati Comttterctal.
The Nashville and Tuscarora.
Thurlow Weed writes from LOndon to the Albany
Journal, under date of January 11th, as follows:
Mr Adams received a despatch late last evening,
from Earl Russell, stating that as the United States
ship Tuscarora, bad entered Southampton with the
evident intention of engaging the Confederate
steamer Nashville, an order from the Admiralty
Office would be sent immediately to the naval offi
cer in charge at Southampton to detain the United
States vessel in port twenty-four hours after, the
departure of the Confederate steamer. I came
down from London this morning to confer with
Capt. Britton, our consul, and Capt. Craven, of the
Tuscarora. This new r , h Elio to Matters will nacos
serily change Capt. Craven's switch. Instead of
waiting for the Nashville. Capt. C. will leave first,
governing his course, outside, by the boat observa
tions and calculations he is enabled to make. It
seems that something adverse turns up against us
at almost-every turning. Neutrality questiong Ariao
constantly and are pretty sure to tell against us.
Capt. Britton, the consul, gave me a copy of an
authenticated account, for supplies furnished the
Nashville, which shows everything provided, with
its cut, making in all, an aggregate of £666 6s 81d.
I greatly fear that Capt. Craven, entangled in this
neutrality net, may lose the opportumty which be
sa M 1.461 WOW, of punishing this pirate. it 4' *
So far as Capt. Britton observed the captain of the
James Adger, the injurious reports, affecting his
eharaoter for sobriety, are untrue.
The Sumpter.
A private letter, received in this city, dated
Cadiz, January 7, states that the commander of the
pirate 'Sumpter had applied to the authorities for
permission to go . Into dock for repairs, but it ap
pears by the foreign despatoh in another column
that the request was not only refused, but that the
pirate was ordered out of the port, and had gone to
Gibraltar. It is said that she is leaky. She was
forty-two days on the passage from Martinique to
Cadiz.--Nocton Journal.
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
ti - Ls AND
PRINCE ALBERT has willed the whole of his pro
perty—a very considerable rum—te the Queen, for
the ultimate benefit of their younger children. His
care of the revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall will
result in the Prince of Wales having nearly half a
million in hand when he oomes of age next Novem
ber, together with the annual income, in the best
possible order. It is also stated, on good authority,
that the late prince bequeaths Balmoral, which
was his own property, to Queen Vietorla.
THE Prince of Wales remains at Osborne with the
Queen until after the arrival of his brother, Prince
Alfred, who is expected in England in the course of
the present month. Shortly after his arrival, the
Prince of Wales will carry out the plan laid down
for him in completion of his education, by the
Queen and - his father, of making a tour in the Holy
Land, and the other historical localities of the
East. It bad been intended that he should set out
upon this expedition towards the end of the last
yeas, and, as the journeys in the East can only be
performed during the cooler months of the year,
the Queen has decided that the wishes and arrange
ments of the Prince Consort should shortly be car
ried into execution. The Prince will necessarily
travel in the most private manner.
THREE of thg iron-coaled chips now building are
to have engines of 1,350 horse power.
Tor arguments in the suit promoted by the
Bishop of Salisbury against Dr. Rowland Williams,
one of the writers of "Essays and Reviews," were
conclude4in the Court of Arches, on the th. Dr.
Lusbington is not expected to deliver judgment
until Trinity Tenn.
Ona of the marine insurance companies is said to
have netted about 460 : 000 by taking war risks
during the late short period of excitement arising
out of the case of the Trent.
ALTHOUGH the State of Virginia in the midst of
her struggles as a member of the Southern Con
federacy has effeoted the payment of her diyjdcpds
duo in London on the let inst , the State of Ten
nessee, which is still claimed as true to the Federal
cause, has not been equally successful. Her divi
dends fell due here on the 6th inst., and the
answer returned by Messrs. Prescott was, ' , No ad
vice to pay."
TRANSATLANTIC COMMUNICATION.—MT. Vincent
Scully has published in the Cork papers a letter
on this subject. He thinks that now is the time for
the people of Cork to renew their intermittent ef
forts towards asserting its pre-eminent position as a
general entrepot for oceanic commerce and commu
nieation, especially between Europe and America.
He affirms that daily postal and passenger inter
course is now essential to the interests of both he
mispheres. There are no fewer than six different
companies making regular transatlantic voyages on
four days in the week, with a fleet of thirty.one
steamers, starting from Liverpool, Southampton,
Cowes, Havre, and hamburg. Nine sail every
fortnight, giving four and a half for each week ; a
little more would give six in the week—a packet
daily, excepting Sunday. Mr. V. Scully thinks if
there were a regular postal service established
from Cork to America, allowing a fixed charge for
letters, papers, etc., each vessel, no matter what
port she started from, would call at Queenstown for
the mail bags.
IN the new museum in Kew Gardens there is a
specimen of cotton, 600 hanks weighing only a
pound (spun so fine) ; they measure more than
500,000 yards, or 250 miles in length. Mullins are
made, in India, of so fine and delicate a texture as
to be termed " woven air."
MUNIFICENT DONATION.—The Rev. T. Peachy
has given the large sum of £50,000 to Archdeacon
Law for the building of a college for education in
the neighborhood of London.
TBE Bishop of Cork, Dr. Fitzgerald, has been
translated to the see of HiLlaloe, and Archdeacon
Gregg has been appointed to the BislioPTio of Cork.
He was a distinguished saboiar of Trinity College,
and he was first a curate at Portarlington, then the
incumbent of a small living in the county of Dub
lin, next assistant minister of the Bethesda Chapel,
which was burnt in 1839. Since that time he has
been minister of Trinity Church. About a year
ago the University freely conferred upon him its
highest honor, the dtgree of Doctor of Divinity.
Re is the only bishop since Bedell capable of prime* ,
ing to the people in Irish, which he speaks with
great facility. Ho has taken no part in politics,
but his political sympathies are understood to be
conservative. The Government deserve the more
credit for promoting him, when several of its active
supporters might fairly claim the mitre.
ROMAN CATHOLIC STATISTICS.—We learn from
the 11919 edition of the Roman Catholic Directory
that there are 22 Catholic Peers, 9 being Peers of
England and 4 Peers of the United Kingdom ; 13
Catholic Peers sit in the House of Lords. There
are 43 Catholio Baronets, 23 being English, 3 Scotch,
and 17 Trish. Of the members of Parliament, 31
are Catholics. In Great Britain there are 1,388
Catholic bishops and priests, 1,019 churches, cha
pels, and stations, 50 communities of men, NZ con
vents, and 12 colleges. The increase in the three
last years is, of bishops and priests, 166; of
churches, chapels, and stations, 93; of communi
ties of men, 16; of convents, 52; of colleges, 1;
showing an increase of 1.3 i per cent. on the num
bers of the bishops and clergy, an increase of 10
per cent. on the number of churches and. chapels ;
an increase of 47 per cent. on the number of oak-
Inunitice of +en an increase of 47 per cent. on
the number of convents ; and an increase of 9 per
cent. on the number of colleges.
:FRANCE.
IT is announced that the Emperor is resolved to'
set an example of strict economy to his Ministers—
serne of whom, if we believe common report, want
it—by making several redact/one in his hOusehold,
Among other establishments involving a handsome,
but not superfluous outlay, which he has dispensed
with, is one at Versailles, for rearing and training
saddle and carriage horses for his Majesty's use.
This, it is said, has been suppressed, and a saving
of 100,000 francs effected.
Tam Emperor, having taken into consideration
the wish of the Masonic Order in France to main.
tain a central representation, has appointed Mar
shal Magnan as Grand Master of all the Masonic
Lodges in France for three years.
NAPOLEON'S MANSION AT FLIIA.—Wo read in
a letter from Paris : The Emperor has purchased
the mansion on the Isle of Elba, from the husband
of theTrineees Matbilde, for the sum of 1,500,0001.,
and bestowed upor, it. the title of LE Mnabe Napo
leon." When M. Demidoff purchased this build
ing from his father-in-law '
the late Prince Jerome,
he set about with much energy to give to it the
aspect which it bore during the tenant:ly of the
first Napoleon, and even to render it more imposing
than it had ever been. On the walls were dis
covered some old and precious paintings, each as
are to be seen in the palaces of Florence, Rome, or
Venice, painted al fresco. When the edifice was
thoroughly restored, the nephew-in-law of the
"Emperor of Elba" dispersed agents throughout
Europe to diligently seek and send to him relics of
that peroonage, which were classified and pre
served carefully at San Martino. Arms, including
pistols, sabres, and daggers; books, furniture,
jewelry, and autographs, were all arranged CO as to
represent what Prince Deuddoff called " a set of
relics illustrating the development and the great
episodes of the life of a hero who had one isle for
a cradle, another for a place of exile, and a third
for a tomb."
FURTHER great improvement/ in Paris are in
progress of execution. The vast plain which ex
tends from the fortifications, at the gate of Reuilly
to the Wood of Vincennes, has been purchased for
the city of Paris. The intention of the Municipal
Conned is to plant it, and to annex it to the Wood
of Vincennes, from whieb It Ails separated by a
wall which has been levelled. The few houses
which existed in the plain have been removed. A
grand avenue, a/ready far advanced, leads from the
Wood of Vincennes, and is to be continued into
Paris as far as the Bastille, between the Rue da
Quota and the Yilleeitnell Railway % Alittiber
THE WAR PRESS.
Tim WAII. Yule will be sent to oubecrlbory by
will hoer annntnht Mennen) at *COW
aro° Outgo' 8.00
u u GAO
Ton " 19.00
Larger Cube will be charged at the same rate, thee
110 eerie' will omit 80 goyim will Oast goo;
109 &Wu IWO.
Nor a Club of Twenty-one or ever, we will send OS
Tatra Om to the getter-no of the Olub.
IllirPostmemten are requested to set is Agents I
TED WAR P2/188.
Advertleemente Inserted at the mental rates. 01.11
UAee conatituta a minas,
ave.')ue, which is in progress, will lead to Charon
ton, passing the park of Bercy. The plain of Bt.
Maud& is likewise completely transformed. It is
converte6, l into an English park, with a river and
lakes, shady walks, and seats for visitors. Before
two years, the Wood of Vincennes, extended to the
gates of Paris, will hAVe na erase to envy the Wood
of Boulogne. •
THE Batman EMBASSY' A 7 PAtiza.—A correspond
ent of the Times says: The English nation has at
the present moment in Parise magnificent hotel
which has been superbly decorated and furnished
at the public expense, in order that when their am
bassador receives he may do so in a manner worthy I
of those whom ho represents. ills salary Le 110,000
a year, and he has besides £l,OOO a year for warm
ing and lighting the embassy, and other considera
ble allowances for plate, servants, co. Unluckily
for us, however, it would appear that Lord Cowley
is a nobleman of a domestic turn of mind, averse
to taking any personal part in the pomps and vani
ties of Parisian society, and dnirellag bib Mauro
time and his official income exclusively to his amia
ble family circle Being well and widely con
nected among the British aristocrieiy, he is in a
position to obtain every spring in England those
social relaxations which his wife and daughters re
quire on extremely inexpensive terms ; while in
Paris, or, to speak Were correctly, at Chantilly,
where his lordship mostly resides, he lends the life
of a recluse, seeing scarcely anybody but his own
connections, and amusing himself with the magnifi
cent Masses of the Orleans estate, which he rents
frem Messrs. Coutts A Co., to whom Chantilly now
belongs. flowerer congexial such a mode of life
as this may In to a nobleman of Lord Cowley's dig.
position, it is seriously inconvenient to the English
society in Paris, who are thereby placed in a much
worse position than if they had no ambassador at
all ; the English embassy, as it is. being the jest of
the other legations; and the English themselves
having access to no machinery through whose
friendly assistance they can participate in the no
tice and attentions which the Emperor and his off:l
-obo; are avowedly onkleas to slaiw to not' English
visitors as are in a position to expect them.
GERMANY
IT IS STATED that the health of the King of Prussia
is not satisfactory, and that he is suffering from the
attack made upon him at Baden.
IT IS RUMORED that King
.1.9414 of Portugal basso.
Belted the hand of the daughter of Prince Hohen
zollern.
IT IS DEFINITE n that the Grand Duke of Baden has
determined to abolish the gaming tables in his do
minions, and that a bill on the subject will be pre.
suited at the next session of the Paden Parliament.
IN a wealthy 1141411 y of Vienna the husband made
his wife anew year's gift of a dozen pairs of gloves.
Indignant, at such stinginess, the lady, as soon as
her husband's hack was turned, flung the gloves
into the fire. Explanations ensued at table, and
what was the irascible lady's astonishment on
learning that each pair of gloves was wrapped up
in a bank note for 100 florins,
ITALY,
Trim Turin papers publish a speech of tho Prince
Royal on the occasion of the inauguration of a local
ezeiety. Re said, "Italy needs to bo stare that on
the day of the struggle she will find a soldier is
every citizen."
THE amount realized by the subscriptions of
Peter's pence is 3,809,747 Rgtni CrQlYna, Nadal
objects of great value.
THE Spanish Government has given orders that
tbe Sumpter shall be watched in order to prevent
her taking arms and ammunition on board.
/NM IP indebted to European enterprise and
capital for her tea cultivation, which is rapidly in
creasing. The produce of the ASSBM Company's
gardens alone is now about 41,000,000 sterling, and
the wastes of Cachet., which five years ago scarcely
yielded to Government a revenue of 50,000 rupees,
now yield upward of 3/ lace per annum.
PROPERTY to a considerable atecuirt has been
dug up at. Delhi under ono of the apartments of the
ex-King
CIIINA
PEKIN, Nov. 11.—A coup a etat has taken place
here, resulting in the overthrow of the Cabinet and
the imprisontuent of the Ministers composing it. A
new regency has been established under the two
empresses. Prince Kung has been appointed
president of the , new Ministry of which Kweliang
and Hwaliang are members. The state of affairs at
Pekin is encouraging.
[From the Liverpool Daily Post.]
Tax SVPPRESIED DESPA2OII.—The Trent affair
is prevented dying out by the controversies in the
London papers touching the conduct of oar Govern
ment in reference to a pacific communication made
on the 21st of December by Mr. Adams to Earl
Russell. That communication was certainly intend
ed to be conciliatory, and, if possible, to avert
from the Federalists the anger of Great Britain. -
That was the intention. Earl Russell may have
considered it in another light, and therefore, ma
king assurance double sure, took no note of it, but
continued the despatch of troops and ships to the
American waters. There would be nothing unna
tural in supposing that Lord Russell deemed war In
evitable; but the Americans having rendered war
impossible, the Government organs in this country
endeavored to suppress Mr. Adams' communism
tion. One denied that it over existed; another
maintained that it contained nothing of a concilia
tory character. I INltlluts, anticipating interraga.
tions when Parliament meets, published Mr.
Seward's letter,Eorl Russell ' s letter, and Mr.
Seward's prote st. Common people having now
road these documents, will be disposed to think
that sufficient attention had not been paid to Mr.
Adams' communication. The conservative journals
have, of course, taken this view of the date, and
possibly the conuorvative party, when Parlia
ment meets, may follow their example. " The
more we consider the suppression," says the
Standard, " as it may be justly called, of Mr.
Seward's despatch of the 30th November by oar
Government, the more flagrant daerthe outrage on
the public appear. Here was a people smarting
under an insult offered to its flag by u marauding
commodore, and eager, above all things, to knoit
whether the American Cabinet sanctioned or
authorized the piratical not. The Government of
Waehington take the earliest opportunity to com
municate; to their minister in London the pacific
intelligence that the seizure of Messrs. Slidell and
Mason, and their secretaries, on board the Trent,
was not ordered by them, but emanated solely
from Capt. Wilkes. And, further, that they felt
disposed to treat any reasonable delnand for rep&
ration by the Court of St. James with the most
friendly and favorable feeling. The despatch of
'Mr. Seward bears date the 30th of November, a few
days after the arrival, in Boston harbor, of the San
Jacinto with the Southern commissioners on board.
As the language it employs in reference to the
capture is of the utmost importance, we think
it necessary to give Mr. Seward's exact expres
sions," The expressions were, no doubt., In
tended to comsat the question in dispute to
diplomatic action. "No doubt can hardly be
entertained," says the Standard, in continu
ation, "that the despatch, according to its
direction, was read to Earl Russell, and became
a subject of deliberation ix the Cabinet. This
occurred on the 10th or 20th ult, If the fact
needed confirmation we have it in that sure ladoZ
of favorable news during a time of perplexity—viz,,
the purchase of stock to a large extent by persons
generally understood to act irons exclusive intel
ligence. But not only wore city articles affected by
this gratifying indication ; a kind of rumor also got
afloat at the West End, in the clubs, and thence
throughout the country, that a pilelfiegollitlen might
be impacted. Nothing precise was known, but,
somehow, the pleasing impression had been made.
This, we need not say, was just before Christmas;
and if the report had been allowed free way, no
doubt one-half at least of the gloom which, dim
med our brightest festival would have been re
moved. It was impiaaeible indeed, to dissipate
the universal sorrow for the Prince Consort's death,
IPA the fears of what may be termed an unnatural
war would, at all events, have been mitigated."
Last night's Gazette contains hitherto unpub
lished despatches and minutes. They reach us very
late, and we will sot comment on them. Lord Rus
sell admits that Mr. Adams read the pacific de
spatch to him on the 19th.
[London Letter in New York Times.]
THE IRISH Fisziatta,Mrs D'Arey Magee says
the Irish in Canada are loyal. I cannot (Replete
him ; but no one need toll me that of the Irish in
Ireland. I know better. I saw the procession
that followed the corpse of McManus—a transported
rebel—through the streets of Dublin, and laid it
by the monuments of.Grattan and O'Connell, in the
cemetery of Glasneven. I was present at the mg
niceties in the Rotuudiz at Dublin, when the news
first came of the capture of Mason and Slidell, and
I heard the shouts of thousands at the prospect of
war between America the friend of Ireland, and
England, her enemy. There was no mistaking' the
feeling exhibited on those ocoaeions. There are
loyal people in Ireland—l moan loyal to the British
Government. The groat body of the Protestants
of the Established Church are 10, They are altra
loyal, So are the Orangemen -of the North, after
their own fashion, which is more a hatred of Popery
than any love for England.
Office-holders and offioe-seekers are loyal, of
course, or pretend to be; but the peat mass of the
people, four-fifths of the Catholics, and perhaps
one-fifth of the Protestants, have only a deep and
lasting batred to England and the English rule.
In this the clergy and laity, the learned and igno
rant, are in per sympathy. Thoonly difference
is that the educated classes see that there is no pos
sibility, without foreign intervention, of a success
ful revolt, and they do everything to hinder any
movement in that direction, and thus prevent
another disaster like that of '4B; while the masses,
ignorant of their true position, arc liable to be ea-.
cited and led astray' by' Vain hopes. Ireland his
lost, in ten years, not only her natural increase, but
two millions besides. There is but one town in the
whole country that has not diminished in popula
tion. In our age, no eye has looked upon a sadder
spectacle than the ruin of Ireland. The people
who remain are said to be better off than formerly.
It may be; but bad arc the beet. The country la
a picture of
America were in a
position to make war with Great Britain, there are
a hundred thousand men in Ireland quite ready to
give her any reasonable assistance.
SUPREME COURT IN BANG.—A case was de
cided before the Supreme Court in bane, on Satur
day, which seems rather bawl. AMAleaden wee
made by W. G. McAllister, on behalf of W. P.
Seymour, to have a judgment of non pros and re
mettitur set aside. Mr. Seymour, the plaintiff,
has been absent from the city for a eanaiderable
length of time. lie is lieutenant colonel in the
Ninety-ninth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers,
Ms counsel, Mark Munday, Esq., is colonel of the
Twenty-third Regiment Kentucky Volunteers. At
the calling Of the not both were abtlatit, owing to
their military engagements, and consequently the
case was not responded to. Judgment of non pros
was therefore entered. Affidavits setting forth the
above facts were presented to the court. The judges
refused to set aside the non pros and ronsatitur.
It seems bard that men actually engaged by force
of arms to vindicate the honor of our country, pe
riling their lives in defence of the laws and the
Constitution, and thereby sustaining the Supreme
Courts all over the land, should be thus annoyed
by a mere Mill debt.
POLICE STATISTICS.--The total number of
arrests made throughout the consolidated city
during the last month was about 1,700—a oon
siderable falling off from the returns of the pre
vious month. The otenr49 were generally of •
trifling oharaoto;._
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