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Pula Comfort, which, 'of late, has been Eadly be-fogged. and be darkened by Scotch mists and drizzly rains, accom panied by easterly winds. 4 rbAck QC TRIiCE. One of our Baltimore packets, the Adelaide, had her steam up about ten o'clock, a flag of truce mounted at her foretop, and prepared for a voy The contrabalidE, soldiers, sailors, officers, and et* along the wharf, were on the aid vive to see Gen. Wool and his staff go on board. Glasses were out on Sewell's Point to discern the rebel steamer coming out to meet our white flag. We aeon seat the boat veering round the point like a shadow in the mist, and the Adelaide, with steam up, working her way hi a bee line across the channel. The two treats could be distinctly seen to most, and become stationary. They remained in this position several hours, when the .Adelaide was observed to tarn her bows towards the fort, and, in due time, make the landing, and the General and his staff poised up Ate the fortress. THE rBOBABLE ODIECT TO EFFECT AN EXCHANGE I=l Various surmises *e - 1-43 !ndlliged in as to the Ila n— of this visit. _Omp lure a lf said that the General (dressed in full military costume), ac companied by his staff, going in so large a steamer, designed to propose to the Secessionists nothing less than the surrender of Norfolk. Others sug gested—and this seemed to he the most plausible idea—that he was negotiating for the exchange of numerous and important prisoners. sECoRD TRIP OF THE ADE L AIDE—MIR/ VAL OP RELEASED PRISONERS. In the afternoon the Adelaide returned from a second trip to rebeldom, bringing on her crowded deck some four hundred returned prisoners. They were received with the wildest enthusiasm by the officers and men of the fortress. They were com posed chiefly of the prisoners taken by the rebels at Ball's Bluff, and consisted of portions of regi ments from Massachusetts, New York, and Penn sylvania. Large numbers were of the California Regiment ; under the lamented Baker. Among the officers were Colonel Coggswell, Captain Keifer, of Philadelphia, and Lieutenant Wallace, of the New York Tammany Regiment. Colonel Q, was re _ ceived with open arms by his friends of the fortress, and, to our view, looked rather worn from confinement. APPEARANCE OF THE PRISONERS The prisoners „generally, however, looked well clothed, well fed, and healthy. When interrogated in reference to the war, they expressed a strong determination to return, with interest, the blows of the enemy. It WAS painful to see many of them peering 171 th searching eyes through the crowd for familiar faces, on which to gaze and think of home. We observed a few sick men among them, and se veral were placed on board the boat from the fort ress, to be taken to Baltimore. THEIR DEPARTURE FOR BALTIMORE Getting alongside of the Georgiana, the prisoners were equally divided between the two boats, and before eight o'clock in the evening both vessels steamed away towards the Monumental City. This has become quite a seaport town, and large numbers of vessels, acting as transports for the army, stemmtugs, man-of-war, hospital and store ships, are seen in the channel. The saucy sound of the cannons at Sewell's Point reminds us that we are in the vicinity of Secessia. THE TIERRIMitc, It is also stated that the Merrimac, the rebel iron-plated steamer, is tired of being cooped up in the James river, and designs to stretch her limbs by coining out into the channel and trying her metal with the Illinncr.yot a and Roano2v, or per chance with the fort itself. In anticipation of this, our two men-of-war have been prepared for seve ral days and nights to return the compliments of such a visit, should it take place, at any mommit. Jefferson Davis' conviction of the inferiority of the race which he opposes may induce him to try the experiment just intimated, and, if so, we have no doubt it will prove entirely satisfactory. HOSIITATi ACCOMMODATIONS The hospitals in and outside of the fortress are admirably arranged for the convenience and com fort of the sick soldiers. The surgeons are well skilled in their proforaion, attentive 16 that duties, and patriotic in their devotion to the sick. A part of the Ilygeia Hotel, once the resort of wealth and fashion, is now devoted to hospital and hospitable I.lr .OSCS. MEROUTIO, FORTRESS MONRO}, Feb. 25 OFF FOR ROANOKE After waiting a tedious week for favorable winds, to start on our voyage to Roanoke, we learned this morning that thewinds were fair, and that by 010 , ven o'clock all things would be ready to start A steam tug bore us out into the channel towards our destined vessel, while the winds, though fair, that is westerly, were like the Frenchman's politeness, " a little too strong." The sea tossed and pitehe4 our tugboat in a Most unmerciful manner, sicken ing one half of the passengers and frightening the other. After two hours laborious steaming through the seething waves, totally unable to get on board our vessel, we found ourselves far up the heaeh near Camp Hamilton, but too happy to reach terra firma, some distance from the fortress. This we attempted to reach by walking along the shore, through a wind mixed with spray and sand, which to jig *AC unkatelle6a 6 *lolonee and severity. The day was clear, but continued excessively blustery, so that only one vessel was able to leave the fortress, one of the Baltimore packets. As none arrived from that city to-day, We have neither newspapers nor letters. The flag of truce boat did not go out, and we had nothing from rebel dom. The boat to Newport News started with Capt. Howard's battery of the Ninth ar tillery (regulars), without the horses, but was fok6ed to pot back on account of the storm. Dut one vessel arrived from Roanoke. The three ves sels mentioned in our last, which were to have sailed to-day for that island, are still here. Several vessels were forced to go out to sea to prevent being ran aground, others dragged their anchors, and Still others, several of them, were blown aground ; it is expected, however, that they will be easily got afloat again when the wind ceases and the tide re turns. A PPR AT THE CONTRAllitill IIEABQUARTERS. To add to our misfortunes, in the afternoon, about three o'clock, a fire broke out in the head quarters of the contrabands. These were located outside of the fort, and constituted a part of a row of frame buildings, a portion of which was occupied by Kimberly Bros , as a sutler's store.. The fire passed rapidly from the negroes' apartments to those of the sutler, and, in less than half an hour, roared and blazed with terrific violence. The only fire engine of the fcit, which was a small hand one, was brought nut and put into operation with a great deal of spirit—but with very little effect—by some of the New York and Massachusetts firemen, chiefly from M'Cheaney's &wives, now command ed by Col. Bondi". Thu boys went into it with great gusto. They mounted ladders, carrying the hose to the top of the burning buildings, cut away portions to prevent the fire spreading, rolled the bar rels out of the store, carried the furniture and other property from the fire, tumbled the little pickaninies out through the windows, anti assisted greatly in saving the goods both - of contrabands and others. They bad a busy time with the " masheen," which they continued to work long after the fire was out. The officers of the garrison seem rather pleased that these frame buildings have been destroyed. The unhoused contrabands were supplied with com fortable qvarters by their care-takers before night set in, and the sutlers have time to remove most of their valuable goods to places of safety before dark, The wind had become more moderate by evening, and we now hope that to-morrow at least we'll have neither mist, nor rain, nor easterly winds, nor too violent westerly winds to prevent us sailing to the sunny South. HARLAN'S CAVALRY Wo learn that a deputation of officers from Har lan's Cavalry, now located in Camp Hamilton ; will visit Philadelphia in a few &gain girder to reetult additional men for the regiment. Those whom we have seen of this regiment are fine specimens of soldiers. These, we believe, are the only Penn sylvania troops in this vicinity. OUFFBRIEVS OF A SOUTHERN UNIONIST, An instance of the manner in which the Union people of the South have suffered, is soon in the ease of Mr. 11., of Alexandria, who is now here waiting anxiously for his family to bo brought up from Norfolk In the flag-of-truce boat Ile has boon separated from them for more than nine months, and was in daily danger of losing his life in his own home previous to the occupation of Alexandria by the Union forces. Ms family happening to go to the interior of the State to visit some relatives, was not allowed to return because ho was a Union man. After long and fruitless negotiations, he has been mishit:d i through the influence of Secretary Seward, to get a promise from the Southern authorities that his family should be permitted to return on the condition that a like number of Secessionists should be exchanged for them. They have suf fered, be says, for the very necessaries of life, as he could send them neither money nor other things to supply their wants. Ile has been waiting here for two weeks in hopes each day to be able to meet them. Truly in his exec hope deferred matzoth the heart sick." lie speaks with indignation of the ruffianly conduct of many of the actors in this unholy rebellion. NERO UTIO. Latcst from Fortress Monroe For:mass Mosnon, Feb. 25, via Baltimore.— The steamer Spaulding arrived this afternoon, having left Roanoke Island the day before yester day, and Hatteras yesterday. My the Span!lliog the leatis of the failure of the attempt to lay the telegraph oable across the bay. On the day that the /robot= sailed, sixteen mites of the cable were laid in the most successful manner, when operations Yft.49 @flipped for the night. Yesterday the Holam was occupied in taking soundings, when the severe blow of that day struck her at nowt. Her stem pipe broke soon after, and she became unmanageable, drifting upon Cape Henry, where she went ashore, and broke in two last night. All hands remained on the wreck until ilbolll OMB 'Ale* this 000011 3 6,1/atati. took them off. It is stated that the Irolooten passed within sight of the blockading steamer Cambridge, but the lat ter paid her no notice. A couple of other naval ves sels also passed_ bcr without offering to render her assistance. The Hoboken is a' total less. The se maitder of the cable, about fifteen suites, was de stroyed before it was abandoned. About an equal quantity is laid in the bay, and the end is buoyed up. Mr. lleiss goes to Washington to-night. The steamer 1?. B. Forbes was seen by the Sperrel . ding ashore hear Nag l e iferia, morning: White fins were displayed on 1i the Wages in the vieibity. The Spaulding brings the mails and passengers, but no news. The flag of truce to-day took about thirty per- Eots to Oraney Liana. litijor S. T. Sawyer arrived at Norfolk yester day, having left Elizabeth City on.BUnday at noon. le represents everything quiet in that locality. The entire Federal fleet left the erethreof Pasqua tank on Saturday morning, but two gunboats re turned in the evening. But few inhabitants•remain in the place. The Wilmington Journal, of Saturday, says five or stx Federal gunboats had onterea Roanoke A very severe blow from the northwest occurred yesterday and last' ight. The frigate CumZerlqnd at Newport New@ dragged her anchors, and savesal schooners got adrift, and some damage was done by collisions in the roads. The fire of yesterday continued during the eve ning, and a guard was kept all night. Great credit is due to Colonel Bendix and the members of the Tenth New York Regiment, who all worked most manfully, and by their efforts prevented a most disastrous conflagration, which was threatened in consequence cf tlic high wind. The Steamer E XIirCSS is reported lost on the eastern shore. HALLECK'S DEPARTMENT. The Ball that Wounded Cont. Foote. A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, writ ing from Fort Donelson, says : I have just held a conversation with the injured pilot of the gunboat St. Louis, and in the identi cal pilot-house into which came the cruel crashing shell that killed the other pilot, and struck down the Commodore, broke the wheel-house and so dis abled the flag-boat as to leave it a denting wreck, at the will of the stream, and turn the fortunes of the fleet. A person of ever so impassible an imagina tion must be heart-sick as ho stands where I did, and views the scene which is brought to his view. The hole is still there which the death-dealing shell made .as directed by the artillerist of Fort Donelson. It struck the pilot-house at an angle of nearly forty-five degrees, and cut down the flagstaff. This will give the reader some idea of the fort's elevation, and the consequent dis advantage under which the gunboats labored. It KM the first ball that entered the pilothouse, which killed the pilot, and bruised and wounded the Commodore. It penetrated the wood, thirteen inches iu thickness, and the iron, an inch and a quarter thick, and, while in this position, burst, scattering in every direction, and filling the pilot house with broken fragments of iron and missiles of destruction. The second ball struck the outer casement of the window of the pilot-house, and, glancing inward, passed over the Commodore's bead, through the rear, and in its passage struck a suspended bblit, and threw it betiveen the smoke-stacks across the tiller ropes, thus rendering the St. Louis unmanageable by the relieving tackle, which the pilot relied upon to steer the boat, when ball No. 1 disabled the wheel. The second ball would have instantly killed the Commodore, had it not, in its passage, come in contact with a heavy overcoat hanging in front of the window, and carried it along with it, thus breaking the force of its passage, and covering its ragged, jagged nakedness. The Commodore was but slightly injured. Ile is now walking with a crutch, but will be all right in a day or two. When the boatbeea.me unmanageable, and was compelled to order a retreat, he wept like a child, and the faces of his valiant tars were he dimed with falling tears. This boat received sixty three shells, nod every one of them did some exe cution with boats and men. Four of the eighteen pilots of the fleet were killed. These facts bear indisputable testimony to the accurate aim and skill of the rebel artillerists. The falling of the shells fired by the gunboats in the woods, in the rear of the fort where Floyd's command was posted, led that officer to imagine that out fleet was above the fort, and he thought that then, if ever, was the golden moment for him to STEAL himself away. Floyd left. Rumored Death of Floyd The Louieville Journal says It is stated by reliable gentlemen from Fort Donelson and Cairo that it is the general opinion among the rebel prisoners that General John B. Floyd was killed the night he so ingloriously fled from Fort Donelson. The report says that there TrAs great ex citement at the time the troops under Floyd and Pillow were attempting to embark on the steamers, and a fearful scramble as to who should get aboard and escape, as transportation was insufficient. Floyd stood in person at the gang way of one of the beats, and with a drawn sword beat off the troops, permitting his favorites to get aboard. A lieutenant, approaching Floyd, made an effort to get aboard, when he was ordered off by the General. The lieutenant continued to ad vance, when Floyd struck him on the shoulder with his sword, inflicting a severe wound. The lieu tenant promptly drew his .pistol and fired upon Floyd, and, the report says, killed him. What the Rebels Think of the Thief. The Chicago Tribune says : - There is not one among the rebel prisoners now in this city, who does not loudly denounce Floyd. Says Major Brown, of the Mississippi 20th. " Myself aed toy offiderS will sign a paper against Floyd, and if he is not hung by the Confederate Government, it is not fit to live." The ex-Secretary of War has fallen to be the meanest and most de spised even among his fellow. traitors. To treachery he has added a cowardice that has cost him his Wit hold upon the confidence of the leaders and followers of the rebellion, and for his punish ment he might safely be left to them. To hoar the indignant rebels under Major Brown detail Floyd's infamous conduct on the Cumberland is convincing on this point. Brown and his men had themselves attempted to join in Floyd's retreat, and brought up the rear, but when Fit;yd and his bodyguard were safely on deck, the lines were cast off and the chivalrous general and his officers turned and hacked with their swords at the few Mississippians clinging to the guards. Major Brown is indignant because his own retreat was cut off. The Irish Brigade of Tennessee. The Chicago TiTnes, writing about the rebel prisoners confined at Chicago, says : The Tenth Tennessee, Colonel Jleitnan, com manding, is the Irish Brigade of Tennessee, and is composed almost wholly of Irish-Americans. It has bran in service nine mordbr- during which time it has been stationed either at Fort 11.eury or Fort Donelson. The members of this regiment are most unqualifiedly in favor of the cessation of hostilities and the restoration of the Union. This regiment. is represented by six hundred and ninetymeven prisoners, all privates, the commissioned officers having been detained at St. Louis. During the* day a number of our own Irish Brigade gathered around the quarters of the Ten nessee Irish-Americans, and jokes were inter changed with one another us though there were no such word as enemy. A few of the latter wanted to enlist with Colonel Mulligan, and begged to be allowed that privilege. More Incidents of the Fort Donelson Prisoners. The Cairo correspondent of the Cincinnati rit-t -2et te says : The authorities hereabouts seem _to be in the same predicament with respect to the Fort Donal sou prisoners that history relates the buebolia was in with reenact to the efenhant he won at a raffle. Whey don't know exactly what to do with them, or if they do they are slow to act upon their know ledge in the premises. Such a large increase in the Union family was unexpected, and therefore the new corners must be content with a less formal motion than is due to invited guests; but it is PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2T, 1862, pitiable sight to see a boat load of men, ball clad, left shivering in the cold on such nights as we have ex perienoed here for a week past. On one of these heft% J found not Ws than one hundred boys under the age of eighteen years, not one of whom appeared to know anything about the object of the war, why it was commenced, or for what purpose it was carried on. They were seduced into tho rebel 44 army by such men as Governor Harris and thieving Floyd. Several of them really cried this morning to he sent home to their -mothers. One peer fol low—a lad not more than seventeen years old, the son of a well.to•do Tennessee farmer—was car ried ashore sick with the smallpox. One of our regimental physicians took charge of him. Hie eas e excited much spipotlq, Pt kind-hearted gentleman approached him, and asked him if be wished anything? Ms only reply trim," I want to he sent home—mother don't knew where I am." One of his comrades told us he had actually been kidnapped, and this is not a solitary instance of the kind. fatted. ClarSo Wilt tight upon the heeds of the leaders of this rebellion in the South. Many amusing illustradons of rural simplicity were witnessed among the prisoners this morn ing. A newsboy rushed on board the T. L. Nag - ill, just arrived from Donelson, vocife rously shouting, "fore's yer mornin' papers." A stalwart Tennessean shouted, " Give me the Ap peal." lie really believed that be could buy the Alerupbis and New Orleans papers at Cairo ; and When told they were not for sale, earnestly reA merited, "Why, tho last time I was here I bought all our papers hero. Are ye afcard to sell 'cm?" Another individual bought a ten-cent pie from a poor woman, and tendered her in payment ton dol lars in Confederate scrip, at the same time stretch ing forth his hand for $9 00 to change. The pastry merchant declined the proffered " bill," when the Southerner assured her, " I took it fur good as gold. It passes down our way right enough." A third prisoner, having written a letter to his wife, got a Federal officer to €, direct it " for him, and, putting a Jeff fieuris postage stamp on it, requested a senti, not to mail it for him. GENERAL BUELL'S DEPARTMENT. The Energy of Gen. Mitchell A Bowling Green correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial has the following complimentary no-- ties of. Gen. Mitchell, whose division was at first to enter Bowling Green anti also Nashville_ The cor respondent says: You have bad the fullest descriptions of the march of General Mitchell's division to this place, fuller than I can give you, for x cl4lno in the rear. I knew nothing of the intention to Inure froth Cava City, and I am inclined to think that Gen. Buell was as ignorant as myself; not that General Mit chell disobeyed orders, but because he believes that men 904 stand forced marches, if towards the elle. my, and eau do without regular and full rations if they can get a " belly full of fight." General Mit chell may be a star-gazer," and "a philosopher of the Utopian school ;" but there is no doubt he is a man of energy. maile the forced march from Cave City to this place, I am pretty certain, without orders. He could not confer with General Buell by telegraph, and on information of interest he pushed on with the intention of taking Bowling Green and getting the order afterwards. Thu consequence of his rapid march has heon—l canxot tell the whole—hundreds of dwellings glop: the road have been saved from dbstruetion by fire; tamilies have been preserved from destruction and robbers: Five locomotives and numerous cars were he'l'6lls which the bursting „I . Iry shells corn pel . le t, the rte.. tt p I'o9i/in. Instead ircles[roi ing the whole city, only depot and bridges at this point were burned. " For this regard much thank's"' to the energetic star-gazer, who makes forced marches as if his men were perpetual-motion machines, she Beeres, of whose movements was the hidden and mysterious spring of military ardor that inspires the patriot marching on the foe. How the Rebels Treated Kentucky. The Louisville Democrat, ot . Sudsy', containa the following editorial, No doubt every word is true, for some scenes, so vividly painted by the Kentucky editor, are all in unison with the doings of the rebels in Missouri, Virginia, Tennessee, and wherever else they have a fsethold. The Demo crat says The people of Kentucky have had the opportu nity of trying two Governments. While the regu lar authority has been carried on at Frankfort, Pia Lava bad a little stern-wheel machine at Russellville, paddling about Barron and Cum berland rivers as a Government. It was a shal low-water concern, with shallow-water pilots—a sort of dredge-boat, that scraped to the bottom Of the people's pockets. If in one sense it was eon. temptible, in another it was terribly serious. Wherever it put its feet down, there was a desola tion. Its line of power is marked by the ashes of feria houses, and the debris of desecrated churches. It traced its boundaries with a finger of tiro, and marked its outposts by depopulated villages. Its avant couriers were exiled women and children, fleeing for their lives. It laid its hand upon popu lous villages, peaceful and happy homes, and they were cursed with the desolation of Sodom. Its laws were the sword and the bayonet—its vans of tri timid, the wa Hinge. or women, and the VOCE of Motel crying for her children. Every living thing was blasted by it Wide fields, spreading in beauty, were the camps for destroying armies; fine buildings the barracks for soldiers. A brutal soldiery had nu law but their own lusts; no God but their own pas sions. Everything valuable that they wished was seized, and what they could not carry off they de stroyed. Commissions of plunder were issued, and armed bands searched and stole under the au thority of law. No place within the narrow circuit was safe from devastation. Commerce and trade were destroyed, for they had no need of them. Everything they touched withered. In their flight they destroyed, with indiscriminate outrage, what ever was most valuable. It made no difference whether it was the property of Union or Secession, the fell spirit of ovgnuined mob struck it. The mere fact of its being property was enough to de mand its destruction. It may be supposed that we exaggerate in this picture of desolation, but we do not. From Recounts of those who suffered under its dreadful reign it is impossible to exaggerate. The rebel army behaved as if it was in a hostile country, the people of which could only be crushed by the wildest deviltry of destruction and annihilation. They seemed to live in en ever•present fear of the people. No arms were allowed them. Every bowie knife, fowling piece, and pistol, was seized. Thus, while they shamelessly refused to protect the citizens, they de prived them of the means of protecting themselves against debauched soldiery. This plain, notorious fact is the key to thole whelo plan of operation. The Russellville government, with shameless ef frontery, while claiming to represent Kentucky, countenanced and promoted these things. There was no taxation, unless organized robbery could be called sub. It was plunder, sweeping, organized plunder, only to feed those who crushed them to the earth. If any one thinks we have blackened this picture, let him take a jaunt down to that section ; let him converse with those who have suffered under the rebel Government. lle will find that not tha half' has been told. How the South is cursed—how it is kept in sub jection—can be known from this. Disarmed, down trodden by a powerful despotism, it must look to the coming of the artily to its relief with as anxious 'an eye as ever the downtrodden serf in Europe has prayed fora saviour to give him freedom. It is this that, more than anything else, makes the cause of the Union holy. It is not our own po litical and national prosperity, but the oppressed and downtrodden brothers in the South, who ap peal to us. It is the cause of government against anarchy, of law and order against mob and mur der, as exemplified in Kentucky, and even under the eye of the Confederate Government at Rich mond. It is this the people of Kentucky have been freed from. The Louisville Journal on Sympathy for the Rebels It appears that the ladies of Louisville have de termined to present a suit of flags to Gen. Thomas' division, for the gallantry displayed by them at 111111 Springs. The Louisville Journal, in an edi torial on the subject, gays : But the American people, though they deeply regret that the mad ambition of the turbulent plot ters of the Confederate States has deluged our land iii blood and biougl3t it to the verge of anarchy, cannot assume the superior virtue of forgiveness to Fuel an extent as to overlook the pestilent crimes of those who have torn their fathers, husbands, brothers, and suns from once happy homes to re press rebellion and resist invasion. The wo men of America, though their hearts- are at tuned to the most sympathetic chords of pity and charity, cannot ferget that, in striking at the Goveiretnent of the United States and the na tionality of the Union, a dastard, cruel, and coward blow was aimed at their peace and security. They cannot forget that this rebellion has been the most nicked and uncallethfor since Satan, DUCA, and their confederate friends first sought to fire the archangel heart and precipitate the realms of Hea ven into revolution ! Nor have they forgotten what Eden blessings their country enjoyed until this ser pent of Secession tempted its " weaker half" not simply to taste of the fruits of the tree of natienel life, but actually to apply the axe to its very roots in the insane attempt to destroy it. The retribu tion has come ; the flaming sword is now placed all along the borders, from the seacoast to the Po tomac, the Cumberland, the Tennessee, and the Mississippi, to drive forth the rebels, while the ground beyond to which they are eelled brings forth but thorns and thistles. There is a retribution in the glorious victories which grace our heaven-inspired cause. When the Union troops marched through one of our towns with the beaming stars and stains waving over them, a beautiful rainbow (a beet of protwile, bit us hope—a covenant of honorable peace) appeared in the heavens. A little boy, perceiving it, ran to his mother, exclaiming: "Mother, God is a Union man!" His mother asked him his reasons for thinking so. He replied that "ho had seen his gag in the sky, and it was rod, white, mid blue!" Every soldier in arms, and every patriot who loves the land he Eves in, feels that God is a Union man, for this nation has been His peculiar care, and its ptople have been His people. The Union troops, then, are God's soldiers, fighting for the right and for the truth. Let them . ge on, than, couqueihig and to conquer. " Thrice is ho armed who hath his quarrel just," and what cause so just as that which wars fur the preservation of our Union, roared by patriot prayers and patriot blood. A Son of Senator Johnson !Escaped from the Roos in Tennessee. The Louisville Journal says ROBERT JOHNSON, or TENNESSEE.—Oar cor respondents from the left of General Buell's de partment, attached to General Carter's brigade, near Cumberland Gap, give the gratifying intelli gence that this noble son of the distinguished Sena tor bas reached the Union camp, at Flat Liok Ford, in safety. He was over two weeks in effecting his escape, after incredible difficulties His presence among the loyal Tennesseans and our other regiments bad a most inspiring effect, and his narrative of the atrocities committed by the secession donde wee directed to men . whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drep'd tears as feat as the Arabian trees Their medicinal sunk. W congratulate ahadrew Johnson, the fearless and patriotic, upon the restoration of his son ; and we trust that the day is not far distant when they will be able to return to their homes and there exert their eloquence to convince their neighbors that the strength of the Union arms will be exerted only for the preservation of the government, and never used for purposes of aggression upon the vested rights of the South. MISCELLANEOUS WAR NEWS. The Medical Staff of the Army. The bill for the organizatian of the medical staff as amended gives the surgeon general the rank and pay of a brigadier general, makes one assistant with the rank and pay of colonel of cavalry, two inspectors general of hospitals with the same rank and pay, eight inspectors with the same rank and Pay) all to be appointed fr9ill OP Surgeons of the army without regard to rank i adds to the present force ton surgeons and ten assistant surgeons; in er easeamedical cadets to seventy; adds to hospital stewards as many more as necessary, and provides f9f retiring disabled end incemputent surgeons. A Reported Proposition of Compromise from the Rebels. The Now York Tribune of yesterday has the following article in its editorial columns : iVe are well assured that a proposition from the rebel leaders for a now cormpromi.ce has been sub mitted to our Government, and that either the pro gramme or its substance is in the hands of a loading Democrat of our city. The object of the rebels in transmitting it to him we presume to ho the mann= facture of public sentiment in its behalf. The gist of the proposition we understand to run thus 1. An armistice for a specified term, with a view to a peaceful adjustment of all differences. 2. A Convention of the States, with a view to Ruth a revision of the Federal Constitution as will inatme the slaveholding rebels to condescend to govern us in the future on terms nearly as favora ble as in the past. We believe this is all for a beginning. Bcatkartiment of a f!vbel Battery at Bra, ==! A alight interchange of compliments has recently taken place between the Texas rebels and two of the Federal. cruisers. As the United States bark illanight, Capt. Trathona, and the gun-schooner Par/tat : l! Pecewran wore passing 1 rA7M, Toast, about the 29th ult., the enemy opened fire upon them from a shore battery. Zio notice was taken of the matter at. the time as the shot fell short and did no damage, but on the following day the two vessels returned - in company, and commenced a bombardment of the enemy's position. About thirty shelle wore thrown into the fortification, vehen the rebels, finding theplace too hot, abandon ed the wvrh end lied. Who /Wends did not deem it advisable to follow up their victory by landing. The Disaster to the D. S. Sloop-of-War Pensacola A Key West (Fla.) correspondent of the Boston Journal, writing under date of February 12th, Bap : The grave apprehensions to which a report brought here by a Nassau fisherman—that a large war steamer, supposed to be the U. S. sloop•of- war .PenMeiga i VMS Aallore on the reef about 15D miles cast of this place—gavo rise, proved to have been well founded. The noble vessel has been ashore, and barely escaped destruction. lam indebted t 9 Major B. F. Watson. U. S. Paymaster, for the par lictliMl of the accident, The Pensacola sailed from utapton „ds on the 27th nit. on Sunday the 2d inst., the ship. which has proved herself worthy of the homage that has been paid to her by admiring thousands, made the lighthouse on Abaco Mardi able in the Wall), end proceeded thence through Nelthwest Providence Channel, arriving in the Gulf of Florida on the Dfcrelay following. Raving failed te'obtain a coast pilot, Captain Mor ris kept on the veeet side of the Gulf of Florida, in order to avail of the English lights which are kept burning, and to avaiJ the Florida reefs, rendered extremely dangerous hy the destruction of all the lighthouses by the rebels: The Pensacola made a course nearly southwest fron , the %nine Islands, the distance between which and Double-headed Shot Keys, for which she steered', leein . g about 28 miles, the light on which Captain Morns hoped to make early Tueeday morning. At Ilk o'clock Monday night, made a light, which, after a consultation among the officers, was tat down M a light on some of the West India Islands not laid down on the chart or the Double headed Shot-keys At 12 o'clock, it being misty at the time, the ship ran directly over a coral reef, called Ledberry Reef, about eight miles from an uninhabited island, known as Eliot's liey, and twelve miles Wei Carysfort Reef Light House, The vessel was forced entirely over the reef, and, bumping four or five times, proceeded a distance of half a mile, and finally brought up in the sand on the reef, in seventeen feet of water, while she was drawing issuessen lees. Signal lights were at once hoisted, and fortyvitri signal guns ware fired, but no succor came. All night, anti until informa tion to the contrary reached them next day, it was supposed that the vessel had struck on some of the West India Islands. It appears, however, that (Whig to the prevalence of strong easterly winds, an unusual current of over three and a. half knots per hour, had sent the ship entirely across the Gulf of Florida, whisk, at this point, is not more than fifty miles wide, and carried her one-half that distance out of ker..course in seven hours. The Pensacola then, drawing nineteen feet or water, nearly three hundred feet long, and carrying one of the heaviest armaments in the navy, was forced over a reef covered by from two to fifteen feet of water only. Inside of the reef for miles the depth of water varied from twelve to eighteen feet. The ship lay all night in this perilous position. On the following morning she was boarded by the wrecking vessels tfeyetapang and noir/airs, of this place, and by Captain William Richardson, of the United States revenue service, commanding the liglithetite Soktooner Florida, by whom the ship was discovered from different points, none of them having heard the guns. As the ship did not appear to leak much, Captain Morris, after taking sound ings, made preparations to get her off. Three large anchors, with cables, and all the extensive steam power of the PeizaacoTa, with the additional force of nearly four hundred of the ship's company, were unsuccessfully employed till Wednesday night in their attempt to move her. They then commenced to lighten the ship, and loaded three vessels to their utmost capacity, taking off guns and stores to the amount of between one hundred and fifty and two hundred tons. With vessels at sea, guns weighing five tons were moved from one to the other without the slightest accident. • The lighting completed, on Thursday afternoon efforts were renewed to move the ship, which continued unsuccessful till Friday afternoon. Up to this time the sea had been per fectly calm. Had it been otherwise, the ship would inevitably have gone to pieces. On Friday noon a light breeze sprung up, sufficient to give the yes -01 a little additional water; providentially, not enough to cause her much motion. By the appli cation of the immense force whiob I have described the ship was moved, inch by i inch, about six hun dred feet, into water where, n her lightened con dition, she floated. The inestion then arose how to gat the Pensa cola to sea again. To reeress the reef was out of the question. Owing alone to the groat professional skill of Captain Richardson, who has had twenty years' experience on the reefs as a pilot, he was enabled to navigate the Pensacola a distance of fifteen miles inside the reef, in - water barely suffi cient to float her, and where she several times touched bottom, safely out into Turtle Bay, near Carysfort Lighthouse, where she was joined by the wreckers. On Saturday, five days after she struck. the work of reloading the armament 'mg s t i n g s was commenced, and on Sunday night the operation was completed. The damage which the engines sustained by the shook in striking the reef were temporarily repaired, and under the pilotage of Captain Richardson she arrived safely at this port at JO o'clockyesterday forenoon. No means of ascertaining the damage which the ship has sus tained is at hand, but as she does not leak much, no fears are felt of serious consequences. The Classification of Senators in the Re bel Congress. On motion of Mr. Haynes, of Tennessee, the bal loting for classification of Senators in the Confede rate Congress was prooeeded with on the 21st inst. with the following result Alabama drew 2 years. 6 years Arkamme,,,,, ,, • • do. 2 do. 6 do. Florida do. 4 do. 4 do. Georgia. . do. 2 do. 6 do. Kentucky • do. 2 do. 6 do. do. 4 do. 6 do. do. 2 do. 4 do. Idimeotwi do. 2 do. 4 do. North Carolina. do. 2 do. 4 do South Carolina do. 4 do. 8 do Tennessee Texis Virginia........... The members then balloted for their respective terms, which resulted as follows: ilia6antarMr, Clay, two years; Mr. Yancey (absent), sixiyears. Arkansas—Mr. Johnson, two years ; Mr. Alit °bell, six years. FLoriela—Mr. Baker, two years ; Mr. Maxwell, four years. Georgia—Mr. Toombs, two years ; Mr. Hill, six Kentneky—Mr. Simms, two years; Mr. Bur nett, six years. Louis? ana—Mr. Semmes, four years; Mr. Sparrow . , six years. .211i.g.gissipin—Mr. Phelan, two yeari ; Mr. Brown, four years, • 11118.vouri—Mr. Clark, two years ; Mr. Peyton, four years. North, Carolina—Mr. Davis, two years; Mr. Dorteh, four years. Sourk. Carolina—Mr. Barnwell, four years; Mr. Orr, six years, Tennessee—Mr. Henry, four years; Mr. Haynes, six years. Terras—Mr. Wigfall, four years ; Mr. Oldham, six yearn. Virginia—Mr. Preston, four years ; Mr. Huntor, MR yearn. RICH SCENE IN THE WHEELING LEGISL.t. TUILII.—The Wheeling Legislature, having finished the business before it, adjourned on Thursday even ing. ImmediatelT previous to adjournment ? the following rather nub proceedings transpired : Mr. Ratcliffe offered a resolution proposing to ascer tain if the Senate would accept the ten command multi without amendment, if first passed by the House. Ile remarked that no proposition front the Rouse had ever gone to the Senate without coming beck 11,11100434. J3o degired, before the adjourn ment, to submit something which would meet their approbation. The Speakerjappointed Mr. Ratcliffe to communicate the passage of the resolution to the Senate. Mr. R. accordingly picked up the reso lution, and, amidst great laughter, proceeded to the Senate chamber he subsequently returned, and reported to the Home that the Senate insisted that there were thirteen commandments, and re fused, therefore, to accept the house resolution without amendment. ALLE(I2IS MAIL ROBBRItit Mr A POBTMASTHR. —United States Deputy Marshal Wheeler on Thurs day last arrested Clarke Glover, postmaster at Billiard, Franklin county, Ohio, on the charge of opening letters Fuming through his office. The ac cused was taken to binoinnatt, and admitted to bail in the stun of $l,OOO for hie appearance. REBEL COMMISSIONERS IN LONDON. Appeal for the Recognition of the Confederacy. INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE We take the following official correspondence from the rapers which have boon laid before Par liament by Earl Russell : 15 HALF-MOON STREET, Lomma, August 14, 1801. The undersigned. as your lordship has already OD two occasions been verbally and unofficially informed, were appointed, on the 10th of March last, a commission to her Britannic Majesty's Go vernment by the President of the Confederate States of America. The undersigned were instructed to represent to your lordship that seven of the sovereign States of the late American Union, for just and sufficient reasons, and in full accordance with the great prin ciple of self. government, had thrown off the au thority of that Union, and formed a Confederacy, Which they bad styled the " Confederate States of America." They were further instructed to ask her Majesty's Government to recognise the fact of the existence of this new Power in the world, and also to inform it that they were fully empowered to negotiate with it a treaty of friendship, 4oin inerce, and navigation. it * The undersigned call your lordship's attention to the fact that Mr. Lincoln's Government, though possessed of all the advantages of a more numerous population, of the credit due to a zecognized Go vernment long continuance, of the entire navy of the late Union, has not been able to retake a single fortification of which the Confederate States possessed themselves ; but, on the contrary, has been ¢riyeg cii frvui it mighty fortress upon the thittattc, end from several forts on the Western frontier, by the Confederate arms ; that it has not been able to advance more than five miles into the teirbory of any of the Confederate States where there was any serious attempt to prevent it; and is in danger of losing three great States of the Union by insurrection. Even at sea, upon which the Go vernment of Mr. Lincoln possesses undisputed away, it hes not been able to make an effectual blockade of a. single port but those whisk dad eu outlet through the mouth of Chesapeake Bay ; vessels of every class, public and private, armed vessels belonging to the Confederate States, and traders, having found their way in and out of every other port at which the attempt has been made. 'a 41" The undersigned are also aware that the anti slavery sentiment so universally prevalent in Eng landtt,ens i.o h niv a ir s e : r zro u t n ra k al f i a r vr o t m cl t, h stj e t d ,.b e ru. a 7z t n o g p t: :t i e c ii n uu ti vi 2 1; public relations with & 004rAtiMIL VO.AugnizAnk uc is not t itTlVill" to d t.-uss with any foreign Power. The authors of the American Declaration of lode- Prudence found the African rase in the colonies to be slaves, both by colonial and English law, and by the law of nations. Those great and good men left that feet and the responsibility for its existence where they found it ; and thus finding that there w one free and citepraebtlwcoocifiLtiallttalingin the co fr lo e n e i d e o s m , , the other alave. and, in their opinion, unfitted to enter upon that contest, and to govern themselves, they made their famous declaration of freedom for the white race alone. They eventually planned and put in operation, in the course of a few years, two plans of government, both resting upon that great and re cognized distinction between the white and the black man, and perpetuating that distinction as the fundamental law of the Government they framed, which they declared to be framed for the benefit of themselves and their posterity ; in their own lan guage, " to secure the blessings of liberty to our selves and our posterity." The wisdom of that course is not a matter for discussion with foreign netiongt, StllGvo it to say, that thus were the great American institutions framed, and thus have they remained unchanged to this day. It was from no fear that the slaves would be liberated that Secession took pities. The very party in powerl has proposed to guaranty slavery forever in the States, if the South would but remain in the Union. Mr. Lincoln's message proposes no freedom to the slave, but announces subjection of his owner to the will of the Union ; in other words, to the will of the North. Even after the battle of Bull Run, both branches of the Con greBsl at Washington passed resolutions that the war is only waged in order to uphold that (pro-slavery) Constitution and to enforce the laws, (many of them prteslavery,) and out of 172 votes in the lower House they received all but two, and in the Senate all hat one vote, As the army commenced its march, the commanding general issued an order that no slaves should be received into or allowed to follow the camp. The great object of the war, therefore, as now officially announced. is not to free the slave, but to keep hum in subjection to his owner, and to con trol his labor through the legislative channels which the Lincoln Government designs to force upon the master. The undersigned, therefore, submit with confidence that, as far as the anti-slavery sentiment of England is concerned, it can have no sympathy with the North; nay, it will probably become dis gusted with a canting hypocrisy which would en list those sympathies on false pretences. The un dersigned are, however, not insensible to the sur mise that the Lincoln Government may, under stress of eireurastaness, Change its policy—a policy based at present more upon a wily view of what is to he its effect in rearing up an element in the Con federate States favorable to the reconstruction of the Union than upon any honest desire to uphold a Constitution, the main provisions of which it has most shamelessly violated. But they confidently submit to your lordship's consideration, that suc cess in producing so abrupt and violent a destruc tion of a system of labor which has reared up so vast a commerce between America and the great states of Europe, which, it is supposed, now -gives bread to 4,0,000,000 of the population of those States, which it may be safely assumed is inti mately blended with the basis of the great manufac turing and navigating prosperity that distinguishes the ege, and probably not the least of the elements of this prosperity, would be visited-with results dis astrous to the world, as well as to the master and slave. Resort to servile war has, it is true, as we have heretofore elated, not been proclaimed; but officially abandoned. It has been ) however, recommended by persons of influence in the United States, and when all other means shall fail, as the undersigned assure your lordship they will, to bring the Con federate States into subjection to the power of Mr. Lincoln's Government, it is by no means itnproba hie that it may be inaugurated. Whenever it shall be done, however, the motive, it is now rendered clear, will not be that high philanthropic considera tion which undoubtedly beats in the hearts of many in England, but the base feeling of selfish aggran dizement, not unmixed with a cowardly spirit of revenge. The undersigned call your lordship's attention to what is now so publicly known as a fact—to the great battle of Bull Run, three miles in front of Manassas Junction, in which a well-appointed army of 55,000 Federal soldiers gave battle to the Confe derate States' army of inferior force. After nine hours hard fighting the Federalists were defeated and driven from the field in open flight, and were pursued by the Confederate States army to Centre ville, the position of the Federal reserve. The ene my lost honor, and nearly all the arms and muni ti4El t>f war which bad been 00 industriously ga. thered together for months fur an offensives cam paign in Virginia; and they did not cease their flight until, under cover of a stormy night, they bad regained the shelter of their entrenchments in front of Washington. The Confederate States forces have commenced offensive movemente, and have driven the vaunting hosts of the United States be hind entrenchments upon the borders of Virginia, and so far from threatening the integrity of the ter ritory, and the existence of the Government of the Confederate States, the Government at Washing : ton poems content at present, and will be rejoiced if it can maintain a successful defence of its capital, and preserve the remnant of its defeated and dis organized forces. The undersigned would also ask your lordship's attention to the fact that the cottotepioking season in the cotton-growing States of the Confederacy has commenced. The crop bids fair to be at least an average one, and will be prepared for market and delivered by our planters and merchants, as usual, on the wharves of the ports of those States, when there shall be a prospect of the blockade being raised, and net before. As a defeesivemeasure, an embargo has been laid by the Govate.eut of the Confederate States upon the passage of cotton by inland conveyance to the United States. To be obtained, it must be sought for in the Atlantic and Gulf ports of those States. They submit to your lordship the consideration of the fact that the blockade of all the ports of the Coefederete States was declured to have commenced by the blockading officer off Charleston, when, in truth, at that time, and for weeks after, there was no pretence of a blockade of the ports in the Gulf. They submit for consideration that since the establishment of the blockade there have been repeated instances of vends breeking it at Wiliniiigton, Charleston, Sa vannah, Mobile, and New Orleans. It will be for the neutral Powers, whose commerce has been so seriously damaged, to determine how long suet/ a blockade shall be permitted to interfere with their commerce. In closing this 46littiiiirderitide the tiaclefakiii4 desire to urge upon her Britannic Majesty's, Go vernment the just claim which, in their opinion, the Government of the Confederate States has, at this time, to a recognition as a Government de Jade ; whether its internal peace, or itt tmitory i its population, its great resources for both domestic and foreign commerce, and its power to maintain itself, are corsidered ; or whether your lordship shall take into consideration the necessity of com mercial relations being established with it, with a view to the preservation of vast interests of the commerce of England. If, hsWeVer, le the opinion of her Britannic Majesty's Government, the Con federate State have not yet won a right to a place among the nations of the earth, the undersigned can only assure your lordship that, while such an announcement will be received with surprise by the Government they represent, and while that Go vernment in to be left to contend fur interests which, it thitika, are as important to commercial Europe as to itself, without even a friendly counte nance from other nations, its citizens will buckle themselves to the groat task before them with a vigor and determination that will justify the un dersigned in having pressed the question upon her Britannic Majeaty'sflovernment ; and when peace shall have been made, their Government will at least feel that it will not be justly responsible for the vast quantity of blood which shall have been shed, nor ter the great and wide-spread suffering. which so prolonged a conflict will have entailed upon millions of the human race, both in the Eastern as well as upon the North American con tinent. The undersigned. . W. L. xADICZy. P. A. Rosy, A. DUMAS! MINN. do. 4 do. 6 do do. 4 do. 6 do do. 4 do. 6 do EARL RUSSELL'S REPLY. LORD PALMERSTON ON MEXICAN AFFAIRS, TWO CENTS. EARL RUSSELL'S REPLY. Fonsium Orrion, Aug. 24, 1851 The undersigned has bad the honor to receive the letter of the 14th Inst., addressed to Lim by Messrs, Yancey, Rost, and Mann. on behalf of the.so.styled Confederate States of North Anterieet. The British Government do not pretend in any way to pronounce a judgment upon the questions in debate between the United States and their utlcer saritie in North America: the British Government can only regret that these differences have unfortu nately been submitted to the arbitrament of arms. Her Majesty has considered this contest env con..sti• tuting a civil war, and her Majesty has, by her royal proclamation, declared her intention to pre tteren & 511.1 i nentrality between the contending parties in that war. iler Majesty will strictly perform the duties which belong to a neutral. tier Majesty cannot undertake to determine by anticipation what may be the issue of the contest, nor can An acknourindge the independence of the nine States which are now combined against the President and Congress of the United States, until the fortune of arms or the more peaceful mode of negotiation shall have more clear ly determined the respective positions of the ttve belligerents. Iler Majesty can, in the meantime, only express a hope that some adjustment satisfactory to both parties may be came, to, without the calamities which must ensue in the event of an embittered emit protracted conflict. Itusscni.. LORD RUSSELL'S INTERVIEW WITH THE SOUTUERN Lord 'Russell, in a despatch addressed to Lord Lyons on the 11th May, gives an Asmara of as In terview he has held with Mr. Yancey and his col leagues: Mr LORD : On Saturday last I received at my house Mr. Yancey, Mr. Mann, and Judge Rost, the three gentlemen deputed by the Southern Confede. racy to obtain their recognition as an independent State. One of these gentlemen, speaking for the others, diluted on the causes which had induced the Southern States to secede from the Northern. The principal of these causes, be said, ?CMS net slavery, but the volt lit_ v irh price which, feu. the sake of protecting the IV orthent manufactures, the South were °Miff b ed to pay far the manu factured goods which they required. One of the first acts of the Southern Congress was to reduce these duties, and ? to prove their sincerity, he guye es en instance that /Ambient& bad given up altar gather that protection on her sugar which she en• joyed by the legislation of the tinted States. As a proof of the riches of the South, he stated that of 050.009.Mi1l of export', of prod uco to foreign countri , e4 • . ZZ.70,090,1100 were furnished by the Solithaell, States. I said. ("Wilco-4dd kohl no official communication with the &legates of the gouthern States. That, however, when the question of recognition Came to be formally dismissed, there were two points upon which inquiry must be made : .first, whether the body seeking recogszition could maintain its position as an independent State secondly, in. Cal at Ma?iVer ft war proposed . =wan vela , gout with fareign States. After speaking at some length on the first of these Voints, and alluding to the news of the secession of irginia, and other intelligence favorable to their cause, these gentlemen called my attention to the article in their COnstitntion prehibitinso 9 the slaqi • WO. I said that it was alleged very currently that the slave States found that they could not compete successfully with the cotton of other countries, they would revive the slave trade for the purpose of diminishing the cost of production. They said this was a suspicion unsupported by any proof. The fact was that they had prohibited the slave trade, and did not mean to revive it. They pointed to the new tariff of the United pu l t c§ proof that British manufactures would be nearly excluded from the North, and freely admitted in the South. Other observation were made, but not of very groat importance. The delegates concluded by stating that they should romniii in London for the R resent, in the bore that the recognition of the bouthern Confederacy would not bo long delayed. I am, eto., T. RUSSELL. LYONS TO 1;fillITI litisPlifili - (IrEOBITED NOT, 19,) , WASHINGTON, NOT, 4, 1861, Mr. Seward asked me whether any special com munication concerning American affairs had recently taken place between the _British and French Go vernments. I replied that the two Governments Were constantly In confidential communication on the present state of this country, but that I did not know of anything of a special character which had lately passed between them on the subject. Mr. Seward then said that I must have seen the reports in the neWapaperB about the proceedings of the French Chambers of Commercii with regard to the cotton supply. Ilad anything passed lately , on that subject between the British and French Govern ments? I replied, nut to my knowledge. L mir. nvggru. TO Lorin LY6ll.§ Fonracm OrricE, November 22 Mr Loan : I have received your despatch of the 4th inst., reporting the substance of a conversation you had had with Mr. Seward relative to the recep tion of the privateers* and vessels of the so.styled Confederate States in foreign ports, and I have to state to you that it appears from that despatch that Mr Seward never chooses to understand the position of her Majesty's Government. Her Majesty has declared entire neutrality in the un happy, contest now carried on in the United States. Her Majesty admits the ships-of-war and priva teers of the United Stites to British ports, there to remain to victual and take in coals. If her Ma jesty were to. refuse similar facilities to the vessels of war and privateers of the ao-etyled Confederate States, her Majesty would be at once declaring herself a party to the war. If Mr. Seward is de sirous that the ships-of-war of the Confederate States should not be allowed to stay more than twenty-four hours in a British port, he should de clare it in plain terms. In any case her Majesty's Government are determined to treat the ships-of war and privateers of the so-styled Confederate States in the same manner as the ships-of-war and privateers of the United States. I am, Ste., RUSSELL: The fifth paper contains the correspondence on the Trent affair, nearly the whole of which has been published. The following despatch, however, is new : EARL RUSSELL TO LORD LTO.TO FOREIGN OFT/CE, Nov. 30, 1861 In my previous despatch of this date, I have in structed you, by command of her Majesty, to make certain demands of the Government of the United States, Should Mr. Seward ask for delay, in order that this grave and painful matter should be deliberately considered, you will consent to a delay not exceed ing seven days. If. at the end of that time, no answer is given, Or if Arty other answer is given ex• cept that of a compliance with the deinandi of her Majesty 's Government, your lordship is instructed to leave Washington with. all the menders of your legation, bringing with you the archives of the legation, and to repair immediately to Lon don, If, however, you should be of opinion that the requirements of her Majesty's Government are sub stantially complied with, you may report the facts to her Majesty's Government for their considera• tion, and remain at your post till you receive fur ther orders. You will communicate with Vice Admiral Sir A. Milne immediately upon receiving the answer of the American Government, and you will send him a copy of that answer, together with such observa tions as you may think fit to make. You will also give all the information in your power to the Governors of Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Jamaica, Bermuda, and such other of her Majesty's possessions as may be within your reach. LETTERS OF MARQUE. A few lines from Earl Russell on the aqi)jegt letters of marque are full of significanoo: EARL RUSSELL TO LORD LYONS. FOREIGN OFFICE, December 20. MY LORD : Ton may speak to Mr. Seward on the subject of letters of marque Should Greg Bitola and-the United States over, unhappily, be at war against each other, her Majesty will be ready to re linquish her prerogative, and abolish privateering as between the two nations, provided the President would be ready to make a similar engagement on the put of the United Btatts, 1 am, he., RUSSELL. LORD PALAIERSTON ON MEXICAN AFFAIRS The following were the remarks of Lord Palmer ston on American and Mexican affairs, in the Muse of Commons, on the sth inst. The sight Hon. gentleman, however, who has just sat down, has made some observations, not to take notice of which would be ill-becoming the members of the Government. The right Hon. gen tleman has expressed his approval of the course which we took in regard to the unfortunate diffe rence between this Oevernmentand the er overnmant of the United States upon the affair of the Trent. I am bound to say—and I think the country and this House will agree—that • the communication which was made by my noble friend at the head of the Foreign Office was a combination of the utmost courtesy end consideration, with firmness and de. cision [cheers]; and that, with respect to those measures which we deemed necessary to provide for any turn which that affair might possibly take, my noble friend at the head of the Admiralty, my sight houorablo friend at the head of the War De partment, and my noble friend at the head of the Colonial Office, showed apromptitude, a vigor, and a judgment to which, .1 think, we may, in a great degree, ascribe the fortunate termination of the difterence. [Cheers.] Wo should not have been justified in anticipating. as a matter of course, a favorable termination to that question, because we knew that there had been passions let loose in America which might be too strong for the Go vernment and might overbear them in the course which I am sure they must have been desirous of pursuing. [Hear.] Therefore, the measures which we took were those which prudence prescribed, and while. on the one hand, they wore equal to the occasion, I think, on the other, they cannot be det teed greeter than the occasion required. [Hear, hear. I The right honorable gentleman expressed his approval of thet course which the Govern ment had taken from the commencement of those un h a ppy disputes in America, in preserving strict neutrality between the contending parties: That position of strict neutrality we have, as he has very handsomely admitted, sincerely and rigidly observed, and from that position of strict neutrality it is not our intention to depart. [Loud cheers.] We regret, - no doubt, the a enlautities which that war is brnging upon the kindred po pulation of the United States; we lament the pres sure which incidentally that war has produced upon the commercial and manufacturing interests of this country ; but we do not think that that is a suffi cient Teem? why We should t.lelmrt from a eourse which a geese of prudence and a sense, I may say, of national honor, have imposed upon ' us, or why we should interfere in a quarrel with which originally we had nothing to do. [Cheers . 1 The right hon. gentleman adverted in the next 149 0 4) that part of thy , speech which relates to the expedition to Mexico. The convention between England, France, and Spain has boon laid upon the table. It will speak for itself, and it will show that we are not parties to any undertaking to in terfere in the internal arrangements of the Mexi can Government, and that we confine our opera tions to Obteltabg *Are* s for wiene end injuries, THE WAR PRESS. inns WAR PRESS Will be sent to subscribers by mail (per annum in advance) at $2.00 Three Copley u it 5,04 Five " " 46 8.00 Ten " " 41 ....12.00 Larger Clubs will be charged at the same rate, thus: 20 copies will cost $24; 60 copies will cost $6O; and 100 copies IMO. For a Club of Twenty-one or °Tor, wo wlfl Bend MI IC4typ Copy to the getter-up of the Club. 117" Postmasters aro requested to sot NI Agent, RR Tae WAR PEEL,. W Advortieementa inmartad at the usual no % gis lines conetizute a masts. sustained. The convention stipulates that the ope rations of the allies for the purpose of obtaining rrdresJ are not to be perverted into any inteefe •kAi.e,,,r-IM Me ajare of tilthettng - to the people of Arexico any particular form of government which they may not be nailing to accept. Un doubtedly reports have boon spread that there are persons in Memo() who wish to convert the republic into a monarchy. I am unable to judge bow far thoao rrporte are well grounded, or hew far there is any party in Mexico of sufficient strength and numbers to give effect to such wishes. But wh a t her Majesty's Government wish is that there shall be established some form of government with which ' foreign nations may treat—some form of govern ' meet which will' de jostleffi to f..,it.tga.,,s nod enable , commerce to be carried on with safety—some furor of govgrument with which relations of peace and amity They be maintained with some confidence in their continuance. I Rear, hear.] That is the ut most which the Government of Great Britain is de sirous of obtaining, and that must be the wish of . gentlemen on both sides of the House, Tun IThOCKADE QUESTION IN TILE DOUSE, In the Rouse of Commons on tho 7th inst., 5,4, Gregory said that he had been unwilling, on the previous evening, to introduce any subject which could give rise to a debate, but there was one topie which was on the lips of every one, and that was the effect which this lamentable American war had produced upon the population oflingland. [Hear, bear.) it was not his intention to enter in detail upon the question on that occasion, but there was one point connected with the war which he was justified in alluding to, and that was the condition of the blockade of the Southern ports. [Hear, beard He did se hte M 165, last year, on the Ath et May, he put three questions to the Foreign Secre tary, ono of which referred to this subject, He then asked Lord Russell whether his Govern ment had informed the Government of the United States that their blockade, if not Wept, iye, Would nut he recognized ; to which Lord Russell replied that be had not thought it necessa ry to give any special instruction to our minister at Washington, but that Lord Lyons and the United States Government both knew that no blockade could be recognized unles.s fl wee Weer five. Now, aocumento had been placed in hit (Mr. Gregory's) bands within the last few days, which showed considerable doubt to exist with reference to the effectiveness of the blockade. lie regretted to be obliged to express his conviction that the blockade was only a paper blockade. but ha should not then anticipate the dimes:don which must take place on the production of the papers. Ile had merely risen that evening to announce his intention of bringing the whole question of the blockade be fore the House, because, if the %urea which by should be prepared to quota should turn out to be true, then he thought the Rouse of Commons would pronounce the blockade to be ineffective. On the other band, it would rest with the Governificilt preeesteet W6616i it was effective or not. Whilst they looked at nil these matters from a conciliatory point of view as regarded the United States, al though he should be the last man to advocate any act of hostility, still, as this country had acknow ledged two belligerent psi-tie ,he thought that in justice to both, and to the suffering people of this country, no Sine should be lost in discussing the subject—[hear, hear)—and ascertaining whether this blocked e was in reality effective. 'Bear.] Nr• I'M Aid t air iho titillation of the blockade of the Southern ports of America was to be brought under the notice of the House. There *ere two questions Ws - caved in the eefisideratiett gf the subject—namely, its commercial bearing and its bearing upon the character of this country, Upon the e'wromei-okl question, he would at pre sent say nothing; but it appeared to him perfectly clear that if his honorable friend (Mr. Gregory) was able to substantiate the statement he had fore shadowed—namely, that the blockade had been nothing more than a paper blookadas_ - than the character of this country was. to a great extent, involved in its recognition. The recognition of a paper blockade would, as was admitted on all bands, be a violation of the rules of international. law and, assuming ;bet Stich could be shown to be the character of the blockade of the Southern ports, he should liko to know what become of the principle of non-intervention of which they had heard so much; for, if the blockade was not ef ficient, its recognition would be an intervention in favor of the Northern States. [Maas, hear.) FOREIGN ITEMS. NOVBLTY IN HORTICULTURAL §CIENVNI—Thi Cardencrs' elcronzde says that "every great and wholly unexpected event has occurred in the "his tory of English horticulture." The cocoanut pale bas flowered. At Syon this, the most valuable of all the products of the vegetable world s has ex panded its flowers en a specimen of the breed from the neighborhood of Halle, in Ceylon. "The trunk of the palm at Syon is not, we should say, above two feet high, and it is from among the magnificent leaves, that form a bright green plume of unrivalled atateliocas, that tbo r vollow blossoms have eprouted obi. It Lima be h,g6ly gratifyi to the noble duke in whose celebrated garden this success has been achieved to find that he alone in Europe is the possessor of so rare a specimen." SIR EDWIN LANDSEER AND HIS Tathon,--Sir Edwin Landseer, the eminent painter, was sued in the Court of Exchequer, on the Ist, for the sum of £lO 18s the value of one dress coat, and ono frock coat, made by Messrs. Haldane, of the West End. The defendant had ordered the 'two coats, and, according to his evidence, rejected them because they wore bad fits. The defendant, amidst great laughter, tried on both articles in the coin ! and declared, with respect to the dress coat, that if he had gone to a dinner party in it he would have been compelled to take it off before dining. The jury were_ satiafled that the eottts Weft not ov a HIS, and gave a verdict for the defendant. VESI.7I - I.US.—A letter from Naples, of the 28th ult.. says : " Vesuvius still performs, though not BO brilliantly as heretofore. I was at Torre delGrece yesterday, and saw outeidg the doors of tho moat. cipal chamber a list appended, containing the names of 084 proprietors of houses, whose claims for assistance are admitted on the ground of injury done to their dwellings. Loans without interest are to he made to them for a certain given time, and these, when repaid, are to form e Monte di Pieta.' Meantime, the poor will be employed out of theFe loans in repairing the ruined houses. The gases here and in Retina are as strong as ever, and last week eighteen wild boars in the Palace Gar dens of Portici were killed by the vapors." Hew SLIDELL ARE/YED AT Boulogne Messenger says "Mr. Commissioner Slidell—that very expensive gentleman for Eng land—arrived here by the Princess Made,* on Thursday last. The wretched weather prevented ninny of the habitual attendants fetid bein on the quay when the boat arrived, and those fe g w who were there did not know that at least £1,000,000 was passing them in wet clothes and cold aspect. Air. Slidell went direct to the station, and proceeded by the Brat train to Paris." Mr, and Mrs. Slidell are now in Paris. THE MANCHESTER MEMORIAL TO TILE PRINOH CONSORT.—At a meeting of the Manchester Memo rial Committee, held on the 3d, a letter was read from the Mayor (Mr. Goadsby), in which be offered tS jpiaCht e. Mateo of the Prince Consort, eight feet, in height, of Carrara marble, at his own expense, provided the committee were disposed to erect, out of the funds that might be placed at their disposal, a suitable building for its reception and preserva tion. On the motion of the Bishop of Manchester, seconded by Mr. William Pailbairn, the offer was accepted. THERE has been a terrific explosion of gas at a haberdashery house in Madrid, and the Pensio n:ant°, one of the enlightened journals of that city, 2175: " Had the shopkeeper contented himself wish lighting Ina place with the candles which sufficed for his predecessors, we should not now have to de plore this catastrophe These reflections carry the writer into the mischiefs which railways and the printing press have inflicted on mankind. Tun Cologne Gazetse states that a sergeant of artillery hail committed suicide with a 13,15elifideit. Not having a regular gun cartridge, he tilled his tobacco pouch with powder and put it into the gun, and then placed the shot above it. Ile next lighted a piece of German tinder, which he put into the touch-hole, and then stood quietly at the n: !94 14 the gun until the charge went otf, and killed tauten the instant. 111..knsuAt the Duke de Malakoff has left Paris to resume his post of governor general of Algeria. Ile will stop for some days at TOUIOLI, and bo joined there by M. Horace Vernet. from his Chateau of Bormette, near liyeCres, with M. Alfred Couver cbel, his pupil, both of whom aro goingto Laghouat to reproduce the episodes of the expedition made two years ago against the Touaregs. A NOVELTY has lately been produced at Sart Carlo, Naples, in the forms of the Ragnsnats, atid for the first time. During the rule of the Bour bons, it was, of course, prohibited, on the pretence that the libretto was irreligioNs ; but now the op posite spirit prevails, and priests and monks, when they come on in the choruses, are greeted by the pit with shouts and hisAes, and cries of "Down with the priests," The house has been crowded to excess since the Ibignenats was produced. A nwsravcit from Ilambure, February 1, states that the navigation for sea•going steamers was open again, but for sailing vessels, without the assistance of atesmtugs, it was impeded, owing to the drift-ice from the Upper Elbe. The thaw still continues. Tit it Shipp",;,; Gnaws says it is enabled to state, on the best authority, That the French Government has directed the Superior Council of Commerce to institute an inquiry into the operation of the Frew% navigation laws, with a view to important modifiea tions-and revisions. Tux Pam of Turin. states that M. Alexandris Dumas has arrived at Turin for a few days. His ordinary residence is still the Palace Chiatamone at Naples, where he is engaged in writing a history of the Bourbons, compiled from the Neapolitan archives. A TURIN JOURNAL , gives a statistical summat7 of the labors of the Chamber of Deputies since it resumed its sittings. It has held 51 sittings, 111 of which were occupied with the discussion of 15 in terpolations, and has adopted 24 bills. Lin Dallv Niles- says; "In nordnection with the. rise of the Turkish loan of 1858, there is a rumor that the Turkish Government has confirmed the proposed tobacco tax, which is expected to be ex tremely productive." Tun concession of the railway from Titrin to Loyola, tontains soma unttstally l'aorrible condi tions, not the least of which is a free gift of X 450,000, or nearly one-fourth of the whoie capital. A union is abroad that Ilautlame Goldsolunidt will visit Paris at the close of a musical tour in England, and that she will be heard in three TWIIIiTYItIGHT miners have been suffooated in Styria, owing to a hut at the mouth of the pit taking fire, the smoke from which was driven into the workings. IT APPVARS from statistics just ?carnet:led at Rome, by the General of the Jesuits!, that the tuba number of members of the order at the end of 186 t was 7,'23.1.. of whom 2,20 were Frenchmen. Cu.M. ST. CLAIRE DETILLE writes from Naples, stating that he has, in the present eruption of Ye- Bovine, ascertained the new fact that carburottod hydrogen had been evolved by the volcano, SELICETTI, one of Ike triumvirs of Rome in 11349, has just died at Turin. He was one of Alazzini's most ardent partisans. Tux Prussian Gazette annoursses that gymnastics are to be introducteil as a oonipLilsory lsranob education in acbouls of OTOry degree in rruaA,