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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1862
THE REBELLION.
Intending front Fortress Monroe.
RUMORED DEATH OF FLOYD.
WHAT THE REHELO THINK OF THE
THIEF
More Incidents of the Fort
Donelson Prisoners.
now THE STIPTS HAVE TREATED THE
PEOPLE OP KENTUCKY.
REBEL REPORTS ABOUT THE BURN
SIDE EXPEDITION.
&c. &c. &c.
LETTERS FROM FORTRESS MONROE.
[Correopondenco of The Press.]
FORTRESS MO:SROE, February 24, 1862
This has Man a buoy day at Oh! 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
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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.
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The undersigned are also aware that the anti
slavery sentiment so universally prevalent in Eng
landtt,ens
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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.
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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,
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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
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amity They be maintained with some confidence in
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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,