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« ■» thrown out l>.it L"uis probability ingress or egress would be a r difficult at a Southern port, with live-anrl-twenty sunken vessr Is in Itont of the harbor, as it was at Sebastapol, ni-sire s rongtr wl,«e the Russians M .,k several nf|llpl.he IJ« have l a _ tlicir ships with the view of preventing j •v , r ln - . the entrance of English and French | I* rench at U.iteiio vessels of vvn lot if the Fetlerel nnmeral.le men evervwhcre who »«». ' t>slls or war. in the ocnirren e ol Midi a war Government desire by this expedient | r j xi I1( h, ; .u- their own to relieve their own ships by thus block-, th-d tiny mi_ on would ! lit out six thousand privateers to cruise ioi „ in a contest with us. II,- had no ’ against English merchandize It was {ears ol it. If Louis Napoleon lead onc go.n- to confiscate nine hundred than another, it was j lions ot Eaghsh propelty. [ipoitunity of, not let England have a pound ol cotton, lisaster to' the j It would get saltpetre from the mam- mil- would Special to tlm Chronicle & Sentinel. ENGLAND D SiROUS OF WAR! MOB HO AMI AOS fill! AHttlCA. There w-. re in- bc i right ing up Southern ports, they must perfectly aware that there is at once an , ml of Hie blockade in which their new plan is cn vessels will not constitute Iviowniitii. moth cave. If England dared to de mand redress, it was determined to i a is • an Disinfection in Ireland. Never was there anything like the _ ribaldry, gasconade, bully, bluster, and l'lie people of Canada, the people of j defiance in which the whole Yankee ■ ' ... people, press, public meetings. might and the principles of libeity. E tilled Slates Vessels Prohibited from tulo'ading at Nassau. ' ‘ instance in i Ireland, the French nation, the lovers ; race—people, press, public meetings, / ^ ! 'sunk I of liberty even in England, would sym-j Congress, Secretaries, anil all—indul- Jt,Ta blockade, I pathise w.th us. Let England make . ged They have be, n compared to . " the man ■ this war, and his word lor it, it would |the Chinese, and we think with won i dei ful aptitude. But the Chinese never We are indebted to the Editor of the Noifolk Day Book for the following special dispatch: Norfolk. Jan. 3.—Late European and Northern news has been received here. The London Observer, ministerial organ, says that England desires peace but will gain by war, as in that case frontiers, give llmm President alludes to the attitude! saved was the foundation of the future j words as soon as it was maintained hill erlo towards America j glory of France. So would it he with j The Yankee Congress,w "" d fricn '" V ' nnnnM ■-= ' •'" ' ' ■ ordered them. rlio unanimous ly this ecuntrv, because \ve regard our! us. If we save our honor wc could | !y approved of Wilkes, abandon him relations with the Southern States as I lose all else, and ihse again in power henceforward of very considerable im-, and glory, ll the war must come, let portance. These States have now at-! it come, and let us thank God that he j tained such a position that we must j had made us instruments in His hands j bring ourselves :o believe in tlu* per- j to work out His own cause, manence of their independent confed-j Mr Ilale now said lie would with-j cation. \Ye have tlifl’e rences with tlie | draw his resolution, but | Nortli in which the Southerners are di- j Mr. Suinncr ( who is chairman id the , r. ctlv interested; and we have just j committee of foreign atT.iirs) desired to j der, and, in the very spirit of Ancient concluded a treaty with the Jaurez | say that he thought tliat the Senator Government of Mexico for a settlement bad spoken too swiftly on this subject, of our longstanding claims upon that Mr. llale bad asseiled that England country, under the “Alilham Conven- bad made an arrogant demand—this tion,” and other recorded obligations.' was hypothetical. How, he asked,did Our naval expedition to the Gulf of that gentleman know it—bow did the M ex co is charged with the execution on- had no authorized mission from any one, and that he acted entirely on his own responsibility. The Persia sailed on the Loth De cember with twelve hundred troops and three hundred anil eighty tons of muni tions ol war. The Gienadiers and upon the very first intimation that it I might cost them something to hold on to him. And Bennett, instead of eat- . ing up Canada, instead of exciting an j oin hark i.«urrk.io„ in reland, ins.cn,1 offit- Seotcl, us,l , er.., , ar<| S were 0e nbark ting ini. si:; .Wusand ship* to cruise j »" ..gainst British propeity, coolly advises j tiic Yankee Government to knock un- that their restoration is demanded by, all the principles which ever obtained in American political administration, ann to vindicate which tnc Vnited States went to war with England.- — Declining to surrender the Commis sioners, he would violate the long main tained dogma of Lis country, ar.< which he approves. A summary of the points cl >ew aril’s reply, to be published in the Rich mond Enquirer of to-morrow, says : 1st. The capture was rigid, when tested by justice, law and decorum. •2d. Its advantages must be surren dered upon an assumed technicality in a court where there are no pleadings. 3d. That the capture was wrong, as indeed by the principles always main- mined in the United Stales, even to the extremity of war. To Seward’s labored ofioit Lord Lyons makes a brief reply, and with regard to his argumentative points, merely says that he has sent his words to England, and will see him soon and receive the Ministers. The Philadelphia JiuUetm says that whatever has been yielded, is only“ow- i„.r to the imperative necessity! of Chc^mitlmn banner JAMES A. SLEDGE, ) AXDF.RSon- \y. KKESE, j KI)I1 'OH.S. ATIIEX.S, (MiOH.KA. nilMSHAl IMMJC Sip fourth pagp. avoiding a foreign war while we have a domestic one on hand. Better not serg t. Athens fuards. M. \\ yiig, of this corpii, will ! on the 16th uTt., in two steamers, ior a domestic one on nan... r no, ; , eave ,„ r ,» 0f . Sl|(0|1||| M , j Halifax. Other troops were preparing j stan d on principles and run the usk of j f ., r „ 1C company be A '! I to embark. the Union being destroyed by an all,- 1 } •*" «*e l,f. at h.s lhc <„ Pistol, cries, “All belL shall gape for tliis’ - hereafter! Wonderful people! wonderful press! wonderful Congress! wonderful Secretaries! wonderful Yan- keedoin! Certainly the wotid never saw your like before Senate know it—bow did the eountrv j “the basest of kingdoms,’’ is respccta know? lie did not so know, and be ble when compaied to you. | thought the time for speaking and ac- tion of custom revenue at Vera Cruz j tion would be when the facts were pre- and Tampico, will have been put into I sented—when the case came piacti- aetion, and the proceeds be accumula- J cally before them. The gentleman j and we have now every reason to be- There was great excitement in Malta j anee between the rebels and the lead on the tenth of December, caused by j Powers of Europe. The New York Express says that “this surrender to a necessity will soon of these terms ; and, probably, before February next the system of sequestra The W ar on the Seacoast. The long agony of suspense is over, a telegram oitlering all the disposable forces at that point to be shipped to Gibralter, to be ready for service in America. .„ Vr - t i Admiral Dacres goes out as second "' cn > i ; n command to Admiral Miinein Amer ican waters. Ten Armstrong hundred-pound guns were immediately sli pped lor the de fence of Halifax! Large numbers of similar guns were to be shipped imme diately to the British possessions on the Pacific. Ten miliions of small eart- iinpose on us i ther necessities in con nection with Great Britain, to which wc must either yield ot fight. Ninety j 8horl V|H „ days will not elapse without some j further insulting demand from the j English oligarchy.’ ,^l' e Express ad-! vises instant prepamtens for war, to j Promoted. Sergeant Major Lamar Cobb, ol ibe ltiili ( C.a. Regiment, has been appointed Aid to Maj. Gen. Henry It. Jackson, with the rank of Major, lie has been hereon I to the name of either of Ihe Confederate .'States, upon that badge of depredation. I By this act of double humiliation, ii, e ] bastard Administration may suppose they j will attain their cherished end, of so cm. centrating their legions upon the South as to speedily subject her to their will. Rct^, let them remember that the nation which forfeits its honor and the respect of the world becomes the object of contempt, and that henceforth England may break the in efficient and illegal blockade ol the Southern ports, and free the commerce of the world fretn its unnatural restraints, with impuni ty, fince Lin<-oiii*s Power stands by se;;' confession, imberile to protect what it holds to he its rights and impotent to challeng,. i respect ami confidence. If tho English I Cabinet dees not avail itself of '.iiis occu- ' sion to socle the whole question ot •.!,(. ; blockade, which is bearing with such rigo: ! upon her commercial interests and working classes, then wc mistake Iter policy. \ 0 | better opportunity will ever present itself ! for b.er to mediate for iier own interest and demand free entrance into the cotton ports, whence she may feed her starving opera- ! tives nod avoid general bankruptcy. The I questions are now open, and we earnestly ! believe, will never be closed until this con summation shall hraohiivej. But whether II he or not, let the gallant people ot onft derate States stand prepared, seif, rebarit and defiant towards a foe who have su’d their honor to England that thty nwu conquer and mhjugnU than. In Towu Br. J. B. Carlton, of Taylor’s Batallion, Another Arrival. New Orleans, Jan 1.—A British steamer lias arrived in a Confederate port, bringing a large quantity of munitions of war and other valuable articles. This is probably the Gladiator, upun which 1 Vr. Hoyt, of this place, took passage from England to Nassau. If so, she h the extent of 1,500,000 men. It says ' an< * ^ ew ton, of the Government j on board 30,000 stand of arms, 200 tons of that “the Administration has given up ! i?. 06 **. 1131 ’ ,ilchn,ond , :,re 1,ere on a Mason and Slidell not to law, equity | ri ' e , lat,Pr H ,ndis P°^ d - r ,i d.t, but to necessity. The Arner- i ,? ssrs- A- K Po P e ar them ting for distribution under the mixed I bad said he was in fitvor of atbitration: 1 liwu that the enemy has begun the ac- -j- e|J millions of small cart- ‘Tii dit but to necessity. The Amor-1 Messrs - A - F. Pope and John Patrick, of commission between the despoiled res-! Mr. S. rejoiced to hear it, anti lie would five operations of the invasion. Late j ^ ' ani , one hun(ircd thousand j LnTSaalc in its trials and troubles is 1 ,he Trou P Ar,iller y» are al on a i lents ami the wronged bondhol.lers — j say that he himself was in favor of do- j in the afternoon ol U t dnes.lay the 1st j for Armstrong guns for sea i humb |J , 0 ’ r the first time to the British | Ali0 M,ller Lun ‘P k,n an ‘» «• »• (Joodma ‘“ M e must look upon tins intervention | mg all in that regard that u became us , mst the A ank. es approached the mam-. sery J. e are rapi(llv pre p : ning. Add - .-! Lion T | ie rebellion on hand drags! °‘ Co ' ,b ’ s Le « ion ’ and Dr * K * M * S,,lilh ’ as one that may be in operation during : to do. land in them boats at Chisholm s and , s , lin .. vri U t s have been taken on | never before bum,lifted I of ,he !6lh Ga - Regiment. hicli (\>l. Jones was reinforced by a ennossee Regiment. Otir troeps, a consivleraMe period of time, ami He doubted not the matter was in Rage's Points. These plat es are on while the Northern Government is too! safe hands. But he wished not to he opposi'e sides ot Poit Royal Ferry, and distant to admit of its attitude entering j considered as saying that even arbitra- | about four miles apart. One of these materially into this question,the South- j tion had been suggested, or was under attempts to land appears to have been ern Confederation, on the other hand, consideration, lie made no utterance j a feint, as we hear of sharp fighting stretches for a great distance along Ihe | in behalf of any at this time, but that ! only at one of the points named. Here frontier ot Mexico, so as to rentier its j a spirit of conciliation consistent with • the enemy, 3.500 strong, was met by friendly disposition to the authors of! honor would be manifested, we had ; Cel. Jones’ South Carolina Regiment, the intervention of no slight const;-1 every reason to believe—of that wc and a sharp skinnish ensued, during quence. The Northern Government : could fee! t. infident. has invariably railed at our neutrality;! — but the Southern, with statesmanship! \ I’m-fc (>. j anti moderation,has reeognizetl in it all j p ( p that we coultl tlo for either parly, and ! ' whether with a view to our transactions Among the many striking portraits j enemy immediately fell hack, in Mexico, or to our relations with the which the great dramatist has drawn, tion of Co!. Jones’ Regiment, in the Cabinet of Washington, the friendly ( sa )' s 'he Richmond I>i<patch.) there m forbearance of ill - Southern Confedt-r-1 nonc truer to natmc than tl at of An cient Pistol. His swagger, hi.- bluster, his bold front, his cowardly h cut, ‘ i-. rant, his fustian, his strange oaths, have in them s mething minnt i!;!\ ln- j tlicrous. His biagg.idoi'i.r and hig talk >se for some Strawberries iu January. gun powder, pistols, sabres, medicines, &c., constituting the most valuable cargo landed on our coast since the blockade. We understand tlie agreement between •.he Confederate autliori-ies and the owners of the Gladiator was, that after discharging her cargo, if otir government wished to purchase the vessel and the Captain did not want to sell, we were to pay Cl^,000 for her. If the Captain wished to sell ard our Government did not want lo purchase, agues of shore. They ! The AWoml Intelligencer says tl.at j in ‘. h '°P en air ia h ‘ s f r J." in ‘ h j 9 ! we are t0 P a > Clo.OOOjnr her, r anil other Contcder- s cwar J’s course was approved byev-!f ace ‘ ." ,e ieTC 11IS 0 1 ie 1 a0n ' " TomU Election, t ile iii m il under 1 c.i n f , __ i a , I ban> variety, which stands al the head of 1 " e * take in coal, under e raem ber of the Cabinet, and that . nf , u . nriinn „ An election for town officers wa tliOUf ill gape for this.”—Sank, n s'.iil inferior in numbers, deter-! mined to try the • tlicaey of cold steel, t and advanced with the bayonet. The! tional ship-wriglits have been taken on j ,j ovvn a ilagr, never before humiliated, at all the dock yards. j before England. Let us, Americans, j The British authorities at Nassau b an «i n g our heads because of our liu-i .. ... , have forbidden vessels bearing coal ini!i a,ion, dismiss the subject wuh as i ° n l ,‘‘V , ." 8U Mr ’ Hougson foi United States ships, to unload there much sU ; nce as possible. ' preHenteJ ,,s Wllh a ver >' lar -' e Mrawbcr, J r * or within three lea allow the Sumter ate war ships to ,«kc j er y member ot the cauinet, anti uiai j h j- ; one , ! An election for town officers was held in pretence that they are merchant vessels. hi s policy alone has averted a war with 1 .'7 l T n , this place on Saturday last. The res The London Tunes ridicules Se- I F Jhml and France 1 e h ” bcen lhe mildeM ' ' ward's (lisp,vch. Lngiami anu r ranee. ; -vtil.u. ihe recollmion of that ancient in The New York Herald of 1st J;«nu> i Met Icllan UDd the Lincoln I’OUgreSS. j dlT,dUp ’’ ary says that England will probably ! p is curren ,| y r( .porteil that a move- provoke war even alter the surrender ol j ment is on <00t j n the Washington A por-1 J s ^ on an€ ^ SIi4l<-II. ! Congress to supersede General Mc- j Ihe New loik limes s».rongl> |(Jlellan by the Massachusetts lawyer, nounces various measures of the Uni- j N ’ a ,haniel P. Banks. They complain at y is an important point in our favor. . . • . i -.i • IIUiHlt.1.1 » (11 IWllo lULamHl o U1 tilt k I heat ot pursuit, ventured within range- , .. ^ . i i »i ■, ,i v r i ted States Governmentr ot the boat howitzers of the i ar.kees,' .. ,, . . . which poured a sudden fire into our | LAI ESI NOR 1 HERN NEW S. j The Humiliation of the tinted Stales. | \\ e have at last official intelligence that j England has demanded Mason and Slidell j | ot the United Stales, and that they have i ! been surrendered. Thus has the American i will he seen in the proceedings of council in another column. The rejoicings on Saturday night, if v e are correcrly informed ol the proceedings was of questionable propriety. Elfctiou of Cuuii'y Officers. Senator Hale's B ar Speech. In the United States Senate, on Thursday, the 26 h : ranks po killing six an wounding twelve Richmond J; British I.ion. It is a confession ot weak- .! our itn I he enemy rallied under I the Petersburg, Ya., Express lias tlis- Hr. Hale, of Now Hampshire, intro- | ni jP ‘ se ^ or s,,|I| e line even on the nen ducetl a resolution relative to our af- °! S,R '^ an ai as that which Henry lairs with Great Eritain as follows : j \* ^ tH * " l '° ^ I " ul whieh. won for Resolved, Tha". the President of the I Uiin ihe ever memorable fie ld ot Agin l nited States be requested, (if not in-|f ourt '. ^ ^ asl ’ K mwn hold, by long compatible with the public interest,) to) Unpunily he ventures t o tar, and Iris transmit to the Senate copies of dis- j ex P 0SUr e is complete. A Welsh geu- patches and instructions which have j mcn fd dauntless courage, but odd passed between this government ai.d ' !* tnu f!nor > becomes the subject t. ui the government ol Great Britain, or be- 1 * ns ‘dence. He horghs at ! is look bey corapl j that McClellan is too slow, and they ! want a commander who will respond 3.—The editor of I to the popular clamor for an onward , . 1 * *. rni v i. „ t u ; ness on the part or the Lincoln despotism movement. Hie Yankees have been ! , that will s'rrkc lire world with wonder arid It places riiat Government at 1 ern papers to the Day Book of that ! far from accoinplishii g their purpose j on ^ e Uf>on ll,c foolin S <u a Unrd-iate power The dates me from Washington ■ as they were at the outset. We do not j ne 0 , u '° conc ,IMOIls cannot ,c es ' kS i ^ leaped, lithe seizure was tight, the sur-O - - wonder, therefore, at their impatience. 1 , .. .. , , 1 Jo\m Canm jn.m-ou. n - , . . , * I render 19 a disgrace which can never be 1 K<.rfieri. u.f f..urt— cover of tiieii guns, and again pr *ssed patches from Norfolk, stating thr.t a eight months engaged in the work of forward. But this t me tin y were met il >g of truce hail brought late Nortli-j subjugating the South, but are still as by a stil! more iinpptuous . _ _ leave hoys pursuing them to tlnir very i city. The dates aie from Washington 1 as they were at the outset. We do not j L ats. th> pienpitale was the ili'dit of!* 0 Dec. 31st and Jan 1st. The New the Yankees that they incontinently ! York Tribune, of Jan. Is!, says that it threw down and abandoned Uu-ir guns j has reason to believe that Messrs. Ma- encuinbered their son and Slidell would sail on the first ami whatever else —Richmond Dispatch. wiped out. valuable persons. It is said that in the ' of January for Europe. The surren- Late from Keutucky. Nashville, Jan. 2.- The following is tin e official return of the '•lection held in Ibis place on ihe l»>t mst. for officers in (Murk county • ? =. y. ? b £ r. I = • i asdiiui r-i. “ X s x . < y • % lor Slierifl — T | la-'mh \ ltrownuii’. 142 o 3 is jrs , Sanford Whitehead, s*s .* « 00 •j; on in 1 K,.r Clerk Sup. (.Vur!— \ Jofm Calvin Jnbn-ou, ‘2\M 2 «» •s ’,h i„j.; , k"r Clerk W,f UVurt— \ Jotiu Calvin Ju' llMill, :C/2 f» 17 is r.v; i K..V Tax Col A: UoecVr . 1 Richard Uu C h<-, s; -„\74 A J Q j Duke Hiuuiliou, *-* *j u » m *2 cl 1 *?J(I seoond charge of our troops not a mus- I dor does not come up to the demand ' has called upon the Provisional s , ket was fired. But the Cc ... . , i JOirii v . Auuuaiir, horns ot the dilemma they must taKe ; they I |>avi*l Hiwlmr.au’ :i AS tween the government or any of its! Unglish and derides his nalior. 1 he functionaries, relative to the seizure of na ’' on; d plant the leek been rres the Messrs. Mason and Slidell, on board ; f ub .i ,,ct }l 's scurrilous impertinence, the steamer Trent, to be transmitted i/ '** Bn'is t,.at he lias to use an Amor either in open or executive session, as ,can I‘* iras ^ “waked up the wrong, he may judge best. i P ass t , nger. / Ihe gentleman is a man onnecticutites 1 ot the ultimatum ot Jv'glantl. A part nor of Kentucky for 30,000 men, to. . e , , . , lid not tanoy the portentous tramp of ol Seward’s bargain is that Captain j serve from one to three years. It is ! are a na icn ° eo " a “ 9 or a n,,uono 00 s -• our companies and tire silent glitter of j Wilkes is not to be censured for the J understood that when two or more our bayonets, so they broke and ran 'seizure ol the Commissioners. j brigades are mustered into the service, in the true Bull Run style. Our loss, beyond those killed Mr. Hale said he bad read in the who does not understand j The London Post says that England ! they will be placed under the command and : will have a reckoning as to the stone of Win. Preston, late United States wounded by the shells of the boat how- j licet. itzers, was but trilling. Of the ene- ] The Boston papers say that Lord pecially at the expense public papers, and heard Irom various , , sources—for ire had no confidential re-1 e U s , U P " * 1 * ie , a ‘ !r0 ' lt "L* n first lations with the administration—which r ^. ccl ' ,H ’ ) ' ca ' l '' c * :nc nn * !,e eVf ‘ was not his fault, he being disposed to i °. ,l q roa !. » * MI? » l * ,<; v ' ,-,r,rv 0,,, e be as confidential as anybody—he!"" 0n ’ " s step is too seek the ag- Irad heard, be said, that the Cabinet! 7, res ? or ; ani . ,0 * 1 '" 1 !o account.— ! lie iin<is Pistol, presents him villi n taml jesting, tv- my’s loss wc have no definite account. ! Lyons bad ordered the steamship Ni- e of his c Minliy. When they finally departed in tiieir i agara to take out Messrs. Mason and bail yesterday under consideration a;, , . • public queslion of more importance | if ’ ia,,on3 l emblem which he than any that had ever arisen. j “au Bended,) and 'His Inin he must The administration, he heard, was I swa ow * JU -'y ^'vt-ar > and obout to commit what to his mind peared a most tatal act in the surren bonis, they left four killed and many j-Slidell, wounded upon the hold ; hut it is known I Gen. McClellan is still very sick; that, besides these, they carried otrwith ! Ben. Ward, of Ohio, is suggested as tl ern numbers both of killed and wound ed. Early yesterday morning, the enemy again approached ihe main in much Minister to Spain, who is to receive the appointment of Major General. No Federalists, with the exception of a few scouts, are on this side ofj . .... Green River, yet the military authori-! " ,ey W,U pre9Sn ‘ ‘ 0,,,e ^ ,e " ch an ‘‘ hn S 18,1 * ... * (rnvprnnionta I hov itill It a menrrniiAJ >to ties expect an attack in that quarter. Late accounts from beyond Green heavier lorce than on the proceeding d >y. Gen. Gregg’s brigade, wliicli mu was stationed in the neighborhood, fell b .t still back a short distance to secure an ad- is ol III his successor. j River icpresent the Federalists as still 'l'lie steamship Persia is at Halifax, j recruiting large reinforcements, with troops. (swaggers. The Welchman dois ‘ | tlier. He is perfectly calm, der.upon the imperious demand of Great \[/I 1 " 1 ,e ’! s pls 01 1,0 vanlageous battle ground, and. at las-I England’s demand .Britain, the persons, Mason andSli-j , j" 1 I" 1 " ' lir ’i |,r r du-1 accounts, the Ynnkeo fnrooc «•..«, -wit I -Ul! ii urn »; va .1 nn t.norrl ‘ al > 1,C proceeds lO England’s warlike preparations will continue, in view of the difficulties aiising from the stone fleet blockade. The surrender of Messrs. Mason and ! Slidell is said not to be the whole of dell, who were seized on board the Trent. If we did that we should sur render all that had t een won by the revolution. It would make us vassals accounts, the Yankee forces were adt 1 Richmond. Jan. 3.—The steamship v ithout vanring up the (,’ombahee road, the j which Lord Lyons has selected to toe skirmishing between the pickets being j convey the Commissioners to England Of the result is the ocean steamship Niagara, anion ycsteiday we have no beat him mercy. This was more than Ancient” had bargained for. .Sever- j l.eavv and continuous theless he at last gi lped it dow i, pro- „f thi ef Great Biitain. We should lose the i thundeiing oathsth; there- > news whatever ; but the firing was i,Her ,,, perseeutor si,.1,1 he S ,cu-Jil v ma i„lai„e,l ui.nl q „i," &?£ pay the penally. He iMreate.l ivill, the alU-inoen. 1 contempt, sneaks oil, and we hear off \Y,. l, .1 1 hi... nn ., o.,. )' L ,M ' e ^ ! ' e » above accounts mm no more. | i.rnnr.1,1 1 .. . ! as brought l.) passengers Irom tlie scene ol action. I p to a late hour last respect of foreign nations and be lium- L led in our ow n eyes. He would go as far as any one to preserve peace if it could be done with honor. Rut it Britain had demanded the surrender of these prisoners, he w ould meet it at one e by a declaration of war. He would lot wait for her to make war. Peace at such a price would be too dear. It would be more dangerous than war. He repeated that peace was desirable if it could be pre served with honor. He would be will ing even to abide by an arbitration of the question. But if Great Britain bad made this demand, it was because she was pre determined to wage war. If wc were to be humiliated let it be alter a war, and not before it. But let us not be humiliated first, and destroyed after wards. Talking with the Senator from Indiana, Mr. Lane, at breakfast this irorning, that Senator remarked that his State had furnished sixty thousand troops for the civil war, and would double that number immediately to meet this quarrel with England.— That was the feeling of the whole North, and he would tell this adminis tration that it they trifled with the pub lic sentiment on this question the) would encounter a Ii e in ihe rear that would utterly confound them. On the motion of pettifoggers, whom they call law officers of the crown, a war w as t.. be made, but he did not believe that in such a war our cause would be hope- lens. There will be one advantage in a war with England. We can proclaim tr every individual on the earth, with an appeal which shall strike to »! e The Burnside expedition has not yet sailed. The London Post (Lord Palmerston’s organ,) says that the harbor of Charles ton belongs to the world, and cannot be given up to an inefficient blockade. A large number of frigates, trans it the Yankee Gove mment have not to thp"' verv^ 'life o' »i ^ n< len . t j night no official despatches had l»en j poits, ami schooners arc congregating "" Ur - V -.'*• 111 •' mbrf ill relation to the event, ,,l,i,.|, in Hampton lion,Is. Auction Sale.—The following artic les, being a portion of a cargo recent ly airivcd from Havana, were sold at auction yesterday, by Messrs. LaRoche & Bell: 1,03S sacks cofFee, of various brands, brought from 60 to 66i cents per pound. 20 pieces Navy and Army cloth brought $10 to $12.j per yard.— 20 carboys carbonic acid brought $1 per pound. 100 hds, clarified and brown sugars brought 8 to 11 cents per pound. 80 reams letter paper brought $9 to $101 per ream.—Savan nah Republican, Jan. 1. They will be recognized as with the English Government, then we have mentioned there is no such thing as imitation, and At five o’clock yesterday afternoon parallel eases cannot exist in nature.! official despatches were received an- When the piratical onslaught u is first nouncing that the enemy’s gunboats made upon the Biitisli vessel, t ie yell had again opened a sharp fire of shells of exultation which arose m Yankee- i upon White Point, but for wliat oumose dorn, resounded throughout tin. world, i was not known. ' Vast meetings assembled to testify 1 We have advices that, on Tuesday their admiration of the deed. City last a Yankee gunboat entered Bull s’ Councils voted it unuvalled in daiing j Bav, and chased a schooner that was and sagacity since the days of Bayard, j coming from Santee, by the inland I he press ran g with applause. I lie | passage. The steamer was crowded Secretary ot .State hastened with his | with armed men on deck. She ran meed of piaise. 1 he Secretary ol the . the schooner up a creek, but finding Navy was not slow in approving the the water too shallow, ceased the pur- deed. Congress hailed the rising glory suit.— Charleston Mercury, 'id. of the new hero, and testified their ap- J preeiation ot his exploit, without a dis- . senting voice. The city of Boston Battle in Ihe Best—toil fed- dined him, and wined him, and listened j crates Victorious ! to his narrative, and made the welkin | Memphis, Jan. ltd.—A dispatch lias ring with its applause. Hit* newspa- been received at Little Rock, Ark., pers vowed that they would see every j containing official intelligence from the luiportaut from the North. Formal Surrender of the Southern Com tnissianers h;f the Linrotn Cor cm- ■ lie affairs see anothor cause of difficulty Yankee Reiatious Willi Greut Britain Foreigu—Views of the Stone Block ade. The Washington correspondent cf the Baltimore Sun, writing on the 2Gth ult., says : Men who are thoughtful upon pub ment. American ship burnt ], ami every Yan kee tow.i a (1 city up.ooted from the very foundation, before they would shrink Irom the side of Wilkes. Thev were determined lo back him at all ha zards, and to the last extremity. Nev er was I here such dt-fi.mre as the\ hurled at England. Never was there so much insolence ttered upon any one occ.isii.li Never were such threats hea.d befoie since the creation ot the woild. Northwest. Colonel McIntosh, in com tnand of four regiments, had a fight with Opoihleylmlo, tho Indian Chief and Liucolnite, 75 miles Northwest of ot Fort Gibson, on the 2Gth ult., which last'd font hours uni lOsnlted iu the total ionic of the enemy, who lost 200 men m killed, wounded, and missiug, ai d ICO taken piisoncrs. The Gonfooerate loss was 12 killed and twenty wounded Col. McIntosh ... ,, ... , | was still pursuing Opolhleyfcolo, and Ihe Herald led the way u> th e latter was lleeing into K usas- these (K nionstraiions. It was go ng The Confederates also captured from Richmond, Jan. 2.—The Baltimore Sun, of 30tli ult , contains the demand of the English Government for the sur render of Mason and Slidell, the ans wer of Secretary Seward, and the res ponse of Lor*! Lyons. The English Minister is short and pointed in his first communication. Sewaid, in his reply, surrenders the Commissioners without hesitation, but closes in a mutiplicity of words, and argues by “firstly 1 s'* and “secondly s,” that the Southern Commissioners were contraband and liable to capture. He says, however, that the lawsol nations, while justifying the capture of an ene my’s ministers, as contraband, do not, as would be necessary in the present case, properly provide formulas for ad judicating the capture. This might have been obviated, be says, if the 1 rent bad been retained by proceed ings against her, which would have been morally a case decisive of the character of the Commissioners. The moral certainty of the character of Ma son and Slidell would have been suffi cient in the eye of the law ; but the Trent having been dismissed, this between this country and England, in the fact that the London Post declares our blockado of the Southern ports at an end (under the law of nations), for the reason that we have sunk stone vessels in the channels of Southern harbors. It is a fact, however, that the egress and ingiess to the bay of Mobile and to the Mississippi cannot be thus stopped, and, points if sho sees fit to overcome the Federal blockading vessels there, in this connection the interesting historical fact may be sta ted, that the l’rotestant rebellion in tlie south of Franco was crushed out ty Cardinal Richelieu, by his building a wall across tlie mouth of the harbor of Rochelle, which prevented access of the fleets of England and Holland to aid the rebels. From that time Roch elle sunk in commercial importance governments soon as respective Governments; and we predict that the blockade will be raised by the mid dle of March. The Nashville Fnton <f■ American speak ing of tlie surrender of Mason and Slidell, very pertinently remarks: The public both of Yankee Land ani the Confederaia Slates have been gradually prepared for this announcement by tlie cautious and diplomatic emanations of opin ion from the Government organs of Seward, ever since die startling intelligence trans pired that the Queen of England had sent a special courier to her minister at Wash ington, to make a demand for reparation relative to the seizure of the Confederate Commissioners. Yet few are fully prepared to receive the news that Mason and Slidell have been restored, with entire credulity, after the blustering ot the Northern Press, die Lincoln Congress and Lincoln Cabinet through Secretaries Welles and Chase.— The Yankee character, it is true, has come to be estimated at its true value, during die present war. The acts of cold blooded cruelty, delibera e treachery and ridiculous gasconade, which they have been guilty of, have induced observing mcn to believe that there is no depth of infamy or meanness tc which they would not stoop. Yet we admit that it is almost incredible that unj Gov- Wedo not think this disgraceful back- > t? 1 We arc requested to say that a few down will postpone a collision with Great i bushels of salt are deposited at Mr. llol- Britain thirty day9. That Government has ! brooks store to be sold in small quantities determined to break the blockade ; and die j —say irom two quaris to one peck —to >ur!i point next made, will be its inefficiency.— j as are needy and are unable to pay the pre- Ottr commissioners, just released, have pos-1 sent exorbitant prices, at the rate of onv itive proof of its evasion in live hundred j dollar per pock, instances since its commencement, which ; Removal- The office of die Southern Express Com t J i * ^ , i ivinv Ins hf en removed to the rooms in ihe s they present themselves to these l un a ns e , , . , • , /. . . .. Lumok'n House block, formerly occupied tve Governments; and we predict " ,, as a barber shop, on Broad siren. re- i source was lost. Seward says sub- to raise a mil.ion ot men lo overrun 11ho enemy a large number ot wagons j stantially that the capture of Mason heart of all. Some fears had been i a«d devour Canada. It was going to I and 100 1 o ses. | and Slidell was in opposition to, and The “Sea King.”—We coppy tlie The invention of Mr. Creuzbaur which is secret as yet, and for the bringing of which to tho notice ot the Confederate Government $500 has been, appropriated, has been fully ex» amined by a committee of three scien tific gentlemen appointed by the Gov ernor, who reported in its favor, and expteas the opinion that a single, vessel properly constructed will be sufficient to clear any port of a blockading fleet. Look out for Your Smokehouses- We understand that Mr. J. K O 3 smokehouse was entered last Saturday nicht, and all of his meal taken awa\. Iu add instill to injury, the rogues car.- eJ >>'<? meat otfon Mr. O’Kelly's own lier-p- ^ eryhody should keep fire-arms, andrfi° c - the rogues down on the spot. It l ‘ 1!S '* done in a few instances, it l'" 1 a 6 ' 0 1 > to these depredations. Our Table. Southern Literary Messk.\«er. — U'« December number of this tdu Southern fa vorite is upon our table. It still stands tl e war. It grows better. We copv from it (11 the lirst page a very funny loiter from t Yankee school-mi stress, which will make you laugh Tlie Messenger should be lib erally patronized. Address Macl'arlaneA. Ferguson, Richmond, Va. Southern Cui.TivATOR.—Xotwii!istand- ing nearly all the agricultural publications ol the South have been compelled to suc cumb to the pressure of the ti„n.. s , W H aIa glad lo see that the Cultivator is still g„j ll( r it with head and tail up ! Now is ll.e time lo subscribe for 180-J. Only cue dollar a . .. , , year. The paper it is printed on -s eminent would, in the face of the civilized I . , , . 1 ’ ' worlli that now. I’ersons in this vicinity can hand in their subscriptions to I)-, j. n5 Linton, of ibis place, who will forward the world, so lower its dignity, honor and man hood, as to croucli at the feet of any other Government upon a menace of compulsion, when its Ministers, its Legislature, its Press, its universal Public Opinion had loudly, vulgarly and boastingly proclaimed that the act, on account of which it tints humbles itself, was right in itself and must be maintained. Yet this is the precise con dition of tho Lincoln Government, at this moment. Messrs. Mason and Slidell are to be triumphantly transferred from the con fines of Fort Warren to a British tnan-ol- war, the quartered ensign of England is to be saluted by that banner, which nover bore a stain while tlie Southern States owed enclose lo D. Red- following mysterious paragraph from and acknowledged allegiance to it, and with tho Texas State Gazette : proud mien and victorious presence, the Confederate Commissioners are again to dare the stormy seas, protected by the vin dicated hospitality of England. The banner of the Union never bore sut.h an affront while the Conledeiate Slates formed a part of the galaxy that clusters it, its folds ; and though the Yankee despotism may desire that they should participate in tha disgrace by retaining their place* on its flag, the norld will take notice that no etar gliitera money. Others can mond, Augusta, G.t. Southern Field and Fireside.—Mr. J. W. Ells lias withdrawn from the editorial chair of this able paper. Wc learn private- lyjihat Mr.S. A. Atkinson, lute of the his- patch, will take charge of it. The agricul tural departnunt will still be under the conirol of Dr. Lee. Let us suttain this enterprise, or say no more about Southern literature. Price two dollars per annum,in advance. Address James Gardner, Augus ta, Ga. Ens.mai.led.—The Charleston Courier, Savannah Republican, the Rome papers, and several others, have been considerably reduced in size. The war bears heavier upon the printers than any other ciass.— Their advertising and job work are reduced to almost nothing, and many articles used have advanced one hundred per cent. a d some moro than that. For instance |n !“ that we have formerly paid 18 npd tv c per pound for, is now selling per pound. s j /