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Reported FUsht al Homne).
“We lcrij from the Express mesneoger on the
, Orange fen ad, toat loformauon wan received at
Mats * vac Ja&ction Saturday morniug, that on the
■ |>r<; vi'/sia cay ‘'Friday, a tight occurred at Romney,
between • urtroof t and the Hetmans, in which the
i latter had seventeen killrti, wnile the (jootederate
troope 1 )*i only two of their men. No particuiarK
Tbc above report, <rbich have been extensively
rtrevituyion our ctreet*. iecopied fron the i,;. lc£-
bnrg Hepdbhcan. It is stated that a small party
’vav through ihliir enenr.ca wita bbwie kmve/.
The folioning in reiat:jn to tue aifair was com
municated by a gentleman attached to the State
government,’ aft*r the above was written .
A quarterma tr direct from toe petne of action
laftwinM on otti >r ot fren. Wise’s Brigade, that
! Fndbj, as Cupt. Ashby and his brother were
j proceeding along toe road wito 14 men ot their
I troop, thirty to. s beyond Rom net,* they were ac*
! costed by a man Hho represented htmself to be a
j dcrfciter, ana professed to conduct
the t-.vj a ad.to.a 1 positional ere t hey. couldN&ke some
! priseners. Tne otftr was accepted, the men pro
! ceeding oo under the guidance of tbo deserter,
[ till they arrived at a poiat in the road where the
•quad was dinned, each half taking. diuerent ,
Very shortly thereafter the deserter led them
into a place where they were aurreunned ny fifty
ot tne enemy, who .palled upon them to surrender.
This demand w as replied to by a discharge ot their :
arms, Wbieb wak answered by the Hessians. Tn a !
short time the renainder of the squad rejoined j
their comrades and united their exertions in re-*
pcilmg tti* enemy. In this they were ucre*sful. i
It of the IlestNians having been killed. Two ot'|
Ashby's men were killed outright, and a number j
wounded. Capt. received lour severe wounds j
nud Lm Lgiae fail dead as he waj leavmg the
field, which the enemy rau from and escaped across
a small river to etaJe pursuit.
ADDITION A L.
Oue of the most brilliant affairs during this war
occurred last Wednesday near lummey, between
u idn tli dt tattljment ot Colonel Turner Ashby’s
Cavalry aud a p irty of 67 of Lincoln’s Cavalry.—
Capt. Dick Ashby first encountered the enemy
with 11 men, and was himself, it was leared fatal
ly wounded—but as we have since learned from a
tiger direct from Winchester, it is imw hop
ed will recover—as were also two others of his
party, said to he Marylanders.
Turner Ashby being not lur off, beard the fir
ing, and with eight men charged the enemy’
drove them in the utmost confusion across the
river, killing 20 bum and taking a number of their
horse*, accoutrements, Ac. Col. Ashby slew five
with hi.i own lmud. This is said at Winchester to
have been the most splendid affair during the
This was brought by a gentleman who arrived
yesterday direct from Harper’s Ferry. —Richmond
DUnatck 1 ft. /
Flight nt lluthiaft* Folul.
The Fredoricksburg Herald, of Friday evening,
publishes the following report of a fight at Mathias’
i Point, on Thursday night, but does not Vouch for
s its accuracy
i It is stated that a party of the Federal force
i landed from oue or more vessels, with euud-bage>,
! apparently for tne purpose of putting up some
After lauding t* y were attacked by the Sparta
i Gn.-if, aud Carol.no drays, and reputed. We
I are jnloraieti -uat fi ol the Federal troops were
killed, some. 12 or i4 drowned, and that from K>
jto hud taken tp tne woods, where they w*ere
dodging about like scared partridges.
The only damage on our side is said to be a
I flesh wouqd on the cheek of one of our raeu.
’ The guns of the vessel were not fired lest % their
ow titD'-n might be killed.
The Frederic ksburg New* makes the follow ing
’ statement :
The enemy landed at Mathias’ Point last night
in large force with sand bags to,erect a battery.
Our boys routed thorn—killed six, drowned ten,
and the rest • scaped, having 20 in the woods,
aud the troopers are still hunting them like wild
turkeys.
Lateh*— An Account from a Northern Source— :
11 aft. Ward, of tue Steamer Fkeeuorn, Killed j
Several Sailors Wounded.
We are indebted to ah estimable gentleman o! I
the ppetu: u this city for a copy*of the Washing* j
ton National Kepubhcau of Friday evening last, i
It confirms the statements of the Fredericksburg j
papers, and suppose that a number of the “rebels'’
wi re killed uud Wounded.
The steamer Pawnee arrived at the Navy Yard
this uiorqiug, bunging the body of Capt. Ward,
of the steamer Freeborn, who was killed iu an
action at Mathias’ Point about dusk yesurday
afternoon.
As. near as we can learn, the particulars are u&
follows :
Capt*. Ward, on Wednesday night, sent to Capt.
Rowan, of tile Pawnee, fur two boat’s crews,
\yhich were sept dowu under Lieut. Chapmau, iu
older to lake poSacsoiou ot the point and erect a
battery. Early yesterday mmmng a laudiug was
effected, and tue pickets of the enemy were nriven
buck. of men landed was between
thirty aud lorty, Capt. Ward iu the meantime
promising to cover the men with his guns.
About this time, a “contraband’’ slave, belong
ing ig Dr. llo>oe, a noted Secessionist, made bis
appeuraucc .with a shirt on a pole, as a flag of
truce, aud stated to the men that there was a rebel
lore of from BO'*’ to I,ObQ meu in the vicinity; but
Ills niory vvas not- believed, and the :nen pro
ceeded with fiiiiug their baud bugs for tb bat
ter v.
\Vhile the meo were at work at the battery, the
signal was given for the boats to return from the
Pawnee*, simultaneously the euemy opened a lire of
-musketry from the hus’bes, aud the men retreated
tit their boafe, t'ue tiro beyig meanwhile kept up.
The gutner on the Freeborn was wounded iu the
hip by u ball, abd Capt. Ward immediately sprang
iti bis Jlace, aud was iu the uet of sighting the
puce wheu he was shot iu the breast.
Four others were wounded, among them W, J.
Bess, gunner, who was struck with tour shots,
and will probably die, aud Jack Williams, the cox
swain of the third cutter, who was shot in the hip
as the boat was retreating. Immediately bn being
struck,Jbe ordered the boat back, and defiantly
waved his flag in the face of the rebels. The flag
is perfectly riddled with shot, there beiug nine
teen holes iu it.
The meu retreated with such precipitation that
a number of them were left on shore aud had to
MTiui off. oue of them bringing ou bisrbuck Mr.
BbS, w ho w as wounded.
The Freeborn returned the fire,and threw some
ten or u dozen shells into the bushes, which were
| M*cu to explode among the rebels. aud doubtit-as
j killed a number ot then).
I The Freeboru, alter getting the men on board,
! buiiled off; ami after the death of Capt. Ward,
1 who ftted about eight o’clock, (one hour alter he
j was shot, 1 bis body was sent up to the Pawnee,
1 dr. which it was brought to the city.
I Some accounts of the action state that when
?he tire bad commenced, the boats were on the way
I to the ship to bring off the guns for the battery,
but such could not have been the case, as the bat
tery wits not readVto receive them, aud only some
I two hundred sand bags bad beeu filled.
| On the Pawnee’s arrival, the body was removed
t j the eugine-bouse iu *bc yard, under the escort
’ of two companies ol the .'lst liegiipeut, a guard
| of tiiurino, aud the sailors who took part in the
action, wuh the riddled flag carried in the action,
where it was laid out preparatory to its being sent
to New York for interment. Ail the flags in the
yard, aud ou the boats at the wharves, were iin-
Uiedi tUly displayed at half mast.
Capt. Ward was fifty five years old, or more.
Ue was boru iu Connecticut, where he has resi
ded while on shore. Iu !sii3 he entered the navy.
In rank he was near the head of the list of com
mauders.
Capt. Ward was brave to a fault. He knew not
the word tear, and hardly saw danger. Fond of
ms profession, be has written several works
j which ar* text books in uaval matters. Uis most
; considerable work is entitled “Naval Gunnery.”
He has also writteu a popular treatise ou steam.
M>m tis Gin. Cumritra.nl, UiUck J&]/üblica.’ j
Sn.l L,l Ol't ai't. \% ard—Bravcry of 111*
i rt .ldAuiicc Vet-ArrtvalofCJeu.
Freiuout* , -
WAattiisuTvN, Jun*
teruay morning on board steamer Freeborn while
engaged with ms guns protecting a small Federal
force lauded on Mathias Point, for the purpose of
erecting a battery, but were surprised aud com
pelled to retreat bv a large body of rebel-. Capt.
Vl'ard was commander ot tbe Potomac blockade
flotilla, aud a very efficient officer, and enthusias
tically’attached to the cause of tbe Union. His
toss will be severely felt.
During the action two other sailors we're wound
ed—one uioruiHr.
of the landing party were left on shore
by f oals, but plur red into the river and swam to
the r reeborn. oue carrying a wouuded comrade ou
U. back, another waving a Uuiou flag, through
which nineteen bails pissed before be reached me
veksel.
Mauv excesses arc being con untied on the city
be sole .era baloao’og to paid-off regimeute. Gen.
MaoSueid has taken euergetic measures to prevent
their recurrence.
The hope of au advance last night is again un
reaiued.
Major General Fremont arrived this cveuiog, |
and reported immediately for duty to General i
Scott.
Grafton, Vs June 2®. —The skirmish at Da- j
vis’ creek, near Cumberland, was more aanguiua- ;
ry than at first reported, twenty three rebels j
are known t.< hsve been killed
CorpoAl Hays killed Lieut. Col. Tarsons with a ,
sabre thrust, and shot four others. Tbe Zouaves ,
lost ona man, who was bayonetled utter being an- i
herseu -t and deteuceless.
Tbe K nggold Cavalry, 11’ strong, from Wash- |
ington county, Penn., arrived here to-day; also !
the Seventh Onto, which moved right ou to Clarks
burg. The Tenth .’bio ts still here.
Gen. hill, took command a. Grafton to-day.
Goa Morn.- proceeds to lHiiil.ppa to-morrow.
The rebe.s have thrown up breast* oi ks ou Laurel
Hi!’, with r.fle pita beloa . aud artillery in pos tioa
to command the approaches from this direcueu.
It is feareu they wiU retreat before they can be
cutoff. Three da's ago they had nothing but
corn for subsistence, aud little of that.
Tue camp bf Ohio Fifteenth at Fiuenuan was
fired into this morning from across the river.
Important pro* vat ‘Vasr.—Tbe Baton Rouge
“La 1 Advocate of tbe - ib, has a letier from the
. carnnai Fort Smith, -Arkansas, dated the lltb
wh ch stales that Jim Lane, ot Kansas, w..h -,ooc
men armed with Minnie moskets. was on the
I march for that point, 150 miles distant at that
i date The Confederate forces are wple for his
defeat, and if Lane did not VanaS' I^ ’
‘-ales wduli. and drive him back to Kansas.
Gen. hen. McCulloch was at Fort Smith, having
just returned from an unsuccessful conference
with tbe Indians of the Reserve, who incline to
neutrality. Another council was to be held with
them on the tb, with a better result, it was
hoped. ,
ihe ContederaLe force at Fort Smith coaf*stCu
$ of aear 1,000 aieu, the cavalry and artillery aniis
heieg in heavy proportion.
F*o mt Wa5T Inpiip.—Havana advices are
, tc tbe 20th ult.
Yellow fever baa made its appearance at Ha
vana, but not yet among tbe shipping.
It ta reported that five important towns in the
itaenor of „ an Domingo bad been fortified and
I jested by Havtiens, who intend to resist the
j Spanish forces there.
i It i, said the inhabitants at one village there had
been massacred by the Spanish troops for refusing
to swear allegiance to Spam.
; It is also reported that the Spanish troops were
defeated in some sma,l engagements. Additional
I troops have been sent from Havana as raiaforce
| meats.
, Intense excitement exists ta Havana relative to
, . affairs in the United Biates.
A Shock of Sugar boxes,
From tfu Richmond Dispatch, July Id.
( aptUFe of Prize ITwiel*.—Darlnj; Ex
ploit of .tfarjlaud Zouave*.
Lieut. Geo. W. Alexander, of the Ist Regiment
of Maryland Zouaves, reached Richmond un yes
terday morning, with forty odd Liocclmte prison
ers of-war, captured on th* Potomac edMj Satnr
, day L appears that the ‘Zouave Regi
-1 rcexit Las been for some time past in process of
j formation by Col. 1. Thomas, of Richard, Lieut.
Alexander, ’( Adjutant,) Lieut, i-. GibsoD, and
outers, in Baltimore.
A short time since, CoL Thomas went from Bal
timore to Philadelphia in disguise and procured
a supply of arms. Himself and comrades then cou
j ceived the project ot capturing the St. Nicholas, a
, large a learner ID the employ ot the “Geaeral Gov
erniiient,” running between Baltimore aud Wash
ington. The boat started at four o’clock on Fri
day evening from herVharf in Baltimore. Previ
, yu thereto Coi. Thomas went aboard with 12 meu
the latter as passengers, and their commander
dressed as a French lady. Tiie vessel got under
was and stopped at Point Lookout, where, accor
ding to the plan previously agreed on, Lieut. Al
; txander, with another detachment of meD, came
j un hoard and secured passage for Washington.—
.By accident 1 Lieut. Alexander went :ulo the ;
j cabin of the s.t**a:ijer aud recognized the French !
!ad, as an old acquaintance from Pans. Both j
I Thomas and Alexander speaking the language flu- j
; etitly, they found no difficulty :u matunug their |
| plan of operations
During the conversation that ensued between
ihe French lady aud her acquaintance, instruc
tions were given as to Low the party should pro- I
ceed. The arms, which had previously been !
carefully loaded and concealed, were made ready
for instant possession. At one o’clock on Satur- j
day morning, the time for striking the blow hav- i
iug arrived, Col. Thomas threw off his disguise, |
appeared in his uniform, and ordering his men to
do their duty, the steamer in *ve minutes was a
prize to the forces of the Confederate States.
The Captain and crew surrendered without strik
ing a blow, aud were confined without trouble.
They appeared overwhelmed with surprise.
Captain Ge*. N. iioliius, late United States
Navy, who hid gone aboard at Point Lookout,
then assumed command of the steamer and ran
her into Cone river, expecting to meet the Ten
nessee Regiment and jointly commence further
operations against the enemy. The Tennesseeans,
however, did not arrive op the ground till late
Saturday morning. It was then too late for any
demonstration up the river as originally intended,
and the steamer was headed down the stream.
Ou her pasattge she captured two schooners and
one brig. Each had a crew of about ten men,
who w r ere taken prisoners.
One of the vessels was loaded with -3,500 bags
of coffer, another with anthracite coal and another
with ice. The steamer St. Nicholas isai first class
boat, 275 feet long, side wheel.
All of the prizes were safely towed to the mouth
of the Rappahannock, and thence to Fredericks
burg. Their value is roughly estimated at three
hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.
The Captains of the respective vessels, with
their crews, including several negroes, are now
lodged in the prison depot on Main street, in this
city.
[ Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch>\
Fredericksburg, June 30.—1 write to inform
you of iiie partially successful issue of a most dar
ing adventure which has been concocted at this
place, and executed on the Potomac River and
the Bay. Capt. Hollins has just returned from
the expedition this evening, and from his report
and from personal observation, I have collected
the following circumstances attending the affair :
Friday morning our town was thrown into
great commotion by a rumor being spread that u
secret expedition was forming, whose object was
unknown. Men were seen gathering in small
groups on the corners of the streets, conversing
on this all-absorbing topic, Home three or four
days previously a gentleman of the name of
Thomas was seen about the streets with his head
shaved very close and dressed in Zouave style.
He attracted uopn himself universal obaervotiou,
and was even suspected by some of being a spy.
He wap evidently affecting a character very ad
verse to his true one. He is, it has since been as
cert fined, a native of Maryland. He had laarned
that the St. Nicholas was soon to start from that
port to Washington, aud had come on to concert
with Capt. Hojlius a most perilous and important
expedition. The object of the expedition was no
less tbau the capture of the Pawnee. It wu to
have beeu accomplished as iollows, and nothing
b .t u stroke of Providence could have made them
fail of their object s
Captain Hollins and Mr. Thomas were to go to
Baltimore, take passage with twenty-five or thirty
chosen men on board the St. Nicholas, aud as
Sv on as she had entered the Potomac aud arrived
at the mouth of Cone river, to overpower the
crew and embark five hundred Tennesseeans,
who were to meet them At this point. They were
then*to sail up the Potomac wiib the United States
flag waving at their masthead, and then perform
the grand act in the drama. The latter was dis
concerted by an uulooked-ftft accident.
According to the preconcerted plan, the Ten
nesseeans left this place Friday morning, carry
ing with them ten surgeons. Hollins and Thomas
went to Baltimore, and embarked ou board the
St. Nicholas with twebty-five or thirty of the
most adveuturesome tars they could find. Thomas
was dressed iu female habiliments, and was assid
uously attended to by htr attentive beau, Cupt.
Hollins. But, alas for human hopes! While
everything prospered, and all were expecting a
bappv issue of the affair, it was reported that it
could uot then be carried iuto effect. Capt. 110 l
lins determined, however, not to lose all his labor.
So wheu they were at tin* mouth of the Potomuc,
at a preconcerted signal his men rose up, took
possession of the steamer, and steering straight
tor the mouth of Cone river, they soou reached,
the place pre-arranged as the point where the
Tennesseeans wer eto join them. Hollins inform
ed them of the failure of their original design.
He ther returned to the bay nud scoured it, cap
turing the following prizes in addition to the St.
Nicholas : a vessel laden with 3,000 bags of coffee,
another laden with ice, and a third with coal.
They have all been brought within the protection
of our batteries. The St Nicholas, with oue of
the vessels, is iu sight of our wharf.
This success has illuminated the counteuauccs
of our towusmeu with exceeding joy. i’heir anx
ious and careworn faces of yesterday are lit up
w.th a luminous expression of joy aud satisfac
tion. The crew of the St. Nicholas, consisting of
twenty free negroes aud nineteen white persons,
are in our jail, aud will, in all probability, be seut
to Richmond.
Official Report or a f'ltianisH—lmprobable
Statement of an Indiana Colonel. —The follow
ing report was received by (ieu. aScott, at Wash
ington, on tbe 28tb ult. Tbe valiaut Colonel ad
mits that it “sounds like fiction/’ and we think it
is :
Cumberland, June 27.—T0 (ieu. McClellan : I
have been accustomed to sending my mounted
pickets, of thirteen men, in all tbe different parts
along tbe several approaches to Cumberland.
Fiudiug it next to impossible to get reliable infor
mation of the enemy, yesterday l mounted tbe
tbiiteeo and directed them, if possible, to get
to Frankfort, a town midway between this pluce
aud Komuey, to see if there* were rebel troops
there. They went within a quarter of a mile of
tbe place, and found it full of cavalry.
Returning, they overtook a party of forty-one
horsemen, and at once charged them, routing ami
driving them back more than a mile, killing eight
of them and securing seventeen horses. Corpo
ral llayes, in command of my men, was desperate
ly wouuded with sabre cuts and bullets. In takiug
him back my tuen halted about au hour, and were
then attacked by the euerny, who were reiutorced
to about seventy-five men.
The attack was so sudden that they abandoned
the horses and crossed to a small island at the
mouth of l’attersou Creek. The charge of the
rebels was bold aud confident, yet twenty-three
fell under the fire of my pickets, close about and
ou the island. *Mv fellows were finally driven off,
and scattering, each one for himself, they are all
iu cauip now. One.of them, Corporal Hayes, is
wounded, but is recovering. Another of the.par
ty, John C. Hollins Crook, is dead, lie was takeu
prisoner, aud brutally murdered.
Three companies went to the ground this morn
ing aud recovered every thing belonging to my
picket, except a tew of their horses. The enemy
were engaged all night m boxiug up theii dead.—
Two of their officers were killed, and they laid out
iweLty-three on the porch of a neighboring farm j
house. 1 will bury my poor fellows to-morrow, j
I have positive information, gained to-du), that j
there are four re <imeals of Confederates iu and
about Romney, under Col. McDonald. What their
particular object is, I cannot l earn. The two
rennsylvauia regiments are encamped at the
State line, uiue miles from here, waitiug further
orders. They have not yet reported to me. They
hesitate about iuvadiug Mary laud.
The report of the skirmish sounds like fiction,
but it is uoi exaggerated. The fight was really
one of the most oesperate on record, and abounds
with instances of wonderful daring and cooiness.
[higned,] Lewis Wallace.
Col. lltb Regiment Indiana Yol.
Secretary Walker has issued the following
timely and appropriate notice to newspaper cor- j
respondents.
Confederate States of America, j j
War Department, j
Richmond, July I,lß*l. ’
To ytu *r iper Corr**vvn<ltnU :
Gentlemen/ —While I have not withheld per- |
uiiaaiou from any of the rep sentatives t the j
press to visit the camps in Virginia, and while I
am as much the uncompromising advocate of an
! unshackled press as 1 am of the freedom of speech
and of tbe independence of the Confederate States,
vet I have tboiiiiht it proper, under existing cir
cumstances, to make an appeal to you to forbear
from the trausmissiou aud publication ot such m
; tellikieuce as might be detrimental to the great
cause iu which we ail feel so deep au interest.
! You are aware of the great amount of valuable
1 information obtained by us through the medium
I of the enterprising journals of the North ; and we
I mav derive profit from their example by a uure
: mit’ting aud judicious reserve in communications
iforthcSoutb.ru journals.
It must be obvious that statements of strength,
| or of weakness, at any of tbe points in tbe yiemi
i tv of tbe euerny, wbeu reproduced in tbe North,
1 is they would be m spite of ail the vigilance m
i our power, would waru them of danger to tbem
i selves, or invite an attack upon us. and, in like
, manner, any statements ot the magnitude of bat
tones, of tbe quantity aud quanlty of arms or of
’ ammunition, of movements in progress or in sup
; posed contemplation, of the condition of troops’
| of the Commissariat. Ac., might be fraught with
essential injury to the service.
’ To gentlemen of intelligence and of unquestion
able loyalty to tbe.cause of tbe Confederate States,
I do not deem it necessary to be more explicit; nor
j can I doubt for a moment that you will appreciate
my motives in mk ug this frank appeal to your
patriotism aud discretion. L. P. VV asn,
Secretary of War.
1 A Venerable Ladt Patriot. —The ladies of
tbe South bave proved themselves worthy descen
dants of the matrons of'7o. who furnished cloth
ing To the soldiers of tbe Revolution, from the
carding and spinning, to the weaving and making
of garments ;—for in those days there was no ink
cbiuery to perform most of this labor.
In our paper to day will be seen a brief report
of the Soldiers’ Relief Society in Scottsboro, of;
which the venerable Mrs. Fitzgerald is President,
wbo is the last connecting link between the ladies
of tbe Bevolatiou of 1770, and those of IJ6I, as
’ the Declaration of Independence was made eigb
tv-five vears ago, which is tbe age of Mrs. Fitz
gerald.’ Tins circumstance, is rendered still more
interesting bv the fact, that in 17? 1 .’new seventy
vears ago; Mrs. F., then a gay and beat'fui girl o’s
fifteen,"had the honor to receive from the hand of
President Washington, in the public Ball Room at
Augdsta, a rich boquet which had been placed in
bis bands bv a ladv to be bestowed on any one of
the voung dancers’he might select. This pleas
ant occurrence was noticed in tbe Augusta paper
at the time, as can be seen by reference to an old
file now in possession of a gentleman in Macon.
We are happy to revive such reminiscences, and
to have in our midst so intelligent and patriotic a
ladv as Mrs. Fitzgerald who. now above four score
vears, engages heartily in the work of clothing
our soldiers in the field, as did her compatriots ot
the Revolution. May Heaven abundantly bless
the remaining days her ofhooorable life.— iSo'.dh- ;
Im Mtcordtu. ‘ I
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. JULY 10. 1861.
From Norfolk.
| Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.\
j Norfolk, Julv I.—lt is evident that desertions
from the LißColnttes at Old Point have recently
taken place. frHrveral small boats have floated
ashore at Sewell’s Point with muffled oars, which
warrants the conclusion. They have been secured
i by our forces, aud appear to be boats belonging
to some large ship, probably the Cumberland. It
is likely the deserters made their escape at night,
and after landing some distance up the bay, set
these boats adrift. Capt. Ferguson, commander
! of a companv at the above Point, came late into
our citv on Friday and brings us this statement.
Mr. Thompson, of whom mention w as made in a
former letter, states that the infamous Pendergrast
presents & look of depression which speaks oi
deepest sorrow, and it is said that his own asso
ciates do not respect him, and are actually afraid
to place the least confideuce in him.
There is great sickness, I am told, prevailing
at Old Point. This confirms the statement in a
! previous letter of the hospital beiug crowded with
the sick. Two daughters aud a son-m-lew ot
Capt. Guy, cf our city, on their way to Norfolk,
w*ere detained at Old Point bv tbe Liucolnites.
and sent back to Baltimore. The kindness and
; courtesy extended to those in our city who wish
i to join the North, is in striking contrast with the
j ill treatment our people receive at their hands,
j One erf Gen. Butler’s female informants, avail
| mg herself of the last flag of ttucefrom this city,
i was found to be the bearer of two letters from
| men in Portsmouth to Gen. Butler at Old Point,
i The letters gave full accounts of our numbers,
description of our fortifications, of points pregna
ble—in fact, an entire description of everything
available to the enemy. Among other things,
they stated that free speech was restricted here—
that they dare not utter sentiments treasonable
to the South, for fear of arrest ;but that they held
a “tbiukiDgclub,” held meetings often and thought
what they pleased. They also gave the Dames of
the immortal 75 who voted against the Ordinance
of Secession, and urged an immediate attack upon
Norfolk. Tne names ol the writers were sigued
to them, which caused tbe arrest of oue of them,
named C. W. Bryan, who is now in the city jail,
and will be turned over, I -understood, to military
acthority. The other oue will be caught.
The woman having in her possession these dis
patches was allowed to depart without further
search, but we warn her not to return.
There are two Southerners, sons ol gentlemen
in Portsmouth, on board tbe Minnesota, now in
our waters, who caunot get away, and who are
not allowed even the privilege of writing to their
parents. They have taken the oath und are not
allowed to go further than the Fortress, at Old
Point.
Heavy firing was heard at Sewell’s Point yes
terday. I have not heard the particulars.
Heeling in Greene upon tlie Subject of
the Proposed Government Loan.
Agreeably to previous notice, a portion of the
citizens of Greene county assembled at the Court
House in Greensboro, on yesterday, tbe 2d in
stant, when, on motion of Miles W. Lewis, Esq.,
Col. Y. P. King was called to the Chair and W.
A. Florence, Esq., was appointed Secretary.
The meeting was addressed by Prof. 11. H.
Tucker and Dr. N. M. Crawford. The speeches
of these distinguished gentlemen were able, dig
nified, and patriotic. The aim and design of the
loan policy was clearly and satisfactorily ex
plained ; the speeches were frequently and most
rapturously applauded, evincing ou the part of
the audience a settled determination of carrying
on our glorious and righteous cause ol “Southern
independence aud liberty.” Tl e people of Greene
will do all that mortals “dare do’ to command
success. About $25,000 in cotton, cash aud pro
duce, was subscribed to the loan.”
A number of our largest planters were uot
present, nearly all of whom will cheerfully sub
scribe.
Oil motion of Dr. T. N. Poullain, a committee
was appointed in each district to collect subscrip
tions. Ou motion, the proceedings were ordered
to be published in the Chronicle A Sentinel aud
Constitution list.
Ttre meeting then adjourned.
Y. P. King, Chairman.
W. A. Florence, Secretary.
Fort Pickens.—The New York Tribune is much
consoled at the condition of Fort Pickens. In its
issue of the 10th, it says :
“Fort Pickens may be regarded as practically
beyoud danger from the enemy. It is strong
enough at present to resist any force which Gen.
Bragg oan bring against it, aud iu a few days it
will be able, with the additional strength supplied
by vessels now on the way to the Gulf, to defy
the whole power of the South.”
Something iit the air whispers that, before very
long, this boastful prophecy of Greeley will be
tested by an event. Things look dark and lower
ing like angry clouds over and about Fort Pickeus,
and sundry lightning flashes augur the rising of a
storm. Gen. Bragg, of “grape” fame, and Briga
dier -General \V. 11. T. Walker, once pronounced
by Gen. Scott to be “the most heroic officer in
the United States army,” are there to ride and
rule it on the Confederate side. —Mobile Register.
The war correspondent of the N. Y. Times
writes from the Powhatan, off Pensacola:
There is a weak spot in our position. It could
be made the strongest, but it is the weakest.
Rosas Island is some miles long. The best Co
lumbiad in the possession of Col. Brown could
not command parts of it. The secessionists
might land on this island—they might storm the
fort from laud—they might capture it. My men
tioning these apparently impossible, certainly
improbable, contingencies must not be considered
an evidence of fear. But, from the commandant
at Fort Pickens to the commonest sailor on the
Powhatan, no man in the United States service in
these parts will believe our situation in Pensacola
harbor impregnable until our 5,000 army troops
are landed ou Rosas Island. The correspondent
of the New York Tunes has doue bis share iu
keeping tins matter before the public.
Collision on the Mobile and Ohio Rail
road—Loss of Like.—The Mobile Advertiser, oi
Sunday, has the following account of a collision
on the Northern Division of the Mobile and Ohio
Railroad, uear TrentoD, Tenn.:
It appears that on Thursday uight a special
train with a company ot cavalry,comprising sixty
meu and their horses, bound North, came in col
lision with a regular freight train, southwurd
bound. Twenty-five of the soldiers were wounded,
two so badly that it is thought they cannot possi
bly recover. Only one horse was killed. The
damage to the company, it is estimated, is notless
than $5,000.
The locomotives were stove against each other
—or, as our informant expressed it, “the smoke
stacks stood hugging,” defying all efforts at sepa
ration. Several of the cars were materially dam
aged. The conductor and engineer of the up
train, Seeing the terrible disaster inevitable, took
to the woods. The soldiers ou the train became
indignant and excited at the carelessness of these
officials, and would have administered summary
punishment upon them had they been overtaken.
But, during the confusion attendant upon the dis
aster, the fugitives got too much the start and
eluded pursuit.
From Alexandria.—A telegraphic dispatch to
the Northern Press, dated Alexandria, June 23th,
says :
Information was received from the Zouave camp
this morning, announcing the safe arrival of Lieut,
llarrigan and the Captain of the Zouaves, whose
absence last night rise to fears for their safe
ty. Lieut. Hewitts company returned at mid
night, without meeting the Confederate cavalry.
Private Murphy, of company E, U. S. cavalry, is
still missing. The affair at Cloud’s Mills seems to
have been only auother attempt to harass our
pickets, who are at present the only victims of
their warfare, and to notify us of their presence.
They made only two captures, neither of whom
were prepared for resistance when pounced upon
by about fifteen cavalry from a side road. Private
Murphy, of the U. 8. cavalry, was for the moment
off his horse. The other, a Zouave, was engaged
iu picking cherries, and without his arms. Auo
ther portiou of tbe Confederwte cavalry, about
forty strong, drove iu the C. S. pickets to with □
j a mile of Cloud’s Mills, aud then retired,.without
; >ucceediug m making any other captures.
We bave been permitted to read an extract
from a letter written by a widow lady in an ad
joining State, and think, its publication may do
good. It is the real outgushing of a patriot
Christian woman’s heart, and is but oue of tbe
many evidences we see daily of the unconquera
ble determination ot our people. The letter is
addressed to the gentlemen in this city in whose
employ her son has been for several years, and
the son is a member of the gallant Oglethorpes,
was at Pensacola and is now in Virginia.
Gentlemen:— l received your ki-d letter iu due
time. I lliauk you for the perusal of ‘s letter.
I have heard bun so often speak of you aud your
kindness that I feel attached and well acquainted
with you. Oh, bow devoutly I pray for my dear
■ boys and my beloved country and our bappv
| homes; and if my dear children fail, may it be tit
l the post ot duty, and may tbe Lord receive their
! precious souls. I have three sons; two have
: volunteered aud gone, the other I expect to leave
I soon, aud although I part irom them with a sad
j heart aud a tearful eye, yet if I had three more I
would say, go in defence of your countrv’s right.
was my prop—l leaned” on him; I” am now
; aione; I feel cast down, but not forsaken. My
( dear is a dutiful and good son ; the Lord has
; promised a long life to those who honor sbeir
parents, aDd he is one of them.
When you write to him tell him we are all well,
, and to keep up a good bean and put bis trust in
Him wbo “ doeth all things well, - ’ aud I hope be
may come off conqueror.
1” receive all his letters, but do not know where
to direct. If you should hear anything—good or
bad—please le’t me know it.
Yours, truly, .
In the Court of the Confederate States Yester
day, sitting as a Court of Prize, his Honor’Judge
Magrath delivered his opinion in the case of the
ship A. B Thompson, condemning her as a lawful
prize of wsr.
j He ruled that the present war was a public war.
| Even if it were considered a civil war, inasmuch
as the contending parties were absolutely inde
! pendent and acknowledged no common superior,
they were to be governed by the laws and were
j entitled to the powers which apply to independent
1 nations when at war.
, His Honor then viewed, at some length, the
: concessions which usages of belligereat powers
j had sanctioned during a state of war, showisg
that tbe concessions generally adopted relative
to the private property of enemies upon the land
i had never been extended to the same species of
property upon the sea. The prize in the present
i case was condemned as the property of citizens
;of the United States. The ignorance of the Mas
ter of the existence of war did not protect the
! vessel from capture, nor did the fact that she was
at first taken because of an alleged lrregularitv in
her papers confine the question of her liability to
cocaemoatioa at that point. —CAorlesitju M*rcur\
Blockade or Tvsipa Bat—Two Psizes Cap
tured. —A private dispatch in the Savannah ,Vrs
dated Cedar Keys, Fla., June 2, says:
The steamer R. R. Cuvier is blockading Tampa
Bay. Four sail vessels appeared off here for
several days. To-day the steamer Madison, fullv
. armed, and manned by two companies of volun
teers stationed here, went out to reconnoitre, and
up to seven o’clock P. M. sncceded in capturing
two schooners. The schooners are now coming
j in. The steamer has gone in pursuit ot tbe others.
Extra Billy Smith was in Washington on Mon
day last, and was in the War Department disguis
ed as a beggar. Tbs fact is not creditable to tbe
authorities at Washington but there are many
| other facts equally disgraceful, seme that are
i more sc,
SkirmUh near Alexandria.
• Daring Expedition of a Detachment of the Cover
| nor's Guard—Con dr motion of the Death of
! Sergeant Jlaicts—The Enemy Routed.
Higgispn Hancock, Esq., an honorary member
of the Governor’s Guard, returned to this citv
yesterday from Manassas Junction. We regret
to say that he confirms the reported death of
j Sergeant llenry Hawes, of that company, in a
conflict with the enemy near Alexandria on Sun
day night last. From ‘Mr. Hancock, and others
who arrived yesterday, we have received state
ments of the affair which can be relied upon.
It appears that Mr. Hawes, iu company with a
detachment of twenty-nine and two guides
started from their camp on Friday evening last,’
in the direction of Alexandria. They continued
t heir observations for a day or two, gradually
drawing nearer to the Federal outposts. We are
informed that by seme means they obtained the
countersign of the enemy, and, ou Sunday uight,
actually passed three of his pickets and got within
a mile and a half of Alexandria. lN*ru our de
tachment separated, three or four only going in
company. Mr. Hawes aud his companions came
upon some three of the enemy’s scouts, and he at
once rode up and ordered them to .surrender.
They fired upon him, and wc regret to say that
one shot struck him iu the head and proved fatal.
Our scouts then fired upon tbe enemy and killed
two of those who fired upon Mr. Hawes. At this
time a large party, probably fifty, of the enemy
were seen advancing. Our scouts tired upon
them aud (it ir believed) killed six. The whole
detachment of the Governor's Guard had by this
time got together; but the superior number of
the euemy, aud their yells as they retreated to
wards Alexandria, made it prudent for them to
retire without beiug able to secure the dead body
of their comrade.
None except Mr. Hawes were injured on our
side, and uone captured. f
[Richmond Dispatch, 3d.
Interesting from Baltimore and
Virginia.
A dispatch to tbc Savannah Xews dated Ricb*
mood, July 3d, says i
Passeugers from Baltimore yesterday report
that the terror is increasing there. Cauuou are
stationed in the principal streets. The Confede
rate flag is flying in the Eighth Ward. Swords
ate in the windows.
Ten thousand troops passed through Baltimore
for Washington since Friday last, which indicates
that the crisis is culotinating.
The same passengers report that thirty-two
thousand Federal troops crossed the Potomac
near Williamsport yesterday, marching towards
Martinsburg. Col. Jackson, commanding four
thousand Confederates, has had au enga rement
with their advance column, and taken forty
prisoners, who arrived in Winchester last night.
A general engagement is expected to-day be
tween Johnson aud Patterson.
The Charleston Courier has the following :
Richmond, July 2.— Hon. Henry May, who de
feated Winter Davis for Congress iu Baltimore,
has arrived iu this city, and been iu conference
with President Davis and the Confederate author
ities, looking probably to the deliverance of
Maryland.
Col. Maxey Gregg’s regiment has arrived here
en route for Charleston, their term of enlistment
having expired ou the Ist inst.
A bloody affair occurred in Baltimore ou Sun
day night, between the Twenty-Second New
York Regiment and the Baltimoreans. Oue of
the New Yorkers was killed, and several citizens
v ounded.
Later.—' The news from Baltimore is highly im
portant. The city is filled with Lmcoln troops,
and the citizens are restrained to their houses.
~>ri lion command the princij ai streets aud an
outbreak of the populace is daily expected. It is
said that orders have beeu given to burn the city
should Johnston defeat Cadwallader aud enter on
Maryland soil.
In the Eighth Ward Confederate flags have been
thrown to the breeze from the houses of patriotic
citizens. The windows are filled with citizens who
avow their. determination to resist to t!ie death
any attempt to take down the flags. The war
feeling is intense.
Richmond is boiliug over with excitement to
night in consequence of the report that Johnston
and Cadwallttder are approaching each other. A
battle is expected within twenty-four hours. C*d
walluder has, it is said, a force of 32,000 men.
Lively times may be expected.
Scouting In Barbour County*
A correspondent of the Lewisburg Chronicle
writing from CampJGarrett, Barbour county, Va.,
Juue 20, gives au interesting accouut of scouting
expeditions in that neighborhood. It appears
that Capt. Moorman, with twenty of his com
mand, went close to the enemy’s camp on the
night of the 18th, and met with some exciting ad
ventures. Says the letter :
We passed the enemy’s scouts all along the
road, hut they had not even the courage to fire
upon us from the roadside, though they were
concealed by the darkness and the bushes, which
were as thick as the hairs on a dog’s back. We
mime back in a walk, alter firing a salute of twen
ty guns immediately by the cowardly devils. On
the next day, the 19th, squads of four of our com
pany took possession of the pike, within four
miles of Phillippa, and waited patiently, iu am
bush, for the enemy’s scouts aud spies. Calvin
Renick, Cyrus Chreigh, Chas. McClung, Lewis
Peyton anil Addison Bell composed the advanced
guard.
About 11 o’clock three scouts came alpug. They
were halted by young Peyton. Oue of them
drew’ a pistol and fired five shots at our young
P., the aistance being only about fifteen or twenty
paces. Young P. tired upon him and broke the
fellow’s arm. Jus as young Peyton fired, Calvin
Ilenick let loose upon the rascals, and killed one
of them instantly. This caused the sentinels
stationed along the road to give alarm, and in one
hour’s time our whole Cavalry corps was almost
in gun-shot of Phillippa. Our company was tficn
divided into squads of four, six aud eight, and we
concealed ourselves in the brushwood.
About six o’clock in the eveuiug a footman came
walking along the road, very deliberately. Mr.
llurkhurt, our bugleman—than whom a braver
man does not live—on his horse, halted him in the
road. In an instant, the scoundrel leveled his
.Minnie musket at Mr. 8., but it failed to go off.—
He then drew a five-shooter and snapped it five
times at Mr. B. By this time Capt. Moorman, M.
B. White, John Gilkeson, Dr. Campbell, ourself,
and a citizen of the neighborhood, cauie up, aud
commanded the belligeicnt rascal to surrender.—
He refused, and started to run, when Contain
Moorman discharged odd of bis horse-pistols at
him, which only took effect upon the two buttons
on the back of his cot. He then ran like allevil,
Mr. Burkhart ou horseback, and we oa foot iu
pursuit.. After a somewhat exciting race, he stop
ped and gave himself up. Mr. B. g7>t second se
vere blows, but is not seriously hurt. The pris
oner fought bravely. lip is a German by birth
and education, and belonged to the 9th Regiment
of Indiana Volunteers. We brought him to the
camp that night, and he is now in the Guard
House. He gave us much valuable information
relative to matters at Phillippi. The only excuse
he gives for volunteering to invade Virginia, is
that he was thrown out of employment and had to
fight or starve. He says, that the principal por
tion of the Northern rmv is composed oi persons
thus situtated.
Our scouts, numbering about 20, and thi en
emy’s scouts, numbering about 40, bad a little
brush last night. None of our men were hut.—
Several of the euemy were killed aud wounded.
Reported Engagement near Winches
ter.
A number of passengers arrived from Winches
ter on the Central cars yesterday, who report
that early on Tuesday morning the Federal forces,
eatimated at 32,000 men, under commaad of
Generals Cadwallader and Patterson, crossed
the Potomac at Shephard’s Ferry aud Williams
port.
state that Col. Jackson, in command of a
detachment of Gen. Johnston’s force, variously
estimated at from one to four thousand men, was
at the latter place and attacked the enemy while
they were crossing the river. Col. Jackson is
said to have killed forty or fifty of the Federal
troops, and to have token about seventy pris
oners ; hut being unable to cope with so a
body, retired back towards Martinsburg, for the
purpose of forming a junction with Gen. John
. .ion.
Our informants state that when they passed
through Winchester, about eleven o’clock Tues
day nigh*, Gen. Johnston was then ou tbe way to
meet the enemy with his entire command, sup
posed to consist of from 12,000 to 15,000 men,
and the prisoners taken by Col. Jackson were
momentarily expected to arrive at Winchester,
they baying” been passed on the way, and their
coming announced.
Col. Jackson writes, we understand, that if he
had Lad 5,000 mere troops he would have contin
ued to engage the enemy instead of falling hack
on the mam body.
These facts are abundantly confirmed, and it
is reasonable to suppose that there was an en
gagement yesterday in the neighborhood of Mar
tiusburg.
From indications, the F urth seems to have
beei selected as a day for the advauce of the Fed
eral troops at all points, and we shall expect to
hr r of uuuierom engagements.— Richmond Dis
patch, 4 th.
Late fkom Baltimore, —We have had au inter
view with a gentleman who is a resident of our
city, and who left Baltimore on Tuesday morning.
He gives a very painful account of the condition
of affairs in that city, where the crisis seems to
be drawing to its culmination. Ten thousand
Federal troops had passed through Baltimore be
tween Friday and Monday last, aud it was believed
there that there were over 50,000 men in Wash
ington’ city.
The Confederate flag was flying in tbe Eighth
W ard, and swivels had been placed in the win
dows of the houses in that Ward, the occupants
swearing that they would defend it to the last
gasp. Cannon had been planted in the principal
streets and squares. A battery of brass field
pieces stands in Monument Square, in front of the
residence of tbe Hon. Reverdy Johnson, and ano
ther one in Exchange Place, both being unlimbtr
ed and ready for action. The city is full of Feder
al troops, and the population exasperated by these
tyrannical and despotic measures.
Notwithstanding the reign of terror existing
there, portraits of President Davis, Gens. Beaure
gard and Lee were sold on the streets and greedi
ly purchased.
The Boston Flying Artillery and part of a Penn
sylvania Regiment, were stationed in front of the
Gilmore House, and a >'ew York Regiment in Ex
change Place. It waa felt in Baltimore that the
slumbering volcano was about to burst forth, and
that their devoted citv would probablv before
many days be laid in ruins. —Richmond DUpatck,
ah.
Treacherous Outraue.— 'The Staunton Specta
tor gays ;
We are pained to loam that Mr. Gamble
Dalhouse, a member of Capt. Patrick’s company,
of this county, has been tbe victim of tbe most
villainous and treacherous outrage, committed by
some of Lincoln’s soldiers, which has ever been
recorded iL all the annals of civilized warfare.
Two of Lincoln’s soldiers visited our camp under
a flag of truce for the professed purpose of bring
ing seme clothes to one of his men “'hoin we held
as a prisoner. On their return, they fired upon
Mr. Dalhouse, whom they found alone on picket
duty. He was shot in the abdomen, and is seri
ously, if not icortallv, wounded. This villainous
and treacherous outrage should be avenged. We
should bold the next bearers of a flag ot truce till
the devils who committed this outrage should be
placed in the possession of our forces, to receive
the reward their villainous conduct merits.
Washixgto.n- City Finances. — The following in
teresting fact is communicated to the Baltimore
Sun, of the 2d inst., by its Washington corres
pondent :
Mayor Berret exteoded’the time for the recep
tion of bids for the ss,oC>u loan, in aid of the fami
lies of our District volunteers, until 3 o’clock this
alteraoon, but the only proposal recieved was one
for $25. Sii per cent, was unquestionably too
low a figure at this Ume.
BY TELEGKAPII.
another glorious victory !
the ball opened in earnest.
A Great Battle—The Fedeialists
Three Times Repulsed and
Driven into 85 artinsburg
—Great Slaughter!
JOHSSOS To SHELL MAKTILSBERO :
BATTLE STALL RAtIN ft !
GREAT BATTLE NEAR MARTINSBURG -RAT
TEKSON AND CADWALLADER REPULSED.
Richmond, July s.— Passengers arrived here to
day from Manassas and the neighborhood of Win
chester, report that the Confederates,under Gen.
Johnston, bad repulsed the Federal forces under
Cadwallader and Patterson threofjiuies, with con
siderable slaughter. The Federalists were driven
into Martinsburg.
Gen. Johnstou had sent to the authorities
of that place to remove the womeu and childreu,
as he would shell the town.
It was believed that a sanguinary fight would
take place last night aud this morning.
No statement of the loss in killed, wounded and i
prisoners, is given on either side.
Martinsburg is ou the Baltimore aud Ohio rail
road.
BATTLE AT MARTINSBURG. * j
Richmond, July s.—The Winchester correspon
dent of the Richmond Enquirer, writing uuder
date ot July 2d, says : “Last night a large body
ot the enemy crossed the Potomac river—some
above aud some below Williamsport, marching
east of Martinsburg. Col. Jackson advanced to
meet them.”
The vanguard of the euemy consisted of acorn- j
puny of 85 meu, distributed us toliows: 15 meu iu ;
front, 30 distant 200 yards, and 40 distant a quar
ter of a milt*. The first fifteen surrendered with
out a contest; the next thirty tired a few shots
and then surrendered ; of the forty remaining
four were taken prisoners, seventeen killed, aud
nineteen wounded.
Iu the meautime the maiu body of the euemy
came up. The battle lasted an hour and a half,
when the Federalists retired. Col. Jackson also
retired, falling back upon Martinsburg.
The Confederates had 8 kissed and 11 wounded,
while the total loss of the enemy was 70 killed, 90
wounded aud 50 taken prisoners.
The vote on the Constitution at Atlanta stood
78 for ratification—3l against. At Columbus 139
for ratification—lo 2 against. At Macon 91 for
ratification—94 agaiust. At Thomasville 12 for
ratification—6l agaiust. At Madison 108 for rati
fication—79 agaiust.
ANOTHER ENGAGEMENT.
Richmond, Va., July Z. —Passengers arrived
here to-day report that an engagement took place
at Shepherd’s Ford yesterday afternoon, between
a regiment of Virginians, under Gen. Jackson,
and a part of the • nemy’s force. Gen. Jackson
fell back ou Martiusburg, capturing forty of the
enemy’s cavalry, aud killing and wounding many.
The exact number was not ascertained.
The general impression here is that we are on
the eve of great events.
SCOUT AND PICKET SKIRMISH.
Washington, July I.—A party of fourteen Con
federate scouts attacked the Federal picket guard
on Schulter’s Hill, killing oue aud wounding oue;
MORE SKIRMISHING.
Grafton, July 2.—Skirmishing between both
parties continues in this section, but the details
are suppressed.
ANOTHER SKIRMISH.
Alexandria, July 2.—Another skirmish has re
cently taken place uear here, iu which two Feder
al pickets were killed.
TIIE ST. NICHOLAS AFFAIR.
Baltimore, July 2.—Capt. Holland, late of tbe
U. S. vessel Susquehauua, weut ou the steamer
St. Nicholas disguised as a woman.
After the seizure of the St. Nicholas, he aud Uis
party captured three vessels laden with icc and
coffee, and took them to Fredericksburg, Va.
ATTACK ON NEWPORT NEWS FRUS
TRATED.
Fortress Monroe, July 2.—Au attack oi New
port News on Friday night last was ouly prevent
ed by the incessant rain.
HEAVY FIRING AT MATTHIAS* POINT.
Richmond, Va., July s.—Passengers arrived
here from Fredericksburg state that heavy firing
was heard iu the direction of Matthias’ Point ou
Thursday night.
THE CAPTURED ICE.
Richmond, Va., July s.—Passengers arrived
here from Fredericksburg report that tbe cargo
of ice recently captured by Capt. Hollins has
been sold for $4,000.
THE WAR IN VIRGINIA—MOVEMENTS OF
TROOPS—ENGAGEMENT—PROSPECT OF
A BLOODY BATTLE.
Richmond, July 4.—Passeugers arrived here to
day from the York River Railway, and Yorktown,
report affairs iu that section quiet, but stirriug
times are expected soou iu that direction.
Passengers from Mauassas, Winchester, and
points above, eoufirm the report of the invasion
of Virginia by Cudvvallader aud Patterson, aud
state that au actiou had occurred uear Martius
burg, between about 70U troops under Col. Jack
sou, uud some 6 or 7,000 Federal troops, ia which \
engagement ouly 2 or 3 Confederates were killed, |
and about 17 wounded, while 12 Federalists were
taken prisoners aud quite a number killed and j
wounded. This most probably refers to tbo eu- j
gagement which was reported yesterday.
Tbe general impression here, is, that if Patter- ;
son does not retire, a bloody conflict will be the
result, as Geu. Johnstou, with a large force, is
pushing forward to meet the Federal invaders.
PROSPECTS OF A GREAT BATTLE.
Richmond, Va., July 3.—Passengers arrived
here to-day report that Generals Patterson and
Cadwallader crossed the Potomac yesterday with
a joint torce of 30,000 Federalists. They also re
port that Gen. Johnston, late of Harper’s Ferry,
left Winchester yesterday afternoon, with a large
force of Southerners, to drive back the invaders. :
FROM FORT PICKENS, VIA NEW YORK.au
Richmond, July 3. —The Baltimore Sun of yes
terday has been received here. It contains a dis
patch from New York, July 1, which states that
the World publishes a letter from Fort Pickens,
confirming the capture by the Federal fleet in that
vicinity of the English bark Etna, with rifled can
non on board for the Confederate forces. The
capture of the privateer Webb is also confirmed.
TERRIBLE STATE OF AFFAIRS IN BALTI
MORE.
Baltimore, July 2.—Since 2 o’clock tbis morn
ing startling proceedings have taken place in this
city. Detachments of infantry and artillery are
now posted in Monument Square, Exchange Place,
the Eighth Ward, Broadway, and other points.
Before daylight all the members of the Board of
Police, except the Mayor, were arrested, under
the pretence that a secession plot had been dis
covered.
OCCUPATION OF BALTIMORE CONFIRMED.
Richmond, July 3.— The Baltimore Sun confirms
the military occupation of that city by Federal
troops, and the seizure of the Board of Police
Commissioners. Gen. Banks states in his proc
lamation that he received orders to do as he has
done from Washington city.
WASHINGTON CITY AFFAIRS.
Richmond, July 3.—“Aga,” the Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, saya that
there are between 00.000 and 70,000 troops in the
neighborhood of Washington city.
About fifty members of Congress had arrived
there.
NORTHERN FAILURES.
Richmond, July 3. —The Boston Commercial
Bulletin states that there were, last week, 12 mer
cantile failures in New York, 14 in Boston and 4
in Philadelphia.
PROCLAMATION BY PRESIDENT DAVIS.
Richmond, July 3.— President Davis publishes
a proclamation in this murniog’s Examiner, an
nouncing the admission of Tennessee into the
Southern Confederacy to be as complete as that
of other States.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN RICHMOND.
Richmond, Va., July 3. —Mr. Joseph Laidley,
an eminent chemist, and formerly a druggist, of
this city, had his head and arms awfully mangled
to-day, by the explosion of some fulminating
powder, at the percussion cap manufactory in
this city. He. died instantly.
Mr. Robert E. Clayton, his assistant, was also
seriouslv wounded.
THE FEEDERAL SPEAKERSHIP.
New Yore, July 2.—The Times says that the
contest for the Speakership of the Federal Con
gress, which meets on the 4th mst., is becoming
very exciting. The chances are in favor of Grow,
of Pennsylvaoia, imperiling the hopes of Forney,
who is working for Blair, of Missouri.
“IT’S OF NO CONSEQUENCE.’’
New \ ore, July 2.—The Herald says that the
Government does not regard the occupation cf
Harper's Ferry as of any consequence. Every
thing is being destroyed there.
THE RUSSELL CANARD EXPLODED.
New Yobe, Jule 2.— The Times of this city has
3 letter trom Mr. W. H. Russell, correspondent of
the London Times, in which that gentleman de
nies the truth of the report that his correspond
ence has been tampered with at the South’
N.’ W YORK COTTON MARKET.
New York, July —Sales of cotton to-day 1200
bales. Middling uplands 14% cents. The market
s firm, with an upward tendenev.
AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI.
Independent!!, July 2.—Tec thousand Missouri
ans have crossed Maray's river 100 miles south of
this place. They are there preparing for an ad
vance.
WHAT THE FEDERALISTS WANT.
Washington, July 2.—The Federalists want
Fairfax C. H. by the 4th of July.
CONFEDERATE MOVEMENTS.
Washington. July 2.— The Southerners are run
ning curs within ten miles of Alexandria.
The Confederate steamer George Page is cruis
ing m the vicinity of Aequia creek.
VOL. LXXV.---NEW SERIES. VOL. XXV. N0.28.
PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S MESSAGE.”
Washington, July 4.—The following is Presi
dent Lincoln’s Message to Congress :
At the beginning of the present Administra
tion, the Federal Government was found sus
pended in the several States, excepting the postal
functions; tbe National property, excepting
Forts Pickens, Taylor, Jeffersou aad Sumter,
seized and* put in an offensive position;—
other forts built, armies organized, aud being
organized, avowedly hostile to the Government,
the Federal force beseiged or meuaced iu these
States, a disproportionate amount of arms aud
munitions which had some how found their way
into these rebellious States, the accummulation of
the National revenues within rebel borders seized,
tbe Federal Navy was scattered. Federal Army
! and Navy officers had resigned in great numbers,
Ordinances declaring separation bad passed, and 1
these States of America were applying to foreign
powers for recognition and assistance.
The ’ucoming Administration believed it to be
an imperative duty to prevent tho tbreateued dis
memberment of the Union. Tbe choice of meas
ures was indispensable. The policy chosen was
that indicated iu my inaugural. I exhausted all
peaceful measures before a resort to coercion.
The Government was seeking ouly to bold the
public places and property which had not been
wrested from it, and also collection of the reve
nue—relying upon time; discussion, and the bal
lot-box for the rest, promising, iu the meantime,
a continuance of the mails.
Everything wus borne, compatible with keep
ing the Government on foot.
On the 4th of March a letter was received from
Major Anderson at Fort Sumter, stating that the
place could uot be held, aud, on further conside
ration, Geu. Scott considered the force at the
disposal of the Government uot adequate to the !
relief of Sumter, without the immediate victual |
liug of the Fort.
The Administration’s duty w&s therefore reduced
to the sate withdrawal of the garrison. It was
believed, however, that the abandonment of the
Fort would be utterly ruiuous—that the action
would be misunderstood—discourugiug the friends
of the Union, emboldiug its euemies, aud eucour
aging the recognition of the Confedererate States
abroad—in fact, produce a nutural distrust of the
Administration. Its course was unavoidable.
Previous to Sumter’s starvation, Fort Pickeus,
it was determined, might be reiuforced, thus indi
cating the Administration policy, aud preparing
the publi4|piiud for Suuiter’3 evacuation us a uiili
tary necessity.
Orders were therefore immediately issued tor
Pickeus’ reinforcement.
It was impossible to do this by laud, aud it was
therefore ordered by sea. The first return to the
order was received the week before Sumter’s fall.
The steamer Brooklyn, uuder President Buch
auau’s quasi-armistice, refused to laud troops to
reinTorcc Fort Pickeus before toe crisis could be
relieved at Fort Sumter.
To prevent Sumter’s e* acuatiou before Pickeus’ i
reinforcement, the Government plumed au expe- j
ditiou to victual Sumter—the plan to be used or
uot, as circumstances might require. Contingen
cies required the consummation of the plan.
Gov. Pickens was notified that it the victual
bug of the fort was unresisted, no attempt would
be made to throw in men, arms, und ammunition
without previous notice beiug given. But the
fort was taken without waiting for the victualling
expedition.
Thus the attack ou Sumter was iu no sense, iu
self-defence. The assailants kuew that, iu uo
event, could Sumter ho mischievous. They were
notified that the feeding of hungry meu wus tbe
outy object of the Government; the Government
wished to maintain ouly a nominal possession of
the Fortrr—thus preserving the Uuiou—trusting to
time, discussion, aud the ballot box for a tiuui ud
justuicni of difficultiss. But the Fort was assailed,
the object beiug to drive out the uuuble Federal
authority, thus forcing au immediate dissolution
ol the Union. This the Executive uuderstood ;
aud having said to the people of the rebel States
when iuuuguaated, you cau have ho conflict with
out? beiug yourselves the aggressors—tho Admin
istration took pains to make the declaration good
iu the circumstances surrounding the Sumter af
fair.
Thus the Confederates begau the conflict.—
They have forced upou the country the destruc
tive issue of immediate dissolution—embracing
more than the fate of the Union. It solves the
question whether a people’s Government can
maintain the integrity of its territory against’ do
mestic foes—whether individuals, too few to con
trol the Government by organized law, cau break
up the Goverumeut—thus ending free govern
ment on earth. It forces this question . Must the
Government be too strong for the people’s lib
erty, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?
No choice was left hut to cull out the war power
of tbe Government to resist the force employed
for its destruction. The response to tho call bus
surpassed the most sauguine expectations. Dela
ware alone, however, of the slave States respond
ed. A few regimeuts from other slave States
have been raised by individual enterprise, and
accepted. The border States were not uniform
in actiou, but the course taken by Virginia was
the most remarkable and important.
A Convention to consider this question was in
session when Sumter fell. There was then a large i
majority for the Union, hue they weut over, car
ried the State out of the Union, made extensiyc
military preparations, seized the Federal proper
ty, received large bodies of Confederate troops,
eutered into a treaty with the Confederate States,
sent representatives to the Confederate Council,
aud permitted the insurrectionary Goverum ut to
be transferred to the Capital of Virginia. The
Government has uo chance left, therefore, but to
pursue its preseut course w ith regard to Virginia,
and does so with less regret from having beeu
called to protect loyal citizens in that State whom
it is found to sustaiu.
Other border States favor au armed neutrality
—that is arming the State to prevent Uuiou and
disunion troops from occupying its soil. Tbis
would be disuuiou complete. Figuratively, it
would he buildiug impassable walls along the
liue of separation, aud, right under the guise of
neutrality, it would tie the bauds of the Unionists
aud feed the secessionists—taking all the trouble
Irom secession bauds, except what arises faom the
external blockade, aud it would give to the mal
contents disunion without a struggle of their
bauds.
It recognizes no fidelity to the Constitution, uo
obhgatiou to maiutaiu the Uuiou. While many
loyalists iu those Slates favored such a course,
the Administration still considers it very inju
rious to the cause of the Union.
Recurring to the action of the Government—
the Administration first culled out 73.000 troops,
and proclaimed a blockade of the secession ports,
while the insurrectionists announced a privateer
ing scheme on tbe'r part. A call for three .years’
troops, with large additions to the army and
navy, were measures next ventured upon under
the popular demand and the public necessity,
trusting to Congressional ratification.
Soon after this, it was cousiderd a duty to au
thorize the Commanding General to suspend the
writ of habtn corpn a wherever the public safety
required.
This was necessary to the execution of the laws
The continuance of the law made in such extreme
tenderness and regard for the citizeu's liberty,
practically relieved more of the guilty than the
innocent. To slate the question more directly :
Are all the laws but one t he unexecuted, aud
the Government go to pieces, lest out be violated?
But it was believed that the suspension of the
“habeas corpus'’ Act was uot unconstitutional.
Forbearance had been bo extraordinary and
long continued, as to induce foreign cations to
shape their action on the supposition that uu early
dissolution of tL . Union would result. The Ad
ministration was much coucerued about Ibis, but
is now happy to state that the sovereiguty of the
Uuiou is everywhere respected, and that sympa
thy with the Government is everywhere respected
throughout the world.
The .secretaries will g.ve all detailed informa
tion, while the Executive aud the Departments
are ready to supply any omissions necessary to
guide the deliberations of Congress.
The Administration recommends the adoption
of each measures as wilt make the contest short
and decisive; that you place at the disposal of
the Government at least 400,WJ men and ioO mil
lions of money. That number of men is about
one-tenth the available men within the witling re
gion, that wealth is ahent two thirds the wealth
of men who seem willing to devote the whole of
six hnudred millions of dollars—which is less
than the debt per head of the revolutionary pop
ulation.
Surely the motive is as strong uow as it was
then ; and the result might be worth ten times
the number of men, and ten times the amount of
money Legislative sanction 15 all that is now
necessary.
The material for work 13 abundant; the greatest
perplexity with the Government being to avoid
receiving men faeter than we are prepared to re
ceive them. The people will then have a Gov.
ernment, if the Government will but do its part
of the duty.
While perceptibly, there is but little difference
between secession and revolution, the movers of
the present troubles knew that they could never
raise their treason to respectability by a name im
plying the violation of the law. They could only
advance indirectly. lathe teeth of the noble sen
timents of the people, they commenced an invidi
ous perversion of public sentiment, invented :n
----genius sophisms, which, if considered logically,
things followed all incidents to the destruction of
the Union. The sophism is the right to a legal,
peaceful withdrawal from the Union, without the
consent of the UnioD. Thus they sugar-coated
the rebellion', while the publio mind has been
drugged during thirty years, and good men are :
now found in arms against the Government.
The sophism derives currency from the as- :
eumpuon of some impotent supremacy pertaining |
Ito States. States have neither more nor less
| than reserved power—every one of them being a
State of the Uuiou. The original ones passed
iuto the Union before casting off their British
Colonial dependence, while tbe new ones came iu
from a condition of dependence. Even during
their temporary independence they were never
designated as States. The words “Sovereign
State” are not in the Constitution, nor, as is be
lieved, in any State Constitution.
[Here toliows au elaborate argument against
the right of secession, lie then proceeds ‘
It is questioned whether the people of anj,
| State, except South Carolina, iu favor of
the Union. The contrary has not beeu demon
i strated.
Our adversaries have adopted some portions ot
I the Declaration of Independence. The words,
| “ All meu are created free aud equal” are omitted.
; Their Constitution, instead of commeuciug with
’ BY, tho people,” has it, “We toe Deputies of
vhe Sovereign aud ludepeudent States.”
Why thus ignore the rights of men—the au
thority of tbe people This is essentially a peo
ple’s coutest ; uud I am happy to believe that tue
plain commou people understand aud appreciate
this. It is worthy of note that while iu the Na
lion’s trials, several of its officers have resigned,
uo commou soldier or sailor has deserted his flag.
It reuiaius to be demonstrated that those who
cau fairly carry au dectiod, cau also repress a
rebellion —that ballots are the rightful
ful successors of bullets; auu that wheu ballots
have fairly aud constitutionally decided, there
can be uo successful appeal buck to bullet: uo
appeal except to ballots themselves at the suc
ceeding election.
Such w’ill be the %ssou taught—there will be
uo peace—teaching men that what they cannot ,
take by au election they cannot take By w ar.
Lest there bt uneasiness regarding the course
the Government will pursue tc vTrds the South:
cm States utter the suppression of the rebellion, j
it is proper to say here that the Affmjuistration
will be guided by the Constitution aud Lie laws.
The Executive desires to administer tbe Govern- !
mout as it was administered by ihe Government*
makers. Loyal persons everywhere have u right
to claim this.
Nor cau there be perceived any coercion, sub
jugatiou, or conquering in these terms.
The Constitution guarantees to each State a
representative form of government. If a State
withdraws, Congress may change this form to
prevent its going out. Tbis is indispensable to
maintaining the guarantee.
With the deepest regret thq Executive has em
ployed the war power for the defence of the Gov
ernment, but this was forced upon him. He could
but perform his duty, or surrender the Govern
ment. ,
No compromise in this case cau cure the evil—
not that compromises are not often proper, hut uo
popular Government cau mug survive so marked
a precedent that those who carry ou elections can
ouly save the country by giving up tiie main
point upon which the people gave the election.
The people themselves, uot their servants, cau re
verse the decision a* private citizens. But the
Executive could not consent that our institutions
should perish, much less betray so vast uud sacred
a trust us a tree people have confided iu him.
lie hud ho moral right to shrink from, or court
the chuuces of his own life in what might follow.
In full view of his* great responsibility, ho has
doue what he deemed to be his duty. You will
n ow, according owm judgment, do yours,
lie fiopes that your views and actions will accorjl
w ith his, as to assure faithful citizeus who have
beeu disturbed iu their lights, a speedy restora
tion of those rights.
Having thus choseu our course with pure nio
tives aud purposes, *ct us renew or trust, uud go
forward without fear aud with manly hearts. *
Aduaua.m Lincoln.
LINCOLN’S CONGRESS.
Washington, July >. —In the Senate a bill has
been introduced confiscating the property of all
civil and military officers—the. latter above the
rank of Lieutenant—in the rebellious States;
disqualifying them from holding offices of profit
or honor ; aud applying the property ot “traitors”
to the restoration of the Uuiou.
The resigning Secretary was Joseph Nicholson,
not Asbury Dickinson.
FLAG OF TRUCE DISREGARDED.
Fortress Monroe, July s.—The British Consul
visited Fortress Monroe to-day under a flag of
truce, wishing to visit Baltimore officially, but
Commodore Striugham refused to recognize the
flag.
INDIANA REGIMENT LEFT FOR VIRGINIA.
Louisville, Ky., July o,—A dispatch from
Indianapolis says that the Fourteenth Indiana
regiment, and a company of cavalry, armed with
Sharpe’s carbines and revolvers, were to leave
that place to-day for Virginia.
THE FEDERAL CONGRESS.
Washington, July 4.—Congress assembled here
to-day. The Senate organized. The Following
Senators were present, and in their seats : Messrs.
I‘owell aud Breckiuridge, of Kentucky; I’olk, of
Missouri; Johnson, Ot Tennessee ; Keuuedy aud
l’earce, of Mary laud.
The credentials of Messrs. Lane aud Pomeroy, of
Kansas, aud of Ewiug for the long term ; of
Browning, ot Illinois, aud McDougal, of (Julifor
nia, were presented!
Copies of all Navy contracts were demanded.
Senator Wilsou will introduce a bill to-monow,
to eoufirm the acts of the President.
Notices weregiveu of bills to employ volunteers,
euforce the laws, iucrease tbe military establish
ment, for the better organization oi tbe military,
to promote the organization and efficiency of the
volunteer militia force to he called the United
States National Guard.
Mr. Dickinson has refused tbe Secretai'yship of
the Senate.
In the House 159 members answered to the roll
can.
Ou the ballottiDg for Speaker commeuciug,
Colfax withdrew. Hickman nominated Blair. At
this, the gallery applauded. Grow was also nom
iuated, but there was no choice. The second bal
lot stood thus: Grow 98, Blair 11, Crittendeu 12.
The Senate then adjourned.
’ AFFAIRS IX MISSOURI.
St. Loi is, Mo., July It.- —Official iuibrojaiiou
places Geu. Zcigle at Mount Vernon, Lawrence
county, with a strong force,’ and Gov. Jackson
across tbe Arkansas river.
THE LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE RAIL
ROAD.
Nashville, July 3.—The up uni dowu passeu- ■
gor trains on the Louisville aud Nashville Rail- |
road were seized this morning at Camp Truesdale, ,
near Mitchelville, by order of Maj Gen. Anderson,
and brought to this city. The managers had ta
ken all the engines and rolling stock, except a few
cars, to Louisville, against which policy we had
remonstrated. The seizure was a necessity to
protect ourselves. Gen. Anderson informed the
Agent here that no further seizure would be made,
and that the trains should hereafter be allowed to
pass unmolested.
Louisville, Ky., July 3.— No goods are now ;
goiug forward. The merchants here are gcL.:- I
rally withdrawing their stocks from the depot,
it is determined to send uo train beyond Bowling
Green, Ky., at present. The Directors are unde
cided as to the Memphis branch, it being on nei
ther road. Trains will not go beyond the Siate
line.
GREAT CONFLAGRATION 1.” BOSTON.
Boston, Mass., July 5.— A tremendous confla
gration occurred in East Boston to-dav. The fol
lowing property wu. destroyed .
The wharves and salt warehouses of the Suffolk
Mills, East Boston iron foundry, machine shops,
sectional dock, marine railway, manure and chem
ical warehonses, 100 dwellings, an immense
amount of lumber and timber, manure stores,
moulds for Raul Curtiss’ uew guu-bOat, 4 vessels
totally, 0 badly injured, also 12 buildings else
where in the city.
LARGE FORCES CONCENTRATING IN
ARKANSAS.
Louisville, Ky., July 3. —Five thousand five
hundred troops, including 1,000 Tennesseans,
2,000 Arkansians, aud aOO Kentuckians, are uow
at Yellville, Ark., with ten pieces of flying artil
lery. The indications are that an army of about
20,000 men will soon advance from there, and
every able-bodied man in Missouri is enrolling
himself.
EX-GOV. SEYMOUR STANDS UR FOR THE
SOUTH.
Hartford, Conn., July 3.—ln the House of
Representatives of the Legislature of this State,
ex-Gov. Seymour offered a resolution virtually
upholding the Southern Confederacy. His reso
lution was supported by eighteen fearless Demo
crats.
THE TORY VIRGINIA CONVENTION
‘ Wheeling, Va., July 3.—both Houses of the
Tory Legislature met here to-day and organized.
“Governor” Rierpont sent iu his message, with
Federal documents recogDiziDg the Raobandie
State! whifh was read.
Twenty-seven thousand dollars of Virginias j
money was seized by the Wheeling traitors.
CAPTURES AT SEA.
New York, July 0.-Tbe Solfermo, captured j
by the Vandalia, has arrived here.
A Southern privateer captured the transport j
Henna Balch.off Cape Hatteras.
ENGLISH SENTaiE.NT TOWARDS THE CON- j
Louisville, Ky., July s.—The- Loudon Money j
Market Snutv says ; We have habitually regar
ded the United States with respect, asjthe provi
der of Cotton whereby four million* of people sub
sisted. Let us not forget that we must now trans
fer this feeling to the Confederate States.
STEAMER CATALINE BURNT.
Fortress Monroe, July s.— The Federal steam
er Cataline has been burnt.
ETHERIDGE ELECTED CLERK.
Washington, July s.—Etaendge has been elect
ed Clerk of the House. He was nominated by
Mallory, of Kentucky.
LATER FROM EUF.OPI:,
ARRIVAL OF . ‘Si'TJm. THE STE-OIER
ETNA.
Npfw Yokk, July 2. The steamship Etna Lap
arrrived, briuging Liverpool dates to Thursday,
Juuc 13th.
COMMc.Kt'/.\L NK’Vp..
j Liverpool, June I-*.—Sales of three days, Mon
:dav, Tuesday and Wednesday 30,005, of which
1 speculators <tud exporters took 7,000 bales. The
market closed firm and unchanged. \
Latest - Liverpool, Thursday.—Sales of cotton
, t0 ‘ u ! u >’ hairs, of w hich speculators aiid ex
. P or ters took §,600 bales. The market closed quiet,
but steady.
| Dreads lulls slightly lmvei and dull. Provisions
do.!. On Thursday, they were unchanged.
| Consols vveio quoted a B!*% for money
! aud I>o t 0 for uecouat. Ou Thursday, they
i were unchanged.
j Manchester advice. represent .the oiartet as
i dull and heavy.
GENERAL NEWS.
j Iu the British House of Commons the bill for
! ‘he übolitiou of the church rates was rejected bv
j the castiug rote of the speaker.
| M \r ß has won the cbutepiooship of England tu
! a prize fight;
Tito ship Mediord bus been condemned at rh . ui.
The Etna brings £ 236,000 iu specie.
| The, political news by this arrival is unimpor
| ta\. :
i A most significant article has boeu published
’ simultaneously by the Petrie aud Mouiteur, of
Paris’, whfcii # fO!\\shadowi the approaching reco
uitiou ofjbe Southern Confederacy by the French
Government. Tin; Emperor Napoleon aunuuuck
for bidi&U* and for other European power.-, that
the Confederacy hat the same claims to acknow l
cdgeatcut that ilie new kingdom of Italy has/
when it shows ih;fl it can maintain itself, and iff t
| i>tci'national relations cun be established with its
r Thiers.
The English steamer Avadue. him sailed dor
America.
Thedivisiou ot the French fleet under Admiral
Keynavd, was about to-eail for America.
A correspondent of a New .Orleans paper
that the Loudon Times avers that it .s impossible
to resist the convicjuou that ihe'Southern Con fed
eracy cau only bii conquered by luejins us irresis
tible us thus.: which subjugated Poland?
An influential meeting was held at Lord Brough
Hill’s relative to the Cubau Slave trade. The pro
ccediugs of the Spanish Government in* regard
thereto were denounced, and the Byitisii Govern*
rnent was requested to suspend diplomacy wnb
Spain until the slave trade is abandoned.
Iu an article o Italian affairs published in the
Patrie, aud copied into the Moueteur, ff a para
graph which insinuates tliqt the Southern Amerj*
cau States i the Southern Coufeccraey, ’ will suc
ceed iu establishing a sepuratc liepublic.
The Neapolitan ♦owns of Sun Marino and Yegn
s!no had revolted. They were takcii bowc vCr, by
assault, and burned.
ADDITIONAL DV TLiL STEAMSHIP ETNA.
Kn July —Spain will observu a strict
neutrality in regard to American affairs.
Sir Henry Do! wer was very iil.
DISABLED VOLUNTEERS DISCHARGED.
Newi okt News, July 2. —Four hundred disabled
volunteers were discharged to-day.
SEIZURE OF A FEDERAL STEAMER.
Washington, July ‘J. —Tue steamer St. Nicholas
ha: beet seized by her Southern passengers.
MARYLAND HEIGHTS TORE OCCUPIED.
Washington, July a’.—Col. St#nk, of the Fede
ral army, i& to occupy Maryland Heights with his
troops, so 4is to command Harper’s Ferry.
SOUTHERNERS ARRESTED.
Washington, July J. — Wm. Brent, of South
Carolina, and Henry Scott, of Maryland, have
been arrested here as spies.
NO DIPLOMATIC APPOINTMENTS.
Washington, July ‘J. —Lincolu will consider no
diplomatic appointments unttllifter the adjourn
ment of Congress,
AFFAIRS IN MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS.
Memphis, July 2.—An Express has just urn ed
at Little Rpck ffrom Fort Smith, Ark , bringing
the news that Missouri is being overran wifcn Fed*
erulists.
Illinois Lincolnitcs possess the towns ou both
sideslof the Missouri river.
lau and Montgomery are marching for the In
diun country.
Springfield is tilled with Federalists intended
for the invasion of Arkansas through Fayette
ville. -
Gen. McCulloch has issued a proclamation coll
ing upon the Arkansians to rendezvous promptly
at Fayetteville, to drive back the invaders nod
sustain-the Missourians.
THE CBEW OF THE PRIVATEER SAVANNAH
g (Richmond, July -'.—The New York correspond
ent of the Baltimore Sun, of Saturday last, says
the officers and crew of the privateer Savannah
are comfortably ‘situated iu the tonJ>s prison.
They appear cheerful aud hopeful of an early re
lease. r
THE FIRST NEW WHEAT.
Richmond, July 2.—The first new wheat of the
season was exhibited iu Baltimore on Friday last.
It was rai&ed in Maryland.
FREMONT COMMISSIONED AS MAJOR
GENERAL
Washington, July 2. —Fremont has beeu com
missioned as a Major General, ranking next to
General McClelland,
RAISING THE PRICE OF SUBSCRIPTION.
I Richmond, Va., July 2.—Several of the New
York morning papers Jiave raised the price of
! subscription in consequence of the barj times
; prevailing there.
PEACE CONVENTION IN DELAWARE.
Richmond, July 2. —A State Convention of the
| friends of peace in Delaware, was held at Dover
| on Thursday last. It was immensely attended by
! the bone aDd sinew of the State. Lx-Gov. Tem
j pie presided, assisted by 31 Vice Presidents,
i A series of resolutions were adopted, the first
! declaring in favor of peace—opposition to civil
war, aDd the acknowledgement of the Southern
Confederacy, preferable to au attempt to conquer
| it, and hold the States as snjugated provinces.—
1 The other resolutions denounce Lincoln, aod ex
i press the grateful thanks of the Convention to
| Senators Bayard and Saulsburry. All of them
j were unanimously aud enthusiastically adopted,
j SOUTHERN MILITARY MOVEMENTS.
• Washington, July 2.-—A large force is advauc
‘ iuflfto4b’e support of the Southerners in this vi
i cinity. Gen. Johnston, of Harper’s Ferryfis ul
| Winchester with 15,000 men; Magruder aas also
a large force.
WESTERN AFFAIRS.
St. Locus, July 2.—The pioneer of the overland
mail leaves to-day.
The California telegraph line is progressing,
The emigration westward is heavy.
ARREST OF MISSOURIANS*
St. Lons, July 2.—Nine Mick.ourians, having
i with them a lot of powder to blow up bridges,
! have beeu arretted at Chillicotle, and placed in
jail.
GOV. JACKSON’S MOVEMENTS.
St. Lons, July 2.—According to tho last ad
vices, Gov. Jackson was at Stockton, with 2,000
men.
MOVEMENTS IN MISSOURI.
Dikvsu City, July I.—A large secession force
left their rendezvous near Cherry. Creek, to-day,
for the purpose of taking Forts Wise and Garland.
They were well armed and equipped.
There is much valuable proper y aud money in
these forts.
COMMANDER OF THE POTOMAC FLOTILLA.
Washington, July I.—Capt Craven has been
appointed to the command of tue Potomac river
flotilla, vice Cffpt. Ward, of the Steamer Free
born, who was recently killed iu the attack ol
Matthias’ Point.
The Freeborfi is so badly crippled that she will
probably be condemned.
SOUTHERNER* AT HARPER’S FERRY.
Hagerstown, Md., July 2.—Two Southern
regiments returned to Harper’s Ferry, destroyed
the balance of the railroad bridge, and captured
many boats.
AFFAIRS ABOUT FOR IKLSS MONROE.
Fortress Monroe, July 2. -Two regiments will
advance from here to New Market Bridge to
morrow.
It is rainiug incessantly here.
Col. Caret Jones, of Hampton, has been ar
rested in consequence of letters fonhd in tbs
prize vessel Tropic Wind implicating, bun aud
several notable persons.
NO ADVANCE T Ls.
Alexandria, Va., July 2.—There are no indica
tions yet of an advance from here on the pan of
the Federalists.
NO FORWARD MOVEMENTS.
Xzw Voaa, July 2.—The Tribune, in its war
gossip, says that forward movements are impos
sible on the part of the Federalists, until they
procure more wagons. One thousand are expect
ed by the loth of July.
1 NO FORWARD MOVEMENT THIS SUMMER.
>'xw York, July 2—The Journal of Commerce
says that recent developments indicate that Gen.
Seott tutenda to make no forward movement into
Virginia this summer.
LOOKING TO AN ADVANCE-
Washington, July 2.— Au order has beeu given
to supply the whole Federal force, on both sides
of the I’otomac, with extra ratious for six days.
General 1-atterson’s delay in advance*; keeps
everything waiting. The Government has deeded
l 0 now°b a efie o ved e tffa general advance will
take place on the 4th ot J a J'. . _
SCOTT ABOUT TO ADA ANCE.
... hCU _, e ~y.—lt i generally believed
. V Ba ibe Federalist., will advance Kme
to-dav ‘bat?h * mi eck . Tl)eJr wou , d have
time dul l c = “ lt , but General Scoti bn been
advanced befor lUury control
“ 110 A US leave no enemy'in bis rear.
10 F,ve e regimeute srnred y last night, making the