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' ting a force of one hundred thousand roon in
that place.
, It is reported here (Nashville) this evening
Orleans, 4th. A British steamer has . t be p©ciei-a.1 s are crossing Green River in
/rived in a Confederate port, with a large ; considerab i e force,
quantity of munitions of war and other valua-! ^ ^ ^ ^
b e artic es. the 4th, has been received at Norfolk.
Richmond, tith.—Eulogies were delivered to i The steamer Asia, with Liverpool dates to
day in Congress by Ochiltree, of Texas, John-j the gist ult., had arrived. The foreign and
son, of Arkansas, Boyce, of S. C., I enable, of, domestic news are unusually uninteresting.
N. t'., and Pryor, of Ya., upon the death of The statement published in Northern journ-
Judtre HemphilL Appropriate resolutions | a [ s that the Treasury Department of the Con-
were adopted, and a committee of one from j federate States had purchased gold at a large
each State appointed to arrange the funeral cer
cinonies. The funeral will take place to-mor
row at 11 o’clock. No other business trans
acted. Vemlxft-s are daily returning from their
enjoyment of the Christmas holidays.
The New York Herald, of the 2nd, has been
received. Its Washington correspondent says
that Gen. McClellan is ad.ancing in drilling
and disciplining his army. He will soon ad
vance his columns on the Potomac and by sea.
The cause of the retarded movements of the
fleets is the complications with England.
In the absence of official facts we give the
following: . w j
Many extravagant reports have prevailed at
Staunton for the past two day* about Johnson’s
movements at the Alleghany and the approach
of the Federals, but many of them are discred
ited.
Reports exist of a battle near Romney and
of our taking 500 prisoners. Also of a skir
mish near Hanging Rock, between Winchester
and Romney. Like former reports from the
Mountain regioas, portions are probably true,
but are confused and unreliable.
The body of Col. Hugh McLeod is now in
Richmond, en route for Texas. He died at
Uuralnes on the 8d. He was a native of Geor
gia, and led a command in the celebrated Santa
Pee expedition under President Lamar,
[Col McLeod was a native of Macon, and is
remembered by many of our citizens. J
Louisville, 5\y., 81st Dec.—The Northern
Bank of Kentucky has suspended and the Peo
ples' Bank at Boa ling Green.
Rumors of engagements in Southern Ken-
current, buk^e unreliable.
en. Buckner's cav-
unate vil
i ponds in the i
' with the bodie
while the roi
i hole pf
|ltv and hrntalTf
ieral pickets,
as attacking
^destroying
retire.
(ward a
--cc’ going into
. .ure met on Monday.
fTeverdy Johnson and Thomas
ji »re competing candidates for the Fede
ral Senate.
Boston, Mass., 1st.—Messrs. Mason and Sli
dell left to-day for I’rovidencetown, there to
take passage on the steamer Rinaldo lor Europe.
Nasumllk, Tenn., 5th, via Mobile, (5th.— |
The Legislative Council of Kentucky, yester
day, elected H. (’. Burnett and W. T. Simms
Confederate Senators.
It was reported at Bowling Green yesterday, i
premium to pay the January and March inter
est on the funded debt is unfounded. Gold
has been in the Treasury for some time to meet
these payments.
The Confederate bonds of fifteen millions iss
sued under the act of March last are quoted at
110 interest off.
The despatches recently received from Eu
rope by the Department wer# written prior to
the reception in England of the news of the
capture of Mason and SlidelL They represent
that the feeling in France and England is very
favorable to the cause of the Confederate States.
Passengers from the mountains report that
Huntersville has been burnt by the Federals ;
also, that heavy skirmishing continues above
Winchester. Nothing has been received in
official circles corroborating these reports.
W. H. Hurlhut, confined in jail since June
last, suspicioned as a spy, has been released by
Gov. Letcher.
Congress in secret session. Its proceedings,
so far as made public, are unimportant
THE BURNSIDES EXPFDTTION
Richmond, Oth. — Intelligence received at
Norfolk, states that the Burnsides Expedition
was off Hatteras on Tuesday.
THE 8TH IN NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, 8th.—To-day, the anniversa
ry of the battle of New Orleans, has been ap
propriately celebrated as a State holiday in
commemorat'on of the valor of our foicfathers,
not in a spirit of exultation over the defeat of
Great Britain in that memorable battle, but as
a grand military review by Generals Lovell.
Ruggles, Lewis, and also Gen. Jeff Thompson,
of Missouri, who is a great favorite here.
HORRIBLE! HORRIBLE!!
Memphis, Tenn., 8th.—A mercantile firm
here has received a letter from a friend in
Southern Kentucky, stating that the Federal
government had made clandestine arrangements
the pardoned convicts and desperate cha
•J - the North, to scatter themselves
fftc South, and set tire to and burn ev
erything, especially manufactories and machine
shops, the Federals paying all fines that may
accrue to them, believing that it is a good mode
I for crippling the South. The information was
obtained from a party in the employ of the
Federal government, and was communicated to
warn the South by a sympathiser.
Nothing important from Columbus.
Twenty Federal officers at Cairo have resign
ed and returned home.
Later European Intelligence.
ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.
General Expression on the War
Question.
It.-ported Split iu the Lincoln Cab
inet and Congress- Federal At
rocities in St. Louis.
From the Memphis Avalanche, Jan. 4,
We learn that a gentleman connected with
Gen. Jeff Thompson’s staff, stated to an officer
on the steamer Kentucky, at New Madrid,
it 5,000 Federals were at Brownsville, and Thursday night,that the latest papers just re-
tliat their cavalry scouts about 300 strong had , ceived at that point from St Louis, contained the
Iriven in some thirty Confedejate pickets. impoi taut information that Mason and Slidell
CapL Eaton deserted from the Lincoln army . bad been surrendered to England by the ad-
, ministration, and that there was a division in
at t allioun, and reached Hopkinsville on the , tbe Cabinet in consequence.
night of the 31st of December. | There was also a tremendous row in Congress
Four others deserted on the tirst of January, the members being divided into three factions
at dark, and report that the Federal army at I —° ne party being in favorof the prosecution of
Calhoun is demoralized, and desertions oecur
daily. Threats of mutiny are openly and defi
antly made. Great dissatisfaction pervades the
army, and it is highly probable that they will
desert by thousands.
I’utersbiro, 6th.—A Hag of truce from Old ■
the war for the preservation of the Union; ano
ther party for the extermination of slavery; and
the third party in favor of a peace on the basis
ol the recognition of the Southern Confederacy.
This peace party is said to be quite formidable,
and is led by Yallandigham of Ohio.
It is also said to be well understood at Wash-
ington between McClellan and Lincoln, there
‘I would be no forward movement at any point
oint brings the Norfolk Day Book the New j these difficulties were healed,
ork Herald, of the 3d January. | Such arc the representations of an official
Mason and Slidell sailed on the 1st, in the character at New Madrid, purporting to have
Rinaldo, from Provideneetown, in a uerfect oeen derived lroin the latest St. Louis papers,
hurricane * S Knowing the parties as we do, we see no reason
' .. ,, , .. .... ,, I to doubt their entire correctness,
i .en. McClellan and Mary (Vajor '.) Butler, | since the above was written, we have con-
ith 3000 troops for Butler’s expedition on | versed with a gentleman who left St. Louk
iard the Constitutor sailed on the 3d. last Friday, landed about six miles from Com-
Gen. Williams, of Kars, is erecting fortitica-1 ,ncrcc > and went direct to New Madrid, and
command Detroit. • ! hence by the steamer Kentucky yesterday.-
. He brings anything but flattering accounts.—
^ i‘b troops entered the city and fort at The jirisoncrs recently captured while on the
era Cruz, on I'ec. 17th, without opposition, j way to join Price, are represented to have been
the Mexicans abandoning their artillery and | poorly clad and compelled to stay in the cars
iminiiions on U ,e night of Christmas eve. The next day
., . , „ theyavere removed to Mc’Dowell’s Medical Col-
I rer.ch rteet had arrived at Havana. lege, and from the malignant feelings indulged
^.ondon '1 imes is highly indignant at towards them, our informant has no security
lie “stun fleet ’ blockade, and calls it an act 1 that they are not victims of the greatest cruelty
if hostility to the whole human race. !iu ,i injustice. No one was even allowed to see
The French press criticise Lincoln’s message J them to tender them comforts,
very unfavorably.
Halifax, Dec. 26.—The Niagara has L20,-
000 in specie, and three hundred and fifty one
troops for Halifax. The steamer Australasian
which left Liverpool w ith 1265 troops, a field
battery and large quanties of ammunition,
stores* sledges, etc., for North America, also
arrived at Halifax this morning.
The West India mail has taken to England
the news of the escape of the Sumter from
Martinique, as also that on the 28th of Nov
ember the Sumter captured the American ship
Montmorduce, from Newport, England, with
coal for the St Lawrence, but released her on
the receipt of a bond by the captain promising
to pay $26,000 three months after pcaoa was
proclaimed.
The British war steamer Cadmus had arriv
ed off St Thomas to protect vessels against an
other Trent affair.
The attitude and preparations by England
show no change.
The London Times editorially reports the
following story : During the visit of the Prince
of Wales to America, Mr. Seward took advan
tage of an entertainment to the Prince to tell
the Duke of Newcastle he was likely to occupy
high office, and when he did so it would become
his duty to insult England, and he should in
sult her accordingly.
The Times accumulates evidence of a long
cherished intention on the part of Mr. Seward
to do England an injury. In another leader on
international affairs, the Times advises the
Federal government to make peace in time, Ires
fore it is committed in a triple war, viz: with
the Confederates, the British and its own abo
litionists.
A telegaam from Brussels, of the 12th, to
the Times, says there is a rumor in diplomatic
circles that a mediation in the American conflict
will be opened by King Leopold.
The London Morning Post says says there is
no truth in the rumor that Gen. Scott’s sudden
return home was the theme of much specula
tion. It was generally reported that he had
some sort of mission from the French Govern
ment to the Washington Cabinet.
The London Herald’s Paris correspondent
says he had a long interview with M. Thoure-
nel before his departure.
The general impression in financial circles
was that Gen. Scott carried out a momentous
communication from the French Government.
It is estimated that about twelve thousand
troops are to be sent to Canada to be ready to
take the field immediately on landing.
The British continued to charter all available j
steamers. Two battalions of the British Guards
were expected to sail on the 18th inst., in the
sieamers Adriatic and Parana, under command
of Lord Paulet
Orders have been issued for the hasty manu
facture of two thousand pack saddles, and a
proportionate number cf ambulance*, wagons
and cars, to be dispatched to Canada.
The united prayer meeting took .place at Ex
eter Hall, on the 12th inst, as announced.—
Rev. Baptist Noel, and other .ministers partici
pated in the proceedings, and fervent prayers
were offered up for peace.
Lord Shaftsbury declined to attend the meek
ing, stating in his reply to an invitation tb it it
would be interpreted by the bulk of the press
and by Americans as a cloaked rebuke to the
British government, and favor the opinion that
the country was not united on this serious ques
tion. He commended the purpose of the meet
ing but thought it would be better carried into
effect by private and congregational boards.—
Resolutions were adopted deprecating hostili
ties and calling for an abitralion if diplomacy
fails to secure peace.
It was asserted that the Prince Napoleon
continued to argue against the recognition of
the Southern States, and that he was instru
mental in causing Gen. Scott to go to Wash
ington.
The Paris correspondent of the London Post
asserts, that peaceful anticipations prevailed
among the Americans in Paris, and • says that
Minister Dayton and Consul Bigelow used all
their influence, combined with Gen. Scott, to
inspire conciliatory counsels at Washington.—
He asserts that the French government desires
peace between England and America.
I he writer, also, in reference to Gen. Scott’s
return, says it is not impossible that France, if
asked, may become a mediator, and at the
same laws ot neutrals be revised, provided,
that England? in accordance to the wishes ol
Other European governments, agrees to a mod
ideation of the existing code.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Globe says that M. Thouvenel’s despatches to
M. Mercier at Washington, is known to havi
confined the Federal Executive to this sirnpl
dilemma: “Are the Southerners belligerents
or rebels ?” They have been flatly refused any
rights in the tirst capacity, and in the second
the right of asylum acquired by political refu
gees has been set at naught, and France must
make the case of the Trent substantially her
own.
The Paris Press says Gen. Scott’s mission
appears to have been so arranged as to allow
him time to fulfill it before the ultimatum of
England is remitted to the Federal government,
and perhaps to modify the nature of this stej
on the part of England.
The Paris Pays asserts, on the contrary, that
(ho English ultimatum will be of an absolute
character.
France.—The monthly statement of the
j Bank ol France shows an increase ol cash on
1 hand of nearly 48,000,00nf. The bourse was
against the daily News’ argument in favor of
arbitration. It says negotiation cannot be lis
tened to while Mason and Slidell are prisoners
and opposes such a settlement in to to.
The Paris Patrie says it asserts that France
and the^reat powers have been consulted by
Great Britain, and have expressed the opinion
that the conduct of Captain Wilkes was a vio
lation of the rights of neutrals.
Liverpool, Dec. 14.—The cotton brokers’
circular reports the sales of cotton for the
week at 35,000 bales. The market is firm and
an advance of J a | established. Speculators
took 0,000 and exporters 4,000 bales. Market
closed very dull. Advices from Manchester
are unfavorable and market very dull.
London, Dec. 14.—Consols closed yesterday
at SOf a 90$ for money.
The bullion in the Bank of England has in
creased £128,000.
BATTLE OF DRANESVII.I.E.
OFFICIAL REPORT.
THE SUMTER AHTILMinV.
The Richmond papers publislirthe official re
port of the battle of Dranesville. It is dated
the 23d December, but furnishes no material
facts further than those we have published.—
Gen. Stuart with some three thousand men
was on an expedition after hay, which lay to
the.left of Dranesville. While on the march,
he came upon the enemy in position and large
force waiting for him, and was compelled to
make fight in order to cover the retreat of his
wagons. He reports a loss of 43 killed, 148
wounded and 8 missing. The report pays a
glowing compliment to the Sumter Artillery of
Americus, which we copy :
When the action had lasted about two hours,
1 found that the enemy, being already in force
larger than my own, was recovering from his
disorder and receiving heavy reinforcements, I
could not, with my small numbers, being be
yond the reach of reinforcements, force his po
sition without fearful sacrifice, and seeing that
his artillery, superior to ours in number and
position only, was pouring a destructive fire
into Cults’ Battery, I decided to withdraw the
latter at once, preparatory to retiring from the
field, judging, too, that I had given ourw-agons
ample time to get out of reach of the enemy
The battery suffered greatly. Its position was
necessarily such that it could fire only to the
front, and the‘cassions and limbers had no
cover whatever from such a fire. Three or four
cannoniers had been shot at their posts and
several wounded, and every shot of the enemy
was dealing destruction on either man, limber
or horse.
The conduct of the brave, true and heroic
Cutts attracted my admiration frequently du
ring the action, now acting No. 1, and now as
gunner, arid still directing and disposing the
whole with perfect self-command, and a devo
tion to his duty that was, I believe, scairor
ever equalled. lie executed my order tot ofjf,
draw bis battery, under a richochet fire -qy
reat accuracy. One piece I found it neeessar v th<
to detail some infantry (Eleventh Virginia) to^y
assist in conducting to the rear, which was done
by them under great personal exposure.
The burning of the bridges in Northern Mis
th —No audition to the souri has greatly exasperated the feelings ofj heavy, rather "than lower, and on the 13th inst
1 Gen. Halleck and the Federal* generally, and j rent( T s c i ose d at 67 a 60f.
The eruption of Mount Vesuvius continued
Handsboko’, Miss.,
fiei i in the sound. They seem to lie doing hut benoe they feel like wreaking vengence upon
little. The firlng-and consternation on the 3rd the heads of those whom accident has placed in
reported to have resulted in the seriously their power. Halleck rules in St. Louis with a
injuring of a French vessel off Ship Island. , rod ir0 ?' , The secessionists of St. Louis he
° 1 is particularly hard upon, He persecutes them
Memi-uis, Tens., 6th.—Jeff. Thompson leaves >n every way imaginable. Many prominent
on to morrow for New Orleans. I citizens, suspected of Southern sympathies
„ . , . • fix have been arrested, and without trial confined
Oen. Price is reported to be at Springfield , n what is caIled ,. the Negn) p en ”—the place
with 10,000 men. I where all secessionists are confined. Besides
Military movements to clear the Federals out this, Halleck has resorted to confiscation of the
f northern Missouri will be made seen. property of Southern men, or he levies from
. $100 to $1000 on every man of property known
JOKh hmond, 7th.—H. C. Wayne, the present j to be a Southern sympathizer, and if they do
Adjutant General of Georgia, has been appoint- " ot W , the ^ecastinto the “Negro
", ,, . , . I Pen. Uriel 1\ right, C. C. Uhurhell, Thorn-
ed Brigadier General m the Confederate ser- , lon Grims [ey, and other prominent citizens,
v|Ce - have been persecuted in the manner indicated.
Vigorous skirmishing took place last week | In a word, the secessionists of St. Louis “live
before Winchester and towards the Potomac, | and moTe and have their being” in such an
., , , , . , , , atmosphere of terror that they dare not call
Several Federal prisoners were taken. A few | . u _ : _ n...
were killed and wounded on our side. The
Virginia and Arkansas regiments were princi
pally engaged.
their souls their oiui.
Nevertheless among the young people of the
place—and particularly among the young ladies
—there is an abiding feeling in favor of the
Congress was engaged this morning in at-1 Southern cause. An illustration of this fact
Hemphill. Th,
afternoon session w as unimportant. j streets, dressed in all his gilded finery, a young
ft is reported by a passenger from Wilming- lady shouted, “Hurra for Jeff. Davis,” as he
ton that Burnside’s expedition was off Hatte- pas-’cd. That officer went immediately to camp,
ra ^ : reported that he had been grossly insulted
, while riding along by ladies, and immediately
Intelligence from Camp Alleghany on the , house invested with soldiers, waiting
5th. says that apprehensions exist of the Y an- the arrival of the head of the family. When
kees cutting off supplies, and reports are cur- the gentleman returned home he was surprised
rant that the Federals aro at Huntersville and at tlie military demonstration, and'inquired the
Monterey, where are large quantities of Con- cause, but without explanation he was arres-
• ted, and while being borne on to the “Negro
federate s.orcs. Pen” the young lady offering herself said, that
Further intelligence is anxiously awaited. if any one was to be confined in a dungeon she
The editor of the Wilmington Journal says claimed the privilege; but the request was not
lhat so far as he e*Ti lea r n, there is no truth in hooded, and the proprietor of the premises had
tc report that the Burnsides expedition had ^ tC ' U m * se ® r0 eT l' ,r~
1 • * But time and space would fail us to teh of the
men seen oft lfatteras. many acts of petty tyranny constantly enac
Houses were falling in Terre Del Gresco, and
the village was in immediate danger of destruc
tion by lava. All communication between
places in the vicinity of the mountain was in
terrupted. Earthquakes were frequent. In
the bay of Naples the sea had receded 50 me
tres.
Japan.—Affairs were unsatisfactory. The
European representatives were Awaiting in
structions from their governments.
THE LATEST.
Liverpool, Dec. 14th.—The London Times
publishes a letter from Thurlow Weed, the
main object of which is to defend the Ameri
can government, and Sir. Seward, in particu
lar, lroin alleged hostile intentions towards
England, and disclaims in behalf of Mr. Sew
ard, any unfriendly feelings or intents towards
her, and says that the threat of insulting Eng
land which Mr. Seward made to the Duke of
Newcastle, was merely idle talk and badinage,
Mr. Weed says he believes that if England’
dispatch to Lord Lyon's is peremptory in tone,
it will meet with a peremptory refusal. He ap
peals for moderate councils on both sides, as
the only method of avoiding a collision
The London Times editorially comments on
Mr. Weed’s letter, and says he has made the
cause of his client and his country considera
bly worse than he found it.
The Times says England asks nothing from
America, but that she shall abstain trom actu
ml outrage, or that if it is committed that she
shall make reasonable reparation. If she will
do this it is well; if not, the alternative will
not come in the desired form of protracted ne
gotiations.
The command in chief of the forces in Can
ada will remain in the hands of Sir Fenwick
Williams. No additional orders were issued
on the 13th for regiments to be held in rcadi
ness. No cavalry or horse artillery will go to
Canada before spring. The preparations were
° represented as being on a scale which would
FROM KENTUCKY.
AnotUsr Reported Federal Advance-
Namiville, 7th, via Mobile, 8th.—A gentle- Th x- A ^ n ^ * U ^ K ,) M tu KET ' »ti,
e , . , , * , I he Nashville Union, of the 4th, says “The
mam -ect from Louisville says that the Fede- p ork market continues dull, and small lots
ral army betw een Louuvjile and Bowling Green were sold during the week at 10c per lb net.—
numbers a hundred thousand men, twentv five A gentleman from one of the largest hog grow-
thousand ol whom are unfit fot duty the lar- '”6 counties in Middle Tennessee, informed us
ger portion in consequence of sickness.
u,ai v ujiisuiiuy ciim,-i » . - - u , . .. n . ..
ted toward gentlemen suspected of Southern have astonished people in anti C rimean times,
sympathies in St. Louis. j The Paris correspondent of the Times say
; that the general belief is that General Scott
has gone back with the intention of enlighten
ing the Washington Cabinet as to the ideas of
John BolFs AhH-Slavwy Mubinthrop)
Octoroon.
Mr. Dion Bourcicault recently produced h
drama of Octoroon in London, and the recej
tion it met does not appear to have convin*'
the author that English philanthropy, ua
rected towards negro slavery, is entirely
terested, or very sincere. His letter to Trie
London Times, following the first representa
tion of the play, is interesting as an English
man’s comments upon the anti-slavery senti
ments of an English theatrical audience. In
his letter to the Times, Mr. Bourcicault re
marks :
In your criticism on my drama, The Octoroon,
it i« stated that the reception of the 5th act, in
which the slave girl commits suicide in order
to escape the embraces of her purchaser, con
trasts strongly with the enthusiastic applause
which had accompanied the first four acts of
the play.
The question involved in these few words is
not one of merely the craft of the play-writer.
I candidly admit that your estimate of public
sympathy, as expressed last night, is as just as
it is inexplicable. Since the Uncle Tom mania,
the sentiments of the English public upon the
subject of slavery have seemed to be undergo
ing a great change; but I confess that I was
not prepared to find that change so radical as
it appeared to be when the experiment was
tried upon the feelings of a miscellaneous audi-
and a.l the army wagons which could be spared, e " ce ' ^ } clai “ >'°“ r attention to this view
J r ’ of a subject fraught with much serious interest.
A long residence in the Southern States of
America had convinced me that the delini&tions
in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin ’ of the condition of
the slaves, their lives and feelings, were not
faithful. I found the slaves, as a ragf ^ happy,
gentle, kindly-treated population u g uner ^.^re
straints upon their liberty so igcruits
rarely perceptible. A visitor v*hesti
who might expect to find his viflg&g m0V(
aroused by the exhibition of coij^ p ed(
ment and physical torture, would have
appointed. For my part, witfened al.
for observation, I never - a ilw
ment whatever of the servile cla. p v
trary, the slaves are in general, warmlv $cl
ed to their masters and to their homes, and
this condition of things I have faithfully de
picted.
But, behind all this there are features in
slavery far more objectionable than any of those
hitherto held up to human execration, by the
side of which physical sdffering appears as
vulgar detail. Some of these features are, for
the tirst time, boldly exhibited in the Octo
roon. The audiences hailed with every mark
of enthusiasm the sunny views of negro life ;
they were pleased with the happy relat.ons ex
isting between the slaves ar^n (jj'u'n family of
which they were dependenk^qjjqjgqtjirtiness
with which the slaves wej servesMfljvheered
the planters who tiongtqh e Uc-
toroon girl was purely g a «u... ^^|^mulianly
overseer to become his paramour, Tier suicide
to preserve her purity provoked no sympathy
whatever. Yet, a few years ago, the sam^—itj
lie in the same theatre, witn
emotion the death ot Uncle
>sh, and accepted the tableimp;
his shirt stained witRA
£ed back, crawling/n \
|n slow torture. 'Tfte _
ath of the Octoroth^jjJjj
The English j\
and unsparingly
the President of tt
specimen of their tff
ous State paper, w^
taken from the Lon—^
Our readers will H
The ityle of the
en with the fortunes
of the jolly, rollicking pel
each of which seemed to su^
stave of “Hail Columbia,” we l:
discursive and colloquial easy, -
worse-expressed. Nor does t’
the style. It i* really wonde k 9 t h,
aider the present state of the M j nte |
lie, how any one placed in tbT
Lincoln could have taken the troid 1 .
so strange a medley, so incomposiuuy
There are several subjects on whiciNrid]
estly desire information, and on no onci$
forded. Above all things, we want to
what view the American Cabins*.takes
affairs of *be Trent, wliat advi , ns rcce
from its 6 counsellors, ai-ne^ wliat^ £
ings it al lost of»| the coming a.i.ir^As j
On this *y, ab<fl re is not a word. Then, wc
should Jg confc*' a little of the financial incas - San jr
ures b, .... equilibrium between revenue . a ” , ,. n , . . A
and expenditure is to be pffeserved in face of so e ^J e ^J l ir in i ri
st an outlay ^ on * AIfre(1 ^\y has
We should like to know what measures the he sa y s that thc , Norl i?
•esident proposes to adopt with regard to the j emblym earnest, an^on^uj
lave population of the Southern States; wheth- " e : , .. ,
with one half ot the Cabinet, he is cmanci-1 Experiments were made on the
ion, or, with the other half of the Cabinet, j lron battery. .armor*
a maintenance of the rights of thc staveown- ; rh F. e « thousand troops left
On all these points our oracle is silent- f, x P C(ht,on on the 3d ,nst ” on J Con/,
ut, if ho tells us very little that we want to | °^titution^^ ^ ^ °F
know, he amply indemnifies us by telling us a ‘ f . j
great many things in which we have no inter- aroand Detroit Michigan.
est. He has a plan lor readjusting the circuits i 1 he London limes, of the L
ot the judges and for thc codification of the stat
ute law. He is very minute on the receipts
and disbursements of the Postoffice. He is
anxious to extend the District of Columbia into
Virginia. He hassomethii/Wto say on the Ex
hibition of 1862. He hate }n common with
most of his predecessors, af Jan for getting rid
ot free negroi^by a svsteW [if colonization, and
has rev * , ° f* 11 ’' In ahnw nnt be
. , e and
Z M 2U
not, as lie
ndent of capital,
^*»Jnary doc-
ade in the
ans.
iln should
ice ol the
up th
pares Lincoln to the weak, blootft.d®®**^
pots of the olden time. - 1
The New York Herald says a de’cisi
must be struck the Southern rebellion
the end of April.
[Nashville Union and American.]
The Mason Slidell Affair-The Humiliation
of the Lincoln Government.
\ few days since the following document, un
mistakable in its tone was, made public:
Navy Department, Nov. 3u 1861.
Captain Chari.es Wilkes, Commanding the U.
S. Steamer San Jacinto : ^
Sir—I congratulate yon on your safe arriva? e 1
and especially do 1 congratulate on your great
public scrcicc you bate rendered in the capture
of the Confederate emissaries. Messrs. Mason
and Slidell have been conspicuous in the con-
piracy - to dissolve the Union, aud it is well
known that when seized by you they were on a
mission luistile to the government of the coun
try. Your conduct in seizing these public en-
mies was marked by intelligence, ability, de
cision and firmness, and has the imphatic ap-
procal of this department. It is not necessary
that I should, in this communication—which is
intended to be one of congratulation to yourself,
officers and crew—express an opinion on the
course pursued in omitting to capture the vessel
which had these public enemies On board furth
er than to say that the forbearance exercised in
this instance must not be permitted to constitute
a precedent hereafter for infractions of neutral
obligations.
I am respectfully, your obedient servant,
Gideon Welles.
I bis was not the individual act ot Mr. Welles,
but was an official act, and, thereftre, reflected,
and truly, we have not a doubt, the position ot
the Lincoln Administration at that time. It has
never been disavowed.
On the first day of the assembling of the Fed
eral Congres Mr. Lovejoy, of Illinois, “offered a
joint resolution tendering the thanks of Con
gress to Cape. Wilkes for the arrest of the re
bels, Mason and Slidell,” and that resolution
was adopted.
When the piratical onslaught was first made
upon the British vessel, the yell of exultation
wiiich arose in Yankeedom, says the Richmond
Dispatch resounded throughout the world. Vast
meeting,assembled to testify their admiration of
the deed. City councils voted it unrivaled in dar
ing anti sagacity since the days ol Bayard.—
The press rang with applause. The Secretary of
State hastened with his meed of praise. The
Secretary of the Navy was not slow in approv-
and teaching of the whole v
girl been saved, and the dttq^
happy end, the horrors of'
diable from thqj«£:
of slave-
« 'anti
vr
statemeg to t
tie play, and would
happier issue, I feel
fwildered at such a change of feel-
lublic sentiment in this country
jmetrieally on this-subject, and is
this straw indicates that the
Ihe English people is taxing another
Yours respectfully,
Dion Bourcicault.
Hereford House, Nov. 19.
INTERESTING FROM WASHINGTON.
The “ Washington correspomlent” of the
ltichmord Examiner writes, on the 1st inst., as
follows :
Whoever may have kept in his memory the
most striking incidents in the lobby history of
this corrupt capital, must be aware of the fact
that once when a printer was elected by a Dem
ocratic Congress, H. Greely had a share of the
profits. IIow this was engineered is immate
rial ; but I learn that a still more ingenious de
vice has oeen practiced by him and Simon
Cameron, in relation to Southern contracts. I
am credibly informed that these astute poli
ticians, and several others of less notoriety, are
participating largely in several contracts made
in Richmond ; and I suspect the names ofsomv
of these agents are in the above catalogue of
names. One of these contracts, from al! ac
counts, will yield a clear profit of half a million
of dollars.
There will be no war with England. Hav
ing plunged into the slough of dishonor, Sew
ard will wade through rather than turn back.
Yet it is said in diplomatic circles that the stone
wall blockade is an offence against God and ail
the world. War is a temporary calamity, but
the Y'ankees are making its evils eternal. Prov
idence formed tho ports for the use of mankind
in all ages, but Lincoln is destroying the works
of God, and would extirpate the planters upon
whose productions the whole civilized world is
in great measure dependent If, therefore, such
Vandal barbarity should be likely to involve
tho United States m a war with England, the
Fire Proof Dresses in France.—'ll
peror and Empress of France were pf
few days ago at the trial of a fire proof !
vented by M. Buvert. The dress is de
to be both water proof and fire proof,
copiously stuffed with sponges sewn to
He wears a helnet like that ot a diver, i
apparatus for supplying fresh air, and gla
see through. At a signal iromthe Em*
set fire to the temporary cottage, ami ■
he went
’ l!ive thought midst of them several times with perfi
re the public ; p Un ity. The Empress, greatly excited 1.
k eans to keep : scent ,, cried out repeatedly, "Enough ; oh'
he does not ,| Ulte enough !’’ The experiment was com
to be bad in e ,f to he entirely successful, and the Em)
, . , , ,n ’ e ruln > 111 ' warmly conipliiuenied M. Buvert upa»4tfi>
owm g# 10 l> e picked up by obscure vent ion
members of Congress, embarking in a contest , ,
whether the transcendent merits of Comma It is high tin. e that Cotton planters had a dis
dore \\ ilkes would be best rewarded by thanks ; , j nct agreement as to operations for the year, in
- by a gold medal. Possibly the simple solu- j v;ew 0 f the war. Some have proposed that un-
may be, that the 1 resident has yet arrived | PSS p eace speedily restored, no Cotton be
> solution at all, and that, perplexed by the planted; others, on consideration of the demands
his Cabinet, he has ‘ ,et 'o content to | o) domes q c consumption and a supply of seed,
matter alone till events shah det ermine , p r0 p 0se that a certain small proportion of a crop
. that which he is unable or unwilling to I p] ante ,i
determine for himself. • We have repcatedlv expressed our preference
He will not have long to wait. Each succes- f or t | u . Cotton plan, and we renew the propro-
sive mail brings us the report of some instance siti a s a basis for agreement, that each plan-
m vvtiich the American nation is, step by step, ter t ; n Cotton only one-fourth of the area
committing itself to a war policy with England, t0 ;t in 1SG1
till, when challenged for its final decision, it
will probably find that it has gone too far to
have any power of retraction. The Govern
ment has received, the Admiralty has thanked ,
Commodore Wilkes, and Congress has now giv
en the seal of its approbation to a proceeding so '
deeply offensive to Great Britain. It is hardly j
Will our Colton planting friends and readers
give their opinions promptly ?
Charleston Courier.
Second outbade Auainst thf British Flag
—The lollowing is the Northern account of an
affair very similar to the San Jacinto-Trent
possible to imagine a Government sunk so far outran -e and to which allusion has already been
below its duties and responsibilities as to allow tnade , n our despatches from New Orleans:
all this to go on and make no sign either of as- 'p| ;e p n ;ted States steamer Santiago de Cuba,
sent or dissent. 1 he President is bound to j on the titli instant, boarded a schooner in the
lend his aid in guiding the Legislature to a true , b .,, md from Havana to Brazos, and took
decision on a m itter so nearly touching thc du- i seven passengers, among whom was Jas. W.
ties and the character of the Executive. lie z acba ne, a wealthy and prominent citizen of
ought to set before it the principles involved in New Orleans, who has been of late materially
the question, and to give it every opportunitv ass ; s tj n ,, j ;f. Davis in prosecuting the war of
in his power of arriving at a conclusion c°i‘-; the Contede, icy. Mr. Zacharie was placed, on
foruiable to the real interests of the country.— lbu an ; V al <«l tue Santiago de Cuba,in the hands
But he has done nothing o! all this, and has a- j 0 p jn a j OI - Jiui, commander of Fort Taylor, who
bandoned the vessel ot the State to drift help- j has car: .nv icrded him, until ;hc transferred
ing the deed. Congress hailed the rising glory i Yankees will submit to the degradation of fish-
tne French government. He is doubtless ac
quainted with the opinion of the Emperor, and
that is cot favorable to Brest. Lincoln’s policy.
Gen. Scott will prebably convince his eountry-
the other day that there w*s still a large num- men that they cannot count on the moral sup
.. her of Hogs in that country foi sale, but holders I port *)! France.
1 he k ederal* are pushing their work on the were demanding 10c pel lb gross, though there The mail agent of the steamer Trent was
Green River bridges, which will bw 'completed were no buyers at that price, the Government ~ “
in a few days, when, it is probable, M»ev will a B en ts having supplied themselves and with-
uiak, a movement towards Bowling Green. drawn from the market It nov. turns out
A gentleman here, just from Paducah, says it ’V ^ ^PP 1 / ot h f T ‘ n
. ' * . j q u te as well as other portions of tno south,
is reported that the i ederals intend concentre-1 than was supposed when the market opened.’
dined by tho Royal Yacht Club. He narrated
the circumstances of the seizure of M&son and
Slidell, which differed in most every detail from
the accounts published in the American jour
nals.
The London Herald takes strong ground
ol the new hero, and testified their approbation
of the exploit without a dissenting voice. The
city of Boston dined him, and wined him, and
listened to his narrative, and made the welkin
ring with it rapplause. The newspapers vowed
that they would see every American ship burn
ed and every Yankee city and town uproo
ted from thc very foundation, before they would
shrink from the side of Wilkes. They were
determined to hack him at all hazards, and to
the last extremity. Never was there such defi
ance as they hurled at England. Never was
there so much insolence uttered upon any one
occasion Never were such threats heard be
fore, since the creation of the world. The
Herald led tho way in these demonst^itions.—
It was going to raise a million of men to overrun
and devour Canada It was going to fit out six
thousand privateers to cruise against English
merchandize. It was going to confiscate nine
hundred millions of English property. It would
not let England have a pound of cotton. It
would get saltpetre from the mammoth cave.—
If England dared to demand redress, it was de
termined to raise an insurrection in Ireland.
Never was there anything like the ribaldry,
gasconade, bully, bluster and defiance in which
the whole Yankee race—people, press, public
meetings, Congress, Secretaries, and all—in
dulged. They have been compared to the Chi
nese,^and we think with wonderful aptitude.—
But the Chinese never swaggered in this style.
And alter all what has been the result ? The
Yankee tire eaters have drawn back from the
first place of live coal presented them. The
Y'ankec swaggerers have been the first to eat
their own words as soon as it was ordered them.
The Yankee Congress, who unanimously ap
proved of Wilkes, abandoned him upon the very
first intimation that it might cost them some
thing to hold on to him. And Bennett instead
of eating up Canada, instead of exciting an in
surrection in Ireland, instead of fitting out six
thousand ships to cruise against British prop
erty, cooly advises the Y'ankee Government to
knock under, and, in the very spirit of Ancient
Pistol cries, “All hell shall gape forjhis” hereaf
ter! Wonderful people ! wonderful press ! won
derful Secretaries ! wonderful Yankeedom !—
Certainly the world never saw your like before.
Even Egypt, “the basest of kingdoms,” is re
spectable when compared to you.
The British lion has growled and shown his
teeth, and straightway the Lincoln Government
yiolds every demand of the British Government,
and thc telegraph advises us that “the Cabinet
was unanimous in coming to thus determina
tion !” Was humiliation ever more complete!
The Wheat Chop.—The Memphis Avalanche
says the wheat crop is said to be among the
most promising for years. A larger extent of
land has been sown than usual, and the pros
pect now is, according to the observations of
the well informed, that it be most abundant. —
A portion of it may expected in market in May
less before the gale of popular clamor.
The President has given us, instead of tho in
formation ive desire, his opinion on the real
cause of the present war. 'L ite North, liesays,
are fighting lor the integrity ot the Union—that
him to tne t ■
to New York.
. ,hip Baltic for tiansportation
STLKLING EXCHANGE.
r | rpHUKHTiIOUSAND POUNDS, [£3,000] Flrtt Ulte*
IS, as Lord Russell said, lor empire, to compel | 1 Sterling Exchange lor Bale by I. U. PLANT,
the South by force oi arms, to live uudera Gov- Macon,Oa., Jan. lu, 1S63—d3t wit
ing up the stones again, one by one and take
them all back.
Lincoln’s programme, however, docs not now
contemplate a subjugation of the cotton States.
Ho would submit to a political separation to
morrow if the ports were sealed against thereat
of the world, and the people would bind them
selves to trade only with tho North. But he
does mean to conquer the border States—and
that with as little fighting as possible. The plan
is to be threaten the communications of the
Army of thc Potomac, and when it falls back to
advance and entrench. They mean to dig their
way into the heart of Virginia. If they get the
Tennessee railroad and send a column to cap
ture the ocean shore road, they think the South
ern army will retire into North Carolina. They
will follow, and when you turn upon them they
will entrench. They swear to have Delaware,
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Missouri,
Kentucky and Tennessee by threatening com
munications and entrenching. The ocean at
present is theirs.
\Ve have rumors here of dissensions between
Mr. Benjamin and Gen. Beauregard, which aids
and comforts the enemy. The genius of Beau
regard is much dreaded, and Lincoln jvould be
happy to learn that his arm had been para
lyzed. And the Y'ankees are all fearful that
President Davis himself will some day vault in
to the saddle of his war-horse, and change into
the North. 'This is his true policy. The ap
prehension that an invasion of the North would
exasperate and rouse all the Y'ankees to arms
was an egregious error. The way to rouse them
was the policy adopted, viz ; awaiting their at
tack. If you had attacked them, many in
doubt of the result would have, unarmed, await
ed events.
The revenue policy of the Provisional Gov
ernment, unfortunately, plays into the hands of
the enemy. By the reports of Mr. Seward’s
spies in Europe, who, like curs, have dogged
the footsteps of Messrs. Yancey and Mann, I
learn that, just when an association of ship
pers were preparing to send over a large num
ber ot cargoes, amounting to five millions in
merchandize, for Southern ports, a copy of
your tariff was adroitly furnished them, which,
as the French say, caused interpellations, and
destroyed the enterprise. The eiefchants in
terrogated Mr. Yancey on the subject, prefac
ing their communication with reminiscences of
Southern statesmen and Southern traditions,
which had induced them to believe the South
was pledged to free trade. They had read the
speeches of Calhoun. Having no correspon
dents in the South, if they landed fifty millions
in merchandize, they would also have to send
out seven and a half millions in specie to pay
the duties. That 15 per cent, added to the en
ormous insurance and other risks deterred them
from moving further in the matter. They ask
ed no money .for their cargoes; all they desir
ed was an exchange of their commodities for
our cotton. Mr. Yancey was in candor com-
eminent which they detest. The South, on
the other hand, are lighting against the rights
of tj>e people—that is, against the rights ol the
people of the North to govern them against their
consent. The description ought to put an end
to the statement, so often repeated, that slavery
is the main matter in dispute. But the South
have done still worse, and, not content with
questioning the right of the North to govern
them, they have even gone to the extent of
questioning the wisdom of certain Northern in
stitutions. Thus persons are actually found
who wish for a restriction of thc suffrage ; to
contend, in spile of the evidence afforded by
the North of the purity of election, and the
high moral and intellectual qualities secured by
such a process, that it is better election should
he confined to legislators, and not extended to
magistrates ; and some have even been heard to
pronounce the horrible name of “Monarchy I”
No wonder that Mr. Lincoln, luxuriating in
the Paradise to which thc will of an unbridled
democracy has introduced him, and looking
forward to a desperate struggle with England,
brought about apparently by the same cause,
should feel a piods horror of those who
venture to think such experience not conclu
sive, and the existing Constitution of the United
States a little short of perfection ! We have
nothing to say for slavery’, but if Mr. Lincoln’s
description ot the South is indeed true, if she is
fighting to emancipate herself from the blind
tyranny of a degraded mob, from the elective
Judges and elective Governors, ho has given his
antagonists a better title to European sympathy
than they have hitherto possessed, and thrown
upon his Government the stigma of fighting to
impose upon others institutions which have al
ready brought it to the verge of ruin, -e
The YYar in Wall Street—Quarrel Be
tween the Banks and tiie Northern Govern
ment.—A New York paper of Tuesday evening,
December 31, says:
A bank meeting was held this morning with
a view of restoring order in the affairs of the
banks. Very little was effected. It seems that
several of the banks claim that the suspension
of specie payments of itself cancelled the
“agreement of equalization,” which was enter
ed into in August last, when the banks bq cu ’
to lend Money to government, and decliin^*
advance any more specie to the common fund.
Other banks insist that this is unfair, and that
the equalization should, at all events, be made
for Monday. It is a very pretty quarrel, as it
stands. Some of the banks continue to pur
port to pay specie; but it is not good for de
positors to ask for any, and if they should see
any prospect of needing favors hereafter.—
Practically, the suspension is general.
Foreign exchange continues paralyzed. The
leading bankers ask 112all3, and we hear of a
few transactions at the lower figure, but most
of the drawers and importers appear to he wait
ing for further developments. American coin
is offered at one and a half premium, and is
bought by the bullion brokers at one. The
following were the closing quotations in fhq
stock market:
United States 5’s, registered, 18b 1
United States 6’s, coupon, 1861, "
ted States 6’s, coupon, 1874, 81
5’s, 75a78; Virginia 6’s, 48$ao0;
6’s, 48a1; North Carolina 6’s, 60
6’s 42£a£; Pacific Mail, 94}a95;
Central,, 8<Ha—5 Erie, 32-Jaj ; do,
54fa65. '.
It is reported th»t-‘w** *«orfolk
the Cor'" '
A LIBERAL PROPOSITION.
. | -'ll h; undersigned Proprietors of the DOWN ING HULL
JL NUltSKKY, at Atlanta, Ua., in consideration ol the
depressed state of the rnarlrel for onr great Staple Cot-
Ion, propose to the Planters of South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama. Mississippi and Tennessee to sell them FKl IT
TRICKS, Ac., from onr Nursery al the regular catalogue
prices, and take COTTON (Middling Fair) in exchange,
at U) cents per pound, deliveredat the nearest depot, or
ooat-landing, forwarding ub the receipt.
Descriptive aud Priced Catalogues sent to all appli
cants free of charge. Address
ROGERS, HARDEN & CO.
Jan. 8—lmdaw (Successors to Peters, Harden dt Co.]
COLLINSWORTH INSTITUTE.
TALBOTTON, GEORGIA.
•plus School will begin on Monilay, 20th January, aud
I close J ult' 3d, lstia.
Tuition—Spring Term $13,00, $24,00 and $30,00.—
Board *;;,60 per week, if contracted lor the whole term
and paid in advance. SEAY & McLAUGHLUN.
jan 4—w3t
Cavalry Saddle Trees.
• EGULATION Hide Covered Treea assorted sizes.
Mackey
For Bale hy
jan 7—dll wit*
JENNINGS, THOMPSON & CO.
Ctuuleaton, S. C.
Executor's Sale.
\17TLL be sold before the Court Uou*e door m tu«
\V Town of Knoxville, on tbe first Tuesday lu March
next, all the land belonging to tL« u-at&ie of ^ William
iiurgea, late of Cravvlord county, tide widow’® dower
excepted,) the *ame baiug lot No. 5, and lot No. 2e, m
the tmrd District of originally Houston now Crawlord
county. Also At ths same time aud place a negro wo
man, name'J Nelly about 55 or tiO years of age. bold for
the benefit ol the heirs aud credit ore of euid 4V iillam
Burgee. Terms made known on day of saie.
Jan 4,1862, KZEKIKL MATHBWD, Executor.
Bibb Sheri£* bale.
U TILL be sold before the Court House door in the
city >f Mac on, Bibb county, on the fiist Tuesday*
in February next, between-the usual hours of sale the
lollowing property to wit: One Oecilating Power Frees,
and the fixtures belonging to a first class Job Printing
eBt-ablisuiueut, all being in good order, baid properly
being tne outut lecently used by JLewis H. Auurews in
lus printing establishment, known as Andrews' Job of
fice in raid city ol Macon, bald property levied on by a
fi. la. from Bibb Superior Court, as tne property oi Lew
is II. Andrews. Said fi. fa. being iu favor oi Oabiiel B.
Koborts vs. L. H. Andrews and oiners.
jan 2 9 JAB. F. BA It FIELD, bh'fl.
Fine Firiniture. ar"
TT'lNE Pars* ru*tTU?Rqsc **KKt, Mahogany $
D „i. w„r . «. > J
Desks arA Book v. f
U - Aa^L.'. •