The New York Herald Newspaper, August 10, 1861, Page 4

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We have issued another edition of the nu ™merous maps, plans and diagrams of the ope- rations of the Union and rebel troops in Vir- | ginia, Missouri, Illinois, Florida, and on the Missis- sippi and Missouri rivers, and it is now ready for delivery. Agents desiring copies are requested to send in their orders immediately. Single copies six cents. Wholesale price the same as for the Weekiy Hera. THE SITUATION. We publish to-day the official reports of five of the Brigadier Generals commanding at Bn!l run, which give further details of that affair, and will no doubt be read with interest. These comprise the reports of Generals Miles, ‘Tyler, Heintzelman, Hunter and Burnside. Great activity is observable among the team- stera of the government around all the camps near Washington, Immense quantities of pro- visions and other supplies are being de- patched to the different camps. Nearly all movements of troopa are now made by night, in- stead of under a hot noonday sun, as heretofore, a wise measure, Which must contribute much to the comfort of the troops. Regiments are moving over to the Virginia side as rapidly as they can he thrown across. Gen. McClellan spent all day yes- terday in Virginia, seeing for himself that every- thing was well and promptly done. His energy is said to be untiring, and the vim he exhibits im- parts itself to the whole army. A body of skirmishers were sent out by Colonel McCunn, from the Thirty-seventh New York regi- ment on Thursday night, and fell in with a body of rebels near Alexandria. A brisk fire was ex- changed between them. Reinforcements were at once sent out to relieve the pickets, and the rebels fied. It appears that the naval constructor has report- ed that after a-careful examination of the Vander- bilt steamers he considers them unfit for -blocka- | ding purposes, and the Navy Department has con- curred in that opinion. Theaicinity of Fortress Monroe has at length become the scene of exciting action. General Magruder, at the head of a large force of 7,000 rebels, including 200 cavalry and eight pieces of artillery, advanced from Yorktown on Friday last and arrived at point within three miles of the town of Hampton on Wednesday. About midnight of that day a party of the rebels entered the town, which consisted of five hundred it with torches in Nearly the whole town was consumed in a brief space of time, the inhabitants flecing ata few minutes’ uotice. The fire raged houses, set fire to different directions, and .| privateers on the coast of South Carolina, Geor- THE NEWS. The mails of the Europa and Kangaroo, which arrived here yesterday, complete our European files to the 27th of July, and furnish very interest- ing details of the news to that day, besides bring- ing important letters from our correspondents in Paris and Berlin. Lord Palmerston iad energeti- cally condemned the “corruptions” of the Cuban authorities with respectto the African slave trade. The recognition of the Southern confederacy by France is openly advocated by the Patrie, of Paris; and, although that journal has just been divested of its semi-official character, its arga- ments were looked on as foreshadowing some new imperial movement on the American que: ‘The Prussian people regretted very much the pre: sent position of the United States. The following table shows the number of sick and wounded New York soldiers who were in the hospitals at Washington and Georgetown on the 3d inst.:-— 5 Nineteenth Volunteers... 2 ‘Twenty-first Volunteers, 1 Twenty i Twenty sixth Volunteers 2 ‘Twonty seventh Voi Twenty-eighth Vols Thirt Vohuntecrs ‘onrteonth Voluntwars. Fifieenth Volunteers Sixteenth Volonteo:s. Seventeenth Volunteers. Eighteenth Volunteers... 13 ‘Total eee The clear unconditional Union majority i tucky is not less than 60,000. Will John ©. Breckinridge uow resign bis seat in the Senate, as he promised he would? Ex-Govertior Merriwe' ther, | James B, Clay and Thomas Porter, President of | the State Senate, were all defeated, although each made strenuous efforts, backed by Esquire Magoffin, to get into the Legislature, for the purpose of dragooning the members into the passage of & secession ordinance. The people of Maryland have got rid, for a avis, of one incubus, in the shape of a speculating Li lature, that body having adjourned on the 7th inst, | to the 17th ef September. It is the impression in Providence that Governor | Sprague will decline the appointment of Brigadier | General, but will retain his position a. Executive of the State. Ex-Governor Letcher, of Eastern Virginia, hes | forbidden the circulation of notes issued by the Merchants’ and Mechanics’ Bank of Wheeling and the Northwestern Bank, except those of the brauch of the latter institution at Jeffersonvilie. The reason assigned is that those banks give aid to the enemy. The Southern papers are calling loudly for men to join the rebel army. They say men and horses are wanted—nothing else. Will our government make a note of this? The battles on the Southern side are to be fought with cavalry and artillery. Nearly all of the Southern newspapers that are yet in existence have reduced their proportions and raised their price. The Charleston Werrs has recently given up the ghost, and the Mobile News, Advertiser and Register are al) three now merged into one concern, The five Jeff. Davis pirates taken from on board the Enchantress were committed on Thursday, in Phiadelphia, for trial, under the act of Congress defining the erime of piracy and prescribing the punishment thereof, A socialistic meeting of working men, prinei- pally Germans, was held at the Metropolitan Rooms, in Hester street, last evening, to devise some means of benefitting the laboring classes, Several speeches were delivered in German and English, and a number of resolutions passed with great unanimity. The meeting was somewhat noisy in ita character, and considerable diversity of opinion was expressed by the speakers as to the best tueans of carrying out the object. The water was five feet deep in the channel of the Ohi) river at Wheeling on the 6th inst., and falling The otton market was very active yesterday, and } prices wore much higher. ‘The total sales wero 4,500 bales, vad the closing quotations on a baris of 17g¢c. a 18¢ for riding uplands. There wes tess inquiry for flour aud ie market was heavy, There were free purchases of ‘heat and corn, and holders of shipping parcele were enabled t i them on more favorable terms. ‘The activ- in navai stores continued, and spirits of tarpeatine vent up to $105 a $110, Thore was not much dono in rovisions, white sugars wore active, and coffee, tons and iis wore im good demand. The export operations in tobacco were Inrge. The freiglit engagements were quite | small. Inefiiciency of the Bloekade—Ravages of the Privateers. Yesterday we published a batch of letters fromthe Southern coast, describing the daring operations of the rebel privatee strating the inefficieney of — thi which is a subject of ridienle alike Carolinians and the Blue Noses might add, it is the laughing stock a and demon- blockades | or the North | indeed, we 30 of the gia, Florida, Louisiana and Texas. Southern ‘privateers in large numbers are already ¢ and others preparing to leave on their piratical expeditions. The following is a Jist ef the sea, all night. General Butler having received intelligence of the advance of the rebels from a deserter, moved a body of the New York Twentieth rifles, under Colonel Weber, to the lower side of Hampton bridge, in order to protect Camp Hamilton and Newport News, upon which it was supposed the enemy were about to make an attack. He remain- ed there until cleven o'clock, and had barricades erected, und strong guards posted at various points on the line of the creek. A porticn of the rebels attempted to force @ passage over the bridgo, but they were driven back, During the night it appears that several shots were exchanged between the rebels in the town and the pickets of Colonel Weber's troops across the brigge. Rumors were in circulation that the to" as fired by orders of General Butler; bat it will be seen from the ve y full necounts which we publish to-day, that there is no truth whatever in the statement, the fact being that some of the resi dents of Hampton set fire to their own dwellings» abedient to the orders of the :ebel leader. Mr. Chase, the Secretary of the Treasury, ar- rived in this city yesterday on finoncial business with reference to raising a loan cn the notes. A meeting of bank officers was held yoster- day to consider the propositions of the ‘Treasury | Department, and although the session was held in secret, it is undorstood that a free circulation will probably be given to the | Treasury notes ranging from five to twenty dollars. It was rumored in the city that the bankers had agreed to place at the disposal of Mr. Chase, for disbursement during the next two | weeks, the sum of $10,000,000. However,a prie | vate meeting of the principal moneyed men was to be held at the house of Mr. Cisco, the Sub-Trea- suror, last night, where Mr. Uhase was to com- mune with them in person, and further arrange- ments have been made for another mecting to- day, at which, no doubt, some definite goncinsion | wil} be come to. reasury | privateers whose names are known:— Steamer McHin . Steamer Winslow. Stemmer Gordon, Steamer Marton. Besifles theme, four others have been seen whose names are unknown, to exy nothing of those of which nething has been yet heard, but which are undoubtedly afloat along the coast or in mid-ocean, or near the shores of countries where our forefgn trade is chiefly carried on. T¥ appears that these privateers are for the most part veeselsof light draft,and that when in dan- | ger they enter the inlets, where ships-of-war | cannot follow them. One noted rendezvous of theirs is Newbern, N. @ Now, with all the noise made about our na- val preparations, duly two privateers have been as yet captured or destroyed—the Sayan- nah and the Potrel; only two of their prizes have teen retaken by government vessels and two by the crews. Phece piratical crafts, on the other hand, have captured | pwards of fifty of our vessels of which wo know, six of them having been sold at New Orleans on the 27th of July. How many have been | | captured of which we have as yet learned nothing, it possible to say. Many no doubt have been burned or sunk, aa in the case of some of those taken by the Sumter; and a long | | time may clapse beforethe owners hear of them, | if they ever hear at all Weare satisfied that already twenty millions worth of Northern { property bas been lost iu various ways through the operations of these highway- | men of the seas, increasing daily in num- | bere and becoming more and more daring from impunity. The worst effect is not the | tose of the vessels and their cargoes, but | | the destruction of our trade. Our commerce } | with the West Indies was immense before the | | partially supplied from any so bottoms are taking all our trade, When the Great Eastern was here she could have been filled with cargo if her draft of water were noy 80 great, Thus our shipping interest is literally ruined, while the Secretary of the Navy sits in his easy chair at his department as serene and uncon- cerned as if “nobody was hurt,” and as if the success of the war did not depend upon the im- portant branch of the public service over which he presides even more than it does upon the army. The enemy, too, is growing tiv at our expense, and is obtaining important srticies by sea, which give him aid and comfor:. More- over, if the blockade is not rendeiii effective, the rebels will be able to send awny their cot ton and tobacco and rice, and obtain soll or the goods they most need in return. A ‘wether consequence, and still more depioradle, will be that English vessela will yu» ‘bo blockade, ‘They will probably be fired #pon ox captured by the armed ships of our gover! ment. Yom such collisions, in the present tor and temper of the English and American pu!) i tated between the two countries, decisive and stringent policy is nut adopted before the shipments of cotton begin in October | next, we will be plunged into hostilities with several European Powers before the first of January next. No half measures will do. A chain of armed vessels, particularly large steamers for sea work, and gunboats of light draft for the inlets, must be stretched from Passamaquoddy to the Rio Grande. each one within sight of another, so as at the same time to cut off the depredations of the priva- teers, and prevent the ingress or egress of any vessels whatsoever from the Chesapeake to the coast of Mexico. Let this be done, and all difliculties with England and France will be | obviated, while the war with the domestic foe ill receive such important aid on the clement of which our government has the command that it must soon be brought to a successful issne. But let our warning be neglected, and let the Navy Department continue in its im- becile course, and the most disustrous conse- quences may be. expected. Our New Murrary Reciwe—Frewosr iw Han- Ness.—The energy displayed by General Fre- mont since his arrival in St. Lonis is of cheering promise for the successful prosecution of the campaign in that quarter. Tis activity, prompt- ness of decision and sleepless vigilance have already inspired the same hopeful confidence arnongst the Missouri people that similar quali- ties have won for General McClellan. He rises punctually at five in the morning, and takes no rest from his labors, saving a brief interval for meals, until midnight, or frequently later. The amount of work that he has accomplished since his arrival in St. Louis has won the adiniration of the loyal people of the State, while it has filled the rebels with dismay. Bird’s Point, which ran great danger of being captured by General Pillow, hus been effectually etrength- ened by troops collected from different locali- ties as well as by lange supplies of arms and ammunition. Camps of instruction, to contain from twenty thousand to thirty thousand sol- diera, have been established at St. Louis and Springfield, Minois, and the orénance and com- missariat departments ave being organived and supplies sent in with the greatest rapidity. General Fremont is just the man for the ps in which he has been placed. It is by snch ap- pointments that the President will justify the great trust reposed in him by the country. ORGANIZATION OF TID J -We recently published two pages of promotions and ap; meuts in the United States Army. Among these, however, were very few second lieutenants. This has been a matter of surprise to many per- sons, The reason is that covernment has adopted an exceedingly judicious and wise plan, con- | cerning,this grade of oficers. In the oleven new regiments which are to be added to the veeolved to | i, Ny, may deserve There are, thus -four places left vacont securacy ind to be raised from the ranks. two bundred and six | which they may aspire for, and no more popular | mode of rewarding bravery and good behavior conld have been devised than to inspire every individual serving in the cause of his country | with a feeling that he may do so with a fair chance of acquiring distinction, i Pay Rotis or Our Vorene ~We per. ceive that th enth regiment, which return ed two months ago from the seat of war, have just received the announcement that they will he paid off, in the course of a few days. This is, undoubtedly, the best drilled militia corps in the country, yet it has required sixty days to make out its pay rolls. The reason is that the whole system for the payment of volunteers is deficient, and works badly. The captains and sergeants are required to keep the accounts and, by Uniled States army rules, five copies of the pay rolls are required. If it takes an admi- rably disciplined corps like the Seventh se long 2 period before this duty is performod, although itnever was in action, and did not lose a man, what can be expected from regiments which have been in battle, and have served far a quary ter of @ year? Under such mismanagements the. poor soldier becomes tutterly discouraged, reenlistments flag, a vast gmount of suffering is caused to families, and the credit of the go» vernntent itself is depreciated. EyGuany’s Corton Proseecrs—We observe that Sir Charles Wood, in a recent speech in the House of Commons; stated that there wonld be exported from India to Great Britain, in the | course of the present year, tliree hundred thou, sand bales of cotton in excess af the quantity shipped in any former year, It is evident that Englund is stimulating the growth of cotton whorever the climate is favorable to its growth. It is possible that so large an of the Indian considerable effoct upon the policy of the English government towards the United States. If the looms of Lancashire can be only @ during the existence of this war, Great Britain will have no cause to break our blockade, and the last hope of the slate will be extingnished. increase cotton Tue Devoren B. vannah News suggests that under this title an organization of from five to ten thousand Confederates be form | pirates commenced their depredations. The | | six vessels captured by the Sumter off the coast | of Guba were all American bottoms, with vain- | * ab »ped on Spanish aceount, Now | » North cl will get a charter or can be ed, who will be ready, if necessary, to share the | fate of Curtgus and jump into the gulf. Why } thopateming up. of | the ; Briton. * 8 { can ant 4 dent itis easy to see how a war might be previp.- } In fact, we } have no hesitation in saying that if some very | supply may have | ; tint the number of “the Devoted Band?’ If things go rightly the sece: be in a disposition to j mp into the gulf with te premium. Euglish | gut any organization, ists Will all soon } will have either the time or opportunity to al- \ wnd to any other dring than that of the musket | dies toe Grow io Ws people ‘The English Nation in a Panic. During the last fortnight nothing bas amused us so much as the tone of the English press, particularly in relation to a suggestion which we made some time ago about the North and South burying the hatchet and uniting their forces for the purpose of vindicating the Monroe doc- trine to its fullest extent, and sweeping away from this continent and /its islands every ves- tige of foreign dominion. The London journals are fired with resentment, and assail the Hina, because they regard our proposition as practi- cable, and fear it may be carried into effect. ‘The leading London journals have expressed their ideas on the subject in a gentlemanly man- her; but one of the low, vulgar prints has come out in its characteristic Lillingsgate, as fol- lows:— It is impossible to onnecive anything in a deeper mire of contempt than the New You Hegay, After he ving beer obliged to turn guidenly around on the question of civil wer, and to ery halloo to the vengeful pursuers of is own party, it now lights upon @ racality very ob Vieus, but two shameful fur any other creatore to adapt quarrel by a war with Gre: We do not think too highly of Amert clety, but_we should hold it a bitter iny 18 opinions, or even its honor, wath the m of the New Yous Huxa, We woul word that could duce our cocntrymen now, i the owe. y of the republic, to resent this poor malice, that would ve veuomous i it could, We woul! ony lold up to the gost and derision of mank 1 that organ of the Amert hit alfocts to lead “ti Sew York f dynastic tyranny and de graded enough, but this pander (0 a their subservience by the infamy «f (hat the poor wretel: 0 Ly one to pay heed to hie s atrocious. He is but 4 silage villain, clumay when you hiss him oi, wash the paint nd stripy hina" of his Uuslod rage, bo Me This extract has been copied into a congenial journal of the same calibre, whose editor has distinguished himself by his matchless race at Solferino and his precipitate flight from Bull run, It is quite trne we did advise an armistice tor three years between the armies o° the North and the South; and that, instead of the South fighting for the idea of sectional independence, and the North to prevent it, destroying each other's population and resources for the special henefit and amusement of the despots of Eu- rope, they should both combine for the pur- pose of extending the area of freedom and adding to the common territory of the Union. The way in which these armies fought at Ma- aa Junction proves that, united, they could rapidly clear this continent of all foreign rule, from Labrador to the Isthmus of Panama. Nothing could resist their onward march. Now, the English journals see this danger to the remnant of their colonial possessions in North Ameri and they indulge in yebe- ment tirades against the editor of the Herary, who set the idea affoat, just as they attack Louis Napoleon when the Parisian jour- nals announce a seoret treaty with Russia, in which the Emperor disposes of the affairs of the pean continent without asking England’s peciuission, or when he increases his army or navy 80.as to endanger British supremacy on the ocean, or to threaten to carry out the unful- filled design of his uncle, to invade Great Bri- tain from Cherbourg or Boulogne. Napoleon, controlling the whole press of France, is bitter- ly assailed by the organs of John Bull when- ever any Parisian journal foreshadows any policy which wil! extract the teeth and clip the claws of the old effote Britich lion, In like man- ner Bennett, the Emperor of the New York IivnaLp, who manages, according to all ap- pearances, the principal part of the American press, is denounced when his journal promul- gates the happy idea of consigning our domestic and internal differences to the Lomb of the Capu- lets, and joining hands and arms against the insidious foreign foe which would use the foot. hold it possesses on this continent as the fulcrum on which to planta lever to overtura owe stitutions and our republican 5 system of govern- ment, overwhelming North and South in one eginmon rain. It thus appears that Napoleon and Bennett are the two great bugbears of the British press and people. They have, perbaps, good reason to fear the res of the foolish proclamation of nen- trality issued by their monarch, Let them be- ware. When the North tries its s(vength a little farther upon the Southern army, und the South- erm army bas felt the weight of its blows, boih sides will then, perhaps, be disposed to suspend hostilities, so as to enable them to look r the common interests and the common dangers, and make common ¢ ‘ainst the stealthy en- t Britain and other Enro- pean Powers, pariicnlarly Spain, who, taking advantage of our internal dissensions, are plot- ng OI Subjugudion to their yoke. With an army of 110,000 men on one side, and rnvy of 60,000 on the other, who fought with such fury near Mana: Junction, with these armies combined info one of 170,000 men, and led by such generals as McClellan, Beauregard and Jobnston, with 300,000 more troops at their back, ready to follow in their path, w! could arrest their conquer- ing march northward t Hudson Bay, and southward to the Caribbean sea? Canada, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward’s Island and Newfoundtand, with all the western coast now in the possession of the British Queen, would become ours in a few months, whilst southward, Mexico and Central America. with Cuba, Jamaica, St. Domingo, and all the West Indian Islands, would frlt into our hands, al- tnow? without resistance. That is our pro- gramme, and that is the basis of an enduring peace beiween the North and the South. Prince Nupafeon, now in Washington, will please to con- sequel croachments of Gr his Imperial cousin, the great Emperor. A Harry Ipra.—The New Orleans journals have at last hit upon the happy idea of meeting the blockade with an embargo, which they think will be more damaging to foreign nations than the blockade. The Bee of that city sa England and France want our cotton they must send their vessels up the Mis the blockade, ox they will not get it It fur- ther tells us that the people of the South are fully prepared to dispense with the two hundred millions of dollars, which is about the value of the crop, unless they can dispose of it in their own way; and further, that if such « misfortune as the successful i on of Louisiana could possibly oceur, every pound of cotton in the State would be consigned to (he flames sooner than that it should pass through Northern hands, This shows inflexible determination enough, but of what avail is kely to be? It is the most absurd thing that the rebels could do—that of proclaiming an embargo when they are utterly | unable to help themselves, An embargo, under such circumstances, would only be @ mockery, and provocative of langhter. And as for the talk about destroying the cotton crop, it is very questionable indeed, when the invasion actually takes place, whether the followers of Jeff. Davis ‘If | sissippi by forcing | } the St, HGHeeliBads tdbaki agi: raimeat then at cHloe 20 are now for but three, both in the regular army Albany during the present week, and after say- ing a great deal about uniting their forces, have finally settled down in a call for separate con- ventions, and have decided to adhere to their old party organizations, jast as theagh the@o- cial, commercial and potitical revolution which we are now going through had not obilterated all party lines and swamped every political or- ganization that existed prior to the commence nent of the war. These gentlowen. a customed to pulling the wires and have the muses dance at their bidding, like eo many wax & springs, are atill clinging to the dele their avocation still remains. and that (Ley can continne to parade the masses with all the case that the manager of a puppet show trots out bis images: The republican committee assmabled on the 6th inst., and Hnaa mously offeyod to drop their organization and waite with all parties, for the time being, for the parpose of « vigorous prose cution of the war until rebell'on in ene section of the country is a thing tha: was, ieetead that is, The democratic committer, onder the lead of Deaa Richmond, assembled la the same room two days later, coolly received the proposition | of the republicans, and decided to ching te thei. | old organization, no doubt intweaced with the idea that if the people were alowed to anlte upon one platform for the maintenance of the Union, they, as party jugglers and wirepy tiers, would lose their entire powe., and be forced to take the back seat; and Leaven meee the true interest of the coun'ry would have | ' served by placing them there years ago. The governing idea that controtied their action appears to have been their party onanization } its party first, party second, and party all the | time. The communication in reply to the re publican committee shows plainly that they were compelled to resort to bard labor to adapt their party tot ¢ issues of the de wd have turned a complete somersault from the position taken in their fuinous secession convertion, beld in Albany in Jonuary last, Notwithstanding both parties have decided to cling to their party organization, and endeavor to distract the public mind, i is gratifying to all lovers of the Union to know that both parties were compelled to place themselves on the plat- form of a vigorous prosecution of the war, the | preservation of the constitu’ tion to the pretended pe programme urged by the secession symputhisers in our midst. | No person has received a greater rebuke Gian did the Hon. Ben Wood in the home of Lis for mer friends. He visited Albany as a member of the committee, arriving at an early hour in the morning, with his resolutions all prepared, | labored incessantly, like a man ino harvest, to secure an endorsement; but with all the me bers of the committee, and three seore or more outsiders, not one person could he find that | would endorse it, and was completely snuffed | out. Elected to Congress as a democrat, his own party reject his heresies. We would therefore advise him to live up to the old pro- verb, “that birds of a feather flock together,” and remove bis organ to Manassas Junction, The result of the labors of the two com: | mit‘ces are virtually the same, and should nothing turn up at the seat of war to up- | set their programmes, we shall have one of the | most singular campaigns known in the State. The platform of the two parties is virtually the same; they both call each other corrapt, which is like the “pot calling the kettle black,” and the only difference between them is whether the demotratic ov republican politicians ehall have the handling ef the sinews of war. It is useless for either side to make any figures upon | the result, for one move by Scott or McClel- lan upon the war chess bourd may wipe out all thet figures and cause the people to rally around a standard of their own, leaving the politi 8 of both parties high and dry. With all their resolutions, with all their communica- tions and resoives, no person can tell what the issues will be in November next. ‘The great wheels of the revolutionary car are rolling on- ward, guided by 9 hand that politicians cannot touch, and no person can predict what a day or an hour will bring forth. Tow futile, then, the rosolves and DpatiOneay of politicians. Tspiaya tHe Brave.—Indiana has come out splendidly in this war, and silenced forever the tannt of Buena Vista. She has already equip- ped and sent into the field thirteen regiments of infantry and {wo companies of cavalry, and two additional regiments of infantry are ready to march, and a full regiment of eayalry will be completed within a short time. In addition to these we hear of seventcer regiments now form- ing, mekiug thirty three regiments in all, witha force of about 56,000 men, or a fortieth part of the entire population The highest credit is rodected upon the citizens of Indiana for their timely and patriotic efforts in organizing such a large body of treops for the defence of the Union. “Remember Buena Vista” is the motto of one of the regiments of the State, and already the rebels have had occasion to remember both ii and its prowess. EvusTMets ror THB War.—trevious to the war to suppress rebellion, enlistments for the regulars were invariably for five years. They and for volunteers. Very many, therefore, of those who have returned from three months service, now prefer going into the regiments of regulars which Congress has authorized, be- eause there is so much greater regularity of pay init, than can be found under the volunteer syse tem, A-reform is needed in this respect. If it does not take place volunteer service will suffer greatly, and it will be found impossible to fill up the skeletons of regiments that have heen framed. Tar Biocxape or Ovr Soutnern Ports.—That the blockade at certain points of the Southern coast is ineficient we have had ample testi- mony, nd therefore it oceasions us but little surprise to find, according to the New Orleans Crescent, that purchases of cotton for the Mex- | ican market, which is shipped by a sea route at least once a week, take place regularly in that city. How js this? The months of the Mis- sissippi ought to be better guarded than to allow of such practices in the face of a block- ade, for the inefficiency of which there is no excuse. Suusvave ro Gartsna A. Grow, Srmaxen oy tae Hocse or Rurresaxtatives —We learn that this gentieman will ‘be tendored the compliment of @ serecade this evening at Nicholas Hotel, at ten o'ciock. The Republican anu Mr E Delay titee, wili tatro pie Committee extent this court Smith, the chairman of the com and, in opposi- | Petapmraia, ‘August 9, 186. 4 long torm of years, broken by sceves of murders, but ‘ne executions, has passed over Philadelpliw until to. day, when we bad the spectacle of the hanging of Thomas J, Armstrong for the premeditated killing of Robert Craw- ford. Tue deceased was an old man, who kept ® fence’? OF receiving shop for etolen yarn, in the upper district of the city, He lived m communtcstion with young thieves * the various dye aud woaving shops of tho vicinity, and ‘(oat (OF some Lime with Armstrong. The latter was a lad of @ehouest habits, bot attached to moxt « respectable family end connected with one of the loading Presbyteriag churches i the North. fe mainiained his associotion wth this church ap to the time of the murder; and, ow eubsoquent dinclosurea discovered, secretly plotted aad commioted the ruio of ope or more innocent girls of the omeregeton, Te preserved a noswess and prudence whieh protected him from suspeiu; and at the time of the comm usion of (hie murder hundreds of persons came forward (@ anewer for bu good character aud cast their delhuonee tt tas Lover The evidenor, however, was overwhelming, and the premmer ® condect, afer caviction, reudered still clearer “ve infleaible crucity which he poescesed and the despe- rate crimes of which be was capablo, Lilie doubt bow remains that be plotted the murder detberaiely, and executed it unilinchingly, He bad Agreed to moet the olf man ona cortam Pritay evening sodarwe! m toa npot where a large quantity of soles yarn bad beeo couceaied. Crawford was to bring one hundred dollars opon bis person, mpd a mutcal Uausfer of cul and merchandise would take place Artustrong tired the Lean took i the Ghd man, drove by over a circuitous route, and nally struck him from bis seat im the very heart of the city, and secured (he meney upon his per- fon. He thom continued on ap town until he reached @ lonetame pinee in the suburb, eailed “Norris square,” where be voppled out the body, and deliberately dw. che ged 4 loaded pistol wm the prisoner's face, He re- torued the @acee with the cushions aud hoor soaked with blood and strewn with fragments of har. He account od for thin by saying that @ man aod woman, ear Ying freehly Killed ebickens, had rdden im hiv toom; but the toed Was subraited to chemveat anwiyam, and the sim Of the corpuncion at ouce detverinmed its true character. Moreover tbe prisoner failed to neocon ot f hitewelf on the fatal evesing, abd prevaricated until hw 66 wae made nnnifons A) Hur trial Kading talent was employed, and the while oly interested, The priemer's famiy wat at the deck, and the mpectaele of bis gutters avd uotler moived Use «(oat Rearte " ie own conduct. om the reeiied general i wmirary etiiauiated projuding o, Noi iwouty Ou» years of age, be supported huasell throngh the harassing tte whole hth « «08 aid veMboule Coutd Mud PM) 11 aB the ond addremned the Juice aod eye batons ima atiam af levity ame vebemenee wh ArMes Fonebenty aie epee! agrempmal t 1B 86° a Des AWE ow ERreer te bat one de coped a fow days detec exceotion whem he Made @ Matemout wt cot ion impleating tm the murder two munueeus bb def whom hid bees examined apd ltcharged. Te Governor w Mm whe pngbt to heave him repreved or) Ue ane of the poopie deme Kaovutive wna shige Thc hangieg tak place tothe prime pera, where Gp palo ws War Ovorinoked by upwards ot # hamdrot prin, or The Paved Mates Marchal requested the pirates af the Metre! to be pieced fy preition W wee the eneontom, bot the Tmepecte: y dumgreed. ‘The denn wes t make Ahem infer the paniskinemt of one ef their own ersft The other epectate fuer ing the pury , the reporters shunted down with aympath te wo- aod, BS os eod the | Tekeus were at 9 premium of fity daliars, aac! a the-aand walkow ot af the cat) any ser re Upon the jury were the mames of the Uuited wthal ans condey loading jeluttetane fhe Rey Mr MeAwiey aud Geo MH. Stuart, # leading Chr retian merciins reheinet 8th (oe tre ‘we the etl Bee jar le See teat Aix CHES to Regt, ane WeQnINE, tm med, vel) one budred abd ten poutde, he sorted excoediigiy boyih, sad looked the murderer only aa vay tion and ste. The proves was taken down the prison yard, he and Ue spiritual Advisory at Ove trem. a! bie wtp 1a amcad verte of @uteular ‘tevity and widen paired Dorve. He looked almost in gaiety #1 the crea beam, the rope and new, amd fell the trap with lu feet The andionce stood uncovered, many of them im ia, aud all shivering in fright at Che anticipmtont fomet of tow was food by Sheral Kern, the sevens Of the four persons ape the drop beams celteved aga a pole, clear sky, ad, im obediemer toa signal clorgy, Artastrang asivan ed te the front amd spoke as ful lows in a bold vowwe>— My FRieNus—I have @ few words to say to you, 1 am going to die, and lot my say, im panring, Tove in pace with my Mi aod | at this moment a pardon was offered we on comdive At giving up wy Maker, 1 would ake it: abd 1 die peace with al! the wortd and tur. givemil my enemies, | desire you to take mening by my {nie Sabbath breaking was the first © Via you farewell, gent. svn (here be mentioned wares officers). and 1 wall farewell. I die in peace with everybody Tho cap was alot to bedrawn over bis fhoe bore, when he saw, at distance, « k whom be had kuowa. At the wight hee sea “Farewell, hoober Fis attitude d cing the making of noching of fear oF re did not ve y inade al.oudant cer, th the Sherif and Ge ge HW Stuart, ond MeNul rvone, gave a eignal to the drop. ‘com, and a serious acc wat very nearly oe that unhinges with u Lids against their cushions. st the victim tn the a ula e movement ve whieb Jife mai place in the bod ‘There was a rush forward. ‘The doctors grasped bie rst. (Some spectators. passed thei han Knees to fect the tremulous sinows, “ faintness, hnd a dvizen ‘made ‘coarse’ jokes Tore speculated as to the imsue of his yom tal wart, the dogree of his pain, or the probability of his =e. vance. In geven minutes he was beyond the reach of exeention or exccuioner, and a hurdle bemg wheeled from the stable, they eut down wis body, while « fow scrambled for tie rope, aud {i was Whecked Oa run inte the couyret’s corriter Tor biw old father to claim — The neck was not broken, nor the flew discolored. Sume said that he died “game,” and all weet awry teaving the old man anda brother Uo sit by the remains aml weep that $0 great calamity had darkened ther home and blighted their lives. Few lamented him, a A be a. youth, bat none of its clomonts of ry’ who would make, even of his dying epeoeb ff 4 Jansson Are WATADCINg A He MOTO grwVyous than the murder which he did The (hump of the tap jerking of the Young mur uiveriag, wad ier Wo tndiomte lave Trade Tostow, August 0, 1861 A.S. Bigolow and A. i. Potter, shipowners and owt fitters, of New Redford, were before the Uuited States Comminaioner to-day, charged with fitting out the ship Brutugasasiaver about a yoar ago. Tt te alleged that the Brutus obtained 540 slaves, of whom G00 survived the passage and were sold in Cuba Pigeiow and Pourer wore held to bail it $10,000 each for a further hear John Dowdal), alins James, alleged mate of the Mary Frances, was conmitiod to yall, charged with o ping negroes,” The y Franove was itved owt in Mew Zeck eae Yams oes c6, and cleared for Wilmington, ©. | Whore she obtained « nomisal charter lo the West le ‘ijde, knd from thonee sailed to aie West Cont of Afrian. She succeedai in taking on hoard #17 negroes, and eubae- quently landed ther iu Cuba, afer which tho brig was burned, and the master and crew dispersed to parte wae known.’ Dovwdall lately turned up in Chetase and i wow in trouble, Re-Oresina ov The Acavewy oF Mone — i Ullman com ences his sesso at this houre on the 2d of wext month. ‘Tha first performances given will be those of the este Dated prestisigitateur Hormann, whose feats diet las have won him a world wide reputation, Ale i unlike ait the other professors of legordemain that have preceded him, inasmuch as he ditdains the we of the mechantonl Contrivances and paraphernalia by the #¢ of whieh thew tricks are performed. He stands up alone before an sa- dience and accomptizhes with bis bare heads the most astoniahing deceptions. His jugglery bas the more mort from the modest and simple manner in whieh [i is per. formed, no effort being made to coeupy one sense while another is being cheated. Monsieur Hermann’s entertainments have rendered nis gene @ household word in all the great citics of Rarope, The amount of money which his popularity has enabled ian to give away for benevolent objects would form « hand Some fortune th iteelf. As soon as these performances: are brought to a close, which will be about the end of September, the regular season of oper will commence, ‘Two new Stars aro announced—Madame Medori and Madame Charton, ropranos of first clase reputation—for the season after Mr. Ullman has concluded an engagement with Ristori, the great Italien tragedienne and rival of Rachel, Liverroc:—Stel Myr Marmey Rev W Shite. Feronsad aA Maratam, Mar Smita, eee tare T Belo, —— ee saree cae an a me Se ee 2 en NN i