The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1861, Page 2

2 ARRIVAL OF THE CHAMPION FROM ASPINWALL NEARLY A MILLION IN SPECIE. Interesting from the Pacific Squadron. DEFEAT OF MOSQUERA CONFIRMED. Union ‘Troops Ooncentrating at San Francisco, &o., ‘The steamship Champion, Captain Seabury, from Aspin- wall on the 4th inst., bringing mails and passongors from ‘San Francisco July 21, arrived at this port yesterday. &e., eo. NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 1861. that land—that dear old Ireland—is to each and all sons. It wi t demanded of a man to forget his mother tn his love for hia wife, The two feelings never clash; nor could an Irishman’s love for bis adopted country ever bo we d by the most intense devotion to his own dear land. The General concluded amidst an outburst of applauso, under cover of which he managed to retreat, ‘Then came more songs, ‘The Star Spangled Banner,’ “The Sa the Red,’ ‘(The Harp that once through ‘Tara’s ” ‘The night wound up with the toast “McMahon, Duke Magenta, a true soldier.” With three rattling cheers @ tiger th boys separated for the morning. ‘AVAL NEWS. The General Sumner—armed steamer—is now lying {0 the harbor, and is commanded by Captain W. C. Pease, of the revento service. She has been presented to the government for four months by oneof our merchants, and is in every respect an effective craft. She is ready for service at any moment, Tho General Sumner carries ‘six guns and has a crew of 81 enty men. ‘The revenue cutters Marcy and Lane are in our waters ‘Tho former has just beon fully equipped; the latter is at the Maro Island Navy Yard undergoing repairs. ‘The armed steamer Massachusetts, by order of General Sumner, is stationed at San Juan Island (disputed torrl- tory), subject to the direction of Captain Pickett, who is in command of the United States garrison at that place, Captain Gardner, United States Navy, commandant at tho Maro Island Navy Yard, has bad his name frequontly brought before the public during tho past few weeks. His son, whilo travelling in a stage, gave oxproasion to Bocession views, and even went so far, it 18 said, ag to : insult lady passengers because they differed with him, ‘Tuo following ia tho specie list:— ‘A connection was considered to exist between the opia- ‘BROM BAN FRANCISCO. jons of father and son, and a demand was made for infor- HL. Strauss... $8,600 R. Morrison & Co.. $7,000 | mation on the subject.” Captain Gardner was certified for Am. Ex. 100,000 J. F. Coghill. k by a number of well known Union men, §0 the matter ‘Wells, Fargo & Co.. 180,000 Jonnings&Browster 10, dropped. Jas. Leo & 1,900 Eugene Kelly. 143,000 ‘The French brig-of-war Railleur went to sea on the 18th Harbeck & Go | 3,450 W. Hollor & Co 8,000 | inst., after a visit to this harbor of nearly a month. Ballin & Sander... 17,000 W.T. Coleman & 43,450 | She proceeds toTahitl, Another French vessel, a frigate, Or 22,520 J. Strauss Bros.... 20,000 | jy expected to arrive at any moment. It is the opinion of 21,000 Haddon & Williams 4,200 | weil informed persons that we are to be visited by a 6,081 R. Meads 9.500 | small Knglish squadron in a fow weeks. 15 AS 6, SEIZURE OF DIAMONDG—A SLIGHT MISTAKE. Kirby, Byrne & Co. 9,000 7,400 | By the last steamer from Panama a man named Soilo W. 82,000 CC. so 5,886 | came passengor. He had with hima large quantity of . 20,000 . 8,000 | diamonds, &c., which were seized ag contraband by the 6,000 Houston &Hastings 13,000 | Custom House officers; after investigation, it was found 4,000 J.B. Newton &Co. 23,489 | that a mistake was made. A city paper says:—The party 16,000 R. ; against whom this groundless charge was mado is Mr 12,560 16,400 | Leopold Séile, lately in business in New York city, and 17,500 5,000 | ageut for the house of B. Fallek, No. 11 rue Lafitte, Paris. 9,000 ———— | Whon the seizure was mado, Mr. 8. stated that the dia- sone monds wore not subject to duty, but his statement was FROM AsPinW. net credited. Mr. Collector Rankin, however, madea Handy & Everott. . ‘ rigid examination of Mr. Seilo’s papers and witnesses, and B. Howard & Sons a caused the goods seized to be returned, at ' the bin 700 same time taking the precaution to recoive WAR NEWS FROM THE PACIFIC. Troops Concentrated near San Francis- co, der, do. OUR SAN FRANCISCO CORRESPONDENCE. ‘San Francisco, July 20, 1861. Active Miltary Movements in San Francisco—A of Cavalry—Regular Troops in and Around San Fran. cisco—The McMahon Guards—Remarks of General Sum- ner—Naval News—Seiture of Diamonds—The Lime, Point Tract of Land, de., dic. ‘The military fever is again rife among our citizens- Fecretary Cameron’s refusal to aocopt the regiment or- ganized here threw @ damper on it; but now our embryo soldiers condkdently expect to be called upon to fill up the quota of 290,000 additional men required by the Presi- dent. Accordingly, the drilling suspended some timo since has been resumed, and the streets, as before, are alive with bodies of trained men, A meeting takes piace | of land near the entrance to this ovening to inaugurate the first steps towards the for- mation ef a cavalry regiment, 750 strong, to be ready in the event of being required for service, California pro- duces some of the best horsemen inthe world, and is, above all places, most suitable to raise a mounted corps. ‘There is some speculationas to the reported expedition from here to Texas; and as secession has no foothold on this coast, it is but fair to gtvo those anxious an opportu- nity of showing their devotion to the country. There is Little else thought of at present besides the progress of the war, and it must be aaid that many incline to the opinion that some sort of compromise would be a happy event, if it could be brought about without lossening the dignity of the government. The rumors on this topic that reach ug from the East are recelved by a great number with pleasure, - ARMY INTELLIGENCE. Liearn-on good authority that several officers of tho army, now serving in California, and whe were recently promoted in consequence of the augmentation of the mili- tary establishment of the country, will decline, The rea- son for this action on their part is stated to be, in effect, that there is no guaranteo of the permanency of the new regiments, and that in giving up their present positions they would run the risk of belag thrown out of service whoo the war is over, I learn further, that General Sum- ner is not at ali pleased with the reluctance manifested, and that he will satisfy the protestants that their grounds of objection are not {well taken. Having done so, the backward officers, it is fair to presume, will either have to retire from the army or enter upon the active duties of tbo campaign. Of course it is understood that promotion ccquires immediate departure for the Eastern Statos. We have new @ largo body of regular troops coucen- trated im and about the harbor of San Francisco. They are stationed as follows:— At the Presidio there are stationed Company C, Third artillery (Ord’s battery), in splondid condition, six guns and seventy horses; Companies A, C, D, F,G, H and K, Fourth infantry, and Company E, Ninth infantry. Com- manding officer, Major W. S. Ketchum, United States Fourth infantry. At Fort Poiut (entrance to the harbor)—Companies A and B, Third artillery, Commanding officer, Breyet Major Austin, Alcatraz Island (opposite the city)—Compantes G, H, ! and another, Third artillery. Commanding officer, Capt. Burion. Benicia Barracks and Arsenal—Companies E and K, Sixth infantry; I, Third artillery, and one company of ord- oanco, Commanding officer, Col. W. Seawell. Camp Fitzgerald (Los Angoles)—Companies B and K? First dragoona, and Companies I and F, Sixth infantry” Commanding Olticer, Brevet Major Carlton, ae eee I, Fourth Infantry, Brevet Major wert Bragg—Company D, Sixth infantry, Lioutonant 0. or Fort Gaston—Company B, Fourth infantry, Capt. Un- derwood. Fe = Humboldt—Company B, Sixth infantry, Captain ‘+ Yuma (on the Colorado)—Company ©, Sixth in- , and Company E, Fourth infantry, Commanding Lieut. Col. Geo, Andrews, chill (Nevada Territory)—Headquarters First ich Company A of same regiment; Companies and'H, Sixth infantry. Commanding offcer, Lieut. G. A. IL Diake, First dragoons, The following account ts given of Fort Crook, which is in the northern part of the State:—This fort, now under command of Lieutenant Kellogg, is garrisoned by sixty dragoons—Lieutenant Feilncr, Quartermaster, and Dr. Vooium, Surgeon. Soon after Captain Adams 'sent inti resignation and left tho fort, the Stars and Stripes were run up and a salute of thirty-four guns fired. There is not @ secessionis® vow at the fort—every man is fighting strong for the Union. Lieutenant Foilder enlisted in the army ouly five years ago, and through merit has boen promotod to the Ollice of Lieutenant, and ia now Quarter- master, The troops are distributed according to the order of Gonoral Sumner, issued soon after his arrival The largo garrisons at Los Avgeles and Fort Churchill are for the purpose of suppressing any tendency to incito opposition to the government. In the two places named somo fow sympathizore with secession are to be found who lately made exhibitions of rebellious flags. As a mattor of precaution a suflicient force is in each place to arrestand punish in the event of these acts being repeated, In this city and close to it are one thousand regulars, which, it is uo flattery to say, cannot be excelled as brave acl disciplined oopa. They are constantly drilled, and heerly every week the heavy guns at the forts are used in larget practice by the soldiers, Their firing ig described 46 Vory accurate, GENERAL SUMNER AND THE M'MATION QTARD. The McMahon Greastier Guard (an Irish company) had an election for Captain on the evening of the 18th, when Charies B. Grant, First Lieutenant, was chosen to Gli the position. After the business of the mooting the party adjourned to the Tehama House, where th Ly fat down to enjoy __ themse Many toasts wore given and drank. “When tho « 2 waK proposed a regular “Paugh-a-Ballagh”” yeli gr Just at this moment General Sumner, United States Ariny, con ing the Pacitie division, on his way to his apartmen the house, suddenly found himself in the presence of © ous,” and Was at once received with thr health was proposed, which he acknow Ww remarks, touching upon the ebief points of the present national crisis, for the result of which he felt no apprehension, He knew that the federal goverument Was sion in the hearts of the peopie, from whom it pro- cooded, and upon whom it relied for’ its power and sup- p The present struggle, he suid, wag not one so much or ourselves as for Gur posterity. A great trust was Feposed in us, aud ag trustees we had no power to alienate. Tt was the duty of a citizens to be conservative at this present time, and to deciare their willingness to support their country ia this trying ordeal, By our acting nobly and fearlessly in this crisia future geuerations would ciate our Xe e names with those great onea of tho men of 1 irs as creators, ours as the preservors of their ties, Nei trality at such a time isnot excusable, Qui tacet_ concen, (ere videtur was a legal motto, and not to be forgotten. Our citizens of foreign birth were lly interceted with those natives “to the manor born’? in maintaining the Union in its integrity; and, indeed, in his opinion, not were more capable of’ judging of the miki and beneficent form of our government than our citizen Nr who had seen and felt the wor and. = ~ delighted to see ther g “Starg and stripes” f country ig wo other hand eusiiy pg dh ans Soul aa = ensign be Were row maintaining their old boo ee fame. The old Celtic blood was roused, and it the ermtke ils mark now as it had always done on fone” ane battle fields. He agreed with ‘the Me and all other Colts, aud that it iil becomes a mait 40 Corwet hig old motherland, aad we ll know how dear { papducts equally beueticial more | 1 | Wis betie from Mr. Seile a written disclaimer of his intention techold tho government for damages in conse- quence of the faus pas committed. The seizure was wholly illegal atid unauthorized, and the person or persons connected therewith showed great ignorance of their du- ties. So positive were they that a good haul had been made, that on Monday last a ‘great spread’ was set out. Misrepresentation, also, is to be laid at their door, for they magnified the small value of the seizure—about $1,000 in all—to $10,000. Mr. Siecle states that Mr. Ran- kin behaved very gentlemanly to him, which no doubt ho did, and charges all the troubles which beset him tu pri- vate malice. Mr. S. is unmarried, go the statements made ‘by the Custom House officials in reference to the wife, who was said to have mado a successful landing with a petti- coat ‘all over’ diamond pins, was wholly imagjuary. The French merchants of this city complain that tho new officers in the Appraiser’s Department retain an, un- necessary amount of goods from the packages that go to the Custom House. In somo instances they have shown that one-tenth of the amount of goods has beon extracted and kept by subordinates. The Collector promises to check the abuse. ‘THE LIME POINT TRACT. It will be remembered that about threo years since Congress passed an act authorizing the purchase of a tract the harbor of San Francisco for the erection of fort, and appropriated $200,000 for the purpose. The late Senator Broderick was mainly in- Strumental in defeating the purcbase, as the property is, in fact, not worth anything like the sum then proposed to be paid for it, Ho declared that its value was not beyond $5,000. The United States government is most anxious to obtain the tract for the purpose of defence, and in furtherance of its views our Legislature passed an act empowering its agents to proceed and have it condemned, A good deal of litigation has grown out of the matter, which was finally settled by our Supreme Court in favor of the governinent. Recently the matter was tried before | a jury, who assessed the value at $125,000, which is con- sidered a most extravagant valuation. ‘The land is barren and of scarcely of any use whatever, except for military occupation, The owners, however, intend to appoai. What is thought of thomatter may be learned from the following parapraph:— Messrs. Lewis, Matthewson, Boikorstaff, Millor and Capt, McPherson, U. 8. A., concurred in estimating the value of the 1,000 acres. as being under $40,000; whilo Mosars. Teschmacher (Mayor of San Francisco), Sinton (real estate autioncer), Vassault, Gibb and Feck estimated it as being worth from $150,000 to $300,000. Mr. Sinton said, “in m} judgment the water is clogant from one end to the other; moan the depth throughout the frontage, &o;"” he does not tell of the beauty of tho land, its splendid per- pendicular cliffs of rock,from 100 to 200 foot high, that extond along tho lino of ‘tho shore nearly the whole dis- tance; he does not tell of the ship that broke up against those’ romantic rocks a fow years since, it boing im- possible to rescue hor from the heavy ‘swells that come through the Golden Gate and wash tho daso of these oliffs with a strength that bids defiance to the power of man, Mr. Gibb valued i¢ as worth $40,000 to $50,000 for agricultural purposes, but thought it worth an additional $200,000 “ for commercial pur- poses”’—a fine place for docks, wharves and warehouses, truly. San Francisco might grow until its population was counted by millions, and Isimo Point, unleas used by government, would stand, as now, a bleak, wave-beaten. rock, unappropriated except for pasturing goats and cattle. The track consists of 1,889 acres. From tho evidence of William J. Lewis, a surveyor and civil enginoer, wo learn that tha tract was selected by the United States go- vernment, under tho direction of Capt. Gilmer. In Horso- shoe Cove there are about forty acres of fine arabio land, tho sides of the hills afford good grazing, about ono-third of the whole tract is capable of cultivation and the other two-thirds aro fit for grazing. There is no timber, Mr. Lowis values the land capable of cultivation at §20 per acre, and the balance at $8. PROGRESS OF THE PACIFIC TELEGRAPH. (From the Alta California, July 20.) On Wednesday last the State Telegraph Company des- patched one of their best oporators, bir. John Youtz, to the end of the telegraph line now building east towards Salt Lake, to receive and transmit the pony hews from the outer station, The company have now some fifty miles of the line constructed east of Fort Churchill, and have nearly fifty wagons engaged in transporting’ poles and wire out, toand beyond. the outer station, which enables ttem to’ push the work forward with groat rapidity. Every week, from this time, will extend the wire and shorten the time of the pony. At tho samo moment, Mr. James Street, tho agent of the company at Salt Lake, is pushing forward this way, having some two hundred and fifty miles of poles contracted for and which are now bo- ing cut and hauled westward from Salt Lake. ‘The wire and insulators for that end of the line were purchased in the Fast, and are on the way out to Salt Laka, £0 as to be in readiness when the poles are set up, to put the line in working ordor. Ina few daye meseages can be sent to overtake the pony two"days after it has left § ceived hore two days before the arrival of the pony m town, Each month a day more will be gained, and if no accident happens to the teams employed in the work, the first snow will not fall in the valleys before the west. ern half of the overland line from San Francisco to Salt Lake will be in working order. On the other side the Eastern company are pushing westward, and by tho Ist of August the wire will.be up to Julesburg, which is two handred miles west of Fort Kearny, thus shortening the pony time one day more on Unatend. They have also a large numberof men and teams engaged in hanling out pol& and wire, and aro pnt- ting forth thelr beet efforts to complete their half'as quickly as ‘tho western half. A work of this maguitude in- Volvos great expense, together with a more than ordinary amount of laboy and risk; for, should Indians drive off Ue stock while out on the mid plaina, almost irreparable delay would ensue, Every precaution and oare js taken to guard against accklent of any kind, and should no unfore- seen misfortane arise, Uhe work will be carried out as above stated, We should have mentioned that the operator travels with the workmen engaged east of Fort Churchill, ‘and as fast as the line is put up he sete his iatrument at the end, and communicates with the qhief office in San Francisco, so that almost every day he is farther off and shortening the time of the pony. He will reach the end of the wire in tithe to telegraph the news of the pony due on Tuosday next. THE STARS AND STRIPES ON THE MOUN- TAIN TOPS, : On Tnesday of this week, says the Ala California of Taly 20, Messrs, Peck, Fowler, Evey and other citizens of the upper part of Napa Valley, raised a staff and Amert- cau fag on the suinmit of Mount St Helena, at the head of the valley. Several ladies were present, having climbed to the highest peak of this grand old ‘sentinel, which is nearly 4,000 feet above the level of the sea, to lend their presence to the patriotic act of decorating the lofty summit with the national emblem. Reception of Hon. A. B. Dickinson, States Minister to Nicaragua, Hon. A. B. Dickinson, United States Minister to Nicara , Was officially received by President Martinez, a, agua, the capital of the republia,on the 1th of last month. On presenting bis credentials, Mr, Dickinson ad- dressed President Martina as follows: Mn. Preapewr:—In presenting myself before your Ex- celleney ax the Miniator Resident of the United States of py in being able to assure you of the sincer nip and cordial good wishes of my govern ment. Boing sister republics, on the sume continent, with interests and periis in and both looking forward to the saine high ¥ Among tho nations of the earth, it js unquestionably the interest, as I know It to be’ the strong desire, of the government of the United States to cultivate the friendliest social and commercial relations with the government of Nicaragua, As governments can- | not stand still, but must inevitably advance or recede, | and ag republicanism ix compelled to maintain a constant | wagfare agaiust ignorance, despotism and tyranny, it is Same common interest in dis. ited gu | | evident that we have the | seminating and advancing the enlighte i republicanism until they shall be ¢ slabtahed ones pertie | nent basis on thie entiré continent. ‘This cannot be done | by a single republic, but must be accomplished by the fricndly co-operation of separate and independent powers, : thata La free and feeoaly intercourse bélWoon tae (WO Fenmblics than has hitherto existed will | materially advahoe the Intel atk Soa promote the happi+ | n&é and prosperity of both. While [oe establishment of | coupmgKoie! relations ona proper Da itl Oper the rich oduBtions of your sail ta our Reta, aul greatly nett our people, it ty obvious that it will prove | caualy profitable to the people of Niowengua, by Simulating their industry, jncrensing their wealth, | wn sharing with us in’ a mutual exe) ange of | bak cuUMiries | intercourse with your Ex‘ government bi frank, open and unreserved. ver may be proposed or desired, shall be briefly ly stated, without any concealment or circumlocution—believing straightforward honesty \a the best policy with nations, aa with individuals, While ou my way to your capital, Br. President, ! bave been re} ly struck with the wonder- ful beauty of your country, and the inexhaustible wealth of ite soil; and I could pos fail to be deeply impressed with the numberless blessings which @ bountiful Provi- dence bas showered upon your people. Far removed from the coid blasts of the North—your landscape smiling through perpetual dews and sunshine—a golden link be- tween two oceans, which reach your eater and woatern shores with beseeching bands, begging the rich products of your prolific soll for other climes—command- ing at once from your central position and holding within your very graer the two great highways of travel and of trade which almost strike han ether across your land—I fee! impressed with the conviction that the people Of this country baves noble destiny to fulfil, which tho; could pot resias f they would—that the buried wealth ot this virgin soil @ deatined eventually to Goat upon every sea, and enter every harbor of tbe globe. On the conclusion of Mr Dick:zson’s address, the Prosi- dent spoke as follows in reply — Ma. Mivmsrar—There 18 no doubt of the friendship and goodwill, which the government of the United States pro- fesscs for that of Nicaragua, but it is pleasing and gratify- ing to hoar you dectare and confirm such sentiments. can assure you that the feeting of friendship on the part of this governmont ts ao less sincere than that which you have expressed. The strongest ties exist between Nica: Tagua and the United States; their identity of government alone is sufficient to induce both countries to recognise each other as brothers, and unite in proclaiming republi- can principles, for which, though our voice has hitherto been but weak, it Is still clevated. Nicaragua has always desired to bind more closely the ties of friendship andi com- merce,asshe has recently manifested by negotiating a contract witha North American Company for a transit across her territory, and also by recently forming a treaty of friendship and commerce, which ts non pending its ratification by the Senate of the United States. it alfurds me much pleasure to learn that my country has produced ‘so favorable an impression on you; and in this manner I desire that atl honorable and industrious foreigners who wish to establish themselves among us may admire. Nicaragua, sir, does not conceal her riches. On the con. trary, she invites and encourages immigration, and from the time she proclaimed her mdependence until the pre- Sent, her ports have beon open to commerce, while she concodes her citizenship with as much liberality as the most liberal nations of the earth. I accept and esteem in the highest degree your assurances that our relations shall ‘be conducted frank! ‘a and there is no doubt that we shall happily terminate all the negotiations committed to your or, with equal frankness. I thank the President of the United States that he bas sent us @ Minister who dis- approves the tricks and plays of diplomacy, but proposes for his guide honor and frankness in the adjustment of all affaira with which he is intrusted, 8 Our Panama Correspondence, Panama, August 8, 1861. Mosquera’s Defeat Confirmed—Return Home of the Late and Arrival Out of the New Minister to Kcuador— Accident tothe United States Frigate Saranac—Sinking of a Now Granadian War Vessel— Arrival at Panama of the United States Frigate Lancasler—Administering the Oath of Alle- giance—A Seaman, from the State of Maine, Rufuses the Oath—T'he Southern Officers on Board Remain Faithful— Invalided Officers—War Vessels in Port, dc. ‘There is no further news to report from the interior of the Granadian confederation. The English steamer Con- way, duo at Aspinwall to-morrow, it is thought, will bring some definite intelligence from Bogata decisive of the fato of the revolution in that country. ‘The English steamer Anne, from Guayaquil and Yumaco, with dates from tho former place to the 24th ult., and from the latter to tho 28th, which arrived here on the Ist inst., reports that a letter had been received at Guayaquil from a gentlemen ‘at Quito of the highest respectability, stating that Ses quora had most certainly been defeated near Bogata, thus confirming tho news of tho Plantagenet, forwarded to tho Henaxp per last steamer, Among the passongers por Anne was the Hon. Charles R. Buckalew, late United States minister to Ecuador, who is accompanied by his wife and daughter. Mr. Buckalew and family proceed to New York in tho Champion. Hon. F. Haussarek, the new minister to that republi had arrived at Quito and entered upon the duties of his oftice. During the prevalence of a heavy swell in the bay of Panama, on the 25th ult., the United States steemer Sura hac struck a rock, causilig @ bad leak, which will oblige her either to bo beached here or sent to San Francisco for repairs. She was drawing at the time seventeen feet, and was anchored in twenty fect water. Tho Granadian war schooner Salamander capsized and sunk during the preva- lence of the same swell, and now lies in the hatbor a total wreck. ‘Tho United States steam frigate Lancaster, bearing the flag of the oommander-in-chief of the Pacific squadron, Flag Officer J. B. Montgomery, arrived at this port on tho 20th ult., forty-two days’from Honolulu, including six days detention at Acapulco. There is no change to noto iu tho disposition of tho various ships of the squadron from that forwarded to the Hara. per last steamer, except that the accident to the Saranac will make {t neccesary to send some other vessel to the south coast, where she had been ordered. ‘Tae day after tho arrival of the Lancaster the Flag Ofticer administered the onth of allegiance to the United States to the officers and crew, all of whom, with the ex- ception of an ordinary seaman’ named Obadiah Heath, of Maine, took the oath moat cheerfully, ‘The balance of the crew wero 80 incensed at Heath’s refusal that they would have thrown him overboard had the officer of the deck not interfered to prevent porsonal violence being in- flicted upon him. Flag Officer Montgomery first took tho oath himself, in the presence of all theofiicers and men, and then admi- nistered it to each officer in turn, according to rank, and afterwards to the crew. ‘Ten of the officers, including the Captain, Firat and Third Lieutenants aud Captain of Ma- rines, arc from the South, all of whom are as devotodly at- tached to tho Union as any of thoir brother officars from the North. ‘This is certainly highly commendable, in view of the fact that so many officers from the South Have resigned since our national troubles commenced. I am personally cognizant of the fact that the strongest 1mflu- ences have been used to induce some ef the officers at- tached to the Lancaster to resign by their friends at home, but, be it said to thoir honor, that thetr devotion to the flag of the Union fs paramount to all other consi. derations. Lioutenants Meade and Van Candt, of the Cyane, in consequence of severe Indisposition, have been condemned and sent home. Surgeon Hord and Lieut. Fitzhugh, lately attached to the Lancaster, haye been tranaferred to the Cyane, and Surgeon Hallan has been transferred from the latter vessel to the Saranac. The British steam sloop-of- war Tartar, from Vancouver's Island, touohing in at San Francisco, arrived at this port on’ the 26th ult. She is commanded by Capt. Dunlop, who conveyed alot of fili- busters from the Mosquito coast. to New Orloans a few years since. Vessels of war in port:—United States flag ship Lancas- tor, United States steumer Saranac, British steamers Tertwagant and Porter. There have been no arrivals at this port from Central America or the South Pacific since the sailing of the last steamer for New York, consequently there is no news to report from. cither of thoso quarters. Tho steamer Guatemala, from the former, is due here to-morrow (4th), and tho British stcamer, from the latter, ou the wixth. —_— Newspaper Items from the Isthmus. OBLIGATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES TOWARDS THR ISTHMUS—NAVAL MOVEMENTS—NAVIGATION OF ‘THR RIVER AMAZON—EARTHQUAKE AT PANAMA, ETC, ‘Phe Panama Star and Herald of August 3 has como to hand, bat the pews is of less importance than usual. The British ship Mersey arrived at Aspinwall on tho 1st inst., bringing one hundred supernumerary seamen for the Pa- cific squadron, All well on board. The same-pnpor leams that at an interview betwocn Mr. Secretary Seward and Mr. Pombo, Charge d’Afaires af tho Qranadian Confederation, the former acknow- edged the obligation of the United States, under the ex- isting treaty, to protect the nentrality of the Isthmus and insure the safety of transit against invasion; also that ves- wels"of war would be kept at both ports for that purpose. This news gave much satisfaction, ‘The United States Jagship Lancaster, Commander Mont- gomery, arrived at Panama on the 20th ult., after ap ab™ sence of fifteen wocks, during which time she sailed fif- teen thousand miles, having visited tho Sandwich and Marqieads isiands and the Mexican coast. Officers and crew all woll, Sho Was expécied to remam in port some time, relieving the Saranac, ordered to San Francisco, During her stay at Honolulu she vieited by the King and Queen aud their suites, by invitation from Flag Officer Montgomery. Loatie The Peruvian government had commenced operations for opening the navigation of the Amazon by sending a commission to Great Britain, consisting of clevea por- sons, These men aro to superintend the bitilding of ves- sels for the expedition. Poru haa algo ordered an iron plated veesel for her ni On the 2d instant the United States frigate Saranac was taken to Taboga to ascertain the damage caused by ker grounding in the late swell. She will ultimately proceed to San Franciseo. ‘The Wycring has also been ordered to that port. The St. Marys has been ordcred to the coast of Moxico to rolieve tle Cyane, whose commander has left for the United States, Early on the morning of the Ist instant a emart shock of an earthquake was feit at Panama. It was atteaded with a loud, rumbling noiso, similar to that produced by a hea- vily laden wagon passing over paving stones. No ill effects have been experienced. This was the second eartliquake oxpertenced in Panama within about a month, A letter from Callao reports the arrest of three or four American contractors, on a charge of being engaged in ia- suing counterfeit Peruvian money, They bad not been oxamined, nor would they be for some time, and the charge may have no foundation in fact. The names of the men are not stated. The election for Vico President had begun. Gonerai Juan Antonio Perez and Geucral Ramon Lopez@avalle were the candidates. Tho first named was the government candidate, and the other the people's, A riot was expected: DEATH OF LIEUTENANT MATTOCKS, OF THE SEVENTEENTH NEW YORK VOLUN- TEERS, Io our obituary column ig announced the death of Lieu- tenant Wim. Mattocks, at Georgotown, on the gist ult, of morbus brightis, 9¢ disdKSs ef the kidneys. The deceased sere Te ‘Yas Lioulenaat of Campany F, Seventeenth New York vor | lunteers, Colonel Lansing, now quartered at Fort Ellsworth, ‘and served for two years ag a private in tha Viorida war. His age was forty-two yeura, and he leaves a widow and twochildren. Tho remains have been disigterred and My 4 forwarded Lo Sing Sing, Ia this State, THE SOUTHERN REBELLION. The Abolition Papers the Great Sources of Mischief—How the Georgians were Seduced into Secession—Toombs Engi- neers the Movement-The Heresy of State being Superior to National Alle= nce=How the Constitution of Geor- 8 Changed to Keep Down the “Poor Whites’=Shocking Cruelty to @ Northern Woman—Apprehensions of Servile War—Crimination and Reeri- mination—Depreciation im Value of Slave: &e., &e., &e. TO THB @CITOR OF THB HERALD. It is juet one week etnco I left the outskirts of seces- siondom, and everywhero, at hotel, restaurant, railway car, social circle, all through the North, the myriad talk: ing tongues aod countless thinking brains of our North- ero ives are eternally discussing the same eubjects— ‘What doea the South want? and what should the North do? From the very day that Toombs, of Georgia, tele- graphed from Washington to Milledgevile that the South had no hopo of justice from the North,” it has been the good fortune of the writer to discuss bi-weekly with @ coterie of known rebels, despatches from hoadquarter’ as to the objects in view and the means to be employed to “fre the Southern heart."’ BOUTH CAROLINA A BURNING PLAGUE SPOT, ‘That heart has been act on fire, and if {t follows natural Jaws, like upto all things else combustible, it will be con- sumed in the politico-chemical process. With the excep” Uon of South Carolina, which bas ever beon a festering ulvor of aristocracy—a running goro, with florid regal cirelet, on the giant body of the great Western ropublic— the masges in the Southern States, on the first day of this year, were as true to the Union as the chaste young bride, with the hymeneal blushes enlivening the pallor of her virgin cheek, to the loving Romeo upon whose arm she leaves the impression of hor woight with such con” fiding affection. MISCHIR® WROUGHT BY ANOLITION PATERS. There has existed always in the Southern States an ultra party which has advocated, blindly and unreasoningly, @ separate nationality for those States. Until the election of Abraham Lincoln assumed a form of probability, that party was powerless, By the aid of extracts from Northern papers of tho Tribune stamp, paraded prominently in eyery country sheet throughout {the length and breadth of the entire South, the advocates of disunion asked, and acked boldly, Can you call such people brethren? “ Hore is the 7'ribume ; hore is the New York Evening Post, a domocratic paper too—what sympa- thy can you have in common with such a people?” Union men answered: “This is a country of free spoech, and the dictum of tho Tribune is not identical with legislation ‘at Washington.”” But the living, biting, galling taunts of such sheets produced an effect porhaps unintended. The Southern lad of sixteen colored to his ears as he listened to the tirades of the Northern abolition press upon an in. stitution which, from his infancy, he had been trained to rogard in conformity with the dispensation of Providence: ‘There was, in this venom displayed by the republican press, an unfailing store of poison to tho thoughtless and passionate; yot, with that levor alone, the Union sentiment was too strong to be evon shaken, Had the eighty or more men who were sent to protect a few hundred old muskets in the arsonal at Augusta, boen put to garrison fort Pulaski at the mouth of the Savannah, Georgia would never hayo seceded from the Union, Often, before and after the removal of Anderson to Sumter, havel heard some of the wealthiest slave owners of middle Georgia and else- whore exclaim:—‘‘Would to God we had a Jackson at Wash- ington? Oh! for an hourof Wallace wight, or well trained Bruce to lead the fight.’”” But such wishes were vain; the thon United States government hold out to the daring spirits of secession the tempting bait of Southern strongholds exposed to tho grasp of yaulting ambition withost the risk of asingle biow. With Georgia ouvof tho Southern Confederacy we would haye to contend with a body without a heart. Had Georgia stayed in the Union, would Alabama and Mississippi have seceded { ‘IR PROFLE OF GEORGIA DID NOT SECEDE. Aro the citizons of Now York apprised that the pooplo of Georgia never did yoto themselves out of tho Union? mako thoassortion doliberatoly and with aful) know. ledge of that noble people, that the powers that be in the South daro not submit to a popular vote of the masses j-i0 Georgia tho question of Union or disunicu—the North ‘at the same time guaranteeing thom that their constita- tional rights were sacred as heretofore, aud full freedom of speech assured at cach tree stump in the State—and yet thore are few men in that State who can now utter a Union sentiment. How then did secession obtain the ascendancy? Political engineering and disappointed ambition effected the revolution. WASHINGTON AND BLAVERY. No expression {s more common in the South than this— “That George Washington and the founders of owr govern- ment never appreciated the slavery institution in its true Tight.”” Ihave listened to the silvery tones of Alexander H. Stophons, as ho discussed the physiological and provi- dential status of the negro, and stated that the “ Father of his Country” was too tender-footed to use the word “slave,"’ and habitually employed the term ‘‘sorvant.”” THE GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED BY THR SOUTH. Should Henry Clay live to-day, many, perhaps tho ma- jority of the South, would be eager to hang him as an abolitionist. When Senator Hammond, of South Carolina, stoor upon the balceny of his hotel at Charieston and ad: dressed tho frantic multitude around him, ne took from his pocket a numberof the Zribune and read a short ex- tract, in which the editor assorted the weakness of the South, and then tho speakor naively ropliod, “Do not the fools yet know that we have always had the control of this government?” “Tho control of this government!”” ‘This, this was the coup de soleil which heated and stupotiod’ tho brains of Southern politiciaus, The last census diminished the ropresentation of the South in Washington, and the late election was a proof that Jeff. Davis and Cobb, and Toombs and Stephens bad but slim chances of the White House. And why should the South lose inflxence in the federal Congress?’ Does not every slave owned in the South equal Solomon in ail his glory? What eountry ever grow so wealthy as the South inthe short poriod of six or cight years?’ Has not every man his carriage, and has not cot- ton grown in value from six to thirteen conts, and is not the slave he purchaged for five hundred dollars, in 1850, worth $1,600 or $2,000 now? Why should a people grow: ing thus wealthy submit to a loss of inilonee in govern- ment, especially when the gain goes to strengthen their enemies? < HOW TOOMNS BNGINEERED THE SECESSION M@VEMENT. Upon grounds like these a Toombs and a Cobb, cach with a half million invested in slaves, could appeal with cifuct to tho hot-headed and proud éollection of young planters which constituted the Legislature at Milloige- ville. Why not,”’ exclaimed Toombs, ‘usurp a power (not delegated) and pass the ordinabco of secession at oneo; if you do not hand me the sword, by G—d I'll take it myself. Why not pass it?’ The members knew, and ‘Toombs knew, that the Union sentiment was go strong that they would get torn to pieces had thoy done so, But they could safely do one thing. They could cail a Conven- tioit, and they could pass a law whoreby ten woalthy planters in the middle and Southern counties of the State would have as much influence ag thrve thousand in tho more populous counties, where fow slaves were owned. And this they did, and by the aid of lying tolegraphio despatches circulated all through Georgia on the eve of tho election, announcing that Anderson was about to fire ‘spon Charleston and its women and children, they suc+ ceeted in obtaining nearly half of the ’ members elected to the Couvention. “In the county where the writar resisted the rebel candidate received but 150 out of 1,300 yotes. HOW Br SUOCREDRD, Bat bed Union iF boo hyde slaveowners, and when they wept to Milledzeyille they voted for secession, [ ud alter the? siel hey Terie t ir constituents why they didso. Secession, the leaders told them, was only regonstraction of the government. Thé word slave was to bo ineerted in the constitution, and the new com- pact must proclaim to the world the physiological doc- trine that God made the nigger to be a slave. NOVEL MEANING OF RRCONSIRUCTION. It must have been this assurance that induced Linton Stephons, the brother of Aleck (and T have heard him says 80), to attach his signature to the ordinance of se- «sion, having previously declared that till his arm rot- ted fromn the shoulder he would not append his name to any such manifesto, It was in conformity with this pro- grimme, too, that Aleck himself accepted the Vice Pre- sidency ‘of the Southern confederacy. Was he not a known Union man, and was not his acceptance of such an office a tender of peace and reconstruction to the ? Did he not state froma thousand stumps that er retracted an opinion—never rode behind an y- boy?” Why did this statesman, who was known to be as ambitious in mind as ho was dwarfish in person, fal- sity his cherished maxims? He was to be the peace moker—the point at which extremes must meet. Such a mission, if crowned with success, could not fail to make him the foremost horseman on the race for the White House—the future President, whom generations unborn would hail and worship as the second Washington, ‘STATE ALLBGIANCR PARAMOUNT IN THE SOUTH, Doepite the maxims of Clay and other Southorn patriots, all through the South State allegiauce is looked upon as primary, national as secondary; and the ordiuance of se- cession once passed, State pride drove into the rebel ranks thousands who were the warmest advocates for the Union, Such men are at present more ultra Southern ‘than the original worshippers of a distinct nationality. It was like a rending of tho heart,or the death of a first born, to, the bond with the North, which was cemented’ wifh the bioed of thelr forefathers, and thoy now will exact, Of the sececsion leaders that they must reallad all thy, profits which tho Iateew pointed out as the reward of ‘ate nationality, Sohu was secession in G sh it_was inall a States, South Caroling efcepted. ‘ Be uno disce ’ a THE PROPLE QF Canons ‘MOMTIFTED. So mortifled WAVE to people of Georgia felt at the ao- tion of the del have a thousan, to the Secession Convention, that I times heard the remark, “1 will never save eee again ® until he inakes oath what coarse , #0. that he may be arraigned for perjury if he violates his pledges.’ once it is that, des- ite all the efforts of the prees to arouse the poople to at- ‘nd an election recent; there, to voto upon tho ra, tiftcation or rejection of the new State Constitution manu. factured by the secession Convention, only a fifth of the votors of that State appeared at the pos. A large appro- batory vote would he flattering to the coutrivers o dis- union, When the masses in Georgia come to examine the change made in their Constitution the devil will be to pay somewhere. At present, to find fault with any of the doings se that Convention would be considered treason to the South, ARISTOCRATIC CHANGE OF CONSTITUTION. It may be interesting to the readers of the Hematp to Jearo that by the old State constitution of ‘each county was allowed one Senator, This gave to the mid. dle and southern counties of the State, containing a few wealthy planters, and settled almost commsies slaves, as much influence as the thickly settled monslave-owning counties. The new conatitution, while Ciergern ang whole number of Senators, gives to every three sou! counties, with a hundred slave owning voters,one Senator, while three counties in the north of the State, with six or ight thousand yoters, have but one Senator also. Tho Protext assigned is to conform to the constitution of the United States, by which the lower house represents popu- Jation, the upper territory. The roal cause ts that the large slavo owners feel that they have no fellowship with the poor white man, and of separated from the North, the day is not far distant when the poor white of the South win be reduced to the quondain condition of the serfe of usta. ORUBLTY TO 4 NORTURRN WOMAN, Much is said in the Northern press of the savage cruelty of the South to Northern born residente of both sexes. ‘The writer, after passing scathless through the hands of vigilance committecs, has loarned at tho hotel at which he had to stop, ut Jeftarsonville, Indiana, for @ few hours, that a Northern woman with little children, who was fol- lowing her banished husband, had stopped there a fow days betore with a coat of tar and feathors on one half her head, contrasting hidoously with the beautiful natural locks of the other half, ‘The recital thrilled overy fibre in my heart, and [ longed to cut piocemeal tho perpetrators this demon outrage upon unprotected womanhood. had a wife and four little children, who may have to suffer similar indignities, and I vowed in my soul that i It happened to my wife I would walk, if needs be, the thou- sand milos that soparated myself and {ttle family, that may tako a bloody and terrible revenge. Still, 1 sympa- thize with such a people, They are now mad. They feel and know that they are standing upon a vast magazine, and that the appiieation of the match would not only dostroy a fortune acquired by industry, but expose every white woman in the South, married and single, and every much loved child, toa troatment and a death’ more hor- rible than any ever thought of by Sepoy brutality. ‘There is not a negro in the South who is not on the qué vivefor tho result of the present contest, That people have no mails or telegraph, but should a slaye insurreo- tion occur in Virginia to-morrow it would be known in Louisiana by the slaves there on Thursday next. FRARS OF SLAVE INSURRECTION. From plantation to plantation the news picked up while waiting upon the whites at table, travela with lightning rapidity. Despite of patrols and dogs those, who travel after ton o'clock at night—the hour at which the planter is commonly at rest—negro pedestrians are to be com- monly met with ali through tho South, Thero ie little ap- prehension felt that the negroes will organise an insurrec- tion; but there is a wido spread terror that in the event of any disaster to the Southern army that the slaves who witneas it will lose all self-control, get fire to the houses and massacre the women and children; that the contagion will spread rapidly through all tho saves ing the whole one scene of desolation and ruin BITTERNESS OF FEELING AGAINST NEW YORK, Previous to tho bombardment of Sumter the hopo of wresting the reins of government from the banda of the republicans was almost universal. Washington was to bo taken by a coup de main, ant, with the aid of tho hard Northern democracy, the Constitution was to be re- mo/olled. That even! aud the imtaense Union moeting held in New York shattered ail such hopes to atoms. ‘Then did tho South become frautie, and since then they have never coased to curse and villify every man, woman, child and thing that has ever lived thers. ‘The city of New York, say they, is more abolition than the Western resorve of Ohio; and it has ever been so, but self intorost and the Southern trade had made its citizens hypocrites. Is it wonderful, that with life, property, ail at stake, they should goad themselves into frenzy?’ Now commenced tho universal heading or mottoes in ail the country press— “Those who dally aro dastards, and those who doubt are damned.” Thoy must send all their mon and arts to Virginiz, and one ill-disposed white at homo could by mporing with the negroes, set tho entire country in SOUTHERN RSTIMATE OF NORTHERN VALOR. They havo arrayed against them a united North, and at home they are standing upon a volcano; can they fect otherwisé than torror-jriven into fury? M*importe, shout the military leaders, the “chivairous South can rout the Northorn taillions. cowaids in. Mexico (80 said-Joff. Davis); they are cowards now. We will take Washington and burn it to the ground; if we retained porsession of it, there would be a lasting Bone of conten- tion. Whon we hoist our oirclo of stars from Indopen- dence Hall, in Philadelphia, or the City Hall, in New York, tho Yankees, like whipped curs, will be too willing to acknowledgod bur separate indepentence,” Such & speculation a Northern mun would regard as the visionary dream of » mantao: but letme assure tho reader that it is the programmo laid down by nearly ali Southern rebels. VAIN SYRCULATION! Rut if this should prove impracticable, they regard it as certain that Englana, fri rested motives, must advocate the cause of the South, ‘They know not or care not to think that the great mass of poople in England de- test tho institution of slavery witha national hate. Fi. nally, should all these hopes fail, all Yankcodom worships gold—money is the Moloch of the New Eugiand States— and, say they, whon New York and Now England feel the pocket Louched, thoy will whine and beg for peace. ‘A DELUSION DISPRLLED. Tho affair at Bull run has cured the South of one great delusion; they havo learned there that Northern men can pull a trigger and push a pike with as steady nerves and stout an arm as ever did Southerners, and in no future conflict with Northern troops will they advance with the same confidence as then. REMOTE PROSPECTS OF CoMPROMDR. Were the North to-morrow to tonder to tho South am- plo guarantees of all constitutional rights, it is more than probable that the leaders would giutly accept, but the slayeholding masses of the South would tear them to pioces did they yet talk of compromise, ‘To array the South against the Union, thousands had to sacrifice at- tachments strong a8 love for a first born, and they will now exact a rigid account of their leaders; they must con- duct them to that vaunted Utopla of independence, Ere the South willbe willing to compromiso, or the North with honor can propose au adjustiment, the’ former must bo made to fovl that the latter has enoigh of power and patriotism to maintain the integrity of the nation Then, with the sword in one hand and tho olive in the other, before the South is humiliated, — the North can display her justice and maguauimity. MUTUAL, ILL-FRELING NORTH AND SOUTA. Thore are some in the North who desire the annihilation of tho South, not reflocting, in the blindness of passion, that tho blow, though indirectly, would fall with fatal offect upon théimselves, There is’ another class who read with ill disguised pleasure all tho details of Northarn roverses, It may not bo amiss to assure all such that their unnatural zeal for tho South. is thero regarded with heartfelt contempt. Being in the weekly receipt of a howspaper, published in New York, while a resident of Dixie land, I took occasion, a few days since, to call into the office to request that the address might’ba changed, What was my surprise, while conversing with ono of the employoes, to hear him express the wish ‘that in every contiict which may occur the South should thrash the North?” Iwas never more sensible of the great blessing of a froo government, which guaranteed froodom of speoch, and could not holp remarking that were hea resi- dont of his much cherished South, aud express an oppo ito wish, that the tenure of his life would be abort in- deed, DEPRECIATION OF SLAVE PROPERTY. The South has lost oven already one halt her wealth, Over two-thirds of the taxable property of the South con- sists of slaves. ‘They have depreciated in value at least fifty per cent. There are few #alog, for the simple reason that only those compelled by personal necessity will sell, The law bas svaponded all legal action for the recovery of dobt. Still afew sales which took place at Savannah in- dicate the diastrous effects of the rebellion upon the very speci of property whose value it meant to enhance. Young men wore sold at $600 to $650, who one year ago could bu soki at from $1,600 to $2,000. MILITARY RESOURCES OF THE NATION. THE LESSON OF LA VENDEE—SCARCITY OF ARMS AMONG THE REBELS—SYMPATHY OF THE SLAVES WITH THB FEDERAL GOVERNMENT—REIGN OF TER- ROR IN THE SOUTH—HATRED OF THE REBELS TO THE GOVERNMENT, ETC., ETC. ‘TO THE FIMTOR OF THE BERALD. It is much to be regretted that any portion of the peo. plo in the loyal States should be now talking of troating with the rebels and acknowledging their independence. If the United States is ever driven to so humiliating a course, the supremacy of this continent passes forever into the hands of the Southern slavoocracy. Why these timid apprehensions of our inability to crush out this monster rebeHion? Is not the control of the North American continont and the ascendency of our free government a rich reward for all the blood and trea- sure that will be oxpended in the contest? ‘Twenty millions of American freemen may bid deflance toa world inarms. Wecauarm and equip, if need be two millions of men as easily as our enemies a ffthof that number; and while the confederate navy is composed of afow pirate brigs and steamers, we haye, with oup present respectable nayal strength, mechanics and timber and iron enough to cover, in less than two years, the ‘ocean with our vessels of war, The rebel armies of Brittany and La Vendeo were moro ormidable in the days of the French revolution than are the Southern rebels to-day, and yet fifteen millions of nascent freemen not only beat down the vast armies o the traitors, but routed, in addition, the countless legion¢ of confederated Europe. Witha strict blockade, the whole of the seceded Stazrg, cannot arm and oquip Oy thousand additional mens 7% tho personal knowledge of the writer, company after¢pom,, pany recently organized tn the South have araves fn vain to the authorities for arms. Hopes, howeyer “Worg heid out that, in the event of some veseelg 4 ion nad mailed from Europo escaping the biockw™ seine consid thon be furnished tho new levies. 109" santime they vised to come on with thor shotguns. A iittle truthtul incident, Wich occurred recently io a large slaveholding COuBty: may satisfy the reader (hat the Southern BOYeTP ont ja undermined aad ready to explodor in “a “manner which causes anxious —— 7 g ~ worst days of the Directory that arty eviscse cruclty and barbarity than ocour daily amid uondam riety Se ae ha set : not natives ve not with frantd zeal into the rebel cause live in constant terror. Whoa the fathor leaves his residence in the morning to attend posh ay catia, Be ete Ad and Fe ie the ‘apprehension that the presont leave t may ‘be the last. When the family gather at ovenit gr they allude to itics they must feel assured that ne strange ears are listening at door or window, and then im under tone canvass the Fe yaker that some suspocted i private enemy or some Union sentiment uttered long, long ago, will, ere anothor sun may set, bring sadness to the heart and toars to the oyes of womanhood and cause the home. The writer speaks from personal experience and with a knowledge of many instances where the picture was more dark and bloody than the one here drawn. It is thus that the slave powor has put intothe field am army of two hundred and fifty thousand men, This huge serpent, with a head of brass afd-a body of clay, is moving on & surface which at a moment may oxplode and blow it into atoms. ‘Tho leaders of the rebellion well knew the might and power of this government, and by goading themsel and others into a state of frenzy they bave succecded io agssombling ap armed force which would terrify what waa called the cowardly North, and which from its,power of resistance would appeal to the niggerly goldworshippiag spirit of the Fastern States, No language can convey an idea of tho blind, boundless frenzy and hate with which the slavoowners in the se- coded States regard this government. Slaveocracy and republicanism are now contending for ascendancy in North America. The one must exercise sovereign sway to the vory borders of Canada, or the other must maintain ite ascendency to Mexico and the Gulf. ‘The rebel states have now tested the uttermost limit of their resources and strength, while this mighty and giant nation of freemen bas scarcely braced its thews and sinews for the contest. Were the people of the loyal States arousod to the same pitch of maddened fury as the slave owning rebels, ore another year bad tts birth, every trace of treason and traitors would bave disappear: Should the froemen of this day, from meanness or timi- dity, yield to the darmg audacity of the rebel government, they will leave to their children a legacy of woos. Botter for ‘ug, at the expense of millions, now to do the duty that devolves upon us effectually and weil, than oblige our cha- dren, at the cost of billions, to wipe out the stain upos their fathers’ manhood. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. THE VIRGINIA MILITIA. The following extract is from the Charleston Merowry’e army correspondent now in Virginia:—@he militia are being mustered in to-day, and many of them came into-it with considerable reluctance. ‘There are some who have no ardent sympathy for the cause. ‘Bhey will fight for the South, of course, if obliged to fight, but they have the fooling that if it had not been for South Carolina there would have been no necossity of fighting. Many others can badly spare the time. Their oats aro unharvested; their other crops are still immature; they have no handa to work them but their own, and it is truly @ matter af serious inconvenience and injury to be obliged to ture. out, Yetin this section there are many who can fant ani who can be spared to fight, but who will unless they are compelled to do it. Bosides this, with the militia will como out the ordinary fire- arms of the country, which will not come without. MINIE BALL WOUNDS. 4 A correspondent writing from Manassas to a Memphie Paper, Says:—“T also learn from one of our surgeons tho wounded prisoners taken by our army are not by (ar 80 dangerously hurt as tho majority of our own men. Moat of our wounds are from Minie balls, which made great ghastly openings and froquentlyg.one entirely through tho body—while those upon the enemy are with round balla, whose effects have been less fatal.”” is DEATH OP LIROTENANT MENOUN. ‘e deeply regret to learn, says the Whig, that Second Licutenant Willie Preston Mangum, Company B, of the Sixth North Carotina regiment, died on Tuesday of the injuries ree ; the late battle at Manassas. Lieutenant Mangum sen of ex-Sonator Willio P. Man- gum of North Carolina, and was a man of brilliant promise and an officer of rare tact and ability. Ho was only saved from instant death by a Bible in his pocket, which broke the force of the ball. MATTERS AT NEW ORLEANS. A copy of the New Orleans Price Current of August has been received, from which we gather additional proof of the utter ‘stagnation of business in that city. ‘The total numbor of vessels in the port was twenty-cight, of which twelve wore ships, four barks, two brigs and ten schooners, Ten of the ‘ships, one ‘bark and one schooner were under seizure. Numbor of bales ef cotton ia port, 9,800. By tho first of August new cotton is usu- ally received at Now Orleans, but up to the third none had come to hand. ‘The Price Current reports that the cotton and corn crops are heavy, and that the cane was promising. Also that tho Confedorate loan was “unusually popular.? LATER NEWS FROM TRXAS. Tho Austin Stale Gazette, of the 27th ult., saya:— Governor Clark has now about 1,100 Tixas troopa im garrison, and on scouting duty in the Indian torritories betweon'Toxas and Kansas. He has auccoeded, through commissionors, in procuring tho friendship of the ciyil- ized tribes inhabiting that country, and has effected treaties with most of the nations on the reserve north of Texas, by which they bind themselves to fight for us in the piosent war. Ho ig now about organizing several regiments on the line of Red river, as 8 corpe of reserve, in tho event disaster should overtake us ia Missouri, and to be sod as a nucleus for rallying a large force to repal invasion, if necessary. He is, we are informed, about ostablishing a full understanding, and a line of commund- cation, with the Governors of Arkansas and Missouri, and with Gen. McCullouch’s headquarters. Ho is using all the means within his power to procure arms and ammunition for the State, He is doing most of this on his ow responsibility, but there can be no doubt that he will be fully sustained by the Legislature. e Galveston News, of the 30th ult.,has the follow- ing:—The foundry at Lavaca, for making cannon, is nearly ready. All tho necessary machinory is up and at work. Lioutenant Colonel John R. Baylor hes arrived at Fort Bliss, noar Ei Paso, and taken command of tho Texas troops there. The cotton crop on the Lavaca river is re- ported by the Indianola Courier to be #0 far advanced as to be safe from the worm. A gentleman just from Corpus Christi informs the Cohimbia Democrat that the best of salt can bo had near there, from the lagoons, at ten cents a bushel. The Indianola Courier, of tho 13th inst., says :—The Col- lector of this district has received inatructions from Riol- mond to dispenge with the services of Deputy Collector at this port, and all other subordinate officers or employes in his district, whose services aro not absolutely noces- sary. We learn that on the morring of the 30th ult.,@ report reached Galveston that a federal force, number! one hundred and fifty mon, had landed at High islands, that the report created much excitement. High Islands ig twenty miles from Bolivar Point, on the coast road from Galveston to Sabine, THE KANAWHA EXPEDITION. [Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazotte.) Flight of Wiseyrom Gane Marealet bi a Groat Hep a oda of “Jenkins—Movementa oS Trope— ru. A courier from Gauley’s bridge arrived in town this mooring bringing the intelligence that General Cox had succeeded in getting up with Wise’s party at that point om Sunday morning. As s00n our scouts were seen genco was convoyed to Wise, who beat a precipitate ro- treat, leaving behind for our use sevoral casks of bacon, 1,500 muskets, a large lot of ammunition, tents and other camp equipage. In his retreat ho has’ burned all tho bridges on the road. He is now reported encamped in @ stronghold eighteen miles above Gauley’s river. Colonel Tyler succeeded in joining Cox on Sunday. He is now encamped on tho opposite side of the river. A halt wiil be male here for several days to refresh the troope, who are exhausted by their long march, when the two divisions will unite and give Wise another chase: Our men are in good spirits and auxious to be fed into battle immediately It is reported by a suldier of the Second a8 just arrived from the camp. Jenkins (éx-Congrossman), wa 8 by one of our scouts in the neck and mortally . ‘This news is received with great joy by the inhabitants of thet Jenkins is a desperate character and is held in fear vy the whola community. He carries on a sort of guerrilla warfare upon unarmed citizens, and reba them of all they possesq, His command is made up of the Jains of this section of the country, who are well mount and armed, 4pi are thus enabled to proceed from one tion of theXonntry to another in a surprising short tiny, Uf thie wo%ws should prove tuo, ae i sain ib is retable, itis have had inalong time. Rede is quiet and a strong Union fagling pre'cails, ‘Those who were driven away OD accoupt of *eir Union sentiments are returning, and condos ta Ghee more restored. Lewis Roffher, Fs, & mewm>‘er of the late convention at Wheeling, returned to Chy rieston to- day on the Sitver Lake, Ho will imms?iatoly organ. ize Home Guard companies along tho Kanawha, and promptly put down ali attempte of #%e rebel to again iy otter was received hera yesterday from Col. Wood- raft Miirected to his. wifo, wiich ‘git the pace of Lapl. Jenkins on ib, ‘The mossenger Whos brought it reports the colonel safe in Richmond. This little town is 9) ‘live with the preparations for war which are ah ‘going on. A train of sovonty fv: wagons haa bes <b for the camp. The Buntioth, wet! | firty wagons 8) one hundred horgor, his just arytved, They will P. forwarded imine y. We hed about fous up’ red troops oncampod here. They fre sent ns Rugeds with the provision trains, aw «CCT