The New York Herald Newspaper, August 14, 1861, Page 4

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New York, Wednesday, August 14, 1861. OUR WAR MAPS. | We have issued another edition of the nu | morots maps, plans and diagrams of the ope- rations of the Union and rebel troops in Vir- Gini, Missouri, Mlinois, 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 samt as for the Weskuy Heranp. THE SITUATION. ‘The most important news from the seat of war which we have to record to-day comes from Mis- souri, where the gallant General Lyon has been contending in the southwestern portion of that State with an immense force of the rebels, and this news, we regret to say, tells of the death of General Lyon and the retreat of his army. It will be remembered that on Thursday last General Lyon had a fight with his advance guard and that of the rebels under Ben. McCulloch at Dug Spring, near Spring- ficld, where he endeavored to draw the latter out of his shelter in the woods. It appears from officin} intelligence received by Major General Fremont, at St. Louis, from one of General Lyon’s aids, that the fight was renewed on Saturday morning at half- past six o'clock—three columns of the Union forces, respectively commanded by General Lyon, Gene- tal Siegel and Major Sturgis, numbering in all eight thousand men, being engaged on oue side, and a body of rebels under General McCulloch and General Price, numbering twenty-three thousand, on the other. The battle took place at Davis’ Creek, about nine miles southeast of Springfield. Against this immensely superior force, which was | composed of regiments from Louisiana, Mississip- pi, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas, the troops of General Lyon were still able to main- tain their ground, and pressed the enemy back to their encampment, on Wilson's Creek, which General Siegel actually occupied for the night; but fearing a flank movement of the rebels, he with- drew his small force. Geueral Lyon was killed while charging at the head of his column. Tho engagement was a severe one, Eight hundred of | the Union troops are reported killed and wounded. ‘The loss of the rebels was very heavy, and is said to include General McCulloch and General Price, All the tents and wagons of the rebels were lost. General Siegel effected a retreat to Springfield in | good order, and from there fell back on Rolla, the terminus of the southwest branch of the Paci Railroad, leaving only one gun behind him on the field. He captared ninety prisoners, and brought back as a trophy the horse and sword of Be McCulloch, together with $25,000 in specie from | the Springfield bank. At last report there was no appearance of a pursuit on Seigel’s retreating columns, and his army was considered safe. The report of the rebel Joss has been confirmed by the statement of prisoners taken, and their | numbers have been ascertained by the muster rolls found on the field. A despatch confirming the account of the battle, and the death of General Lyon, was received at the War Department yesterday from General Fremont, We have nothing of importance to report of military movements at Washington, The Navy Department appears to be stirring itself a little atlast. Orders were issued yester- day for the construction of five out of twelve of the new steam gunboats authorized by Congress. ‘Two of them are tobe built at the Kittery yard, | in Maine; one at Charlostown, Mass.; one at Brook- | lyn and one at Philadelphia, The other seven are | to be built by contract outside of the navy yards. Proposals for two iron clad steamers were also issued yesterday, to be constracted by contract. We give a full account to-day of the where- abouts of the rebel privateer Sum St appears that she arrived at Caracoa on the Iith of July, but her flag not being recognized at the fort there Bhe was not permitted to enter; but upon Lieut nant Semmes, her commander, sending a boat | ashore and representing her positionto the Gover nor a8 @ war vessel of the Confederate States he was permitted to enter and re. ft. She went to sea on the 24th ult. steering to the eastward. There were one bun- dred and fifty men on the Sumter. The vessel took no provisions on board at Curacoa, one of the officers stating that they had taken eno gh out of ono of the last prizes to keep the crew for some | weeks. She was armed with four thirty-two and two sixty-four pounders. Those officers who | Dtibers. They never can bave so many men had been in the United States Navy wore their old uniforms, with the United States Navy button. ‘The general feeling among the merchants at the port was against admitting the privateer. There was a Dutch man-of-war in the harbor, and the ORcers refused to azsociate with dhe olives | by either of the two armies, though within one } apd another move forward may soon take | vate army, we may draw some inferences from ‘ with a more menacin; | \ { | } ' a and melt rapi ! i NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 16861. privateer, and went on shore without their unl- | overwhelming. It is evident, therefore, that forms while the Sumter was inthe harbor. These | the policy of the rebels is to Agbt anélits, atinu- facts we learn from Captain Boreham, of the ‘brig they, p°Rus”éxcitement of the late victory. Sea Fi Tint ee For another reason they want to fight at once, earn and that is, that they cannot long sustain go THE NEWS. large an army, owiug to thelr financial difficul- It is now certain that General John E. Wool will | ties. take the place of General Butler. On Monday he General McClellan is not blind to these ne- received a notification from the War Department | cessitics of the insurgents, nor is he ignorant of that he had been appointed to the command of | their present operations, He is accordingly Southeastern Virginia—headquarters at Fortress | making the most energetic preparations for any Monroe—and he will leave Troy this morning for | ang every emergency; he is vigilant, we be- betuadad duty. Ho will arrive in this city this | Jieve, ay well as active. The othor gene- : als—| a We have been frequently asked what constitutes bi PP ee Ragusa & soldier's dail; ration, We give it as it appears dey owen in the army regulations:—Twenty ounces of fresh | 20W being performed in the vicinity of Wash- and salt beef or twelve ounces of pork; eighteen ington, are also keenly alive to the danger, ounces soft bread or flour, or twelve ounces hard | and are preparing their troops for vigorous bread; two and a half ounces beans or one and | action. Where the next blow may be struck— three-fifths ounces rice; one and five-sixths ounces | whether in the neighborhood of Fortress Mon- Sugar; one ounce ground coffee; one-third of a | roo, or on the Upper Potomac against Banks, or gill of vinegar; quarter of an ounce candles; tWo- | against the force of Rosencrans in Western thirds of an ounce of soap, and half an ouune Aa Virginio, or at Washington itself—it is impos Oficial copies of the now tariff have been | sii, to gay, Many segaclous, well informed received at the Custom Honse. On the 5th inst. iitar on hold that th “ill be th the act was put in operation, and goods shipped | ™Htary men ho f ; Ne latter will et a subsequent to that date come under the new rates | frst object of the rebels’ attention, because of of duty. The Collector is to be absent from the { the great moral effect which its capture would Custom House for a few days to recruit himself, | produce throughout the New World and the Great vigilance is now adopted in relation to clear- { Old, That they will make an onward move- ing vessels, it having been noticed that in various | ment in some direction within two or three cases the manifest showed a change inthe character | weeks there is every reason to believe. In of the usual shipments to the port mentioned, andit | aqdition to the reasons assigned above, we may a nicaaa peenebin tint hehe Sutera | mention the significant fact that Beauregard, N. P., on Monday, was detained on the ground that notwithstanding the wagons captured from our her cargo was suspected to be intended for some | ““™Y, has issued an order to collect all the port in the Gulf, wagons which can be obtained—the sure sign of The steamship Champion, Captain Seabury, ar- | Marching in force. And these indications are rived at this porb yesterday morning with mails | strengthened by the closing words of the brief \nd passengers from the Isthmus, &c., and nearly | address of Johnston and Beauregard to the a million in specie. She brings very little news. | rebel army on the 28th of July, one week after ‘Thore is none from the South Pacific, with the ex- | the fight near Manassas. They say, in allusion ception that the new United States Minister to Ecue- | to those who fell:—“We will hold the soil in dor had arrived at Quito. The late United States which the dust of Washington is mingled with Minister to that republic has returned home in the the dust of our brothers. We d: ane Champion. There is nothing from New Granada ee eae Been one tone oF beyond the fact that Mosquera’s defeat near their laurels, and move forward to avenge them.” Bogota has been confirmed. Some’ interesting | Our readers know that hitherto General items concerning the United States Pacific | Scott's plan has been to collect an overwhelm- squadron will be found in our Panama correspond. | ing, well disciplined force, and move forward ence. with that in the fall, bearing down all opposi- The Democratic State Convention of Maine will | tion. But the defeat at Bull run has altered the meet to-day in Augusta, to nominate & candidate | circumstances, and it is likely that the enemy is for Gounenes ee to bit mash other business | now go emboldened that he will not await Gen- as shall be deemed expedient, Scott's leisure to attack him, but become the Governor Buckingham, of Connecticut, will issue assaili arty himself, It i Reesined th a proclamation this week calling for several new ene ie eer ook ae © vigorous and rapid campaign is the policy of the young Generals, McClellan, Banks, Fremoat and others, and that the rebels ought not regiments for the war. ‘Two secession journals in Georgetown, Ky., and to be always allowed to choose their own battle ground. It is probable that General Scott will one in Mount Sterling, Ky., hayo suspended. Fifteen more government gunboats are to be therefore change his programme to suil the al- tered condition of things. The news from constructed for the Mississippi river, to be ready by the 5th of October, or the contractor to forfeit Missouri which we publish this morning, giving an account of the defeat of General Lyon's six hundred dollars a day on cach boat that is un- finished at that time to the day of its completion. army, and of the death of the General himself, is an additional reason for the They are to be 176 in length, fifty feet beam, the entire depth fifteen feet two inches, and made of prompt exertion of the utmost vigor. If to two such reverses a third should soon extra heavy timber. The engines are to be twon- ty-tiro inches in diameter, six fect stroke, with five be added, from want of vigilance or want of energy and skill, the cause of the Union boilers. The boats are to be on the stern wheel order; but the wheel will be so arranged ag not to would be damaged almost beyond the power of recovery. The country will not tolerate a long show. The speech of Mr. Vallandigham, secession mem- ber of Congress from Ohio, in opposition to the war, is being printed in all the rebel papers of the South that are large enough to hold it. war. The conflict must be short, sharp and de. cisive, or fail altogether, But there is no reason why it should not he brought to a successful issue before the Ist of May, and the Union es. tablished by our fathers resiored to us and to The Springfield, (Mass.) armory employs seven hundred hands, who turn ont twelve hundred rifled our children, cemented more firmly than ever by the blood so freely shed in its defence, muskets per week. Colt’s works employ about eleven hundred hands, and Sharp’s rifle factory lave also a very large number of menat work. All thez? fuctories are making arrangements to ia- Tur Nationa Fast Day.—The President has | proclaimed, on the recommendation of a joint | committee of both houses of Congress, that the | evease their facilities for the manufactare of arms, and in a short time they will be able to produce six thousand muskets and rifles each week. Hamilton R, Gamble, the new thor of Mis- souri, has issued a proclamation ordering an last Thursday in September be observed as a day of national humiliation, fasting and prayer, “and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of these States, His blessing on their arms, aud a tivity in naval nd there were no day’s march of each other. Everybody is tion to be held for State officers and members of the Legislature, on Monday, the 4th of November. On that day the people will also vote for or against endorsing the action of the State Convention recently held, in the marine news of the Apalachicola co apecdy restoration of peace,” Times, of the 3d inst., under the head of ‘Vessels Thi i Se aa Ne P th in Port,” it is announced that the ship Finland, ne apes! to the religions feeling. of the Capt. Jones, 450 tons, from Liverpool, had just | Country is both timely and appropriate, and in | arrived and was discharging her cargo. accordance wiih the usages of foreign nations ‘The severe rain storm checked trade gerionely yeater- | in all times of warta or famine. | 5 : though a shade firmer, was | The ordeal through which we are at present | bas tisk -whes’ uhininovianis Las selon Ok on sak solemn that it becomes us to bow our heads be- and provisions were yery light, and the market for the | fore the Giver of all things, and invoke to our latter was depressed. T was lass j aid the help of Providence, in this the'season stores, a3 also in tolaicco and freights, of our tribulation. The custom of holding fast mab eveeneree ince i and thanksgiving days was igtroduced into this | The Position of the War—When is it to | Country by the Puritans, They had at least two | End? | of these a year, one of which was held on the Tt is a most curious fact that, though aspace | occasion of sowing, end the other on that of more than three weeks has elapsed since the | aping, At the former they imptoved battle of Bull run, nothing has been sinee done | the Divine Ulessing on all that they had | planted, while at the other they returned , thanks for a bountiful harvest. The Sonthern. anxious to know when or where the next baitle | ers, we believe, more than a month ago devot- may be fought in Virginia, but nobody's cu- | ed a day to the observance of religious duiies, viosity ean be gratified. On onr side there may | and, in sorrowful remembrance of their own he preparations of great importance going on, | faults and crimes, to pray for mercy, and that they might be spared furiher punishment, how- ever justly deserved. Thai the President's call will he readity and heartily responded io by all denominations we have no doubt, and that, in the terms of the proclamation, the united pray- ! ers of the nation may ascend to the Throne | of Grace and bring down plentiful blessings vpon our troubled country, we devoutly wish. place. but what is its precise nature it is not permitied to the people of the loyal States to know. If we want reliable intelligence for our readers about the movements of our troops, We must resort to the rebel spies in Washing- ton, who can give us daily as accurate in- fowmation as they do to Davis, Beauregard and Johnston; but as the representatives of the New York press have agreed not to publish anything about the operations of our army (ili | Bull ran the long after the Southern States are in possession | Most of the loyal ng up the Union | of the news, we are precluded from giving our | @™y to an agg » hundred thousand | readers any light on the subject. But as the | Met. In Ohio forty regiments have already | same difficuity and ihe same obligation do not | been organized, and of fifty thousand | exist regarding the movements of the Confede- | More is held in reserve. [inois supplies fitty- | | two thousand men, Indiana thirty-one thou- | sand, and Massachusetts twenty-one thousand. | New York which, under proper auspices, would | send one hundred thousand men to the war, has Ovr New York Too enth | | | Since ihe batile of | jas has existed jn | affairs. General McClellan is not ignorant of what | everybody knows, He well aware that the rebel chiefs, emboldened by success, have re- turned to the Potomec in greater numbers and attitude than before. At Fairfax, for instance. where they had only a thence in relation to the geneva) situation of | | { } } contributed only thirty-eight, with ten besides | which have been accepted by the general | government. What is the cause of this de piovable reticence? rable It is owing to the mise- that ements have been made by } small foree, commanded by « colonel, be- | Governor Morgan, and the utter disorganization fore the advance of the grand army on | of the State Military Board. The men y Richmond, they have now a corps of ten | have returned from Virgi are not paid, ¢ thousand men, under the command of a | administrative ability is so sadly wanting that | general. We leara that immense reintoremenis are marching from the extreme South to Vir, ginia, and there can he little doubt that in the Old Dominion ther army mailers go abegging from sheer mis: | management. wil be very soon 250,900 | mp bce Ses Fatah POERAT, LOAN.— rebel troops. There 2 iis si it The London Pimes aod Herold—\oib journals | the part of the rebel ¢ to fi ht chdie the that have distinguished themselves by their | advaHiagO OF this enthusiasm ant tae sympathies for the South, or rather for the South- ie husiasm and accession of | crn cotton bags—are very much alarmed Jest | Mr. Chase’s new loan should find favor in the i English money market. They feel that its popu’ | lavity would operate as a gi (eo for the non: | intervention of England in our present diffical- | ties. It will at any rate serve to prove whether | thus again. mediately into action the + If the. generals ds not t them im. ps will become away. On the other hand, our three mouths troops have re- turned home, and the army is becoming rein- forced by troopa for the war, and will daily re- public opinion in England rea}ly sides with the | fory press and aristocracy on the American CYS Alcislows, UU avs lack he nubs ase b qucstivi, ‘ common with their men. | monesi | of self-denial, The Gowerai Storm Awaiting Us. The despatch which we publish clsewhere from Boston will furnish our readers the views the State street financiers upon the portant question of the government loan. It appears that the directors of the Boston banks held a meeting yesterday, and consider- ing the question as being oue of public necessity, appointed a committee of three to confer with the committees of New York and Philadelphia, with the instruction to inform the New York and Philadelphia bankers “that the banks and bankers of Boston, and the State of Massachusetts and its people, are prepared and willing to fur" nish men and money to the utmost extent of their ability, now, henceforth and forever.” Realizing the fact that the success of the Southern rebel- lion would make their bank securities of little or no value, and place the finances of the country in a doubtful condition—also that a re- sort to a national or people's loan would vir- tally swamp every banking institution in the country—they have come forward end an- nounced their willingness to take their share of the loan, and continue to do so to the extent of their means as long as the government shall need it to suppress the rebellion. In promptly adopting this course the State street financiers have set an example worthy of emulation by the philosophers of Wall street. We have notas yet been advised as to the course that will be pursued in regard to this important question by the bankers of Philadelphia, but inasmuch as Secretary Chase has been there, we shell probably learn within the next twenty- four hours whether they adopt Wail or Stace street as their model. Nothing new has tran- spived in Wall street in regard to the subject. The committee appointed at the recent meeting have not reported, doubtless waiting to hear from the other important financial peints. Thus far, therefore, the only favorable response to the call on the part of the government has come from Boston, although it is apparent that the prospect of Secretary Chase adopting Na- poleon’s plan for the loan creates no little uneasiness in fnancial circles in this city. The more this question is dwelt upon the greater magnitude does it assume. The strict provisions of the law as passed by Congress have placed the nation, in a financial point of view, in a position critical in the extreme Plunged into the most unjustifiable and exten- sive rebellion known to the world, the legisla- tive branch of the government passes a law calling for a loan and dictating the terms upon which the financial men shall furnish the money: One city only comes forward with a favorable response, the real financial centre of the coun- try refusing to furnish the means asked for at the price fixed by Congress. The exigencies of the moment are such that it leaves the financial officer of the government but one alternative: and that the resort to the Napoleonic or people’s loan. The bare announcement of that policy will create a panicsuch as has never taken place in this or any other country. The parties to whom the two hundred and fifty millions now in the savings banks belong will no longer hesi- tate when they can increase their interest from five to seven and three-tenihs per cent—the former doubtful and the lat- ter the very best of securities—but will forthwith demand their money. The result of this universal demand is better im- agined than described. Our savings banks loan the money which they receive on mortgages upon real estate and the purchase of first class stocks and bonds; it is in this way that they are able to pay their depositors interest. Let this money be demanded, and those mortgages: stocks and bonds will have to be thrown upon the market to obtain money to pay the depositors: The class of depositors are such that at the first symptoms of a crisis, even if they do not wish to purchase Treasury notes, they will forthwith call for their deposits, and the result will be the same. The failure of the savings banks will carry with them all other banking institutions, and all will go down together in the crash. We repeat it, the financial affairs of the country never stood in as critical a position as they do to-day. Thirty days from this may see the bunks and financial firms tumbling in every direction. The Wall street philosophers may, however, in view of the action of the Boston bankers, reverse their decision and decide to finish the money even at the Congressional figures. Should they decide upon that course, we may escape the storm that is now pending; ifn ot. look out for breakers, ReoRGANZATION OF THE ComMissaRtir.—It appears by the reports of General McDowell and the chief of the Subsisience Departinent: that the day previous to the battle of Bull run 160,000 rations, or provisions for four days, were served oul to the army. ‘The fact that the troops went hungry into the fight is therefore attributable solely to the inetlicient commis- sariat of the different regiments. Now that the government is vested with the power of remov, ing incompetent volunteer officers, after exami- nation by a proper board, too much care can- not be exercised in scrutinizing the qualifica. tions of commissa’ and quartermasters. It is io the tofal ignorance of their dnties on the part of these persons that the bad treatment of the volunteer troops has been mainly owing. To guard against it in future no one should be appointed to either of these posts who has not had some military experience, Wut more espe- cially in the provisioning of troops. ‘The rations issued by government are admitted to be abun- dant and of the very best quality and, with a proper regimental organization, there js no reason why there should be grounds for any farther complaints in this regard. Officers must be taught that it is their duty to look personally (o the health and comfort of | | their men. ff, instead of lounging about the hotels at shington, they had passed their time in their camps, attending to the organiza- tion of their different commands, we should have been spared the mortific shat want of food was among the causes that fed to the disaster at Bull run. The rebel leaders have a very differer theiy responsibilities, There is no privation or hardship which they are not ready to share in The description of Ss guarters at Manassas, as FANT Weanregm given by Prince Napoleon's suile, shows that eyen the General-in-Chief does noi consider hinisel{ entitled to any better fare than the com- soldier. A hard cot-bed, which he had to resign to the Prince, and repasts of the most primitive and fragel kind. were all the entertain- ment that be could offer to hisillustrious visite good soldiers they will bave to learn the lesson ft is thus that the respect and f troops ar cured for their lead. confidence | ers, and itisoniy when animated by such fectings | ees 4 } dat euccees cal aiedd Lok edoi te ub the Weld, | thw adminisation lave only ong ts tour yearw 4 Valve, VESERUCTION—£BREINS STEAM Gon anp Terry’s Rwie—The improvements made of late years in the manufacture of both large and small arms have rendered compare- tively useless weapons that served their owners well less than half a century ago. The greatest achievement of modern science as applied to the manufacture of rifled cannon was the inven- tion of the Armstrong gun, while the most im- proved specimen of small arms is considered to be the Enfield rifle. Both these arms are now in use in the British army, the latter more gene- rally than the former, in consequence of its be- ing an earlier invention. That these, however, like their predecessors, will eventually be cast aside for some new improvement, there is little doubt. The march of discovery is incessant, and one military nation is always trying to rival an- other in the efficiency of its armaments. ‘These remarks have been suggested to us by our London correspondence, in which the writer passes in review the merits of Perkins’ steam gun and Terry's rifle, neither of which are yet much known to fame, But, according to his statement, the former is an old invention, which, although of the highest value, has never yet had a fair trial, Theinventors, father and son, were natives of Massachusetts, and the son is now an engineer in London. It appears that the steam gun was submitted to the considera- tion of the Duke of Wellington, who, in 1825, urged the British government to purchase the patent for its exclusive use, at a cost of $500,- 000, but for some unexplained reason the nego- tiation did not take place. The merits of the weapon consist in its superior force and econo- my, a8 compared with an ordinary or even the Armstrong gun, and if these are not greatly overstated they are worthy of the consideration of our government at the present time. The points enumerated in favor of Terry’s rifte, which has already found its way into British cavalry regiments, are of sufficient importance to entitle it to the attention of the War Depart- ment. It is described as superior to the Enfield rifle, so much in vogue; and if this is really the case, it will, very probably, in the course of time supersede it. But little can be ascertained of the utility of arms of this description till well tried and proven by a series of practical experiments in actual warfare. Whether Per- kins’ steam gun and Terry’s rifle would satisfac- torily bear the test we are unable to say. Arronxautic Voyacina.—La Mountain siill continues his balloon ascensions at Fortress Monroe, and we are told that on the 10th inst- he attained an altitude of three thousand feet, from which he could observe a wide extent of country and take in all its principal details, in- cluding the position and probable number of the rebel troops and their field pieces. An ori- ginal feature in these ascensions was the clr- cumastance of the balloon being attached by a rope to a small steamer for the purpoze of poising it in a fixed locality, and the result of the experiment was perfectly successful. That La Mountain has demonstrated the utili- ty of balloons for purposes of military re- connoissance to an extent so much greater than did the Washington experimentalists, is not surprising, when we remember that the balloonists at Washington only as- cended 400 and 600 feet. Moreover, a good deal of importance is to be attached to his ex- perience as anaeroneut. He is the man who practically discovered the correctness of the meteorological theory of the atmospheric cur- rent prevailing from west to east, by which it wasargued that a balloon might be easily na- vigated from this continent to Europe. Te also performed the celebrated aerial journey from St. Louis to this State. We think the result of his reconnoissances suflicient to justify the government in at once introducing the system of ballooning into the military service. In order to fully utilize it a practised topographi- cal engineer would be required in each balloon. But in atl probability a corps of these willing to join in the enterprive could be readily or- ganized. With balloons and instruments of the best manufacture, and properly qualified ob- servers, much more, we believe, could be dene than is even now anticipated. A Cieay Sw The Potter Committee is doing good service. Upwards of one hundred and seventy secessionist sympathizers have already heen rooted out of the departments, where they were reeciving the pay of the government while they were furnishing aid a comfort to the rebels. The work of expulsi should have been commenced earlier, The fact that they had traitors among their clerks has been long known to the different heads of bureaux. The refusal on the part of these per- sons to take the oath of allegiance should haye been sufficient evidence of their unfitness for their positions. And yet, notwithstanding that in numberless inslances this occurred, the recu- sania were allowed to retain their offices, thus enabling ihe rebels to obtain carly in formation of the movements of our troops, stan va UL as well as of the general plans of the government. Next to weeding the depart- mente of disloyal employes, the measure most called for is tbe cleaning Washington of all the disaffected persons, male and female, who have been serving as intermediaries for the transinis- sion of intelligence to the rebele. All feelings | of delicacy and personal friendship should be lost sight of in the urgent necessity that exists | for this defensive measure. NonrHERN Nashville because he refused to resign his seat in the Supreme Court of the United States. After the manner in which Northern men have been oppressed and persecuted by the rebels, it is not to be wondered at that Northern tolera- ation of reflecting | ni comprebension of tion shonld be occasionally exhausted by the | provocations offered it at home. The impatience | exhibited by the Bultimore Unionists during the address of Mr. Breckinridge in that city the other night is certainly not to be weighed for a moment in the balange against such outrages as have been committed on Jndge Catron and bun- dreds of other peaceable Northern men, Tur Presaxp tHe Mu.ivany AUTRORITIES.— I is asserted in the Washington correspondence ¢ one of our contemporaries that, in conse- quence af an alleged breach of their agreement with General McClellan, the government has | resolved not to permit any further publication of news in connection with the movements of the army. This is all nonsense. The news" | } ) Refore our volunteer officers can hope to ‘ike | papers will not publish anything whieh, in the Jefore our \ eer officers ca ake | } opinion of the authorities, is likely to prove use fu) to the rebels, What object could they have | in pursuing such a course? They have a life | interest in the preservation ot the Union, whilst anp Sovruzrn ToLeration.—We | | sce by the telegraph that Judge Catron has been | compelled by a@ vigilance committee to leave mae St Waar Suarz Ws Do wira ovr Prisonens?— General McClellan took about a thousand pri- psi while in Western Virginia, all of whom however, at Philadelphia from thirt to forty State and war prisoners, an equal number at some half dozen at Fort La- not to speak in custody at the Tombs. On the rebels have taken twelve soldiers, including the other haad, between sixty hod and eighty officers. They send our surgeons home, via Fortress Monroe, but keep the remainder; and General Beauregard, in his ndence with Mr. Arnold Harris, explicitly declares that he will not negotiate respecting the soldiers he has taken, until a straightforward flag of truce has been gent to him by the national govern- ment. In view of all this, the administration of President Lincoln should deliberate seriously what steps are to be taken. Some course should be decided on definitely with regard te war prisoners, and should be consistently pur’, . sued and carried out. —_————- Teteorara anp Newsparge Exrerrrise.—We published last week, under ourtelegraphic head, @ great deal of interesting news, among other things a complete list of the army appointments and promotions, occupying two pages of the Herawp, as also General McDowell's report, which everybody was anxious to read for an explanation of the causes of the defeat of our army at Bull ren. Our efforts to place all this importaat information before our readors, in advance of every other journal, put us to a great deal of expense—our bill for tiie week for special telegraphic matter amounting to over thousand dollars, and this exclusive of the news furnished us by the Associated Presa. The special telegraph bills for the same week of all the Northern journals combined, the newspapers of this city included, did not equal this single bill of the Henatp. Some weeks we have paid for telegraphic news as high ag $1,500. In these hard times this is doing pretty well. Poraonal Intelligence. Mre. Lincoln and suite will arrive in this city to. day, rooms haying been engaged for their accommodation at the Metropolitan Hotel. Before proceoding to Tong Branch Mrs. Lincoln will exchange visits with the Pria- cess Clothilde, Genera} O'Donnell, of Baitimoro, is sto] at tho Now York Hotel. : oe Rey. J. W. Fronch, of West Point; Rey. 0. Herrick, of Key West; Dr. N. Radcliff, of Albany; J. Dickson, of Gin- cinnati; G. B. Brown, of Boston; G, Maples, of Connocté- ; R! Sage, of ‘Troy, aud C. C. Collins, of ‘Hartford, are stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Licut. Col. Ritchio, of Massachusetts; Capt. Anderson, of the steamship Europa; Hon, Jobn V. L. Pruyn, Albany; Charles N. Turnbull, of the Unitod States Army ; Mr. MacMfullan and party, of Scotland; and A, D. Rood, of Ulinois, are stopping at the Brevoort House, Capt. Wakeman and family, M. F. Dailott and wife, and ©. H, Lduington and wife, of New York; T. Foster, Jr., of Chicago; Rev. P. Williams, of Hartford, and Hon. James H. Graham, of Delhi, are stopping at the Alber- tmarle Hotel. Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusotts; Lieutenant Colonel Cross and Captain George Butler, of the United States Army; Robert T. Lincoln, of Washington, D. 0.; Roy. 8 Bonedict, of Albany; Colonel J. Hilburne, @. M. Fall and H. H. ‘Moore, of Galifornia, and D. Bi of Philadelphia, are stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel, Profesagor T. F. Davies, of Middletown, Conn.; D. G. Wilcox and W. Bradloy, of Meriden; W. J, Gonger, of New Orleans; C. A. and H.C, Cooke, of Providence; James M. Meleoa and H. A. Nevins, of San Francisco, are stopping at the Lafurge House. J. Brewster and Miss Brewster, of Pittsburg, Pa.; Capt. A. Myers, of Syracuse; Capt, Haworth and ‘servant, of England; John W. Taytor, of Rockville; Capi. M.D. L. Sinpgon and wife, of the United States Army; Judge L. Parsons, of San Francisco; A. 8. Van Dusor, of New York; Mr. aud Mrs. Henry Wells, of Aurora; Miss Pipor, of England, 7. Barrows, of Convecticut, and F. B. Cooley, of Chicago, are stopping at the Everett House. Ex-Governor 8. E. Church, of Albion; Judge @. J. Smith, of Lebanon, Ohio ; Lieutenant Goyernor Campbell, and Charts H. Sherrill, of Albany ; Judgo W. F. Allen, of Oswego; Vin ft, Richmond, State Engineer, of Lyons, New York; Liontenant Colonel 8. H. Mix, Captain Murphy, and Adjutant Scala, of tha Schobarie Cavalry ; Hon. H. L. See- sions, of Panama ; &. T. Leot aud family, B.C. Duke, and S. A. Wood, of California, and John .’ Elton, of Water- bury, are stopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. oty, of Wisconsin ; General Ayer, J. M. y , of Chicago ; 0. Van Bethuysen, N. Phiisbury and wife, of Albany ; J. F. Roy, of Troy ; Colo- nel S. Casey, and Captain Wiikins, of the United States Army; H. A’ Risley, of Binghamton ; P. 8. Shelton, of Boston ; M. Jowott, of Hartford ; P. V. Kellogg, of Utica ; De. A.B, Halmis, of Boston, and W. G. Fargo, of Buffalo, are stopping at the Astor House. Hon. James A. Pearce, United States Sor Maryland, who has been for several months it a has returned to his home from Washington. Ho is still in a very delicate condition. ‘The Rey. Lewis P, Clover, rector of St. Paul’s church, Sprinuficld, Minols, has reesived tho degree of Doctor of Divinity from the University of La Grange, Kentucky. Tho Baltimore correspondent of the Philadelphia In- quirer, under date of Monday, says:—The Hon. John C. Breckinridge loft hero this morning en route homeward. He was accompanied to the depot by sevoral of his per- sonal and political friends, I am informed he would not reply definitely as to his previously announced purpose of resimning his soat in the United States Senate, as pro- jiuimed in case Kentucky adhered to the Union. '. Robert J. Breckinridge, his uncle, also a Kentuckian and Joyal, preached on Sunday, in the Second Presbyterian church, to his old congregation. The sermon was marked with profound logic and eloquence. If I mistake not, what the nephew has done to advance the cause of seces- stouism daring his brief sojourn in our city, has been more than undone by the uncle in his powerful appeals sustaining the Union. Arrivals at the Ocean House, Nowport, R. 1., August 10,1861—Mr. and Mrs. J.C, Brancroft Davis and family, Mr. ani Mrs, Samucl Wetmore and family, Mr, and Mrs. David Stewart und family, Mc. and Mrs, John Gardiner, New York; Captaia Jumes Anderson, sieamship Europa; Miss A. Cozzens, West Point; David Joncs, Miss Jonos, Mortimer J. Fowler, Arthur Leary, Alexander,Duncan, Mr. and Mra. Chas. Addoms, New York; James A. Robinson, Geo. F. Lee, caloric yacht Grace Irving; George Young, Glasgow, Scotland; Mr. and Mrs. S.-M.” Hale, Now York; Dr. and Mrs. Whitney, Buffalo, N. ¥.; Me., Mrs. and Miss Has- and fataily, Newburg, N. ¥.; Miss Hunter, Now Jonel Henry P, Martin, Seventy-frat N. ¥. &. ML, Marcy, Now York; W. P. and Miss R. 8. Grogg, Coroners’ Inquest TRE WATER STREKT STABUING AFFRAY—DEATH OF THE VICTIM. George Williams, the seaman who was so fearfully stabbed in the abdomen at 346 Water street on Sunday evening with a dirk knife in the hands of Augustine Barco, has since died i the New York Hospital. Coroner Jackman leld an inquest on the body yester- day afiernoou, when James Smith, kecper of the sailors’ boarding liouse whgre the fatal occurrence took place, was called and testified that the prisoner, deceased and several others were in his house Sunday night; Williams: wae much intoxicated, and Barco had also drank too much, but knew very well what he was about; di non comunenced using foul and abusive language towards: jose present, and prisoner asked if the abusive language appliet to him, he reccived an affirmative answer, and atthe same time Williams placed bimself in a fighting: attitude; Mr. Smith then told them if they wanted to quorre} they must leage the house, and both instantly proceeded to. the sidewalk, accompanied by two or three others; Williams’ aud Barco ‘fought, desperately, deceased giving the first blow, which felled his advorear: to the pavement; Parco, after regaining his fect, drew a knife and stabbed Williams in the abdomen; George. Chamberlain, a friend j and shipmate of deceased, saw Barco gave the fatal Wunge, and attempted to arrest him, but when within reach of the desperate man, he also was slightly cut with the bloody knife and his life threatened by Barco if he pursued him farther; another witness was also present, who saw the accused stab deceased. Dr. James J. Little, one of the hospital house surgeona, Who made @ post mortem examination of the body, de- posed that deceased had received a wound of the abdo- men, two inches in jength, from which thirty-six inches of the small intestines protruded; the intestines had been partially severed in three different places, ‘The case was then submitted, and the jury rendered a verdict ‘That George Williams, the deceased, came to his death from a stab in the abdomen, inflicted by a knife in tho hands of the prisoner, Augustine Barco, August, 1),,' 1861.’” Coroner Jackman then committed the prisone”. to the Tombs for trial. He is thirty-four years of fage, and a native of Old Spain. = denies his guilt. : Deceased was @ single man, twenty-four years of age, and a native of Greece. The principal witr ,, te to the House of Detention. paca hy Declaration of the hod. Tpiand Legis At the recent meeting of the F the following resolution was af Resolved, That in the pre fairs there ought to bo af tical parties in. su government of the Unit’ Aseembly pledges to” tho best exertions ¢ Telandt net its apt” shodo Island Legislature sopted:— son crisis of our public af- Mand sincore union of all poll- . of the constitutionally elected ed States; and that this General sbe President of the United States 4 the government and of Rhode ite resources for the preservation of tha of the privateers who are -