The New York Herald Newspaper, August 20, 1861, Page 8

- 8 NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1861. ARRIVAL OF THE BREMEN. Important Details of the News from Europe. Mr. Bussell’s Account of the Retreat from Bull.Bun. Lerd Palmerston’s Remarks on the Blockade. xe, &e. ell ‘The steamship Bremen, Captain’ Wessels, which left Southampton on the 8throf August, in the afternoon, arrived at this port a little after nine o'clock last night. ‘The Bremen brings the European mails af her day of sailing, passengers, $100,000 in specie and cargo. Her news has been ant n its chief points by the telegraphic report of tie Bohemian at Father Point, published m the [1 yesterday (Monday) morning. Our files, how: 11 the following details of these advices, which will Lo found highly interesting, more Pperticularly with respect-to.the impressions produced in England and France iby the. latest war news from the Wnited States. Tn London on the Steck Exchange Amorican securities experienced a heavy declingon Monday (August 5) after ‘the intelligence concerning the defeat at Bull run was published—United States fives; Virginia sixes, Erie or- inary and preference shares. and Illinois Central being chiefly affected. ‘The London News of the 7th of August says:— A fresh decline of one per cent took place to-day (6th) in United States fives. ‘The Unita Maliana, the Mazzinian organ of Milan, an- ‘ounces that General Garibaldi. has been one of the first to sign the protest, originating with Mazzini, against the eccupation of Rome by the French. ‘The Paris correspondent of the London Times says:— ‘The export of wine to has fallen off during ‘the last six months fifty per cenf, and articles of millinery forty-live per cent. Notwithstanding that complaints are goncral of the great losses wustained by the civil war in ‘America, which closes against them some of the best markets, hopes are entertained that the treaties of com- meree in progrees.of negotiation. will open fresh ones. THE DEFEAT AT MANASSAS. Mr. Russell’s Account to the London Times— A Cowardly Rout and Causeless Panie— Seenes in Washington After the Retreat, &e., &e., &e. Wasnunoron, July 22, 1861. ‘SOKNES BY THE WAY—ROAR OF THE CANNONADE SRST NEARD BY THE TOURISTS. I sit down to give an accouyt—not of the action yester- day, but of what I saw with my own eyes, hitherto not often deceived, and of what I heard with my own cars, which in this country are not so much tobe trusted. Let me, however, express an opinion as to the affair of yes- terday. In the first place, the repulse of the federalists, decided as it was, might have had no serious effects what- ever beyond the mere failure—which politically was at i for the er com ethan i was in a military ful conduct of the : Tetreat on their lines at Centreville seems to have ended in a cowardly route—a miserable, cause- Jess panic. Such scandalous behaviour on the part of soldiers I should have considered impossible, as with some experience of camps and armies I have never even in alarms among camp followers seen the like of it. How far tho disorganization of the troops extended Iknow not; but it was complete ia the instance of; more than one ent. fashington this morning is crowded with soldiers without oilicers, who have iled from Centreville, and ‘with ‘three months’ men,” who are going home froin the {aco of the enemy on the expiration of their term of evlist ment. The streets, in spite of the raiv, are crow dy people with anxious faces, aud groups of waver ing politicians aye assembled’ at the worners, in the hotel passages, and the bars. If iu tho present state of ‘the troops the confederates were to make a march across the Potomac above Washington, turaing the works at Arlington, the capital might fall iato their hands. Delay may place that event out of the range of probability. RECUTFRATIVE ENERGY OF THE NORTU—ARROGANCE OP THE KW YORK JOURNALS TOWARDS FOREIGN, NATIONS. The North will, no doubt, recover the shock. Hitherto she. has only said, Go and fight for the Union.” The South has exclaimed, “Let us fight for our rights.” The North must put its best men into the battle, or she will inevitably fail before the energy, the personal hatred and the superior fighting powers of her antagonist. In my letters ; as in my conversation, 1 have endeavored to show that the task which the Unionists havesat ‘themselves is ‘one of no ordinary diffenlty, but in the.state of arrogance and supercilious confidence, either realor affected to con ceal a sense of weakneas, one might as well have preached to the Pyramid of Cheops. Indeed , one may form some notion of ‘the condition of the public mind by obscrving that journals conducted avowedy by men of disgraceful person character—the be-whipped and be-kicked and unrecognized pariahs of society in New York—are nevertheless, in the very midst ‘of repulse and defeat, permitted to indulge in ridiculous rhodomontate towards the nations of Burope, and to move our laughter by impotently malignant attacks on “‘our rotten old monarchy,’ while the stones of their bran new republic are tumbling about their ears. It will bo amusing to observe the change of tone, for we.can afford to observe and to be amused at the same time. GOING OUT TO GENERAL M’DOWELL'S ARMY—HNCITEMENT 19 ‘THE CITY AND A WAR AGREEMENT FOR A CONVEY. On Saturday night I resolved to proceed to General MeDowell’s army,as it was obvious to me that the re. pulse at Bull run and the orders of the General directed against the excesses of his soldiery indicated serious de- ~ fects in his army—not mare serious, however, than I had rea- son to believe existed. How to get out was the difficulty. The rumors of rent disaayer and repulso bad spread through the city: livery’ stable keepers, with one exception, refused to send out horses to the scene of action—at least, the exception told me so. Senators and Congressmen were going to make a day of it,and all the vehicles and horses that could be procured were in requisition for the scene of action. This curiosity was aroused by the story that McDowell had been actually ordered to make an attack on Manassus, and that General Scott had given him til] twelve o'clock to be master of Beauregard’s lines. If Gen. Scott ordered the attack at alll venture to say he was merely the mouthpiece of the more violent civilians of the govertanent, who mistake tnten- sity of feeling for militury strength. ‘The consequences of the litéle skirmish at Bull run, ending in the repuise of ‘the Federalists, were much exaggerated, and thoir lorses: wore pnt down at any figures the fancy of the indavidual item who was speaking Suggested. “I can assure you, Sir, thet the troops hat 1,500 killeé and wounded; Tkuow it. T went off to the headquarters, and there General Scott’said informed me General McDowell's official re port gave six killed and thirty-seven wounded. ‘The livery keepers stuck to the 1,500 or 2,000. The greater the number hors de combat the higher the tariff for the hire of quadrupeds. All 1 could do was to get a kind of cabrinlet, with a seat in front for the driver, to whicha pole was for two horses, at a Derby-day price, and a st horse, whiah Indian experiences have’ induced,ne always torely upon in the neighborhood of ungertain fightin, Thad to enter into an agreement with Gee owner to pa him for horses and buggy if they were ‘“capyired or injured by the cnemy,’? ani though I smiled at ‘vis pre- cautions they proved not quite unreasonable. Thomaster made no provision for indemnity in the case of injury to the driver or the colored boy who rode the saddle horse. When I spoke with officers, at General Scott’sead- quarters of theexpedition, it struek me they apere. ict at all sanguine atout the result of the day, and me of them raid as much ae jndyced me to. think he would advisegne to remain in the city if, he did not take it for grantod it was part of my duty fo go to the scene of action. An Foglish” gentleman who accompanied me , was strongly dissuaded from going. by a colonel of cavalry. on the staif, becanse, he sald, th + and.no one cag tell what 1 pass from Genera affir of Bull run ané the with perfect calin, aud westarted ¢ uot so carly ag we ought, perhaps, which was none of my fault—for Coutreville, distant aveat twenty-£ve miles southwest of Waslington T purposed starting im the beautiful movgtight, so as to arrive.at McDowell's cacnp in the early ¢awn, but the aids could not or would nat give us the countersign over the Long Bridge, and without it 410 Que ould get acrose Uillafter Ave o'clock in the morning. Whea McDe moved away he took so many of the troo} \t ton that tke camps and forts are rather denuded of m: Ido uot gs ments, uplons in s little interest, Icon read the: de, pated Pressure of tre morrow's work Sunday morning— 48 may be Geserved, the nama of regi. al caseter-tirst , be ive, fe wise thay poss rope #0 1 » there # an « those ix Deca credingly complex sysiem—st least to a foreigger—of © an the forces, and one fay make a tween a regiment of voluntocrs and. @ regiment of State militia of the same mber, or en of regulars ip the lower figuras. The soldiers Joung. ing about the forte and Bridge across tho Potor were an exe pt, * i t of fellows, who handled their drelocke ‘ike pitebforks asd spades, and I doubt if some of those sho read or tried to read our papers could.umderstand them, as they aertainly did not speak English. ‘The Americans possess exe working materials, howaver, and T have had occasion peatedly to remark the rapidity and skill with which they construct earthworks. At the Virginia side of the jong Bridge, tore ig now a very strong tele de pont, sup ported by the regular redoubt on she hill over the road, These works did Bot appear fo he strongly held, but it is poesible men were Oe fepig near at hand, deserted though they seemed, at all events reinforcements 4 «auld be speedily poured in if mecessary. ‘Tho long and weary way was varied by different pick ete along the road, aud jy the examination Of our papers and passes at different ye! Dut tke country looked ‘acant zn apite of crops of Indian corn, for the houses were ahut np, and tho few fndigenous people whom we met iooked tnost blackly under their brows at the sup- posed abolitioniats. ‘This portion of Virginia is yvell woot. ed, and undulating in hoay aves of field and forest; but the cutand filled with looee stoues, very. disagre drive over. The be ty mpd wood, wit 1 ro huts adjeloing em, aud the specinens of the pace which I agy were ‘well dressed apd not ill lccking silks “% On turning into one of the roads which Jeads to Fair. fax Court Hovse and to Centreville beyond it the distartt sound of cannon reached vs. ‘That must have been about balf-past nine A.M. It never ceased all day ; at least, whenover the rattle of the gig ceased the booming of guns rolled through the woods on our ears. One man said it began at two o'clock, but the pickets told us it had really become continuous about half-past seven or eight o'cloc! MEEMING THE FOURTH VENNSYLVANIA REGIMENT ON I'S WAY HOMW—THR MEN LEAVE IN THR FACR OF THR ENEMY, Tua fow minutes afterwards a body of men appeared ‘on tho road, with their backs towards Centreville and their faves towards Alexandria, Their march was 80 digorderly that I conld not bave believed they were soldiers in an enemy's country—sor Virginia eabout is certainly so—but for their arms an¢ i It soon appeared that’ there was less than an entire regiment marching away, singly or in smali knots of two or three, extending for some three or four miles along the road. A Babel of tongues rose from them, and they: were all in good spirits, but with an air about them I could not understand. Dis- mounting at a stream where a group of thirsty men were drinking and halting in the shade, I asked an officer, “Where are your men going, sir?” «Well, we're goin home, sir, I reckon, to Pennsylvania.” Tt was the Fourt Pennsylvania regiment, which was on it# march, ws T learnt from the men, | Tsuppose there is severe work going on behind you, judging from the firing?” “Well, T reckon, sir, there i.” “We're going homo,” he added after «pause, during which it occurred to him, perhaps, that the movement required explanation— because the men’s time is up. We have had three months of this work. T proceededon my way, ruminating on the feelings of a General who set halfa brigade walk quietly “away om the very morning of an action, and on the frame of mind of the men, who would have shouted till they were hoarse about their beloved Union—possibly have hunted down any poor creature who expressed a belief that it was not the very quintessenee of everything great and good in government and glorious and omnipotent in arms—coolly turning their backs om it when in ts utmost peril because the letter of their bound them no further. Perhaps the Fourth Pennsylvania were right, Dut let ws hear no more of the excellence of three months’ service volun- teers. And so we left them. ‘The road was devious and difficult. ‘There were fow persons on their way, for most of the Senators and Con- gressinen were on before us. Some few commissariat wagons were overtaken at intervals. Wherever there was a house by the roadside the negroes were listening to the tiring. All at once a terrific object appeared in the wood above the trees—the dome of a church or public building, apparently suffering from the shocks of an earthquake, and heaving to and fro in the most violent manner. Ih much doubt we approached as well as the horses’ minds would let us, and discovered that the strange thing was an inflated balloon attached to a car and wagon, which was on its way to cnable General McDowell to re- connoitre the position he was then engaged in attacking— Just a day too late, ‘The operators and attendants swore ‘as horribly as Anna’s warriors in Flanders, but they could not curse down the trees, and. s0 the balloon seems likely to fall into the hands of the Confederates. ‘THE REBEL WORKS NRAR FAIRFAX COURT ROPER. About eleven o'clock we began to enter on the disputed territory which had jast been abandoned by the seces- aionists to the federalists, ia front of Fairfax Court House. It is not too much to say that the works thrown up across the road were shams and make-believes, and that the Con- Sederates never intended to the’ position at all, but ‘sought to lure on the federalists to Manassas Gap, where they were prepared to'meet them. Hud. it been otherwise the earthworks would have been of a different character, and the troops wou'd have had regular camps and tents, instead of bivounc huts of branches of trees. Of course tho troops of the enemy did not wish to be cut off, and so they had cut down trees to place across the road, and put some field pieces in their earthworks to command it. On no side could Richmond bo so well defended. The Confederates had it much at heart to induce their enemy w come to the strongest place and attack them, and they sneceeded in doing 80. Bat, if the troops behaved as ill in other places ax they did dt Manassas, the federalists could not have been suc- cessful in any attack whatever. In order that the prepa- rations at Manassas may be understood, and that General Beauregard, of whose character I gave some hint at Charleston, may be known at home as regards his fitness for his work, above all as an officer of artillery and of skill in working it in field or in position, ket me insert a description of the place and of the man from a Southern * * * * * * paper: | Pel. Ressell hero copies a lettor dated at Manassas, eu- logizing the position and commander in the highest degree. Ep. Hena.b.] AT FAIRFAX COURT HOUSE AND GRRMANTOWN—TRACES OF ‘ME MARCH OF THE UNION TROOPS, It was noon when we arrived at Fairfax Court House, « poor village of some thirty or forty straggling wooden and brick houses, deriving its name from the building in which the Circuit Court of the county is held, I believe, and looking the reverse of flourishing, and one may re- mark, obiter, that the state of this part of Virginia cannot be very prosperous, inasmuch as there wasnot a village along the road up to this point, and no shops or depots, only one mill,one blacksmith and wheelwright. The village was held by @ part of the reserve of McDowell's force, possibly 1,000 strong. The inhabitants were, if eyes spoke truth, secessionists to @ man, woman and child, and even the negroes looked extra black, as if they did not care about being fought for. ‘A short way beyond this village, Germantown—the scene of the recent ‘excesses of the federalists—afforded evidence in its blackened ruins that General McDowell's censure was more than needed. Let me interpolate it if it be only to show that General Beauregard and his rival are at Jeast equal in point of literary power as masters of the English tongue. * * * * {Here copies General Orders, No. 18, of the rebel army.] ‘The chimney stacks being of brick are the sole remains of the few good houses in the village. Here our driver made a mistake, which was the rather persisted in that a colored chattel ‘informed us we could get to Centreville by the route we were pursuing, instead of turning back to Germantown, as we should fave done. Centrevitle was still seven miles ahead. DIFFICULTY IN FINDING THE BATTLE YIELD. ‘The guns sounded, however, heavily from. the valleys. Rising above the forest tops appeared the blue masses of the Alleghanies, and we knew Manassas was somewhere ‘on an outlying open of the ridges, which reminded me in color and form of the hills around the valley of Paidar. ‘A Virginian who came out of a cottage, and who was assuredly no descendant of Madame Esmond, told us that we were “going wrong right away.” There was, he admitted, a by-road somewhere to the left front, but people who had tried its depths had returned to Germantown with the conviction that it led to any place but Centreville. Our driver, however, wished to try ‘“if there were no sechessers about?” “What did you say?’ qnoth the Virginian. <I want to know if there ‘are any secessionists there.” ‘‘Secessionistg!”” (in a violent surprise, as if he had heard of them for the first time in his life) ‘No, sir-ee | Secessionists, indeed 1? ‘And all this time Beauregard and Lee were pounding away on our left front some six or seven miles off. The horses retraced their steps, the colored youth who bestrode my charger complaining that the mysterious ar. rangement which condemns his race to slavery was very much abraded by the action of that spirited " quadruped, combined or rather at va- variance with the callosities of the English saddle. From Germantown onwards by the right road there was nothing very remarkable. At one place a group of sol- diers were buying “secession money’? from some negroes, who Jooked as if they could.afford to part with it as cheap- ly ag men do who.are dealing with other people's proper- ty. Buggies and wagons (Anglice, carriages), with car- goos of Senators were overtaken. ‘The store carts became more numerous. SAVE AT CRNTREVILLR—TAKES VP 4 POSITION WITH LADIKS, LEGISLATORS ASD POLITICIANS. At last Centreville appearedtia sight—a few houses on our front, beyond which rosea bald hill, the slopes cov- ered with bivonac hats, commissariat carts, and horses, and the top crested with spectators of the fight. The road ‘an.each side was full of traces of Confederate camps; the houses were now all oceupicd by federalists. Incthe rear of the hillwas astrong body of infantry — two regimentsof foreigners, mostly Germans, with a bat- tory of light artillery, «Our buggy was driven up to the top of the hill. Tne colored boy was despatched to the village to look for a placa to shelter the horses while they were taking a much required feed and to procure, if pos- sitle, a meal for himself and the driver, On the hill there were carriages and whicles drawn up as if they were attending a small country race. They were afterwards en- naged ine race of another kind. Inone was a lady with an opera glass: ih and around aud on ethers were legislators and politicians, There were also a few civilians on horse- back, and on the slope of the hill a regiment had stacked arms, and was engaged in looking at and com- menting on ‘the battle below. “The landscape in front was open to the sight as far as the ranges of the Alleghaniee, sehich swept rougd from the right in bu» mounds, the color of which softened into violet in the dis- tance, Om the left the view was circumscribed by a weod, whieh receded along the side of tue hill on which we stood tothe plain below. Bataveon the baso of (his hill, which rese.about 150 feet above the gencral level of the country, and the foot of the keyest and nearest elewa- tion of the opposite, Alleghanies extended about five miley, as well as I cowid jadge, of a demely wooded country, dotted at inte wth green fields auc patches of cleared jands. It. was marked by easy longitudinal undulations, indicated by the form of the forestew/hich glothed them, and between two of ihe more congiderabie ran smail reams, or “rune,” ae they are detminated, from the right to the loft. ‘Close'at hand a nareaw road, descend ing the hill, went straight into the ferest, where it was vin bie now and then among the trees iv ‘¢ream-colored pat les. ‘This road was Filed with conmmaiseariat wagons, theghite tops of whicb were visible der.two mules our front. MANABIAS GAP AND JUNCMOG: IN VIEW—TRE MAY DREAM OF MR. SEWARD NOLLY DISPELLED On oer left front a gap in the lowest chajs.of the kilis showed. “he gap of Manassay,4nd to the lott aud nearer to us lay th “<Junetion’” of the.agme name, whare the Alex: aadria Railway unites with tee rafl from tpe west ef W and cont the rente dy rails of yanicus dene ww Lo Richmond Was £0 peaceful aguap might well doubt the one sense that a great.eantest was being play- ed ont below in bloodshed, or amegine, as Mr. Seward somenimes does, that it was a delustonimen he wakes da the morning and Jjirds there is civil war upon him. HAE ROAK AND GUEAM AND DOS But ¢he cannon spoke ont loudly com the green buaes , and the plains below were mattied, 80 to pak, by pufisef smoke and by white rings from bursting shells and caprgeious howitzers. Jt was no review that was geiag ca tena ws. The shells gave proof enough of that, shovgh the rush of the shot could not be heard at the dis” Aunce, Clouds of dust came up in regular {ines through the tree-tope where dnlantry were acting, agd now and then their wavering mists of light blue «moke ciirted up, and the eplutter of muskeiry broke through the booming of the guns. Wish the gJast I could detect new ad then h of arms through the dust clouds open, but no one covld tell to which side the troops who were saoving belonged, and I could ony judge from the smoke whether the guns were dred towards or away from the hill. It was éyident that the dust in the distance on our right extended beyond that which rose from the f Tho view waywerds the left, as f have suid, rupted, but the tiring was rather more heavy t n the front or rigiit flank, and a glade was po out in forest ag the beginiing of Bull or,Poole run, on the eof which tee Confederates were biti in fore ugh they had not mxde any specific reply. to the sheila \ | thrown into their cover early in the mourning, There | seemed to de a continuous Hine, which was hold by the enemy, from which came steady, solid tiring against what might ‘bo supposed to bo heads of columns stationed ut ‘various points or advancing against them, ‘TAKING REFRESHMENTS—REPORTS COMB IN OF A UNION ViC- ‘TORY. It was necessary to feed the horsesand give them some rost after a hot drive of some twenty-six or twenty-seven miles, or I wuld have proceeded at once to the front. ‘As [ Was watching tho faces of the Senators and Congress- men, I though, Thad heard or read of sueh a scene as this—but there was much more to come, The soldiers whe followed each shot with remarks in English or Ger- man were not as eager ax men generally are im watch- ing a fight, Once, as a cloud of thick smoke ascend- ed froin the trees,’ a "man shonted out, ‘That's good; we've taken another battery; there goes the maga: zine.” But it looked like, and T believe was the ex- plosion of acaisson. In the midst of our little recon- noisauce Mr. Vitzelly, who has been living and, indeed , marching with one of the regimonts ag artist of the Illustrated London News, came up and told us the action had beon commenced in'splondid style by the federalists, who had advanced oral i the Confederates be: fore them—a part of t as I firmly beliew, to bring them under i Ho believed the ad- Vantajges on the federalist side were decided.) | won with hard fighting, and he had just come up to Cenueville to look aftor something to eat ‘and to drink, and to pro- cure little necessaries, in case of need, for his comrades. His walk very probably saved his life. Having Seen all that could be discerned through our glasses, my friend and myself had made a feast on our sandwiches in the shade of the buggy; my horse was eat- ting and resting, and I was forced to give him half an hour or more before I mounted, and meantime tried to make out the plan of battle, but’all was obscure and dark. Suddenly up rode an officer, with a crowd of soldiers after him, from the village.’ “We've whipped them on current in somo degree, ou were followed by a brigade of guns and another battalion of fresh troops. I turned up on the hill half a mile beyond. The vehicles had all left ‘but two—iny buggy was gone, A battery of field guns was in position were we had been stan me ‘The men looked well, As yet there was nothing to jicate more than a retreat and some ili behavior among the wagoners and the riffraff of different regiments. Cen- treville was not a bad position operly ‘oceupied, and I ‘Saw no reason why it should not be held if it was meant to renew the attack, ner any reason why the the attack should not be renewed, if there had been any why it should have been made. I swept the field ouce more. ‘The clonds of dust were denser and nearer. That was all. ‘There was no firiug—no musketry. I turned my horse's head, and rode away through the village, and after I got out upon the road the same confusion seemed ¢o prevail. Suddenly the guns on the hill opened, and at the same time the thudg of artillery from the wood om the right rear, The stampede then begame general. SIGHK OF AN UTTERLY DEMORALIZKD ARMY—THE SPROIAL IN DANGER YROM A TRUCULENT RUNAWAY. ‘What occurred on the hill I cannot say, but all the road from Centreville for miles presented such a sight as can only be, witnessed in the track 2 the Fung ays ofan uttorly demoralized army. Drivers flogged, , spur and beat their horses, or leaped down and ‘abandoned. their teams, and ran by the side of the road; mounted men, ser- vants) and men in uniform, ' vehicles of all sorts, commissariat wagons thronged the narrow ways. At every shot @ convulsion as it were seized upon the morbid mass of bones, sindw, wood and iron, and thrilled through it, giving new energy and action to its desperate efforts to get free from itself. Again the cry of “Cavalry” arose. "What ‘are you afraid of?” said Ito a man who was running beside me. “I’m_not afraid of you,” replied tho ruffian, levellin his piece at me and pulling the trigger. Wt was not loade ‘or the cap was not on, for the gun did not go off. Twas all pointat” he shouted, “Wo've taken their bat- teries, and they’ro aro retreating!” Such an uproar et followed. spectators and the men cheered in and again, amid ories of“ Bravo,” “Bully for us,” “Didn't I tell. you so?” as i snacks? Joon the Deutschland folk and loud ‘hurroos” from the Irish. 4 WALK TOWARDS THR FRONT—THE AKMY WAGONS AND FIRST SYMPTOMS OF A REREAT. Soon afterwards my horse was brought up to, the bill, and my friond and the gentleman I have alrcady men: tionod set out to walk towards the front—the latter to rejoin his regiment if possible, the former to get a closer view of the proceedings. As | turned down inte the nar- row road, or lane, already mentioned, there was a forward movement amumg the large four wheeled tilt wagons, which raised @ good deal of dust. My attention was particularly called to this by the occurrence of a few minutes after- wards. Thad mot my friends on the road, andafter a few words rode forward at a long trot as well as I could past the wagons and through the dust, when suddenly there arose @ tumult in front of me at a small bridge across the road, and.then I perceived the drivers of a set of wagons with the horses turned towards me, who were endeavoring to force their way against the stream of vehicles setting in theother direction, By the side of the new set of wagons there were a number of commissariat men and soldiers, whom at first sight I took to be the baggage guard. They looked excited and alarmed, and were running by side of the horses—in front the dust quite obscured the view. COLLISION OF TRE ADVANCING AND RETREATING UNION MEN— ANNOUNCEMENTS OF DEFKAT BY PANIO-STRICKEN MIEN. At tho bridge the currents met in wikt disorder. “Turn back! Retreat!” shouted the men from the front, ‘< We're whipped, we're whipped!” They cursed and tugged at the horses’ heads, and struggied with frengy to got past. Running by me on foot was © man with the shoulder. straps of an officer. “Pray, what is the matter, sir?” “Te means we're whipped, and that’s a fact,” he blurted out in puffs, and eautinued his career. “I ob- sorved that he carried no sword. Theteamsters of the advancing now caught up the , “Turn back—turn your horses,” was the shout up the whole line, and backing, plunging, rearing, and kick- ing, the horses which had boen proceeding down the road reversed front and went off towards Centreville. Those behind them went madly rushing on, the drivers being quite indifferent whether glory or disgrace Ied the way, provided they could tind it. In the midat of this extraordinary spectacle an officer, escorted by some dragoons, rode through the ruck with a light cart in charge. Another officer on foot, with his sword under his arm, ran up against me, “What is all unarmed, and I did not go off a8 fast T could, resolved to keep my’own counsel for the gecond time tht day. And 80 the fight went ov, Atonc time a whole mass of infantry, with fixed bayonets, ran down the bank of the road, and some falling as they ran must have killed and wounded those among whom they fell. As L know the road would soon become impassable or blocked up, 1 put my horse to @ gallop and ‘on towards the front. But mounted men still rode faster, shoutingout, “ Cavalry are coming.’’ ‘Again I ventured to speak to some officers whom I over- took,and said, ‘If these runaways aro not stopped the whole of tho posts and pickets into Washington will fly also!” One of them, without saying a word, spurred his horse and dashed in front. Ido not kuow whether he ordered the movement or got, but the van of the fugitives: was now suddedly checked, ahd, pressing on through the wood at the road side, I saw a regiment of infantry blocking up the way, with their front towards Centré- ville. ‘HE 18 STOPPED BY 4 SENTINEL—OLAIMS JUS CITIZEN PROTECTION OF ENGLISU ALLNGIANCE. ‘A musket was levelled at_my head as I pushed to the front:—‘* Stop,or Pll fire.” At the same time the officers were shouting out, “Don’t let asoul pass.” Tuddressed one of them and said— “Sir, Iam ® British subject; I am not, I as- sure you, running away. Ihad done my best ‘to stop this di ful rout (as I had) and have been telling them there are no cavalry within miles of them.” “1 can’t let ‘ou pass, sir.”” I bethought me of General Scott's pass. @ adjutant read it, and the word was given along the line, ‘Let that man pass,” and so [rode through, uncer- tain if | could now gain the Long Bridge in time to pass over without the counte:sign. It was about this timo I met a cart by the roadside sur- rounded by a group of soldiers, some of whom had “69” on their caps. The owner, as 1 took him to be, was in great distress, and cried out as Ipassed, “Can ‘you tell me, sir, where the Sixty-ninth are? These men say they are cut to pieces.” “Ican’t teil you.” “Pm in charge of the mails, sir, and I will deliver them if I die for it. You area gentleman and I can depend on your word. Is it safe for me to go ony’ Not knowing the extent of the debacle, I assured him it was, and ‘asked the men of the regiment how they happened ‘to be there, ‘shure, the Colonel himself told. us to go off every man on his own hook and to fly for our lives,” ro- plied one of them. The mail agent, who told me he was an Englishman, started the cart again, I sincerely hope no bab result t6 himself or his charge followed iy ad- viee. I reached Fairfax Court House; the people, black and white, with anxious faces, were at the doors, and the this about? Why’, we're pretty badly whipped. We're ail in retreat. There's General Tyler thero, badly wound- ed.” And on he ran. ‘There came yet another, who sald, “We're beaten on all points. The whole army is in retreat.” ‘THE CONFUSION BECOMES WORSE CONFOUNDED—THEY RUN AS TF FROM A SPECTRE. Still there was no flight of troops, no retreat of an army, no reason for all this precipitation, ‘True, there were many men in uniform flying towards the rear, but it did not appear as if they were beyond the pro- Portions of 2 large, baemage escort. I got_ my up into the field out of the road, ~ and went on rapidly towards the front, Soon I met soldiers who wore coming through the corn, mostly without arms; and presently 1 saw firelocks, cooking tins, knapsacks and greatcoats on the ground, and observed that the con and speed of the e’ carts became , and that many of thom were crowded with men, or were followed by others who clung to them. ‘The ambulances were crowded with soldjers, but it did not look as if there were many Woundod. Negro servants on led horses dashed frantically past; men in uniform, whom it were @ disgraco to tho profession of arms to call ‘‘soldiers,” swarmed by mules, chargers, and even draught horses, which had been cut out of carts or wagons, and went on with har- nesa clinging to their heel, as frightened as their riders. Men literally screamed with rage and fright when their way was blocked up. On rode, asking all “What is all this about?” and now and then, but rarely, receiving the an- swor, “We're whipped;” ‘or “We're repulsed.” Faces black and dusty, tongues out in tho heat, eyes ataring—it was @ most wonderful sight. On they came like him— —who having turned round goes on, And turns no more his head, For he knoweth that « fearful fiend Doth close behind him tread, But where was the fiend? Ilooked in vain. There was, indeed, some cannonading in front of me and in their rear, but still the firing was comparatively distant, and the runaways were far out of range. As [ advanced the number of carts diminished, but the mounted men increased, and the column of fugitives. be- came denser. A few bvegies and fight wagons filled with men, whose faces would have made up “a great Leporel- lo” in the ghost scene, tried to pierce the rear of the mass of carts, which were now solidified and moving on like a glacier. Terossed a small diteh by the roadside, got out on the road to escape some snik fences, aad looking be- fore me, saw there was still a crowd of ineu in uniforms coming along. LITTER OF ARMS, ACCOUTREMENTS AND MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ON TUR ROAD. The road was strewn with articles of clothing—fre locke, waist-bells, cartouch-boxes, caps, great coats, mess-ting, musical instruments, cartridges, bayonets and sheaths, swords and pistols—even biscuits, wine bottles ISSUX OF REGIMENTS FROM THE WOODS—PURSUIT OF THR REBEI. CAVAERY, * Passing a white house by the road side, I saw, for the first time, a body of infantry with sloped arms marching regularly and rapidly towards me. Their faces were not blackened by powder, and it was evident that they had not been engaged. ' In reply to a questtom a non- commissioned officer told ‘me in broken English, “We fall back to our lines. The attack did not quite succeed.” This was assuring to one who had come through such ascene as I had beon witnessing. 1 had ridden, I suppose, about three or three and a half miles from’the hill, though it is not possible to be sare of the distance; when, having passed the white house, T came out on an'open piece of ground, beyond and cir- cling which was forest. Two ticld pieces’ were unlim- ered and guarding the road, the panting ad jaded horses in the rear looked as thongh they had been hard worked,.and the gunners and drivers looked worn and dejected. Dropping shots sounded cloge in front through the woods, but the guns on the left no longer maintained their fire. Twas just about to ask one of the men for a light, when a sputtering fire on iny right attracted my attention, and out of the forest or along the road rushed a namber.of men. The gunners seized the trail of tho nearest. pieco to wheel it round upon them; others made fur the tumbrils and horses as if to fly, when a shout was raised, “Don’t they're our own men: and in a few minutes on came pell-mell.a whole regiment in disorder. 1 rode across 0 and stopped hin. We're pursued by cavalry,” he gaspe “They ve-ont-us all to pieces.”” Ashe epoke a shell burst over the eolumn; another dropped.an the road, and out streamed another column of men, keeping together with’ their arms, aud closing up the stragglers of the first regiment, I turned, and tom surprise saw the artillerymen had gone off, leaving one gun standing by iielf.” They had retreated with their horses. While we ware on the hill] had observed aud pointed out tom apenions aclond of dust whieh rose throngh the trees on our right front. In my present position that place must haveibeon on the right rear, and st occurred? to me that after aii:there really might be a body © Ty in that direction, but Murat himself would mot charged these wagons in that deep, weil fenced dane, If the dust came, as Tbelieve it did, from the field artillery, that would be a different y it was now well established that thio re' commenced, vihough Tsaw bet few arounded men, and the regiments which wore failing badk bad not suffered much lose. EXAGGERATED STATRMRKTS ADD Ty THE TERROR OF THE MEN, one seemed to knay anythiog for certain, Even ¢he cavalry charge was a ruyor. Several officers said they had carried guns and linge, but then they drifted into the nongense which one reade and heers everywhere about “qmagized batteries,” One or (wo talked more sensibly abom the streng positions of the enemy, the fatigue of ther men, the want of a reserve, Severe losses, and gue bad ‘conduct of certain regiments, Not one spoke as if he thought of wetiring beyond Centreville. Tne.clouds of dust rising abave the woods marked the retreai.ef¢he whole army, and the crowds of fugitives away aiong tie road. — The sun was de- ing, ape some thirty miles yet remained to be accom plished erest.could hope to gaiti theekelterof Washington. Vo one knew whither any corps or regiment was marching, but thers rumges of all Kinde—° The vixty-ninth are eut 10 pieces, “Thedire Zouaves are destroyed,” and ao on. Presently a tremor ran through the men ky whom 1 was riding. asthe sharp reports of ome field pieces rat tled through thearood close at hand. A sort of eubdued roar, like the:voico of distant breakers, rose in front of us, and the soldiers, who were. I think, Germans. brok into# double, fooking now and then over their shoulders. RETURSING TO THE ROAD FOR WASAINGTO! Thora was nochowe tor me but to resign any further yesearenes, The maifrom Washington for tle Wedacs- ey sieumer at Boston leaves at 230 on Manday, and so 1 pul my horse into a trot, keeping in the figlds slongside ‘he roads as much @ Lsuld, to avoid the fagitues, till Toame once more on the rear of the boxgage and store carte, and the pressure of the crowd, who, consmous of the aid which the vehieles would afford them agginst a cavajry charge, and fenrfal gevortheless, of their proximi ty, elamored and shonted like aun as they ran, The | road waa now Hterally covered with baggare. Ht seained to | tne as if the men inside were throwing tho things ont pur. posely. Stop,” cried to she driver of one of the car verytbing is falling ont.”* you,” shouted a fel Jow inside, + §f you s¢op him T° blow your b: apts to Kave Unele Sain’s property w there diseontinued, ‘On approaching Cantrovitlé g bedy of German infantry infantry were under arms, I’ was besieged with ques: tions, though hundreds of fugitives had passed through before me. At one house I stopped to ask for water for my hooge; the owner sent his servant for it cheerfully, the very louse where we had in vain asked for something to cat in the forenoon. «There's a fright among them,” I obeerved, in reply to_his question ting the commissariat drivers. “They're afraid of the enemy’s cavalry.’? “ Are you an American?” said the man, “No, Tam not.” “ Well, then,” he said, “ there will be cavalry on them ‘soon enough, There's twenty theusand of the best horsemen in the world in Virginngl”” ‘Washington was still eighteen miles away. The road was rough and uncertain, and again my poor steed was under way; but it was no'use trying to outstrip the run- aways, Once or twice I imagined Theard guns in. the rear, but Teould not be sure of it, in consequence of the roar of the flight behind me. It was most surprising to see how the foet soldiers had contrived to get on in ad- vance. COLONEL, HUNTER WOUNDED. After sunset the moon rose, and amid other acquaintan- ces I jogged alongside an oiticer who was i charge of Colonel Hunter, the commander of a brigade, I believe, who was shot through the neck, and was inside a cart, escorted by afew troopere. This ‘officer was, as I under: stood, the major or second in command of Colone) Hunter's regiment, act he had considered it right to take charge of his chief and to leave his battalion, He said they had driven back the enemy with ease, but_had not been sup: ported, and blamed—as bad officers and good ones will do--the conduet of the General:— “So mean a fight I never saw.”” 1 was reminded of a Crimean general who made us all merry by saying after the first bombardment, “In the whole course of my experience I never saw a siege con- ducted on such principles as these.” Our friend had been without food, but not I suspect, without drink—and that, we know, affects empty’ stomachs very much—since two o'clock that morning. Now, what is to be thought of an officer—gailant he may be as steel—who says, as { heard this gentleman say to a picket wh y the day went in front, SWe've been licked into a. cocked hat; knocked to This was his cry to teamsters,’ escorts, con- voys, and men om guard and detachment. white I, igno- rant of the disaster behind, tried to mallity the effect of the news by adding, “Oh, it’s a drawn battle, ‘The troops are reoccupying the position trom which they started in the morning.’ Perhaps he knew his troops etter than Id It was a strange ride, throvgh acountry now still as death, the white road shining like a river in the moon. | light, the trees black as ebony in the shade; now and then a figure flitting by into the forest or across the road— frightened fricnd or lurking foe, who could say? Then the anxious pickets and sentries all asking, “Wat's the news?” and evidently prepared for any amount of loss. ‘Twice or thrice we lost our way, or our certainty about it, and shonted at isolate houses and received no reply, except from angry watch dogs, Ten we were xet right as we approached Washington, by teamsters. For an hour, however, we seemed to be travellin, aroad which in all its points far_and near was miles trom the Long Bridge.” Up hills, down into vai- leys, with the silent grim wood for ever by our sides. Now and thea in. the profound gloom, broken only by a spaik from the horse’s hoof, came a dull but familiar sound like the shutting of a distant door. NEARING THE CAVITOL AND ANXIOUS INQUIRIES BY THE SOL- DIEKS—MR. RUSSELL CROSSES THE LONG BRIDGE AND 18 AYE. ‘As I approached Washington, having left the Colonel and his escort at some seven miles on the south side of the Long Bridge, 1 found the grand gnards, ets? posts, and individual sentries burning for news, and the word used to pass along, “What does that man say, Jack #? “* Begorra, he tells me we not het all—ouly retraiting to the oukl Lines for conva: niency of fightirg to-morrow again. Oh, that’s iligant ! On gelting to the tete de pont, however ,the countersign was demanded ; of course, Thad not got it. But the offi. cer parsed me through on the production of Gen. Scott's safeguard. ‘The lights of the city were in sight, and re- flected on the waters of the Potomac, just glistened by the clouded moon, shone the gay lamps of the White House, where the President was probably ent taining some friends. In silence I passe over the Long Bridge. Some fow hours later it quivered under the stepsof a rabble of nnarmed men. At the Washington end arcgiment with piled arms were waiting to cross over into Virginia, singing and cheering, Before the morning they reecived orders, I believe, to assist In keep- ing Maryland quiet. For the hundreth time T repeated the caut fons account, which to th of my knowl-dge was true. There were men, women and soldiers to hear it, ‘The clocks had just struck 11 P.M. as 1 passed Willard’s. The pavement in front of the he was crowded. The = rumors of defeat — had come in, but few of the many who had been fed upon lies and the reports of complete victory which pre- vailed could credit tho inte n hours had not elapsed before the streets told the story. ‘The “Grand Army of the North,” as itwas called, had representati in every thoroughfare, without arms, orders or officers, fing out in the drenching rain. When all these i mntable phenomena we irring I was fast | struggle ¢he result of w esleep, but T could scarce credit my informant in the morning. when be tokl mo that the federalists, utterly rnited, had fallen back upon Arlington to defend the capita leaving nearly five batteries of artillery, 8,000 inuskets, Jmmense quantity of stores and baggerge, and their wound- ed end prisoners in the hands of the enemy JEP Y, DAVIS A REALLY BKUIGKRENT POWER—THE NORTH WIL, NOT DESIST. Jat the American journals tell the story their own way. ) Thave told mine as [know it, It has rained incessantiy and hoavily since early morning, and the country must be ‘antit fer operatians; otherwise, if Mr. Davis desired to ress Jus advantage, he might. now be very close to Ar ingion Heights. He has already proved that he has at fair wight to be considered the head of a ‘bellige. vient power.” But dough the North may reel under the svok, I cannot think it will make her desist from the strugge, unless it be specdily followed by blows mare deadty even than the repuise from Manassas. There ia much talk now (of “ masked batteries,”” of course) of outtianiing, and cavalry, and such matters. ‘The truth ecoms to be thet the men were overworked. Ic out far twelve or fourteen hawws in the aun erposed to long: range jure. badly officered and of deficient regimental orga: zaiun. Then cage a most-difficalt operation—to with- draw ¢his army, a0 constituted, out of netion in face of an energetic enemy who hed repuleed it. The re- tiroment of the jbaggage, which was without ade- quate guards, and was in the hands of ignorant drivers, ‘was inisunderstood and created alarm, and that alarm be- came a panic, which bacame frantic on the appearance ef the enemy and on the epening of their guas on the rum the federal srnment porsdyeres in’ ity’ de sign @ make Wnion by force jt may prepare for a ch will leaye the Union very | Lite to tights for pity the publ must} victims of hall . of the reserx@ came marching down and stemmed the to dispel or rectiny just new, } Having told 80 astory, I can scarcely expect your readers © have pat sg go back upon the usual diary of events; but the récords, such as they are, of this extraordinary repulse must command attention. It is impossible to ex their . No man can predict the results or pretend to guess at them. Effect of the Retreat from Bull Run & England—An Advice for Reconciliation. {From the London Times, August 7.] “The dissensions which arose some months ago in the United States of North America have unfortunately as- sumed the character of open war.”’ Such is the tranquil comment of the royal speech upon the events in the New World which have fallen so unex- pectedly upon the ear of Kurope. Our Queen has reflected with an excellent fidelity the feelings of her people. After the first surprise was over, and when the «God diess me! you don’t say so?” had been said, we think we never heard of « battle in which 75,000 men seem to have ‘been engaged on each side, and which fell 30 blank the ear, and so lille Buropean interest, The fact is, that we do not like to laugh, and the sense of the ridiculons comes too strong over us when we would be serious. It is a great battle without the dignity of danger or the painful interest of great carnage. ‘There are all the ridiculous in- cidents of stark fear and rabid terror, without much real peril and with Very little actual sufféring. We Degin to feel that we haye been cheated out of our sympathies. When this-war broke out we English all pictured to selves two earnest sections of the same population Jaced in mortal combat, warring to the knife and to the death. We received by every mail little samples of an at- mosphere of blood and thunder, and warand wounds. All America appeared to us, poor dupes, like a fresh exploded mine—all smoke, ani fragments, and torn limbs. Wefan- cied our kinsinen reckless, furious, flyiag at each other's throats, and careless of their own safety. Atthesame time that they were shaking their knives at each other, they were shaking their fists at us. We trembled for what we were fated to sec, We held our breath for the first shock of battle between these two young giants. We shut our eyes against the deadiy struggle. We are calmer now. “We are all calmer, Wo are satisfied that these warlike athletes, who aro issuing such dire threats against any one who should dare to offer to separate them, are not so very reckless. Since their dissensions have assumed ‘‘the character of open war” they have been carried on upon strictly humanitarian prin- ciples. If we are to believe the American press, an American battle has never yet been 90 dan- gerous as an American passenger boat, and not much more so than an American railway. The heatile forces shell each other out of strong fortresses, without losing a single life. They fight a battle in Western Virginia which determines the fate of a distriot at the expense of less than a score of casualties; and a great stand up battle is fought between 160,000 men, ending in a panic and a twenty miles run; and when the “‘graadarmy of the Potomac’? reaches ‘Alexandria the New York Hxranp reports that “the killed on our sido will be between three and five hundred.” Itis very difficult to gange the solidity of anything American—even of a great battle. We know that there was a great ront in front of that gap which runs up into the hills, for we were represented in the ruck, and may say that'we saw it with our own eyes and heard the can- nonade with our own ears, ‘hero is a proba- bility, also, that the number of men present at “the battle amounts to the high figure of 150,000, for both accounts seems to agree upon this. Beyond these facts, however, everything seems vague and uncertain. The advance of the? ‘grand army of the Potomac” reads in the American papers like a bur- lesque of Xerxes to the Hellespont. The great federal vic- tory of Bull run, which was finshed over the Northern States and recorded in the Northern papers, was a thing hovering for hours, while yet in print, upon the confines of fancy and possibility, ‘The abject rout, the ullimate re- ality, was what we could have least believed. Perhaps we ought to have anticipated that the same ferocious men who had burnt up the homesteads on their line of m: would speed back over the embers with faces in their panic flight. But this never did occur tous. It requires the testimony of the Americans themselves and the witness of our own correspon- dent to suggest to us that 75,000 American patriots fled for twenty miles in an agony of fear, although no one was pursuing them, and that 75,000 other American patriots ab- stained from yursuing these 75,000 enemies because they were not informed how stark-frightened these were. Even the artillery wero not captured, but picked up. The guns were loft behind because they impeded the flight of the artillerymen, and they might have been to a great ex- tent carried off, if the apprehensions of the gunners would have allowed ‘them to take advantage of the leisure which the prudent conqueror was 80 ready to afford. On the other hand, our correspondent thinks that the panic had gone 80 right to the heart of the North thatif General Beauregard had the enterprise to follow up his advantage he might have gone almost unresisted into Washington city itself. All that the Northern press says upon this subject is to congratulate themselves that enemy did not know in what a fright they were. ‘This is not our account of this battle. It isthe Ameri- can account, It is the account of the New York papers, alternating as they do between shrieks of victory, of agony and of vindictive despair. If they have only lost between three hundred and five hundred men, it seems tousto be a very cheap lesson. Seo what they havo gained by it. ‘They have found out now that the spirit of patriotism, and oven the instinct of combat, does not prevent Northern volunteers from going off in a body, under pretence of their time of enlistment being up, al- though the morning of the combat may be come and the cannon may be sounding in their ears. They have found out, also, that even a Northern army can, without much ‘good military reason given, lose its attraction of cohesion “and dissolve into a mob. ‘They have also found out that the South- erners are not to bo walked over like a partrige manor, and that they have some military heads among them. Of course, we must expect them to meet these hard facts by acertain quautity of bluster. ‘They must call out a few more millions of volunteers, and they must make a confi- dent demand upon an jneredulous world for a few more hundred millions sterling. But behind all this there must rise a gathering doubt that this Southern nut is too hard to crack, and that the military line, as a matter of buiness, does not answer. The North has now made its experiment, and not only has it not answered, but the process has not been encouraging. AS a matter of habit, and to case the American mind, @ certain quantity of threats and tall words may ‘be necessary, and they may pass. But they will be of small ‘avail against the facts as they now stand. In the face of the picture of reaming crowd—the grand army of the Potomac, &c.—these great words from the expectant gentlemen at Washington lose every charm. These people do all in their power to alienate our sym- pathy, for they are amenable neither to courtesy nor misfortune. Nothing civilizes them. They seem to think that at all seasons and upon all occassions England isa safe target for their insults and their threats. ‘They either feign very well, or else they positively think they can in- fluence our policy by their bluster, There was a mo- ment—on the 21st of July—when victory was supposed to be with the grand army of the Potomac, and the most popular newspaper in New York seized the opportunity to show what use our excellent friends proposed to make of their victory. The first thougitt waswevenge upon England, We are not, however, fearful enough to be ferocious. On the contrary, we cordially and even. sincerely congra- tulate our would-be enemies that they have escaped with such small loss from the sword of General Beauregard, and, much as they tell us it would be against onr interest, we sincerely advise them to make np their quarrel, and avoid all serions effusion of blood. When they have re- turned to the habits of peace they will not be nearly so bloodthirsty as they think they will be; or, if they should be, they will not be so misehicvous as they say they will be. Spain will ktow how to keep in check a navy which ig now terribly embarraszed by two small privateers, and the Canadas have in other days given a very good account of invaders from the other siile of the river. The United States are 0 very great nation, and we wish them all tai prosperity; but they are not half so capable of mischiof as their newspapers think they ai tl ‘The North Can Find an Army Ten Times as Strong as the One Routed. [From the London Times, August 5.] ‘The army of the United States, which has just been vonted, has had ail its spirit broken and, as @ military body, has coased to exist; but there are ten times as many iy to come on, perhaps to the same fate, We wish we could find gomething in this victory upon which we could congratulate cither the vietors of tho vanquished. We wish we could see in it the probable cause of that humi- contentment which might facilitate peace. We . 8ee in it nothing but what must stimulate the evil passious of both combatants. plete victory—as much a victory as Auster- Exchange Rooms of Manchester of the Unionists became known, there was much ment among those present, principally American captains and brokers. News of the Battle in Ircland, qust 6) Correspondence of London Herald.} occupies all the papers this morning, to the { every other topic. It had been re- orday that Meagher, of the Sword, ost in: the batt of which Queen Victoria made him a present, forfeited it by his treason in "48; but a telegraph received at New York, from his wife at Washington, “Meagher is safe,” shows that the rumor was not well founded. An officer named Meagher was Killed, but not Thomas Francis of that ilk, and of Young Ireland celebrity. The Law of Blockade and the Cotton Supply. (From the Iondon Times, Angust 6.] The course of foreign affairs has been so tranquil in Europe as to require little discnssion, and the strange por American revolution has been treated with a deliberate reserve which did honor to the wisdom of Parliament. 1 » burst of splenetic folly. which was provoked in the Northern States by the English declaration of neutrality might probably have found some ostensible excuse if ail parties in both Houses had not maintained a pradent and rigorous silence. If a discussion had onee commenced, it would have been impossible to suppress opinions which would have been by no means uniformly palatable to. the North. The apparent caprice by which an internecine war suddenly sneceeded to a policy of unlimited concession, would have been criticized with a freedom of specch intolerable to American sensitiveness, In ail English difficnities. dit- ferent factions in Congress have vied with each other in expressions of triumphant animosity against the mother country. A graver and more responsible assembly knows how to bo silent. when there is no necessity for action. The House of Commoas unanimously refused to hear Mr Gregory's defense of the seceding States, and when Sir John Ramaden nsed a careless phrase which aways. But the North will be all the more cager to re- | might haveeffnded susceptible republicans, Lord John trieve this disaster, although it may divert her from th | Rossel] took che opportanity of expressing a courteous re e. which nas suggested to her, of punishing V xympathy for « kindred nation in language #0 well chosen Jeugland 4 little while Longe | that even the New York journals have not distorted it into ‘The exultation of the South can only be | an insult, ‘The true policy of the government in the | wuterstood by thos» whe may see it, and if | dispute is so clear chat Parhament is not called upon to interfere with ite discretion. Vigorous maintenance of neutral rights inay be combined with a careful avvidance of any offence to ci’her Lviligerent. Traders must take the consequences of the former tendency of English states. men to limit the privileges of reutrals on the assumption that their own cointry word be a principal in every jar, Ther'ght of search and the Jaw of blockade vest on | Unite the decisions of Lord Stow.0t, ani from the Southern States, te cut nf ty he fet a a no npltimcte Growns af complatis be’ established wntil the United States attempt some excess of jurisdiction. LEVYING DUTIES BY VESSELS OF WAR. {From London Herald'report,) In the House of Commons on the 6th of August Mr. WyLp inquired whether her Majesty's government had received any communication from the President of the United States, or from tho British Ambassador at Washington, that it was the intention of the government of the Ui Bisten to ‘sion vem off the poris of the of America to collect and levy duties upon foreign merchandise? i Hi Lord Pa.anesron replied that such a communication had been received bat his honorable friend must be aware iat if acceded to it would be practically superseding the blockade. ‘There was some correspondence going on with respect to it, aud the government were not yet aware what were the intentions of the Presidents of the Confede- rate and federal Slates inthe mat'er. [From the London News exp Mr. Win asked the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if her Majesty's government had received any communication from the President of the United States. or from the British Ambassador at Washington, that it was the intention of the government of the United States to station vessels off the ports of the Southern States of a to collect and levy duties upon foreign mer- wands Lord Patgrstoy—The federal have passed a Dill into a law cmpowering the President, if he should ‘think fit, to do what my honorable friend says, namely, to station vessels off certain ports in the Southern States for the purpose of their collecting customs duties upon goods commg in. My honorable friend will be aware that this proceeding, if it should be adopted, would be practically 4 supercession of the blockade, because you cannot block- ade a port to prevent ships from entering, and at the same time levy customs duties on the assumption that the port is open. We have not yet been informed what are the intentions of the President with regard to the matter, or which of the tivo modes he will pursue. Lord Derby's Opinion of the Effect of the ttle. ‘From the London Herald (Derby organ), August 6. ‘huis blow wil compel the federal pip sone Opeat one aetive operations, for,» tno, and thus we should pe will allow the feeling in favor’ of an arrangement, which, in spite of the reciprocal bluster, really exists, to diffuse itself generally, What should be the nature’ of the settlement it is not for us to say—whether the recog- nition of Southern independence, or the return of the seceded States to the Union under saticfactory guarantees. ‘The American press, in the midst of these misfortunes, still finds time to aceuso’Fngland of taking malignant delight in their diffcuities. If wo did we should do our best to encourage that war a Voutrance which they themselves preach. If Englishmen desired the dostruction of Ameri- can power would do their best to egg on the North in its revengeful fury. The English Fleet for North America. (From the London News, August 7 } ‘The Bulldog, Fix, steam sloop, Commander H. F, Me Killop, will leave Spithead this evening for North Ame- rica and the West Indies Meeting of the Mozart Democratic Gene-- ral Committee. A meeting of this committee was held last evening at eight o'clock, at Mozart Hall, No. 814 Broadway. ‘Phe Hon. John Cochrane eccupied the chair, and Edward ‘Timpson and P. Daily acted as secretaries. ‘The following resolutions were offered by the Hon. Luke F. Cozzens, of the Seventeenth ward, and unanimously adopted:— Whereas, tho Democsatic State Central Committee have called a State Convention to meet at Syracuse on the 4th day of September next: and whereas the democracy of this county respond with entire unanimity to that call; and whereas at this critical junctare in the affairs of the country the unity and harmony of the democratic party imporatively demanded by every consideration of national safety, and by all that is tear to huinan liberty and pro- gress throughout the world; and wieress the local diff culties in the party here should not be again carried to the State Convention, and thus mar its delibern- tions by disturbing its’ harmony; and whereas, hav ing shown our popular strength, we can afford to be the first to extend the olive branch of peace,and thus pre- Yen. if possible, any contest iy rival delegations from New York in that Convention; therefore Resolved, That responding cheerfully to tho call for a. State Convention of the democratic party to meet at Sy! cuse on the 4th of September, a committee of five be ap- pointed by the Chair, to issue the necessary oall therefor. Regolved, That the Special Committee be and aro here- dy directed to confer with Me other democratic organiz~ ation meeting at Tammany Hall, and to that, the: delegates from this county shail be equally divided be- tween the two wings of the party, by the election of one- delegate from each district by each organization, or to make any other arrangement resulting in one delegation, which shall be consistent with the rights, integrity and honor ef this General Committee and the democracy we represent. ved, That if the said Tammany General Committee shall refuse to accept or omit. to act upon this conciliatory and liberal proposition before Thureday, the 28th of Au gust, the said Special Committee are hereby directed to. igsuc a call for the election of two delegates from wach As- sembly distriot in this county, as provided for in the cali of the State Committee. The Chairman appointed the following gentlemen th. committee to make the call:—L. F. Cozvens, J. Galvin, K. J, Hamilton, H. K. Blauvelt and Peter Fullmer. A communication from the German Central Democratic Club was then received, accompanied by a resolution ap- pointing a committee ‘of five to act in concert with « similar committee from the Mozart Genoral Committee for the purpose of bringing about the union of the demo: cratic party in this city. The following regolntion was then offered by Mr. D. Rowland and adopted:— Resolved, That this committee have received with sat isfaction the communication from the German Centrat Club, proposing a conference for the reconciliation of difti culties in the democratic party; and that the Chairman be authorized to appoint a special committee of four mem bers upon that subject; and that said committee have full power to act for this body, providing that no adjouyn- ment shall be agreed to which’ shall not in all respects fairly and equitably protect the power of this organiza tion, And further, provided the said committee shall re port back to this body for its concurrence any arrange ments agreed to. The Chair appointed the following committee to confer with the German Central Democratic Club:—Messrs. D. Bowland, M. L. Harris, B. P. Fairchild, C. Swackhammer Henry Evans. Letter from Mrs. General Gaines. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Wasmctoy, D. C., Angust 12, 1861.¢ My attention has been recently called fo certain news paper notices in reference to my late visit South, whereim Lam made to give nttergnce to certain opinions with re- gard to the state of things there, amd am asgired the sume has been copied in your pay Deeming it due to truth, to the South, and to myself, T unhesitatingly deny all such statements, and ask of you a place in your paper for this prompt and unequivocal de- nial. So far {rom saying as reported, I am forced toudd, that the reverse js tho truth, to wit:—That I never saw & more united people, or a more resolute and determined & soldiery, and that so far as T saw ang heard I had no doubt they would stand by their opinion to the Jast, and wonld sooner perish than be subdued. These weré-the sentiments that met me everywhere through my journey South, as I frankly stated ty my friends, since my arrival here, in answer tw their inquiries. Very respectfully , MYRA CLARK GAINES. The Africa Outward Boand. Sr. Jouy, N. F., August 19, 1861. ‘The steamship Africa, from’ New York, passed Cape Race at two P. M. on Sunday, the 18th, FIRST REGIMENT FIRE ZOUAVES. ‘The First regiment of Fire Zonaves, who returned last woek from the seat of war, assembled yesterday morning at the City Assembly Rooms, when a portion of the mem received the pay due them by the State. It was the in tention to quarter the regiment at Fort Schuyler to re- cruit, but nothing definite bas been heard about it from the War Department. It is expected that the necessary order for them to go into camp will arrive to-day, and the men are to hold another meeting during this forenoow to reorganize, &c. SIXTY-NINTH REGIMENT. ‘The commissioned officers of this regiment are hereby ordered to assemble at the division armory, corner of » and Elm streets, on Tuesday, August 20, at eight M., on business of imvortance. The officers: nent while in the service of the nd. By order of Lient. Col. ROBERT NUGENT, Commanding Sixty-ninth regiment. COMPANY B, SEVENTY-FIRST REGIMENT. A meeting of this eompany was held last evening at the armory, Centre Market, at which it transpired that the sum of seven dollars, deducted from the pay which every man received a few days since will be refunded by the United States authorities. An invitation has beeu extended to this company by the citizens of Red Bank, N. J.9to visit that place and partake of their hospitality, in the shape of a dinner and festival. The next meeting of the company will be held on Thursday evening, when ch member will receive a certificate of service, om pro- ducing the government proper Avrivals and Departures. ARRIVALS. Gates i Sarat SrJaoo axD Havawa—Santiago de Cuba—Joaquin Baralt, Diego de Moyor, Antonio Giro, Juan Bafecas, Jose Barrera, ED lady, two children and servant; G Adams and two 804 ‘A Carreosa, M Caminero, A Fruta, F Cabe, J Ru- fant, J Riera, JN Pujol, GJerrer, JE Causse, E Battle, A Vinent and Indy Mo rere bade cite ena =o ‘Herve Ne Taabel Ferrer, Anna Ferrer, Anna Scanlon, © Hervije, Ni- cholas Adan; RW Wilch, J Bauman, F Peon, B Jigou, MZ Chazau, J Fernander, Thos J Fales, Adolf Jesser and lady | H Cahusae, J Runge, M Saines, DS Zanetti, JR Kern, Miss Elena Zaprichi, Miss Concepcion Mangas, Miss MF Carama- jon and, der, Miss Joanna Walsh O'Callaghan, G Brad- fort und sons, J’ © Fishers, Robert Murrays, Joseph Fox, Archibald Wilson, Robert Dandye, Sidney Sinith, Pedro Bi- gil, Mr Cole, Mr Kooken, Mr Franklin, Mi Zinion Valdes, Sovrmawrrox axp Bxewrx—Stenmship, Rremen— Amalie Ruland, Wm Hermann, Andreas Voss and lady, Chas Loling And farhily, GA Hiller and family, Capt Kiockgeter, Capt Mekinnon ‘and son, David Duffy, G © W Gammage. 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