The New York Herald Newspaper, August 25, 1861, Page 4

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Agents desiring copies are requested to fend in their orders immediately. Single copies six cents. Wholesale price the same as for the Nothing of importance has occurred in the army under General McClellan's command since our last issue. The question as to the term of service for which the volunteer regiments are bound—out of which so much trouble has arisen of late—has been settled by the adjudication of the Supreme Court of the United States, expressed by Justice Wayne yesterday, and which we pub- lish to-day. The investigation of the Potter Committee, it is said, has resulted in reporting fully two hundred employes in the several departments at Wash- ington as persons who cannot be relied upon as loyal to the government. Another prisoner has been added to the number of suspected traitors which the government has found it necessary to send on to the custody of the commander of Fort Lafayette. Last evening de- tectives Elder and Wilson reached this city, having in custody Mayor Berrett, of Washington, who they are to convey to Fort Lafayette by order of theSecretary of War. They left Washington at half- Past five o'clock yesterday morning and came di- rectly through to New York. Before leaving Wash- ington the above officers, by orders of Secretary Cameron, searched the residence of Mayor Ber- rett, but it is said failed to find anything showing that he was connected with the rebels. His wife, we are informed, took great pains to aid the offl- cers in their search. On reaching this city, Mr. Berrett was conveyed in a carriage to one of our leading hotels, where he remained in the custody of the above named officers last night, and will this morning be conveyed to Fort Lafay~ ette. In conversation with the officers he declared himself a strong Union man, and the only reason which he attributes for his arrest is his refusal to take the oath of allegiance. He says, however, that he would have taken the oath, but having been made an ex-officio member of the Board of Police Commissioners it was not necessary, asthe same oath which he took when elected Mayor ayplied to all cases in which he was called upon to serve the blic, An investigation in his case, it is said, wil, take place this week. The State of New York has adopted a policy which it would be well for other States to follow. An order was issued yesterday from headquarters at Albany, giving a bounty of two dollars a man to any person who may bring in a company of thirty- two volunteers to the service of the government. Something of this kind is manifestly necessary to stimulate the recruiting service. We publish to-day a list of appointments and Promotions in the army, made by the War Depart- ment, which will be found highly interesting to ® large portion of the community. Gen. Wool is actively engaged in reviewing the troops and perfecting the discipline of the army in and around Fortress Monroe. The gunboat Se- Minole arrived thence on Friday, bringing up as a prize the schooner Albion, formerly a Wilming- ton pilot boat, from Cardenas, with a cargo of sugar, coffee, fruits and segars. When taken she ‘wae under English colors. It is said that the cap. tain and nearly all hands were drunk. She had ron the blockade off Wilmington. The Seminole has also overhauled several other vessels showing English colors. THE NEWS. By the arrival ofthe brig Ida at Philadelphia from Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, we have dates from the capital to the Ist inst. The news is highly inter” esting. Theacting President, in view of the des. perate condition of affairs in the country, has clothed himself with the powers and attributes of adictator, and ‘as gone to work vigorously to remedy existing evils. From Caracas, Venezuela, under date of July 31; we learn that the privatecr Sumter, Capt. Semmes, took the schooner Abby Bradford, of Boston, in, there as a ywize on the 27th ultimo, He asked permission to sell her cargo and leave the vessel in charge of a prize agent. He was refused, and ordered to quit port immediately; but when obey- ing the command he fell in with and seized the bark Joseph Maxwell, of Philadelphia, right under the guns of the fortress. Semmes had learned pre- viously that there were no men to work the guns in the garrison. He sent the captain of the Max- well on shore, saying that as he could not sell his prizes he would burn them. Our correspondent in Caracas, Venezuela, writing on the 29th of July, affords the following , Ustressing account of the condition of that repub- | e:—Marshal law proclaimed; citizens of all ages | md condition put under arms; a censorship of the { reas; total exhaustion of the government re- + purces; depreciation of paper money; landing of Falcon in Coro and his march on Barguerameto; ml of Cumann and Pirtte; increase of the hordes | of rebels under Sotillo. Never, he says, was the country in a more oritical state. Should the revo- lution be successful—by no means an improbable event—such scenes of horror and desolation will ensue as the imagination dreads to contemplate. Files from Hamilton, Bermuda, to the 13th inst. have come to hand. There is no news of any mo- ment. The committee appointed to make arrange- ments for the reception of the Prince of Wales, re- port having expended $3,720 on the repairs and em- bellishments of the Government House. Whata pity his Royal Highness disappointed them! We clip the following from the Bermuda Mirror of August 10:— “We take much pleasure in informing our readers’ partioularly those who have friends in Antigua, that the unfortunate report of a severe earthquake having destroyed. much property and many lives there is not true. A heavy gale had visited the Island and blown down a few wooden sheds.” We publish to-day a communication, signed by all the officers of the Sixty-ninth regiment who were present at the battle of Bull run, giving an emphatic contradiction to the statements of Mr- Russell, correspondent of the London Times, rela. tive to the conduct of Captain Thomas Francis Meagher during the action and retreat on that day. It might appear singular to those who do not know the animus which inspires the Times corres- pondent that Mr. Meagher alone should be selected from six or seven thousand officers in the Union army who were on the field for special notice and malignant slander, but to those who.are familiar with the course which the Times has invariably pursued towards gentlemen of Mr. Meagher's poli- tical affinities, it will create no surprise to find the pliant tool of that journal maligning him upon this occasion. The statement of the officers who wit- nessed his gallant behavior throughout the ad- vance, the fight and the retreat, however, is the best answer to Mr. Russell’s libel on the character of a brave man. Before the first of November next the govern- ment will have on the Southern coast, besides the transports, one hundred and thirty-three vessels, mounting one thousand two hundred and forty-five guns. The Trenton True American (secession sympa- thizer,) closed its earthly existence yesterday. The State of Arkansas has sent twelve thousand rebels to the war, and has five thousand in reserve, ready for marching orders. The Charleston, 8, C., Vigilance Committee have passed a resolution declaring that~in future any resident of Charleston or its vicinity who shall go to any of the Northern States, unless with the pre- vious knowledge and assent of the committee, shall not be permitted to return, under pain of such dis- abilities or punishment as the law may decree. A man named John Cartwell, a Kentucky mer- chant, has been arrested in Evansville, Ind., ona charge of recruiting in the ‘Northern States for the rebel army. The monthly statement of the condition of the banks of North Carolina, made up on the 20th of July, shows that altogether they had but $494,000 in specie, and that they have in circulation bills to the amount of $1,417,000. The Episcopal Bishop of New Jersey has ordered & special service and prayer for the nationa, thanksgiving, on the 26th of September. ‘Tho cotton market was firm yesterday, with a specula- tive feeling still prevalent. The sales embraced about 2,500 bales, part to spinnors, but chiefly on speculation, while prices closed on tho basis of about 18%c. for mid- dling uplands. The report that cotton had arrived nero from Providence, em route for export to Liverpool, was contradicted by parties well posted in the trade. The ar- rival of 500 bales per ship Guy Mannering, from Liver- pool, noticed in yesterday's paper, was consigned to the house of Messrs. Hennings & Gosling, to whose order it ‘was purchased in Liverpool. Another importation from Liverpool is due by one of the ships of Messrs. Spofford & Tileston’s line. ‘Ihe+material advance in the price of raw cotton, it is supposed, may affect some of tho earlier government contractors, as a good portion of the advance has occurred since they were entered into. ‘The flour market, owing in part to tho increased firmness in freights, was heavy, and closed with a tendency towards lower prices, while sales were to afair extent. Wheat was heavy, owing to tho stiffuces in freights, with somo less demand for export: The market closed at easier rates, and for some descrip- tions 2a 3 cents per bushel lower. Corn was in good re~ quest for export and for shipment Eastward, while the market was active and firm. Pork was firm, especially prime, with sales of mess at $15 and of primo at $10. Beef.was quict,and lard firm. Sugars were firm, with sales of 900 hhds. Cubas at full prices. Coffee was steady, with sales of 3,000 bags Rio at 133{¢. a 14};c. Freights were firmer, with fair engagements of corn, wheat and flour. To Liverpool grain, ‘chiefly corn, ranged at 934d. 10d. in bulk and bags, and fiour at 2s. 6d. To London wheat was taken at 1034d. a 11d. in bags, and flour at 3s, The War and Its Necessities—Our Policy a Grand and Decisive Campaign. Our government, our soldiers and the people of our loyal States have derived some whole- some instructions touching the strength and en- ergy of this Southern rebellion from our late disasters in the field. We have thus been taught, with all our overwhelming military resources in men and means, and with all our enthusiasm for the Union, and all our confidence in its good cause, that we must bring these resources to bear upon the enemy with an overwhelming weight, and that they must be carefully organized and wisely directed before we can hope for suc- cess. We comprehend at length that we have lagged behind the activity of the rebels, that we have under estimated their forces and their fighting capacities, and tlmt they are not to be reduced by the inefficient, half-way measures of a holiday campaign. The fact is alse dawning upon the adminis- tration—notwithstanding the general enthusi- asm which prevails throughout our loyal States, and the unexampled liberality of our loyal peo- ple in furnishing men by hundreds of thou- sands and money by hundreds of millions— that thore are seditious ~and traitorous peace organs and peace agitators among us, sowing the seeds of demoralization and discord, and that the generous forbearances of peace in the matter of individual liberty to speak, write, plot and conspire against the go- vernment, cannot be safely tolerated under the stern necessities of this gigantic Southern rebel- lion. It was impossible for the framers of the constitution to provide for these necessities, for they never dreamed of such a crisis to our country as this. But the extraordinary de- mands of the crisis must be met, and with the restoration of the Union we shall be in a better condition for the full enjoyment of all our liber- ties under a reign of peace than ever we have been heretofore. Meantime, however, in view of public harmony and official activity in the prosecution of this war, all false preachers of peace and treasonable teachers of secession standing in the way of the government must expect to be removed. In this matter we recognise some evidences of a new impulse of energy in our Cabinet, and in the more important matter of a forward move- ment against the enemy, we are encouraged with other evidences of amore systematic ac-. tivity at Washington than that which led to the deplorable battle of Bull ran. What may be the military combinations and movements chalked out by Gen. Scott and Gen. McClellan we know not, and if we knew we should not, without their consent, disclose them. We are equally ignorant of the plans of Davis and Beauregard for the future; but we have seen enough to know that while the rebels are desperately azaining every perve to keop this war within NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 1861. the border slave States, and especially in front of Washington, our true policy is to “ carry the war into Africa”—that is, into the heart of this rebellion, the cotton States. And this can be done without much diffloulty, for in the absolute command of the sea we havé the command of the seaboard of every cotton State from South Carolina to Texas; and the movement by sea from New York of an army southward would instantly compel every Southern seaboard State to look after its own defences. We suppose that for a month’or two it will bo a8 muoh as can be done by Scott, McClellan, Wool, Rosencrans, Anderson, Prentiss, Fre- mont, and the other generals in charge of our troops from Maryland to Missouri, to make the needful preparations for a combined forward movement; but when they do advance we hope it will be in overwhelming numbers and along tho whole line, and that this grand land movement will be supported by a powerful naval move- ment along the Southern seacoast, comprehend- ing a land force in transports of forty or fifty thousand men. Thus the war will indeed be carried into Africa, and from the necessary dis- persion of the rebel troops to guard all points of danger, they may thus be easily subdued in detail by an overwhelming force, One of the greatest advantages of a success- ful campaign of this description will be the command which it will give us of the Southern cotton crop, to be contributed and warchoused by November, as the property of the rebel government. These cotton supplies, as the le. gitimate spoils of war, will not only go a long way to indemnify the expenses of our army, but in shipping it over to England we shall convince even Lord Palmerston that the future supplies of American cotton to the mills of Manchester can best be secured by recognizing, not the supremacy in the cotton States of their rebel government, but of the government of the United States. In a word, the campaign we have indicated will bring at once the cotton Confederates of the South and the cotton Cabinet of England to the recognition of the fact that King Cotton must submit to the laws of our Union. There is no necessity for hurrying up this plan or any other plan. of military operations against the rebels. Time will strengthen, dis- cipline, harmonize and give confidence to our army; while it is apparent that delay will weaken and demoralize the enemy. For the present a rigid blockade by land and sea is the most effective instrumentality of war that can be used against the armies of Davis. Let General McCleHan be prepared, however, for the contingency of an attack upon any part of his defensive line of the Potomac, and Ict the Cabinet and the generals of our armies make their preparations for a grand combined fer- ward movement in October or November by land and sea, and we are confident that the wholesome lessons of our late reverses will be redeemed in the final overthrow of this rebel- lion by the month of May. Surrression or THe Peace Journars nN New Yor«.—The government has taken one step more in advance, and, instead of arresting the progress of the New York secession journals southward at Philadelphia, by the mails, it will arrest their passage at New York and throw them out of the mails, if offered. This is very well as far as it goes, but it is only a half mea- sure after all. It is not enough. No half measure will answer. The circulation the peace journals ought to be stopped in New York itself. Their publication ought to be suppressed, and there ought to be a large armed force detailed here to carry out the (measure. The object of these journals is to create discontent in the minds of the soldiery | against the war, as well as in the minds of the people; and they want to get up riots to aid and assist the rebels—not that they can do anything here; but they want to create a diver- sion. The discontent began with the republi- can shoddy contractors, who cheated the sol- diers, and then the battle of Bull run served to give the climax to newspaper sedition. The effect of their appeals to the people is to prevent enlistment, and to give aid and comfort to the enemy. Their mischievous tendency, therefore, ought to be arrested in New York’ as well as elsewhere; and not only the secession journals, pure and simple, which sym- pathize with the Southern rebellion, but the abolitien secession journals ought to be in cluded in the suppression. They are all dis unionists alike. The New York Tribune and Independent, the Boston Liberator, and all the journals of that ilk, ought to be squelched ; and the whole of the anti-slavery leaders, be- ginning with Wendell Phillips and ending with “the little villain,” ought to be arrested and sent to Fort Lafayette to keep company with the Baltimore rebels. Nothing would so strengthen the hands of the government as this: Vigor is the one thing needful. No Cuanen i tax Capinet—Tue Presipest Pers His Foor Dowx.—The ‘intriguers from New York who went to Washington to break up the Cabinet have failed in their mission, and they might as well have remained at home. The President has put his foot down, and will make no change. He is right. This fs no time for change. The whole tronble has arisen he- tweer the fricnds of Seward and Chase, the two most prominent candidates for the succession in 1864. Cameron and Smith and Welles are merely brought into the quarrel as foils, and for the purpose of throwing dust in the eyes of wondering eutsiders who are not in the secret. The real issue is between Seward and Chase and their respective retainers, who have a keen eye for the spoils of anether lustrum, not con- tent with the “feast of fat things provided for he present term. The followers of Chase are working like moles to drive out Seward, and the troop of Seward are laboring like beavers to drive out Chase. It is a curious quarrel as it stands, consider. ing that the enemy is in view, and may soon he thundering about their ears in the White House. We are glad the President is determined to put a stop to this internal fight till the externa} is first disposed of. The Cabinet will do well if there is only « little more energy infused into the War and Navy Depariments, As for Seward and Chase, they may save themselves all trouble about the succession. Neither of them has the ghost of a chance of it. The next President will be taken froma very different class ofmen. The war wil) determine who is to be the mean. The ageof politicians is gone, and an era of warriors has succeeded to it. The candi- dates, therefore, will be the young generals, and the fortunate one he who most distinguishes himself in the conflict with the Southern confederacy. Not by the arts of peace, but by | lished in the London Times of August 7, « question to be solved in 1864. Let, therefore, Seward, Chase, Scott and all the venerable fos- sils of past age quietly retire at once and make way for Young America, who is about to take the field. Important Developements from the Cac- pet Bag of a Spy—Russell, of the London Times, Aiding the Rebels. Our readers will recollect that on the 14th inst. Robert Muir—who had previously regis- tered his name at the Brevoort House as “ Mr. Millan”—was arrested on board the steamer Af- rica, just as she was about leaving her wharf in Jersey City for Liverpool. He was the bearer of @ very large number of letters from persons in the South directed to various parts of Europe. His violent denunciation of our own govern- ment, and his confident assertions that the Southern confederacy would soon be recog- nized, made during his short stay in this city attracted-attention and led to his arrest. He is now imprisoned at Fort Lafayette. Among the papers found upon Muir was a letter bearing date’at Charleston, August °3, signed by Morris Seligman, The writer says that he knows pretty well what is unknown to the public; that he writes the commercial reports of the English Consul to his government at home; that he has seen Russell’s letter about the battle, and he completely disposes of the Yankees; that Lord Lyons’ last good saying was, that he would say to Seward, “If you will not admit that the Southerners have belligerent rights, you must now admit that they are a belligerent Power;’ and, with all this familiarity with the sentiments of Russell and Lyons, the writer asserts that Eng- land will and must break up the blockade. He concludes with the significant remark, “I have still later information, which still more confirms me in the belief that England and France will soon acknowledge us.” Now, did Mr. Russell communicate the con- tents of his letter about the rout.at Bull run confi. dentially to the secessionists, in advance of its publication, giving them a foretaste of his ridi- cule of the Yankees ? and did Lord Lyons comfort them with the assurance that he would taunt the Secretary of State with the remark that he must then admit—that is, after the defeat at Bull run—that the South was a belligerent Power? If so, we suppose it will be received as pretty conclusive evidence that the sympa- thies of both Lord Lyons and Mr. Russell are warmly with the secessionists. Men do -not show to their enemies, in however strict confi- dence, letters in which they have held up their friends to ridicule; men do not, boast to their enemies in what language they have now gota chance to jeer and insult their friends. If Mr. Ruescll communicated the substance of his let- ter, in advance of its publication, to his rebel acquaintances, it was because he knew that its contents would be pleasing to them; that it was written in their interest, and they would so regard it, and in de- rogation of their enemies, ourselves. So it was as their advocate, their ally, their friend, that Lord Lyons let them-know how he was disposed to make the most of the opportunity afforded by Bull run to have a fling at our Seeretary of State for their advaniage. The following is tho entire text of the letter from which we have quoted:— Cuantestox, August 3, 1861. Dear Fetsx—On politics I will not say much. ‘The last important atfair is still too fresh not to be in good spirits about it, Moreover, I alone know pretty well what is un- Known to the public.’ T write, for instance, the commercial reports of the English Consul to his government at home, T con assure you I can see daylight, and we will soon have Gull sunshine. I have read Russvell’s private letter about the Laitle, and he completely disposes of the Yankers. Lord Lyons? last good saying was that he would say to Seward (a vile snake), “if you will not admit that the Southerners have belligerent rights, you must now admit that they are a bel- Uigerent Power.”” You may rest assured that the South will be t, and soon become greater than th not at the North (&c., a8 extras. In the products of the earth the South is the greatest country. I hope Hamburg will soon give us direct steam navigation. In January we expect (o Le in full business, for England witl and must break up the Ulockade. I have still later information which still, more confirms me in the belief that England and France will soon acknowledge us MORRIS SELIGMAN, As we have said before, the very important question arises whether the allegations of this letter are true; because, if they are, no doubt whatever remains that Lord Lyons and Mr. Russell are both with the South and against the North in this war. The lette dated August 3. Muir was arrested in Jersey City August 14, and Mr. Seligman’s letter was at that time in his possession. Mr. Russell’s letter was pub- did not reach this city until the 19th—five d after Mr, Seligman’s letter was & It an. swers fully and emphatically to Mr. Seligman’s description, when he says that “it disposes of the Yanke But this is a general commen- tary. and easily complied with. There is a much more important and, at the same time, minute particular in which it verifies the state- ment of Mr. Seligman. In that letier, sp ing of Mr. Jefferson Davis, Mr. Russeli s “He has already proved that he has « fuiv be considered the head of a belligerent Power.” Thus we have the clear idea, and almost to a very syllable, the language atiribuied to Lord_ Lyons by Mr. Seligman—and which the Bri tish Minister evidently considered remarkably witty—reproduced in the letter of Mr. Russell. This is conclusive. This fully confirms the truth of Mr. Seligman’s statements. But irrefragable as this proof is, it is not all that we have. There is cumulative evidence on this point as clear and convineing as that which we have already cited. Another commercial letter, written at Charleston, was found in pos- session of Mr. Muir, from which we make the following extract:— Mr. B., (Mr. Bunch, the British Consul at Charleston}, showed meconfdentially Mr. Russell's letter aout the bat Ue. His letter beats all Ihave yet seen in print abputsthe Yankees running. He says we could have had Washing- ton by morely asking. is had an inclination to ask Mr. had not the tainly admit they had the belligerent power.”? of secrecy he communicated to me also that the first step of recognition wastaken. He (Mr. Bunch, the British Consul} and Mr. Belligny, French Consul at Charleston, together, sent Mr. Trescott to Richmond yesterday to ask Jeff. Davis, President, to accept the treaty of commerce, to ‘accept the neutral flag carrying nextral goods, his is the first step of direct treating with ovr ynent. If prepared for active business by let of January, you may rely on all going right. Crops good and,fine. There is more corn made than ever known. Cotton will be four million bales, with what was left from last crop, Have no doubt that there will be soon direct opportunities with the South by steom, All our privateers do remark- ably well, though some less good than others, Here we have, not only the malignant if not brilliant witticism of Lord Lyons repeated by another writer, but we have additional infor- mation of a very serious character, which, after the establishment of the other facts asserted in the letter, we are bound to con- sider correct and true. We are told that Mr. Trescott, a South Carolinian, who was Assistant Secretary of State under President Buchanan, had been sent by Monsieur Belligny, the French Consul at Charleston. and Mr. the art end eclengo of war is whe Fresideptia * Bunch, the British Gonsul o Charieeun— who would not be likely to act in 80 important a matter without instructions from their superiors at Wasiington—to Jefferson Davis, at Richmond, to aak him to accept a Itreaty of commerce, for a meutral fiag to carry neutral goods—the first step of direct treating with the Confederate government. This is pro- bably what Mr. Seligman refers to at the close of his letter, when hesays that later information still more confirms him in the belief that Eng- land and France will soon acknowledge the Confederate government. Thus we see that Lord Lyons and Mr. Rus- sell have both been giving aid and comfort to the enemy. The British Minister has been rub- bing up his wits to give increased rancor to the venomous pen of the foreign correspondent who gloried in the unfortunate repulse of our badly officered, raw recruits at Bulf’ run; and: not content to let the rebels learn of his en- mity towards us and his sympathy for them through the ordinary channels, the gratifying assurance is given to them, confidentially, in advance of publication. More than this, a treaty of commerce is already in actual process of negotiation with the Southern Confederacy. Calling the attention of Secretary Seward to this matter, we will leave Lord Lyons in his hands. But what shall be done with Mr. Russell? We perceive that the troops of General Banks, some of whom had read his letters in the London T'imes, have already manifested sttong dis*atisfaction at his presence among them. We cannot wonder at this; and, when the additional facts which-we have now brought out become generally known, if Mr. Russell escapes rough handling it can only be by speedily leaving the country. He is a snob of the first water, and belongs to that class in Great Britain whose sentiments towards us Blackwood reeently exprossed as follows:— “We can feel no special interest in the mainte- nance of a Union whose origin was in the violent overthrow of British supremacy.” We have already invoked the unusual aid of martial law to stop the villification of our government at this critical moment, when it wavers between life and death, by a depraved and treacherous press at home. Shall an alien writer, a proved ally of our enemies, whose pen drips gall and whose confidence assists treason, enjoy privileges of which our own citizens are, from necessity, forcibly deprived? Mr. Russell opposes our government; it should yield him no protection. He hates our country; let him leave it. He may escape from the valley of the Monocacy before Gen. Banks is advised of these facts; but if he makes his way West, into the army of the Mississippi, we doubt not that Gen. Fremont will put him under the wholesome rigor of martial law, as he has already placed a number of other kid-gloved gentlemen of secession sym- pathies at hard work in the trenches. Wuar 1s Suoppy?—The excitement over the shoddy uniforms furnished to the soldiers has started numerous inquiries as to what “shoddy” really is, and how it happens that clothing is made out of materials in reality worthless. A morning contemporary has thrown some light upon the subject, which shows that it is nothing more nor less than rotten rags worked up by machinery and mixed with just enough wool to deceive the public, and thus manufactured into cloth; the cloth when made into garments lasts about as long as the wearer is purchasing it, provided, however, he.abstains from all exer- cise and sits as though his life depended upon his remaining perfectly quiet. It is one of the mysteries of cheap clothing and big profits of dealers. It originated in the competition with manufacturers of cloth, who resorted to this mode to compete with their neighbors, sell their products at a lower price, and at the same time continue their high profits. At present the “shoddy” trade is quite extensive, originating, we believe, in Jobn Bull’s dominions, but now extensively carried on in this country, there being several mills engaged in its preparation in this State. The invention of machinery to prepare the rags and mould them into “shoddy” has result- ed in the refuse woollen rags, which were for- merly rejected by paper makers as worthless, or fit only for manare, becoming suddenly in demand at from seyen to ten dollars per ton. The black cloth “shoddy” is the most valuable, and is used in the manufacture of clothing such as was furnished to a portion of the volunteers, about which so much has been said. Our con- temporary states that these refuse and worth- less rags are assorted “into whites, carpets, shawls, stuffs, shirtings, linseys and black cloth.” When thus assorted and baled, they are sold to the “shoddy” manufacturer, who takes all the woollens, carefully assorts them and passes them through the rag machine, which is a cylin- der set with teeth; this, revolving at a great speed, tears or pulls the rags to wool. When thoroughly pulled apart and reduced to soft wool it is saturated with oil or milk, and has the appearanct of balls about the size of a pea. The common “shoddy” requires scouring in heaters filled with chemical matter; when thus completed it is mixed with new wool, in as large pro” portions as possible to escape detection’ ‘The simon pure “shoddy” is made of soft woollens; but the hard or black cloths, when prepared in the same way, will produce what is called “mungo”—an article used extensively in superfine cloths, which is usually finished in a way that will’ deceive the best judges. Many persons have no doubt been surprised at the accumulations between the cloth and lining of their garments, which is in reality the “shoddy’ rubbed out of the cloth, and will be found the sequel for the sudden falling to pieces of their garments. The recent disgraceful developements in “shoddy” cloth made into soldiers’ uniforms we presume will injure the “shoddy” trade; but in the meantime it has extended into other mat- ters, especially into the political world. The political managers of this State are at present extensively engaged in this line, and are press ing partite out of the rotten rags and debris of the late political parties, which they imagine they can palm off upon the public as genuine: Thus we shall soon havea “shoddy” republican party and a “shoddy” democratic party in the field, both claiming to b® composed of pure material, but in reality the fag-ends, rotten rags and debris of the old parties. Their organi- zations will, in fact, be “shoddy” from one end to the other, and if the Nee accept them they will be a hundredfold worse cheated than were the poor soldiers with their “shoddy” uni- forms. We advise every one to beware of, and not put their faith in, any of the “shoddy” politiea) parties or political “shoddy” manufac- facturers. BOSTON CAVALRY Wakeco FOR THE The Boston Light Dragoons have unanimously voted that in the event of their servicos being called for by the Governor, Mh nett A ie aed eid oe sue war, provided they cag be cuamayded by ce aC Casi own ceasing. NEWS FROM CALIF: ORNIA. Seaceeaa aaa “Arrival of the Overland Express—Orgaate zation of Troops—State of the Markets, Ovren TauzoRare | Nuvary-rive Miu Weer ov Four 4 August 94, 1861. The pony exproas passod here’ at ten o'clock this mora. ing, bringing the following intelligenee from the Pacifio comat:— San Faancwsoo, August 16—P. M, Arrived 10th, ship Winged Racer, Now York; bark Therusia, Rio Janeiro. e Sailed 10th, ships Eureka, Melbourne; Decatur, Houg Kong; Harkaway, Melbourne. The market is slightly more active: Butter, 250. @ 273g0. Candles, 1934c. a 203c. Crushed sugar, 12%<c. @ 180. Rio coffee held at 190. a 2lc. Raw sugar advanced, Whiskey, 36c. Coal—Nono in first hands. Superfine flour, $4 26 for export. Best wheat for export, $1 40 Barley , 860. a 876, Yesterday was the fivst day that official advices were received from Washington concerning who is to command the fifteen hundred troops called for from California, and how they are to serve om the plains. They are to be or- ganized agreeably to tho request of Mr. Cameron, Secre- tary of War. The Governor has commiss! Carlton, of the United States ‘Armiy, #0 De thieckice te command, and Major J. R. West, of San isco, Be- cond in gomman, taking cha of the cavalry. There isno doubt the whole undred will be rapidly raised for the duty assigned them. Five mostly infantry, were accepted to-day in this city. litary men, however, are ambitious to see active servic Seaioey ® civilized enemy, rather than to roam over the plains. A guard of twenty-five United States infantry and ® Lieutenant went down in the last Panama steamer te escort the treasure as far ag Aspinwall. ‘There is no State news of importance, George Hudson, the San Francisco Justice of the Peage, who in 1859 fined the proprietors of the Bulletin now: Paper $100 each for publishing the confession of Mrs, Sickles, on tho ground ha tit was not fit for publi has obtained a verdict in Judge Hager’s court of damages against the Bulletin proprietors because they called him a Dogberry. Thomas Francis Meagher and Russell's Letter. TO THE EDITOR O¥ THE HERALD. Allusions to Capt. Thos. Francis Meagher, in one or twe of the more recent letters of Mr. Russell to the Londes’ ‘Times, seeming to imply that at and immediately after the battle of Bull run he was wanting in his duty, and did nod exhibit the steadiness and bravery for which the Amerts can public have given him credit, we, the undorsi officers of the Sixty-ninth, present at the battle of run, consider it due toCaptain Meagher emphatically #@ state that no Officer or soldier could have borne himeelt more gallantly, nor with more perfect coolness and intee” pidity, than he did all through the labors and terrors of that battle. Acting as Major of the regiment, and special aid to Co- lonel Corcoran, his exertions were incessant throughout the day—now delivering orders—another time encourag” ing tho men—hastoning up stragglers on the march— keeping the men compact and silent in the everything an officer could do to excite the ardor and insur@ the éfficiency of the regiment. Riding cooll; ratoly along the line, in front of the 7 from which a tempest of ball and shell swept the whilst in the act of delivering the Colonel’s order pare-to charge, Meagher’s horse was pieces by a cannon shot. From that out he place with his company. of Zouaves on foot, adi upon the enemy’s batteries, cheered and men as they rushed upon the works, and in the deadiicst fire, with his head uncovered ground, waved his sword, rallied the Sixty.minth in name of Ireland, when the regiment was twico pulsed, and was among the last, if he himsclf the very last, to leave the fatal where 80 his honest-hearted count wore slain, In the confusion which followed the final in it i ip le z i a on the batteries, and it teries, wo lost sigh ‘We did not seo him again until ho came up, a beyond the villago of Contreville, to the regiment, which, in good order, was on ite Corcoran, it having been to Brigadier Sherman that Colonel Corcoran there in an ambulance, badly wounded. to tho unanimous request of Meagher took command of the and brought it back steadily to” Corcoran, where it arrived a little after three a’ciock the morni battle, after an uninterry march of thirty miles. Tn conclusion, we take the heartiest ‘satisfaction ing witners—once for all, all insinuations sertions to the contrary, geme—to the exemplary and chivalrous conduct of ‘Thomas Francis Meagher upon every occasion attached Lang = the Karr ry In the np officer was more nt, active and indefatigable discharge of his duties; *on the march no one was eager ,.more reckless of his life. James Kelly, Captain Company K. é James Cavenagh, Captain Patrftk Kelly, Captain Company 4 ‘Thomas Clarke, Captain Company D Joba Brestin, Captain Company F, Wm. Butler, Lioutonant Company I, Lieutenant Company I. ‘Theodore Kelly, Lieutenant Cempany A. Wm. MoGilos, Lieutenant Company B. Edw. K. Butler, Lieutenant Company K. James Quinlan, Captain pees Daniel Strain, Licutenant Company A. D., L, Sullivan Lieutenant Com) A Thos. Liddy, Lieutenant Company Lanrenco €ahill, Lieutenant Company B, James Smith, Lieutenant Company 0. Jasper M. Whitly, Lieutenant. toes ag Richard Dalton, Lieutenant Company D. . Michael O’Boyle, Lieutenant Company D. ‘Wm. S. McManus, Lieutenant Company Patrick Dufly, Lioutenant Company F. Jobn A. Nugent, Lieutenant Company F. Henry J. McMahon, Lieutenant Company @, Matthew Murphy, Lieutenant Company G, James ela Lieutenant Company H. Francis Wheilply , Lieutenant Company Hi. ‘Thos. M. Canton, Lidutenant Company I. Wm Fogarty, Lieutenant Compaay I. Maurice W. ‘Wall, Lieutenant Company K. Marder in Eighth Avenue. PRACTICALLY A DOUBLE MURDER—CLIMAX OF A Lapa OF SHAME—A MAN’S LIFE WortH $1 26. The inhabitants of the Twentieth ward were aroused on Saturday morning by the startling intelligence of a murder in their midst. It was rumored that, on Friday evening, a person, whose habits had not been exemplary, had been caught in a theft, had fatally stabbed the per- son who caught him, and been taken into custedy by the police of the Twentieth ward, and was under arrest at the Twentieth ward station house, where an inquest would. be held. Thousands flocked tothe station house at an hour, and blockaded the street. Intense eevee iene Of course the doors of the station house were closed to all but tho representatives of the press, the coroners and their assistants, the jury and the witnessess. Coroner Jackman arrived at about noofl on A BEESRE i Fas fsdbe ie Thomas Reynolds, a native of Ireland, who lives a8 No. 261 West Thirty-seventh street, and was formerly engaged in the iron rolling business, but, haying lost am arm, bas of late obtained a ‘livelihood, was lounging in the store of Chas. Rohe, butcher, of 412 Eighth avenue, on Friday evening, when a young woman entered to make some purobase. She inadvertently placed her portmonnaie on a vegetablg stand, and engaged in con. versation with Mr. Rohe, and while she was 80 engaged Reynolds snatched her wallet and fied. He was subse- quently found concealed in a hay crib in astable near Mr. Rohe’s grocery, and accused of having committed the theft. accuser (Frederick Weisey demanded that Reynolds should deliver the wallet; but the latter refused tocomply. with thls request, and high words ensued. Turing the dispute Reyne Jost his , and seized @ knife, with which he followed Mr. Weise intoa rear yar where he inflicted several stabs, which resulted in MP. Wivien Mr, Weiae fell Reynolde—who was, i on Mr, Weise wi is su in liquor—appeared ik one a from a panes He stood as if in a stupor, making no escape, wietly submitted to arrest and was as quiotly taken to the ‘Twentieth ward station house, where, when the in- est had been convened, he made answer to Coroner ene question as to what he had to say, “I am uilty.’ : The young woman, whose wallet—which contained pre- cisely one dollar and twenty six cents—was stolen, ig sald tohave been attached to Weise by ties that should have been bound by the cords of matr! . But a this statement has properly no! to do the ter- Tible tragedy which has been committed, it were better dismissed. She is, however, suffering intensely under the sheck which she has experienced, and itis said by the physicians that her life hangs on a thread. ‘The jury fully implicated Reynolds, and he was com- mitted by Coroner Jackman. Arrivals and Departurcs, Sourmampron, Havre anp Hamsurc—Steamship ja—S Sarmuels and family, TW Qiron, A Ht Esceniges Miss V-Gricshcim, New Wicks Me G0 ‘Beense rk, Miss , New York; Mrs child and’ infant; Mies 0 Ktiete, Hoboken; JV D He; Hamburg; G ¥ Haeler, Ber thn, New. ork Me Hoek nemann and family, ukee ; lassen, New 5 Cincinnati; Schimbataater, Bos: tom; Mr and Mrs Davidson, Connecticut; L Ubr, St Louts; Te Heilborn, Baltimore; J Dorn, San Francisco; 4 Mayer, Ty Joseph; J T Cole, Boston; Mrs Hl YL. 8i rashingtong Mrs Meister and infant, Clncinnatl; Mrs J r, L Pins chon, New York: Mraiid Mrs Wulf; Towa; O Mobs, Mr an re Mohr, New York; Mpa F Rudiger; Misn P Rudiger, niger T Rudiger: Aimer; @ Ascton’ M Dora, Califor ir and Mrs Freytag, A ia; J Gerson, id Hila oem, Ga i i, Porto 7, ig Mi d child, Mrs and child, Now York, Mrs Kesler, chind and inane, bor ‘Girotthotter, Cincinnati—and ochersin steerage. Total, Lrvgeroor—Steamah: Ella Beare, Miss We ws Campbell and any 2 Ghazaro, Milae, wife and aNd; David Newman, Guilio ieee, Reanlek Lansbiea, BG Gaya, Strohmeyer, Ni H Rudolph, Phi ‘Mexico; Mrs ME * ee