The New York Herald Newspaper, September 16, 1861, Page 10

8 IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. Rucemonn, Sept. 12, 1861. News has been received here, that a vessel under British register, had arrived at New Orleans with an as- sorted cargo, consisting in part of 2,000 muskets and 125 rifles, ‘The correspondent of the Despatch, from General Wise's Deadquarters, dated 5th inst., says his force was encamp- ed at Hawk’s Nest, on the New river, and Dogwood gap. At the latter place he had been reinforced. No important movement had taken place. John Slidell arrived here to-day. thought that he goes to France. ‘The Richmond Examiner bulletin board of the 14th inst, hus the following, post marked Lewisburg, and written to the postmaster at Richmond, as follows:— Goneral Floyd had another engagement with tho ene- my on the 10th, and routed them, killing 600, wounding 1,000 and taking some priaoners, Ten hours after Gene- ral Floyd, hearing that another wing of the enemy had crossed the river a few miles above, in order to surround him on this side, fell back. This is reliable, being brought by an officer who was in the engagement, The Confederate loss was one killed and eight wounded. Xt is generally Loursvitix, Sept. 14, 1561. A.T. Bledsoe, Assistamt Secretary of War of the Con- federate States, has resigned. Tho Richmond shoe merchants urge the discharge of ‘all shoemakers from the army, and their employment at making shoes of canvass. The Richmond Whig of the 10th says that there is a very bitter feeling against speculating contractors for the winter clothing supplies for the army, and urges the im- Pressment of the cotton and woollen mills into the pub- lic service, to avoid speculating contracts. It states po- sitively that the War Department has detailed from the army soldiers to be employed in cloth factories. Seif, Thompson has issued a proclamation in which, as a retaliatory measure for General Fremont’s proclaimed in- tentions, he throatens for every member of the Southern forces or citizon soldier of Missouri executed, to hang, draw and quarter a minion of Abraham Lincoln's. ‘The Charleston Courier-says that preparations are mak- ‘fg in that city to manufacture locomotives on a large woale. The Governor of Arkansas has called an extra session of the Legislature for the 4th of November. A lot of medicines and soldiers’ buttons, amounting to $6,000 in value wore seized yesterday. They were being gled to the rebel States. The North Georgian says:—On reliable authority we Jearn that two weeks before General McClellan was tendered his command by Lincoln he was trying to secure apesition in the Confederate army. ‘A weak invention of the enemy.” It is understood that the train bound South on the Nashville Railroad yesterday was detained at Elizabeth- ‘town, and that the jail was broken open and sixty or eighty Btate arms put aboard and taken South. The conductor was forced to take the arms, and by a certificate from the partis engaged in the affair is relieved from all blame. THE CAMPS ON THE POTOMAC. [Correspondence of the Richmond Examiner.) PROSVECTS OF A GENERAL ACTION. ON Tune Oocogva, Sept. 6, 1861. From what can be learned in the camps, gathered at hoadqnarters or concluded from the events of the last fow 8, wi now equally and positively certain that no sned on our part on Arlington Heights or on the works of Washington. ‘The occapa- 1s not been followed up by anything ack on the Union works at Arlingto: remarkable that the heade vhnsten and Boanr should still by finued at Manassas Junction, not be moved to t and the advance, the enemy shonld ac gage of battle which we have ‘od_persistent for nearly a week past, or we should be able to excite a general detion by heavy +kirmishing on our lines, the e: of our advance movements will be sutfic 4 battle, hould such occur, will be fought on our ad- vanced lines, and in a position sufliciently advantageous to be followed up into Washington. The conclusion is Desitive and confirmed by every article of intelligence we ean cbtain, that no direct attack is at present designed upon the works of Washington, at least not om the Southern sida EXTENT OF OUR L:NES. Tho prisoners we captured at Hall’s Hill—somo six or Feven——will be seut down to-morrow. ‘They say that the enemy has been preparing to give us battle, Skirmishing still continues on our lines, and the shots of the pickets are heard noarly every morning before breakfast. Our Ines are very extensive, reaching from Leesburg to. a point near Occoquan, just-below Mount Vernon, along the entire extent of which the fire of the pickets may be beard from rc g'm ont to regiment. [Fon the Rielimond Examiner, Sept. 7. niles of ¢ Is Johuston and’ Beaure porari ined, and styled the “Armny of the * While united for certain purposes they are not as ever in their organization and in the détails of command. General Beauregard is at the head of the first corps wiv eral Johnston of the second. While the latter is the ranking officer of seniority of appointment, and could, according to regulation, assume entire com: mand of te army, yet, with that dofereuce for the feel- Yn¢s and soldierly reputation of his ith i ade, he has waived the right and remits to him the full enjoy- ment of all the authority and prerogative which ,he had anterior to his own arrival at Manassas. iimands. a of a general cha- ed by General Jobnsten without full nge of opinion with General Beauregard. E ct i8 not approciated by G 1 Beauregard would do gross injustice to that gallant officer, ‘nd it sives us pleasure to inform our ri that noth- tug can exceed the mutual feeling of ailection, respect and nee existing between o@F two distinguished Gen- hing ¢f authority, no contention, on in the army eras, no heart: barning with the most port Nothing additional is reported as to mo ‘There is no erything movi accord and good fe: nts on the Potomac. Cur troops are steadi y fortifying their ad- ‘Vanced positions, and extending their lines in every direction. Regiments go down daily as reliefs t on duty in the advance, so as to distribute th of the forward positions. Meanwhile tho why 1 on the alert. Nothing can exceed the enthusiasin of thes troops or their anxiety for battle, A few days sinee the balloon came over in the direc of Munson’s Hill, where Captain Rosser, of the Louis Artillery, had several ritted pi When abo off, he fired at it, without disturbing its Sighting another of ‘his pieces with more care, he repeat: This ed the experiment with a better result. balloon disappeared earthwards with st and has not been seen since. Live in the advan rees is full of stirring incidents, ‘The men have no tents, bivouacking nighUly and sleeping on their arms. Few cump fire Th sometimes four or five tines during the night, ion for an attack, while the sharp, quick crack wnd musket is heard at interva's through both night and di [From the Camp Correspondence of the Richmond Ex- amin pt. 7.) Nwak rk Potomac, Sept. 5, 1861. Reaching Manassas—not until past five o'clock in tho evening—it became necessary even for the returned sol- diers, as well as the civilians, to Cbtain passes thronh the lines. It was found jmporsible for civilians, under a. recent order of General Beauregard, to obtain ‘passes to f the advanced regiments; but availing ourselves of ntention of joining a regiment for the particular oc- easion of one bat 1) at least, we are permitted to pass for- ward in the direction of the Potomac, Tam writing this letter late in the evening, after having walked sinc eleven o'clock twenty-tive ‘miles, wading the Occoquan sans culottes, and various other fatigues, including the an- noyance of Overhaulings by pickets in every conceivable direction, THE COUNTRY AROUND MANASSAS, The whole country about here appears to be one vast @amp. ‘Ihe scenery at Manassas, reaching across the broad plains to the azure combs of the Blue Ridge, is at any time extensive and pleasing; but with the camps the Louisiana and Georgia regiments dotting the moador or showing through the vistas of the beautiful woods of this section, the effect is most decidedly picturesque. Add to these a quiet September night, with the camp fires ranged on the low hill sides, and th» songs of the soldiers coming slowly but regularly to the ear on the quiet air aud the scene is so diversilied and enlivened as to capti vate the dullest taste, and stimulate it with emotions of the beautiful. About a mile up the road from the Junction is the head- quarters of General Johnston—a plain, ow painted farm house, with tho old Virginia perch and the jndis- pensable shade trees, The General himself looks like a Plain Virginia farmer, Of course, there is ho intetligence to be obtained here of the movements of the army, although it seems an especial point with some of the officers at headquarters to persuade civilians that there is fo prosp ever of a battle to gratify their curiosity pensity may have hurried them to the or whatever pr theatre of war. ¢ POSITION OF OUR LIN Whatever these intimatious of otfie y certain that the pr if it docs not positi may be worth, it position of our lmes’ is deuote an intended en- gagem Of course it is proper, from pradent and cir- cuinspect considerations, that I should give no informa- tion Ihave obtained of the disposition of our forces, be- yond such general statements a8 may be innocent, and, At the eame time, possibly interest your readers.’ Cir? cumstances may Occur at any time to throw off the ro- straints of secresy and admit the readers of the Ezaminer to the full knowledge of the present movetaents, There are two opinions here as to tho intention of ad- vance movements which have taken place ail along our lines, Should the attack come from the enemy, we will not, you may rest assured, be unprepared to moot it. All our regiments have been unter marehing orders for the past few days, Gen. Longstreet's command is in occupation of Manson's Hill. Iv other directions our lines thin three miles of Alexandria, This is ail the enemy knows and is likely to know, notwithstan ent efforts, by the skirmishing of a day or two past continued to-day), to get around Munsou’s ver what is in the rear of our extremo ad- # is not likely to be discovered without a Hattie, and when the enemy chooses to offer it, we may presume that he will not be declined. SKIRMISHING ALONG OUR LINES. ng between our lines at any moment may laction. And again, such a result may In the affair of outposts on Inst Is’ Church, between a portion of Gene and the enemy, every preparation had a general action, which, however, wes de: lined by the enem: this aMair regalted 1 the lors of two of our men, with a The skirmis! | taken into'the account “in. measurin; repulse of a detachment of the enemy, with four killed and some seven or eight in our hands. One of the latter rode into our Ines and gave himself up, declar- ing that his three months’ term of service ired, and rather than be constrained to endure the vicissitudes and perils of war longer, he preferred the and accommodations of a prisoner in Richmond, to his liking. Firing was distinctly was, course, accommodated hoard én our lines yestarday afternoon, su to be ta the vicinity of the ad: portion of "a brigade, ACTION NEAR MUNSON’S HILL, A report, however, has reached here—the extremo Tight of the advanced lines—of heavy skir1 at Munson’s Hill. A detachmont of the enemy is said to have been repulsed with seventy or eighty killed. Thero is no doubt of the erection of ‘a battery by our forces at this oxtreme position on our advanced lines. ‘The extent of the action and of the loss of the enemy is variously reported, ‘The enemy wero en; at Hall's Hill, which is in advance of Mungon’s Hill, about a mile from Arlington Heights, which position had been held by the enemy for some days, and which they were engaged in fortifying. The enemy were repulsed, and Hall’s Hill is now occupied by our forces, under General Longstreet. ‘The occupation of” this position by our speone is positive, oe now the extreme point of the advance of our On Wednesday last a skirmish of artillery took placo between a South Carolina regiment (Colonel Jenkins’) posted in the vicinity of the Great Falls of the Potomac, and two federal regiments on the opposite side of the river. ‘The enemy were driven from their position, There was ‘no attempt on our side to cross the river, SPIRIT OF THY SOLDIERS. ‘The best spirit prevails in our camps, Not a word of discontent is heard, or any other anxiety than that of engaging the enemy.’ Il! health, the incubus of inaction, croachments of disease, the melancholy spectacles of soldiers’ burials in the drear and distant valleys about the camps, are endured alike, with fortitude, and lighten- ed by hopes of better days. "There seems to be but one gencrel expression of desire for & march upon Washing- ton, Its comfortable winter quarters and its vast store. houses of provisions are objects of no. ordinary regard to our ‘army; and we are convinced that our truots will never fight better than when the watchword is distinctly passed of “Forward to Washington,’ ‘Tho disappoin tment at not following up tho vielory ‘of the lst of ‘July is only moro extreme in the camps than it is in Richmond. ‘The iack of means of transportation is treated as an in- adequate excuse for not moving an army twenty miles from its position. The fact, doubtless, is, that the extent of the enemy’s rout was not known by our generals until the Tuesday following. ‘The next general action will be, if not on the works of Washington, at least in such a posi- tion as to be followed up. ‘This, at least, is positive, and 80 inuch your readers may take ag a basis of their expec- tations of the future. HEALTH OF THB CAMPS, ‘Yhe health of the camps 1s yory bad indeed, but ont of the number of cases but very fow result fatally. ‘The prevalent disenses are measles, mumps, and a mild form of typhoid foyer, not dung-rius, unless symptoms of pueimonia are ‘superinduced, “The lowness of tho country, the great fallof rain, and the corruption of the atmospliere about Manassas, by causes which might cor- tainly be corrected, in the extreme fith of the have surrounded our brave soldiers with almost cireamstance calculated to excite malarious dis The water, too, is bad, and its supplies scant. An arte- sian well ig being bored within a few steps of the rail- road station, ‘The hospital accommodations are probably not as ex- tensive as the necessities of the army require, and the transportation of the sick to the towns continues daily, A number of farm houses in the neighborhood of the camps are conyerted into hospitals. Many of the Sisters of Charity are at Monassas as nurses, and give 2 beauti- ful and benevolent aspect to every scene of sulfering and sickness accessible to their walk of charity. ‘Their pre- sence about the camps, in their simple gurbs, and with their plain and cheerful looks, is one of those spectacles of the loveliness of the sex more pleasing toa heart of human sympathies thon All the beauty ever throned in womanhood, ‘A RIDE OVER TIE MANASSAS BATTLE FELD, yesterday morning, before breakfast, T took a rapid ride over the famuus battle field, about gix mile from the Junction. ‘The effect was nol appetizing. Bs lieve me, it was terrible. ‘The field of battle strete desolate, but not bla fore the eye. ‘the sky aly seomed dead, as it but inperfectly lighted up in the dark, drizzing rain’ the horrors of the sceue of death, Most of the Yankee dead had bcen merely covered up in shallow trenches, and from these broken mounds blacksand putri- fied limbs stretched out tothe sight. Here was a head Farly partially uncovered, with the hair dropping off at the touch of the finger—there, a bunch of ghastly aud putri fied firgers clenched over tho shallow carth of its grave, The stench was almost intolerable, even inthe morning air. An army surgeon, who accompanied us im onr visit to the eld, says that on visiting it but aday after the battle, he found the corpses with whieh it was strown Viack ‘as nogroes his first exclamation being—"Why, how many negro regiments we have killed ‘The field itself #1 no signs of the scars of war. The , grass has grown again; but the torn and mangled t ber in every direc shows the terrible eff cts of the fire. Even in little trees, scarcely the thickness of the arm, five or six shots can’be pointed out. In one part of the eld the eye of the visiter is attracted by a little pine copse all crushed and mangled by the fire of artil- lery. Just on its skirt is a collection of small stones, with ashaft of smoothed oak timber standing upright among them, and bearimg tho name ‘Parton.’ Itwas hore where the gallant ‘gian met his glorious fate. In another part of the ashaft of cedar marks the spot where General Bee fell SOUVENIRS OF THE BATTEN. Thore is any number of trophics ad relies of the bat- Ue to be met with here, frem which to choose souvenirs. ‘We had exhibited to us as a priceless curiosity a hoof of the horse shot unter General Beauregard jn the action. Another curiesity hunter Lad obtaine la Minnie ball that had beon shot through the backbone of a Yankeo, and had been transformed, in its passage, tom mingled mass of lend and sptintered bone. ‘That we might have 10 difficulty in selecting battle relies for our friends in Rich- mond, pa'lant officer offered to make up a box of them for us, if we should find it convenient to transport them to the'city. If we can manage to do 80, it will be an in- toner contribution to the museum of wailike curiosi- ties, [From the Richmond Examiner, Sept. 6.] A stirring skirmish took place yesterday in the advance of the army of the Potomac, For over ten days our forces have becn gradually driving in the pickets of the enemy and closing up our lines, seizing and fortifying rong positions. Having possession of Munson’s, Ma- n's and Upton’s hills, and strengthene them by suita- ble intrenchments, it was thought advisable to push on still further th the direction ef Arlington and oceapy Hull's bill, a mile farthor in the advanee, where the ene- was preted in some force, Colonel ¢ Mexandria ment and a detachment of the Washington Arillery wore despatcinl fo@this puspose, The enemy defendod the position at first with some spirit, bat soon retired after a logs of between one and two hundred killed and wounded. ‘The Contederate loss is ostimated at about y before, Col. Jenking, commanding one of the ina regiments attached to Gen. Bonham’s de, was sent with Kemper's battery to look after two regiments reported to be encamped on the other sido of the Potomac, in the vicinity of the Great Falls, Col. Jenkins marched cighteen miles, starting at eight in the morning, and reaching his destination the next morning about two hours bofore day. Waiting for the gray of early dawn, he opened fire on the enemy, which were posted, as reported, just as they were preparing for their morning drill, They made no resistance, but fled precipi- tately, leaving, it is believed, two or three hundred killed and wounded. There was uo pursuit, as the river was too deep to ford. For now more than a week the glove of battle has been thrown down to McClellan by the Confederate Genera and as yet he bas not dared to pick it up. Five thou: fonfederate troops have fer ten days been in sight of ington. The Confederate flag hig been flying in full “Dixie” has been dise Ww view of the Lincoln Cabinet. morning and evening by our regimental bands, In car ot of the federal troops; still they keep closely in their lines, and dare not venture ont in force. What, indeed, hus Vecome of the grand army? VACCINE VIRUS. Tho following significant advertisement is from the Richmond Whig of August ‘The medical men throughout the State are respectfully requested to forward to this office all the reliable vaccine virus they can spare, Compliance with this request is urged upon their attention as of the utmost importance to the public weifare. ‘A. E. PETICOLAS, M. D., Vaccne agent, BLOCKADE OF THE POTOMAC. The Richmond Ezamin-r of tho Oth says:—Pefore many hours have elapsod the Potomac will be effectually closed by powerful batteries, and the water avenue to Washington put under strict blockade. The reason for not doing this at an earlier period was simply that we had ‘no available force sufficient to protect our works, which would be likely to encounter such a formidable movement on the part of the enemy to destroy, ‘The Potomac has been shut up, anda force is there ample to defend our batteries and defy ail comers. The river is no longer navigable to Lincoln’s craft. 'Thoso that try it hereafter are apt to be sunk and have their crew and passengers despatched to ‘Davy Jones’ locker.’? HEALTH OF PRESIDENT DAVIS, From the Richmond Examiner, Sept. 9.) President Davis has sofar recovered from his reeent sovere attack of illness as to have been able, on Saturday afternoon, to take an airing in bis carriage. Itis hoped that ina few days his health will be sufficiently restored to permit his resumption of his active business . ‘This will be melancholy tidings, we know, to,the sage and saint of the New York Herat, and w Il prove, we g as bitter as wormwood to the Lineolnites g nerally its announcement will be hailed with earnest gratili tion throughout the Southern confederacy, and we rejoice to make # hote on it. COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE REBEL SECRE- TARY OF WAR. A sensation letter appeared in the Richmond Whig of Sept. 2, announced by the editor to be from the pen of a distinguished citizen of the county of Albemarle, which information leads the public to interpret the initials “F. M.,” given as a signature, as those of Franklin Minor, Esq. This gentleman has for years stood high in the councils of the democratic party in Virginia, and has rendered eminent services, both to the cause of education and agriculture, and if the letter be, indeed, written by him, it is entitled to no #1 share of consideration h It makes @ loud aud bitter complaint against dent and the Secretary of War on account of the severe privations of the troops in the tleld, who are represented ag almost in@ state of starvation. Thero can be no doubt whatever that in every division of the army the commissary department is in a wretched condition, and that, too, with an abundance of the necessaries of life ‘readily obtainable by the authorities. How far the President is to blame in the matter is not to be determined hastily and without examination. In the mountainous parts of the State the roads have been rendered well nigh impaséible by the re- cent rains, and the difficulties of transportation must bo the responsibility. or the commissiariat at Norfolk, at Yorktown and at assas, nosuch excuse can be assigned, and it js out of the question that the troops at these’ places should suffer for the want of plentiful wholesome feol. But F M. is not the first person who bas intimated the utter ‘unfltuces of Mr. Walker for the important of Sro- . Certainly the interests of the Oanfeierate retary of War, ‘States RECOGNITION OF THE Si CONFE. Bown of them Sen hy Hy wave Place the fullest rellance on thelr statements. ‘ous of than bears despatches from our Commissioners searched ; but the Lincomites failed which were most artfully but oe tt gesoee © e secret out. recognition of our government, and our Charleston friends say there mind of any one in 5 chants were there from prrouanen 8 Re ivered to the consignees in the ports of the Routh. POSITION OF OUR FORCES {From the Richmond Examiner, Wo have late intelligence from Virginia, giving the position of which every day grows more erili Sitco the batt! for supplies, In addition to the some Union men, brought down 0, the train on Saturday brought do who had been captured since the rout Cross Lanes. » Sept, mado on Tyler's troops while they were eating break a, and at the drst gun the Colonel by ai bi field officers, fled with the utmost despateh from the veld, Col, Tyler birely excaping through the wings of ost forces. General Floyd's position, at last accounts, war scroes the Gauley river, about one mile and a half beyor! if ‘The enemy were in full force, under Genoral Cox, at Gau- ley Bridge. On the other side of the river, General Wise was strongly posted in the vicinity of the Gauley row! Fie had occupied Hawk’s Nest, which had been abauion od by the enemy after a skirmish of pickets, Above (hh Kanawha and beyond its forks the enemy had b flanked by General Chapman, who held his posit) two thousand militia, The enemy, under General was thus surrounded by these threo several divisions all hopes of his retreat cut off, the ouly fear being (iat Rosecrans might yet make a junction with him, and reverse the relative position of the'two forees by cuiting off Floyd's command, ‘Tho present critical poaition of the two armics in the West is quite characteristic of the resources and expel ents of strategy in which the campaign in this portion of the country has been almost exclusively conducte. rapid and brilliant movement Ga one side or the other scems to farnish now the only means of terminating the present complications. GENERAL JOUNSTON ASSIGNED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF Tit! WEST. From the Richmond Enqnirer, Sept. 9.) Goneral A. Sydney Johnston has, ax we anticipate! several days since, been assigned to’ the departin the West, and put in immodiate command of the tious now in progress on the upper Mississippl. A better selection for so important a command could not have been made. INTERESTING FROM NORTH CAROLINA. DEFENSIVE OPERATIONS ON THE COAST. (Correspondence of the Memphis Appeal.) Ricumtoxp, Sept. 6, 1861. From the North Carolina ceast we hear that so far no attempt has beon inade by the federal forces to improve the advantage so lately gaiaed at Fort Hatteras Pic Tutler has gone off to enjey a lit his fl st vieto ike the woman in Scripture, of w it is wrtiten thi eping the house diligently £ the lost piece of m ney and flading it, she called salth w i «my money whi ee Bobadi!, fancying that he has regained tho be«- sixponce of ro,utation which was forfeited to hint at Bethel, steams away to make a display of the sume to his brethren, and kick up bis heels over its recover We hear of him lately in Washington, making a spe in reply to the congratulations of his friends, and pr bly he will extend his tour to Boston, there to be erowi with laurel in the Campus Martins of the Common. atiked Butior, Linger not long in Wasisington, lost the administration displace M ir favor, and you be compelled to hazard y itary glory, now 80 bright and shining, in an ugly conflict with Beauregard— awful, conquering Beaurogard. But while the Yankeo journals are glorifying the Yan- koe general, it is cratifymg to us to be assured that every effort is making by the Confelerate government tc trieve, as far as possible the undeniable reverse of Fort Hatteras. Not a soldier, as I have said before, will be with- drawn from the army of the Potomae, vi cons:quence, nor will the forces at Norf Uc or Yorktown be weakened for the dfnce if North Carelina. We have troops enodgh un- employed to drive back any body of men that sball at- tompt to get a footing on the main land,and they are in readiness for the service. An eminent citizen of Rich- mond, educated at West Point, has been tendered ths command ef the defensive operations in that quarter, with the rank of Brigidier General, and will pro! thither in a very few days. As yet his acceptance pesition is in ab-vance, but if le declines some one else, equal y well quulified and quite as Little in mortal ot Bobadil, will be entrusted with the command. Thore is a resolute purpose to repair the mischief, and this will be done. ‘Pho Richmond correspondent of the Petersburg Express writes under date of the 6th:— Our enterprising townsman, Joseph R. Anderson, has been appomted a Brigadier General and assigned to the department of North Caro!ina, He embarked on the Southern train this afternoon for Newbern. A large number of his friends congregated at the depot to bid him God speed in the patriotic cause in which he has em- ‘ on will make a capital officer. he obtained a tho- rough miltary edveation. He is of commanding figure, in the prime of life, having just attained his 49th year, pymentef excellent health. An immense quantity of arms and ammunition will follow him, AFFAIRS AT NEWBER) {Special despatch to the ¢ cary.) 8 —All is quiet here. ple are returting to their homes witha feeling of full y. There ig no news of any furtuer movement of dor coast. nated Teaeon Ts'and, and troops are being stationed at all important and strategic points. Just as the cas starte! to day, a Yankee in and Ove men were beought here as prisoners from Tar river. had a schooner freighted with shingles, ready to sail to sea, Tho the Hannah Balch, was freight- ed by a merchant named Hughes, of this place. Tai sume prisoners were brought here a month ago with a prize vessel, and were permitted to go at large upon pa- He is a grad role. They were about to leave, therefore, under the a thority of the citizens of North’ Carolina,’ At ths time the aicen by the people of Washington, tuey were engages in taking soundings of th» river, MATTERS AT GOLDSBORO. A special despatch to the Charieston Mercury, dated at Goldsboro, N Sept. 4, says:—All is quiet here now. ‘Thore are no signs nor expectations of an attack by the cnemy. Preparations are being vigorously pashed for: ward to receive him, if he should attempt to gain a. foot- hold upon the main ‘land. no indications of any yemient to beat of the invaders from their present. po si ‘dhe cuorgy and activity displayed is not what the oceasion Ws 1 seem to demand, 0 intelligence has been received here of any further movements of the ‘Yankees aiong the coast. A CANADIAN SECESSIONIST ON THE ACTS OF THE PRIVATEER SUMTE! [From the Quebec Morcur ‘The privateer Sumter is said to vesse!s4in British waters. We trust this kind of outrage is not to de permitted, Though, as Canadians, we eannot ayoid preferring the Southern States who’ havo not threatened or insnited our country to the Northern who have, we cannot refrain from expressing a hope that the authorities in the West Indies will not permit outrages of this kind against the shipping of amieutral Power. All the ferocity and insolence of the Northern pross will fail to provoke British subjects to acts of inhumanity or bad faith, PROCLAMATION OF GENERAL McCULLOCH. ‘The following proclamation of General McCulloch, ia in happy contrast with the foderal generals, who have shown aromarkable talent for stealing negroes and depredating upon the country wherover they have an opportunity of doing so:-— t. 10.) destroyed thirty Hrapgvarters McCcitocn’s Briaanr, Camp at Poxp Sriuxcs, Mo., August 16, 1861. SOLDIERS OF ARKANSAS, LOUISIANA AND TEXAS:— ‘The reputation of the States that sent you here is now in your hands. If wrong is done, bl ill attach to all. ‘Then lot it be the duty of a'l to restrain the vicious. Let not the laurels so nobly won on the 10th instant, at the battle of the Oak Hills, he tarnished by a single trespass upon the property of the eitizens of Missouri. The Quar- termasters of regiments will purchase all that can be had in the country for your use. Let it not be said of us, that we are nét gentlemen as well as solliors, BEN. McCULLOCH, Brigadior Ceneral Commanding. KENTUCKY UNION VOLUNTEERS. The following advertisement, by Hon, J. S. Jackson, representative in Congress from the Second Kentucky district, appears in the Louisville papers:— To Tur Youne Mey or Kentucky: — By the authority and for the service of the government of the United States, I propose to organize in Kentacky a regiment of cavalry, to serve three years or during tho war, to consist of ten companies, each company to con. tain not less than civhty-four nor more than one hundred and four, rank and file. Horses and all equipments to be farnished. Votunteers owning good horses can have thom ap- praised, mustered into the service, and paid for by tho mustering officer. The captains and lieutenants are to be elected by the companies respectively. Captains of companies will report tome at the Galt House, in Louisville, as soon as practicable, No company must be removed from its point of organization until or- dered into camp. ‘Transportation to the point of rendez- ‘yous will be furnished. None but active, vigorous men and men of steady bal will be received. Captain Richard W. Johnson, of the regular army, has been detailed to act as Lieutenant Colonel. I intend to make this regiment, in ail respects, equal to tho best drilled and disciplined corps in the regular army. a ‘ne soil of Kentucky has been wantonly invaded, I know this call will be patrioticaily answered. J. 8. JACKSON. Louisviiue, Ky., Sept. 6, 1361, preecot is of much interest im some quarters, and hence ype a. Toe similarity of the crime and for whieh our now suflering, 8 wot alt-getber greater than that of the Jews. The acourved thing found om the tent of Achan was not thea with the cohment of Joshua and the eldersof the mation, LU Achy could have presented an ender under the constitution for tale w porseasion of the etull and retaining it, then he LA have boon alone guilty, but the commanders Yin fact, the whole ation itselt, would What is the war that we are waging aconst the south only to conquer the South, #o that the Such may hold her slaves more securely ih the Union atol itt This coabloe me to the question, as say ca ren why the sympathies of Great Britain are not more directiy om their side and more againes the slave trading confederacy of the South’ Whit tain slavery, and while we ete 10 wut the a thing from among we, we hee pathy and sot the Christian conscionees of the workd against ws, While that conscience it against slavery. Slavery ts the corner stone of the Seuthern confederacy, ‘The desire in Png iand and in Barope is to see in us & nation b mored and reat and noble by abolishing slavery and putting away the accursed thing from among us. The repression of sympathy ts because the war ery of the poople sortase to be “The Unlen and Slavery.” This it is which chills Christian sytapathy and upot us instead the rebkes of the Englis people. We, like Achan, have taken the accursed thing and hiddeo it munang the stuf, web ve taken the wodges of gold ap of milver of thy ny. wid have claitand it as oor own. The Jews wee fighting against idelaters, but they bid, aud kept te themeewes the goods of the cnemy, which ‘God destroy. ‘This is the symbel of our works, While we go aguinst the Southern maintaining the crime of savory as a thing to be spared. The people ia this straggle stand in the positic wh», contrary to the commands of tho Lar Agag, until Samuel, to stay the vengeance of stood in the gap,and with bie owa bat Slavery is of the rebellion; but, happily, no Sumud ww excate , OF, ere this, a blow 4 K in the right direct) m. ' But, no, we pre. even in oar extremity, for they suy if have we Gods commands to have becn to cis ir ery is, let ot, If we muke penes with tious of it, th s Judgment’ bet loaf of pare rated with arsenic. ‘There cas be no peact—there must 6 till this rebetiion against God Is put down. It is our rebellion as woll as that of the slave confederacy , #0 long as we fail to strike st the heart of the evi Our frieads in Europe are looking at un with amaroment because of our continued sanction of the iniquity and me of slavery, In Kuglaud, Ireland and Christian heart of the poople sy and the people are filled w that slave-barguining, slave-tradi confederacy of the South, ‘The cotton morality of Manehes tor is not nit that 1% acy with the evil of slavery. Ifa fow of those among « solves who are conspiribg against the country, whe are the enemies of the repnblic aid of freedom, 1 howe coaspiring Hamans were hung for their tr the hanging of slavery on the gallows prey cai. ‘Tocrash the rebellion effoctaally and forever we must colivct all the stolon stuff of s'avery and carey it from eur tents, and put it away from us, and morally, if not phystvally, hanging all” the Agage that «ue stolen contrabands of war ere «till But now kel as andise, to be retained till the war is over. We are g aud coquetting with slavery and the claim of y engaged, Lot us pat the accursed thing vs, and then we will have the & all’ the world; but #0 long as we ignore the right of foar millions of men, #0 long as we enieayor to erush the 1 mn as on'Y against ourseiver while we look upon slavery as a constitutional right to & preserved and to be set up again on the reeonster the Union, reserving its crueity, its iubormanity piety against God, so long as this is our aun and cannot have the sympathy of Christian Earope. We say to England give us your sympathy, for ours is a holy ict, we are fighting the battle of ages, the battle of humanity and of mankind, against the most odious and wicked rebellion the world ever saw. But to the South y, down with your rebellion, we de not objet t» ry, we have rfered with it and don't want w to interfere with it, Why, the newspapers oad their columns with arguments to prove we ne rfere against siavery, and we do not y Say to the South, you may keep your id if you return to your all vd will aswist ping them. The declarat ‘y in the Union. What an attitude toh pthe world. Ifor one am sufiiciontly patriotic to be red from the bottom of my soul of such dog adation, and therefore I shall bear my testimony against it, and solomnl: ke it in the name of God. Tn his name the < emancipation, not only as an set ot be- ‘aves, but .® their right, ‘Those only ave tors who refuse this, and the oaly treason unt can the government ts the denial of this meastre of This meagre only can save the co) ust the most wicked end at tented to destroy this fs God's war aginst sli has gives the means of putting am end to slavery through this re- nd if we fail to perform the Work assigned to en shall gu forth the edict of the Lord as it ainst Ahab, who saved the life of the tyrant n the Lord commanted him to destroy:—Thy bite shall go for his lie, and tiy people for h's people, Ths ve the deserved “judgment that” will fol if we fail to obey the commands of God inthis matter. We have declaret human beings, who have a right to their freetom, articles of property to be held for their o' We have, since the commencen of the war, taken men and proclaimed them as fag and volunteered to return them without even the jm which the law requires, under which it is assert the degrading crite of returning fugitives was a ae tutional duty. Our government, since the breaking out of the war, has arrested slaves by proclamation, retarn ing them and keeping them for the owners, without as much as the appearance of their owners, or Say claim of ownersiip having been made, or without any attempt on the part of the slaves to from fone State to another. ‘The same power that has done all this could, by proclamation, declare them all free. But the monstrosity of our government in this matter ies in the fact that they have exercised an authority over the fugitives nowhere conferred upon them by the constitu. tion, deciazing iem to be articles of property aud re fusing to exercise the same authority to declare them freo mon. Slavery is held to be right in those who are faithtiy ia their allegiance, and only wrong cm the part cf thdse in rebellion, ‘It is the bribo now held out to slave owaers to return to their allog The military proclamation of the Secretary of War is a miliiary usurpation without tho pretence» or the form of excuse of military necessity, What the people now demanded was & proclamation of liberty to all men, If the Presitent would but use his legitimate power and issue a national proclamation giving freedom to all, he would exalt his country to the highest pitel of glory, and woul! place his own name higher on the page of history thin even that of Washington. It should be the subjact of prayers and petitions to God that He might £0 influence the mind and enlighten aud constrain the heart of the Progident a8 tocompel him to the performance of this glorious act. The people should bear the President onward in proclaiming freedem to all the inhabitants of tle land. Let it be annoan also that all who return to their ailegiance shall be compensated for their slaves, that all other property wfl be restoret to them, while all the property of thove remaining ia rebellion will be configeated. This would have an instantancous eet. ‘This would be magnantmnoce as wellas just, It would break up the whote Confecerate army, by the necessity of their returning home to wateh their plantations and to take care of their human stock God has given us this war for a great purpose. Without the war there would bo no possibility of de'iverance for the enslaved, God has_ permitted this rebellion to rush into the midst of the Red Sea. On either s the rebellious hosts are the toppling white billows of destruction, held in as yet to see what we will do—waiting for the word fr« the smiting of the rod of the man Moses—to overwheun them. But we stand shivering before the act as if it was a great crime, But another caus» of the coldness of the people of England is, th been necustomed to hear from the apostle of slavery stitational .dligation, and there ‘was consequently no por- ity of breaking away from it without destroying the Union: Thad to meet this thing in public controversy in the heart of London. At the last pubtie meeting I at- tended a mam of eminence declared that our coustitu- tion was beyond all question a slave constitution: that we were bound by the constitution to maintain » y to the end of time. Now the crisis has come when the Ciiion is broken up by aaah if, and the constitution is de- fied by slaveholdors. have a perfect right to abolish slavery in the land, and now is the time to do it. Ow military commander only has deciared freedom; but we find the Commander-in-Chicf shivering ail over at such a mation. One commander has issued a proclama. tion declaring the slay free, but it shows an intention of maintaining slavery and presery ing it for the loyal men, | It is for the crime of this ace cursed slavery that God is engry with us, and for ite presence amongst us we deserve the rebuke of the world justead of tho world’s sym) The rebellion | but various causes have resulted in his withdrawal from Of the South is nothing in companion’ ith ‘our own re- | the church in question. bellion against God in ‘and maintaining the ‘This odiice haa boen i existence for upwards of ‘most terrible and cruel world ever saw, 0D | years, and is situated in quite a and the necks of 4,000,000 human Rel tm slavery, you omer. Tides alwaye nese under the ‘the say, by your own conatitution and your own will. - Universalist church, or, more ', that of isters of the gospel aud expounders of thereligion of Jesus | the ‘Old Hive.” ‘ maintain the sacredness of the institution of slavery.-| ‘The installation serviees commenced at three t blond ieceee torte: Mele each ce | Ce sticeaen ag Depkiel at pe tel mi ul rw! ve te an the religton of Jesus maintain this sacredness, and talk | sage from the of our obligations to abide by slavery. They Ate singing the 709th hymn, Rev. Dr. Sawyer would keep the accursed thing with the shew- | ceeded to deliver a discourse ‘He took his text bread of their piety on Gods own altar. If the | Paul’s second epistle to the Corinthians, 4th cl and people are faithful and resolute they will petition and me- | 1st verse:—‘We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesua mortal the President until he iseucs a jon of | our Lord,” &c., from which the reverend froedom to all the bond of the country. church must ees ‘@ lengthy and entirely discourse. do this, If the, church takes a lead in it the masses will concluded hig remarks by expressing that his succes- follow. There rust be an uprising in the church in tho | sor in office (Rev. Mr. Flanders) might meet with success: demand for justice to the slaves, as there was an uprising | in his efforts asa Christian minister, and that God might: when the ‘of tho first canton was heard from | protect him in his arduous career. Sumter. It is said on all sides that the force of circum- Rev. Moses Ballou followed in afew remarks on ‘Fel- stances: oe. be psened ‘on, for yg 3 ides to lowship”’. Christian relation between the pation wes. This is a fal cowart : selfish way of dealing with this frreat question. ‘Tho installation hymn, “I have set watchmen upon the: That such reliance as Saul depended on. when | walls,” was then sung by the choir, ing toobey God he consulted with the Witch of En- Rev. Dr. Chapin was the concluding speaker, who ex- and he was punished. 1t is like that of IMezekiah, who | horted the people to co- ate with their paster in alb vofused to issue the edict of freedom to the land, Ho lis- | his works, and pronounced a high eulogy upon the Rev. tenel to the voice of the false prophets, and God gave | Mr. Flanders, them to the sword,and to the pestilence and to the fa- ‘The services concluded with the benediction. i mine, and 5) them from tho land, ‘The deliverance of the elaves is God's object in bringing about the war, and That deliverance must come now, at once. It is cowardly wabide the force of circumstances. The very indication of such reasoning shows how deep we have fallen as a na- ‘Hon, into the pit of contemptible indignation. We are no better than a dead sturgeon if we allow this opportunity to conirm our ext life, if we leave the question of emanelpation to be decided by the force of circumstances, “vending wo rely on the providence of God. We have no wsiaces to rely on the providence of God, no right to trot to chance in such a cause, or abide the force of cir- oumetamors, which is but a temptation of Satan, bound to rely upon God bot not upon God’s providence. Ne nation can do this; ifwo do we vre as blind as bats. They force of cirenrhstances woult sooner demolish us | ‘yo, then it would demolish slavery. Pharouh trusted to cir- cumstances when he refused to let the people go, until he was visited with the plagues which God sent upon him and upon hin people. If God degired to abolish slavery He can do it withovt our cooperation, ‘He can suppress the Southern rebellion withont our aid, abe, therefore, let us recall our armics and leave it to God to take care of the Southern confederacy, and perhaps He will reward our piety by destroying We and save ws all the tre ». Our commander tells us we will eno more Hall rans, Bot God knows with regard to better than we. God can stick @ panic into men's hoarts in an instant of time. God knows the futore. They most act for themselves in this matter, They = appeal to the President to issue his proclamation of | people of tl viom, Now is their time, It will not do to trust to the force of cireumstances. There is no death-bed repen- tence for a nation, If we now let the oppor- tunity pass of doimg this great work the Lord will Limeeif do it; bat then we must not expect to past anpuniehed for our disobedience. May God grant us race to Act eecording to his will in this hour ofextremity, The f is but a sketch of the sermon, which was Detoned to with great attentim, In one instance, some applause wae eh the point of breaking forth, but Dr. Choever ebecked it at once. Charch Dedication, THR SROOND AVENUR METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHORCH SERMON BY REV. COLONEL PERRY—FOR WHAT CHURCHRS ARE INTENDED, ETC., ETC. During the leet #ix months there has been erected on the southeast corner of Second avenue and 119th street a neat briek charch. It was so far completed last week that the trustees announced their inteution to have Divine ser- vies celebrated there yesterday, The building is almost a perfect square, and is surmounted placed. The interior of the edifice is remarkably plain , aut will aiford accommodation for about twelve hundred people, A small gallery at ono end ts used by Ch choi’ end will alse seat about two hundred a Mditional worsitppere The announcement that the Rev, Colonel Perry, com- Pending the Continental Guard, would preach the dedi catury Kermen, di wgeothor @ very large and respectable congregation. At ha'f-past ten o'clock the church was completely filed. On the pul. platform were the Rey. Colonel — Perry, ev. Dir. Gi bert, the pastor of th and Rev, Lr, Crivwol’, The following wore seated within the rails of the chancel—ttew. Dr. # i ‘akely, Mr. Ketchom, and the trusteos chureh, ‘The sory cos Comamenced with the smging of the foliow- ing hymn — i The coming of the mesenger, To chew the plat Rev. Pr. Griewolt_ thon pesrrinte wrayer. piscopal cuurels were then proceeted with by Rev. Dr. Giibort, aewimted by Rey, br. Griewold, Rov. Loionel Perry selected as hie text the 13th verse of the 4h chapter of Ixua—t bring near my Tighteoursers, it shall wet be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry, ant I witl place my salvation ia Zion for lerwel my glory Uniting © bis own person the ssered eharacter of a minwter of the gospel and tho finest regiments of our voluutect soudiery, there were many who, dowbtlers, expected to hear somo Allusion made ty tbe present shappy contict in which the reverend geutioman will shortly he called upon to beara pat. The scene was an umesually tmprestive and solemn ene, As the preacher pore to de iver the first ser- mon within the sacred edifice, around him were seated ABOLITION INCENDIARY MEETING IN NEW YORK The Fanatics at Work Again—The Ta; pan and Jays on Hand—Cong; sone to. verthrow the Union and the tus: tion. (From the New York Tribune. On Thursday afternoon a select meeting of the friends of liberty and Union was held in room No, 20 Astor House. It appeared that the meeting had been called by a fow gentlemen who had recently met together and adopted a set of resolutions indicating a plan for the organization of a “Liberty and Union Committee of the city of New k.” The following are the rosulutions referred to:— Resolved, That the time hus now fully come in which, if ever, the necessary means of putting down the rebel- lion should be discussed, ascertained, advocated and re- solutely carried forward, and that this should at once oc- ae the minds and enlist the resources of all the loyad citizens, ‘That, in the deliberate judgment of this meoting, it is manifest that there is no reasonable prosp-ct of 80 ter- minating the present conflict as to prevent its recurrence bat by the speedy and complete liberation of the slaves: on the soil, in the expectation that, with other citizens, . they will sustain the government’ in putting down the rebellion, ‘That the public welfare requires that the frve colored he United States should be invited and en- couraged to assist in this great enterprise, ‘That a committee, to be styled +*The Liberty and Union Committee of the City of New York,” be appointed, whose > duty it shall be, by the use of the press and other lawfuls agencies, to facilitate this discussion, to advocate thess measures and to promote these objects; addressing suita~ Dle arguments and appeals to the-people at large, es- iaily to those in civil and military stations, also to Statesmen, editors, ministe:s of the Gospel and all deemed capable of exerting the needed iniluenee. ‘That the committee be authorized to appoint a trea- surer, and to appeal to all loyal citizens to contribute the means of carrying forward the enterprise on a scale core responding with its magnitude, Tcat the committee have power to fill vacancies in their own body, and if deemed expediont, from. time to time to» increase their number; also to appoint sub-commi:tces.. and necessary officers, ind to employ sich aseisants and incur such expenditures as may be necessary; and as the : funds furnished to the committee may warrant, publish- ing annually, or more frejuently, an autheuticated ac- count of their receipts and expenditures. That the committee be composed of men who believe, with President Lincoln, that ‘it is impossible for a free State and a slave State to exist in the same nation,” with, & eat brick tower, where a bell will shortly be | Secretary Seward, that between froedom and slavery thera is an “irrepressible conflict; and with Pope Leo X,, that “vot only the Christ'an religion, but dat nature herself cries ont against slavery; that permavent peace and prosperity cannot be securcd until “liberty be proclaimed Uiroughout the land to all the inhabitants thereof)? that no compromise should be made with the rebels; and that gencies of the times require that emancipation be- imed by the lawful authorities, in acco.dance with w of God, the letter and spirit of the constitution, and as an incident of the war power agreeably to the law ‘of nations, as expounded by John Quincy Adams in Con- gress in the year 1842. Accordingly, about thirty gentlemen, reprosenting va- rious shades of political opfuions, met 4s stated, yester- day afternoon, The meeting was called to o-der b; Charles Gould, Fsq., of No. 2 Hanover strect, and Lew! ‘Tuppan, Eeq.,’was called to the chair. Th: Rev. C. L. Brace, of the Chikiren’s Aid Socicty, was appointed Secre- tary. Among the gentlemen present wore the Rev, Dr, Hitehooek, the Rev. Hiram Mattison, the Rev. Mr. Post, . of Veunsyivania; the Rev. Mr, Brown, etitor of the - American Baplit; the Rev. Wim. Goodell, editor of the 1 ; Oiiver Joh: , Esq., editor of the National” s ‘Standard; John Jay, Fsq. Dr. Ritter, Dr, ‘Alonzo Ball, Wm. E. Whiting, Fsq.)Mr. Hill and Mr. Wood: bory. ‘The Rev. Mr. Goodeil moved for the organization of a.. committee in accordance with the terms cf the resolu- tions. Mr. Gould opened the discussion on the subject by sug- gesting that if such a committee 28 was proposed could bo organize’, ignoring ths old abolition staudards, and commander of one Of | takinz the political and financial grounds. only, he would co-operate with it most heartily. Mr. Goodell referred to the last resolution, which called attention specially to the “law of God’ and the demands of “the Christian religion,’’ asserting that to be effective, . the movement must be thorough and honest. There was» as much need of good abolition enterprise as there ever was. The Cabinet was now waiting to get an expression many inen wise hair had grown gray in the services of | of the people on this subject, God; at bis back the Stars and Stripes were gently waving a ihe breve exte ed (urough the open windows, while scattered abont in the conrregation were large numbers of volunteer soldiers, some whom will shortly hear the preacher's afar different seone,and im other tones than those ho tused yest Tue preacher himeeif seemed to bear ho UEALENE resemblance of the Covenanters of bygone tims, or one of O iver Cromwell's tro: H was there except the dress—the same closely cut hair, by eyebrows, and thick mustac ail tinged with ‘ These ocmbined with a dark flashing eye, fine peices ike bears, apd a strong, full voios, modulated to Suit the eecasion, were not il eculedlated to impress all b's hearers that the man whe was about to adtires: them would prove himsoif a gailant as weil asa Chiis- soldier. pr ceoled to show th an thet the passage of Serip. ad wasa promise made to the Jews by the ere, and referred te what should in time t y acoompliehed. How he would being home tot knowledge of lirusel{ and his righteousness, How they should i time learn tho way of savation, The Jews were always deeply pressot with the y, the gory and holiness of Zion, Mo then told of the may ol enstoms of the Jews, and the mutasrous Coasts and other religio is an hick Which called thetn to go up to the Holy Cty; and thoagh We might try to place onrmelves beside them, ant eavor to think a& they did we should net be able to rew!ize the inteuse love the Jews entertained for Zion. Many of the Jews were impressed with the ide tut they could fled salvation in heathen and that i was to be found only in the city of Zion, acd before the altars of God, in the holy temple, The pase he hat Loxt referred pleo to the wi Uotore (he altars of God, and the world, is salvation to be foot, by their own exertions must rive, for God has promised salvation te all. All Christians wre exhorte | to be strong and act like men. ‘The charch, properly *peaking, if bot & rostrum for the orator or the lecturer: it ix & temple erected ty the services of God, and what is preached tere ts intend. ed W Inake mon wiser, ¢ and holier, To accor. pich this end ah ® rhould be excluded from the chareh bat thoee which wil bring nearer to men the salvation and righteousness of God ‘The dedication fer church was afterwards road by Kev. Colonel Perry. Rew. Dr, Gilbert then road a short statement of the Urusters relative te Ube financial affairs of the charch. After again uniting in prayer and singing, the bevediction was nounced aud the cangregating. dieporwed. Dedication of the Mount Olivet Baptist Charch, The Mount Olivet Baptiet church, Rev. Stephen Re- | siept mington, pastor, was formally dodiented to the service of the Almighty at half-past ten o'clock yesterday morning. Tue church is Fituated on the cooner of Broadway and Firty-seventh street, and is intend d to be used only ase temporary place of worship wutil « more suitable | (ie ' Smey vioe of tho Methodist Episcopal | te scatfeld, Colonel Washington was there John Jay, Fsq., Oliver Johnson, Esq., the Rev. Dr. Tiitehoock ‘and others were ‘opposed to any organization Jont at this time. The Rev. Dr. Hitchcock thought it ad- visable to imitate the habits of the Methodists at their Conferences, and resolve to “stand and seo the salvation of God.” He thought things were working admirably, and they could only work to one end, ‘The mecting adjourned in the best «f feeling, probably to mest on a futureoccasion, should the progress of events justify an effort in the direction proposed. {From the New York Times.] . ‘The utmost good nature pervaded the meeting, and the pinion in favor of the immediate abolition of slavery, as a - necessity ofthe war power, was unanimous. ‘The only dif- ference manifested was as to the expediency of such an organization ag that projected by the resolutions at tho present time. John A. Washington. {From the Troy Daily Times, Sept. 14.) White a party of rebel oflicers were “observing” our jckets near Eikwater, Virginia, yesterday, a “vagrom’? pullot, hurtling into their midst, perforated the uniform of Col Jolin A. Washington, somewhero in the region of the diaphragm, and instantancously terminated the mill- tary ond mortal carcer of that famous individual. Fa- mous on two counts—first, that he ws @ roundabout de- scondant of the it patriot whose illustrious namo lends: hover to ev ecything with which it is even remotely con- Beeted; and, Wy. that he once had the unspoakablo pleasure cf being done up in execralle wood cuts, as cno of the individeals to whom John Brown aud his terrible « ariny gave such nightmare of apprehension. When tl old ‘partisan baret upen the slice, y denizens of Harpe Ferry, and disturbed their equanimity 80 seriously, Col- Jngton wes one whom they visited. His two hun- deed and cighteen pounds avoirdupois were comfortably digposed wpon a feather bed, over which hung one of the swords of the immortal patriot—one that he had swung on many a battle-field and never sheathed with ishonor, As John Brown pounced into his room, the Colonel raised his night-cap tremblingly, gasped convul- tively and covered his head with the quilts incontinently, while old Ossawatamie reachod out his bony fingers, clutehed the sword and bore it off. When Brown and his fanatics were fighting like tigers in the arsenal, Colonel Washington was was traveling in an opposite direction; ‘but when Brown was standing chained and haltered upon on a big black jvorse, wearing @ red sash and looking as brave and mar. al as one of tbe By some means the sword of the Pater Patrie was carried away with those who escap- PP | od, and when old Brown was buried, amid the stony hills be Hida, it lay upon’ his in. The honorable ey > however, to be gl yg to Le owner. re Jota A. receiv » hung ~ up once om the pegs over the bedstead. and it'is to bo hoped as sweetly and snored as Youdly as ever, with no~ dread fears of “nigger insurrections’ to disturb his dreams, When conspiracy assamed the form of rebe lion, and the itened Coloned Jo to oreate ‘establish, not to preserve bap aie to fram, not to sustain the govern- coe _con bo socured. It consists of lange | mont of which hewas the Gist Chief Magistrate aot for y ed ,_ david thee y we er! wickedness pipe Baye By Scat 2 a a me eee ENO'Seek "wo etace ‘all the principles Washington about soven hondred persons. The feats are free, and | other fathers the expenses of fiuting up aod eapporticg the church are to be defrayed by the congregation, The ser views af dedi ved by the Paplists are very cial, ant, ta beyond the wrtina:y routine Mwarey ted in them. The churel was filed by « large mg, al the wer Vion open oe rem « text from the fuiowing pus ed his hearers, taking bh sages of Lhe Cwentiot ty Peatin “The lord hear the im the day of trom bie; the name @ the Got of Jacob | defend thes; snd thee help from the eumtemry, and strengthen thee out af Zion, remonber ail thy wifer inge ant ace pt their burnt feccidion. craut thee accords thitte own hwrt, and fall! al thy coummd. We in thy ratvation, and tn the maine of our Got wi up our paloc On the above text tke preacher foande! bis disomur ee the principas pont i@ which was, that wothing was 8 cmgregetian than Se ¢ having a caren ting im that baa ty vt very much io wood At the conclusion of bis remarks © ubsertption was taken up to defray the expenses, &e., when beany every One to the roomn eubseribed mere of ber The To0th hymn was thes sang. and, heeedieties hav ing bocn aduninistered, the congregation dixjerwed Installation Services at the Second Unt. versalist Church, Second Avenue, The ceremonies inciteutal to installing Rew. G. MM. Flanders, formerly of Cincinnati, ta plies of Rev, Dr. Sawyer, the late pastor of the Socoud Universalist ehureb, corner of Second avenue aud Keventh street, took place terday afternoon in that edifies, The church was crowded by a highly respectable congrogation, amd the occasion itxelf was made quite an interesting ome, Rev Dr Sawyer bas been pasts of the church fur sowie time, lowed t© establieh; whd declare that he aif the “were mistaken, and incorporated. ‘& mixchiovons error into their theory of politics:’” Cole John A, was @ brilliant man; a good, hearty cater; ® valiant and mighty champion at wino eoppert; & plearant companion a story telling chreve. 8 Gne hook ing: page in uniform—but unfortu- hately be wae nt Dalle prouf, else wo should not be called » to poblieh bis obituary. One of those painful casu- toe which a seriously tuterfere with the prosecution of Dttlo schemes like thet in which himself and his fellow rebels were engaged, has removed him from the theatre of operations, We need not say that we bi tg the fact— far woth all his peculiarities, the history of Harper's For- doce not ow that Col, Washington was a brave man,, cod © get pleasant to record the decease of a cowar wove eueh clreamatances. A hero balances life against glory, toet willingly takes the heaard of the stake; but if moet & fot a here, it mont be peculiarly uncomfortable je an the Oslooel did. Yet “ he who takes the sword oat perish by the eword,” and the anworthy descondant. of & noble house, we hope, is not the ently leader among the rebels with reference to whom this trath wil speedily” veo FATAL ACCIDENT TO A VOLUNTBER. Covoner Schirmer helt an inquest yesterday, at ther New York Hospital, wpon the bedy of John Kom!nski, a wbamteor B, Colonel Latson’s horse artillery, = we injuries accidentally received. om the 120 inet, follow ng. etreamstances:— Docensed, it appears, was tod, and, while walking om per No. 18 North ri he wax caught between the wh el of a cart and a sign yest. Lefore the are ¢ Oe Jd pull ap, deceased was thrown down, ono Sitke whor's ‘struck bine in the groin, produeiog injuries of an wal patare, from the effects of which he died in about twenty four hours afterwer. Deceased was about forty yoare of age, snd i sappored to have been a | « tw ‘The jory rendered a verdiet of acci- | dental death, exomerating the driver from all blame, THE SHEPARD RIFLES, Col Ferrero, now numbers seven companies. The bead | quarters of Ube regiment are at Palace Garden,