The New York Herald Newspaper, February 10, 1862, Page 2

NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1862. ee eS cases, vennets of war were unable to compete with strong iand fortifications, In aii the ware of Kngland with the contipental ny apd im the war of the American Revo- \utiog and 1612, e was scarcely ome exception to this generai rule. That such does nob seem to be the rienoe of the present war, is attributed by some introduction of steam and the greater mechanical agencies beth of the ship and armament, and the more power(ul aud destructive character of the ma ‘terials of war. This is an important subject in a county 80 assuilable by sea as our own, which bas no navy, aud can only rely upon its shore defences to meet the nume rous fleets of an enemy who has the whole navy, sad tho whole mercantile marine, now armed, of the old United ‘States at bis command. We confegs that we nave seen nothing in any of the x- Periences of this war to change our conviction of the superiority of land fortifications, when properly 14 structed and eMciently armed, to ships-of war. imtroduction of steam and other naval improvements has Rot reversed the relative strenth of fortifications and vessels, though it undoubtedly requires tho former, in order to maintain their ms eed te be one wi more than mere ear! goa tap sane} NEWS FROM THE SOUTH. Another Rebel Account of the Defeat at Mill Spring. THE ENLISTMENT OF SOUTHERN TROOPS, Scizure of Saltpetre by Order of the Rebel Government. A SCREW LOOSE IN NORFOLK. qnestion which the present war has (urnished. the There the fortifications were properly ‘ly constructed, the men were sheltered by those defences which military 9 our misfortunes, and show to the world may be the weaknens of our forces else- where, hore, at least, we are intact and invincible, We aro, nevertheless, sorcly |, but only so fom the weather, which for the last two weeks bas Deen 4 succession of cold storms, conning mon to their tenis, interrupting travel, and disturbing soctal harmony generally. ‘There is, however, some conayln- army to rotria that | tion even in this, and mot unfrequently you hear the groans of complaint interspersed with remarks to (bis effect: “Well, I'l bear anything in the shape of a storm if tt willonly swamp the Burnside expedition and send the Yankees to perdition.”” And, by the way, this hope bidsfairto be realized. Anaval Officer just from the vicinity of Norfolk informs me that for years he has not known a gale to prevail with auch steady virulence ‘upon our coast as that which is now whistling about our ears, shrieking throngh the camps and wailing around the corners of our winter huts. He saya furthor that it is impossible for any bat the strongest ships to live in ‘such a sea as is doubtiess running outside, much loss the small, flat bottomed, badly jointed ficet of schooners, tugs and canal boats, loaded with heayy guns, men and munitions of war, which compose (he Burnside expedi- tion. Some of these have been so fortunate as to secure @ harbor in Albemarle or Pamlico Sound, but a majority must have been driven out to seat, sunk or beached upon the sands of ourcoast. If euch be the caso—and you will hear of it before we do—truly Provi- Secret Political Societies in Virginia. The Enrolment of Free Negroes in the Rebel Army. &e., &e., ‘We have received the Richmd&d Zsaminer of the 6th inst., and other Southern (rebe!) newspapers, from which we take the following interesting i‘ems relative to matters in rebeldom. ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF THE REBEL DEFEAT Pe MILL SPRING. se Te pa from Columbia commanded the Cumberland river, and only one boat was enabled to come up with supplies from Nashville. With the ehanuels of commu- nication closed, the position pecame untenable without attack. Only corn could be obtained for the horses and mules, and this in such smal! quantities ‘hat often cavalry companies were sent out on unshod horses which had eaten nothing for tro days. The roads in every direc- tion were extromely bad, and from the ianding up either bank to the camp difficult to employ wagons; and, in addition to this, the crossing of the river was bad in the small ferry boats used for that purpose. Description would fail in portraying the diifieulties of this position to one who 1s Dot seen and suffered, By extraordinary exertions for several days provisions enough had been gathered to ration the army with bread, moat, coffee and sugar for two days—the 19th and 20th. * * On the afternoon of the 19th General Zollicoffer remarked to the writer that the enemy ought to be attacked, and on that ovening General Crittenden calied a council at his quarters, with Generais§ Zoilicoffer and Carroll, and the colonels of regiments and the captains of artillery, and lieutenant colouels of cavalry battalions, and it was there unani- mously agreed to make the attack. ® © ® Up the first hill and down it en both sides of the read the enemy was driven back before the impetuous charge of tho brigade of General Zollicoffer; and already he was ascending the last hill to the crest, when the heaviest firing told where the battle raged. sent for reinforcements, and the brigade of General Carroll was ordered up. When in another moment it was announced that he was killed, a sudden gloom pervaded the field and the army. He had on the crest of the hill, the stronghold of the enemy, which he had almost driven them from, and which, once gained, the day was ours. It is said that the enemy in front of him in the woods, after a few moments cessation of firing an@ some movement, was taken by him to bearegiment of hisown command, and that he rode up togive thems command, when he was coolly shot down, pierced by several balls. Immediately on the announcement of his death, Person rode up to front of the fight and directed the movements of the day with perfect coolness, im the very midst of the fire of the enemy, and where several were killed around him. His friends romonstrated against this and entreated him to occupy a less exposed position, but he would not leave the front, and sat on his horse unmoved, except when a regiment would fall back under the heavy fire of superior numbers, when hewould im person, under fire, speak to and ral!y the men. ‘The evacuation of the rebel intrenchments is explained thus:— ‘Thon arose the question whether to defend or evacuate the place. Suppose we could have held it against the superior force attacking? Ina few days we would have been starved out; and if, with their battery, which com. manded the landing, they had injured the boat, escape ‘would have ass Sepenie Gnd surrender inevitable, Again, Skeets in which could have been done asmail force, retreat at any time would have been ‘and it would have been vain to think of cut- ting Sway out in front, because, without rations, the army we @ been precipitated int: a barren country, un- able to afford any subsistence whatever. To preveat 1 art has provided inst the descent of shells, the guns os D0 Yeon sate ped Mantindie anid aoe ticed gunners. The pepe nee wan os ae of see enemy’s most powor(ul ships-of-war were perfectly rid- dled by the fire of the fortifications and abandoned the contest precipitately, having failed to inflict the slightest injury upon the works of the Confederates, and only kill- ing one or two men. We believe that the result would be the same in every similar engagement between shore and batteries if the former are properly built, provided with bomb-proofs and guns of equal range with the enemy, and manned by experienced gunners, who have beon disciplined aud practiced to the skilful per- formance of their duties the of steam to ships-of-war and ether naval improvements account for the sucess of the enemy in his two assaults upon inconsiderable earthworks, how ig it thatthe great naval squadrons of Kogland and France were le to assail Sebastopol and other Rus- sian seacoast fortifications with any success, but came off worsted to every encounter, whilst Admiral Napier did not even atterapt to cope with Croustadt? There was soarcely @ sailing v in either of these magnifi cont fleets, the equal of which in numbers, guns and all the equipments and appliances of war, had never bo- fore floated upon the waves. ‘The single ship whic! bore the broad pennant of Admiral Napier, the largest and most powerful war ship in the world, would be more than @ match forthroe of the best ships in the Yankee navy. Every one recollects the impression produced upen the public mind of England by the magnificent naval review which took place before A‘mira! Napier sailed for the Baltie, and never did Old England seem more completely mistress of the seas than when that vast Squadron of magniticent steamships of war, ied by the colessal flag ship of the Admiral, set sail for the encimy’s waters. It would be ridiculous to compare tho fifty ships-of-war which comprise the Yankee navy, and their fleet of oid merchantmen, patched up for fighting par- poses, with the — Enziish squa/iron of Napier in any one particular that gives eiliciency to « ship in these times; in machinery, gums, armament aad inissiles crews or gunnors: and yet it came back to England without having reduced or even engaged a singio Rus- sian fortification, We must evidently look to some other cause than naval improvements for the Yankee successes: at Hatteras and Port Royal, and that cause is to be found in the weakness of the fortifications, rather than in the strength of the ships. , If Hatteras and Port Royal had been provided with proper defences against the shell and shot of the enemy, the result would have been dif- ferent, as it will be hereafter, if we do not neglect the common provisions against naval assault which have elsewhere rendered shore batteries invulnerable. We do not recollect but one single success which the combined fleet of England and France, both in the Bultic and the Biack Seas, achieved during the Russian war. ‘That was the reduction of the fortification of Kinburn by the iron plated vessels introduced by Louis Napoleon. That experiment served to demonstrate the capacity of vessels sheltered with that metal to resist the fire of the forts. But it is, of cours, clear that fortifications sheltered in the samo armor would be equally invulnor- able by ships of war, and an English periodical bas lately argued that this dafence can be provided as readily and even more economicaliy for fortifications than ships. We carnestly hope that our government and engineers will give this subject their prompt and serfous attention. We have our choice of Pensacula and Port Royal in future coftiets between fortifications and ships. It is hardly worth while to construct coast and river defences merely as slaughter pens for our brave soldiers, aud only to in- vite the enemy to make an attack in which he has over: advantage of assault, and little peril. If we do not wis! to build defences merely that they may be taken, and involve in their destruction the loss of both life and prestige, let us construct them upon proper principles il have go future repetitions of Hatteras and, ae. THE NASHVILLE AND THE TUSCARORA. (From the Richmond Dispatch, Feb. 4.} English papers speak with some interest of the The possibility of a fight between the Confederate steamer Nashville and the United States ship Tuscarora, which is said to be waiting for her outside the port of Liverpool. We know nothing of the relative strength of the two vee- sels, but, if they approach anything like equality in the eharacter of the two ships, the number and rango of ‘straits an immodiate crossing of the river during the | gune, &e., there need beno apprehonsion of the result, Right was , and as time permitt8d only | fe nave ho desire to depreciate even an enemy, and, if to cross the mon, baggage, camp equipage, Wagons | the Yankces do not make a good sea fight, it is another bo: se6 and artiliery had to be left—a great sacrifice, but | proof of the degeneracy of the nation since 1812. We not to be estimated in the balance with saving the army. | are Snelinadto tiilnke that they are no the same ‘This bold and masteriy movement was accomplished on | people even upon the water that they were in former this night, and the next morning «2:7 onracmy on the soot of the Cumberland, aud the » «1 Camp Beech rove. The crossing was effected during tie nirht by the aid of the steamntoat Noble Ellis, which had before ascended the river with supplies, and which was efficientiy com- ded on this occasion by Captain Speller, of the ca. to move somewhere days; that there are no more Hulls, Perrys, Chaunceys, McDonoughe, inthe North. At any rate, we have high hopes of Captain Pegram. If he can only lay his ship alongside the Yankee vessel, aod not permit her to keep him at long taw, but board her and baye a hand to hand fight, he is bound to win. The remark of the French general that ‘‘the ballet is foolish—the bayonet only 1s wise,” bag a peculiar application to contests at sea, 4 SCREW LOOSE IN VIRGINIA. TO THE KDITOK OF THR NORFOLK DAY ROOK. Norfolk pays into the publictreasury a very heavy tax to keep up and sustain an efficient police system. Protection to property is the implied equivalent for this large outlay of money, wrung from the people’s pockets. It is the duty of the constituted authorities to see that the laws ot negligently executed, or wilfully violated with impunity; and to protect both person and property, commensurate with the authority lodged in their hands. This, the peo- ple have a right to expect, and upon the failure thereof they have a right to institute an inquiry as to the causes which may baye produced an injury to person or pro- rty. ee protection is in the nature of @ fundamental gua- rantee, and the municipal authorities ought to be held to astrict accountability, at least. Those who aspire to go- vern cannot complain if an injured party—the public— scrutinize with plainness the acts and doings of its public servan' Weareat war withan unscropuions and wily foe who ee the northern counties of East Tennessee were 100 poor to support the army one day. With a vastly superior force attacking, the movement to the Cumberland river at Gainsboro, a F a he) supply, was precipitated—and to ‘this General Crittenden is moving with short days’ THE RE-ENLISTMENT OF REBEL TROOPS. The Richmond Examiner of the 6th, in an article on the subject of the re-enlistment of volunteers says:— The desire of the twelve months volunteer to visit his friends dt home is natural. It often amounts to a mor- bid passion, seriously affecting the health of the soldier. Itis said of the French conscripts, under the empire, this passion took like possession of them; and, | ¢0es not Lesitate—to avow as a part of bis military pro- where furloughs were refused thom, the victim fre. | g'amme—to arm the slave agaiost his master, and invite quently died of home sickness. The surgeons, soon dis- | bim to deeds of rapine and violene that have no covering the fact, granted leaves in every case where the | Parallel in civilized warfare. For this purpose he has set on foot emissaries among us to seduce them from their allegiance and lay traps for their escape. We fifteen miles of the enemy's lines—covered by a sheet of water—eacape without vigilance is certain—the public ear is coguizant of these facts—the public eye settles painful truths—and the public heart deeply fees, i1 joss of there ‘ contrabandis,” the ne- cessity of action—a more eflicien ‘What shall that be? Escapes our city to the enemy. By what me: Those who have looked into the matter say, of secret societies—meeting weekly—in open cocting their hellish plans. unmistakable |istiessness of countenance betckened the Presence of the morbid longing. The result of the libe- ral policy was found tobe most happy. Im every case the visit completely restored the patient to healih and animation, and he soon became as eager to return to camp as he bad before been to leavoit. * * © © But, be the number of these re-enlistmente great or small, the enemy will be apt to find a sufficient number of brave Southern men in the fleld to baifle and defeat their dewigas. The pecpie of the South have never failed ia their duty in this struggle, and they little understand the temper of the South who think they have grown weary and will now prove recreant to the emergency. They have much more to fight for now than when they eng: im this c niest. It was then their political rights which they were vindicating; it is now not only free. dom from &@ rujnous taxation and crushing debt, but for every prineipie of freedom which our race bave been wout to cherish as eacred. THE SALTPETRE QUESTION. Wa have already announced the determination of the rebel authorities to seize all the saltpetre in the South. The following is the Secretary of War's order on the sub- lect by the ald y—cun- Is this known? Go ask every man you meet in the sirects, aud he will give you an ominous shrug of the shouider and tell you tt is very true. Others say they are permitted to learn to read and write, in violation of law, right under the eye of those who onght to be and are the constituted guardians of the city, and thus devise their infernal p'ans—others still, seomingly more knowing, say tbey are aided by emissa- ries among UB. But where are the municipal authorities who promised protection? More than one hundred have already es- caped, itis conddently asserted. Have any steps been taken to tighton th reius of govornment and inaugurate a more officient system? Afew wooks ago « party of slaves were seized (a the very act of escaping—with their masters’ gold in their pockets—armed with pistels and weay offensive and dofensive—carrying with them to the enemy a knowl- of our defences and eur purposes, A white man thus found would have been shot—exampie is more terri ble than precept—and a military noceesity would have de- manded bis immediate execution. Does the negro de- serve the jess punishment? What ag we inquire, have they more than the white man? ‘hy tara loose upon this community the one and hang the other? We might give the reason, bus it might reach the eye of tho enomy—we withold it. Indeed, it strikes us as being manifest that, uniees we visit upon the heads of such CoxrapenaTs Stata of Aurrica, War Derarrment, RicuMonn, Feb. 4, 1862. Bands of speculators have combined to monopolise all the saltpetre to be found in the country, and thus force from the yoy exorbitant prices for an articie in- dispensabie to the aational defence. The departmont has hitherto paid prices equal to four times tho usual peace races im order to avoid recourse to impressment, if possi- bie. This policy has only served to embolden thespecula- tora to fresh exactions. It is now ordered thatall military commaniers in the Confederate States impress all salt. petre now or hereafier to befound within their districts, oxoopt such as is in the han’s of the original manufactur- ors, or of goverument agents and contractors, therefor forty o ems ts per pound, and no more. price | 69 iahment t \ xed. is the highest ee which contracts have been foteases apes will go om, cod te cory ‘wil prea by " © pr ‘arers. } our ill judged humanity. "Pasnew i,m 5 thes | slaves w' their eseape week—republished in our friend Jo. Cariton, that ‘bout a ton and 8 | ihe Norfolx Day Book, whose Argus eye for the public elt rE cen ‘Week to a 9, to be made in- to powder. Hoe soonexpests to be able to ship three tons per week. sho THE CAPTURE OF EE NAYY YARD aT ied sanees fifteen miles en water to reach their’ des- ‘The*Roport of William H. Peters, commissioner, Meee caw chon? Where were tries pointed by the Governor of Virginia o tmakoan tives. the vanes banda ‘Where the po Anges they tmezial ibe Navy Yard, Gosport, aad n-and neat Por. | © nclos ace to continoe, we hed. battat ment . rem ok py t thee ths orstde mane tee If these delinquencies are to continue, we had better Prociaim martial law, and seek in the sufferable tyranay of the one that protection whieh 6 civ!i goverament we 5 We do not purpose to arraign any one for faitblessness in the discharge of duty. Om the contrary,we do know that those who bave the management of publi afhirs havo been active to enforeea very rigid discipline in oraer to protect the public rights; bud (here 48 @ screw loose somewhere. The publie are coinpiaining, and will exact a more rigid scrutiny into the cause of divesters, and that the remedy be applied to correct the grievances of which the people complain. THB MEWS OF THE FEDERAL VICTORY IN KENTUCKY— THD STORMY WEATAZR—THR LURNSIDE RXPEDI- TION--THREATENINGS OF THE REDELE—OREAT ORE AND LITTLE WOOL, (Special correspondence of the Charleston Courter. Cons Va., Jan. 94, isd. ‘The news of 1) 6 Confederate defoat in Keatucky hag not bad that depressing offect which inay have been anticipated. In the fow understood the goo- graphy of the country sufiicientiy to appreciate the in. following game by gotting possession of the yard i: t aeok! “Planters able to bald taote crope "ukenla consider Pxeept real estate, tobsce We regarded a0 per. ‘ye safeat lnvestmont now presenting. But for the #'orage room in Richmond, we should expect to cvatione to advance ia price. Every avail- place io this city is, however , etow to ite expacity, aad these disdoued Si pupae poued to buy are restraig- oe portance, if gore to tl Mew tory; and, secondly, he account #0 meuyro that rather than believe VIRGINIA, Iederat reports, the army believes nothin at all. Again, AND BATTERIES, the distance is eo great betwoen Manaesas and Somarset’ 9 Kichmond Dispatch, Feb. 4 Ky., Haat, be the consequence gre: i, the unhay: ‘Wap eseme months ago a minute history ot the con y improssious incideut to wich a pet much t teten ships aud bo!teries inthe great f snor than they would bo had the event transpired on | ‘ we ay io Errove aud in our own country, | tho other side of the Atlantic. The only tendency of from whloa it appeared thot, in the great majority of ? how, if successful, the Kentucky, with his age | thus in jeopardy, Seizing this, programme is compiete, Buell forces eastward rh Western Virginia, the couthwest. Meanwhile Burnside bas possibly located himself at Weldon, N,C., seized the railrcad ti off from the South and threatens Beauregard from that rection. self f.om either of these armies, Banks and McClellan make their advance from the front, and thus totally iso- laced aud imprisoned, we are expectod to fall an easy they fail, the w: dying offort of the bydra-headed monster, already strug- meet wit do., and that whil Heath, Price and of hearts in the West, Huger at Nurfolk, Lovell Orleans, Lee at Port Royal, Tatnall at Savannah, dor on the Peninsula and and sweep back the God that it may 5 tone with which the condit Even Greeley and bis followers are caving in; Forney pre- dicts peace parties and peace overtures: of finaacial thunder clouds; Raymond of Socor paieanianele 4 Cameron ed ster of polit! an ‘as a depraved cat- tle eater: the Invest jai Committee tite about to be taxed to the tune of two hundred and three hundred millions per annum, and ali the elements - @ political revolution are sullenly threatening to bur; su bettors Thi vik Norther The New York of 1862 is far different from tho swarming hiv of 1860. any danger of being knocked down and run over in the hurry of affairs. Business is dull; the people complain bitterly of the continuance of the war. Roal estate has fallen in some parts of the city below zero; hundreds of stores are closed; fires occur Giseatisfied and restless, and the low rumblings of a storm that will shake the mammoth city to its deep foundatious ore already heard, peaceful task of duty just when the deop-toned mutteri the black storin-cloud of revolt were first beard ia the distance. the Convention, by Captain Barron, there are ullusio: Chase evil tidings, tuorefora, will be Wo stimulate iho | dence is itself ‘welcoming the invader with hospitable MAS TMC acta ctr bona ugh net ite cl ard from the armtada, or its destination, the belief obtains in the highest military cirales that its object is to cut off the railroad system which is concentrated at Weldon or Ra- leigh, and connects Richmond with the Atlantic States. Meanwhile, the forces in the Weatare to strike at the Virginia and East Tennossce Railroad and other lines of travel. By thus destroying our channels of communica- tion Supply, and surrounding us with a cordon of troops: enemy expect to overwhelm us in that “grand = blow”’ which has been,se long threatened and de- ‘The plan is worthy the genius of a Marlborough or Na- con, It Riera Aa andl the ‘ankeos will find itso, Let us take soundings and see plan will operate. Buell is in ity host, waiting to advance upon Nashville. Crittenden have fallen back to Kast Tennessee, The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad ts the first part of the may then turn his East Tennessee and and threaten Richmond from , cub The moment Boauregard turus (o defend bim- - Sherman is then to str 2, beige oo y a descent upon New in South Carolina, But- \d Halleck immortalize Orleans via the Father of am confident, is the scheme of the demonstra- b is, in the lanj of McClellan, to make ‘a ; irty days more will deter- To be successful, tho rthern armies & world of bloody work to perform. If a terminated ex necessi/ate. It is the ling in the folds of dissolution, But will it fail? The uruside expedition—the key note of the gigantic undor- taking—has been dispersed to the four winds of boaven. Babel-|: , confusion is upon is. be ngairn the past, may we not predict that Buel! will the same fate, Picayune Butler do., Halleck Van Dorn, u + Sidney Johnston Thompson interpose a living wal at ; Smith and Jackson the Potomac, will roll up their solid barriers of firo red tide of invasion. Let us pray Of late I have of man: gigs erent Ba ited and almost hopeless of affairs is discussed. bdued, ; Bennett writes ‘a distressed and rhile the lesser editorial cohorts drop oppressed people; cid the Cimmerian gloominess of expression every- where of Molielian democratic State conventions are abusing forth. Complaints fall about the cars “ thick as — Vallambrosan 7 ‘fidious abolitionist, Seward as as a moa- ma of are ial corruption Silckaoeies the ee ott r forth stan government vaults are empty; ury notes aro per cent below par; the ee iy or and al of the war beneath the whirl could pot control. glia abd French press, {0 a unitsare sympatbiai rs c] a unit, are with the South. egy e over declared inefficient, and les a violation of the laws of nations and humanity. English men-of- war are in almost Northern port. A French fri- gate, the Pomona, is at Fortresa Monroe, and its officers rusticating in the hetels of Norfolk. 4s waiting to go into the dry dock and be repaired.) Our friends abroad predict a speed: eve. sot the da} manifestations of the good will of all outside mankind. ‘The day star is evidently breaking. (Rumor says she nd, we have oh 1 We have cheering ; and, on eve! [Special corrrespondence of the Richmond Dispatch.) ) Norvoux, Jan. 31, 1862. in Washi i inglon, and Neo ‘ork——Condition of the Cities and of the i- cal Reminiscences—Services of Norfolk Citizens. very late and reliable intelligence from the cities, and from Ws and Baltimore. e-like, noisy, driving, dashing, thriving Empire City You may peraibulate about town now without juently; the people are Philadelphia is a slow looking place compared to its Dusinesslike and cheerful appearance {a days of pros. perity. Baltimore looks taore like going ahead; but, judging from the suppressed murmurs that are heard, uw '¢ may 800n be au eruption of the volcanic fres that uggliag for vent. Washington ia a muddy place. ‘An armod soldiery is the great feature, while the beauti- ful public structures of stone forin a striking contrast to the modest looking private buildings. There, the con- tractors, office seekers, and all the crowd of scrambiers after money, are as ‘busy as ever; but Washington too presents the sad effects of the war waged by misguided fanatics and unacrupulous demagogues. If the historic chapters relative to the present stu. pendous revolution, which are to be read by coming gen- Drations, shall present a truthful record of the events that marked the commencement of the struggle for lib- erty in Virginia, some exploits in this section of our noble old State will be recorded as possessing vast im- portance. There are some names, too, still unwritten upen the scroll of fame, that will descend witi those of the heroés of those days far down the track of tune. in our streets; our peaceful homes and altars would now be invaded, and the sea) inga had agai fed the : be hands and at the mercy of the vandal hordes of the North. of Virginia, unless its build. One of the enemy’s powerful war ships was #0 clore at hand that the boatswain’s whistle could be distinctly beard on shore. Her great guns pointed towards our ‘lings, but her officers knew not of the de- termined spirit of resistance that fired the hearts of some who were ready and eager to step forth te the emmeone rom In tha report from the Office of Detail and Equipment to to rtant measures taken her tmpo . ‘was decided by one or two bold and daring spirits to ove the vast quantity of powder stored in the vernment magazine upon the sbhore,@ mile below city, And so well dovised was the plan, so cautiously was it executed, 80 eagerly and #0 rapidly, and yet so quietiy was the work done, that tl of the citi- wns Liew vag the important matter until the labor wae accompli: |. Shail we particularize with re- d to those who go bravely and #0 carefully toiled in of their country’s honor on that night, when the explosion of # single would havo been death ana ruin, and revealed the plot by a wide sproad destruction? At the beginning of active hostilities here many of the volunteer officers and men of the revenue, as well as the navy cflicors, most gallantly did their duty; and much might be said, too, of that valuable class of men ine seaport, the piiets. Our esteemed fellow citizen Captain Richard Evans and be ap Osmond Peters, on the opposite site of the river, nobly stood up to their duty in spite of infirmities and regardiess of exposure. Indeed there seemed to Le on iS Ans ara G's he gras i > fore f ‘Yard fire, Lieutenant James F. Milli Avi f took command guns forwarded from the Navy Yard,and @ few days later che ia passed up the James river, loaded with powder, thot, shell, Ae, the last time she had te run the bicckade, which abe did safely, had two barges intow. The fod the efficient aud able services of Lioutenant (now Captain) Milligan, then ‘and since, have been deservediy a; ated aad ac. in proper quarters. No one has more wi and untiringly. As signal officer his ser- vices have specially useful, sud bis system of sig- pals is bolieved to be equal to any that has been adopted. The steamor Ranoy quickly foliowed the Empire to Rich- mond, and indeed was the Orst steamer that got off witha full cargo of powder for that city. She was in command of Capiain William Face, @ Virginia pilot, who wae very prompt and onergotic in the mance of the import- aut duties assigned him, when men of nervo aud action wore in demand for special service. Sm R. Hodgins and thy ron, Lieutenant W.E. Hudgins, @ ROTvice, shovld be mentioned among the best men jn the stirring scenes ‘enseted during the period aliuded to. Ouhor brave men wore activo ia urging forward these me eures wh'o wore #0 fequir'te lor safety, and in eeovring the a fences of our city and other parts of the Sato, On the 10th of April very guns of the Cumbori ciliaens, under the d towed thom ju the darkness of the night none by the for ini ‘able Io » Camberiand, and sank thera iz where tiey Now tie, conce uted 10 watelifui fow that looke with n coveious ayoup ol! gaarded aho. 9s of th» itirabeub Atanovher time [ may allude to the Live part takea by others, resident here and elsowhore, and connected with the army, the navy and in private life. Now, time ‘and space are insufticient THE ENROLMENT OF FREE NXGROKS IN RRBELDOM, In the Virginia House of Delegates on the 4th tustams the subject of euroiliug free negroes for the rebel army tho following debate took place. We copy tho oificiat report of the proceedings from the Richmond He- auniner — ‘The bill amending the Convention act for the eurol- mont of free negroes was, ob motion of Mr. Prince, taken up Among the amendments in this bili Mr. Prince called attention to the one allowing ten cents for each Regro 8 onrolied to the Sheriifor officer so enrolling thom. He proposed to strike out this amendment and insert in lieu of the proposed compensation that if the MISCELLANEOUS SOUTHERN NEWS. temporary fonn, he was offered $590,000—it fs oon’ GENERAL PILLOW IN THE FIELD AGAIN, fidently anticipated that, bofore another week The Nash publishes the follo coumuni- . catenin Coal G. ng Pitlow pote ‘advised of | lapses, the deposits will amount to four or five ona Giounstanges at genes, Keathety = millions, Whenever any bank or banker finds bis hdray . been v “ ” Some days past, uate ievory meh reduced, bat will,as }84pply of notes accumulating beyond his wants for ny as his health will admit, ra to his post or report | circulating purposes, he will now take \ls surplus eral Jolmston fer aug. HENRY, A. A. General. by the Sub-Treasury and make it earn five per cent SOUTHERN OPINION OF GENERAL BUTLER. oF ORR, This new Sub-Treasury reguiation is destined to exercise @ marked influence op the money market, A week ago it appeared that money waa The Mobile Register und Advertiser of Friday has the following gossip about Ship Island-—Remors have beer adoat a day or two in the city that Picayune Butler had evacuated Ship Island with the bulk of his forces, leav : vib 0 ing only a garrison in that choice and lovely spot of white i said officers fai! to comply with te poauseiti ons of ie Send Ee tie setae ee ee tana nt ae carrendan destined to fall im value here. It i Nae rey oe sutlpetednired dollars, As those, oficors | % Biloxi, with the actual pedis. Wo suapect he known that, in London, call loans are eo “ “ ” wor pt from military duty, ho said, it was about | 78 pr MAK RD Bia ed not worth over 1% per cent per an as as they could do to perform the service of en- | iis he didn’t co num. It was reasonable to suppose that a similar He had achieved material for ee che K ae nagrae Phony Tonpative: coupes * og Serpe, Fae at tne. arih, and wv ashal). pron, hi of plethora of money would sooner or later begin to : oa cotton port an wim) b as th adopted. coolness and daring of the Massachusetts roldicry. ss to | De felt here, especially @ supply of currency Mr. Rives proposed that the ameadmont in the bill re- specting the term of tho enlistment of nogroea be amond- | Pic's destination and the reason of his departure we are was about to be increased by large issues of go- loft to doubt and speculation. Some say that water was “4 Veli boata, | ed to.make the (erm ninety days, instead of a hundred and eighty. His reason for this was the fact that the familios of many of the free negroes go onlisted, having no other means of support, would, as had been the case in bis own county, st very much from want. Mr. Privcy to compromise with the gentieman vernment paper. But the appearance in the money market of the government as a borrower on call at a fixed rate of five per cent will operate effectually to maintain the price of money. The wante of the Treasury are sufficient to absorb all the floating vory scarce at Ship Island and sickness very abundant, and that he has gons to find pleasanter winter quarters. We are sorry he is gone, tor there isn’t ® man of Pica- yune’s Kidnoy whom we should prefer to see en route to Mobile, sword in hand, than himself. on one bun and twenty days. INDULGENCES TO UNION PRISONERS. Mr. ANpERson, of Botetourt, that the amendment | Tho Charloston Courier says:—Many rumors of im- | capital in the country, and borrowers on etocka would not pass.” One hundred and oighty days were only | proper indalgonces to and communication with prison- and mercantile paper will find Mr. Cisco a forml- dable competitor, In the opinion of leading money dealers: it is hardly likely, so long as the Sub-Treasury pays five per cent for temporary loans, that the rate in open market will rule below six. Nor is it probable that, capitalista will want ore in Columbia are circulated. We kaow nothing of the facts of the case, nor do we desire them for publication; but the persistence and prevalence of the rumors may deserve atttention from those officially charged with the care of the prisoners. ARRIVAL OF UNION. PRISONERS AT RICHMOND. The Richmond Dispatch of the 4th inst. says:—The tral cars yesterday brought down one Yankee prisons six months; and if white mon could be drafted for two yours, he saw no reason why freo negroes should be en- titled to such charitable discrimination. Mr. Rivgs replied that he made the proposition from no Particular friendship to free be el i were in his gue he would convert them into to-morrow. t it’ was simply to call the attention of the House to the fact that, in his own county, many severe oases of suffer- ing had among the families of freo negroes from | Gorman, Wilhelm Earnest, belonging to the to buy paper at or below five per cent, when they thought that possibly some alleviation | Ponnsylvania regiment, taken by our pickets on f b might ay by the cmenduvent tomac. Earnest represented. himself, through inter. | can obtain five for the temporary loan of their funds to government. At present call loans are quoted 6 a 6 per cent, and first class paper at the same rate; long paper and names uot generally known pass current at various rates—from seven upwards. The market is bare of paper in com- parison with past times; but the brokers report that there was rather anincrease of notes on the market last week. Foreign exchange rose yesterday to 114% a 115 for sterling bills,and 4.9244 a 97% for franos— bankers’ bills in both instanc: The advance is due partly to the recent increase of importations, coupled with @ decline in our exports of produco; partly to apprehensions arising from the passage through the House of the Treasury Note bill, and endimen' amendment was rejected, and the bill was then ordered to ils engrossment, THE EASTERN VIRGINIA SHORE. {From the Richmond Dispatah, Feb. 4.) Another batch of refugees, nino in number, from Agco- mac county, arrived in this city a day or twosince. The manner of their escape from the tyranny of Lincolnism 1s peculiar, a8 well as bold and hazardous. All the boats on the shore having been taken by the enemy, our adven- turers made themselves a ‘dug out’ of a large log, and with this primitive vessel, in the darkness of the night, cr the bay, and reached the mainland in safety. Tuere is ptilla strong secession feeling in Accomac_and Northampton covnties, though stiiled and kept down by the presence of federal troops. The farce of an election was held there on the 25th of January, to fill tho civil offices made vacant ‘by @ late proclamation of Go- yernor Francis H. Pierpont,’’ and we are informed that the Drummondtown precinct, which heretofore polled two hundred yotes, on this occasion polled only twenty- rotors, to have been deceived in joining tho abolition oes. He said he had only beon five months in the country. DEATH OF THE REBEL MAJOR FOGG. Tho Nashvillo Banner and R-publican of the 20th ult. says:—The peoplo of Nashville were shocked last Sunda: tidings of the death i morning on receiving the unex) of Major Fogg, wounded io the |: Spring. It had been generally undors' ‘waa not serious, though painful, and that ho was doing well. Ho had beon conveyed from the battle fold over the mountains, near Sparta, in White county, where h breathed his last on Friday evening. Tho remains were brought to Nashville on Sunday afternoon. An immense concourse assembled to receive them, in tributary homage to the deceased. SNOW STORM IN RICHMOND, VA. The Richmond Bzaminer of the 4th in! ys: half-past four yesterday morning till twelve M. brisk snow storm prevailed. But about one P. M. a driz- giing rain set in, which lasted till nightfall, with, then, every prospect of continuance. Tho snow, which covers five: thus showing that tho poople are not yet | tie’ ground, is rapidly disappearing, ahd tho pave- | Partly to speculations among the operators in ex- sufficiently subjugated to lend themselves to tho H , paring, “ : . dirty a of tho bogus government, backed ap as fone ae Alreet erossings are in bad condition for pe- | change. Of these three causes, the first is the only one that is substantial, and a glance atthe above tables shows that its operation can be but tem- porary. Our exports of produce, merchandise and specie are in excess of our aggregate imports, not withstanding the recent increase in the latter. As to the fears which are entertained among our foreign residents with regard to the issue of paper money, time will show their groundlessnoss; and the operations of speculations carry with them their own cure. There was a time when they were dan‘ gerous, having a tendency to produce 4 panics and defeat the financial aims of government; at pre- sent they can dono harm. If speculation causes bills to rise above their natural price, we may rest assured that a reaction will sooner or later cause them to fall as far below the trae point aa they had risen above it. The following table shows the course of the stoch market during the past week and month:— it is by abolitionjsm. We have seen an address to the voters, by one Gillet F, Watson, who modestly says that at the roquest of a large number of friends, ‘-he has very reluctantly consented’? to become a candidate for their suffrages for the position of State Senator. The document possesses neither im) ortance nor interest, its prominent Characteristic Leing « servile fawoing at the foot stool of the federal tyrants. We have not heard whether he succeeded in his aspirations or not. The only civil office not vacated by the proclamation of ‘Governor’ Pierpont, is that of Judge of the Eastern District, which, we ure informed, is atill hold by Judge Pitts. ‘Thore are now here some two hundred of the regiment organized on the eastern chore previous to its occupation by the onomy. We hope some arrangement will be of- fected by tho War i*partment, through which these men, who are anxious to fight for their country, thay be enabled to presorve their organization. POISONED QUININE. Tha Momphis Avzlanche discovers that a quantity of Poisoned quinine has been introduced into the South by our enemios, since the domand for that drig has be come so great. Several packages of quinine have becn lately tested, and acid morphine was discovered to be mixed with the quinine in such aquantity 8 to render it poisonous. Strychnine was also detected in many other parcels, HATTERAS INLET AND ITS SAND BARS. The Richmond. Dispatch says:—Tho narrow sandspit which divides the waters of Pamlico and Albemarle Sounds from the ocean is nothing more than a long heap of shifting sand thrown up by the sea. ‘The outside shore line is changed by every stormn, as aro the soundings near the shore, and tho inlets of that sandspit by those shifting sands. Thus we bave no reason to doubt that Hatteras Inlet carriea over eight feet of water three weeks ago, although Gen. Burnside’s vossels, earrying ‘over seven fest three inches, stuck fast in attempting to run through. ‘Those torrible storms had driven tho sand from the shore line into the inlet. POPULATION OF CHARLESTON, D. 0. SOUTH CAROLINA. THINGS IN CHARLESTON—NEW SHON MANUFAC- TORY—SOLICITUDE FOR SAVANNAN—THS THREAT- Teor hapetiaas of the Richa’ Dispatch j C2 ma i [Special correspon: rf WHITES The Charleston Mercury states the white ulation of €., Jan, 20, 1862. apeged re mane Fem the city of Charleston as followa:— Mal We are ha’ here the early vegetal peas and other eatables of the kind. They earenow to be Jon. 11. ars nace Bb. me found in considerable abundance in the market, while F a: 8 the budding trees and the green clever in suburbs in Nei $3 wx ae dicate that the balmy spring is about to revisit us. With | Namber of familie “Dp ~ Se See more than ordinary pleasure we forward to the re- | Males between eighteen and forty-five 38% 4008 aoe turn of warm weather, as it will doubtless send sick- | wales between sixteen and sixty.. “) 81130 On ee ow ness and death among our ‘Northern friends,” who are | Of the males 8 411 were born in the Confoderate States, iy 00 BOK cen wk Port Royal, to pay us 9 visit. and of the foreign born population, which amounted to ye ae Ememmsoday 0.208 5ie'G0 shes Satery ly e8- | 4,719, 532 are f Northorn States, 1,771 from from Ireland, rae ae tablished by Mr. Reynolds. “All bis shoes have wooden | hq 1'429 from Germany. Sie ger soles, and answer admirably, especially for the soldiers ie Mex os on the coast, as salt water soon destroys leather 5 rd i 305 ‘The ladies of this city have formed a Christian Aseooia- * ar tion, which they are doing @ blessed work in 36 caring for bodies and souls of our poor soldiers. In no city in this country are our noble women more untir- ing in their efforts fur the army than in this city. As their husbands, fathers and brothers were the first to ‘move in secession, they seem to feel that they should be second Na aie 5) been oe ee, for the C4 who are making good the position of our young republic. Much solicitude is being teit for Savannah since tite in- formation received this morning of its being threatened by the Lincoln gunboats. INTERESTING STATEMENT OF A REFUGEE FROM THE SOUTH. [From the Boston Traveller, Feb. 6.] A young colored man, named Samuel Ripley, who, im company with e number of others, free and slaves, os- caped from Nansemond county, Virginia, to Fortress Monroe, and thonce came to this city, gives @ clear and connected account of the U ition of affairs in Stocks rose last week, and, on the news of the passage of the Treasury Note bill through the House, the market became quite buoyant. Bute reaction took place yesterday, and a decline of 1a1%per cent occurred. The argument of the bulls is that the forthcoming issue of paper money must cause an inflation of prices, and that stocks must rise in consequence. The bears believe, om the other hand, that the inflation has alrcady been discounted; that the prices of railway shares are alrendy high enough, considering the earnings of the roads and their future prospects; and that neither our foreign relations nor our prospects at home are calculated to produce a suffi- FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Sunpay, Feb. 9, 1862. The imports last week were unusually heavy, the aggregate, as shown below, being considerably in excess of the imports of the corresponding week of 1861, and falling but little short of the corres- ponding week of 1860, which was in excess of the average. The leading articles imported were as follows:— $1,785,805 ‘201/204 irginia, which may be of some interest to our readers. 190,858 | he a inpephng fed unving bapa seumentio’ by he 164,006 | ciently hopeful temper of the public mind to mastor, to take effect at the age of twenty-one; but for 82,761 | warrant expectations of a healthy upward move- some reason the deod was not carried into effuct. ‘The cause of the flight of Mr. Ripley and his com- panions was the fact that the rebel authorities in that ment. It is urged by operators for the de- cline that the new policy of the Sub-Treasury is Fegion are impressiog colored men, both free and slave, any'de, | likely to increase the difficulty of borrowing money federate army. ‘cases x soussenea to par with their slaves, while others grum- 215,715 | on stocks, as @ large proportion of the capital Here is all the information which Congress needs to frame the new tariff. The bulk of the articles above enumerated would be imported whatever the duty was; they may just as well be made to yield double the revenue they do. The export of produce last week was not as heavy as usual, though a few years ago it would have been considered an unusually heavy export to have been made, without any shipments of cotton. We cannot expect, for the remainder of the win. ter season, to ship as largely of breadstuffs as we have been doing. The gold shipment last week was large. It is understood that it consisted chiefly of gold which was bought some time since, and has been waiting for an advance in bills to go abroad. At the present market price of gold there is no profit on shipping it to Europe, even against bills sold at 114%. The following are the official tables of the trade of the port for the week and since January Lise Mt Died at the prospect of losing their services, The pian pursued was to seize the colored men and put them in jail for safe keeping, where they were kept until a suf- ficient number had been collected to form a company. They were then sent to Manassas to be drilled by white officers. Six hundred eft for Manassas a short time be- foro Mr. Ripley left. Some coiored men escaped the impressment by pay- ing one hundred dollars for a white substitute. Mr. Rip- ley and his companions escaped in a boat belonging to a white man, which had been left on the shore. they embarked at night down the river, and by di the next morning were off Newport News, where they wore well received, Upon one or two points our informant speaks quite de- cisively. He has or s number of months acted as driver for one of the teams of the Petersburg cavalry, a well armed company of that city, composed in part of fome of the leading men of the place. ‘The time of this company would be out im about three moaths, and he has heard them declare that no power would induce them to re-enlist, they had suffered so much. He knew of two regiments of colored men in the Southern army. ‘One was from South Caroliua, seven hundred strong, and another from Georgia, one thousand strong. In both casos the officers were white. The lattor was composed in part of a set of perfect desperadoes. Neither of these, in his opinion, would re-enlist, nor did he bdeliev that alarge numbor of any regiment now in Virginia conid be iuduced to remain after their time had ex- heretofore used by stock operators will naturally find its way into the vaults of the Sub-Treasury. Opinions are unsettled with regard to the effect which will be produced abroad by the new finan- cial policy of government. Judging from the un- friendly articles in the London papers, that effect will not be satisfactory, and it is feared that when it is known that we are launched upon the sea of paper money large amounts of our securities may be sent home for sal Foreigners do not: understand the position of affairs here, and do not seem to want to understand them. Letters from England by the last mail predict that if we resort: to issues of paper money—in other words, if we persevere in attempting to put down the rebel- lion—we shall be set down as hopelessly bank- rapt, and our foreign creditors will proceed, with- out delay, to rescue what they oan from the wreck. The Finance Committee of the Senate devoted the day yesterday to an examination of the Trea- For the Werk. 1860. 1861. 1862. Pi reine to ancther matter, he states that tho want | Dry goods.........., $3,603,027 2,022,078 1,785,805 | sury Note bill, as passed by the House, and will: of proper supplex of the ecéssarias of life is causing General merchandise. 1,689,618 1,765,008 8,187,711 | report to the bef eae’ eceainy, 11 Fo eg ee eae a ed eee oun? | Total for the weok.. $9,202,045 3,787,144 4,973,516 | confidently believed by the administration: bleed ae Gar yelea. Tab coos of ‘eek yee, Previously reported.. 20,083,842 20,020,003 11,715,542 | pill will pass ina day or two. Efforts continue to in consequence of the want of a ma:ket, resulted in grt Since January 1....$26,186,787 23,817,142 16,602,058 | be made by the opposition to work upon the fears The blockade upon that point of the coast is established Expoars oF cago mag Merenanvisa. - | of the country members by exaggerated piotares Seen from 1 anton twey they ‘have Kg ae For the week $1,909,009 2 300,864 1 dre ot he evils of Dapee Saantaeeeee ens . They have @ battery on | For the week....... ++ $1,909, 890, v — Cedar Fount, Nensewond Tyrer, an another at Barrett's | Previously reported.. 6,469,421 10,541,230 11,223,421 i se por Soe oi ee ee ey Point. a 2 joyal Sliver and gold have almost disappeared from eircula- | Since January 1.....$7,378,400 13,432,004 13,190,800 tion, and all sorts of substitutes are adopted, such as Exronm ov Srrcs, ; pagal Regie ely sola lees pieces of leather or cards stamped for five or ten cents. 1860. 1861. 1862. which money can be obtain for prosecution ane one ne es rn Cactedarees manen’, | Fee iheweek.---.c.-- GAETAST 115,098 1,490,808 | of the war. It should be remembered that to-r6 uc Lu . re) wee ft # 705 3 5 Piregard to Union sentiment, if any exists,it is sup- 4 poweye —_ OE RSS | fuse to vote for the Treasury Note bill is to:para- essed by fear, ‘The only outspoken Union mam known | gince January 1..,... $042,219 423,222 4,126,164 | lyze the government and to afford sid and comfort by Mr, Ripley is a clergyman. to the rebels. The offence for which Mr. Beight was so justly expolled from the Senate last week was light and trivial, in a practical point of view, in comparison with the conduct of Mr. Morzill, of Vermont, and Mr. Roscoe Conkling, of New York, in trying to defeat the Treasury Note bilk Had these members succeeded in seducing a majority of the members of Congress from their allegiance and killing the bill, the wheels of govern ment would now have stopped, My. Chase The banks continue to accumulate specie slowly. Last Monday they showed a specie average of $27,479,583, which was an increase of $780,855 from the week previous. To-morrow they will probably show about $28,000,000, having gained fully five millions since they suspended. Their discounts will probably show a decline of over # million, while their deposits will show an increase of about the same amount. The new arrangement, by which owners of United States notes can take them to the ‘At the commencement of the rebellion one of the larg. oat slavebolders was in favor of the Union, but in a short genoral thing, throughout the State are weil aware of what is going on, and if the opportunity was offered would escape in large numbers, They are especially alarmed at the stories in circulation that in cage of another attack apon Manassas the negroes would be put in front to mest the first on- slaught of the federal troops. ‘Tho rebels profess to be confident ef success, but are terribly alarmed in regard to tho Burnside expedition, which they believed threatened the safety of both Nor- They piace great dependence te of the rebel steamer Merrimac, ‘which Wes Sub-Treasury, deposit them there on call after ten | could not have paid the intorest on the Feported to be afloat before Mr. Ripley lo't, days’ notice, and draw five por cent interest on | public debt due on the 19th, all militany prepara- tions would have come tos stand still, it would have been impossible to procure any more sup- plies for the army or navy, and Congress would, in a short time, have been brought face to face with ‘an infuriated army of 600,000 uspaid troope. From. such a picture as this the patriotic mind recoils in horror. Yet this is the state of things which the efforte of Messrs. Morrill, Conkling, Erastus Corn* ing and the other members who yoted with Val- them, will probably remove the objections of all or nearly all the banks to receiving this currency on deposit. This outlet provided for government paper, it would scem that any bank president who. refuses hereafter to receive it on deposit must Iya actuated by some less worthy motive than the in- terests of his stockholders. At the same time, so long as the notes are not a legal tender, the Hanks have an excuse—such as it is—for not taking them, TROUBLE AMONG MRS, JONES’ BOARDERS, Among the many ‘‘funoy’’ advertisements in the late Richmon papers wo select the following. speaks for {teelf:—Mro, Jones belongs to one of the F. F. V.’s, and keeps @ boarding houre—not a hotel, One of her board- ors, one Mf. B. Tyler, recently “stopped ont,”,forgetting to pay his board bill, and Mra. Jones, im retaliation, fol- lows him up with the following truly Southern card, stig- matizing said Tyler os boiug a ‘‘Yankeo,’’ the most exo- erable nationality known in the South, Whores Tyler, | In ordinary business transactions ng one | landigham and May were calculated to produce tho Yankee? Who strack Wm. Patterson, Fiaq.? thinks of refusing them; but these are | Itis to be hoped that they will find fow imitatore ‘Wanted.—To caution all boarding housekeepers and | Shylocks in Wall street who ar every | inthe Sonate, A unanimous vote in favor of the others inat 8 man named M ler, who boarded im ny oe etin nia billamounted to $99 60, without m Uno least effort to pay it, an by stamp as himself, named Luko Moko morium sized man, ‘ark skin and has stalking abcat making thousan monsure is notto be expected, especially as the Senate contains several members whose loyalty ia at least suspected. But itis to be hoped that the majority will be 80 large a8 to satisty the country that the Senate, like the House, fs generally sound day compelling the makers of paper which thoy have bonght in tho markct to pay: it {n specie or go to protest. It will not dofor 4ho banks to place themselves in the power of ‘such parties as these, and the only business like remedy for the Said Tyler is @ Spealts quick, ts of dollacs \("hs ly got money enongh to make it with, Hy b , one Romy ml on rear ly, ail wintery | embarrassments of tho situation, ts the pesaage by | on the great question at issue, and that the admt ; DS riouay exe er hee oy hs laee [ste Sanat of the legaltender,clause. Meanwhile | nistration need apprehend no fire 4 Ky bot ’ if a) it to ho power nit will derive assittance and the finaneiay It is obvious, at the same time, that the amount tf " : i dad Discu tine 1 ‘sof the city W,4ll be stimulated by the of Treasury notes which the Departinent is author, \f he 6 rot ge Bi me converting Ahe Bub-Treasaries at this | ized to issue by the act now before Cougrese will | Sotho ’ i. of deposit. Thongh tt | be wholly insuflicient to relieve the neccraitios of hey , Hh fnown vocorday that Me, Cisco | government, if tine ia lost in maturing and passing - peanut " me ited States notes on | the necessary tax bill, In order to pay ite ways