The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1862, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 9444. IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON. Awaiting the Arrival of Gen. Halleck. ‘ The Office He is to Take Yet Made Public. SKETCH OF THE GEMERAL, &., &e., eo. ‘WAsern 49x, Suly 20, 1882. ot @eneral Halleck has not YA Werived here. All the Geesipsand newspaper corre’, ondnts are on the qui vive for him. He’ will reach "nia city to-morrow night oF Tuesday. Then we may ‘axpétt to know whet position he fetoccoupy. Certain 7 otitieians say that he-will go into We War Department, on the 30th imst. Others, in as good ® position t¢ Know, assert that he ts 10 be mili- tary adviser of ¥he'Prysident and Secretary of War’ whoover the letter “may be, in enier to restore ‘the unity’of avtiom Which se successfully governed our wollitary Movemer 2e*while McClellan was Commander-in- Ghief. The Gewdtat will arrive hers,I have said, to- morrow wight'of Tuesday, and thenwe may know more Ponitively abort’ Whese importamt ehanges, Meanwhile | everything is ‘being vigorously prshed forward in order ‘mot to let ther gress grow under cur feet. All specujutiens in regard to the purpose of the ‘expeoted vifit@r General Hatteck to Washington are ‘at Wault, Poyitively nothing ts known in this matter except ‘Wy tho President and the Secretary of War—not even'by ‘Whe moss prominent and trusted generals. “SKBTCH OF GENERAL HALLECK. Henry Wager Halleck is one of the four major egenerals who were firet sppointed in 1861 ‘to that ‘wank, in the United States Army. General Halleck se abeut forty-two years of age, and was ton im Weston, Oneida esunty, N. Y., where his gran father—one hundred years ol@, and bale and _\teurty—lately resided. ‘General Halleck’s father was the Hen. Joseph Halleck, whe died about three years since. *@eneral Halleck entered the Military Academy asa West Point cadet in 1886, btood third in the class, and was “brevetied second lieutenant of engineers July'1, 1689. Be was acting Asaistant'Professor of Engineering at the Military Academy from July, 1899, to June, 1840. In 12061 he was the author of « military workon “Bitumen and tts Uses,” &c. ‘n' January, 1845, he was appointed ‘@ret lieutenant, amd during the year me was selected ‘by the committeeef the Lowell Institute, at Bos- +ten, to deliver one of the “Wotures, the subject being “ Military @ourse of and art.” ‘Whese lectures he compiled ine neat volume daring the * following year, adding thereto a lengthy introduction on ‘the ‘‘ Justifablences of War.” The work contsins much valuable elementary instruction, as welles abundance of ‘Ristorica} ‘ilustration, and ts written withebiiity. In ‘1941 he was brevetted captain for oendect in afthirs ~with the enemy-en the 1%h and 20th days of Nevember, 1847, and for meritorious sorvice in California. He was + Meeretary of Sente of the Territory of California under the vmaitary governments of Generals Kearney, Mason and r, from 264% to the end of 1849. He was chief of the ‘of Commodore Shubrick, in the naval and miljtary ‘@perations on-she Pucific coast in 1847 and 1848, and was ~@ meniber of.¢he convention m 1649 to form, and of the « @emmittes todeaft, the constitation of the State ef Cali- fernia. In- July., 1853, he was appointed captain of en- ~ Gmeors, and resigned August 1, 1864. A Very interesting aneodote is told of: the early life aud -~ @tidies of theGeneral. As it is exprensive of the firm’ : ess-of character and manliness which have distinguished him during his Mie, we give it here, When about sixteen gears of age he formed the determination to leave his - home unknown: ¢o. his parents, and seck his fortune in eo world. After consulting an uncle, who resided in + fiyracuse, he removed to Hudson, N. ¥., and took 1 board im the family of I. V. Bassett, and, under the patronage of the eforesaid uncle, commenced his studies ~ af the Hudson Academy, which was at that time oon- « @ucted. by J. W.@airfieid. To conceal his residence from his father, be entered the academy @nder the name ef Henry Wager, and was thus known @aring his three years’ residence in Hudson. He was , dkmown as a young maa of quick perception and studious » Rabits, acquitting himself with honor in bis studies. After finishing his course at this academy, through the + Safiveneo of the fore motioned he-vas appointed ‘Bender at West end in due course graduated with honor, receiving iis dicntenant’s commission. He has the country faithfully and well. He-is related, on i fate mo "s side, sounty,) S we ‘the family of Wagers in Colambia Daing a miecaof the late Rev. Banicl Wager, Calleck wasagpointed a major general in the AMpited Stes army in iArcust last, at the instance of ioutenant @yn: wal Boatt , shen about to retirefrom active a@nrvice. Hieh>0 mwiesion-teare date the 19th of Avgnst, 2841. Atthe i me of bis qppointmant, General Halleck ‘was the leading member of. mos: prominent law firm in @an Francisco. (Placed, upex his arrival from sho Pa cific, in commam 1 of the Department of the West, he Promptly awept away the abuses which had ciept into ~ the service unde * Fremont’s administration, amd from the very hour he assumed command the record of the war in the Wost as ‘¥ been ¢auccession of victories, Un. éer bis mast@y , i*licy tho .zebels have been «driven from Missouri; M ‘ddle amd West Tennessee, imelud- fog she capital cf the Giale, bavo been .oacu- pied by the Union ag iuies, abd a.lodgment obtained for eur troops in Not) \trn Mississippi and Alabama, and Northwestern Arkasa ¢@. Fram bic beadquarters at St. , Lovis, Genoral Halla ck, with magterly skill; diwected the movements of lie grand armies under Generals! Buell, Grant, Pope, mad Curtis, besides controlling tho; action of subordi tate co menanders in different parte of! Missouri; and he hws.e<nj tyed the ramard of witnersing the opening of the .Miaginsi ppl valley by the “ram ileet’’ | under Colonel Eilet, During the poriotiwhen Be comenanéed the army of the Southwoat, a loth w from @t. Louis gpeke thes of his action aud serviogr:—“There 4# surprising vigor in the eourse pursued by Major Gene.@! Halleck in bis dealings with the Missourt rebels, He bag bridgaburners and marauders tried amd exeouted; wo there ic an end of Drirge burning and marauding. ‘We levies. a the pro perty of rich traiters.to support the poor Union refugees driven from their bomes by Priew and .his fol lowers. He pute mutinous volunteers to -work on fortiications, He requires ofjcors of the University of Missouri, whieh was endowed by the Jvited Stores, to take the oath of allegiance or resign within thirty days. He requires presidents and directors’ of roilroad companies to 4o the same, and also diroc them to employ none bat loyal citizens on their roads, He dieects that no contracts be marie except with per sous who have taken the oath of ullegiance,and he or- dere that all clerks, agente aad civil expioyen in the gervice ofthe government also take it, Gen, Halleck ore al) (hose extraordinary tbiwgs under military law, axl ay ho,isdenownt to bo wel) versed in silitary jurtspru dence, und the author of work op a kindred rane, be does not do them ignorautly. While thig dealing With the traitors at wome, General Halieuk doos mot negigct the teaitors in arms, The various dipisions ip his departmontare moving with ag much vigor and rapidity as the wesitier and roads evil! aimit of, Several corpe ave cloving in on Price at the couthweet, white another ts watching Jef. Thompson ot the south ‘and etii! another is mowing On the Mirsissipyy intending to ottack the main tebe! army at Columb:.s.* ‘The oficial ordes and out o# af teneral liaileck, given from tine Ww time fe the J rove that hy eovcelves this war to be prosesute the pres vetion of the Union and the seein lenauce of the constiiu fion—the “old’? constitution of W/Ashington and Madigun, ‘and got the nowdangled InsirameW which Lovejyy and Phillipa and Sumner preach up. Si entertaming and pera) Ualieck hes been houvred wiih the hoettlity of the edteale; but he bag vot quailed boforo the storm, and & huis famous **General Order No, 3)’ Which set the abviiiioniate boy! vat 8,6 { Fr et ing, he bras given no sign of a disposition to proseo'se the war for any other purpose than to preserve thia govern- mer for the benefit of the white race, whoms'ancestors Freimed it. Major General Halleck, in personal appeanauce, is below the medium height, straight, active and well formed, and has a brisk, energetic gait, significant of his firm and decisive character. His nose is delicata and well formed, his forehead ample, avd his mouth by no means devoid of homer. His eye is of a hazel colow, clear ase morning ‘star, and of intense brilliancy. When he looks at a map i veems as though he were going literally to read bim Shrough and through. No amount of oily duplicity, no ‘Drazen effrontery, me studied concealmest, could avail anything before that keen, penetrating glance. Jt is an eye to make all regues tremble, aud even ho.est men look about them to be sure they have net been up to seme mischief, The profound and implicit confidence in ‘him of all who have had dealings with him is no mys- tery after seokeg what manner of min he is. Such is his personal appearance, aud he does business off band, is impatient of long sterics, and cuts many an officer short in bis verbal communisation. He evidently has bis odd ways: te puts om a oitizen’s dress and walks through the camp. Lately be helped a teamster out of the mud, then gave him a severe lecture for not driving earefully. Ile laughed heartily to hear the witticisms of a teamster upon himself; The ‘high water in the river made a slough all but impassable. The teamater bad Goundered through it, amd, taving reached the top of the ‘diuff, and being in sight of ‘headquarters, relieved bim- self of volley after vollay of oaths upon the creek, his horses, the roads, and lastly upon Gengral Halleck for not having the creek bridged. The criticism was just; but the General had already ordered the construction of a bridge, and, being incog., could enjoy the vorbatcaggica” thon, General Fialleck in the camp and in the field is nidaty the same person who might have been seen quietly glid- jug from the Planter’s House to headquarters in St. Louis: He does not look a whit more military in appearance, but looks, in his new and rich though plain uniform, as if he were in borrowed ‘clothes, In truth, he bears a most striking resemblance to some olenginous Methodist par- son dressed dn regimentals, with a wide, stifrimmed Diack felt hat sticking on the back of his head, at an acute angle with the ground. His demeancr in front of his tent is very-simple‘and businesslike. No pemp, no unusual ceremony, an@ no laek of order, When on:horse- ‘back his Wesleyan character is more and more promi- nent. He neither looks like « soldier,rides like one, nor does he carry the state of a major general in the field, but is the impersonation of the man of peace. Independent of his military capacity, Gen. Halleck is noted as an able lawyer, he, at the time.of his appoint- ment, being the principal partner in the law ‘firm of Hal- Teck, Billings & Co., of San Francisco. He left his lucra- tive business to take up arma in defeneeof the cause of the government of the United States. His clear criti- cisms of ‘military blondors, and his just appreciation of military excellence, mark him as a ripe, ready and prac: tical thinker, and promise the best vesults in action’ ‘Wherever he is placed he will no doubt.give @ good ac count-ef himself and of the enemy. Or GENERAL NEYws. ‘Wasamoren, Juty 20, 1808. ‘OUR SICK AND WOUNDED AT RIQHMOND. Dr. R. F. Brunot, of Pitteburg, a member of the sylvania Sanitary Commission, bas fust retarned from Richmond, via Petersburg, where he .was confined in the‘Libby warehouse prison, with a large number of oar wounded, whem he humanely befriended and cared for when our retiring army left them in the enomy’s hands. dea ofthe condition of our soldiers:and of the treat tion. fired the first three shells directly into: the hospital taken ef it by our army. by the rebels to.collect the wounded auill on the field beeu interred. ‘meanti | cartridge boxes and baversacks, and even the iron frag wnents of shells. wounded, but a8 priseuers of war. They were placed in various warehouses, prisons where the air was im. pure aad the “ventilation shocking. No surgeons were sufferers, cave Ma & single case, when a rebel surgeon produced arusty saw and amputated aleg. The patient afterwards died. Of all the rebel ladies that were so officious in atvendirg $0 thei ‘m maimed, not one ap- peared among the yrounded apd dying strangers that ). crowded their @ity. Mr. Bromot states tnat the mortality was increasing daily. Up to the timp he left,in the Libby and other privons, none of Gur suxgeons were kept in prison. Mr. was allowed to come aw.ty to makeaeme arrangemonts for an exchange of prisoners, but ga ‘ingent parole to row "D {0 twenty day unless exokanwed for Mr. Lawrence’ Washington, Ho camo to Petersburg -by rail, and thenes (City Poiut, where found oar tag of truce W \. ycrol rebelg Were genetully exultant; but Rich mond and Peter, AbuRE Were places of MounDiay, every house doing the Teceptaciy of @ corpse, Nr. Bromo refrains from disa '98ing the pointe in bis posession yolative to the revel ree, paaibiun, etc., such being con trary to the terms of N18 parole, fe jearns that Genera! Dix bye arranged with @hé rebel euthoritios for an mine diate rolense of our woundyA upox parole, It i atatod that the yarole of wourded Union prisoners at Hichmond bas alrea Y deen commenced, and that two handred and ily haye a weady boen gent to she Whiie Mouse, awaiting a flag of tr Wee to bring them away De. Deanet states that ho a. 1 the Off'eurs’ jyrieom ay Richinond Generals Me and Meynoide. er Wore, wounded. The two generale cooupN A apartment sep. rated by @ partition from the quarisrs, Offeolonelg and maior, The captaing and lieutenants oe beep ¥rem Mr. Brunet and from other sources we obtain an ment they reodived at the time of their capture and sub- i be recollected that most et the sufferers in the Datties of Thuraday, Friday and faturday were removed to @avage’s station, where the mansion, negro quarters and outbuildings afforded them an imperfect shelter, A great number of hospital tents had been pitched in the adjacent orchard and fields, and these: provided further acoommodations fora large numberof the sufferers. Blankets, boards aud canvass covered all the surround- ing space, and those who coula not beJaid in the tents ‘were stretched upon these in the epen. air. Therewas necessarily much pain endured by the unfortunates, as the falling back of the army involved things in confa- sion, and the few surgeons remaining bad neither the appert enances nor the opportunities ¢o ply their ayoca- ‘The battle of Peach Orchard toek place on Sunday morning, and the wounded from that field were brought directly to Savage’s, adding largely to the number already upon the; plain. At three,o’clock in the afternoon the Dattle; to the left of Savage’s, commenced and the rebels, either not perceiving or disregarding our hospital fag, Considerable solicitude ensuing ameng the hel)less and maimed,some of the surgeons volunteered to take a flag of truce tothe enemy. It was received: by them, anda note returned, signed by three rebel eolencls, promising not to agsail: the hospital, unless unfair advantages was ‘The battle raged till nine o’clock in the evening, the wounded being constantly brought in to Savage’s, and under caver.of night our troops retired, leaving detach ments to bring the wounded from the fleld, who con. tinued at thein labor till one o'clock on Monday. morning, At daylight the enemy’s pickets came riding into Savage’s, and gnards were at onc® placed upon the hos- pital. Common country wagons were then set to work and they wee all brought to the station. Some cf the dead were ‘burfed on the field that day, and the work progressed through .the three ensulug days, until all had On Tuesday merping the barricades having been re- moved from #he;track, and also the smouldering ruins of the trains and (baggage destroyed by the Unionists, the rebels ran out trains of cars to Savages’, and commence removing their own wounded to Richmond. In the detachments were set to work to pick up the yevings and speilsof.our camps. The poverty of the rebels Is exemplified by the fact that they picked emery. |, thing clear down to oid cast off clothes and shoes, solitary Their own wounded.were provided with adequate ac. ‘cemmodations in the houses and pleasant hospitals ar Righmond, while ours were,mot taken to the city til; Tuesday week after she battic, Many of them had in tho wmeantime died of their wounds, and most of thoeo wore interred near the station. At length our wounded were transferred to Richmond, and regarded not as provided for tigm, save the single surgeon in charge of cach hogpital, end there sook no means to relieve oup | feated bythe radical factions in the Senate by pariia” - THE NEW YORK HERALD. NEW YORK, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1862. assigned to an upper room jn the same building. The ‘effvers, as well as the sick and wounded, are provided with rations of bread and meat twice a day. Soup of some kind is furnished to the sick and wounded unable to eat solid food, The wounded men from Savage’s sta- tion are placed in the tobaceo warehouses in which the Bull run prisoners were formerly confined. There are three of these warehouses, adjoining each other, and communicating by passages one with the other. A few bunks have been erected for officers; but most of the sick and wounded te upon the floor, which doses not appear to have been cleaned aince last cocupied as a prison. Until lately all were left in the clothes they wore when taken, Within a few days comforts and drawers, &c., had been furnished in limited quantitics, The Clothes of the wounded im many instances had to be cut off, baving bees saturated with the exudations from their wounds, These scraps of clothing were al) carefully gathered up, as were also the woollen scraps found about our abandoned camps. It is supposed they were sent to the woollen mills, te be used in the manu- facture of elothing for tho robo} soldiers. Among the prisoners at Bichmond are fourteen sutlors. APPOINTMENT OF A MILITARY GOVERNOR FOR AR- KANSAS, Hon. John 8. Phelps, of Missouri, has been appointea Military Governor of Arkansas, and. will soon leave Washington for that State. He has full powers neces- Gary, simflar to those conferred upon Messrs. Johnson, Stanly and Shepley, the high purpose being to assist the loyal people in re-establishing their government in accordance with the constitution of the United States. This appointment gives general satisfaction, from tho known prudence and firmness of the recipient as well as his unquestionable loyalty. The appeintment was un- sought and gracefully conferred by the President. Mr. Phelps will enter immediately upon the execution of his duties. He will for the present make his head- qparters at Holeua, but expects very soon to assume the gubernational functions at Little Rock. It is understood that on the advance of General Curtis to Geary, White county, within about fifty miles of Little Rock, the Ar. kaueas State archieves were removed to Hot Springs, near Red River, in the southern part of the State. It is to be regretied that General Curtis did not then proceed to the State capital and take possession of it. It is under- stood here that biajmarch to the bank of the Mississippi was occasioned only by bis need ef supplies, and not by the pressure of the rebel forces under Hindman. ‘The Union forces from Kansas are now in the vicinity of Fort Smith, and another large Union force has entered Arkansas from Southwestern Missouri. I¢ is likely that the bombastic Hindman, who is too new a man in Ar- kansas to have won much of the confidence of old set- tlers, will soom ‘be compelied to find his way across Red river, and lewve'the'loyal men ef North Arkansas to or- ganize a loyal government for themselves. r FAVORABLE ASPECT OF AVFAIRS IN THE SOUTHWEST. Govertior Ramsey., of Minnesota is in the city. He has Deen at Corinth, and heard from General Halleck that every thing is-eafe in the West, and that the ogming an, tumn must see ‘the cleaning out of the rebels in the Southwest, ‘The affair at M ‘was a.surprise; ‘Dut it is net ‘kgown yet te whom the biswe specially attaches, THB GUERILLA PORAYS. z ‘The late eperations of guerillas in Kentucky show the necessity-of employing State troops with reference to such tmeursions; hut'the House bill for that purpose was de- mentary expedients. SENATOR CHANDLER'S LATE SPEECH ON THE CONDUCT ad OF THE WAR. A moet unheard of and unpariiamentary preceeding ‘was tolerated! by the President of the Senate, in allowing Mr. Chandier to make a speech in which he made wouching the testimony given before the Committee on the Conduct of the War. Proceedings before commitiees are required to be kept sacredly secret, amd neither the Pirew without being amenable fer s breach of faith and honor. ‘The repert is made up thus far, and ig placed in strange bands! But why did not the Committee make @:report and let all the people see the facts as they stand? ‘Mr. Chandler quotes the testimony of Assistant Secre- tary of War Scott, who never had anything todo with the rolls. He stated that General McClellan left with one hunared and fifty or sixty thousand men, when -every body knew that he took with him three corps d’armee, or one hundred and eight rogiments, which had not nearly their full complement of one thousand men. It was not ‘until weeks after that General Franklin’s division of twelve regiments was sont to reinforce him. Subso_ quently the division of General Mansfield, at Newport's News, was sent up iu front of Richmond; also the Penn- sylvania reserve division, under General McCall. Alto- gether, McClellan’s army had not reached one hundred and fifty regiments at the date of tne late series of engagements. There have been not less than thinmy thousand in killed, wounded, prisoners and missing in the dozen battles which have come off since his landing on the Peninsula. That as many or more have died from disease, or been disabled by sickness, ie not un- likely, because the campaign in Mexico showed shat more than half of the volunteers succumbed to disease before reghnente got into battle. ‘Mr. Chandler :made the mad statement that there was not a piece on carriages or on the intrenghments here when McClellan Jeft; but our citizens, who bave visited the forts constantly, all say that his statement is ruth- lessly false. THE FORTAGE STAMPS AS CURRENCY. There is se little engraving to be done upon postage stamps that there is. fear that counterfeiting the de- nomination of ninety cents may be successful As paper currenoy is to be mostly a government matter, it behooves Mr. Chase that all possible watehfulness shall be kept upon counterfeiters, to the end that the people may not be swindled by their acts. ORDERS TO ARMY OFFICERS. Lieutenant Kenaston, of the Eleventh infantry, having been reicased from duty in the United States Mustering mice in New York, will report for duty to the Superin tendent of the Fleveuth infantry, recruiting service at Fort Independence, Boston Harbor. Lieutevant Causter, of the Niuetesuth infantry , will proceed to Utica, N. ¥., aad thore release Captain Pease, of the Seventh infantry, in she duties of mustering and diebursing officer. Captain Pease, on being released, has loave of absence until farther orders to command a regiment of New York volunteers. Brigade Surgeon Lecompte has been ordered to repair to Chester, Pa.,to take charge of the general hospital at that place. Brigade Surgeon ©. I.. Allen is ordered to report to the Surgeon General as a member of the board for the ex, amiuation of surgeons of volunteers, DISMISSALS FROM THE SERVICE. Aeoond Lieutenant Kdwin A. Newbury, of tho Twenty- eighth New York Volunteers, beiug a supernumerary off- oer, is diacharged the sorvice. ‘The following named officers are dismissed :—Rev. Choney, Chaplain Fourth Ohio Volunteer cavalry; Sur- goon J.N. Bates, Fifteenth Massachusetts Voluoteors, and Capiain Joreph J. Vaughan, One Hundred and Sixth regiment Pennsylvania Volunteors, DETAILMENT OF NAVAL OFFICERS. The following mamed naval oilicers have been de. tailed —Lieuteuant Commanding, John L. Davis; Mid shipman, as Acting Master, F. J. Higgensen; Acting Assistant Surgeon, Passmore Treadwell; Acting Assistant Paymanser, ny A. Farmer. THR NEW GUNBOATS. Tho sew Kronsides wil! soon be rendy for duty, in nd. dition to the principal oflicers heretotore moutioned, the following nowed have beon ordored to that veasel:— Boatawain, Thomas Rengett, ( ner, H, Hamilton; Car: penter, 1. Werworth; Spiimeker, J, A. Birdsall, ‘The new tron clad guniyeals will be putin comintesion 4h the coursa of Lares months. Their armamaut ia already being prepared.” THe THEER. BuwdNt Teaser is undergoing Waehingtas Navy Yur. C8 OP THE TRIATNK. that Count Gurowski ke gto regiment if tue Distoce of | The Cyclops «," the raaicat | ‘The captured reve thoraygh repairs at the ANGTIRE BLACK ROM The stotement in the Anxious to sve aD Dolumbla ix ¢ gure romance ate garbled extracts and distorted and disjointed statement® | committee nér any member of it can divulge what trans- | abolition cohort, Although a twrelgner, has written vory | Warvetiy about the history of slavery, but ho ha gv idea of cviging an African regiment ia the mancer suggan, 4, or within the time prescribed. IMPORTANT FROM THE GULP. Arrival of the Star of the South from Pensacola and Key West. MORE SEIZURES OF VALUABLE PRIZES, The English-Confederate Steamer Adela Captured, Ren Bees ae ‘The steam transport Star of the South, Captain Wood- hull, arrived at this port on Saturday afternoen. She left Pensacols om the 11th and Key West on the 14th inat. Our correspondence contains the sews, which is very’ interesting. Our Special Key West Correspondence. Kav Wasr, July 11,1862, 4x. t0at an& Departure of the Marion—Reasons Why She Should Always Stop Here—Arrival of the United States Steamer Quaker City with the English-Confederate Steamer Ad: la in Tow—Desoription of the Adela—Par- ticwlars of Where and How She was Cartured—An Es- citing Chase—Good Shooting—The Quak-r Ctty fakes Another Prize—She ts Sent to Boston—Particulare of Her Capture and Cargo—Exciting Scene with the Cap. tain on Board the Prize—Tle is Sent on Board the Quaker City by Force—He Proves to be the Captain of the Priva- teer Sallie—Arrival of the Schooner Julia with Seventy- fiv: Bales of Cotton, Prize to the United States Schooner “Kitlatinny—Where She (ured—Rebel Sympa- thizers Again—The Steai farion Fired at by an Unknown Vessel, de. ‘Tho steamship Marion, Capt; Phillips, arrived here on the morning of the 9th inst. most unexpectedly. She bad been advertised in the Hxratp for New Orleans only, and consequently we had given up the idea of ever seeing her again. She sailed at daylight on the 10th for New Orleans, baying taken in one hundred and twenty-five tons of coal, Should Messrs. Spofford, Tilestom & Co. determine to allow their steamers to stop at tis point to and from New Orleans, and not charge over the Havana price for passage, they will find it to their advantage, for every one hore will do all in their power to facilitate their movements and give them de. spatch; besides which their line will be well patronized a8 the winter approaches by passengers for this place. ‘Scarcely had the prize steamer Ann left our harbor, ‘on the 9th inat., when the United States steamer Quaker City, Commander J. Madison Frailey, arrived, towing the English-Confederates steamer Adela, which vessel she had captured about nine miles to the southward and westward of Abaco, ‘The Adela is a besutiful paddle-wheel steamer, of about six or eight hundred tons barthen, is very fast and of light draught, not drawing over aine feet water when loaded; she has twe smoke stacks, which are painted a light color, so that'‘they are not easily dtstinguished at any distance. These smoke stacks, painted, as they -were, te-deceive, were inzeaiity the cause of her cap- ‘ture, as I will now state. ‘On the morning of the 7th inst., when the Quaker City ‘was to-the northward and eastward of Abaco, the land being in sight, a-enil-was reported t¢ Captain Fratley as ] ‘being visible clove under the land. Captain Frailey at once went on deok, when the two white smoke stacks ‘were seen in bold relief against the dark backgrouné of the shores of Abaco, and presenting the appearance of the sails of a small vessel standing close along shore, ‘which Captain Frailey thought was the case. Presently, however, smoke was seen issuing from the top of one of the #o-thought white sails, when a closer observation was made, and the vessel in sight was discovered to be a steamer, evidently beund around the “Hole inthe Wall.” Chase was at onee made by the Quaker City to thesouth- ward, to cut her off if possible, As soon as the stranger discovered the Quaker City in chase she set her eclors— English, of course—but the Quaker City did aot respond at the time, for pradent reasons. Abaco, or rather the ‘Hole in the Wall,” was passed, and not until @ distance was reached that placed ‘them both out of the strictly neutral waters of Great ‘Britain did the Quaker City run up the Stars and Stripes , and send a messengor, in the shape of a twenty-pounder Parrott shell, a8 @ request to the Englishman to heave to. The shell dropped wide of John Bull, as was intend. @d; but he paid no attention, and as he evidently had the heels of the Quaker City, another one was despatch ed, which also went far abead of him. Still no notice ‘wastaken of our polite hints to stop. Two more were quickly fired across bis stern; but, with a stubborn pur- pose, like the rest of the nation, be still kept on his way. At this timo the stranger was at least three miles from the Quaker City, amd leaving her. Captain Frailey, being annoyed that tho chase refused to heave to, ordered the ‘fifth shot to be fired at ber, which was done. The shot ‘was not seen to strike the water, but the Eng- Wehman rapidly turned his head the other way and stopped, when the Quaker City reached him, and boat was eent on beard. The last shot was found to have done the business, having passed over the taffrail, striking the quarter deck, tearing up several planks, cutting off an iron deck beam, passing into the onptain’s room, which it tore to pieces and t! hrough ‘an iron bulkhead, when it thoughs, no doubt, it bad gone far enough, and etopped. The captain not knowing what damage the next one might do, and thinking his bead might suffer from it instead of his room, deemed ‘dis- cretion the better part of valor,'’ and hove to. ‘Tho vessel proved to be the Adela, one of the lot kmown to have loaded in England with a cargo for “Dixie,” and which our cruisers had orders to capture no matter where they were found... This vossel is no doubt one of those paddle-wheel steamers referred to in the intercepted letter of Captain Huse, of the rebel artil- lery, which he intended to procure for the purpose of ranning cargoes between Nassau and our coast, Her great speed and light draught would enable her to go any. where, cousequently her arrival at Nassau was much to be dosired. Her capture is of the higheat importance to na, and Captain Frailey, bis officers and crew are en- titled to the highest praise for effecting it. As soon as Captain Frailey discovered the character of his prize, wishing to see her safe, he deomed it most prudent to tow her here, which he did, arriving as before stated. The quantity and character of the Adela’s cargo ja not yotknown. Her case will be, however, adjidioat- ed here; and rest assured she will be condemned. Much will come before the judge that at present I am not at jiberty to speak of; it will be suflicient, however, to make her & good and lawful prize. No doubt whon the news reaches England of this affair—anothor outrage on the British flag—there will be agreat hubbub about it; but that is ail, Tam in hopes that all her steamers, bound on the same errand as the Adela, will be picked up one aftor the other and con. demned. John Bull is farnishing us, at his cost, some very nice vessels, ones that will answer admirably bee fore long to operate against him. He cam continue to furnish them if he pleases at the same rate, and wo shall not find fault. ‘The Quaker City aleo effected another important cap- ture on the 3d iustant—that of the brig Lilla, Captain Libby, from Liverpool for Nassau, with a cargo of vait- petre, drugs, stool plates. &c., The Lilla was seut to Boston, where she will in all probability arrive bofore his reaches the Hxnaun; but as there are jucidents at- tawding her capture which are interosting and important, and whieb will not be pubMshed ja all probability on ber arrival, 1 deom it best to give then in full, Whon the Quaker City runged alongside tho Lila, and a baat ets sont on Loar, the officer im charge of the boat was directed to brig the captain on board the Queker City, He, the ce * in of the Lilla, refused to go unless P fod by force; aceordingly Liontenant Breese, Eve cutive (iffesr of tho Quaker City, went ia anotier boat, with afew marines Captain Libby being directed to yet into the bouB refused, aud ai the same tine drew a phdoi and prowentyd it at Lioutepant Breese, who in atly ordered tho marives to aim at him, The next order wWould\ lave eon to fire, put Caywaja Libby's lege got gh better of his spirit, and be atarted forward on a ran, cased by the tnarines on one ride, and headed off by aft Breese on the other, Ho was compelied, notwithetrndity hls resisiance, to go on board (he Quaker City, where he a0" found it acces: sary bone down from his hidh hors’ fod sesume a self that the Lilla was doing what she ought not wo do, allowed Captain Libby and six others to go in the vessel Captain Frailey, or he would have brought him here in Julia, with seventy-five bales of cotton, a prize to the ston, Barataria Bay, she having escaped from Bayou La Fouche. Her case will be adjudicated here, but the oot finement at Fort Taylor by government officers, I may ‘as well now romark that a lady,a relative ef ene of the son. The wife of the same prisoner has ® governmen, humble position. Capt ain Frailey, after satisfying bim- determined to send her to Boston; and accordingly placed an acting master on board, and prize crew, and as witnesses. Captain Libby i# an American, and the man who commanded the privateer Sallie, that com- mitted so mavy depredations on our commerce during the first of the war, This fact°was not known to irons, AS it is I fear there may be trouble on board before she reaches Boston. I am in hopes this letter may reach the Hzrzatp in time to have him arrested before he can leave for Dixie. *: Ihave to record the arrival yesterisy of the schooner United States schooner Kittatinny, taken off Fert Living- ton will go to New York, of course. Apropos of my remarks in my letter of the 18th ult., respecting the sympathy shown the rebels now in con- prisoners, is permitted to visit him with a secession fiag (#small one) worn as part of the ornaments on her per- carriage and horse placed at her disposal whenever she ‘Visits the fort, and the officer having charge of it some- times accompanies her. Was it (he intention of the government when these men were ordered to close con- finement to have them treated in this manner? I expect to hear next that they have champagne suppers (pri- vately, of course). I regret to say that the bark R. A. Allen, the verse! having your correspondents’ boat on board, arrived here this morning with the smallpox on board, and was at once ordered into strict quarantine, where she will re- main, I suppose, some weeks. Rather vexatious this, when her services are required every day. Tam informed that, on the fourth night out from New York, the steamship Marion was fired at three times by a vessel whose character was not known. In all probabili- ty it was one of our men-of-war. The Marion did not stop’ as she should have done, thereby placing the safety of the vessel and the lives of her passengers in jeopardy; for the strange vessel, if a man-of-war, would have been ustified, after firing two shots ahead and astern, neither ‘of which were noticed, to have sent one into the hull of tho vessel. I have heard frequent complaints from our naval commanders that it is the most difficult matter to make one of our trading vessels heave to. Kar Wasr, Joly 14, 1862. More Ootton— Arrival of the 2ahoma with the Schooner Uncle Mose, Loaded with One Hundred and Fifteen Bales of Cotton—Pasticulars of Her Oaplure—Arrival of the Star of the South—-News from Pensaccla-—The Cap'ured Steamer Ade'a—Tr Wil be Cunt mned—Uni e3 States in Port—Lceal News, dec., de. On Saturday afternoon last the United States steamer Tahoma, Lieutenant Commanding J. C. Howell, arrived from acruise, eringing in still another prize, cotten Joaded, ‘The Tahoma hes been cruising in the neighborhood of the Yueatan Banks,and while en ome cocasion to an anchor close in witn the coast of Yucatan s esi] was re- ported standing toward them. As she continued to approach it was not deemed necessary to lift the anchor to chase her. At lest she came 90 near that the pivot gun of the Tahoma was cleared away end « shot fired ‘across the stranger’s bow, ands bost was lowered and sent on hoard'at the same time, ‘The vessel proved to Be the Uncle Mone, for- merly a lighter in Galveston. Bay. has a cargo of one hundred and fifteen bales of cotton, and had escaped from Galveston Bay, and waa bound to Matamoros. Bo sudden was the capture that all her papers were se- cured, also her Confederate flag, &xc. She will be adju- digated here and her cargo shipped north. ‘The Uncle Mose mistook the Tahoma for a Mexican, and approached her without fear of molestation; and not till the shot from her ten-inch gun passed across her bows did they know thas all was up with vessel and earge. The Star of the South is in from Pensacola, and leaves im an hour for New York. She everything quiet at that place, our troops occupying their frst position, ‘and not molested by the enemy. ° interior, only a few stragglers remaining. I understand that within the past two days any quantity of ovidence has been procured in the case of the English-Confederate steamer Adela, enough to con- demn her over and over again. Her captsin’s name is Walker, and be is the same person who commanded tho Great Eastern on the voyage in which she was eo very near being lost, He is asmart, active person, one well qualified for the cominand of such a vessel on the busi- ness for which she was iatended, and is much chagrined humor. By the Star of the South we hear that Vicksburg has fallen, but we have uo particulars, nor will we bave them until the Rhode Island’s arrival, now hourly ex- pected. We also hear that Southern papers acknowledge the late battle before Richmond as being a drawn one. ‘This ts oquivalent te acknowledging a defeat, We are without any local items of interest, The United States squadron in port consists of the San Ja- cinto, Quaker City, Santiago de Cuba and Tahema steam- ers and bark Amanda. There have been but few arrivals of merchant vessels in the last few days, the weather boing calm. ‘The bark R.A. Allen is stil} in quarantine, with one case of smallpox, but I am glad to say it is not spread- ing: it never does in this climate. Colonel Morgan and staff left last evening, on an official visit to Fort Jefferson, in the steam tug Reanie, to begone afow days, Major Clark, of the Ninety-first New York Volunteers, is in command during his absence. perfect as yet, with a fair prospect of a continuance, tenant Commanding Rodgers, joined company with the Quaker City the same morning and was present, and sbares in the prize should she be condemned. NEWS FROM CORINTH. Departure of General Halleck for Wash- ington—General Grant in Command— Heavy Shipments of Cotton, dic., de. Connera, July 20, 1862. General Hatleck’s departure from this place was unat- tended by any demonstration. Few were aware of it at the time, He travelled in a common freight car, without any guard. General Grant succeeds General Halleck in cqmmand of bis army and General Pope’s old army, together with the divisions of Generals Quimby and Mitchel of Kansas giving him the largest force noxt to McClellan in the field. ‘The district of West Tennessee, under General Grant. is to include tho district of Cairo and Mississippi, and part of Northern Alabama, Cotton ie coming out of Went Tennessee very freely. ihree trains, comprising thirty-seven cars, loaded with it, startea for Columbus from points on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, yecterday, and immense plies are awaiting shipment, The people fear burning by the guoriilas, and are anxious to sell, Prices range (rom 20 conte to 25 conte, Everything is quiet along the Memphis and Charleston nm Items, and Mobile and eh ind Masurmve, July 17, 1862. ‘The Grenada Appeal of the 16th bas a Mobile deapateh of the same date, which says that @ special dospaten to the Advertiser states that the Richmond Angwirer says it is no longer doubtful that our lines have been brought closer to Richmond, but @ large force has beon left imme. diately In front of the enomy as obstructions, General Stuart, last Monday with a few ploces of ar. tillary made a circuit of MeCivilan’s position, reuching ‘aines river below him, and opened lire on « large transports, sinking one and crippung several, The Navy. Jonn Anammeasixteon uns, sailing eorvette, echoot ship, Lieut, Ed. Sitnpson—arrived at New London on inst. She ‘od under full rail, with a moderate Droaze, nud about e'clook in the aiternoon enim to sn onchor alyyo he Gaping, nearly opposite the now Ptepmboas landing The population of Pensacola have nearly al) left for the at his capturo, although he bears up againat it with good ‘Weather very warm, but tne health of the island I should state, in connection with the capture of the Adola, that the United States steamer Huntsville, Lieu- P RICE TWO CENTS. THE EIGHTH CENSUS. INCREASE IN DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES, Our Cotton, Woollen and Linen Products. The Development of the Iron, Coal, Oil and Other Mineral Interests. Spirituous and Malt Liquers, Wachinery, Hnsical Instruments, Jewelry, Leather, Agricaitural Implements and Other ee Industry, .+ IMPLEMENTS OF WARFARE, ' The Capital Invested in Banks, aging and Insurance. : NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS; 1 Our Total Population Aboué Thirty-Two Million. \ THE ONWARD MARCH OF TIE NATION, &., &e., &o, 2 r We have obtained from the Census Office at ington the following preliminary chapters of the valuable report of Jos. C. G. Kennedy, Esq., w be found of great interest, exbibiting, as it rapid growth of this country during the last ten ‘This report is made up from the census of 1860: 4 ri wi YRODUCTS OF INDUSTRY. The returns of meneaes ne ee increase, and present at the sume time an of the magnitude to which this branch ef thi jt decennium. tH f | i i | | g LF j f ce i | i E B i i 3 ts H z & i [ : i Le 2 ; fl ite Ht Hl Heh Hy i Ht 2 4 if He ee i I i rf z i 2 Hi antomatic and handicrait are full of instruction to the general happiness and prosper! Civilization of the sum total aud skill represented by such an i] have stated? fixed capi of labor, enterprise, smgenuity—of resources, rial and iamaterial—iavolved iu the creation of near! two thousand millious wo:th of mabufactures in a your. ‘the on Se oh pened millions the annual product esc MANY. actures—an amound almost equal to the totai home o thereof! ia 1360—implies_ also vast additions to permancas, wealth of the Union and to the elements of a civilization, Ths ineremed wepoutt iven to commerce and the miuiug interests of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of raw rial, aad to hundveds of tuousands Of meu, women children, who would have beeu otherwise uneinploy: or forced into competition with the farmer or instead of being consumers of their.produce, form but part of tho benedis conferred upon the cou large. The independence and ity contribut the large body of intelligent manui .eturers and ics capable of tntuisvering to every want, whether 9 bail tae cannot be overestimated. As mig! e expected [rom the revelations of the cons: the country bas becn tr with spot this arm of its streng emergency whic has put the nation iu armor for thd defenses Of ite dear. ext interests. PROGR OF THR NEW GTATES AND TERMITORME. | It is a gratify ing fact, showa by the official statistics, Uiat while our older communities Rave greatly vxteuded their manufactures, the youn,er and more purely agri: cultural States, aud even the newest Territories, have aise toade rapid progress, Nor has this department of American indastry been cultivated at Ret oy other, There i much roa on to believe that it aff the safest guaranie, of the permanency and success of every other branct. deuce bearing wy fovnd im the manufacture of — ; te, Which is ene ¢ ag Period vitor reviow. There 14 little doubp that the provinee of manaiactures and invention in case tins been rather to ¢ eate than tofullow the The promptuens o ricas (o adopt labor say! plinnces, aad the vast areas devoid w grain and y hy | States, have developed the Staples in solar to. an exiont wd perfection saa e noqualied, The ad ption OF machinery to wconmon im (arm and plantation Inbor fu pn a the pest aseurines that /he deve opment of ture of manufactures to their uta st, Gin never agn Juity the old charge of autagou sm bebween them fn gard to labor, oF inj yond adeot elier by matorially ing ite cort or supply. peas RIOULE, RAL DEPLINRNT, { ‘Tho toval value of astioultural implements mote sa ‘ 1900 was $17,802,014, betuy an ineréage of 100.1 ner \