The New York Herald Newspaper, August 3, 1862, Page 2

2 IMPORTANT FROM NEW ORLEANS. a New Secession Secret Scciety Formed. Fidelity of the Creoles to the Union. An Agent of the Rothschilds Com- mits Suicide, Slidell and Soule Advertised as De- faulting Taxpayers. . Gen. Butier’s “Voluntary Eman- cipation” Order, Ken &. ko, Tn addition to the very tnteresting letter of our New Orieans correspondent which appeared on Friday, we publich the following interesting items, taken from our New Orleans files up to the 25th ult ‘Treason Under a New [Corresponuence of the Now Urieans Dx July 23.4 New Onigays, July 6, 1862. Sim—White the military are laboring by every means possibie te pat down the rabeilion, and restore the Union to gth and grandeur, the rebels are hatch- e that will be more fatal to the on itself, because it is ove which vch,except miliary law, and it ts not pro- posed to pat it into practical operation until after martial law has beoa snperseded by civil law. It will aceomplish what open and eA treason may fail to do. To come to the point, there is now on foot an orgamiza- tion which it is tended to extend throughout every slareholding Stato, under the name of the ‘Southern Lone Star League.’? The members of this League are sworn to support (he institutions of the South, to aid in extend- i ym whe soi! and climate are adapted to their use and ad nt, and to rt the names of all who are not in favor of these institutions, They are sworn to withhold all patronage and cncourage- ment to m| North on case of sworn thos of Northern birth, who resided at the ous to the 4th of July, 1861, except in absolute or unayotdable necessity. They are to give preference im ai matters of business to belong ng to this League, and in no instance to mauntactirers, except from dire - ¥ ticles are sold by thosa who were dona fide vesidents of the Southern States previous to and since July 4, 1501. They are sworn, as far ag practica- ble. to cease patronizing Northern publishing houses, both book and newspaper, and to extend all possible en- couragement to Southern’ publishing houses. They are aworn to suspend, 2s far as practicable, commercial intercourse with rthern, and particularily with the New England States, This does not apply to an exchange ucts with the Western States border ver and its, tributaries, excepting Olio and and articlea coming from Rich- mond and Indianapolis, im Indiana: Altoa, Quincy aud Chicago, in Tilincis. Northern Illinois and In- diana aro tot cd’ ag the New Kagland Siates. They are not to educate their children at Northern: as, OF at Southern institut! mported froma the North sin rn to vote for no man who is not in ob,ects of the Leagne, and who is not in fa- om office, and as far as practicable, guilvage, all who have immigrated to m th Northern States since Ju who may hereaiter immigrate Thee are the leading {eatures of tho “Southern Lone Star League,’ which Thaye learned through a source I sed to disclose. We all know what can be accomplished by secret organizations, particularly when politics are not the leading feature. ‘In this League no provision is made fur carrying out its political feature. Every member is lett free to aet for hitaself as to ehoice only being bound not to vote for any man who is jot in favor of the aima and objects of the League. This will give the Loagae a greater indluenge than it would be able te exorcise w itto make its own acmipations. Its men fil exert thomselves to secure the nomina. tion of suet suen us they cam consistently vote for, and, . em to use outside influence ia De made in regard to those who have mew to the federal government, as to its tenor. But Tam under the impress ‘tbat all who have or may voluntarily take that oath av iudod from membership; provided they cannot satisfy Lhe League that taking said oath wasa matter o: necessily, either to recover property, save thomscives from |} support their families. or keep themselves out of prison, There ig some iatitude in this proviso. But where it can be shown that a man took that oath from chcive, or to obtain position, he will be treated as on alien—as a Northerner, L have thus reve led the outlines of the Southera Lone Star Lea sue, whieh I obtained from a eource known to be reliable, but winch I cannot reveal without endangering my own position. ibave done thia to show you thas triumph of the Union arms may not suppress the re. beilion, AN ADOPTED SOUTHERNER. bur fa Ho! it Words Fitly Spoken. ‘The New gans Prue Delia of July wt, in commenting on tho probability of a war with some European Power, speaks out boldly regarding the manner ia which Slideli, Benjamin & © ped their followers inio giving chase to the will Wisp secession. We make the following extract:— When by Us vation of pare them: readers to pre- and Benjamin, ies who now besiege the for place, wnt inte the ugh v gus dangerots alarmist, denouncing unfaithful seatinels of the public ing their’ dupes, mith cia. olica! way?denee there wouid be tes trou’, thay a luce no Vloodshed, and that if th rowed it could avs no other earthly eff tncerest than to enh snr ite pecuniary value upon ang man’s thrce or four or move heunitreda per cen’. In the govt tine coming, predicted by these prophet: , the st rally to be paved with penny loaves ath paucakes. Then, e warved our rea tod its more ruinou viess alaruusts, am our too iruthfal bed to implacable hstred of the wnd Seuthern institutions, Our well- Cousidered oxpow ire of the danger and fully of antieipat- ing foreign i: noe im behal’ of the Southern coo: federacy —» coalition fur the @uilropen mi of cotton, Davis, Penjomin the bitternes: Siitell & Co.—was derided as and spite of disappointed men, who. cause they coald aot have everything their own way, uneparingiy condemned what cycrybody else practised and belie ain, the people allcaned (nemecines to be decvired, and half swallowed #s goapel truth the malignant ¥ ( wurseives, who iacurred all this for thoir safety and happiness. In a thousand other ways they have unifor: wad proof of the souudusss aud disiute- restedness cur counrel, and a theomind times in pre- Seuce of such ineoutrovertibie souadness aud sincerity bave they allowed ut ves to ba tate the dupes uf industrious Ku«vory and misrepresertation. It doos not actontsh us—indeet nothing that bas er ean happen in this extraordinary community can—te find now that our well intentioned » to French, spanish aud British residents is cither stood oF nufairly interpreted We should be axtunished were it otherwiee, for the rem. sone we have alre cowl. Silly fools may say or do just what scoms ui @ligivic to them ia this and other affairs; Lut we au mistaken Mf suber and reilecting people, who are capable of understanding us, do vot promplly profit by our attention to thesetaitirs, | ¥ our readers not to be amprepared for what may bi and :parti a presence Of the unweivome ference of 1 went. The tion of arty 5 Still Love the Old Flag. New Orleans Delta, Iuly 25.) URS OF TLR NEW ORLKANS DRETA. your paper the word ‘Cri Perhaps you are aot aware of portion of the t loyal cltizens soutetives tinguisly to jt day there is 10 ac "ulom men of Union sentimcnt aiing jo population. As @ body attend to th , and, beyond the of their cut od citizens, trouble thems ‘y = with Len “ ANGLO AMERICAN fe are indebted to our ¢ calling our at tention to a ch, rf various dt ties, we hha wo have perm rseive- y ight which we shal) not commit again Gan totes ~ m9 our iat the ” ¥ of a! preise fol they quicine we belies for tiveir pA foiney i Union. it is'among the Northern :nen, tho boglislimen ithern mon that we find the inost un elomlsts ; and, now that we think of it we do not know a Creole citizen eminent for wealch ov sociat arom who ha: in any way been demansiratice agains: ive me Arrest for Using Seditious Language. ‘Prom tho New Orleans Bulletin, July 23.) Mr. Edwin Bo th was ar for having used ins! seditivus aud slurring language im the cara, op Friday ie, ‘with » view to insult Licutenaut Weitzel, who w: falso’in the car. The Lieutenant deposed that after he got into the car, some one remarked that cotton was thirty- Gine cents in Now York. Mr. Booth replied, ‘Yee, but it will be more than that before they much.” But,” said one, Richmond has fallen.’ that Mr. Booth re- ied, Riehmoud has fallen, but it bas risen again.” The Eivcteanns saul thatat this point iu the conversation, eoming ft was meant as an in#ilt to him, ho seized Mr. Booth and placed him under arrest. Ho thought the whole colloquy was conducted ia & slurring and offensive myzie. ir. testified that he, with several others, in- eludi Booth, were riding i one of the railroad cars when a oriticiem was commenced on the tone Of the late New York pepers ig which the late topics, as =— by Lieuleuant Wisizel, were under discussion. mn genes. | a ‘This. con’ hed ‘Defore the federal officers got imio the car, and that it was not chaaged ia any particular afterwards. Mr. Payno said he thought uifrout was talended either towards the officers or overnment. « Mr. Booth said that the conversation took place as stated by the Lieutonant, but that it was one between merchants and got intended to offend our oues ian he was very much surprised when Lteatenant 5 dored his arrost, Judge Bell was satusiled Uaag no insult was tutended, and discharged the accused. Unruly Bompece Panished. [Frou the New Orleans Bulletin, July 22.) FIRRCS NEGROKS. Recent events have made of the negrees in this city and neigborkoo:l almost unmanageab! They have beea impudent, disobedient and reck! boc 4 moruing fifteen, armed with elubs and cane knives, up from a plautation below the city, Tey were mounted ou uiules and horses, and out of mere recklessness knocig- ed domes. Some whom Coat on the way. ae jug ai the od French market, the police attempted to ar- rest tdem, and tho butchers aboot the market jofued” ig vindication of she law, and in the jon of am ‘fun- lawful assembly.” The slaves to Messr: Rivas & Grant. “Six of them wore arrestel; but one the Dutchors, who succesded in making the arrest, badly cut in the hand by a slave named Dayidgon, rest of Le mounted megroes “made thelr way to the Cus- tom House, where they were received. Wo trust that their offence will not pass unpunished. From the New Orleans Picayune, July 23.) The Pb runaway negroes, who sought refugeon Monday in the Custom Housy, after having stolea horses and mules from pluatations’ below ‘city. and com- mitted murderous assaults on white men when on their way hither, were yesterday taken’ before Judge Boll, One of tho witnesses against them was Charles D. Martin, He states that he was riding down town very carly in morning, whon Le saw several persons advancing towat him, whoun ho at first supposed to be members of a United States cavalry company. Whén they came nearer he saw that they were negroes, and, contrary to his original in; tention, he kept on in the middle of the road, Im passing him they separated, @omo going on one side and some on the other, and wheala the middie of the train he wag atiacked and beaten with a club, and knocked down, half sonscless, from his horse. This occurred just at the dawn of day, and about five miles below the CEA No sym: pathy was manifested for him by any of company; ho offers of belo were mace, and he was left lyiug on the road ag if dead. Tinally he so far recovered as to boal toreturnto town. The assault on Mr. Martin being criminal offesce, the Court sentenced the offenders to three months at hard labor at tort Jackson. A federal officer exhibited au immense amount of interest on behalf of the twelve ebony brothers, aud suggested that some of them be sworn as witnesses in tho case; but tl fudge said that they were all principals, and could not testify on each othei/s behalf. An Agent of the Rothschilds Commits Suicide. [From the New Orleans Bulletin, July 22.) Yesterday Mr. 8. H. Farish commitied suicide by shootiug himself with aa Enghsh navy revolver. Te was well known in this city as the agent of the house of Rothschild, aud was thought to be a man of wealth. For some reason he seems Lo have been seized with the idea that his property in Virginia would be confiscated, which so Wrought upon his mind that he became a monomaniac on the subject, and put an end to his live and fears at the same tim He had an office at No. 27 Bienville street. He applied the pistol to his mouth and discharged it, causing instant death. He is said to have shot twice, the first time without effect. Deceased was @ native of Virginia, and about forty years of age. A Caution Relati to Emancipation.” [From the New Orleans Picayune, Jnly 28.) The correspondence, e!sewhere published, between Doepaty Provost Marshal Stafford and Major General Bu’- ler, relative to persons who order their slayes ‘+to go to the Yankees,” is highly instructive, and should serve as a caution agaiust the use of these or similar Major General Butler has givén public notice that all such declarations made by the owners of slayes shall be con- strued by the authorities into acts of voluntary emancipa- tion, and slaves to whom soch language ja addressed shalt be thereafter regarded a3 manumittod and free. In the most of cases where ench Iauguage is used by the mas- ters or mistresses of slaves an investigation of the facts, we think, would show that the slaves had first threaten- ed ‘to go to the federais’ or “Yankees.” Irritated owners have doubtless, iu some of these cases, said to the slaves that, as they had become go totaily demoralized and worthless, they might run away to the federals just ag soon as they pleased. We have heard of such cases, and believe they have not been us uent. Persons, powever, do not always mean what they say when angry, and many who make use of such remarks to slaves still think too much of their servants to wish for them the fate of unbridled freedom—that license which a negro understands by liberty. [From the Now Orleans l'icayune, July 25.} Asiont, hale griffapegress appeared yesterday before the Provost Court as a claimant for her treedom, under a recent order of General-Butter. The naine of the woman was Anaise. Sho was her own counsel, perhaps, aud her own witness Aby way, and on her cz parle statement the Court ordered the Clerk to furnish her with free paper. Anaise been ths, ‘oounterband” chattel of aiady residing im “Voluntary the Third district. She made no complaint of cruel treatment, but merely said that her mistress had told her ‘two, tree times to go to dem Yankees. and ghe not want to go.’ But she did go, nevertheless, and the Judge held that her ex stdio! ment was snfficient, under the order of General Butier, to entitle her to her freedom. (The laws of Louisiana do not plaeo implicit reliance on the testimony of any witness who speaks on his or her own bohalf, particularly on the testumony of anegro. But military laws of courge differ from,the iaws of Loui-‘apa.} Don’t Pay Their Taxes. With all their preiended honesty and jiigh toned sense of honor, it would appear that the prominent rebels of New Orleans are debtors to the city treasury. In the New Orieaus Commercial Bulltin of July 25 we find two pages and a quarter of names of defaulting tax- payers for the year 1861. alphabetically arranged, and among them these two suggestive lincs-— ‘ome. Amount of tax. Slidell Join. ” $3,178 50 Soule Pierre. » 51675 fon Sige if Trae. [From the New Orie fas Delta, July 22.3 William L. Yancey has beca making a specch in Rich- mond, in whieh he advocates the crowning 0: Jofferson Davic with sopreme power, with the title of Dictator. The Mobile papers announce the death in that city re- cently / Mr. James Sauls aud Mr. U. Mazauge, two men of Ldciness, wel! known in cis city. General Orders, Notices, d&c. [From the New Orisans Doita, July 22.) THE COTTON AND SUGAR QUESTION. Heapqvanter® Deranrweyt oO» THe Grr, New Ontgaxs, Jnly 21, 1862. } To How. ReveRvy Jounsoy:— My Svan Sim—Permit me to iterate and reiterate again and again, what you knew #0 well before, but which these detuded people seem determined never to believe, that no merchandise, whe’her cotton or sugar, will in y event be seized of confiscated by the United States authorities bere, Iwill assure safe conduct, open mar- ket and prompt shipment of all such property sent to w Oreans, and the owner, were he Slidell himself, should have the pay for bis cotton, if sent bere ander this assurance. Tam most 'ruly yours, BENJ. F. BULLER, Major General Commanding. Us PATHS COMMISUONER'S OrvicR, Custom Hover, Naw Orrmans, July 21, 1862. My Dear Grwerss—tI needed not your note of this Morning to satisfy me on the subject to which it relates. The public mind should have been pnt to rights upon it by your prociamation of the 7th of May. ‘In these’ times, however, opinion ia so sensitive, aad misrepresentations so frequent on all matters touching the unfortunate condition of the conntry, that I am glad to have your pote with the privilege to make it public. The restoration of commerce in and from this port isa resatt so important to the in. terests of this State, the United States and the govern ments of Knrope, tat it seems strange that an {utelligent man shoald have doubted your wish, as the representa. tive of our government, to do all that you could to bring it about. there be any really existing fear upon the point, your nete (for which T thank yon) cannot fail to remove it The Confederate government, as jt calls itself, may burn and destroy the cotton and sugar of the peeple whom they claim to’ represent, an? whore rights they pretend to mxions to protect. They may, too, fora time, succeed in keeping alive the deiveion of their followers; but an intelligent Southera public, and an intel- ligent Faropean opinion, will soon, if it hax not already’, discover the shallowness of the pretence, and see that, mpless soon arrested by ihe foste: wor of the verumont, the certain ruin to wi it must yield. vith great respect, yours, sineerely ery JOHNSON, VOLUNTARY EMANCL {From the New Orleans Dello, a" ost ae ty Omer, 1 New Ontkays, July 17, 1802, Mason Geyrrat B. PF. Burien 4 eer ‘Sin—It bas come to my kuowled, this city and deighborho e Ol ig their slaves to leave aad go to the “Yankees,” and when such order ja obeyed, this office and the police are beseiged to arrest and return them. As tis evil is growing and bec annoying, I respectfully ask whot a: in the premines. that many porsous in ing uf should be taken Respectfully, your obedient servant, 8. H. STAF) ORD, beputy Provost Marshal p IRTMENT OF THK OULY, Ontxaxs, July 19, 1962 Sin—The course pnreued by certain persons in order ing their sinves “to 40 to the Yankees,” ‘to join the fodernis,” as described in your noto, and like acts, has doen brought to my notice from different sources’ yy viously to your communication, and certainly isa great wrong as well to the goyernmont ag to the iegroos. tn order to Gofrect the evil, thorefore, let it be knowu that all such declarations by the owners to their slaves will, by the anthorities hore, be taken and deemed acts voluntary @manerpation, aud slaves sont away by their master, with such declarations ag you describe, or lent ones, willbe regerded and ‘treated as manu- end emancipated. You will see to it that this necessary police regulat.on is carried into effect, Re apectfally, BhNJ. FP. BUTLER, Major Genora! Commanding, Capt, #tarroRp, Deputy Provost Marshal be THE NEW CITY OFFiVERA, Heavecartens, MruitaRy it, New Onneaws. Orey Haun, .!aly 21, 1862, } The following named gentiemen have been appointed to bey 5 re o tment within on few days:— . F. :Troasuror, vice A Giffen, removed. Stoddart Howell, Comptrolier, vieoC. W. Culbertson, re- T. B. Thorpe, City Surveyor, vice Louis Pilie, A. W. Morse, Seoretary, vice Theo. Marks, removed. Edmund and W. D. Terrebonne, “ Werks cadlicadirens vil W. Yon tr Were tena 4, a. iugiaw, Pregideas First District Prayuing Byard, pata Crano, Special Police, vice T. H. Dryden, ro- moved. P. A. Fortier, Clerk, removed. By order of G. WEITZEL , Lieutonaut U. S. Eugincors aud Assistant Military Com- maudaut. SECTAL ORDER—NO. 212. Heapquanters, DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF, New On-rans, July 22, 1862. 1. A bureau is hereby created in the office of the a vost Marshal to which ali.logal matters coupected with said office are hereby referred, ity Provost Marshal Spencer Ff. Stafford will take charge thereof. He will re- pork. to these actors, and ig relieved from any sald 2. ‘The office of ‘of tho First District Court of the city 3 Mow coisent baxials peocne, vans. by the ab- sence : Spencer Hi Stalocd'ts heroby appointed Shot ifrad taicrtm. Bryrier of Major General BU LER. B. 8, Davis, Captainand A. A. A. @. ’ MILITARY. New Oaimans, July 24, The Commanding General of this De} re in publishing the following fashington of what he has consi ‘of Lieutenant Colonel Kimball, of the’ Twelfth regiment Gonn-cticut Volunteers, and ‘the troops under his com- ds <The news of the brilliant hy oad of Lioutenant Colonel Kimball, of the Twelfth Maine Volunteers, and the brave men under his command, at Manchac Pass, was very gratifying to the Department, and it entirely ap- proves your actioa in allowing the regiment to retain the lors which they had so gallantly taken from tho ene- hy order of “Major General BUTLER. B. 8. Davis, Captain and Acting A. A. G. GENERAL ORDER—NO. 209. |ARTERS, DRPARTMENT OF THR GULF, ‘Oxtxans, La., July 21, 1862. The families of recruits onlisted in tho its of the Nationa! Guard, Louisiana Volunteers, until the recruits receive their bounty or advance pay, will have distri- ‘buted to them provisions at the rate of a ration for every ‘woman and two children. By a recent decision of the Secretary of War, one fourth of the bounty, twenty-five dollars, is payable at the time of musijring into service. By order of Major BUTLER. R. S-Davis, Captain and A, A. A. Ge TO BAKERS. Heapquarters, Minrragy Ome iy » July 22, 1862, The price of flour being this day sixteen dollars per barrel, bakers are requirod to give, during the en- suing week, ‘commencing on Wednesday, the 23d inst., 4s follows, tntil further orders:— Thirty six ounces of bread for. +20 conts, een do. do. oe 0 cents. Nine it do. do. ... ae . 5 conts. Purchasers of bread from whom a higher price is ex- acted will report their names, the name of the baker, and leave a loaf of bread, purchiised and a statement of the paid; at avy. police..station, or with any Assistant Frovoct atshal™ 7 @. WENZEL, Assistant Military Commandaut, Miscellancous Items. THE SUGAR MARKET. ‘From the New Orleans Picayune, July 20.) We learn that owing to the interruption of receipts @aused by Governor Moore’s proclamati ars have materially advanced. “Yesterday 140 hhis. fair sold at 6iZc., 200, als> fair, at 6'{c., and 80 prime at 63zc. There were some transactions at lower prices, but they ~~ for poorer aplliiet shgiy wry 5 a two uggers, employed in ing sugar to the city, were barned by the Confederate guerillas in St. James, w! detors such craft (rom continuing the trade. ANOTHER FLAG DIFFICULTY. on tho Commercial Bullotin, July 17.) Mr. W.E. Redding, who lives at No. 131 Jackson street, was arrested on Tuesday night by Lieutenaot Duane, of the Fourth district police, for rej diy making use of treasonable language against the Uniced States govern- ment, and for abusing the Lieutenant because he hoisted a United States flag on his premises. The police have received strict orders to suppress all contraband flags, and to prevout the singing of sougs calculated to incite political commotions. FREE MARKET. {From the Commereial Bulletin, July 19.] ‘There were one thousand six hundred and sixty-nino families supplied at this institution yesterday with the following articles:—Eight bushels corn meal, twenty-four barrels rics, ten barrels molasses, nine and a half barrels mackerel, one barre! herring, nine hundred and fifty cab- bages, seventy-two bushels peas, six sacks salt, ono thousand ears greea corn. HARD TIMES AROUND CONFEDERATE QU: (rom the Now Orleans Delta, July 13.) We this morning lad the pleasure of perusing a letter from Jackson, Mississippi, complaining that tho rebel soldiers had received no pay wore not likely to re- celve anv, and were generally sufferiug great privations; from which they are to desert, be to understand the desperation of the rebel cause. WHAT 18 THE MATTER? {From the New Orleans Delta, July 20.) Wo understand that Mr. Jacob Barker,and other bro- kers, refuse to accept New Orleans city notes except at a discount of five per cent. What on earth doos this mean? Are not New Orleans city notes just as ‘am the botes of banks which have uo specie basis? Will not some one louk into this matter ? “igom the New Orleans Boo, July 17°) the New , July 17. The jer Endora, from Lake Penichacwrela, river, when passing the point on the Algiers side of the river, on the 1in instant, struck on some sunken timber which caused her to sink in @ fow minutes, with a cargo of sixty-two hogsheads of sugar, consi to Messrs. Howitt, Norton & Co., which she had received on the const below the city. ‘The crew were all saved, but lost everything except what they stood in. The vessel and cargo are a total loss. The Latest Commercial Report. New Ortzans, July 24, 1862. Sugar—The supply on the levee is fair, but the market is very dull. There is no inquiry to-day, and we have not asale of any moment toreport. A lot of 20 bhds. prime sold at 6440. per Ib., indicating a further decline. Mo- lasses—We have ajuin to report a very dull market and no salee, ‘The iast were at llc. for thin fermenting. Outs—400 sacks sold, from first hands, on private terms. It is retailing at $3 2 25h yer bashel. There is little or no stock. Hay—4°0 bales sold from the landing at $85. It is retailing at $95 a $100 per tov. Northern is selling from tbe landing at $60 a$75,,and from store at $85 per ton. Chese—It is retaiiing at 1 20c. per Ib. But- ter—-Northern ig retailing at 20c, a 22. per lb. Lard— Choico, in kegs, is retailing at 7c. per 1b. Bacon—Shoul- ders and sides are retailing at Léc. a 15¢., and hams at 20c.022¢. por Ib. Pork—I’rimo is retailing at $24 and mess at $27 per Dbl. The Resources of the U TABULAR STATEMENT,OF THE INCREASED PRODUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES. The following table cxbibite a comparative statement of tho value of somo of the principal industrial products of the United Siates in 1350 and 1860, which have con- tributed so much to the wonderfal progress and power of this coautry:— 1850. 1860. lae of domestic manu- sheries roines.. 019,106,616 1,900,000,000 6,342,011" 17,802,514 19,487,700 22,248,706 seultural imph Per iran, $84,474 tons in Bar and other rolled 406,208 tous in 1800. Mocbinory (exclusive of 8 27,008,344 machines)......4+ 47,118,550 Sewing machines, 330, mauufactared in the New England States in 1869. 5,005,345 Iron foundries * 20.111,51% 97,970,193 Coal mines. . 7,113,760 19,000,000 Look, job and newspaper print- ing in the New England, Mid- die and Western =tates.. ‘11,686,649 98,428.013 Lumber...ess-- » 63,521,976 95,912,256 Flour and mills. 000,000 223,144,360 Spirituous = liquors 24,253,176 17,977,135 116,137,926 oi neky jeans and 1 Rentucky jeans other fabrics of which the warp is cotton..... Sedvee «+ 46,281,766 68,865,963 Leather (exclusive of mo- roccoand patent leather).. 37,702,383 63,090,761 Tuciuding morocco and patent leather, the aggrogate valve produced in Unton in 1808 exceeded fheeee 67,000,000 Boots and shoes «. 63,967 408 16,074,940 ‘The aboveamount for 1860 wes juced by the New Fng- find States, New York, Peun- eyivenia and Now Jersey. India rabber goods... “ 6,729,000 Cabinet furniture, manufac. tured ip the New England States and Obi dveeeee 10,553,734 Musical instran anufac- ‘tured in Now England, Now ‘ork and Peonsyivania. .. 6,971,807 Cloth ing—The increase of thie manuiacture in the four cities of New York, Phila- delpbia, Cineimnat! and Bos- tom amounted to nearly..... 41,250,000 Jewelry and watoht and piated ware. . 10,957,500 17,250 000 ‘The amount for 1860 be. jongs exclusively to the New England and Middie Beales, Gas—6,000 000,000 cubie ‘eet, 13,000,000 Salt 2,177,046 itginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania Ee duced nearly twelve million bushels, the cost of Which wes. : . 2,200,000 Fishories. 12'924'002 me Court. ro Judge Clerke, Avaver1.—M, J. Do Figgn v8. Jesse A, Braddick,—Tho defendant may be examined. oe MoGuire ys. Catharine MoGwire.—Motion ranted. vad Murray va. Peter Chrystal..amendment al- William M. Cary and others va. William Bridgeman. Motion denied. P. Hant vs. James Cloland.—Motion granted of costs of circuits and disbursements, ana $5 costs of i Theodore H, Tompkins ot als., v8, Jom Qumumings.— Motiou donigd, witagut coma, $10 mo- YEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY) AUGUST 3, 186 OPERATIONS AT PORT ROYAL. Letter from Brigadier General T. W. Sherman. 10 THE'EDITOR OF THE SEW YORK HERALD. Wasmneton, July-26, 1962. An editorial in your paper of yesterday condernns the Operations of the land forces of the Southern expedition tosuch an extent and on such grounds as to force me to @ departure from the silence I have hitherto studiously Maintained against the repeated and most unjustifiable attacks that have beon made upon my eourse in some of the pubic journals. I am not here going to enter upon a defence of my course any farther than to hastily reply to some of the accusations and insinuations which you have seen fit to make against myself and the force I commanded; for, whenever I am, officially or othorwise, informed, or oan obtain any tangible evidence, that my course was un” Satisfactory to the government,{ shall be prepared to justify evory act of commission or omission that may bo charged against mo, and entertain no fears but the fmvostigation will result in the scquittal of myself and my command of the charge of ‘casting discredit upon our army;” and if, as you say, thegreat Union masses of the nation have become dis- pirited with the regult of the expedition, I think it will be found that those masses have beoa strangely deluded, probably by-too licentious a pros, into a faise notion that the expedition of 12,000 men, intended for a special and secondary though important object, was to overrun and conquer the whole South. ‘The expedition was not fitted out to operate on Charles- ton and Savannah. Here you have premised your argu- ment witha grand error, that is sufficient of itself to ‘destroy all tho conclusions at which you have arrived. “The object of the expedition was to sieze upon and hold ‘two harbors on our Southern coast, sufficient for depots ‘and harbors of refuge for the vessels of our blockading squadron in perilous storms. At that time we had pos- session of not a single nook on our coast, from the Chesa- peake to Key West, excopt Hattcras Inlet, which would an- swer no such purpose. The blockade, whose efficiency had Deon questioned by the Powers.of Europe, was thus to be, made effective. The two harbors were not definitely determined on vntil after the departure of tho expedition; so that it may be said that the expedition was Gtted out with the disadvantage of total ignorance of the localities whero } wo might be called upon to operate. On the capture ef Port Royal (which, I agreo with you, “covered our navy with glory””),the proscribed duties of the land force were to fortify that valuable harbor so that it might be securely held as a depot and refuge for tho navy angarmy with the least possible force, and to | co-operate at the same time with the fleet in the capture and occupation of the second harbor fixed upen. The land force, or that portion set apart for the purpose, was in readiness to proceed at once to Fernandina, and the onl, Teason the expedition did not pi does not attaci to any want of will on my part—which you assert— or on the part of any of the land forco. Tho delay Delongs exclusively to the navy. Indeed, it will re- quire no assurance from me to provo the most intense anxiety existed on our part to get off as soon as possible. ‘This second point of attack was therefore not Savannah nor Charleston; but had it Deen either, the same reason—necessarily a controlling one—that rendered an immediate advance impossibie, would still have existed. is obstacle was not removed until early tn December, when, indeed, certain special in- structions, having been received by the naval commander at the same time, Virtually prohibited the movement at that time, and required its still further postponement. fine harbors, besides Port Royal, which had _provi- dentially fallen into our hands, and been occupied and secured by fortifications in the meanwhile, rendered the contiiuation of the expedition to Fernandina, as first planned, perhaps of not so much importance; but still the army held. itself ;in readivess to ‘at any momeat. This harbor, however, with many others, foll inte our possession early in March without battle, aud as the result of a mere demonstration of the combined land and naval forces on @ particular point. The works at Hilton Head against a land attack were at once commenced and prosecuted with that activity and energy by Captain Gillmore, of the Engineers, and Brigadier General 1. 1. Stevens and his brigade, that elicited my sincerest and warmest.commen- dations. The necessary and important works in St. Helena Sound and on Tybee Islund were aiso prosecuted with commendable activity; and, although the expedition, to consist of 4,000 men, was always in readiness to start at any moment the navy was , yet by the middle of Deoember I coneidered myself tu a condition, though the works were pot entiroiy completed, to remove the bulk of our force from the islands to some other sphere of action, had we the means of moving them. In regard to your strictures upon my “disgraceful in- activity’? in “stopping to fortify sand banks, aud to build wharves for boats and transports, &o,,’”’ they strictly need no reply from me. Had I been sufficiont- ly Kt reac arr ge jo resort to ~ Don Quixotteism landing forces, completely raw, and cooped up in crowded shige ‘Ibe the spaco of fifteen and twenty days, and marching straight interior (even had I the means of doing so), without re- gard to establishing any point of support or base of sup- Plies, to say nothing of the immonse labor that the cha- racter of the shore required to unload our ships, and all this, too, beyond sea and in an emi:ently bostilecountry, A should have deserved a straight jacket or a prompt dis missa! from the army, and I verily believe both. And I ‘say this, whether the enemy had few or many troops in immodiate hand to oppose us. Will you tell me what point I could bave occupied in the interior where the enemy could not have exsily concentrated fifty thousand men against me in less time than reinforcements could have reached me from tho North? Do you know how many troops actually did concentrate at diferent points between Savannah and Charlesion duriag the first three weeks of our occupation? What right had I to convert an expedition got up fur a special object— @ columa entirely secondary in its character—into a Priacipal army in the field, and that, too, bey sea? Would the goverament kaye supported me? Would such a course, think you, have entered into the geueral plan of the campaign? Catil you can answer these ques- tions I would respecifally recommend you to reflect apon the position which an officer would hold in his own, aa well us in the public estimation, in isolating himecii with asmall boily of troops in a hos'le country something Jess then a thousand miles from his reserves, aud with no fortified base to prevent his being driven inte the sea in caseof reverse, and nuceriainly dependent upon his transports for support, if such a course should result, as it most likely would, in disaster. I would prefer the frowns Of the boldest ignorance, and the malice of the most wanton attacks, io the sovere bet honest punish. ment due to atch an offence, Henee, you may be agsur d that no such immodiate advauce as you suggest would have been made in auy siate of the ene, [ven 3 posing that we had the means of navigating the crocks aud tuland passages, and had made an attompt ou a point not more distant than Savannah, what pros. pect of suceess, with the handful of meu that would have bee: available at that time for suck operetion, aiter ing the foree which I was bound te keop ou hand for dina, and that, too, without the assistance of gun. beats? 1 say, without the assistance of gunboats: for if, after the whole surrounding country had beau recounoiver- ed, ud its topography an drography become known, it was decided by the navy impracticable for gunboats ‘tu enter the Savannah river, from either the north or south side, anc ascend to Savannah, in the month of January, what was the state of the case in November, whea we wei lirely ignorant of the nature of the obstacles, when no passage existed on the north side for anything ‘but rowboats, and not « nan In the fest or thoarmy knew of any passage on the south side? The fast, naked as ever, is, that we had no means of operating on that city, whether by tho Sayanoeh or Vernon river You speak of the few troops to oppose us. When did that fact, if true, become known? Certainly not till aftor the event. The fact is, I could not have known with any certainty what troops the enemy had. Further than tho fact—which | ascortained from letters evized at Hilton Head—that there were 10 000 troops ia Charleston and its harbor three or four days vofore the capture of Port Royal, everything remained for a long time in profound mystery. The contrabands were the only sources of juformation, and their accounts in the way of numbers wore always #0 strangely conflicting as to be unworthy of the least attention. So far as Sevan was con- cerned, I was never enabled to obtain the least reliable information untii carly in January, In consequence of special character of the expedi- tiov, no. means of transportation were taken along with which @operate in the ‘nterior. Ail our transports were seagoing vessels, and of io ry draught for the rivers and inland passages, except a few surf boats furnished for landing purposes. Even the few light draught steam- boats that were taken along to facilitate a rapid landing in face of the enemy were either lost in the terribic gale tho expedition encountered or were ied toreturn, So we were so completely destitute of light draught transportation a5 not omy to render the movement of troops, supplics and materiel to suitable positions for operations on the main impossible, but even to unload our transports with that expedition which the exigeacies required was exceedingly dillicult. Therefore, in the tiret place, the expedition was not calculated for any stich object as you suggest. Seoondly—Had any such object been practicable at the time of landing, and proposed, it could not have been car- ried out for want of means. Thirdly—If any delay occurred in carrying out the actual objects of the expedition, it was not owing to a waut of energy, activity or will on the part of the army. Fourthly—liad I attempted to have operated at the time of landing io the manuer suggested by you, | should have been properly subject to the charge of fool or mad- man. However, immediately after offecting alandmg at Port Royal, a plice that had not Ween agrood upon to land until after the departure of the expedition, I studied the general state of affairs as far as I was ablo, and conclnded that, in consideration of the unlooked- for extent of the success of the expedition thus far which involyod tho capture of the whole coast from North Edisto to OUssabaw Sound), with a reinforeerasnt of ton thouaarid men, five light draught steamers, a cor- tain number of rowboats, and @ certain amount of addi- tional land transportation, a system of interior tions that would not confliet with the plan of campaign at general headquarters, but would be a great snpport to it, might be wisely condueted from Port Royal as soon as our positions were well seoured, and which would lead to tho orate S Sree and Fort Livre and ao wards Charleston, ny AS & generality, was sul mitted to tho War [ty and the reinforcements and means, as above, asked for. The plan for reducing Pulaski wae specially and L 4 soppeves, and the arma- mont ordered that 1 asked for. This armament, I be- lieve, hud mostly tobe manufactured, and reached me in etfficioms quantity not till the last of Maroh to authorize an effectual assault. The general plan Sea eM oe > grati’ying attention. pickets. cattieand gather corn at points almost within eyesight of the enomy’s advance forces. The other day they cap- tured a rebel private, aud trom him gained much valuable and desirable information. He states that the people are made to believe that the Union soldiers’ chiof aim im this ‘war is “booty and beauty ;”’ henee their fearfulnoss to re- main in any town likely to come into the possession of the Northern forces. pickets, in that they have burt not got over the croeks to molest us, or ‘tat “8 preme enjoymont” which falls to the lot of the soldier among the tall pines and dark contrabands. road that tho country whito people, the colored man oocapying the plantations ‘Doth in comfort aud indolence, Possession are suffering for the want of labori secure them, tho aud be fed on the bounty of the asmuch as tho siege armamont, the steamboats and rowboats wore ordered to be sent me, I received @ ro- intorcement of four regiments of infantry, ove of cavalry and a light harnessed battery, in the course of the winter; but the steamers which were sent from New York in the latter part of December never reached me—not one. Tho reason, I suppose, will some day come to light. {he row- boats, though I had been officially advised in the middle of January that they had been hurried on, Never reachod me until about the 24th of March, five bofore T was relieved from duty thore, and then but balf that had Leen asked for. So, ul the army could have been Ress od of the attributes of a Moses, no systentof internal sued during the time! But for all that Pay was not ile, Efforts wer effectually made to isolate Pulaski from Savannah, and the means we were enabled to Dring to bear on that ob- ject were put touse. Hada few gunboats been able to et Into the Savannah river, our batteries would have eon erected on the mud flats in time to prevent the sup. plying of the fort with provisions, and thus insured its |. without the slow and expensive mode of bombarding it. But as it was, its fall and a threat Savannah, piann yy Commodore ‘Dupont and myself, which resulted in tho quiet fall of Bruns- wick. prornencinn te Johns and St. Augustine, materially assist ‘When I turned over my command to Major Gonoral ‘Hunter, instead of its being in a state of * confusion,’ as you assert, everything was in a most orderly condition— @ condition, indeed, that itself inticated the happy suc- cess that had crowned the offurts of the combined expe- dition—the base of action and supplies at Hilton Head strongly fortified and ready to bo left with but asmall garrison; the fort at Bay Point occupied by a small bnt sufficient garrison; Port Royal Island oc- cupied by a large and splondidly instructed bri- gade, ready for any ; Dawfuskio Island, with a strong guard to protect our communication with the Savannah river, and to support the force occupying the batteries on the marshes of Jones and Bird islands in the investment of Pulaski; Tybve Island, with its con- cealed array of mortar and Leyes batteries: a. to open on Pulaski; the fort on Otter Island, in St. Helena Sound, shutting off the inland water approaches from Charleston and giving complete security to our whole ays tem on that side; Fernandina and St. Augustine occu- pied with sufficient garrisons, aud Jacksonville held by a competent force as a tion to the Union population and as a nuclous on w! they were to rally and prompt- ly carry out their plan of State organization and regene- ration. And further, as orders had been received trom ‘Reablogicn to Suspend all operations on Savannah, from two to iments had been sent to North Edisto as @ nucleus on which to form a large force to operate in the direction of Charieston the moment the fall of Pulaski rendered the troops and means of transportation there em- ployed available, There certainly is no‘confusivu”’ in all this, and all that {s unsatisfactory about it to me lays in the fact of the transportation I timely asked for to reach me. Had it arrived whon it oxght, Savannah would have been in our hands iu January, bringing with it the whole coast south, as well as the control of the whole railroad systema of Georgia and Flori- da; the States of Florida and Georgia, asa part of the military chessboard, if not politically ‘also, would baye beea more than neutralized, and the problem of Chartes- ton would have then become so simple as to involve but little care or labor. Even as it is, tho combined expedition, instead of bein; frnitiess in results, had far more than covored its origin: purposes. When I left the command tie whole coas from St. Augustine to North Edisto was securely in our hands, and, if the opinion of one of our most distinguished officers be correet—viz: ‘‘that in the possession of Fort Pulaski we hold all that is really‘valuable about Savan- nah’’—then there was nothing left on that coast worthy of the expedition but Charleston aud its dependencies. ‘As to what has transpired since my doparture, 1 know nothing sufficiently well to remark wpon, even if 1 felt authorized tv do ao. It is with some hesitation that I beliove it important to say a word on the subject of the proclamation to the people of South Carolina, which you now characterize as “stupid and silly.” Istill think well of it. What may have been wise and expedient then may uot be s0 now; but in tho situation of affairs at that time, and at that stage of the war, I deem it just the thing, and, so far from regretting having issued it, would certainly do the like again r the same circumstances, could they ever oc- cur. And my confidence in its proprioty was somowhat strengthened from the flattering encomiums you were leased to pass upon it in the editoria! columns of the (gna, in November last. If you have changed your Lest you may be deceived in the views of Flag Officer Du- opinion I have not mine.» pont, when you speak of his ‘tamely submitting to an al- lance with such impotency, shame and disgrace in his co-department,’’I beg leave to append herewith a copy of his letter to mo, giving some official views on the sube ject. Your obedient servant, T. W. SHERMAN, Brigadier General Volunteers. Fracsuip Wanasa, } Porr Rovat. Hannon, 8. (., April 2, 1862. Gewgrat—tI understand you are trausterred to another military department, and aro about to leave Port Royal. It would be doing intimate official relations were I to permit you to depart oy expressing my high appreciation of the vigorous injustice to my feelings and to our late harmonious co-operation with which you have ever been ready to assist in or lighten the beavy responsibili- ties of my own command. * Ishall remember our past associations, professionally and personally, with pride and satisfaction, and shall ever bear testimony to the unflagging zeal with which you have availed yourscif of every moans in your power to secure an effective tenure of this corst while preparing a base of operations which, with the reinforcements you had a right to look for, would havo led to more brilliant, ut tn no manner more important, results than those you have accomplished. Wishing you overy success in your new sphere of ac- tion, Tam, General, with great respect, your mest obedi- ent servant, ? 8. F. DUPONT, Flag Ufficer South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, NEWS FROM NORTH CAROLINA. Our Newbern Correspondence. Nuwnery, July 22, 1362. Military Outposts Visite2—R-Lel Conscriptions—Gue: Va of th: Crops—Employment of Contro!ends—Umion Forte — Raid:—Union Feeling in Washington, N. C.—State History of Newbern—Opposition to the Ordinance of Se- cession, de., &. ‘Tho days of Saturday and Suuday to the Trent rivers. At the main post, on the left of the Trout river, in the vicinity of the county britge, I forud military matters very quiet; in fact so much so that the officer in command there remarked that they never were troubled, of lato, with any other enewy than the mosquito. manifest a strong desire to have an encounter with the enemy. From this place T went to tho oxtrome outposts in the same direction. Hero I found the Third New York caval. ry, and a portion of the Seventeenth Massachusetts regi- ment. lar point, recetved me with considerate kindness and A portion of bis forces aro actively eiployed in scouting every day—stirring up the rebels, as they call it—and gocutto within two miles of tho rebel camp in front, and threo-fourtns of a mile of their Our boys are rather audacious in that they kill ‘The conscripts from this part of the State were to meet on Thursday last, at a place called Tronton, situated ata distance of about twonty miles from the outpost re, ferred to above. Some of these conscripts threw them. selves in, tho way of our pickets (and wore captured) , rather than serve in @ position at variance with the wel- fare of their pecupiary and social condition. The con- 8c. ipt system is docidedly unpopular in this region. fagt it is said to be openly condemned; aud this is bronght about in consequence of the regular guerillos hunting up and then shooting such conscripts as refuse or neglect to meet at the appointed time and place for organization into the service of treason and rebellion. In In regard to the Southorn army we learn, from rebel sources, that there is agreatand increasing focling of discontent in such army, end that there is in it a general xioty, among the privates, as also among the lower grades of commissioned officers, to have the war speedily ended, cither to their glorification or otherwise—" thoy don’t care which.” ‘The guerillas around here dress in citizen's clothes. In fact it is belioved they are citizens in reality, out probably for a night’s shooting. As thoy move suddenly and treacherously, and lurk in covert placos, it tnporsible to entrap them by au ambush. Besides this latter is a mode of procedure vory dangerous and fa- tiguing to the bodies an snakes, swamps and death-doaling etceteras being tl constant companions of an ambush fm this quarter of the habitable globo. most physical coudition of our Pa; antago of thi Wo haye somowhat the the bridges o1 t some of (he picket stations on the Nouse at tbat the co ‘thereabouts is almost destitute Whore the whites baye remained, ina majority of in- stances, they are suffering fora want of the colored cle- meut, ‘a also animal power, fall capaci to work their farms to their ity. Tt ia said That the crops throughout tho territory in our hands to to run off government, and in a rent many instances enjoy the ooveted luxury of indo- Tht the politeness of Captain Walker, who ts in Pi yy the advance post on the railroad, 1 learned ‘somo interesting facta, ‘At Tuscarora (about six iniles from this last namod slaves having beea indner the rebels have lately burned a depot, mill and Paiitings of ai Kinde Net'a house romaine, excopt it be tha uals wo be fo a dismantled or ruined condition. They “revenged’’ on our treops for visiting that noighborhooa A ALOT Qi Mallilary Degpasity, Qu iyo occRaion of thig I dovoted to visiting our outposts in their central positions, us they extend, with connecting lings of pickets, from the Nonse Tho privates Captain Cole, who is in command at this particn- Duiid a short mititary road to some place capablo of fur- nishing provisions and other supple to the troops in tho mos ystory. | advance. Intter is the Me latest news from Wasiiagton, XC. 4s that ob nies of men have been. at that point into theser- vice of the United States. can be easily distin- guished from our regular forces in that they wear the gray pants and because of their physiognomies. Two privates wore taken out of the Massachusetts Twenty-fifth od ants in these companies, Tho I - Potter, formerly of General Fostor’s staff) is very active, and works with a will "both day and night, The Lieute- nant Colone!’s namo is*Tueker, and ho is of tho Massichue setts Twenty fifth. ‘he privates are active, and,as a whole, they presenta very fiue-appearance. They will be of great service to our regular forces, because of their kknowlod, paths, roads and localities tha‘ hitherto bres not been noted'for any particular speciality except julness. One recruiting officer went down the Pamlico river, @ litle distance from Washington, and in a few days got forty recruits, ‘this shows that many would enlist on our side if appealed to, as they would thus secure themselves from the tender bear-embraces of secesh. A rebel lieutenant, belonging to the First North Carolina regiment, a sort time since returued to his homo near Plymouth, having resigned his position in said regiment. He was immediately taken into custody by a portion of our forces, but subsequently released-on parole, He ex- presses himself as bring entirely disgusted with the con- federation, and says he represents, in such a fecling, no portion of e North Carolinians now in the rebet service. We are bukding log houses in @very desirable and available position. Their peculiar atructure—loopholes and all—remind one very forcibly of the Cooper tales of Indian warfare. Captain Porter has now a large number of contrabands under his charge. They feli trees, bridge streams, split wood for railroad use, and build and do a variety of necessary as well as useful work. As a gonorality they act like children, geing to Captain Porter with all kinds of bug-a-boo stories, and depending on him for support, advice and tho most trivial instruc- tions. Infact the Captain's got a “baby,” but unfor- tunately its black. Un visiting the forts in this quarter Iwas immodiatoiy struck with thelr peculiar and pleasing Fae of in tho interior, Before some of the offices and mess quarters dwarf trees, with grasa plats, have been arranged, and these surrounded and laid cout with brick walks and grotesque paths, and al! the quaininess and weatness ef a faucy garden. In fact, some of thom have flowers growing within a fow feet of the cntranco way to their quarters. On the whole, Timust admire the fine taste and Forth judgment of both officers and men, all trying to see in the arrangement of — little vegetable creations some traces of their far mes. It may not be amiss to refer, briefly, to the past oad present history and condition of Newbern—tho principal place in that part of North Carolina which borders on the Sound. The earliost notice of it dates back to the ox- ploration of Raleigh's colony in 1684, when they visited an Indian town named Newsiok, ‘situated on a goodly river called’ the Neus;’? but the adventurers did not ex- amine the river, and more than a century elapsed before auy further record of the visit of white men cccurred. ‘The northeastern counties had, however, been partially settled by refugeestrom Virginia, where, in tho absence of law and gospel, they became degraded in their charac- ters, and honce immoral in their practic ‘The earliest settlers on the Neuse wore French Hugue- nots, who first Iccated on the James river, in Virginia, but were aCierwards induced by the propristors of Caro- lina to accept grants of laud in what is uow known aa Carteret county, to which place they removed in 1307. In 1710 a colony fromm Switzerland and Germany, under tho management of Baron do Gradeureia and Louis Michell arrived, and were settled betwoun the Neuse and Trent, and in ‘the triauglo formed by these rive:s {ald out « town, with wide streets and convenient Ivts, which, in remembrance of. the capital in the Old World, was called Now Borne. A provincial Congress was hold at Newbern in August, 1774, of whieh John Harvey wa3 President. In Ap 1776, they elected deiegates to the Continental Cougress, i , aud Newbern was for some time the most important pluce in the province. During the Revolution tie State was twice invaded by the British, aud many towns suffored soverciy; but Now- born, being remote from the seat of war, did not particu- larly*feol its a It is a curious fact that in Newborn secossion once found its strongest opposition, and finally its death blow. It will be reculiected that North Carolina once extended to the Mississippi, and included all of what {s now the State of Tennessee, the whole of which toriitory was coded to the United States in 1784. It was theu partially soitied, and before tho 1 governmont had accepted the grant the residents established a temporary rorn- ment, and, formally seceding Crom North Oarolina, formed “tha State of Franklin.” ‘On the Ist of June, 1785, the Legislature acvemblod af Nowbern, when Governor Martin addressed them on this subject, ‘Declaring that “by such rash and irregular conduct @ precedent is furmed for every district and evem for every county in the State, to claim the right of gopa- ration and in dence for any supposed vance, ag caprice, pride .and ambition may dictate, y_ exhi- biting to the world a melancholy iustance of afecble or pusillanimous government, that is either unabie or dares not restrain the lawless designs of its citizens,” be ad- vocated putting down the movements by force if neces- sary. But the leaders were not to bo dissuaded from their ambitious = and, Lye gr by afow ad. joining counties in Virginia, thoy od. General Sevier, ‘a horo of the Revolution, as Governor, and tho insurrec- tion assumed a formidad'e stinpe. But the old State met the troub'o energetically, and, attor exhausting all proper conciliatory measures, Sevier, with several of the y was arrosted, their councils became divided, and the Foboilion was croshed, ‘The loaders acked and obtained pardon, and an act fyb tis eens) = that in the subsequent political changes the matter was forgutten. Fur a long period Newbern has been the residence of wealthy and Influential families. George Pollock, a de- ecendant of one of the criginal proprietors, who died some thirty yoars ago, dwelt here, He owned immense tracts of the best land ia the State, and over a thousand staves. Jobn Stanly for a long time gave celebrity to Newberm es @ lawyer and legisiator, hs oratorical powers being second to those of no maa in the state, He was the father of Edward Stanly, now appointed to acta: Miltary Govern? of the Stale. The countey around Nowbern waa originally mode- ratcly fertile; but much of it lias become exhausted by resscn of improper tillage. The forcots, which were ovee a vast @tent of stately pines, and from which groat quantities of turpentine aud tar were for a century anda half oxported,ars uow little better than barren folds. Pine lumber ard staves have long bevn 2 large article of export, which, with corn and im, make up nearly all the articies sent ‘ But the pines are now nearly exhansted, the trado in naval stores and inmber ievsened, and, in consequence of a better state of things, ag-icultare has commenced. It is found that by the aid of fertilizers good cropa of cotton can be raised on the pine lands and the folds kept in aa improving condition. For the lst ok Gan it can hardly be said that the town has improved; iadeod, as @ whole, it baa hardiy heid ite own, Some twenty years Nowborn had what no other Southern town poseossed, a commerce of its owu—that is, vessels built, owned and sailed by its own 5 Many of these—thon engaged im the West India were partly manned by slaves who belonged to the prietore of the vossel or its captain, and at times, w! other goamen could not be procured, thes: slaves were allowed to make a voyage to a Northern port; but,as thoir value yoarly augmented, and the risk of their sud- denly disappeariag, not again to visit “Dixie,” increased in a corresponding ratio, they gradually retired thom to othor duties, whore their services and tho results were less precarious aud dangoroug to the interest of the owner, In turning from the past to the present condition of aflairs in Newbern, I can say that the secession ordt- nance of South Carolina met with a firm opposition from the old _whig party, which still had hore a vital exist- ence. The reader knows the rest. Court of Special Sessions. Before Justices Welch, Steers and Kelly. ASSAULT AND BATTERY—BRUTALITY OF 4 POLIOE OFFICER. Avocet 2.—John Wilson was this morning brought be- foro the Justices of the Court of Special Sessions, chargs ed with having committed an assault and battery on of- ficer MoOrca, of the Twentieth precinct, about ten days since, The complainant stated that in consequence of the numerous complaints which have recently been made by the trustees of the Missionary School in Tenth street of a number of men who have for some time past beon in the habit of loafing round tho school, for the purpose of enticing young girls away {rom tho extablish- ment, for [ak med and vicious purposes, he had receiv- ‘ed instructions to.order away all persons found loitering about said premises. bout ton days since he noticed the defendant standing inside the railings of the school, in obedience to his fustructions told him to moveon. ‘Tho defendant said he was a citi- gon of the country and had a perfect right to stand there if ho chose to do go; that he was only listening to the sieaag, sad should fot move until he thought proper. ‘The o! then attempted to remove him, when a strug- took place, and the defendant violently assauited the officer and tore his uniform. Mr. W. F. Howe, who ay for the defendant, cross-examined the complainant at considerable length, and elicited the fact that he struck the defendant three severe blows on the hoad with his club, inflicting three ‘very deep incised wounds; that his clothes wore saturat- ed with the blood which flowed from the wounds, atid he ‘was borne to the station house in a etate of insonsibility. Miss Price, a lady residing in the neighborhood, and whe witnessod the whole transaction, also testified to the officer's extreme and unnecessary brutality, » he evidence bet soo —s : ad any \m| ol view wi stand tite raliags Of tho school, and the Court dectding that the officer ‘oxercised undue severity towards him, ho was ly acquitted. The conduct of officer McCrea will the notice of the Polico Commissioners. A Lostxa Sprovnatioy.—A few months since some of the soceah prisonera in Fort Warren deposited their bs io ‘or consisting of gold coin, with the sutler at that wate ki aya eight no olghted < oak mn was * cen! 5 uy Laer / ity and di of it to broker at that rate, A day of two since, the prisoners haying becu notified of ‘their mace demand on the suticr for their funas, The sutier, ater trying in vain to induce them to take Troasury notes, was under the necessity of repurchasit the ata ium of eightoen per gent, by which little nancial ‘ation he is sevé hundred, lare oud Of pocket,—Boston Journah, aan be brought before’