The New York Herald Newspaper, August 13, 1862, Page 2

2 IMPORTANT FROM NEW ORLEANS. ARRIVAL OF TUE PHILADELPHIA. Brigadier General Phelps Attacked with the Negrophobia. He Attempts to Raise a Negro Brigade. GENERAL BUTLER GIVES HIM HIS QUIETUS, The Planters of Louisiana Petition to be Al- lowed to Open Trade with New Orleans, Ren, ken kee By the arrival of the steamship Philadelphia, Captain Norton, at this port yesterday, we bave news from New Orleans to the 2d instant. Subjoined is a list of the passengers by the Philadel- phia — 4 N. Schnier, Miss F. Plate, Miss N. Piate, G. D. Moody, G. W. Grifin, H. N. Juilien, 8. S, Green, Thos. Khodes, G.G. St. Cyr, U. L. St. Cyr, R. Tillotson, lady and daugh- ter; W. Tillotson, Mrs, De Labla, E. De Labla, and 33 in the steerage. Ovr New Orleans Correspondence. New ORLEANS, Avgust 3, 1862. Phe Negro Question Assuming Primary Importance—An Abolition General om the Rampoge—GQen, Butler's Come slilutional Policy—Initeresting Correspondence Behoven Gineal Butler and Secretary Stanton on the si Arming NegroesA Servile Insurrection at Baton Roug> Prust) ated— Wholesale Arr st of Prominent Secessionists in the Parish of Ascension—Destrtution on the Planta- tions—Newspapers Suprressed—Their Editors Sent to Fort Jackm—Arrest of Charles Heilseick, of Cham pagne Celebritu—The Louisiana State Bank Closed—A Seere! Agent Cumeto Grief—Health of the City—Naval Matters, de. One of my recent letters probably prepared you to ex- pect that the negro question would very soon come to be one of the most important within this department, as it is likely to be in every other throughout the country. General Phelps has Jong dreamed of the hour when he should be able to ses the fulfilment of bis fondest wish— the arming of the black peasantry of the South against thetr masters—and so engrossed has he become in this subject that he has already taken steps towards this consummation that are only prevented from the most complete success by his belug subject to a controlling as to frusirate his intentions before they ed. I presume that the President's reservation of his right arm the negroes in case of necessity has encouraged and induced speedy action on his part. It he was in command of the department we should have two or three coloved regiments armed and equipped be- fore the government at Washington could learn of it and suppress it, if they were so inclined; but, as it ir, we haye an officer at the head of our army who, while he is as alive to the demands of the age, is still too loyal and obedient a soldier to anticipate, without serious cau so important and dovbtful an action, If the time comes that actual necessity compels this course, no general in the field will be found so prompt and thorough, so deter. mined and unbesitating in the discharge of this duty as General Butler; but so long as there is a chance that the mon of our nation can subjugate this accursed re- on, he will be the last one to attompt the inauguras tion of 4 policy the only apology of which will be the atmest urgency. This preface is simply to introduce the fact that on the 30th ult, General Phelps sent to Captain Tavis, Acting Assistant Adjutant General, requisitions for uniforms, arms, camp equipage and all the appointments for the orgauizstion of a brigade, and stated that ho wished them for three regiments of Africans, which he ‘Was satisfied could be raised in a very short time, and would prove of inestimable value to tke government as soldiers, He also stated that he had already five compa- nies organized, and I learn that they have been for some time drilled in military tactics and evolutions, it has been urged that their drill amounted to nothing more (han amusement for themselves. To this statement of General Phelps, Captain Davis re- plied, instructing him to employ the negroes in cutting away the treos between the camp and the lake, a plan which both General Phelps and Lieutenant Weitzel, chief of the Engineer Corps, had decided nearly three months ago was of great importance ag a protection against any aliack upon the city from above. These instructions General Phelps chose to regard as placing him in the character of a ‘slave driver,” a role which he thinks not at all in the line of his talents. He | if any there may be in t! therefore answered by a tender of his resignation and a request for an immediate leave of absence until it should be aceepted. General Butler refused to accept his resignation, and to enlist him im the cause of the republic. If we t his services, any potty military chieftain, by offering him freedom, can have them for the purpose of robvery and plunder. 1t is for the interests of the South as well as for the North that the African should be permitted to offer bis block for the temple of freedom, Sentiments | upwortuy of the mau of the present day, worthy only of another Cainj could prevout such an offer from being accepted. I would recommend that the cadet graduates of the present year should be sent to South Carolina and this poiut to organize and discipline our Afrigan levies, and that the more promising non commissioned officers and privates of the army be appointed as oumpany offi- cers to commaad them. Prompt and energotic efforts in this direction would probably accomplish more towards a speedy termination of the war,and an early restoration of poace aud amity, than any other course w! could be adopted, Ihave the honor w remain, sir, very respect- fully, your obedient servant, J. W. PHELPS, Brigadier General. Hxapguaxrers, Daramtaent ov Tam GULF, New Oxieans, July 31, 1562. Geverat—The General Commanding wishes you to em- ploy the contrabands in and about your camp in cutting down all the trees, &c., between your lines and the lake, and in forining abattis according to the plan agreed upon between you and Lieutenant Weitzel when he visited you some time since. What wood is not used by you is much beaded in this city. For this purpose! bave ordered the Quartermaster to furnish you with axes and tents for the coptrabands to be quartered in, By order of ‘Major General BUTLER. B.S. Davas, Captain and A. A, A. G. Hyxapquartens, DEPARTMENT OF THE GuL?, New Onteays, July 31, 1562. Captain R. 8. Davis, Acting Assistant Adjutant Gen Stk—The communication from your office of this date, signed ‘By order, Major Geueral Butler,’ direoting me to employ the contrabands in and about my camp in cutting down all the trees between my lines and the lake, So. has just beev received. In reply, I must state that while Iam willing to prepare Afriean regiments for the defence Of the govornment against its assailants, Iam not willing to become the mere slave driver which you propose, hav- ing #0 qualifications in that way. lam, therefore, under the necessity of tendering the resignation of my commis- sion as an officer of the army of the United States, and ! Tespectfully request a leave of absence until it is accept- @i, in accordance with paragraph 29, page 12, of the While }'am writing, at half-past General Regulation. eight o'clock P. M., a colored man ig brought in by one of the pickets, who has jnst been wounded in the side by a charge of shot which, he says, was Gred at bim by one of a@ party of three hare hunters or guerillas a mile or more from our line of sentinels. As it is some distance from tho camp to the lake, the ty of wood choppers which yon bave directed will probably need a considerable force to guard them against simular attacks. J. W. PHELPS, Brigadier General. Heapguartens, DaPAR!MRNT oF THR GULF, New Oeteans, August 2, 1862. Gexernat—Ry the act of Congress, as I understand it, the President of the United States alone has the authority to employ Africans in arms as a part of the military forces of the United States. ery law up to this timo, raising volunteer or militia forces, has been opposed to their employment. The President has not as yet indicated his purpose to employ the Atvicans in arms ‘Thaarms, ciothing and camp equipage which I have here for the Louisiana Volunteers are, by the latter of the Secretary of War, expressly limited to white soldiers; so that | have no authority to direct them, however much I may desire so to do. Ido not think you are empowered to organize into com- pauies Megroes, and drill them as a military organization, as lam unexpectedly informed you have done, 1 cannot sanction this course of activn as at present advised, espociaily when we have need of the services of the biacks who are being sicltered upon the outskirts of your camp, as you will see by the orders for their cm- ployment sent you by the Assistant Adjutant General. I willsend your application to the President; but, in the meantime, you must desist from the formation of avy negro military organization. BENJ. F. BULLER, Major General Commanding. Brigadier General Puxcrs, Commanding forces at Camp Parapet. Heapgcarters, DePaRTMENT OF THE GULF, ‘New Oxeass, August 2, 1362, GrveraL—I was somewhat surprised to receive your resignation for the reason stated. When you were put ia command at Camp Parapet I sent Lieutenant Weitzel, my chief engincer, to make a recon- noissance of the lines of Carroilton, and I understand it was agreed between you aud the engivecr that a removal of the wood between Lake Pontchartrain and the right of your intrenchmenis was a necessary military precaution. The work could not be done ai that time because of the stage of tbe water and the want of meu. But now both water and men concur. You have five hundred Africans organized into companies. You write me this work they are fitted todo. It must either be done by them or my soldiers, now drilled and disciplined. You have said the location is unhealthy to tho soldiers—it is not to the ne- gro. Is it not best that these unemployed Africans shonid do this labor. My attention Is especially called to this matter at ihe present time, because there are reports of demonstration, to be made on your lines by the révels; and, in my judginent, it is @ maiter of necessary precau- ton thus to clear the right of your live, so that you can receive the proper aid trom the gunboats on the lake, be- sides preventing the wiemy from having cover. To do this the negroes ought to be employed, aud in 90 employ- ing them I see no evidence of slave driving or employing you as a slave driver. ‘The soldiers of the Army of the Potomac did this very thing last summer, infront of Arlington Heights. Are the negroes any better than they? Because of an order to do this necessary thing, to protect your front, threaten- ed by the enemy, you tonder your resignation and ask immodiate leave of absence. I assure you I did not ex- although | pect this, either from your courage, your patriotism or To resign in face of an enemy has not been the highest planait to a soldier, especially when the reagon assigned is that he is ordered to do that which a recent act of Congress has specially authorized a com- mander to do—i. ¢., employ the African to do the neces- sary work about a camp or aa a fortification. General, your resignation will not be accepted by me; leave of absence will not be granted, and you will see to it, that my orders, thus necessary for the defence of the city, are faithfully and diligently executed, upon the responsibility that a soldier in the field owes to nis superior. I will see that all proper requisitions for the food, sheltor and clothing of these negroes at work are at oncé filled by the proper department. You will also send out @ proper guard to protect the laboters against the gucrilla force, neighborhood. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, Major General Commanding. While on this subject of the conflict between the black and white races, I will relate the adventures of the river steamer Empire Parish on her last trip to Baton Rouge your good sense. insisted upoa his obeying the orders of his superior off- | an expedition which ended in ‘nipping in the bud” an cor. This letter of General Butler’s will be found to be one of the most admirable productions of a mind distin: ished for soundness of logic and clearness of demon- stration, But I think it is most bappy in the calm, quiet y which enhances the earnestness of its remiuder 10 General Phelps that his resignation, “in the face of the enemy,” (for such it would be) would be entirely in. compatible with his distinguished reputation for courage and devotion to his government. The anneyance which this negro question gives General Butler can only be con- ceived by remembering the great length of time it takes to communicate with the administration and receive ap auswer. Already he has sent three agents to Wash. iogton—Colonel Deming, Governor Shepley and Chr. Roselius, Esq.—but as yet has received no definitive reply Tlow General Phelps will receive the commanding General's refusal to accept the resignation, and his in. sisting upon obedience to the order which, while it was incipient servile insurrection. Some of your readers will remember that in my last mentioned that the Empire Parish, under flag of truce, and crowded with women and children, was fired upon by guerillas, a few miles above Donaldsonville. On last Tuesday, without the white flag, and armed with -pounder Sawyer, with percussion, shell and cannister, and manned by twenty-five men of Company G, Twenty-sixth Massachusetts regiment, under command of First Lieut, James Brady, Jr., she again started on her trip, with provisions to land at almost every plantation Information having been received at headquarters thay the rebels had declared martial law in the parish of As- cension, and that some of the most prominent citizens were seizing men against their will and under the con scription act, and were kiduapping them off to the rebe} army , Lieutenant Brady was furnished with a list of por- sons whom he was to arrest. The most noted among them were —— Elimoroe, late director of the United Btates #0 offensive to Phelps, was intended by Genoral Butler as | Mint; Meary Minor, Provost Marshal of the parish of As- a kind of compromise to prevent any unpleasant conse- quences until the administration should decide the mat. ter, is of course a matter of speculation; but of the firm, ness of General Butler it is unnecessary to speak, and General Phelp=, unless he is demented, is too good a sol- dier to disobey positive orders, ‘The (ollowing despatch from General Butler to the Sec- cension; Donald F. Kenner, ex-reprosentative in Congress: ‘Thomas Weighman, Brigade Inspector, and Col, Frasimon Landry. The Empire Parish proceeded on her trip without mo- lestation, stopping at almost @very plantation. After leaving Donalsonville Lieutenant Brady observed a man driving a horse and buggy, and evidently either trying to retary of War, enclosing the entire correspondence on | get ahead of the boat, so as to give warning to some band the matter, will be found very interesting and instructive as to the whole subject.— Heabquanrans, DRPARTMENT OF Tae GUL, New Ornirans, August 2, 1862. } Hon. Enwtn M. Stayton, Secretary of War:— Sin—I beg ies to enclose tv you copies of orders and correspondence with Generai Phelps upou the subject of arming and equipping the negroes. olps, without orders and without my ¢ five companies of negroes, and half was a It become them diff y in my judgment to employ aod i theaght by the means I could fud d not raise the question offensively oral Phelpa and myself, until it was settled gion, aud, therefore, sent the order to employ es without sending a answer to bis requisition. ‘etter of resignation has Jett me no choice but to pr Bhould be obeyed. e department. I need Shepley, who has been with you, og rtiwo | can, Mr. Rosell whol y the ‘onnecticut, can tell you much more fully than it were possible to do ina despatch what has Been the eifect of (he course of General Phelps. Ab insurrection Ur ke out amougst the negrees a few miles up the river, which caused the women of that ghborhovod to a ply to an armed boat belonging to us, wasting Gown, for ai, aud the ineipient revolt. was stop- ped by {aformivg the negr-es that we should repel an itlack by them upon U.@ women and children All is for the determination of the department, to which I vhall give the fullest obedience. Ihave the honor to be your vbedient servant, BENJ. F. BULLER, Major G ral Commanding, Heapyuarrers, Derantwent or myc} 0. Naw Unikans, July 30, Capt. R. 8. Davis, A. A. A. General:— Sik—] enclose ‘herewith requisitio the defence of thia point. inhealthy, aud our men aro dying at the rate three a dey, The Southern loyaliste are willing, «1 v0 derstand, to farnish their shure of the tax for the «aypert of the war; bot they should also furnigh their quvia mon, which they have not thus far done. An opportuvi- ty now offers of supplying the deficiency, and it is not 8.f@ (© neglect opportunities in war, I think that, with | | | the proper fac) ies, 1 could raise the three regiments Prop sv: i ash rt (ime, without holdiug out any induce. nents oF offermy any reward. three hundred Africans, organized junto five companies, who ore all willing and ready to show their devotion ty our cause in any way that ft may be put to the tet. They are williug to submit to avything rather tun ow lavery. y in the South Reems to be on the polut of disso. aot the best way of prevemting the African trove + I bave now upwards of | honor of addressing of guerillas, or else following to watch the movements of the boat. Arrived at Colonel Landry's plantation, where the Empire Parish had been fired on on the previous trip, Lieutenant Brady landed, with his men, to arrest the pro- pristor; but he had “‘skedaddled."’ They found two men, apparently overseers, whom they at once arrested, tem™ porarily, for the purpose of eliciting information. They were inclined to be somewhat reserved, and pretended ignorance; but an order from Lieutenant Brady to a sor- geant to bring acouple of pair of frons loosened their tongues. Meanwhile the field bands were very commu nicative with the soldiers, informing them about the place. A poor old six pounder gun was found on the levee in fromt of the house, and im the sugar house, behind the door, and nicely concealed under sugar cane, was a fine two-pounder howitzer, which the guerillas had been in the habit of placing ina wagon, with four horses, and chasing the boats up the river, fring on them from differ ent points. These two pieces of artillery and three muskets were taken aboard the boat, and then sho went on up to Fenner’s plantation, some three or four miles above Landry's, Here Lieutenant Brady found Lientenant Colonel Keith, of the Twenty-first Indiana, on the steamer Burton, with half of bis regiment, and two boats beside the Burton, They had come from Baton | Rouge on a foraging expedition, and intending to make | several arrests, including Fenner, but that gentiernan like Landry, bad ‘ vamosed the ranche.”’ Colonol Keith had surrounded the plantation and had seized all the live stock, inefuding an immense number of cattle, bogs aud sheop and twenty-five blood horses—splendid avimals While Lisuteaant Brady and Colonel Kolth were oon ferring together on the boat, a loud hed nOue hn came aboard, and, in the most familiar manner clap ping the former officer on the back, im hin that the guard at the plantation bad refused (o allow him to pies up tho road, and he wished a pass. Mr. Brady inti- mated pretty plainly to (he person that clapping on the back was a little inxury tat he allowed only to bis inti mate friends, and then asked bim whom he had the ‘Tam Doctor Murphy,’’ said the stranger very impressively. looking very anxiously for you, and it shall not be my fault if bur aoquaintance doesn't ripen.’ ‘The remark wae very courteons, but sufficiently pointed wiremental i & geweral alae ui abarcly ig j Ww luduve csiderable appreaeawing om Hae party oF the y Ly aeps yun NEW YUKK HEKALD, WEDNESDAY, AUGUSI' 18, 1862, ; Doctor for the patieuta who wero to guffor from & proba ble lack of attention from bim, and also to render him very anxious about his horse and buggy, which be said bho bad loft on the road. Lieutenant Brady looked, and there, as large aa life, and many times aa natuial, waa the peat turnout that had been following the boat {rom Donaldsonville. He turned tothe Doctor, and, with even more unction than before, expreased his dolight at the opportune encounter. Murphy was exceodingly indig: nant at the neglect bis patients were likely to aumfer; bu it was mo go. He had to take up his quarters on the Burton, with a number of other prisoners who bad ‘been taken by Colonel Keith. This Murphy has been one of the most violent enemies to the Union in the pariah, and has insulted and outraged Union men at every oppor- tunity. Ou comparing notes, Colonel Keith and Lieutenant Brady found that the Colonel had arrested the very men Lieut. Brady had been in soareh of, with tho exception of Landry, Fenner and Ellmore. Tho names of the parties arrested are Henry Minor, Provost Marshal; Henry Doyal, Dr. Duffal, Dr. Thibaut, Fellx Rinaud, Adolph Moran, Justice Carnos, Thomas Wetghman and James Lear. Colonel Keith intended to take them to Baton Rouge, aud from there they will probably be sent down hero to Gen. Butlor. ‘The Empire Parish thon proceeded to Baton Rouge, with request from Colonel Keith to Gen. Williams to send down two more boats,as he could fill thom all. The order was given, and the camp at Baton Rouge fs likely to be very strong on the subsistemce question for some time to come. ‘The Empire Parish left Baton Rouge on Thursday morn. ing for New Orleans, and as she was passing Landry's plantation several gentlemen came down to the lovee and stopped the boat, and begged Lieutemant Brady to come ashore and check an anticipated insurrection of the no- groeson the place, Leaving the boat, he found about two hundrod blacks, of all ages and both sexes, congregated together and in @ turbulent eondition, though they bad not committed any act of outrage further than indulging in Colonel Landry’s wines and liquors. Mr. Brady mounted a stump and lectured the delegates from Africa very severely, holding forth with great fer- vor on the barbarity of taking advantage of the absence of the men to commit depredations on defenceless women, and making them understand that any infraction of the peace would be visited on them with the utmost rigor of the law military. He then arrested a fine, athletic young fellow, who was said to be the ringleader, and who scemed to think that his arrest by Union soldiers was about as egrecable a thing as could happen to a gentloman of his color aud perfume. Seriously, he was bappy and eager to go with our men, even as a prisoner, and thore is uo blinking the fact that in this State at least he represents his race. The boat arrived at New Orleans on Thursday night without further adventure, and the expedition was con- sidered a perfect success. Both Colonel Keith and Lieut. Brady deserve the highest compliment for the thorough and efficieut manner in which they performed thoir re- spective trusts. The Empire Parish leaves again this morning for Baton Rouge, and with the same force, under command of Lieutenant Brady, with whose conduct Gene, rai Butler was very much pleased, Throughout the trip evidence was received of the apprehension of the people on account of the colored population, and it is a palpable truth that the owners of that class of property are foar- fally excited and alarmed on aecount of the negroes. And who have they to blame for it but themaclves? It is solely one of the results of their treasonable desertion of the only government tnat could protect them in their rights, and every hour that they persist in their armed disloyalty the dangor increases, And this is only one of the results of the horrible doctrine of secessivn. Another, almost as fearful, is the dreadful suffering and want they have brought on themselves. We of the North, who think it unnecessary to go outside of New York city, for instance, tosee want stalking in all its ungainly proportions, have no conception of the destitu- tion existing in this part of the country, where extreme povorty was almost unkuown. Daily I witneas sights of privation that almost make one’s heart blecd. Ladies, whose poverty cannot conceal the former ease and comfort of their condition, asking’ for bread by the side of hollow, staring-eyed women and starving children, whose looks testify to the truth of their stories of long, compulsory fasting. And this is truc of the country as weil as the city, Thank God, my name isn’t Davis or Benjamin. Since my last letter the Commercial Bulletin and the Picayune newspapers bave been suppressed and their property sequestrated: the first for a eulogy on the late Colonel Seymour, who was the editor and proprietor of the Bulletin up to the commencement of this war, and since then colonel of the Sixth Louisiana regiment of the rebel army. The closing paragraph of the article was ex- ceedingly offensive, in that it boldly aupported the rebe; cause ag a holy and noble struggle. General Butler issucd the following orders, the first one suppressing the paper and sending Captain Seymour, a son of the deceased colonel, and the present proprietor of the Bulletin, and J. C. Deirnies, the editor, who wrote the article, to Fort Jackson. At the time of the arrest Gen: Butler was not aware that Capt. Seymour was a paroled prisoner; but on learning such to be the case he issued the second order, revoking the parole:— SPECIAL ORDERS—NO. 228 . Heapguarrens, DerarrMent ov THe Gcxr, } New ORixANs, July 30, 1862, The further publication of the New Orleans Commercial Bulletin is prohibited, and the office. its properties, fix. tures, books and papers are sequestered for the benefit of the United States government, and the editor will be im- prisoned at Fort Jackson ll further orders. By order. Major Gevoral BUTLER , Commanding. R. S. Davis, Captain and A. A. Adjutant General, Hrapguarrens, DerakTMENT OF THE New Onueans, July 31, 18¢ i It having come to the knowledge of the Commanding Genera! that the Commercial Bulletin newspaper was cou ducted by Captain Seymour, a paroled prisoner of war, such parole is hereby revoked, and Captain Seymour is to be kept at Mort Jackson as a prisoner of By order Major General BUTLER, Commanding. R. S. Davie, Captain and A. A. Adjutant General. ‘The offence of the Picayune was that, on the 3ist ult., it contained an article on General Pope, reflecting satiri- cally on that officer, and bringing contempt upon the nw tional government, For this it was speedily suppressed, and the property sequestrated; but, on the editors apolo. gizing and protesting that the article was from the pen of a contributor, and would not have been printed but for tho absence of the editor of that column, the paper was allowed to resume its publication On the 31st, man whose name is well known toall who are convivially inclined, was arrested and seut to Fort Jackson. I allude to Charies He ideeick, of champagne ce lebrity. Mr. H. isa resident of Mobile, but it is said that Le has been in the habit of coming to this city in disguise and bringing letters. How much of this ho has done I don’t know, but on the Sist be arrived here on the flag of truce boat Natchez, in the character of a bar keeper, and brought with him a large number of letters to various parties, under cover to the French Consul, to whom he claimed to be bearer of despatches. Count Mejan, the French Consul, interceded for him, but unsue- censfully. The letters are being oxamined, and those for the French Consul will be delivered to him, while the rest, if they contain nothing treasonable, will be gent to the Dead Letter Office. If the act was criminal in no other light, it certainly was docidedly so in attempting to evade the United States mail General Butler yesterday shut up the branch of the Louisiana State Bank, under the following circum #tances:—The night previous he eaptured a man attempt- ing to evade our lines with some two or threa hundred yettora for Natchez and other pointe in Misstesippi. Among the letters wero @ number of drafte on banks hore, one of them being for Brigadier Gonoral Dahlgren: of the rebel army, for some $600 on the above bank. ‘The General sent for the cashier of the bank, and in bie absence a clerk waited on the General. He was asked why, in the lato retarn of the bank, Genoral Dahlgren’s balance was suppressed. The clerk said because he had no money there, Lieutenant Weigel, of the General's «taff, was sent to the bank with the clerk to examine the books, and soon returned and reported that the books showed a baiance of $1,278 to the credit of Dabigren. For this falsehood (and General Butler knows no erimo so offensive excepting treason);the bank was closed, a guard placed at the door, and Mr. Lafeyre, the Prosidenty brought before the General. Mr. L. said the omis- sion’ of this balance in the bank returm was un- questionably an oversight; but General Butler thought it rather suspicious that he should have happened to eap- ture the only evidence of carelessness on the part of the bank, Tho matter remains io statu guo, but will proba- bly be decided within a day or two, We have had an- other interesting little pleco of business in the banking line. It will be remembered that in the arly stage of the national oevupation of (his city General Butlor offered 1} “Indeed,” replied the | Lieutenant, “ thia is a most happy meoting, { have been | y bank that would bring its secreted The Bank of New Orleans declared vas beyond theit reach, For some time ] safe conduet to ote its thet past the Cenerat has been aware that this bank bad | £400,090 concealed wader the pulpit of @ charch in this | city, wtite she bans wae faat verging on utter inselvoncy Wowaver, Wubi, @ fow days ago, when ho informed the officers of tho bauk that the institution was inavivent, and that ou the 4th dey of August be would bo obliged to appoint a reeciver. Yestorday thoir vaulis wero mysteriousiy replenished by $400,000 in specie, and now the bank is considered as strong aud sound as any cf them. It won't do to try to play possum with a mau who has ‘‘had acase”’ in every business or projession uader Heayen. He ts altogether “too many guns for them." One of (he secret agents of the department has lately come to grief. R. B. May, ono of the shrewdest and most officient of detectives, has been engaged since the 1st of July on ‘secret service in this city, and has been almost invaluable in bis line, He was trusted witm un- uagua! powers, but could not resist the temptation to enrich himself at the expense of his honesty. Colony, French, Provost Marshal, got wind of his fraudulent transactions, and bad bim watched, uatil he was finally caught in two or threo stealing operations, amounting to about $4,000. He was tried by Judge Bell, confessed his guilt, and was sentenced to the Stato Penitentiary for twenty years. In view of the terrible want existing bere, General Butler has determined to extend his gratuities of pro- visions to the poor, and is engaged with the capable Chiof Commissary, Colonel Turner, in framing @ new plan of operations, that will probably astonish a certain class of our citizens, and enhance, if possible, his reputation fer practical sagacity. When the arrangement is eomplote I will explain it. ‘The city ia still wonderfully healthy, not a case of yel- low fover having yet made its appearance, the corres- pondence of one of your contemporaries to the contrary notwithstanding, Most of tho fleet are here yet, making repairs before leaving for Pensacola, We have nothing of interest from Baton Rouge or Vicksburg further than that the health of General Wil- Hams’ command has improved greatly since their arrival ‘at Baton Rouge from Vicksburg. Colonel K, F. Jones, of the Twenty-sixth Massachusetts, sent his resignation from Boston, and it has been accept- ed. He has been very 11 at Boston, we learn, but is now much improved in health. I hope that the promotion of Lieutenant Colonel Farr and Major Sawtelle will speedily follow; for there are no two officers in the command more deserving. Dr. Brodt, late assistant surgeon of this regi- ment, went home gearly two mouths ago so ill that it was thought doubtful if he would ever reach Boston alive; but he has just returned in better health than over before, and, to the great satisfaction of the entire corps, with bis commission as full surgeon. The Rebels Desire to be Allowed to Trade with New Orleans. INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE PLANT- ERS AND THE RKBE!, GENERAL, ‘The citizens of St. Tammany parish, with an eye to the loaves and fishes, have petitioned the rebel general com. manding Lower Louisiana to trade with Now Orleauw. The following 1s the correspondence on tue subject:— ‘THR PETITION TO THK REBEL GENERAL. To Gawerar, RucGurs, Commanding: ‘The undersigned, citizens or residents of St. Tammeny pari L espectfully beg loave to represeut the ivi- lowing facts:— Our community ts not an agricultural one, but has al ways been dependent on New Orlains ‘or food, supplied us in exchange for wood, bricks, lumber, &c. A sudden and total termipation of this trade, especially without previous notice, would put us in danger of starvation. We are aware that in time of war there should be no trade between belligevents, but there are exceptions to this as well asto all other general rules. An exception has already been made ia favor of our citizens in New Orleans, to the extent of furnishing them with dour, Our cage, we conceive to be @ much stronger one, as by the continuance of « litaited traffic, such as heretofore exist- ing, we obtain necessaries of life, in the shapo of provis- ions, in exchage for mere conveniences, wood, lumber, &c., which are mere rubbish on our hands. Tho Southern Confederacy evidently gains by euoh an exchange. Again wo would call te your mind, eral, the fact that im- mencse stores of salt, medicines and other steres for our armies have come through this channel. Are we to volun- tarily throw away an opportunity which the avarice of our enemy holds out and will continuc to secure to ust We have no objection to such safeguards being nluced around such traffic as to make it Lona fide advantageous to our side, We therefore petition you, General, te permit the continuance of a restricted trade, within such limits as your prudence may suggest,and we recommend the bearer of this, Captain Peter Gentilluci, as a proper per- son to receive your confidence in this matter—a man of strict integrity and unflinching loyalty. M. B. Hand, L. M. Hand, James Duncan, Henry Keis- ser, E. G. Barnitz, M. Kroger, Ruland Whiten, N. Galata, M. Roos, H. Seimer, J. E. Smith, Jas. T. Hosmer, Geo. Rebber, ‘f. H. Gails, T. M. Hurst. Thos. Gillespie, N. Au- gustin, J. H. Ruddock, Wm. Bagby, H. Jones, ‘Aug. si- mon, 8. B. Staples, R. M. Leni M. Thompson, W Berkett, Thos, Sacrolk, 8, J. Leslie, Martine Lebouf, J. Mf. Galatas, A. L. A. Baan, T. Solomon, T. Nogrett. I certify the above to Lea true copy. L. D, SANDIDGE, ©. S. A., Acting Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General, Finst District, Provost MARSHAL GENERAL'S OFFICE, Tancirano, July 11, 1862 } To. Messra. M. B. Hix, Taos. Gi.txsrm and others, citi- zens of the parish of St. Tatnmany :— Gextizmex—Your petition, asking permission to opsn trade with the enemies of your country, who now occupy New Orleans and Baton Rouge, the commercial and po- litical capitals of your Stato, has been recoived by General Ruggles, and I am directed by him to rep! In doing 80, I beg leave to call your attention to Genoral Order No. 2, from these headquarters, and to taragraph 1 of General Order No. 9, from department 1. a iquartera, prohibiting all intercourse and traffic with thy persons within his lines, and denouneing the ity of death axainst those who engage in it. Copies of these are herewith cnclosed for your information. These orders have been called for by the stern necessi- ties of the times, and, it is believed, have mot the almost universal approval of tho loyal citizens of the country Nor is there anything novel in the rogulationa they pre- scribe or the penaltios they announce, ‘They but declare and clotbe with pena! sanctions doctrines long established and universally recognized. Even in your communication, while asking to be ex- provisions you recognize their justice, y, “We are aware that in time of war thera should be no trade between belligerents.”” But you urg: foreo that yours ig an exceptional ca-e, and that to this rule would subject you to great’ hardahips For now more than twelve mouths your country has lier beon engaged in a gigantic struggle for existence. noble people have poured out their treasures as w and like the ancient Patriarch, lave not even held their children from the rifico, but cheerfully sent them forth to encounter the toi the march, the disea:es of the camp and the peri of the battle fieid. Hundreds of thom have failen by the wayside—thousands have lingered and died in the hospitals, many of them for the wantof medicines which could’ not be obtained; and thousands more have perished on the field of battle. But their thumed and wasted ranks have been filled by others eagerly pressing ferward to take the places of the fallen; and to-day your flag is proudly berne in the face of and behind the foe by mon half clothed, half fed, and who for months have not known even the rude comforts of a soldier's tent. Nor has the army been alone in this respect; every claas of society has, to a greater or less extent, by hardshipa avd privations which, to their lasting hon be it said, have been firmly and even cheerfully vor And if, gentlemen, the time has come when you are called upon to take your portion of this wide-spread sufering, the goneral commanding hopes and b-lieves that you wii! not be found wanting in courage and fortitude to bear it like mon and patriots. You say that if not permitted to dispore of your bricks, Inuber, &e., they will be “mere rubbish ou your hands." You cannot be ignorant, gentlemen, that in this you but share the common fate of your fellow citizens, More than two hundred milliour of dollars worth of pro- duce is now held by the patriotic planters of the Confete rato States, and, so far from seeking to sel! ov barter this, they etand ready to destroy, and have in many instances voluntarily applied the torch, and, with a seif-sacriticing devotion worthy of men who asjire to be free, caimly seen it reduced to ashes, rather tien sell, evon at the most exorbitant rates, to the enemies of their country. And if you will but turn your eyes a emer parish, you may see there the vory materials which you foar will become ‘rabl a your. haads—though but recently furmed into comfortable dwellings, and sheltering helpless women and children—reduced to heaps of “rub: dish” and Ashes, while their inmates have been driven to the woods, and doprived of all moans of subsistence. And this bas been done by the very men with whom yoa would now open commercial intercourse; to whose avarice you would minister and whose wants you would supply. @ general commanding directs me, tn conelusion, to say that, regarding these prohibitions of trafic with the enemy, a8 essential to the successtul defense of the country "he is determined rigidly to enforce them: and any one who may bo detected in attempting to evade or violate them wiil be promptly brought to condign punish- ment. Very respectfully, JAMES 0, FUQUA Distriot Provost Marshal Gener: The Prize Stoamer Ladona, Purapeurma, August 12, 1862. ‘Tho prize steamer Ladona, captured by the Unadilla while endeavoring to run up Ogeechos river, arrived he: to-day. The Ladona is a valuaole iron vessel, with a goner- ‘al cargo from Nassau. The prize is valued at $400,000. Movements of General Frank Patterson, Puiapevraia, August 12, 1862, General Frank Patterson and one of his aids are pas- sengors on board the steamer Spaulding, which arrived here to-day from the peninsula. To Call at Cape Race. The steamship Saxonia, whiob sailed from this pert on Saturday, will call at Raoe, probably passing that point this (Wednesday) afternoon. Any despatohes loft with George Stoker, Esq., No. 145 Broadway, prior to noon to-day, will be promptly forwarded. Movements of Massachusetts Regt: ite. Bosron, August 12, 1962. ‘Tee Thirty-‘ourth Massachusetts regiment, Colonel ‘Wells, late lioutenant colonel of the “Fighting First,” is anounced to leave for the seat of war this afternoon, vin New York. Tho Thirty-third Massaobusotta regiment will provably leave to-morrow. Ns INTERESTING FROM EUROPE. Arrival of the Scotia and City of Baltimore. THE NEWS TO THE 8d OF AUGUST. Earl Russell’s Letter on Our Cruis- ers at the Bahamas, The Prince do Joinville on the Battles Before Richmond. Duty and Devotion of the Orleans Princes to the Union. ARCHBISHOP HUGHES’ SPEECHES IN CORK. THE EASTERN QUESTION, ke, &., &. ‘The sorew steamer City of Baltimore, Captain Kennedy, which gailed from Liverpool at noon on the 30th, and from Queenstown on the 3ist ult., arrived at this port early yesterday morning The Cunard mail steamship Scotia, Captain Judkins, from Liverpool at half-past eloven on the morning of the 2d, and from Queenstown on the evening of the 3d inst., arrived at this port also early yosterday morning. Tho news by both vessols has been anticipated by their own rports when off Cape Race, telegraphed from St. Johns, N. F., and already published in tha Hugaup. The details, takon from our filesto the 20 of August, aro, however, very interesting. ‘The very latest despatches by the Scotia say :— ‘The Espana, of August 1, dectares the rumor that Spain will receive 3,000,000 francs for the participation In tho Cochin China expedition to be unfounded, and says — Spain will receive a portion of the territory ceded to France. Tho Peris Bourse has (July 2) been very firm, closed at 69.10 or 40c. higher than yesterday. A letter from Shields, England, of the 26th of July, to the London Shi;ping Gase'te aays:— Captain Simpson, of the brig Hanuah, of this port, at Quebec, writes that when in latitude 87 58 N., longitude -, May 16, say a large packing hoisted boat out, and towed it alongside, and took it on board. One end was markod “J. R. Laws & Co., Chicago,” the other end was marked ‘J. Johnson, New York.’ On being opened jt was found to contain human bones and fiesh, stowed in limo, in @ state of putrofaction, The snch from them being 80 strong, prevented a proper examination, and the case was closod and hove out of the sangway. Rentes The Rebel Navy at Liverpool. aa the London News, August 1 Liverpool would appear to be a kind of Confederate <, judging by the vessels, new and old, which have port for the South since the commencement of ar in America. The Oreto, a new iron vessel the Confederates, left the Mersey some time since for Nassau, where she arrived safely. However, while attempting to fit out for sea, the Admiralty Court seived her for an infringement of the Foreign Enlistment act, and the last advices from Nassau left her in the bands of the British commander of that station. Another new iron vessel, with the rather mysterious name of 290, left the Birkonhead Docks on Tuesday morning and pro- ceeded to sea, and on Wednesday sho was discovered lying to off Tuskar, awaiting the arrival of the Hercules, steamtug, from Liverpool, with a complement of fifty men, ‘Lhe 290 is rather a hice looking steamer, and her destination is either for Nassau or Havana, She may probably teko a prelimary cruise in the Atlhntic, This circuinstance, together with the sailing of the Confederate steamship Merrimac, Captain Rowe, from Plymouth Sound (whore sue hag beon lying since June 7), may pro- bably account for the departure of the federal man.of- war Steamer Tuscarora from Southampton early on the morning ({ the 30th, wiieh will mo doubt do her best to prevent eithor of there steamers reaching Southern ports. Tho Tuscarora is a splendid sailer, and carries a powerful armament, She Prince de Joinville on the Battles. The folowing extracts from letters addressed by the ‘ince de Joinville to his brother, the Duc d’Aumale, will brobably be of interest to our depeed — before yesterday it wi on was Mmarebing upon th naiderable force, in order to up the railway’ and destroy our magazines, "Wo Beauregard vith apart of his forces. All that yreatly complicates our brea heard, besides, of the arrival at Richmond o situation, Not being able to detach troops to meet Jack son and defend White House as well og our line of com- munication, the General hos decided upon abandoning it completely; he has, therefore, orderad all his troops to cross to the right’bank of the Chickahominy, and to take up a new base of oporatious upon’ James river, under tho protection of the gnnboats, Tho enemy commenced his movement last evening, He crossed to the left bank of the above mentioned river ot Mildon Bridge, in order to attack McCail’s division at Meunitville The attack was made by Ceneral Lec, at the head of Witt’s division. Some Louisiana regiments at tempted to pass by main force, but were repulsed. A Light took place thére, which, however, was not followed by any important result. That same hight we conveyed our baggage over to the right bank of the Chickahominy At thia moment the enemy is attacking the troops which have remained on the left bank, in order to cover the bridges. Savage Sratiow, June 23—Forr Mowror, July 1, 1362. Yesterday will ever remain deeply engraven on my memory; iu the firat place, on account of the soul stirring scenes I witnessed, and in the next, by reason of the dan gers which our two nephews escaped as by a miracle fir four hours Parts (the ‘ount of Paris) and for two hours i.obert (the Duke d+ Charires) were incessantly under a most violent Jire of etry and artillery. Their con duct was, as night he been azpeet-d, excellent. Thoy have Deu exceedingly active aud usotul,and at the critical moment evinced a firmness which has excited univorsal aimiration and gained them public thanks. But to retura tomy narrative. We knew that the forces under the command of Gene ral Porter, situated on the left bank of the Chickahominy, wero being attacked from an early hour in the morning. ‘The action commenced about one o'clock. Paris was im: mediately despa and remained under the orderg of Porter, The affair becoming more aad more warm, the balloon announcing that strong reinforcements had been sont from Richmond, and everything being comparatively trauquil upon tho right bank, the g five brigades to join Portor. | Re ment to the front, and 8, thos finding themselves both in the dough’ (pe'rin), I wont to (ue frout in order to see what would become of them. 1 galloped over the bridgeon the Chickahominy, and mount- ing the opposite hills, found our treops m an undulating country, composed of ‘vast fiel!# and woods, upon a line of Dittle measuring about a mile and a balf. i then passed 4 battery very warmly employed, and rejoiued our ne- phews, who were in (be first line with Cenoral Porter. Neither they nor he appeared to pe that b: thick and (ast around them. After a momeut et tion, orders to be transinitted sent our nephews in all directions. We separated, and 1 tock upa position on a hill {> the rear, whence [ had a pretiy general view of the eld of battle, aad from which I could distinguish our rephews, espectaily Paris, who wore a peculiar kiud of hat. T was admiring the grandeur of the scene spread out before me—we had about 35,000 men engaged; a numerous artillery, the reserve of cavalry, the lancers with*the.r. floating ponnons—all in the midst of a most picturesque country, and the whole iltaminated by the blood red rays of the setting sun—wheo all of a sudden, at tho place where Porter , the fusillade became intensely hot. Tho reserves are excited by hurrahs, and sent by degrees into the woods. The fustilade becomes more and more flere, and oxtends to our loft. There is no longer any doubt that the enemy is making a last effort on that side, Our reserve is engaged, and we no longer have anybody under our hand. The sun is rapidly sinking. if we are able to hold out another hour we shall have gained the day, for everywhere vise we have — the enemy, and’ the efforts of Jackson, Leo, Witt and Longstrost, whose troops are before us, are vain, But our men ere harassed with fatig: they have been fighting since the morniog, and have scarcely any ammunt- tion left. The enemy brings forward reserves which he has boon collecting since twel clock. Those fresh troops rush in good order upon our left, which falters, flies, and passing through the artillery draws on in disor: der tue troops of our centre, The enemy advances rapidly. The staff, our nephews at ita head, draw their swords and throw thoinselves into the molee to arrest the fugitives. The standards are planted in the id, aod ‘round them the bravest make a stand by rallying them. selves iu little groups, The fusiilade and cannonado are ‘80 violent that the tiles striking the ground raise a Permanent cloud of dust. At that moment General Cook charged at the head of his cavairy, but that move docs not succeed, and pis horsemen, on their return, only in. crease the disorder. t, aided by all every who felt a little courage, to stop the bat in vain, 1 joined a few officers w ettmpted to. clock the artil: lory, and we succeeded by jutely So way and solsing the horses by the bridles. By i} means we wore enabled to put two or three pieces in position on the slope of « hill, and wits them we harassed the enemy Ag ey LA Irish Brigade arrived, ‘Gor ri le which, uttering » few savage cries, ranged itself in order of and ad they bi sre atu fel nae at and wounded we left marsh, But, when we arrived, the head ot the colum! had alone passed, We heard musketry on bacere, am, forward, I met Keser, who informed no? th’ wo repulsed ‘the enemy’s cavalry, which haa .t- tempted to molest our march. We soon heard a heavy capnonade en our left rear. It is the eoomy attacking '» Who had not left his position. At nightfall we encamped, and at dawn of day I learned thatall our wagons: and all our treops had Whitebeck Swamp. On the morrow we advanced, scorched by a burnit sun, towards James river. ‘Tho General conferred wit! the commanders of the gunboats, and then galloped off with our nephews, We soon heard the repert of cannon, and the enemy attacks Smith (who holds Whitebeck swamp). Another attack is made op the contre of our line. Those attacks having thrown the enemy inte a kind of disorder, the General returns with us to the gua- boada, in order to confer with Captain Rodgers. We em- bark upon the Galena; while there a report is sont from the rear announcing that a powerful body of the enemy ia advancing towards the position occupiea by Porter. Immediately we re-ascend the river in order to throw the weight of our oxnnon bills into the acale, and open & florce fire, The liontenant ia at the mast head with the sigval officer, who telegraphs with the men who work Porter's signals, which are plaoed on the roof of house in order to direct our fire, Ialso climb up to the mast head, in apite of jack boots and spurs. In the heat of the action the helmsman forgets to steer straight, and the Galena rons ashore, A di able thing, as imme- diately the enemy covers tho neighborhood with sharp- shooters. We at last get off, and Porter's fire slackens. We thence conclude that the enemy is repulsed, and a ** fraternization” with the “ blue jackets’’ takes place, tm which I participate. The General returns to his head- quarters, and we soparate from him. We then went te Fort Monroe on board a gunboat, the Jacob Bell, whiok was sent here with despatches, British Trade With the Bahami EARL RUSSELL’S ENDORSEMENT OF OUR NAVAL VIGILANOR. Tho following correspondence has passed between a oo of shipowners in Liverpool and the Engiish Foreign Oftice:— ‘To Her Maseary’s Principal SECRETARY OF Strata FOR Yormcn Avrams—The humble memorial of the undor- signed British merchants and shipowners showeth, that your memorialists view with considerable anxiety and apprehonsion the hostile attitude at present assumed by, federal cruisers in the Bahama waters. ‘Theso cruiseré| are now blockading the British port of Nassau, as if it were & Confederate port, and are making prize of British vessels Failing from one Pritish port to another with British goods, thongh such vessels are perfeetly innocent of any attempt torun the blockade. If such a violation of in» ternational rights be passed over by her Majesty’s govern. ment very disastrous consequences will ensue to your me- morialists and other merchants and shipowners trading ia) those waters. Many British vessels fitted out for with British cargoes for Nassau are now deterred from sailing in apprehe: clearly proved that such seizure is unjustifiable, your mo- moriaiists have no contidence in the administration of ustice in the federal Prize Courts, or in the prospect of| boing compensated for thé injury inflicted. The confi dene» of mereantile men in the sanctity of the British flag 1s already so much shiken that underwriters are demand- ing ten percent premium for insuring from risk of capture Pritish goods in British bottoms sailing from one British) port to another. Your memorialists, therefore, pray’that, steps may be taken by her Majesty’s government to protect, British shipping in the Gahama waters and to put a cheok on the unwarraniable seizures so repeatediy perpetrated| by the federal cruisers. And your memorialiste will ever pray, &s. (Signed by forty shipowners. ) EARL RUSSELL'S REPLY. Foreicy Orvtce, July 5, 1862. Sir—T am directed by Earl Russell to acknowledge the} receipt of your letter of the 2d instant, enclosing a memo-| rial from certain British merchants and shipowners as| Liverpool, in which they state that they view with consi- erable anxiety and apprehension the hostile attitude as- sumed by federal crutsers in the Bahama waters; and t! inomorialists pray that steps may be taken by her Majes- ty’s government to protect British shipping in tho waters, and putacheck on the seizures so repeatedl; made by the federal cruisers. Tam to state to you, reply, that it is alleged, on the other baud, by Mr. Sew and Mr. Adams, that ships have been sent from thi country to America with a fixed purpose to run the block: ade; that high premiums of insurance hive been paid with) this view; and that arms and ammunition have been th comve,el fo the Scuthern States to enable them to carry om th war, Lord Russell was unable eithor to deny the truth of those allegations or to prosecute to convietion the part engaged in those transactions. But he cannot be surp that the cruisers of the United States should watch with vigilance a port which is said to be the great en'repot off this eommerce. Her Majesty's government have reason to doubt the equity and adherence to logal requit ment of the United States Prize Courts. But he is uw: that many vessels are subject to harsh treatment that, if captured, the loss to the merchant is far fro being compensated, even by afavorable docision in Prige Court. The true Unerpe dep be that the a and shipowners of Liverpool should refrain from this of trade. It exposes Innocent commerce to voxs detention and search by American cruisers; it produc irritation aud ill will on the part of tbe population of Northern States of Ameri it is contrary to the spirit of her Majesty's proclamation; and it exposes the Brit name to suspicions of bid faith, to which neither her Ma. jesty’s government nor the great body of the nation a justly obn-aious. tis trus, indeed, tho supplies of arm ‘and ammunition have been sent to the Federals equally, in contravention of that neutrality which her Majest; has prociaimed. It 1s true also that the Federals ol tain more freely and more easily that of which tb stand in need. But if the Confederates had cvmman of the sea they would no doubt watch as vigilantly, capture as readily, British vessels going to New York the federals now watch Charleston, and capture ve seeking to break the blockade, There can be no doub that the watchfulness exercised by the federal cruisers prevent supplies reaching the conteders by sen will occasionally lead to vexasious visits of mi it shil not engaged in any pursuit to which the federals c properly object. however, is an evil to which war o sean is liable to neutral commerce, and her josty’s government have done all they can fairly do} that is to say, they have urged the federal governme to enjoin up n their naval ofiicers greater caution in ent rights. Her Majesty's gov} erument having represented to the United States go ernment every case in which they were justified in int fering, have only further to obsorve that it is the duty her Majesty's subjects to conform to her Majesty's p clamation,and abstain from furnishing to either of belligerent parties any of the means of war which forbidden to be furnished by that proclamation. sir, your most obedient humble servant, Al. LAYARD. A. A. Taomas Bunny Horeratt, Eaq., 42 Portiand place. ARCHBISHOP HUGHES IN CORK. His Speech on Public Edacation in A eg ng er PMicy as Expiai by the late, d&e. From the Cork (Ireland) Examinor, August 1.) sterday @ bumber of the citizens of Cork and ot! gentlemen entertained at dinver, at the Royal Viet Hotel, His Grace, the most Rev. Doctor Hughes, Ar bishop of New York, who has beon staying in Cork fo some days preparatory to embarking from Queenstow ou his return to New York. Aa already mentioned in ou journal, the entertainment had been got up at a vi short notice—little more than twenty-four h urs—bag notwithstanding, over eighty gentlemen assembled to honor to the illustrious guest of the evening. After dinner the Caaimsan, in proposing the health o the Archbishop, said:—Circumstances have compell him to combine the character of a champion with funetions of an apostle, His very name has been rs a terror to his onemies, and a towor of strength is friends. To us here it hag been as fatniliar. shall 1 not say as dear—as that of our own prelates. at this side of the Atlantic have rejoiced in his fame gloried in his success—in the success of his cau Gentlemen, there is one quality in his Grace which oo mands my respect, my attention, my cordial sympathy. he is an Jrishman in heart and feolin Cl .| He loves the land of bis birth—he cherishes hb honor and her fame; and the truest and b mode io which, as & bishop of the church, can evince his attachment to the land of his birth and nome of his fathers, is in @ foreign land to use every fluonce of his sacred authority to train up in religion pnts A intelligence, in honor, and in industry, the laws and the tmstitrwions of their country, descendants of thore who, from necessity or choice, ha adopted the New World as their home. (Cheers. ) my lord, watching ax we do with the decpest aniety tremendous confirel that now unheypily convuilsing and generous land—the home asylum of 30 m ‘millions of our race—we earnestly pray that God in H mercy may soon restore to her people the blessings peace, give back the sword tothe scabbard, and hush int entle strains the sbrill trumpet of war, at whose m Gig} call brothor strikes at brother, ‘and both stain wi their blood the bosom of their common mother. (CI Gentlemen, before] give the tonst which you all desi to honor, I may refer to fact that this demonstratiq of respect to our illustrious guest is in every way remar! able. It has been without preparation or the possibili of preparation. (Hear, bear.) Indeed, there were forty hours’ notice, even trom its first possible announo ment, to the momont we roveived our guost this even (Hoar, hear.) And 1 put it to every gentieman in foom whether any public dinner of equal magnitude importance was ever got up in this city to jcas than fortnight. (Cries of “hear, heart’) We did certain desire a longer notice; but it woe bave not reosived o guest with all tae ‘he deserves at our hands, we wo receive aud greet him with the warrnth of afly te hearts. (Cheers.) Sentienete.« give you health of the Archbishop of New be and may he i long to sxioy the triumphs of the blessings peace in the land of his adoption, (Enthusiastic chi ‘THM AROMB'SHOP'S REPLY. ‘The toast was drunk with an enthusiasm impossible describe. His Grace, the Archbishop, in rising to rexpond, received with @ tremendous manifesta ‘ef applau which wee Seren ‘over and over = ‘When sii been his,Grace #aid:-—Mr, and gi Teme! should be something more er 14 than a = ay Ae Mba Indifference ti to sloquence rt expended on a to me, whion | kare