The New York Herald Newspaper, August 18, 1862, Page 1

HOLE NO. 9471. ARCHBISHOP HUGHES ON THE WAR. Twpertant and Significant Sermon in St. Patrick’s Cathedral. MIS MISSION TO EUROPE. What He:Bays of the Icclins There Towards the United States. The Unity of this Great Republic Must be Preserved. Foreign Iuterference Should be Re- sisted with the Sword. ‘ The Archbishop. in, Favor ‘of a Short and Decisive War. ’ The Whole North Should be Drafted at Once, éc., ee., ao, 1 Archbishop Hughes delivered a most important ard Patriotie uermon yesterday morning at the half-past ten @clock mars in 8. Patrick's Cathedral. The edifice was qrewded to tion, evon the aislos being thronged. During the ry Of the discourse the greatest silence Pervaded the vast congregation, aud the clear veice of Be prelate could be heard to its remotest @arner. He looks in excellent health, and bis step was as ‘@rm an that of a man twenty years his juulor. Mass was @slebrated by the Rev. F. MeNeirny, the Arcubishop * Being present, with the Very Rey. William Storrs, V. 6; . Meagrs,. Maguire, Conron, Donnelly and others, after the. Archbishop ascended the pulpit [and Beeached the following tru! y patriotic discourse:— Tam about to read the nevonth and cighth verses of the ‘Bospel according to Bt, Mark, thirteenth chapter:— And when you.shall hear of wars and rumors of wars Sear ye not, for such things must needs be; but the end is war nain, shal rise against nation, and kingdom m, and there shall be carthquakes in = and farnines. Those are the beginning of sor- A need not, dearly beloved brethren, express the com- fort and pleasure which we have to-day in finding our- @eives once more fn the place from which we have often hed the.consolation to addresa you, Inerd not invite yon to join with ua in giving thanks to \luighty God for ‘that bonign providence and constant protection which He \ es afforded us during the dangers of a long and too Tedious absence from our dock. That absence hee, fadeed, been much longer than I anticipated, af bas, wm part, grown out of the fuct at When J loft this country I had no fmtimation of the great solemnity which was to take ylnve 4m the Cathedral church of the Christian world, in the ‘@enouization of the noblo martyrs wio preached the faith ef Christ and gave their blood Ju testimony of Sts troth Yathe Islands of Japs. ‘Tue kuowledys of feachéd mo chout the middle of winter, and pro tay for several mouths more than Festi wegret it, however, fur had 1 been at ho: Ishould, like so many of the vony @ thedicrarchy throughout the work, o . Say Nardships of voyage to be present and tek part in the most soléian” Ceremony that ever, Kom, sinve the when. St. Peter first entered it, lad soen. ‘® pictare of what the Catholic church is. picture and at tho same time an cinbodimen; authors haye eaid or written of its unity, of of its holiness for the bat event “same I ¢ iy ‘bood ase martyr ors hero of Christ is not fe inscribed on the calendars of the holy who follow the Lamb. it would not be #0 much in accordance that }- should dwell upon this topic, which is more immediately intercat” all, altheugh it be not of the same high and ebaracter. Next to religion, men ‘are taught by iteelt to love and-serve their,country. The one is alg more sacred than the othur, but both have an int}. mate relation to each other which ought not to be over: Jeaked, and especially when one’s country stands in nood of Gif and support. It is wre that I have had many op, daring my absence of discussing the oue and other of these topics; and perhaps no one, except seut ema special message, has exer had more opportunities to ‘and comprehend and watch the operation of ag in distant countries with regard to the melau- ‘struggle that is now agitating this Jand. message to deliver. Another could have message; but none was commited to me messago of poade, oxcept the message exoopt che message of oor jdome as opportunity mght in the same ‘and to the samo-end. I have lost no opportunity, to my digcretion, and that was the only qualiil- connected with my going. J have lost no opportu. ‘accomplish these ends, to etplain that vous misun- t, to inapire, 90 far as language of mine cold have effect, the vivit of peace ant good will unio tive people foriign States towards that ene nation to which T exclu: | Se iaarona cos pay ‘Tho task, was not Ro | @may ass0me might have anticipated; ils accmplish- ‘quent has not been #0 encccssful as I could have desired. ‘Meversheloss, I trust that, direotly or indirectly, ny going ‘broad, in great part for the purpose of aiding the coun ‘Ary, has not been altogether without efiect, o Yn the first place, I foand, on landing im Europe, that there were fow who had any just conception of the pa- ‘ture of tho contrevarsy botwoen this gov eccS> st @ qery large number of our (eliow eitizers. Nov only bad hay no correct idea, but thoir ideas were entirely the of what was true, aud very inany Of thom oon. to entortain those notions What wee thelr theory? Their thoory was that & proaperows por "Won of the American people had bern re polled by acts of the goverumeat to ch an exient that thoy could bear tho yoke ws seorteslon and Wyalty to the goverument which they had Weipoa iw putablish no longer. Ztook every opportunity to axplain to them that this was not the fact; that taey (nemecloes had nat presented any specific charge to eustain that alienation; (hat MBcially there was rot on record @ single act that could be Balled by the nime of oppression, The answer to this was, ‘W ls impossible that so many pooplo, so many States, with Such interests involved, should have taxen the ground which they have taken oxcept forced to it by oppression ‘em thepartof the government, The next ground waa, Aad especially in England, that { was but @ repetition the samo polloy that severed these colovies nearly one feundred years, ago from the mother country; that 1? Americans had always boasted that the Revolution f A776 was pot a gratuitous mndertaking, bub that it was agrinnt tho oppression of the British government, aad What now those same poopls would not allow their (allow gitizons to claim the same privileges; but that at any rate $8 wae a gallant oxhidittun to see mon vandod together and ‘Choking all their prospecta im life, thotr wealth, every- ‘Whing, ren their lives, in & cause which was presented Ao.the world as one prompted by & love of human liberty, And aguin, they said it was inconsistent on tho part of Mae Govervment to oppoeo this; and finally, which was ‘sbatrue reagon, that the country was becoming too large fer one supromo dombilon, Better that it should ve ai. vided, Why not? Beyond this what was the ovher rea. eon? It was interest—Kuropean intorest. Interest isa prompting metive for all mations and forall men; but Jaterest ought to be founded upon principle of some kind, ‘whilo in this cage I could find no rational, just or defens!. ‘ble prisoiplo ov which they could found their anti-Amert- span polloy. t was the desire to postess an article indis- peneadle for the support of their artisans,'and to keep their vast machinery from being eaten up by rust. This was at the dotiom of ther sophisiries, and when it was founded ‘on such a basis} you ovn understand how veoless it would be to argue with them, Say you came from the spot, nd that the facts wore thus and thos, and their opinion, formed at such # distance, was more fhanS all your facie, and were treated as fawoh more. There war a time when this country, now in euch wnezampled dificultien, waa en the pointof being at tacked by forcign force~it was @ critical moment, The Biter peeves 5 ha eppcianily wan forty ewig 9 diejied { i fi i ~ td councils and mutual jealousies; not from any senceof the ‘tnjustice involved in the under aking, but beoause i could nol command the unity @f power and the support of thé whole reople. That time passed away. It was soon felt that the opportunity was lost; and then camo thosceond | Arrival of the Trade Wind phase, which was a mutual solf-congratulation thas if Europe abstained from intermeddling Americas would themselves accomplish their own work of division with- out costing a penny to any other Ftate. During that po- riod there were auxious oxpectations overy day of hear’ ing of some result which would terminate this awful con test. In the meantime came uews of the wonderful efforts on both sides, In the efforis, the brayery and the | sacrifices made by the South, as they eniled it, and in the corresponding, if not greater, efforts made by the North, | which they raw on one sice or ihe other, they perceived the reality of their theoretical phentom of growing power which they had previously eoaprehended, and on the existence of whick our safoty for the time to come depends. Such was theistate of the case, ag near as] can judge; when I left Europe. I conversed with men of nearly every nation, aud the general feeling was what I havo deecribed—in the first place a determinalion, not by un- derstanding the question, but by the decision of Furo- Pean will, that the Soury should be right and the North wrong. ‘That was fixed in ne: ye ond you met. one reflective and deliberatix. hear the truth be was among the exceptions. 4 ».! not include in thie category those who, rising in the scale of human society, felt it their duty to listen und to reflect. No one NEW YORK, IMPORTANT FROM THE from New Orleans. THE REBEL ATTACK ON BATON ROUGE. | The First Day’s Fight and K i pulse of the Rebels, THE DEATH OF GEN, WILLIAMS CONFIRMED, Our Treeps Still Heid. the Flace at | it® westerns . the surface et the country is level iv the | the Departure of the Trade Wind. Sketches of the City and the Military Commanders. can tell towhat particular cause their abstainingfrom | THE RAM ARKANSAS AND ALL AnoUy WER. intermeddling with us may have been occasioned by re. fiections on the whole matter. To help, however, these rellections, there were reports of astounding armeics spring- ing spontaneously from the very sil—from every cily, and village and hamlet—so that where there was before less than Sd ty thousana men, there had succeeded sis or seven hundred REBEL ACCOUNTS OF THE ACTION, Key Rey ~~ Ree thousand. These made a stronger impression than the views | The steamship Trade Wind, Capt. De.meg, arrived at of any sateuman in Burope or America could produce. The | this port yesterday, from Now Orleans, whence she vesult te that there ts no Gispoattion to int-rfere of it is | sailed at uine o'clock on the morning of the 6th inet. possible to avoid %. The only danger is that which may arise trom suffering and starvation amoug the working classes, who are not accustomed to starve, but acous- ‘The Trade Wind brings the following paseengers:— Mr. John McGinnis and lady, Dr, While und Indy, L. Seibert, C. ¥. Miller, C. 1. Audrews, K. MJ Murphy, Mr. Andrews, Dr. J, P, Pinckard. U.S. N.; $. T. Blessing. tomed to labor and to live by their labor. There has ‘The early departure of tho Trade Wind fron New Or- Deen great forbearance in France and England on this | yoans on the morning of the 6th prevents usTrom receiv” score, In France, through the winter, the forbearance of the people, on the very verge of starvation, is worthy of all praise. They were encouraged by hepe ; their | 4. otcneg of tho commanding friends spoke comfort to them, and persualed them that the time wes not far distant when relief would come to . them. Their bishops and priests encouraged them, not merely by words, but by appealing to all who could to supply the means of passing through the winter without ing the full details of tho action at Baton Rouge. We, however, give tho facteas far as we have thom, with generals, the destroyed rebe, rom Arkansas, tho city and vieinity of Baton Rouge, and the rebo} accounts 29 far aa received, Our Special Army Correspondence. New Onteans, La., August 6, 1862. any crisis of famineor want. They say it was worse in ‘The Attack: on Baton Rouge by Ue Redels—Ihe Rebels Re- England. It might have been worse in one sense, but not 80 bad in another. In the great district of Lancashire the Operatives are suilering ; they are idle by twenty-ftve or thirty per cent of the workmen, and the probabiticy is that there will be stitt less employment, But Eugland, with her vast resources and the knowledge that these men are not accustomed to hungor, bas come to their relief, and they are not now the specially suffering class of that great n. the meantime T take it that France and England are pulied—Death of General William:—The Fleet Ascend, ing the River—Tne New Commander-—the City Not Capturcd—To be Destroyed #f Abandoned, ke. We have been attacked nt Baton Rouge. the followin isthe despatch of Colouel Cabill, aa brave an officer ag apy in the field ;-— HeavgvarrErs, Sxoonp Brica! } Baton Rover, August 4, 15 We are attackod by a very. superior forco—probably Captain R. 8. Davis, Assistant Adjutant i El humming their attention in oiler directions to supply the | fiteen thousand. They are determined to tuko the city means of employing their operatives, American cotton has been hitherto ail their relianco; they have endeavored, but with little succers, to cultivate it under the various soils and climates comprehended. within the tors {tories of Vhose nations. They are turving their attention lo tne cultivation of flax, which at ome time was a great article of commerce and manvfacture. This has no doubt rem!ted at any hazard. General Williams is killed, and a number of field off, cers badly wounded. If it is possible to send us reinforcements let it be done with all despatch, ‘The pavy is threatened by the ram Arkansas, which will divert them from our service, therefore if more gun- from a bope that this great controversy in the United | boats cau be sent they will’be of great use. States would ultimately lead to some means being taken # reconstruct the country as jt was before, «and that with pat nce the ports in the Southern country would be opened and trade allowed to flow once again tn ite usual chinnels. This was the crime charged upon the federa! goverument, that it had forbidden the. regular fow and yellax of foreign. trade with the ‘South, That fact they can complainzof no more. The ports ate open, THOS. W. CALLLL, Colonel Ninth Connecticut Volunteers, Commanding. ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS, Yesterday morning at four o’clock the réebels, supposed to be 15,000 strong, under Breckinridge and Jovell, at- yor the city. The fight lasted some three houts, @ the rebels were repulsed, but are said to intend a renewal of the engagement at, daybreak this morning. and his people, towstds whom thay had proclaimed such | Géneral Williams, in command of our forces, was killed, [viendship, have refused sll the 20 much desired article. @ Capnon ball taking his head cotpletely off. Our loss Whether it ts the refusal of the South to sell their com- | was about 250 in killed and wounded, including several modity, or of the North to open their ports for tne traffic, field officers wounded. the operatives of Laucashire are subject tothe samen, | The rebel oss is said to be greater than ours. We cap- convenience by the absence of cotton, tured a number of prisoners, among them Captain Blount, Finally, they havo taken up the idea that i would | an artillery efficor, and a member of Breckinridge’s staff. be @ dangerous experiment to interfere with this melancho'y | Blount bas been brought to this city. The prisoners state ase; that it would cos! more to them than anybenefl they | that Breckinridge lost his right arm. Lovet! was killed, would reatise from the result of their interference, and tha | and Captains Allen usid Chain, of Baton Rouge, and a lieu- Glready, during this period of suspense, ¢forls were being | tenant were killed, It is reported that wo lost two guns made that would lay the foundations of natimal strength! | @nd captured three. The last report is that we have lost which would enable this country lo compe'e with the whole | Bo guns. Our force is much smaller than the evemy’s, world. To these circumstances I ascribe a great deal of ‘The ram Arkansas was just above, and is expected that forbearance and that kindlier tone, for the public | hourly to makes diversion by attacking our gunboats at gentiment in botb countries is marked by a milder tono | Baton Rouge. General Butler has been up ali night, towards ua. It would bo impossible for mo, and it would not be pro- | went aboard the flagship per in this place, to enter into details. Ican only give | Commodore pending supplies and orduapce to Baton Rouge. He aud conferred with Farragut, ‘The: result is that ah You goweral impressions. I donot know what may hap- | the fleet, but the Mississippi and Pensacola, left early. pen in case this war should continue as it has been since | this morning for Baton Rouge, to take care of the Rom. T left this country. The papers have rendered ihe condi- tion of the country perfectly confused. It is very dificult Aitor Gencral Williams’ death, volonel Cahill, of the ‘Ninth Conneotivut regiment, took command by right or for one even acquainted with this ¢ountry tocomprehend | seniority. how tho land lies; and so it is with foreiguers. Nor is it Colonel Paine, of the Fourth Wisconsin, has been in in any one’s power to say with absolute certainty what | thiseity, under arrest, by order of Gencral Williaus, may happen if this war continues. but ‘as immediately released by General Butler,» on ‘What is the prospect of its. coming toan end? Tdonnt | Tecelving the news of the attack, and accompanied by seo any prospect. There does not appear to be an and it may be that God, for somo design of His own, which future generatious will appreciate, has permitted | soene of action; thts calamity to ecourge the country im order to bring from those reeults beneds to the whole human taco, These are circumstances the results of which noman can fathom, | Was Fecelved by Genoral Butior they depend upon e@ many conditional circumstances. But there ts one qnestion that ought to be clear to every mind, and tt fs thie—that if such a warfare shoud continue for yoars, it is recognized as the privilene of other natione, inthe name of Rumanity, to (ry (0 put an end to it, The penple themes should yt an end bo i with as little delay as ele. Jt ig not a scourge that has visited this nation Wars haye been from the beginning of the world, nations against vations, avd that most terrt blo of all wars, olvil war, Jn which brother is arrayed | “¢#troyed. against brot hor, How long is this to go on? An it goes on it te affording a pretext for all the nations to combine against us; bat avon then, F say their, interfercnec should not be perm'tea exoeyh in (he way of benercienc; but if with the snord, w should wnite in setting them at defance, Batt would say if they do interfere, and interfere suocesafully—if the country and the government are not sustained by evory sacrifice that ig necessary, then your United States will become a Poland. Then it will become divided into fray mente ; then the strife will hover on all the borders ; every Stato will claim to be independent, and render itgelf an easy prey foreign Powers. Oh! let not this beso. I know little of what has occurred sinco [loft, I have had soarosiy time to look At a papor rince my re- turn ; but by all accounts much bas boen attempted but not indeh realized towards terminating this annatural war. Volunteers haye been appenied to, and they have answered the appoal, bat for my own part, if Tlinda yolee im the councils of the nation, I would any, let voluntedrs continue mode, € three hundred thoustnd men be not sufficient, let three hundred thousand more be ealied upon, go that the army, in its fulness of strength, ehn!! te always on hand for any emergency, This is not erbelty; this ig mercy: this is bumanity—anything that will put ‘an end to this draggling of human biood acrosa ihe whote surface of the country, Then every man, rich and poor, will have to take bis share; and it onght not to be left issue, Lioatenant Weitzel, Assistant Military Commandant, vs adviser, left before seven o’cluck this morning for the when Colone) Paive will assume com. ‘The news was brought by the gunboat Tonteises, and at twelve, o'clock last it. It is Delieved that we ca: hold Batun Rouge against the enemy. As the Trade Wind loaves at aino o’slecks this morning Teannot write full particuiars, Our troops fourht epiondidiy, If i ts necessary to abandon our position at Paton Rouge, wo have anil cient nuber of transports to bring the troops to this city, In vyent of such necessity Baton Rouge wi! probably be WAR VESSELS AT NEW ORLEANG, ‘Tho following is 2 Hist of the veswels-of-war now forming the floct in the vietoly of New Orleans, most of whieb have gone up to Batou Rouge:— VINST CLASS HTRAN BLOOPS OF-WAR, fariford, tlagehip, 22 guns, ovklym, Captain Bell, 22 guns, Ricnmmond, Captain Aklen, 22 guus. Pensacola, Caytam Mortis, 22 puns, SROOND CLASS RIAM SLOORR-OF WAR, Troqnots, Captain Palnor, 7 guns, Onelta, — ————, 7 guna, Miseies|ppt, Captain’ susith, GUNBO Konto, 4 guns. Kennebec, 4 guns. Katahdin, 4 guns. Pinola, 4 game. Ownsco, 4 guna. Clitton, 6 guns. Weetfleld, 6 guns. Jackson, 6 guna. Tirasca, 4 guns. SKETCH OF BATON ROUGE. Baton Rouge ie a city of Louisiana, and capital of the and te draft be | Stato. Tt ig alsotho sont of justice for the parish of East Paton Rouge. It fs #ituated on the left or eastern bank of the Miesiesippi river, ono hundred and twenty-nine males above New Urleans, inJatitude 80 28 north, longitude 85 11 west. Itetand# upon the first bluffor high bank which occurs in ascending the river. This bank is clovated about twenty-five or thirty feet nbove the highest over+ flowinge of the Missisatpp!. The oity has the reputation of betng one of the healthievt in the southern part of the to the govervineut to plead with the people, io call npon | Mississippi valley. ‘The esplanade in front of the town them to come forward, and to aek Af they will permit presonts a delightfal view of the ranjestic chiet of rivers, themesives to be drafted. No; but thepeoplethem, | and the rich tracts of oulttvation which line its selves ehould {Insist upon being drafted, and be allowed | bauks. Below Baton Rouge the broad and deep river to bring this unnatural strife to a close, Othor efforts | sweeps through plain whieh has been veoupiod will be made on the other side; and who ean blame them, since they have cast their dic on the issue, But, any way, this slow, lingering waste of human life should be ‘ut short. by luxuriant plantations of sugar cane, and adorned by splendid villas and gardens, interspersed with groves of tropical fruit trees, &e. To protect these plan- tations from inundation a levee, or embankment of oarih, In the meanwhile it is enough for us to weep over this | bas ‘veen raised to the height of six or seven feet. The calamity; i if enough for us to pray to God that it be | seat of government of tho State was here established in vronght to an end. 18 is enough for us to make a gacri- the year 1647, and with that establishment the business fice of everything to sustain the power, andthe authority | of the place increased and becuino moro active, and, as and the unity of the only government that we profees to like consequence, tho value of real estate was greatly acknowledge. But itis pot necessary to bate our oppo. | enhanced. It contains an elegant State House, sitnated nents, nor to be cruel in the battle; tt is necessary to be brave, to be patriotie—to do that is what the country neods, and for this God will giva us His bléscing as a recompence for discharging our duty without violating any jont lows, diving oF human, immediately on the boak of the river, Baton Reugo Cot Joge, four churches, an arsenal and barracks, erected and stocked by the United Slater government, two newspaper offices aux a ponitentiary. TRO population of the city ts Rooyt Aye paguray.t, ee MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 1862. MISSISSIPPL. | nas. | mrce hurptied ans, tw ORIGIN OF THE NAME OP TEE OF Bre #everal ptories afloat as to the or in of the name of this phiee, which i pronounced os if spelled | force. General Williams was, in every sense of the word, Bat-on Reozb, but the fellowing ia given as the true ex” planation of its being so demoinimated:-— Thoinas Williams, of the United States Army, who com. | Mauiled the Union forecs which opposed the Brockairidge @ military man, and’ was in tho servieo of Lis country about twenty-five years, He was a nattve of this Ie appoars that wher. tho ph.co was tas settind there | Stale, and at the time of Bin alleged death wag wae growing Ob the spot a cypress tree--the bark of whicd isof aredainh color—of immense size and predir gions height, entirely free feom branches, except at Its vory wp. One of the settlers playfelly remarked that this tree woold makea hanizome cane, whenee the place Ovlied’Baton Rouge, that is, “the rod staf, teted from Gay: Breve av edition of which has beew pub. | or cane!” Hirlory.of Louisiane, Highed at New Orlauas, KARE BATON Rover. ‘The parfsceot Vins aioe, which has been afluted tom the aboré sketel’ ie vitnated vx he eontral part of Talis | fang) and Poukais abo it five hivdred square miles ox | iy, they aores. rn berdor aud the dee The Amite ssippi fiver Fiver wushes its o north and gently onduloting in the south, and the eoit is | moderately fertile, Yhe parish contains cxbisivesorests, | in which fiyo ock, the cypress and the magnolia.or: fount. fiecapitalis Baron Rotige. The population of the paris} + about twelve thousand persons, of whom ‘more thar. inf are slaves, THE BURREND!S AND RECAYTURE OF THE ARSENAL. On the 10th day «f January, 1861, the: rebel troops ar- rived at Baton Kouge from New Orleans for the purpose Of taking possession of the United States Arsenal at that place, This brilding was supposed to contain at leash fifteen thousand stand of arms, which weve of great acquisition at that, the jatic: end of Aprit 11862, the Union troops Wook possession aF/the arsenal and ito contents, which were far from being as valuable as vchen taken by the rebels. THR POSIT:O? OF BATON ROTOX. You | = co SKETCH OF BRTGADINR GbY LOMAS WELLTAM, UNITED 87. Attys With the news now received from New Orleans giving 8 brief aceount of the atteck pod Baton Nonge by a rebel force under tie rebel Urigndier General hin. Reece} a | ange — we report of the death of Brigadier Genera’ | | demy fom 1840 to 1841; appointed rit Nentenamt Octo. bev, i84d; aid-de camp to Gererat Scate, “Apr ia Jani and \weriterions conduet in the forty-four years of age, He entered the Miktary Academy at West Point in 1883, and graduate. tm 1837. Ho was immodiately appointed second iieutencnt in the Toorth United Stato: artillery; appointed asaiet. ant commissary of subsistexce, January, 1828; acting Ovsistant professor of mathematics im the Silttary Aca. aud Cher (Angust, 1948); brevet major sen, AviguB 20, LAAT aMant eonduet 16 the Bartle of Chapalepec; 13t 1897 (biarch, 1549), smd appointed few capt He wa pointed brizacier gencrad of volunteers “in “Bepe THT, and wos immediately placed in Comimand wo? briglé ta the an Hatteras, North Caroliga, he wan the capture: of Mort + im command of that Butler's Guic mand wader thas officer, aad eo by 1 with’ Admiral Parragut’s floet in tho capturd of New Grane, He wag Subscquentiy placed in com maid of the military forec Operating with tir naval flees 'f the kite giego of Vick2: burg, where he remalped until Un tege wae riivad, anc returned to Baton Rouge, where he conianded the Union troops in the rebe) attack on that plice. Gen, Williams wes ip every seuce a soldier, a gentictian and warm friend. His genidl manners impréskod favorably al) ‘those with whom he associated, aii! his death will spread ‘a deep gloom over a large circle of frievds, and tho Union loses a brave defender. GENERAL JOBX C. BRECKINAIDGS, General John C. Breckinridge ia a native of Keutucty. His father, whe was Secretary of Siate under Governor Alair, of Kentucky, died in 1828. At his father's death Le tmhorited @ large estate, byt shrongh prefligacy be soon became much reduced in cirevmstaaces. From the death of his father tilt he graduated at the (olege of Dan- ville, Ky., Breckinriige was supported by hia ‘ather’s mother, As soon ae Breckinrblge ieft cotlego he com- menced the study of thd law with Judge Williaw Ousloy, ‘ho gave Lim tho commission of major in ono of the Ken tueky regim:nts which went to Mexico. In 1841 he wa* od to the Kent Lagislature, where te establishet uself as on orator, This quatiiication induced the party to select bim as their candidate on a Con gressional novnivation, i: wppuxition to Generaj Leslie Cowbs, and the result was ihe election of the democratic bominee by asmajority of ive hundred and thirty-one. Im 1883 the Kentueky whigs, in formal con- vention, selected as his opponent General R, P. Letcher, their most available represeutative, a man of great popn. uiarity and adroitness, and who iikewise on} prestige of nover having boon beaten. The convass waa the hottest ever kuown in the State; but, notwithstauding a) tho efforts brought to bear agaiust Lim, Mreckinrdge beat bis opponent by @ majority of five hundred and ix. Mis brilliant speech on te Nebraska bili, u delijercd March 28, 1854, will be long romembored. was Mn. Breckinri: : retirement aitoy Hh term, and with this viow be declined itu 8; == PRICE T ‘The draught of the beat, with her machinery, arma, ment and plating, is upwards of bine feet. Her sides are covered partly with railroad iron of the’? patters, dove- tailed together and firiniy bolted, Along her after works aud around ler stern, she is clad with two-inch plate from, the whole extending thirteen inches below. the water |iu@, and ieetenod in the bert manner porsible. Forward she carries an enormous beak of cast irom, which is 90 made t 2 entire Low of the bout fits inte iblikke a wedge Into a piece of timber. ‘The eupporting bides of this boat in numerous phioces to Admit hage bolis ¢ completely through the bows Aad are rivetted at eithor eud. ‘Tho vo beak weighs eighteen thousand pounds, and is of suMicient strengta to penetrate tho hull of any War vesse! on the rivers ‘Tha eides of the boat are of eighteen inches solid timber, aud, witb their mail covering of railroad and plate iroms aro proof cralust'any but tho heaviest projectiles, Tne followtag is a \.st of offers of the gunhoat Arkan, sas: Hip. N. Brown, Confederate ive Ofer! icuconaut HE, K. Stevens, Confederate Navy, Sonth Curcliua, te Grimball, South Carctina: A, D. Reid, Mississippi, A, Barbot, Yeuncssep;, T. 8, Wilson, Vire ‘Surge —H. W. 3 <Assis'ant Peoymiasters First Acsisiant Buy Acting Masiers-—© ‘om 41300. We Clay, Virginia, uniuel Milken, Kentucky; J. L. Phite » Maryland. South Carolinn D. M. Seales, ©. W. Tyler, Virginia, Hi. Jackson, Maryland; Commander Brown wag not on board of the vessel as the time of its dostruction, be having been severely wounded in the engagement which ensued when tho ram ran the gauntiot. Rebel Accounts of the Affeir. GENKRAS URVCKINRIDGE’S DESPATCUSY. Oxr MILE xD a Hals FROM Baton Locar, Augnat 5, 1962. ‘To Gemerat Vay Donw:— oe Recolving a tespatch that the Arkansas wou! rate, Tattacked Baton Rouge this morning at day! with leas than 3,000 men. After a struggle of five hours we drovo the anemy from all points to the arsenal and lower, and to the cover of their gunboats, taking 4 pum jor of prisoners, severa! flags, and a considerab! uantity ef props My diminished, exhausted force: wld Lob take “nal, aad the troops almoss, perishing fer ww we ha withdrawn one mile hope to resnme the attack ni onr joss has been am wemy, Generai Clarke is mors of the Fifth Kentucky, and the Fourth Lonisiapa,an@ ‘9 force of the ported to un at INRIDGE, * Mojor General Commanding, Cor.er’s Livuit, Tex Mines ynow BaTox Rover, August 6, 1862. hole of the tawn and the battle fold locistve result was gained after ho water between hore an Pi rivor Compttied me to Come here. moved inorder. The Arkaneas taid, witht y miles above the town all day vonunancey sent te word last event that he would try to get ber np the rivor, and aeked if be poxstble to send him him. From. the mt le. We burned of the © 1oxeld strong, 000 und a huge amount of stores, th Genoral Williams and other pro- mission tenderod to bim by Presidert Fierce, | Mnont officers arc kitied J.C, BRECKINRIDGE, However, bho did not hesitate acoont the | THE CAPIURE OF BATON NOVER—DESTRUCTION OF. nomination of Vice President. His associations, THE CAM ARKANSAS. however, with Jefferson Davie, Slidell, Bunjaintn and other traijors aroused the suspicions of the loya; bers of the national legislawure. {f such a thing were posaiblo, Preckinridge w*:"a doubie watier, from the fact that be did not exhibit the frankness of his co. traitors we havo already named, and leave the natipnai legislature, but continuctin the United Staves Reuaie, boldly oppesing the administration in its atiompt to crush treason, at the same time plotting to destroy the fabric of the national Union. He subsequently vacaied his seat last summer, proceeded to Kentucky, and vaat bis lot with the few traitors of that State. His ambition for military command soon placed him in that position. Ip the last Pres:dentia) election he was used.es an bn. strument by which the present rebellion was brought ‘about, by bis nomination as the ultra Southern Catididare for the Presidency. The South well knew that his elec- tion was impossible, but they made BYockinridge their GENERAL MANSFIKLD LOVELL. General Mansfeld Lovel!, who is reported killed, and who, it may be remembered, was Deputy Street Commis- sioner in this city previous to the breaking out of the re- bellion, was born in the District #f Columbia, aud is now ‘about forty-threo years of age. Ho graduated at West Tost Military Acudemy onthe 30: of June, 1842, harm Ing entered asa cadet in 1888. Several of bis ciasmnaics ‘aro now generals in the Unjon army, and two of then, Raius and G. W. Smith (ormeriy Street Commisstoxer tn this city), are now in the rebolvarmy., He was pro- moted toa. Second Lieutenwucy of the Fourth artil, Jory In July, 1842, and o a Kirst Lieutenancy ‘in the sate regiment in Fobriary, 1847. In 1847 aud 1845 he served in the capwityat Ald to General Quiumany in the Mosican war and was wounded ia ihe assanltof Che paltopec in September, 1847, for whieh be wa. beovorted Ceptain in July, 1848, He was alo wonsded in the at tack on the Te VevuGaie, er the 18tb of December 154, he resigucd his conmection with she United States ry to jom the expedition gol np for the pornuse of vevohitfonizing the Je'ond of Cuba, andor General Qnit, man. Gustayus W. “mith wasewith hit ia this project, and when the plans fell through by bocbing pablic and pev ng Tampepe Mix Lavell came to Spe York aud rogured for bi the position of Deputy in the Street © mibtesioner’s offles, While here ho organized and cong vaunted whit was known os the City Gard of Nev ¥ rk -acompeny of the Ninul regiment, Now Sock State Mi lt. When the rebellion Droks ont General Sandford off red the services of the d#irst division to the Governe: ‘or the purpose of alding to pnt down the robe move ment, At this Lovell was disgusted, and at oneo vesigued his commission, after which ho remained ju the sity dor acme time, preparing himself for the exit which be say sequently made to rebeldon, Me left tie ver; quietly, bis departure having been covered by the move- monts.of bis siperior in office, G. Wi Smith, who soon roflowed. ‘Ihe next that was heard of them, was that hoy were serving the rebel cause as general, GW sinith is now fa Virgina, where be is Hikoly £0 fall toto (ie hands of our army. SKETUN OF THB ARKANSAS, It will be recollected that (be Arkansas was in process of construction at Mempiis at the time our flotilla ant and force were laying siege to, Port Pitlow. Two days volore the evachation of that post the plating and govs of tho Arkansas were placed on board, and rho was taken 1a tow by two powerfol rteambeats and gitided up the Yazoo, whore she would be onbof danger. Her engines and machinery were already in position, put were tiselessy in comeequence of her propetters not Doing quite Feady for service. . ‘The design was to tke of wp the Yazoo aad put her tn readiness for action alter which the rebels coniidentiy believed she would be able to clear (lis Misetos!ppt of wil obstructions, Hor length over ail is Ono hundred and oighty foot, aiid she haw #icty feat breadth of bear. Het médol is a combination of th# flat Dottoned boats of thy Woes and the keel built stoatal'rs designed for navigation ja the ocoan of doe inland. waters, Mer bow is made phary like that of the Plymouth Rock or Commonwealth, and hor stern tapers £0 48 to permit the waters toclose fondily behind hor. In the contre of har hull she # broad aud of great capreity, ond for nenrly olghty feat atony the middle sho is atinort Ant bottomed, Ike an crdivary frolght OF pursonger boat on the Western waters, Tho onginos of the Arkansas are tow pressure, and of nibe hhumiret Norse power, all placed below the witor Hine and well protected from injury by hostile inissitos: Hor eytinders ace sald to be twenty-four itiehon tnt ditne- tor and seven feet stroke, Sho is provided with Iwo pro peliors, working in the stern and noting imdepencémtty. ‘These propellors are seven fect in diamotor, and are cach provided with four wings or flanges, and are capable of making ninety revolotions to the minute, In cungoquence of the independent action of the engines one prepolior can be revolved forward while the other ts reversed, thus permitting the boat to be turned in Jittie more tian her ‘own length. A net work of tron reds, an imeh in diomoter and with meshes more than a foot across, extends aronud the upper part of the propellers to protect ‘them frow in* jury by floating legs and driftwood. When onder fait atoam it ig claimed that the Arkansas can make twenty, two wiles an bour down the current of the Missiesipyi. Moniz, August 8, 1862. A special leapatch to the Adn-vtiser and Register, dated Jackson, to-day, say «General Van Dorn permits me to Copy the following despatehes:-— Apr August 6, 1862. hist) morning the federal gundoat® wked the Confederate ram Art Meerengers ine in.me that ebe Nicting groat dai crew, Bbe mes ight thom well for sume ‘mee fe. She was then blown up. by user thuiki, they all escaped. JOUN C. BRECKINRIDGE. Radar says thot Genera! Clarke ts a prisoner. Parties: from the Geld say Uiat our victory was complete, “The. ground way strewn with tie dead and wounded, Ricmiony, Augnst'$, 1862: A, despatch srom Gen. Van Dorn to Secretary Mallory: Staies that the Confederste ram Arkansas, Licut. Ste pheag commanding, lnc beon destroyed. She loft Vicks" burg on Monday ww coperate In the attack on Batom, Roars, After jassing Rayon Sara her machinery dikaltet, cul while atlempting to adjagt it severatof the enmay’s gumborls attacked “ber. After agailanw resiat- @ wa: Phas loner And blows up. Her cdicersand: 1 news down to the’ thy pmbilahed 2 OW oF Aagial, We have received e the On, 1th /keand ‘Libhy, being fone days tter: bat by thems’ werreceived, ho further intelligence cegaeding theatieir. 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