The New York Herald Newspaper, September 24, 1862, Page 4

& NEW YORK HERALD. JANES GORDON BENSETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR. sta, Volume XXVIi AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. ACADEMY OF MUSIC, I ls ory my oF rving place.—ItaLian Ormns— NIBLO'S GARDEN, Broadway.—Vinermus. WALLACE’S THEATRE, Broadway.—Roap to Ruis. WINTER GARDEN Broadway.—Rouzo amp Ju.ier. URa 3 Fi -—-aee THEATRE, Breadway.—Sax Stoors NSW BOWERY THEATRE, Bowery.—! Murra in tux Bupsoosvior’s Ravenel, BOWERY THEA’ | HON: ae ty vel Bowery.—Uras—P0-ca-HON-TAS— GERMAN OPERA HOUSE, 485 Broadway.—Srmapauta, NIXOWS CREMORNE GARDEN, Fourteenth street and avenus.—Srikit OF THR FLOOD—BALLEY, PROMENADE anp Equastaian BARMUM’S AMERICAN MUSEUM. Broadway.—G: LEARNED Sab, £0., ai all hours, CLaups GEL, afternoon and evening. BRYANTs' MINSTRELS’ Mechanics’ Hall, 473 Broad- way.—Eraiorian SonGs, BURLESQUES, ‘Dances, 40.—Tus Busox Baicaps. CHRISTY'S OPERA HOUSE, $85 Brosdway.—| Songs, Danozs, £c.—PsrEn fy Prrrsr Popas. WOOD'S MINSTREL HALL, 514 Broadway.—Eraiorian Bones, Daxces, 4c.—Tux Bino Hosta. HOPE CHAPE! Broadway.—Exm: siusai'e Catsromma, 7) Boedway.—Exmsmrion oF HITCHCOCK'S THEATRE AND MUSIC HALL, Canal street.—somas, Dances, BuRLEsquss, Ac. RAD Man- GAIETIES comcuse HALL, 616 Broadway.—Daawixa PARISIAN CABINET Se sated 563 Broadway. Open daily from 10.A. M, till New York, Wedme sday, Sept. 24, 186%. ——— THE SITUATION. Telegraphic news from General McClellan’s army yesterday states that all was quiet at the Shepherdstown ford, the forces on either side cau- tiously watching each other. The rebels were keeping their men out of view; but it was thought that they were in hopes of entrapping eome of our troops in an ambush if they ventured over the river at that point. We hold Sharpsburg and Williamsport, without the possibility of being assailed at either point, while it is said that the rebels are not posted in much force opposite the former place. The rebels, it is reported, admit a terrible loss of officers in the battle of Antietam, Generals Branch, of North Carolins, and Col- quit, of Georgia, being killed; and Generals Longstreet, Anderson and Wright were wounded. They acknowledge to a loss of 20,000 men in this battle, and 30,000 since they invaded Maryland. The Pennsylvania militis, having gallantly done their duty on the border, have been sent home, their services being no longer needed at that point. Information from Harrisburg yesterday reports that our troops were crossing the Potomac into Virginia at Williamsport, at which place General McClellan bad his headquarters. It was said that General Kenly was in the advance on Sunday night, and that General Couch followed on Monday, Preceding General Franklin’s division, which was to follow immediately. Our correspondence from Hagerstown, however, locates General Kenly at that place on Sunday, where he had just ar- rived from Baltimore. There is probably some mistake in the statement that he had led the ad- vance on that night across the river. Despatches from Harrisburg last evening say that the entire force of the rebels has not yet abandoned Mary- land but that they are in considerable numbers around Williamsport, and that heavy skirmishing is going on in that vicinity on both sides of the river. Additional lists of killed and wounded in the late battles are given in our columns to-day, and we shall continue to publish them as they reach us as rapidly as possible. The casualties in many of the New York regiments and the official returns from the Irish Brigade are published this morning. A cavalry reconnoissagce was sent out from Washington by General Banks as far as Asby’s Gap, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, yesterday, and dispersed a regiment of rebels who were hanging ‘round there, capturing several of them. They ‘were sent out to capture @ heavy train of provi- sions, said to be on ite way South, but they failed to meet it. The latest news from Cincinnati reports that Gen. Bragg is advancing on Louisville, with an army of thirty thousand men, which may possibly be reinforced by the junction of Kirby Smith's forces. Bragg had got as far as Bardstown. We have several gunboats lying in the river off Louis- ville which will give him a warm reception, and our forces are so well intrenched that the city is considered perfectly defensible. Gen. Buell is said to be close in the rear of Gen. Bragg. No battle is expected at Louisville for a day or two. We give to-day the particulars of the surrender of Munfordsville, Ky., by the Union forces, by which it will be seen that it was so completely surrounded by an overwhelming force of the rebels that there was no alternative left to Cols. Dunham and Wilder, but to surrender. Our men fought uplendidly to the last, and inflicted severe loss upon the enemy in the battles of Sunday and Tuesday. By the arrival of the Arago from Hilton Head we learn that General 0. M. Mitchel has arrived ‘nd taken command of the army there. Rebel batteries on St. John’s river have been firing on our gunboats. A fort, manned by about five hun- dred men, was thrown up at St. Jobn's Bluff, and commenced an attack. A party of General Mitchel’s forces was being organized to attempt its capture. We have received Richmond papers of the 18th and 20th instant, from which we compile several items of interesting news, which we publish else- where. The Richmond Enquirer of the 20th has a garbled and mendacious account of the capture of Harper's Ferry, in which everything but the trath is portrayed for the mental digestion of the South- ern public. A few lines of the report will suffice the reader as to the character of the whole, viz:— “The fruits of this glorious victory are reported to be 10,090 prisoners, fifty pieces of artillery, a a sisi eee inanenne large amount of ordnance, commissary and quar- termasters’ stores, and one thousand negroes.” The rebels admit the loss in their “ battle of Boonesboro,”” on the 14th instant, “ae very heavy.” ‘The Charleston Mercury ives an jaterestine | eccountef the running of the blockade at Mobile by the rebel privateer Oreto. Mr. Foote, of the rebel House of Representatives, recently offered & resolution proposing to send a “‘ commissioner ‘or commissioners to Washington, to propose terms of a just and honorable peace.” The Scotia, at this port, brings news from Europe to the 14th inst.—three days later. ‘The Europa srrived at Queenstown on the 13th inst., with news from the United States, by way of Halifax, dated on the 5th inst. Her advices transpired in London and Liverpool the same day. Private despatches to a mercantile house in Liverpool reported that “Stonewall” Jackson had got in the rear of General Pope’s army, and that our troops were retreating to Washington. The intelligence was regarded as very unfavorable to the Union cause, and American securities were dull in consequence. n The London Index, the rebel organ in England, denies that George N. Sanders had any message or despatches to Mason or Slidell. A Liverpool paper recommends Lord Palmerston to offer his personal mediation in America, and asserts that England is the only nation which can attempt @ mediation between the North and South. Mr. A. J. B. Beresford Hope, conservative can- didate for the representation of Stoke-on-Trent, England, claimed the suffrages of the people mainly on the strength of his formal and continued advocacy of the recognition of the independence of the South by England. His position was ob- jected to at first, but in the end his opinions were applauded. The British manufacturers were very much ex- cited on a subject of a proposition to use jute, in @ certain state of preparation, as a substitute for cotton. The shipment of French troops for Mexico con- tinued. Active operations are not to commence before the middle of October. Napoleon has ordered the building of a railroad for military purposes from Vera Cruz to Orizabs. It is said that President Juarez has written to the Emperor asking him to discard the native troops who desert to the Frency army. The adherents of Juarez proclaim their wish that the Emperor of the French would take the sense of the nation, which they firmly believe is in favor of the present liberal government, and that it is decidedly hostile to the clerical party which has been the agent of introducing a French army into the country. The Paris correspondent of the London Times is very severe in his remarks with regard to General Butler's action towards the French Consul in New Orlezus. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. ° To-day the Governors of the loyal States wil) meet at Altoona, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, two hundred and thirty-six miles from Philadel. phia, and one hundred and seventeen east from Pittsburg, in response to the following invita- ei Concumavs, Ohio, Sept. 14, 1862. We invite a meeting of the Governors of the loyal States, to be hela at Altoona, Pennsylvania, on the 24th. Please reply to Governor Curtio. ANDREW G. CURTIN, DAVID TOD, F. H. PIERPOINT. The Republican State Convention of New York will meet to-day in Syracuse. The State Conven- tion of the republicans of Illinois will also be held to-day at Springfield, and the convention of the same party in Michigan will assemble to-day at Detroit. The steamship Scotia, from Queenstown on the 14th instant, reached this port early yesterday morning. Her news is three days later than the advices of the Nova Scotian off Cape Race. The Scotia has made a very rapid passage. She left Queenstown at five minutes to six o’clock in the evening, on Sunday, the 14th instant, and, having made her dock at Jersey City early yesterday morning, earns the credit of a run in eight days and about twenty hours, adding five hours for the difference in longitude. The Liverpool cotton market, which had been irregular and dull, at a heavy decline in the early part of the week, closed firm on the 13th instant, All qualities rated considerably higher; but the irregularity in quotations was still experienced to some extent. Breadstuffs were quiet and steady. Provisions were dull and in limited demand. Con- sols closed in London on the 13th instant at 934% a 935% for money. Italy remained in a very troubled condition. Some parties represent her financial condition as most wretched, and that the government was about to try to raise a loan in England. These assertions are denied in other quarters. Garibal- di’s life was still in danger. His friends in Eng- land had deputed Dr. Partridge, an eminent Lon- don surgeon, to visit him. Victor Emanucl, it is said, desires an amnesty for the Garibaldians, and the Turin Cabinet was great- ly embarrassed as to s proper line of action. Queen Victoria had formally demanded the hand of the Princess Alexandrina of Denmark for the Prince of Wales in marriage. The Prince was accepted, and the affianced pair were on a visit tothe King of the Belgians. Victor Emanuel’s daughter, the future Queen of Portugal, had re- nounced the name of Pia, given herat baptism by Pope Pius, who was her godfather. An important meeting of French diplomatists had been summon- ed by Napoleon. The extreme Italian revolu- tioniats hint at an attempt on the life of the Em- peror of France, after the fashion of Orsini. Dr. C. H. Stanley, a released State prisoner, has sued the Police Commissioners of Chicago for false imprisonment, laying his damages at seventy- five thousand dollars. At the meeting of the Board of Supervisors yes- terday, @ resolution appropriating an unexpended sum of $50,000 for the construction of the Harlem river bridge was adopted. The Comptroller was directed to prepare the necessary documents for raising by taxation funds to meet expenditures for the ensuing financial year. The Mayor sent ina veto of the Sheriff's bill for the quarter endin June 30,1862, amounting to $3,600. He objec to the bill on two items which it contains—1amely, | the charge for serving summonses and complaints on defendants at the suit of the Commissioners of Excise, amounting to $1,609 82, and the charge ior returning executions in similar cases, which amounts to $73 43. The New Gity Hall Commis- sion sent ina commonicatian stating that they have run into debt to the amount of $60,000, and «-king for an appropriation. The subject was referred to the special committee, and the Board adjourned till Tuesday next. The stock market was irregular yesterday, but the | general tendency was upward first b urd the market was at first rather lower. It then rallied, closing firm. Between the boards there was a downward turn, and the leading speculative stocks—New York Central, Erie, the Michigan shares, &e.—were ia \% lower. At the second board there was a raliy,and the market closed firm, the most active stocks being Galena and Toledo, Money was abundant at 4 per cent. xetva 104 0%, Gold clowed at 11814 a 9%, The export of produce for the week is again in excess of four millions of dollars ‘The cotton market in the forenoon yesterday opened at about S40. for middling uplands, bit as the day ad vanced it became more excited, and prices rose to bho. a 560,—an advance of fully 2c. per pound over the highest Seure of tha previous day—mologing at tbe gyigide aveta att tion, with sales of 1,700 balos. The cause of this sudden advance was interpreted differently by different persons. Some attributed it in part to the proclamation of the President and we critical state of affairs at the West, and Others to the news from Europe, combined with a some- what better consuinptive demand, with moderate sup- Plies. The flour market was steady and firmer for com- mon grades of State and Western in good shipping order. ‘The highor class of brands were scarce and better. Wheat opened firm, especially for good shipping lots of spring and red, but closed dull and irrogular, while the rales were tolerably active. Corn was firm for good sound lots of Western mixed, which were scarce, while that in poor condition was plenty and unchanged. Sales of the former were made at 60c. a 6lc, Pore closed with more firmness and activity. Sales of meas were made at $11 75, and of prime at $10 12 a $10 25, Sugars were firm and in good demand, with sales of 700 bhds and 3( 0 boxes, the latter at 90.0 103{c. Coffee was quiet but firm. The stock comprised 103,894 bags of Rio and Santos, and 152,- 766 bags of all kinds, Freights were steady, with fair engagements at 12d. a 124d. for wheat to Liverpool, and flour at 38, 6d., and to London at 13}¢d. @ 14d. for wheat, and 4s. (asked) for flour. President Lincol: Great Proclama- tion—Now for a New Cabinet. ‘The comprehensive, most important and mo- mentous proclamation which President Lincoln has just issued on the slavery question is the absorbing topic of the day. It overshadows our late victories and defeats in the field and our impending battles; for it marks @ new epoch in the war—the enforcement of the Con- fiscation law, and the probable limitation of the President’s recognition of slavery in our rebel- lious States. We accept this proclamation, however, not as that of an armed crusade against African slavery, but as a peace offering to our loyal border elave States, and asa liberal warning to our revolted States, in order to save their local institutions by their timely restoration to the Union. The sixty days’ notice of the Confiscation act having expired, President Lincoln anneunces the enforcement of the law against the slaves and property of rebels and traitors, and seizes the occasion to declare that onthe first day of January next “all persons held as slaves with- in any State, or any designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence- forward and forever free.” But the proclama- tion further declares that any State which, on the day named, shall, by a majority of its quali- fied voters and in good faith be represented in the Congress of the Union, shall not be con- sidered as in a state of rebellion. Upon this saving clause we confidently assume that the President, through an energetic prosecution of the war, anticipates the sup- pression of this rebellion before the lst of January, and the restoration of the Union sub- stantially as it was. And why not? We have so far crippled and demoralized the great rebel army of the East that within the next sixty days we may expel it and every vestige of rebel authority not only from Virginia, but from North Carolina; and within sixty days, too, we may not only put an end to rebel resistance in loyal Kentucky and disloyal Tennessee, but in Arkansas, Louisiana and Florida. Thus within ninety days we may have at least six of ov rebeilious slave States represented in Congrese: aul thus the other five. from the utter hopelessuess of thelr cause, and the special danger impending over them, may be reduced to # saving capituiation. All this can be accomplished before the expi- ration of the present year, through an earnest, systematic and harmonious prosecution of the war. But to secure this end we must have perfect harmony between the President, his Cubinet and our generals in the field. It is to the absence of this harmony that we may justly attribute all our military disasters and failures. The discordant elements of the present Cabinet, through their deplorable political intrigues and machinations, have bro- ken to pieces our greatest military enterprises, have three times put our national capital in danger of capture and destruction by the enemy— twice at Manussas and once at the very gates of Richmond—and in every possible way bave embarrasced tle President and our gene” rals highest in his confidence and in the army. A new Cabinet is therefore needed, upon the busis of this new war proclamation, in order to secure that “happy accord” between the Presi- dent, the Cabii.et and the army essential to the suppression of this rebellion in a three months’ campaign. We know tbat Mr. Seward, after having, as Secretary of State, achieved a | Tepu‘ation for patriotism, ability and saga- cious statesmanship unsurpassed in the history of the country, is ready, and even desirous, to resign the duties of his office into other bands. We know, too, that of ali the members of the Cabinet Mr. Seward, in the largest degree. has commanded and holds the coniidence, respect aud esteem of the Presi- dent. butou this very account Mr. Seward is the man of all men to undertake the great object of a recousiruction of the Cabinet. The first Cabinet of Ge.eral Jackson, chosen upon the principle of party compensations to different sections and States, soou proved to be so dis- cordant as to be insupportable. Martin Van } Buren, Secretary of State, and the special favor- ite oi Uld Hickury, understood the difficulty, and upplied tue remedy in his resignation. His , example necessarily involved the resignation of | all his colieagues, anu thus the way was cleared | fer a cou-isieut and united Cabinet upon the practical policy o1 tie administration, In like manner Mr. Seward’s resignation at this time would be toliowed by the same de- sirabie resuit. Nor is it improbable that, in view of the importance of 80 pushing forward this war a to recover our rebellious States a within tue ninety odd days of grace alluwed them. the neat grew eveut at Washington may be anew cab rei eowc lo the exaited aims and Wises of Lue | fesient in behalf of the Union and the eooet ou. the demands of our loyal peopie od tie eaigences of the day, Tim LiLcions.—The most important +'+ ae place this fail are the Cong elections, Let the people take care (ai he ula Conservative men in place vi er diese who Lave been the cause | OF the proton al on ~ war by preventing ep bistineuts oie Uy eo with Mevietlan, and who are © og the same game by geitus te w Loi back tue troops tat sul aie been sent forward to cut of the eat of t evel arny through Virgina. i) bse ert are again elected ao- thing can save Wwe wuy Tuk Ruoow bstixn KosigNation.—-Rhode Island is again ra sing iis head s.nce the resigna- tion of Senator 5 minons, who has given wp bis place in the senate from the fear of being ousted from it—an act of grace that he should have performed long ago. ‘This, however, is not enough to restore the character of Rhode Island. Senator Anthony will have to imitate the bright and becoming example of his col- Lincoln, Nixon, Forrest aad Hackett— The Great Theatricai Mem of the Day, The President's proclamation, published yes- terday, has brightened the country like a burst of sunshine. Men look through the wretched but transparent negro in it, and see clearly the end of the war. Old Abe has evidently risen in his stirrups and surveyed the field of battle, as McClellan did the contest at Antietam creek, and he has determined that the war shall be over in ninety days. Therefore, like Roderick Dhu, he blows a tremendous blast upon his war bugle, and the whole land gladly re-echoes with the joyous notes. It is said that he had some difficulty in beginning his performance. One member of the Cabinet objected that the bugle was cracked. Another didn’t like the tune to be played. A third insisted that the President was broken winded and unable to raise a solitary toot. All such remonstrances were, however, in vain. Abraham Lincoln put his foot down, puffed out his cheeks and wound, his horn as cheerily us ever did one of Robin Hood’s merrie men, arrayed in the Lincoln green of the President’s ancestors, and sporting in the depths of Sherwood forest. The people listen and rejoice. The Presi- dent’s bugle makes this rebellion stagger, as the horns of Joshua's priests upset the walls of Jericho. When McClellan began his triumphant march through Maryland, the country took heart and commenced to enjoy itself. As vic- tory after victory crowned our arms, and this proclamation of the President began to be an- ticipated, the enjoyment became more general and the people more lively. Who now can set bounds to the popular exultation, when the President has definitely and authoritatively settled the period at which the rebellion is to be ended, and when our army of over a million of men is to sweep over the South like a new broom over a dirty floor? Jacobin committees and Governors of New England, or any other States, cannot delay this happy consummation. The President will silence them, as he has silenced the members of his Cabinet, and if he were to make a raid upon the rear of both Governors and Cabinet members, and forcibly eject them from his presence, no one would weep. Indeeda new Cabinet would be no bad idea in connection with this new policy. That matter must, however, be left with the Presi- dent, who is several feet taller physically and several miles higher mentally than any of his present advisers. It is enough for us to dance with joy and shout with poor, ragged, rampant, dirty, delighted Greeley—who don’t yet see the point—“God bless Abrabam Lincoln,’ remem- bering to forget how lustily Greeley cried “God do the other thing to Abraham Lincoln,” ashort time go. The Opera House and the theatreshave been crowded before; but they will be jammed now. No wonder that every one wishes to get rid of his postage stamps and see aplay. Tho theatres, quite as much as the churches, are places of public thanksgiving and praise, besides affording equally excellent opportunities for the ladies to display the latest fashions in dress and the last new thing in bonnets. A victory, and the theatres are crowded. A defeat, and the theatres are empty. There you have just the same distinction as be- tween the Te Deum and the Miserere, or be- tween Jeff. Davis’ fast day and a Yankee thanksgiving. It is interesting to notice how new enter- prises flourish in these Arcadian times, and how old favorites come popping up to the surface, as good as, and even better than, if they were new. Here Nixon deserts his miscellaneous Garden and takes possession of the Academy; and the vast house is crowded by thou- sands, anxious to hear sweet Patti sing and to see whether or not she walks like other people. At Niblo’s, Forrest, having played Shylock in private all about the country, returns to act it in public on his favorite boards, and is larger, louder, more muscular and more popular than ever. To Niblo’s, also, comes Hackett, the greatest of our native comedians, not more witty in Falstaff than in propria persone, and acting Colonel Nimrod Wildfire none the worse that he occasionally tries a shot at a real deer in his own forests in Ohio. These two great actors—Forrest and Hackett—draw the largest audiences ever assembled in Niblo’s theatre. Their tragedy and comedy are never old, and people who have seen them a hundred times before go and see them again unweariedly, as an Englishman never tires of roast beef, a Yankee of pumpkin pie, an abolitionist of the negro, Greeley of ly- ing about McClellan, or Wendell Phillips of hearing himself speak. They, with Mr. Nixon, are Lincoln's most efficient assistants in putting down the rebellion. They amuse the people, and persistently show up the bright side of the war. They are living exponents of American genius, and their large audiences prove how lightly the burdens of this contest weigh on the shoulders of the people. The London Times is a great deal more troubled about us than we are about ourselves. England and France feel our trials much more painfully than we do. We cannot suffer much from the approaching taxa- tion, or the advance in the price of the monopo- ly company’s gas, or the rise in silks, muslins, broadcloths and sugars, while we laugh so heartily at Hackett’s fun, or applaud so noisily when Forrest tears passions to tatters, or listen 80 delightedly to Patti's melodies. There is no mistake about it: Lincoln, Nixon, Forrest and Hackett are the great theatrical men of the day, and are equally and deservedly popular. While President Lincoln proclaims the end of the war at hand, the theatres flourish. Even the Presi- dent himself, however, might take a hint how to manage the rebels and radicals from the way in which Nixon controls the wild beasts of the operatic cowisses, and draw inspiration from Forrest’s thunders in Richelieu, or from the de nunciations of rebellion which close Hack- ett’s performonce of Falstaff in “ King Henry the Fourth.” Tux Crry Exxcrions.—The city elections which are soon to come off are of more than uonsual interest, taking their complexion, as they will, from the stirring events of the war. The two wings of the democracy, so long sepa- rated, have nnited, and there can be little doubt of its success in the coming elections, The hatchet is buried, the calumet of peace is smoked once more, and, the democracy being @ unit, its triumph is certaia. The union of the democracy and the demo- cratic nomination for Governor of this State were concocted in this city, and are part of one plan. The ruling spirits in the business were Wernando Wood and Elijah F. Pardy, the old “War Horse” of the democratic party. At Al- bany Purdy played the part of chief trumpeter for Horatio Seymour for Governor, upon whom the democrats of the State have agreed to com- league, of ite redemption will agt be complete, ' pins papa gonperretire grounds, agalast the radi NEW YORK «aERALD, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1862. cals who have control of the republican party. Wood and Purdy completely outgeneralled the Albany Regency, whose intention it was to nominate General Dix. Dean Richmond and Peter Cagger had the matter cut and dry; but, with all their cunning, they were not smart enough for the New York steel traps they had todeal with. Pipe had been laid for the Western men of the State, who have a great horror of the Regency, and formed an alliance against it so as to insure its defeat. Purdy, taking ad- vantage of a pause in the proceedings of the Convention, rose to his feet and suddenly pro- posed the nomination for Governor, by accla- mation, of Horatio Seymour. Such a tem- pest of shouting from the musical throats of the men of Tammany, Mozart and the West followed the proposition that it was useless to resist, and the question was declared to be carried by acclamation. Peter Cagger subsequently suggested, in pri- vate conversation, that it would be more judicious to appoint a committee, when it was replied to him that if he would take the responsibility of moving for a reconsideration of the question perhaps his pro- position would be agreed to. Cagger imme- diately backed out, feeling that there was nothing left for him now but to submit with the best possible grace. So chagrined was the Argus at the success of Wood that it omitted his speech, which was the best on the occasion. The speech of Seymour was also well adapted to accomplish the object in view—to cordially unite all the elements of the democracy through- out the State, without multiplying the issues. Seymour is able, and is a strong man in the State, perhaps the best man the united demo- crats could bring forward. He stands well with the Irish, with the Germans, with the liquor dealers, and with the general democracy. He stands upor the basis of Union and conserva- tism; and upon the same principles Fernando Wood is to be a candidate for a seat in Con- gress, and will undoubtedly be elected. INTERESTING FROM THE SOUTH. THE MARYLAND BATTLES. Rebel Account of the Capture of Warper’s Ferry. THE PRIVATEER ORETO AT MOBILE. The Circumstances Under Which She Run the Blockade. Rebel Proposals for a Treaty of Peace, oe, &e., he, We have received a large batch of Richménd papers of the 18th and 20thdnst., from which we compile tho sub- Joined items of interesting news. The papers of the 20th, published two days after the battle of Antietam, say no- thing of that affuir—showing evidently that the rebel Generals have not had time enough to concoct a story magnifying their inglorious defeat into a victory. ‘The Richmond Whig of September 20 says:—The battle at Booncsboro or Middletown, Maryland, was brought on by McClellan with a view to relieve the federal garrison at Harper’s Ferry. We think it extremely improbable that he can bave had so many as 80,000 men, since Gen. Hill's single corps d’armee was found sufficient to check his progress. The next day Longstreet’s corps joined Hill’s and defeated McClellan. The Whig, speaking of the capture of Harper's Ferry, eays:— The number of prisoners ts probably greater than those taken by the federal forces at Fort Donelson, or by the Confederates in the battle before Richmond. It claims the capture as fruitful ,and the most momentous guecess of the war. It expellsthe last remnant of the federal army from the valley, and secures the whole of that rich country to the confederacy. It relieves Gene- ral Lee from ail apprehension of danger in his rear, and opens a safe line of communication with Richmond. In Charleston, on Wednesday, a negro bricklayer was sold for $1,500 incash. Also seven negroes, aged from six to thirty-five years, sold for $7,325, tho highest price evor obtained in Charleston. A resolution was introduced in the Virginia Legislature iBquicing whether martial Jaw is further required in Rich- mond and other places in the State. It was also resolved that so much of the Governor's message as refers to granting of ammesty to those who have teken the oath of fidelity to the Lincoln government be referred to the Committee of Courts of Justice also expressing heartfelt acknowledgments of the services of Lee and Jackson, claiming for the latter the “ genius of inspiration.” In the rebel House of Representatives the amendments of the Senate to the House bill, providing for the further isaue of Treasury notes, were concurred in. The Virginia Legisiature adjourned on the 17th, in order to afford the members an opportunity of participating in the services on Thursday—that day being zet apart by the President ag a day of thanksgiving and prayer to Al- mighty God for the recent victories that had crowned their armies. The Kichmond Examiner of September 18 says:—Fiag of truce will depart to-day for Varina tocarry down 260 officers and privates of the Yankee prisoners, ‘about the Jast of the Mohicans’? remaining at Richmond, excep 600 sick and wounded, who still encumber the hospitals, Bridges have been rebuilt over the Rapidan aud Cedar ‘creek, and the cars on the Orange and Alexaddria Railroad haye passed over them. Rebuilding the bridge over the Rappabanock is about being commenced. Twelve clerks from Lincoln's government at Washing- ton have reached Richmond. With foresight enough to desert a sinking ship, they come to seek emoluments under better auspices—at the eleventh bour, when the heat and burden of the day is past. ‘The Richmond papers aiso contain a despatch from Ge. neral McKown , commanding tho rebel forces in Fast Ten. nessee, dated Knoxville, Sept. 19, stating that the Union forces evacuated Cumberland Gap on Thuraday night, the 18th inst., and that General Stevenson was pursuing them. ‘The rebel papers do not regard this nows as favorable, as it was supposed by them that General Morgan had been coipletely hemmed in. The Battle of South Mountain and the Surrender of Harper's Ferry. {From the Richmond ee. 2} ‘The city was greatly excited on Thursday (Thankegiv- ing Day) by various and conflicting rumors battles in Maryland, which reached the city from divers unreliable sources. The printing offices were visited at intervals during the entire day Dy anxious mquirers for the ‘latest news,” but nothing of a realty reliable nature could be obtained. Of the many rumors current Thursday and Friday, the following appears to be the most authentic:—That a des. porate battle was fought on Sunday, at Middietown, Mary- land, between the Confederate forces,’ under General PD. H. Hill, and the Yankees, eighty thou- sand strong, commanded by MoClellan. General Hill is reported to have made three separate at ‘was each time repulsed by the superior numbe eueiny. Early the next morning (Mouday ) by forced by Geueral Longstreet, and again att enemy, and on this occasion succeeded in triving him three from his original position, the fight is said to have bi along and bloody one, avd was attended with henvy toes on both sides The following is an extract from a lotter received from. an officer in the Confederate States Army, dated Harper's Forry Sept 1h, 1862: Harper's Ferre wae two hours ago, Geveral Mites was in command, whb tow thrusand mea, Their arma, artillery, stores, &e., were all surrendered , with the men, Itisre wrted that Genera! Garland was killed yoste eit which Longstreet had with the surrendered to our forces alvut nblican says that a combined move re Ferry by the \ iker und Metall. the former het’ destination on Sunday morning and prepared for an immeaate attack The figtt commenced bout three 0 clock and was contested with desperate stubbe Our " night forced a tion of hostilities however, play the Yankee intr whole night, was atterwards ase fearful effect. At daylight on Monday the combat was renewed with more flerceness, if possible, than on the preceding even: ing, but ina short time the enemy's fire began to slack. en, and at nine o'clock the Yankee commaniuer, Geueral Ulloa. prononed ve ourrender. The me food, with newed Uitional surrender of ty ieces of artillery, smmupition, ‘all the arma, fifty pi ‘alae pois dred wagons, quartermat many Joss of 8 man on our side. So much easily conjectured, Jackson will now recross at Harper's temerity to follow our or disperse the whole concern. God may be verified. General Garnett is body arriving here this mornin INCHESTER, A fight took place Sunday at Lely M tn my and Gel ‘each side. Hl, very heavy force of Mion nati Usedvance of ongstroa tion, unti e advance Ly my fell back. Gen. Yesterday the enemy at farper surren &o inemeibie Jackson. at three P. Me {bey consisted excaped wn. All 10,000 infantry, Their’ eaval crossing the river at Shepher at are on thew y thes were nearly starved ‘ont. ware on their way to NATHANIEL B MEADE, were taken TB. ‘The surrender of the enemy at Harper’s Ferry was fol- lowed immediately by the parole of both officors and mea, rmitted to retain their side arms. iliamsburg represent that a fight had General Wise's and the officers Lng Reports from occurred there between bs ial Nothing reliable could be It. battery, from this city, alone cers and men captured were all paroled | ‘Dispatch . 20. ini og {From the Richmond As far as we can undersiand the very imperfect accounts which we wore somewhat as follows: Our army in Maryli is’ divided into three corps, commanded son, Longstreet and Hill. Of these corps Jackson's was engaged in the siege Harper's Ferry, aud the other two covered his opera- tions. Conceiving it to be of great importance to raise the; Bicge and to relieve the beleaxnered amounted in numbers altaost to a corps d’ armee, McClel- lan resolved to make a powerful etfurt. He left Washington, it is said, with a force of 80, men. From the correspondents of the Yankee papers we; heard of him at Reckviile and other road, ome time last week, from which we conclude that his army marched upon that road in the direction passes through Fredericktown, but whether, McClellan kept it that far we have no means of ascertain- him is at Boonaburv, ia! Washingion county, which is nearly equi-distant frou Forry and Hagerstown, being, ‘botween twelv: and fifteen miles from cach, and lying @| little north of west from the first, ne. rly due north (rom from third. fell with his whole, ighty thousand men) upon the corps General D. H. Hill, which was the rear guard «f Lhe ar: The battle was Jong, furious and bloody; but General Hil ‘by vastly superior forces, #ioud ais’ Fredericktown. ing. ie first we hear of Fredericktown, Harper’s ‘the second, and nearly southeast At this place, on Sunday, he enormuus force (ei although attacked ground without yieldingan inch. Tn the night General Longstreet’ Monday the two combined at totally defeated him, driving kis forces before them for fivo Talles. But for the intervention of night, tt is said’ that the rout would have been complete. icLa from the vicinity of Frederick for overlooking the town of Harper's the division of General Walker the canal aqueduct at the meu arrived at the point during that ni ing, early, bufore they had accom: an order was receiv: the the enem; direction.” The division crossed of Rocks, nine miles below Harper's Ferry, and on Frida evening ‘reached the position assigned th Jackson's force reached Will on Friday morning, and on Martinsburg twenty wiles above Harper's Ferry, whore there were some three or enemy's forces. On the Ferry. Jackson pu: sued, and directing him not to open tuications until he he promised to notity General but little resistance, ing the forces in their tntrenchment daylight on Sut the opening of Walker's the enemy on Bolivar rajiroad son, and the fight, which was continued termined throughout and Anderson shelling trom The resisted = with in position, were handled with calaats Se Goneeel Sanam AD Open Space, stracted . The the of i "8 entrenchments on Bolivar Feights too warm for the ene- they fell mack to Camp Hill, , fortifications. Here they my, and late in the one mile in rear of the ‘morning. At dapight the next (Monday), the fight was renewed, enemy still an obstinate resistance until about seven o'clock A. struck and a capitulation this itulation we have its, the enemy having surrendered everything, issary stores, &c. The number ot the enemy is variously estimated at from seven to twelve thousand, and the negroes from fifteen hundred to guns, ordnance and commi: two id. Of our losses we are not apprised, but judge from re. ports that General Jackson’s column suffered pretty heavily. In Walker's division we had of these by the accidental explosion of the killed im this division we Lieutenant Roberts.n, of Frenoh’s The Rebel War from Mobi of-war” ak that. port. special correspondent arrival referred to:— tered at Nussau, owing to the ity reguiations at the mouth of Mobile Bay; in were most of her small crew of her sides are peppered above the water line, and rout speed. its of the war. ne killed and two wounded, pity in quarantine Proponuls | Mr. Foote, of Tena Bi. Hees it the government at Washington cit nome the terms of ust com! i which were loaded, and’ six peutoea, This important ‘conquest was effected without the te oficial It im number, escaped A it the enemy if he has had the Ferry, clroumven! ay | n. it iy robably meant for Gar'and— ‘was killed. No other officer, as yet, reported killed or wound- ere. There The force defeated of their friends at the ferry. ADE, Editor of Republi ‘The train from the Nortu,on FREE brought us but "se arrived, and om Walk proceed with his f¢ by forced marches, to er to wil forces, marches, Loudon Heights, via. Point ot” at Harper's Ferry from escaping approach of force fell back, and united with the force at Harper's I believe to number about five thousand. on Saturday morning reached Hall- town, four miles southwest of Harper's Ferry. From this point he despatched a courier to General Walker, guns upon the enemy's for-' General J.) gos in position, of which Walker. Mcanwhile the divisions of McLaws and Anderson, after ‘oe Pemaret od of the hey md on the Maryland side, enemy leaving them, and join- i ofltee Virginia side of the river. On Saturday night General Walker received, orders from General Jackson to open fire on the enemy at uday morning. In obedience to this ordor, at day-dawn the stiliness of the Sabbath was broken by, Heights, two miles above the bridge at Harper's Perry. At the same time: the attack was made by the forces under General Jack- the Maryland side. ‘where their Walker's batterios and M., when their colors were . Of the mer Oreto at Mobile. (From the Richmond Dispatch, Sept. 18.) The Augusta and Atlanta papers publish a dospatch announcing the arrival of ‘an iron clad man- The statement ix meorrect. at Mobile furnishes the Charleston Mercury with some authentic information in regard to the The vessel ie the steam corvette Oreto, now called the Florida, and is not an iron-elad, Our readers aro aware of the difioulties which the commander of this shi» encoun- of the British neutral- Having finally escaped from the clutches of the Conrt of Admiralty, Capt. Maftitt steamed away to the Gulf and boldly ran tho gauntlet of the blockaders broad daylight ‘The captain was at the time sick with fever . The io. rida ran within sixty yards of the Yuukee vessels, and all over with shrapnel and grape- shot. Que eleven-inch shell went through her side % foot ia the “coal bunkers,’ | Vhe Mlerida is a teantifal and well armed corveue of Hor armament consiste of vight guns, diieh through the blockaders, with a sick orew of aniy (hirtoen men, in browd daylight, is one of the moet daring ‘The Florida did not fire « crew were unable to man e lov a Treaty of Pence, (From the Richmond Examiner, Sept. 20. | the rebel Houke of Reproser follow mg jor | peepesing 0 90% jOnEr OF CO | Washingt Propose torin honorable Resolved, by the Congress of the Confederate States of America, That the signal auocess with which Divine Pro vidence has go continuously blewed our meme for w months past, would fully joxtify the @ ment in deapatehing @ commisaioner or - wi ‘one hun- siores, and hundred is reported ‘we. shall ca) however, held his eee ae ican. jeemed reliable. have received, they] by Generals Jack- forces, which, ‘on the National, lan, and; Lee directing Gea. Rocks, to prevent, in thas em. Gener , on the Potomac, crossed and moved four thousand of ¢! General Jackson this, Gen. the fortifications of aud the day—MeLaws guns had an unob- men rendered their \trenchments throwa, terms of killed, three A ton the Her fa single gue ow lies below resolut erab ate Kovern Minieonere to om pewered Yo urns