The New York Herald Newspaper, September 30, 1862, Page 1

WHOLE NO. 9513. [The cotton report was forwarded by the a report was STATE OF TRADB. ‘The Manchester market was rather firmer, but prices not higher. 4 BREADSTUFFS MAREBT. The market is dull and tending downward. Messrs. Wakefield, Nash & Co,, Bigland, Athya & (o,, and Rich- ardgon, Spence & Co., report.—Flour dull and 6d. lower American, 234. Wheat declined 2d., red Western and Southern, 9. @ 108, 9d.; white Western and Southern, is. a lig. 9d. Corn steady; mixed, 208. PROVISION MARKET. ‘The same authorities report;—Boef—No sales. Pork in- ‘active. Bacon quiet, but steady. Lard active, and ad- Yanced 2s., but the advance was uot fully maintained, the market closing quict. ‘Tallow steady. PRODUCE MARKET. ‘ho brokers’ circular reports —Ashes steady: pols 32e. Spirits of turpentine—Sales small at 1308. xosin dull at 288. a 288, 6d for commons Sugar firm. Coltee drm, Ri Cod oi-—No sales. Whale oi!, C41 10s. a 442. Limreed of steady at 43s. 6d. Jute nominal, and a large portion of the advance lost. Hemp fat aud lower. LONDON MARKETS. ~ Lonvon, Sept. 20, 1862. The Reeognition of the Rebels Prophe- eee gene peer eunier Uewiti the pease cied in Commercial Circles. Common cougon 18. Id. Coffee quiet, but steasy. Rice THE EUROPA OFF CAPE RACE. TWO. DAYS LATER FROM ‘Rhe Abolitionists Denounced by the London Times. Rn Emancipation Proclamation a Crime and a Blunder. Abolitionists “Destroying the Union” and Inviting Foreign Intervention, firm. Tatlow quiet and downward. Rosin dull at 258. for common. Spirits turpentine very dullat 1358, Lin- weal firm and unchanged. Linseed oi) firmer; sales as 488. a 438. 30 Groves & Todd teport provisions qniet, but steady. Lard quiet, but tending upward, Jholders demanding ap Reported Peace Proposals from | sdvaow. THE LATEST MARKETS. Mexico to Napoleon, Livaaroo, Sept, 20—Bvening, a, &o., &. The saies of cotton to-day were 2:00 bales, including 1,600 to specufitors an@exporters. ‘The market ie firmer, Dut quiet, and prices are unchanged. Breadstuffs were dull, but steady. Provisions flat. HAVRE COTTON MARKET, Havre, Sopt. 18, 1862. Sales of the week 5.000 bales; market frregular and ‘The stoamahip Europa, from Liverpoo en the 20th, via. ‘Queenstown .on the 21st instant, arrived off Cape Race at eur o'clock ‘on Sunday afternoon. She was boarded by enews yech prese, mammary rors a he he poy? nominal, closing with but little inquiry and weaknees in obtained. prices. New Orleans tres ordinaire, 32; 00. bas, $40 ‘The dates per the Europa are twe days later than those | Stock in port 37,000 bales. per the Anglo-Saxon A despatch from London, cf the 2let of September, (@ays:—There is no political pews of importance. The English physician sent toGaribaldij has reported Mavordbiy. He declares that the bali never entered, but @track and broke the inner bene of the ankle. The wound ‘has been laid open and progresses favorably. & regiment stationed at Braka, in Portugal, fired on its @ficors, killing the major. Tranquillity was restored by ethertegiments. The ringleaders fled. Ia France asserts that a majority of the Cabinet of Juarez had decided on proposing terms of capitulation to General Forey on the basis of the eurrender of the City @ Mexico dnd Puebla to the French. Canton dates of August 19 represent that Canton and ‘Macoa bail been visited by a violent typhoon. Immonse @amage was caused to property, and forty thousand lives were lost. The steamship Teutoria, from New York, arrived at ‘@Woothaw pton on the 19th inst. ‘The steamship Persia, from New York, arrived at Queenstown on the 20tb inst. Arrival ef the Anglo-Saxon at Father Point. Fatuse Port, C. E., Sept. 29, 1862. ‘The steamship Anglo-Saxon, from Liverpool 18th, via Londonderry 19th inst., passed Father Point, en route te Quebce, at 4:30 P.M. She has 69 cabin and 167 stcer- age passengers. Her news is anticipated by her own re- port trom Cape Race. The steamship St. Andrew, from Quebec, arrived at Glaggow on the 15tp inst. An English Steamer at Halifax with Cotton. Haupax, Sept. 20. 1862. The English steamer Petshof, with a cargo of thirteen hundred bales of cotten, bas arrived here short of coal. ‘The Petshoif has also several passengers. INTERESTING FROM WESTERN VIRGINIA. The Military Department of the Btate: Cincinnati, Sept. 29, 1862. Brigadter General Quincy A. Gillmore hag been assign- ed by Gen. Wright to the command of the District of Western Virginia, headquarters Point Pleasant, He pro- ceeds with his staif to-day to enter upon his duties, Brigadier General Quincy A. Gilmore is a native of the State of Obio,irem which he was appoiwited a cadet at the Military Academy at West Point in 1845. Ho is therefore a young man, scarcely thirty-five years of age, if so much. He graduated on the 20th of June, 1349, standing number cue in his class of forty-three, among whom were General Parke, Colonel Chauncey McKeever. Colonel E. M. Hudson, and many others noted during the present war. On the Ist of July, 1849, ho was promoted tothe brevet second lientenancy of the Corps of Engi- neers. Having received iis full rank, he next appears in 1852 as the Assistant Instructor in Practical ingineering at the Military Academy at West Point. In July, 1856, he ‘was promoted to a first lieutonancy, which rank he held in the army registers of 1859, 1860 and 1561, ranking No. 3 in the list of first licutenants in that of the last mentioned year At the breaking out of the prosent re- beliion be was first assistant enginger, associated with Major (now Genera!) Barnard, in the construction of the new fort at Sandy Hook. In August, 1861, he was pro- moted t a captaincy in his corps. In October, 1861, he was assigned vo duty with the Port Royal expeditions and was chief engineer in the staff of General T. W* Sherman, Alter the capture of the forts at Hilton Head be improved them, and superiptended the ccnstruction of new works of defence at that point. In the besiegement of Fort Pulaski he superiniensed the erection of the for- ‘Our St. Petersburg Correspondence. Sr. PETERSBURG, Sept. 8, 1862. @ Russian Man-of- War Ordered to New York at the Re quest of the Russian Minister in Washinglon—Colonel Lebedieff's Sketches of tre Virginia Campaign—What ‘He Thinks of Our Generais— Napoicon’s Overiures to the “Gear for Recognition of the South—The Negotiations Stilt Pending, de. 4 naval journal states thatour ambassador at Washing. Gan requested to have a Russian man-of-war placed at his @isposal, and that a screw frigate will be, or has been, ‘ompatched accordingly to New York. What Mr. Stoeckel ‘wants her for is not clear,as we have never heard of any Russian subjects flying from the conscription, whom it ‘would be his duty to protect. Colonel! Lebedieft has published some more sketches of ‘the American war in the Sewrneya Pochta, to which he adds his views on the effect of the late operations. He ‘thinks the battles on the Chickahominy have decided the question of the separation of North and South, and is of pinion that al! further attempts to subdue the latier will be Fredtless. Ho talks highly of the two Orleans princes, of MeCielian, Stoneman, and particularly of McDowell (‘fa ‘ree soldier, in spite of Bull run”), but disparagingly of ‘Bienker and some others. Re specch of Cassius ‘M. Clay, your former representa- ‘tive at this Court, was read here with interest, although awe do not agree with him respecting the friendly dispori- ‘tious of Napoleon 1. towards the aio. We nde post. Sse he had marie orertutes to our government, with the @ 'Engiand, i rn * tifications, and commanded the troops in the engagement. oasis the sd ‘fiom of nf edetes Snore wom on ihe | His scientific abilities in bis profession were here put to were politely Seeiinea’ by Prince Gortchakoff. If I am | the test. The successful capture of the rebel stronghold in the Savannah river, effected through the superiority of oar works and practice of our artillery, established General Gillmore as a military man of merit and gallantry. For his meritorious conduct in that affair he was made brigadier general, m April, 1862. ln person he presents a fine physique; is polished in his address, and has excellent ability as an executive as well as a commanding officer. If an opportunity presents iteeif for futurefame, General Gilimore will be feund at tbe post of danger, which w the post of hovor. vightly informed, the negotiations have not been quite toreken off, and the two cabinets are endeavoring to hit ‘qpon some mezto-termine, by which they could offer their ‘Mediation withou! compromising themselves at the outset @y.ab evidence of partiality for one or the otber party. The American Questi @BVERE CONDEMNATION OF THE ABOLITIONISTS BY HR LONDON TIMES—AN FMANCIPATION PROCLA- MATION ‘‘A CRIME AND A BLUNDER’—TEF NEGRO WORSHIPPERS DESTROYING THE UNION, ETC. ‘Whe London Aimes earnestly denownces the policy of the abolitionists of the North in sceking to raise the negroes @ the South against their masters. It says that ‘the idea of the abolitionists is to organize a series of Cawnpore massacres as legitimate devices of ewerfaro; but it thinks they will not be success- Tui in the attemps. It adds.—Indecd, it is difficult domee how a proclamation by a besieged or fugutive Presi- ent cur bave any greater effect than the documents is- @ued.by such gonerais as Hunter and Pheips, inciting the a@ogrocs to revolt.’ It (the 7imes) insists that President Liacoln will refrain frou an act which will te at onee a erimeand a biunder, which wi im no way advance the Yederas cause, but enly doepen and make eatrod between the two sectionsy Tko New York correspondent of the London Pimes is of * he opinion that Europe need not fear that tie North will suite (0 repel foreign intervention. Is courage i gone. From Clarksbarg, Va. {Correspondence of the Wheeling Inteliigencer.} RKEBUKG, Va., Sept 25, 1862. There are a good many troops here now, and, to quote your gilted contemporary, affairs here are ‘ala mili- taire’’—very wuch @ la militaire deed. ‘The Fourteenth and four companies of the Twelfth (Virginia) are here. They are Captains Brown, Tomlinson, Moflatt aud Mercer. ‘These are the companies that were hurried off on a night march the next day after the regiment arrived here, and marched to Buckhannon aud to Beverly. After stayin there a few days they were marched back to the vailr at Webster, atid thence here. The movement brings to mind the story of the man who marched up the bill and then—marched down again. The rest of the regiment is at Buckh :nuon and has been allalong, runforsand reports: to te contrary notwithstanding. ‘The Twelfth bas received its new guns (of the Enfield patiern), and those of therm here are delighted with the change Our new Virginia troops here are doing some heavy drilling now—from five to six hours each day. They are making very fair progress ‘The Fourtecath is affiteted with mumps and measies, chiefly, however, condned to Captain Smith’s company. al ue ‘Bhegame isiost. Washington knows, if New York does The Tenth and part of the Sixth Vi aud’ the crcl, that he abolitionists are dettroyiny the Union by their | Eighty seventh Yenusylvania are bere; also Captam Maulsby’s battery. How mapy more it might be contra: wantic.ci{orls to save it. band to may. The London News editorially taunts tho friends of se. Captalnes rlin’s battery passed here a night or two ago @asion.with being jubilant over the triumphs of the | Om its wu > ‘arkersburg,or below. Jhat és the direcson fa which ile now for stirring events, sieve power, aud asks, ‘‘Who is to be tho better for it?” Ikeaysthat, shonld the hopes of the English friends of Seerssion be realized, aud twenty milions of the free men Of che North pusillanimously consent to let six millwesia the Bouth give law to their contineat, we may oxpemt ta 200 Ghom asserting the free exercise of the right of trate on tho coast of Africa, We shall find thoy will bo as little disponedto do'er to our notions about tho African slave trade ns they have been to accept the doctrine of New England about the slave trado between the States which ‘Deen there ¢ - Sowh, Mis.admirors in England may find they have not con from our position, They were received by a volley et dove feirn ail the service he requires. ‘om our boys which soon made them skedaddie in From Weston, Va, Weston, Sept, 24, 1862 aenco of the Wheeling lutelligencer. ‘ACE ON SUTTON RETREAT OF OUR FORCES, 1@ pust of Sutton hay beon attacked. Yesterday morn- about suorive a body of one hundred cavalry made thoir appearance below the town. Major Withors, of the Tenth Virginia, who wi command of our forces, im- mediately ordered hi —one company of the Tenth Virginia regimont and @ squad of twenty three of company K, First Virginia cavalry—into the fortifications. Shey double quiek. So fast did th A telegraphic despatch from Holghead, on theevenwwg | jp was impossible for the gulag “Tajor “oS Of the 17th instant, reports the sorew steamer Alabarna, | intercept them. He, however, oriered the cavalry under Lieutenavt Dawson (a brave and efficient young officer) to follow. Our little squad of twenty-three, presved close om the heels cf the rebels for about nine miles, when they were reinforced by three companies, under Lieutenant Cotouel Barbour, of the rebel regular cavairy, from Gauley. a reinforeement, our «drave Toye were forced to retire, which they did without the lores of a man, and brought into camp one uf the wobels, Major Withers, dnd: what it was imy ible {) hold his position, fell @ack to Bulltown, where he arrived this morniag. There arenow aboot men at that place, and if «ke command is left with the gallant Wishers there nesd be no fear for the tafoty of Wonton and Clarksburg. Jf,dowever, the commund should fall .on gome of the officers wow in that part of the country, Gedanly knows what Lhe consequences may be. Our ecouts report @ very large force at Ganley, and we are of opinion that stirring times may be looked for in Western Virgins. They are weli armed and generally | @ellepaipped. Most of them are cavalry. One toing is osrtaiue-our gallunt Kelly bas pot force sufficient. There is above us @ great range of mountain couvtry which re quires a targe. number of bis men to guard, and then the railroad is of such importegee that small’ towne and sta- tions which appear as of @o use guarding, must nave large forces.to protect them. tili General Kelly is doing all chat be gan for us, and alf svldiers and eitizens, with but one excaption, who belongs to the former class, aud who no dount chinks he ought 0 bo a brigadier, are watis fled with him. Stvll, if he couid bave reinforcements we would feo! safer. T chink in a day or two we sttall have a nice little skir- mish at Bulitown, aud if we do you shail bear (rom me. Detter known as Number 200,’ off: that port, having bad to put back, Tiaix report i thought to be incorrect, the Alabama alleced to probably being ap irregular Mediter- ranean trader. The Chamber of Gemmerce (Liverpoe! or Manchester ?) Pad presonted an address to Mr. Laing, who mado a lgengthy addresaon Indian affeirs, in which ho said wo ould nat expect wore éhan.a million and a quarter bales of cotton from India.during the wext twelve months. If, therefore, & shoukl be impossible to got cotton raged must go on with Mevod. many months would got elapse before the termination of the ctruggle, but the reaagnition between England and (ae dther great Powers of the Southern confederacy . Jute ie authoritatirely pronounced too bnittle for a betitute for cotton, amd had fallen £9 to £10 per ton tho highest point daring the late excitement. On day, hasrever, there was a slight renewal of the de- , and same recovery i prices, Tho Mronck cotton distrets are suffering dreadfully. digress af Mulhauesn exceeds anything in Lanca- Commercial Intelligence. ‘TELE LQNDON MONEY MARKET. loved on Friday at 93, money = Senet eee a eteah Sbvernien ie salt tae and [| The Indian Troubles im Minnesotama |. Tilinoke - hoe shares ed discount; Pight with the Siomx Indians, ited Slates sixes, 60 # 70; » 06 a 68. Sr. Pawn, Minn, Sept, 29, 1 ‘The sunds ithoas variation: con: ’ , , 1862. unde Hee Manders pooderate ? CBtAUEL | Three undead Sioux Indiane, uimler Little Crow, at- ) Sept, 20—Kvening. tacked Catone! Sibley’s command the 284 inst. The + Ririe shares, | patio insteddtwo hours, rewulting in te repulse of tho 6 @ 8056. ae 4034 discount, Indiang, with\gne lone of thirty killed an@a larce number Sept. 20—P, M. wounded. whites were killed, an\ from thirty to Tho Bourse a fiem: rentan, 001. 200, forty wounded. NEW YORK, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1862. the; deluded ict confiaenaes the Ssellty of tacit carmen, eed sovrtshelanaing expe. rience which the war has furnished that among negroes as n, ie spemesed of & Wcomotive among cattle, there are of masters who continue to Delidve that their servants will mot run under similar temptations, and foolishly to expose them to temptation. It is clear, therefore, that there is no security for the no- gro property of the Stato unless the Legislature makes the Temoval of ‘the negroes from districts exposed to invasion compulsory. We trust the necessary aetion will be taken mptty, for the State has already suffered avormous from this cause, which, by precautionary legisla- tion, might all nave boen prevented. News of President Lincoln's Bmancipation Proclamation Reaches Richmond. THE REBELS ON THE UPPER POTOMAC. Yellow Fever at Wilmington, North Carolina, &e., Arrival of Union Prisoners at Richmond, {From the Ri ond Dianateh, Sept. 27.) During Thursday night eixty-seven Yankee prisovers arrived from Gordonsville. Since the battle of Cedar ran they have been at the ivetmont Hotel Hospital at Cul- pepper Court House. Ineluded in the above lot were soveral army surgeons ard nurses, also tho following connnissioned officers, vig :—Lieutenunt Colonel K.P Brown, 28th New York; Captains Q. A. Luckenback, 46th Pennsylvania: J. H. Chapman, 6th Connectiout; 8. F. Clay- ten, 1024 New York; First Lieutenant W. l’. Warren, 28th New York, and Second Lieutenant Thos. Matthews, 46th Peinaylvania, Colonel Brown was accompanied by hie wife, The whole jjrty will be sent hoine in a few dayas ‘Twenty-one Yankoe prisoners, captured in North Caro- ved at the Libby prison yesterday, “Five i were exptured noar Newborn, and were Kent for- ward by Colonel Bradford, commanding the postat Golds- Borough, N, ©, They belonged to the United States Marme artillery corps, and gave the names of James Herrell, John Greves, H. R. Lioyd, James Roach and Moses Lewis. The Capture of Munfordsville, Ky. REBEL OFFICIAL REVORT. (From the Kichmond Dispatch, September 27.) Official confirmation of the reported surrender of some five thousand men at Munfordsville, Ky., was yosterday a, ac. ‘Wo havo received # copy of the Richmond Dispa‘ch of the 27th wet. , from whieh we compile the following toms ‘of interesting news. Tho Richniond Dispa’ch of September 27 siys that about two weeks ago flye men were arrested froma boat in Mobile Bay, on suspicion that they were making an attempt to escape wo New Orleans. They were subse- quently sent to prison in Mobile, and upon searcning them there were found upon them charts and plans of the de- fences of Mobile. One of them—Dr. Marius Louis Ross- valley, of New Orleans, where he had a wifeand children— has boen hanged, bus whether by military or civil au- thority is not ascertained. ‘Yhe same paper also states that a Yankee cavalry force visited Warrenton Junction on Thursday last, where a bumber of wounded were left after the battle of Manas- sas. It conjectures that the Yankees intend to makea | received at the office of the AdjutantGenerul. We ap- raid on that place to take prisoners those who from their id a ate the despatch ed yesterday from wounds are unable to defend themselves. noxville, |.» dated September 25:— To Genera) 8. Coorzr, Adjutant General C. 8.:— ‘The Dispatch also cow.aing an item from a Texas paper, ‘A courier from General Bragg’s juarters, eight miles west of Munsfordsville, on the mght of the 18th instant, confirms the report ‘that Bragg captured about five thousand mon at Munfordsyie on the 17th justant. Our lors about fifty killed and wounded. The same courier reports that up to the 12th instant about twenty- three thousand Kentuckians had joined Smith, and they were still coming. ‘The Home Guard was delivering up their guns as rapidly as they could be received. SAMUEL JONES, Major General. Yellow Fever at Wilmington, N.C. {From the Richmond Dispatch, Sept. 27.) The yellow tever is assuming fearful proportions in Wilmington, N. (’., both in its rapid spread and malignity, and the inhabitants of that city are in @ most hetpless condition, arising from their utter ignorance of the dis- ease and the proper wayof nursing the stricken patient. Letters from the plague strickem city appeal in strong dated September 8, which says that Gen. Sam Houston is alive and < ell, and living on his old homestead. Tho Dispatch advises the appointment of a reliable brigade in the service to prevent straggling from the rebe) army. ‘The Richmond Examiner of September 27 says that the public highways in the valley of Virginia, from Win- chester to Staunton, are crowded with suffering and wound- ed soldiers, poor fellows who were in the terrible fights of Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and especially in the terri, ble fight of Wednesday of last week. They left the battle field for home or the hospitat, and were too weak to Proceed, and had no money to procure their passage. It is exceedingly painful and sorrowful to see these r, ragged, wil worn, battle scarred heroes trudging | terms for aid, and that can be rendered ellectually only Bei antl iacgaldlg niece, Lavdiien be loomed nh neg | by those ‘acclimated, and who can venture there without once. fanger. Captain J. P. Levy, of that city, who is now at the Spotswood Hotel, requests us to urge upon those phy- sicians who are acclimated, and who have bofore treated the fever, to volunteer and go to the rescue of those who, without their aid, must perish. Nurses are also wanted, and will be paid liberally. All physicians or nurses who apply to Captain Levy, at the Spotswood, will receive free transportation to Wilmington. IMPORTANT FROM KENTUCKY. ‘The Examiner also regrets that the debater iu Congress on the Conscription bill should be characterized much temper and conducted in a way to inflame lic mind. It complains particulariy of the speech Conrad, of Louisiana, on this subject, and adds “that the word ‘States’ means’ much more than is implied in Mr, Conrad’s limited lexicon. States are political organiza- tions—they are sovereignties,”” The News of President Limcoln’s Eman- cipation Proclamation at Richmond, The Richmond Lispatch of the 27th ult. publishes a despatch dated Petersburg the 26th, a gopy of which is here subjoined:— Northern dates to the 23d inst. hi been received. Lincoln has issued @ proclamation declaring the slaves of rebel] masters free from and ater the 1st of January next. The Capture of Augusta by the Rebels— Reported Supersedure of General Buell, &c. Crxciaxati, Sept. 28, 1862. uhio river, forty miles above this city. the houges, they aestroyed the place. The citizens fled to the Ohio side as specdily as possible. A despatch to the Gazelle from Indianapolis states that an army officer, just arrived from Washington, says that hhe read an order, while in the War Department ou Fri- day, re\ieving General Buell from command in Kentucky, and assigning him to Indianapolis to organize paroled prisoners into regiments. Hon. William H. Polk passed through this city to-night, as bearer of despatches from Governor Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, to President Lincoln. All business was totally suspended in this city yester- day {rom two to five P, M., all the citizens being under drill, The turnout was large. ‘Cixannam, Sept. 29, 1962. Informal reports from Augusta show that the town was Jost on Saturday through the cowardice ef the captains of three gunboats, who fired only three shots, and left the town to its fate. A sharp fight was made by the Home Guard, From seventy-five to one hundred rebéls were killed and wounded. Among the latter was a son of Geo. D. Prentice, of Louisyilie, mortally. Our loss was ten to twelve killed and wounded. Bufford was taken prisoner. ‘The loss to the town by fire was about one hundred thousand dollars, Humphrey Marshall and Kirby Smith’s forces are re- ported to be at Cynthiana, Ky., to-day, thirty thousand strong, moving towards Covington. It is rumored that Genera) Buoll has been ordered te Washington. The Augusta, Ky., correspondent of the Gazcte of this city says:— This place was attacked by 640 mounted rebels, with two cannon, under the command of a brother of the guerilla Joun Morgan. The Union forces, under Oolonel Bradford, numbering 120 men, took refuge in houses and fired from windows, killing and wounding ninety of the rebels. Among the killed were three captains—one of them a younger brother of John Morgan. Among the mortally wounded was Lieutenant Colonel Prentice, a son of George D. Prentice, editor and proprie- tor of the Louisville Journal. The rebels were 60 exasperated at their loss that they ‘set fire to the houses im the place, and two squares of the town were burned. Our loss was nine killed and fifteen wounded. The ba lanee of our forces were taken prirone! Subsequently a Union force from Maysville intercepted and attacked the rebels, when they fled in a perfect panic. ‘The result of the pursuit has not yet been learned. 1 Expected at Frank- fort. Louisvitie, Sept. 20, 1862. The trains on the Louisville and Frankfort Railroad have ceased running for the present. ‘The rebels have captured the telegraph instrumente at La Grange and O’Bannons. A gontleman from Frankfort says on Friday there were four hundred rebel troops there, They expected Hum- phrey Marshall to take charge of the post. Fire at Lexington, Kentucky. CINCINNATI, Sept. 29, 1862. ‘The Gazette says that @ gentieman reached Covington yesterday from the vicinity of Lexington. He reports that a great conflagration occurred im that city on Friday. ‘The fire broke out im Beard’s livery stable, corner of Short and Limestone streets, destroying every house on both sides of Short street for two squares north of Lime- stone street, including the Bank of Kentucky, the North- ern Bank, the Post Office, Mr. Wolverton’s five residence ond a livery stable, ‘The origin of the fire is unknown. Tho loss amounts to several thousands of dollars. NEWS FROM FORTRESS MONROE, Arrival of the Ironsides—Keleased Pris- oners Em Route for Richmond, dic. Fortress Monnog, Sept. 26, 1862, The steamboat John A. Warner, from Washington, ar, rived here thie morning, with two hundred and fifty rebel prisoners, en rowle for Aiken’s Landing. They are exchanged, and talk spiritedly of going into the fight again a8 800n as they got home. The most of them were taken at Manassas, When Will the War End? [From the Richmond Dispatch, Sept, 27.7 ‘This is a question oftener asked than auswered. We have been asked the question repeatediy ; but if any one should ask us **When will the world end?’ we should be just as able to give an opinion. Our conviction is that a good many people will come to an end before the world does, and that in like manner the war will finish off a good many before it is finished itself. This is a sombre view of the future, but we wish we could see any streaks Of Jight to indicate the dawn of day. The only way that the war can end is by the exhaustion of the North or the exterminaion of the South. The North has determined to subjugate or annihilate us. It gives us ouly this alternative:—‘The Union or death.” That, in sum aud substance, is al! that its most conservative poli- tcians propose. It'is iu vain that some of them deny the cruel determination that we have indicated. Is there one of them, conservative republican or conservative demo- crat, who will proclaim that bo prefers the sacrifice of ‘the Union”? to the extermination of the South? The Union is the god of all parties alike, except the ultra.abo- litionists, who, strange say, are the only men in the North willing to let it slide.” 7ne war has been carried genuine patriotism, we might have some hope abatement, or, if it were mere fanaticism, the grab of passion might how! itself out; but it is the practical, sub- stantial greed of gold, which will never let go its grip, us Jong as life remaius. Tue North ts fighting not only for the Southern trade and commerce, but to make the South pay the enormous debt accumulated in this war, Notonly this, but it is fighting fer its very being. The idea is com- mon that it is the South alone’ which is contending for national existence. But if the North ultimately fails in this war she will falias fast and far as Lucifer in his descent from Heaven. The brightest jewels of her crown wrested from her grasp, the chief sources of her revenue withdrawn, anda national debt baif as large as tuat of England piled upon her shoulders; her cities solitary, ber harbors deserted, her manufactories silent, her military capacities so paralyzed that she can neither command Tespect abroad nor insure good order in her own iucon- rious population, composed of @ seething inass of the norant, de; raved and favatical of all vations, she will cling to“'the Union,” and to the war, by which only she hopes wo preserve it, as the shipwrecked mariver clings to the last plank that lies between him and the fathomlers depths of eteruity. We must bear these facts in mind when we are tempted by the syren songs of Lope to look for a speedy pen d to relax the exertions which alone can gave our throats from the throttle of a poweriul nation, engaged in a fearful and tinal struggle for life or death.’ We wish we could descry a brighter prospect, but we tee no reason fur such predictions. Thewnmanty alion of foreign intervention which so long deluded our has long ago proved an idle dream. Europe not only refuses to intervene, but rejoices in her heart over the American troubles, because tbey are exhausting and rendering impotent for injury to ‘despotic governments that eonti- nout whose free titutions have always kept her in @ nightmare of alarm. Englaud, the chief instrument in the disruption of the old republic, pre- serves rigid neutrality—that is, she furnishes the North materia and the South moral aid; sbe permits the North to purchase materials and muvitions of war, which the South, by reason of the blockade, is only partially able to do; and she praises the South (or ite military prowess and patriotic devotion. Sbe puts weapons ia the hands of the Novthern combatavts, and she pats the Southern com- batant on the heal, and cries ‘Brave boy, piich into him.” We are beginning to understand all this, and to dismiss from our minds the monstrous delusion of foreign fntervention If, however, the war gives no signs of coming to a specdy end, we believe that by proper action on the part of Cougress the honor of our flag will continue to be sustained, the public security increased, and the capacicy of the enemy for mischief and annoyance greatly diminished. In the meantime we must seek to be patient, and, if posei- bie, content in a condition from which mankind has never been excmpt, and which Providence seest best for our (rial aud discipline. In the spirit of the man'who, when be breke bis leg, thanked Heayea it was not his nock , we tnay console ourselves with reflecting that there are national and individual calamities greater and more irreparable than those of war,and be thankful we bave escaped then. The Army of Ge Lee. {From the Hichtnond Dispatch gept. 27.) During the day yesterday we heard of no new develop- ments in the movements of our forees on the Potomac. In its present position, we understand, the army is im- proving in the condition of the men, and accumuia ing by daily accessions of ws and conscripis. Whatever may be the intended future operations of Ger | Lee, he is certainly most successful in keeping them concealed from the public, No material injury can result to the public from thi ticence, What is concealed from our ple finds little chance of making its way to the enoiny. There is general coundence felt and expressed in the management of military affairs, and whatever movement is made will have the sanction and support of the people. Our latest accounts concur in the report that the Yan- kees have not attempted to recross the Potomac since they were #0 mercilessly slaughtered by General Jackson @t Shepherdstown on Saturday. Our pickets, as late as ‘Tuesday , extended to the neighborhood of Harper's Ferry. J Le = that they will attempt to cross again r the presen: Winchester is represented as being rapidly disgorged of tho stragglers who bave made the town a kind of ‘vous since our army first entered Marylan islation for Rem From the Richmond Dispatch, Sept. 27.) Tho federal invasion, especially in {ts relations to no- grees, bas thus far been a John Brown raid on a grand scale. Wherever the federal armies have advauced the negroes have been swept off as clean as the Eastern jo- custs Sweep & feild of grain, Not one green or black thing is Jett in Ube line of the Yankee march, nor in the whole country tor many miles around. The Piedmont, the apper vailey, the pevinsula, the country watered by the Rap neck umd the Potomac, have been stripped of their pegro population. This war has assumed the character of @ graud negro bunting expedition. OF vic- tories the Yankees have gained few—negroes many. What becomes of the game, it is impossivie to say, is chase master of eee — ene The loas, however, ‘of so valuable ao and rity is @ smatter of such moment that the Lagislature of the Talat ought at onee to take for the Humphrey Marsh: Fortress Monron, Sept. 27, 1862, ‘The steamship 8. R. Spaulding arrived bere this morn- ing, a8 also did the New lronsides. ‘The steamboat Metamora left here this afternoon with » flag of truce, in charge of Capt. Saunders, of the Third Now York regiment, for Atken’s Landing. She takes up four rebel officers, paroled; also Dr, Johuson, assistant surgeon of the Third New York, sent by Gen, Dix to aid jn administering comforts to our ajck and wounded sol- diers imprisoned at that place. Foutnaas Momror, Sept, 28, 1862, The steamer Guide, from Newbern, N.C., put in here this morning, and jeit at noon for New York. She brings ‘no news. ‘The Hygeia Hotel, the property of representative Segar, closes this @vening. It is understood that this and many ether wooden buildings at Old Point Comfort are to be ly be done by a law providing for the remov: pulled down during this week grove trom Mul Seurilee te tee eee Sem bag ter PR; at Norfolk amd Suffolk. Bet G0 te leave Hee ep nan teas OF Sudament of the teat trea boat A Watuer trem Aiken's master. In somesgnsen wmdolent t ) arrived here morning, down on}: proper er ihe security of thelr property og two families {foes Rishmend on thelr way Neri, W583 Last night rebel cavairy captured Augusta, Ky., on the After robbing =—THE NEW YORK HERALD. | PRICE TWO CENTS. TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. ae eee Major Genera} William Nelson Shot by Brigadier General Jefferson C. Davis in Louisville, Kentuckye IMMEDIATE DEATH OF GENERAL NELSON, THE CAUSE OF THE TRAGEDY. Sketches of Gencrals Nelsom and Davis, ‘ &e., ce. Lovieynam, Ky. Sept. 20, 1862, "The Gait House, at about eight o'clock this morning, ‘was the acone of a terrible affair, in consequence of a dif- ficulty between Brigadier Genera) Jofferson C. Dayis and Major General Neleon. It appears tiat there has been a difficulty botween the parties for some time. Genera) Neison was standing in the office of the Galt House, when General Davis approached and spoke to him. General Ne}son rofused to listen to him, and used some osulting language. General Davis immediately borrowed a pistol and fol. lowed General Nelson, who was going up stairs to his room, and whilst on the stairs General Davis shot him. The ball entored the heart of General on, who ‘walked to bis room and was laid on a mattress, where he in a few moments afterwards expired. Lovisvuie, Sept. 20—P. M. One of the saddest incidents of the war has just oc- curred here. A few minutes before nine v’clock, General Jefferson C. Davis of Indiana met Genera) Nelson in the ball of tho Galt House, and attempted to speak to him General Nelson refused to listen, and turned away. Davis followed him to the other end of the hall, and again ad” dressed him. Nelson now turned to him, saying, “Do you wish to insult me, you cowardly puppy?” and struck him at the same time on the head. Davis did not retaliate on the spot, but made through the crowd of guests until h® met an officer of his acquaintance, borrowed a pistol of him, and then pushed to the wost door of the hall, wler® Nelson was conversing with some gentlemen. When within a few feet of him, he cocked the revolver and fired instantly. 'The ball entered Neison’s left breast, inflict, ing ® mortal wound. He managed to walk up stairs to General Buell’s room, where he fell on the floor. Surgical attendance was immediately called, but the General expired about thirty minutes after ho was shot. He was conscious until three minutes before bis death, Among bis last words were, ‘‘] am murdered.’ There had been, previously, bad feeling between the two actors in the tragedy, on account of Davis’ arrest and deprivation of command by Nelson. Last week Davis had been to Cincinnati, and laid his grievances, with charges against Nelson, before General Wright, who restored him to command, ‘Tho excitement created by the affair is intense, Opinion as to where the blame belongs is divided. Louisvistr, Sept. 29—Evening. ‘There are many conflicting accounts of the shooting of General Nelson by General Davis. About a week ago Nelson placed Davis in command of the Home Guard forces of the city. At night Davis reported w Nelson the number of men working on the intrenchments andien, rolled for service. Nelson cursed him for uot having more, Davis replied that he was a gencral officer, and demanded the treatment of a gentleman, Nelson, in au insulting manner, ordered bim to report at Cincinnati, and told him he would order the Provost Marshal to eject hitn from the city. This morning Governor Morton, of Indiana, and Genéral Nelson were standing near the desk in the Galt House, when General Davis approached ana requested Governor Morton to witness a conversation botween himself and General Nelson. He demanded of Nelson an apology for the rude treatment he had received last week. Nelson, being a little deaf, asked him to speak louder, Davis again demanded an apology. Nelson denounced bim and slapped him in the face, Davis stepped buck, clenched his fist, and again demanded au apology. Nelson @apped him in theface,and again denounced him asa coward, Davis turned away, procured a pistol from a friend, and followed Nelson, who was going up stairs. Davis told Nelson‘to defend himeetf, immediately thereon firing. The ball penetrated bis left breast, and General Nelson died in about twenty minutes. General Nelson requested to see his old friend, Rev. Mr. Talbot, rector of Calvary Episcopal church, who was then at the Galt Horse. Mr. Talbot administered the sacra- mont according to the forms ef the church. The General repeated the service after the minister, and refused to talk on any other subject. He regretted that he bad not long ago turned his attention to religion. Cinctynnamt, Sept. 29, 1862. Brigadier Géneral Jeff. C. Davis mot Major General Nel- gon on the steps of the Galt House, at Louisville, this morning, as the latter was entering the street, aud shot him dead. The alleged cause was an insult offered by General Nel- son to General Davis, in threatening to send the latter out of Louisville under a provost guard, after be had ordered him to report to General Wright. General Davis gave himself up to the authorities, ‘The Louisville correspondent of the Cincinnati Times saye:— General Davia went into the Gait House at half-past eight this morning, where he met General Nelson, and referred to tho insulting treatment he had received at his hands in ordering him to Cincinnati. General Nelson cursed him in the moet jofamous manner, ana struck him in the face several times, and then retired a few paces. Davis borrowed a pistol from afriend, advanced upon Nelson, who by this time had gained the stairway, walk- ed directly up to » and fired. Everybody who wit- nessed the affair justifies Day is Puitapnarnra, Sept, 29, 1862 A special despatch to a morning paper in this city saya that General Nelson called General Davis ‘a cowardly son of a bitch,” when General Davis dred at him and killed him. &., Sketch of Generali Nelson. Major General William Nelson was a native of Mays ville, Mason county, Kentucky, and a citizen bf that State. He entered the naval school at Annapolis at the age of fifteen, and, graduating, was appointed to the United States service as a midshipman in the navy, his time of entering the service and the date af his commission being JANUArY 28, 1840, although he did not reecive his warrant until some time after that date, He was appeinted to the navy from dis native State, and was first attached to the sloop-of-war Yorktown, sixteon guns, ‘© vessel but then newly built at Norfolk, and ja gommis- sion for the Pacific. He soon after joined that squadron wader Commodore T. ap Catesby Joves. In 1843 the York ‘town returned to New York and was laid up in ordinary; Dut the subject of our sketch was transferred to another ‘veesel for a short time, and then returned home, where, at the beginning of 1845, we find him awaiting orders. ‘The Yorktown was ordered to the coatt of Africa, but without William Nelson, who wae sent to the naval school for examination, in the view of promotion. On the 11th of July, 1846, be received his commission as passed midshipman, and was ordered to the frigate Raritan, forty-four guns, attached to the Home squadron and flagship of Commodore David Conner, In 1847 he was made acting master of the steamer Scourge, a three gun vessel, engaged in’ the Home squadron, then under the command of Commodore Perry. Ho was detached for service in command of a navy battery at the siege of Vera Crus, during the Mexican war,and won a high reputation as an artillerist. In after life he made the science of gumnery a special study. He left the Scourge in April, 1848, whon she was afterwards sold. He was next ordered to the steamer Michigan, a one gun vessel, running backwards and forwards upon the lakes. This vessel had been built at Erie, Pa., espe cially for this service, In a short time after this appoint ment he was transferred to the flagship of Commodore Morgan, then commander of the Mediterranean aquadron.. ‘The versel be was stationed upon was the razeed ship of- the-line Independence, a fifty-four gun vessel, of whieh he was one of the acting masters. Ho entered on these dation im 1840, under Captain Blake. While on thie sta- tion he was transferred ¢o the Cumberland, « forty-four gun frigate, as the only acting master, in the place of J. B. Clit, promoted. Having cruised about for some time in the Mediterranean, he returned to the United States in the steam frigate Mississippi, ten guns, Captain Long. which brought over Kossuth, whom he accompanied in @ part of his journey through the States. He returned home in November, 1851, and was granted leave of absence, the Cumberland being sont to Boston for repairs. At the commencement of 1853 he was awaiting orders, and duriug that yoar was sent on @ short cruise, returning tn October, 1863. He then remained {uactive for some inonths, On the 19th of September, 1854, ho was promoted to the rank of master, and ordered vo the frigate Independence, iifty-four guns, Captain Yatnall, stationed in the Pacific. and carrying the flag of Commodore Wm. Mervine. On the 18th of April, 1855, he was promoted to a lew tenancy, and placed in command of the storcship Fre- donia, four guns, stationed with the Pacific squadron, and on the Ist of January, 1856, in port at Valparaiso, Obile, During 1867 he returned home, tho Fredonia being pat into port at Valparaiso as a permanent atore and receiv: ing ship under Ligutenant Ball, and at the commencement of 1868 he is reported as awaiting orders. During 1358 he was gent ona short eruise, returning in December. ‘This cruis@ was on board the frigate Niagara, when she was selected to carry back to Africa the negroes taken from the steamer Echo- He was next ordered to the sloop St. Louis, twenty gnns, Commander Ogden, belonging to the Home squadron, Commodore McCluney. He remained on this station dur- ing 1869, and until May, 1860, when he was ordered home, and at the commencement of 1861 was reported in the Navy Register as being on ordnance duty at the Washing: ton Navy Yard, ‘At the commencement of the rebellion he was detached from the Navy Department and placed on special duty in the War Department. The recent promotions, however, in the navy, gave him the rank of Lieutenant com mander, a new rank created by the receut act of Con- ress. « ‘When the rebellion assumed a decided shape, ia the spring of 1861, he was detailed to command the Ohio river fleet of gunboats. At this time his total service for the United States was over twenty-ouo years, nearly thirteen years of which were spent at sea, about four years on shore and other duty, the remainder of the time being unemployed. While on'the Ohio river, in covside- ration of his extensive acquaintance with the peopie ot Kentucky, and his large relationship in that State, he was considered a8 a proper person, during the bad health of General Anderson, to be sent into Kentucky v sound the loyal sentiment of that State, and to strengthen it, Accordingly, as early as April, he went thither, and be-~ gan the formation ofa camp and the recruiting of troops at a point between Garrardsyillo and Danville, since known as Camp Dick Robinson.” shortly,atter Colone George H. Thomas, of the Second cavairy, proceeded thither, having received the appointment of brigadier genoral of volunteers, aud assumed the command. Gen, Nelson at onee was ordered to form acamp at Washing. ton, Mason county, Kentucky tor the enlistment of troops. His services were particularly successtul in ratsing and Organizing troops in Kentucky, aud establishing campe throughout the sinte, He was next engaged i the por. suitof the rebels in the mountainous 1egion of Fastern. Kentucky, and defeated them on several occasions. He also fought several engagements with Huusph iy hen Marshail, doieating him on many occasion. the graud army of General Buell moved forward General Nelson was appointed w the command of the second division of that corps. He there tore advat with bim through Kentucky and Tennes- seo, and, although acting as major general, he held but the rank of a brigadier general, with a commission dating from Sept. 16, 1861. He toak part in the batt:e of Shilon, or Pittsburg Landing, where bis desperate bravery was the topic of general admiration. He had been ih several engage: ments in Tennessee and Kentucky—the principal one ob which was the recent battle of Richmond, in the latter State, and at which he commanded in person. At this battle he was wounde’, and when he bad partialty reco- yered he proceeded to Louisville, and arsumed the eom mand of a'l the forees in that vicinity, having been imthe interim created a major general of volunteers He was 4 man of full forty years of age, with a massive physique and commanding presence, To fine natural abi fities and large experience in arms he added great enorgy of character and fiue judgment of men. He it was wha ordéred the arrest of Stanton, Casto & Co., though they cold friends and eompauions. He a relationships it life when duty de jon or sacriflee. His brother, Ho: a, is our present Minister to Chile; ab ‘Anderson PD. Nelson, is senior Captain o United States infantry ; and his brother-in-law, J. Mouroe Stockton, is ‘postmaster at Maysville. Hit recent energetic action for the defence of es still fresh wder’s memory, and doubtless he wil Buell in his intended move nent discipli rospecter of persons, trampling upon even his dearest friends when they stood in the path of his duty; but kind ‘at heart, tender to his men in suffering, a good scholar and a hard student. He was unmarried, Sketch of Gen. Jeff, C. Davis, Brigadier General Jefferson C. Davis is a native of In diana, and was,appointed to the regular army from that State. He is not a graduate of West Point, but was ap pointed from civil life to the position of second leutenan’ of the First artillery on the 17th of June, 1848. On the 29th of February, 1852, he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant of Company E of that regiment which rank he held at Fort Sumter during the memorable bombardment of April, 1861, He came to this etty witk Major Anderson, Captain Doubleday and the garrison o that fort after the evacuation, and was present during the memorable mass meeting at Union square. On the 14th of May, 1861, he was promoted to the cap tainey of Company E, made vacant by the promotion oy Capt. Doubleday to a majority. This regiment (First artik lory) has eccupicd quite a prominent position in the prev sent war. Company E (Davis’ company), under Major (now General) Anderson, made the gallant defence of Fort Sum ter, Another company, under Lieutenant St ir. (now Major of the Sixteenth United States infantry.) held the rebels in check at Fort Pickens, and also behaved hand: somely during the attack on Santa Rosa Island. Com pany I, under Captain (now General) James 8. Hicketts, was in the battle of Manassas, the Captain being wounded vith and taken prisoner, A section of the same battery, two howitzers, under Lieutenant F. &. French, 06 ra the retreat of cur troops across a river in Virginia, ane | was badly cut up after @ brave defence. Another eom pany, under Captain (now General) Wm. H. Freneh, was ‘safely withdrawn from Fort Duncan, Texas, at the time of the surrender of other troops at San Antonio by the traitor Twiggs, and, with several compavies of infantry, removed to Fort Taylor, Key West. Captain Davis was allowed leave of absonee to take the command of the Twenty-second regiment of tudi sua Yo. lunteers. With his regiment he went into Missourt, then under the charge of Genoral Fremont, and, after staying for a short time in St. Louis, was transported to Jefersen. city Te was next ‘od in charge of a brigade of Indianw troops by General Fremont; and during the never-to.be- forgotten chaso after Price—who was not to.be caught by the slow movements of the ‘hero of the bundtred days!’ — Jeff, C. Davis held this command. But as Fremont had no power to make brigadier generals, when he himself was stripped of his command all generals@f his making were algo reduced. By this change in the chief of the department General Davis not only lost bis brigade, but his regiment also,as Lieutenant Colonel Hendricks was promoted to the colonelcy on the supposed promotion of its former commander When General Halleck assumed command of the depirt- mont he Ftill allowed the subject of our eketeh to hold the position of brigadier general, with only the nominal rank of colonel, as he had Go power to give bim « hughes rapk. ‘About this time General Pope was placed iu charge of the District of Central Missouri, amd at the battle of Mil. ford Colonel Davis, with a force ot scarcely tive hundred of the Jowa cavalry, surprised @ redel camp at Knob Nus- tor, near the Blackwater river, capturing 1.340 rebels, in- cluding three colonels, seventeen captains. &c., a thon- sand stand of arms, nearly font hundred horses, sixty- ve wagons, a Large amount 0! baguage, tents, provisions. ee eeeespture was effected with very little kas of life, For this brilliant feat he ba ty! a brigadier eral of volunteers, bis promotion being announced itv jeneral Orders No. 68 of the present year. Whon General Curtis moved from Rolla in pursuit of Price, Colonel Davis—whose brigade bad been stationed at Otterville, and was afterwards added to Curtis’ are my—was placed in charge of the Third, one of the four da visions into which that army had been divided. He fo ghd ‘at Pea Ridge, im which battle bis former regiment lost ite new colonel’ (Hendricks) and @ large number of men. ‘Thus, as colonel, he held a command properly belonging to a major general, His division also claimed the credit. of ridding ‘Ge country ‘of the notorious Ben MeCuiloeb. ‘battle of Pea Ridge Curtis’ army was with, earren that part of Arkansas and centred th the vie a th, Mo.,from which point itagain ad- Cinity of do that state bY another route. Dats, who bad now received his “star,” was transferred to Halleck's army, operating in the vicinity of Corinth. After the sracuation of that place by the rebels the army was par- (ally withdrawn from the Southwest, and we find Gene- fal lavis now 1 the vicinity of Louisville, under the command of Major General Nelson, his force having re- Gently been ordered to that part of Reniucky. The Australasian Outward Bound. Care Race, Sept. 29, 1862: ‘The «| hip Australasian, from New York for Liver~ pool, was ded at eight o'clock Sunday morning, news from New York to the 27th placed on board, ag . ‘ax commercial telegrams of the 26ch, 20th and 27Ub inet, through a