The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1862, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE NO. 9518. NEW YORK, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1862. PRICE THREE CENTS The Visit of President Lincoln to the Army of the Petemac The Marshalling of General Sumner’s Corps. EB GRAND RUVIAW. Enthusiasm of the Soldiers for the President nd General McClellan, TOUCHING SCENES ON THE FIELD. Whe President at the Ruins ef : Harper's Ferry, &e., ae. ae, Our Harper's Ferry Correspondence, Hanran’a Frrar, Va., Oot. 1, 16 ‘There wana grand review of General Bumner’s army ‘oorps t¢-day in honor of President Linceln’s visit to Har- per’s Ferry. It was industriously rumored and exten- ively belicved that peace commissioners, appointed by Whe redel Congrees 10 confer with the President of the ‘Waited Btates, for the purpose ¢f proposing an amicable eettlement of our domestic difficulties without further ‘e@ppeals to the arbitrament of arms, had come within our Mnes this morning, and that President Lincoln bad come te Harper's Ferry to confer with thom, Though the ru- maor bore the appearance of truth upon its face, it is on- rely unfounded, ‘The Prea‘dent bas dotermined to care- ‘Pally inspect and to encourage by bie presence the bri eslaiers of the Army of the Potomac who have been figh! mg the battles of the Union. Ti visit to Harper's Ferry 4 the commencement of a tour through the Army of the Potomac. ‘The President, accompanied by a number of gentie- gen, among whom were Major Seneral MeCler: and, of eur Western army; Colonel Mathow and Captain Rives, of Alp staff; Captain Derrickson, of the One Hundred and Fifti- eth Penney! vania regiment, and Mr. Garnett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, loft Washington this morning about eight o'clock, in a special train, and ar- vived at Sandy Hook, near Harper’s Yerry, in the afternoon, Major Kip, of General Summer’s staff, aud Cap- tain Sumner, one of the General's sons and aids, who iid proceeded to the railroad depot with the paroied pri-cn- ‘Wra who camo in yesterday from Winchester, met tho President and party at the station, and while the Major was conducting them ia an ambulance to G ger’s Doadquarters tho Captain went oif to meet Genora; MoCletian. Presently General MoCicMau and General Marcy, his chief of stail, with a few of the General's aids, arrived at Genera} Sumner’s headquarters,on tho Delghts of Bolivar, and were immediately presented to he President. After a cordial grooting and a pleasing qlerviow, during whieh the guests bad dined, tho varty wode.out to participate in the review by the Presideat of Genera) Sumnér’s corpe. In the afternoon, after it was known at his headquar- ‘tere that the President was coming, General Sumner sent amerder to each of his division commanders dirocting @at they should form thelr respective divisions in close eotamp, by division, by brigade, with small intervals, ‘om tho crest of Bolivar Heights, facing weetward. A note feformed the division generals that the Prosilent and @enera) MoClellan would probably ride through the camps, Mastractions were immediately sent to tho brigade com. ‘@ianders, and the corps was goon under arms, ready for ‘the review. ‘The corps was marshalled in spiendid style on the crest @f the commanding heights. The troops were posted , as ‘hey are encamped, in three grand colums. General Sedgwick’s division, now under command of General Meward, occupied the right; General Richardson s dtvi- eho, now under command of General Hancock, the cen- tee, and General French’s division the left uf the exten- sive line. The President, mounted on one of General Sumuer’s splendid horses, General McCloilan and @eneral Sumner, accompanied by somo of their ete officers, and the other gentlemen of the party, sfer tho shower of rain had ceased, proceeded from General Sumner’s hoadquartere to the Beights, short distance beyond, where the troops were forming for review. When General Howard, who occu- pied the right of the line, had formed his division, ac- companied by his staff, he rode to the right and ret the President, McClellan, and tho remainder of the party ap- proaching. After tho usual introductions and salutativas, @enoral Boward rode on tho Jeft of the President, and the Guests were escortpd to Kirby's battory, statioved on the extreme right of the corps. As the Prosidont appeared, ‘tho battery wheeled into position in splendid syle on the @rest; but, as thero was uone other than fixed ammuni- tion in Kirby's caissons, Captain Tompkins’ battery, whiob was adjacent, fired the usual saluto of twenty one ‘Gane. The artillerists of both datterigg saluted by yro- mepting sabres, as the President pas ig ths Tino ‘with Uncovered head. Turning to the left, he rode up the heights, whero the regiments of tho division, separately massed in grand divisions, were drawn up in Bingle lino, Ming westward. Proning Burns’ bsigado, now com- by Cnjgpel Baxter, ho wag. wost cordiully Feovived, the regiments dipping ir colors, the men choering, and tho drums beating and srum| sounding a march. Here Captain Petit's bat- ‘wat was "Paased, the gupuers presenting sabres a9 before, Dana's brigade, Commanded by Col, Loo, and Gorman’s brigade, were likewise passed by tho Prosident 4a thesame way, Lovd and repeated choors were given for President Lincoln and Gen. McClellan as they rode @long the lines. Tho Prosident aud tho General acknow. Yedged the compliment in a becoming manner. ‘While these troops were cheering, Gen, Hancok, 2c eompanied by bis staff, mot the party on the rightof hi @vision, which was also placed in position on ihe crest The tonts of the encampments occupied a cons\lerable portion of tho elope, so that the limited ext ntof the @learod ground did not admit of the formation of the ‘whole corps in uniform order, a8 was at first intended. Gon. Hancock's division, instead of being placed in close eolumus by brigades, was formed in line of battle by bri Gatos, in double columns of regiments , Col. Frank's brignte fm front, Gen, Caitwell’s second, and Gen, Meaghor's trish Brigade third, in the order of lines. Gen. MeCi ton an- Bounced the I’resident to Gen. Hancock, who immod\atoly took his position beside the President, Gen. Howard and staff falling o little in the rear, and them the party proceeded along the lives of the division. As the President prssed each brigade lino the eomunanding officer: erdered the customary honors to the Commander. in-Chiet to be paid, and the soldiers preseuted arme, the colors @rooped and the bend played the march. [ho troops loudly cheered meanwhile, The Irieh Brigade manifested enthusias.n for both the Provident and General Me Clelisn. The Kighty-cighth Now York regiment gave three rousing cheors forOld Abe,” amid much merriment, ond ghree more for ‘Little Mas.”” Goueral MoCioiinn, a» wel! es tho President, wae greeted in the most enth isiistic manner Wherever ho went, ‘The party then parsed on to General Froneh’s division, on the loft of tho line. The front lines of the division oc- @upy the crest of tho heights iv roar of the intrench meas, The division wus formed in column by brigades. ‘The troops wore drawn up in line in roar of the juironch wmonts which crown the heights, They appeared in pre owely the rame-pusition in which they would form to pepe! an areanit from the enemy, Part of the divi- ‘wal’e brigade and a detachment of oavairy—was away ea & recovnoissancs, #0 that the division «i present so extensive # front a8 it otherwise would haye Gone, Genoral Freuch and sta received the President on ‘the rigtt of bi’ jon, when General Hancock, in turn, @reoefully retired a little to the rear, and General French eendusted the President and company along the lines of Ble Givision, ‘They parsed in the aame manner an boturer Wha troupe eheering, the bende playing and the cokes drooping. Tho suidiers cheered the President, Gencray SeClelion and Coneral Purnner. Passing hir old brigade, @ommates Sy General Caldwel!, Genera) Howard Wag warmly grected by the men whom he wis leading the battle of Fair Oaks when he lost his arm. Captain ‘wens’ battery held the extreme left of the line, his gun® ‘Doing placed in a redoubt om the crest of the hill, Near ‘this vattery there was a. captured rebel cannon, cast by Joseph R. Anderson & Co., at the Tredegar Works, in Richmond, which attracted mach attention. It hed not Deen included in the list of guns taken from the enemy. It constitutes another tropby of the last brief but bril-iant Maryland campaign. The review was a splendid affair throughout, Tho ‘troops, notwithstanding their long marches and hard fighting, presented a fine appearance, for which they were highly complimented. The President indulged in a num- ber of humorous anecdotes, which greatly amused the company. It was an interesting and touching wight to sce the zeveral regiments, once filled to the maximum num- ‘der, but now Little more than skeletons, with their flags and banners all battle worn, standing in line in review by the Commander-in-Chief of the Army und Navy of the Union, after they had fought se many battles aud won go many victories under their accomplisned goneral. The night was deeply affecting, particulariy to Gen. Metlelian, He said it made him feel ead to see the decimated regi ments and their tattered colors, Bat the men were in “tho best-of epirite, and repeatediy cheered the President and the General. At the close of tho review che President said he wished to revisit the batteries where the salute had been fire, ‘The whole company then rode over to the right, and Captain Tompkins and Lieutenant Kirby, whose Dasteries had performed officiont service in the Dattle of Antietam, as well as on the peninsula, ‘were introduced to tho President. Thence the compiny deecended tho heights of Bolivar down to Harper’s Ferry. The division generals and some of the brigadiers, with ‘their staffs, baving joined the party as the divisions were revieweg, the great array of officers, attired im full uni- form, formed a splendid eavaloude. The President viewed ‘the ruins of the splendid railroad bridge acress the Poto- mac, which is now being reconstructed, the remains of the government buildings and property which had been destroyed, and the other interesting sights in the vicinity, including the matchless soonery. At the pontoon bridge General MeCielian, with Colonel Colburn, took leave of the President and party and returned to his headquartersy General Marcy and Colonel Wright had leit some tims before. Licatenant Colonel Swoltzer, of MoClellan’s staf, was requested to remain with Mr. Linculu. The Presi- dent accompanied the brave old General Sumner back to the bouge in Bolivar where he has bis headquarters. Here the other genorals and staff officers parted from the Pre- sident snd repaired to their respective commands, while the President retired to enjoy General Sumpor’s hospitals. ty. He will remain ip this vicinity a few cays, vieiting the several corps of the Army of the Potomac. THE PRESIDENT AT FREDERICK, MD. Ecthusiastie Reception of the President by the Peeple—Speeches of Mr. Lincelp — Bis Eulegiuom of the Army, Bey = Rae kee Frepmucn, Oot. 4, 1862. This city has had a new sensation. For the first time i its history, since days of Washington, an incumbent of the Presidential offive has paid ita visa. The President and his suite, eonsisting of General McClellan; Colonel T. $. Mather, chief of artillery; and Captain W. Rives. aid of his staff; Captain Derrickson, of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Peausylvania, and J. W. Garrett, President of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road; M@rshal Lamon, of the District of Columbia; Hon. 0. M. Hatch, Seoretary of State of Minos; and Hon J. P. Kennedy, Superintendent Cengus, accompanied by General MeCleilan and his staff, left the General’s head- quariers about ten o'clock A. M. for this city. ‘Upon arriving at the seene of the recent battle at South Mountain, the whole party took horses and rode over the Dattle fleld, spending some time in visiting the localities now rendered historical by the severe struggic of Sept. m- Der 14 and 15. After this was done General McClellan and his staff took leave of the President, and returned to headquarters. The Prosident and his party occupied two large ambulances, in which they recommenced their jour- ney to this city. At fifteen minutes before five the Presidential salute, which was fired by Battery K, ef the First New York artillery, announced their approach. Patrick etreet was \ined with people anxious to see and welcome the Presi- dent of the United States. Just at this time a smart shower commenced fulling, accompanied by a heavy wind, which ralsed suffocating clouds of duet. But this couldn ¢ im the crowds, who had been long and anxtously awaiting his approach. The procession was Jed by Colonel Allon, the military governor of Frederick, followed by the ambulanees containing the Presidential party, accom- panied by a detachment of the First Maiue cavalry, under the command of Captain Smith, the Protost Mar-hal, asa guard ofbonor. The President was enthusi:stically received by the multitude as he rode up Patriek to Conrt street, where the procession turned off, and proceeded to the residence of Mrs. Ramscy, on Record street,’ where General Hartsof ig stop- ping and being attended apon since he was wounded at tho battle of Antietom, The President had expressed a desire to pay his respects to this gallant soldier on his way through the cit; Uggy hy remained for # few moments, aud apon making his appearance he was again enthusiastically cheered and called upon for a apeech, He briefly addressed the assemblage aa follows:— In my preseut position it is hardly proper for me to make peeches, Every word is #0 closeiy noted that it will not do to make foolish ones, and I cannot bo exyected to be prepared tp make a sensible one. If 1 wore #8 1 have deen most of my life, J might perhaps talk nonsense to you for baifan hon, and 1; wouldn't hurt anybody. As it is, can only return thavks for the compliment paid cour cause, Please accept my sincere thanks for the com. plimect to our common country, ‘Hore repoated choots Wers given for the President and General McClellan. Mr. Lincoln then re-antered the ambu- Inno, and was driven to the raliroad station, closely fol Towed by the rapidly increasing crowd, The party iname- diately entered the Landsomely fitted up care, which bad been in readiness to reesive them for nearly forty eight hours. “ ‘The President was again loudly called for by the throng of sitizens and goldiers, and upon making his appearance another speech was demanded. He good naturedly reaponded as follows :— am surrounded by soldiers, and a little farther the citizens of this good city of Frederick. le ag did (ye minutes age, i c not proper i My Present pontti a. T return ‘or the good services the: y thoy have shown, the hardsiips d_ the blood they have shed fur (his ra: and Paleo rotorn thanks, not bat to the good citizens of Fredorick good nen, women atid cbildren tn this tand 4 their devotion to this glorious cause; and f eay thi my heart wards May our children and chikiren’s ours, for children 4 yenerations, continue to oujoy these be: om ve by @ united conntry, and have c under Be glorious institu. ‘achington and his compeers, ‘ tions, bequoathed to Os vy ore and citizens, T can only say Now, my frienus, sol once More—lare well, Cheers for the President and General McClellan were alternately given Just as the cars moved off General MoCiernard was londly called for, and he stopped out om the platiorm and bowed a farewell to the multitude, At twenty mfhutes past Ove tbe train started for Wash, ington, and the crowd dispersed, Fred. Schley, Bsq., of this city, editor of the Enumtner, telographed an invitation to the President to accept of the hospitalitive of hie mansion; but Marabal Lamon, on pehalf of Mr. Lincoln, dectined the exme on account of the necessitously brief time that he would remain in the city. The President's car was ornamented by a very large aud deantifol bouquet, presented to him by Mrs. Schley, with which he appeared to bo munh ploased, ‘The President appeared to be in pretty good condition, A little tirod and exhansted perbaps by his journey, but not 40 much #0 as might have been anticipated, ‘Treeps Bin Route for the eater Nd, Tho Thir tleth regiment of é thousand armed with Pay ta A Golbc a, many Abels doors @ jem & splendid dinper, | than js veual in pictures of thie charactor—are in perfect FINE ARTS. Brady's Incidents of the War—The Bi tes of South Mountain and Antictam, dec., die. Mr. Brady, whose splendid collection of photographs illustrative of the war has rendered to the country am invaluable service, and obtained fdr his art a historical distinction that it had not previously enjoyed, bas’ just added to it a series of some eight and thirty picturer, taken at South Mountain and Antietam—two of the most desperately contested battle flelds of modern times, The endurance and heroism exhibited by the Union troops throughout the fearfal carnage aad suffering of these long protracted engagements impart to these memorials an enduring interest. As records of the great and yital stroggle in which we are engaged, they possees a value far beyond that of any written descriptions; for they offer to the eye the dread- ful actualities of seones which the pen of the most skil- ful writor could only reproduce with aremote degree uf accuracy, ‘The frst of these pictures—the large view of Antietam. creck and bridge, the crossing of which General Burn- site effected at such a fearful gaorifice of tiie—oxhibits little or no traces of the conflict. ‘The rpot is just as lovely and tranquil aa when last we visited it, Artixtically speaking, the picture is ono of the most denutifuband perfect photograph landgeanes that we have seen, The tone is clear and firm , but so:t ,and every objoct is brought out with remarkable distinctnoss, Noxt te It is a fmaller phowograph, somo seven inches square, which tells a tale of desperate contention. Traversing it is seen @ bigh rail fence, in the feroground of which are @ num- ber of dead bodies grouped in every imaginabie porition, the stiffPned limbs preserving the same attitude as that matntained by the suiferors in their last agonies. Minute as are the feutures of the dead, and unrecognizable by the naked eye, you can, by bring!og a magnifying glass to Dear on them, identify not merely their genera} outline, but actual expression. This, f» many instances, is per- feetly horrible, and shows throdgh what tortures the poor victime must have passed before they were relieved from their sufferings. Another photograph ox- hibits a deep trench cr gully, one side of which had been protected by a trong fence, the rails of which are seen scattered about. Lying transversely in its depths, where they have evidently fallen m attempting to cross, are piles of rebel dead, many of them shocless and in rags. (h the left bank are @ pumber of perrons examining the spot with curjous in- terest, visitors probably from some of the Northern cities. A pootic and melancholy Interest attaches to the next that we come tw. There is such a dash of sentiment in it that it books more like an artistic compo- sition than the reproduction of an actuality, A new- made grave occupies the centre of the picture, a small head apd foot board, the former with lettering, deaving its limits, Doabled up near it, with the features almost distingsishable, ig the body of a little drammer boy who was probably shot down on the apot. How it happens that it phonld have been left uminterred, whilst tho last honors were paid to cone of his comrades, we are usablo to ex- pian, Gazing on the body with apitying interest stands, in civilian’s attire, one of those seedy, shiftiess looking Deings, the first glance at whom detects an jil-spent career and hopelees futuro. 1t is some time, perhaps, since that blunted nature has been moved by th deep emotion se at betrays at thie mournful sight. Wonow pass onto a scere of suifering of another character, where, wader tente, improvised by blaukets stretched on fence sails, we cee the wounded reveiving the attentions of the mod) cal staff. Next to it isa bloak landscape, on which the sha dows of evening are rapidly falling, revealing, m its dim light, a singular apectacie, It is that of a row of dead bodies, stretching into tho distance, in the form of an obtuse angle, aud 60 mathematically regular that it looks as if a whole regiment wore swept down in the act of performing some military evolution, Here and there are berutiful stretches of pastoral scenery, disfigured by the evidences of strife, either in the form of broken onissone, dead horses, or piles of human corpses. In one plice & farmhouse offers visible marks of the hot fire of which it was tho centre, tho walls being battered in and the linte!s of the windows and doors broken, From the above brief description of a few of these pic- tures, our readers can judge ef the interest which at-* taches to the whole co!lection. It can with truth be said that the photographioart has never contributed to the historical memorials of our time anything that at all ap- proaches it in value, “Hail Colw 4 now on exhibition at the establishment of Mesers. Ban, Black & Co., is @ new painting from the easel of Wil- liam M. Davie, the author of the *' Neglected Picture’’ and “ Done Gone,’ aud seems to be quite as attractive as ita predecessura. Under the belief that the course the rebels compel our government fo pursue in putting down the rebellion wouk! eventually lead to the extinction o! the ‘peculiar institution,” the artist has sought to depict © happinees of one of the “chattels” of South Carcliaa— @ bright, well formed, active and intelligent looking mulatto, whose features and oolor indicate thit the gontle dived of eome of the F. F. V.’s courses through bis veina. In the enjoyment of liberty, a8 a fruit of the rebellion and atriomph of the Union arms, he !s represented in the act of singing “Hail Columbia” and playing au accompani- mont on a banjo, thé strings of which be has taken from @ guitar thrown caretessly on the ground beside him, His knife sticks in the lattor instrument, showiog his contempt for the refinement and elegancies of his maa ter’e home, from which not he, but bie master. has ran away. Dressed in the renegade’s dressing gown and shppere, seated on a dismoun, rebel cannon, halt buried in tho sand, in W appears to be the remains of an old rebel fortidication, with the “Act of Emancipation” vader the band of his fini, a ppelling book tn his pocket, and bie fagors thrum- ming an accompaniment to “Hail Columbia,” he seems the embod ient of negro happiness. The cannon on which he is seated is one of those so kindly sent by our trans atlantic cousins to their friends in the South, and bears on its trunnions the letters “C, &.,” and on Jts breech ‘en, maker, Liverpool;’ and, strangely enough, though its meaning is easily underewood, the bright forgot mo not, in fall bloom, appears as if pointing to ‘the latter insoription, Fort Sumter, with the Union flag proudly floating over its walls, is seen in the distanee, and om the left lics @ portion of a messenger from ono of its guns, in the shape of part ef a bombshell bearing tho lettors-""U, 8,” which, by somo singular tatality, has falicn on a pieco of music entitled ‘“Dixey,” crushing it almost out of sight. On tho right lies another piece ef musio—the ‘‘Marsellaiso Hymo,’”’ adopted by the rebels as their dational air, across which is thrown, as if by accident, a cat-o'-nive-tails, A knot- {ed portion of this welt remembered relic of tho past lies in the form of a hand, pointing to the words, * Awake to gin: y:? while tivo of Its thongs, whieh seem to have tw sted themeelyes Into tho letters 8, C. (Southern Confedoraey), lie just beyond the words, ‘¢ Behold their tears ond tear their cries.” ‘Tho general outline ‘of the pictare, the dreamy appear- ‘ance of the atmoephere, the mellow sunlight, the tree, plants and flowers peculiar to Southern climates—which in all their minute details are more faithfully delineated harmony with the subject, and tend to give it the charm pesuliar to Ttalian landscaper. It is a decided success, will add largely to the already well earned reputation of the artist, and devorves to meet with a ready alo. New Publication: ‘The following is a liat of the new padiications received at the Herat office to October 4:— GENERAL LITERATURE, ‘Twrean Montes ix vim Keoet Anvy, By an impressed Now Yorker, Pubiished by A, 8. Barnes & Burr. Browneon eQvarteaty Revasw ror Ovream, Published dy D. & J. adlier & Co, unio. Gop Save tas Uxton, By Jamee Mortimer, Published by Win. Hall & Son. - “Con. New ax Iurnovap Ixernccroa ros ras wavu, Podlished by Hall & em. vert, in the oem yy wee pieeries weary De Interesting from the North Carolina Coast, Seizure of the Anglo-Rebel Steamer Sunbeam. Vatuable Cargo of Gunpowder, Medicines and Ammunition. ARRIVAL OF THE PRIZE AT NEW YORK, Reception of the Tmancipation Proclamation. Mass Mesting at Beaufort in Honor of the Event, &e., &e., &o, ‘Tho Anglo-rebel prize steamship Sunbeam, im charge of Acting Master Folsom, of tho United States gunbuat state of Georgia, arrived at this port yesterday morning from Neowbern, N. €. The Sundcam is a London ship, and was captured September 28 off Now Inlet, by the United States gunboats State of Georgia and Alystic, while attempting to run the blockade at Wilmington. She is built of iron, oftwo hundred and five tons burthen, bas an aux, iliary engine of thirty-cight horse power, was built at Birkenhead five years ago, and has a cargo of brandy and gunpowder. The vessel and cargo are vakied at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Her former captain—Hepburn—statos she wa" from Liverpool bound for Mexico, and was putting in fo ‘coal. She left Liverpool August 6 and Halifax meptem_ der 14, clearing fer Matamoros. Her cargo consists of army storer, Doots, medical stores, amputating and other instruments, gunpowder, cutlery and ! nfield rifes. She js said to beowned by Mr. Laird, M, P., of Liver- pool, the builder of gunboat ‘No. 290,” now arebel pirate on the ocean, The Sunbeam was formorly used on the African expedition ander Dr. Livingstone, and is a sine ‘ron veseel, screw tricing up, bark riggeg, of two hundred and five tons, Englivh register, Full partieaiars of her oa; ture will be fonnd under tho head of our naval correspondence. Our Special Naval Correspondence. UNrrep Tare 3) New Imunr, Orv Wiasidoron, N. C., 0; 86: Bold Ailempt to Run the Blockade—An Old Story— The Con- tratand Steamer Sent Northward—The Kebels Wail Watehed--Chase of the Contraband Steaner—-The Rebel Shore Batteries. Open Fire—Rebeb Rams at Wilmington, N. U—Whe Rebel Steamer Kate—Nature of Mir Last Cargo— Yi Now Fever at Wilmington, dc. Tho English bark xiggod stoamer Sunbeam wae cap. tured by 0s this mornivg while running the blockades ‘Those in chargo of her acknowledge their tntention of going in, Dut ackert they wore in distress, and, under. #iauding that Wikniggton bad falion into the hands of the Union forces, they were going in for repairs, &c, This is the stereotyped tale, and has hoon repeated go often that iv is threndbaro, Beside thie, the speed of tho vessel whtil she was overhauled, was net indicative of a crippled condition, nor could the closest scrutiny discover any- Abing like 1%. Another striking peculiarity is that there “vessis in distress are uniform in their selection of time for entering yort—that they invariably golect tho night season for approaching the coast, and the early gray of dawn for cntering; that they never heave to until the dogs of war have boon let slip, aud the shot and shell are failing Like hail around them. Their cargo appears se- ‘Wéeted with an eye erpoctatly to the rebel wants; and most geuera}ly, o8 in the present ixstance, their purposes ‘are well known before leaving a Europoxn port. the Stinbeam bas an assorted cargo of gunpowder, brandy, medicines, percussion caps, ready muke clothing, &o, She goes North m charge of Acting Master Charles Folsom and a prize crow. We have had heavy, boisterous weather reven: more so than usual in this latitude at this season, While writing 1 may add (hat @ morning or two since at early light, a couple of echouners were seen standing in towards the shoro—one creeping stenithily along we beach in the direction of Fort Fisher, while the other was already inside the breakers, and jimmediately beneath the guosof (hoiort, It was didicult to decide whether thie wwe haa run the blockade during the night, or whetuer, in an attempt to run yut, she had struck che ahoal, been detamed, for high water, aud Rad bad to put Dick. 1 aim inclinea to the former opinion, and think she bad run the b‘vckade yj rather during the night. Tho vther was evidently making a Strong ellort in the same direction, faiing in which sho was beached at halt tide, wagh every square {ch of can vass spread to the breeze, Tue seo was soon making a breach over her, and aiter tiring shot and shel! at her for & timo she was left a prey ei Yo the elements or the rebels ashore, Tho latter most likely stripped her of eucb Hinge. as wore yok atlaingbiy, as the bare poles alene werd Visible Above the water wi the following morn- ing. A conceaiod battery, with a very heavy gun, which had opeved upon us a few days beiore wt this pont, together with the fea:s of ride pits—as the white wuts of an oncampment glistentag aloog the beach tld us of the proseuse of the rovels—preygatyd the entire dostruction of the vessel by an armed “boav’s crew, This was moet likely a wise precwution; fur our batteries had just been secured and the crew piped down, aud we had direcued our course auchorageward, when a shgit puff of smoke upon the deach, folwed by » whizzing, whirring, buzzing sound passed over Lewd, and a giell burst a short ais tance beyond as, Several shuts were fired, all exceeding jy fine imo shots, some striking beyond and orbers just dofure reaching us. ‘Tho fort opened pov us this morning while in ehase of the Sunbeum, and why they did nut pepper us in @ more lively mauner i# imexplicabic, Oxcept upon the sup position that the entirc aur wags over be: fore they could get their guns fully manned They might Haye opeveda full broadside, but content themselves with Qring isolated guns. Uur ship, however, was 80 inanaged ag to keep the knglishasan detwoen ti fort and ourselves, and this myht baye aevounted for their silence, The few shots they did fire, however, were exceedingly fine ones, and would have redected no little credit on their gumnery if dixpleyed in a better cause. One shell passed durectly over our beads, botween the main and 1oizen masts, alikiog @ fow guards on our starboard quarter, AD instinetive and javoluntary, Bat most reve ronttal, obeisange was made about this ime to tke power ot heavy artillery; for ehnest every man Ly cowers: beneath ‘the iilaeuge Of that anearthly, elckenag soand, We are having quite comferiabio tnws. It i monoto nous and tedious, it is true, but 6 sense of duty discharged relieves itof much of Wiis sensetiou, It @ romored that the rebole Dave an irow-ciad rau or two at Wilmington, which are about to embark in somo mischief, We have heard this from several sources recoully,and last from contraband, Who are oumiug oil in crowds evory fow days They gemerally bring vory correct information, On one day last woek twenty-two came off to the va‘ rious sbips, Some fitecn oF eightoon came off today, and they bring gome interesting news. The steamer Kato, which ram the blockade some toa days since on the opposite side of the shoal, came fraught with digease and death, The crow abd officers wore sick with yolluw fever. Sho wont direct to Wilmington, but was ordered buck to quarantine by the authorities. There were twenty-five deaths on Friday from this affection aione in \ imingion. If they do not succeed in Introducing it In this port 1 think we shallbe fortunate. They say that the white people are fying one way into the interior, and they tte other t the Yankees. TH party who took charge of the Kate at quarantine arrived @ day or two ‘iter, Tho captain inalse dead. Work, they say, on the omer prevaile that Jeff. Davis hee an idea of Biace Bave oon’ with eerere of the geuttadands, ove of whom (a sory intellls i gent mulatto) informa me that the affection that is now Sweeping Witmington is called variously yellow, and malignant, 2c, He saya that personally he kuows of only four or five deaths daily in Wilmington (which pluce he loft om Saturday, the 2%p), and tliat these fell under hie immediate notico, He heard it rumored that twenty or twenty-five were dying daily, but did pot see tt himself And thought it an exaggeration. He confirms the report of the death of avery man on board the’ steamer Kates with a single exeeption. ihe man who took her down to quarantifie Mo died. She i now lying in full sight from the deck of this vesse?, and a visit to her is eonsidered certain ‘cath by tho inhabitants. My informant says that the ciecage is attributed to the food which had heen tampered with aboard by the Kankoes, and then allowed to run the blockade. Our Newhern Corresponde: ° Newuern, N. C., Oct. 1, 1862 The Yellow Fever. at Wilminuton—its Ravayes Increant~— Negro Regimen’s,in the Rebel Servie-—They Garrison the Forts at Witamgton-—-The Presid-nt’s Proclamation A North Carotina Camp Meeting and Barvecus—Union War Meetings, «c. ‘Mo yellow fever at Wilmington, N.C., ison the in- oreage,* sweeping everything belore it. The city and all the fortiflcations are eyacuated by both citizens and troops. The Wilmington Journal says that the colored regiments, which have been in camps of instruction for the past threo months, are to garrison tho town and for- Ufications during the sickly season, seven of these reg! mente having already arrived, who have white officers in command, ant are remarkably proficient in drill. The rebel Secretary of*War nag ordored all the blacks im astern North Carolina to be seized and takon to Virginia for the purpose of building fortifications. No fears are entertained that the yollow fever will visit Newbtrn, or any point occupied by our troops in this State, The President's proclamation, freeing all the slaves after January 1, is well received by the opposition Union party in this State an@ its papers, @ majority of which say that if North Carofina is not back in the Union by that date gho will have no one but herself to blame. The non-slaveholdera within our lines are to hold a great Union mass meeting at Beaufort, in honor of the event, in which a! the counties in these two Congressional dis- trict are to be largely represented by the men, women and childron, who are to bring their camps with’ them and haye a three days celebration, with a North Carolina barbecue included, All the candidates for Congroes in both distriets ara to be present and address the people on the occasion, Aseries of Union war mectings are now boing held in all these counties, which are addressed by Hon. Charles Menry Foster, Tho mihtary chief of this department, General Foster, iv affording him all the aid aud induce- ments necessary to carry on this glorious work, IMPORTANT FROM THE SOUTHWEST. Reported Battle at Sarcoxie—Rebel Out- rages in Northern Arkansas—Projected Expedition Aguinat St. Louis, &c. Srruncrinep, Mo., Oct. 4, 1862, ‘Tho correspondence of the St. Louis Democrat of Inat evening cays that rumors were afloat of heavy artillery firing in the direction of Sarcoxie. ‘To-day theeo rumors increased, and by noon word was roceived that a fight had taken place at Sarcxie. ‘The vumber of the enemy's force is unknown, and we have not yet learned the result of the fixht. A refugee from General McBride's command came in to-day, and from him we learn that nearly every abl? bocked man in the northern portion of Arkansas is either a conscript or a refugee. The treatment of those living in Northern Arkansas is represented ag most cruel, Their homes aro robbed by armed bands of plunderers, who getze all the men and all the property that cau be of any possiblo uso to their army, leaving women and children to starve for want of the necesearies of life. Advices from Sarcoxie, dated September 25, sey that two brigades of the Kansas army had arrived there. ‘The gucrilla Coffee, with three hundred men, was at Newtonia, fifteen miles south of that place, when Colonel Solomon's advance guard arrived, but a rebel major who wag thore on a visit, mado his escape and gave Coffee notice of our approach, when he retreated south, ‘The rebels at Sarcoxie say they have 10,000 men at Cowskin Prairie, and {that General Hindman ,with 30,000 men, !3 In Arkansas near the Missour} State line, and that ‘aa soon os they join forces they will march directly on St. Louis. . All the prisoners taken tell of the rich booty the rebels aro promised when they take St. Lows. It appears that sach promises are the great incentives used by the rebel generals to keep their men together. News from Fortress Monroe, Fortress Monnror, Oct. 3, IS62, Steamboat Metamora feft at noon to-day for Aiken's Landing, taking up abont fifty rebel prisoners from Fort Metienry, and Is expected to bring down soveral hundred Union prigonors. She is to wait for them. Tho rear buildings from the Hygeia Hotel aro being demolished, which does not intertere with the main build ings of the hotel. Occasional alarms are raised at Suffolk, but no attack ts expected at present. Board of Aldermen. ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE MAYOR FOR STREFT CoM: MISSIONER REJECTED, Ere. This Board met yesterday at two o’elock, President J. C. Henry, Esq., in the chair. ‘The Mayor nominated Geo. W. Blunt, nautical instrn mont maker, for the oftce of t Commissioner. Alderman Dayton spoke in higbly culogistic torms of Mr. Biant, avd vouched for his capability to tll the office Alderman Brapy also bore his testimony to the com- petency of Mr. Blunt, Alderman Faniey sald that, after the endorsement of the nomination of Mr. Blunt by the Alderman of tne Ninth (Dayton), he would move that the matter bo referred to the Committee on Arts sad Sovences, ‘he nomivation of Mr. Bluut was rejected by a vote of eleven to four. For the rejection—Aldermon suith, Waieh, President Heury, Reod, Mitcheil, Jere mia, Prear, Boole, Ottiwail, Proment, Farley. For the nonihation—Alermen Hail,"Brady, Dayton, Allen. Ab- sout—Aldormen Chip and Genes. Alderman Dayton oitered an ordinance authorizing the Comptrviier to issue bils of the denoml.ation of tive, ten, ftoen and twenty five ceuts, Referred to Gommiites on finance. ‘The ordinance appropriating the sum of $500,000 for the support of volunteers was called up. ‘Alde: men Davrox moved to amend by inserting the famities of those draited, which was adopted, and the whole subject was referred Wo tie Finance Committee. The sum of $400 was donated for the Nursery and Child's fospital, ‘The suth of $250 was appropriated for engrossing reso- Iutions previously adopted complimentary to Aldertnan Heury W, Genet, ex Prosideut ot the Loard. she Prosident hamed ag spocial ¢unmittes to presont the sword to Hrigadier General Corcoran Aldermon Walsh, 2m th, Frear, ieole and Brad A communication was received (com the Mayor, trans- midting & shattered flagstaY from Col, Lansing, of the Sevontecath regitnont. Mayor's Oretce, New Yorn, Oct. 4, 1862 ‘To Tm Hovons Hin TH Common Cooncit— Gusruscky—I send you berewith the most touching momento of the presebt war which we have yet ro- nity will be seen from the accompanying letter of prog aontacion, it is the abattered stall of the tlag which ‘is city early in the war prevented to the Seventeouth Fogimont New York Volunteers. its honorable sears are eloquent of tho danntless bra. yery of ite guardians, four of whom lost their lives while bearing it onward in the fight. 1 cordially joiu in the lope ux, in the letver of tation, that New York will show her appreciation of valor by tiling up the decimated ranks of Fegimeat which so gulantly de- tended Its colors GEORGE UPDYK, Mayor, ‘ Yorn, Oot. 3, 1862. ‘fo His Howom Mayon Orpyxn— At the request of Colovel Lansing, of the Seventeenth regiment New York Voluntoers, 1 have the honor to re- wrn you herewith the rematus of the fagstail presented to that regiment early intho war by the city of New its je wourds bear evidence of 8 ite have borne in various conflicte. At ssamernentle of Ball ran? po, ese. than, four colve Bias iaalibe at) thea soe non igen orvom Toe ennp 0s bonbrea ins preven: ‘her Las eit fh. DOWNING, JR. The @oard sdjourned ti) Monday, at baif-part ono o'clock, IMPORTANT FROM KENTUCKY. General Morgan’s March from Cumbere land Gap to the Ohio. Continuous Fighting Along the Entire Route. Extraordinary Fortitude and Endue rance of the Troops. THE POSITION OF THE REBEL FORCES, ery Ben kee Crnonmnatt, Oct. 4, 1862, Atalato hour last mht oficial intelligence was re ed from General George % Morgan, who had arrived at Greenupeburg, on the Ohio. He evacuated Cumberland Gap on the night of the 174i ult., with General Stevenson's army three miles in big front, with Bragg and Marshall on bia flanks, and Kiwbyl Smith in bis rear, amid the explosion of mines aud maga¢ zines, and lighted by the blaze of the storehouses of the quartermasters and commirsarien, Stevenson wag taken completely aback by the perm formance. Three thirty-pounder cannon only were destroyed by Morgan, the balance being brought with bim. During the march Morgan’s forces were constantly en- veloped by rebel cavalry of Stevenson's and John Mors gan’s forces, General Morgan maintained the offensive throughoud the march, marching one day twenty-four consecutivd hours, and on three successive days driving John Mor- gan’s men from thoir suppers. For three daye his forces were on a limited eupply of water. Ho looked for a MgbS witb Humphrey Marehali, but was disappointed, Hig retreat ia considered a brilliant success. His forces will be soon placed where they will again be of wervice. Cinciswati, Uct. 4—P. M. M. C, Garbor, Quartermaster in General Morgan's @ivis sion, telegraphs the following to the Madison (Ind.) Courier: ‘Me advance brigade of General G. W. Morgan's coms mand, from Cumberland Gap, arrived at Greenupsburg, Ky., on the 3d instant, after au exhausting march of tixe teen days, having roads to make in many places. Tho men are shoolees, hatiess and paked, and for day@ were without sitions, They had to gather subsistence from tho corn standing in the ficids, whieh they grated to make bread of, after the fatigues of the day, ‘The men bore their hardships and privations, and tie fatigues of the march with the greatest fortitude, They marched twenty hoursa day, skirmishing in the wooug on cach vide of the road, and repelling the attempt: of the rebel eavalry in their front amd rear to capture them. ‘Vhe enemy blockaded the way all along tho march, and at every eultable place harassed our colump 4» mueh ad possible. Our force is ten thousand strong, with s magnificent park of artillery, consisting of twenty-cight pieces, six of them being twenty pounders. We had four hundred wagons, all of which we brougb@ off nately. ‘The works at Cumberland Gap were left in ruine. Cancnm ts, Oct. 4, 1862 ‘A despatch from Capt. Houser, of the Thirty-ihird Iu- diana regiment, dated Greepupsburg, Ky., 3d, says; — General George W. Morgan arrive with his whole com- mand at Greenupsburg this evening, Ho bronglit a!! his trains and artillery with bim, Eis men are in fi notwithstanding the many hardships thoy have under- gone in their march from Cumberland Gap, ‘Tho Commercial says Genoral Morgan's retreat was (he most arduons and bezardous of the war. During its march uorthward, our army was constantly evveloped by the enemy's cavalry. Morgan imvintsined the often sve throvghout, One division marched twenty (we successive hours for three days, Our troops Ya! no water but that found in stagnant pools. All the guns at the Gap were brought away except four thirty two pounderr, whieh wore too heavy fur transportation, and the tre pious were knocked off of them bofore they were aban - done. 7 Gr Ohio. A military order was issued to-day suspending all dis inthe city wilitary organizations til! further orders. The Position of the Kebel Forees—Mat- gt eh Near itlo-Koar Hundred Rebel Prisoners Capiured. (From the Louisylie Democrat, Oot. 3.3 We understand that the bels are posted in cor peburg, Ky., is fifteen miles above Portsmow able torco ab aud vent Loug Run, oF Bu some eighteen miles up the Shelby ville pike. ‘They are cccupy- Floy\\’s Fork, aml send out recon ing the noitering parties in all directions, penetrating down even to th of Hearyra s, They doom the! autlic tue foderal tr There are a nuinber Of se Jetferson counties, ty the neiguLorh. Wh are piting thei turongh the © homes of Union men, We ehall expect to hear further nows (rom thot section before te-norrow's We heard it reported that a squad of rebels vis: residence of Elias Dorsey, Jr., on Tuesday nigh him priaoner and carried oi bis negrics. We aecrodit this statement, though it reaches us through w ee that BeCus LO foo evening, wh reporte, A gentleman rea the owo deldges burnt at Frankfort soe two or three days ago, The rebel force at Fr ankfort ia not over twe inents. eet eeupio of gentiemen-who weat some thirteen mi "1 6 Bardstown pike yestorday » Tepe Oo ne or auvance moved forward they’ drove back tho rebel pickels, about one bundied + trovg, killing two of them; but fegret to learn that Colonel Schuyler, of wo Ohio rogiment, was Tho rumors ity killed by «shot from one Of the pickots town of a severe fight and the bucuing of Sim Lewle house were hot trhe, a8 Our informants saw LOSigns Oo anys burning ag far ag they went, nor iny fighting oxcept the’ montioned above, aud they left the advance about fo o’oluuk. Vhey state, however, tht ordors were sent back to t! main body for artillery, which they met moving out al gailop, and shortly afterwards they beard the roar o! heavy guns. It was tho general jmprcssion that a fight witloccur this morning, Unless the 1ebel forces skedad- dio. 1 roy that meved ovt tho Bardstown a yes- torday morning is ulticient to lake care of all the rebels on thit road, dome four hundted prisoners were brought into the city yesterday frem the direction of Floyd's Fork, whe and where captured we did uot learD, ews from the Pucific, San Francisco, Oct, 3, 1862. ‘Arrived ship Rattler and Christopher Hall trom New York. Algo arrived ship Lotus, with Hong Kong dates of Au . gust 11. overland mail we have New York dates of Sep. tate’ i. Tho payors here publish a list of the passen- gers who sailed in the steamer on that day for Caliornia, ‘Pho San Francisco merkets are vory quiet. There \ ing. ? gm by pal flonolula are to the 13th of Soptember. Princo Albert, the infant sua of the king, died at the iat- Jace in August. Sept Hawaiinn Minister resigned on the 18th of August, ja consequence of a vote of the representatives express- ing want of confidence in Grogg, the Minister of Finance. ‘The horticultural exhibition continued to exc!@ muck attention, ‘The receipts this yoar are @stimated sb £88, pany age the season, a French ship, arrived ab Bouolulu on the 1h of Septomber witty Dut @ poor report. ‘The Writieh steam frigate Termigant loft Movoluly om the Seb ec deptenabor fer the Soata: Vaviile aud line,