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THE NEW YORK HERALD... WHOLE NO. 9826. IMPORTANT FROM CHARLESTON. Progress of the Combined Mili- tary and Naval Operations. Capture of Captain Paine’s Scouting Party. Names of the Captives from the (ne Hundzedth New York Volunteers. Engagement Between the Iremsides and the Rebel Fort Wagn or. A Launch Belonging to the Wabash Run Down | by a Rebel Steamer and Most, of Her Crew Drowned or Hi died, Rew Ren we Mr. Oscar G. Sawyer’s J peyputches. ‘Moris Istaxn, 8. 3 August 5, 1883. OPERATIONS SINCE THE 30T g YrrIKO. ‘Bince the departure of the Fultor , on the 30tt%s ultmo, Operations on this island haye pur eyed ihe even tenor of their way. We bave the usual gmountof heavyartil- Yery firing daily, and occasional! ¢ a casnalty on-our side, but at long intervals, and « pr work goes on with ‘as much regularity and freedo m as ‘if’ the enemy wore ignorant of our presence and 0 gerations. in their tmmedi- ate neighborhood. ur prote sttye works ure now 80 well advanced that it is only t gough- carelessness or fool- hardiness we suffer any \ gy at ‘The’ men have ‘shelters against almost any fie; “bat they do not always care to avail themselves of tho protection thus afforded, and consequently limbs + mt ‘bands are lost from frag- ments of #helis which gre expidded’ over the trenches by the rebel artill’ wigts on James Island and always warned im gimme ‘of “the approach of a missile by the cry - ef “Qover,' Fort Johnson,” or "Cover, Wagner,” ¢ » “Sumter,?as' the case may be, and they gencrally b: asp “Sime! to- seek ‘the protection of the g‘ratholes”’ bef ge:the explosion of ‘the shell and the ‘shrill whirr of its { regents are teard. But men will grow careless in ghe face of ‘danger, and naturally ‘enough surgeons { md eomething' todo in their special Moe of duty. Our shtosmes during’the past ten days bave ‘been inc nsidera’ go aud comparatively of slight account in view of then sgoitude-and intensity of the rebel fire at timos, CA PRURE‘OF A CELEBRATED SCOUT. Last night ( pptaintL. S. Paine, of the One Hundredth | “tly responded with the greatest rapidity. The rebel ‘New York V' @auteors,' Colonel’ Dandy, while on a scout with a detacl gaent of eight men and a sergeant, was sur- prised and c g@uretd at the upper and western portion of | Moultrie and Johnson joined in'the infernal thorns. The ‘the island | wa supertor force of rebels. It is reported | fire was unexampled in rapidity and generally in accu- ‘that in the eudhenge-of shots’ that occurred before the Surrender Captain Paine fell. But the truth of tho re- Port cann’ x ‘be sobstantiated. ‘It is unfortunately too true, how ver, that he ana-his party are in the rebels’ ‘hands, \ phother ‘doad or ative. The facts in the | ®T, impregnated with sulphorous fumes, was alive with case, 80! farnethey-nresicnown, aro as follows:—Captain Pane jar gmight, wkth-his detachment of men , pulled in a Tifle projectiles, and all that variety of strange sounds Dost up to ithe pointon this island near the mouth of ‘Lightho geocretk,and within casy range of Forts Jobn- ‘gon, Su’ gterasd Wagner. The rebels had here attempted, when v je 'firet-effected « landing en Morris Island, to erect abdatte ry,,/but hdd been quickly driven out of their posi- tion b. peour'dacteries. ‘The rebel steamer destroyed by | -more, when the New Ironsides hoisted anchor and moved Lieute mentiMyrick’s light battery of the Third artillery eanajestically to her old pesition off Wagner, where was} sting-ata small womporary ¢ock when disabled. Un this ¢ ait: then, Captiin Pame took his position, leaving | yo.ron the rebel work. In’ a moment she fired a shot his m gurin’thetboat at the end of the wharf, and placed from her rifle gun forward and, getting the range, she let his pi cient beat in charge of a detachment of the Ninety- seve! gh Ponesyivania Volunteers, in a position where good svaich coutd be kept on all the avenues of approach. | eontinued with steadiness and accuracy. The effect of Capt sinPPaing bad not been long in his position before he | ‘er fire was soon manifest. ‘The rebel guns, one after an- the presence | other, became silenced, and finally only an occasional shot was = -wuddenty ~«made aware of of ‘tho foo by hearing a sharp ‘and peremp- very euenmons from up the wharf to surgender, Ca; tain Paino-started up, and said, “What is that?” to paimtime md get xo bis beat. The demand was | ewixe her to: gantiy repeated, accompanied by an oath, And quick- | qucd, the Ironsides ceased sheliing, avd at about noon ail er than thought a rebel compacy came charging down th e wharf after Captain Paine, who succseded in reacbing | whih did no damage, We suffered no casualties daring hit boat in time to escape a volley of musketry sent after | the diy. It isnot known, of eourse, that the evemy Bim. ‘Bis men<rose in she boat and poured a sharp and effective volley tuto the advancing rebels, which caused them tofall:bagi:. The check was but for ® moment, and bbofere Captain Paine’s little bend could load their Pieces agnin-the rebels were on them from all sides. Some scattering shots were fired imto the baat, and it is | to operate against Fort Wagner, is wholly false, besides reporter, that Cagtain Paiwo was-seeu to fall; but this is not quite certain, as those-in the picket boat could hardly | effected with the aid of guns of mncn less calibre than distmguieh porsows at that hour in the night from where they laid. No arernative existing between a surrender | of such a nature would be cieariy contraband, and im- and tho slughteref all hismen, Captain Paine chose the former, and the redels soon had possession of our men and beat, Dering the affair the party in the picket boat, who had 4] The Inspector General, Colonel Jackson, amd Lieutenant ea Fort Sonwer. The f : ‘and guard are | Ola; Dut id not in a single instance strike her. Tho | ene tompera N posted correspoudert of the World, whose accounts of operations here excite the indignation and laughter of all who have read them , that Colonel Dandy’s regiment, the One Rundredth ‘New York, fired- into several of our own regiments i the recent axsauit, is most maliciously false, The regiment went into the fight with unloaded Pieces, and did not load or fire a shot until it bad got into the fort. This Ihaveon the best authority. The regi- | dence of their high esteem for him as a gentleman and & meat behaved gallantly, and was guilty of no ufortu- | soldier. We wish him all the success he may desire in nate mistakes, such as the one charged upon it by the | his new and higher field of usefulness. He will wear his World's correspondent, Again, ‘our marines’? are #aid | bars with credit to himself and honor to his country. to have cut and shot down the retreating crowd of strag- THE WEATHER YESTERDAY. giers. The marines were not in or near the fight, and the cutting aown of men by them existed only in the fer- tile Dut diseased imagination of the writer, whose wild ‘The temperature yesterday morning was still more op- deaunciations of and threats against Geweral Gillmore pressive than oy Monday, and there were quite a large ‘umber of deaths by sunstroke, At eleven o’clock in the have made it quite essential that he should remain un- morning the mercury .n our thermometers was up to known if he desires to remain here. Binety degrees, and to the uninitiated there was every Mr, Wander is a gentleman of irreprvachable character, sptendid acquirements and genial disposition. By his ‘ability, fidelity to bis duties, and agreeable personal qualities, he has gained the friendstip of all. As one of the profession, he received last winter a handsome and substantial testimonial from the correspondents of the ‘press and the signal officers in the department, as an évi- Phe artillery in the fights of the 10th and 18th ware under the charge of Lieutenant Colonel Richard H. | ingication that we were about to be afficted with the Jackson, First artitiery, Inspector General of the | hottest day of the season. But people versed in the in- department, assisted by Captain I. L. Lang- | tricacies of meteorology predicted that, notwithstanding don, also of the First artillery. Lieutedant ‘the high state of the temptrataro in the morning, we J, P. Sanger, of the ‘same had charge of © | would not have such warm weather as on Sunday or ‘battery, and under Colouel Jackson’s supervision a most Monday. Tho sky was exceedingly bright and sunny, but effective and crushing fire was maintained, which in ® | an occasional light hilly cloud, indicative of rain, made its me maper RAE Ge Se Hee ‘appearance , slowly ascending from the horizon, and thie sign was regarded as the precursor of a change. About two o’clook tm the afternoon several of these snowy clonds gathered together in a bunob. placing ‘themselves as a sort of shield between Old Sol and trra | Sanger, are now making a thorougn inspection of the command, and report it in @ better condition im morale than ever befere. No trace of demoralization is found, no lossof confidence ‘in the commanding general, but firma, and breaking the force of tho terrific heat which rather a streng and well founded faith in the final suc- | neq previously prevailed. Shortly after the sky became ces of our efforts, and in the ‘commanding efficers. The | overcast, and a heavy storm of rain, thunder and light- men are reaty'to go wherever the Geuers | directs, and | ning followed. The effect wad highly refreshing, Tho do their best to gain success. The spirit and pluck Of | air was very senatbly cooled, and the mercury rapidly the men are all that could be desired. descended in our thermometers. The lightning was of a 4 SHARP DAY'S"WORK ON SUNDAY. most dangerous character, being of the description On Sumdey morning last the Ottawa, Lteutenant Com: | known as chain'and forked lightning. The flagstaff on manding Whiting, and one Monitor, took their position | Ciatlin & Mellen’s large establishment in Church street of Fort ‘Wagner, ‘to indulge in @ little ‘sbell | was struck by the electric fluid, and was shivered into Practice and keop the gunners in the work | pieces. This, very fortunately, was the only ‘accident of in & quiescent Btate, ro that our men in the advanced | the Kin, reported, trenches-should not bé annoyed by their fire. The prac- | The greatest heat during the day was just previous to tice from the Ottawa’s one-hundred-pounder Parrott was | tne storm, when the mercury marked ninety-two degrees exceedingly fine. Nearly every shot was plunged into | inthe shade, Notwithstmding the change in the tem- the rebel'work, and the garrison were kept in their’bomb- | perature subsequently, the wind continued to blow from Proofs. ‘Fort Sumter attempted, with her large rifled | the southwest (a warm point), showing that, in all pro- gun, to drive the impertinent annoyance away, but with. bability, the warm spell is not yet over. out avail. ‘The rebel shots fell in the water all about the 70 THR EDITOR OF THE HERALD. ¢ in the sun’s rays at twelve o’clock M. to-day was one hundred and thirty; in the shade, ninety to minety-two degreos; within doors, eighty-six degrees. At two P. M., in the san’s rays, ninety-six degrees, and at three P. M., seventy six, with a shower of rain, accom. Panied by thunder This is the twenty-fifth day of the heatea term, which commenced Sunday, July 19. There hhas been much thunder and lightning during the term at various places within my field of record. E. MERIAM. Baooxiyy Heints, August 11—5 P. THR SON STROKE CASES. The following cases of fatal sunstroke were reported at the Coroners’ office yesterday — 1. Charles McCormack, a native of Ireiand, aged fort: years, who was prostrated with the heat while at ‘upon a lighter at pier No. 12 Rast river. 2. Thomas Kane, a native of Ireland, aged forty-eight 10. 41 Went street. who was supstruck while op bis way from a funere) at Calvary Cemetery. John Kilroy. a native of Ireland, aged sixty years, ing at No. 337 Pearl street. An unknown man, at Bellevue ital, Hospital. 5. Patrick Hine, a native of Iretand, aged forty-five racy. Wagner was covered with bursting shell and en- ears; body tound at the Thi th ¢ station ‘veloped in smoke and dust; bat the rebels stood by their pial wuns’ with the greatest steadiness. Our trenches were 6 ere gcd tne rej ae ane aged thirty years. residing at No. pring street. gleaming with the fitful fires of expleding shell, and the | 7°") an cis Romme.a native of Germany, aged thirty. eight vears, residing at No. 520 Broome street. 8. Charles F. Williams, a native of Cincionati, aged vears. residing atthe Brandreth House. 9. Bridget Keough, a native of Ireland, aged 21 years, reriding at No. 205 Rowery. ‘on, & native latter paid no attention to the wrathful salutations of Sumter, nor'to Moultrie, that essayed to put the plucky little Ottawa to flight. With the utmost coolners and pre cistoa bolt after bolt was pitched into Wagner, until it seemed'té have been covered with smoke and dust. Fort Wagner occasiovally responded with her ten-inch colum- biad, ‘but was able to accomplish nothing. Finally a shot from the Ottawa either dismounted a gun or ‘blew up a small service magazine in Wagner and woke up the gar- rison, {6 their rage they sprang to their guns, opened fire upon our works and upon the Ottawa, and fora couple of hours the fire was mors intense and rapid than ever before proceeded from that work. Our batteries in- works on James Island caught up the deafening refrain, ‘and bellowed forth their noisy salutations, white Sumter, ‘the whistle of solid shot, the hum of shell, the shriek of ‘that proceeds from a hundred flying missiles. The work in our trenches was necessatily slackened, as the men wae Psnn wigs b. A ibh bap ot aged 40 years; a aamupatcie ar tretinctd yeni iden dicey RISE Hayes, a native of England, aged 25 years, residivg at No, 70 Third avenue. 12, Catharine Lees, of No, 307 Mott street 15. D. Hammond, of No. 119 avenue D. 14. John Garr. a native of Ireland, aged 41 years, re- siding at No. 208 West Thirty second street. 5. Timothy Cuff, a native of Ireland, aged 24 years, re- siding at No, 118 Fourth avenne. THE. NEW IRONSIDES @OF# INTO ACTION. ‘This thundering cannonade had continued an hour or she again anchored and brought her port broadside: to 16, Louis Lindeman, « native of Germany, aged 60 Years, residing at No 611 Kighth avenue. 17. James McDermott, a native of Ireland, aged thirty fly a broadside at the fort from her two hundred pound rifles and eleven-inch guns. ‘Her fire thus opened, she years. residing at the corner of 116th wtreet and Filth enue. 18. William Gray , a native of Ireland, aged thirty-three years, residing at No, 204 Fighth avenue. 19, Bridget Donobue, a native of Ireland, residing at No, 30 Filth street. nan Ellen Haggerty, residing in Cherry street, near Jdge. In addition to the above cases the police report that there were two persons prosteated with the heat, who subsequently recovered, and were sent to their homes. Coroners Wildey, Nauman and Ranney officiated in ali of the above inquests. and did pot get through their la- bors until a late hour last night. The following additional cases of «unstroke not result. ing fatally were reported yoxterday — Charles B. Homer, & carman, residing at 252 Broome street, found Monday evening ying on bis cart in Chatham street prostrated by the heat Henry P. Wright, a sailor, abont thirty-four years of found Monday night in the yard of No. 2 Peli wiflering from the effects of the heat, Taken to from tbe tev-inch columbiad, at the noble frigate, ia- dicated the fact that the fort-was still occupied. Sumter fired some spiteful shots et the Ironsides, but did not ‘The rebel fire from Wagner betng sub- was again silent, save an ocennional shell from Jobnson joat any; but it is not improbable that they did from the Jrevsides’ fire, ANOTHER FALSE REPORT. A recent statement of the Iribun:'s correspondent, that Gen Gilmore was landing two bundred-pounder Varrote street the New Y: William Jacobs, a German, found lying on the side- walk in Washington street, was conveyed to his resi. dene. John Gandry,a recently arrived emigrant, was found Monday wight proetrated on the sidewalk in Park row. Vary Numphre: d twenty five. residimg im Brook. wene found en from the hest Moaday evening at nm to ber residence, - found lying ov the siaewntk in For ‘being absurd, The work of reducing Fort Wagner can be those immense and unwieldy pieces, Even if true, news proper to communicate or publish. Alb our guns in the trenches are on siege or field car os, and there aro plenty of then. But I may, with- out injury to the cause, say that we have one two hun to Rajlewn nanke borer, prot rated heard tkoentire amversation and savthe attack, fired | dredgounder in praition to anney the vessels at Cum. | goal ny uv ton of West Tooth merece. fromeeat te mene a volley dato abe rebels, and elicited one in | anings’ Point, Further than this it would pe improper } vue Hogpt’ return, which imetantly éilled two men of the | forse ioe: eak, {| sn unknown man was fond lying in Fiehth avenve, Ninety-seventh Penosylvania, As the robels numbered sixty or seventy, ac ntinuance of the unequal struggle was very property regarded as:iveing letie tess thin mad ness, and thereupon he picket boat quick!y retired and excapod capiere, Two compenies of the Twenty-fourth Massachusetts Voluntoers, under Capiain Redding, were sent out as soon as the news of the capture of Captain Paine was made known, but ties enomy had effected bis escape with his privoners betore Captain Redding soached the ground. COTAIN PAE Captain Paine’s lows te deeply felt, sable nen in the departene: , full Of re He wae one of the asa seout. Brave, urces andof an iron most v coo! aad tution yallyronnti he wee reas line of Bit in thw jostance he scems to have neglected te observe bis aww! caution. fle bad deen to this 7 severel consecutive nights,aed the ad di How qverod the foct and teid the trap fer his essful thoy were the result stews eayan The party # now deubtiess i Charlesten jail Lier OF PRSOMURE CArTeS ED Captaia L. 8. Paine, r Sergeant Mitzinger, 0. Towne, Alien, P. Miller. —all of Company D,-One Homdredth New York Volup toers. HILLED IF TIM Power noar, Joseph Rosset, Co. D, 97th Pennsylvania; Joseph L Eyre, Co. D, WTth Pennayiramia. A LOUDGET CT APRONS CORRECTED. Editorial statements in geome of the Northern papers that tho lonees sustained ip the recent assault on Fort Wagner must reeult in a eaising of General Gilmore slege operations until fall, and that they were suapended fn consejuence of the check on that day, are-without foundation. The operations on this island agaiost Fort Wagner bave not been for # moment muspended, They have been conducted day and bight with determination, and with progress as rapid a® cok! be wished and, instead of our operations being checked by tho re. sults of tho aseavit on tbe 18th, our lines were adeonced ciz hundred yards within forty-cight hours after the repuieg, and they are now sil gearer Fort Wagner. Se much for that abeurd meport. And another rtatement, from the eame sogroe, that the siege must be raised im conse. <jicnce Of Our losmes, ie anawored by the above facts, Let it be kaown ones for all that General Gillmore will not raze the siege while he holds this island, and be will hold th «jslawel until the crack of doom, in spite of any force Semaregard can bring agatoms him. We are here eo | swell fortided that it would trouble Beauregard to effect a i landing be bad One huedred thousand men. The | Birengin of Port Water fe as nothing to the strongth of | 1 the mau to bo successful in his | Preashed quite closely to the launch before her } between Forty ninth and Filtieth streete, Taken to Relle j ve Hospital Along Tut Fort Wagner is the key to Fort Sumter, and, once in om possession, Fort Sumter naturally falls, and with it the nd Monday evening tying on hie cart, sity of Charleston. The country sunust be satiated to | sorner 0 (nvenne and Thirty-seventh street allow thee> events to follow in thelr eatural order. } samex itiley h laborer, seventeen years of age _— } found suffering the heat at the corner Morais Istaxp, August 7, 1963. ONE OF THE WARASH'S LAUNCHRE RON DOWN. On Wednosday night tast the first+iaunch of the Wa bash, manved by its crew from that ehip, but in com Mand of Acting Master Haines, of the Powhatan, white | doing picket duty in the harbor, nenr Port Sumter, ex tended ite patrol too far ap, and was discovered by the j of roadway and Chambers | Hospital eet. Taken to Helievne 0 heat ‘and street, Kon to his residenee affolic treet, Aadrow Tupper, a soldier, while going down Whitehall street Monday, was prostrated by the beat, and taken home. Thomas Patteren Ninth street and an eariy near Olntoa. ind Ineensible at the corner of rebel. One of the rebel steamers, whieh wa doing ret avenue. from the efincts of the heat, and taken ty Neilerne Hospital Picket duty, immediitely ran toward: her, and had ap inown man, about thirty-five years of age, par ¥ Arested in army unifor Seventeant 6 Hewrital Joreph Clyom, residing in Brookivn, found or street Monday evening neo | t found cn the eidewalk in avenue. Tai Helle Pireet, ne was made kuown. shen, supposing the steamer to be a | blockade runner outward bound, they trailed the how | itzer on the Iaunch’s how upon ber and fired, with what | effect ie mot known. The rebele fired a volley of mus into thelaanel, and theo, puteiog on extracteam, ran the | jannch dewn, striking it nearly amidships and crushing | it to pieces. The officera and crew foond themselves in | the water (n an instant, struggling for iife. Someot the | { men were struck and killed by the steamor's wheels, | which passed over them; others were drowned and others | Killed by the ‘ire majutained by-the rebela upon them while in the water and incapable of defence. Quarter the side and taken to Belle ler. resiaing in Tomevelt street, wax run Wall strect Monday afternoon and taken he res An anknown eroman wee foond sonatruck in Monday atteroon Whe sent t her bome jn ity eerond street after betng refased admittance t the City’ Hompital Wm. MoPeevey was found mn front of 308 Wert Twenty pinth street prostrated by the heat. Taken be by the r Martin SeMunt? wae found in the street euffering from ranatroke and onth . 4 ker neme, was asked by thy oating ound fr the An unknown man, abont thirty-five years of see, was rebel fire, and the only reply olieited was, | found om the corner of Sixth avenue and Twenty third “We will give you quarter, you God damned Vanies sone of b—s,"* and another valley of masketry. No prisoners | % the Hloepliel ay wore taken by the rebeir, but all the Iaunehis crew | wag ford lying inscne'e at t! | were allowed t aecaps, af woll they might # they j wore not kilied by bullets | A scouting boat from the New Ironsides, being attracted | ” wr yor ne at ‘by the firing, mw tag ba hat onedistae Gi eagle | effect of the heat, Manes te eee it the launch, who were noarty ox, | _MC® MArgaret Branagan, residing at No. 104 Navy fedenced. The balance of the crew, and Acting Mancer | prety = su jo bed yesterday afternoon from the eifect of ‘1 Por ¢ lost, numbering | be | Haines, of the Powhatan, were lovt, 5 - ring in all Martin Ritter, forty-eight. yi ; Pebsteg to Ven ception aoaie. 1 have net as yetboen able toobisle © | a4 dass. isd at the Lang lelene College Ses | Matof the names of thove lowt or saved, but will at te | Corday morning, having beem prostrate” hy tke beat tno first opportunity. | day gy = Flags oF TREOR. Jon Gormelinn, recently landed from Irelacd, com On tho Sth inst, @ boat from Her Britannic Majesty's | ™enced worlk at the gas house, foot ef Hudson aronne be | on Monday, After Javoring « few houra he was prot ip Plover was allowed to go in the harbor to beer com- | trated by the heat and taken to by residence, 6 Jobn munications from ford Lyons to Mr. Bruce, the rebel arent nie Be Sted yedteraag. aves a wile and English Consol at Charleston, Aa they bare not come | “yrs! @ ; ohn Carlton, residing at No. 4 Duy ators te inspect our works, they cannot give mach in. | s,s supetroke’ i mighty street, died formation to Rebeldom, | Work io the Navy Yard was sompended yeaterday afior Anothar flag was sont in thin morning by Admirat 3°°%. from one o'clock, im eonmequence of the intense Dabigren to communteate with the rebels a Fort Wagner THE NPAT IN WarninoroN. la reiation & important matters. From the Star, Anguat 10.) [art week was one of the hottest that our citizens have street, suttering from the @flects of the heat, and taken | to the Hopital about fifty years of age corner of Kighth avenue aod Fifteth street fram the heat, Taken to tele Hospital wPrrer OF THE WRAT IN BROOKE YS a} additional deathe,oecurred yesterday from the Our position. So let\s0 Idle fears porsess the public mind Of defeat and disaster tere. | THE OF" RORNREOTH SOW Tore 78 fee eae The siatement wade by somo adkoown sod badiy | VREFON AL. expe for a long time. “ James Lander, private in the Seventy.ninth New York | hey — at eco every day Yescordan Bren ep es Stato Militis §=(Highlanders), for & long time | bob piety one at noon, and at five P.M. won chit clark in the headquarters of the signal . hres cogrees. There wae scarcely ay wind ¥, od he heat was of the mont oppee t in corps, goes North om the § Arsgo, to ropes | $ yet even, Ween eighty pore se r to Washington for examination for signal oftcer wired aad nine om the run =— EW YORK, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1863. INTERESTING FROM EUROPE. Arrival of the China with the Mails 0 the Ist Instant. What the English, French and Irish Think of the Rebellion and the Riots. Important Relative to Be - rent Cruiser CAPTURE OF NANA SAHIB. | #« The Reeall of General Forey ; from Mexico. The Reply of the Three Powers to Russia. &., &e., &e. ‘The Cunard steamship China arrived at this port yes- ‘erday afternoon. She brings London and Liverpool pa- pers of the Ist inst. She left Queenstown on the 2d inst. We published on Monday last some of the points of her news intercepted off Cape Race. Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, July 28, 1863. Will there be War?—Mexico—the Emperor—Death of Emma Livry, de. No particularly new light has been thrown since last week upon the great question now agitating Europe, and France in particular—‘Will there be a war?’ The de- spatch’of the 18th of July, from Lord Napier to Earl Rus sell, showing in what light the English and French Am- bassadors at St, Petersburg regarded the Russian reply, bas been reproduced by most of the journals here, and ‘Ws this morning published by the Monifeur, although a similar document from the Duke de Montebello to M. Drouyn de Lhuys, which is said to have arrived hero some weeks since, has not yet even been referred to. Amid all the conflicting reports, the truth seems to be that since the reception of the Ruasian replies the three Powers have beon engaged im concerting replies, upon which they bave now agreed, but which have not yet been sent. ‘to act in concert with the Western Power id, although the replies agreed upon are to be sent by each Power separately, it is believed that all are in accord relative to their nature. Of course they will not contain any wlti- matum. They will leave room for a rejoinder from Rus- sia, and upon the nature of that will depend the course which they will pursue. All this will take time, and, tn Any event, some time must elapse ere anything positive is nettied. stria appears in good faith determined | More than twenty PRICE THR EE CENTs, bis choice ‘the great Northern cisies, Day after day this sort of thing was kept up. Kven in yesterday's Times thore appeared a letter (rom its correspondent at Leo’s headquarters—bix headquarters as (bey were. This letter reached its destination a litte too late. It prophe sied—unfortunately betore the writer knew how things would turn Out. It reads very comically now. In the success of General Lee's invanion, the cor:espondent as- sorts, no mingiving is felt. ‘The inty of the result “ is Dow patent,” he deciares, w; facetious in hie exultation, even to the moles at Washington,” Alas for the prophecy! The moles ha’ indertuined the con. federacy after all, and the latter even cave in. The fact ‘* is mow patent even” om (he Stock Kxchange, as the the loan announces. Were those extraordinary pictures and predictions the result of mere cnthusiasm aud overheated brains Perbape so. But how comes it tbat even matters of plain prosaic fact, about which there can Be po tile ence of opinion, have undergone in the same columns the same marvellous transmutationy We may all be mistaken in our predictions about battles and sieges, especially if we happen to know nothing about such matters. A news paper it may honestiy persits in declaring that Acity is impregnable whieh is just on the eve of surren- der; another may be under the impression that invader's abandoning bis position after @ battle hastily retreating to bis own ground i# @ prool that invasion has succeeded, But suppose a journal says, “the Northern papers all admit” this or that, and the Northera papers do not admit anything of the kind, but argort just the opposite, what are we to think of a mis Statement of this kind ¥ Did the journal in question know nothing of what the Northern yapers said, but coolly invent something for them in order that they might be cited here a8 witnerses to back up certain taleeloods ? Or, knowing what they said, did the Loudon paper deli- derately fulkify ity Kither one or the other'of these two things hos beon by tho Times within the last two or three days. We are not casuista skilled enough to say which would constitute the grovser outrage against trath But we commend the fact to those wo have Dlindly followed the Times with a stupid faith, The course ef re cent events must open the eyes of ali but the mort utterly intatuated to the worthlessness of the prophecies, the opioions, nay, even the deliberate statements, of the ‘Times, when some party ineve to which it bas pledged ite credit in at stake. No doubt there will be believers still, ready to swallow to-morrow’s prediction or to merrow’s figment as greatly as ever. There are people still who believe in Johanna Seutheot, and Hrigham Young has bis ade ‘and nobody expects that any ponsible disclosure of fact could open the eyes of such sandbiind dupe Therevore, if the Times chooses (0 say to morrir-—and we do not know why it shoulda hesitate to do so—that Vicks- burg has not surrendered at all, and that Lee is in posses: tion of Washington, there be idiots fownd to swear the news is true, But there are signs of returning reason somewhere in the condition of the money market. The Confederate loan gained its strength from the ‘tncts,'’ the teachings and the prophecies of the Times; aud that At last, despite the oracle, bus found its level, © Prospects of the Rebels. According to New York despatches of July 17 the federal authorities have put down the riot, and the Tegular oper tions of the conscription have recommenced. At Charleston a first attack by Colonel Gillmore against Fort Wagnes failed, But the naval forces assembled in Charleston roads form such @ powerful force that notwith- standing this failure no doubt is felt of the speedy fail of Charieston, While fresh successes are preparin tans from Washington of the recemt Of the Mississippl add to obtained. The effective force of Vicksburg who have laid down thoir arms amounts to thousand men. ‘The garrivon of Port Hudson was seven thousand ‘Thus the Southern confederation, in addition to the misfortune of toring the last two fortified places it on the banks of the Mississippi, sees its active army reduced by thirty two thousand men. It must not be forgotten that its losses in matrrirt are net less considerable. At Vort Hudson alone the federals found thirty five field pieces, twenty five large sirge guns and tea jusand misket. We must, however, do more than enumerate these losses of the routh to give our readers the exact measure of the advantages obtained by the North. In war there are, #0 to speak, two-fold catastrophes, apd among such catas- the recent reverses of the South munt be placed. the do- trophes Hore tho war feeling is strong, mixed with eu equal | Noy only hus the South lost thirty-two thousand meu by amount of disgust at the threateued backing out of Eag- | the capitulation of Vickaburg and Port Hudson, but the land, after she well succoods in entangling France with Rnasia, The more moderate war men oppose the idea of France, if abandoned by Engiand, going to war alone, while the more rabid ‘war for an idea’? men counsel ac- tion, even if it should come single handed and alone, Ido army of the North is by that very fact strengthened b; the majority of the regiments which the capture 0! those two places set free. Paralysed hitherto by the necessity of foliowing long and wearisome slego operations, the divisions of Grant and Manks oan now take the field again. ‘This they will undoubtedly do, so that one of the Bouth ern capitais—Mobile, Richmond or Charleston will be not believe myself that there will be war; but it will be | more threatened than ever. mouths before quiet, tranquillity and confidence are re stored, and in the meantime—very much to the dieguat ot Mr. Slidel! aod all the secession tribe here—our allairs | establishment of peace or afresh cartel for will be bugely left alone Iu fact, things look now as though ere long there will be | cosses explain this resolution, We have only to nothing t interfere about, but that by ite own rong arm the goverment will have re-established ite autho. | D¢! rity over all our territories, changed public opinion here very Ynuch in our favor. The riotous proceedings in your city will injure us very much in public estimation throughout Europe, and will be regarded av an evidence of the weakness of our gov- ernment, particularly if, as is stated, the comseriptic was abandoned On account of it. In Paris, where, a¥ you are aware, they have never had any revolutions and riots, they are particularly horrified at the proceedings of the New York mob. Nothing 18 wid about Mexico, and the firwt we nave heard of a plebiscite, when the people are to vote upon the form of government they will have—voting freely beneath the pressure of French bayoncts--comes to um from Havana, The Moniteur some timo since contradicted the report that Mr. Hubert Delisle, a Senator, was going to Mexico, where it had been stated Le was to be sent to organize @ government after the French fashion, It is io rumored that a distinguished Senator is soon to | leave for a similar purpose, and the impression daily | pine ground that the Emperor will not voluntarily aban- | don Mexico, ‘The Emperor i# still at Vichy, but returns here on the 14th, and after the pational fee day will go to the camp at Chalo# ‘The Empress returned from Vichy to St. cloud yosterdar Fmma Livry, the danseare, whose drees caught fire at Graod Opera some seven monthasines, and who has 9 fering from the burns then received ever sinc yesterday m Neuilly. She had scarcely completed her twenty first year. OUR REBELLION IN EUROPE. The Troubles, Hopes, Anxieties and Opinions of the English and Irish Press, &e., &e., &e. | Phe Confederate Loan—The Babble Burst. (From the Londou Star, July 29 ate loan is falling, falling It may almost be a de cot want to have anyth) Ibese who have never } a yu bee Tt is down to ribed ax nowhere i to do with \t on any terms died in it are now blessing the Hind Mr. Je Davia once more pro- aime grand doctrin udiation, there could b ter panic io our ket about the Confeder How #000 this bright bubble has bu late tn the month, too, the ( Phoaphoresooat meteor already it ix down to du tat @ One thing it wa vt a splendid chance! | teat Mar (From the Independance Relge, July 29.) Whether the proporitions taken to Washington by the Vice President of the confederation had for object the re- exchange of prisoners, it is certain that the Washington Cabinet has determibed to continue the war, Ite military «uc low on 1# map of tho United States the respective positions of the igerents to see that the South ix towing ground on ry wide, All the States west of the Mississippi are lovt eve e recent news has | Bragg bas been compelled tgquit Tennessee and fail back on Atlanta, in the middle of Goorg'a: another naval attack is in preparation against Charleston, and in the North Lee is retreating towards Kichmond. | The capture of Vicks burg and Port Hudson, in add'tion to the heavy lores it occasions to the South ia men, arms and ammunition, has restored to the North the free disposition of an experienc od army and two generals—Graut and Bavks—who have given proofs of their capacity. These forces co-operating with those of Komecrans, which bold Tenueasee. will be Able to penetrate inv the cotton States properly so called, which the war bas hitherto spared, and advaneing to wards Meade, while the navy holds ibe coasts, will shut up the South with an tron rele jygre and more confined. i¥rom the Ls Tho war has been brought beme to the « York. the Bupare City may yet enjoy the proud dvi tion of being the warmest pont of the struggle. Mithert haw had the tak, the demonstrations, the reviews, the Hluminations and the contracts. These are but shadows, and the riing iMvelf bax come at last. Indeod, there it & Very (ait representation of all the parties and ail the elements of strife ip the scour now to Le witnersed within cots of New afew minutes’ walk from ‘There are the civie auth. tr ery on the waras lng on. There to feel the eat be it, and hate partly a rivals, partly ae the caunen of ble, snd wot & ittle from natural an re i the Governor of the Sta ¢ aad the people 1 there, with views of their own, vot en the Prosilent, decidedly vreferring al conseription, and, wh wing the mob a few by stows slowly dribbling in from Tenn. s the unfortunate Afri ane the at the last date. had ne w York bat & A peer pathy who bave put by Uirely truated by tates militia to fe tionally or net ‘There ar sy) vania, the: whe for soine in the etreet« h haa nine and by i oF burne hives. He seen A similar m may pani! The populace of New York, h © thin war are going to or work in earnest They are burning down the rookery as well as phooting the rook. must be conceded Uhat there is etill a sort of vague respect tor the law, and on the authoritative armurance of a Judge that t horiptien act was “noonmtitational, aod would be #0, the mob that hal jowt destroyed the factory of arm dally i bum a Thin i) remarkable, when thee killing and slaying # ithout meroy ayor's manu act non on'y wtreying a» all but i @ mon do destroy wt y bave a chance were acta ally pilfering aod stealing ult, Of course, was Det pleasant. There were couflagrations cn om, the fre quewt crash of buildings, the roll of musketry, the boom of cannon, dead bodies lying aboo! * ringing all night, continua) rumors of t r that & ‘ marked for detraction. and « fair chanee o: be rolled by «& ounter commeript rauks of the rhote chance in me but the ¢ eet rile were torn "board ited 1 make the abherred in oor Imagination i pores rises againgt It, It ina pity herman aduire phould be @ top which m ’ nentiy adopter , n: might de Le sermon upon the the onfelerate Atwood #0 deiermivediy by ihe eavery Of ite Muppored RaeCERE, OnYHL Hott the hour of failure, Yet we fear i adberents in London are failir DeRMBINg WO exXCURE themre von lor their athesion, What Laerten says of the King they the Times, The Times in vo blame They reprowet « journal with having padiy misled tu t wan besed Certain vietory, and there ha y « ee wow, we maint do the Timer port We do wot 1" \e conmieteney , prtainiy sinek ney font A the Fouth e aneg oo may 1 the ge rm ww It presentin! to the p the pubiie a were charming picture of a lederecy, A happy bunt, delente hoeta and impregnable fre of (oud and © a0 ade nor invading Wattalous could fe piewit ney nm inte whieh 60 ASIDE Yarmon ages wer , aod whieh could, of it py the (mr Oorpers of Ube world in arm money to the propia of © wonder was thet mob oe seerend Wy be borrower (at they nt tbemeclven lend to their triends and without i torent However, the loaa prowromsed Hemme ive foie like ourselves arged Uae the spend « the contederacy war ve Leah aw y Jomes Kept ap M4 Balloo jowt te (ret a, hwety day wo were Wold (het the yomibly get another nan to fight, or bor «a liar te pay him = There was something boréeruq he subline io the tremendous sudscityof the war eppiied 00 the Timer Of CoUree ite propbacion wore ‘mar siya, None of your doubit yl opaccen tuere your doublemeaniag Vaticlmations, Uke that vok poor Pyrrhus w. Viewsborg aed Port Ye quite out @ Ue Nort cxnald 20 " o were predhied Ww pr where unpreg » Coane apy me peluted ae weritiag away it Bad dwindied = wmachi tke cle quard jot on the « ‘ + surrender dohapton war only waiting tow a | rut Lume to eaghure tbe Northern gm tal aod amy no mht happen io be with bine. Man on hearted = Mood Loe bad coir wo reat bepolene and b% hae Sy Geernven | foe ar the buteimg A wed or wave New Oriente byilie eed the Charenton odor al ot Cottyet Uy 0 want of mee e + fragmabe niet te on itet Writes ow arriin . a a Dirition tebyjoet h 4 poliel to Sgn by wa « by ene 0 t ' ‘ wey ror, Now 1a volunteer Cour that every Uritaansas 6 <ranen te ng Wins to th then, the quenshen ate wed (hat of the Upon oot Bow pending tet hrowgh Hatem, Clie The efeat experincnt » be tee, chenree og th Re amir ied te @ chip, * om + toro A any kind, ih shows wel Ue her t the siren of eetend work tows Of the The pout of teva | aroor | by tuk Game w tien tne deview | ornbie draft stand | the Norther (awe bas come, and jn the greatest city of the Union we res the Union and the State, if pot themselves i eotiie! yet #0 ili-agreed judoors that the question ix fouened ihe streets, with carnage and destruction. We trust thi pleasant sate of dog will be duly reported in Irctand, th order (hat every Irthman may know upon « ing ped on the quay of New York he is Wable to be mo ched off some hil pass, or earthuork, or mwamp, where he wilt passed at once Co the front, and have an oven chance of bei thot dewn or maimed for life. That is the law, if Vrs dent Lincoln, tis Cabinet and the Congress be right if it te bot the law, it will ce@t @ few cities burnt to the ground and afew populations decimated to rectify the mistake, Archbishop Hughes’ Sp: im New York. [Prem the Londen limes, August 1.) It is really worth while to #tudy the b of Arch bishop Hughes to the rioters of New York, if only to learn lrich character Is mociiied by residence in When an archbishop comes forward in thd 1y Of the ver pte! the parsons of aa AbEry mob, we mun lo or even for very high flight of com Ht WO Tay ae that be will ure the gravest arguments that are likely t¢ tell upou hin audie: We mbould naturally expect forcible and 1 vo th ivem of patriotiom of nity 4 careful abet from every lopic calculated to awaken dangerour prejadi- es and force antipathier. A Lishop isa paxcomaker by Protons itoal peer bave HOt always been award draw tha sword in i national Hot fancy them fate tering an English crowd | ee tothe law by valk gar tirades against France or America. ‘Iney would be Fextrained from doing #0 by a Kenve of Lheir own dignity but they would also (eel the hopetonsnens of carry iug thet hearers with them. Euglishings in a state of excitemon? indeed, argue, but they know what argy IY will not choer claptrap, If it be not only Fent but irrevelant, Irish fwe may judge by what their demagoguer, both is piritual, addrews 60 them by paternal warning, prefer thir kind of oratory W the sembianee of reasoning, and are mont oaniiy d from committing critues ib one quarter hy re ing a plenary indulgevee for their future yratificatic their vengeance iu avother. At all events, hatred of England was the key note of Archbiehop Hughes’ specific harangue, the report of which sounds too fauiliar tom Saxon ear for us to doubt that it was pitched i the etrain which an Irish populace loves best, whether at heme or abroad, and delivered with a rich Miesian brogr The riots baving becn occasioned by the threatened couscription in Now York, the Arehbishoy expressing his confidence that ‘if th by a British of any other foreign Power,’ would show their miliary prowess without compulsion. Tho forcible enlistment of citizens having been retistod an illegal and oppressive, the Archbishop reminds them Uhat it ts nothing vo the o jon endured by the sub: jects of Great Britain, “When | cast my eyes back to tha land of my nativity, and when I think of its oppression, when I see the fortile west and south of Iretund lated and cattle browsing on the ruins of the cottages of the noble people that once lived there, | thank Ged that 1 «m among f . and bad an oppor. tunity to come to @ country where at least no such wretched tyranny in actisod The Vre- sident having been accused of usurping anconatiutional powers over the persous of naturalized Amerjoant, the Archbishop consoles the litter by assaring them —not that the same thing is dene by Russia io Poland, but— that 19 England, where it is not done, and never bes been done, there would be no remedy for it but & sanguinary revolution if it were done, It is the privilege of Ameneans “to make @ revolution quietly every four years,” but in England, where, “though they cail themselves conmtit- Honal,”’ the spirit of European despotism rules supreme, no Kuch happy provision for internal order exis, and the people must needs revolt if they happened to bave*any grievance to revolt about Tae wrong complained of beiwmg that v how itt and though our own ay the moat by sof the army, without distinction of race OF creed, ue fight for & cause with which they do not rympathian, the Archbishop soothes the vietins of this Matement that “not a single statute has been en: streets of New York by Irishinen, whom the Arcubialop mildly rebukes, be Snd& comfort in the thought thst ‘ [roland never commitied by fy Boe or ow ber own soil, untH she was oppremed, a single ack Of ore. persecuted ant elty,”’ Innocent negroes having been even burned to death by furiour ruflliaue stromely sus. pected to be of Irish extraction, the Archbishop so.emuly testifies that '' the soil of Ireland was never orimanved or moistened by » #ingle drop of martyrs blevd .”’ « tact which we it bad beet as a rey oneh the Irteh of and “ny 1 clarnes bn 8 preference the Arch! Bull ta bullock Such is the climax of an oration which defies analyris, and rivals in obseurity the responses of We Lelphian oracle or the utterances of & Maor, chief. Not: uly wt there pot a word of religious exhortation, bur there nothing whatever to show whether the speaker coumnlerd the armed o consoription to be in the right or in the wrong. Perhaps, if he was ot the former opinion, it wan ay well to be it but this retorn tally weakens the persuasive force of euch appeal The origiual invitation which Promght together this con course of L000 personn was addressed © to men who are pow called ia many of the papere rioterr:' bat the Arcbb atop throughout refuges lo treat them an much OF ty Hliecusn the causes of the distarbence He de aot even tet them that they are bound to eubmmit if their nemer phould be drawn on the contrary, he rather ‘eaves it to be ruprosed that they would be joatied in defending their own houses againet Lhe officers of the Provort Mar. thal. The utmost that be enjoins upon them ie wot to ty On offensive operations against iaw and order aod more gen bishop dwells indignantly on the crwelty vf Jon placing a noble population by a ret cf his (at advice be eptorces by an apyes! wo thelr feare ratber than W thelr conscience, "Withdraw from crowds + # * © because if you do not the military toree wit be let leone upon you, and you kow what thet mewn ‘Keep oat of the crowd in whieh imental souw are launched nto steruity without a mi aneat's woties,”” Tihs ie the witima ratie adduced by the Archty and we mart do bim the justlor to say that it tea mech bet, 4 arguinent than fome of there which we have cited eo al! remember the endearios terms in which Cartinat Wireman besought the “lambs,” aa be called (hem, who had made a Doonyhrook ‘ot Hyde Vark wet wo tortelt their repntation for gentleness by keocking dow a or mtalviin theit Deighbors, of wimmitar I t by painted allusion Archbinnp Haghes makes tne diecreetiy fot ne epee pby neal bh how artoed reviet poole of New York Ik wm wearcely credible tha pretation of the const: find « praetion! anewer € { Goveroor reytne ition ie newegted by awyers, while the able bodied population iv banded te pether againet the couse ript oa Leer WHE eee to enforce it by the fevoral troupe, 1 thene yrievous acts meh tot only he etn but the aed whieh van rovoke the ms vat » rine hin teen teh on the faba The only peareatie remedy, there pbiehop A Mew York oun py the lrimh Catholen i ladieromsly inedepumte CANNON be exparted to walt palently for the talles bow 1 6 round, when they may wot anes of reiriverion, We are wing thie rageestion te men Injuation, Iminediately affecting 1 Srehbishop abou'd have paused momentary flash of wetbtonseye getically, “Perhaps ye Unik that thon be bla |The | From the Dublin Freeman's J | Hae ¢ een yvietow tte } ow 1 hase bron eerinnsly jenperitud Tt ’ wlan mo rapidly the tt of on ebow ‘het the poversment, if the d been adverse, would have « peed the greats ty in recruiting Loe army. Had the com fort ton (diowed deleat we may iofer the extent of tha t when § pe ded ated bie Aened and deves , tof -% tights viewry." The New York reyresented the twee feat 4 three 0 ih hermes by omy . he pteeent wwe Aly pownde tow sean ad the 4 the es trem (tom tow ebOuld the a won peer caliy ~ te peer me STN ice eroved to . x y the tw oe « 1 ot New York “ow spp t tmeey (or men 8 ' “reer ” ‘ ‘ * o- Meares . . ' sereng. F . y . tm 4 Coe of ae avewed my = etm cen, We mre hour’ rtate 4 tee wer, Wnt worming 7, ae wom et 6 Ot ett me thot had hewn sna ep, ated Gve om RORY Nr met a trem levy of 204 ter ee comer We but eee ih 6 ewe Alter the 4 The Now Yo CONTINUED ON EIGHTH PAGE

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