The New York Herald Newspaper, September 12, 1863, Page 2

2 ——— IMPORTANT FROM THE SO Message of Governor Letcher, of Virginia. The War Declared for Emancipation and Not for Union. THE CONSCRIPTION L SUGGESTIONS FOR ITS IMPROVEMENT. The Foreign Population to be Included. VIRGINIA WILL NOT SUE FOR PEACE. Confederate Currency and Its Par- tial Repudiation. RAILROADS, FINANCES, &C. Letter from Hon. W. 6. Rives on the Situation. THE REBELS NOT DISCOURAGED. The Navigation of the Mi Rendered Impractieable. The Loveliness of Woman Appealed to to Help Failing Fortunes. The South to be Transformed Into Spartans. CHARLESTON DESPAIRED OF, ke, &e., ee. We presont to the readers of the Herat two important rebel documents from late Southern papers, one the ‘tmossage of Governor Letcher, of Virginia, to the Legisla- ture of tnat State, in which he reviews the rebellion from ‘A Southorn stand point. He presonts a bad case in the ‘most glowing terms, but too late to be instrumental in ‘Teguscitating the failing fortunes of the rebel confederacy. So much for drunken John. The ovher document is a Jeiter from the Hon, W. C, nia, a stateeman of erme reputation, bat He re- Rives, of Viry inculeated with radicul secession sentiments. viows the situation in true rebel style, and ins continued defeats is an augury of success, The two docu. ments are interesting. Letter from Hon. W, C. Rives, My Dna Sta—isearn (rom you with great regret that some of our fellow civizens area good deal drsemiraged by recent even! +0 mur military operations, while you yourself, Tam giod to soo, retain your accustamed ercctnrss and Duoyance of spirit, Are we not in some degree the spoiled childr { that marvellous good ‘ortune which, by the gracious providence of God, bas, for the most part, nite us since the commencement of this gigantic conflict And have not our very snccesses, tong continued ag they hove been, unstrung our minds for the discipline of those occasion’! revorses which none can hope to escape amid the in hie vi ides of wa When we recollect, not mere'y the disparity of num? and material we wth and our adversaries, bi at ey wore in possegeion o: the whole army and ti PE SSE TS trestion or the iorsremnis ask contributions of the e: a period of seventy odd years: that all thc of manufacturing in- vst essential so the operations of war, had been ablished and in full activity with them: and that | y had the advantnge of uree with the re n open and unrostri t of the world to supply nc sonrces: while, at the commencement of the war, we had bot a ship or a soldier, were without the munitions of war, or any existing establishment for furnishing than, fo percussion caps, and cut off from all fori sup: plies by the block of our whole coast—the extent and magnitude of we have accomplished ought to be a matter of grevt astonishment to ourselves, as it is of special wonder to the other nations of the earth. With all these od net us, what along and dazzling roll of vietories vished for the pen of the future | historian of tb 4, embracing the at of government of the con elected object agaiust which the | impos torprises of the enemy directed. How «tn Limpotent’ th: ! clusion of all thi pomponsiy ott subjugation of Virginia, ict vaunted exper ap for the captor hi tong, 80 often 80 hmond and the in the first year of the war—the plains of the bloody panorama of battle feids the gured capital. the blaze of suc with wine hited up the valley of the Shenandoah. (rom erry to Port Republic: Cedar Mountal gas again. the closing and overwhelming dizer Frederic rg in the secona year of the wa grand ront, after four days tinnous conflict, celiorsvitle and Marye's Heights. in the presont year, fol lowed by the enemy's third expulsion from the valiey— let these memorable fields, with their solemn and truth {vl voices, tell. | Daring this period, too, the army of Northern Virginin under its illnstrious leader, made two bold and sncer ful incursions into the enemy's territory; levied contri butions upon it; gave battie to his concentrated legions on his own soil, crippling and inflicting heavy upon him, and then returned at leisure to resume its attitude of calm deflance and proud invincibility at home, Such is @ genera! line of the history of the war on the At- lantic ide oftho’confederacy. Outskirts and fragmenta Ty portions of territory have, in some instances, been | temporarily and relvctantly abandoned tothe enemy, as | notgustifying the attempt to defend them, at the risk of | the central aad re important portions; but in po case has the hoart or grand interior of the territory beon yet Manas. nfiture at and the t Chan penetrated In the valley of the Mississippi the course of events has | been more checkered by alternate good and bad fortune | Springfield, Columbus, Sbiloh, and even Murfreesboro wore noble successes (or us. Port Donelson, Corinth, New | Orleans, recall the remembrance of.sad disasters: and to these has bern recently addil the loss of Vick burg and Port Hideo. | have no dispositien to extenuate the gravity | ©” any of these disasters; but, looking at them in their | Very Worst aspect, there is nothing in any or all of them Lo give rise toa feeling of despondency. The enemy is as far ag ever from the object he bad ingview—the free and | womolested navigation of the Mississippi for oo: morcial purposes, Ita banks are sill accessible for hundreds of miles within our territory to our sharpshooters and more able botterves, that can and will prevent (he wae of the river by trading weasels, and effectually int rdici commerce, The ‘inhabitayts of the country are more roused than ever by the outrazes of the enemy, and re Jed efforts will be made to render his local succesees otleas wo him. We have two powerful and noble ar- ries under Johnston and Mrag ou the eastern side of the river, which are strengthened daily both by the Confede rate conscription and by the vexlous co operation of the | adjacent Btate governments, while on the western side of | tho river are the enterprising and indoia\table commands of Price, of Kirby, Smith, of Taylor and of Magruder, to girike wherever the enemy may present himselt, When this situation is cou: with the many una- voidable reverses and endless difficulties which our brave fancesters had to encounter. and #0 gloriowsly surmounted, in thoir struggle for spirit rebuked at the slightest ht of discouragement uuder owr present ciroumstances? rallect the endition of’ Washington in the eecond year of the war of the Revo lution, when, after successive and severe disusters on Long Island, at New York, at White Plains, and the lors co: lort Washington, on the Hudson, with its garrison, be jod to retreat throngh the Jerseys, “pushed, ’ wes com, to use his own expressive language, “from place to pliro, ll we were obliged ty cross the aware with less than three thousand men fit for duty,’ and the reluctant confession was extorted from De firm and manly bret, that’ unless “a new army can be speedily recruited the game is' nearly up" —even in thie ee taore wee 80 ye B) discouragement pressure magnitude danger» onl} Lay new energies of action and stimu. lated to-redoubled exertion lant achievements of Trenton and Princeton redresged the balance of oa - vi In every period the Revolutionary contest a large portion of our territory was overrun and oeaupied by the oncmy. Inthe South, Greene was compelled to retire before Cornwallia. * Washington bad done before the Tlowes in the Nort jeorgia, South Carolina, North Caro- ling, Virginia, eaoh and all of them, east’ of the Bloc Monnla ts, were overrun for a time by the armies of the ere», selitlo all tho chief cities iw the North and ia .the Vogt n. Newport, Now York, Philndeipbia, Rich, uid, 6 rook, Wilmington, Charleston and Savannah ec Wore wil, (ve & luqaor OC aborier period, iu Lis possession , which might exist in their re- | ¢ | will | strengthened and adorned by the pious hands of her chil- | dren she w: | geney in public affairs. it to all practical | dence, whe does not feel bis | Td | Sasquate foree , and in a few days the bril. | NEW YORK HEKALD, SA"URDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1863—TRIPLE SHMET. when most oppressed by the complicated difficulties of his situation, expressed himself, in the sincerity of bis beart in writing to his brother:—“Under a full rT. sion of the justice of our cauge TI cannot entertain a idea ‘that it will Anally sink, though it may remava for a time under a cloud.” Al! history proves that a brave and ancorrupted peonte, determined to be free, never can be subdued by the inso- Tent superiority of Ceres wnd anmbers, however dispropor. tioned. What availed tle countiess Persian hordes of Darius and Xerxes, when confronted, in many @ field wade elagsic and holy ground by their discom/iture, with the proud spirit of freedom and the noble self devotion of the smalt, but undaunted, commonwealths of Grooce? If ever a people nad apparent crmse for despondency it was the people of Rome, when Hannibal, with his Carthace- nian hosts, after three successive’ victories on the ‘Tichno, the Brescia and Thrasymene, in his triumphal march towards the c pital, almost annihilated the Roman army in a fourth st Cannm, leaving more than forty thousand Roman vitizens dead upon the field, inclnding one of the consis in command, many senators, ex-con. pretors, adiies and others of the highest renk ond deration. Bet. amid the cousternation of 89 terrible & calamity the spirivet the republic never bianched, When the surviving consul, whose rashness even had been the cause of the diswster, approached the etty with the wreck of his army, the Senate and all ranks of the People, we ae told by ane of their great historians, went out fo meet him, and thanked bim for not baving des them be regulariy "lsd, formed inte companies, bat- / that tonds directly to tho discredi: of the currency. Bet- wad regia or im such mimuer as | ter fee would it have hoy to take’ ihees lapuee Brea maaes likely ° ta and ener im payment of debts, than to resort t@ a compu'- men. They » uid be drilled at In- | Gory process hike this to force its roeeption by the rod. tervals, 80 a8 to be well instructed in the ©70- | or; amd while this t being cme, oar re 13 urved lations ard the munusl, and prepared cor effl- | to re ect thag:me paper ianues in payment uf slate taxes, cient service whenever ‘the necesaity shall aris. When the government casts worn its currency, The act should also define what w focal dofence, | and the Sinte gonernm nts and the banks arnt va.lroad come as there is mach contrariety of opinion in regard to it. | Pam’es do the sam. thing, the peor'e may wll becom: alarm. Some think loca! dofexce consists in remaining at home, | et. The comequences camwos fail to besmost Hiarstrous. We and andor no circumstances to be taken ont of tho city | cannot change tho action of Congress, bat we can remedy or county in which the company is organized. This, in | the errors of our own laziatation. and thus show thet we my view, isa most mistaken notion of the mening of | are disposed to uphold the credit and currency of the con- the term | Ineal dofeace?” and if it 18 to prevail, will work | federacy. * ier wpsiat | * #reat mischief and render the organization of little val @ in giving protection to onr peonle. My opinion is, that it the city of Rickmond can be dofended more ee tainly ‘ifty miles from it (an immediately around it or im it, that lo- cality is the proper place for its defenca, ani the local militia should bo required to moke the defence there The officer earged with the defence of any particuiar locity is presumed to be better acqu inated with the mode of de- fending it, and the best v int (or defending & .ccesf! ly, and he should direct @li'troops #@ ag best to secure the end dosirea. ‘The object of such oranizati na shor'd be to give ade quate protection to al parts of the Commonweatth, W must not only provite for tho defence of the cannt cities and towns by the local forces in and iminedés'e around them, but wo must, under the !aw which is pro Posed to be passo!, have authority to order gthors fom Contignous counties to their aid omd suport, A force, whos operations are to be confined by caunty, city oF town boundaries, cam prove of but.little value In cheek Daired of the commonwealth. And in the end, it was not Rome but Carthage, that perished in the conflict. 0, too, when we come down to the poriod of modern history. Is it possible to conceive a struggle more un- equal in numbs moment, and every material re- Source. than (hat, in the sixteenth contury, between the Seven insurgent provinces of Uke Netherlands. beginning with two of thom only, and the whole weight and power of the Spanish monarchy in its meridiau of svlendor, «when, in addition to the resources of its Inree’ domimions iy. the Netherlands and the Peninsula, ineluding ‘ortuanl, it yielded the riches of Amortca aad the Indies ited | And yer, hy the indomitable conrage and perse- ance of the inhabitents, animated wilh the snirtt of civil and religions liberty, aud in spite ob cxlamitios and ¢ “Ss which tried to the utt rmost the heroic steal? of which they were made, leay- ing to them often no other resource than. by cutting their dykes, to colt in the aid of that destructive clement it bad cost’ them ages of labor and toil to ehut ont, thoy releemed their native Iand from the remorse. jess Surges of a despotism more ferocions than the sea, Criumphontly established thoi independence, and eansti+ tuted a renowned commonwealth which for two handred years proudly beli its piace iu the first rani of the Powo:s of Nurope, If we wish farther to see what pre D ayer on ite own apable of accom. and its against the vdds of foree and numbers, Mao's at splo Of The same people. under the third Wiliam vida defiance to the of Lonis XIV, of France and: look at Prussia, ederick IL, in the memorable Reyen years’ war ssafully contending agrinst simost ai) the Powers ental By Austria, krance, the-Cerman State and K ether st the sane { ber territory. Took again at sfyl valor accomplished some thirty the veople of revolutionary France ta the rope, both tostlar and Con- ynle acowmplished we are capable We have the sane love of liberty; we pvotion lO our native 1: wo the FAMO have the same martiat ardor, we have tha same, and even involved in raids oF in executing and enforcing obedience to tho 8 his organization should be made 'o embrace the forvin vorulation wh are located amonart us, This foreign yn tation may po said to consist of three clisces. First, those who who have been rozularly naturelizel. and who are therefore citizons embrnesd by our Liws lating to ‘the public defence; second, those who are miciliated amongst us,and have heen living in oar midst and prosecuting various branches 0° businass, v0! who loft tholr native land with no purpose or intention 0° retorping to it; and lastly, those who sre tempersity sojonrning amongst us. The first claws are in goreics under our militia laws, and tho second shoald be required to go into Rervice for nublic defence of. the soil on which thoy resite. The latter class, who are aaourners. on gaged in no reenter business, should bo exempt. 1 re commend, therefore, that in your fegistetion upon this ebiect, the eacond’ clans above referred to, shall be clearly and distinetly embraced. On this subject I desire w present another recom mendation in regard t» the act passed by your predoces sors on the 20th dav of November, 186%, authorizing per= fons of certain religious denominations in the Stite to exempt thomselves trom military service iy the war by the paymont of five hundred dollars each. Subse jently Congreas passed an act of ke charactor, and these por s0"S availed themselves of it and wore disaharved [rom Hability to all military service in the Confederate vrmy T roward this provision aa aubstantially a violation of the stitution, inasmuch as it grants exemptions to certain sof persone which are not granted Co others To thes war, all classes wha resid: amana us shoul! le to perform duty of some sort, if Lady are wititin military age. If they are unwilling to bear arms ous other doties connacted with the army gene which they can perform and which they Should bo required do perform. — They are eitizens—oro perty holders, toa urge extent, intorested, theretore, ta all that concerns other citizens, and shor! be required to perform their part. In some countries this class of ner- sons are required to nid in the construction 0” fortitica- ons, and T8ee wa just reason why they sould not be roquired f> do go here, This branch of dofrnce must be maintnined by somebody, and if thelr rcligioas convie- tions will not aliow them to go it io the ranks for the de. fence and maintenance of the common cause, why cannot they do this? it will not do to say that they are opnosed to war, and can do nothing that will tend to its prosecution, ‘The taw is based upon the vrincipie that they are bound todo jevee and political rights, With all thé rvihing procious to ne sacred to the human From the rathiess gnirit in which this war has been waived be our adversaries: from the speci- mens we have had of their infamous proconsular govern. ments in parts of onr territory occupied by them; from the appeals they are now making to the vindictive and Drulal passions of an uncivilized race aa their allies ia this nnboly crogate agaiust us. it is imoossibie for the imavination to picture a fate more horrible than ours would be, if we wee ones subjected to their power. 1 Know no langange which, in that ease. could adejuately Paint the depth of our degradation and the extremity of our wretehednesa, unless it be those burning lines of an English poet, in which he gave vont to bis fectings of bor. ror and indignation, when deprecating the iran rile of a Vulgar and hypocritical Leranay in bis own land:— Comoe the eleveutb plagne rather than this should be; Come sink us rather in the ge Come rather pestilence and reap wt downs, Como God's sword, rather than onr owa, Tat rather me again, Or axon, Ne tho Dane, Tn ui! the"honds we ever bore, We grivved, wesivhed, we wept: we aover blush d be’ore, Tu th remarks ithas beon assumed that the ovemy 's forces were, if aumber, wineh greater than ours, + nndoubiediy, berete’ore been the fast, But I y posdtaded that, ocvithstanding the immense rents {1 the actual population of the two countries, i forwearet herve an army in the field al att times ow to theeve: and that, surely, ix all we Y ‘The euergion of the Sourh are jast beginning to be thororghly ly se @ vropest in the Legist Alaboma to ertend the timsts of ny ars bs site, and above fo old Spartan eve, ant previ nti the institeien of stating carries etm her ns! fon. mate her careless with renar! (0 the mil iom af the mes of her popu Rut our circumsdances may well juctify a recur. piha ancient rut, 80 far, at least, ay tocallout the vary classes fur looat ie-fence. ‘The spirit of the ycannet he doubt, would nobly respond to 4!!, while the demands of the crisis. appeating to vctive conrage of men, and enforced by the viead~ in nee of woman, will keep our active army fall within thie bmits of the age hereto'ore prescribed Cor it. The 8 hon of our adver-ary presents « very different i * fervor for the war. first kindled t up by delusive pretexts, is abut. ve Mificuitig and generud r oppoved (0 the at drat have conv ried i into more than a latrren moker”. No large necessions to their army, slrei’y much reduced by the expirations of en- list. ént: and the easnaltios of war, oa now be het by five to sixty alone time in something: otherwise they would not be taxed the eum of Give bundred dotlare cach. Thyt money goes into the treasury, and is drawn therefrom to defray the «<penses of the war; and to this extent, at least. they are aiding and supporting it. 1 they can aid to tho extent of five hundred dollars in morey, can they cot ald by labor or other service? ste of war imposes a personal oblignt citizen within the military age, and he should be required to discharge it. Whon the country’ts invaded, our dwelt- ings burned. our landalaid waste, our proporty des or carried away, our citizens imprisoned, it is thir duty to sten forward promotly and aid in repelting the invader. Ministers and mombers of other religious denomination ion uponevery: Oqually a5 conscientious, are in the flold. Irecommend, therefore, that this law be repealed. * * * « * * * * ‘The time has come whon it is absolutely indispensable that wo should omit nothing which promises protection to our people and auccess to our cause. An ungceuputous enemy is pursing us with a spirit of matignity and vin- dictiveness that respects neither the rights of persons ver of property. We must. be activa apd untiring ta our effirts to repel him: and to xccomplish this, we must call forth all onr able-bodied men, and prepare them for the most efficiont service. No army can exact a continued curcont of success. We may, hay we musi expect to meet reverses, and we must be ‘prepared for them. Instead of disco: should only stimulate as to incrensed effort: forth redoubled evergy—should bied us ore clwsely to- gether, and inspire us with a more determined spirit and courage. If ovr forefathers had pormitied reverses to crush thejr svicit or paralyze their eneriics avd efforts, the Amer'can Revolution nover would have proved a suc. s,and the indenendence of our country wonld never boon achieved. They passed through storms and = far greater than my tbat have fallen te us in this cone he mon, old and young, sustained and snpporied the with hearty ood will: and asthe chads m 1€ NFOSPEC! Of SuECARS seemed to grow More dese. and rate nnd hopeless, they became mera and more resolved | and determined. |The nobly women of th t day, whi'e their fwhers, hudands ond sons were ennaged in fink'ing the Lattlis and driving ba’ the invader, plintel and gathered the evops bu which the army was susicine’. We have not Leon reduced to such straits yet, nor is It probable wo shall be. Butthe women of the presentchay have shown a self savrificing spirit, inducing them incessantly to wri, and owing ‘hat they are reaty to emulate stich an eran pie, They bave displayed a generous devotion, which shon!d awake the sluzgards and animate aad choer the gloomy and desponding. ‘Thore are in all com side fevery picture, and who r mn the indicarions of da aster, It would if we bad not some such amongst us; but it is wratifying to kuow thet! the number see iommeaent ave ot the worl, i indiepeneabie to. | I very kmall, even in thee portions of our State whic the effective prosecntion of every war. Great as has been {| have been ovorrun by the enemy. The spirit and crurace the amount of projudice and delusion and bad | Of the large mass of the peoi a never ageed. feeling among the people ot the North to. | Facn new wron, = toapired new rovolui a. wards us, happily “reason hath not fled to bent. | Etech sew outrage but nerved ae ae hean Many of them now seo that the | more determived and desperate strvggle in bobe aa eieee. ig nimost without disruise, a war forthe | cf the cwuse. Virginia went into this contest after the terminvtion or degradation of the white race by the instaitatinn of the blacks in virtual dominion over then and in such a war they have no motive of sympathy or vongage them. Uthers, profiting. at Inst, of the egons of Chatham, Burke. Fox, and that nobie jand, who mantutly rest t sigaciy Dand of patriots and statesmen in kn, posed the war upon the American colonies from the tart, begin to see that the triumph of lawless despotism ver the independence of the South wonld be equally 1 to the remnant of constitutional liberty at home. From the operation of these and other causes. the muti tory ith the moral strength of the North in this contest, on decreasing, while ours will ns certainly inerense. side look, then, T see no omen of dis- bat, on the vy, hew grounds of aa. ance with regard to the ultimate and certain triumph oF the ereat cause in which we are embarked. We may have occasional reverses in the future as we have had, them in tho past. ‘These are often salutary trials of our’ y aud faith, and needfal admonitions to increase vigilones and exertion, Een heroic Charleston, for whos Fate every bosom is mow ing with anxiety, may fall un y the extraordinary means comcen’rated for her destruc: Lion. But if she does it will be ina blare of glory that will ivrariate the vemotest corner of the confederacy and ligh! the way to retributive victories elsewhere, while she herself will be destined (o rise again with increased splendor from v ames, ‘The capture of Athene by the Persians ushered in the glorious days of Salamis and Platea: «nd when reoccupted, be On whate' ’ more than ever the envy and admiration of | the worid. No local or occasional disaster can check the onward progress of a great cause, blessed with the ap- | proving smiles of Reaven and sustained by stont hearts with unceasing vigilance and unfaltering faith. 1 remain, very truly and faithiully, your friend, W. C. RIVES, Francis B. Drawn, Bsq.. member of the House of Dele gates of Virginia, Lynchburg. Governor Letcher’s Measage. FExecetive Derarr nvoxp, Va., Sept, 7, 186 Cerrone oF THe Severe Asp Howse oF Detecates:— in this crisis I have deemed it advisable to convene you in extraordinary session, in order that the freshly.choren representatives of the people oe Lome ge ‘ovina ene 1 be caleulated to moct the existing emer: Panam hen Fo ‘The war has'now Long MY Pe ose for more than two years and a half, an pecn Crosscated against us wih aferocity unparalleled in all past struggles between contending parties. It has been conducted upon the avowed principle of subsugating us, either by force of arm: by visiting upon our peopl the horrors of fam! Hence it is that, foile ond deeated again and again pon the feld of bat tle, they have adopted the policy of desoiating our farms, destroying our crops, burning our dwellings, stealing and carrying away our property, leaving our wives and children to perish by the slow torture of star- vation. Zt is no longer a wor for the preservation of thé ld Union, ag it was originally proclaimer to le; but t has dte- generated into a war for the emonination of our slave, | | and this purpose the administration at Washington | | propose to accomplish, even if the extermination | | of the white race, of all ages, sexes and con. ; | ditions of the Southern confederacy shall be the re. suit, We have no alternative. therefore, but to defend | ourselves with all the power, energy and ability | we can command, We must succeed, if we would be | free and independent people, worthy of the ilustridus ancestry from which we deacended. To succeed, we mast have upion, Harmony, concert, conciliation, courage, ‘energy and determined resolation om the part of rulers and people, We must cnltivate onetowards another the noble virtues of pradence, toleration, charity and for oaravce | With these general remarks | proceed to the considera. | tion of such subjects ag are ef special inter this time, and In my judgment demand legislative attfon. ~ | The entyect first in importance FE the Common. ‘woalth is concerned, is t of providing an the Total devence of the State against tavanion of raids, and for the execution of the laws ja ri + to force shail at any time become necessary. 1 entire military force of the State has been absorbed hy the | conser' ta we are thas left, in a ti at | son Hana, mi m Yor the defence of th | Commomocatth. This great organization for the defence of the want — and mast be supplied ith as litte delay os pract 4 } wits to tbe pln ‘% raising this force | am aware there js | ‘diversity of opinion. The di howeve: | Frssaeiets, nd the subject is cos! and Aiserswed s ‘a patriotic spirit. Force, to consist of atl able bodied persons betioorn the kW eteon, amt. sty, mol in the Cunfatorite wera be organized, corres; with the force now organized in the cities of Ric and Lyochburg, Let | that po Confederate tesu | family or the payment of debts | yyasusdi most scrions and calin consideration—with a firm resolve to dy her whole duty to herself and her confederate sis: tere—to take ol! the coasequences. however horrible they might be. Her peovie never quailed, nor have they mur ured under the repeated wrongs and aggressions they ave suffered, She ws no’ the first to ewer this strugair, nor will che be the first to sue for rene, wnlers that pee shall be accompanied by an un ualyied recognition of ‘he indencndence of tre Southern con; elerac “ Tho General Assembly, at its last sossio of a date ant . presorive jor to April 6, anities somo people whose eyes | Teubmit the report of Captain Edward A. now in chargeof the Quartermaster General's office, which T invite your attention. It presents # eloar and coin elatement of the condition of aftiirs im that oflice from the organization of thy State line force’ to the pres ent ime, and will doubtless be ree? with great intor- ext, eevecialy wien it is recoveu xt that just before the State ling Lroons were disbandod Ht was aie enrrent ly charged that the enire arpropetation had Deen ex- pended. ‘This report shows that the sum of one million to hundred and twenty-five thousand deliara had heen drawn from 9 treasury for thot department, and that sivee the Foree was dishunted, six hundred and sixteen thousand five hundred Soventoen 4 Mars and mnaty two cents bad been re unded, leaving the actual cost of the Stato line forces, so far ax that department is conce: ned, six hued-ed and oight thousaud four hundred and e two dollars and cicht cents. Other property now being collected. and which wil! be turacd over to the Contete. rate governmont, will further reduce the erat, No re port has been received from the Paymaster General's denartment, — * bd * * * * On the 29: day of August last a requi ition was made upon me by the ~ecretary of War for 5.540 slavea to work pen the torrificacions around Richmond, Copies of tha Papore aro berewiin submitted to your consideration: and T particalarty invite your attention tothe draft mato upon the several sonnties, 1” » anportionment pon the counties Reema to bo ontirely arbitrary and beers very unequally In sone eases flvo per cant of the siayes is gatled for, and in other cases less than one per cont. ‘Thus, Ametia, with upwards of 7,000 slaves aasossed with taxes ia 1862, 18 rootired to furnish 50, w Alleghany, with less than 700, is roewired’ to. furs 80, “the county of Albemarle, with 12,081, is called upon for 200, waile Brunswiek, with 9 is called upon for 250, The county of Augusta, with 4.430, 19 called pan for 89, while the county of Rackinyhum, with 2,164, is cated upon for 100 Hanover, with 8.621, is called upoo for 30. whi'e Prince Edward, with 6.998, is called) upon for 150° These examples will sufiice ty show hor wn. equally this burden is amendment will be made to th tociion agninst etch inequat Fitzhugh, ‘The haw reqnires that “the velus of Ruon slaves as may escape from the Confederate their owners, or bo se enemy, or im nithorities aad not return to 204 or be Killed by the public \ 1652. should be received in payment of State taxes. Lam unabie to comprehend either the wisdom or poltey of this | lec isisition alated to impair confide ce ia the | currency of the Contederate government, and indeed in almost the only ¢ 10n id Lhe greater por tion of the State. If these issues are not to be re-eivitiie m ment of State taxes, it is injerabie, at least by those Who are not {uly informed in regard to tions, that it is because those subsequent issues by the gov or other they have not been considered a s circulating medinm. No matter wiat caused (ho exctasion, it is perfectly plain that the effrct has been to devrectate tho currency, and to arouse in the mublic mind the su picion that it will not ultimato!y be ve ‘eemed persons in ordtvary bnsiness transactions stop to ex- amine.the particular date of a note which they are about to receive, Very few can remember the particular dave of the note discredited by the law. The consequence is } where ig | blindwn very few | ‘as soom as they astortain that notes of some dates are not receivable in payment ofstexes, aud they do not know which. they become shy of receiving any, and all are discredited. When they are told that some of the banks will not receive them on deposit, railroad and other transportation comps ceive them for fare or freight, they 0: courve r receive them, and a general depreciation eas » which it will be found next to tmpossibie thereafter to prevent In very many cates this money has been paid to our soldiers, avd by them gent home to pay their taxes. Some such cases have beon brought to wy knowledye. and the persons who were in this situar nding Chat ib was not reeelvable in payment of State taxes, have very nate rally compiained. If the money was cool enough to pay the soldier, who receives but eleven dojlars per month, why is it not good enough to sat) the claim of the State when her agent applies State dues? We have no State bank circulation, we © no State Treasury note circulation, both of these de scriptions of neres having been hoarded fast as they could be collected by moneyed men. The conseqnence, therefore, is. that the holders of the repudi ated Confederate iseues are driven to the necessity of shaving off those they have, in order to procure such will enable them to meet the demands of the While it was not the intention of the Legisiature to pln the taxpayers in this condition, such is inevitably ite effect. They must have such money as will answer tho purpose, and to obtain it they must apply to cach persons: as have it, and must pay them ench price in these reject ‘ed Confederate issues as will commar| (l, ‘The only reason | have ever heard a-signed in justivicn tion of this legislation is, that it was designed to force persons holding thie currescy to fond in Confederate bonds, and thus retire {t from cireniation. ‘This woald all be very well ifevery man who hod these issues im band bad ne nee for them eitber the support of bis onfortunately hap- pens, however, for this theory that ove-tirtns of the com- munity haye no money to invest. All they receive they have present and pressing use for to relieve their daily wants the wants of tho dependent npon them. Funding, with all such, is therefore a0 impossibility, and the circulation thus rejected eaunot be retired in this wa Congress, feeling the difficulty. and desirons to compel passed an Act wih 8 that all netes nes previous to December | ‘2, should be funda bie in eight per cent bonds K pres mtod by the 22d day of il, 1863 i presented by \hatday, but presented SEAS ied Pabtants ihe ince was (iat meses in seven per cent bonds, aud theve isenes are not fuadaple at all after the Ist of August. No*os issued after Decem ber 1, 1862, are fondable in keven per cont bonds vntil Angust 1, 1868, and after that date (no four per cont bonds. Notes issired aftor April 1, 196°, are fundavle in xix per cent bonds if presented in twelve menths from their issue: Dut if not so presented they are funtanle in four per co bonds. This looks to me Very ooo lice a rey ion to some cxtent, of the obligations a» omed by the ment; and ‘tis not, therefore, surprising that «oeh tian should bave crested uneasiness in the public miud and aided in bring about depreciation, an! a want of con fidence in the ultimate payment of these obigations. as Other om the part of has tended strongly to produce the same poh mail, mode ia which taxes are to oredits ia certain cantiogeaciog may te | ' + by want of dite diligence on’ the part ef tee ‘hor: of the Confederate Stat nee be lst 10 tho ownors, shail be federate States to the ewners of Fach » ‘aves, and in ike manuer compensation suall be paid for nny in- Jury tastaves arising from the want o/ due ditience on (ho part of the authorities of the Confederite Stites Many erse Of peculiar hardship. wrising from the loss of stiwes, have becu brought to my xttontion, and much eomptiint b=s been made by the owners in ‘conseqneace of the fact that they have not received the valtis ua pro: viled for in sai act. Th koveral cases the only slave cae pable of fleld labor that the owner passessed has been lost, and, compensation not having bee: made, be has iieen unable to supply hie place. If the value had beon promptly paid the huedshin in such cases would nave heen greatly relieved. invoke your onrly attention to Unis eubiect, Of FO much imporianes lo our common cou etituents, * * * * * * J have received a communication from the President of the Central Raiteoad, enclosing a revort made to him by the erintondent on a subect of great importance to the rond. and rot Iras to the State and the conledsracy, ‘The demands for the transportation of paasengers and freight over this tad tho other railroads of the State have heen very vreat. and the roads have been severoly tixed to meet them. Sa far they have fully mot the demands; but it is apparent oany nercn wio will nass ever them, that extensive repairs are now much needed, and muct be mat or they vn) be broken do" and rendered useless. Po- Fides, great difficulty ts experienced in procuring cross. ties aud the necessary supply of wot for fuel. Labor is Indispeasably necossary to volievn them: and, °o far ng fegislation can ai: them, Tam satisfied it will’ be cheer- fully extentied, * * * * * Teommunicate herewith the reports of tho board of Visitors, the superintendent and the surgeon of the Vir- Kinia Military Institute; and T commend them to your e nsideration, They aro deeply interesting; and, notwith- ding the ombavras-ments of the timo, they show (had the institution is in a very flourimuing coudition, ‘When the institution was reonened, it was seriously ap Prehended that it woutd bo diMleult, if not impossible, to peecure tho requisite enypliies for clothinrand feeding the endets; but {take pleasure in-saying that the judgmont and energy of the euporintendoat nave overcome all dif- ficulties. and the operations of the school have been re- srolacly Kept up. The institute has atrongly commended itself to tho fostering care of the General Assembly and the people Of Virgiia, and I cannot too earae:tly press its elaims upon your auprort and favor, 1 trust jt will ba your plevsure to adont the recommendations mad in the Toports, and thes place it upon a Gem and enduring basis, and enable it gradually to extea? the sphere of its usoful- ues, * & ’ : * ‘the extorticner is still pursuing hig boartles trafic and amansing his gaigs. ‘the war to him is a@ God send, and be would not bave it terminated tor any earthy const deraton Fle shares none of its hardships—be suffers nove of its dangers, Flo bas. perhans, hired a substitute who, f ary consideration, agreed to be shot at inen are found everywhere throushout nd it bs Cine someLuing were done to none mn king business, T have been investigating tris subsect in tue hope that { would be able to make som cad recommen: tion that w ethisevil Inthe first volume of the Rey eradiy ed Code of 1819. page 551, 1 find an act which was passed in 1777, entitied © An act t) prevent foreataling, regralog.enyrorsing aud public vondues:? which. with very s ameaan would. if re-enneted, check in « great m growing evit. vite your attention ty it, that some similar act be passee at this The finances of Lhe State aro in « highly prosperons con dition—much more prosperous, indeed. than co been avticipited, under the circamstinces which sur rn wh ‘The au necwis domants mate apo the trea. sury have been promptly met and satisded. Our revenue '8 inerewing, aod the people, with that novle spirit whi has eve ervved Viegiat ns, cheerfully taxes, and thus maintain the credit and uphold t racter of the Comuouweatth * * JOHN LETC Reconsteuction—Old Party Division ‘Velegrapa. | enough (9 come out openly 3! re is reason to fear that there are ven pir" relly harbor lez wish, m the inno hove of sa ¢ propert:. re is 2 class of le tn the contederacy agatwst whom the peone s: td be warned: whose lovalty to the South it is impossible no! doubt. Croakers generally fall ander this susp ein m, but especially all sce! r to stir the em~ bore of old party foe! sders thus rekind- ling old party strites, which ove iy knows must tend to divice ani wen! to the enemy Now, the time has long passed ‘or discussing that sub- Secession is a fixed fact—we have been fighting two ad L cannot separate betweea opposition w on, which means oppo- od that teas Submision to Abraham: us, aud thy aid and comfort 1 cn t escape this conclusion exespt in instances | ance and malignity are so deep rooted as to au to these inevitable results; sad such inn are, Ithoueh they may not bs 18 of it, enemies to the onfoderacy, aud should be regarded accordingly. it is suid that the Alabama elections were controlied by this dea If so, }can bot fear for Alabama. She has cast goed ‘nto the earth that must spring np in dragon's teeth. | warn the people of Georgia that there is, at the bo: tom of this feeling md policy, the germ of treason to the case of the South—the cause of |berty and inde pendence CO-OPERATIONIST Rebel Mass Meeting in Cambertand, V WONSTHUCTION SCOUTED. Ata meetin nm of the people of the county of Cumberland held at the Court House.on Monday, the ch day of August, the following resolutions were oilered and unanimously alopted:— we heartily approve of the action of our Gove Dg aN extra session of the Legislature for the parposes desic¢nated, Resoived, That whereas we are engaged in @ war for the maintenance of princip ies dear to every freeman, and that wo are tirmly resolved to proaecute this war usder circumstances and through whatever disasters may befall us, until oor independence is established; there- fore, we do request our repres ives im the Senate and House of Delegates to advocate the passage of a bil! for the enrolment, organization and drilling. for home de- fence, of all capable of rendering such service, who are net already subject to military duty. Resolved, That the eaid representatives be requested te all measures baving for their object the vigorous cation ef this war, Resolved. That we loo! with abhorrence on the wet of the reconstruction of the Unvan with the Uni ed States Resolved, That these proceedings be published in any chinond papers The Majesty of Military Law. [From the Richmond Koquirer, Sept. 8.) The riemg generation are in for their share of the re- suits of a state of war, since the city of Richtond, tor old and young, white and black, bas settled down to a perma nent state Of siege. Little chialren, going to see their meammas fo the country, must have their passports even Baby Bunting ts eviled npon to swear that “1, Bunting, will bear true th and yield obedience to the Confederate States of America, and that I will serve thetn honestly and faithfally against their enemies, (Signed) Raby Bunting.’ Frank Leslie's special artist and the New York Lexann’s particular cor respondent don't. have haif the trouble that the babies and the little boys have in getting on the cars and oat of town. Pay permission isn't worth anyth , The Secretary of War is everybody's papa, and the litle le must make up their minds to do as the Secretary of says, or he will send them where the old bugaboo will catch them and the cows can’ ind them The secre er, with al) bie pretty soldiers and passport clerks around bim m Prison from West Virgi {From the Richmond Enquirer, Sept. $4 Captain Rovert © lock, Company 1), Sixteen ih Pennay!- eaniacavairy: Capt. John Byrd. Company G, Sixteenth venngylvania cavalry; Lieut. M. Wilson, Co. M, Sixteeath Peonsylvania cavalry and thirty four non corr missioned ‘orf ore and privates bel wo the Fourteenth Penn e+ vania cavalry, Bighth Virgiuia (bogus) infantry and Ghird Virginia (bogas) infantry, mounted servico, arrived vesterday at the Libby privon, They were captured in Western Virginia. ~ it of Hen’ ity M. Brewn for ti =e i iuraer ot a” #. Bailmeyer. Fr Crrownati, Sept. 11, 1863, The Dayton Journal of the 10th instant Jury. nays that the ais evening acquitted Heory M. Brown of the charge ‘of murdering J. ¥, gine ‘ Balimeyoe, editor of the Dayton £m. , and by | | rule $s not to the liking of ail the Deminics y of War is going to bave his picture im the new prim. | Palm that year he left the service and went on board of INTBRESTING PROM SIFLET'S EXPEDIPION. Our Expedftionary Correspondence. Sincey’s Exrsprmon. Coavexrs River, Auguat 20, 1863. A toisure moment enav}-s me wo give you a tew brief itoms regarding our recent « »srationa. You are probably aware that the outfit and «iipment for this expedition wore organized ou a moot «xtensive scale. The command consists of one cavalry wad ‘ares infantry regiments, with @ battery of light artillery, all Mivmesota volunteers, numbering about threo thousand men. Our suppites have been transported ia three bundred six mulo wagons, with pontoon boats, ambulonces, &c., al! whivl, when drawu cut oma single track roud, reach aoarly four miles, TUE ODJKOT OF TRE EXPEDITION. This large amount of personne! and materiel of war has cost tke government no very inconsiderate amount of y. ane was intended to strike a blow apon the au morous and worlile Dacotah nation, which would ehastise them severely for the barbarities perpetrated by them last antumn upon the unoflending trontier settlers, mad teach them: fesson which would not soon be forgotten. THR MARCH—THE INIAANS MEY WITH With this objcet in view we marched some six hundred miles over a vast extent of arid prairic, with bat litte vegetation nad aimos: entirely destitute of wholesome water, The men and animus necessarily suffered greatly in this march: but everything went on wall uncit.on tho 24th of July, we came upoo a large camp, containing one thousand warriors, about twenty-five miles from tho eastern declivity of a ronge-of hillsealled the Missonrt Cotean. and whic may be found upon our most accurate deiailed maps: Wo had previonsty feft one thousand of onr mea at an intreached’camp, about forty miios south of Devil's Lake, in chargo of ali our surplus baggage, Ke. THE ATTAOK—RETRE AT OF THB INDIANS AND PURSUIT. ‘As soon as the Indians were discovered tn force Geuera! Sibley ordered Colonel MePhai, with Ids own regiment of cavalry and the Seventh Volunteer infantry, to advance and make. te attack: ‘This was done, and after a little skirmishing at long sanges the Indians stam eded and fled. The cavalry pursued, followed closely by the Seventh, and drove the Indians for fifteen rates, killing and wounding quite a number of them. The eavages, after the first onset, did not make much regiztance. but hurried away as rapidly as possible, in grest confusion and ina perfect rout ‘The cavalry tad the,infantry pursued on, and at night over- took the rene of a very large train of wagon, with which the Indians were carrying off their breeage A LARGE wLERT Of naval vessels from the.North Carohina waters arrived here this morning to report to the officer commanding the squadreu, Captain Gansevoort, of the Roanoke, for orders to proceed North for repairs, They Started (rom Hatteras, N..C., yesterday morning, and, im- Pelied by the favorable etute ef the weather, arrived hore at an early hour to-day, Tee following 's a list of the ginboats, and tae names will at once be recognized, as they oll have been doing gallaat service iz the Albemarle Sound, Roanoke river, Neuse river, &c.:— Hfnchback, Liowtenamt Commander MéCann, Acting Piag Oftcer. J. L, Lockwood, Acting Volunteer Licuteaunt Geo. W. Graves, Commodore Perry; Acting Volunteer Liowtonant F. J. Woodward, Shawsheen , Acting Master A. 3f. Phelan. Gores, Acting Master H. A. Fowler. The majority of these vessels wero engaged in the batite at Roanoke Istand, also at the capture of Fort Ma- con, and mumerous other engagements, and okfrmishes without count, It 1s mo more than proper that most of the officers and crews on board'of the above namod ves- sels should havea short leave of absence, inasmuch as they have not left their ships im many months. THE BLOCKADE AT WILMINGTON: is sharply looked after by Rear Admiral Lee, who has been cruising among the blockaders stationed there for the past three weeks. Since my Inst intelligence from that locality several vessels have been addod tothe fleet, and everything bids fair that a sufficient force will soon be congregsted around Wilmington to nip the blockade trade in the bud: Agit is, the orders from the rebol President which confiscate all proport; brought to Confoderate ports to the government wil necessarily diminish tho Anglo-rebel traffic. Still our navy should have no less than twenty fast vessels ready to intercept the daring blookaie runners, NEWS FROM CHARLESTON, though of a not very recent date, still of an interesting character, hag reached me. In the first place b ockude running iato Charleston harbor has eeased altowether, which is no doubt owing to the presence of our red ubta Die iron-clads, which picket the entrances with much diligence and watchfulness. At night the Monit rs keow and supvlies, Just at this’ time Colonel McPhail | watch near Fort Sumter, and (he mortar boats kee a received am order from the Commanding General | desnltory fire between sunset and sunrise. The same to abandon the pursuit and return to fifteen | clars of vessels lie new Fort Wagner. From them our miles in the rear, The men were by this tims much | outposts of the army recoive protection against the fro fatigued and exhausted; yet they were anxious to push forward and destroy the Ind\ing. The order was received with rocret by many, and the dotachment reiuctantly of the rebel sharpehooters. TER TWRNTY-FOURNE MASSACHUSBTTS VOLUNTKER a few days ago made a sortie from our intrenchments turned their b’eks upon the for and rairaced their weary | into the rebel works, and succeeded in capturing steps baci fifteen miles to camp, where on their arrival | geventy-eight prisoacrs, and also in adyanciag they wero so much jaded that they were unfit tor march- | our lines ono hundred yards, 8» that our outer ing on the following day. works are now within ‘orty’ yards of the rebel On the 25th the #tne ground was passed over the-third time; but the Indians bad this gained thirty-six hours time to get their women and children far ia advance towards the Missouri river, GeNERAL sintRY's ORDER, The cbiect of ordering Colonel Mefbail back to camp, instoad of marching the remainder of the com: mand forwfrd to usite with him during the day and night, was a mystery to us; but it is to be supposed that Genefal, Sibley had bis roxsons for what he did. He is well versed in the Indian character. and is a man of unquestionable bravery, It is possible that he: may have supposed the Indiads in too geeat force for Colonel McPhail to manage alone, or per- haps he did net think tie animals were in condition to tao tho train forward at te tine he issuod the order to fall bac It bas been seid by some officers that the order given to Colonel MePhail was couched in such langinge that he would havo been authorized to exercise discretion in regard to turning back. How this is | am unable to eay. Thore is nodoubt, however. in my judgment, that hig rotreat after overtaking the Indians, on the 24th of July, lost to us the cotden oprortanity to crush out the power of those insolent and blondthirsty barbarians, whe havo uoreifore beon fully impressed with the conviction that the united Dacetsh tribe was abie to contend successfully ia war with the white race This expedition will, if it has no other results, have the oftect to open thelr eyes upon this question, and show them that we can bring a large force to bear upon them, and that it will bo eseless for (hem to contend ugainst the power of the United States. ARMIVAL, AT THR OMESOURI, On the 28th of July we advanced to the bank ef tho Miseourt river, meeting with but feeble resistance, and on our arrival discovered tbe main body of the Indians, in- cluding all their women aud children, with thor animais ‘and @ great part of their luggage already on the opposite bak. After waiting for two days near tho mouth of Apple creck, and not hearing from General Sibley’s com- mand, we turned around and marebed back to this place, ARRIVAL OF CENTRAL MARCY General Marcy, logpector General, arrived in camp last evening. and has inspected our command today. The mon presented a good appourance. and, I was iniormed, were complimented by General Marey thereupon, We bave with us the son of the chief Little Crow, who was with his tther when he was killed, [t seems thoy were picking berries, when they were fired upon and the etd man wouaded.” He told his gon that he was about to die, wad to make bis escape. ‘the bey then took his ratoer’s gun oud started to make his way back to is Lake, distant about four humdredaniles. atter velling aloxe for n all his and having become famished and exhausted. he Was attacked by a woll, that bw him severely upon the knee and Jomonstrations upon bim, when he and killed the wolf, Wiib the flesh and when he was captured shortly actor werds he was carrying the remains of ‘he wolf meat. His story is very plausible, and there i@ no doudt in the minds Of those who are moet familar with the Iniaus thar be tells the trath, Little Grow, be was (he prime mover in this war, ls undoubtedly lo. fortifications at Fort Wagner, and the enemy’s guns cansot bo depressed suflictently to do our troop any injury from shot or sbell. Mg informant, who is consid- ered high authority, expressed his opinion that Charleston is bond to fail in a very short time, if not by regular ap- Proaches, at least from the sheils of General Gillmore’s guns, which can easily reach the city. REVEL PICKRT BOATS. generally very fast steamers, patrol the harbor nightly, and in consequence our beats cannot find out the chun- nels Jeading to the city One of their crafts captured th launch of the Wabash and all bor crew, excepting seven men, who jumped overboard. One of tho most during a @ courageous of our naval officers, who harasses the rebel Picket boats moro than anything else, is Ensign Por- ter, distinguished for gallantry at Roanoke Isinnd an@ Tiiiton Head, For twenty-four consecutive nights he has dove picket duty.and on tho night the lauuch of tbe Wabash was captured be picked up the mon who saved thomselvos by jumping into (be water. Whenever he is geen by one of the rebol/picket hoats he makes for the beach, and thus disconcerts the onemy by his shrewdness. THR MRALTH OF THE TROOPS and navy is reported to be in good condition. The aug- gestion of the Heraun in recommending the government and philawthropic citizens to send asup ly of ice, lemons. and oranges to the soldiers and sailors Tmeots the most grateful approval by all. Large suppties of theso laxuries have arrived, aud are distributed with no mean hand, ‘THY GUNDOAT CONRCTCUT. Captain Almy, having the United States gunboat Aries, Lieutenant Commander E. F. Devons, in tow, arrive’ he: esterday afternoon {rom Re ufort, N.C. The former, hav- % received some slight injuries in the collision with the Quaker City, has repatred them. and was detached by the Admiral totow the Artes, which has had her engines dis abled, to this port, both of them to await further orders, Tho Aries ia a noble yesse!, having been captured by Capt. Devens, on the Stettin. 6 mo time She was pur- chised by the government and converted into a gunboat, and was doing good servico on blockade wh nm her engines rave out. t ‘The following is a list of the officers attached to the Aries: — Acting Volunteer Lieutenant—¥. ¥. Devens, command- ‘in: a ‘Acting Assis'ant Suzqeon—A. C. Fowler. Acting Assistant Paymaster—Chas. A. Downes, ‘Acting Maser and Brecutive Opicer—J. W. Balch. Caplain’s Clerk—J. B. Parkman. Paymaster’s Cleri-—Chas. J. Taylor. Surgeon's Steward—Vli Thayer, Jr. Paginaers— Acting First Assistant, John A Hill: Acting Assistants, ¥. A. Hatchinson, red. W. Whittaker; n¢ Third Assistants, Simeon Smith. H. R. Allen, ting Ensigns—Seth Hand, Geo, W. Smith, Acting Master’s Matet—Dauivi McCool, Jarvis G. Farrar, Yrank A. Haskell. Yeoman—Robert Spavin. ARLEASED TEND PRISONERS, numbering seven huadred and ti teen, arrived to-day from javid’s Island, Now York barbor, in the steamship Daniel Webster, Captain J 1. Vhillips, in charge of Cap- tain J. Ordway, of the Fifth Wisconsin Volunweers, and were ordered to proceed at once to City Point, and ‘there report to Major Mulford, flag of truce officer, THE STEAMRI NP. HANKS arrived here from Washington yesterday, having car- ried a number of conscripts from’ Hoston, and touched here on her return voyage to New York. Among her Passengers from this place were Captain Andrew Ains- worth, the efficient master of transportation, and lady, who went to New York, en rows to Boston, for the pur: pose of burying their little etild, who died ‘on Saturday night’ A humber of goveroment employes, who had been drafted in New York and other places) also weut passengers in the Banks to got their exemption papers, THE STRAMER MAPLE LEAP, Captain Dale, one of the many trausports attached to this department, leaves this evening for Baltimore for repeirs. The Maple Leaf has cone excellent service since she has been in government employ. The United States gunboat Neptune, lately an \ngto rebel biockade runner, arrived ia this harbor this a’ternoon. larg made other 84: fred his lst charg! of this animal he appeased his hunger NEWS FROM CUBA. Our Cardenes Correspondence, Canpevas, Sept. 1, 1863. Deficéency in the Sugar Cr p—Rain Very Much Wanted— ‘The Corn Crop Lanquishing—Slave Ships Expected on the Coat—High Price of Lobor—Revengefut Spirit of the Costves—The New Revolution in St. Domings, de. tt is @ Fong time sineo T last wrote to you, and now that I commence anew I will endeavor to give you what little there is of any importance in this pine. ‘The sugar crop promises to yield but little, The weather has been so dry that the growth of the cane has been very small, It hag rained ia spots all over the island, bat in no great abundance; so ghat if it does not rain pi y in this mouth and in October the crop wik" prove a failure, a any rate it will be a short one, and will fall far behind last year’s crop. The corn crop has sullere| greatly from the want of rain, and the other crops ‘@ or lesé the same, With a continuance of the war, a bad crop and provisions very bigh, the prospects of the island are but poor. Several slavers are expected to be in soon, Should they be able to evade the cruisers and land their cargoes, the safety of the negroes is not secured to Lue owners, as the Captain General, it is said, employs many spies and seoms determined to break up the trailic mst. The price of slaves has gone down considerably, but labor is Still very high. Coolie labor is the most abundant, but it is uot sought for. Planters, as a general thing, do not like to employ coolies,and some will not take them for a littie less than nothing. Tunis’ is partly beeange the coolies do not allow themselves to be treate? like the ne groes withont taking summary vengeance on the first opportunity that presents itseli. partly to the bate which the blacks and coolies Nave towards each other, and which is the cause of frequent broils, and also to the natural eVil propensities of the coolies, We nave iately had a change of Governors. Thechange idea of its taking Mr. Edwin F. De Nyse’s Despaten, Nonronk, August 27, 1867 ovr cavatey, ag usual, are scouring the con! for some distance im front of our fortifications, and thus far they have been quite succeas!ul im cleaning out the straggling renegades who hang about the neutral ground Betwoen Deep Creek and Sufioik. Am important dispersion was made of rebel sympathizers by our cavalry only a few days ago. It having been discovered that a rebel officer was en. gaged in recruiting for the Southern army in this vicinity, and the people were secretly organizing and holding most- ings by night, doubtlees for tue purpose of forming gue. rilla bands, a small force of our cavalry was sent out, who broke up the organization, capturing several, punishing many, and destroylug their place of rendezvous. As a consequence, the conntry roundabont is comparatively cloar of all the usual pests in the shape of grayback gue- rillas and prowling plotters ANOTIEH EXPRDITION on nemail, bat therefore, in this duty, a very effective Scale, was started off on a “roving commission” yester. day, to scoar the country in certain directions where the General had reason to believe unlawful proceedings were in progress. was so sudden that no one hed the least place. It is hinted that negroes have Woon the cause of the removal; but no reliance can be placed on the many stories that are atlowt about town ‘The Patapsco came ‘nto Havana the day before yester day, bringing the mail, We get news from Mobile by the hiockade runners quite often. The secesh here are rather downhearted with the Inst blows received by the eon- federacy aud the failure of intervention. A second insurrection has broken ut in the Spanish part of the island of St Domingo. It seems that Spanish 1s, although the Spanish papers try o make it appear so. ‘The poor beings who have risen to assert their independence, which has been bartered for Spanish gold, will have to enccumb to the Spaniards. It will be. impossible for ‘TUR COUNTRY HERRAROCT, Of course, owing to the frequent raids @f both parties, wears an exceedingly mournful and deserted aspect, and Rives little promise to raiders of any important capture Dut on this occasion our Kittle party was quite fortunate When eight miles beyond Suffolk a party of men, con- sisting of rebel soldiers on furlough and citizens of the vicinity, Was captured, and subsequenfiy four wagons or loaded wi in aud wire, with their driver ‘gobbled up”? by our Insatiable troops. RUNNING Tie HLOCKADE It was supposed that the parties interested in this afoir had attributed to themselves the necessary shrew: ness to enable them to “ ran the bicckade” of our lines, | as it is called; but their defence ig, that they were curry ing the wire and tin to Suffolk, in payment (or provisions. them to make a stand agninst the organized masses which | yh is story didnot seem plausible, however. so they were. will be kent against them. Already have troops gone | brought into town and rut under the eye of the Provost from thie island, and it is said that more are going to be | siarehal. ‘The avowed rebels of the party gave thew sent. Dame fohio eg ond K. E. Dougherty, Second Georgia, visiting nome at Axoriun VereRaN Goe.—Nathaniol Ames, of the vi oo wana wi win, died 06 tank pines on Sitar: hi ville, from the Black wat where bis regiment is eny last, at the of 102 years. He was born in Kil- Jntiae Price, citizen. liogly, Conn., April 25, 1761. From the Wisconsin Siar Journal we take the following notice of this venerable man — At seventeen yoars of age he served a month as coard on the Stonington and Groton shores, and helped build Fort Groton Ranks. The following year, 1779, he entered the Continental service. He was with the main army | at Morristown, New Jersey. through winter of | terrible suffering that followed. in mn of 1780, while stationed near Tarrytown, Mr. Ames witnessed the exeention of Andre, At tne clore of the cam | W. 8, Riddick, citizen of Sutfuik Joseph 1 \ttie, Sixteenth Virginia Volunteere, Co. B. Thomas Torksey, Sixteenth Virginia, Co. A. TR. Hovter, citizen, with cartload of tin and fron. Richard H. Norfeet, citizen, with cartioad of tin iron Jesse Skeever, citizen. THE CAPTURED PROPERTY, it reems, had been hidden for some time in the woods, and its owners se\zed on this apparently favorable oppor tupity to remove i to some safe and profitable porwr ‘Their story when captured was of the mast mprobadie are, and, truth to say, they are not likely to escape by \t. This style of thing—that ts to say, the “running of the land blockade" —has long siace ceased to be cithor remunerative or safe to the parties who, through former & privateer, @ sextéen gun boat, built at Jondon, and called the hatayette. He continued on thin wesee! tii! the close of the war, assiating in the capture of several After the war he married and setied near prizes. Albany, N. ¥., and engaged in farming Atthe age of or f Hittle shrewdoess on ther thirty Be became a preacher in the Wesleyno M remissness on ou part boldom through « tid enue Ta 1940, with three of bi rehilae ben "aide have Wey? 08 0 ee ate mer peas county. In wi ree is children he removed rimeut at present; but since the fall of & to this State and settled in the town of Oregon, where he tea a invent ibave no doubt that one fort rm ae continued to reside up to the time of hia death He will show the and turmoil of war gathering tem- one of the'iast survivors of the Revolution, tis pro ily i this viciiity. Until that time ali will be se. bablo that (hore is uot another west of the Alleghanies. | Porat Composed and happy. here, and, aa a consequence, isa wae botning of extra Importance may be looked for. ire in South Boston. MAJOR @ENRRAL GETTY, Sept. 11, 1868, General Foster visited General Nagioe , Bostox, Sept. 11, . with him, proceeded across the river on A fire early this morning destroyed the boiler works, ot sear the Negermmmended Gewerat blacksmith shop and machine shop of the Globe Iron Everythiag was found, 1 believe, ia a y ‘Works in South Boston. ‘The fire will cause serious delay in the construction of the two new Monitors building at hhe works, Tho lo aves are (rom $26,000 to §29.0909° jon olan uty tat