The New York Herald Newspaper, October 29, 1863, Page 4

+ ADDITIONAL FROM TRE SOUTH. The Governments of Alexander and of Abraham. ;. Lincoln’s Visit to the Russian Admiral. THE WAR FEVER. AFFAIRS IN RICH THE CARTEL EXCHANGE CONTROVERSY, ae, a, a, D. LIFE IN THE REBEL CAPITAL. Our Baltimore Correspondence. Battimore, Oct. 27, 1863. Late News Direct from Rickmond—Great Acitvity of Business There, Owing to the Flourishing State Of the Blockade Trade—No Troops At Richmond and Very Few Kast and South of the City—A New Division of Troops Sent to Fredericksburg to Join General Lee's Army—Great Activity in the Manufacture of Napoleon Brass Cannon at Richmond—Recent Movements of General Lee—His Plan is to Cross the Rappahannock sdericksburg and Turn Meade’s Left Flank, éc, I have some news this morning direct from Richmond, Thave had the unusual good fortune of meeting with a person who leit tho rebel capital only a few days ago, | and who is well posted in regard to both the civil and | military affairs of the confederacy, 1 bave derived from bim the following antelligence -— Vhe general appearance of Richmond does not differ mtenally from what it has beea during the last two yours, Business generally is active, There are quite | & large number of stores and dwellings to rent, but not weir so many as there were in July and August. In | fact, business 1s much more lively now than at that time, The stores are well filled with goods of all descriptions, and the retail trade is brisk, although prices are very high. Money, such as it is, is plenty. The busi- nes$ streets and public promenades are always filled with people of both sexes, intent on business or pleasure ; and the places of pubitc amusement, of which there are several open, are well filled every evening. There is one marked feature, however, »bout all public assemblages, whether religious or otherwise, and that is,a much great er degree of plainness of attire, both in men and women, than bas ever be'ore prevailed, Silk dressea and suits of line broadcivth. as well us elegant equipages, are, indeed, | sometimes een; but these are exceptions, They are | only displayed on the persons of the most wealthy mem- ders of society, are almost always reyarded with disfavor by the musses, and are always obtained from abroad by | vessels that run the blockade. The arrivals of the latter are frequent ard regular. Almost all of them land at Wilmington, ond the cargoes of these are brought over the railroad by the way of Weldon and Petersburg. But some, also, land at Savannah jand some at points but little known further down the coast, They brimg cannon and | ammunition for heavy guns, muskets, military accoutre- ments, saddles, holsters, pistols, cloth for uniforms, biankets, co.ve, tea, refined sugar, drugs and medicines, Teather, and in fdct almost every conceivable article of necessity or use, Mrs. Jeff. Davis, the wife ofthe President (as he is called i Kichmoud), dresses very plawmly, and ussually walks whon she goes out. When sho does ride it is in a plain carriage, drawn by two horses and driven by a” negro, who 1s by far the most consequential personage of the two, She bas bad many rich dresses acd gome saperb articles of Jewelry sent to her by the friends of Jeff. Davis in Europe; but these she seldom wears, except upon state ovcosions. She very rarely gves to places of amuse- ment, but is always seen wit ber husband at church. ‘Vhe latter lax been for mere than a year @ devout Epis- und his frisuds say a siecere Christian, b-en very (ew troops at and in the imme- . Recbmend ever since the evacuation of tho peninsula by General McCiellan’s army in the summer of just ye Fr. The last movement of troops at Richmond Was on the 12th instent, when a division of ten thousand men, organized 1to three brigades, was assembled there, comp sod Of regunonts who had previously been sta: ti Ded at various points on the peninsula, at Petersburg, Gokisbororgh, Weldon aud Wilmington, Yhis division wits seut away on th bérn Railroad, as stated in my letter of Uctober 20, and it was currently reported ta Richmend at the time that they were going to Dumfries, They did uot, however, go that far, if any rebel troops were seen at Dumfries soon after that time it was some other part of General Lee's army. ‘this di- vision only went as far as #redericksburg, in order to take the place of the division of rebel troops recently statioued there, and which wore then on the move north. ward from Culpepper, with the rest of Lee's army. This few division is probably still at Fredericksburg. But the rubtraction f the troops composing it from on the pe insula and at points south of Richmond leaves only 1_,0vv troops along the whoie Iino of the railroad between st city and Wiimington, and only 10,000 at all the points on the peninsula below Riebmoud. nera! Lee was at Richmond from the 29th of August to the Gth of September, and General Beauregard was mis» there one diy durlog that time. They were with Jet. Davis and the rebel Secretary of War nearly ali the tine Some months since an absurd story went the rounds of the press, to the ¢ lect that the rebél capital was being moved joriher south; ani, ax @ corroborating circum- étonce, it was staied that ail the machinery in the qun- eho ® und cannou foundries at Richmond was being sent to Georyia. ‘The ‘nlsity of the rumor is evident from the ‘that new sud additiooal machinery for both were brought over fom England last spring, and were put up jn tbo shops ad.oining the Tredegar Iron Works. At thes» shops they bave been turning out new musketa for past, At the same ffiace also they have made, ny the inst summer, the guns for twelve batteries of Napoieva brass eld pier ws tor these fed pu r of ae It is aid that the rebel army i hetier supplied with artillery now than at avy previous tod. Most of the batteries in use, bowever, are light field pieces, euch as those just described, which are smooth bore guns Davis, Leeand Bewuregard are all in fi ag this light ortiliery more than heretofore in oqueat bacties where it can be brought into play; 4 this will ne douot’be done. pay m the front this morning confirms the i ty letter of October 20. It is now evi- 1 kee's last retrograde movement, from to ‘ve Ray pahantock, aod across that stream, but a stratagem in order to biind the eton to his real designs, and to induce t. eral Meade’s urmy to pursue bim, The stata savecooved. Meade’s army , ia spite of our sad espericnce of the impracticability of the overiand Toute, was ordered to “try It again,” and has advanced as far as the north side of the lappabaonock. This, it BoemS, 18 al, Loat veneral Lee desires. My information tn regard to his movements leads me to. believe that he will seek to enuege (.eneral Meade's attention im hie iomedi- ate front with a sma’) portion of bis force, while with bis malo bedy he crosses the Rappahannock Dear and boow Fredericksvarg, wod moves rapidly up the right bank of the Potomec towards Washington, By bis apparent re- treat be bas already drawu the Union army to a point where it is ity tive miles trom Washington. while bis min army, if it is at Fredericksburg, as ie most likely, bas the interior Hine to the ca,ital, To throw the main vody ot his army cross the river at Fredericksburg: to march ravidiy over the thirty five miles of excellent road bet woen that pout and the defences of the capital, with uis right flank protected by the Potomac river, is 4 taak which i$ wot beyond General c's calculation. NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. Mrs, Linco , Viet tot je Russian Ad- m (From the Richmond Fxaminer, Oct. 23. The simuliaccy the harbors of 4 San Francisco, ta * circumstances indicative Of seuret geod underetanding between the governments of Alexander ann Absaiam, hes given rise t a good deal of speculation, if not alarm, throughout the world. What mirchie’ might not be plinued? What colosmal plans of universal demiuation formed by these giants of the East and the West. The world has looked on with apprehen. sion, Louis Napotoon has trembiod upon bis newly raised throne, valmerstow haw vervourly counselled with Rus fell, and Jefierson Davis sought advice from Brag tot awful significance bas just transpired which fur to show Ubat these distinguished pertonagee t been agitated without rea Mrs. Lincon has da feat, extrandinery at any time, bul now of Pising importance. She visited a Russian ebip of war Yew York and proposed a toas@to the Emperor of I ‘That tovet and that act,’ says the Yankee ebront be maunue of the pictur atle Bali of Burope, and in the ley Norty and the stepped of Asis.”’ Sail t oppreciaie the vividness amd gran- (Mt cure, or recogmuse sla truth- Vo can se kings and timnes, of ® of thin fearfnl intelligence, trem: Dt on the recenses of their marble paleosa; bles, that have jong ridden, booted and © down trodden matvos, are juni olr revels % From Windser to Potedam, ram, rid) there is one universar scene uf uinong the variows oppressorea the rthward and easiward the scoue Dt Russkin peasant exuite with joy hd the involuntary emigraut to arta fools bis hoart expand with NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, UUIUBER 29, 1863.—TRIPLE SHEET. Poland occupies a ort of frontier and dubious position, and it is didioult to say in what way the Poles are aflected by the great imtelligence. They ure but mal! aud wpupor Lt fraction of the popu ation of the world, and, like the people of the Southern confederacy , At ts of very Little or nsequence what are their opinions oF Coane epee sox that all this excitement, this It as wonderful to thi sharp contrast of aby fear and Dboundiess Bappi- rapture. ness, Should proceed from so simple 4 Cause. it seems be a'wild fight of imagination that the eptly tri vial occurrence of a health being drunk by the wifeof an 's lawyer should copvulse with fear, or elate with Joy the people of Europe aud Asia, By such strange and Soomingly insignificant causes are the great events of bistory produced. The (all of an apple gave occasion to the discovery of the law of gravity, and the powers of sicam were disclosed by.the observation of a toakettle, Napoleon assigned as @ reason for the inactivity which prevented bim from muking Borodino a decisive victory, that his dinper bad disagreed with him. Things themselves trivial derive importance from juxtape. sition with others, Thus, said a French wit, * acypher well placed is very valuable,”’ Plain Mrs. Lincoln would nover have mide much of @ ncisein the world. Ap- pendant to that extraordinary freak of nature, the Presi- dent of the United States, she cannot only distiuguish herself by the respiendant tints of her silks and pos- session ot her jewels, but can trighten the world ‘trom ita propriety” by simply.drinking a glass of sherey. ‘bere ig @ special appropriateness in linking in the common bonds of joy the dominions of the Czar and the President, the rocks of-New England and the steppes of Asia. The various points of resemblance between the Yankee and the Asiatic have teen often noticd during (his war. is the same boasiful confidence in numbers, the aame cruelty and insolence, the same servility. Between the conduct of these two enlightened potentates— the bare suspicion of whose entente eordiale bas struck such terror into the barbarous kings and aristocracies of Western Europe—there is also a striking similitude. Both are carrying on a great work of ropy, and yet each, no doubt, from wise and humane motives, has made what to superficial observers must appear to be a singular exception to his usual practice. “2a¢ eman- cipales the serfs from their bondage of cenluries, and yu's forth the whole strength yf his empire to enslave the Poles. Lincoln proclaims freedom to the African, and strives at the same time to subjugate free born Americans. In this strik- inj incidence a similarity of character and feeling is defoted, which accouuts for their close friendship, here- tofore, «uspected, and now cleurly displayed to the mingled admiration and awe of the world by Mrs. Lincvin’s today. 1t is well known to those who have altentively studied that branch of polite literature comprised in Fourth of July speeches, Pilgrim Father commemorations and Tam- many Hall discourses, that the decayed system of Europe lorg time veen tottering with decrepitude and jelding to the tresn and vigorous snp of America. The ehadow of the spread eagle's wing bas rested upon thos effete dynasties and crumbling monarchies. ‘The haughty oligarchy of Brituin, the military pride of France, ube sombre aud dilapidated grandeur of Spain, and the organi: tyranny of Austria, have all’ cowered before mighty genius of liberty, and beard with dread ber lofty decrees, poured forth ia Divine aftlatus irom the lips of Hoosier oraters, or Yankee locturers, uttered in the homely phrase of Lin- colo, or delivered with the elegant twang of Everett. The artful Statesmen of antiquated despotism are well aware of their dangerous position. They kuow that they tremble upon the verge of a precipice, ‘They know that a breauh, @ nod, fro the great Yankeo vation will light the smouldering fires of revolution, and level in the dust every trace of their rotten fabrics. ‘They know well, for they'can learn it from spread eagle patriots, and read it in the New York newspapers, that at a signal from the great republic the sunburst of Erin will be again flung to the breeze; Napoleon hurled {rom bis throne by an avalanche of popular indiguation; Cuba, the brightest jewel of the Spanish crown, torn from it for- ever: and Hungary once more recalled to inde- Pendent, national life, ‘There is then, no room for won- der that the prospect of such formidable powers of de- struction being joined in close alliance with the military force of Hussia should excite such emotions of | fear and of joy in different climes of Europe and of Asia. The crowned heads of effete Europe quake on hearing that Mrs. Lincoln has drunk the health of the Czar, not that they desire that potentate to be afllicted with any bodily sofirmities, but they revard it as a portent, asigo in the sky, ‘‘with fear of change pocplexies Rp In her prevent conspicuous ‘position ihe attitude female has @n interest for the world like that which Louis the Four. teenth’s dinners upon the terrace of St. Germains inspired in the Parisian badoudts and a political significance equal to the cracular New Year speeches of Napoleon the Third. + Irrevocabl paratio: Paramoant tical Good.’ {From the Richmond Examiner, Oct. 24. In the two great democratic States of Pennsylvania and Ohio the candidates on tne side of war and the adminis- tration bave been elected by large majoritics. Valiaudig- ham 1s ‘crashed out and his policy of ‘pexce democracy” along with bim. It goes as we expected. Repeatedly, in the Enyutrer, we bave demonstrated that among our Yankeo enemies there was no difference to us; that the demdcrats were equally our enemies with the republicans, that the ‘* perbead’’ movoment, with all its Knights of the Golden Circle, was merely a con- trivance for bringing back the democratic party into power, and that immediately on that happy event the Peace democrats would all be war democrata. The Dusiness of that country is war five and move. The credit Dusiness, and the handling of tbe natiooal money, yet they all know that they cannot do without the war at all, ‘Therefore it was by skilfully representing that the vigo- rous prosecution of the war would be impaired by any Condemnation of the President's present policy that the populations of those two democratic States bave been in docod even to forego their ‘ty interests and predilec- tions, even to renounce the of office and spoils, and to swallow black republicanism whole—subjugation, abo- lition and ali—rather than weaken the bands of the war administration. ‘Thin reguit, bo it matter of regret or otherwise, was in- evitable at the Berenh eet ot ine aie. ‘The war fever, like any other malady, LT idewme Fe its range of symptoms and reach its crisis in tho regular way. It was pried ptr tow pega ore rot and full of bl the fever would suddenly 4 ‘The Yankee nation is still in the wild, unrestrained enjoy- ‘ment of an artificial prosperity. New York city, as we learo from its press, was never so luxurious and extra’ gant, never so abandoned to pleasure and license. certain fino day last week, says the Heratp, over six thousand carriages were counted & the Central Park on the same day; all the the city were full to overflow! and the streets were almost impassable of conveyances and pedestrians; railroad and canal stock bave advanced far beyond all former experience; the mighty hests of contractors, naval and military, have hat {heir hands full, and) manufacturers are, paytog fabulous ‘wages. The whole land veins injected, swelling and throbbing with unnatural life; and in full carer of its warlike passion, merry 08 @ marriage bell. W; it im human nature that this delirious fever pationt shou! subside all at once, be'ore the ninth day, into @ cool, refreshtog sloep, and awake whole and sound. Neither is the contivuance of the paroxyam a thing to bo regretted, because the longer and moré vehement the excitemout ihe more utter and prostrating will be the collapse. All that high wrought life is faise, morbid and hectic; it is not health, but mortal disease, and the pa- tiont must either die of it, or etse, after a hard struggle and absolute exhaustion, slowly recover, a saddor and a ‘wiser man. The whole of that imposing structure, standing ao fair and sumptuous in the enemy's country, is a house built on sand. or rather on paper. ‘Ibe y can prop and abore it up—buil additional stories on it all the while—the greater will be the tall thereof. When it shall have falien down a hideous wrock, whea national bank- ruptcy eball have come, and further disruption of States, and civil war and anarchy (tbe consequences of bank- ruptey) then, and not till then, we will see an end of the we ar. ‘And it ta betler 80. To make sure that our separation, as two distinct political communitics, be comple'e and eternal, Al 8, perhaps, needful that the war be foughtout to the very end—that 1s to say, to the entire destruction of the Yankee nation. The longer they carry on the war, and the more atrocious they make it, the more impossible it will be that there should ever be of union between us and that detested people. A year ago there were many in Virginia, to say nothing of other States—we mean & sort of partial reconstructionists, looking to reunion with some select States of the Yankee nation, and, Of course, on “honorable terms.’ Where are they now? The continued and still increasing bru- tality of our enemy in all the regions occupied by their troops, but more especially the distinct pohey of entire subjugation, with tbe reduction of these States to ries, universal confiscation, disfranchisement, disarma- Ment, and @ settlement of our lands by Yankee proprie- tors—this piain policy , announced by Lincein and adopted by generals, ministers, platforms of republicans, and now deliberately sanctioned by the Obio and Pen! tions, has opened the eyes and nerved the hearts of Black General be aa ene ‘nor wealth, in the mad with Planets tas very eg of th aba of per tion, and then ta the Devil topether. it is Wholesome for our people to look on and see that extraordinary nation, thus possessed by an evil spirit, ‘and running violently down a yeep place to the sea, like the swine in the country of Gardarenes. There is small temptation to link ourrelves to their fate and for. tunes; next year there will be still less, aed if there be yot living among us any soft headed or Ssubmisstonist, he will then be eured Whereas, wo should have dreaded the evil effects of Vallandigham and his copperbends, and bis moral sunaie, | united, ua tt would be, with av | war—ia one band the fo bribes, party. alliances, coustivational “bonorable terms.’ ‘Those intuences of Unionists would appear agar; the natural alhes ‘of. Northerneeopperheads a ‘o diockbeads, and Original ant! Kxodists would the ‘Only by force of arma could the Yawkees be breught ‘to reason, or their plans for our subjugation be dereated Houscroom tn Richmond The Richinond correspondent of the Atianta Appeal, un dor date of October 1, writes — | fugiives trom their homes w ‘The question of houseroom $s beginning to axsume a more serious and alartoing Aspect tu (Le capital than the questeon of food — AB the seasen approaches when wit the sunrmer absoureee will Rave retorned to the city. and io adUition te these, and te Feary large NoeeRKIONS OF ch have been ta ce t tion during three or four mouths past, we stall poput have both houses of Congress and tho State Legistature in session at the same Limo, the problem of providing them with quarters becomes’ more and more perpiexivg. Reats have gowe up to an almost inoredibie figure. . mM @by convenient part “of the town wit now readily rept for more than they would have brought at public auction three years ago. A singie room, unfurnished, commands one hupdred dollars « movth, | kaow of one instance ia which @ two story dwelling has been rented at the evor- state of things is inevitable to 8 small town, which all at once finds itself the seat of government of’ a great na- tion, and at the same time the place of refuge of thou- sands who bave becn compelled to abandon their own resides by the public enemy. | Ordinarily. tho evil of at over crowded cily would remedy itself by the erection of new houses. But this is now impossible. Not a row of tenements has been built in Kichmond since 1860, and, in many cases, dwellings whiot had been roofed in. have deen necessarily left in an untinished condition, to for want of materials to carry them completion, Nobody can Guild, and nobody can fini what they have already commenced. What will be the upshot of this unleoked “for pressure remains to be seen. Some departments of tne roment busi- ness will probably have te be elsewhere, Tho poorer citizens will have to abandon Richmond as a place in which they cannot possibly afford to keep a roof over their heads, and this without reference to the urgent e- ceasities of food and fuel which must bear heavily upon the scanty purse when the cold season has been fairly in augurated. The Maximum Price Question. {From the Richmond Examiner, Oct. 23.} The vote cast in this city yesterday against a maximum Price was even larger than that cast at the Iate guberr’ torial election. At an early bour it was. learly ascor tained that ‘‘Maximum’' had received its d: at. blow, a3 nearly every vote cast was ‘against ingiru:tion’” or um.” Total voto was 1,150; majority against instruction, 515. Characters frem On: r—A, Semtine! Murdered. (From the Richmond Enquirer, Oot. 24.} On Thursciay morniug, between the hours of two and three o'clock . four men succeeded in effecting their escape from Castle Thunder. A previous attempt of. phe samo parties having been discovered and frustrated by the Vigiiance of the officers, they were confined in the con- dened cell, before which a guard is kept comtinually walking to and fro, and which, from its position, in the very centre af the building, wag deemed the most’ secure Place in the prison. hg 3 y some means the ne- cessary tools, they cut throug the floor into the com missery’s room beneath, ending into which they secured the arms placed there for sate keeping, then in a body, rushing out into the room used for the reception of visitors, they overthrew the sentinel on guard inside the door, who, being gpa diod by the fall, could not further arrest their flight. ey next encoun- tered the sentinel in tront of the prison on Carey street. He happening to bo immediately in their path, one of tho number rushed upon him, and placing the muzzle of his gan cloge to the head of the guard—who in vain attompt- ed to stop their egress—discharged the piece, The whole load entered the lower portion of the head, inflicting a frightful wound, and, ot course, causing instant death. Three or four shots were fired in rapid succession the Escape of Desperate tle Thu ets —-o nares nenssnentNETT see eae od | confinement and held as hostaves for the members gerously wounded in the unfortunate assault on Fort { Wainwright, who was killed on the Harriot Lane, m Gal- of Colonel Strel, bt's command” Will you pieise explain to me what you meant by this notice of Lhe 3uth of July, if “tho United Statgs authorities nad nothing vo do with | the treatment that Geueral Morgan and bis Commund ro- ceived.” + More, will you enitytea me as to the point, why the United States authoritics Bave allowed their prirovers and “hostages” to receive such “unau- thorized treatment’? for two months’ 1 hope the reason fs vot of Buch @ nature that it can ouly be communicnted in a whisper. Let me bave it on paper. Reapectlully, your obedient servant, RO. Lea Agent ot Exchange. ‘No. Ricumony, October 13, 1863. Brigadier General 8. A. Merzonn, Agent of Exchange:— Sim— Accompanying this communication you will fad the copy of a letier from Lieutenant Colonel Alston, of General Diorgav’s command. Lieutenant Colonel Alsion is the officer who wus delivered at City Point by the Inst flag of truce boat. On the 30th of Septem- ber last you informed me that ‘‘Uuited States authorities “bad nothing whatever to do with the troatment that General Morgan and bia command re- ceived when imprisoned at Columbus.’ In my toterview with you, about one week ago, you informed me that General Morgan and his officers were held for others than “the members of Colonel Streight’s command.” You showed me @ from General Hitchcock, in which that fact was @nnounced. It seems that your authori- ties, having been assured, either from my representa- tions or from those of your own peop’e in confivement at d some other excuse for the General Morgan and bis officors penitentiary. I ask if this does not show a determi- 10n to keep these officers in @ conflnoment intended to be ignomiuious? When one excuse fails another is set up. Your Secretary of War bas himself borne testimovy of the honor” of Lientenant Colonel Alston. I therefore call your attention to his communication, and ask yeu, how can General Morgan'y original {ncarceration in the Ohio penitentiary, bis continued coufinement therein, the indignities rece.ved by him aod his brother officers, and your announcement at our last interview be explained, if*+the United States authorities had nothing to do with the treatment Gent and his com. mand ived when im} at uae? Will you also ioforya me whether the ‘United States autho. tities’ intend to troat these officers as felons in the future? And if not, whether those authorities will allow others 80 to treat them? Respectfully, your obedient servant, Ro. 6 ca ‘Agent of Exchange. fe. 7. icHMOND, Va., Oct. 10, 1863. How. Jams A. Sxppo, Secretary of ‘War!— 1p compliance with your request I beg leave to submit the following statement: — ‘On the Sth day of July last Brigadier General John H. Morgan. in command of a force of Confederato cavalry, attacked the federal garrison at Lebanon, Kentucky, which consisted of the Twentieth regiment Kentucky vo- lupteer infantry, about five hundred men, and a section of artillery. about forty men, all under tho command of Lieutepaut Colonel! Charles L. Hanson. After a severe ea- gagement of about seven hours Colonel Hanson surrender ed the entire force that had not been killed, He requeat- ed General Morgan to parole bim and his command, to which General Morgan objected, ‘that his ‘Colonet Hanson's) government had published a everal Order that no more such parcles would be respected.” Oclone! Hanson replied “that be was aware of this ‘order, but this was fleeing murderers, but with what succers is not known. A crowd of soldiers on ey, at tbe prison were soon col- lected around the scene of this lamentable disaster. But jngular incident occurred. The large dog (belong. ipg to Captain Alexaraer, the commandant of the prison) hom, doubtiéss , all have seen who have ever visited the took a position alongside the dead body and would Permit no one to approuch until the proper officers came Up and relieved him of his charge; even then ho followed the corpse into the building, seemingly determined to keep watchful guard over the remaing until the last, This ‘exhibition of affection for the deceased soldier was truly touching and, indeed, remarkable. The name of the decoascd was Sutton Byrd, a private in Company C, Fifty third North Curolina troops. The names of the parties who committed this cold blooded murder are E. D. Boone, Edward Carney, Thomas Cole and John A, Chapman, ‘st isa ‘having made sevoral escapes from different was closely confned afew days ago far ry escape. The others were of a like character, being con- fined upon serious charges. Several recent attempts to break Out by the last named parties had been discovered and (rustrated by the officers. Objects of Interest in Richmond. ' the Richmond Examiner, Oct. 22°] Among the objects of interest one sees in the streets of this city at it are some fifty or sixty spleudidly dressed mu! late ushers and attaches of bling houses, who have accumulated small fortunes by Welt services, and are now adrift by force of the law against banks and These hifalutin swoils pay but little regard to the regula tions of outdoor otiquette, andeven outdo white acoun- drels in impudence and the occupation of the sidewalks, ‘wherever pos may happen to be loafing. There ari thousands faithful slaves at work on various public works, and it would be but just, ag well as expo- dient and proper, to give these Cellows 4 tittle waolesome exercise of the same sort. ‘ Richmond Market Ordinance. (From the Richmond Examiner, Oct. 23. The ordinanee of the City Council expelling the buck- sters from the markets went into effect yesterday. The bucksters, like the gamblers, obeyed (he law and clored up; and the farmers and country producers, coming in with their wagons and carts. supplied the vacuum most acceptably. bages that heretofore sold at one dollar per bead retailed readily at fitty cents. Am Alledged “Yankee Spy.” age ener gne nc Examiner, Oot. 22.) A Yankee lieutenant, named J. F, Moliern, was received at Castle Thunder Fenn yen from Mobile, tm which do- partment he had operating extensively on the etreogth of bis assurance. He wasid to bee daring and dangerous tellow. ‘The Oartet Exe! or M Controversy—Raid- a His Ba: OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THK COMMIS- SIONBRS OF RXCHANGR. (From the Richmond Sentiuel, Oct. 24. No. 1. Orca omnssonrzn vor Excuanas, Fortnass Mosrox, July 30, 1963. Bon. Roserr Ovip, Commissioner for Exc! g2, &c., Rich. mond, V Sm—This will inform you, and, through you, the au- thorities under whom you act, that Gen. John H. Morgan ‘and bis officers will be placed in close covfloement and held as host for the member's of Colonel Streight’s command, who have not been delivered, in compliance with the conditions of the cartel agreed to by Major Gen. Dix and Major General Hill. Respectfully, your obedieat servant, S. A. Medepind, Brigadier Genera! United states Volunteers, and Commis- sioner for Exchange. War Deranrunsr, Rictwonp, Va., August 1, 1863, Brigadier General S. A. Manmprrm, Ageat of ‘Exchange:— Sik—1 am tn receipt of your communication of the 30th ult., informing men that *Geverai Jobn H. Morgan and is officers will be placed in close confinement and held as bostages for the members of Colonel Streight's command.” I beg leave respectfully to ask what mean by ‘‘close confinement ?” In what respect will that close “confivement’’ differ from the coufloement of other Prisoners, officers and ment Colonel Btreight’s command is treated exactly as are the other officers held in captivity by us. What that treatment is you can find from any conscientious officer who bas been confined in the Libby. You will hear no complaint from me or from the Contederate authori. tiga #0 long as our officers receive the treatment which do 5 ‘ou further say that ‘Colonel Streight’s command have not been delivered in compliahce with tue conditions of the cartel agreed to by Major General Dix and major General Hill. in retaining Colonel Streight and 1s command the Con- federate authorities have pot gone as far as those of the United States have claimed for themseives the right to @0 ever since the establishment of that cartel. You ha claimed and exereimed the right to retain officers aud men indefinitely, not only upon charges actually preferred, Dut upen mere suspicion. You bave now in custody fully, your obedient servant, ROBERT out; Agent of Exchange, 0. (Ni Ricumoxp, 28, 1863, Br Generai 8. A. Mi , Agent of _ Scns tame ago. T addressed a oomemesiottion r it in @ felon’s If you do, you are pursuing exactly the course to effect 1 sk, why Dave you put General officers in a penitentiary? “I have bat faint hopes of i EY reply, but under the circum. stances I have the question. Respectrully, your obedient servaat, ho, out, Agent of Exchange, 0. Haangoarters, Darartaeyt or Von, Savarra Aner Cons, Foatams Mowros, Sept. 30, 1368 tat City explain to you that tue United nothing whatever to do with the treatment that General Morgan aod bis command recetved when imprisoned at Colimbus. sven treatment was Very respectfully your ubagient wholly vaautborized ‘vant, SA MERE Brigadier Genoral and Coméntssiover for baebonge. RiciMOND, Octobe Brigadier Génoral 8. A. Merxpinn, Agent of phat ol SR, —As you did pot have the Oppertunity to explain to me at City Point how © the United States authorities bad poibing to do With {he treatment that Goneral Morgan and bis command received ben imrss “tat Colom Dus," will you be ®e Kind as to doit now? | thought Morgan and bis command were | Lured BY the | unted States forces, a cuatedy Yeu and Lhave tsiked twien ba no Link was thy the United stares | 200m ef July last, yoo yw Jobn H. Morgaa and bia officers w) otter that + Gen. be placed in cldse other tempies of fortune and depravity. | a case which he believed on proper representation to higher authority would bo permitied as un exception to this order, and, at any rate, if General Morgan would gravt the parole to himself and the officers ond men of hia regiment, be would pledge his persowal honor that he not only would cbserve it, but would see that overy other ‘one to whom the priviledge was extended should observe {t._f after makieg a proper statement of all the jacts to higher authority, he should be ordered back into service, he would pledge bimself to report to General Morgan at some point within the Confederate lines. ‘This interview took place in the presence of several officers, among whom were Captain Davis, Assistant Adjutant General of Duke's brigude who was an official witness of all that was said, and who immediately reported it tome, and brou,ht the order from Goueral Morgan for me to parole Colonel Hanson ‘men and officers. Acting under theso instructions 1 pa- roled them on the evoning of ihe Sth of July, and on the 8th of July Captain William Campbeil, of our command, and @ small detachment of his mon, were captured by a portion of this very regiment, and were trested, on their arrival at Nichoiasville, with the greatest indignity by Captain Frank E. Walcott, of company F, of the same re- giment. He not only abused the men as a parcel of horse ‘thieves and scoundreis, but took their boota and hats from, them aud threw them away in their presency. ‘Lieutenant Colonel Hanson @ 80 came up 4 short time af- terwards, and took from one of the parties some” ¢rack. ers and cheeso, he had been aliowed by the ser geant to purchase f ein afow days afterwards Lieutenant Colene! Hanson ‘was ordered to Louisville todo provost duty relieving Lieutenant Colonel Stor: it, 0” the fwenty. fi Micbigan volunteer infantry. wh» was ordered to the field, He and his regiment are s'illon duty there. Un the 26th July Brigadier General Morgan and most Of bis officers were captured. They were curried to Cir- civnati, and 1t.m thence he snd twenty eight ei: his of cors were selected and carried to Columbus, Chio, where they were stuaved und thelr hair cut very c'ose by 8 negro convict. They were then marched to the bath room aod acrubbed, and from there ta, their cells, where they were locked up. The tederal papors Foon ide great de- light, @ minute account of the whole ; Seven aterwards forty two more’ of General Morgan's 4 = were conveyed from Johnson's Ieland to the pent tentiary, and subjected to the same indignities, I bave eon D. Harrard Smith, one o: the who ‘Was conveyed there among the second lot, and he told me that Mr. Merrion, the warden, apologized for suoh tre ment; but be had distinctly informed General Burpsic that he would receive them on no other terms, and he bad sent them. * * * . . * . . Very respectfully submitted by your vbedient servant, sas ALSTON, Lioutetait Oolonel P. A. 0.8. THE NAVY. REINFORCEMENTS FOR ADMIRAL DABLOREN. Orders have been received bere {rom Navy Depart- ment to despatch a large fofce of United sailors to the South atlantic blockading squadron now at Chartes- ton. The men are in course of preparation for their de- partare on board the receiving ship North Carolina, and will probably leave this port to-morrow. A vessel (the Augusta Dinsmore) has been designated by admiral Pauid- tng to convey the troops, ani they will probaply reach Charleston before two weeks. They are intended for the iftereot iron.ciads and wooden ships now engaged in the attack on Charleston, many of them being intepded to re- Place others whose terms have oxpired in the squadron, Two er three officers will accompany them, and other officers also destined for different ships off Charlestown will accompany them. DONALD M'KAY TO BUILD AN IRON-CLAD. Donald McKay, the famous shipbuilder, has recetved a contract from the Navy Department to build an iron clad vessel of war,and we understand he has commenced Operations already. She ts to be called tho Nahant. She will be two hundred and twenty-five feet long, forty feet ‘wide and nine fect depth of bold. The armament of two hoavy guns will bo stationed in the turret. The bull of the vessel is divided so that in (act there are two distinct hulls, but fastened together #0 as to leave an opening of two feet between each hull. This space is used as a water tank, which, in action, will be filled with water, and aad doubly to secare the vessel against torpedoes and infernal machines. The armor will be in plates four iaches in thickness placed against © backing four feet thick. The ‘wooden deck is to be fifteen inches thick, over which is put an armor two inches in thickness. Sho will be taste- fally Gtted up inside for the officers and men. The vessel {ato bo furnished with two engines which work two pro- peliers. Her speed is calculated at about nine knots. Cocrmr.—The sailing ship Courier sailed on Monday from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The following is a list of ber officers :— Acting Master Commanding—F. Elima. icting . Acting Assistant Paymaiter—8. R. Brown. ‘Acting Bngwneers—i. B. Pratt, H. Reaning, E. 0. Bu- victing Master's Mater—L. Grolize,,C. H. Seymour. Surgeon's Steward—J. Nicholson. Paymaser’s Clerk—-E. R. Brown, Cannanion. —The gunboat Carnation sailed Tuesday for Port Royal. The following is a list of her offcors:~ ‘Master's Mate Commanding—A. Burnham ‘Master's Mate—Lavi Ordurne. Assistants; W. H. Braw, J. 8. Jen- wings; Third Assistants, C. W. Plaside, J. H. Fleteher. ‘Max yor ram Nisaana.—Ata public meeting beld last ‘Saturday at Gloucester, Mass., it was voted thas it was expedient to offer a bounty of no: less than one hundred and fifty dollars to every citizen who would enlist on the frigate Niagara, which is now lying in Gloucester arbor. Sansacce, 9.—The new double-ender Sassacus will leave Boston Navy Yard ina few days for this port, It is said that in the trial of her engines a few days since she » gnade thirteen and a half knots easily. ‘THR MARINE CORPS. Recent intelligence frem the marine guard at the Pen eacola Navy Yard states that it has euffered very much from the yellow fever, which prevaiie there, All the edlcers, except Major Shuttleworth, the commander of the post, have been ill, and seven privates and one music boy Rave died. Lieutenants G. P. Houston and Saltmarsh ave partially recovered. The latter has been condemned by a medical survey and ordered North. Lieut. Filet, of Wisconsin, had been givea up by the surgeons, and was dying of black vomit when the last steamer sailed. Be was a young man of powerful constitution, and served from the commencement of the war in Rosecrans’ and MoCtollan’s armies. In March Inst he was regularly com. missioned @ heutenant in the marine corps, and served headquarters until the latter part of June. ‘The old guards of the frigates Potomac and Colorado and of the burned sloop-of-war Preble, now serving there, are to be retiewod by fresh troops and officers from North- ern stations. They will be sent down in sywadls of twen- ty-flve men each by the Gulf supply steamers. It Is waid that Ir, Bradford, of the Cnited States Irmay received reliable nows of the death of bis beaver, Me wae dan hi Lieut. ©. H. Dradvord, at Columbia, $ ©. Sumter and captured by the rebels. Lieut. Meade, his companion in captivity, is still “in durance vile.” Lieut, Bradiord was @ aative of Maine.a geatioman of more than ordinary ability aud an ofticer of Superior merit, Capt. Jones is acting as deputy paymaster at Cairo, IL. Lieut, Mouroe has returned to duty on the Roanoke, | Lieut. Stoddard has reported at Portsmouth, N. H., from Bick leave. . Captain J. L. Broome, lato of the Iartford, and senior marine officer of the West Gulf Blockuding squadron, hag deen ordered to duty at the Mare Léland (California) Navy Yard, Lieutenant Carier, late of the Breoklyn Navy Yard, has. been ordered to duty at the BMurine Barracks at Pensa- cola. Lientenant George G. Stoddard nas been ordered to duty t the Portsmouth Navy Yard. THE CHARLESTOWN NAVY YARD. Boston, Uct. 23, 1863. ‘The gunboat Ticonderoga was taken into the dry dock this morning, but was soon after removed to make room for the British stoamer Vesuvius, lately damaged by a collision, : ‘Tho Sacramento Queen and Sasacus are at the pier by the lower ship house ia the Navy Yard. The two former are repairing. Tho Sassacus is ready for sea and will, sail next week, The Sabine is out of commision avd workmen are employed on her ip the necessary altora- tions, The Circassiin éails to morrow with supplies for the Wost Guif squadron. AFFAIRS IN NEW ORLEANS. Our New Orleans Correspondence. New On.uans, Oot, 15, 1863. The Weathn—the City Unusually Healtay—Locat Society— The Colum Mania—The Oficial “Ring” —Sharp Prac. tice—Arreat of a Pirate—Deuth of a Murder-r—Official Charges—Naval Matiers—1 New Commander a! Baton Rouge—Governor Moore and a Cot'on Speculator, dc., fc. The weather in this city for the last four or five days has been cool and delightful, about the temperature of New York fail weathor. The city is declared uncommon ly healthy, Toe impression hero ia that there wili be quite an influx of travel from abroad, some peopie on ba siness and mo'o to enjoy the gonial climate of a Louisiany Winter. Tho city does not present 80 great attractions as it did before the war; but still thore are amusement and pleasure cnough to repay a visit to the city, There are 4 thousand things to be seen in this city which are pe culiir to it, New Orleans, in population, architecture, habits of the people, religious worship, amusements, &e., Presents remarkable features. In the foreign population the Fronch element predom!- nates, and the French language is used more or loss inal branches of trade and society; even among the native born citizens that dialect is spokon freely, The French residents appear to give towe and direction to polite society and the fashiunadle world, Hence large requist- tions are made on Europe to keep the socia! machinery in motion. ‘Tho cotton mania still rages with unabated fury. Cotton dealers and speculators ure daily arriving from the North and West; 60 that {t bas passed int) an apborisin that there is ® dealer to every bilo of the much sought fur staple. ‘The consequence of all this is to enbanco the price oF cotton, ruin the discount and domestic exchange, and incrosse the value of ‘*greenbacks'’—the local banks charging from one to cne and abalf per cont premium for logai tender notes and currency. Go where you tay, at the hotel tables, public walks, social circle or elsowhcre, the conversation turns on cotton, cotton, c tton, The privato dealer bas little or no opportunity for «fair trade unless he has the rum of tho trading “Ring,” whieh is as weil organized hete to make money for the luitiated ax tho Aldermanic “Ring’’ ig in New York. ‘Tho gation wou d be astounded were ouo-ball of the official speculations from whieh quick fortunes are mado ventileted. On tits sub- ject 1 will relate a fact to show that a throat of exposure bas made at lenst some of the guilty partics afcnid of Damocles’ sword, Au educated and enterprising indi- vidual a few months ago commenced collecting facts of the official. corruptisn of the military and civil departments He pursued his investigations unro- miltingly wotil a short time ago, in whica time he agcu- mulated voluminous testimony, He was ubout putting it im the hands of a New York publisher, when the purtics on whom it réi'ected beard of the threatened exposure, ‘They sought out the compiler of the testimony, bad & rivute interview with bim, and so wunpressed bis haud d his mind us to make him furego the publicati ook. The author «t the expose, in a conversation fa tho rotunda of the rt. Charles the other day, remarked that he had made @ good thing o: hia operation und still kopt ‘his’ officials im terror, Que of the local papers oflered a lary jm of money for the manuscript of this desirable document. Menry Skinner, one of the crew of the recaptured stoum- or Leviathan, was yentorday arrnigned belore Judgo Atocha, on the charge of ‘sanisting tu capture the Levia- ‘hap abd another vessel, altor huving been in the service Of the United States. He was formerly employed on the government transport Fox, which wus capturea by a pi Tatical baud, and with this vessel rkinner weut to Mobile, where he joimed the rebel wavy, in which capacity he wag sent abroad on the seus to capture what crait bo might frm the commerce of our country. i/uring one of his excursions, be and his marauding companions fell on the Leviathan and Bostun styamers, in the United States employ, capturing them, but were unable to escape clear. He in turn was captured and brought w this city at the time the Leviathan was. Skinner claims to be @ Briti subject, und that be never was in the servico of the United aan ane investigat.on yu this case will take place on it ingt. Ernest Lauersobwartz yesterday died ip the Parish Prison. More than two years ago bo was arrested [or the murder of his wife, for which oftunce he bas been in prison ever since; but during that tims be was tried by Judge Peabody, and convicted of the killing of his un- fort helpmate. He had previously veen guilty of ighter and served a term of five years iu the State jtentiary. His death was a very micerable one, his y being attenuated to skin and bone. Colonel Charies C Dwight, of the Use Hundred and ‘Sixtieth New York regiment, is relieved from duty as Judge of the Provost Court o( the Department of the Guif, established by orders Nos. 45 and 62, and will reyoin bis Fegimont. A. A. Atocha is relieved from duty as Judge Advi cate, and is appointed Judge of the Provost Court. ‘The United States stenmer Virginia, Acting Volunteor Licutevant H.C. Brown, commanding, arrived yesterday evening from a cruise io the Gul., and is aucho.od in the stream opposite the city. Brigndicr General Philip St. George Cook bas aesumed command of the trvops and defeaces of Paton Rouge, re- leving Colonel Goodrich, who resumes command of bis regiment. A cotion speculator in Western Louisiana recently met the rebel Governor Moore and tried to buy bis coteon with | money The wigratory Govervor gave & point Kk reiusal avd said he would only sell “greenback” payment, This is another straw which shows which way the political wind bi Rebel money is selling at ninety per cent discount; reenbacks at one and one and a balf premium, in this 18. New Onceann, Oct. 14, 1963. Exodus of Fellow Pever—Prevailing Moral Diseases—The Property of the New Orleans Bulletin Cmdemnid—The Body of Vr. Waimoright Enbalmed—lrize Steamers in Port—Business Prospects— Amusements, dc., Le. ‘The poopie of this city, and she ollicers of the army and pavy in this vicinity, are now congratulating themselves on their escape from the ravages of the much dreaded Yollow fever. It is stated by old resident physicians hore ‘that the city was unusually healthy the past summer. There was some yellow fever. A few cases proved fatal; Dut the majority yielded to treatment. But, while Dia and goldiacephobia. The first mamed disease has raged fearfully among a little army of merehants from the North aad West, with more money than brains, who, Deing unacciimated to this business latitude, came bere with the expectations of mating fortunes ine very short time. They are ignorant of the machinery, the wheel ‘within © wheel, and after # short time usually die ander | 3 | i : f i l HE ip i Hy h embraced in the yudgment, Dr. Watowright, tate Medien) Director of the army cor: s, who died on the 4th oF Agrest, on booed the Black ei Was 80m { veston Bay, The retains will be ent Norto ths week. ‘There are now four very splendid steamers ia port s0om to be offered for sale for the benefit of the goverament or that of private individusis. ‘The Alice Vivian is & most beautiful steimer, flat botiomed, drawing light draught of water and in’ splend.d order. ‘Tue steamer Alabawe is about four hundred tons burtben, new and gly handsome. 1p tet. thore is not a hasdsomer ‘Toe steamers Warrior and dont steamers, and all are peoded for trade ‘or war purposes on the Mississippi. The Moutgomory was originally the Habanero, and ts not vukuown to our old citizen as the capturer of part of the Lopez exjedition. If the Sir Robt, Peel is condemnod, then there will be one of the tinest vessels of its siza that was ever built in Eugiand tor government use, 48 tbis verse! was built originully for the Portugucee gov ernment. and named bon Pedro Segundo, and was used for 4 British transport before she came into the hands of ber present owners, who filled her up for this trip to Matamoros, to be captured by the United States sieamer Seminole. Basiners in New Orleans promises to be tolerably brisk. during the ensuing winter. Already travel from the North and West has set in, Every bout from Cairo brings pilgrims to the city, and every steamehip from the North brings 4 tuli compioment of passengers. The Morning Star on her Inst trip brought hero two bundred and twelve oxbin passengers, The managers of our ibeatres: seem to anticipate the intlux of travel, und have beev North to select companies tor their ‘The Academy of Mi crowded nightly, Suvdays uot excepted. Varieties opens on or about the Ist proximo. The c mpany oa nounced is Dan setchell, Mr. Lawrence Barrett, Lewis Baker. The theatre his been At till Continues to hold ite rank As afirat class place of -amrberne Orleans theatre Opens on the 18th inst , under the auspices of the artists’ Union Society. ‘Tho openiug piece is ““Mertha,”’ an opera fm four acts, followed by the vaudeville of “Un Moyea Dangereux."’ Bakor and Alexina Fish thoroughly renovated. New Axa, Oct, 16, 1868, Prewntation of Colors to the Firs! Luuisiana Voluni.ers— ‘The Big Guns Landed at Fort Jacksom— Welcome to Go- vernor Hamilton, of T-zas—The City Tax Question and the Local Press—The Western Gulf Squadron Actively Em- ployd—Cruise of the Gunboat Texnessee—Capture and Destruction of Blockadg Runnez—Tesimontat to Captain Courtney, of the Morning S.a1—General Grant's Late Order tesprcting Trade on the Mississippt, dc. On the 15th inst, a stand of colors was presented to the First Louisiana Volunteers, The Lyceum Hall, were the allair took place, was decorated with pa:riotic sentunents und names of battle elds in this deparument, beginning wits Labadievilie und including atl the scenes of conflict and the triumph of our arms down to | ort Hudson. ‘This stand of colors comprises a beautiful United States flag, made of sik, trimmed with git friage and tasseta Across the lower end 18 iuscribed tn git letters “Firat Louisiana,” and a splendid bive silk peticar Jag, with the State coat of arms, including the motto, confidence.” he New Orleaus isa, in gi cu Akctch of the regiment, saye:— Their first active service was in the month of October— A your ago—when the regiment joined Geavral Weitzel im his Lafourche campaun. They were stationed as a ri serve at Jupuldsouvide, which had beon, and contiaued for some time a terw: ‘ome outpost of linea on the river. Rervices thoy havo ever given tho highes: actin to the commanding — generals—both Butior and General Buu Under the goneral they havo participated in the strive of every fled whore name you see iuscribed on these wails. Their decds compare favorably with those of tbe best rogiment im this dopars- mout. ‘Ibey were forem st lu the action at Irish Kend, ant in the bloody and determived sige of Port Hndsom they «60 part ed. There they the misiortane to love their heroic ard beloved commazder, Colonel ifol- comb, whose 8 iris went up from tho tmm‘ueat deadly breach, aud ioft behind Ono of the few, the in mortal, names ‘That were not bern to die. No regiment can show more evidences of bard Ggbting. ‘Thoir iosses before (ort Hudson were great; but they were never knowu to flinch trom a periormance of duty This regiment was, ax {have previously remarkell, we Orst ever ried to tight for loyalty from a State ia redel- Hou, At that tine it was said by enemies of the Union that they caula nto depended on to tight: but they havo +1.0¢ proved the entire falsity of any such prophecy. TLo United States transport steamer McClelian, Cap- tain W. C Gray, returnod to this city yesterday merning from Fort Jackson, where she landed a M{tcon-ineb gun. The landing of this immense piece of ordnance wae Iabor of no ordinary skill with the mcansat hamd, A wort of launching wuys was constructed from the sides af the vesspi to erra firma, nod. with the ata of ifuing shoars, big blocks aud tackles, aud the servicer of three hundred negroes, the gun was safely landed. The bridge across the dich loading to tho fort will be strengthened before the guu 18 put into (ho fort aad mounted. Another of these monster guns is now betuy landed at the same piace. [t is tho tutentioa of tho government to placemore ‘of these irom monsters in the: dolences of the lower Mis- Bizaippi for account of whom if.may concern. The loyal citizens of New Orleans and Louvmiana, through @ committee, have invited General A. J. Ham ton, Military Governor of Texas, to meet them, 1o.ext to bim a giceting of welcome. ‘The Governor was accept- ed the invitation, the affair to tuke place to-m: rrow. ‘The city tax question is about the ouly thing of local impo; tauco us this time, and te made the subject of com- Sidorable argument spd discussion ia.the Now Orleans press. The £ra, the leading of. tile city, and the Of cial org.u of the civil aud military: wuthoritica, dis. cuases (be matter with sertousuess and candor. Kince the porsersiou of the city by the Union authorities affairs hace been administered with quod ju@xmeut, impartiality fand ecopomy. ‘Ibe sanitary: regulations buve been of the most per.oct character. and the yplice revulations unsur. passed by apy city im the Union.” In curryiug out these Mmeusures expenditures timye been made and debss incur- red, which are + legitimate charge oo the city, for which taxes must be coliccted. The balf-av'l half secesh and Union press vow the measure of collecting taxes, except certuln quaiidications aro made aud immunities iven to mem now ubvent in the conicderacy serving in tho revel army, which, if allowed, would render Dugatory the prose! monsure. authorities ba.e shown every disposition to be just in the matter. A list of the wames of the delinquents is to be pub lished, by which taxpayers aro war.od thas wf they do wot come furwird and pry their taxes in thirty days tie ordinary steps wii! be taken to eufores ther collection. ibe order of Governor Shepley on this subject is not an arbitrary one. It is founded upon the law of 1853 and 1869, aud the method prescribed in his order is essentially tie same as ig provided by these enactineuts If a man negieets to his name must be poblisned asa delin- id legal steps taken t collect the moxoy The v and method of the pablicattw Kd OF Lhe Colles tion are fixed by law, and charged to the taxpayer him- . It i an additional cost fur which be alone ts respoa- sible, and which he is justly required to pay Tho United ~tates sido-wheet gunboat Ternessee, Live teount Commanding George Wiggin, arrived ut this port yestorday from a short cri.ise olf Galveston, By this ar Tival we have cheering news of the sucess ab Qnd active operations of the Western Gut oot fu the capture and destruction of biwckude ruvpors, Op tho 12th instent, when the Teune-see was about ten miles off st. Louis lass, Texas, a sch oner was dis. covered in sizht. /ucsuit was immeditely given, and on coming up to the suspected crait she proved ty be the rebel blockade runner Frieudabip, en route (ron, H.vane for Matamorvs. Atthe time she was overtuken by our war vestel she wae evidently siecring tor \el and heavily Lidew with shot, sbell, powder wud other mu. nitions of war The ca, Irankly ackeowledged that he wax @ contraband trader, apd thet his vessel Wan a le mi prize, The briendehip was taken in tow, and the jennessee contioved ou bet ervise, Im a@ boll an bour more @ sail was made about ton mice to windward. Pur ‘and on overtuking the vesso! it was dis- A bent was sept irom (be Tonnensee 10 od try and save the burning vessel; but when the launch came with a four hundred yards the seb. over biew up with # terrilc explosion, tilliug the air with iragmonta of the vessel and contents of the cargo. From the volime Of the noise it is thought the schouner was heavily tuden and shells, The debris from the ves fel was scattered on the sea for hundreds of yards. Yhere was also a quantity of percussion caps included in the cargo, ‘which was apparent by the peculiar sound of smali and continuous after the groat oxpiusion, destroyed vessel was the Jaze, of Nassau. NP. ‘Also, the United states Kitiatinay a echooner the rebels succeeded in beaod- ing and biow!: An interesting 08 the Delachaise grounds, by the officers of the British war steamer . lea Club. “Bulla” wore Bot in good ooo Gition, owing to the inte a eery pina, on board (of the stoamship lew York and New Orleans live. assive silver es |, 00 her trip to her ‘commander. and bears = = ak oO tam ana Bie talament. ‘utlibers Duniet, Hoq., the Collector the The ectual Gopartment, well dis od to te ited States, wilt hore Bier ve pormiised te br sot oF etn ton, on Southern or Btatlon, of the local proveat marshal Unsreot, ap. tho same to Mow, on their own socount All ontton 4 Unned tates, v enense per mitten w renee ta Helens Arkansas, and again whom there om ‘clon thet they are se engaged, wih oe partment. Jno A Rawunes, Brigadier General and Assiatant Ad General. _ 2