Our flies of Northern newspapers, received yesterday, include New York dates up to Monday, and Baltimore dates of Tuesday last. We append a full summary of news:
From Portress Monroe.
Grand reviews have been held to-day at Newport News and Camp Hamilton.
Col. Wardrop has taken command of the Naval Brigade.
The gunboat Seminole has arrived from the blockade off Charleston. She brought up a prize, the schooner Albion, from Cardenas, formerly a Wilmington pilot boat. She has a cargo of sugar, coffee, fruits and cigars.--When taken she was under English colors, and the captain and nearly all hands were drunk. She had run the blockade off Wilmington. The Seminole has also overhauled several vessels showing English colors. She spoke the sloop-of-war Date last night. She will coal and undergo some small repairs at Old Point.
The blockading squadron off Charleston consists of the Roanoke and Vandalia.
The recent gale on the coast was terribly severe.
The Confederate prisoners who arrived here this morning from Baltimore will be sent to Norfolk in a few days.
The propeller City of New York, which sailed to-day, took nine Confederate prisoners to New York.
Fortress Monroe, Aug. 24.--The steamer Quaker City has been purchased by the Government, and, after undergoing repairs at Old Point, will resume her position off the Capes.
The steamer Pawnee arrived this morning, and will participate in an important expedition with the steamers Minnesota, Wabash, and other vessels.
The U. S. ship of war Savannah is at Newport News, blockading the James river.
The steamer Pembroke has arrived from Boston, and will at once take part in the blockade.
The twenty-three Confederate prisoners will be sent to Norfolk before Tuesday.
Later.--the Naval expedition.
Lieut. Crosby returned last night from his expedition to the Eastern Shore of Virginia. He went up Tanglier Sound and brought back a prize schooner.
Gen. Wool has spent part of the day at Newport News. Brigadier General Phelps will probably remain in command at that post.
The Confederates will hereafter find it very difficult to communicate with Fortress Monroe by means of spies. No person is allowed to visit Camp Hamilton without a special pass from the commanding General or the Provost Marshal.
A slight difficulty occurred yesterday between one of the released Confederates and a volunteer officer. The Confederate Captain refused the latter a light for his cigar, on the ground that he did not consider our volunteer officers gentlemen. His defenceless position alone saved him from punishment for the insult.
The Honduras steamer ‘"Esoler,"’ from New York and intended to run between Truxillo and Havana, has put into the Roads for a harbor.
From Gen. Banks' column.
The following dispatch (as will be seen by the asterisks) was somewhat reduced by the Federal authorities:‘ Hyattstown, August 24.--Gentlemen from Harper's Ferry state that our troops, under Col. Gordon, secured a large quantity of flour and unground wheat, including 500 bushels belonging to the Confederate army at the mill of Messrs. Herr & Welsh. They also disabled the mill from grinding for several months to come. [* * * *]
There were no Confederate troops at the Ferry, but their pickets frequently come in. There were supposed to be about five hundred at Charlestown.
The body of our army is now resting * * * * * * where the climate is salubrious and the water excellent.
The latest intelligence from the other side of the Potomac shows that the Confederates have drawn to Leesburg all their regular forces from Charlestown, Winchester, and other points above, and concentrated them at Leesburg, where their army number eleven to twelve thousand men. Capt. Henderson's Home Guards alone remain in Jefferson county.
The rebels have taken to pieces at Martinsburg five locomotives belonging to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and were to make the attempt yesterday to transport them to Strasburg or some other point on the Manassas road.
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Arrests by the Federalists.
We have received some further accounts of arrests before announced by telegraph. The Washington Chronicle, of Sunday last, says:‘ Mrs. Greenhow, a widow lady well known in this city, was arrested by the provost guard of Brigadier-General Porter. Her Secession proclivities have long been the subject of popular conversation. Doubtless the charge against her is of being in treasonable correspondence with the country's enemies now in arms. Mr. Greenhow died in California, in 1844 or '5. He was twenty years ago employed as librarian and translator in the State Department here. Afterwards he was translator for the commission of private land claims in California, where he was accidentally killed.
Captain Robert Tansill and Lieut. Thomas S. Wilson, both of the U. S. marine corps, tendered their resignations to the Secretary of the Navy, who, instead of receiving them, instantly dismissed them from the service. They were arrested by the Provost Marshal's Guard in the course of the night, and yesterday morning were sent by rail to Fort Lafayette, in New York harbor, which is in charge of Col. Burke.
Reports of other arrests were current last evening, but in the absence of reliable information names are withheld until the facts are made public. Proceedings are conducted with secrecy.
Two of the daughters of Philip Phillips, Esq., attorney at law, formerly a member of Congress from Alabama, have also been taken into custody by the Provost Marshal's Guard, under the allegation of treasonable correspondence with the enemies of the Union in arms.
’ The Washington Star, of Monday evening, says:
‘ Dr. Manning, a resident of the county of Washington, (on the South side of the Eastern Branch,) has been arrested by order of the War Department. We presume the charge against him is of complicity with those in Washington who have been supplying the oligarchy at Richmond and Manassas with information concerning military matters here.
J. W. Mankin, of Georgetown, was arrested on Saturday for disloyalty, and Mr. J. Grimes, a merchant of that city, yesterday, on the same charge.
Mrs. Phillips and Mrs. Greenhow, recently arrested here by order of the War Department, are permitted to remain at their own residences, where they and their surroundings are of course under the surveillance of military guards. A similar guard is stationed in the house of Mayor Berret.
Washington is to-day full of a rumor saying Mrs. Wm. M. Gwin, wife of ex-Senator Gwin, of California, was arrested at West Point, N. Y., by order of the War Department. We have not been able to verify the fact, however.
We hear that a lady who resides beyond the lines of the Federal troops on the other side, was arrested in Alexandria yesterday, and over seventy letters, directed to various persons in the rebel lines, were found upon her. The replies to them were to be directed to Lewis Milburn, apothecary, Alexandria, Va.
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Arrest of Mayor Barrett.
The arrest of Mayor Barrett and his removal hence produced much sensation, but not suspense, that military measure having previously been expected. It was not for the reason merely that he refused to take the oath of loyalty as an ex-officio member of the Board of Police authorized by Congress.--There were other grounds, good and sufficient to the Government, for this proceeding. A guard has temporarily been placed over his house, where his family still remain.
The prisoners at Fort Lafayette.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, who visited Fort Lafayette on Saturday, says:‘ The gentlemen Secessionists confined within the walls of the fort, are not confined in cells, are not deprived of the comforts of life, are not, in any respect, the objects of persecution. I found the complacent Mr. Serrill, the fiscal agent of Jeff. Davis, as happy as a king, playing chess with another distinguished personage. Pierce Butler was reading Dr. Johnson's Vanity of Human Wishes, and one of the Baltimore Police Commissioners, Archer's Commentaries on the Book of Job. The rest were variously employed, and all seemed to be about as happy as could be expected under the circumstances. There is no restriction upon the conversation or correspondence, except that the latter must be submitted to Colonel Burke, commanding the fort, to see that it contains nothing designed to give aid and comfort to the enemy. Letters of a domestic nature are merely glanced over. In short, the officer in command adheres strictly to the letter and spirit of Gen. Scott's injunction, ‘"Treat them kindly, make them comfortable, but keep them securely."’
’ The prisoners now confined in the fort are as follows:
‘ Charles Howard, (president,) Wm. Gatchell and John W. Davis, Baltimore police Commissioners; R. H. Alvey,--Lyon, Robert Muir,--Smith, Thomas S. Serrill, Chas. Kopperan, Pierce Butler, Louis De Bebian, Samuel Alken, Col. Chas. H. Tyler, and G. Berrett, Mayor of Washington.
’ The New York correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger writes:
‘ No more State prisoners, it is understood, will be sent to Fort Lafayette, for the reason that the number of "transient boarders" at present occupying that place is fully equal to its capacity. Even if this were not so, however, the exposed condition of the fort to attacks from sea and assaults from the land would impress the Government with the propriety of making no further additions to its inhabitants. Hence, Fort Schuyler, situated at the entrance of East river, with the former, has been selected as the future receptacle of all persons suspected. The fort is beautifully located, and perhaps one of its chief recommendations is its seclusion and lack of means of communication with the city.
At Fort Lafayette, not with standing the rigid rules that have been established respecting the prisoners there, there has been, until within the day or two past, pretty free communication between some of the prisoners and their friends in the city — in the presence of the officers of the guard, it is true; but this thing is come to be an annoyance, which will scarcely be of so frequent recurrence at Fort Schuyler, which is many miles remoter from Manhattan Island than Fort Lafayette.--Clergymen visited the latter place on Sunday, and, by special permission of the military authorities, Divine service was celebrated.
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Important intelligence from New York.
The following is from the Baltimore Exchange:‘ New York, August 23d, 1861.--A deep gloom hangs over the business men of this city relative to national affairs. The late reverses have maddened them, and they are now preparing to do something desperate with a view of restoring in some degree, if possible, a return of confidence in the Administration. They insist that money is King, and is as necessary for carrying on the war as men, and if they are to furnish the needful, they will insist upon regulating President Lincoln. A committee of wealthy and influential men from Boston, New York and Philadelphia have left to-day for Washington, and will demand of President Lincoln that several highly important changes shall be made before any more of the sinews of war will be forthcoming. They have determined that those most estimable public servants, Cameron and Smith, shall bow their necks to the commercial axe, and their places will be supplied by Dix and Holt. They have also determined to decapitate the ‘"Old War Horse,"’ who never lost a battle until he met the men — his brethren — who had helped him to win his former victories.
A riot occurred on the night of the 21st among some German companies stationed in a neighboring village, which was quelled with difficulty by the Home Guard. The miscreants openly threatened to sack the village and violate the women. These are the sort of men they are sending South with the pious wish that they will never return. I saw yesterday some twenty men who had been taken out of the prison at Sing Sing to be mustered into service. You may expect these worthy ‘"protectors"’ shortly in Baltimore, where they will doubtless be warmly received by their sympathizers, the unconditional of your city.
’ The Washington corrrespondent of the New York Herald thus states the case:
‘ Wiley Edward, John C. Gray and William T. Andrews, of Boston, have been here endeavoring to persuade the President that he ought to change his constitutional advisers. It is said these gentlemen represent the sentiments of certain prominent monetary interests in Boston, capitalists of the Athens, who demand that the heads of the War and Navy Departments must come off, else they will not risk their capital further. The presentation of their case here has created considerable feeling.
’ Nevertheless, the Herald declares most positively that there is to be no change in the Cabinet, that the intriguers have failed in their mission, and they might as well have remained at home; that the ‘"President has put his foot down,"’ and will make no change, and ‘"that he is right."’ A few days previous this interesting sheet was clamorous for the ousting of two or three of Lincoln's Cabinet. The following paragraph is from the same paper:
‘ So long as Gen. Banks remained in Baltimore, everything was peaceful and affairs moved on smoothly. Since the amiable old Dix — better fitted for the details of our city Post-Office than to wear a uniform — has been in Maryland, discontent has raised its head again, and every day symptoms are manifested of latent mischief. How soon it may break forth, no one can tell. He is totally unfit for the place he holds, and ought to be replaced by a younger man. We understand that the Bank Committee have gone on to Washington, and intend suggesting the preposterous idea to the President of making Dix Secretary of State or of War. Why, even the witless Welles would do better than a half a dozen fogies like Dix. His amiable remains ought to be respectfully deposited on a quiet old shelf. The intelligence from Baltimore is alarming, and the only remedy will be his immediate removal.
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Interesting from Missouri.
The following is the proclamation of the bogus Governor of Missouri, briefly announced by telegraph yesterday:‘ The power of the civil authorities being insufficient to protect the lives and property of the citizens of the State, I, Hamilton R. Gamble, Governor of the State of Missouri, do hereby call into the active service of the State 42,000 of the militia of the State, and assign 6,000 as the quota for each military district, which is the same as a Congressional district. The force thus called into service will be, as far as possible, a volunteer force, and will consist of 10,000 cavalry and 32,000 infantry.
If the number volunteering exceed the requisition, the excess will be held as a reserve corps. If there should be a deficiency, it may become necessary to resort to a draft. The Adjutant General will issue to the Division Inspectors of the several military districts the orders necessary to carry this requisition into effect. The force called out will be for six months, unless peace in the State shall be sooner restored. Arms will be furnished as rapidly as they can be had.
Given under my hand and the seal of the State, at Jefferson City, this 24th day of August, in the year 1861. H. R. Gamble.
By the Governor,
M. Oliver, Secretary of State.
’ The Baltimore Exchange is permitted to make the following extract from a letter just received by a merchant of that city from one of the strongest Union men in Missouri:
‘ Glasgow, Mo., Aug. 20, 1861.
The Federal forces were badly whipped and cut to pieces at Springfield, and thousands are now flocking to Jackson's and McCulloch's armies.
We are having awful times in Missouri.--Secession would ruin us, but take the vote to-day and Missouri would go out by a large majority.
Had our Governor--Provisional Governor Gamble--done right, we would have had peace. Both he and the Government have done wrong. They ought not to have lost that Springfield battle.
Union men are very scarce here. The action of the Convention will never be sustained. It has drawn all the sympathy to Jackson's side. His bitter enemies that were are now his best friends. The State forces under McCulloch and Price will be very large in a few days.
We are all ruined.
’ The following letter appears in the St. Louis Democrat, a Black Republican paper:
‘ Springfield, Aug. 17.--Gen. Rains issued an order soon after his arrival to seize all the medicine and hospital stores in the Federal hospital, thus depriving about 400 of our wounded troops of medical treatment. A part of the medicines were subsequently restored by order of Gen. Price.
With a few exceptions our sick and wounded are doing well, and will be able to return to their homes in a few days. All our wounded could not be brought off the field in consequence of the scarcity of wagons, but they were treated where they lay.
’ Jefferson City, Mo.--George R. Smith, of Pettis county, has been appointed Adjutant General of the State, and John Howe, Police Commissioner for St. Louis.
The following has already been foreshadowed by telegraph:
‘ Rolla, Mo., Aug. 24.-- Lieut. Col. Albert, of the Third Missouri, and eight or ten other officers who have been prisoners at Springfield, arrived here this morning. They were released on parole, subject, however, to such arrangement as may have been entered into between the Confederates and the United States.
There are a great many contradictory reports as to the present and future movements of the enemy, but their real purpose can only be conjectured. They seem now to be more anxious to obtain subsistence than to make offensive movements for any other purpose.
’ Ironton, Mo., Aug. 26. --Reports received here to-day give information that Gen. Hardee's forces are withdrawing from Greenville towards Heave's Ferry, where they are fortifying slightly; also to Peyton's station, nearer the Arkansas line. This seems to confirm previous reports that the eastern division of the Confederates are hastening to join Gen. Pillow. A strong body of Gen. Thompson's forces are represented to have occupied Benton, eight miles back of Commerce, where they are throwing up fortifications.
The arrest at Philadelphia.
The following circumstance has been briefly announced by telegraph:‘ Philadelphia, Aug. 25.--Samuel Eakin was arrested here yesterday as a Southern agent. He is connected with Mr. Sloat, now engaged at Richmond in altering arms for the Confederates. His papers seized show his participation with the Confederate cause. A coil of wire for field telegraph was found among his baggage. Also, over a thousand dollars in gold.
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Attempt to take ex-governor Thomas prisoner.
Various Federal telegrams.
‘"If,"’ he remarks in conclusion, ‘"it shall be shown to the country that simply huddling masses of men together does not make an army, and shall developed some kind of defence for the judgment and wisdom of experienced men for those who have charge of affairs, then the disaster may prove to be a wholesome experience and not an unmitigated calamity." ’
The following order has just been published by the Postmaster General:
‘ Post-Office Department, Aug. 24, 1861.
The President of the United States directs that his proclamation of the 16th inst., interdicting commercial intercourse with the so called Confederate States, shall be applied to correspondence with those States, and has devolved upon this department the enforcement of so much of its interdict as relates to such correspondence.
The officers and agent of this Department will, therefore, without further instructions, lose no time in putting an end to written intercourse with these States by causing the arrest of any Express Agent or other persons who shall after the promulgation of this order receive letters to be carried to or from these States, and will seize all such letters and forward them to this Department.
(Signed) M. Blair,
Postmaster General.
’ The Adams Express Company have applied to the proper authorities for the construction to be placed on the clause in the President's proclamation relating to the interdiction of commercial intercourse with the so-called Confederate States; and learning that it was intended to include letters, immediately issued orders to all their officers to cease receiving letters without waiting for the expiration of the limit of time named in that document. It is not known what action, if any, has been taken by the letter express companies on this subject.
Washington, Aug. 26.--Richard Wallach, Esq., was this afternoon elected Mayor of Washington by the City Council, to supply the vacancy occasioned by Mayor Berrett's arrest. He was forth with installed.
The Navy Department has a prompt method of dealing with disloyalists, in addition to similar cases recently mentioned.
A. D. Wharton, a midshipman on board the Seminole, tendered his resignation, but he was dismissed the service and sent to Fort Lafayette.
Several soldiers claiming to be British subjects, and so represented through Lord Lyons, have been discharged from the army.
The Academy of Arts erected by Mr. Corcoran, is now occupied by the Government for military purposes. Possession was taken to-day.
It is needless to crowd the Secretary of War by further applications for military appointments, as there are no vacancies, excepting such as have been reserved for meritorious non- commissioned officers and privates.
Commander Porter, who was recently deprived of his command of the sloop-of-war St. Mary's, on suspicion of disloyalty to the Government, voluntarily returned to Washington, and to-day, it is understood, presented to the Navy Department an elaborate document with proofs in refutation of the charges, showing that forgery has been resorted to for the purpose of injuring and dishonoring him.
All the large craft, schooners and sloops, small row-boats and skiffs on the Potomac river, have been taken possession of by Government authority. This may be a matter of precaution between the Maryland and Virginia shores.
The State Department has been officially informed that the Mexican Government has proclaimed the port of Toula, in the State of Chiapas, on the Pacific coast, a port of entry which is opened to foreign and coastwise commerce.
Mr. Russell's Denial.
To the Editor of the New York Tribune: Sir:
Acquittal of Col. M'Cunn.
What the escaped prisoners said.
A Washington paper, of Sunday last, has the subjoined statement:‘ Capt. DeGolyer, of company F, 4th Michigan Regiment, and Assistant Quartermaster Henry C. Jenckes, of the 2d Rhode Island Regiment, reached this city yesterday, having escaped from the military prison in Richmond on Tuesday, the 13th inst.
From the escaped officers we give many interesting particulars of their follow-prisoners in this room. They say the Hon. Mr. Ely bears his confinement with equanimity, and that Col. Corcoran is well, and was not wounded at all in the engagement. Captain John Downey, of the Fire Zouaves, (reported killed,) is there uninjured and in good health. Col. Wilcox is slightly wounded, but doing well. Mr. Alvin Huson, of Rochester, New York, (in the same room,) is in good health. [The Confederate papers claim that they have as prisoners two members of Congress. They probably count Mr. Huson as one.] The prisoners are fed on fresh beef (generally boiled) and wheat bread, with an allowance of rice every other day. Every fine afternoon there is a crowd of visitors, male and female, ‘"to see the Yankees."’ This exhibition the prisoners playfully allude to as ‘"stirring up the animals."’ Many of these visitors would no doubt treat the prisoners with kindness if they dared do so.--Amongst those who visited the prisoners was ex-Senator Wigfall. He said if their Government choosed, they (the prisoners) might all be exchanged. ‘"If, "’ said he, ‘"they want to fight us as Christians, we will fight them as Christians; but if as Camanches, we will fight them as Camanches."’
The officers of the prison and the surgeons acknowledged their loss at Bull Run in killed and wounded to have been greater than ours. They claim to have 1,300 Federal prisoners at Richmond, of whom 250 are wounded. We have already stated that among these prisoners are about 60 officers. Capt. Todd, said to be a brother-in-law to President Lincoln, is in charge of the prisoners, and they allege that he is very harsh and unaccommodating; but they speak in the warmest terms of the kindness of Major Winder and other Confederate officers.
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Affairs South of the Potomac.
The Washington Star publishes a letter dated Lewinsville, Fairfax county, Aug. 23, from which we make an extract:‘ To-day a detachment of U. S. troops (cavalry and infantry) passed up through this section, going upon the Leesburg turnpike as far as Joshua Gibson's, about ten miles from Georgetown, where they came in sight of the Confederate camp. They also arrested and took to the city a man named McNerhany, of Langley, and Basil Gantt, who lived about a mile and a half above the Chain Bridge.
Seizures are being almost dally made by the Confederates, who pick up young and old and send them off to Manassas. Last Friday night Mr. William Woodworth, of this place, who had been staying at Washington, came up to see if his family were well, and was taken the next morning and carried off.
The crops are entirely destroyed, and their horses fed upon the grain and corn without any regard for economy, more being wasted than ion Corn is trampled and broken down, shocks of grain scattered about the fields, hogs rooting and upturning potato fields, and everything going to destruction. Heaven only knows what they will live on next winter, if such disposition of the crops is made elsewhere throughout the State.
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Capture of a Federal officer in Western Virginia.
The Wheeling Intelligencer says that on Wednesday last Capt. Sprague, of the Ohio 7th, was on his way home, on furlough, with a guard of four dragoons. When some fifteen miles beyond Sutton, they were fired upon by a party of rebel cavalry, and one of the guard, named John Debolt, from Fayette co., Pa., was killed. Another, Henry Brooks, was wounded. The attacking party was in too strong force to be resisted, and Capt. Sprague, with two others, were captured. One man escaped and brought the intelligence. Capt. Sprague commanded Company E, of the 7th, and is well known throughout Northern Ohio. The cavalry company who attacked and took prisoner Capt. Sprague, are said to belong to Ex-Gov. Wise's command.
The Federal loss at the battle near Springfield.
An official table of the Federal killed, wounded and missing, at the late battle near Springfield, Mo., foots up as follows: Killed, 228; wounded, 721; missing, 291. Nearly all of the missing were taken prisoners by the Confederates, but they have been released, with the exception of the officers, and have either arrived in camp or are still under way. Some say they had to take the oath, and others say they had not. In consequence of the above release, Major Sturgis has released all of his prisoners, without requiring the oath from them.It is expected that the officers still retained in Springfield will follow the privates in a few days.
Designs of Gen. Lee.
The Wheeling Intelligencer, of Friday, says:‘ Well-posted military men are of the opinion that neither Gen. Lee nor any other force from the East will attempt to march through Cheat River Pass, but that they will make a raid upon that section of the State. The squads of men who are ranging through that country indicate that such is the design. To come through the Pass would result in a great sacrifice of life, without an adequate advantage. To come by French Creek, and get between the supply depots and the forces beyond that section, would be far more advantageous to a hostile force, and is probably not lost sight of by the rebel Generals in command.
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Skirmish in Western Virginia.
The Wheeling Press lately gave an account of a skirmish near Grafton, in which it was stated that 200 Virginians were signally routed by 50 Federalists, led by Capt. Dayton, and a considerable number killed and wounded. A letter from Piedmont to the Baltimore Exchange says:‘ Now the truth is simply this: The aforesaid Dayton was sent out from Webster on a scouting expedition, and whilst out came upon an old man and his son, who were harvesting. As soon as the boy discovered the soldiers, he attempted to make his escape, and was fired at by them and wounded in the leg. After this, the party returned to camp and manufactured the account given by the Press. Captain Dayton and his company are from this place and neighborhood, and to persons who are acquainted with him and the material of which his company is composed, it would be useless to contradict his statement. I have only done so for the benefit of those who have been so fortunate as not to be acquainted with any of them.--There is also a statement in the American of the 19th inst., giving an account of the capture of several bridge burners, by a party of Federals under Jarboe. In the skirmish Jarboe is represented as having had his horse killed under him. How this could happen, I cannot imagine. The party consisting of fifty men came upon old Mr. Parker whilst he was on a visit to his daughter, and arrested him without any resistance. Mr. Sherts, of whom they speak, is a lad of 18, and was arrested in the same manner. Old McDonald was not arrested, and will not be by that party. This man Jarboe, who is thus trying to get up a reputation, is a native of Romney, where he and his family were raised from infancy by the charity of the citizens. As a return for their kindness, he was so obliging as to pilot Colonel Wallace with his command, from Cumberland to Romney, where they store everything hold of while Jarboe helped with the balance.
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Affair about Alexandria.
The Federal telegrams give us the following about recent skirmishes near Alexandria:‘ Near Bailey's Cross Roads, Alexandria county, Va., August 26.--I hear that two members of a Massachusetts regiment were killed (shot) last night, while doing picket duty on the Loudoun and Hampshire Railroad, about a mile from Baily's Cross Roads, towards Alexandria.
Alexandria County, Va., August 26. --The alarm of yesterday, that caused a very general and instant turnout of nearly all the troops on this side, proves to have arisen from an attack of about 150 of the enemy, with two field-pieces, upon one of the Union picket guard squads. The enemy probably were not aware of being so close to our lines, as they retired in great haste back towards Vienna.
They wounded a Union Captain in the leg, and took him and two of his men prisoners.--One other man who was with him escaped and gave the alarm.
On the night before last they (the enemy) threw a six-pound shot into the camp of Col. Kerrigan, without, however, doing any damage.
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Gen. Rosencranz Addresses "the people."
The following address has been issued by Gen. Rosencranz, commander of the Federal troops in Western Virginia, to the people of that section. It strikes us that he adopts a peculiar mode of putting an end to ‘"savage war,"’ when he heads an invading army and goes forth to pillage and destroy. He says:‘ My mission among you is that of a fellow-citizen, charged by the Government to expel the arbitrary force which domineered over you, to restore that law and order of which you have been robbed, and to maintain your right to govern yourselves under the Constitution and laws of the United States.
To put an end to the savage war waged by individuals who, without warrant of military authority, lurk in the bushes and waylay messengers, or shoot sentries, I shall be obliged to hold the neighborhood in which these outrages are committed as responsible, and unless they raise the hue and cry and pursue the offenders, deal with them as accessories to the crime.
Unarmed and peaceful citizens shall be protected, the rights of private property respected, and only those who are found enemies of the Government of the United States and the peace of Western Virginia will be disturbed. Of these I shall require absolute certainty that they will do no mischief.
Put a stop to needless arrests and the spread of malicious reports. Let each town and district choose five of its most reliable and energetic citizens a committee of public safety, to act in concert with the civil and military authorities, and be responsible for the preservation of peace and good order.
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A Proposal to capture privateers.
Recently a gentleman wrote to the Navy Department, inquiring whether a bounty would be given for the capture of privateers. It is understood that other parties would, for a similar consideration, engage in the same business; but the department has no such power. Under the present law one-half the value of all prizes goes to the Government, and the remainder to the captors. From what has transpired, it is highly probable that the Government would relinquish its share to those who would successfully engage in such speculations, and while granting commissions for those purposes afford whatever aid it could in the matter of armament.
Federal Appropriations.
We learn from Washington that during the first session of the 37th Congress there was appropriated:
| For civil and miscellaneous purposes | $1,371,873.90 |
| For the army, arms and fortifications | 207,401,397.80 |
| For the Naval service | 56,385,086.29 |
More about the Federal Arrests.
The New York Herald, of Saturday last, says:‘ The rebel agents whose arrest was noticed in the Herald of yesterday prove to be Mr. John Garnett Guthrie, of Petersburg, Va., and Mr. George Miles, of Richmond, Va. --The former gentleman was taken at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, the latter at the Metropolitan. They had in their trunks over $170,000 in gold, bills and stocks of the States of Virginia, Georgia and Tennessee; also numerous letters addressed to prominent men in the South. --The letters were forwarded by special messenger to Washington. The money, &c., is in the hands of the authorities. The prisoners were examined yesterday at the Police Headquarters, and, by direction of Secretary Seward, were sent to Fort Lafayette. It appears that some days are the General Superintendent of Police received information from Washington that these two gentlemen were in the city collecting money for Jeff. Davis, and two of the detective police were detailed to hunt them up. This they succeeded in doing just in time to prevent their departure for the South. Some of the money, it is said, was collected from merchants in the city as balances due Southerners for cotton, tobacco, &c. The prisoners expressed decided dissatisfaction when informed that the fort would be their future quarters, but were compelled to succumb to the fortunes of war.
’ The following is from a Philadelphia letter, dated Aug. 24:
‘ Deputy Marshal Sharkey arrested an inventor and mechanic, named Samuel Alken, to-day, the director of the Richmond (Va.) Armory. Alken was formerly a resident of Philadelphia, in the employ of Sloat & Co., sewing-machine manufacturers. The firm transgressed upon patent rights, and injunctions and judgments being obtained against them from every quarter, they moved to Richmond, taking with them upwards of a hundred Northern mechanics, and began to make cartridges and fire-arms for the Confederate Government. Most of the mechanics so seduced have returned to the North; but Alken, who manifested considerable hum-
anity and business tact, remained, and was sent to Philadelphia one week ago, to purchase raw material and seduce new operatives to Richmond. Papers found in his possession have fully satisfied the authorities of his treason. He will go to Fort Lafayette to-night.
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Newspaper Suppression.
The Baltimore Exchange, alluding to the stoppage of its circulation in Alexandria, regards it as the ‘"first warning,"’ and says:‘ It is of course needless for us to dwell upon the enormity of the offence of which the Administration has been guilty, in thus undertaking to gag the press. Not merely have the laws of the land been, by these proceedings, wantonly set at naught, but the very spirit which breathes life into our political institutions has been mocked and outraged. It has been heretofore supposed that the people of this country could here criticize upon their rulers without being instigated to revolt; and that the Government could maintain itself in the face of public denunciations of the motives and measures of the President and his advisers; but Mr. Lincoln, it seems, thinks otherwise. He has apparently come to the conclusion that a blind and unreasoning subservience on the part of the people to his arbitrary will is absolutely necessary for the preservation of the nation. He has found that he, at least, cannot govern the country as it has been governed by the long and illustrious line of his predecessors; and, backed by the reckless faction which managed to thrust him into power, he promulgates a ‘"higher law,"’ and summons the bayonets of his adherents to uphold it. Thus is the darkness of despotism fast settling down upon us. One after another the privileges and the rights which we have been taught to hold as dearer than our lives are being wrest from us. The pillars of the noble edifice which our fathers dedicated to constitutional liberty are tottering to their foundations, and the fire which has ever burned so brightly on the altar which they consecrated to freedom is now out a dim and flickering spark.
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Miscellaneous.
Daniel L. Louber, of New Orleans, was arrested at Crestline, Ohio, on the night of the 23d, by Federal agents, and acknowledged himself the bearer of dispatches from England to President Davis. The dispatches are in his trunk, seized a few days since at New York. The officers have left with their prisoner for Washington.The following officers of the U. S. frigate Congress, at Boston, have resigned: Captain of Marines Fausett, of Virginia; Second Lieutenant Wilson, of Missouri; Midshipmen Claiborne and Cass, of New Orleans.
A dispatch from Philadelphia announces the arrest there of William S. Johnston, a nephew of the Confederate General of that name. His trunk contained a number of letters for the South, one of which speaks of the prisoner as ‘"an officer in the Confederate army."’
The name of the steamer seized by the Confederates at Evansville, La., on the 22d, is the Samuel Orr. She was taken up the Tennessee river. Her cargo was valued at $20,000.
It seems to be understood that a large camp of instruction will soon be formed in the immediate vicinity of Baltimore.
Capt. Foote has been ordered to the command of the United States naval forces upon the Western waters — on the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio.
Twenty-three teamsters revolted and struck for higher wages at Cairo, and went to St. Louis for their pay. Provost Marshal McKinstry furnished them instead with a file of soldiers, and sent them to prison to live on bread and water.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin's list of business changes for the past week, gives five failures and suspensions in Boston, twenty-three in New York, two in Philadelphia, and fourteen in other places — a total of forty-four for the week.
The authorities at Washington have ordered the release of Mr. John Hodgson, editor of the West Chester (Pa.) Jeffersonian, lately suppressed, on condition that he will make no attempt to publish his paper.
Recruiting in New York is slow business yet. There were about eighteen men enlisted for all the old regular regiments last week at the offices in that neighborhood, and two or three detachments arrived from Buffalo and Rochester.
The commerce of the North is suffering much injury from privateering. The number of vessels captured so far is sixty-nine.
The Washington Government has purchased at Boston the barks Ethan Allen and Wm. G. Anderson, for blockading purposes, at a cost of $55,000.
P. T. Barnum was secretary of a ‘"Union"’ meeting at Bridgeport, Conn., where the Farmer and Advertiser newspaper was mobbed, a Secession flag torn down, and other disgraceful things were done. The resolutions denounced ‘"peace and secession. "’ Barnum is evidently a greater humbug than ever.
Mr. J. T. Scott, of the Hope Foundry, Fredericksburg, has the machinery ready for rifling three cannon per week.
Col. Carlton, of the U. S. Army, has been commissioned to be chief in command in California, and Major G. R. West, second in command.
The officers of the 69th Regiment at New York have published a card contradicting the statements of Mr. Russell, relative to the conduct of Capt. Thos. F. Meagher in the Manassas retreat.
A man named John Cartwell, a Kentucky merchant, has been arrested in Evansvill, Ind., on a charge of recruiting in the Northern States for the Confederate army.
Two young men were arrested at Pittsburg on Thursday, charged with being Secessionists, and with having uttered treasonable language against the Government. They gave their names as Thomas Davis and Chas. V. Neid.
The Washington Chronicle states, on authority, that up to this time 3,600 men have been enlisted in the regular army since the passage of the act increasing that branch of the service to 40,000 men.
The London Morning Chronicle says the General who led the attack at Big Bethel was ex-President Pierce, who was appointed for want of an educated military man.
Joshua R. Giddings has been very ill of the heart disease. At last accounts he was recovering.
Rev. John Poisal, of the M. E. Church, has resigned his charge in New York, because he won't preach war. He is a native of the South.
The bogus Convention at Wheeling adjourned on the 21st.
