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WB5- THE LONDON TIMES ON LTNCOLNDOM. 1 but hold exceedinpjy cheap. This is not the na- j vv of a first-class Power; it is eno\ig-h for a people From ilie Lv)iidoii Time.s. Dec. 17. The Style ot the American i^i-ctfident has fallen with the fortunes ot* the republic. ln.st«ad of the jolly, rollicking periods of former days, each ot which atemed to tuj^^est at its close a stave of “Hail Oolumbia,” we have now got a discursive and colloquial esiay, ill-arranged and worse ex pressed. Nor does the matter redeem "the stylo.’ It is really Wonderful, when we consider the pre sent state of the American Republic, how any one placed in the position of Mr. Lincoln coulJ have taken the trouble to produce so strange a medley, so incomposite a rhapsody. There are several subjects oii which we earnestly desire in formation, and on no one is it afl’orded. Ab;^ve all things, we want to know what view the American Cabinettakes of th« ajfairof the Trent, what ad% ico it has received from its legal counsellors, and with what feelings it approaches the coming con troversy. Oa this point riiere is not a word. Then, we should like to ,hear a little yf the fiua.n- cial measures by whrch the etiuilibrium bGtwooo revenue and expenditura* is to be preserved iji the face of so vast an outlay. We should like -to know what measures the President'proposes to a'dopt with regard to the slave population of the S«uthern Stat-cs; wl’.etlier with one-half of his Cabinet, he is for emancipa tion, or, with the other half ot his Cabinet, tor a mai..tcna’.ice of the rights, ot the slave owner. On all these points our oracle is silent, liut, il he tells us very little that we want' to know, he amply indemniliti.s us by telling us a.great many things in Vhieh we have no interest. He has a plan for re-adjn,isting the circuits ot the judge and for the codification oT the statute law. He is very minute on the receipts and disbursemeiit.s of the post office. He is anxious to extend thi- District of Columbia into \'irginia. He has something to say on the exhibition of 1S(>2. lie has, in common with most ot his predeeessors. plans for getting rid of free negroes b\' a system of colonizatiu>n, and has room for an argument to show, not as he Wishes, that labor is independent of capital, Jbut bow little progress tb^ most ordi nary doctrines of political economy have made in the higher circles of AnnSrican politicians. _ [The Times here devotes considerable space to the Trent afi'uftr, which we omit as superseded.] The President has given us, instead of the in formation we desired, his opinion on the real causes of the present war. The North, he sa\s, are fighting for the integrity of the Union—that is, as Lord Russell said,, tor empire, to compel the South, by force of arm?, to live uiider a govern ment which they* detest. The South, on the other hand, are fighting :>gainst the rights of the people—that is, against the- right ot the people of the North to govern them against their consent. This description ought to put an end to the state ment po often repeated that slavery is the main matter in dispute. But the South have done still worse, and, not content with quetftioning the right of the North to govern them, they have even gone to the extent of questioning the wisdom of certain Northern institutions. Thus persons are actually found who wish for a restriction oF th« suffrage; to contend, in spite of the evidence afforded by the North of the purity of election, and the hiuh moral and intellectual ijualities secured by such a process, that it is better alection .«hould be con fined to legislators, and not extended to mairis- trates; and some have even been heard to pro nounce the horrible name of “monarchy.” No wonder that Mr. Lincoln, luxuriating in the paradise to which the will -ijf an unbridled demo cracy has introduced him, and It'okintr forward to a desperate struggle with England, brought about apparently by the same cause, should feel a pious horror of those whvs-venture to think such expe rience not conclusive, and the exi>ting Cun.^titu- tion of the United 'States a little «hort of perf'cc- tion! We have oothing to say for slavery, but it Mr. Lincoln’s description of the ffouth is indeed true, if she is fighting to emancipate her»L'U from the blind tyraniiy of a degraded mob, from the elective judges and elective governors, he has given his antagonists a better title to Kuropea.'i sympathy than they have hitherto possessed and thrown upon bis government the stigma of fiirht- ing to impose upon them other institutions which have already brought it to the verge of ruin. But the most remarkable jrart of Mr, Lincoln's sp«^th is that in which he touches the relatio'ns ot hia gov«rnment with foreign countries The fact seems, on his own showinir, to be that all fbreigr; countries have hitherto preserved a strict neu trality; that they have resisted all applications from the South to make common caus- with it against the North; and that they have quUtly xub- Ttiitted to a blockade icfui'h i/riet'ousfy their commerce and manv/m turfs. These facts would have called forth from the chiff of any other government in the wcrid, republiosn oV monarchical, a gracious and courteous ack nowledg ment ot the respect and forbearance with which a nation, not remarkable for carryin.ti either of these qualities to excess, has been treated by all other nations in its hour of trial. Nothing o\u be more ungracious, more contrary to the u>ual conditions of international courtesy, than t he lan guage with whick President Lincoln repays the consideration extended to him: “These nations,” he says, ‘‘appear as yet not to have seen their way to their objects”—that is, the restoration of eom- merce—“more dir^octly or clearly throuifh the destruction than through the preservation'of the Union." This i? a broad insinnatiyn that foreiirn nation, are actuated by the meaiiest and mast selfish mo tives, and Mr. Ijincoln is content, as he cannot deny that we have hitherto done right, to express a suspicion that we did .so for reasons we cannot avow without shame. It is not wonderful that a notice of foreig-n relations begun in this spirit should end in the exhortation with which we are already familiar in the circular of Mr. Seward, to fortify th® sea-coast, the" great lakes and rivers After all, says Mr. Lincoln, “the safety and sta bility of the republic depends not on foreii:n na tions but upon -ourselves.” That is pei fectTy tru« at this moment, becaiise foreign nations earnestly desire peace and to avoid all occasion of .,uarrel, but It will cease to be true the momcKt that America ha.s forced us into a war; for one of w>any evils of war is that aviation is dej.rived bv it of the control of its own d»;stinies,an^ forced :o shape of wa^'iSelf ^ THK NAVY RKi'.ORT. ’ M n-\ IV ,^ to the report of Mr.Gideor* W elle,*, the Secretary to the Federal Navy, for explanation of these hollow or enigma tical phra.se in wbidi Mr Lincoln boasts that the American .Navy, created since the present difli- culties began, has performed deeds which have increased the naval renown of the I S He tells us that on the 4th of March last the effec- ti.ve American navy consisted of only forty-two vessels of all classes, carrying 55r> guns and about (olX) men. He says thatat the d.ateof hii report he had increased this furc^ to two hundred and six ty-lour vessels and ‘^4,000 seamen.. This is cred itable to Mr. Welles as an official, but the result IS not exceedingly terrible, especially when he procep.a8 to tell us how this has been t«scomplish- eu, by hiring all sorts of commercial vessels.and gathering together evefy floating thing that would carry a gtin. figures represent a Jjaval force which would be very terrible to Prussia, n i I and which but which iriince could easily destroy, and England cannot I Yankee Diplomats at Ij»jgerliead».—While | NORlHfcjRN NKWS. ■ in Kurope (ien. Scott undertoo4t to settle th« Ma- ; • Norfolk, Jan. 7. The folluwin^ items are gon-Slidell trouble by a letter to England. • Hc-^ from the New \ ork Herald of the od inst: made this point:— . Oiir news from the Upper Potoiiiac shows that I ^'Thc jiff tfuce that we ought to hav* taken th‘ considerable activity exists (>n both sides near I Trent into port,* and had her c.orndemned by a Harper’s'Ferry, Point of Rocks, Jjcesburg and he expects on account of his own weakne.ss and Now^ what are the facts? xu- Tniiii.s- it* first'session. nassed ainoi Tosu.s- it* first^session, passed among others an ordinance THE OUTCRY AGAINST THE CONVENTION. ,, V,. .. j., , An outcry has beep -raised against, the who desire to^be at peace, but it. i.s ridiculous for vention, and an attempt is now being made, by a people who insist_upoi> being" quarrelsome. A certain partizans, to render tliat body odiou« to I little man* who liolds his 6wu against a big man the people. It is alleged, first, that the Conven- ' who is trying to bully him, has every bystander’s tion has transacted but little if any business ct ^ .. . . ^ i • i i'i i * i ' f ir. ' sympathies in his favor, but nothing is more con- yalue, except the ordiaance of secession; and .e- , prize-court, in order ioja^t,fy our seizure of fom- lrederick, altho.igh no. engagement has taken temptible than a little man who is lioisy and of- eondly, that it has usurped powe.r in legislating i of her passengers, furnishes a very narrow h„„s place ( ontjab inds fn.n. Culpepper, I fensive only in reliance upon Che impunity which :’for the State. ^ : on which to fix a serious controversy between, two l.oudoun and l-am,.y.*r cMintu s ct.ntinue to fioek ^ . . 1 - I '■ Qfo The Convention, at great nations. Stated in other words?, an offence; into (general Hanks head((uarf»M.s, anl are sent would have been lesa if it had been yreater. The on to (Icneral .McCleli in. wrong done to the British flag would have been )ur news from P»>rt floy:*l, by the Ariel y!s- initigated, if. instead of seizing four rebels, we terday, is interf.-^ting. '1 he IJritish steamer 1* in- had seized the ship, detained xU her pass.eng. r.^ gal attempted to run the blockade at Savaiinab, for weeks, and conflscaled her cariro. I tiin not but was foiU'd. She got ready t(t makt; Ih.t way siirpris-cd that Capt AVilkes took a di(f:n nt view i through VVar.saw SouiiJ, but the gunboat Ottawa of his dutv, and of what was due to the friendly was desp.itched to the Sound, and on her arrival relations which subsisted between the two govern- the rebel miS(iuito Ib o.^ of Tatnall.,came down to inents. ^I'he rennu'nul (*ommon pense of the l'n attack her. Alter a brisk eiigageHient a .•'heli glish ]ieople, 1 believe, will a]>proVe of bis i fliirt was j>ut tbroiiiib (ljiiiniolore iatnalls ve.sel; to makr*'the discharge of a very unpleasant duty when he ri tii-'d. I he I'seape of the I'ingai w is as little so as possible to all innocent parties. thu^s frustrated. Mr. Sew.rd has been .-.cttling the n.atter with ' 'Hn-e thousand n,en for O.eneral Untler’. expe Lord I’uissell. //■ the generosity of those whom he insulls. tioned to the enemy with which it is immediately tax all slaves according to valus, as land is taxed, matched. The Confederate Safes have no navy also, a re.solution exempting our .^oldiers from at all. Acainst them the navy ot Mr. Welles is pull tax; also, an ordinance to secure to our sol as a nanVa«>-ainst a dwarf. Within the last, few diers the right to vote, wherever they may bt; montlis the" Federal (.uivernment has had 2(54 also, an ordinance to provide money, to carry on plunderi _ ^ niorce, and wo know that the Harvey Kirch was the fieM; also, resolutions ot confidence “I,, burnt close to our own shores; we see a “scn.'a-, sident l)avis, and pledging this State to jiro^e- tion head” in the last New York papers that‘‘the ! eutc he war to the last extren\ity; also, a resolu- 'l''edoruls ar(> blockading tiu* cliaiMU'l of 'lybee Is- j tion i* [nesting ('oiigre.ss to increase the^ pay ot land,and Fort Pulaski,” anil wc have .Mr. Welles’s , our soldiers; also, an ordinance ai'propriating one own testimonv. that although his navy “ci>ntin- ' huntlvi d thousand doll.irs to make salt tor thi says: the present case. Captain. Wilkes, after | ditioii were put on Itoard the (’on.-;tifution at I5os- tdi- yrsterday, and are (‘Xjiected to sail for tin- lied to capture everv rebel vesnel which showed people, now so much needed; also, an oidinaiice itself ot! the Potomac,” it ceased to dv> so ••when the | providing for the issue of three millions ot dul- rebols erected batteries on sundry points of the Jar in treasury notes—-a measure uUly /.**-. Viririnia shores, and thereby renilereil pa.sage on itime, to pay for supplies tor our the river dauLrerous!” We confess that we are . troops, and to carry on the government; ai»o, an jr I ordinance to prevent oppressive speculation in tiom[)elled to look beyond these* facts to discover the'reasons for the tone ol conL;r:itnlation which runs thruui,di Mr. Welles'.- rejtort, and to deserve the increase of renown olaimed tor the Federal navy by Mr. liincoln. Mr. Welles himself.>^eenjs to think some-further explanation necessary. Ho ur:es, therefore, the onerous duties of bloekadiiiir a coast ot’ th’*ee thrius.-ind miles in the necessaries of life; also, an ordinance to con tinue the Board of ('laim>. by which tin. accounts ot nil ditbursing agents will be rigidly exaininel. and thousands of diillars thus saved to the .'^tate; als(», an ordinance to raise an additional battalion or reiriment of troops Now, all these ordinances and resolves, with leiiirth, of the active pursuit of privateers, and t>f ) one exception, are l>\ji»Uttii't iti their character the organization of naval expeditions. This is I Who will say they ought not to have been passed/ capturing the contraband persons and niakini; prize of the 'I'rent, in what seems to ns a perfectly lawful manner, insttinl i»f sendinir her into junt, /•f/Mt.sr//^er from the capture, and permittcil Kl't to procecil with In^r whole cargo n[)on her voyage, life thus effectually jtri i'n\td the judicial x'xanii- nation which might otherwise have occurred. ‘•Now, the capture of the contraband jiersons ami the capture of the coutrabainl vessel are to be roirarded, imt as two separate or distinct trans actions undi r the law of nations, but as one trans action. i>u*' i itjtiitre onh/. ^I'hen it fellows that the capture in this case was left unfiiMshed ;r abandoned ” A correspondent of the Herald says tin- Hurn- side expedition is int(Midi-.l fVr |-]astern \ ir^inia It consists of men. The ilenil l says a dei-isive blow must bo struck the Southern relicl.'ion bt.-fore the end of April. (leri. Mc('lellan's be:iltb is raj>itlly iinjiroving He attends to busiin'ss in his room. •The workmen engage 1 in uhe Brooklyn Navy Vard had a strike on 'I'linrsday last 'I’tiey want ed them to wttrk irom sunri.-'C to sunset and to | from the cnciny which took off some seven or WAR XEWS. NEWS FROM THE COAST. (hi.\RLESTON, Jan’y 0.—Captain S. Elljott Jr., of the Beaufort Artillery, with a def-c«;hnient of his own’Company and a nujnber ot men trom Captain Radcliffc’s command*.at Rod l>lufl', went on a scouting expedition Thursday ami returinMj home SatunJay ni.>rning,' with seventy-four heel catti.e, a .larj^c ((uantity i^f fora^'e, jirovisions iV;c from several of the Islands exj>osed to the (1« pre dations ot the enemy They visited Port Knyil Ferry, as far as the bulkhead, and n.port all th jt neighborhoo l clear, the.enemy havino re emljark ed, and not a jzu;*i boat to be seen. Five tre>liK mifde gr.ives were discovered in the vicinity of the late (Conflict, showing the loss ef the eneiiiv ' > have been severe, as an oye witness states thm several of their men were borne off en the shduj. der.s of their comrades. The repulse of the enemy on Wedne^'lay was another brilliant achievement ot the bavonct in the hiinds ol South!rn men with hearts fiVt,i with Southern spirit. It furnishes ai(litional ••V id (-ICC •,)f the weak p(>int of the foe with whom w.- Imvc to contend, and th-,- >n]ieriority of S(mth. rn vuId- Tl]is Hgl t has served greatly ti> elate our troops for if the enemy atttinpts an ad;anee his »rtiil(«v can only be >rot forward with nmst enormous Udiu” anl by snail-like ajiproaches throuL'h narriw.it- files, where every in-h of ground will be lie»r, (•ontest(“d by our sburfishootens and the ba^uin-i, ut an infuriated soldiery. We regret to learn tliat in the late encoimter Lieut. Power, a gallant young i.fiicer in CoL iid donts's regin.ent, was killed by the same siidl —'I'he following list ol may prove interest- all verj’ well, but it is neccessary to show that these duties have been accomplished, 'ihe n;ival expeditious have, indeed, reacheil their ilestina- tion, but, as they had no enemy worth the name of an enemy to meet, the re*own of the navy can not be much raised by what was little more than trans[iort service. ’I’he privateers have, as we said betore. not been taken. 1 he blockade has been so notoriously a failure that nothing but the extraordinary scrupulousness of the Kuropean powers has allowed it to continue. Ships liave Hut for one ot these, salt, instead «f tailing a.- it has, would have increased in })rice; but tor anot h- or of them, the fine regiment of cavalry, com manded by Col. Spruill, would not have been in existence; but for another, thirty or forty thou sand of our brave soldiers wo’ild have been de prived of their right of sut!Vare; but for another, there would have been but little protection a'jainst dishonest Stat> airents; ami, but tor another, the meat, and bread, an-l elothinir ot‘ the stddier- would have been cut utV, the State would have re passed in and out at all times ju»t as they pleased, pudiated the intere.>-t on her bonds, and the and, s) far as the harbors are eonceriu*d, there | wheels of govt, iiment wduld have stopped And has never been any. ditliculty in getting into them k yet n.»vices in politics, and p.-irtir-ans who think or gettif.LT out ot them. The Federal (iovern- L.t’nothing but offices for themselvo, >ay the (,’un- ment ha^ itselt emphatically ailmitted the failure veiition oUirht not to legi-late, ami ought not tt> re-assemble oii the li'th in-«tant The Convention, when if re-asst‘inble of their naval blockade,- by an act of barbarity which is unparalleled in the history ot national wars. I’hey have actually endeavored to undo wJiut Columbus had done—to shut up from all mankind forever the ports which the trreat dis coverer (»pened to the human race, and to destn>y by artificial iuipcdiments the gates by which nu n ot all nations enter and [ia->.-ou: of some millions ol’stjuare miles o^'fe’-tih* aiid productive lands This is a crime again.-t all human kind. If it does not call down universal 0pp0'iti>in, it i?-, only bcause the enterprise i? believed to be as impo^^i- ble a> its design is execrable. We have nearly cxViau-tod the deedii of the Anierieaa navy during this eventful year. >tie act, bowcver. yet remains unnoticed, and it is just possible that it may form the staple of .^lr Lincoln's general and very guarded allusion to the great addition of renown so recently acquired. ■This is t!ie act which ha» made the Mayor of Boston an 1 the '.lovernor ol Ma.-aachu.'ietts elo quent wiih uxuUution, and which has excited i-ven the lloii.-e of llcpreacntutives to gratitude. This act is thus dealt with by Mr. tJideon Welht>- ••Capt. ('has. Wilkcs, in command of the .San Ja cinto, while searclunij in the West lu'lien for the Sumter, received information that James .M. Ma son :ind Joiin Slidell, disloyal citizens, and leading' con-ipirators. were, with their suits, to einbiirk from Havana in the F.ngli-ili steamer Trent, on their w-iv to Kurope to promote the i-auko ol the insurirents. 'ruisinir in the Bahama channel, he intercepted the Trent on the 'th of .N'l^vein- ber. and to ik from* her theie daUL'crous meti. whom he brou'jht tv) the United States. His vessel having been ordered to r tit fnr service at 'harlestiiri. the jirisoners were “etained on board and conveyed to Fort Warren, where they cotnmitted to the custody ot ('.il'titd Dimmick, in command of that Fortress. The prompt and decisive action of C-it)tain Wilkes on this occa>;i.in merited and received the emphatic apjiroval ot the department; and. if a too generous forbearance was exhibited by him in not capturinir the vo'Sel which had these rebel enemio on bo.'.rd, it may, in view ot the special rircuin‘itance-, and of it> patriotic motives, be excused; but it must bv no means Ije permitted to constitute a jirec^dent here after for the tr»«atiuent of any case of similar in fraction of neutr-il obligations by foreii^n vc'sels enga>ed in commerce or the carrvintr trade ’ 'I'here is no disputing: the boldne-s of this act, nor, inileed. the boldnes>. of this threat; but wheth er it is likely to increase the remavn of the l-'« d- eral navy, future events yet must ohow. Mr. Welles will want more than 2l,UUU iiien to make good these foolish words. That he can iret rn'.in', and will L'ct more, we are well aware; for we do not underval'ie tjie power or ener;_'y of onr ruir- jreil kinsmen if they put their heart" in a matter: but he wdl get little “renown" for his d* f>ort- nu nt in such a cause as that he so ntinecessarily proi-Iaims, or airain'^t the anta«:onist hu so rashly defies. It (“irher the diicretiuri of Mr. Welles or the ability (>f Mr. Lincoln is to be estimated by their State {>apers, they are not enemies greatly to be feared either in national or in civil warfare. 7hr Lcndrr oj (he H'nttih- Cn-f/cg.—The Fort Smith Hvenini; New.s irives a short sketch of the leader of 4;he (,'rei-k forces hostile to thi; Confed erate cause, of the di.'scnsions existing in that nation, which latter, it seems, had their origin many yeurs ago:—()potbleyholo i.>' stated to be an old man, about eighty years of age, and has long been a leader amon^ what arc now termed “Upper (.’reeks. ’ His first appearance in a pub lic capacity was about iS^if or IS'JI,), soon after the niurder, by the (’reeks, of (Icneral McIntosh, who was killed for making a treaty witli the I'^nited States. Opothleyholo’s name made its appearance about that time as a leader of the j»arty opposed to the treaty, lie is an c|o|uont .speaker, and wields a mighty influence over the Uppe’r Creeks by his tongue. The McIntosh party compose the Lower (>eeks. and there ex ists still, between the two parties, the remains of tJ>e old national feud, and this nniy be the cause ol the pre.sent attitude ot Opothleyholo and his followers. Indians never forget injuries, and when life is taken, the relatives of th« killed sel dom forget it. It is said that Opothleyholo and his Creek followers are very hostile to the Creek reginient under Colonel McIntosh, who is a de scendant of (Jeneral McInto.sh, who was slain by the (’reeks years ago in Alabama. Chawjrd his mind.—A few days since the Fed- eifals reported that Gen. Schoefi had gone to whip Gen. ZollicoflFer, and that he would certainly do so, and capture oearly all of his men. A dispatch •to the Cincinnati Gazette, from Frankfort, dated the 22d ultimo; says that Schoeflf got within two miles of Zolli«offer's camp “and returned.” will fiml it necessary m»ike pro\ .sion for sup]>lyihi: the place-J of some twenty thiiUsand of our ydun- teers, whose terms of service will expire by the middle of the present \ear. Airain. the (’onven- tion has commenced the work ot' re-writing and ci>ndensing the Constitution. It is very impor tant to the people that this doeument should l e put in such words and in such sha]>e a-^ to make it plain in all its provisioiH to every voter in the State; ;ind it is important also to revise ami settle it now, on such firm and just foundations that the people will not be troubled again tor many yi-ais with propositions tor amendments to the instru ment, or tor a (’oiivention \ irL’inia has ju^t re-written an»l reviseii her Constitution, and thut too in the midst of war, with the enemy threat ening her at almost every j'oint; and the Coiivt-n- tion of South Carolina i.s now in Mssiun. This outcry raised atainst the ('onvention is, for the most part, the work of persons who dislike that body on account «d' its conservative character, and becau»c it is determined, as its acti willshow, t» protect the public treasury and keep the mili tary in strict subordination to the civil power. Speculators, peculator*, and plunderers, know that a.s loni; as the Convention i.s in existence their sche:n-js to feather their own nests at the pulilie expense will be ex[»osed and explodvd. and the guilty punished, while the honest will be prott et- ed; and such a.- would impose upon or m -Iect the sitldicrs, or neirlcct proper measures tor the de fence otthe State, also kii iw that the (’onvt?Mtion. acting for and '■* the name of the people, will bririi: them to aeeoiint. lleiictf the outcry ro ^ ferred to. Hut tfie .'^fa'e has nothing to tMur from Were the (’oTiveiitiun Its ordinanctfs ami ,ren(dutioi!' heretofore passed, allord the best iruarantee that its future action will redound to the Lrood of the people It will no doubt dissidve at soine peritid during' the juesent year; but its member^ are imt to be deterrrl from the performance of their dutv by inflammatory af)f>ealh on the hustiri:_'s or in the newsjiaper-i. nor disturbed by clamors and uut,-rie' raised b}' [lartiznns and d( mai:o;rues. ti'tlfnih Shindn rd ,l'i n U'l I'l/ A n m cersii rif-s.- opening events in the war injr: .Inn IMJI.—('iiptnre of Fort I’lilaski by Siivin- ii-ih lroo}l^5. 7hf .\rson-il a- Moiint \ ci rioti. ,\ln.. wiiti ‘.Jii.ooo of avin-:', -soi/*- 1 liv Aluli-i'i'a lih—Porr Mor^'iin. i?i Mobile Hay. lakpn bv .Mabatna . troops '.'111—The stp-uiislii[> of the West ’ tired inio n'lid liriveii otf by tin' .'''outli (')ivolin i b.itIerie,*, on .M'.r- ! ris' Failure of the aiiempt to reinforce F>rl .•'iimtpr ' jOili—-1-' ri- .':ii-ks,.ii, St IMiili['S, and I’ike, near New I (h lc'iiis. .f-.-n.iiire l by the Loni'isna troop'^. l-'iili — ('iij'tiire Ilf tiif 1’en-aei‘ia Navy Vard ini'l Kir' I’l.ii ra?!cas itn l McKim>. li.v tronpn from Flori la, \l.i- ^ b-ii’i.i. iii.l I,"iii-'i:oi I M J"’ '’lia-!i‘ siiiirtly MfterwMi-Is ! t tkt’s I'limm Old. :md the sei;;*' of Ftiri l’iek‘-ns coii'- \ iiiences 1 .'>! h --.'Surrcii li-r Ilf I ht‘ I’.iloii K)ii.r>* \r-.‘H i1 to |i.e : l, ’ni'i:iim iri'iiji'. ■ ’.1-I- I'lii' N‘*‘w ni-!i'!iiis Mint mid Cn^' 'in Il 'ii'f i-i- li'h.iiid I'rifun^ri—'1 he N«w ^ ork lie- ralil L'ives the I’oirowini; list jf prisoners eonj- missioned officers ordered to be paro'ed by (Jen- i-ral (>rders: .1 ,\ .( Ill'I'll'or i. Cibmel. 'ont"-'jer»tc Slates .\rtnv \V .'s (f Vndrt-ws. N ’ .''Inie rroop* 111 r Mariin, ''oloncl. 7th Ucg M Vobiriteeri. G W Jo!iii>"ri. l.icui-Colored. ilo .1 li l,-i;jii 'l. C.ii’i »in, ’onfederate-.Slale- .Aim.v 1. L (.’Ifriioiii'. ('nitiiin. Till lieg N (' \ I J 1’ v'.iho iiif. do J ti Siirn ti-in. I.ieiifi iiaiit. N C V i (’ L-\i:ib, ],ie'il*n-inf .\ ' Siuti* Tr.ops 11 I';, ler, cn»iiit-i'ulou^-l. i.’oiife iiT.-it.- .st at .\ rii y futal number of officers i ctimmis'ioned and nii!i-coinmi'sioiied and cnhsted men ordered. \c. ( ({’.Il'it-i. , field 't:ift HI I line, j lo Indi'f endi-ni (.ir.-jH »',) It. 7tii Ueir N (' X’^I-j. li'.' ' r«‘'luec their wa”cs to the s;'.m>.‘ as that paid out side, 'I'he workmen held a meeting and refused. There were o,i ngagod in the Vard; 5ttU ot 1 them went lo Work and the balance continued on the strike. Kly in his New Vork speech .says ,NIc(’b llan’s ' vast army has too much to do. I’he V ankev-,s have to fight a people terribly in earnest. War, even to the knife, is si II their cry. They will s]>:>ie n. itlier life nor tnaiun- t^j prevent an ad- ! vance of tin- Nortlu*rn troops. I In a spR(‘cb at Baltimore Lly said •'be is con- vinceil that the entire South is a unit on the sub ject of tbo war, and tiiat they are d termined to ' fi>_^ht till the l::st man falls, or till tluy achievc I their itidependein-e. i hat tbi' utmost cheerful^ ness prevails there, :nid that the people arc satis fied with what has been done so lar. He statt s that so far .IS hi' ov.ii action is concerned, thac, coiLviiK-' d ot the impraeticai>ility ot subduing the South, he i- vvillin;^ to h t tbo Soutbern States ^o.” ’file Hriti'h bark »'i\jt!ess, of Hull, fjr New ( b leans, Iii.ideil wi'h li,.!'*)! baii-; id'cotlee, arrived .^ho took II. K, i l;.i iimkp liii-ir 1. I' Mt'triH fiinrJ'. C I I ir Uiv*T I’my-. (’,« »i. ; 1! uriiiilun t'lU i-.l', I \i 1. 1 Hrrlliini Li.'ht Inf'v, Ci> F\, ; .baiesbuTj; tn-»rds, N (’ Vols, ' W i>ihingto>i 'Jii Ki-j N •' Sl:ite Troop p l.^Mioiv Uravvfs. N \ ols. j N ■ I •eteli l«Ts. .h) b> ib> do do do -When .1 S[ihiiiiiil ilnl.ij If (riiiu ont f'dUiiti/ the iioUiination ofdeti. liobert K. Lee was before i tile \'ir:_'inia (’oiivetition, as *•(’oniniander of the Military and Naval ton-es ot \ iririnia," .%lr. ’rit- j elu r. (d the county of \\ estmoreland, r.-ferpt-d thus to the distitiiruisbi'd sons which the county ' he represontt-d had produced; Sir, when 1 stand in my own yarl, 1 can turn ■ t > line »id« :ni 1 look upon tlu' t.-irm on which lu re vc'tiTday bv ilie i'. S. sI-iii|) ot-war \ incenm in her car^o at Kio datieiro. I'•!>'!'[• i-j th’ (• iKf: i'lii sh't/'s.—'^rhe 1 >etri'.t l‘'rei- Pn-'. .Ian 1, '■iivs; ! “ / /i>i t >/Hl’ii 11' ■'I 'it W ! ii'isor, ( . Jt . — A lew werk" auo ;t cur)!' of eni?ineers, u'ib‘r comimjnd of ; eiieral Wiiliani. nrriveil at Windsor, and pru- coeded at once to Itsy out f>ttitications coinmand- : ill::: the city ut’ Pctroit. 'I'he plans have been ■ eomp’oti-d and the w rks commenced, aiu*, if con- ; tinned, will be ri-ady to mount guns in a short I time. 'I he fort i- situated on an eminence a little to the lelt ed’the main \ illaiie; and ueaily in the rear ot the l\iwn Hall, and completely commands ' tlie whole river front ami principal busine.'^s part of this city 'I'he Hritish papers of the P*tb ult. are hiLrblv iiiili::n:inf in rei.trion to ilu- ‘•ston-.' fleet." i Lincoln’s inessi^e severely and unlavorablv eritieiscil by the I'rt iich press, i 'I'be tirsi hostih step of the allied expedition I ai:ainst .^lexico was t.aken on the 17th ult., when ' the Spanish troops fron, ihe flvet landed at Vera I ('ru2. took unopposed posse.ssion fd'rhat city and ! the fort of San d u.u. d'Ulloa, and hoisted their I flai: over the citv and the f6rt. ‘ 'The rejoicinirs in Havana on ttie receipt (>f the news were most j eiitbii'iastie. I'he .Nle.xicans bad one bii:idre.I lariio rifled cannon in San duan d Tlloa. which behind in their tli_dir. F/ 'itn t 'ifi/i‘riini.—S.\N F!?.\NClsro. Jan. 1 of our men at one .stroke. 'The reiriiiient marching in column of four, when a bell on h-arj of one ot the enemy’s gunboats w.'ts heard to .'iti"- and a nniinent after a shell pas>^ed thr. Ui;li thr advaneiim column, knocking down its vi'etiins. and ■•'xploded at a distance of about forty yards lioin the ranks. Not one of our men was kiiied by » mu'ket ball. 'I'hc enemy fired one vo’-ley at rh,; lotir companies d ('ol Honovant's ’e.i'iment who cbar^cd on them. 'I'wo of Col. Punovant's men v.-ere sli-htly injured by this volley, and two niore killed by the shell from the gunboat. Tiie force which landed :it the ferry marchdl up in two di visions and by different roads. (>ne division w;is met by Od. dfuies’s men and the other by the four comiianies from «'ol. Punovant’s res'imen;, and both wi-re driven baek by the clu.rirr. with the bayonet. We learn that after the fiijht was over a fl-j r of truce went over from our siJo with a prope- sition lor time tt) remove the wounded. Drs. K. H. 'rurni)iseeil and Hough, while brinoinu them off, and die.^sing the wounds of tlm.-ie re*|uf.’iii«’ rize. having been captured , immediate attention, were fired upon bj the i'no- my. Coini.ient is unnecessary. I'he Vankee [irisoner who was found on the field wounded, bal been shot through the hiiii;. Wh-'ii out men first approached he beo^red most piteously for his life, expecting to receive no (jiiarter. When t;iken to* the hospital, however, he became somewhat bolder, it is supposed trmn t.he delirium caused by his wound, and abused the South with a great dea? of the coar.^e boiulms I tic ianguaLTC of the Northern press, sayiiii; that 1 the .''outh was about to cave in, &c. He died I about 12 tt'clock Thursday night. We omitted to mention in our f(.-in> r reports the important service rendered by a sec.'ioii o; (’aptuin Walter Leak's \'ir^iniabattoi;y, which had taken up a strong position and tired several reumls ! at the enemy with good effect, j 'I'he accounts of the affair at Port lloyal Ferry ; have so far been furnished by passengers. All I newspaper correspondence from our cauips ha-, ' we learn, been specially prohibited by au order ! from Gen. Lee. which is read to the troops Jail-, at dress parade. Dur readers, therefore, we hope. ' -.vill make due allowance for any inaecuracie.-^ that I may occur. We have learned only one of the names of the privates k-illed in thisaffu’.r, .-aniely. j rivale \'Hnlandingham, of Lancaster. It was currently rumored in the city yesterd-jy ' that the enemy had again made .a demunsiratiun ]] I , on Gen. Evans' command, and driven in his pick- were a i. Pa.^.scngers by the Koad, however, who left .. . I.. . , 1 l‘ite Point aiol Adams' Hun Sunday umniiiu >.\N r !?.\NClsro, Jan. ’ ilU'/ ^I'it/rii \\h(t: «-./.« tkoU’jhf ill t">i. — fbiSTo.N. I >ec, .'11. — When the intelligence that Mason and Slidell were to be surrendered was first tla'heil over tlif wires to this tity, the solid and many ot the weak men of Hoston we>e loud in the expression of their indignation. •Tiie (',injnrtnl,lif Hunmd.—'I'he 1 Ith North ('aro- lina lb‘>:iment, ijuartercl on the .'lodtd Farm, Were ailmitted into the comfortable buildioiis there on .''aturday. In their tents on the western pi.-r Mon of the farm they were exposed to the rigors of the winter, and had they continued there dur- intr the firesent cold spell even, mu.-t have siitfer- ei very much. We are j:lad to state that the capacious buildings were fitted up in excellent oriler, and every arrangement necess-iry for their comfort has been made,—ff'rshunj Hjpn sif,*\th. doldshnro' Itrms.—New Year’s Pay was a bu.sy, bustling time. A great ni'iny ncLrrocs were bird House servants and cooks maintained their for mer positions; but men, boys, and women with (•hildren, declined. Men hired for 87.’) to 810.’), and women and cooks for §;>0 to »’ Mr. John F, Wright, a prominent citizen ot this place, sustained a heavy loss yesterday, in the burning of a large barn on hit; farm about one mile from town, in nhich was consunieil ‘JO.OUO or ;iU,00) pounds of seed cotton, 1H» barrels of corn, and many other valuable articles. No in surance. At a sale of negroes at Snow Hill, in (jreene county, yesterday, a man jears old brou};ht .^1,200, and others in proportion.— C>r. l\t. A’.« llirimj.—(Jn the 1st January, at this place, negro men hired at from SfSU to -SI20—not many at the latter figure. Women went at S.30, 8G(i, and a few at 87o. Pricos ranged about .‘>0 per cent, lower than last year, which seems to have been the case throughout the State. Chiirlotte Demur rat. Netjro Hirimj.—'I’here were more negroes put out, this year, than usual. Prices were well sus tained, very nearly approaching those of iJ^JL Salitthury Watchman. Shoes and Leather.—We learn, through a gen tleman just from Memphis, Tennessee, that shoes have recently fallen one dollar jn the pair at that place, and that leather was never more plentiful. 0 Salisbury Banner. Fowder?—Wie learfi that the Powder Mill, now being erected near this place, will soon be in ope ration.—6’Aar/o«; Democrat. Re-EnUsiment of Troops.‘~-'We feel perfectly justiBed in saying, from information in our pos sesion, that fully 9^en-eighths of the Vir«>-inia troops now in sen ice wilf®re-enlist wheii their present terms expire.—Rihcmond Dispatch, ■ II11 nu ni't.—1 c»aii. i , ; . ii • » • ... • ii i i /. • , ■ . .1.1 1-1 report all ciuiet in ttiat neii,'hti*jrhood.—Cciirt>r. 1 he stormy weatlj^jr has intcrruptt-d tcicgraphic ! ^ ^ ^ . communication siru-e the 21th uh. I'hc floods i tri m thr ( . rw'/.s/.—-I he W ar Departiuenl have been renewed to a irreat extent throuirhout ■ f^iceived yesterday an othcial dispatch from Wen. t!.e State. Husine.s- with the interior is su.spend- stating that he had been ready with rein ed. .^lore pro’ierty has been destroyed in the State torcemwnts to offer battle to the enemy on the Washington w:is bon;; and turniuir to the othwr, ^ this I'reshct than by all the frcsdiets heretofore ' had retired from the uia!a can point to the f:irm where Gen. Lee was b irn since the country has been settleil by Americans, j ^‘id fallen back to Port IJoyal island. A'lt'/i. Kxnm intr, i\th inst. Rf^l>'.rtcd ^lovevi^ntt of thr En>my —The city was lull of rumors yesterday relating to the in cursions of the enemy in Western Virginia; hut we could gather nothing froiii official sou ees in confirmation o*’ the reports. (Jur advices from I 1 1 1 ; 1 - ; Alleghany .^lountaiii are as late as January 1-t, ^ lerclifints l.xchange echoed vvirh the ueclarationb ; ;it which t.ime all was quiet in that neighborhood. , that ••they tie\er should be given up, even ii ; i{*.port& from the Peninsula inform us that our ' war wuli (.rcat Hr.'nm were to e,,su^ The ex- j lo«ei^ pickets havebepn driven in and that alar-e subsided, and on body of Federals advanced upori liethel. buniitii: such property as remained there. 'There is doubt less aomc rea.'ion to believe that an attcrck upou (jen. Magruder’s lines is in con.+emplatioD. Richmond Dispatch, iUh. Ajf'airs in Kmtucky.—Nasiiville, Jan.t).— Captain Eaton, who deserted from Lincoln's army at Calhoun, reached Hopkinsville on the night of the olst of December. Four other de- sevters arrived there on the first "instant. Some of the deserters report that the Federal armv at Calhoun is being greatly demoralized—deserti'‘‘ii3 occur daily, and threats of mutiny are ojhm;!) and defiantly made. Great dissatisfaction pre vails, and it is believed that desertions will soon be made by hundreds and thou.sands? J'Tom the Lower Rutomoc.—There 1il*' been no arrival from ihe flotilla since our last rcpert Small vessels continue to run tiie blockade daily. Three bargc.s with provisi’on.s for the armv.arriv'- ed at Alexandria yesterday morning, in tow of a steam tug, having passed the batteries during the dark hours orf the night before. One of tht barges lost her deck load in ('hesapeake bay. one of the others lost also a portion of her cargo 'fhcy report that the Confederate batterie*; (Cottke s) sunk, day before yesterday, a lar^.’ schooner which was “running the blockade.” Fretierick^biinj ^eics, 4/A Army nf the l\,tomac.—I was misled, after leaving (’cntreville, into the statemen-t that our army had gone into winter quarters. Spcakiiii.' collectively, cx~actly the reverse is true. A tion of the troops have been assigned more favor able positions, but only a small portiftn are now engaged in the ••huttiny;” process. Although the present prospect is quiet enougih, no one caa say what the winter will bring fortli—vhether it will be quietly spent in camp, or whethci- a more active, policy will be inaiigurated. Vor. Ri( hmaud Dupo'ch. The VuHderbilt at AVir Orleans.—Ni.W LEANS, Jan. (>.—The name of the vessel wuich run the blockade was tJie Vanderbilt Sh " t»;^jt from England, as first reported, but Cuban port. ‘ iihe bi^ught some munitions but not in as large quantity as first repor' - thorized. (*11 the other farm lievond, IdLjht llorst“ Harrv I L--C. who moved the Peclaration of Indepeiidet ce. wa,'* horn; .iiid wiu-ii my friends visit me, I can , drive *hem to tiie birthspot of .Nlonroe. and in I two hours more \\c • '.'uie to the spot wheri' .^Pidi- t ill wa' born This, it niii«t be adniitteil, is a . s'detidi'i L'alaxy of ^'reat names for me cou’.ity to c-Iaim tljc pareiita^:*' d. I S'>ntfii'-ii Lifrrnrarr.— \\ est vV .f«dinston, the I Uichmond publishers, have now in press a new ! wo! k. written by t)»e Kevand Hon 11. \\ . Hilliard, ' of Alal'atna, entitled ••l>e \ ere; a story for Plebes ■ atid Patricians." The characters, are drawn from Seuthern lite, and the public may expect from Mr. Hilliard's brilliant pen a pro'luction of no ordinary interest —liirhniuMU /)i.jia‘th, *Uh. Thr li/oikndt.— l-'our important and valuable arrivals at least have been rejiorted for the wcwk .... just closed—one of them a steamer that had left ' " they wi.l be transferred to a (’ontedende port after the blockade was pro-I there. u.ounced itifallably strict and close 'I’bese oc currences show what may be done if proper cn- couiagement be given by the authorities-at Kich- mond. The blockade is furnishing a noble school for training a competent corps of Mariners, and for developing our resources.— Chan. Courier, \\th. ll/orkadr Rrii\s.—'I'hu following articles, be ing a portion of a cargo recently arrived from Ha vana, were sold at auction in Savannah on the ;llst ult: 1,UHS sacks coffee, of various brands, brought I citement, bowevr, ‘gradually the receipt of Sci-retary Seward's letter to Lord Lyons the deci.'ion ol the iiovernment was ac- (juicseed in, cordially by ,s(>me and doggedly by others.— i'or A. 1. H> mid. Ihnr Ih pa rtnrr—Hdsi’O-N, Jau'y 1.—'I'he steamtug Starlight left Fort Warren at eleven o'clock this morning, with the traitors MaiiMi and Slidell, and their Secretaries, for Provincetown, the Hritish Her (’om- ander says that he has been ordered to lie there, aii'l is unbending sails and making himselfat home. Hoston, Jan. 2.—The Starlight arrived at Provincetown at 41 o'clock last evening and the rebel emissaries were transferred to the Hritish sb)0])-of-war lying in the harbor. The Kinaldo sailed from Provincetown at (> o’clock last even ing. en route for Fngland. 'fhe rebel Commis sioners were on board the vessel, and at the time she left the harbor the wind was blowing a perfect hurricane. The I Iff; Spirit in Cinnidii.—The Cincinnati from GO to ('.(bl cents pc-r pound; 20 piece/of j t|,e-Jith instant,'has the foilowi navy and army cloth brought Sl0(rt.,612i per j ite.lT: -The news from (’anada i.s warlike, ' T ini; I'he I Wv/. II * J on j is a :ener;vl expression of hostility towards the brought K.^l I cents per pound; SO reams letter | l'„ited States.* The militia, to the number of jtaper brought 8i>(»i§lO:i per ream. 6(»,000, ha’>i- been called out. There is intense activity in all quarters, and the press sounds the war-whoop on every siilc.” To Save Sii/t.—A correspondent sends to the Petersburg Lxpress the following receipt f^r cur ing hams, and vouches for its value in economy and usefulness at the present time: 'To SO pounds of hams (or shoulders) take 4 oz. brown sugar, .] oz. saltpetre, and one pint of fine salt, thoroaghly pulverized and mixed. Hub the retreat from the (Jo.^port hams^weli, particularly on the fleshy side. Maice ■ Navy \ar»l. ihe (Columbia and Haritan frigates. From. ^\or/o/k.—SktKVoi.K, Jun. 0.—The Ba kers, wreckeis of Norfolk, are now enga*'^ed in rai.sjng the hull of the old Penn.syIvanm.^wInch was burnt and sunk by the Lincoln vandals iust the above quantity hold out, shaking off the loose salt. Lay on boards lor 8(5 hours, then add 2 (fuarts of line salt, and pack away. In 15 or 20 days they will be ready to smoke. of 172t) tons each, c.irrying oO guns, will next be gotten u{). Hoth of these vessels are perfectly sound, and will prove ijuite an acquisition to our Navy. Neither ot these was burnt by the Van The,above recipe has been used for years; never, hut some of their planks wero taken out to however, with very large meat. The hams are particularly fine. A Good flit.—'I’he New Y'ork Tribune bavin"- said that the Southern naval expeditions of Liii^ coin would prove to us “thorus in the flesh,” the Mobile Adverti.ser huBts up the text of Scripture in which that term occur^s, as follews: Paul’s 2d Epistle to the (’ori.nthians, 12th chapter, 7th sink them. 'I'he brig Polphin. or what of her, has been gotten up, and the copper from her and from the Pennsylvania will be worth an immense amount to the Confederate tovenuiK’nt. It is the intention of the g;overnment also to raise the Columbus and P.elawarc, two ships of the line which the Lincolnites burnt. 'I'he (’o- lumbus carries. 80 gmis. The Delaware carries 1 iiuns. These two shij>s have betyi in brdinary verse. Ihere was to me a ‘^horn in the j for several years. 1 do not know what their pre flesh, the messenger oj ^atan to biijfet me.” j sent condition is, but they are ol some T»lue. A.f'ntucky ('onj'ederate Sttites Senators- ^ N.vshVillk, Jan. .5.—The Ijegislative Council of Kentucky, on Saturday ‘ last, elected Hcn^y ^ Burnett and William E. Simms Confederate States Senators. - 1
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