Index :: 1861 Pony Express

ARRIVAL OF THE PONY

ARRESTS IN WASHINGTON.

TREASON OF MRS. GWIN.

Official Advices from Europe.

Demand for the Dismissal of Cameron and Welles.

Particulars of the Fight near Summerville.

A MOAN FROM THE NORTH.

State of the English Mind—The Recognition of the Rebels only a Question of Time

{Roberts’ Creek (225 miles East of Fort Churchill.) September 7}

The Pony passed here yesterday. Having to move forward the telegraph station, I was unable to send your summary until to-day. {Outer Station, 95 miles West of Kearny. St. Joseph, August 31.}

Government is considering the propriety of organizing a national detective police.  Several large cities are represented in conference.  The plan is to have agents distributed through the country, forming a network of surveillance.

A woman from Beauregard’s headquarters was arrested, passing through our lines into Alexandria. Some 200 letters addressed to and implicating prominent citizens of Washington and Alexandria were found upon her.

Several persons have been arrested, and among them Mrs. Greenchow, widow of the former Librarian and Translator of the State Department.

Mrs. Senator Gwin’s trunk was examined, and plans of two fortifications, at the China Bridge, and on the other side of the Potomac traced on paper by some clerk of the War Department, were found.

Dr. Manning has been arrested.  Other arrests will soon be made.

The foreign mails by the last steamer were received at the State Department.  Advices from our ministers state that the European Governments appreciate the disaster at Bull Run to the fullest extent.

Northern troops are given more credit for bravery than our own papers have claimed.

Their (the rebels) fighting in front of heavy works is considered by military men as giving them so great an advantage as to make it a matter of wonder that raw recruits could be induced to assault them under such disadvantages.

Our Ministers are confident that no movement to recognize the rebels as a nation will be made as long as government maintains its forces in the rebel States.

The feeling on the Continent generally is that the North would be aroused by the disaster to its army, and that the defeat would prevent any arrangement with the rebels.

The British Government officials are impressed with the belief that battle and defeat would only prolong the contest without deciding anything.

Washington City was thrown into excitement by the report that martial law would be declared immediately.  The authorities have not decided to take such steps.

A committee from Boston are endeavoring to persuade the President that he ought to change his constitutional advisers.

It is said that these gentlemen represent the sentiments of certain prominent monetary interests of Boston, who demand that the heads of the War and Navy Departments must come off, else they will not risk capital any further.  It has created considerable feeling.

The London Globe denies, by authority, the statement that Admiral Milne has reported the blockade of the Southern ports ineffectual.  It says no general report on the subject has been officially received.

Officers have seized six packages of the Daily News at the American Express Office, New York.

The publishers finding themselves excluded from the Post Office, Adams’ Express and Ross & Yancey’s agencies, endeavored to employ the American, which they supposed was not watched.

At Washington the Secessionists are generally alarmed at the late arrests.  They think matters are growing serious for them.

It is stated that Government has refunded to Illinois forty per cent of the expenditures of that State in fitting out volunteers. It gives $1,100,000.

The remains of General Lyon were embalmed at St. Louis and left there yesterday by Adams’ Express, under military escort, for the East.

It is reported that the English and French fleets on our coast are intended for service at Vera Cruz; intervention in Mexican affairs being probably the design of these Governments.

Richard Wallack, who was appointed Mayor of Washington, in place of Barrett, is a strong Unionist.

Secretary Seward has gone to New York to arrange a new passport system.

Union men in Kentucky are ready for whatever issue Secessionists my force upon them.

Government has rented a building at Washington for the confinement of female prisoners.

The battle at the cross lanes near Summerville, on the 26th, proves to have been a bloody affair. Col. Tyler’s 7th Ohio was attacked on both flanks and in front, at the same time, while breakfasting.

Our troops immediately formed and the battle was fought bravely.  They saw little chance of success; the enemy was too powerful.  Companies B, C, and I, suffered most severely, being in the hottest of the fight; they stood up bravely, fighting against fearful odds, and making dreadful slaughter in the enemy’s ranks.

Our forces scattered after they had cut their way through, but soon formed again, fired, and received no reply or pursuit.

The rebel force was 3,000 infantry, 400 cavalry, and 10 guns. Nine hundred of ours were engaged, 200 of whom are missing.

The rebel loss was fearful.  Enemy’s colors and two prisoners were captured.

The Secretary of War has ordered the stoppage of all telegraphic dispatches to points south of Kentucky.

The Charleston Mercury’s correspondence says: "we are without the sympathy or friendship of any nation on earth.  The only argument by which we can influence them is by their necessities and fears."

This correspondent says the Confederates have suffered more in killed and wounded than the Federals, and complains that the advantage was not taken of the Federal flight at Manassas.

Eleven hundred copies of the New York Daily News were received at the American Express office, Albany, on the 28th ult.

Mr. Russell, of the London Times, denies that he was refused a pass from General Porter, and adds he holds a pass from General Scott, as well as one from General Porter.

Mr. Adams, our Minister to England, writes that in the British mind, the independence of the rebels is fully admitted, as military and political necessity; that their acknowledgment by England is but a question of time, prudence and courtesy.  While England is impatient to get cotton from the South, in exchange for manufactured articles, she is anxious not to lose the Northern market, and is unwilling to part with the hope of breaking down the Morrill tariff; and that two or three more successes like Bull Run would entitle the Confederacy to immediate recognition. 

The Washington Republican expresses belief that a battle across the Potomac cannot be avoided many days longer.

Russell, of the London Times, has returned from an expedition to our camps.  He reports our troops wonderfully improved within the last fortnight.

The War Department has issued the following: "By the 57th article of the act of Congress entitled an Act establishing Rules and Articles for the Government of the U.S. Army, approved April 10, 1806, persons holding correspondence with or giving aid to the enemy, are made liable to suffer death, or such other punishment as shall be ordered by a general court-martial.

"Public safety requires the strict enforcement of this article.  Therefore, all correspondence, verbally, in writing, printing, or by telegraph, respecting operations of military movements on land or water, respecting troops, camps, arsenals, entrenchments, or military affairs, within the several military districts, which shall be directly or indirectly given without authority or sanction of the Commanding General, be and the same are absolutely prohibited from and after the date of this order.  Persons violating the same will be proceeded against under the 57th article."

Vice President Stephens is sick at Manassas Junction.

It is reported that the Confederate Congress has decided to repeal the law establishing ports of entry, and throw open the Southern ports to foreign commerce, and that vessels which run the blockade into shore inlets may pay the Confederate duty at the port nearest the landing.

The Confederate Congress appropriated $800,000 for the defence of the Mississippi river and the city of Memphis.

The first installment of government loan, ten million, has been formally accepted by Boston banks.

The body of Gen. Lyon arrived at Cincinnati on the 29th, and left the same evening for the East.

The statement that news had been received indicating a speedy recognition of the Confederacy by European Governments is false. They intend to continue to respect the blockade, and await the result of the contest.

It is reported that Brigham Young has declared Utah independent.

For the future no clearances of goods will allowed by Matamoras, by order of the Secretary of War.

Roberts’ Creek, Sept. 7.

The stage passed here last night having on board J. W. Simonton, of the San Francisco Bulletin, and Judge Jones, of the Nevada Territory