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one down with the fleet, with the intention to take off what pieces of spare and rigging remain above the water's edge after the ships are sunk.
The arrest of Mason and Slidell — Seward defends the arrest and says the Federal Government is prepared to sustain it.
From the special Washington dispatch to the New York World we extract the following relative to the arrest of our Commissioners, Messrs. Mason and Slidell.
It is well known here that the steamer which left New York to-day for England carried out to Minister Adams the views of the Administration on the arrest of the Confederate Ambassadors, and the instructions for his course in the preunder any circumstances demand the release of the prisoners, as the question involved is not the guilt of the parties but the right of their capture.
Slidell and Mason were citizens of a foreign power their release might be demanded, if their seizure were not in accordance with international law; but the English Government will n
ers by a majority of nearly, if not quite, one hundred to one, and a new Convention, the members of which have just been chosen, will assemble at Wheeling on the 26th inst., to ratify the action of the people.
The new State will be called the Kanawha, and will contain a population of two hundred and ninety-two thousand, including about eight thousand slaves.
It will be composed of the following counties:
CountiesPopulation.
Logan4,938
Wyoming2,865
Raleigh3,367
Fayette5,997
Nicholas4,626
Webster1,555
Randolph4,990
Tucker1,428
Preston13,312
Monongalia13,048
Marion12,721
Taylor7,463
Jackson8,306
Roanoke8,048
Calhoun2,502
Wirt3,751
Gilmer3,759
Ritchie6,847
Ohio22,422
Brooke5,494
Barbour8,959
Upshur7,292
Harrison13,790
Lewis7,999
Braxton4,992
Clay1,787
Kanawha14,575
Boone4,840
Wayne6,747
Cabell8,020
Patnam6,301
Mason9,185
Wood11,016
Pleasants2,945
Tyler6,517
Doddridge5,203
Wetzel6,703
Marshall13,001
Hancock4,445
Total population281,786