Later from the North.
We are indebted to the kindness of the officers of the
Exchange Bureau for New York papers of Saturday last, the 12th inst. The news is not important, and we make a brief summary of it:
The Fate of the steamship Chesapeake--further particulars of her loss.
The New York papers are filled with accounts of the efforts being made for the recapture of the steamer
Chesapeake. Nine steamers have been dispatched after her, the fastest being the
Sassacus, which can run seventeen miles an hour.
The St. John's ( N. B)
Evening Globe gives some particulars about the plot which ended in the capture of the
Chesapeake, It says:
‘
The scheme was matured here by rebel agents.
Meetings were held, and the passage money of the parties to make the seizure paid through to New York.
They were promised $500 each on the steamer being safely taken into
Wilmington.
’
It was also arranged that at a certain store in New York each of the parties were to call, at different times, for a parcel containing a revolver, ammunition, and a pair of handcuffs.
It is believed that the cargo was shipped by rebel agents, valuable to the
South, and it was arranged that she should be seized on this particular trip.
The manager of the plot represented that the
Chesapeake had been taken while attempting to run the blockade, and this was an effort made to get back Southern property.
We have the names of five of the parties engaged in the seizure.
They belong to this city, and left here with
Captain Braine.
They are of the worst species of humanity, denominated roughs, one of them just out of the Penitentiary.
They all went from here by the steamer
New England, on the 3d instant, to
Boston.
The chesapeake did not coal here.
She called off the harbor and took on board
Captain Parker, formerly of the privateer
Retribution, who took command.
Our citizens generally regret that this city has unwillingly offered temporary shelter to the conductor of the scheme, and that any person from this place should be concerned in it. Public opinion here condemns the act entirely.
Captain Willet and the passengers and crew of the steamer have been provided for by the steamer
New England to-day.
A telegram from
Portland, Me., dated the 11th says:
The steamer
New England arrived this evening from
St. John, bringing
Captain Willetts and a position of the crew of the
Chesapeake, all of whom, with the exception of the mate, who is badly wounded, proceeded to
Boston.
Captain Willetts reports having met two steamers bound east, undoubtedly in pursuit of the pirates — both side wheel steamers.
He also reports that all the persons engaged in the capture of the
Chesapeake passed from
St. Johns to
Boston in the steamer
New England but a few days ago, and most of them were undoubtedly provincial.
Captain Willetts furnishes the following copy of the order of the captain of the pirate Retribution to the officers detached to capture the
Chesapeake:
You are hereby ordered to proceed to the
city of New York with the following:
First Lieut H. A. Patt, 2d St.
David Colins,
Sallingmaster Geo. Robinson, and crew of eleven men. You will, on arrival, engage passage on board the steamer, and use your discretion as to the proper time and place to capture.
Your action toward the crew and passengers will be strictly in accordance with the
President's instructions.
You will, as circumstances will permit, bring your prize to the island of Grand Menan for further orders — Seal Cove Harbor, if accessible.
The
Vice-Consul at
Halifax telegraphs Collector Washburge that a steamer is in Shelbourne, answering the description of the
Chesapeake.
She attempted to coal at
Halifax last night.
The Government was applied to, but no encouragement was given for want of evidence of murder committed.
An affidavit of the charge would be made to day. The crown officer was deliberating upon it.
The agents of the steamer
Chesapeake here have evidence that the cargo of the
Chesapeake was owned exclusively by American and
Canadian merchants, and was not intended to run the blockade, as reported by the
St. John's Globe.
Rebel sympathizers here originated that report to the prejudice of the
British authorities.
Neither had she ever been a Southern vessel or attempted to run the blockade.
The latest rumor in the New York papers is that the
Chesapeake has run into Pubalco, about sixty miles west of
Halifax.
The
New York World, commenting on
Lincoln's proclamation requiring the citizens of the
Confederate States to take an oath supporting his emancipation proclamation, says:
‘
President Lincoln has shown himself utterly destitute of the statesmanlike tact requisites for dealing with a great people in revolt; he is as blind as was Lord North; he is as blind as was
Phillip the Second, of
Spain, when he lost the Netherlands.--Never, since the creation of man, has there been a people so led captive by their imaginations, so subject to the despotism of ideas, as the people of the
South.
Call their ideal grievances prejudices, if you will; brand their ardor, their vehemence, their persistence as black and rampant treason; but, under every aspect in which their conduct can be viewed, the fact stands unshaken that they are a people surrendered to their ideas.
If
Mr. Lincoln were a statesman, if he were even a man of ordinary prudence and sagacity, he would see the necessity of touching the peculiar wound of the
South with as light a hand as possible.--Instead of this he chafes and inflames it. Not strong enough himself, though wielding the whole power of the
Government, to resist the revolutionary exaltation and fanatic fervor of the Abolitionists, how can he expect private citizens of the
South to brave an exaltation and fervor which in that section is all but unanimous?
If he had stood firm against the abolition current he would have had a great majority of the
Northern people to keep him in countenance; but who in the
South would not scorn the name who could so degrade and humiliate himself as to take the abolition ask, by what right
Mr. Lincoln assumes to propose such an oath?
We, of course, know that he pretends to derive it from the pardoning power; but this whimsical deduction is a fitter topple for derision than for serious argument.
As he can offer a conditional pardon he claims that he can impose any conditions he pleases.
’
The army of the Potomac.
There is no picket firing between the pickets of
Gens. Lee and
Meade, and the army of the latter is going into winter quarters.
A telegram, dated
Washington, the 11th, says:
‘
Accounts received to-night from the army of the Potomac say that all reports to the effect that
Gen. Made has been superseded were unfounded, at least up to a late hour last night, as far as was known at headquarters.
Gen. Meade day before yesterday forwarded his report of the recent movement south of the
Rapidan to the War Department.
It is confidently believed it will be satisfactory to the
Cabinet.
His late retrograde movement is fully endorsed by almost every officer of the army.
All the corps are busily engaged making themselves comfortable.
Beyond this no active operations are visible.
’
About one hundred of
Mosby's and
White's guerillas appeared in the vicinity of
Lovettsville about midnight of the 8th instant.
The neighborhood is full of guerillas.
Mosby was with the gang which visited
Lovettsville.
His headquarters are at
Markham, on the railroad, in
Fauquier county.
Markham is west of
Oak Hill, on the Manassas railroad.
These guerillas were in full Federal uniform.--They are watching our forage and transportation wagons very closely, and are ready at all times to take advantage of circumstances.
Miscellaneous.
The monitor
Weehawken suddenly sunk at her anchorage off
Morris Island during a gale on the 6th inst. Out of her crew thirty were lost, including four
assistant engineers.
Her captain was on board the flag-ship when the accident occurred.
All the other officers, except the above named four, were saved.
No damage was sustained by any other of the iron-clads.
Under the head of "Pardon by the
President," the papers publish the following telegram:
"The President has signed a pardon exempting
E. W. Gantt, of
Arkansas, from the penalty pf treason, which he incurred by accepting and exercising the office of Brigadier General in the service of the insurgents.
The pardon also reinstates
Gen. Ganit in all his rights of property excepting those relating to slaves."
Gen. Sherman will leave
Knoxville in a few days for
Chattanooga.
The Confederate cavalry are active between the two places.
On Friday night about five thousand horses stampeded from the cavalry camp at Glesboror', near
Washington.
An attempt was made to stop them while passing over the bridge communicating with
Washington, but did not succeed.
Some of them fell into the river and were drowned.
A number of them are making a hurried visit to
Maryland.
Gen. Hamilton,
Military Governor of
Texas, reached
Brazos on the 2d inst; and would enter upon the duties of his office as soon as possible.
A political
emcute arose out of an attempt by the Abolition students in Michigan University to pass resolutions denouncing the recent visit of some Democratic students to
Mr. Vallandigham.
The Louisville
Journal has advices, which it credits, that the rebel
General Morgan was in
Cumberland county, Ky., on the morning of the 7th inst., in company with five of his officers, proceeding towards the
South.
The fund for the encouragement of volunteering in New York city amounts to $750,000.
Five hundred recruits for
Missouri regiments left
St. Louis on the 5th inst.
Gold was quoted in New York on Friday at 151⅜, a rise of three per cent. in two days.
