The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-22 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, ISM:

overlook dune faults, but it insisted on them lees!
than it would have done had it not been for the
public►tion of the letter in which General,
MVI.ELLAN ordered the arrest of the members of
the Maryland Legislature. Very little was said
against General MTLELLAN at the Republican
meetings, for the sufficient rt .30n that he has not
made for himself any political character, the
generalities of his letter to the Chicago delegates
not being considered as defining his position with
clearness. There was, moreover, a disposition on
the part of his opponents to recognise the very
honourable way in which, like a faithful citizen,
he bore himself towards the head of the Republic
at a period when an unscrupulous commander,
beloved as he was by the army, would have abused
his position, as he was strongly advised to do, to
overthrow the Government and seize the reins of
power. Mr. LINCOLN was vituperated, as usual,
on the part of the extreme section of the Demo-
crats, but as a compensation he received from men
of distinction, immeasurably his superiors, such
demonstrations of respect and confidence
as are only yielded to worth and goodness.
When men of education and refinement like Dr.
BELLOWS declare their convictionthat the uncouth,
awkward, and ill-dressed LrscoLN has a mind ca-
pable of surveying and comprehending the inter-
eats and destinies of the Republic, and is a safe
pilot for the Union in such a storm, spectators at
a distance may reasonably suppose, notwithstand- I
ing the great body of Southern assertion to the
contrary, that the people of the United States have
not for the second time made the mistake of
choosing an ape for their President. "An ho-
" nester man never lived," said Dr. BELLows,
" and I think his honesty, as happens with other
"amiable men, has done something to prevent the
" people appreciating the length and breadth
"of his intellect, which I solemnly believe is an
" intellect of the first order." But, after all, it was
as representing • cause—the cause of national
unity—that Mr. LINCOLN was re-elected. In this
country opinion is much divided, not only as to
the merits of that cause, but as to its very nature.
One thing, however, we are all concerned in. Only
a strong government in the United States can
properly fulfil the duties which the Republic owes
to foreign Powers in times like these, when, as in
the case of the Trent or the Wachusetta, the Exe-
cutive may have to take a course repugnant to tem-
porary popular feeling. According to the testimony
of our own statesmen, Mr. LINOOLN'S Government
has shown the will and the power to deal justly
by us, and we have no reason, therefore, to regret
his re-election by a large majority.

LAT= INTiIIIALIGINCE.

' THS: AMERICAN MAIL

We have this morning received Boston papers of
the 9th, and New York papers of the Bth. The
former publish the results of the elections. The
republican papers are triumphant. The Boston
Journal has the following series of " headings,"
printed in very bold type :

Preddentisl aid State Elections.—The Union WIN every-
where Trinmphank —Abraham Lincoln re-elected President
of the United Statea--Copperheedism °rushed out.—Union
Majority in Manachusetts over 70,300.—Rice and Hooper
Triunlolmktly Reelected.—Five or Si: Republican Congress-
men Gained.—New England All Right.—The West Re-
sponds Nobiy.—New York and Pennsylvania Gone Union.
—A Glorious Victory AM Round.

The same jourual has the following comnienia
upon the election of Mr. Lincoln :

Our column of returns this morning is eloquent with the
voice of the American people passing their judgment upon
their own destiny, deciding to live rather than to perish,
and to employ the rational means of life. Never was a iti-
tional verdict given more understandingly, and never was
there one which required lees explanation. The admin. -
tration of Abraham Lincoln is simply endorsed, if not at
solutely in all its particulars, yet in its essential line of
policy, and most decisively as compered with any policy or
principle put in issue by its opponents. The patriotic
muses tell Abraham Lincoln that he is right in
enforcing a vigorous prosecution of the war for sup.
pressiou of the rebellion, and that be is expected to
continue right on to the end ; that he is right in striking
at slavery as an effectual and indispensable means to that
end, and that the country will sustain him therein with all
the power which Providence has placed at our command.
And may we not hope that we shall now enter upon a
stage of popular unanimity in support of the government
more substantial than it has hitherto enjoyed ! Of traitors
and rebel sympathisers in our midst nothing is expected
but unrelenting opposition. There is also a certain pro-
portion of constitutionally factious elements which must
always be taken into amount. But far more nu.
melons than these, we vast, ere the honest men
of the democratic party. Whatever opposing policy
these men may have favoured in the past, they
have seen it deliberately set aside by the judgment of
the nation for the tried and matured policy of the adminis-
tration, after three and a half you' of as searching expe-
rience as ever fell to the lot of any people of ancient or
modern times. This judgment, therefore, mast stand.
There is no appeal from it—nothing to be done but to carry
it out with more or less efficiency. Seeing that this is so,
will not all honest democrats now bestow their patriotic
efforts in the only direction that can tell—that is, by giving
to the government their unhesitating hearty support Let
that be done, and this election would prove the knell of
treason, the harbinger of a speedily restored Union. Men
and money would be furnished without stint. Home
traitors would be crushed out by the mere forte
of an overpowering public sentiment. The nations
of the earth, won over by the invincible majesty of
a united people, would no longer throw obstacles in our
wag. And the long-suffering masses of the South, white
and black, wonldbe emboldened to new efforts at throwing
off the aristocratic leaders of the rebellion, who would
quickly succumb to their fate. Thus the emergence to
peace and order would be as rapid as the original coming on
of the storm of the rebellion ; and all the now seemingly
difficult questions of reconstruction would, in due time, find
their easy and beneficent solution. But whether these
plessententicipations are realised or not, it becomes those
who have thus far stood by the President, and have won
this signal victory at the polls, to continue their support of
the government with renewed courage and hope. We have
passed the darkest hour of the crisis, and bright omens are
gathering before us. With the blessing of Provident* let
us onward !

Secretary Seward made a speech at Auburn on
the evening of the Bth. In conclusion he said :

You are all free and independent as I am, and you may
and must decide the question for yourselves. I cannot
decide it for you, nor shall you decide it for me. I am
not going to surrender to the rebels. No I though they
extend the desolation of civil war over the whole land—
though they come backed in their unholy quarrel by one or
many foreign states. I am not going to surrender now.
Therefore I want no armistice, no cessation of hostilities,
no negotiation with rebels in arms. However it may
be with others, " I looked before I leaped."
If I could have been ready to surrender now, I
should have proposed to surrender at the beginning. 1
should have accepted terms without waiting for Bull Run
—certainly after Ball Run. I would have availed myself
of the first gleam of victory to secure terms as little humi.
listing as possible. I should have negotiated after the
capture of New Orleans—after Murfreesboroagh—after
Norfolk—after Antietam—after Vicksburg--after Gettys-
barg—l would have gone, under the pressure of national
affliction, and made every defeat a claim to rebel sympathy
and clemency. After the first Bull Run battle—after the
second Bull Run battle—after Gaines's Mill—after
Fredericksburg—after Chancellorsville—after the de-
feat of Banks on the Red River—l am not
going to surrender now, nor never. As for the arts of
statesmanship, I know of none applicable in this case. The
only art of statesmanship that I do know is to be faithful
o God and to my country. I seek to cultivate charity and
prevent war, civil or foreign, as long as, consistent with
national justice andhonour and safety, it can be prevented ;
but when in war to fight with courage, constancy, and
resolution, and thus to save my country or fall with its
defenders. The battle thus waged in this case cannot fail.
Even if it could fail, the field which was lost would fur ever
be a holy sepulchre, which would send up through all
coming time inspiration, to reanimate and cheer on the
friends of progress, of liberty, of humanity.
The following despatches were received by the
Navy Department at Washington ou the Bth, an-
nouncing the capture of the Florida :
Boston, Maas, Nov. 7, 1S•lI.

bility," says the New York Herald, " about to
inaugurate an offensive campaign from that point,
thus ignoring for the time the existence of Hoed,
or leaving him to prosecute his campaign into
Tennessee at his leisure."

A despatch from General Blunt, dated Neosho,
Mo., says that, on the 28th ult., he came up with
General Price at Newtons, and after a severe fight
of three or four hours, drove the enemy from the
field in confusion, with the loss of over 200, includ-
ing two coloured. The Federal loss was about 120.
The Union troops consisted of Ford's and Jennimu':,
brigades of Blunt's divisiou. The enemy were
fully 1,000 strong. Price "is retreating toward
Cassville, and will be vigorously pursued. He is
reported to still have large trains, and about
10,000 unarmed conscripts ; but this is quite
doubtful." About 000 rebel prisoners, captured
from Price, arrived at St. Louis on the tith. Others
were to come.

General Sheridan and several staff officer, were
poisoned a few days ago at Winchester I.y ,owe
corrosive substance which, in a supposed accidental
manner, got mixed with their food. They all suf-
fered ,:were pains from the effects of the poison,
but is ,lid not prove fatal to any of them.

The New York Herald of the Bth haa the fol-
lowing repeating the Confederate privateers, and
the capture of blockade runners :

We have accounts of farther work of the roam I•r'va.
teen. The barque Speedwell, which arrived at Philadel-
phia yesterday, was bonded on the 2nd inst., in north
latitude 40.30, longitude OA, by the Chickamauga, and
bonded for Is,ooo dole. The British bark Victoria, which
also arrived at Philadelphia yesterday, reports that on the
evening of the 31st ult. she saw an American vessel of about
300 tons ou fire at sea. No human being was seen on or
near the burning vessel, and when the Victoria left her she
was consumed to the water's edge. The schooner Otter,
from Bangor for Georgetown, was destroyed by the Chick-
amauga about the last of October, and her captain and clew
arrived at Philadelphia yesterday, on board the Speedwell.
A despatch was received in Chicago yesterday stating that
the Canadian steamer Georgians has been fitted out as a
rebel pirate, and is now on Lake Huron.
The blockade running steamers Annie, captured on the
31st ult. by the United States steamers Wilderness and
Niphon, and the Lucy, *sized by the Santiago de Cube on
the 2nd inst., are both fast and valuable English-built
iron vessels. The Annie had on board 500 bales of cotton
and 30 teas of tobacco, and the Lucy over 400 bales of cot-
ton and 25 tons of tobacco.

By way of Havana we have some news from Nassau,
N.P., relative to the rebel blockade runners. The Banshee
No. 2 had arrived at the latter place from Wilmington,
N.C., in forty-eight hours. The blockade-running steamers
Florio and A. E. Fry got ashore outside of Charleston, S.C.,
and the Talisman and Wando, which left there on the :hlth
alt., had not since been heard of in West India Seceseis.
AU desired information in reference to latter vessel can be
furnished by the gallant met of our blockaders, as she was
captured by them, and has sines arrived in a northern port.
The Virginia and Lucy Armstrong had arrived at Noxell in

The Richmond Er unimr of the sth speaks of an
exchange of 10,000 prisoners at Savannah :
An exchange of 10,000 sick and wounded prisoners at
Savannah has already been mentioned as a future event.
We learn that on yesterday the first interview of the flag
of truce took place at Island City, Colonel Weddy acting
on the Confederate side, Colonel Bennet appearing for the
Yankees. The preliminaries ware arranged for 10,000 Coc.
fed:Tate prisoners already arrived at Hilton Head on
transports, sod the strainer Baltic. None of them were
delivered at this rust interview, but boxes for prisoners on
both sides were delivered. The second flag of truce on this
business will meet at the same place on the 6th instant.
A shocking accident occurred on the Erie rail-
road, near Callicoon station, on Sunday morning,
the 6th. There were six cars in the ill-fated train,
containing about 150 passengers, several of whom
were killed, and a large number of others were
more or less seriously injured.
According to the Wilmington Joornal of the let
the Federal attack on that place has been deferred.
" Where the fleet," it says, "which threatened an
attack on Wilmington has gone is more than we
can guess. It may come here ; but upon the whole
we do not think it will. For the present, at least,
we think the town of Wilmington is comparatively
free from immediate attack. We think that for
some time the Yankee fleet will give us the go by."

THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.
SPEECHES' OF CONFEDERATE GENERALS.
(From the Rick no-ed Eovircr, Nov. 4.)

There was a happy time with the army of the
Tennessee just previous to leaving Gadsden, Alabants, fer
the onward march against Sherman. A correspondent of
the Selma Rep-rt, r gives the following sketch of the occa-
sion and its incidents :

A large crowd, with a band of music, appeared before
General Hood's headquarters (the Baptist church) and
called him out. The geocr.,l looked very well. lie said
he congratulated ua the pro,;*cts before us ; said our
advantages are better now than during the old campaign
in Georgia ; said there have been great accessions to the
army from the hospitals, the convalescent canoe, and men
oo furlough; that they would all move off the next
morning for the Valley of the Tennessee. General Hood
did not say he would cross the Tennessee, bet we all un-
derstand it. ELI said S'Atraian could not hold Atlanta and
N.shville too ; that its the next battle he expects to lead
his army to victory.
General S. D. Lee was called for. H t acid—" Sherman
is like the man who caught the Tartar—he sacrificed nearly
all his strength to get it, but did nut know what to do with
it after he got it." Said Sherman could not keep up his
communication long ; that he will soon be forced to leave
Atlanta, ncd, if he meets us on Tennessee soil or els. -
where, he will get the worst whipping that any Yankee
general has got since the fall of Fort Sumter, and we will
wipe him from the list of Yankee officers.

The crowd then went to General Cheatham's quartets.
The general said he appesred at their request, but not to
make a speech. There was a time when he could talk
about the Yankees, but it makes him mad to talk about
them now, and the onthuoiosm which he sees exh,bited
justifies him in saying he cars' not for the odds that might
come against him, he expects nothing but victory in the
next conflict.

We then repaired to th 3 head-quarters of General Mean.
reward. In his usual modest way he appeared and said he
mast be excused frotu tusking a speech. lle would say,
however, that he had CAM.) to the .Irtny of the Tennessee
t, remain with them until their present cluiprden ends.
Tint he thinks he sees twee that be has seen at Shiloh awl
other ft-tile-grounds ; and, as he then directed them, so he
expects to do in the comin; battle with Sherman. He then
requested the crowd to excuse him awl hear his friend Major
Eustis, who was a better orator than he was.

Major Eustis, of Genera:, Beauregard's staff, came for-
ward teal made a haAsouae speech, bat addressed himself
elclusivOy to the LouLdauiarm, which I thought was in bad
taste.

General Clayton was then called be. He said the object
of the enemy was not to elevate the negro, but to lower
the white man. There would be no liw in this country to
punish the negro who killed his master, burnt up his wife
and children, or toy other damage he may do the Southern
man. Even further, they wauld put the whip in the negro's
hands, and enslave the Southern whites.
aseeral Pat Cleburne was next called far. He said—
" Soldiers, the old campaign is ended—a new one begirt'
from this place. Let us all resolve to do our whole duty.
Hereafter I intend to light, not for rights, but for revenge !
You had as well talk religion to a heathen as right—
Southern rights—to • Yank,. I:avenge, revenge! for
ruined homes, violated wives and dou;hters, desecrated
gra►es and altars, load laid waste, and our fair cities sacked
and rained. Can we ever be remunerated! Never ! But
vengeance upon them henceforth, until not a Yankee lives
on Southero soil." General Cleburne ►hen spoke to his
men about the necessity of dianpline, and closed by telling
his men he felt more anxious to meet Sherman now than
ever. He went down to Atlanta, ezUed the people, and
bad many houses pulled down to be used for firewood this
winter. While thus sequestered in his comfortable quarters,
supposing we were in his front, we flanked him, captured
Dalton ►nd his negro garrison, tore up his railroad over •s,O
miles, and got into Alabama before he waked up. But we

will wake him op in our next conflict. Just renumber,
revenge Le the watchwonl.

General Bate wee next called for. lie is still upon his
crutch, but gets along very well. He was very humorous.
In concluding, he said that it required time only to put
Tennessee and Kentucky in our possession.
General Beauregard is about live feet seven inches high,
grey hair, broad forehead, face tapering rapidly to the chin,
prominent noes. full, dark eye, and wears a gray moustache
sod imperial. He is fifty years old.
General Hood is about six feet high, light hair, fair com-
plexion, pay eyes, heavy sandy beard, a large framed roan,
about 35 Test., old. His right leg is off above the knee.
General S. L. Lee is a young man, about 23 years old,
fire feet eight inches in height, light hair and whiskers,
grey eyes and fair complexion.
General Cheatham is about live feet nine inches high,
heavy built, dark hair, dark hazel eyes, about 55 years old.
General Clayton is six feet high, about 44 years old, hair
turning grey, short, stiff beard—a good-looking man.
General Pat Cleburne u six feet one or two inches high,
about 42 years old, lean (but not hungry looking, like
Cassius), iron grey hair; loves his friends and hates him
enemies' bodies, but prays, he says, for their souls.
General Bate is a well-grown man, about :38 years old.
aix feet high, dark hair, speaks pleasantly, and limps upon
his right leg, from wounds received io Georgia.
I wish the croakers could have witnessed this array of
military talent and grand display of enthusiasm in our
soldiers. They would have taken •' to their holes^ until
another day.

THE BLOWING UP OF THE RAM ALBE-
MARLE.
CONFEDERATE AOCOUNT.
(From the Iti,h,o,old Di,p.'rh, Nov. 4.)

The capture of Plymouth, N.C., by the enemy,
is explained by later amounts. A lack of sufficient weak*•
fulness on the part of our troops seem, to have been the
prime cause of the lien of the town. It seems that on
Thursday night a party of eighteen men, belonging to the
bloekadiog fleet in Albemarle Sound, some eight or ten
miles from Plymouth, took a small torpedo boat and
started for Plymouth. Oa the way they found a small boat
containing six of our men in the river, stationed there as a
picket guard ; but all of them being asleep thy were taken
prisoners. Then proceeding to Plymouth they found the
Albemarle at her wharf, and, running the torpedo boat ender
her ainidship, blew her op, ceasing damages from which she
soon sunk. Infantry was stationed on the wharf, who fired on
the assaulting party, and after the Albemarle sunk captured
the whole of them, but no one was killed, and only one
man wounded. There was no force of the enemy near Ply-
mouth, with the exception of five or six gunboats in the
sound ; but the loss of the Albemarle opened the Roanoke
to them, and hence the fall of the town. Captain Roberta,
it is stated, commanded the Albemarle. It is understood
that there were no byes last on the Albemarle, and there
were very few men aboard at the time of the explosion of
the torpedo.

ARMING THE SLAVES IN THE SOUTH
PROTESTED AGAINST.

The Richmond Enquirer of the 4th publishes a
letter from a planter, protesting very strongly against the
employment of negroes. He asks
" Can it be possible that a Southern man—editor of a
Southern journal—recogniaing the right of property in
slaves, admitting their inferiority in the scale of being,
and also their social inferiority, would recommend the
passage of a law which at one blow levels all distinctions,
deprives the master of a right to his property, and
elevates the negro to an equality with the white man ?
Is it for this we would seek the ail of our slaves! To
win their freedom with their own independence, to estab-
lish in our midst a half or quarter of a million of black
freemen, familiar with the arts and discipline of vrar,:and
with large military experience? Hu the bitter experience
of Virginia with regard to free negroes already been for•
gotten': What has embittered the feelings of the two sec-
tions of the old Union What has gradually driven them
to the final separation ? What is it that has made two na-
tionalities of them, if it is not slavery ? It was slavery that
caused them to denounce us inferiors ; it was slavery
that made the difference in our Congressional represen-
tatives. It was slavery that made the difference in our
pursuits, in our interests, in our feelings, in our social
and political life ; it is slavery which now makes of us two
people as widely antagonistic and diverse as any two people
CAD he, and it only needs a difference of language to make
the Northerner end Southerner as opposite as the Frenchman
and the Englishman. Messrs. Editors, if you had sought in
the political body of the Confederacy for some spot at
which to aim and strike one blow which should at once de-
prive it of life, you could not have found one more vital, or
have struck with more deadly certainty than you have done
by the advoescy of such a scheme ; and, if there is any
member of Congress so lost to his sense of the duty which
he owes to his country and the constitution which he has
sworn to defend ; if there is the who is not tired of the
scenes of blood and ruin and devastation which have stained
and desolated many portions of our beloved land but yet
desires to Rae more and yet a thousand fold more of the
strife and woe and misery begotten by civil revolution, let
him persuade Congress to pass such a law and attempt to
carry out such a system, and the things which have been
will be nothing to the things that shall be—the revolution
and war born and nurtured And raging in our midst, shall be
nothing whet compared to that struggle in which we are
now engaged, u the wild and desolating tornado, compared
to the mild summer wind—as the angry fury of the ocean
waves when lashed by tierce blasts to the smooth surface of
thu mountain lake."

The writer concludes that the South will be utterly de•
stroyed by arming and freeing the slaves. He says that
these freedmen " will be men who know the value and
power of combination, they will be well disciplined, trained
to the use of arms, with the power and ability of command;
at the same time they will be grossly and miserably igno-
rant, without any fixed principle of life or the ability of
acquiring one." He prefers to rest the salvation of the
South upon "the stout arms and brave hearts" of its white
men, and not depend upon a scheme which he regards as
"only abolitionism in disguise."

AUSTRIA AND ITALY.

A Paris letter iu tha itutie &Lys

am able to g:ve you an abstract of the programme
adopted by Count Mansdorti-Ponilly, the new Minister of
Foreign Aff or. at Vienna. This document was drawn up
with the aid of M. de Schmerling, signed by the whole
caLinet, and has received the approbation of the Emperor.
Passing over the part rel►ting to purely German affairs, I
c-ime to the portion which interests you 'mast, that ex
plaiuiug the attitude which the Austrian government in-
tends to assume towards Italy. The programme makes the
followiog important declarations:—let. That the Austrian
government wishes to establish regular commercial inter.
course with the new Italian state. 2nd. That it sees no
objection to establish regular diplomatic relations between
Vieima aril Turin Or Florence, as the case may be), and is
prapsvol to take the steps necessary for that purpose.