The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-02 00:00:00

TEN OVERDUE AFRICAN MAIL STEAMER

CLruPATRA.

LIVERPOOL, WEDNZISDAT.
In order to contradict wine erroneous and un-
founded statements which have appeared in the public
pipers, and which are lot calculated to allay the unseal-
ems felt consequent on the ace-arrival of the Cleopatra,
we are enabled to offer the following explanation :—ln
the paragraph which bas already appeared it is stated
that when the ship Majestic left Bonny the Cleopatra
was several days overdue at that place ; that the
latest intelligence of the missing steamer is of ber
sailing from Sierra Leone on the 11th of July • that ber
detention must have occurred between Sierra Leone and
Bonny ; that by the Majestic'. advice. the steamer had been
15 days out duce leaving the former port, though the die.
twice is stated to be only three days' steaming thence to
Bonny. Now, we have ascertained the has to be, that the
Cleopatra wee last heard of at Cape Palmas, 500 miler to
I the southward of Siena Leone, where she was peened by
the Athenian steamer on the 16th of Jul . From Cape
Palmas the Cleopatra would have to to Cape Coast
Castle. Acme, Isgos, Bevis, Nun, Bias., and theme to
Bonny. The distance from Cape Palmas to &nay, round
the ports enumerated, occupies eight instead of thane days'
steam* ; and, including stoppages, is performed in 12 days
7 boars.
The ineopatra was due at Bonny at 4 Ls. oa the 26th
Jul ; the Majestic left the bar at Bossy at 8 p.m. on the
26tL, and nut, as stated, os the 28th ; coasequeutly the
sum and substance ,f ber intelligesae is, that the steamer
was 16 boars overdue at Bonny, which might very well
occur without occident. No actual intelligence, however, is
looked for before the arrival of the next pocket, which is
due here at 6 pas. co the 10th laden...

AILRIVAL 01 ANOTHEIL VISSZL 7i Naw
Ows.—LTVIMPOOL, WILDPIZODAT.—n• &nab,
Oaptain Wilson, arrived here to-day from N. Oricoaz
which port ehtileft es the 14th of August. This is the
weasel which hes wired bore nom the °peeing of that port
by the Federal govenwmat. The cargo of the South con-
ebbe of 97 hales of motor. 13 tow of copper ore, 620 tone
oil Inks, sad as mike sod 310 barrels mein. Shir bee also
co board 19,393 dole. in specie. To-day the Black Eagle.
from Bombay. arrived here, having on board 6,576 bales of
cotton.

the troops wider Burnside and Porter had not been
They drove the rebels from the line of Antietam Creek, en
the main road to Sharpobarg, built a bridge, the old 'amen
hash)g been destroyed, and occupied the opposite bank.
The loss here was considerable. The troops now hold both
banks of the Creek. To get possession of the ridge of hips
on the right and left band sides of the road from which the
rebels were thundering away with artillery, was a task
easily socomplialsed.
Sykes' brigade, with the assistance of Sumner, carried the
ridge en the right•hand side after considerable trouble and
lass, the rebels running in all directions.
It was now five o'clock, and all the enemy's positions bad
been carried except the one on the left•haod side of the
road. To do this Burnside was assigned. The artillery
opened and the infantry advanced. The point was carried
at a charge, but we were tweed to retire before a superior
force. Knowing that if they lost this ridge a complete rout
of their army would be the result, they fought with greet
desperation. Da•kness Dow overtook the two armies, and
hostilities ceased as though by mutual consent
The battle lasted from five in the morning till seven at
night without a moment's cessation. The conduct of all
troops without exception was all that any general could
wish.

Several regiments of New York troops who were is notion
for the lint time behaved admirably. Hundreds of Mary-
landers were present to witness the battle, which could be
seen from many of the surrounding hills. The sharp
rattle of 50,000 muskets, sad the thunder of 100
pieces of artillery, is not often witnessed. It is is.•
possible at this writing to form any 001M9Ot
idea of our loss or that of the enemy. It is heavy on both
sides. Ours will probably reach in killed and wounded
10,000 ; that of the enemy will not exceed it. The enemy's
dead, which nearly all fell into our hands, were thickly
strewn over the field, in many places lying is heaps.
Our wounded were carried from the field, and the best
possible attention given them. When General Hooker fell
General M'Clellan immediately proceeded to the right,
where he was enthusiastically recei►ed, and by his pre-
sence added much to our mamma in recovering the grated
lost, sod be was in the centre and left, as well as anxiously
watching the progress of the battle, sad giving directions
as to the manner of attack. He in in bin teat to-night for
the first time since he left Frederick oily.
Centreville, Maryland, Sept. 17.

A great battle has been fought, and we an vcctorions,
I bad the honour to open it yesterday *harpoon, and it con-
tinued until ten o'clock this morning, when I "ma woman:Mg
and compelled to leave the field. The battle was fought
with great violence on both sides. The carnage has beim
awful. I only regret that I was not permitted to take part is
the operatious until they were concluded, for I had counted
on either capturing their army, or driving them into the
Potomac. My wound bu been painful, but it is not one
that will be likely to lay me up. I was shot through the
foot.

(Signed) J. }loom, Major-General.
Head-quarten, Army of the Potomac, Sept. 16,
Via Frederick, Sept. 18.

To the Associated Preen—During this afternoon informa-
tion was received at head-quarters showing that the army
were recrossing the river, and concentrating their forces co
the ridge of hills outside the tows of Sharpsburg, to within
three miles of the main body of our army.
Jackson left Harper's Ferry this morning. His troops
commenced to arrive during the afternoon. When it became
evident that Lee was disposed to engage our force in battle
at this point, General M'Clellan sent for Franklin's corps
and Crouch's division, who were about 7 miles distant on
the other side of Elk Ridge. There was considerable
artillery firing during the day on both sides, resulting
in our having about 40 men killed and wounded. Major
Arnedt, of the Ist New York Artillery, was struck in the
side by a piece of shell. The disposition of the troops for
the impending battle was aa follows :—General Sumner'a
corps with General Banks' division, to occupy the centre
General Hookee's corps, with the Pennsylvania reserves and
Franklin's corps, on the right ; Generals Porter and Burt.
side on the extreme left, with the view of turning the esemy's
right flank. General Pleasonton supported the centre with
2,500 cavalry and 4 batteries.
General Hooker in the afternoon crossed Antietam Creek,
and took up a position on the hills facing Sharpsburg, and
three miles to the right of Keeteville. His troops got into
action about dusk. The battle lasted two hours, during
which the enemy were driven about half a mile with coo.
siderable loss. The Pennsylvania reserves, who were in
frost, suffered much. The night was occupied in getting
the troops in their respective positions, while ammunition
trains and ambulances were forwarded to the different
commands.

Harrisburg, Sept. 18.

The news received during last night indicate. that the
result of yesterday's fight wu decidedly in our favour, but
still another battle is necessary to determine who shall be
the victor.

It was expected that the battle would spin be resumed
ibis morning, but no firing has bees beard, and it lamp-
posed that the burying oR the deed is the order of ilia day.
General }rel•llan's heed-quarters are at Sharpsburg. Ser-
geon.GeneralSimith despatched especial train to Hagerstown
yesterday, to attend to our wounded. The number of
wounded in General Irelallan's recent battles is very
large. Most of them will probably be brought into Peon-
sylvenia. The rebel prisoners taken have been sent to Fort
Delamere.

Information received here this morning direct from the
battle-field represented that the battle would undoubtedly
be resumed to-day, but up to this hour no firing had
been heard at Hagerstown. The forces remain about
in the Name positions u is yesterday's fight.
Preparations are now being made here for receiving the
sick and wounded from the late battle. Citizens are &axiom
to do all in their power for the comfort of those who are
fighting foe the support of the Federal government.
Troops are still coming in by thoesaads, and are immediately
forwarded, the government having complete control of the
rood to Chambersburg and Hagerstown. Regular tube
to these points were suspended to-day—they will be resumed
ilia few days.
Evening.

Advisee juat received et beed•quarters from Hagers-
town confirm the report that no fight bad taken plees
to-day, that the rebels ars 'Bonneted to be abort of aroma-
nition, and that the fight would probably commence at d►y-
break to-morrow. Our troops are said to have behaved
nobly, and talk confidently of pining a peat victory to-
ISOITOW.

Harrisburg. 19th.
The great battle was resumed this morning at Sharpe-
burg. Heavy cannonading is now heard at Hagerstown.
No particdan received yet. Our soldiers were exultant ►t
the result of the previous day's debt, and °nnera
111'01elleo was in the highest spirits. The opinion
01 Oninnal Waallan and those snood ►im was that the
final result would depend on those who got reinforcements.
Oar correspondent says th►t nothing bed been beard
Go the field of the capture of Geseral Loogetrent,

The fawning are amen So casualties in the last greet
battle :—Major-Oeuenl Been, wounded seriously in the
foot; Major Sedgirick, severely in the shoulder, wrist, sad
leg; Major-Gemini Rodman, mortally wounded; Msjor-
General Riehsrdeni, wounded in shoulder seriously ; Brigs-
din-General Maaafield, mortally wounded, and died; Bri-
gadier-General Renaud, !severely ; Brigadier Weber, Briga-
dier-General Meagher, Brigadier-General Duryea, Ooloael
Rinds, killed. It is not known in official quarters, as n-
asally reported, that Charleston has bees inverted, nor
that there is niftiest force in that vicinity to make such as
effort sneeneful

In regard to the affair at Mumfordeville, we have
the following :

Indianapolis. Sept. 19.

An adjutant who escaped from Mumfontleville, after the
surrender of that place to the rebels, has reached here and
report. that the garrison there, comprising the 17th, 50th,
60th, 67th, 68th, and 69th Indiana regiments, am com-
pany of cavalry, and 10 pieces of artillery, surrendered. The
surrender was made on Wednesday, our forces being com-
pletely surrounded by General Bran, whose force is esti-
mateeat 30,000 men. Oar loss in killed and wounded was
50; the rebels acknowledged a lee of 700 on Sunday.
A Louisville despatch say. :

The military commenced fortifying the city yesterday.
Negroes were impressed throwing up rifle pits and digging
bevaatworks.

There is nothing reliable from Mnrafordsville. The
Journal tcday received information that Colonel Wilde
and his gallant band, after fighting three days, were forced
to surrender to an overwhelming force of the enemy at
12 o'clock co Tuesday night.

A letter from New Orleans has the following
paragraph :
Admiral Farragut, with the ilsz.ship Hartford. Nome
dozen or more gunboats, and Commodore Porter's mortar
Best, are still rusticating in Pensacola Bay, as they were
two weeks ago when the blockading squadron at Nubile
allowed a hearilyarmed ironclad gunboat to pass under
their guns into the harbour of Mobile,without so much si
throwing a shot at the monster, which flaunted the secemion
Bag in their face.

The Northern pen contain numerous state-
ments as to alle barbarities on the part of the
secessionists. ne statement is to the effect that
Federal prisoners were horribly treated at Rich-
mond, and that some had died of actual starvation,
and that sentinels were again shooting at prisoners
who looksei oat of *heir windows. Is as raprosonfsd
that Pope's officers are iu a terrible plight, being
in double irons, and some of them almost naked. It
is asserted that a party of Mississippians tied to a
tree and disemboweled one of Farragut's men near
Vicksburg. . . . . . .

Another party bung an old lady who advised
them to desist in endeavouring to break up our
government.

THE CONTEST FOR THE BORDER STATES.

The following observations occur in the "Cotton
Circular" of Meagre. Neill Brothers, dated October lit :
" in their preseet position the Southern leaden would
undoubtedly claim all the Border States—ran Maryland,
Western Virginia, and Missouri. In these States slavery
has long been dying out, and under the Milted Staten its
days are numbered. The same may, in a leaser degree,
be said el Kentucky. The loss of these States would
leave the North a mere strip of country, between the vast
areas of the Coefederaey co the South and Canada on the
North, and ultimately reduce her to the position of a second.
class power, even on her own continent. It is not to be
supposed that her citizens will consent to this, unless when
her strength is utterly broken down and exhausted, nor could
any fraud of humanity deeire it. With their huge popu-
lation and immense rwources, it must be admitted Wen
by those who smile at the pretension of one natioo to possess
and goven an entire continent, that the Northern States
owe it to themselves and to the MUM of free labour to
maintain the lesdieg position in America. This they can
only do by retaining every thing north lot 36.10, the old
Missouri compromise line, except Eastern Virginia, which
is so thoroughly Southern, that its adherence to the North
need not be looked upon as a possibility. Aod this is go
well understood by all intelligent men in the North, and,
indeed, it is so self evident, that, when satisfied of the im-
passibility of reannexing the States which have actually
seceded, there oan be little doubt that they will wage a war
of years, if necessary, rather than concede a northern f roe-
tier. Were the South ready to accept this lion there
might now be some hope of peace, But unfortunately the
very disasters which might well be expected to bring one
party to reason, so stimulate the pride and self-confidence
of the other, that they will listen to no reasonable ar-
rangement."

Tai GARIBALDI MIMING IN GYDZ-PARR.—The
Working Man's Garibaldi Committee, which celled this
meeting, have hissed • circular on Lb. subject, which shows
that they took every reasonable precautioa spinet disorder,
and did nothing to provoke interruption. They announce
that they shall not hold a meeting next Sunday. They
say :—" The committee have received numerous requaa-
dons from their fellow working men of the metropolis to
call them together mein, to give them means of showing
the Irish partisans of the Pope and of the French invader
of Rome that English workingmen an not to be prevented
from peaceably meeting in their own path to express freely
their sympathy with the hero wbo now lies wounded and a
prisoner, for his devotion to right and liberty, or to protest
against the violation of the rights of a people who know better
than the foreigner what government is best suited for
them, without inflicting a severe punishment upon the dis-
turbers of the peace. The committee deem it their duty to
call upon their friends to abstain from enytbiog which could
lead to disorder, a nd,perhape toaocidents ever to be regretted.
Let it not be forgotten that even the poor deluded, ignorant,
and rough Irish friend of the Pope is a brother, since he is
not enough of a man yet to understand that at a public
meeting it is the duty of every one to peaceably ,come for-
ward and express his opinions, and to vote according to hi
conscience and conviction ; let us working men of London
show that we know better,' that we depend upon moral
force and the justice of our cuss., sad not upon bludgeons
and @tones."

• COLLIERY NEAR Doses♦tr.—lntelli-
pece reached Durham early on Monday morning of as
alarming fire having brokers oat in the shaft of Framweil-
pie Moor Gaiety, situate about • mile from that city,
belonging to the Marchioisess of Londonderry. The Ire
wee discovered about one o'clock by several of the fore.
shaft men, who were proceeding to work. On reaching the
pit mouth they discovered that the weed work in the lower
part of the shaft was on fire, sad donee volumes of smoke
were issuing from the mine. No time was lost in taking
such steps is were necessary to subdue the further pro-
areas of the conflygratioa, aid the amities of the Denham
engine were immediately brought into requisition • and
owing to the copious supply of water tram the *Poled,
the dames were speedily subdued, bat not before a very
large portion of the wood-weak bad been destroyed and
fallen down the shaft. The ventilating tweeze which is
used for keepingi up • proper current ef sir throughout the
mine, and in the Hutton Seam is , le close proximity
to the shaft, and the presumptioe ie that the earned must
have sent the dames iota the shaft and ignited the wood-
work. Fortunately the fire was dieffered at • period
when there were an workmen In the Wes, and at the time
of the widest the only occupant was the tangos men, who
wss speedily sideased from hia perilous position.—Nweassek
Chronicle.

Mr. Hall, the father of the young lady who was
so tarbareselr murdered at Fordiugbridge is Joao lust, did
a few days suss.

Few things can be more difficult than to form
even an approximate estimate of what the mill-
owners have done, except to compare it, when
it is formed, with what they might have done.
In every district the local relief funds have to a
large extent been contributed by them. Many men
undertake to supply the wants of their own bands,
and execute the task in a liberal spirit. It is im-
possible to calculate the amount of money weekly
spent in supplying cooked food, either from the
millowner's residence, or from a kitchen extempo-
rised at the factory. And some allowance ought to
be made for the fact (which I am afraid that your
readers will hardly credit) that manufacturers are
not indiscriminately wealthy, and that the form of
their wealth is often very ill-adapted to meet an
emergency like this. There are men, we all know, of
almost fabulous wealth : for the present let them go.
The great mass of millowners are emphatically small
men. A parliamentary return, which has been
carefully aaalyeed by a friend, whose name, were I
able to make it known, would lend great authority
to the statement, estimates the number of cotton
operatives in the United Kingdom at 451,596,
working in 2,987 mills. The average number of
workpeople, then, in each mill is no more than 161
—a result which, when we recollect the number of
factories in every prosperous district employing
from 400 to 2,000 hands, reveals the existence of an
unsuspected mass of small and probably needy
tradesmen. And then a millowner's property is of
a peculiarly ostentatious kind, and passes itself off
upon the public for more than it really is. People
see a huge factory filled with costly machinery ;
they watch the gates vomit forth at noon and night
hundreds of workpeople; they know that a large
sum must necessarily be paid in weekly wages, and
they not unnaturally jump to the conclusion that
one whose production is so large and so costly most
necessarily be a rich man. But the moment the
engine stops, mill and machinery cease to represent
wealth—they are only then a great safe where money
is locked up, and where it cannot be got at till trade
revives, while all the time rent, and rates and taxes,
and interest of money may be flying away with fatal
rapidity. And many men—more by far than would
readily be supposed—have absolutely no property
but the mill and machinery, and the supply of
floating capital needed to work them. There is a
strange tendency among men who are manufac-
turers and nothing else, to build a new mill the
moment the profits of an old one begin to accumu-
late in their hands, as if they knew of no other
use or investment for money. And it would be
easy to point to scores of such, who have pushed
the policy of extension up to or even beyond the
limit of safety ; who do not possess a railway
share or a yard of land beyond what house and
mill stand on, or a hundred pounds in the funds,
and who may be absolutely dependent upon their
banker or their agent for advances of the necessary
capital. For such men to assume the responsi-
bilities of wealth, even in the holiest cause of
charity, is simply to cheat their creditors.
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of trade during the past year, and to attempt to
dispose of the vexed question, whether manufac-
turers have ever worked their mills at a loss, for
the sole motive of providing work and wages for
the people. I have alreaely recorded my opinion,
that no man has done so much to stay the progress
of this distress as the millowner who has been able
to keep the social condition of the inhabitants of
his own town or villagt as near as possible on the
old level ; and if the wise audacity which enabled
him to do this has redounded to the benefit
of himself and the operatives alike, it is but
one proof the more that the interests of
different classes of society cannot be permanently
dissociated. All that I at present contend for is,
that the public subscription list ought not to be
taken as the test of a man's liberality. No one
can live for a week in any part of the distressed
district, without discerning the utter fallaciousness
of such a procedure. I assert, without fear of con-
tradiction, that the best men, those who take
the most liberal view of their obligations, and dis-
charge them in the moat faithful spirit, are among
those who have not inscribed their names upon any
list of subscriptions which has met the public eye.
Cases occur to me, as I write, of men who, under-
taking the entire charge of from one to five thousand
people, and daily accomplishing their task with a
completeness which the best managed relief
board might envy, are perhaps at this very
moment branded by hasty and uncharitable
critics as traitors to the commonest instincts
of humanity. Were I able to publish names, I
could at this moment relate two instances of firms
who, having foreseen the coming disaster, bad laid
in heavy stocks of cotton, on which six months ago
they might each have realised a profit of some
20,0001., but who deliberately preferred to keep
their mills open and the workpeople employed.
Except to themselves, and to the few who may be
familiar with the circumstances, their conduct goes

for nothing, and they may even be twitted with a
keener than common regard to their own interests.
Can it be doubted that if they had sold the cotton,
closed the mills, and each placed 5,0001. to the
credit of the relief fund, England would have
rung with the praises of so signal a philanthropy ?
Many bitter and scornful words have been written
of the dilatoriness of the millowners, who are wait-
ing to interpose their aid at some crisis not yet in
view, or when some grand comprehensive scheme
of action supersedes the present tentative system of
relief. If, indeed, there be any such, I willingly
deliver them up to the general contempt and anger.
Any man who can wait till hunger becomes atar-
vation, and raggedness is developed into nakedness,
deserves to feel the ills which be is so slow to re-
medy. But I have already said that I consider the
only true plan to be that of providing for the wants
of each week as they arise, and that the immediate
creation of an enormous fund would be a folly not
uufnught with danger. The men who are suh-
scribing week by week a fixed sum to the relief of
local distress, at which they have assessed them-
selves, or which has been imposed upon them by
common consent, have a perfect answer to
those who demand of them a single munifi-
cent gift. In this sense, the " waiting "
policy is both prudent and right. A man who
adopts it, in effect, says, " I will give to meet this
difficulty, not one or five hundred pounds, but a
touch as may be required, as long as I am able to
pay it." Oboe more, the wise and genuine fibers-
, lity is not that which makes the moat showy figure
in the subscription list.
1 Ido not know whether what I have written may