The Sun.
London, England, 1862-09-27 00:00:00

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of the Union, so often prophesied, so long foreseen,
and so vehemently deprecated, became the only
possible policy of the South. In all the Northern
States this party is actively endeavouring to carry
the State elections for the next Congas ss ; and in
the State Convention for New York, n. w in session
at Albany, the ~ Tammany" and " Mozart Hall"
sections of the party, so called from their places of
meeting in this city, have made up their differences
and agreed to support a Mr. Seymour for Governor
of the State, and other gentlemen of the same opi-
nions for the other State offices that are periodically
in the gift of the people. There is little doubt that
their nominations will be successful, and that the
example of New York will act as a powerful
If
stimu-
lante upon the democracy of other States • so, the
party will present a strongi
front not onlyn the
States's Legislature, but in the New Congress, to
the sore embarrassment of Mr. Lincoln's Govern-
toioloon
with
Ahlre.e Sey-
mour
meat,
was
fahs ereaenedivethaabtyshthoue
lacolnaystens
en-
thusiasm said to be utterly unprecedented. The ap-
plause on his appearance was renewed so often that
it seemed as if the immense assemblage had come
to shout rather than to hear. When silence was at
last obtained he delivered a speech every sentence
of which was a new incentive to prolonged plau-
dits. He denounced the system of terrorism which
the Government had endeavoured to establish—de-
clared that the leaders ofthe Republican party were
dangerous and unwise men; that their policy had
tended to unite the South, and to distract and di-
vide the North ; that they were utterly unfit to be
entrusted with the control of public affairs—that
they were insubordinate to the chiefs of their own
electing, and in every sense incompetent and mis-
chievous. The policy of the Democracy was clear
and plain ; it was to support the Constitution and
the law: and if the President adhered to the Consti-
tion and the law, or, in other words, if he would
avoid any tampering with the slavery question in
the South, he would receive their undivided and
earnest support to suppress the rebellion and con-
quer an honourable and lasting peace. Although
the reorganisation of this party must necessarily
exercise a powerful influence on the fortunes of the
North, it is doubtful, whatever its leaders may say,
whether they themselves believe in the possibility of
a restored Union, or that they think any peace
would be considered honourable or lasting by the
South that did not concede national independence,
with Virginia,Maryland,Kentucky, and Tennessee,
and Missouri as integral portions of the Southern
Confederacy. This is not the object of the Demo-
cratic organisation, though individuals of the party
who are not in a position to speak out openly are
perhaps of opinion that the North may be unable to
make a better bargain. " The Union as it was and
the Constitution as it is," is a safe cry in the mean-
time, and, if the South were of the mind to tinker
the old Union, the capture of Washington, the de-
position of Mr. Lincoln, and the instalment of Mr.
Jefferson Davis as President of the restored Union
would not be a very bitter pill for many Democrats
to swallow. If such a result were to issue from the
fiery crucible of the war, and Mr. Davis were to
ride in triumph down Broadway, it is likely that he
would be received with a fervour of joy and a Royal
magnificence such as this country has never exhi-
bited. But the Southern leaders are too wise and
far-sighted to indulge in any such projects, however
able they might be by force of arms to realise them.
They know too well that the Union is a thing of the
past—as dead as the Heptarchy or the Kingdom of
Powhattan ; that if they were temporarily reunited
to the North the question of slavery would once
again he the incentive to new struggles and aggres-
sions—that the Abolitionist party, though defeated,
would not be disheartened, and would recommence
the fight with such zealous bitterness that it would
be necessary for the South to put a cordon sanztaire
around the slave regions to prevent the influx of
Abolition preachers, teachers, and lecturers; that
all the bloody work of the last two years would have
to be done over again, and that dis-Union would be
the result in that case, as it is now.
So great is the " scare" of the Government that
the conscription itself—that essential measure
which was to save the country—has temporarily ;
dropped out of public view and is no more talked
of. The lists axe made out, but no day is fixed for
acting upon them ; and such recruits as have been
obtained by the recent high bounties appear to be
far more troublesome than useful to the State. The
Irish, who fell back so eagerly on their British
nationality when the draught was first proposed,
and who swore so lustily that they would not fight
upon compulsion, have been ready enough to take
arms under the persuasions of Archbishop Hughes,
General Corcoran, and that great recruiting officer
the "Dollar." General Corcoran's recruits, who
are not yet in a condition to be sent to the seat of
war, are encamped in large numbers in Staten
Island, to be drilled by officers who stand wofully
in need of a course of drill and discipline themselves,
and form as motley though far more numerous a
multitude than those with whom Falstaff refused
to march through Coventry. The need of the
Government is such that recruiting agents, who
receive two dollars a head from the State, besides a
commission on the bounty money, are not at all par-
ticular as to the height, or even as to the age of the
applicants. Judged by appearances, some of the
recruits are scarcely 17, while others, though pos-1
sibly not above the limit of 45, look ten years older.
Beardless boys and grey-headed veterans, prema-
turely aged by hard work or hard drinking, mingle
in the ranks. The elder men, who have probably
gone through a long period of probationary suffer-
ing, are careful of their bounty money, but the
youths run riot in the wildest excesses. In Staten
Island the night is made hideous with their
drunken yells, and the hysterical shrieks of their
female companions, on whom they waste their few
remaining days of liberty and safety, as well as the
1 health that can alone make them good raw mate-
rial for the bloody business to which they have
sold themselves. At Camp Scrogg, within the
limits of New York city—as it is to be—but now
a semi-rural district on the road to Haerlem,
there has been a mutiny among th
which has lost that regiment
rbtVtoothuh C
erghas
Chas-
sours,
Govern-
ment. It was nominally 1,500 strong, and was
first organised aboat eight months ago, though it
has as yet seen no service. Bounty money was not
so plentiful when the originalrecruits came forward
as it is now; but the number -being incomplete
efforts were continually made to fill up the ranks.
The first instalment of bounty money y having been
A •ls ivin bursed in riotous l
long ago ~. g, and the remain-
der not being due until the close of hostilities,when
to the recruit it will be given himself, if alive or to
heirs, his family or
if
he have died in the se e service,
the men have long been clamorous for their pay of
13 dols. a month. This money—although consider-
ing Mr. Chase's facilities for printing "green backs"
and postage currency
there ought not to have been
.
the matter—has not
an insuperable difficulty in
been forthcoming; men who joined the regiment
'
six or eight months ago having received only one
month's pay in that time. - P erhaps Mr. Stanton
was too busy in suspending the habeas corpus and
arresting suspected traitors touttencl to this branch
of his business, or perhaps some other and more un-
accountable form of mismanagement has kept back
the supplies. On Monday last, when the regiment
received orders to strike tents and march south-
wards' to the war, a hum of discontent arose, and the
men refuted to march without the payment o
ar-
rears.
The order
morning, f
was postponed until Tuesday
'when being renewed a mutiny broke out,
that has resulted in the complete disorganisation of
the regiment. No less than 1,500 men have received
bounty money t
~o enter this
last it was found that
the s corps; but on Tuesday
numbers had been re-
duced by desertion to about 400 rank and file. This
remnant, many of whom
.t 4
1 appears are married
men, anxious for the support of
their families dur-
ing their absence, gave vent to their
s disgust b
indiscriiuinate attack upon and seek of
thgoure
iy an
tal head uarters, which was only prevented mg
fromtl.q
culminating into a battle by the adoption of the most
vigorous measures on the part of their officers,
and
the aid of another regiment, which stood guaad over
the parade ground with rifles loaded. The mutiny
appears to have lasted the greater part of three days,
and, considering the circumstances, it is much to the
' credit of the mingled forbearance arid determination
of the officers in command that bloodshed was not
the result. The regiment has been removed to the

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Park Barracks in New York, but not a single com-
pany is entire, and the probability is that what re-
mains of it will be disbanded and the men draughted
into other corps. It is no wonder, if such gross
neglect, mismanagement, and cruelty as this story
displays, are not peculiar to this one regiment, that
the Southern troops are more than a match for the
Northern ones when the two come into collision.
One Southern man, fighting for the independence
of his country, must be worth fully half a dozen
such mercenary Irishmen as these, even if they be
paid their money and well treated, which does not
appear to have been the case with the Vorburgh
Chasseurs.

Another regiment or brigade, organised under the
auspices of Gen. Spinola, and composed mainly of
Irish and Americans, is in the same deplorable
state, the troubles arising from no arrears of pay,
but from the mutual jealousies of the men who en-
listed when bounties were low, and those who were
cunning and mercenary enough to wait until they
were high. The last corners have spent their money
in the vilest intemperance, and while the process
of disbursement lasted varied their amusements by
quarrelling with their poorer comrade. Daily
fights have been the consequence, and both par-
ties have thrown off all control of discipline.
Yesterday their behaviour was so bad that it was
found necessary to call out the 7th Regiment
of the New York National Guards to preserve
order. This morning this force, in addition to
a body of police, was stationed around the bar-
racks in East New York, where the mutineers are
stationed, and to each man were delivered a day's
rations and 20 rounds of ball cartridge. The
brigade is reduced to about one-third of its originEl
numbers—the low bounty men having disappeared
entirely, and many of the high bounty men having
imitated their example. No further fears are en-
tertained of their violence, as the men knew that
they are overmatched ; but it is scarcely probable
that the Spinola Brigade will take any part in the
war, or that anything better can be done with its
remnant than to incorporate it with other regi-
ments ; and thus it happens that the system of high
bounties is almost as great a failure as the conscrip-
tion, and that the Government is more than ever
perplexed how to replenish its armies.
The National War Committee of this city, a knot
of gentlemen mainly of Abolitionist principles, under
the Presidency of Mr. Opdyke, the Mayor, who
formed the notable project of organising a force of
50,000 men, to be placed under the command of
Gen. Fremont or Gen. Mitchell, " with or without
the sanction of the Government;' has been rudely
awakened to a sense of the impropriety—or the
treason-L-of its conduct. The first intimation it re-
ceived of its excess of zeal was the withdrawal of
several gentlemen who had hitherto supported what
was believed to be the only object of the committee
—" the vigorous prosecution of the war by legal
and constitutional means ;" and the next, a letter
from Auguste Belmont and Co., the bankers and
agents of Messrs. Rothschilds, who had subscribed
1,000 dole. for that purpose, but not for the purpose
of organising an Abolitionist army under General
Fremont, or anybody else. On Messrs. Belmont
and Co.'s remonstrance the committee returned them
the money, which they have subsequently divided
into two equal parts for the encouragement of re-
cruiting into the Irish Brigade, and into the Ex-
celsior Brigade, also Irish, of Gen. Corcoran. At a
meeting of the committee held at the Mayor's cham-
ber on Wednesday, a correspondence was read be-
tween the Mayor and Mr. Stanton, in which the
latter very tempei-ately rebuked his officious friends
for their interference. He informed the committee
that Gen. Mitchell had been appointed to the com-
mand of the Southern Department ; that the duty
of raising volunteers in New York had been assigned
to the Governor of that State, who was faithfully
performing it; and that the Department could not
consent that any major-general should organise a
separate corps. The committee forthwith resolved
to take no more action in the matter, and
as it was fast becoming a nuisance, and en-
deavouring, as it would appear, to make itself a
power above the Government, or at the least to
usurp the functions of a Jacobin Club, a Vigilance
Committee, or a Committee of Public Safety, there
' is considerable satisfaction felt that Mr. Stanton
was so easily able to bring it to reason. It appears,
however, that Major-General Fremont was but too
willing to lend himself to the project. He wrote
to the committee that it would give him "much
ploazure" to accept the appointment which they
proposed if it had the sanction of the Government.
But he did not explain which Government he meant
—the Federal Government or that of the State of
New York. As the committee expressly stated that
if the Federal Government refused the men and the
General, the local Government of New York State
should be applied to to accept both, it is to be in-
ferred from the General's reply that he was willing
to act for either master, even if by serving the local
Government he should have been instrumental in
raising the ugly question of State rights as opposed
to Federal assumptions—the question which pro-
duced the war, and which has as many warm sup-
porters in the North as it ever had in the South.
The publication of the correspondence has brought
the "War Committee" to an inglorious collapse,
and reduced the previously slender chances of
General Fremont's appointment to a new command
to the vanishing point, where they cease to be
visible.

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THE ALLEGED FATAL PUGILISTIC EN-
COUNTER ON CLERKENWELL GREEN.

Yesterday an inquest was held before Dr. Lan-
kester, the coroner, at the Royal Free Hospital,
Gray's-inn-lane, on the body of William Smith,
aged 24, a carpenter.
Job Smith, residing at 47, Liverpool-street,
King's-cross, identified the body as that of his son.
Police-sergeant 14 G said, on Saturday night or
early on Sunday morning his attention was called
to the deceased lying on his back immediately in
front of the Sessions House, on the broad pavemento
on Clerkenwell-green. He conveyed the body to
the hospital.
John D. Hill, the !reuse-surgeon of the hospital,
stated that he saw Vile deceased on Sunday morn-
ing. He was the: insensible, and died the follow-
ing day. He performed a post mortem examination,
and found ex:cernally a bruise behind the left ear.
There was an effusion of blood over the right hemis-
phere, hat no effusion whatever over the left hemis-
phere, where the bruise was. The cause of death
was an effusion of blood on the brain.
By the Coroner—Witness considered the effusion
might have occurred as the result ot'the blow, which
appeared to have been asevere one. It was a surgi •
cal fact for a blow on the left side to produce an ef-
fusion as described on the right.
Henry Chantry, 61, Turnmill-street, a glasscut-
ter' deposed that he was in the company of deceased
on Saturday night at the Red Lion and Punch-
bowl Tavern, John-street, Clerkenwell. They left
the house together at a quarter to twelve. Wit-
ness bade him good night on Clerkenwell-green,
and then stopped to witness a quarrel which had
arisen between deceased and a man named White-
head. He saw Whitehead run after Smith, and
Hawks, a man who was with witness, ran up to
Smith, and directly he saw Smith fall,
and Hawks
rcuoantf"ni him.
Whitehead and Smith first had their
was unable thoen
s off to fight but Whitehead's brother took him
away, arid t
came up and geteonee it
uwasp .
1 that The
e policemanHawksran
a t ttowardshat time
i de-
ceased.me Re went up to deceased and found thAt he
Conveyed deceased away insensible,
Be the Jury Tie
know Smith.
deceased at all, nor a"
Did Se knew Hawks, but did not
see George Whitehead strike
was a carman, id he think he did. Hawks
By the Father and Broth
had been
everdastissepheent about ls. 6d. for
act on of deceased—Witness
the part of Hawks
missing, but a
thought it a gratuitous
P, Caisteo.at., coat, and
to strike deceased. Deceased
stout, but no more in
eperroodfuced, and
Mr. Job Smith said the ea
15s, in money of his son
the not belonging to him had b
e that day. the coat
and ex-
pressed Sewlsaysooret,uarnnotdher medic,aleo:
his opinion that deceased Nee, ,
hos-
pital, corroborated. Mr. Hill s evidence,
s drunk when
brought there.
Danieldriver of Mr. Gurrier, Belvedere-
road,
a saw deceased at the Red Li 1
Punch-bowl Concert-hall -on the night in question
able to take care of him..
Lam Clark. .
on
and
so drunk as to be scarcely
self. He heard a fall on the pavement, and ob-
otherhat was the matter.
he and Chantry went to see w
serving deceased there and Hawks running away,
The police then came up.
sug-
gested an adjournment to enable him to attend to
The Coroner at this stage of the proceedings
"esced
in by the -ury and the adjournment then took
place to 111 '
engagements, which was at once acquiesced
,
4 OIICIE4y neat.