The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-29 00:00:00

CAPTAIN MAURY ON THE A 21.[ERI1

The .Richmond Enquirer publishes a letter, dated
Richmond, August 4, 1862, addrdssed to Admiral
Fitzroy by Captain Maury, of the Confederate
e
navy, who has just arrived in this country. li

says :
Study the object of this war and the conduct of Northern
tub rs, and you will be satisfied that their judgment bag
been taken away and their people afflicted with judicial
blindness. The first dawn of returning reasonis just begin'
ning to appear among the Yankee people. Notwithstanding'
the muzzled press and their gagged orators, the masses are
beginning to see that they can no more restore the broken
Union of these stat es, by fighting over it, than you can raf'ke
whole again the broken eggby trampling urn it. The enthu-
siasni which existed among the Northern
last year is gone ; their war spirit is broken, for it is 11
evident that Lincoln's call for :00,000 more men is t°
met only by compulsion. The trying crisis is over with ga.;t
and I may speak of things now which in my first letter 1
might not be proper to do. At first we were anxious for
foreign recognition, and desirous of intervention. 131111°5r
we are comparatively indifferent as to either---iudcc";
rather fear and dread the latter. The recognition by Franceo.s
and England of Lincoln's paper blockade has by 1-2° 0
proved an unmitigated evil to us. When Peace c,:ter's
your manufacturers, your merchants, and your shiP°-:th
people this tivie
will feel the effects of the course of your Govertnnellt,. With
will
regard to that blockade very sensibly, and inchesof
ways than one. It has forced us into many brahindustry into which, but for that blockade, we should -ace.
never entered; for, instead of producing the articles
other
selves, we should have depended upon you sad he
foreign countries for them. When you e
acknowledged tre
blockade, and warned your vessels not to violate it, °vi
ellent
sadly in want of powder and arms. Now we have
powder mills of our own, and two fine armouries idly of
ia f
blast. They turn out muskets, rifles, sabres, Etc-, raP
r
fine quality, and as fast as we want them. Our last ordersor°,
arms from abroad have, in all probability, alreadyward. So too, with iron. The war found no mere all
half a dozen furnaces in blast in the whole
and most of those have been destroyed by the enemy ~, • oft
the Government has given such encouragement to '4- I'o
men, that new mines have been opened in other parts of
it,
Confederacy, and furnaces enough are already aP' °ere
course of erection, not only to supply the wants of tbeot e-
vernment, but to satisfy the railroads and the peoPic
rally with cast and wrought iron. So also with the has
woollen and cotton fabrics. A large amount of csPit'dot
Confederacl3l;
been invested in establishments for their fabrication, sa "bo
your ministers, by their course with regard to -dlicie,tee
paper blockade, has forced us to arm ourselves, toec'cioes
ourselves, and to feed ourselves. Hence, when Peac vi'e
come, we shall have much to sell and but little to bll'oley
accept this condition now with a degree of pride at' no.
sure, because of the manner in which it was forced aP°.470.9
Moreover, there is satisfaction in the thought that 1"
all been accomplished in but little more than a Yesr'e, .
„,,, yet
t
We are beginning to see daylight ; but I do no
any beginning to the end of the troubles which thisvera
is entailing upon certain interests with you. You for
times begin already to have presented before the"lot
contemplation, the prospect of another winter Nvis,oo
cotton. This will be worse than the last--Or don
stock now of American on hand is not roe/ say
one week's full supply in ordinary flutes•
the prospect is actually before you noW, be.co to
from the day your ministers make up their mind
open a cotten port, until the first cargo arrives hi, cidecl
pool several months must intervene. After it is ;elated'
to break the blockade, the fleet to do it has to be ce'-ivex
That would not take long. But then notice must /ton,
also in advance to the merchants, and a place of row, eel
appointed in American waters where the cotton Phil)" de,
assemble for convoy. This, you well know, requireso the
Then after that the cotton has to be brought (10711%1% 0f
interior and placed at the shipping port, and taeliraited
transportation, both by river and rail, are "-b. 111)
with us. They are already taxed well aigOvein•
to their capacity for army purposes, and other
mental necessaries. Those ships cannot 13Y. eele•
dullest sailer in the fleet regulates the speed of tb°:oyea,.
Time must be given them to come and go—and the ' ;01;ot
to and from cne of our cotton ports will, at this s°'" don
the year, and especially undernot 10s -
fiftNyodwa,yms enakeehyweuary convoy, occupy -
e
'own calculations, and 9°llwill lettersee
to you, notice be given to our
unless within thirty days at farthest after this 0 ..et
virtuallY
ready their cotton ships, minist y •
rs will have
ster
creed another hard time for eoperatives, for luala- etVel
will be doomed to a second witer without cottott',ool
planted last spring not more than one-fourth the "6,00,1
breadth of land in cotton. Our surplus labour is dir t
obes
to breadstuffs and provisions. We grow the finest of
064
The flour from it usually commands in transeclaatiorn
markets a dollar the barrel more than flour from
of
th
grain. This time last year it was the cry oho
merchants t
North that they would starve us out. Thcs,e,,,,ieei
joined in it knew but little of the resources of our '
Tio"
South," or of the energy of our people. the
for the homage paid by the Great Powero °ho
Lincoln government and his paper blockade, we 0011.'"ne-
eno ugh and to spare. It is highly gratifying to our
pride as a nation to find in this practical way how rich rest
diverse are our resources, and how independent of the 0
of the world we may be if necessity so require' 1.,,11„ni° bile/
in this war for our navy to play has been very m.,,"-de
and our navy itself of the moderate proportions• Indeed,
secession found us without a single mail-° ju
afloat or on the stocks. Still we have been able o_o
proviso two or three, and they have been able to catv,
pretty good account of themselves. Our steamer,the
ir:r
per,
s is a makeshift, for she is covered with railroad
her armour therefore is by no means shotproof. s°l.lll'ololf
formance in the Mississippi river and before Vic t oer
would grace the annals of the proudest navl th°
floated. So would the performances of the gallas-„pe'toP
Merrimac, and of all who have had a chance at the -0
water°, t
But as soon as we recover the command of air .übjec
should address ourselves with earnestness to tlic
coni- .r
of a navy, well knowing that no nation can - so at
respect of her peers without physical force' Troy
this war has, nearly as I can ascertain, Co6t Tr
s),
sury about 260,000,000 dols. (two hundred and 6° °ids- Oa
About 60,000,000 dols. of this sum is in 8 per cent boaco'esti'
rest in Treasury notes, which, for the most Part'so t115,,t
tute our currency. These notes bear no interest. od f13"1.
you observe we have not gone into debt much beri;leitileof
sum which our average cotton crop would bring: sureelor
have we sought to borrow from strangers. BY;_coer
our situation, means, and resources, You will -elishle
pecuniary ability to build and maintain a riledoat
hst
is ample. Peace will give us water on vau,.." th." -
I join your operatives most heartily in the "."

may be right; soon.
, .ritae
VICTOR HUGO ON CAPITAL PUNISIVIES-s:;tntiats'
Republic of Geneva is about to revise its local cona"f roe
The principal question to be decided will be with re oef the
to the abolition of capital punishment. A wenaber
vorV
church of Geneva, M. Bost, the author of several r,e; Ilioi
able works, lately wrote to M. Victor Hugo, fits io sil.
for his influence in the debate. That writer, 11't Ila''
ardent advocate of the abolition of capital punishal°ll Of OS
now replied in a letter which occupies several coltuotoion°
Belgian press. Victor Hugo eloquently and even, P :., ificid
ately denounces the prevailing system. He neet'uo;cansi;
tebranded
pb
iritnuatlPaplauar
punishment
Nstivhremsl
lt
eadnsrt
dentally that his having at a very early age seal' at, at lad
:IaWA
xhi6isosant
etessll.tionuteo thed ep tfoarcets ~t--bik:eo cla:
influential minds, should ' •by
' 'l3hcit 'OO
still prevail. "In I,Do
Victor Hilo' "where Gen,,
condemned so nianY ttev„ 00
e,o, a woman reigns, a weinni'f'*
to
oeen banged." He earnestly urges the Republic 0
condemn the system of punishment by death.
3,,,..A.
INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, RYA
lion
belJ,
general court of the governors of this institution Ir's*
out of
at the London Tavern yesterday, to elect 26
vvinf6T'tresidt
the list of 114 candidates ; the vy. U. -11 • • ans press
11
The asylum now contains 600 children, and it has
_al „,,ref
establishment received no less a number than 1,843. ;00..
orphans of clergymen, officers iu the army and navy, s god
bers of the medical and legal professions, nierchanetuf „„,10
reeso 'of
others, have found a refuge within its walls. Childr
talrol
every part of the empire are eligible. The boys are
until they are 14, and the girls until they ere 15 /...,d tbeir
age. They receive a sound and useful education,
~fl",e, ref,
religious instruction is anxiously attended to. .)-'4,oercl6
s in a few appropriate'6tatel
chairman opened the proceeding
after which the polling was proceeded with. Jt
WO° sr.,. 3v
N
that at the next half-yearly elections, in May and
infants would be elected. w at
We have received a letter from a lady rio,„,e
Rome, complaining of the uncourtcous and rigorntls ,ia
she met with from the custom-house officers at 5,.11°,.0330
the examination of her luggage, when passing frora -1- • ot
to Piedmont. The contents of her trunks were lal°oo°
t r
Thata b a n
sd h
ewasa d discovered,d s
n o e shea s 3
bell had just rung, that she might told,pack them 11 'l
4
and thrown about in all directions, and, when on thip:l:olaca
mwaatster and
to take off her shawl tie ' thimo ,e-
-and up some of the a Dr"
On reachi T •
ng Turin she found herself minus of a g°l tieleof
let,a lace shawl, a mosaic brooch, and other small ar jot.
wshheilewatalleco:lsit:
whichi she bad seen when her luggage was being es- Yes-yes-•
t lIE ALLEGED SUICIDE OF AN ACROBAT. ,
folio,
erdey Mr. Bedford, coroner for Westminster, heine oath.
quiry at the St. Martin's Vestry Hall, touching thnnrado
of Frederick Carini, a tight-rope dancer at the 1,1,,,.-`; eri-
Music-hall, Leicester-square. It appeared from
dente that the deceased, who while following, his
~ °.`ra tile
of a rope dancer, met with an accident by falling I.'ll goca
rope about four months ago and hurt hide
penal' iota
that time he has been in a very low and despotic' '
alld 6°i°
of mind, being haunted with the idea that he
.day
evoieffo
to poverty. He was last seen alive on Mot.,_e abes
last by Mr. Peter Oven Hammer, a profession was 1;03a its
establishment; and on Tuesday fawning ha
a, _OOO
the Thames near Hungerford-bridge. The needicci: . coo
went to show that death was caused by suffoca II:, _ ver
deceased was sober in his habits. The jury retur
.a; tue
4, d dead A
diet to the effect thus deceased was .oun 0 ,ow ho
Thames, but there not sufficient evidence t J••‘
he came there.