The Sun.
London, England, 1861-11-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LoriDor, MO;DAY EVENING, NoVEMBER 18, 1861.

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retired from active service. As this request is
founded on an absolute right, granted by a recent
Act of Congress, I am entirely at liberty to say it is
with regret that I withdraw myself in these momen •
tous times from the orders of a President who has
tr, ated me with such distinguished kindness and
courtesy ; whom I know, upon much personal inter-
course, to be patriotic, without sectional partialities
or prejudices, to be highly conscientious in the per-
formance of every duty, and of unrivalled activity
and perseverance.

" And to you, Mr. Secretary, whom I now offi
cially address for the last time, I beg to acknow-
ledge my many obligations for the uniform high
considerations I have received at your hands, and
have the honour to remain, sir, with high respect,
your obedient servant, " WINFIELD SCOTT.
" Hon. S Cameron, Secretary of War."
At a Cabinet Council held on the Ist it was de-
cided that General Scott's request, under the cir-
cumstances of his advanced age and infirmities,
could not be declined. General M'Clelian was
therefore, with the unanimous agreement of the
Cabinet, notified that the command of the army
would be devolved upon him. At 4 o'clock in the
afternoon the Cabinet again waited upon the Presi-
dent, and attended him to the residence of General
Scott. Being seated, the President read to the
General the following order:—
" On the Ist day of November, 1861, upon his
own application to the President of the United
States, Brevet Lieutenant. General Winfield Scott is
ordered to be placed, and hereby is placed, upon the
list of retired officers of the army of the United
States, without reduction in his current pay, sub-
sistence, or allowances.
" The American people will hear with sadness
and deep emotion that General Scott has withdrawn
from the active control of the army, while the Pre-
sident and unanimous Cabinet express their own
and the nation's sympathy in his personal affliction,
and their profound sense of the important public
services rendered by him to his country during his
long and brilliant career, among which will ever be
gratefully distinguished his faithful devotion to the
Constitution, the Union, and the flag, when assailed
by parricidal rebellion.

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" ABRAHAM LINCOLN."
General Scott thereupon rose and addressed the

President and. Cabinet, who had also risen, as fo:

lows :
" President, this honour overwhelms me. It over-
pays all services I have attempted to render to my
country. If I had any claims before, they are all
obliterated by this expression of approval by the
President, with the unanimous support of his Cabi-
net. I know the President and this Cabinet well.
I know that the country has placed its interests in
this trying crisis in safe keeping. Their counsels
are wise, their labours are as untiring as they are
loyal, and their course is the right one.
" President, you must excuse me. lam unable
to stand longer to give utterance to the feelings of
gratitude which oppress me. In my retirement I
shall offer up my prayers to God for this Adminis-
tration and for my country. I shall pray for it with
confidence in its success over all enemies, and that
speedily."
The President then took leave of General
Scott, giving him his hand, and saying he hoped
soon to write him a private letter, expressive of
his gratitude and affection. The President added :
"General, you will naturally feel solicitude about
the gentlemen of your Staff, who have rendered you
and their country such faithful service. I have
taken that subject into consideration. I understand
that they go with you to New York. I shall desire
them at their earliest convenience after their return
to make known their wishes to me. I desire you
now, however, to be satisfied that, except the un-
avoidable privation of your counsel and society,
which they have so long enjoyed, the provision
which will be made for them will be such as to
render their situation as agreeable hereafter as it
has been heretofore."
Each member of the Administration then gave
his hand to the veteran, and retired in profound
silence.
The following is the response of the Secretary of
War to the letter of General Scott ;
" War Department, Washington, Nov. 1, 1861.
" General,—lt was my duty to lay before the
President your letter of yesterday, asking to be
relieved under the recent Act of Congress. In
separating from you I cannot refrain from express-
ing my deep regret that your health, shattered by
long service and repeated wounds received in your
country's defence, should render it necessary for
you to retire from your high position at this mo-
mentous period of our history. Although you are
not to remain in active service, I yet hope that while
I continue in charge of the department over which
I now preside, I shall at times be permitted to avail
myself of the benefits of your wise counsels and sage
experience. It has been my good fortune to enjoy
a personal acquaintance with you for over 30 years,
and the pleasant relations of that long time have
been greatly strengthened by your cordial and en-
tire co-operation in all the great questions which
have occupied the department and convulsed the
country for the last six months. In parting from
you I can only express a hope that a merciful Pro-
vidence that has protected you amid so many trials
will improve your health, and continue your life
long after the people of the country shall have been
restored to their former happiness and prosperity.—
I am, General, very sincerely, your friend and ser-
vant,

" SIMEON CAMERON, Secretary of War.
"Lient.-Gen. Winfield Scott, present."
Major-General ll'Clellan, on assuming the chief
command, issued the following order :
" Head-quarters of the Army, Washington,
Nov. 1, 1861.
" General Order No. 19.—1 n accordance with
General Order No. 94 from the War Department, I
hereby assume command of the armies of the United
States.

" In the midst of the difficulties which encompass
and divide the nation, hesitation and self-distrust
may well accompany the assumption of so vast a
responsibility ; but, confiding as I do in the loyalty,
discipline, and courage of our troops, and believing,
as I do, that Providence will favour ours as the
just cause, I cannot doubt that success will crown
our efforts and sacrifices.
" The army will unite with me in the feeling of
regret that the weight of many years, and the effect
of increasing infirmities, contracted and intensified
in his country's service, should just now remove
from our head the great soldier of our nation, the
hero who, in his youth, raised high the reputation
of his country in the fields of Canada, which he
sanctified with his blood, who in more mature years
proved to the world that American skill and valour
could repeat, if not eclipse, the exploits of Cortez
in the land of the Montezumas, whose whole life
has been devoted to the service of his country, whose
efforts have been directed to uphold our honour at
the smallest sacrifice of life, a warrior who scorned
the selfish glories of the battle field when his great
qualities as a statesman could be employed more pro-
fitably for his country, a citizen who in his declining
years has given to the world the most shining in-
stance of loyalty in disregarding all ties :of birth,
and clinging still to the cause of truth and honour.
Such have been the career and character of Winfield
Scott, whom it has long been the delight of the
nation to honour, both as a man and a soldier.
While we regret his loss, there is one thing we
cannot regret—the bright example he has left
for our emulation. Let us hope and pray that his
declining years may be passed in peace and hap-
piness, and that they may be cheered by the success
of the country and the cause he has fought for and
loved so well. Beyond all that, let us do nothing
that can cause him to blush for us ; let no defeat of
the army he has so long commanded embitter his
last years, but let our victories illuminate the close
of a life so grand.

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of the claims of Chapman, Lyon,
and Noyes, W. H. Lee and Co., and Burnham,
Plumb, and Co., merchants, against Barley, Trip-
let, and Co., of Alexandria, Judge Freese ordered
a commission to appraise all goods or property of
any kind, left by Barley, Triplet, and Co. A paper
was presented to the Court by Mr. Green, of Alex-
andria, claiming the sum of 1,200 dole. for rent, and
setting forth that steps had been taken to collect
the same in the courts of Alexandria. Judge
Freese informed the applicant that if he chose to
declare himself a loyal citizen, and claim the pro-
tection of the Provost Court, he would receive the
same consideration as any other creditor. This
Mr. Green refused to do. There appeared to be
no doubt that the Court will decide that the pro.
perty of Barley, Triplet, and Co. must be appro-
priated to the payment of such debts to loyal citi-
zens as shall be proven before the Court. Whether

the first claimants—Chapman, Lyon, and Noyes--
aleto be first paid, or whether the goods w:11 be
divided among the creditors pro rata, is yet to be
decided. It is supposed that all the members of
the Administration, with perhaps the exception of
the President and the Attorney-General, are in-
clined to sustain Judge Freese in his determination
to sequestrate the property of the Confederates for
the Northern creditors. The final verdict of the
Cabinet on this most important question to our
Northern merchants must be forthcoming within
a few days, es the order of Judge Freese for the
delivery of goods in the case of Wilmer and Co.
will soon take effect."
General Dix has issued a notification respecting
the forthcoming elections in Baltimore, to the effect
that, it having been understood that persons foa-
merly residing in the State, but who had recently
been bearing arms against the United States' Go-
vernment, had returned with the intention of taking
part in the election, with the purpose of carrying
out treasonable designs, he ordered the United
States' Marshal of Maryland and the Provost-Mar-
shal of Baltimore to arrest all such persons; and
he had further directed the election judges through-
out the State to detain all such persons who might
present themselves at the polls, until they could be
taken into custody by the proper authorities.
The report of Adjutant-General Thomas to the
Secretary of War respecting his mission to General
Fremont, in Missouri, had been published. It is a
lengthy document, made up apparently of camp
gossip hostile to the General. One of the most
bitter complainants was General Hunter, Fremont's
successor. In the latter portion of the report,
the state of feeling in Kentucky peeps out, a 3
follows :
"At Louisville General Sherman gave a gloomy
picture of affairs in Kentucky, stating that the
young men were generally Secessionists, and had
joined the Confederates ; the aged and Conserva-
tives would not enrol themselves to engage in con-
flict with their relations en the other side."
Our miscellaneous accounts state that the demand
for Southern passports was ekecedingly great. Be-
tween the Volunteers and the officers of the regular
army there was an entire absence of good feeling,
the former charging the latter with tyranny, inso-
lence, and neglect. The prisoners confined in Fort
Lafayette and other places had been transferred to
Fort Warren, near Boston. Mrs. Steele and Mr.
W. G. Woolfe had been arrested at Louisville, en
route for the South. Mr. Woolfe had, in a belt
around his body, about 500 dole. worth of needles,
and in the quilted shirt of the lady were found
several cards of military buttons and 40 letters ad-
dressed to parties in various cities of the South.
The gale of the 2d and 3d caused the tide to rise
beyond its height, and flood some portions of New
York.

The schooner Arid from Liverpool, captured off
Charleston, had arrived at Philadelphia in charge
of a prize crew.
The body of Segismund Fellner, a wealthy Jew of
Mainz, in Germany, is reported to 'have been die.
covered floating on the water at Middletown, New
Jersey. On his person were found 110 dole in gold ;
but letters from Germany inquiring after him,
stated that when he left for America he had 50,000
dole, in diamonds and cash. He is supposed to have
been murdered. Two women, Albertina Flaum and
Mrs. Marks, have been arrested on suspicion of
being concerned in the murder, but the former
managed to commit suicide in the station.

Another Confederate battery had been unmasked
on the Potomac, near Evansport. The Federal
steamer Powhattan had, however, managed to run
up the Potomac to Washington during the darkness.
Four sloops had done the same, notwithstanding a
heavy fire.

The Confederates are reported to have their
pickets on Harrison's Island. Part of their forces
rested in Goose Creek, seven miles south of Lees-
burg.

The 31emphis Appeal of the 26th ult. contains
the following useful information respecting the
knitting of hose for the Confederate soldiers :

" Get large needles and a coarse yarn ; cast on 78
stitches and knit the leg 10 inches before setting
the heel. The heel should be 31 inches long and
knit of double yarn, one fine and one coarse for extra
length. The foot should be 11 or 12 inches long."
The same journal earnestly appeals to the planters
to raise grain instead of cotton, as follows

"Every ear of wheat, every blade of grass, every
stalk of corn, every potato, and every bean which
can be grown will be required to meet the in-
creased demand at home and support the gallant
army now imperilling their lives on the field in
defence of our liberties, our homes, and our firesides.
The necessities of the public defence, the voice of
patriotism, and the general interests of our section
demand that we put forth all our resources to meet
the emergency. To the planters of the Southern.
States the demand for increased army supplies ap-
peals with peculiar force. In such of the border

States as are not already the theatre of hostilities,
but a small additional breadth of land remains to
be dedicated to the production of cereals. In the
others the presence of the invaders will seriously
interfere with the cultivation of the soil, so that
the cotton and sugar States will be relied upon to
supply this deficiency also. By them alone can the
demand be met. The country looks to them for
relief. The appeal will not be in vain. The cheer-
ful alacrity with which every fresh demand upon
them has been met during the progress of the pre-
sent revolution is ample guaranty of a ready re-
sponse to any call whieh patriotism may make upou
them. There are other considerations, which, apart
from the public necessities, obviously point to the
policy of diminishing the production of cotton and
sugar, and devoting the lands thus left idle to the
cultivation of small crops, to which we design to
advert briefly in another article, and by which we
propose to show that such a course will redound to
the present, prospective, and permanent advantage
of the planter, as well as the advantage of the pub •
lie intetests."
The planters appeared to be dissatisfied with this
treatment. The Appeal says :
" The Columbus embargo on grain and produce
still continues to be a fruitful subject of remark.
Planters on 'Change, from within the limits of pro-
hibition, complain of the position in which they
are placed by the embargo. They say they have
cheerfully contributed to the comfort of the army,
and are ready to do as much as any in behalf of the
Southern cause, but they do not like being denied
the liberty of going to market—they do not like
produce spoiling on their hands, from the proceeds
of which they should pay their taxes and lay in
their supplies—and they do not like the idea of
being compelled to accept of one price for their pro-
duce, while their neighbours beyond the boundaries
get another and higher price. There is a growing
disposition to appeal to Richmond.
" Sales of wheat were made at 1 dol. 50c. ; 1 dol.
60c. was generally asked: Flour was firm at 9 dols.
to 10 dols., according to quality. The Richmond
Whig of Monday quoted corn scarce and in demand
at 80c.; oats, 50c. • wheat at 90c. to 95e. for red,
and 1 dol. to 1 dol. sc. for white.

"The opinion is very generally expressed that
patriotic duty, wise policy, and benevolent feeling
all require the planter for the coming year to aban-
don the planting of cotton for that of corn, wheat,
potatoes, and other necessaries of life. Speakers
expressed their desire that the planters generally
should know that the war is not to be the short effort
of a few months that was anticipated; that in this
war the enemy's policy is to treat the South rather
as a besieged garrison than as a force in the field.
In the words of the New Orleans Delta, 'The policy
of the enemy evidently is to starve us out, to substi-
tute for a trial of arms a trial of resources, of en-
durance, and non-intercourse. This change in their
strategy has been prompted by the idea that the
South is not self-sustaining ; that it has heretofore
depended upon other countries for many of the ne-
cessaries of life, and that as long as it P ursnes its old
policy it will be driven to the hardest
straits to save
its people from extreme suffering. There is much
exaggeration, of course, in this assumption of our
adversaries, but there is this amount of truth in it
to wit—that if the South should during the present'
war and blockade continue in its old course of de-
voting its land, labour, and capital to a production
which it cannot make available for the support of
its people ; if it continues to raise cotton and tobac-
co, Which it cannot convert into money with which
to purchase the necessaries of life, and is further
prevented from such purchases by the blockade, there
must be no little suffering and hardship among our
people, and to thwart the new policy and strategy
of the enemy it will be the obvious duty and policy
of our planters to abandon altogether or greatly