The Sun.
London, England, 1861-09-02 00:00:00

AMERICA,

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA.
LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY.

The royal mail steamship Europa, Captain Ander-
son, which left Boston on the 21st, and Halifax on
the night of the 22d ultimo, arrived in the Mersey
at 11 20 this morning.
The Europa was boarded off Cape Race on the
24th ultimo, and reports the following steamships
as having passed that point :—The City of Wash-
ington on the 23d and the Teutonia on the 24th
ultimo, both bound west. No further news had been
received at Cape Race from the States.
A general order of the Secretary of War, dated
the 19th ultimo, calling for all volunteers enrolled
for the service, whether equipped, armed, or uni-
formed, or not, to proceed at once to Washington,
had caused great alarm in the northern states.
The New York Herald says :—" It would appear
from the movement of the rebel forces around Fair-
fax Court House and Fall Church, that they are
making cautious advances upon the Ur.ion lines in
the direction of the Potomac, not only towards
Washington, but still farther west, in the direction
of General Bank's command. They have thrown
up intrenchments at Springfield Station, a few
miles out of Alexandria. The opinion prevails at
Washington that an attack by the rebels is medi-
tated, and that such a measure will become a
necessity."
The New fork Herald of the 20th says :—" The
crisis of the hour demands fresh troops for the
protection of the national capital, and the coun-
try responds with alacrity to the call of the
War Department. By thousands men are pre-
paring to push forward in defence of the govern-
ment, the flag, and the constitution which for
three quarters of a century have been the represen-
tatives of freedom the first and brightest all the
world over. For the second time since the open-
ing of the war danger threatens the safety of
Washington, and now, as on the first occasion
in April hot, the people of the north are olive to
the necessity of preserving the seat of govern-
ment, its archives, and its memories. Rumours
are afloat that the rebels have a scheme
on foot to attack Washington by a flank move-
ment, the design being to use a large force—which,
it appears, has been concentrating for a long time in
Maryland—to cut off the connection by railroad,
and land between Baltimore and Philadelphia,
while Generals Beauregard and Johnstone ad-
vanced on Washington from the Virginia side. In
view of the danger arising from this plan, the order
of the Secretary of War calling for troops must be
regarded as an imperative necessity. A force of
nearly 10,000 men will leave New York state during
the present week, and no doubt the other states
called upon will furnish proportionate quotas at
once. The movement of the rebels on the Maryland
shore is intended to be accomplished by the trans-
port of troops on launches and flats, a large number
of which has, it appears, been concentrated in the
vicinity of Acquia Creek, despite the boasted
watchfulness of the Potomac flotilla. It has also
been discovered that several formidable batteries
have been constructed by the rebels not only on the
shores of Acquia and Potomac Creeks, but on the
Maryland side of the river at Mineral Point.
The following announcement had been published
by the Department of State at Washington

" Until further notice no person will be allowed
to go abroad from a port of the United States
without a passport either from this department or
countersigned by the Secretary of State. Nor will
any person be allowed to land in the United States
without a passport from the Minister or Consul
of the United States ; or if a foreigner, from his
own government, countersigned by some Minister
or consul."

This regulation, however, is not to take effect in
regard to persons coming from abroad until a rea-
sonable time shall have elapsed for it to become
known in the country from which they may pro-
ceed.

The Federal Government had arrested, at Phila-
delphia, Mr. Pierce Butler (said to be the gentle.
man who married Miss Fanny Kemble) on a charge
of treason, the Government having seized a parcel
of letters on their way across the Potomac, ad-
dressed by Mr_ lintlAr Bcaurcsard null
Johnson, President Jefferson Davis, and other pro-
minent men among the Secessionists. He was sent
to Fort Lafayette as a State prisoner.

General Wood assumed the command at Fortress
Monroe on the 19th ult.

The case of the United States against T. S.
Serrill, was called on in the United States Commis-
sioner's Court, at New York, on the 10th. The
United States Marshal informed the Commissioner
that, by order of the Secretary of State, the prisoner
had been transferred to Fort Lafayette, to await
further orders, The Commissioner then'endorsed
the warrant of arrest, to the effect that the prisoner
was discharged from further examination and any
other process under that warrant.
Advices from St. Thomas state that the privateer
Sumter had been captured at Curacoa by a United
States frigate. Numerous captures were being made
by privateers in the Gulf of Mexico and the West
Indies.

A Washington telegram says :—" The question
of an exchange of prisoners is yet undecided. The
President is firmly opposed to any recognition of
the rebels as a belligerent power. The Secessionists
in the lower part of Maryland will soon be under
the strict watch of United States troops."
The National Republican intimates that a negro
insurrection is probable in Lower Maryland, and
threatens forcible emancipation if the slaveholders
do not remain loyal. .

It was reported from Independence, Missouri,
that Fort Fillmore had been abandoned by the
Federal troops, and that the troops, to the number
of 500 men, had subsequently surrendered, without
firing a gun, to a Texan force of 3,000 men.
Great excitement prevailed in Wester Missouri.
A telegram of the 20th ult. from Jefferson city says
—" A train arrived this morning from Syracuse,
having on board 25 passengers and 250 United
States Soldiers. When the train was near Look-
out Station, about 30 shots were fired into it from
wood piles and bushes skirting the road, killing one
soldier and wounding six others, one fatally. One
Secessionist was killed. The train was stopped half
a mile beyond a point where the attack was made,
and 200 soldiers put off and sent in pursuit of the
miscreants. Gaerilla parties are scouring the coun-
ties west of born, eeiAing property and arresting
prominent citizens. Information has been re-
ceived that Warsaw, Bolivar, and Ocola,
points in the south west, have been occupied by
portions of Price's army. Squads and companies
of men are constantly leaving the northern counties
and pushing southward to join the state forces.
The Secessionists, under Colonel Staples, have col-
lected in considerable force in Pettis and Johnson
counties, and taken military possession of Warrens-
burg in Johnson, and Georgetown and Sidlia in
Pettis counties. Much excitement exists west of
here, and many are leaving their homes. It is
stated that Colonel Staples can concentrate a force
of over 3,000, and will co-operate in a movement
upon this city, should one be determined upon. We
have about 3,500 troops here now, and the number
will doubtless be considerably augmented in a few
days."

A telegram, dated St. Louis the 20th, say :
"The town of Commerce, forty miles above Cairo,
which was taken by a battery planted by the Seces-
sionists, was retaken last night by 500 troops, sent
down from Camp Guardian by order of General
Fremont. The Secessionists made no stand, but
retreated with their battery on the approach of our
troops. Their number was about 150 infantry and
150 cavalry."
Advices overland from California are to the 10th
of August from San Francisco. The markets were
quiet and steady. The steamer Sonora left San
Francisco for Panama on the 10th with 850,000
dollar s in specie. A destructive are had taken place
in Sonora.

Prince Napoleon haE gone to Lake Superior.

The Convention at Wheeling, Western Virginia,
had passed an ordinance creating a new State of
that portion of Virginia by a vote of 50 to 28, A
provision was incorporated permitting certaii,
adjoining counties to come in if they desired, by
the expression of a majority of their people, The