The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-30

company .......-- Stedman
company G......... Seymour.
company 4. .'............--A sper.
Company I.............Wm. R. Sterling, killed.
Uonp"hy h..'...... ......-- Wiseman.
The Asia, from Liverpool on the 18th and Queens.
town the 18th instant arrived at this port yester
day morning. Her news is three days later than
that brought by the Hibernian.
Cotton was in fair demand in Liverpool and the
market steady at the decline of one.eighth of
penny in qualities below middng. The stock on
hand on the 10th instant was computed at ga, $3.50
bales, of which 67s,9l0 were American. Bread
stufis were very dull on the 18th instant. Consos
closed in London on the 10th instant at 9OI 9OX
for money and account.
The visit of the King of Sweden to Napoleon had
produced an unpleasant feeling at the Court of
Russia. Napoleon's .fete was celebrated in Paris
on the 18th instant, and his Majesty had Inaugural
ted new boulevard with great eclat 1t is said
that the French commander in Rome has been or
dered not to oppose the entry of Cialdini, with
italian troops, into the city. Another war struggle
between Austria and Hungary was regarded as i'm
minent. The Sultan Of Turkey was actively en-
| gagged with his governmental financial reforms
Advices from Ceylon, dated at Coumbo on the
18th of July report our total exports of both kinds
Of those for the corresponding period of last
season, tho figures being 100000 cwts. against
$4,000. The proportions are different, however,
for while last season showed 4l3,O00 cwts. planta-
ton kind, we have now 433 900, with only l27, 900
native against las 900 for last season. The pros.
poets for next season continue very gloomy.
The grand festival In aid of the widows and
orphans of the members Of the Sixty-ninth regi.
ment who were killed in the battle of Bull run
came off yesterday at Jones' Wood. The enter
tanment consisted Of singing, dancing, and an ora
ton by Captain Thomas Francis Meagher. There
was an immense assemblage present, and the ut
most enthusiasm characterized the proceedings. A
full report will be found in another part of to-day's
paper.
A half starved regiment Of rebels, who are
located at Glasgow, Kentucky, have named their
encampment Camp vallandigham, in honor of the
secession representative in Congress of the Third
district of Ohio.
The German Turner's of st. Louis, having been
three months in the service of the government and
received an honorable discharge, have decided
to reenlist for three years, and are now filling up
their regiment. No person will be accepted who
is not recognized gymnast.
The able bodied Union men Of Missouri are falling
into line very fast. Jackson and Price and McCul.
loch, with their Arkansas gentlemen and wild
Camanches, will meet with reception they little
dream of.
Nearly fifty thousand cartridges of all kinds
| from grape and canister down to Mimic balls and
buckshot, are manufactured daily in Memphis. So
! the papers Of that city say.
! The secession paper in Paterson, N. j., has come
to the side Of the Stars and Stripes, and will
henceforth battle for the country and pitch into
the rebels
| A soldier writes that in some Of the regiments
across the Potomac the quartermasters sell the
mems rations, and when the soldiers complain they
are reported to the superior officers mutineers.
General Mcclellan could very easily inaugurate an
that the men get all to which, by the regulations
they are entitled.
Last week there were seven thousand troops in
the camp at Springfield. Illinois.
A large number Of "contrabands' have beer
taken from Petersburg, Va, to Richmond, to worl
on the defences now being thrown up around thai
city.
The business Of impressment is carried on il
Memphis, and regular press gang organized. II
many cases, says the Memphis Avalanche, acts O.
barbarity have been perpetrated, and not unfre
quently have farmers, who were in the city bust
ness been seized well heads of families whose
wives and children depended entirely upon then
for support. To such an extent has this barbaroui
practice been carried that the Council Of the city
have become alarmed, and appointed committee
to confer with the Archbishop, Major General Polk
upon the subject. Memphis must be nice place
to live in just now.
Colonel James Mcintosh, the commander Of onl
of the Arkansas regiments in the Davis creek bat
tie in Missouri, states that the rebels had eigh
thousand cavalry In their army, "only few 0
whom showed the white feather" Their Who'll,
force, he says, numbered thirteen thousand
On the 23d instant there were two hundred ant
sixty-two sick and wounded soldiers belonging t,
New York State regiments in the hospitals o
Washington and Georgetown.
Patrick Henry Donegan, an officer of the United
States government, attached to the coast survey
was arrested in New Orleans on the 22d inst. b,
order Of Gen. Twiggs, as spy
The principal interest on the one hundred mil
lion dollars of Treasury notes which the Southern
Confederacy are about to issue is to he paid bv
war tax OF fifty cents on every one hundred dol
lars OF real estate, slaves, merchandise bank an,
oInef STOCKS money at interest. money an llud