The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-14
4 PRINCE NAPoLKoS's VISIT TO MAxAssA.


tA PRINCE NAPOLEON S VISIT TO MAyAssA.
Gen. Beauregard did not make very good
impression on the Prince, it is said, although
his French is natural to him as 4 New Orleans
creole. 1t is said by the people who can see
long way into millstopes that the Prince
will certainly propose III, arbitration, and
that his visit is made with the object of secur
ing for France the position which would GER
tainly De given to the power that might rem
der an agreement possible. MIR. Sewar not
only exhibited an inclination to let the Prince
go if he liked-he seemed TO think it would
not be posi- BILE to find any sound reasons to OBJ
ject to the expedition. ~
Now it strikes an outsider that if the Uni
ted States Government was angry with
Great Britain for placing the Confederate
States army on the footing of belliserents,
and If il has always maintained that the
troops of the Confederate States army, SO
called, are rebels, the visit of the heir to the
throne of France minus one in the present
imperial succession, attended by United
States General and escort, to the cam p of the
rebels and to the Generals in command of
them, with the sanction Of the UIited States
Government, and the return Of the party to
the United States lines, is one of the most
extraordinary cases that has eyer. been per-
mitted TO occur by any Government III the
world. doubt if any neutral prince would
have been allowed TO pass from the allied
lines into SebastopOl and TO have returned to
the allies by either side but there conld be
no ''if'' in the matter at all had the one side
been considered and proclaimed the other to
be rebels. sfgs a5
q QUIET At WASHINGTON.
Notwithstanding the great expenditure
there is but little excitement visible at Wash
ington, unless one goes into the War and
Navy Departments, where crowds Of cOntrac-
tors block upon the passages. each waiting
for his interview with An unhappy Minister
or his representative. In America these per-
sonal interviews are the rule. Each man il
entitled. perhaps by the theory Of the Consti-
tntion, to walk In and take out his own share
Of the public time; bat the pressure is so
great that some men have Aeen there for a
week or ten days without s8cthg the particu-
lar person they desire to faSOF.
galloping Of orderlies is very much reduced
in proportion as things get into order, and ON
the other side of the river there is incessant
drilling and plenty Of hard work, principally
worth, Ut AIexandrin, across the front Of the
posit ion. None Of this, however, Is seen In
tho capital itself. 10Y
- NO coxpRonns.
Before Manassa some wonderful cembi-
nation Of good luck and dex terity on the part
Of 1.-The devil ofcomprcinise' might have led
seams and tattered nag Of the repu blic., The
North could not now in honor submit to
Amalgamation with all the faint OF base
metal ON her part OF the compound. The
con tinent Of America could not hold North
eSn men in the face of defeat, insult, and con-
tempt from the men of the South.
- INDIFFERENCE.
Governor Jackson and his friends-(3eneral
LyOn and Colonel Siegel-fight and retreat
advance and cOuntermarch, and engage in
numerous skirmishes, without adding one
particle OF force to the cause in which they arr
engaged, and the mass Of the people stand
neutral between them. Governor Wise dies
through Westeru Virginia before tbs Esde'
|sralists, burning bridges aud tearing up rail
4oads, and the Inhabitants, possihly, are dis
xusted equally with both sides- Thee dasul.
TRY operations contgtbutc little or nOthtng v
tie end ~ the war.