New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-02
bales. Sugar sold at 81 to &C.. molasses 800; -four.
81 25 TO IS; mess PORK SO per barrel; bacon lS 10
2lc.; hay, $50 per tun lard, % to CSC.
FROM THE POTOMAC

FROM THE POTOMAC.
A letter in The Delta, dated Camp Leesburg,
Sept. 7, says:
" Tha9k heaven commanders are fully Informed Of
81 Northern movements II Telegraph wires toto the
Offices Of Department Richmond and despite all threats
OF Sort Lafsyette agents and eepess
PRAYING every danger and successfully accomplishing their
hazardous missions With the ealthness Of Grows or Backfoot
OF numbers and preparations IN aud around here
sha not speak but everything Is as our beat friends could
element and large bodies Of rnea arc nightly joining
Acqpa Geek Whenever they eulo the Federal erai but
none Of them VIII BE- Jeff 70 tell toe tale"
The Crescent has letter from Richmond,
September - from which we extract the sub Joined:
The Cabinet nov, aud has been for time divided
en- the policy Of forward movement Of The army OF the Po
tomac The object Of delay spT arise from spPehen
lion ths attack upon AID ns deruc3n OF the Capital
would thoroughly the hnrth aad would speedily heal
oil the di.senseus which gown up s incress
prosecution Of the war 1t Is urged that tho entire North to
msn with and money, would flock to the support Of
the Feiersl Government and instead of Amy Of 20eC
Iien We would have pressing down upon million II
vase aad destroy The difficulties which now bcse,
the Lincoln Government in recruiting aud filling the
regiments NJ in seics would immediately vanish aud the
eutte North In forty days would be inmen'e ecanp
~ es et ne rue poicy IS 70 await the gcilon OF
the French sld English Gosenmens th, our difficulties
may be arranged without further etuson Of blood The army
consequent uprising Ia h'r aai aud the scSHon of Bs
more for quaftefins The army tie Winter What
cross the Poomac or the erection Of Watc guar
,ea this lil- j. also unknown few da will dsteriane
councils .! the Federal l-sdss in regard the field
military opsaions rud Is also evident tina; Toe dthoItics
hero appd Of this change IN the tactics OF the Federal
lists Atth msut large bodies OF troops se being sent
the Peninsula cln Ichmohd 3VOO men sud 40 mounted
men have been ordered to Yorktown"
ARMS AND MILITARY STORES FROM MEXICO.
A Galveston correspondent of Tie Crescent,
wiring on the 10Th inst, makes the following ref
erences 10 the reception Of arms from MeNico:
The Ldiarod ConJsr ssys several thousand nile aud
mu,5 csIidges aud several n' Of lead arrived thcfe on
Sunday last from the Rio Gr1nde ,
81 sec by The Laracea 10y that Capt jordan. Of tho
Green Lake Company has returned from MaismoTss having
succeeded IN procuring three boxes OF rs' aud oO pounds
Of powder " A.,
4 Corpus Christi letter of the 2jth ult., published
in the Galveston papers, Gays:
Great cusniic, Of powder lead and percussion caps are
in transit from Msco 70 the interior Of this sato and
extensive Of arms ammunition and equip nen,s for
in.n p, been effected VsIa CDz Cor the Confedescy
on very moderate termI"
A train from the Rio Grande also recently brought
20 San Antonio five thousand sacks OF coffee.
FROM TEXAS.
Recruiting appears TO be going on actively in
Texas. The Governor has been called on for three
thousand more troops. Two thousand are 70 90 INTO
camp and ten companies Of infantry and four Of ar
tlery are 10 20 on the coast and Rio Grandc. a
mounted regiment Il being raised. One company Is
tuus described by The HJUstOH IelcgraBh:
"1he 1oi 20 Humber, ,ch armed with double
barreltd sAot-ua siIsh1otcT aud bowieABf, double
edged two feet long and weighing three pound livery
&, psrec; hsreuau AID p.cndid so II this siueE
does make s mark the uitcs there i virtue
IN reng courage p,tiysu, and thorough knowledge Of
TIC Use OF Ioffca huu arms
a Texas paper gives tic following rumor Of inya
sion:
Euuor say. the, 5000 Federal or rather United State.
troops have been landed San Bias other poin
tle Pacific q Mcyco, Tor tho Fyo.c u marching
the county toward IUcscn, a.d forming junction
With the troops ScwArzona and McSco aud then
ing Texas by vuy Of =, ieso. II such Y tie they viii
probably be surprised TO lean that their friends hay, been
farirre and that they win have strong TeIEs force
iuiss Of a s,forg body Of Federal frlcads."
Tie BrorHsrHe Flax, in view OF the expected
iuterlercncciu Mexican affairs By France and Eng
land calls ior The occupation Of Northern Mexico by
Southern troops 10 at least the Sierra Msdre.
Montgomery corrcsJ ondent OF Tie San AHtoEiO
Ls5Per, however, takes different view. He says:
Let us be convinced that the taxing Of Sierra Madre either
By voluntary annexation by force all 30 the DO FHa q
slavery nowhere b. the states would IL pay could Il
compete with native sbor could establish such bar
rieT TO prevent tho slaves TunuiDg Into MEXICO"
STARTLING RUMOR.
Under this caption Tile SaraHHaA RepuJi,eoH Of
Sept. II says: "
- solder who came NJ from Font Puak last MEL reports
that a. engagement between the Lincoln fest aud tie FUTta
Port Royal commenced Monday afternoon and continued
through tie whole or yesterday The guns were distinctly
heard from Fort fulslsl'