The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-10
THE NEWS.

published in the HERALD this morning. The adj
vices are seven days later than those received by
| the Arabia.
| Cotton was in active demand in Liverpool 3iripg
| the week. and the market was buoyant at an ad-
| vance OF from one-siXtecItth to onc-eighth Of "a
| penny per pound, at the close. The stock on hand
| was estimated at eight hundred and cighty-scven
| thousand bales, of which five hundred ard fifty
| eight thousand were American descriptions Bread
| stuis were generally quiet and steady. The Bank
of England had reduced the rate of discount to four
| per cent. Consos closed in London on the 3lst of
August at 92s4 927s for money.
political pamphlet, entitled 'Romc y published
in Paris. intimates that the people of Rome will be
invited to choose u sovereign ruler by universal
suffrage, and that if they vote for Victor Emanuel
the French troops will march from the city next
day and be replaced by an Italian force. This
measure is to be adopted, rs alleged, if the Pope
PERSISTS in refusing the guarantees for the integrity
of the Holy See proposed by Napoleon. Baron
Ricasoli asserts, in an official circular, that the
brigandage now prevailing in Italy is instigated
from Rome. Queen Victoria had reached Balmoral
from Ireland. The Hungarian question was still
debated in the Council of Austria The tone of
the Gar of Russia, as expressed in rcscript to
the Governor General, t wards Poland was con-
ciliatory.
The Providence steamers have brought on freight
to this port, from August to September T. two
thousand one hundred bales Of cotton.
Surveyor Andrews made another seizure yester.
day morning, having taken forcible possession of
the schooner Mary McRea, whichis said to be owned
principally in North Carolina. She arrived from
Liverpool on Sunday with general cargo. A
al nr Ia, A.;
Thomas S. Serrili, arrested few weeks back on
suspicion Of active sympathy with the rebels has
been released under bonds, the testimony against
him being deemed insufficient Ii will be rcmcnl-
bered that English post notes to the amount Of
forty thousand pounds found in his possession
supposed to be intended for the use of the rebels
! Captain Welch, of the Mary Alice captured July
%, by the prvatecr Dixie, has arrived in this city
from Richmond and furnishes some very interest
ing intelligence After his capture off Bermuda
he was conveyed to North Ediso twenty one miles
south of Charleston, where he saw Il battery of
four 2i-pounders on South Point, and formidable
masked battery at North Point. No trace Of the
bochading squadron visible. From Edisto
Captain Welch, with twenty-five other prisoners,
was conveyed to Charleston South Carolina
and Goldsboro, North Carolina, where the peo-
at Fort Hattcras, and were excited to such pitch
that violence was offered to the prisoners. The
authorities had to hide the prisoners and send
them forward to Richmond at night, with a strong
military guard, to prevent mob law being admins
tered. While in Richmond Capt. W. states they
were treated in the most generous manner, allow
ed the freedom of the city, and permitted to con-
verse with the Union prisoners. After delaying
| a ~, L..
party were transferred to Norfolk and set at
| liberty.
Thomas Francis Meagher and Hon. Daniel s.
Dickinson will address n Union mass meeting in
Bridgeport. Conn, to be held ON Saturday after
noon and evening next.
Two New York State Conventions are announced
! to meet to-day in Syracuse. The National Union
party are anxious to bring out State ticket, and
will probably d. so with the name of Daniel S.
! Dickinson at the head of it. The German republi-
cans will appear on the ground to-day, and after
organizing and talking over matters will await the
action of the regular Republican State Convention,
| which will meet in Syracuse tomorrow.
! To-day Union no-party State Convention will
! be held in Madison, Wisconsin. In Ohio Iowa
Wisconsin and Minnesota the democrats like seusi-
! BILE men, have quietly come down and consented to
unite their forces with all the other parties on the
| Union platform. The old partisan lines have been
obcrated for the at least, and the old party
hacks forever we hope, have been thrown to the
| dogs.
| The peace" rebels of Maryland will hold their
State Convention in Baltimore to-day, to nominate
candidates for Governor and other state Offices
| This Convention is caAed by the members of the
Legislature who sympathizc with the rebels, and
who, if they had had their deserts, would have
| spent the summer at Fort Lafayette.
A grand Union meeting, to be composed of re-
representatives. of ali parties, will be held to-day at
Raymond Centre, New Hampshire. Prominent
republicans, Breckenridge democrats, Douglasites
and national Union men among the speakers
| announced.
| Resolutions have been introduced in the Legisa-
ture of Kentucky called neutrality resolutions. "
They assert that the people decided at the polls to
maintain neutral position, and that Kentucky
will neither fight for against either beligeren,
nor grant men or money to either" This is o false
assumption, for the people of Kentucky decided by
sixty-6ve thousand majority to maintain the Union
and elected a majority of fifty Union men to the
House of Representatives over the neutrality
sionists But these resolutions, like those passed
by the New York democratic State Convention
show their design at the close They declare that tho
South cannot be coerced by force of arms, and tina
the war ought to be Immediately stopped. The,
then strip of the neutrality covering by steppin.
over into Missouri and denouncing the proclama
ton of General Fremont The resolutions were in
troduced by one of the holdovcr secession Senators
The Washington Star prints an Intercepted let
ter from a secessionist in this city to Ex-Governor
Smith, of Virginia, but suppresses the name of til,
writer, who is evidently rebel and a spy II,
says that himself and "Mr. Wood" will do all the,
can to assist Extra Billy's son, who is now "citi
zen'' of Fort Lafayette. The name Of the write
should not have been suppressed. The citizens O
New York city are entitled to have full know
ledge of all such men. Give us the name, or Civ,
it TO the government
The Phenix Or. ~ Jo,9noI says that the mill
IN that vicinity are starting up again The Lip
pitt hill started last Monday, running half time