New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-09-03

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From the Richmond Examiner Of Friday we
copy the following highly interesting and import
ant intelligence, briefly mentioned day or two
since by telegraph;
We have been enabled to trace and define she
report referred TO In yesterdays paper, with re-
apect to the breaking OF the Blockade by the in
gresa Of the British ship Alliance.
l.. The Investigation We made of the report yester-
day was very much bafled, but, at last, resulted
in aecndrnIasion, which we consider satisfactory
of all its main points Of intelligence The Govern
ment had heard nothing, IN an official way, Of the
ingress Of the Alliance; but the report Of it had
reached member Of Congress from the Sheriff Of
| the county on the coast where the vessel had run
tie blockade We. make the statement as it has
reached Richmond from this source, which is re-
commended to Us as entitled to credit.
A single error occdrsi III the report we made yes
terday, occasfoned by misrepresentation Of local
tiles. There are two places OF the name Of Beau
fort' on the Atlantic coast-one ID North Carolina,
and the other in South Carolina; the latter being
in the locality of Port Royal one of the finest har-
bors south Of Norfolk, into which itwas supposed
1 tha5 the Alliance had entered 10 noF appears
| that twas Beaufort in North Carolina, harhor
| on the neck Of Cape Lookoat, where the vessel
r. s further stated that at the tine the Alliance
| entered the line Of the blockade at this point, a
i number Of merchant vessels were observed ont at
| sea and It was supposed that they might follow
the Alliance in, under the protection of British
psteameT that was lying off the coast This may
possibly account for the circumstance OF the with
holding from general telegraph communication of
the intelligence of the gap made ia the blockade
4 by this vessel as a pioneer.
This is the first instance, we believe, Ct the in
gress OF vessel of snentral power into our block
AIDED ports and as such, is entirely sufficient to
furnish the occasion for freeing the neutral trade
of the British Government from restrictions.
1t is well known that several of oIr oWn vessels
1 have made their egress from the bockaded ports,
sttts gCft than1 hcrn aYcIfy,
stances. The late intelligence frofn Eayepereports
two arrivals from Southern ports, viz: the Genoa,
| from Savannah, at Deal, and the Kaiers from New
| Orleans, at Barcelona.
| It is to be understood, however, that in eontem-
plation of public law, the escape Of the blockade
I by our own VESSELS cannot properly or perhaps
| justly, free the commerce of a neutral. When,
however as in the case of the Alliance, the vessel
OF a neutral mower itself runs the blockade, through
either the neficieney rernssness of the cruisers
| or even through some accident anaoeoaaated for,
there is 30 doubt that in the common estimation Of
| international law, the blockade is posfdFely and
I permanently broken
The test Of the blockade for England, so far as
her own rights are involved, is positively determ-
ined and the eircumstanees attending the adYen-
ture of the Alliance point to prompt and effective
measures for the assertion Of those rights. 1t is
| known that a number of British war vessels are
now stationed Immediately on the North Carolina
coast, and that the running of the blockade by a
British merchantmen at Beaufort was performed
in the sight Of one Of them. The late additions to
and concentration OF the British squadron or rather
/ feet, off the Southern coast, means something.
There has never before been such formidable
array Of modern war vessels around and about our
coasts. The British feet, now under the command
of Admiral Milne. numbers forty.two vessels, with
an armament of 497 guns, and between six and
4 seven thousand men. In fact, every circumstance
aids the conclusion that il the Lincoln Government
shall insist upon any further continuance of the
blockade, the preparations of the British Govern
ment are complete instant aud fully resolved upon
for naval war with the United States, TO be COM
menced Immediately off the coasts Of TIE Atlantic.
P. S.-Since the above was written, the informa'
ton given by it about the running OF the blockade
has been fully confirmed by dispatches received 81
the War Department, but not until last evening The
Captain of the Alliance is expected to reach Rich
ulond to-day. Her cargo will be offered for sale tc
the Government. From what we learn of it
1t is of the most valuable description. Besides ar
assortment of general articles and some cases o
arms, perhaps, it consists of 10000 percussion
caps large quantities of medicines, quicksilver, pil
iron sheet iron, tin plate, several thousand dozel
. | of sDDol cotton etc., etc.