The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-08-17

| On tho eve Of the battle Tho Iowa First regiment
Oh Bull run the Fourth reg of Volunteers entitled
ment OF Pennsylvania Vo- 10 BIO discharged the
iuheers ana the battery Of morning of the late battle
thc New York Eighth Mill near Springfield in Missouri
ta insisted ON their dis but they voted to hold on
charge, and they moved of so long any fighting was
the held TO the sound of tho 90 be done and nobly
ehemy's cannon they sustained their post in
| the action.
Parson Brownlows paper, the Knoxville (East
Tennessee) Wig, was still going on Saturday the
10th inst but in the issue of that day he says that
orders were sent from Richmond to have its publ
cation stopped, which he thought the mob would
obey, and that probably that would be the last
issue.
Governor buckingham, Of Connecticut has teie-
graphed to General Fremont to have the body of
General Lyon sent to that State to be buried at
| Ashford.
| We have seen nothing as yet in the Southern
journals referring to the payment of the rebel SOL
diers, except that one company of New Orleans
men in Memphis kicked up row some time since
about their pay, and were quoted down with five
| dollars each.
company of seventy-fve able bodied loyal
men. supposed not to belong to the first families
and having no direct claims upon the chivalry, has
been raised in Morgan county, Virginia, and on the
sth instant they left their homes to join ex-Govcr
nor Thomas Union brigade in Frederick Mary
land.
Ex-senator Green, of Missouri, has recently been
in ST. Louis pressing upon the authorities there to
join him in putting forth peace propositions to the
people of that State. Mr.. Green's plan has for its
basis the dsbanding of all the government forces.
Very good secession dodge.
Provisions to be Immediately made for the
examination of persons who are seeking commits
sions in the volunteer service in this State. If de-
| sired, all such asprants can be examined as to
their qualifications before they commence raising
companies or regiments.
There has been some misunderstanding in rela.
ton to the term of service of the two years volun
teers, the men claiming that, as but two classes of
volunteers were called for-three months and three
years-they properly belonged to that class who
enlisted for three months and their opinion was
strengthened by the report that the United States
Attorney General had given his opinion to that
effect. The following despatch from the Secretary
of State to Governor Morgan settles the whole
question:
WASHINGTON, August H. 1861.
| To GOVERNOR MORGAN
The Attorney General has given no such opinion The
whole government holds the troops bound for two years.
| and will discharge none of them. WIN II. SEWARD.
| Dates from the Belize Honduras, are to July Is.
During the last two months much rain had fallen,
and there had been several heavy gales of wind.
The rivers were all flooded and all Of the maho-
gany which had been trucked out of the bush had
come down. Trade was very dull owing to the
war and the low price of Honduras produce in
United States markets. The storehouses are all
full of sarsap0rilla, hides cochneal, indigo and
old copper which cannot go forward, as there is
no demand for them in this country. The trade in
these articles will all go to England hereafter Elk
change on the United States is not to be had unless
at ruinous figure. The health of the town and
the whole settlement very good. No case of
yellow fever this season.
Our advices from Jamaica are to the 9th instant.
The United States steamer Keystone State arrived
there the Goth ultmo, and left for St. Thomas on
the lst instant, in search Of the prvateer Sumter.
There had been a slight falling off in the island
revenue. Trade was dull The island had been
visited with heavy rains, of which the planters
were complaining. The public health was good.
The cotton market steady yesterday at 1sc. a
1870. for middng upands, with sales of 900 bales.
The -four trade less active, the supplies
adequate and holders claimed advance Of Sc lOc per
Dbl. Wheat and corn were freely purchased and
higher in price. Pork, beef and lard quiet;
pork SI5 prime $40 SO % Resin and spirits turpcn-
again improved, with liberal sales; also Of tar pitch
and whiskey at decidedly armer rates. The sales of
sugars and tobacco restricted The transactions in
box herring large Molasses in better demand
Coffee was inactive. Rice was verytrm but in less
| quest An active trade reported in breatstuIs
! rreights, rates on which closed higher.
| PRIvNrEERING-ARE WE BOUND by Our OFFER
OF ADHESION TO THE TREATY OF PARIs2-The
| prospect of our getting into difficulties with
| England through the inefficiency of the block
ade has led to inquiries by correspondents as
| to the position in which our government stands
| in regard to the offer made by it of adhesion to
the provisions of the treaty of Paris on the SUBJ
ject of privateeri, 6. That proposal having
neither been accepted nor rejected, it is feared
by some that in case of II war with Great Bri-
tain, we may be held bound by it. There is no
real ground for this apprehension. So long as
formal acceptance of our offer is not signiied
to us we stand in precisely the same position as
before il was made Even then the affirmative
action of the European Powers would not be
binding upon us unless Congress ratified the
proposal of our Cabinet. This it will not of
course do, so long as there is the slightest dan
ger of the intervention of England or France
| in our domestic quarrels.
The fears entertained that these Powers, in
the agreement said to have been recently en-
tered into between them have it in coptempla-
ton to break up the blockade, are, we think,
unfounded. The question has been deprived OF
its international character by the precautions
taken by our government. II is not blockade
but police control over its own ports that it
is now exercising. Every nation has the right
to close or open to the commerce of the world
such ports on its own coasts as it may choose
to designate. Even in the cases of China and
Japan, where the jealous and exclusive conduct
oftthe two governments, and their dospotic in
reference with the inclnations of their own
subjects, afforded prctext for the infringe
ment of this right, it has always been readily
acknowledged and observed. Should the com
mercial necessities of England and France
however, drive them to violation of il in on,