Daily national Democrat., 1861-09-08
By r Ell GRA P Fl
ARRIVAL OF THE PONY.
Dates from st. Louis TO August 3lst.
SACRAMENTO, sept. 7Vh.
From q Sacramento Union- Exira

RoBgRrs' CREEK STATION,
225 miles acst Of Fort Churchill, Sept 9TH, {
| The Pony, with dates from st. Louis to
August SLIT, arrived last evening at o'clock,
with the following dispatch to the Union:
ST. LOUIS Aug. Slst.
The Government is considering the pro
priety of organizing national detective po-
lice; several large cities are represented in
the conference The plan is to have agents
distributed through The country, forming
net work of surveillance.
a woman from Bulls Head was arrested,
while passing through our lines into Alexan-
dria, with some 90 letters addressed to and
duplicating prominent citizens Of Alexandria
and Washington. Several persons have been
arrested-among them Mrs. Greenhow, wid-
ow of the former librarian, and translator of
the State Department. Mrs Senator Gwins
trunk was ordered to West Point to be ex-
amined. Plans of fortifcations at Chain
Bridge and on the other side of the Potomac
were found DR.. Waring was arrested -
Other arrests will soon be made.
The foreign mails hy the last steamer were
received at the State Department with advi-
ces from our minist er Our ministers are con-
lident no movement to recognize the rebels
as u nation will be made as long as the Gov
ernment maintains Its forces in rebel States
The feeling on the continent is general that
the North would be aroused by the disasters
to the army, and that defeat has closed the
door to an arrangement with the rebels.
British Government officials are impressed
with the belief that battles defeated would
only prolong the contest, without deciding
anything
Washington City was thrown into excite.
ment by the report that martial law would
be declared Immediately. The authorities
| haye not decided to take such steps.
| Committee from Boston is endeavoring
to persuade the President that he ought to
change his constitutional advisers. 1t is said
these gentlemen represented the sentiments
of certain prominent interests in Boston, who
demand that the heads of the war and navy
departments must come off, else they will not
risk ca pital further. This created consider
able feeling.
Officers have seized six packages Of the N.
Y. Daily News at the American Express of
fee, New York The publishers finding
! themselves excluded from the Post Office and
Adams Express and Boss d. Yaneey's agen-
cies, endeavored to employ the American tx
press, which they supposed was not watched.
AT Washington the cecessionists are gem
orally alarmed at the late arrests They
| think the matter is growing serious to them.
The remains of Gen. Lyon were embalm
sd at st Louis and left there yesterday by
Adams Express under mi itasy escort.
1t is reported that the English and French
fleets Oh our coast are intended 70: service at
Vera Cruz for Intervention in Mexican affairs
Secretary seward has gone TO New York
10 arrange new passport system.
Union men in Kentucky are ready for
whatever issue Secessioussts may force upon
them.
The Government has rented building at
Washington for the confinement of female
prisoners.
The battle at Cross Lanes near Summer
vile, on the Goth of August, proves bloody
affair. Col Tyler of the 7th Ohio regiment
was attacked on both hanks at the same time
while they were breakfastng Our troops
Immediately lorme in order of battle and
fought brayely. They saw little chance of
| he no " p
Companies Is, c and | Suffered most severe
ly being in the hottest part of the fight and
stood it bravely, fighting against fearful odds
making great slaughter in the enemy's ranks.
Our forces scattered after they had cat their
way through, but soon formed again and
fired, but they received no reply OF pursuit
from the enemy The rebel force consisted
Of 1000 infantry, 400 cavalry and 10 guns
900 of ours we're engaged, 200 of whom are
missing. The rebel loss was fearful. The
enemy coloro and two prisoners We're cap
| ture1
The Secretary of War has ordered the
stoppage of all telegrapbic dispatches to
points South of Kentucky.
i The Charleston Mercurys correspondent
says. eve are without the sympathy or the
friendship of any nation on earth. The only
argument by which we can influence them is
10y their necessities and their fears"
This correspondent says The Confederates
suffered more in killed aud wounded at Bull
Run than the Fcderals. Complaints are made
| that advantage was not taken of the Federal
flight - Manassas
400 copies of the New York Daily News
We're seized at the American Express office at
Albany, August 2Sth
Russell, of the London Times denies that
he was refused pass from Gen. Porter, and
| adds he holds pass from Gen. Scott, as
well as one from G en-. Porter
Mr.. Adams, our Minister to England writes
that in the British mind the independence of
the rebels is fully admitted as military and
political necessity; that their acknowledg
ment hy England is but question Of time
and prudent courtesy. While England is
impatient to get cotton from the South in ex-
change for manufactured goods, she is anx-
ious not to lose the Northern market, and is
unwilling to part with the hope of breaking
down the Morrill, tariff She charged the
North with the Walker tariff, and thinks that
two OF three more successes like Bull Run,