The national Republican., 1861-10-10
LATEs ST Nnws FROM TaE SOUTH.


LATEST NEws FROM TaE SOUTH.
Richmond papers Of Saturday last, the 9th
instant, have been received at New York. We
subjoin number ofinteresting extracts:
CANDIDATES FOR THE CONFEDERATE CONGRESS- IN
VIRGINIA.
The election for members of the Confederate
Congress takes place on the 9Th November.
The following candidates are announced: John
r. Chambliss, sem, for the second district; John
r. Kilby, of Suffolk, and William B. Whitehead,
are also candidates in the same district. Hon.
Jeremiah Morton announces that he will, #
elected, represent the Cupeper or eighth dis.
trct. William H. Mcfarland is a candidate for
re election in the Hanover district, and George
". Randolph is running in the same district.
John Goode jun, Is a candidate in the first dis
trict. j. Horace Lacy, In response to request
from number ofthe citizens of fredericksburg,
consents to be candidate in that district, and
publishes a flaming secession letter. He will,
If elected, do vast amount Of things Roger
A. Pryor is also a candidate.
sEQUEsTRATIoN OF YANKEE PROPERTY.
Active measures are reported to be In pro.
gress In New Orleans for the appropriation Of
Yankee property, under the provisions of tho
sequestration act. Mr.. VIM. B. Astor and Gen
Opdyke, of New York, are said to be largely in
terested in the real estate Of New Orleans
owner of six hundred shares of the stock of the
Bank of Louisiana, worth, in ordinary times
| $50 per share. close ard searching scrutiny
will be necessary to discover the sleeping and
silent partners Of many of our Southern firms.
I-Picdyune.
| ARRIVAL OF PRISONERS.
| Another squad of Yankee prisoners arrived
| AZ Richmond on the 4th, from Fairfax, by the
Central train. Their names are Corporal Hum
phreys and Lester Wortbington, Of Col. Young :
volunteer cavalry, of Pennsylvania; Daniel
Farrell and Thomas Murphy, of the thirty.
seventh New York militia, and Porter Smith, u
| free negro.
| CROSSING THE POTOMAC AT oCcooUAN.
| Information was obtained on Friday, through
official dispatches, that the enemy had crosse d
the Potomac in considerable force, in tho neigh.
borhood of Occoquan. The object of their
| crossing is understood to be to essay the cap
ture of some Of our river batteries, although
| circumstances, which 1t would not be proper
now to mention, indicate that the invading
| force--said to be ten thousand strong-are not
advised Of the locality of our works on the
Potomac. Before the day closes, it is probable
that the enemy will be attacked.-Ricln,ond
| Examiner.
| FLoTILLA OF BARGEs.
| large number of canal barges, says the
| Dispatch, have been sent from Richmond to
points below, for n purpose which we shall not
Indicate. The Government Is fully aware of the
necessity of protecting the rivers on both sides
Of the peninsula, to prevent outrages similar to
those perpetrated by the Yankees on the shores
of the Rappahannock and the Potomac.
| YOUNG REBELS.
In the ranks of the BayIard Guards are three
youthful sons of two exPresidents of the Re.
| public of Texas; one son of Sam Houston, and
two of Anson Jones.
FINISHED.
The telegraph cable between Forts Moultrie
and Sumter has been laid succ essfully.
REVIEW.
On the 10th ult., General johnson reviewed
| the tenth and thirteenth Virginia and third
Tennessee regiments, at Fairfax Station. The
Maryland Line" of the same brigade, was
not reviewed being absent on that day at Up
toms Hill.
william A. Vance. Esq, cashier Of the Valley
| Bank, at Romney, Va, has become deranged
1t is supposed the present troubles of the coun'
try have produced the melancholy effect.
| Ne,D Orleans, Oct "A number of Federal
prisoners arrived this evening, from Richmond
and were marched to prison under an escort.
SHIPMENT OF COTTON TO NEW ORLEANS TO BE
| STOPPED.
| Petitions are being circulated in New Or
| leans praying the Government to take instant
| and effective measures to arrest the shipmen,
Of cotton from the plantations to the city. The
stock now on hand in the city is reported to be
as a beginning Of a violation of public policy
and duty.
| WHEAT vs.. RYE COFFEE.
The Richmond Dispatch says:
| A farmer in the country requests US to say
that wheat makes II much better substitute
than rye. He hopes, he says, that the estab
lishment of this fact will have some effect upon
the price of wheat, since he has learned that
rye Is already selling for three dollars bushei
For our own part, we are rejoiced to hear It
for we are sworn foes to monOpoists, especially
to those who are trading so largely at this time
upon the wants of their country men-upOn the
health and comfort of the soldiers who arc
fighting their battles-upon the necessaries
that sustain the lives of all their fellow. citizens
DEsERTIoN TO THE ENEMY.
We learn, says the Fredericksburg Recorder
of the lst inst, that member Of Captain Nor
gans company, ,r'm EiuS ArKansas, ana ID Nor.n ISo
duty on Friday, and went over to tho enemy
He did this in open day, by signalling one of thu
tugs which was plying along the river shore
some distance above Aqua Greek.