The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-09-10
Another Letter from Mr.. Russell, or the Lon.
don Times.

| the LONDON Times, dated washington, Au'
gust 10. We give the whole of II, emitting
only few unimportant paragraphs:
! PRINCE xAPoLEoN's VISIT TO aouSr VERNON AxD
AFTERWARDS TO GEN. BEArRBGARD.
| Prince Napoleon, on his excursion to Mount
| Vernon, on Wednesday, lost two horses from
| sunstroke, or. at least, the United States
| Government did so: but, nothing daunted
| be went across the river yesterday with spe-
| cial passes and an escort, and attended by
| General Mcdowell, to the Confederate
| ontposts. whence he went over to visit
| General Beauregard, and probably to Rich
| mond. Mr.. Seward did not offer any obiec-
| TONS of course: but this step on the Princes
part has dspleased Of the friends Of the Cor
eTaRent.
| GENERAL scorr's GENERAL ORDER AsAIysr ACTS
oFyAS DALIsM-rBE GERMAN TURNER'S ~
ALARM
In my last letter referred to the misrepre-
sen tatons respecting the visits of the Con-
fcderatss to Mount Vernon, which had so far
influenced Gen. Scott that he wrote general
order. rather remarkable i'll its phraseoiogy,
warning the Federal troops against the COM
| mission Of any acts of vandalism, should they
he in that vicinity. Similar misapprehen
sions on the part of Gen. Beauregard led to
his sending a flag Of truce to inquire whether
the Eederalists had been hanging prisoners
taken in battle. The explanation is, that some
gymnasts OF n regiment were exhibiting
their feats for the amusement of their COM
rades, and had been taken by the special as
the victims of capital punishment. 1t is to be
hoped that the report which has appeared OF
the brutal fogging of a Northern woman by
Il mob in one Of the seeded States is equally
untrue.
GEN. BUTLgR's PLANS.
I am inclined to think Gen. Buffers recent
visit to Washing ton was connected with his
desire to enforce on the minds of the mi itarv
authorities his plan of operations from Fort
Monroe, in which must confess there seems
to me great deal of soundness. There is, CT
course. difficulty in the way of concentrating
| troops, baggage and material by sea but the
Federalists, after all, are only twelve hours
from Baltimore by the Chesa peake, and few
hours more from Washington. They com
mand the sea, and they ought to be able to
collect in force more rapidly by means of
q naval fiotlla than the Confederates could
assent BILE to oppose them.
CONGRESS ADJoURSE D-THE CONSTITUTION
CHANGED.
The special session of the thirty seventh
| Congress, which adjourned yesterday 10 the
4th OF Decem Der, passed during its brief sit
| tin of a month Il mum Der of acts more i'm por-
| tant in character, and introducing changes of
| groa ter consequence in the Constitution of the
| United States than any since the Declaration
of II Independence. Among these, taking them
| III order, are:
| Here are enumerated the acts passed and
measures proposes by the special Congress of
| the United States, i'll its late session.
| Mr. IL. May, a member of the Maryland
delegation to Congress, in explaining why
| he refused 10 recommend Lieut.. Col Emory
| for the nix OF General. states that he dId SO
! on the ground that he recommended no one
for military office during this wretched
civil war; that Maryland ought not TO be
i ex pected to furnish either officers or men TO
! carry on a war so repugndut TO the feelings
OF Eer people.
| LEGISLATIVE DoISds ON BOTH SIDES or THE LINE.
| In Missouri the new Governor, Gamble,
! has issued proclamation to the authorities
70 enroll the people into organization, and
notifying the troops Of the Confederate States
| who have entered the country, that their
continuance there would be regarded as an
act of war against the State of Missouri. He
offers protection to pelitents, and il is under
stood that a committee ofpublic safety will be
formed in each county to maintain the
peace, in default of which the United States
troops would be called In and quartered on
! the people.
In another distracted State Virginia, the
| State Convention at Richmond have ordained
| that any citizen of the State holding office I'M
| der the Government of the United States after
| the 3lSt of July, 1861, shall be banished for
! ever, and be declared an alien enemy; and
| that any citizen who shall undertake to repre-
sent the State i'll Congress shall be deemed
| guilty of treason, and his property shall be
con fiscated.
The proposition of Mr.. Cox, of Ohio to APP
point commissioners to meet commissioners
from the Southern States, in order TO adopt
such amendments to the Constitution as shall
assuaPe all grievances, was rejected SO per-
emptorily as to leave no hope that any DISPOSE
ton exists III Congress for ompromise
Indeed 1t has been with difficulty that the
ultra party in both Houses have been pre-
vented from passing the most violent resOlu-
tons day after day. and the very last sitting
of Congress witnessed several attem pts of the
kind. Mr.. Diven proposed that, at time
when armed rebellion threat tened the integrity
OF the Union and the overthrow of the Gov
ernment any and all resolutions recommend
| ing designing to make terms with armed
rebels is either cowardice or treason. which
Dir. Cox met by resolution that the mem Der
| from New York, who eDdeayored to introduce
4 resolution. denouncing over forty members
| OF This House. because OF their vote for propo
| sitionS To adjust our national difficulties aS
| towards and traitors deserves the censure OF
| this House and of all true patriots for the
talsity, arrogance and insults to his peers, con-
| tanned in his unparliamentary resolution.
1t was not without opposition to the last
| that the resolution of Congress approving
and confirming the acts of the President for
| suppressing instruction and rebellion was
PASSED before the House adjourned and the
| forlorn hope, represented by Messrs. Brock
| inridge, Bayard and few others, showed
| fight 10 the very last. The intelligence from
Kentucky shows that far the result of the
| elections to the State Legislature has been
| favorable to the Unionists as opposed to the
! States rights men, and il is not too much to
| suppose that so far that great and important
| State has given IA general adhesion TO the
| acts of the Government. 1t has yet to be
| seen, however, what course the Legislature
viii pursue, and II must be remembered that
| the Governor, Beriah Magoffn, not long ago
| asserted the absolute sovereignty and neu-
| tratty of the State OF kentucky, and called
out her forces. naval and military, to resist
any invasion, either by the Confederates
| by the troops of the United States, III which
he seemed supported by the general feeling
| of the citizens.
An appeal made to the President in refer
| ence TO searches for arms in the State of
| Maryland has been followed by order
| from General Scott that searches of houses
| for arms, &c, and arrests shall only be made
| by special authority OF the Commander of
|
| MIR. Allen of Ohio, failed before the Sen
ate rose in obtaining Il hearing for his reso-
luton, that il was no part in the present
WAR to interfere with the institution of sla-
| very in any States of the Union and it is now
| felt that if the contest is to go on the end
| must be direct war against slavery itself
THE COST OF TIE WAR AND ExEkrIoss or THE
SECRETARY OF THE TREagURY-FBAUDs OF ARMY
CONTRACTORS FOR sHoEs.
At the present moment 1t is calculated that
| the United States expenditure exceeds 8, 0oc, =
| 900 4 day Mr.. Secretary Chase, in his re-
port to Congress, stated that the sum al
| ready voted amounted 10 s3lS, jI9, ISL, of
| which sum he proposed to raise 1910 900 900
| by loans, and $50, 900 by increased Gus
toms and taxation. A direct tax OF $40 O00 :
eco, en- income tax of three per cent. upon
| all incomes above $500. raised to five per cent
| in the case of aheentecs, with large add
| ,ions to the Morrill, tariff, are the means
| proposed; but not one shadow of truth has
| been adduced 10 prove that any one of them
| Will answer the end while in the case of the
seeded states, we know that the appropria-
ton cannot ut present, if ever, be raise
! With all the efforts that a man can m axe to
keep down his expenses the mighty spasmodic
| efforts of the North to create and maintain
| a great military establishment are attended
| by great waste; but REGULATIONS which have
| been of late extensive and active, putting
| devils dust and shoddy into cloth, brown
| paper into shoe soles, and INDUCING In SINH
lar practices, whereby patriotic citizens
make fortunes by their country losses, have
| not so much to do with the extravaganza as
/ Of lnaI oh l-,-.tb IL.