Daily Democrat and news. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1859-1864, 1861-10-21
A Despatch { Om the Chief OF
the Cherokee Indians.
AFTERNOON DISPATCHES.
Fi0m Washington.
WASHINGTON, Oct. Is.

[Hsrald's Despatch.l
The abandonment Of Leesburg by the rebels, is
confirmed to day. They are said to have proceed
ed tlwards point on the Manassas Gap Railroad.
1t Is presumed they went to Manassas to Join the
main body rendezvousing there, but the fact is
not definitely ascertaiEed, and The opinion 10 en-
tertained in some quarters, that they have gon.
towards Harper's Ferry by way of StraburQ and
Winchester. Tne latter conjecture, however, Is
hardly probsb Q. For some days the rebel army
has occupied the segment Of Q circle several mile.
in extent, reaching from Leesburs to the mouth
Of Occoquan Creek. The movement recently
made by withdrawing from Leesburg, Vienna,
Fairfax Court House ard Annandale, was unques-
tionably the intention ~ reduce the front, which
now extends from the Potomac river at tho mouth
Of Dec Qquan, upon that creek and along Bull Run
to Manassas Junction, with Centrevie and Fair
fax Court House occupied as outpOsts. A very
largo DO iy of their forces is known to have been
thrown towards the Potomac, in the neigh Dor b ood
Of Shining Point Tha movement is purely de
fenslv., to meet the supposed intended advance Of
our army Of the Potomac, in that direction, 50 as
to cut off the communication Of the rebel army at
NanAs sas with Richmond.
Gen. Stahl, Of the New York 5tE, wi b small
force, made reconnaissance to Annandale, which
leads t. Fairfax Court House. The village wa
not de eserted as otheTs had been. the inhabitants
said several rebel regiments lett there only yester
day morning. Gen. Stahl then commenced ad-
-
ing mile, he discovered four rebel mounted
pickets Watching our movements. Our force ar
rived 1T , hill called Coyle. near tho Court House
Oar men were very much disappointed when they
learned they would not be psrlnltted to 20 on to
the Coart House. Some Of them actually shed
tears. The object Of the reconnaissance was simp
ly to ascertain the pos tion Of the anemy, and no
IL sack an engagement. Having saIisfed himse If
that iearly all the rebels had left Fairfax c. H.,
Cen stahl returned late in thu evening. The
withdrawal Of the enemy from his advanced po-
sisiOn in front Of the Union lines, is fully confirm
ed by Prof. La Mountaine, who made balloon as
cension this +. NJ, shortly before o'clock. He
assembled IRON Q point about six miles west Of
Alex ndria-the wind carried him five or gix miles
over the enemy's camps around Fairfax station
when rising into another current, he took Q cir
cult Fairfax Z. IT,, and thence back 10 our 0w \,
lines, landing at Gen. Blinker's headquarters. He
had an excellent view OF the enemy's position and
could see their encampW0nts at Manassas. There
were 40 Rebel forces except here and there man
this side of Fairfax z. H. At the Court House
there were only few companies, and the appear
ance II the bivouacs demonstrated that the posi- :
tion had been recently a.IGos. entirely evacuated.
At Fairfax thsro appeared to DO largo force.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10
Lord Lyons, several days ago, addresse letters
to Mr.. Seward, Secretary Of State, in which he
says her Majesty's Government were much con
cerned, to find that two British subjects, Messrs
Patrick and kahmie, had been subjected to .rti-
trary arrest and although they had been releas ed
ing very serious consideration. Lord Lyon, under r
instructions, therefore, ielt bound to demonstrate
against such Irregular proceedings, as he desg-
mated them, and to say that the authority Of Con
gress is necessary in order to Justify the
arrest and imprisonment of British subjects.
Secretary Seward, in the course nf his reply,
after detailing the facts regard to the two prs
eners named in the note OF lord Lyons, Gays The
proceedings of which tho british Government
somplai we're taken upon information conveyed
to the President by the legal police authorities OF
the country, and they wers not instituted until
after he had suspended the great writ Of freedom
in Just the extent, that in view Of the peris Of tn
state, he deemed necessary for the exercise Of
that discretion. He, as we'll as his chief advisers
amonswhom are the Secretary Of War and Sec,e
tary Of State, is responsible by Law before tie
highest tribunal Of the Republic, and aw ens bic
also. to the judgment of his country and the en-
iightened portion ef the civilized world. In con
clusion, Mr. Seward remarks, the safety of the
whole people has become, in the present exl genry
the supreme law, and 50 long ~ the danger shall
ezist, all classes Of society, equally the denzens
and the ,tisens, must cheerfully acquiesce in the
measures which that law pro-cribes. 4 his Govern
ment does net question tho learning Of the
legal advisers Of the British crown of the justice
0 the iefvrence which her Maj pays to "a. m
nevertn less the British Government will hard '
expect that the President will accept the expla-
nations Of the Constitution cf the United States
especially when the CG Institution thus ex pounded
wsuld lesve upon him the sole executive respsr-
sibiity Of suppressing the existing insurrection
while it would transfer TO Congress the most ma.
terial and Indispensable powers to be employed fpr
that purpose. Moreover, these exp anati0ns fnd
no real support in the letter. much less in the suiri,
Of the Consultation. He must be allowed, there
fore, 70 prefer TO be governed BY the organic ma
tionsl law, which, while it will enable him to ex-
srcise his great trust with complete success re-
cevs the sanction Of the highest authorities ouu
r, and is sustained by the general con-
sent Of the people for whom alone that Constitu
ton was established. SEcY. WV. H. SEWARD.