Arkansas true Democrat., 1862-01-09
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l HlllOW nau resigned at OOlu1nDus yesterday anu gone home. Latest foreign news from the St. 1 Louis Republican of the 27th, which has full de- tails of the foreign ews by the Niagara. The London Times accumulates evidence of g long cherished intention of Stewards to injnre Eng land It advises the federal government to make peace before 1t IS committed to trlite oi a war with the Confederates England aud the aboil- tionists Itwas rumored at Brussels on the Eth, that King Leopold would mediate in the Ameri- can conflict. The general impression i'll polit- cal circles was, that Gen. Scott carried a mo- mentous communication from the French gov- ernment. l2,000 troops have been sent to Ca. nada, ready to take the field immediately. l The British have continued to charter all | available steamers. The Pays newspaper says l the English ultimatum is of an absolute charac- ter. The London Herald takes ground against the arbitration as proposed by the News. 1t 1 says no negotiations while Mason and Shdeh are prisoners, and opposes such settlement bit terly
 RICHMOND, Jan. l.-Private dispatches say the federals are landing troops at Biloxi, hun dred miles from Mobile and eighty from New 1 Orleans
 NASHVILLE. Jan. l.-Gov. Johnson of the provisional government of Kentucky, has issued a proclamation of an election to be holden on the 22d inst, for eleven representatives to Con l cress by general ticket. The Kentucky House of Representatives at Frankfort, has expelled 1 Messrs. Elliott. Mathewson. Silvertooth, Lang, Boon, Merritt, Ewing and Gilbert for aiding the rebellion.
 l The Louisville Courier to day received a Lou l isvile Journal of the 30th, which says the tede- raj administration has agreed internationally l to release Mason and Slide to the British gov ernment and place them under the British flag 1 The cabinet was unanimous in coming t0 this determination. Some excitement was created l at the North by the announcement. but 1t was subsiding The Journal expresses no opinion of the matter.
 Under the conGscatien act of the Kentucky legislature the Frankfort authorities have al, tached the property of Gen. Buckner, Wm l Preston and Ed. Crutchfeld, each for S20, ,000
 NEw ORLEANS, Jau'y. lst. A Confederate steamer going to the Pensacola navy yard was ] fired upon by Ft. Pickens and Gen. Bragg s batteries replied. The firing still continued at last accounts.
 PENSACOLA, via N. O., Jan. 2.-An engage ment commenced yesterday at 2.30 ?. m.-the enemy firing on a small steamer lying at the navy yard wharf. The firing soon became gen eral, though slow and deliberate on both sides. The last gun was fired from our side at day light. The shells from our gnns were thrown with great accuracy. The steamer escaped without damage. No casualties reported.- l The only damage done was the burning of two wooden buildings in Warrington by the enemy's hot shot. One war vessel outside-not engag ed All quiet at l2 m., and no prospect of 8 renewal of hostlliteS.
 NASHVILLE, Jan. 2.-Gen. Johnston has call ed on the provisional government of Kentucky for 30 900 troops to serve one or three years.- l l. ades are mustered in, they will be under com. mand of Wm. Preston, late minister to Spain who is to receive the appointment of Major | General.
 No federals, with the exception of few scouts, this side of Green river yet. Late ac- counts from beyond Green river represent the federals as still receiving large rein!orcements
 The reported resignation of Gen. Pillow is 1 confirmed.
 RICHMOND, Jan. 2.-via New Orleans, Jan. 8. In Congress to-day Dan'l ?. White. of Ky. was qualified and admitted to his seat. The session otherwise was unimportant. It is re- ported that a committee in Congress will report measures and suggest the adoption ol the French system.
 Gen. Bragg communicates to the government that firing was commenced yesterday by Fort Pickens firing on a confederate steamer, and was replied to by the confederate batteries. It continued during the day until night. No cas- ualties reported on our side. Col. Anderson was in command, as Gen. Bragg was absent, but returned early this morning. Fort Pickcns did not renew the firing this morning. No fur ther operations were had on our side.
 AUGUSTA, Jan. "A private dispatch from Pocotalego yesterday says the federals attempt ed to advance from Port Royal ferry. but they l ,.,JL L,-+ 4 A. Cnu+b Ha-olina ment under Col. Jones. Confederate loss fifteen killed and one wounded. One Yankee was taken prisoner. It is reported here that large fleet of federal vessels was off Tybee yesterday.
 RlcHNoyD, Jan. "A private dispatch from Centervie to prominent military officer says indications point to an early federal attack on Transport and probably another simultaneous one on other points on the Potomac. The Richmond Enquirer will publish to>lnor- TOW from the Baltimore Sun of the Both the de mand of the British government for the restitu- tod of Mason and Slidel aad the answer of Seward and response. of Lord Lyons. The English minister was short and pointed in his demand, and Seward surre 1dered instantly, but closes his reply with a multiplicity of words and frstes and secondlieS, etc. He says that south ern commissioners were contraband and liable 10 capture.
 lie says however t0dt the IdWS Ol Hdtlpllo "hilo iustifying the capture of an enemy's ministers as contraband do not as in cases of property, pro 1 vide formulas for adjudication. This capture he says might have been avoided if the Trent had been determined by proceeding against her which would have been morally decision of the case of the commissioners. The moral certain ty of the character of Mason and Slidel would have been sufficient te meet the spirit of the law But the Trent being dismissed, the service was lost. Seward also saYs substantially that the capture of Mason and Slideli was in opposition to, and that their restoration is demanded by all those principles which have ever obtained II American policy and statesmanship, to yindicate which the |. $. went to war with England--de claring to surrender commissioners he says would violate the long maintained dogma of his own country and which he approved. The summary in the Enquirer's editorial says the first capture was right when tested by justice law and decorum. That its advantages must be surrendered, and upon an assumed techni calty in a court where there was no pleading That the capture was wrong as judged by prln' ciples always maintained in the |. S., even tC the extremity of war. To Stewards labored effort. Lord Lyons makes brief reply, and tc the point, he says he has sen! his words to Eng land, and will see him soon and receive the ministers.
 The Philadelphia Bulletin says whatever has been yielded, was only owing to an imperative necessity of avoiding foreign war, while we have domestic one. We should not stand on punctios and run the risk of having the Un> ion destroyed by an alliance between the rebels