New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-09-30
Arrival OF ParoIed Differentiated Of th.
Hesuit Of the Recent Battles im Rich
mond-Distress in the soufh-Tae Rebel
u-CIads.


From Our Special Correspondent
FoErHxss MosRos, Sept, 70 1861.
The steamer Metamora, Capt Van Valkenburgh,
from point below Richmond, arrived at an early
honr this forenoon, with one hundred and one pa.
rolled oficers captured from Pope, and about sixty
priyates and Others do not repeat the st sent to
the Associated Press.
Among the officers is Brig. Gen. Prince. They all
agree rs % the horrors Of their imprisonment; and
there seems 10 be disagreement that violent death
would be preferable TO a second incarceration. In
some respects, the story is too shocking to go
into print, and every feature OF 1t Is equal
10 IL o horrd tales Of the Basille. tt
The Rebels insists on having gained victories in
every instance In Maryland, as you have seen by
the Richmond papers; and as the lie became most
fagrant because the defeat Of ,he Rebels most
signal the louder were the boasts of victory. i AN
assured that when the first reports OF tie Rebel
rcyetses on The Upper Potomac reached Richmond,
there was little snort of panic. a gentleman who
on loysd good opportunity for Observing assures
me hat the public heart ut fell below zero and
state bordering on absolute hopelessness ensued.
It WAS only by putting forth Tho most resolute claims
to overwhelming triumph by Lee and jackson, and
by asserting the utter defeat OF Mcclellan, that the
current WAS turned, and tie public mind restored to
degree OF confidence. So general is the fact recog-
nzod that anything short OF absolute success il
fatal, that the slightest reverse breeds n panic.
Hence the systematic and nionstrous lies uttered by
the official dispatches and the newspapers, which,
while they print accounts from Northern papers,
pronounce them false. The fact that tho Richmond
papers are totally barrea OF details. and that all
their intelligence, save. what they set from the
Northern papers, are confined TO tho briefest and
falsely coined dispatches, Is significant.
On officer Of high rank bars testimony TO the fact
that although the crops have Just been gathered,
destltutlon aud distress from lack Of supplies and
high prices are only Just ahead, and must speedily
come. The Southern country IS exhausted. The
solemn and controlling iact cannot longer be dis
guistd.
that there have not lately been any considerable
arrivals Of troops from the South other directions
but that the country had been exhausted before Lee
aud jackson started for upper Nirsinia. Lately,
Efforts have been made to collect together staggers
in and about Richmond; but lees than brigade had
been collected short distance below tho city.
Nothing was known OF force between Petersburg
and SuiIolk save the cavalry that has for some time
roamed over that part Of tho State
Concerning Merrmac No. ?, l have intelligence
materially conflicting with that which Was lately
received through Government sources, which is nj
Tho same timo through channel direct, and which
would ordinarily be received as beyond dispute, on
account of the character of the source. The sum
and substance OF il ia that No. is essentially fail.
ure. Though completed, she has not yet left the
dock, OH account Of the breaking down of her ell
gines which are the old Ar ties OF Hartstein ex-
poration memory. She lice ut the dock with double
lines ou, where the engines have been set in motion,
aud when they have often proved defective. Ar
renQements were at one time made for trIp down
the river; but the crew have since been discharged
and the idea abandoned, at least for the present.
There is one other iron-elad, rather ready 10 DO
iron clad but without 1t, aud cannot possibly
receive il for some time to come yet, even under the
beat Of circumstances. Altogether the information
asserts that the ron-clad business decidedly Ian
gnifhes, and il looked upon as "A failure.
This ia Tho futstance Of Intelligence, seemingly