The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-11-18
q From the New York Herald. -.
The Late Captured Blockade
Runners--CuriOus and lni-
pOrtant Disclosures. N

pOrtant Disclosures. l8
-Fhe budget ofimportant rebel letters anc
Anglo rebel contracts which we publish
this morning will be found exceedingly in,
teresting to the political and the CONNER
cial reader. They are some of the curlosl'
ties found among the military treasures on
board the three or four Anglo-rebel block
ade runners lately captured off Wilmington,
n. G. These papers the Government has
considered too good to withhold from the
world, and entertaining the same idea, we
cheerfully give them the benefit ofthe HER
AIDS circulation in both hemispheres.
First in order, Mr.. Edwin De Leon, of
South Carolina formerly United States
Consul General IN Egypt, appears with a
very affectionate but somewhat gloomy,
letter from Paris to jeff. Davis. Mr.. De
Leon. We guess, occupies about the same
diplomatic relation to Slidell that Archbish-
Cd Hughes and Thurlow Weed occupied
towards our Minister, Mr. Dayton, when
thcy were in Paris In other words, while
SHdell attends to the confidential affairs
ofJeff. Davis with Louis Napoleon, devotes
himself to the outside business, as a sort Of
volunteer missionary, whose field of opera,
tions extends even to Ireland. De Leon
has evidently found the weak side ofDavls.
He is the Moses of the confedercy, and
must take good care of himself. for no Josh
ua has vet been disc )vered competent to
take his place. After this puff of the won
derful jeff, Mr.. De Leon confessed that he
is disgusted with the herd of Confederate
Bohemans protesting to be engaged in
Paris as his colaborers in the Southern
cause and then proceeds to anything but o
cheerful opinion as to the prospects of any
help from Louis Napoleon. Next, in letter
to Judah P Benjamin, Secretary of State
to Davis, and an lsralte who has sold him
self for less than thirty pieces ofsilver, Mr..
De Loan writes an interesting statement
of his labors to put stop to the federal re-
cruitment business in Ireland, from which it
appears our armies have been reinforced to
the extent of twenty thousand men. This
'cowardly crimpng ofrecruits; ~ he e7saysis-s
carried on in the disguise of ensageme nts
ier Northern railways, and is thus a great
outrage to the Irish as we'll as to the South
ern confedercy. But there appears to be
no help for it, although the priests are
doing what they can to keep their people at
home.
We have next considerable batch OF let
ters and papers relating to commercial
contract between Major Caleb Huse, in be
half of the &c. s. A and one Edgar P.
Stringer, Of London, managing Director
of the Mercantile Trading Company, limit
ed" involving the shipment Of five hun
dred tons of Saltpetre to Wilmington, \.
C. In this business StrIuger, becoming a
little dubious of the authority and promises
of Huse, excites the wrath of the Major,
who calls the managing Director" little
better than rogue and 2 cheat, and tells
him fatty that if he does not look very
sharp his saltpetre won't save aim, as his
ships will be seized by the confederacy.-
Huse also broadly hints that the Hon. W.
S. Lindsay & Co., will rear Watching
Stringer. thrown into state Of great dis
tress, gets down on his knees in the dirt to
James NJ. Mason, of the firm of Mason q
Slidell, and wants to know if the cotton
will be forthcoming for his saltpetre if he
should send it from Bermuda to Whining
ton. Stringer is devoted to his Southern
confederates; he earnestly desires to give
them the ssltpetre, knowing that it Is
much wanted but then he wants some
security for the cotton, better then the
threats of Major Huse. Mason comes to
the rescue, endorses the paper Of Stringer,
writes him letter, whereupoa the saltpe
tre with the papers, is shipped in block
ad runner or two for Wilmington, only TO
fall into the clutches of the 'Yankees. y
Mr. Stringer will next realize the fact that
a fool and his saltpetre are soon parted
But the modus operdndi OF the blockade
runners is thoroughly disclosed in the con
tract between the so-called Confederate
States" and the English firm of Charles Ii,
Reid Il Co. for the running of five steamers
between Bermuda or Nassau, and Charles
ton or Wilmington. This contract is most
elaborately signed and sealed, including the
verhcatlon by the Lord Mayor of London.
And here it strikes us, the Lord Mayor, in
lending his name and official sanction to
this bargain, in order To siren, then its bind
ing force upon the contracting parties, acted
very shabbily, Whatever may be the tech
ncalities or the letter Of the law under
which he may shelter himself, he must have
known that in this thing he was violating
the spirit and the object of the Queens
, proclamation of neutrality, and making him
self a party to confessedly illegal trans
r action. But, if we are not mistaken, this
same Lord Mayor has been for some time a
/ 'hail fellow we'll metz with the leading
r rebel emissares in London, and it is not fol
d us to say that he has received no equva
0 lent for his services. We may say, howey
t er, tnat, in our opinion, an honest neutral
:. as Lord Mayor of London, before verifying
: this anglo rebel blockade running contrac
d would have laid the matter before the Gov
/, ernment.
a Lieutenant Dornin, of the rebel navy
writes readable letter from Calais to Nc
bile on the general prospects of his cause
and throws out broad hint TO Sec. Welle
n in the boast that "when we nave scared th
c Yankees out OF the Pacific We shall retur
r to the Atlantic Ii is possible, from thi
d, warning, that the rebel piratical cruise'
id which lately turned up at the Cape Of Goo
Te Hope may next he heard of in the Pacif