The New York herald., 1863-11-16
The Late Captured Blockade Runners
Curious and Important Disclosures.

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| Curious and Important Disclosures.
The budget OF important rebel letters and
Angl rebel contracts which we publish this
morning will be found exceedingly interesting
to the political and the commercial reader.
They are some of the curiosities found among
the military treasures on board the three or
| four AnglO-rebel blockade runners lately cap
tured off Wilmington, N. G.. These papers the
government has considered too good to with
hold from the world and entertaining the same
idea, We cheerfully give them the benefit of the
HERALD's circulation in both hemispheres.
First in order; Mr.. Edwin De Leon, of South
Carolina, formerly United States Consul Gene
raj in Egypt, appears with 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
| Archbishop Hughes and Thurlow Weed occupied
towards our Minister, Mr.. Dayton, when they
were in Paris. In other words, while Slidell
attends to the confidential affairs Of JEFF Davis
| with Louis Napoleon, De Leon devotes himself
to the outside business, as sort of volunteer
missionary, whose field Of operations extends
| even TO Ireland. De Leon has evidently found
| the weak side of Davis. He is the Moses of the
! confederacy, and must take good care of him
SELF for no Joshua has yet been discovered
| competent to take his place. After this puff of
the wonderful JEFF, Mr.. De Leon confesscs that
he is disgusted with the herd of Confederate
Bohemians protesting to be engaged in Paris
! as his colaborers in the Southern cause, and
then proceeds to anything but cheerful opiu
ion as to the prospects of any help from Louis
| Napoleon. Next in letter to Judah p. Ben
jamin, Secretary of State to Davis, and an
Israelite who has sold himself for less than thirty
! pieces of silver, Mr.. De Leon rites an in
teresting statement of his labors to put stop
to the federal TecrnitEent buslus ) il. Ireland,
from which it appears our ARIES have
been reinforced TO the extent OF twenty
thousand men. This "cowardly crimping
of recruits" he says, is carried on in the
disguise of engagements for Northern railways,
and is thus great outrage to the Irish as well
as to the Southern coniederacy. But there ap-
pears to be no help for it, although the priests
are doing what they can to keep their people at
home.
We have next a considerable batch of letters
and papers relating to commercial contract
between Major Caleb Huse, in behalf of the
&C. S. A." and one Edgar P. Stringer, of Lon
don, Managing Director Of the Mercantile
Trading Company, limited" involving the
shipment of five hundred tons of saltpetre to
Wilmington, N. G.. In this business Stringer,
promises of Huse, excites the wrath of the
Major, who calls the Managing Director" 4"
little better than rogue and cheat, and tells
him fatty that If he does not look very sharp
his saltpetre won't save him, as his ships will be
seized by the confederacy. Huse also broadly
hints that the Hon. w. S. Lindsay d Co.
will bear watching. Stringer, thrown into
a state of great distress, gets down on
his knees in the dirt to James NJ Mason,
Of the firm Of Mason & Slidell, and wants to
know if the cotton will be forthcoming for his
saltpetre if he should send it from Bermuda to
Wilmington Stringer is devoted to his Southern
coniederates; he earnestly desires to give them
the saltpetre, 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, whereupon the
saltpche, with the papers, is shipped in block
ade runner or two for Wilmington, only to fall
into the clutches of the Yankees" Mr..
Striuger will next realize the fact that "a fool
and his satpetre are soon parted"
But the modus operandi of the blockade run
ners is thoroughly disclosed in the contract
between the so-called Confederate Statesr and
Do;l r. r.
the running OF five steamers between Bermuda
or Nassau. aud Charleston or Wilmington
This contract is most elaborately signed and
sealed, including the verifcation by the Lord
Mayor OF London. And here ii strikes us. the
Lord Mayor, in lending his name and official
sanction 70 this bargain, in order to strengthen
is binding force upon the contracting parties,
acted very shabbily. Whatever may be the
technc0lities or the letter of the law under
which hn may shelter himself, he must have
known that in this thing he was violating the
spirit and the object of the Queens proclama-
tion of neutrality, and making himself party
to confessedly Illegal transaction. But, if we
are not mistaken, this same Lord Mayor has
been for some time "hail fellow we'll met"
WIN tue lehulliS iSucl SuSNoilSo III LouuOu,
aud IL is not for us to say that be has received
no equivalent for his services. We may say,
however, that, in our opinion, an honest neutral,
as Lord Mayor OF London, before verifying this
anglo-rcbel blockade running contract would
have laid the matter before his government
Lieutenant Dornin, Of the rebel navy, writes
a readable letter from Calais to Mobile on
the general prospects of his cause, and throws
cut a broad hint to Secretary Weles in the
boast that 'whcn we have scared the Yankees
out Of the Pacific we shall return TO the At
I lantic." II is possible, from this warning,
4 that the rebel piratical cruisers which lately
/ turned up at the Cape of Good Hope
iaay next he heard of in the Pacific Ocean, and
on the track OF our California steamers. AS for
any assistance TO the confederacy from France,
IA IN