Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1863-09-08
GENERAL NEWS.

| ZEN NEWS.
All public interest," quitting the banks Of
| the Rappahannock, seems concentrating itself
| on Charleston and the Valley Of East Tenncs-
see. The enemy lad come to kind of pause
before Charleston, waiting, probably, further
| supplies Of heavy cannon and ammunition,
and reinturcemcnts OF troops. On the 18th,
matters were comparatively quiet" and the
peo5.c u Charleston were reported in good
spirits. With the present land force Of Yam
KEGS and negroes on Morris Island, the enemy
apparently hcsituted to repeat the assaults
which have been hitherto 50 murderously re-
pulsed. On the 5th, however, there was an
! other furious bombardment against Fort Wag-
! ncr: : and Il new ASSAULT on the fort, with in
creased force, was luuked for on Saturday
night.
As 10 the approaching struggle for posses
>.m oc East Tennessee, we believe no unsasi
ness ueed be felt. 1t would%e imprudcnt to
state the grounds on which We form that be-
lief but nusecrans. and Burnside are likely
t. lac met III {; fashion which thcy dp not
c0unt upon.
Ou, OF the conflicting dispatches from Ar
kansas, it is.,as set, impossible to collect the
truth Yankee stories Of full retreats" and
"hot pursuits" in 80 distant Il region are to
i.c taken with a grain, Tor Il Ion. ol' salt: be-
sides, Yai:Acc accounts dated from Fort Scott,
on the 2S,i, admit defeat OF their General
B!uunt, with Il loss Of 800 men, which, nul-
tipiicd as is proper to Go with Yankee figures
telling asainst themselves, iuay he set down
Ut 900. Four days later come the stories Of
|>our lull retreat ami their hot pursuit: and
TWO lays later still, there is :. despatch to the
Atlanta Appeal announcing victory of
Price over the Federal army. All these may
possibly relcr to Que AMI the same transaction.
But our feet of iron clais We really see
no use in sending hy telegraph, and printing
10 u bulletin and posting oa the walls, las if
it were in some sort an article of intc!ligencc)
that Chicago newspaper says, that Yankee
messenger. says, that six Confederate iron
clads arc coming - raise the blockade OF
Charleston, and that thirteen others, &c., &c.
1t is painful to see earnest faces porting over
this soit OF thing at the corners OF tue streets.
Concerning the loug letter Of Mr.. Lincoln,
very much the same remark may be made
Whatsoever the man may have written
signifies nothing in the world. Our read
crs have the letter itself here; let them
study it, and take what comfort they can out
of ir.
Yankee threats Of war with France, in ar
ticipaton Of the Emperor procuring a reccg-
tinn of the Coniedcracy by the new govern
ment of Mexico, .are merely part Of their
game of brag; and as the Emperor under
stands our amablc neighhors as well as any
man. those threats will have their proper
weight with him. If that he, indeed, the round
abaut manner in which his Imperial Majesty
designs to sc. about the business of our recog-
t;on he will doubtless go through with it; but
one reflection occurs to us--the new Empire of
Mexico, when it is proclaimed, will be a much
Younger power than the Coniederacy, and 4
much inferior power, too. One would suppose
that Mexico stands more IN need of being re-
cornized by us than We by Mexico; and if We
mutually recognize one another; it does not
follcw that the rest of the world will recog-
nizc either of us. The Emperor, perhaps, sees
his way through this complication, but we do
not. In the meantime, though the acceptance
OF the Mexican throne by Archduke Mpximil-
ian is not officially proclaimed, it seems to be
nov at least very probable that he has accept
cd. This arrangement which will unite the
policy oc Austria to that of France and Spain
in the New World is highly dsplcasing to
England. 1t is also highly displeasing to the
United States. Let no one he surprised if these
two great "Anglo-Saxon" powers be soon found
in alliance against the "Latin>races."
What is of more immediate interest to US, gold
has declined in price nearly four hundred per
cent, it is said, in ten days. In the face of
our late disasters in the Southwest, and the
anxiety about Charleston, it is cheering to find
that all the efforts Of the brokers and specula-
tors have been unable to keep up the unnatu-
ra, price of gold, or rather to maintain the
unreasonable dcprecia ton Of Confederate cur
rency. Ne cannot help concurring in the
Justice of these remarks of the Examiner :"
"Thc brokers have certainly done a great
mischief These men have Il direct, manifest
interest in diminishing tho value of Confede
rate currency they have the whole matter
under continual mani pulati IN: and it is eX-
recting too much from human self-hness to
suppose that they will not grt as many Con-
Tolerate notes for their gold us they possibly
call."
1t is dreadful trade: and the indications
of pcremptory action by several State Legis-
laturcs towards stopping the traffic in gold
and silver, and, above all, in Federal green
backs, and thus. doing what they may as
States to uphold the Confederate credit, have
already given healthier tone TO our tinan-
cial system.
The Legislature of Virginia meets to-day;
its main business will be this very matter of
finance. to which, in calling the Legislature
together, Governor Lctcher has specially invi-
ted their attention.
To take order about this same most pressing
matter, there have been suggestions made in
some quarters that the President ought also to
call spccia! meeting of Congress. The in
terral between the sessions is certainly too
long, while events are moving at such a rate,
and many good citizens are Of opinion that
Congress, during this great struggle of the
country for its existence, ought to be in per-
nanent session.. Emergencies may continu.
ally arise, and while members Of Congress are