Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1863-02-05
Intercepted Rebel Dispatches.

The papers which arc being received from
rsbe arn,, first indicate that the capture Of
DIR. Saunders, their envoy to Europe with
dispatches, is very serious matter, and sub
iocts MIR. Henj,min. one Of their cabinet min
isters to severe censure, and least we should
suppose from the reading of the captured
papers, that we had come into the possession
Of something valuable-they then turn round
and say they are of no earthly Importance,
thus blowing hot or cold at the same breath.
We think these dispatches are both amusing
and also important. Let lis SEQ then what
nav he learned from them.
First, that Lonis Napoleon may have some
designs upon Texas. .-..-...
Second, the correspondence shows conclu-
sively that the blockade is as effective as any
ever instituted. 1t takes the dispatches Of
the rebel agents some seven months to come
to hand, and the rebel Secretary OF State
naive!y mentions to one OF his emissaros that
his No. 2 has arrived but that Nos. |, 8. a.
6 and g.. arc still missing The postal ar
engagements Of the new nation do not seem to
be quito perfect. @ ...t'
Third, the correspondence reveals the fact
that Earl Russell is cold to tho "Hon." Mr..
Mason Of Virginia, who sat in, the Senate Of
the United States, pocketing the money Of a
Government against whose existence be was
plotting. The Earl was so cold, indeed, that
thu Hon" Mr.. Mason thought Of withdraw
ing, bnt his confederates urge him to remain,
AID 10 continue to be snubbed, in the hope
of helping to lay the corner stone Of new
nation. r..s. ...n
Fourth, tho correspondence discloses the
interesting fact that when the Confederate
emissary left Madrid, he put his books and
papers in charge Ct the Rothschilds, showing
the positions which the great bankers COM
pei their agents in every country to hold in
fosard TO the rebellion, and of course indice-
ting the kind OF value which is to 90 placed
upon the support given to treason by any
such agents whose birth, training, sympathies
and interests are entirely foreign.
b.. Fifth, the correspondence informs lis that
Mr. James Spence, who has written a book
of the rebellion, which was for long time
the hand book Of English information of
American affairs and VINO pcrpotually urges
upon tie British Government the recognition
of the Confederacy, is a paid agent Of the
rebels.
Sixth, it shows that great efforts are ma
king for the construction Of rebel fleet in
English neutral ports.
There is also much hghly-colored rhetoric
from Mr.. Benjamin, about the success of the
rebellion, and the sure overthrow OF the Gov
eminent, which is of equal value with the
editorials in the rebel newspapers, all CT
which are supervised by trusty ceusors; and
there is an extremely unpromisng system of
cotton certificates" developed by Mr.. Mem
minger-a Kind Of painfully vague and oper-
ose promise to pay, as a basis for pecuniary
loans 1t is the latest effort to extract sun
beams from cucumbers 3i"-+ Etts
% Such a correspondence will not fail to make
due impressionupon the common-sense of the
world. Read in the light ofthe Acknowledged
object Of the rebellion, it can hardly give
much comfort to the European friends Of
American anarchy; and published with the
addition of Mr. Davis speech in the South
west in which lie calls Mr. Lincoln haboon,
it would be a striking memorial Of the verac-
fly and dignity Of the "gentlemanly' govern
nent of the Conf,deracy.
s't SO much for the intercepted correspond
euoe. - g7'..