Year: 1861

THE WAR IN AMERICA.
ANOTHER LETTER FROM MR. RUSSELL.
The London lines of the 18th ultimo,
publishes another long letter from Mr.. Rus
SELL, dated at Washington on the 29th of
August. Mr.. RUSSELL is impressed with
the belief that the so-called "peace party"
in the loyal States is not only in hopeless
minority,but that a false peace is impossible.
We quote passage from this part of his
letter:


Peace is no longer panacea for the evils
which aft1ict the United States, and war has
produced some of its usual results in the
necessity which has arisen for the beaten
party to regain their prestige. Of all the
parties in the United States that which
desires peace, quoad peace, is at present the
most hopeless; because peace could only
now be obtained by the submission and ces.
sion OF everything for which the North is
fighting, and by the loss to the North of
all, or nearly all, its advantages. But still
it works on, and the end would justify the
means indeed if an absolute peace could be
the fruit of its lab0rs. There is no chance
OF such settlement, so far as / can see.
There are in the North itself the materials
of trouble in the anger of the great parties,
which accuse each other of the offences that
brought on the greater war; and on the
whole there is, in my judgment, greater
probability of peaceful adjustment offered
by the actual success of the North, so that
she could reconstruct the Union, or allow
the South to 60 out as dependent republic
than by any other form which the contest
can assume. 1t is impossible for the North
to retire from the contest in moral Bull
Run.


Mr.. RUSSELL proceeds to show that the
troubles of the rebels will come by water,
and has the following comments upon the


NAVAL EXPEDITIONS.


Within narrow belt of reefs and sand
banks lie Pamlico Sound, Albemarle Sound
INLAND seas running into innumerable
creeks, and receiving system of rivers by
which communication is opened to railroads
and towns far in the interior of the country.
Here lurk the privateers, which sally out
through the openings Of the outer bank and
prey upon the passing trader and here the
coasting vessels have been plying up and
down with security. One hundred and fifty
small vessels laden with stones, conveyed by
the United States ships of war, are on their
way to block up the few passages by which
these vessels can enter, and the men Ofswar
have also received orders to destroy the
forts and defences which the rebels have
occupied along the coast. A similar pro-
cess will be applied to other points of the
coast further South, with what success it is
not yet possible to predicate. The external
line of reefs and sandbanks is one of the
most curious instances of recent change and
of the effect of water deposits and currents
in the world At the place where
Raleigh sailed 10, with fourteen feet
of water under his keel, there is now
sandbank, which is entitled to The appel
lation of Kill>devil-hill, high above the sur
face. These banks extend almost to Tam.
pico, all round by Florida; and in other
places the nature of the shores, and the
great lakes and lagunes inside, show that
the process has been carried on till the banks
became united to the mainland. There is
inside the most extensive and unique inter-
nal communication by water in the world.
Energetic efforts will be made to suspend it,
and the result will be serious suffering and
Inconvenience to the inhabitants and the de
struction of their privateering efforts.


The closing up of the inlets
on the coast will prove very embarrassing,
and we shall hear no more of vessels sailing
out of such places as Wilmington and run
ming the blockade if the expedition carries
out its object. Some trouble will be saved
to the British Legation, which has had its
full share of annoyance and correspondence
in reference to British vessels seized after
they have left ports supposed to be block
AIDED, not to speak of the great increase of
work connected with the new passport sys.
TEN, and the sufferings of British subjects
who are seeking to get home, or to any
place out of the States, which no longer at,
ford them either home or employment.


BRITISH SUBJECTS.


The new passports issued to enable Brit
ish subjects to travel in or leave the United
States have the following memorandum
written by MIR. Seward across the back !:
"It is expected that the bearer will not
enter any of the insurrectiOnary States"
1t would be as well, indeed, just now, for
British subjects to abstain from travelling
between the North and the South, for they
become objects of suspicion, are liable to
annoyance, and if, as is likely, they carry
letters given them, it may be by friends or
acquaintances, they may be unwittingly vio>
lating the law by conveying information
to either enemy. There are literally thou
sands OF British subjects seeking assistance
to get out of the country, and the inhabi-
tants OF st. Louis in any way connected
with the old country, seem animated with
an intense longing to re-migrate. Many
cases OF hardships and great distress occur