rendered, and two aons-in-law of Major Paul,— Capt. 
Chapin and Lieut. C. B. Stivers,— with their ladies, 
are among the prisoners. Major Paul, who has seen 
forty years active service, waB the leader of the 
storming party at Chepultapec, and if attacked will 
defend his post to the last extremity, but it would 
appear that be is surrounded by fearful odds. He 
has a portion of the 8th U. S, Infantry with him, and 
the balance of his force consists of New Mexican 
volunteers. The famous Kit Carson, their Lieutenant 
Colonel, is with him in the fort. 
The Major Lynd who surrendered is a native of 
Vermont, and has been in the service since 1827. 
The Financial Scliemc of the Enemy. 
The Richmond Enquirer contains a copy of the 
act passed l>y the rebel Congress authorizing the 
issue of Treasury notes and bonds, and providing a 
war tax for their redemption. Jt provides as follows: 
Hecti6j< 1 Authorizes the issue of Treasury notes 
payable to bearer, at the expiration of six months 
after the ratification of a treaty of peace between the 
Confederate states and the United States, The 
notes are not to tie of u less denomination than five 
dollars, to be re-issued at pleasure, to be received in 
payment of all public dues, except the export duly 
on cotton, and the whole issue outstanding at one 
time, including the amount issued under former acts 
are not to exceed one hundred millions of dollars. 
Sko. 2 Provides that for the purpose of funding the 
said notes, or for the purpose of purchasing specie 
or iuilitury stores, etc., bonds may be issued, payable 
not more than twenty years after date, to the amount 
of one hundred millions of dollars, and hearing an 
interest of eight per cent, per annum. This amount 
includes the thirty millions already authorized to he 
issued. The bonds are not to lie issued in less 
amounts than $100, except when the subscription is 
for a less amount, when they may be issued as low 
as $50. 
iSku. 3 Provides that holders of Treasury notes may 
at auy time exchange them for bonds. 
Sec. 4 Provides that, for the special purpose of 
paying the principal and interest of the public debt, 
and of supporting the government, a war tax shall 
be assessed and levied of fifty cents upon each one 
hundred dollars in value of the following property in 
the Confederate States, namely: Real estate of all 
kinds; slaves, merchandise; bank stocks, railroad 
and other corporation stocks: money at interest, or 
invested by individuals, in the purchase of bills, 
notes and other securities for money, except the 
bonds of the Confederate States of America, and 
cash on band, or on deposit in bank nr else where: 
cattle, horses and mules; gold watches, gold and 
silver plate: pianosatld pleasure carriages: Provided, 
however, that when the taxable property, herein 
above enumerated, of any head of a family is of value 
less than five hundred dollars, such taxable property 
shall be exempt from taxation under this act. It 
provides further that the property of colleges, schools 
and religious associations shall be exempt. 
The remaining sections provide for the collection 
of the tax. 
A considerable amount of these bonds, we learn, 
have already been sold. They are also issued to citi¬ 
zens in exchange for cotton, tobacco, cereals or mer¬ 
chandise, and are being subscribed for in this manner 
freely. The last quotations ranged from par to two 
per cent, premium. 
Hitting Home. 
Tije rebels of Marion county, Missouri, recently 
amused themselves by firing into a railroad train 
conveying Federal troops, and afterwards captured 
and disarmed a Federal officer. General Pope, the 
commander of the Federal forces, has undertaken to 
punish them for these acts, and he does it in a very 
efi'eetive way. General Htirlbut has been dispatohed 
to the county seat, Palmyra, with a sufficient number 
of men, and issues this proclamation: 
“ By command of my superior officer, I have occu¬ 
pied your county seat. By like command I require 
you to deliver every morning before 9 o’clock A. M., 
to Col. Smith, commanding lGth Illinois Regiment, 
the following rations for his command; 
Suit Pork, nr Bacon. 412 lbs. 
Or, in lien thereof. Fresh Beef... 087 lbs. 
Corn Meal. 687 lbs. 
B'-Hns. 44 qts. 
Or Rice. 65 lbs. 
Coffee.v. 65 lbs. 
Sugar (brown dry). SK'lbs. 
Vi “egar. 5)igalg. 
Soap. 22 tbs. 
Salt-----——_ 11 qts. 
Potatoes, or mixed vegetable diet. 660 lbs. 
Molasses. Segals. 
Wood.................._................ ficord. 
Corn in ear. o hush. 
Water sufficient for command, to be hauled. 
" If these articles are promptly furnished, receipts 
will be given by Colonel Smith. If not furnished, 
they will be taken from the most convenient persons 
and places, and the regiment will be billeted upon 
the city of Palmyra, in private houses, according to 
the convenience of the regiment.” 
This is literally eating up the rebels. Unless they 
have an immense supply of ‘‘fresh beef, corn meal, 
vinegar, potatoes, wood, beans and coffee,” the Pope 
who exercises such temporal sovereignty over them 
will have very little trouble in bringing them to 
terms. The conditions upon which the enemy can 
release themselves from these penalties are set forth 
as follows: 
*' This occupation will continue until the maraud¬ 
ers who fired upon the train, and those who, in open 
day, disarmed Air. Wilcox, are captured and surren¬ 
dered to the military authorities, and will be rigidly 
enforced.” 
Palmyra will unquestionably snccumb. 
Movements in the West. 
Judging from the tenor of our Western dis¬ 
patches, it is evident that stirring times are antici¬ 
pated in Kentucky and Missouri. We give such 
intelligence as is at hand: 
Headquarters Department op Missorni,( 
August SI, 1861. ) 
Circumstances, in my judgment of sufficient urg¬ 
ency to render it necessary that the Commanding 
General of this Department should assnmc the ad¬ 
ministrative powers of the State, and its disorganized 
condition, the helplessness of the civil authorities, 
the total insecurity of life, and the destruction of 
property by bands of murderers and marauders who 
infest nearly every county in the State ami avail 
themselves of the public misfortunes and the vicinity 
of a hostile force to gratify private and neighborhood 
vengeance, and who find an enemy wherever they 
find plunder, finally demand the severest measures 
to suppress the daily increasing crimes and outrages 
which are driving off inhabitants and mining the 
State. 
In this condition the public safety and success of 
our arms require unity of purpose, without let or 
hindrance. 
In order, therefore, to suppress disorder and to 
maintain, as far as now practicable, thepublic peace, 
and to give security and protection to the persons 
and property of loyal citizens, 1 do hereby extend, 
and declare established, martini law throughout the 
State of Missouri. 
The lines of the army organization in this State 
are, for the present, declared to extend from Leaven¬ 
worth, by the way of the posts of Jefferson, Rolla 
and Newton, to Cape Girardeau on the Mississippi 
River. 
All persons who shall be taken with arms in their 
hands on these lines, shall be tried by court martial, 
and if found gnilty shall be shot. 
The property, real and personal, of all persons of 
the State of Missouri who shall take up arms against 
the United States, or who shall be directly proven to 
have taken active part with its enemies, is declared 
to be confiscated to the public use, and their slaves, 
if any they have, are hereby declared free men. 
All persons who shall be proveu to have destroyed, 
after the publication of this order, railroad tracks, 
bridges or telegraphs, shall suffer the extreme penalty 
of the law. 
All persons engaged in treasonable correspond¬ 
ence, in giving or procuring aid for the enemies of 
the United States, in destroying the public- property, 
or creating and circulating false reports or incendiary 
documents in their own interest, are warned that 
they are exposing themselves. 
All persons who have been led away from their 
allegiance, are required to return to their homes 
forthwith. Any such absence, without sufficient 
cause, will be held to be presumptive evidence 
against them. 
The object of this declaration is to place in the 
hands of the military authority the power to give 
instantaneous effect to existing laws, and to supply 
such deficiencies as the conditions of war demand. 
But it is not intended to suspend the ordinary triba 
nals of the country, where the law will be adminis¬ 
tered by the civil officers in the usual manner and 
with their customary authority, while the same can 
be successfully exercised. 
The Commanding General will labor vigorously 
for the public welfare, and in his efforts for their 
safety hopes to obtain not only the acquiescence, but 
the active support, of the people of the country. 
J. C. Fremoxt, 
Major-General Commanding. 
Provost-Marshal McKinstry, of St Louis, has issued 
orders preventing any person passing beyond the 
limits of that county without a special permit from 
that office. 
Railroad and steamboat ferry and other agents are 
prohibited from selling tickets to any one not bold¬ 
ing a pass from the Provost-Marshal. 
This order is aimed specially to reach parties leav¬ 
ing the city for the purpose of communicating intel¬ 
ligence to the enemy. 
A letter from St Louis states that there is no doubt 
that the rebels Intended and expected to be in full 
possession of St. Loms before now, and that August 
20th was the time fixed for the active co-operation of 
secessionists in that city. Nothing could iiave pre 
vented the plot from succeeding had they been vic¬ 
torious at Springfield, Gen. Lyon, knowing this, 
sacrificed himself, and saved the city a second time 
by his victory, for such it was iu fact. Our friends 
here gained time, and arc now safe. 
Advices received at the War Department confirm 
the report that the Klouws and Camanches, from 
whom Government has this year withheld their usual 
presents on account of previous rascalities, have 
united their fortunes with the Southern Confederacy. 
The principal rendezvous of the tribes is near Fort 
Bent. 
General Pope has information from North-Eastern 
Missouri, that Martin Green, instead of threatening 
to attack Kirksville and Athens, as heretofore re¬ 
ported, is fast moving toward the Missouri River. 
General Holland is pursuing him from Kirksville, 
and Colonel Moore from Athens. Green's force, 
estimated at 1200, is supposed to be now in the lower 
part of Monroe county, moving southward, and will 
probably attempt to cross the Missouri River in Callo¬ 
way or Boone county. This will rid North-Eastern 
Missouri of his presence, and restore quiet to that 
section of the State. 
A correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat fur¬ 
nishes the following item:—Parties from Springfield 
report that a skirmish has taken place in Vernon 
county east of Fort Scott, between Col. Montgomery, 
of the Kansas forces, and the rebel troops under 
Raines. Reinforcements have been sent to Raines 
from Springfield. Six thousand rebels were en¬ 
camped at Bond Spring. Another encampment of 
over five thousand was at a spring south of the Fay¬ 
etteville road. There were also other encampments 
near Spriugfleld. General McBride, with one thou¬ 
sand men, passed through Dade county last, week, in 
a north westerly direction. Men were at Pry Leads, 
in Dade county, devastating the country. Every 
vestige of property belonging to the Union men in 
Green connty had been seized. 
Scouts just in from Ironton, Mo., report the enemy 
thirteen thousand strong on Cedar Creek; also in 
considerable force on Castor Creek, with but a few 
at Greenville. They report their own strength iu 
this section of the State to be eight thousand. They 
subsist on corn meal and fresh beef, and are nearly 
destitute of clothing and poorly armed. 
A deserter from New Madrid says that the forces 
under Gen. Pillow, except, perhaps, the Tennessee¬ 
ans and Alabamians, are much demoralized, and are 
mainly held together by the belief that St. Loui 9 
will soon fall into their hands. The force at New 
Madrid, under Gen. Pillow, is about twenty thousand; 
at Benton, Scott county, under Jeff. Thompson, eight 
thousand; and at Charleston, under Hunter, eight 
thousand. 
Startling news reached Washington on the 31st 
ult., from Kentucky. Mr. Johnson, M. C. from that 
State, had returned to this city to the performance , 
of his committee duties. He left suddenly for Ken¬ 
tucky List night, having received urgent dispatches 
of hostilities. Similar advices have been received 
here to-day from Hon. James Guthrie!. 
Letters from East Tennessee to the War Depart¬ 
ment speak of a growing rebel force at Camp Boone, 
near Clarksville, the headquarters of the Knights of 
the Golden Circle. The plan of the Knights is, after 
they have got ten thousand men, to lay the country 
waste from Cumberland Gap, through East Tennessee 
and Kentucky, to the Ohio river, and along that to 
Pennsylvania—the whole force not moving together, 
bat divided into small marauding parties. An attack 
on Tompkinsville, Tenn., being apprehended re¬ 
cently, Col. Wm. P. Dorris collected nearly two 
thousand Unionists, secured the State arms for them, 
and assailed the rebels. They disappointed him. 
Many of the Tennessee 12th, who wou laurels in 
Mexico under Col. Campbell, are joining the Union 
forces. 
Department of the East. 
The Unionists in and about Harper’s Ferry are 
leaving there in great numbers. There' were no 
secession forces in that neighborhood, except about 
150 cavalry under Col. Henderson. 
Advices from Martinsburg give the following intel¬ 
ligence:—The rebels have succeeded in taking down 
and removing to Winchester two of the Baltimore 
and Ohio locomotives. They have also sent to the 
same place a portion of the machinery belonging to 
the company's workshop there, breaking up and dis¬ 
abling the remainder. It is stated to be their inten¬ 
tion to take up sufficient of the track to connect 
Winchester with Froatbnrg. There wus no strong 
force either in Jefferson or Berkley counties. The 
property of the Union people had not yet been con¬ 
fiscated or molested up to the time of our intelligence. 
The War Department has just issued the following 
order: 
By the 57th article of the act of Congress entitled 
an act for establishing rules and articles for the Gov¬ 
ernment of the army of the United States, approved 
the 30th of April, I860, holding correspondence with, 
or giving aid to the enemy, either directly or indi¬ 
rectly, was made punishable by death, or such other 
punishment au shall be ordered by the sentence of the 
Court Martial. The public safety requires strict 
enforcement of this article. 
It is therefore ordered that all correspondence and 
communications, verbally or by writing, printing, or 
telegraphing, respecting the operations of the army 
or military movements on land or water, or respect¬ 
ing the troops, camps, arsenals, entrenchments, or 
affairs within the several military districts, by which 
intelligence shall be directly or indirectly given to 
the enemy without the authority and sanction of the 
General-in-Chief and of command, be and the same 
are absolutely prohibited, and after the date of this 
order persons violating the same may be proceeded 
against, tinder the 57th article of war. 
Auother order provides that the commissioned 
officers of all volunteer and militia organizations, 
whether established under the authority of the State | 
or the LTnited States, will be regarded as having been 
commissioned on the day when mustered into the 
service of the United States, and will take rank in 
their respective grades, and will be entitled to pay 
and be obeyed and respected in their several posi¬ 
tions from that date. 
Hereafter no minors will be mnstered into the 
service of the United States as volunteers, without 
the consent of their parents or guardians. 
The War Department has issued an order request¬ 
ing commanding officers of all regiments of inde¬ 
pendent companies to take measures to keep the 
strength of their commands up to the maximum 
standard of organization prescribed by General Orders 
No. 15, for cavalry anil infantry, and General OrderB 
No. 10, for artillery. For this purpose, they will 
detail, from time to time, as required, one commis¬ 
sioned officer or tw o if necessary, and one or two non¬ 
commissioned officers or privates, to recruit in the 
districts in which the regiments or companies were 
raised. 
All enlisted men in the volunteer service who have 
been taken prisoners by the enemy, and released on 
parole, will be discharged from the service. 
It is said that General Scott expressed the opinion 
that the rebels must make an attack on our lines, and 
that, too, at an early day. Information from the 
rebel army says that there are large numbers of rebels 
in and about Manassas, scattered on the lines of 
roads leading to Richmond and towards Strusburgh. 
There has been much sickness among these men, 
owing to wet weather and a deficiency in clothing 
and camp equipage. They arc short of everything 
except wheat, flour, and corn, of which they have an 
abundance. The men are very restless, and -there 
wasno discipline. They were highly elated w-ith their 
success at Bull Run, and so confident of their ability 
to “thrash the abolitionists,” that they imperatively 
demanded to be led on to Washington. It is proba¬ 
bly in obedience to this requirement that they are 
now being paraded along our lines, and taking up 
position within reach of our entrenched camp. 
The enemy have not only re-estAblished their line 
of pickets as before the battle of Bull Run, but have 
actually encroached on the cemetery formerly held 
by us, nearly half a mile nearer our line of fortifica¬ 
tions, They now occupy several important strategic 
points, on which they are throwing up fortifications. 
The line of the enemy’s pickets commences on the 
Orange and Alexandria Railroad across the Little 
River Turnpike, between (’loud's Mills and Benton's 
Tavern to Bancroft’s Mills at the junction of Hunting 
Creek and the Columbia Turnpike. At this place the 
enemy have constructed a breastwork, commanding 
the Tnrnpike in the direction of Hall’s Cress Roads. 
From this point the line of rebel pickets continues to 
Munson’s Mills, one and a quarter miles from Bay- 
ley’s Cross Roads on the Leesburg Turnpike. 
A gentleman arrived in Washington on the 29th, 
from Richmond, via. Louisville, Ky. He has spent 
several weeks in Virginia, and visited the lines of the 
rebel army on the Potomac, lie estimates the num¬ 
ber now iu arms in Virginia at nearly 300,000. The 
force on the Potomac alone he estimates at 180,000 
men. Since the first of Jnne immense quantities of 
arms purchased in the East have been carried into 
the State through Baltimore, and lheir whole army is 
now well armed. Manassas Junction has been vir¬ 
tually abandoned, there being only a guard there to 
look after the guns io the batteries. The principal 
body of their forces has been pushed forward to the 
Upper Potomac, to be thrown across into Maryland, 
for which movement a column of 40,000 is prepared 
with pontoon bridges, upon which they can cross at 
any point they find not defended. They are deter¬ 
mined to make an attempt to get Maryland in their 
possession, and they believe that will insure their 
ultmate possession of this city, and all of the im¬ 
mense accumulation of supplies here, and enable 
them to transfer the war from the Potomac to the 
Susqnebannah, and secure to them the recognition 
by Europe of the Southern Confederacy. This pro¬ 
gramme has been decided upon. 
The much-talked-of Expedition from Old Point 
sailed August 2(Ith, under command of Gen. Butler. 
It consists of the frigaies Minnesota and Wabash, 
sloop-of-war Pawnee, the gun-boat Monticello and 
Harriet Lane, the steamers Adelaide and George 
Peabody, propellers Fanny and Adriatic, with a 
large number of schooners, barges, Ac. The Quaker 
City will follow in a few hours. The vessels carried 
over 100 guns and about 4,000 men. 
The Naval Expedition Successful. 
In our “ Department of the East” we made note 
of the sailing of au Expedition from Fortress Mon¬ 
roe, the destination of which waB kept Becret by the 
Government. The land forces were under Maj.-Gen. 
B. F. Butler, and the naval in charge of 8. H. String- 
ham, Flag Officer of the Atlantic Blockading Squad¬ 
ron. The telegraph this (Monday) morning unravels 
the mystery as follows: 
Off HATTERAS Islet, ^ 
F. S. Flag ship Minnesota, Aug. 30. j 
To Hon. Gideon T Vella, Secretary of Navy at Washington . 
I have the honor to inform you that we have been 
eminently successful in our expedition. All that 
could be" wished by the most hopeful has been ac¬ 
complished. This morning we have taken on board 
the Minnesota 7 1 5 officers and men, who surrendered 
yesterday, after bombarding from tie fleet for parts of 
two days. I shall forward a full account immediately 
upon my arrival at New York, where I have con¬ 
cluded to land them, as requested in your communi¬ 
cation in reference to prisoners coming in possession 
of the Navy. After landing them I shall return to 
Hampton Roads. 
Respectfully your obedient servant, 
8, H. Strinoham, 
Flag officer Atlantic blockading Squadron. 
Off Hatteras Inlet, > 
U. S. Flag Ship Minnesota, Ang. 30, j 
To Hon. G. Welles, Secretary of the Nary : 
Sir:—I have the honor to inclose the articles of 
capitulation agreed upon at the surrender of the forts 
at the Inlet of Hatteras, N. C. If the Department 
have any orders, I shall be pleased to receive them 
at New York. S. H. Strixgham. 
Off Hatteras I.vlet, ) 
V. S. Flag Ship Minnesota, Aug. 29. j 
Articles of capitulation between Flag Officer 
Stringham, commanding the blockading squadron, 
and Benj. F. Buffer, commanding United States 
forces, and Samuel Barron, commanding the naval 
force for the defence of North Carolina and Virginia, 
and Col. Martin, commanding the forces, and Major 
Andrews, commanding the same forces at Fort Hat¬ 
teras. It is stipulated and agreed between the con¬ 
tracting parties that the forces under the command 
of said Barron, Martin and Andrews, and all muni¬ 
tion# of war. arms, men, and property under com¬ 
mand of said Barron. Martin and Andrews, be uncon¬ 
ditionally surrendered to the Government of the 
United States, in terms of full capitulation. And it 
is stipulated and agreed by the contracting parties on 
the part of the United States Government, that the 
officers and men shall receive the treatment due to 
prisoners of war. 
In witness whereof we, the said Stringham and 
Butler, on behalf the United States, and said Barron, 
Martin and Andrews, representing the forces at Hat¬ 
teras Inlet, hereunto interchangeably set our hands 
this 29th day of August, A. D., ISM*, and of the in¬ 
dependence of the United States the eighty-fifth year. 
S. H. Strinuham, 
Flag Officer. 
Benj. F. Bcti-er, 
Major-General U. S. Array Commanding. 
S. B HURON, 
Flag Officer C. S. Navy (’ommanding 
Naval Forces Virginia and N. C. 
Wm. F. Martin, 
Col. 7th Regiment Infantry, N. C. V, 
W, L. 0. Andrews. 
Major, commanding Forts Hatteras and Clark. 
Maj.-Gen. Butler’s report enters somewhat into de¬ 
tails, and we give snch portions as are of interest and 
are not repetitions: 
U. 8. Flag Ship Minnesota, Aug. 30, 1801. 
General:—Agreeably to your Order, I embarked on 
the transport steamers Adelaide and George Peabody 
500 of the 20th New York regiment volunteers, Col. 
Webber commanding; 220 of the 9th regiment New 
York volunteers, Col. Hawkins commanding; 100 of 
the Union Coast ' ,‘nard, Capt. Nixon commanding, as 
a force to operate in conjunction with the fleet under 
Commodore Stringham against the rebel forces at 
Hatteras Inlet, We left Fortress Monroe, Monday, at 
1 o’clock, P. M, The last ship of onr fleet arrived off 
the Inlc-t about 4 o’clock, Tuesday, P. M. Such 
preparations as were possible for landing were made 
in the evening, and at daylight next morning dispo¬ 
sitions were made for an attack upon the forts and 
for the landing of troops. 
Owing to the previous prevalence of South-western 
gales a heavy surf was breaking on the beach. Every 
effort was made to land the troops. After about 815 
were lauded, including 55 marines from the fleet and 
the regulars, both the iron boats upon which we 
depended were swamped, and both flat boats stove. 
A brave attempt was made by Lieut. Crosby, U. S. 
Army, who volunteered to come down with the steam 
tug Fanny, belonging to the navy, to land in a boat 
from the war steamer Pawnee, but it resulted iti 
beaching the boat so that she could not be got off the 
bar to get in the smooth water of the Inlet. Fire 
was opened upon the Montioolln, which bad for¬ 
warded in advance of ns, from the fort. Several shot 
struck her, but without causing any casualties, as I 
am informed. At this time the wind raised a little, 
and it was found impossible to land more troops. 
Pickets were posted under command of Lient. Loder, 
of the regular army. A scouting party under Lieut. 
Col. Weiss and Lient. Weigel proceeded np the 
beach, capturing one brass field piece and one horse. 
The force then advanced to Fort Clark, which had 
been evacuated, but were compelled to retire again, 
owing to the shells of the fleet falling therein, and 
march back to the place of landing, and there 
bivouacked for the night. 
Early the next morning the Harriet Lane ran in 
shore for the purpose of covering any attack on the 
troops. At the Bame time a large steamer was ob¬ 
served coming down the Sound, inside the land, with 
reinforcements for the enemy, but she was prevented 
from landing by Capt. Johnson, of the Coast Guard, 
who had planted two guns, from the ships, and a six 
pounder taken from the enemy, and opened fire on 
the steamer. At 8 o’clock the fleet opened lire again, 
the flag ship being anchored as near as the water al¬ 
lowed, and the other ships coming gallantly into 
action. It was evident after a few experiments that 
onr shot fell short, and increased length of fuse was 
telegraphed. Firing commenced with shell of fifteen 
seconds fuse. 
I had 6ent Mr. Fiske, acting aid-de-camp, on shore 
for the pnrpose of giving information of the move¬ 
ments of the troops and the enemy. I then went 
with the Fanny for the purpose of effecting a landing 
of the rest of the troops, when a white flag was run 
up at the fort. I then wefit over the bar into the In¬ 
let. At the same time the troops under Col. Webber 
marched np the beach,and siguals wen made from the 
flag ship to cease firing. As the Fanny rounded in 
over the bar, the rebel steamer Winslow went up the 
channel, having a large number of secession troops 
onboard, which she had not landed. We threw a 
shot, at her from the Fanny, but she proved to be out 
of range. T then sent Lieut. Crosby on shore to 
demand the meaning of the white flag. The boat soon 
returned, bringing Mr. Weize), with the following 
written communication from Samuel Barron, late 
Captain in the United States Navy. 
“Flag officer Samuel Barron, C. S. N., offers to 
surrender Fort Hatteras, with all the arras and 
munitions of war; the officers to be allowed to go 
out with Bide arms, and the men without arms to re¬ 
tire. S. Barron, Commanding Naval 
Defences of Virginia and North Carolina.” 
Mr. W. also brought a verbal report that Barron 
had 715 men, and 1,000 within an hour's call, but that 
he was anxious to 6pare the effusion of blood. To 
both the written aud verbal communications, the fol¬ 
lowing reply was dispatched by C'apt. Crosby, U, S. 
N,, and Lieut. Weigel: 
“Benj. F. Butler, Major-General, commanding the 
United States army, in reply to the communication 
of Samuel Barron, commanding the forces at Fort 
Hatteras, cannot admit the terms proposed. The 
terms offered are these:— Full capitulation of the of¬ 
ficers and men, to be treated as prisoners of war. No 
other terms are admissible. Commanding officers to 
meet on board the flag ship Minnesota to arrange 
details.” 
After waiting three-quarters of an hour, Lieut. 
Crosby returned, bringing with him Capt. Barron, 
Maj. Anderson, and Col. Martin, of the rebel forces, 
who, on being received on board the tug Fanny, in¬ 
formed me that they had accepted the terms proposed 
by my memorandum, and had come to surrender 
themselves and their commands as prisoners of war. 
I informed them that as the expedition was formed of 
the Army and Navy, the surrender must be made on 
board the flag ship to flag officer Btringham, as well as 
to myself. We went on board the Minnesota for that 
pnrpose. On arriving there the articles of capitula¬ 
tion were signed. 
1 then landed and took a formal surrender of all the 
forts, with all the munitions and men, and inspected 
the troops to see that the arms of war had been prop¬ 
erly surrendered. Marched them out and embarked 
them on board the Adelaide, and my own troops into 
the fort, and raised onr flag upon it amid the cheers 
of onr men, and a salute of 13 guns. 
I had demanded the strongest terms, which I was 
considering he might refuse, and seeing our disad¬ 
vantage (the Adelaide and Harriet Lane having 
grounded,) renew the action. Bat I determined to 
abate not a tittle from what I believed to be due to the 
dignity of the government, not even to give an 
official title to the officer in command of the rebels, 
and besides, my tug was inside the inlet, and at least 
I could carry on an engagement with my two rifled 
6 ponnders well supplied with Sawyer shells. 
Upon taking Fort Hatteras I found ten gnus 
mounted, with fonr unmounted, and one large finished 
colnmbiad already for mounting. The position of 
the fort is a strong one, nearly surrounded by water 
and only to be approached by a march of 500 rods, 
circuitously, over a loDg neck nf sand within half 
musket range, and over a causeway a few feet only in 
width, and which was commanded with two 32-pound 
guns loaded with grape and cannister, which we ex¬ 
pended in onr salute. It has a well protected maga¬ 
zine and bomb-proof, capable of sheltering 300 or 400 
men. The parapet was nearly of Octagon form, 
inclosing about t wo-thirds of an acre. 
Tlie following is the General Order, No. 8, by Gen. 
Wool: 
Headquarters Fortress Monroe, Aug. 31. 
The commanding General has great satisfaction in 
announcing a glorious victory, achieved by the com¬ 
bined operations of the army and navy, at Hatteras 
Inlet, North Carolina, nnder Commodore Stringham 
and Maj.-Gen. Butler. The resnlt of this gallant en- 
terprize is the capture of 715 men, including the 
commander, (Barron. ) and one of the North Carolina 
Cabinet, 1,000 stand of arms, 75 kegs powder, 5 stand 
of colors, and 31 pieces of cannon, including a ten 
inch Colnmbiad. a brig loaded with provisions and 
stores, twp life boats, 150 bags of coffee, Ac., all of 
which was achieved by the army and navy and 800 
volunteers with 00 regular artillery. 
This gallant affair will not fail to stimulate the reg¬ 
ulars and volunteers to greater achievements. Obe¬ 
dience to orders, discipline, and instruction are in¬ 
dispensable to maintain the Union. 
By command of Gen. J. E. Wool. 
Capt. Chas. Churchill, Aid-de-Camp. 
Affairs at Washington. 
The Secretary of the Treasury has just issued a 
circular of instruction to the collectors and other 
officers of customs, calling their attention to the act 
of Congress, further to provide for the collection of 
duties on imports, and for other purposes, approved 
13th July last, and to the proclamation of the Presi¬ 
dent of the United States, of Aug. 10tb, made in pur¬ 
suance thereof. In view of this act and proclama¬ 
tion, the Secretary directs and instructs the officers 
of customs to use all vigilance in preventing inter¬ 
course with inhabitants of the States in Insurrection, 
excepting in special cases in which it maybe allowed 
by license and permit as therein set forth. The 
instructions of May 2d and July I2th last, heretofore 
in force, will be regarded as superceded by more 
comprehensive provisions of the act and proclama¬ 
tion. Collectors and other officers of Customs will 
report all seizures made under the proclamation, to 
the proper District Attorney, or such proceedings as 
the law and facta may justify in each case, and as 
frequently afterward as may be convenient, report 
their views in relation to the commercial intercourse 
contemplated, and the permits proper to be granted 
or withheld. In forms accompanying the weekly 
returns required by circulars of the 5tb, of any cost 
to be made to the Treasury Department, Collectors 
and other officers of the Customs will be careful to 
state wbat permits arc asked for, the shipment of 
goods, by whom asked, and grounds on which the 
applications are based. The Secretary especially 
directs attention of the Collectors and other officers 
to the 5th and subsequent sections of the Act com¬ 
monly known as the force bill. 
Flag officer Montgomery, commanding the Pacific 
squadron, in writing to the Secretary of the Navy 
relative to the expiration of the two years service of 
officers and men, eaye-— “For my own part, I neither 
expect or desire a day's respite from active employ¬ 
ment during the continuance of our present struggle 
for the maintenance of onr national honor and the 
integrity of the Union. It rests with the Department 
to determine my sphere of duty, either on this or the 
other side of the Continent.” 
The foreign mails by the last steamer have been 
received at the State Department. The advices from 
onr Ministers are written nnder the pressure of the 
Bull Run disaster. The European governments ap¬ 
preciate the disaster at its full extent, but there is a 
disposition on the Continent to give the Northern 
troops more credit for bearing and endurance than 
our own papers have claimed; the fight in front of 
heavy works being considered by military men as 
giving them so great disadvantage as to make it a 
matter of wonder that raw recruits could have been 
induced to assault them under such disadvantages. 
Our ministers do not disguise the fact that the Gov¬ 
ernment has suffered severely in the estimation of 
Europeans by the disaster, but they are confident 
that no movement to recognize the rebels as a nation 
will be made so long as the Government maintains its 
forces on the soil of the rebel States and keeps pos¬ 
session of Washington. The feeling on the Con¬ 
tinent was generally that the North would be aroused 
by the disaster to its army, and that the defeat closed 
the door to any arrangement with the rebels. The 
British Government officials appear to be impressed 
with the belief that the battle and defeat would only 
prolong the contest without deciding anything. 
The statements that news has been received indi¬ 
cating a certain and speedy recognition of the Con¬ 
federate States by England are unfounded. On the 
contrary, the indications are that the European 
Rowers intend to respect the blockade and await the 
result of the contest. 
Government is considering the propriety of organ¬ 
izing a National Detective Police force. New Yorl£ 
St. Louis, Chicago and other cities were represented 
iu the conference. The plan is to have agents dis¬ 
tributed through the country, forming a net work of 
surveillance through whose meshes secret traitors 
will find it hard to escape. 
The Detective force in Washington is largely in¬ 
creased by recruits from New York and Philadelphia. 
The Post Office Department having authentic infor¬ 
mation that the mails have been repeatedly violated, 
and cannot be carried in that part of Kentucky 
named herein, it is ordered that the Post Offices at 
Hickman, Columbus, and Paducah, Kentucky, and 
all other Post Offices and Post Routes in Kentucky 
west of the Tennessee river, be discontinued as fol¬ 
lows:—Route No. :i,C32 from Itossville, via Calais and 
Mayfield, is continued as far as Newbern, and all 
Post Offices on that route, excepting Aurora. Also 
the route from Eddyville to Holley and the Post 
Offices thereon are continued. 
It is authoritatively announced that the old postage 
stamps are good where the new ones are not on sale. 
Official dispatchesfrom the East Indies state that the 
Flag Officer has received the orders of the Navy De¬ 
partment for the immediate return of the Squadron 
to the United States. One ship in the harbor will be 
left, and also on the coast of Africa, and of Brazil, 
After these Squadrons shall have been withdrawn for 
blockading purposes, the Governor of Pernambuco 
has been authorized by the Spanish Governor in that 
island to liberate a certain number of slaves who 
may be captured by vessels of the United States. 
They being free, they then acquire the benefits of 
civilization. Flag Officer Imiian has communican t. 
this proposition to our Government. It appears from 
the African Squadron that the secessionists Lave been 
sending circulars to the Naval officers of Southern 
birth, holding out inducements to leave the United 
States service, and join that of the Disunionists, with 
equal rank. 
