LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 409, 24 September 1861, Page 3

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Baltimore, June 23rd. The Daily Alia California of 6th July giv%s the following summary of news from Fort Kearney by pony.

Samuel Tenebone, merchant, has been held to bail in the sum of 20,000 dollars for treason.

A resolution has been introduced in the Richmond Convention instructing the Finance Committee to inquire into the propriety of setting aside all.'.debts, bonds, &c, due by the Common wealth to citizens of such states of the Federal Union as are engaged in sustaining the war of invasion, to be held as a trust bond, for indemnification for losses sustained by citizens of the State.

New York, June 24th. The World's dispatch states the latest advices continue to represent it to be the intention of Beauregard to advance on the Federal lines.

Yesterday was the day fixed for a movement on Washington. The Government is satisfied of the fact.

It has been ascertained that an extensive spy system is in operation for the benefit of the rebel Government.

It is believed that the Navy Department will make an average of all the bids for gun-boats, and award them to contractors who will build them within sixty days. The New York Tribune's special dispatch says that Baltimore, though quiet on the surface, is profoundly agitated underneath, and is only held in check through fear. At any indication of an outbreak, MajorGeneral Banks will with outdoubt shell the city from Fort M'Henry. Reinforcements for which Colonel Stow has sent are only ordnance, without which he hesitates to cross the river and attack the enemy's batteries that daily menace him.

v Commodore Vanderbilt has offered the Government his steamer, Vanderbilt, at a fair valuation. If it cannot take her on these terms, he will make her a present to the United States. The Atlantic Steamship Company, through Vanderbilt, offer the Government the following steamers: — Ocean Queen, new and complete, Ariel, in fine condition, Champion, iron, built in 1859, very light dtaught, and Daniel Webster. The price to be fixed by a Board of Commissioners.

Johnson and Etheredge have been assured by the officers of the Government that the Union men in East Tennessee, and else where in the State, if they need assistance, shall be sustained by the Government, and an order has been issued, including Tennesse in the district under command of Brigadier-General Anderson. Washington, June 23.

To-morrow there will be an extraordinary meeting of the Cabinet, and General Scott and his staff, the various generals and colonels of regiments nowin andabout Washington, will be present. It is understood that General Butler, Banks, and Dix have all been summoned. Scott will submit his programme for the prosecution of the war. That the rebels have changed theirs cannot be doubted; hence it is believed General Scott has some new project to submit at this great council of war.

Our Government has demanded of the Prussian Minister, that the exequator of Tiapman, Prussian Consul at Charleston, who recently left Boston with dispatches from Jeff. Davis to his Commissioners in Europe, shall be withdrawn. Dudley Mann, one of the rebel Commissioners, in a letter to a banker here, states that England will recognise the Southern Confederacy on the first of January.

Private Parker, a prisoner to the* rebels after the Great Bethel affair, says—S. Wilkock, of the 3rd New York Regiment, deserted the night before the affair at Great Bethel. He obtained a citizen's dress from a Secessionist, and gave the rebe\s Vail information of our movements. He if now at Richmond. Parker on the evening of the fight was marched to Yorktown, and from that point to Richmond, where he was kept until exchanged. He was carefully guarded, but in every respect was treated well.

Saturday night the war-steamer Glencoe was burned to the water's edge. She was fired by incendiaries, whom the rebels are vainly endeavouring to discover.

Washington, June 24th. The new steam gun-boat Pensacola will be ready for service in about five weeks. It is said the present available volunteer force is now over 300,000 men.

The Journal says: 20,000 guns were stopped yesterday at Jeffersooville, consigned to Louisville, until satisfactory assurances are received that they are for Union men.

The Kentucky authorities will protest the U.S. property in the State, and enforce the laws of the United States, according to the interpretation of the U.S. Courts, and enforce the obligation of neutrality against the Southern.'States."'- M'Olelland agrees to respect the territory of Kentucky, even though Southern armies occupy it. In such case he will call on the Kentucky authorities to remove the Southern force: should they fail to do so, he claims the right of occupation even to the Southern forces. She will call the aid of Government troops, if not successful in removing them.

The Manassas correspondent of the Charleston Mercury, on the 18th writes: * The people about the rebel camp are hostile. It is dangerous to leave the camp alone. Gentlemen come into camp daily, who say they have reason to fear their own slaves will murder them. The lower classes of whites are inciting the slaves to such a degree that civil war is on the point of inauguration.

The New Orleans Delta of the 12th, says the brig Stevens ran the blockade and got into Barrancas Bay under the guns of Fort Livingstone. The Havana correspondent of the same paper says Mr. Weller, Minister to Mexico, goes to Florida to pass through the South and see his friends, Mallory, Davis, and Toombs, with whom, in days past, he acted in defence of Southern rights. It is generally conceded that all the Union Congressmen in Maryland are elected except in the first district. New York June 22nd.

Reports from Washington affirm that the strength of the naval force is to be doubled with as little delay as possible. Secretary Wells will reccoramend heavy appropriations for buying war vessels. The President will call for at least three hundred thousand men in the aggregate, and money to correspond.

Congress will at an early day suspend the writ of habeas corpus wherever there is an organized rebellion, and in the judgment of the President it should be suspended— the supension, of course, being temporary. Troops were arriving and going through to Manasses and Harper's Ferry at the rate of 1500 or 2000 daily.

Hannibal, June 25th.

A mob attacked the banks of the Milwaukie yesterday. Seveial institutions were nearly demolished and stripped of their contents; loss in valuables, papers, &c, to' the amount of several thousand dollars. The Zouaves were ordered out, who charged on the mob and soon dispersed them, taking fifty prisoners. Martial law has been declared by the Governor. The State troops were ordered, and were expected there last night. The riot was caused by the banks throwing out the circulating notes of a large number of the banks of the State. Several persons-were injured, but none killed.

TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE SHIP SOVEREIGN OF THE SEAS. This unfortunate calamity commenced on Tuesday evening, September 10th, and is the third vessel which has been destroyed by fire within 18 months—ihe Chatteaux Wattel, the British Mer. chant, and the ill-fated ship, the loss of which we have now to record. She arrived here on Saturday» the 31st ultimo, from Liverpool, with 104 immigrants and a full cargo of merchandise. The immigrants and their. luggage. were all landed, and the ship commenced discharging cargo on Saturday last on the west side of the Cove, at Campbell a Wharf. She was the property of Messrs. J. and W. Wright, of St. John's, New Brunswick, by whom she was built about three years ago; and registered 1226 tons. Captain Cruikshank, her commander, had also an interest in the vessel; and Bhe had been chartered by the Messrs. Baines to convey coals from,this port to Bombay.

From circumstances which transpired when th e alarm was first given, there is great reason to believe that the vessel was fired by an incendiary, andmost completely was the intent accomplished, if it should be proved that such was the case, for she burnt to the water's edge, and fiercely for 20 Jiours.

The Sovereign of the Seas had on board 1800 tons of dead weight and measurement. She commenced discharging on Saturday last, and between then and Tuesday evening had landed about 150 tons of salt, and 50 tons of machinery. The remaining 1600 tons are under water, and consist of a number of packages of soft goods, salt, several hogshead of brandy, rum, and whisky, 30,000 slates, 500 casks, and 200 hogsheads of beer, oil stores, a large quantity of railway machinery, pig iron, and ironmongery; a large amount of which will probably, be saved. If the fire had, however, reached the spirits, the entire cargo, with the exception of the ironware, would have been lost, besides the destruction which must have been caused from explosion.

We understand the vessel is insured, but to what amount is not stated. It is somewhat remarkable that her namesake, the clipper, which graced our port some years ago, was destroyed at Bombay, by fire.

The coroner will hold an inquest on the fire today, at the Observer Tavern; and the two men charged with setting the vessel on fire have been remanded, in order to give time for the collection of evidence.*-/^. M. Herald, Sept. 14.