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\ mother was of Italian origin, and 4£ R cended from the 
’ ducal Reggio family of Italy. Gen. Keauregard 
, entered tho United States Military Academy at West 
I Point, atari early ape, where he graduated in 1838, 
taking the second honors in a class of forty-five 
graduates, and was appointed to the Corps of Engi¬ 
neers. He was promoted to a First Lieutenancy in 
June, into, and in that capacity served •with great 
distinction during the Mexican war. He was twice 
brevetted “ for gallant and meritorious conduct” in 
the field, the first time as captain for the battles of 
Contreras and Churubusco, to date from August 20, 
1847; and again as Major for the battle of Cbepul- 
tepec, to date from the 13th of September of that 
year. Gen. Beauregard is about forty-three years of 
age, in the prime of life and vigorous health, erect 
as a soldier, well made and remarkably active. 
There is great spirit and determination in his look, 
and he evidently possesses great muscular power. 
The great characteristic of the General is perfect 
method in all his plans. He is regarded one of the 
ablest officers that ever was in the American army. 
Maryland — Gov. Hlclts* Message. 
The geographical position of Maryland renders 
her action doubly important at the present juncture, 
hence the closing paragraphs from Gov. Hicks’ mes¬ 
sage to her Legislature possess a special Interest. 
The fate of Maryland, and perhaps of her sister 
Border Slave Staton, will undoubtedly be seriously 
affected by the action of your honorable body. 
Therefore should every good citizen bend all his 
energies to the task before us, and therefore should 
the animosities and bickerings of the past be forgot¬ 
ten, and all strike hands in the holy cause of restoring 
peace to Our State and to our country. I honestly 
and most earnestly entertain the Conviction that the 
only safety of Maryland lies in preserving a neutral 
position between our brethren of the North and of 
the South. We have violated no right of either 
section, We have been loyal to the Union. The 
unhappy content between the two sections has not 
been commenced or encouraged by us, although we 
have suffered from if in part. The impending war 
has not come by any act or any wish of ours. We 
have done all we could to avert it. We have hoped 
that Maryland and other Border Slave States, by their 
conservative position urnl love for the. Union,'might 
have acted as mediators between the extremes of both 
sections, and thus have prevented the terrible evils of 
a prolonged civil war. 
Entertaining these views, I cannot, counsel Mary¬ 
land to take sides against the General Government 
until it shall commit outrages on us which would 
justify us in resisting its authority. As a conse- 
f|uciice, I can give no other counsel than that we 
shall array ourselves for Union and peace, and thus 
preserve our soil from being polluted with the blood 
of brethren. Thus, if war must lie between the 
North and South, we may force the contending 
parties to transfer the field of battle from our soil, so 
that our lives and property may be secure. It seems 
to me that, independently of all other considerations, 
our geographical position forces us to this, unless we 
arc willing to see our State tho theatre of a long and 
bloody civil war. and the consequent utter destruc¬ 
tion of every material interest of our people, to say 
nothing of the blood of brave men and innocent 
women and children, which will cry out from our 
soil for vengeance upon us. if we fail to do all that in 
us lies to avert the impending calamity. 
The course I suggest has all the while been the sole 
ground work ol' my policy; and but for the excite¬ 
ment prevailing ani'uig our people during the past 
few days, 7 believe the object I have kept steadily in 
view during my administration would have been con¬ 
summated. If it Inis tailed, 1 have the full conscious¬ 
ness that throughout the whole of my harrftssing and 
painful incumbency of the gubernatorial chair I have 
libored honestly and fUthfuly for the peace, the 
safety, and the interest* of Maryland, and of our 
common country. This consciousness has enabled 
me to endure patiently all the cruel, unmerited, and 
heartless attacks that have been made upon my 
integrity. I have also comfort in the conviction that 
my policy has been sustained by a large majority of 
the people, and nothing that line transpired ainee the 
recent lamentable occurrences within our State has 
shaken that conviction. 
A momentary frantic excitement took the place of 
reason nod good Judgment, and men for the time 
threw aside all prudent thoughts of the future in the | 
burning desire to avenge what they considered 
wrongs. 1 submit my suggestions to your wisdom, 
and I appeal t.i yon not only as devoted citizens of 
Maryland, but as’ husbands and fathers, to allow that 
prudence and Christian-like temper so honorable to 
all men to guide your counsels, and I implore you 
not to he swayed by the passions which seem tube so 
fully aroused in our midst to do what tho generations 
to come after us will ever deplore. 
How the “Southern Heart is Fired.” 
In our last issue we gave extracts from our 
Southern exchanges exhibiting the manuer in which 
the masses are deluded in regard to the condition of 
affairs at the North. The mail of the present week is 
exceedingly rich in this respect, and we quote the 
following: 
The Mobile Daily Advertiser, of the 28th ult., gives 
us a choice morsel of intelligence. It says: 
“The telegraph makes out the Northern States to 
be very eager for the fray, and exceedingly liberal in 
their appropriations of money to sustain Lincoln in 
his war upon us. Those States will talk of offering 
more money than they really will, and will otter more 
than they will ever pay. 7 '/try have no money, are 
most enormously in debt, and it is all that they can 
do to rake and scrape enough to pay interest on their 
outstanding bonds. This is true of the finances of 
each one of the States which the telegraph tells us are 
most liberal in their offers of appropriations. The 
war kills what was left of their credit abroad, and 
they cannot raise money among their citizens as we do, 
for the reason that there is no unity of patriotic feel¬ 
ing among them, and they do not feel that it is a war 
of independence to defend homes and liberties, as 
with us; but a war df aggression, needlessly waged, 
to which the opposition of the body of conservatives 
spreads a very general feeling of disinclination. 
Those States cannot negotiate at home or abroad. 
The same journal publishes a telegram received by 
the Confederate States Government, to this eft'ect: 
“Montgomery, April 23. 
A reliable dispatch received by the Secretary of 
State, dated at Alexandria, Virginia, April 22d, says 
that the Northern troops on the way from Annapolis 
to Washington were being cut up between Annapolis 
and Marlboro'. The conflict is represented as being 
desperate . The citizens fought disadvantngeously 
with arms sent them from Harper's Ferry. The 
town of Havre de Grace has been destroyed .” 
The Richmond Examiner , “upon reliable informa¬ 
tion,” gives publication to this choice piece of 
nonsense: 
“Abraham Lincoln is ready to run. He has not 
passed a night in the White I toast for two weeks, bat 
goes into the barracks to steep with )tis armed hirelings 
about him. He does not take his boots off, that he 
may be ready to run at a moment's warning. Illus¬ 
trious successor of Washington and Jackson! The 
miserable chicken-hearted abolition If Hosier! To think 
that such ft creature should cause the death of men! 
His fate gapes to receive him.” 
A correspondent of the Baltimore American, writing 
from Charleston, tells us what the rebels are going 
to do with Washington when they lake it: 
“We will take all the paintings, statues, and arti¬ 
cles of historical interest, and adorn Montgomery 
with them. We will then raze the city, demolish the 
Capitol, and erect a simple marble slab on the high¬ 
est hill amid the desolation, upon which shall be 
inscribed the simple words, ‘ In memoriam.' ” 
The New Oilcans Delta is rejoiced at the altitude 
of Baltimore, and the fact that the advance guard of 
the Virginia army, 5,000 strong, have taken posses¬ 
sion of Arlington Heights. It remarks: 
“ At the present moment Lincoln has not more than 
0,000 troops, of all kinds, in Washington, and this 
I number is utterly powerless for the defense of the 
place against the overwhelming forces that can be 
brought into the field by Virginia and Maryland. It 
will not he long before Lincoln and his Cabinet are 
either captured by Southern armies, or driven to neck 
safety in an ignominious nocturnal flight. 
The military power of the Government, so far as 
concerns the regular force*, is completely broken. 
The army is virtually disbanded, and the navy disor¬ 
ganized. 
All communication between Washington and the 
North Is cut off. The Maryland people are bravely 
contesting every inch of ground. Their efforts have 
been so successful that nu Northern troops have 
reached Washington since the Massachusetts Regi¬ 
ment was attacked in Baltimore. Tbc Massachusetts 
men express great surprise at the attack made upon 
them by the Baltimore people. They say they were 
induced to believe that they would have a very easy 
time of it — plenty of fun and no light. They did 
not come for a light, but for a frolic. They are grow¬ 
ing very uneasy and restless. 
There is, in the midst of all these accumulating 
difficulties, a visible lack of harmony and cohcsive- 
ness in the Administration. Lincoln appears t,o dis¬ 
regard altogether the counsels of his Cabinet, and to 
have yielded completely to the control of Jim Lane, 
of Kansas, Cassius M. Olay, and Frank Blair. 
These gentlemen have no hesitation in admitting 
that the wax is to be prosecuted on the part of the 
North, not for the maintenance of the UnioD, hut for 
the destruction of slavery. They declare openly that 
they intend to obliterate State Rights, and establish 
a grand, strong, Central Government, under control 
of the North, as a section. 
Lord Lyons was to have gone to Richmond to-day, 
with the intention of conferring with Vice-President 
Stephens concerning Lincoln’* proclamation of a 
blockade. The Foreign Ministers laugh at the pro¬ 
clamation. The Foreign Ministers now here all sym¬ 
pathize with the .South, and think Lincoln and his 
follower* arc insane. 
In consequence of the martial law anticipated in 
Washington, and the insecurity felt by capitalists arid 
property holders of tbc North, specie, and every 
kind of movable treasure, are rapidly pouring into 
Virginia aud other .Southern States on or near the 
border.” 
Meeting of ilie Southern Gotigrens. 
Tiik Congress of the Southern Confederate States 
met in Montgomery, at noon, on the 29th ult. There 
has been nothing but a brief telegraphic report of 
the message of Jeff. Davis; but the principal points 
seem to be as follows: 
He announced the ratification of the permanent 
Constitution of the Confederate States, and that it 
only remains for an election to be held for the desig¬ 
nation of officers to administer the government. 
He says, the declaration of war made against this 
Confederation by Abraham Lincoln, renders it 
necessary to. convene Congress, to devise means to 
replenish the Treasury and for the defence of the 
country, lie reviews the relations heretofore exist¬ 
ing between tin- States, and the events which have 
resulted in the present warfare. Referring to the 
result of the mission of the Commissioners to Wash¬ 
ington, he says the crooked patkB of diplomacy can 
scarcely furnish an example so wanting in courtesy, 
candor, and directness, as was the course of the 
United States government toward the Commissioner*. 
Commissioners have been sent to England, France, 
Prussia, and Belgium, to ask our recognition as a 
member of the family of nations, and make treaties 
of amity and commerce. 
He recommends the appointment of other diplo¬ 
matic agents. He says the Confederacy, through 
Mr. Stephens, has concluded a convention with Vir¬ 
ginia, by which Virginia has united her powers and 
fortunes with the Southern Confederacy. 
He says he has satisfactory assurances that other 
Southern States will Boon stake their fortune with 
ours. He says most of the executive departments 
are in successful operation. The Post Master General 
will soon be ready to announce the direction of 
postal affairs. 
In conclusion, lie congratulates the Confederacy in 
the patriotic devotion exhibited by the people of the 
Confederacy. Men of high political and social posi¬ 
tion and wealth, are serving iu the volunteer ranks. 
He says the people thus united and resolved, cun Hot 
fail of a final success. Our cause is just and holy, 
and we protest solemnly iu the face of mankind, that 
we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of honor 
and independence. We seek no conquest, no aggran¬ 
dizement, no concession from the Free States. All 
we ask is to ho let alone, and that no one shall 
attempt our subjugation by arms. This we will and 
must resist to the dircBt extremity. The moment 
this pretension is abandoned, the sword will drop 
from our grasp, and we shall he ready to enter into 
treaties of amity and commerce mutually beneficial. 
So long fts tins pretension is maintained, with a firm 
reliance on that Divine Power which covers with 1Jis 
protection the just cause, we will endeavor to 
struggle for our inherent right to freedom with pru¬ 
dence and self-government. 
The South In a <(un ndai'>. 
Certain portions of the Southern Press are be¬ 
ginning to think there has been a slight miscalcula 
tion in reference to the number of their friends at the 
North. The money and men which the Jeff. Davis 
Confederacy were to receive are forthcoming, but 
not exactly in the shape which was expected. In¬ 
stead of being devoted to the interests of the Mont 
gomery Cabal, and the building up of u Cotton 
Government, “Old Abe” Bcems to have got all in 
the Union strings. Hear them: 
The Mobile Register finds itself unable to explain 
the fact of the unexpected unanimity of the people of 
the North in the support of the Government, upon 
any other hypothesis than that the whole public mind 
of the North has “been suddenly seized with one of 
those manias by which Providence sometimes smites 
an entire people.” It confesses its surprise ol the 
Concurrent support of the Administration by Poog- 
las, Buchanan, Fillmore, Cass, Governor Sprague, Ac. 
In addition to its inability to explain the foregoing, 
the Register expresses its surprise in the following 
munucr: 
“ Is the Whole Noivrn Going Mad? —We yester¬ 
day commented upon it dispatch declaring in effect 
that Stephen A. Douglas had pledged his support to 
President Lincoln. While we wrote the words of in¬ 
credulity and surprise with which alone we could com¬ 
ment on such news, the wires were announcing to our 
New Orleans contemporaries that Ex-President Bu¬ 
chanan participates in the general determination to 
sustain the Governmental Washington. At the same 
time it is telegraphed from Detroit that Geu. Cass 
had liberally contributed to a largo subscription for 
the equipment of tho Michigan quota of volunteers 
called out by President Lincoln. Simultaneously, 
also, it is telegraphed from Bnftalo, that Ex-President 
Fillmore is presiding over a meeting called to aid the 
United States Government • in the enforcement of the 
laws.’ It had previously been announced that Gov¬ 
ernor Sprague, of Rhode Island, just re-elected by a 
large majority over a Black Republican competitor, 
had tendered a regiment of troops to aid Lincoln * in 
the enforcement uf the laws.’ 
“ Here is a representative man of every shade of 
Northern conservatism. We confess this coincidence 
and simultaneuusness of action on the part of men 
who are wider apart by their antecedents than even 
their places of residence, takes up by surprise.” 
The New Orleans I’ioayqne is also incredulous as 
to the war preparations of New York. It says: 
“ We are unwilling to believe the telegraphic re¬ 
ports of the total ftpostacy of the majority of the 
citizens of the city of New York, who have ever pro¬ 
fessed to be tbc friends of the South, aud the op¬ 
pressors of Black Republicans, as their vote in the 
late Presidential contest exhibited. We know that 
there are good men and true there, who are willing 
to stand by the .South to the last. We have been in¬ 
formed by a gentleman lately from that city, that all 
the telegraphic reports I rom thence in relation to this 
apostacy of New York citizens are enormously ex¬ 
aggerated.” 
The Richmond Examiner publishes the speech of 
Mr. Fillmore, delivered at Buffalo, and notices the 
positive position in favor of sustaining the Govern¬ 
ment, takeu by the whole people of the North as one 
man, and says: 
“ We are rather disposed to refer the shameful de¬ 
fect ion to a general cause—the demoralizing tendency I 
of Northern society. Moral courage is a virtue un¬ 
known in that region, and consequently not mined. 
Wc believe the North has produced no really great 
man since the days of the Revolution. We do not 
mean intellectually, but morally and intellectually. 
Tbcir society tends to sharpen the intellect—and they 
have exhibited some verv remarkable specimens of in¬ 
tellectual sharpness. But the truly grand character 
—grand in all its phases such us Washington or 
Marshall, it is utterly impossible for it“ social status 
to produce. All attempted" that sort must inevitably 
prove failures and abortions. But for money-getting 
and money-bolding, and for dexterous devices for 
turning sharp corners, and for passing for something 
better than they really are, they can boat the world. 
In this view of the matter, Messrs. Fillmore. Inger- 
soil A Co., arc not free agents. They have been de¬ 
cent, plausable, respectable, fair-weather friends; and 
for one und all of us, we bid them an eternal adieu!” 
The Richmond Whig, in a notice of the general 
uprising of the North and the united determination 
of its people to mistairi the Federal Government with 
men and money for a vigorous prosecution of the 
campaign, closes up thus significantly: 
“ It rests on the supposition, that the Yankees will 
be permitted to carry out their plan without hind¬ 
rance from any quarter and especially that Jefferson 
Davis shall not reach the Potomac in sixty days. 
The happen!nit of any such rash proceedings as tiilR 
on the part of the impetuous Rebel, it is very frankly 
confessed, would mar a great many line schemes. 
On this point we can, luckly, rclievc'tbe fears of the 
philosopher ol the Tribune. Jeff. Daves has no thought 
in the world of being on the Potomac in sixty days from 
this time. According to our reckoning, the banks of 
the Hudson are not- more than thirty days march from 
Montgomery.'' 
I.okn of Life nt Fort Moultrie. 
The report that many lives bad been lost at Fort 
Moultrie by the fire of Fort Sumter, is receiving daily 
confirmation. The following statement in the N. Y. 
Tribune was derived from a soldier who was drafted 
into the rebel army: 
“The barbette guns of Fort .Sumter were silenced 
early in the day, and the round shot from these were 
most destructive to Fort Moultrie, and caused the 
greatest loss of life. They were fired with great ac¬ 
curacy. and at times the scene in the fort was terrible. 
During the siege, between three aud four hundred 
were killed, and a large number were wounded. The 
killed were collected together in a mass, and at night 
placed in boxes brought down from Charleston, and 
taken away to Potter’s Field, and interred during the 
night. Some of the men were horribly mangled, und 
others were scarcely dead when thrown into the 
boxes. Blood flowed in streams from these recepta¬ 
cles, and the sight was horrible. The surgeon at the 
Fort sent for help, and others came down from 
Charleston. The wounded were removed to the 
Hospital, where such as have not since died now re¬ 
main. In order that the truth should not be known 
in Charleston, the soldiers were charged to say that 
nobody was hurt, and were threatened with certain 
death if they disclosed the facts.” 
Captain David 1 ’arson, or the schooner It. I). Pitts, 
who arrived in Now York on the 1st inst., from 
Charleston, lay at the wharf, near Fort Moultrie, dur¬ 
ing the bombardment of Fort Sumter. Fortunately, 
his vessel hailed from a Virginia port, ami by utter¬ 
ing secession sentiments he passed without suspicion. 
The captain states that on (Sunday night sixty dead 
bodies were carried across his deck to the land; that 
both he and his first mate saw and counted them; 
that on Monday night forty dead bodies wen carried 
out at one time, and sixty at another. He states that 
the rebel soldiers were all sworn to deny any loss of 
life. 
A soldier who had served on Morris Island during 
the bombardment of Sumter, arrived with ('apt. Car- 
son, and he says that at least one hundred and fifty 
men were killed arid wounded at the batteries on 
Morris Island, by the canister of Maj. Anderson, lie 
had occasion to be at Fort Johnston before he left 
Charleston, and there he learned that on Sullivan's 
island thirty-nine men had been killed,—that a mor¬ 
tar had been blown from Fort Johnston by a shot 
from Bp rater. He had to go to Charleston in a boat 
with some passengers, and when there embraced the 
opportunity and stowed himself away in the schooner, 
and in that way got off. He says that the dead were 
all taken aud boxed and carried away in the night, 
and buried in Potter's field, where the negroes are 
buried. * 
The editor of the Charleston Courier, since the 
evacuation, has visited the various positions occu¬ 
pied by the Secessionists, and though he states that 
no one was killed, he says “ that if Fort Moultrie is 
ever to be used, the walls must be rebuilt; that hides 
are knocked therein large enough for windows; thut 
there is not a tenable room in the fort; that every¬ 
thing is torn to pieces, even to the bedding of the 
soldiers.” In concluding, he remarks that “it was a 
blessing Maj. Anderson had no fuel to heat shot with, 
or the destruction of Fort Moultrie would have been 
complete." Whose stories shall we believe? When 
we take into consideration the fact that more than 
1,000 men were cooped up in this fortress, it is rather 
hard work for us to believe “ that nobody was hurt." 
The North-West Arming. 
Everybody is asking,—“What is the great North¬ 
west doing?” The best answer we can give is the 
following extract from the 8t. Louis Democrat of 
Wednesday week: 
“ A gentleman connected with one of the northern 
line of packets, which arrived yesterday, handed us a 
communication, from which we take the following: 
“ ‘The whole upper country-is aroused, and mak¬ 
ing preparations to sustain the Government, and all 
parties are merged into one. The stirring sound of 
the fife and drum is echoing from shore to shore 
thro’ont the Mississippi Valley. It is one unanimous 
recruiting station for the upholding of the laws and 
defence of the honor of the country. Large quantities 
of grain are upon the banks, awaiting shipment to 
Milwaukee and Chicago. They are afraid to ship to 
St. Louis.’ 
“We add a portion of the report of the trip of the 
steamer Denmark: 
“‘Tuesday, 10th, at 4 P. M., left St, Paul. River 
rising slowly. The war news excludes all other 
topics, and produced a very unfavorable effect upon 
shipments. Large quantities of grain, destined foi¬ 
st. Louis and the South, have been sent to Milwaukee 
and Chicago, and other lots are held back for further 
developments. Shippers fear the secession of Mis¬ 
souri. The consequence of such a step would be 
suicidal to Missouri, and they wonder that men are 
so blind as not to foresee that fact, and do their best 
to keep her in the Union. The falling off in ship¬ 
ments, and derangement in currency, render steam- 
boating a very unprofitable and unpleasant business.’ 
“We commend tb* above developments to the con¬ 
sideration of those who forget that there is a North. 
Let those in favor of secession pause and reflect.” 
According to a statement in the Cincinnati En¬ 
quirer of Wednesday, the Indiana and Ohio troops 
now mustering into service, are intended for opera¬ 
tions in the Western Division of the army, and will 
not come East. The Enquirer says: 
“ A dispatch from Louisville states that one thou¬ 
sand troops are at Cairo, and that four thousand ad¬ 
ditional are expected soon. We have no reason to 
doubt the truth of that. We understand that the 
Indiana troops now at Indianapolis have received 
orders to march, and their destination is West. We 
also learn that no more of the Ohio troops will be 
sent East, and that those now at Columbus will be 
sent West. From the giving9-ont, we suppose the 
object of the gathering at Cairo is to blockade the 
Mississippi, so as to prevent all boats passing down 
which shall contain provisions or warlike stores. 
That will tell seriously on St. Louis, Memphis, and 
New Orleans.” 
♦. — 
Affnir* nt Washington. 
Official correspondence of Minister Faulkner, 
at Paris, to Secretary Seward, relative to M. Thouve- 
nal, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, concerning 
American affairs, i* furnished to the press by the 
State Department. Mr. Faulkner had an interview 
April 15 with M. Thonvenal. 
Mr. Faulkner, who is a Virginian, presented the 
Commissioners of Jeff. Davis to the Emperor, who 
gave them no encouragement. The French Minister 
of Foreign Affairs said that the United States need 
not have apprehension of a speedy recognition by 
France of the Southern Confederacy. Mr. Dallas, 
our Minister to England, refused to present the 
Commissioners. 
The War Department issued an order creating the 
military department of Annapolis, under command 
of Gen. Butler, embracing Annapolis and the railroad 
to Bladensburg, with 21 miles each side of the track, 
and including Baltimore. 
The Maryland Legislature, in their interview with 
the President, on the 4th inst., admitted both the 
right and power of the Government to bring troops 
through Baltimore, or the State, and to take any 
measures for the public safety which, in the discre¬ 
tion of the President, might be demanded, either by 
actual or reasonably apprehended exigencies. They 
expressed the belief that no immediate effort at 
secession, or resistance of the federal authority, 
would be attempted by the Legislature or State 
authorities, and asked that in this view the State 
should he spared as long as possible the evils of a 
military occupation, or a mere revengeful chastise¬ 
ment for former transgressions. The President 
replied that their suggestions and representations 
should be considered, but thut he should now say no 
more than that the public interests, and not the spirit 
of revenge, would actuate his measures. 
president’* PROCLAMATION. 
Whereas, Existing exigencies demand immedi¬ 
ate and adequate measure* for the protection of 
the National Constitution and the preservation of the 
National Union, by the suppression of the Insurrec¬ 
tionary combinations, now existing in several Slates, 
for opposing the laws of the Union and obstructing 
the execution thereof, to which end a military force, 
in addition to that called for by my proclamation of 
the 15th of April, in the present year, appear* to be 
indispensably necessary. 
Now. therefore, I, Aukaham Lincoln, President 
of the United States, and Corntnandcr-in-Chicf of the 
Army and Navy thereof, and of the militia of the 
several States when in actual service, do hereby call 
into the service of the United States forty-two thou¬ 
sand and thirty-four volunteers, to serve for a period 
of three years, unless sooner discharged, and to he 
mustered into the service as infantry and cavalry. 
The proportions of each arm, and the* details of en¬ 
rollment and organization, will he made known 
through the Department of War. And I also direct 
that the regular army of the United States be in¬ 
creased by the addition of eight regiments of infan¬ 
try. one regiment of cavalry, and one regiment of 
artillery, making, all together, a maximum aggre¬ 
gate. increase of twenty-one thousand seven hundred 
and fourteen, officer* and enlisted men; the details 
of which increase will also be made known through 
the Department of War. And I further direct on 
liniment lor not less than one nor more than three 
years, Of eighteen thousand seamen, in addition to 
the present force, for the naval service of the United 
States. The details of the enlistment and organiza¬ 
tion will be made known through the Department Of 
Ibe Navy. 
The call for volunteers hereby made, and the di¬ 
rection for the increase of the regular army, aud for 
the enlistment of seamen hereby given, together 
with the plan of organization adopted for the volun¬ 
teers and for the regular force hereby authorized, 
will bo submitted to Congress as soon "as assembled. 
In the meantime I earnestly invoke the co-operation 
of all good citizens in the measure hereby adopted 
for the effectual suppression of unlawful violence, 
fur the impartial enforcement of Constitutional laws, 
and for the speediest restoration of peace and order, 
happiness and prosperity, throughout our country. 
In testimony whereof, 1 have hereunto set my 
hand and caused the seal of the United Stales to be 
affixed, 
Done at the city of Washington this 3d of May, in 
tho year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred 
and sixty-one, and of the independence of the Uni¬ 
ted States the eighty-fifth. Abraham Lincoln. 
W, H. Sew ard, Secretary of State. 
Gen. Harney, after being released at Harper’s 
Ferry, proceeded to Washington. There has been 
much speculation iu reference to the position which 
this officer would assume, but all would seem set at 
rest by his letter to Col. O. Follen, of St. Louis, in 
which he declares that he will never serve under any 
banner than the one he has followed for forty years; 
that he will continue in the service of the Govern¬ 
ment which has bestowed its honors npon him, and 
bo long as he has breath will he be its faithful and 
loyal soldier. He Bays secession leads to anarchy, 
and that the secessionists design establishing a mili¬ 
tary dictatorship, aud have made war npon the Gov¬ 
ernment and dishonored its flag; that secession 
would be utter ruin to Missouri. He implores bis 
fellow citizens that the State may not be seduced to 
become the instrument of mad ambition of design¬ 
ing men. Although the owner of property in and a 
resident of Missouri, he feels bound to stand by the 
Union aud remain iu Us service, and will devote his 
ettorts to the maintenance of the Federal Govern¬ 
ment and the perpetuation of its blessings to pos¬ 
terity. 
Gov. Morgan, of New York, received a communi¬ 
cation from the War Department on the 3d inst, 
expressing obligations for the promptness aud dis- 
patoh with which troops we re sent from New York 
for the defense of the Capital, but requesting that 
no more may be forwarded to that point till further 
orders are received from the Department, all being I 
deemed now safe at Washington. 
Knowing the disappointment this will occasion, 
Gov. Morgan earnestly desires that one or two regi¬ 
ments of the present uniformed force w'hieh have 
already been ordered for Washington, but have not 
yet left the State, may be received by the National 
authorities, with whom he has communicated on the 
subject, but unless the Department should consent, 
these regiments will have to be discharged. 
On application, just made by some of the dipl 0 . 
matic corps at the State Department, the following 
points were ascertained: 
First. Vessels in blockaded ports when the block¬ 
ade took effect will be allowed a reasonable time to 
depart. 
Second. Vessels bringing emigrants, though they 
have no notice of the blockade at the time of their 
departure, will not be allowed to enter the blockaded 
ports. That class of persons come to the United 
States chiefly to settle in the upper States of the Mis¬ 
sissippi, and it will be better for them to enter an 
opeD port and make their way to their destination, 
than to encounter the dangers and castrlties incident 
to the insurrectionary condition of the Gulf States. 
The Diplomatic Corps have now been furnished 
with copies of the two proclamations of blockade, 
against which they make no unfriendly manifesta¬ 
tions. The blockading force under Capt. Stringham 
will consist of at least 50 war vessels, accompanied 
with a sufficient number of steam transports for the 
accommodation of aland force 20,000 strong. This 
will be enough to make an efficient blockade of tho 
whole Southern coast into which any vessel drawing 
six feet of water might enter. 
On the Gth inst., Gen. Scott, for the third time, volun¬ 
tarily took the oath of allegiance to the Constitution 
and Laws of the United States. His staff here fol¬ 
lowed his example. 
Messengers from Alexandria report that large num¬ 
bers of people had fled from the city in view of the 
contemplated attack by the Federal troops. About 
400 rebel troops arrived Sunday from the direction of 
Richmond, but seeing a Federal fleet coming up the 
Potomac, they escaped toward Harper’s Ferry. 
A dispatch to the N. Y. Herald, says the Maryland 
Committee were told by the President that it was not 
intended by the Government to retaliate for the attack 
of the Baltimorians on the Northern troops, bnt it 
was determined to assert its right of way through 
Baltimore at all hazards. 
The Secretary of War, in order to accommodate 
the traveling public, has directed the opening of the I 
military route between Washington and Philadelphia 
by the way of Annapolis. There will be two daily 
trains—those from the North leaving Philadelphia 
at 10.30 A. M. and 11 P. M. 
The Rochester Volunteers. 
On Friday morning, the 3d inst., Rochester 
sent forward her first instalment, of good and true 
Union men, and the entire city turned out to bid 
them a parting God-speed. Never did so dense a 
crowd line our thoroughfares as on that occasion, 
and though upward of six hundred of our young men 
were severing the dearest ties and associations, the 
pang of separation was tempered by the thought that 
they were about to do battle for their country. This 
regiment responded to the call with alacrity, and 
were Ihe first to offer their services in Western New 
York. The volunteers are made up as follows: 
Capts. Taylor, (Zouaves); Smith, (Rifle C. rps); 
Lewis, (Rifle Corps); Brown, iltifie Corps); Schoeffel, 
Williams, Tally, Nolle, Jennings, Davie, Thomas, of 
Brockport; Adams, of Lyons; Stephan, of Dansville. 
The foregoing companies volunteered with the 
expectation of being attached to the regiment of 
Prof. Quinby, of the Rochester University, but some 
of them are doomed to disappointment.. 
The rules of the service will not permit more than 
ten companies to be included in one regiment, und 
here are thirteen — all anxious to be counted in. 
We learn that the company officers of the volunteer 
regiment from this city, now at Elmira, elected field 
officers as follows: Colonel — Isaac F. Qiiinbv. Lieut. 
Colonel—Elisha G. Marshall. Major—Oliver L. 
Terry. 
The Colonel and Lieut. Colonel are both graduates 
of West Point, and have s6en service in the Army. 
We have not yet ascertained what companies com¬ 
pose the regiment, but as there is a surplus of three 
companies at Elmira, and two in this city still await¬ 
ing orders to march (Capt, Wunzcr’s and Capt. 
Baron’s,) and large numbers anxious to enlist, the 
necessary steps are being taken to fill up a second 
regiment. Our city is destined to be fully repre¬ 
sented in the struggle between order and anarchy, 
and we doubt not her representatives will acquit 
themselves honorably both as soldiers and men. 
FOREIGN NEWS. 
Great Britain. —A prospectus has been issued in 
Liverpool, with influential support, for the organiza¬ 
tion of a company to run a line of steamers direct 
from Liverpool to New Orleans. Another company 
is being formed to run a line to Charleston. The 
latter starts the first steamer in June. 
The House of Commons rejected Berkley's annual 
motion in favor of the ballot, by 128 majority. 
Lord John Russel had said that the proposed con¬ 
ference in regard to the slave trade had not been 
held, because the United States Government had re¬ 
fused to take part in it. 
Franck.—A French fleet was ordered to be fitted 
out to convey the French troops home from Syria. 
A commercial treaty between France and Belgium 
is reported to have been signed. 
All the mercantile houses in Marseilles had sus¬ 
pended payment. Their liabilities in some cases 
were very heavy. The suspensions were caused by 
the Turkish government not providing for its accept¬ 
ances, and the refusal of the Bank of France to con¬ 
tinue its advance. 
Italy.— An important debate in the Italian Parlia¬ 
ment on the reorganization of the Southern army, 
continued on the 20th. Count Cavour made various 
explanations. Garibaldi said he was not satisfied 
with these declarations, as the prospects were alarm¬ 
ing. He insisted, therefore, on the reorganization 
of the Southern array. The Chambers finally adopted 
the bill, by a vote of 197 against 97. 
The correspondence between Cialdini and Garibal¬ 
di bad been published. Cialdini reiterated friend¬ 
ship, but objected to Garibaldi’s last acts. Garibaldi 
characteristically defends his position. 
Poland.— Affairs at Warsaw were unchanged. 
Gortschakoff had issued a proclamation stating that 
assemblages for political discussion will be tolerated, 
but order can only be maintained by civil officers 
with assistance ofthe military. 
Sfain. —It is denied that Spain intends to reject 
the otter of the re-incorporation of Dominica. It is 
stated that Hayti requests a Spanish protectorate. 
Commkkcial IxTEULlUKNCit —Brendstvffs — The weather 
keeps very fine for a^rieultniul operations. Wakvtleld, Na>a 
A Co. report flour very dull, and the terms easier at 28i@80tM. 
Wheat steady, and in fair demand at full prices. Red ll»->u 
g'llsSdj white 12*3d@.14st)d. Corn very slack, and offered it 
fid decline per quarter, without buyers. Mixed and yellow^ 
8fiB6d@36e: white 36s(o,37s. Richardson, Spence & Co. can 
wheat dull, and corn Is per quarter cheaper, and very 
depressed. 
Provisions .—Beef and pork steady, hut without improve¬ 
ment in value- 
