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the glory of that statesman or chieftain who shall 
snatch this Republic from the vortex of revolution, 
now that it has expanded from ocean to ocean, ban 
become the admiration of the world, and has rendered 
the fountains of the lives of thirty million people 
fountains of happiness. The vigorous measures 
adopted for the safety of Washington and the Gov¬ 
ernment itself, may seem open to criticism, in some 
of their details, to those who have yet to learn that, 
not only has war, like peace, its laws, but that it has 
also Its privileges and its duties. Whatever of se¬ 
verity, or even of irregularity, may have arisen, will 
find its justification in the pressure of the terrible 
necessity under which the Administration has been 
called to act. When a man feels the puignard of the 
destroyer at his bosom, he is riot likely to consult 
the law books as to the mode or measure of his rights 
of self-defence. What is true of individuals, is in 
this respect equally true of governments. The tnan 
who thinks he has become disloyal because of what 
the Administration has done, will probably discover, 
after a close self-examination, that he was disloyal 
before. But for what has been done, Washington 
might ere this have been a smouldering heap of ruins. 
As A 1’i'KAt. to Kentucky. — Before proceeding 
further, Kentucky should measure well the depth of 
the gulf she is approaching, and look well to the 
feet of her guides. Before forsaking a Union in 
which her people have enjoyed such uninterrupted 
and such bound lex* prosperity, she should ask her¬ 
self, not once, but many times, why do I go, and 
where am f going? In view of what has been said, 
it would he difficult to answer the first branch of the 
inquiry; but to answer the second part is pateut to 
all, as’are the consequences which would follow this 
movement. In giving her great material and moral 
resources to the support of the Southern Confederacy, 
Kentucky might prolong the desolating struggle 
that rebellious States are making to overthrow a 
Government which they have only known In its 
blessings; hot the triumph of the Government would 
nevertheless be certain in the c-nd. She would aban¬ 
don a Government strong and able to protect her, 
for one that is weak, and that contains, in the very 
elements of its life, the seeds of distraction and early 
dissolution. She would adopt, as the luw of her 
existence, the right of secession a right which has 
no foundation in jurisprudence, or logic, or In our 
political history; which Madison, the father of the 
Federal constitution, denounced; which has been 
denounced hy most of the States and prominent 
statesmen now insisting upon its exercise; which, in 
introducing a principle of indefinite disintegration, 
cuts up all the confederate governments by the roots, 
and gives them over a prey to the caprices and pas¬ 
sions, and transient interests, of their members, as 
autumnal leaves arc given to the winds which blow 
upon them. 
Kentucky, occupying a central position iri the 
Union, is now protected from the scourge of foreign 
war, however much its ravages may waste the towns 
and cities upon our coasts or the commerce upon our 
seas; but as a member of the Southern Confederacy 
we should he a t rob tier State, and necessarily the 
victim of those border feuds and Conflicts which 
have become proverbial in history alike for their 
fierceness ami frequency. The people of the South 
now sleep quietly in their beds, while there is not a 
home in infatuated und misguided Virginia, that is 
not filled with the alarms and oppressed by the ter¬ 
rors of war. In the fate of this ancient, common¬ 
wealth, dragged to the altar of sacrifice by those 
. who should have stood between her bosom aud every 
foe, Kentucky may read her own. 
An Earnest Exhortation. — Could my voice 
reach every dwelling in Kentucky, I would implore 
its Inmates to stand by the Union, if they would not 
have the rivers of their prosperity shrink away as 
unfed streams before it is everlastingly too late. 
Man should appeal to man, and neighborhood to 
neighborhood, until the electric tires of patriotism 
shall (lash from heart to heart in one unbroken cur¬ 
rent throughout the land. It is a time in which the 
workshop, the* office, the counting-house und the 
field, may well be abandoned fur the solemn duty 
that is upon us, for all these toil* will but bring 
treasure, not for ourselves, but for the spoiler, if this 
revolution is not arrested. Wo are all, with our 
every earthly interest, embarked in mid-ocean on the 
same common deck. The howl of the storm is in 
our ears, aud " the lightning’s red glare is paiDting 
belt on the sky;” and while the noble ship pitches 
and rolls under the lushing of the waves, the cry is 
heard that she lias sprung aleak at. many points, and 
that the rushing waters are mounting rapidly in the 
hold. The man who, in such an hour, will not work 
at the pumps, is either a maniac or a monster. 
IIow the Rebels left Western Virginia. 
Letters to the Wheeling (Va.) Intelligencer, 
from our forces in Western Virginia, give interesting 
accounts of the progress of the campaign. One of 
the volunteers thus describes the panic of the rebels: 
“ The scenes about Fairmont were exceedingly ludi¬ 
crous when the first hint of the approach of the 
soldiers got to the ears of the secessionists. The 
Union men had been living for some time in hourly 
dread, and under a system of threats of intimidation, 
and when they saw the secessionists rnuuing to and 
ire, and gathering in eager little knots on the street 
corners, they supposed some new stroke of the enemy 
was to he the result, and were in a bushel of trouble 
about the impending crisis. Well, the impending 
crisis arrived, and they got good news. Then the 
secessionists made tracks iu all directions, and with 
the most laughable speed—taking whatever means of 
conveyance they could get—some of them taking 
their neighbor’s even. Nobody knows where they 
went, and it is doubtful if they knew where they 
would go. The terrific and all absorbing idea that 
an immense army, who would just slaughter them 
like beeves, was right after them, was all they could 
think of—aud it has been sufficient to rid this section 
of them for a while, at least. The Hon. Z. Kidwell, 
valient though he has heretofore been, was seized, 
like the rest, with the panic. He rushed to the 
stable, got out a horse and buggy, and, fearful of be¬ 
ing seen, drove out a back way, and fled most igno- 
minionsly. 
The Wnr in Eastern Vlrglntn. 
Tub only encounter of importance up to date of 
writing (Saturday 22d) In Eastern Virginia was at 
Vienna, situated 15 miles from Alexandria, on the 
Loudon and Hampshire railroad. A dispatch from 
the officer in command we give below: 
To Li rut* flen. Scott. 
I left camp with 668 rank and file, and 29 field and 
company officers, in pursuance of Gen. McDowell’s 
orders to go upon this expedition with the available 
force of one of ray regiments. The regiment selected 
was the 1st Ohio Volunteers. I left two companies, 
company J am] company K. in the aggregate 125 
men, at the crossing of the road. I sent Lieut. Col. 
Parrot with two companies of 117 men to Falls 
Church, and to patrol the roads in that direction. I 
stationed two companies — company D and company 
F, 150 men — to guard the railroad and the bridge 
between the crossing and Vienna. I then proceeded 
along to Vienna with four companies—Co. E, Capt. 
Haddock: Co. C, Lieutenant Woodward, (afterward 
joined by Capt. Pease : Co. G, Capt Daily; Co. H, 
Cant. Iluzlet, Total 275 men. 
Ou turning the curve slowly within a quarter of a 
mile of 1 letmu, we were fired upon by a rakiug 
masked battery of, I think, three guns, and shells, 
round shot and grape, killing and w. unding the men 
on the platform and in the cars before the train could 
be stopped. When the train stopped, the engine 
could not, on account of the damage to some part of 
the running machinery, draw the train out of the 
lire. The engine being in the rear, we left the cars 
and returned to the right and Jeftou the train through 
the woods. Finding that the enemy’s batteries were 
sustained by what appeared about a regiment of 
infantry ami by cavalry, which force we have since 
understood t.o have been some 1500 South Caroli¬ 
nians, we tell back along the railroad, throwing out 
skirmishers on both tlankB. This was about 7 P. M. 
Thus we retired slowly, bearing ell' our wounded five 
miles to this point, which we reached at lo o'clock. 
Our loss is five killed, six wounded, nine missing. 
The engineer, when the men left the cars, instead 
of returning slowly as I ordered, detached his engine 
with one passenger car from the disabled train and 
abandoned us, moving to Alexandria, and we have 
heard nothing of him since. Thus we were deprived 
of a rallying point, and of all means of conveying 
the wounded, who had to be carried on litters and 
blankets. We wait here holding the road for rein¬ 
forcements. The enemy did not pursue. 
I have ascertained that the enemy’s force at Fairfax 
Court House, four miles from Vienna, is now about 
4,000. 
When all the enemy’s batteries opened upon us, 
Major Hughey was at his station on the forward plat¬ 
form car. Col. McCook was with me in one of the 
passenger cars. Both of these officers, with others 
of the commissioned officers and many of the men, 
behaved most coolly under this galling lire, which we 
could not return, and from batteries which we could 
not (lank or turn, from the nature of the ground. 
The approach to Vienna in through a deep cut in 
the railroad. In leaving the cars and before they 
could rallv, many of my men lost their haversacks or 
blankets, but brought off all their muskets, except it 
may be a few that were destroyed by the enemy’s first 
fire, or lost with the killed. (Signed) 
Robert C. Sohenck, Brig. Gen. 
This affair created intense excitement at Wash¬ 
ington. No blame is attached to Gen. Schenck, the 
commander of the Federal troopx, for it is stated that 
he acted under the positive orders of Gen. McDowell. 
A considerable force was immediately ordered to hiB 
support, and Vienna was occupied the next day, the 
rebels having retreated, by 6,000 United States troops, 
including Rawsbn’s battery, and Col. Hunter’s regi¬ 
ment of cavalry. 
The people at Vienna say that the South G'oroli- 
nians lost six killed by the return fire of the Ohioans. 
On the 18th the rebels attempted to make a crossing 
at Goose Greek. Having arrived opposite Edward’s 
Ferry in force, estimated by officers in command of 
the guard at from 800 to 900 men, they made use of a 
ferry boat which they bad withdrawn from the Poto¬ 
mac river. Col. Stone had given orders that if any 
attempt was made to move the boat, a tire should be 
opened upon it. In compliance with these orders 
Lieut. Hasbronck fired from liis twelve-pound field 
howitzer a spherical case-shot which burst directly 
in range and covered the boat with a shower of 
bullets and fragments. The effect was excellent. 
The horse of a mounted officer leaped overboard, and 
the boat was rapidly drawn back to shore. Tbe 
enemy then formed in line along the crest of the 
bank, and commenced firing. A few well directed 
spherical case-shots dispersed them and sent them 
flying towards Jjcesbnrg. 
Three hundred Federal troops under Capt. Gard¬ 
ner, of the Pennsylvania 1st Regiment, had a skir¬ 
mish on the 19th, at fjdward’s Ferry, with a consid¬ 
erable force of secessionists. The fight lasted nearly 
three hours, wheH the rebels fled, having had 15 or 
20 killed and wounded. A private in (’apt. Gardner’s 
command was killed and three or four wounded. 
The fight occurred across the river. 
A party of rebels came up tbe Potomac on the 
night of the 20tli, and attempted to fire the Long 
Bridge. They were fired upon by our troops, and 
four or five killed and a number wounded, aud tbe 
balance, 19 in number, taken prisoners, and are now 
at the Arsenal. The rebels were provided with pow¬ 
der and materials to destroy the bridge. 
With the telegraph instrument it has been ascer¬ 
tained that there are about 23,000 troops at Manassas 
Junction, nader command of Gen. Beauregard. They 
are in a condition bordering on starvation. The 
rebels have pressed everything into service that could 
in any way bo useful, and persons objecting to such 
proceedings had their property confiscated, and were 
compelled to fly. Jeff. Davis was at Manassas Junc¬ 
tion cm the 19th inst,. 
A special dispatch to the Tribune on the 19th says: 
In recent conversations Gen. Scott has said not ohly 
that (he evacuation of Harper’s Ferry was in perfect 
conformity with his plans and expectations, but that 
nothing which the rebels have done has interfered in 
the slightest with his grand plan of the campaign, or 
with the several steps which he has proposed to take. 
Everything is in the best condition for an advance on 
Richmond, for which preparations are making. The 
approach of Generals Patterson and McClellan’s col¬ 
umns, and the concentration of troops from the east 
would seem to foretell this. Army officers prophecy 
that a forward movement, hence southwardly, and 
from Fortress Monroe towards Richmond, will begin 
within a fortnight, and when once begun it will not 
bait till the rebel Capitol is taken. It is believed 
that the capture will be made before the day of the 
meeting of the Davis Congress. 
Gen. Butler has issued the following orders: 
JlKAlHiCARTKRS, DEPARTMENT OF ) 
Virginia. June 21. J 
No person will be permitted to visit Fortress Mon¬ 
roe or the camp, through motives of curiosity merely, 
neither will any person having his home or business 
in this department lie permitted to remain here with¬ 
out a special permit from these quarters. 
All persons having business or coming accredited, 
will be permitted to land, but the operations cannot 
be interfered with or demoralized by pleasure seekers. 
The Government line of steamers between Balti¬ 
more and this point are for the use of the Govern¬ 
ment, and not for pleasure travel. 
By command of Major General Butler. 
becanse I would not assume on its behalf to relinquish 
it* duties, and abdicate its rights of protecting loyal 
citizens from tbe oppression and cruelties of the 
secessionists in this State, I published an address 
to the people, in which I declared my intention to 
arm the force under my command for no other pur¬ 
pose than tbe maintenance of the authority of the 
General Government, and the protection of the rights 
of all law abiding citizens. Tbe State authorities, in 
violation of an agreement with Gen. Harney, on the 
21 st of May last, had drawn together and organized 
open a large scale the means of warfare: and having 
made a declaration of war, they abandoned the Capi¬ 
tal, issued orders for the destruction of the Railroad 
and Telegraph lines, snd proceeded to this point to 
put into execution their hostile purposes towards the 
General Government. 
This devolved npon me the necessity of meeting 
this issue to the best of my ability, and accordingly 
1 moved to this point, with a po’rt.ion of the force 
under rny command, attacked and dispersed the hos¬ 
tile forces gathered here by the Governor, and took 
possession of the camp equipage left, and a consid. 
arable number of prisoners, most of them young, and 
Of immature age, who represent that they have been 
misled by frauds ingeniously devised, and industri¬ 
ously circulated by designing leaders, who seek to 
devolve upon unreflecting and deluded followers the 
task of securing the object of their own false ambi¬ 
tion. Out of compassion for these misguided youths, 
and to correct the impressions created by unscrupu¬ 
lous ealumniatore, 1 liberated them npon condition 
thatthey were not to serve In the impending hostili¬ 
ties against the U, $. Government. 
1 have done this in spite of the well known facts 
that the leaders in the present, rebellion, having long 
experienced the mildness of the General Government, 
still feel confident that, this mildness cannot be over¬ 
taxed, even by factions hostilities, having in view' its 
overthrow, hut lest, as in the case of the late Camp 
Jackson affair, this clemency shall still be miscon¬ 
strued, ii fs proper to give warning that the Govern¬ 
ment cannot be asked or expected to indulge in it, 
to the. compromise of its evident welfare. Having 
defined that those plotting against the Government 
have falsely represented that the Government troops 
intended a forcible and violent invasion of Missouri, 
for purposes of military despotism and tyranny. I 
hereby give notice to the people of thiB State that I 
shall scrupulously avoid ail interference with the 
business rights and property of every description 
recognized by the laws of the State and belonging to 
law abiding citizens. But it is equally my duty to 
maintain the paramount authority of the United 
States with such force as I have at my command, 
which will be retained only so long as opposition 
shall make it necessary, and that It is my wish and 
shall be my purpose to Visit any unavoidable vigor 
arising in this issue upon those only who provoke it,. 
All persons who under the misapprehensions above 
mentioned have taken up Brins, or who are now 
preparing to do so, are invited to return to their 
homes and relinquish their hostilities towards the 
Federal Government, and are assured thatthey may 
do so without being molested for past occurrences. 
(Signed) N. Lyon, 
Brig. Gen. U. S, A., Commanding. 
Advices from Kansas City via St. Joseph, give the 
following account, of the engagement near Independ¬ 
ence OU the 20th inst. A detachment of Federal 
troops, under Gapt. Stanly, with a flag of truce, 
visited the Camp to ascertain the purposes of Capt. 
Holloway. During the conference CapL Stanley sus¬ 
pected movements were being made with a design of 
attacking him, and ordered his detachment to retreat. 
While retreating, they were fired on by* State troops 
at the order given by a private, but the fire was so 
irregular thatthey killed their own commander, Capt. 
Holloway and P. B. Clennohan, and severely wounded 
several more of their own men. Capt. Stanley’s men 
did not fire, having received orders' not to do so 
under any circumstances. Capt. S. retreated into 
Kansas City and reported the affair, when Capt. 
Prince with a strong body of troops attacked aud 
routed the State troops, capturing thirty horses. 
Col. Curtis’ 2d Iowa regimeut, learning that the 
rebels at Savannah, Missouri, 30 miles north of St. 
Joseph, had driven out or impressed aU the Union 
men in the town, went there on the 19th inst., with 
400 troops, and after a slight skirmish, in which two 
rebels were killed, put things to rights, disarming 
the rebels and giving their muskets to the Union men. 
The Number of Troops in the West.— A letter 
from Cairo says:—"1 have been to some pains to 
ascertain carefully the number of Union troops now 
under arms in the West. It is as follows: 
Camp at Cairo AoU Village Ridge,. .. 6.000 
The CoDgreseional District Kncampmente in the State, ’ I sisso 
Tlie Arsenal at Si. Louis, under <ien. Lee,.5,S76 
St. Louis, at tbe Six Regimental Head-quarteri,, ’ 0.300 
Three Regiments in lotvu,..... 2,865 
Three Regiments in Wisconsin,.” 2 845 
Jefferson Barracks, St, Louis, (infantry.)__ 1060 
Jefferson Barracks, St. Lome, (Cavalry.). 445 
Indiana troop, now under arms, . ... J. 5 000 
Total within twenty-four hours of Cairo,_37,710 
Of these about 800 are cavalry, 17,000 rifles, 35 
heavy cannon, with 1,500 artillerymen, and the rest 
infantry. These figures do not vary materially from 
the actual facts.” 
Wnr Movements in tint West. 
The Governor of Missouri issued a proclamation 
a short time since, calling for 50,000 State troops for 
the purpose of driving the Federal forces from the 
State. In accordance with tbe spirit of that docu¬ 
ment he established camps, one of which, at Boon- 
ville, he commanded. Gen. Lyon determined to 
break up this camp, and accordingly moved the 
Union forces under his command to a point five miles 
below the encampment of the rebel forces. The 
latter had a battery near Boonvilie, fronting toward 
the river, hut it was circumvented by the U. S. troops 
and proved useless. Gen. Lyon immediately ad¬ 
vanced, and when within a few miles of Boonville be 
was attacked by the State troops, 400 strong, under 
Gol. Little, late of the U. S. Army, who were con¬ 
cealed in thick nndergrowths and wheat fields. After 
a sharp fight the State troops were driven back, and 
their camp at Bacon's farm, three miles below Boon¬ 
ville, on the river, with its equipage, provisions, 
horses, Ac., was taken. 
Just as the U, S. troops approached Boonville, the 
main body of the rebels, who had taken possession 
of the woods, opened a brisk fire upon them. Gen. 
Lyon ordered a retreat, and the rebels, encouraged by 
this movement, rallied and followed the troops into a 
wheat field. General Lyon halted, faced the troops 
about, and bringing bis whole force of artillery to 
bear, opened a murderous fire on the rebels, and the 
balance fled in all directions, leaving their arms on 
the field. Gen. L. then moved forward and took 
possession of Boonville. Gov. Jackson viewed the 
battle from a distant bill, and fled for parts unknown 
after the defeat of his forces. The rebels lost fifty 
men, while the number of the wopnded is very large. 
After the battle, Gen. Lyon issued the following 
proclamation : 
Boonville, June 18, 1801. 
To the People 0/ Missouri : 
Upon leaving St. Louis in consequence of the 
declaration of war, made by the Governor of this 
State against the Government of the United States, 
Aflitir* at Washington. 
Some time ago application was made to the Sec¬ 
retary of AVar to obtain admission, duty free, on 
linen drilling imported tor the use of the cadets and 
military academy, and was refused by him on the 
ground that the policy of the government should be 
to prefer domestic manufacture in all instances of 
purchases tor public service, and to resort to foreign 
markets only tor such as cannot be obtained in this 
country, lhe Secretary of War has pursued a simi¬ 
lar course in reference to the Engineer Department 
tor the admission, free of duty, of 250 tons of gas 
cooking coal, aud 23 tuns of cannel coa], imported 
for the use of the Military Academy. The Secretary 
of War cannot countenance this importation of coal 
by approving of this recommendation. 
The following notice emanated from the State De¬ 
partment on the 20 th inst. : 
Tt is expected that hereafter any passport which 
maybe issued by Diplomatic Agents, accredited to 
this Government, or by any Consular authority what¬ 
ever, either to a person able to proceed beyond the 
lines ol the United States forces, or to a’ foreign 
country, will lie countersiirued by the Secretary of 
Shite. (Signed,) W, H. Sis ward.” 
The Navy Department, on the 21st inst., received 
dispatches from Capt. Rowan, of the steamer Paw¬ 
nee, indosing reports of Lieut. Chaplain, from which 
it appears that the latter, assisted by the tug Reli¬ 
ance, has been profitably cruising opposite to, and in 
the neighborhood of Aquia Creek, on the Maryland 
side, where he seized a large amount of contraband 
provisions consigned to a secessionist, who is now in 
the C. S, A. Army. They were placed on a wood 
schooner that happened to be near and towed to 
Washington Navy Yard. Lieut. Chaplain reconnoi- 
tered at other points, where he and his small party 
drove in some secession mounted pickets. When 
returning, muskets were fired at them, und the com¬ 
pliment was acknowledged by discharge of cannon 
from xhe Reliance. Lieut. Chaplain captured nine 
boats which had evidently been used for the trans¬ 
portation of secessionists over the Potomac, and 
destroyed five of the boats. 
Tbe steamer Mount Vernon has returned from 
Pamunk.v Creek, Maryland, where she seized a sloop 
which had been engaged in transporting secession 
troops from that point to Virginia. The sloop has 
been towed to Washington, aud the sloop men are 
prisoners. 
A dispatch on the 22d states that the steamer Alli¬ 
ance returned from her cruise on the Potomac. 
Lieut. My gat t, her commander, reports that he had 
captured 11 rebel vessels on the river, which were 
endeavoring to supply the enemy with provisions. 
He dealt summarily with them, burning two, sinking 
four, and bringing tbe remainder here as prizes, ne 
also discovered that the rebels are again at work on 
the batteries at Aquia Creek, from which employ¬ 
ment, however, they will soon have formal and im¬ 
perative orders to desist. 
On the 20 th inst there were from 25,000 to 30,000 
troops on the Virginia side within ten miles of the 
Potomac. On this side there were about 20,000 to 
40,000 men under orders to cross at a moment's no¬ 
tice. Should the enemy advance from Fairfax, they 
would not only meet the number of troops firBt 
named, but a flank movement will be made by a force 
of at least 10,000 strong, stationed on the river six 
miles above the city. The federal army will be fully 
30,000, while that of the rebels cannot be more than 
15,000 or 20,000 at the furthest. 
In Alexandria, as well as here, ranch excitement 
prevails, in consequence of citizens of adjoining 
counties arriving at Alexandria almost hourly, some 
by boat and others on foot, to escape being impressed 
into Bervice. Guards are scouting in these counties 
with lists of voters against the ordinance of seces¬ 
sion, and arresting all they can get hold of and 
bringing them to Manassas Junction. Many who 
were escaping were fired on by the closely pursuing 
rebels. The object in arresting these men is to im¬ 
press them into the service against the government. 
Gen. McDowell came to Washington on the 20 th, 
and paid bis respects to Gen. Scott, exhibiting a 
complete map of the land now occupied hy the Fed¬ 
eral forces, showing how easy it would be to capture 
the enemy located within a short distance of the out¬ 
side lincB of Gen. McDowell’s survey, which extends 
into tbe interior ten miles from Arlington Heights, 
and ten miles below Alexandria, and tbe same dis¬ 
tance above the Chain Bridge. Gen. Scott listened 
with all attention, and when General McDowell had 
concluded and desired permission to advance and 
make an attack in order to wipe out the disgrace of 
the late blunders, Gen. Scott sat quietly back in his 
chair and responded, "No, sir—No, sir—No!” 
Judge Dunlap has given an opinion in the case of 
the schooner Tropic Wand. A libel has been filed in 
the District Court of the District of Columbia, by the 
United StateB, by the captors to condemn that vessel 
as appraised, and her cargo, valued at $ 22 , 000 , for 
violating the blockade of the ports of Virginia. Tbe 
Court in reply to the respondent says the blockade 
being one of right to a state of war, and the Presi¬ 
dent, having in eubstancc arrested civil war, is of the 
opinion that the blockade was lawfully proclaimed 
by the President. As to the next question; w hen the 
bill of tbe blockade became effective, the Court says 
notice actual or constructive will do, and there does 
not appear in the cause any evidence to show that 
the United States Government agreed to relax the 
law of the blockade so as to allow British vessels to 
load and come out of port after the knowledge 
of an effective blockade was brought home to 
them. It is also oliered in evidence that the master 
said that he heard in Richmond of the blockade 
being effective before he began to load his cargo, 
and was informed that it commenced on the twenty - 
second of May. 
A dispatch from Harper's Ferry to Washington 
says three thousand C. S. A. troops arrived at the 
Ferry on the 21st, and completed the work of destruc¬ 
tion, burnt the rifle factory and Shenandoah bridge, 
and ran a large llrsbclass locomotive, that was left on 
the track, off' the abutment of the bridge, into the 
river. They said they were instructed to blow up 
every house in town on which a Union flag should be 
found. Fortunately there were none. Thev com¬ 
menced to arrest all the Union men, and succeeded 
in securing eleven, whom they took off'. The balance, 
about fifty iu number, they pursued to tbe river, 
which they swum across to the Maryland shore. 
They fired at them in the water, but all escaped 
without a wouud, though two of them had balls pass 
through their hats. The government should send 
protection to the unfortunate people as soon as prac¬ 
ticable. They took with them all the gun stocks, to 
the number of 50,000. that were in the rebel factory. 
Additional measures arc to be consummated before 
awarding contracts for building the gun boats under 
the recent advertisement of the Navy Department. 
A circular hits been prepared, a copy to be sent to 
each of the 200 bidders, proposing to give $50,000 for 
a gun boat constructed iu 70 days, $54,000 if in 90 
days, and $52,000 if in 105; the entire number of the 
boats being 25 of the class denominated. If tbe ac¬ 
ceptors exceed this number, then they are to draw 
lots or otherwise decide as to whom the contracts 
shall be awarded. 
We give the following correspondence from the 
N. V. World for what it is worth, stating, however, 
that rumors of the same character have been preva¬ 
lent for some days. The writer says: 
I well know that the readers of the World will 
believe that the rebels are frightened, and that they 
are most anxions to make terms with the parent 
government, aud 1 am fully prepared for their aston¬ 
ishment when they read that their Commissioners 
are in Washington. » 
It Beems that Jefferson Davis having become thor¬ 
oughly frightened, baB, in a semi-official manner, 
made overtures to our Government. When his Com¬ 
missioners reached the Capital, they were desired to 
state their case, and to tell what they wished. They 
submitted two propositions: 
Pirst, That the United States unconditionally 
recognize tbe existence of the Southern Confed¬ 
eracy. and that the latter be permitted for a term of 
one, two, or three years, to carry on their govern¬ 
ment as an experiment. That the expense of the 
war, thus far Incurred, be equitably arranged between 
the two sections, and that each do its best for the 
maintenance of friendly feeling and intercourse 
between the two peoples. Aud that if, at the expi¬ 
ration of the time agreed upon, it be found that 
the experiment cannot succeed, a commission be 
appointed to reconstruct a Union. 
This proposition was peremptorily rejected, where¬ 
upon they modestly put forth another, as follows: 
Second., The South will be conteut if the Govern¬ 
ment will pledge itself to pass, at the coming session 
tary of State, and, therefore, will meet with favor 
from the President. Between the two I cannot decide, 
Mr. Davis says that his retreat from Harpers Ferry 
was a stroke of peaceful policy. He had troops 
enough there to withstand any force which General 
Scott was prepared to bring against him, and it was 
not becanse he feared the result of an engagement at 
that time, but because he knew that he had no force 
with which to meet what might subsequently be sent 
against him. The Secession Government now rests 
on a hope —that hope once swallowed np in a disas¬ 
trous defeat npon the battle field would prove the 
destruction of what it now sustains. He is sensible 
of the fact, that if once defeated, there would rise 
a tide of popular indignation against him and his 
co-workers that they could in no way withstand, 
and ignominious flight or ignominious death would 
be the lot of one and all. 
T rivate letters by the Africa, from a high source, 
state most positively that a large number of priva¬ 
teers are being fitted out in England for the Southern 
rebels. It is reliably reported that several had already 
left, and were on their way to this conntry. The at¬ 
tention of our Minister has been directed to this mat¬ 
ter by American residents in London, who have urged 
him to bring it to the notice of the ministry and have 
it thoroughly investigated. 
Advices received from Fort Pickens to the 10 th, 
state that, there was no change in the military status. 
Active operations were kept np on both sides. Col. 
Brown had entirely completed bis means of defence. 
The fort is in the best possible condition, and no 
fears entertained. The rebel force under General 
Bragg is still very large, notwithstanding a portion 
ot them have been detailed for service at some other 
point. 
Secretary Seward gives notlee that hereafter pass¬ 
ports to leave the country or to pass within the lines 
ot the rebellion signed by foreign Ministers or Con¬ 
suls will not be good unless countersigned by the 
Stale Department. 
Gen. Walbridge states that the Governors of all the 
States have responded to hiB letters inquiring wheth¬ 
er they were in favor of a vigorous prosecution of the 
war. They are as a unit in declaring that they are 
ready with men and money to bring the war to an 
end. 
Reports from Washington say that the army will be 
doubled as soon as possible. Secretary Wells will 
recommend his appropriations for building more war 
vessels. The President will call for at least 300,000 
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 rebel¬ 
lion, and in the judgment of the President it should 
be suspended. The suspension of course being tem¬ 
porary. 
flpifit of the Hour. 
The necessities of the war are making swords 
out of plowshares. The Illinois State Agricultural 
Society have offered premiums for cannon, muskets, 
rifles, carbines, pistols, fowling pieces, powder, shot, 
shell, gun carriages and ambulances. These prizes 
are in addition to the regular premiums offered 
annually. 
The most intense secession papers in the most 
intensely-secesslon part of Kentucky — the Paduca 
Herald, Columbus Crescent, and Hickman Courier— 
have all ceased to exist within a week. 
The English bankers are alarmod at the large 
indebtedness of their country to the United States. 
The amount of specie remitted ns since the 28th of 
November last, has reached the enormous sum of 
twenty-nine million dollars. The Daily News admits 
that America " holds the strings of the specie move¬ 
ment in its hands.” 
The schooner Savannah, a privateer in charge of 
Midshipman Cook, arrived at New York Tuesday 
week, with Stars und Stripes floating in triumph 
over secession rags, captured by the brig Perry 60 
miles off Charleston! She had taken the brig George 
F. Rockland and sent her into Georgetown, South 
Carolina. She was formerly a pilot-boat, and carries 
18-pouniler pivot guns amidships. Her crew of thirty 
were put in irons and transferred to the frigate Min¬ 
nesota. 
Saturday last, says the Louisville Journal of the 
17th inst., was a glorious day for the good people of 
Kentucky and Indiana. A Union barbecue was given 
by the people of Oldham county to the citizens of 
Clarke county, Indiana. It is estimated that at least 
5,000 people were present, and the ladies from the 
two States were present to the number of 1,000. 
The best feeling prevailed, and throughout the vast 
assemblage the Union sentiment was uppermost. 
The people resolved to stand by each other and by 
the Union and the Constitution of their country. 
The bids for the Pennsylvania State loan to the 
amouut of $3,000,000, were opened in Philadelphia 
on the 15th inst. More than a sufficient amount was 
taken at par. To the honor of the bidders it may be 
stated that but $1,400 were bid for at less than par. 
Much gratification is expressed here at the liberality 
and patriotism which induced capitalists of all par¬ 
ties to sustain the Government so triumphantly. 
The Frankfort (Ky.) Commonwealth says that the 
aggregate vote for delegates to the Border State Con¬ 
vention is 107,334. There are no returns from the 
counties of Ballard, Hickman, Marshall, Simpson 
and Woodford. The total vote of Kentucky at the 
last Presidential election was 140,216. Notwithstand¬ 
ing no Union votes are counted from five counties, 
and that many precincts were not opened, the Union 
majority is 69,452. It iB safe to say that tbiB State 
is for Union by 80,000 majority. That will do. 
General Scott was heard to say that he would 
have captured the rebels at Harper’s Ferry, aud all 
their munitions of war, had it not been for tbe news¬ 
paper press (in their anxiety to give early news) 
keeping the rebels fully posted in every movement 
of the United States troops. He said he would rather 
have one hundred rebel spies in his camp than erne news- 
pttper reporterl 
Parson Brownlow, of theKnoxville (Tenn.) Whig, 
says:—" We are going to stay in Knoxville, and no 
where else, and when we remove from the dwelling 
of Congress, an irreparable constitutional provision that we own and occupy, it will be to the cemetery 
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recognizing and legalizing forever the institution of 
slavery below thirty-six thirty, which is the southern 
boundary line of the State of Missouri. This done, 
the Southern Provisional Government pledges itself 
instantly to abandon the war, and to re-establish 
peace and the most cordial relationship, so far as its 
section is concerned; to re-direct the course of trade 
into its accustomed channels, and iu every way 
restore the happy days of our forefathers. 
As to the reception which this proposition received, 
my informant was positive, though from another 
source I gather a doubt. He states that it, also, was 
peremptorily rejected. It seemed to the party of the 
second part a mere intensification of the Crittenden 
amendment, and not varying greatly from the Adams 
jiropoBition. Others say that the acceptance of this 
proposition would not be unacceptable to the Secre- 
in this vicinity. Aud as to the paper, we shall edit 
and publish it until our office is destroyed or our 
windpipe is cut!” 
The Albany Journal says that emperor, or general, 
whoever he was, who advised the hanging of dis¬ 
honest army contractors, showed both his wisdom 
and his humanity. The contractor or quartermaster 
who robs the soldier, either in clothes or rations, is 
the worst kind of an enemy. This has been done 
already to a disgraceful extent. Clothes have been 
made of worthless materials. Knapsacks are made 
of such wretched stuff as to fall to pieces the first 
time they are exposed to rain. Soldiers thus clothed 
and equipped are not only wronged, bat are unlit fur 
the duties required of them. 
