....g......1):...i . .............•..V,:... : t...:..i .. .1 . ................ M9NDAY, MAY 6. 1861 Foreverffleat that standard sheet I. Where breathes the foe but tail• before nst With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner waving o'er us: .FIE3T Paw; —Patriotic Poetry; Important terview with the President; Astounding Develop. meats: The cities of New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, all to be Earned; Letter from President Lincoln. FOMPTI PAGE—Affairs the South; The Spaniels Acquisition of St. Domingo In Bog land; Marine Intelligence. The Letter of John Minor Botts. it is a difficult thing for us to imagine the troubles which surround a friend of the Union In the seceded or doubtful slave States. We know what human nature is here in the North, and the same sentiments and feelings prevail in the South. To go with majorities is but to float down the stream in the arms of a heavy current; minorities exact from their followers privations, calumny, and sometimes death. We believe that a majority of the inhabitants of thirteen or fourteen States of the Union are angry, belligerent, and unreasonable Seces sionists. This state cf feeling is unnatural. The pulse of a man in a high fever is not a sign of health, nor are these indications the re flex of true public sentiment. Communities are very seldom ruled by reason. Revolutionary leaders are not generally men of caution, sa gacity, or mature convictions, for few revoln- tions progress very far without swamping the leaders and drifting the followers into anarchy. Lord hiscsur.sy, in speaking of the Reforma tion of England, showed what strange pro blems even religions revolutions present. Daring the twelve or thirteen years which followed the death of ERNRY the Eighth the religion of the State was thrice changed. Protestantism was established by EDWARD; the Catholic Church was restored by Mem; Protestantism was again established by Mans ura. The faith of the nation seemed to depend on the personal inclinations of the sovereign. In the present century, we find the French nation changing from Bonapartism to Bonrhonism, from - Bourhonism to Republi canism, and from Republicanism to Bona partism, with marvellous The changes of sentiment have been quite as rapid in the pending American Revolution. Mr. l'an ocy journeyed last anmmer from New Orleans to Boston, protesting that he was the most faithful of Union men, and we find him now at a 'European Court asking to be recog nized as a sucecsshil rebel. Mr. STRPHENS made Union speeches in Georgia which were applauded over the whole nation, and yet before the trees, which were then leafless, have seen their first blossoms, he is the second officer in a treasonable confederasy. We cannot believe that these sudden changes of sentiment are sincere, for the late troubles in Maryland, and the infamous agencies which produced them, prove too clearly the motives which influenced a great majority of those who have been favorable to the Union, and the system of terror which mobs may estab lish. It is this very system of terror which has driven hundreds of thousands of Union men into the ranks of Secession. A man is not apt to proclaim opinions which may bring the faggot to his home, or send him an exile into a strange land. As a general thing, it is not in human nature to yield personal com fort for opinion—and human nature, knowing this weakness, has canonized the exceptions to the rule as martyrs, and almost worships them as divinities. We have been led into this train of reflection by reading the recent letter of Jonx M. Barra, of Virginia, to Attorney-General BATES. For Hr. Barra we have a great respect. He has been a bold, earnest, and sincere Man. Living in a section, he has lived above the prejudices of a section, neither temporizing nor paltering in his allegiance to an undividea ure.m. Open, even ostentatious in his professions of devotion to the Constitution, he, of all men, was the last to assume a doubtful or treasona ble position in the crisis of his country, and, accordingly, when he comes before that even try with an expression of his views, we have a right to expect from bim comfort and approval for those throughout the South who stand in the perilous position of loyalty. The letter of Mr. BOTTS is dated in Rich mond, on the 19th of April, a few days after the outrage at Fort Sumpter and the issuing of President Loom's proclamation. Its writer tells us that the call of the President for volutn• tears to sustain him in the execution of his oath "was the most unfortunate document that ever issued from a Government ;" that "with it, the Union party and the Union feel ing has been entirely swept out of existence," and that nearly every Man is inflamed " with a passion for war." He thinks this contest can only, end in the establishment of a "hateful, loathsome, military despotism," had paints us a graphic piCtine of the inevitable horrors of civil war. He proposes "a truce to hostili ties, and the immediate assembling of a Na tional Convention to recognize the independ ence of such of the States as desire to withdraw from the Union, and make the experiment of a separate Government" As for himself, Mr. Born says he could not willingly take up arms against the Government, and that he will never raise his band against his native State. We have read this letter of Mr. Borrs with sorrow. It does not even allude to one of the questions which we of the North consider vital in V 313 issue. The Union of Mr. Bons is but a simple matter of convenience—Go vernment is only a name, and treason a mere disagreement of opinion. He asks us to as semble a National Convention—a proposition which the South has spurned. We of the Nialleh can never enter a National Convention which sits beneath a dishonored flag, nor with those who have trailed it with impunity through the dust of Charleston. The day for a National Convention has passed, and we must know whether we have really a Govern ment before it returns. A truce to hostilities is certainly a very humane proposition, but Mr. BOTTS should have sent it to " Attorney General" Benrasate instead of Attorney Ge neral Blass. The Government permitted a truce from November to April, and in doing so almost lost the capital ; and if President LINCOLN accepted the advice of Mr. BOTTS, and commanded a cessation of hostilities, we think Mr. DAVIS would answer it by bom barding the White House from Arlington Heights. To propose a trace would be to surrender, and no one knows this better than the distinguished. Virginian. Mr. Burrs gives* ns a deplorable picture of civil war and its attendant horrors. We ad roit the truth of the details, and, perhaps, feel as deeply as he does its misery and woe. But we think we cats paint him a more terrible spectacle than that which covers his canvas. We can sbow him a flag disgraced by treach ery, the constituted authorities of the land fleeing from the capital, and traitors entering it in triumph ; a constitution so altered as to be offensive to every feeling of liberty; pirates swarming the seas, and bandits menacing every frontier ; slavery overflowing Mason and Dixon's line, and flooding Independence Hall; patriotism treason, and treason power; a country degraded in the eyes of the world, no a citizenship which is only a badge of shame; the memories of :16 cancelled by the infamies of '6l, and the teachings of our fathers superseded by the foolishness and sin of their children. This is what Mr. J-RPFRIZSON Davis mks us to receive in return for the sarrender of our national self-respect, and as the alter native, Mr. Bens points beseechingly to civil war, and speaks in mournful tones of streets running with blood, dwellings levelled with the earth, fields laying waste, hearthstones desolate, and nothing gained! We dissent from this conclusion, for we have every thing to gain. We have to preserve this Union, =abstain the integrity of the republic, and in. sure the enjoyment of perfect liberty. When Mr. BOTTs says of Virginia " her arm haa ever been against me and Mine," he closes the argument. We tell him that before this contest is over, the arm of Virginia, or of any State, will be powerless to injure a citi zen of the United States, wherever his birth place, and whatever bin opinion. Treason must not only be quelled, but exterminated. The test of true greatness is as uncertain as the tides of the sea. We walk over the bench in the morning and sail over it at , night. The statesman of the placid past is lost amid the partisans of the stormy present. We are now going through the moat fearful trial of our history, and the'nation expects her great men to be equal to its perils. yew have realized the standard, and among the many who have been tried am* found Wanting) we are reluct /rely compelled to place ,Jous Minos. Borrs. He is welcome to our sympathies, bat this is no time for emotion. We listen to his re quest, that he may be accorded the privilege of retiring to some secluded spot, where he can live in peace, and mourn the downfall of the best Government with which man ever was blessed, with a sensation of relief, and only wish that all who think like him would follow the example. If it were a mere ques tion of personal feeling or private welfare, if it only concerned his peace or that of his family, we might listen to his recital of sorrow attentively, but when the nation calls for her children to do the part of children, it is no time for tears —not even over the woes of Dir. BOTTS. We speak thus of Mr. BOTTS in a spirit of the most perfect Mildness. We know the ter rible trial be must have undergone as a 'Union man in Virginia; we know how seductive Se cession must be to ambition; we know the road to treason is broad and crowded with travellers, while that to patriotism is straight and narrow, with few, indeed, who find it. He who cannot undergo even these privations for the privilege of living under this most blessed and noble Government is unequal to the exigency of the hour. It is idle to speak of compromise. So long as such a thing was practicable, the course of this 4 ournal was clearly and unmistakably in favor of it. But now, in view of the events which are develop ing themselves, conciliation is cowardice and concession a crime. We tendered the olive branch, but it was stricken from our hands by the sword. We sent forth the dove of peace from the ark of the Constitution, but it came back battering and panting, for treason was over the land and it could find no rest. The issue is plain, our duty unmistakable, and no true citizen will hesitate in accepting the one and Performing the other. Serves it MOW We hitely mentioned the fact that ever since that reprobate print, BENNETT'S Herald, had "turned its back upon itself," (to, use CAS TLEREAGH'S memorable words respecting a turn coat,) and pretended to be a sudden convert from Secession to Union principles, New York had repudiated it, as was shown by the failing oil' in its advertiSements. The other day, it raised the price of its Sunday edition from two to Three cents a copy, candidly confessing cc the addition is of considerable importance to us, in view of the enormous arranges we shall incur during the war for expresses, telegraphic despatches and messengers." The fact is, the falling off of its advertisements has greatly di. I minished the profits of that most disreputable print, and the mendacious boast of its circula tion now being one hundred and fifty thousand a day, which it lately made, with a prayer that advertisers would therefore continue their pa tronage, has been most unproductive- Time was, and not very distant, when, the Herald's great day being Saturday, it would publish a supplement, making seventy-two columns in all, fifty of which, and sometimes even more, would be filled with advertise- Ment& There is more news now than ever, but the Herald of Saturday last has no supple ment, and, not counting in the Post Office List of Uncalled-for Letters, there are less than eighteen columns of advertisements in that whole number, out of forty-eight columns which it contains. This is a significant de cline, which shows how entirely the Herald has gone down in New York since it took to preaching up Treason, and then suddenly veered round, from fear and for interest. Withdrawal of southern Patronage. The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin of April 25th imparts to all Southern merchants the advice, under no circumstances hereafter to send any more orders for work or merchan dise to the North. It says; What we can not make at home, or obtain elsewhere, let us patriotically do without." WO Call to Mind an ancedete which ? in this connection, may prove of Interest to our ami able Southern cotempomry. A clergyman was in the habit of dealing with a slaughterer named Pam no uau a ucaxv servaavy,,u., generally attended to the marketing. Ono Sabbath morning, as the clergyman was en gaged in expounding Scripture to his congre. gation, at a given point he elevated his arm and exclaimed with much vehemence, 6 t Breth ren, what says Paula" of course, meaning the Apostle. The negro servant being in the church, and supposing the question addressed to him, vociferated at the top of his voice : "Massa, Eon says you can't have any more meat until you pay up de old score." Before our Southern patrons threaten so loudly as to the withdrawal of their custom, the moral of this incident is commended to their respectful attention. It would be well first to re pay up fits old sears." MANY nurrspArzas, either from malicious or mischievous motives, are circulating reports relative to a diversity 01 sentiment among the members of Mr. larroorar's Cabinet. These reporta can only produce bad effect among the people. A united nation expects a united Administration, and hesitation among those who lead must be speedily followed by the demoralization of those who follow. The As sociated Pfess furnishes us with a statement from the highest authority denying that any differences exist between the advisers of the President. They are a unit in defence of the honor of the country, and in this they are pa triotically sustained by General SCOTT. News paper stories about the Cabinet of Mr. Lm. cots should not be relied upon. The counsels of the Cabinet are confidentially kept, and may be known only by the acts of the Govern ment. Tux riEWSPAPERS having circulated nume rous reports affecting the loyalty of General Hartuar, that officer has published to the world a bold and manly letter donning his position. He declares that he has followed the flag of the Union for forty years, and that he will serve the Government which has oheriebed and honored him as long as he draws breath. Secession he deems to be universal anarchy, and regarding such a course as full of danger to Mhwouri, he implores his fellow-citizens of that state to Sustain the union. The words of this veteran soldier will be gladly read by every patriot in the land. THOIIBAND3 of the young men from the farming districts are to-day under arms. The withdrawal of so much productive labor will certainly be felt in the coming harvests, unless those who remain at home use extra diligence. The indications are that Europe will ask a great part of her supply of breadstuffs from America, especially in the event of a war on the continent. Every available acre should be planted with corn, as every bushel of It will be needed. While the young men carry the musket, let the old men wield the hoe. Military Tactics,. ICrso & BAran, 607 Sansom street, have just published an excellent work, small in compass and low in price, called the Vo lunteer's Manual, by Lieut. Col. D. W. C. BAXTER, of the Second Regiment of National Guards, now in the service of the United States. It has over one hundred engravings, iiinstratinm the different positions in the facings and manual of arms, and the loadings and firings, arranged according to Scorr's tactics. Col. Baxrza, who has been the mi. litary instructor of the National Guards, is fully competent for the authorship of this Manual. We rarely mention the price of books, but for public information, and be- MUM KING & BAIRD advertise with us, we add that it can be purchased from them, and from all booksellers, at 26' canto in paper, and 38 cents in flexible cloth. The latter is what we particularly recommend, from its dura bility. SsoCKS AN RaIL EIitATIL—TWO taiga to•mor• row at the Exabange, at 12 o'clock noon and Th In the evening. The diet comprising a valuable am, oonntry seats, and city property. In the evening sale are 19 properties, including handsome residences, plaladwellings, the whole nine teen to be sold peremptorily by order of assignee. Bee Thomas it Sons' pamphlet catalogues and ad vertieements. They ma Mocks and real estate regularly every week at the Exottaugo. BALK or A STOUR or FIRM LIQUORS.— 8430 Thomas it Bons' advertisements, auction head. WASIELNOTON CORRESPONDENCE. Letters from " thceasional.” iciorreenorutenee or The r relo o WAsnnilTOff, May 3,1881. I regret to hear from friends at home that so many of our patriotic merchants are suffering the effects of Southern repudiation, and are compelled to Suspend husineM in consequence of the faithless oonduot of their "seceding ' creditors. Thus, day atter day, new burdens are heaped upon the people of the free States, and new out rages committed upon the Government by the mon who have taken up arms in order that a shameless rebellion may be made aneeeesful, and a brave and unoffending people ruined. There Is, how ever, this consolation to those who find their beakless destroyed- by the usurpers and conspira tors of the Cotton States : They go down for no errors of their own; they have provoked none of the teen who rejoioe In their bankruptoy. Their eaorifiee Is one for their country; and as sure as God reigns. the time will soon some when, in the order of hie Providence, and through the operation of that stern logio wbioh avenges crime and vindicates patriotism, they will be amply indemnified. When the Government is Seenrely established upon the foundation of perfect power to enforce all its edicts, then will commerce and agriculture and menu features revive, and those now so ready to yield everything to the defence of their flag, and to en dure the most terrible calamities without mur muring, will start out upon a new race of prosperity. It cannot be that snob a people and snob a Union are to he utterly destroyed by a nest of rebels, whose motto has now become that of the pirate, with his black flag, going forth to rob, to pillage, and to murder. It did not, however, need this new revelation of the purposes of that por tion of the South that is walled to se6Clattoti to nerve the Administration to the full performance of its duty. If there has been conciliation and indulgence heretofore, the awful charaoter of the responsibility devolved upon our rear§ to put down treason, bee converted every member of the Cabinet into a hero. The President, calm in his integrity, resolved in the conviction that he is wholly right, and keenl7 alive to the public senti ment so jealously watching and so eagerly wait ing for the most aggressive retaliation, will not look back, but follow the line marked out before him by the Constitution, and made bright by the connects of the illuatrions dead. The Northern people must therefore be patient. There are many things in progress by their public eervents that cannot be made known without aiding thecommon enemy. Let us confide in the Administration, and, above all, let us bear in mind that every cen sure, and criticism, and doubt, and attach upon our public agents, le eagerly copied in the South, and held up as the proof that we are not satisfied with those to whom we have confided our dearest interests. hiuoli has been done since the 15th of April ; more, indeed, than any government on the face of tilt earth has ever accompliehed in the mime Woe of time. One instance will establish the truth of this allegation. Maryland, through her Secession organs and orators, repeatedly threatened to go out of the Union if Virginia did. It is known that the Mount:inlets had completely oaptared the city and a large Por tion of the State, and yet, the moment the Ad ministration assorted its authority In Maryland, 'the conspirators bid their heads and cried aloud for peace. Had James Buchanan applied the same remedy at an earlier day to South Carolina, by anticipating the plans of her Disunion chiefs, South Carolina would have gone on her knees end begged for quarter. We should have retained possession of all our forte in Charleston harbor, and thus been spared alike the Surrender of Bump. ter and, the recapture of , our public property there and in other Southern cities. The men who excited the public mind in Maryland, and set Loose the mob , in Baltimore, are now eneestvely clamorous for peace, and the Baltimore Sun is making a strong point upon a letter of President Lincoln, in which he said that he " would make no point of bringing the troops through Beni more," and that General Scott had soured a com mittee from that city " that these troops should be =retied around Baltimore, and not through it." But the Sun, and those who 00-operate with it, felled to state how ear troops were received when they attempted to go around Baltimore, and how they were compelled to retire from Cookeysville, and almost left starving on the bare ground, and hew they were threatened when they attempted to land at Annapolis, and after landing were delayed and embarrassed in every wretched and miserable way. Of course that veracious newspaper conceals the fact that after President Lincoln wrote to Gov. Hicks and Mayor Brown the letter from which I have extracted, which they induced him to write by pledging their faith as Union men that the troops would not be assailed If they avoided Balti more, this very Goy, Hicks threatened them if they attempted to reach Annapolis, But I may be asked, by a Secessionist, why should the troops and mails pass through Baltimore. The answer is, that a Government thus insulted and betrayed and trifled with can no longer poetpene the enemies of its highest deities, to gratify a brutal mob on the one band or to pro tect timid offioials on the other. General Soott believes the necessity of opening the wey threugh Baltimore to be so great, in view of resent events, and the dangers thickening around us, as to make ii a primary oonsideiation. When the conflict estween ppm,. meat stretches forth its arm to reoover the pro perty it has lost, what faith can be reposed in Governor Hicks that, unless we are in a con anion to carry our troops through Baltimore, he and Mayor Brown may not combine to lead the mob front which they tied before, and to place on the main road to the capital an army of infuriated demons, entrenched in a city ready to take human life, and to lend abroad assistance by land or sea to the Virginia conspira tors, on the one band, or to those in the more re mote States? If Beltimore does not allow the troops to pass, then. Baltimore must be subdued and held. There Is another reason why the great highway between our Northern Atlantic cities and the seat of the Federal Government should be kept free and 'dear, and that la tho necessity of en couraging the Union men in Baltimore and the interior of Maryland, who at last begin to speak out for the Government, now that they find the Government putting forth its energies. The dread point of danger will be at hand the moment we begin to talk of peace with the con spirators. I perceive that Mr. Jefferson Davis, in his last message to his mock Congress, sings the song of peace, and proposes to lay down the sword If no aggression is committed upon him and Ms precious crew. Why does not Mr. Davis, like a true historian, frankly tell the world that all the war mede thus far has been made by himself, and all the aggrettious have oome from him and Me abettors? There can be to peace between the Southern Confederaoy and the Federal Govern ment until the former completely surrenders to the latter. He himself, with Mr. Stephens and Mr. Cobb, has declared against mon• etruction, announced his purpose never to re turn to his allegiance, and has followed these sig nificant indloationa not alone by formidable mili tary preparations, but by seizing upon property belonging to the whole people, and by firing upon the flag and attacking the troops of the United States. There can be no treaty with men occupy_ ing such a position. The thing has passed out or the hands of diplomats and now rote with the regular army. M I have said before, it mast be Abraham Lincoln and hie Government or Jeff. Davis and his . Ido not understand the Adminis. tratlon as intending a raid into the Southern States. Their purpose and their policy is nearly as follows: They will demand the restoration of Harperle Rory to tbe Government, and if my late information is aurae, Gov. Leteher will not resist this ; they will demand the return of our forts and public property in Charleston, and if this Is refused they will at teak that city. They will make a similar demand upon the Louisiana authorities, upon the Georgia suthorities, upon the Alabama authorities, and upon the authorities of Florida and Texas ;. and if this demand Ii refused, they will then proceed to take, reeepture, and occupy this property. The ports of the seceded States will be blockaded, as, indeed, they are already blockaded. A merciless warfare Will be waged against all privateers detected In an atteok upon our mercantile marine, and foreign Governmente have already been notified that they must not reoognize the Southern Confederacy. This netifiaation was sent out about the middle of Marsh, and was borne by Hon. Henry Sandford, our new Minister to Brussels. If Mr. Davie wants peaoe, he can have it upon these terms and none others. OCCASIONAL. The Preeidenths new call for additional troops and Bailors, for a new army and navy, foreshadowed In one of my late letters, ie printed to-day by order. This is an earnest of what is going on In the. Administration. There ought not to be the slightest hesitation in responding to the call of the Government, and there will not be. The conduct of the Seceasionisto has been a com pound of Impudence and intimidation. They die hard all over the South, and especially in Mary land. In order to arrest the reaction in that State wilt* has began in Baltimore, they have appoint ed, or are about to appoint, a despotic committee or directory, after the model of that of the French lievolatlon, which is to control everything In law and police, and override the Governor himself. But this will not euthee, nor will it be submitted to. They will be unhorsed is whatever they may attempt. Their eornmiationere, notorious Seems ilonists, (a new dodge) ate now here to ask Mr. Linooln what be intends to do with Maryland, and whether an arrangement can be effected, by which hereafter peace may be had between the General Government and Maryland. 1 hope. he will cause them to be politely bowed out of his presence. The insufferable vanity and arrogance of these men deaerve precisely such a response. Major Robert Anderson is closeted with the Se cretary of War as I write, and bee been welcomed by the President with dietinguished favor. lie deserves all the honors that can be conferred upon bim. The cold and continuous rein of yesterday and last night and this morning is about giving way to a glorious sansidne. The Oeyenth Iteement, in their tents, near Meridian Rill, must have had a most unpleasant day and night of it; and not be- 'THE PRESS.--PHELADELPHIA., MONDAY, MAY 6, 1861. Authenticated statements reach Washington daily of persona being 4polidy driven out of the State of Virginia without having time allowed to them to dispose of their property. The owe are numerous. It is not probably done by direct order of the authorities, but no steps have been taken to prevent these cruelties; and it does not alter the condition with these unfortunate exUes, whether they are &read from their homes by order of the :governor or through the frenzy of mob violence. Gen. Patterson's Orders. Gen. PARTIIt SON ordere to the troops have beim wen revirlreillere - here. who ave b always oerefully leaded, kept dry, and fit for instant action." Removals...Resignations...Appoint- W. C. RIDDALL, Of Virginia, third-Glarus clerk, State Department; T. H. Meninx, of Loulsiane r , second olase clerk, register's office; R. B. Baows, clerk, office of Secretary of Treasury, have been removed. Dr. R. W. Yousa, Virginia, fourth• dace clerk, State Department; W. C. Lincoln. Virginia, third-class clerk, sixth auditor's office; and T. C. Crams, Kentucky, second-class clerk, third auditor's office, have resigned. B. F. Farr. FOBD, Ohio; C. A. Warman, Michigan ; and EMMY A. Minn, Pennsylvania, have been appointed clerks in the State Department. Cruising on the Potomac. The Government have sent tho ateamers Batt, more and Mount Vernon down the river on a cruise to reconnoitre its banks. They carry, as freight, several boxes of Sharp's rifles, and three or four thousand ehargte of finsd ammunition. Each steamer carries a thirty-two-pounder and a quantity of shed and shell. Appointments in the Navy Yard. H. H. BLAND, water founder; Hamm FORREST, master joiner; Jong H. PEARS, muter painter; JAMES BROWN, master blacksmith ; W. E. HUTCH MESON, master -plumber; MCNALLY, saperin• tendent copper rolling mills; B. IdcHattar, mu ter patternmaker. The Advance or Cameron Regiment. The Reid *Ewers of this new regiment eleoted yesterday are as fellows : BEERY L. CAKE, of sehnylkill county, Colonel ; Captain Siinunixari, of the Lewistown Logan Guards, lieutenant cola ml ; and HOD. JAs. It. CAMMULL, BOpitSOUttaiVe in Congress from the Schuylkill district, major. Private PSAIISOIC, of the Reading Ringgold Artil lery, will probably be chotart adjutant of the regi ment. The Secretary of War and the Penn sylvanta Troops. amid his multifarious duties, the Seoretary of War does not forget the eoniforts of his arm State. lie visited the Fifth Regiment now quartered in the Inauguration ball.room, in company with an officer of the army, and did all in his power to alleviate the inconvenieneea of which they justly complain. We learn that E. T. D. Mynas, late sating Chief Engineer of the Washington Aqueduct, who re signed hie post to join the Confederate forces, has been put In charge of the oenstrustion of defames at Norfolk. A speoial telegraph line has been ereoted very recently, leading frgin this city to the ohein bridge, aonneoting with the picket giard station there. The whole thing was the work of a few hours. The Secretary of the Navy has made the !follow ing appointments for the Navy Yard at Phila delphia: .Tosurn L. Noway, inspector of Umber; JOHN G. Sruzcamta, master machinist ; THOMAS Damson, master carpenter ; JAMIES PALEY, mu ter laborer; •TOBLUI PASCOD, master plumber ; Entrann SIMPSON, master caulker ;W. R. RICH- Anna, master blookmaker ; Pnzur STAHL, master blacksmith; J. J. CLOTH/ER, master srar•maker; Warms V. RILL, master boatbuilder ; Jamas Surrataosabs, clerk of the yard ; jaunt Bar Loon, muter joiner ; Denim. Don, 40okt:ester. WASHINOTOtt, Moly 4 The Pennsylvania troops from Reading, Potts vMe, Lewistown, and Allentown ) watt were first in the field, occupy their original qtarters in the south wing of the Capitol. They live all been armed and equipped as infantry, gni are out in the Capitol grounds every day for dill, displaying marked improvement. georetery Qiiinnon at first decided that no volunteers should In received ex cept as infantry or riflemen, stereupon the 4, Ringgold Flying - Artillery," of. Reading, pa triotically left their *rumen, and buttoned thither to serve as infantry. Last of Visitors to Wed, point. 1. John J. Crittenden, Frankfo:t, Ky. 2. Andrew Johnson, Greeriville`Tenn. S. Edward D. Bell, Belem, Organ. 4. Jelin M. Botts, Richmond, re, 5. David Davis, Bloomington,lll. 6. David Cooper, Bt. Paul, atun, f. John Woodruff, New Harm, Conn. 8. James 8. Albans, Wiaconsin. 9. Frederick P. Stanton, Katie. 10. Alex. Cummings, Pennsylvasia. 11. - Thos. McKean, lowa. 1 12. Richard Tilghman, Maryitud. 15. James G. Blaie, Maine. 14. Herman Haupt, Deerfield, pass. 17. }lris. Gan. Jobs Garland, 7, S. A. Weekly Issue of Piles/le. liarenty patenta were lamed dr flee weak ending April 30, inolnding three from Pilladsliddit, ing aimustomed to molt a test,no doubt they will not bo bettor of their wails* to-day. Happy those who are snugly ensoonced in the Capitol and other publie buildings. We shall now, r hope, have fine weather hereafter. No news of Importance as I *la. The sth Of May, to-morrow, closes the dose allotted to the nt • teranoe of treasonable sentiments and the pur suit of treasonable designs, by the President, in his proclamation of the 15th of April. Whet will some after this none oan tell. Public Anzusements. WALNUT-01%3LT TllLienE —Mr Sothefn closed his engagement here on Saturday evening, playing to a very full house. The performance, "Our American Cousin at Home," went off with even U 101) than usual spirit, and a great many extra and ex tempore jokes were Axed off all round— some awfully bad, and a few very good indeed— but all very amusing. Mrs. Cowell was twice en cored in "Dixie," and introduced several new and appropriate verses. This week, a 10t of benefits come off at this house, which fact indicates the approaching termination of the season. This eve ning Mr. Thayer will be the beneficiaire. Mrs. Alexlna Fisher Baker and Mr • . J. E. Murdoch will appear, as .Paufsne and Claude Miaow, in " The Lady of Lyons." A piece called " The Spirit of Seventy-six" will also be played, and Mil. Wadi will slog the Union version of Dixie." ABCII.I9TBIET TnnAtun.—The show piece en titled " The Wars of Napoleon the Great," is an nottneed for repetition every evening this week, It is understood that the emnpany here are playing on the "sharing system," ae the Italian opera singers lately did, at New York and in this city, and an 15 often dens in =lag pieces. We sus• peat that their pronto cannot be oppressively great. TRZ LONE MOTHERS AND WIDOWS or VOLUM. rams' Ramer Fuan.—We understand that the sum realized by the matio;6 performanes at the Medway on Thursday, which bliss Lansdale in augurated, together with all their makers, will be handed over to the Mayor on Thursday. In the interim, in order to swell the amount of this nucleus of what is expected to be a great fund, a subscription list will be opened at Beok ft, Law ton's musk) store, 632 Chestnut street, this morn ing. Many were prealudeA from being present on the interesting occasion of list Thursday wbo would gladly contribute tbkir Agate in such a he- SOVOlallt cause, and there are thousands of ladies is this city who can, and wk feel mated gladly will, deprive themselves of acme little article of dress or luxury to aid so bene,lent a cause. The opportunity Is afforded them. • LATEST NEWS By Telegraph to The 'Prem. FROM WASHINGTON. Spatial Despatches to " The Press," The Rebellious District of Virginia. WASHINGTON, May 5. A lady direst from Portsmouth, Va., coming by the inland route, informs rue that both Norfolk and Portsmouth are under mob rule; that the inhabit ants, or at least most of them, would be very glad to have the United States tail, possession of both places. For two weeks she has not been able to sleep quietly at night on account of the continual alarms of the Secessionists. The United States dry dock, she &lye, was not destroyed. Andrew Johnson. When Attnazur ..TOUNEION left Washington be was anxious to reach home in the shortest time possible, on amount of his wife, who was represent ed to be at the point of death, and that is the rea son he went by the Southern route, through Vir ginia, exposing himself to insult, instead of the Northern route. Since his return, his wife's health has been preoarions, and the people have not troubled him for an expression ef his views; but it is believed by those direot from Tennessee that he Is still true to the Union, and that the people of Eastern Tennessee will sustain him. Unfounded Humors. The reports of the Southern press that General SCOTT is crippled with gout, afflicted with rheuma• tient, and feeble and infirm, are without the least foundation. He is out daily among the troops, active, energetic, and jovial, and alights Prom his carriage with the agility of a youth. The rumors are in keeping with the reports in the Virginia papers that Idr. Icacorai has been lying stupefied with liquor during the last ten days. When that 00011 TO General SCOTT will be found napping, end Jr.or can have the capital. Exiles from Virginia. ments A. Traitor Employed. Special Telegraph. The Philadelphia Navy Yard. The Pennsylvania Troops: 15. Prof. Charles Davie; New 'ork 16. Gen. H. B. Carrington, Ohti. Rumored Attack upon Washington. The Administration, at the ewpiratian of the twenty days allotted in Mr. LINCOLN'S proola notion as the limit when truism will be tole rated, will undoubtedly dislodge the traitors that are said to be fortifying the height! near this It is rumored that in anticipation of this movement the Disunionlets will Are npon the town on Sunday or Monday; but this I disoredit, because such an attempt would iuduoe our troops to follow them, even to the very gates of Richmond. The Ellsworth Zonaves. OccasioarAL This celebrated corps arrived here last night, %timbering thirteen hundred, and le quartered in the Capitol. Some apprehermioue are entertained that they will treat our oitieens rather roughly, be cause they are of the shoulder-hitting tribe, but it is evident that they are reserving their arms for an experiment upon the chivalry of Virginia, who are disposed to attack the capital. FROM WASHTNGTON. IMPORTANT MOVEMENT OF TROOPS. THE RELAY HOUSE TO BE OCCUPIED Tanction with the Pennsylvania Troops,. WASIIINGTON, May s.—General Seott forwarded despatches to General Butler yesterday, at Anna polis, placing the Sixth Massachusetts regiment and other troops at hie command, and giving him three days to take possession of the Rs ay Roue, at the junotion of the Baltimore and Ohio and the Baltimore and Washington railroads, nine miles from Baltimore and thirty miles from Washisogton. General Bailer responded, and informed tioneral Scott that he would have religions servi.'nea on the ground to-day. The Sixth Massachusetts regi ment went up the road early this morning. This movement it made to 00-oporato with the Pennsyl vania troops now advancing upon Baltimore on the other aide. Governor Bookinghana, of Connecticut, arrived here to-day. . The Twenty-eighth Regiment of Brooklyn, and one company of the Thirteenth New York Regi. ment arrived in the city to-night. An order hue been leetted prohibiting tho ab sonoe of the troops from their quartora after ofr o'clock at night, unless on special duty. There is more striatness than heretofore, with the view to Maintain quiet and the preservation of the peace. THE SOUTHERN REBELLION. Hews from Washington City, Balti more, and Annapolis. IMPORTANT MILITARY MOVEMENTS, A SPECIE TRAIN FOR WASHINGTON Ken Trouble Expected In Maryland. The Great Beal of the State at Annapolis. FREE STATE GOVERNORS IN COUNCIL WASiltuarox, May 4.—The rain of yesterday a• d today has given those of the volunteers that are not quartered in the Capitol, or other public; and private buildings, their first experience of camp life in wet weather; but they appear to nand it well. The New York Seventh Regiment has an opportunity of showing that it is capable of rough ing it as well as others. The arms stored in the navy yard bare are re ported to amount to nearly 60,000 stand, instead of about 3.000, as heretofore supposed. Etlavorth's regiment of Z 01110709, composed of New York firemen, are quartered at the Capitol. Tbey are a fine body of men, and will make good soldiers. tiupplies aro abundant and lamming. A. large number of cattle are said to be on the way. Reports from Virginia represent the troops at Richmond, Harper's Ferry, and other points, as not being nearly so numerous as lately reported, and poorly armed and equipped. On Monday it is thought that come active steps will be taken against the rebels, and the troops aro getting impatient to have something to do. The forwarding of troops from the North will continuo, until net leas than 50,000 are hare or On the borders of Maryland and Virginia. This, it is thought, will be enough for this meridian. The Western troops will be kept at the West, where they will have work enough to do. The °aim/anon of Baltimore will be accom plished without delay, troops marching simultane ously from Washington, Perryville, .Annapolis, and Harrisburg. AntrApotra, May a million of speciebas jest arrived, under convoy, from Por ryvilie, and has been despatched to Washington, in charge of one hundred picked men, selected by Col. the commandant during the absent's' of Gen. But ler, who is noir in Washington. hlejor Anderson left by the same train. A large number of troops are shortly expected. and the trains are prepared to convey them to Wash ington. Tby steepship Baltic is to sail to-day for New port, Rhode Inland, with the families of the pto feeeore of the Naval Academy. A fleet of transport steamers is also to sail direct for Washington to day wider convoy. ~_The 15 - cited States ship AZ/recowy, towed from and sta --- tionel a t 6 t 0 b°uca f il " 64 2 harbor.lig • The Fifth New York Regiment rellevei the flinty-ninth last everaitg. A odd rein-atona has prevailed here for the last flairtyisix hours. • The Secretary of Governor Bloke says that the appointmentsf the Committee of Public Safety,. now pending before the Legislature, muatpreoir tate the State into civil war, ae the majority of the proposed Bolted are sworn friends of megaton, and men who deprecate the political fortunes of . Governor Hicks, who may soon have to resort to washington or the Pennsylvania line for proteo tion. The great Scud of the State is now In Annapolis, and It will be thrown into the Chesapeake sooner than be placed on an ordinance of Secession. The absence of the Seal is an effectual veto, a power not possessed by the Governors of Maryland. OUR WESTERN DEFENCES Highly. Important from Cairo, Illinois, on. Pillow at Illemphis with Southern 'Erne! AN ATTACK ON CAIRO IKZDITATZD CAIRO, /1/I,llols, May 4 —General Pillow, General Ely, and three other prominent °Moors of the Con federate army, with a large number of Mississippi, Arkansas, and Tennessee troops, are at Memphis. Heavy guns are arriving there daily. Colonel Prentiss, the commanding officer at this point, ha just received the following despatch from three prominent citizens of Cincinnati; - " general Pillow has several steamers ready at Memphis. He meditates an immediate attack on Cairo." To whioh Colonel Prentiss replied : Let him tome. He will learn to dig a ditoh on the right side. lam ready." GOOD NEWS PROM MARYLAND The t •- Public Safety" Bin Recommitted umr/ozr FEELING ON THE INCREASE The Repairing of the Northern Central Railroad NO OPPOSITION MET WITH. Barirntons, May 4-10 P. M.—The " Public Safety" bill, appointing a ficoesaion committee to rule the affairs of this city and State, met with so much realotance in the Senate to-day that it was finally recommitted. The Union men consider it as good as lost. The Union feeling is evidently gaining ground throughout the State. Accounts from the Northern Central Railroad say that the workmen are natively engaged in re pairing the bridges, and meet with no opposition. The inhabitants, on the contrary, seem rejoiced at the prospect of a speedy reopening of communica tion. A rand Union town meeting will be held in this City on Monday. REJOICINGS OVER TEE DEFEAT OE TEE "SAFETY CUMBERLAND, Mn., May 4. —There is great re joicing bare over the defeat of the "Public Safety" bill—manifesting itself in triumphal Union proces sions and other demonstrations. A VICTORY AT THE POLLS. HAGERSTOWN, Ma., May 4.—At the special slew. Non held in this county to-day for member of the Legislature, Mr. Ferry, the Union candidate, was elected by a majority of over 4,000 votes. The Union men are marching in procession, and bon fires are kindled in all the streets. l'he New York Fire Zonaves—laisor. derly Members. WASurnevott, May 4---Colonel Ellsworth pub- Robes a card; stating that his regiment of !Zeus/vas were recruited in great haste, ana hence the taking of same men unknown to a majority or the regi ment could not be avoided. A few of these men, he says. have been conduedng themselves in a dis creditable manner, and he will regard it as a favor, if, in future, all persons who have been in any manner wronged by any one claiming to be a member of the regiment, will present themselves for the purpose of identification, "It ia," ha con eludes, ' the intention of the regiment, and my own determination, to free ourselves by the most summary process of all such characters, the me meat we can identify them " The New York Sixty-ninth Regiment will forth with be located In the neigh hoeing city of George town. Disturbance at itarrisburg. HAIMISIIMIG, May s.—Ainfost a riot marred here this afternoon, in cormennenoe of the arrest of a soldier by a police offloor for disorderly eondnot. The officer used his billy in making the arrest, when the comrsdas of the prisoner attempted a rescue. The soldiers made threats, and a large crowd soon assembled. The Mayor called out the some Guard with loaded musket'', when order wee restored. Three companies from Camp Curtin were marched in, and all the soldiers found in the city were escorted to the camp. Arrival of the Cahawba. Nuys Yens, May 5 —The steamship Caluneha, from New Urbane- and Havana ' arrived to day. Her dates from Havana are to the 30th ultimo. Business wee entirely suspended, owing to the ao. cou nt s from the United States. Sugar was lower, and no freights could be bad in American bottoms, but hish rates were paid for foreign vessels. The Caisatosrs brought nearly 100 pessengers from New Orleans. From Washington. From Annapolis. MANLY ACTION OP THE 'UNION HEN OF BALTIDMORE• Relay Souse in. the Possession of the Milted States Trooes. Pennsylvania Troops approaching Baltimore. Attack en liarper'a Ferry Meditated BA.L?IllODZI, May s.—The Union Convention, on Saturday night, appointed a committee to proceed to Frederick and protest against the despotio mili tary bill, and passed the following resolutions; Resolved, That the Convention, in the , name of the order-loving people of Baltimore, do solemnly protest against the attempt now making in the Legit!(attire Of Maryland to inaugurate a military despotism, by the enactment of the bill to create a committee of public safety, which, under a profes sion of providing for the protection, safety, pp ease, i and defence of the State, would, if emotedinto a law, confer on an irresponsible body powers which are nnoonstitulional and tyrannical, and which, by withdrawing from the citizen all guarantees now enjoyed for his individual security, must en danger the public peace ; and, in the event of the enactment of that bill, we Shall esteem it tar duty to avail OureelVett Of all eOnetitntional retuedies for defeating its execution and vindicating pubiio liberty. .Resolved, That the measures enacted and enact ing by the Legislature are indicative of a purpose on the part of a majority thereof to precipitate Maryland into a struggle with the constitutional authorities of the Union, and to effect by indirect action a result which they acknowledge they , are unable to accomplish by direct legislation on the subject; and that we deprecate any effort to change the relations at present existing between the Union and this State ' by any authority whatsoever. An attempt to amend the last reeolution so as to claim the right of secession by a sovereign Conven tion was voted down unanimously, wholly repu diating secession. At noon to-day, the Fifty-second New York Re. giment It the Eighth Massachusetts Regiment arrived in a train from Washington at the Relay Rouse, nine wiles from this dig, and, taking Pm' session of the telegraph wires, planted eight howit zers on the viaduot, investing the entire neighbor hood. The troops have encamped on the grounds of Win. Talbott, adjoining those of G. W. Dobbin, on the west side of the Fatapsoo. This point is the junction of the Baltinfore and Ohio road with the Washington branch, and gives full command of the road to and from the West. The telegraphic communication with Harper'', Ferry is out off, and It is rumored that no snore trains for the West are to be allowed to leave. It is understood that this sadden movement is the begs of operations to re take Harper's Ferry. There are rumors that several vessels loaded with troops are coming up the river. On the Northern Central Railroad a large force of men from Pennslivania were engaged to-day in building the first bridge outside the city, and the read to the oily from: that direotion will be finished to-morrow, The work on the Bnsh•river bridge, on the the Philadelphia Railroad, has been oommenced, and will be finished in two or three days. about one-balf Of the members of the Legisla ture are in the city, and if the communication le out of with Frederiok, in consequence of the in vestment of the Relay Rouse, they will not be able to he:preSent at the meeting of the Legit:Tatum to- morrow morning. ' The Cabinet a Unit. nA.NLY LETTER PAX GENERAL' HAW= Wasaverprox, May s.—lt is not considered, for the public advantage that the erroneous statements of the proceedings in the councils of the Adminls tratiou should go abroad. The assertions that the Seeretaries of State and of She Navy have differed from their oolleagues and from the President, wavering when other/ were Arm and energetle, are without foundation. Equally untrue are the reports circulated in other quarters that the Beers tory ef the Treasury differs: In the same manner from the President or other members of the Cabi net. The fact that auoh erroneous Udall obtain currency is regarded as the best evidence that the consultations of the Cabinet are, as they ought to be. confidentially kept. The above is predicated on information from the highest authority. The revolts of Generel Mornay being disaffected to the General Governinent are altogether ground less. He has addressed a letter to his friend, Col. O'Pallon, of St. Louis, declaring that he will never serve under any banner than the one be has fol lowed for forty years; that he will continue In the service of the Government which has bestowed its honors upon him, and se long as he has breath will be its faithful and loyal soldier. He denies the right of acoosaion, and says that it will lead to nig. versal anarchy; that the Secessionists design to establish a military dictatorship ; that they have made war upon the and dishonored its flag ; that secession would be utter ruin to Missouri He implores his fellow-citizens of that State not to be seduced by designing men to be come the instruments of their, mad ambition, and plunge the State into revolution. He declares that, whether governed by the feelings inspired by the flog he has served under, or by his judgment of his duty as a soldier and citizen, or by his In terest as an owner of property, and a resident of Missouri, he feels bound to stand by the Union ; and, remaining in its service, will devote hie efforts to the maintenance of the Federal G overnment and the perpetuation of its blessings to posterity. Interview of the Maryland Committee with the Prendent. WAEIRTSGTON, May 4.—lt is .ascertained that the Committee Of the /Wittyland begialature, in their interview with the President, this morning, admitted both the right and power of the Govern ment to bring troops through Baltimore or the Mate, and to take any measures for the pubis safety which In the dieoreti9n of the President might be demanded, either by actual or reasons ltrsipnrehended exigencies They expressed Federate effort at aeoetraion or resistance of tempted by the Legislature 0f i t t &r,°,,,..,... a1 d beat" and asked that in this Ylew the state shottiCli long as possible, be spared the evils off a military occupation, or a mere revengeful chastisement, for former transgressions. Thee President replied that their suggestions and representations should be duly considered, but that be should now say no more than that the public interest, and not any spirit of revenge, would aotuate his measures. The Union Sentiment of Western Vim. WitnnLOG, May 4.—An immense county nion meeting was held here today. The Hon. Frank Pierpiint, of Marion county, and George MoPorter, of Hancock county, late a member of the State Convention, addressed the people in able speeches ) urging resistances to the themeless ordinance, end taeering a division of the State. Resolutions were adopted approving of the no tion of the nierohants in refusing to pay taxes to the authorities at Riolmtend, denouncing the Be eection ordinance, eftd deeleeleg their adhesion to the stare and stripes. Thirty-four delegates were appointed to the Convention of the Western coun ties to be held on the 13th of May. A large meeting was alio held yesterday in Clarksburg, Harrison county, at which the pro ceedings were of a similar character. The Wheel. lug Intelligenalr has numerous reports of other meetings, and there is a general sentiment of op position to the Seoession ordinanee throughout the western counties. Military Movements. PENNS rLvAitu. ILinnumtrito, May 5 —The 14th and 15th regi ments are now formed at Camp Curtin. The