L1,1tt55. THURSDAY, blItY 9, 1.861 ' , mere? float that standard sheet: Where breathes the fee but fails before us? With Freedom's soil beneath our feet. And Freedom's banner streaming seer US FORNEY'S CALIFORNIA PRESS w - m be readY Ift,-MOTtROW, at al P. M. ?rice SIX. CRNTS per oopy in strong wrsursars, and damped. ready for mailing. ma paper is published expressly for CALIFORNIA CIRCULATION. woo. ..otsins a complete summary of That km tilaug tired in oar City, State, and the Atlautio States, since the departure of the last steamer tor Califoro3s. State Rights. 'filo most mischievons doctrine of the pre sent day is the famous Calhoun theory of State Rights. It ,has misled more Southern men from the flag of the country, and induced more resignations among army and navy officers bailing from the slave States, than all the preaching of all the orat•rs on the wrong side of the question. The unanimity of the twenty loyal States in supporting the Govern ment is a proud assurance that this perverted idea s of the doctrine of State Rights has effec tually perished, at least so far as they are con cerned. Until South Carolina can establish her sense of the alleged injuries received by the South at the hands of the majority of the . American people, into an invasion of what is flippantly called State Rights ; there is not a Northern statesman who will not disregard her counsels and laagh at her example. Oar understanding of State Rights is a far different one.. When the General Government ceases to protect the interests of all the States, and discriminates in favor of one to the exclusion Of another member of the Confederacy, then It Is well to- fall back upon our reserved fran chises, and to assert our independence at every hazard. But no such complaint can Justly be made by the South. As Judge Dolmas said in his splendid speech at Chicago, on the first of May, "there has not been a day, from the time when GEORGE WASHINGTON was inaugurated as the first President of the United States down to this moment, when the rights of the Southern States stood firmer 'under the laws_ of the land than they do to•day." And yet we see officers of the army and the navy, and other branches of the public service, throw ing up their commissions, and taking arms against a Government they were sworn to sup port, because South Carolina, and a few other Commonvirealths, insist upon asserting that the South has Peen interfered with by the North I When a citizen takes an oath to support the Constitution, be acknowledges his allegiance to the wtole country, and the Government thereof; and whether he takes this oath in Virginia or in Maine; whether he takes it as a representative of the people, or as a public servant in an executive or administrative capacity, or as an adopted citizen, his first obligation is to the entire Government, to the laws made by Congress. All other pledges and oaths are interior and subordinate. When General Betas- was appealed to by the feces etenistS to add-his brilliant reputation to their dark conspiracy, his answer wee, "I'am a citizen of the United States, I owe every ob.. ligation to the United States, and I will con tend. for the United States against any single member of the Union taking np arms against the General Government, even if that mem ber should be Virginia herself." We com mend this frank and explicit construction of State Rights to those who have been misled by the Calhoun South Carolina reading of it. The Redness of the Rebels. Seenes are constantly transpiring in the rebellions States which would disgrace any country and any age, and which indicate not only the lecke( patriotism which is too plainly evident, but a reckless shamelessness, a de gree of abandoned and villainous dishoneity, cruelty, and absolute barbarism, for which the modern history of civilized nations furnishes no parallel. The inflamed and excited mobs which, in many places, assume complete con trol, act more like demons than civilized be l Ingo, and the most merciless savages who have assailed the unprotected settlements of our frontiers would prove to them useful in structors in precepts of humanity, of which they are evidently either regardless or igno rant. It cannot be possible that such de praved wretches will long be enabled to set at defiance the authority of a nation which, when aroused, is as powerful to restrain and punish as it is mild and forbearing in its disposition. A Dastardly Outrage upon the AMC Man Flag. The New York Times of yesterday pub lishes, among other information it received from passengers who recently arrived from Savannah, Georgia, the following statement " On the occasion of the arrival and epeeoh of Kr. Stephens, a large procesaion was formed, which marehed through the city. They carried, panted on *canvas, • representation of the Anse rhsan flag, soiled and torn, suspended by a broken Sag Miff. Underneath was the picture of a grave, with the words, Receive me.' This outrage upon the flag aroused feelings of deep disgust and indignation among the will lope] portion of the eltizens, and one gentleman, a venerable pastor of the Seamen's Bezel. openly denonneed the pro oesdings, declaring that Savannah bad been the Ant to dishonor the glorious banner of the Union_ Oa being threatened with violence, be toll the mobocrats that, though be was an old man, he Would defend Illineelf if attached, and some of them would bite the duet if they laid their hands on him." It is difficult to conceive how men who have long enjoyed the protection of our glorious standard eonld have acted in thin shameful manner; but even this dastardly outrage is only In keeping with the whole Rebel more intat. Tacna C.t be no noose for the treatment which our city extended to the Ohio volunteers yesterday. We do not know who is to blame, but it certainly is extremely censurable. Two thousand soldiers, from the State of Ohio, come to Phitadelphia, and aretaken to a place outside of the city known as Suffolk Park. The rain is falling, and they have no accent- Inodatious. Weary with travel, having eaten nothing since morning, they find no food to appease their hunger, and are compelled to I wait until wagons are sent to the city for pro- Visions, dependent upon the hospitality of those resident in the neighborhood. This is too bad. These young men leave comfortable homes, many of them scenes of luxury and efficience, to defend the honor of the country. They exiect to encounter the necessary hard ships of a soldier's life, but they do not expect to suffer from the neglect and inconsideration otthoae who are entrusted by the Government With their comfort. it should never occur again. We know that providing for such a urge number of men must be attended with an intone degree of trouble, and that many mots will be unwittingly committed, but there can be no palliation for the conduct of those who, through neglect, cause suliering to two thousand men. T imis is a singular difference between the glorious speeches of Sirpnam A. Donates, and the messages of JarrEnsou Davis. The Utter reminds us constantly of the Wife& Duke," in the play. Dermas believes that we have a Government; believes that the right of secession is a pestilential heresy, and de- Dunces with ineffable scorn the whole idea that the rights of the South have been inter foxed with. DAVIS thinks the Union a mere rope of sand, to be destroyed by any single member of it at will and pleasure, and treats all doctrines of submission to the will of the majority with contempt. Sonatas stands with the old fathers of the Constitution ; DAVIS With the authors of those new constructions of that instrument which have made the whole Beaus . sic' in movement so contemptible. WE are not at all surprised at the message of Governor Msoorrar; of Kentucky, recom mending secession. Bis treacherous course for the last few months bas left us no ground for' astonishment. A traitor at heart, he has at buit -proclaimed his true sentiments. The State of Hsawr Ct.sT was never nearer ruin. Will those who revere his memory not save bar from destruction I Very Curious...4f True. There is an European newspaper, published I at Brussels, called the Independence Beige, I which has acquired Considerable notoriety af ter a fashion of its own. The censorship over the French press, as the public are well aware, excludes a great deal of news and gos sip from the Parisian journals. grassers, however, is on neutral ground, and what the Paris editors may not publish in their own journals is gladly cemmunicated to the world through the /I:dependance Belga, which is rich enough and read enough to pay good salaries to purveyors of news in Paris and the other principal capitals of Europe. How and then, it does stumble upon authentic intelligence before any other newspaper is so fortunate as to obtain it, and, at all events, it is a much regd journal. It has just published an extra ordinary piece of intelligence which may or may not be true. It is known, from flying reports, that Na.poieox and Count CAVOAn are engaged in maturing some arrange ment for the evacuation of Rome by the -French troops, the object being then to garrison the Eternal City with Italian sol diers. The Independance Belgo has pub lished some supplementary news, upon this head, at once positive and circumstantial. It alleges that Count VpreiteArr lately went to Turin with Nato:meat: 2 a final terms, viz.: Be was prepared to withdraw his troops, and to suffer Italians to be substituted, but on these conditions : The Pope was not to be interfered with. His territories and his sovereignty were to be held sacred. The title of his occupation was not to be altered, except with the Holy Fa ther's consent. The Turin Government have, it is . said, agreed to these terms for though, ap parently, they place them no nearer the abso lute possession of Rome, they believe that, once the responsible defenders of his 11011- ness, they can make comparatively short work of his temporal power, and that, too, without defying his will. But the Independance does not clearly see how this is to be carried out. It says 4g If it be true that certain cardinals understand the necessities of the situation sufficiently to be disposed to seek the safety of the spiritual Papacy in the sacrifice of a temporal Bove ieignty which it is impossible to preserve, it must not, on the other band, be forgotten that the majority of the Pope's councillors are resolved to compromise all rather than con sent to this necessary renunciation. A proof of this may be seen in the act by which the Pope has already appointed his provisional successor (Cardinal WisxmAN) in certain de finite eventualities—an act which was men tioned ins our Paris letter yesterday, and the existence of which is positively confirmed to day” This confirmation comes in the share of a otter from Paris, as follows : " One of my colleagues has given you some a 0• oonnt of a decision of the Holy Father, approved of by 21 cardinals, constituting Cardinal Wiseman, the primate of Hoglend. the representative of of the Papacy in the ease of the death, or the forced of voluntary abdication of tho present Sovereign Pontiff. My own information entirely agrees with this. and I am enabled to give your farther details It is not Cardinal Antonini who would be entrust, ed, as might have been thought, with the details relative to this'decision, bat Cardinal Alfieri, who, in the event of the Pope's death, would convoke the conclave. The number of supporters of this arrangement was mach more than twenty one, and amongst the hesitating and dissentient there were not more then five or six cardinals Another account is that cs Pro Norio has made his will, and left his tiara to Cardinal NIOUOLAB Wiszidem, with a clause that he take the surname of Pzo Decimo. This is to pre. vent the French Emperor from managing the next conclave. There is only one slight diffi culty, that no bishop, patriarch, or archbishop of any rank can dispose of his mitre as chat tel property, and that a congi d'ilire must be gone through, to save canon law, not to say appearances. The right of choosing a bishop for Rome ia, since its withdrawal from popu lar election through the congregated Christian faithful and clergy assembled, now strictly vested in the parish priests forming the dean and chapter of Rome under the conventional name of cardinals ; and there exists no power, save in the .general council, to make any change of so vital and unheard-of a charac ter." As far back as the winter of 1849, the writer °ribose remarks, being then in London, was told by Signor Mottuaso, (son of the Minister from the Argentine Republic to the Court of St. James,) that the settled purpose of Bishop iirissitarl to the rank of Omit. nal, (which took place subsequently,) was in order to secure his elevation to the Papacy on the death, or (as was then considered not im probable,) the resignation of Pius IX., and that the Pope himself was anxious that this should take place, . - As to the tiara beinglietlueathed to Cardi nal Wiszrunror any - Other person, it is A `General Council of the Catholic Church alone could change the manner by which the Pope is appointed. The Northern Democracy. If any one class more than another deserves peculiar credit for patriotic devotion to the cause of their country in this trying hour it is the Democracy of the North. With no feel ings of aniumaity to the people or the insti tutions of the South, and with no partisan re gard for the existing Administration, they unanimously spurned the treasonable counsels of the few false-hearted traitors who sought to induce them to sympathize with the Secession movement after it had broke out in open and undisguised rebellion and threatened the cap ture of the capital itself i and they have every where been among the moat active in orga nizing military companies, in tendering their services to' the Federal Government, and in every possible way rendering it material aid. A large proportion of the regiments which have been enrolled contain a great preponderance of Democratic voters. With many of them it is considered not only a point of duty, but of honor, to maintain a legally-elected President against whom they cast their suffrages in the exercise of all his constitutional rights, even more enthusiasti cally, if possible, than they would have sup ported one whom they had assisted to elect. However much they are attached to the pe cellar tenets of the Democratic party, they I feel that submission to the authoritative dem crees of that great American tribunal, the ballot-box, is the very corner-stone and foundation of all republican liberty, and that it this principle is destroyed, all'that is really vital and important in Democracy itself must perish with it. They go fortn to crush out treason, because they are determined to preserve the integrity of the Repub lic and the cause of free government which must necessarily be based upon the will of the majority, constitutionally expressed. We find a well-decerved tribute to their patri otism in a letter to the New York Tribune, dated Bedford, West Chester county, N. Y., which describes a speech delivered by .Torte JAY, Req., a life-long enemy of the Demo cracy, and its sentiments will doubtless be en dorsed by the great body of his political asso ciates. The correspondent says Mr. Jay, in the course of his remarks, after referring to the powerful influence that the idea of national unity was exercising ripen the fragmentary peopled of Italy, and the more sacred claim resting upon us to preserve unbroken the American Union, based, as it avowedly was, on eternal principles of right, referred to the conduct of the leaders and the mamma of the Democratic party let reference to the pending war. Re said that never having been a member or an admirer of the Democratic party; having from boyhood entertained those political prejudices to which hereditary influence anti pater nal. exempla naturally inclined him, Ind which by careful reflection, were gradually ripened into stem conviction; having been for the last thirty years, as they were all aware, the open, uncompro miaing onnorient of the national principles an d federal policy of that party, and having on two re cent occasions expressed his opinion' on the subject in that place with no lack of freedom, using nit mincing phrase or delicate oiroumloott tion, he felt the more at liberty, or rather he felt impelled, by simple justice, to express openly his heartfelt admiration of the unanimity and patriotism with whisk the Demos:wade party of the North, front Daniel S. Dickinson of New York to Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois---from the gallant Butler of Massachusetts to Gov. Sprague of Rhode Island, from the magnates of the party to the humblest. renewer in its ranks — have tome for ward to the defence of the country, under ahem. staneet which at the first blush might perhaps seem to afford some slight apology for hesitation. They had come forward heart and hand to ustain the 0090111111011 t cleated by their opponents against their former friends and Mr. Jay laid he freely confuted, with all his put hostility to the Demo cratie.. party , that he did not know the faot in American history, from the battle of Lexington, on the 19th of A.pri1,.1775, down to the massacre of Massachusetts men in Baltimore on the 19th of April, 1881, which contained Within itself so Oak pieta, so conclusive *Adana that the Amerlean Union is cherished in our heart of hearts, and that our republican Government, based on the affection of the people, la the strongest in the world." Aroma BALI of Panay Goods, PAM', Stallone. ry o lswelry, Clocks, Watohes, Bilver-plated Ware, Cutlery, Fancy Soaps, Perfrunery, this atuusday) morning, at 10 o'clock, at Fitzpatrick I Brother's, 884 Chestnut street. Also, this evening, at 7 *Week, a largo and extensive oolleation of va• luable Books in the varied departments of liters. ture, fine Family Bibles, •ke. The Speech of "Vice. re ratdent 4' Stephen If we had any sympathy to spare for trai tors, Mr. A. H. Stamens, of Georgia, the cc Vice President" of the Southern Confede racy, would be entitled to an abundant share. His position is certainly unenviable, even when contemplated from a Southern point of view. His conversion to Secessionism was so sudden and complete, that the whole nation was amazed. His ostentatious professions of fealty to the Union secured his election by the people of Taliaferro county, Georgia, and he entered the Convention of that State with the hopes and prayers of every patribt, North and South. He was sustained by a large and power ful party in the Convention and the State, and could have made a-fight for the Constitution with every prospect of ultimate triumph. He surrendered, however, with more thou the ig nominy of Twroes, and accepted with alacrity the empty honor of a -Vice Presidency under the Montgomery Provisional GoZernment. From being a warm Mend of the Time and a bold assailant of treason, he has changed into the most ultra of ultraists, and pleads the cause of rebellion with all the sophistry of which his splendid intellect is capable. His new-born zeal is suspicious and painful. It is evident that his new masters suspect him. He has a record which must cause them many doubts, and himself a world or care and trou ble. If he could betray his country in a week, in how many hours would it take him to be tray a fragment of his country? Converted rebels are dangerous liegemen, and are con stantly objects of suspicion. The cc Vice President" is laboring with assiduity, however, to convince his Mont gomery masters that his zeal for their cause is real. This zeal gives a singular tone to his speeches, and he has lately acquired the habit of visiting them alike upon willing and unwilling audiences. Mr. STEPHENS was never a prolific speaker. Now we look through the Southern newspapers with the expectation of finding a speech from him, a bogging plea from KEMNINGER, or (Test master General" REAGAN'S advertisement for Mail-bags, as a matter of course and when we state that the n Vice .President" made five speeches on one evening last week, our readers will see that there is little chance, as far as he is concerned, of our weer Wog disappointed. The fifth speech we print in another column. It is interesting so far as it relates to his mis sion to Virginia. Mr. Srzvunns was always an accomplished and effective rhetorician', but the rhetoric of this effort is something remark able, and shows what a change has come over the spirit of Southern orators and states men. We have soon many recent evidences of this change, but no one has manifested it more thoroughly than Mr. STEPHENs. It actually seems that to become a Secessionist into cease to be a gentleman. The amenities of life are even scorned, and we have the most disreputable adjectives in the dictionary de livered with the volubility of a Bthingagate Bah-monger. If the cc Vice President" sinned only in this, we might dismiss him as being guilty of a mere breach of taste and good breeding. We find, however, all through this address, traces of the most deliberate falsehood and misre presentation. We know this is necessary to further the cause of treason, but we think Mr. STEPHENS should have left that part of the bu siness to newspapers like the New Orleans Delta and Mobile Register, or orators like Mr. iteszr and Senator Wreeazt. Look at his story about Norfolk. ft Plans were laid to burn up the navy yard and the whole city," said he, n and Providence only saved the city from a conflagration which would have been second only to the burning of Moscow." Mr. STEPHENS had just returned frem Virginia, had every means of knowing the truth of the case, and must have been conaeious that the statement about burning Norfolk was untrue. His Montgomery masters may exact many sa crifices, but swely they might have permitted him to retain his honor. This address of Mr. Srarkmas is also notice able for its piety. His allusions to the Deity and special Providences would do credit to a Doctor of. Divinity. He tells the pious people of Atlanta that Providence reduced Fort atunp. ter by sending a Storm to scatter the ships, and saved Norfolk by turninirths , Trma - ar a oeittuar - moment f — thit this interposition of Providence is the strongest evidence of their rectitude, and, after expressing a hope that the COnfederate flag may soon float_fromihe ancient Capitol, says, with an air of inimitable sanctity, gf If so, God's will be done, is my prayer.-Let .rts do—nething that is wrong. Let us commit our cause into His hand, per form our whole duty, and trust in Him for the crowning result." The Duke of Gloster, who would have made a most accomplished Seces-. sionist, was very fond of making such speeches, .and has left us a very frank opinion of them; And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ands, @torn forth of Holy Writ ; And seem a saint when most I play the devil. It is very evident, from the speech of Mr. Surrnizes, that the Rebels have entertained the idea of attacking the capital. Maryland, he says, r< has resolved to stand by the South." On her Seeeesion,.“ the District of Columbia will fall to her by reversionary right—the same as Sumpter to South Carolina," and on the strength of that reversionary right," Mazy laud's secession will be followed by a demand for the surrender of Washington, a demand which cc will be enforced at every hazard and whatever cost." Tide is the most material Feint in the speech of the is Vice President." His assertions that the soldiers of the North are hirelings and mercenaries," and fight for money, may Emit the latitude of Atlanta, and be safely told to an audience that believed his story about Norfolk. It is evident that the leaders of this rebellion hare determined to accept the arbitrament of a terrific war. Mr. STE* pease says they will c< call out a Million Of people if need be; and when they are cut down we can call out another, and still an other ;" for, says he, (and here we are remind ed of the Duke of Gloster again,) God is on our side, and who shall be against us ?" This language of Mr. Spann:Ns simply embodies the desperation of ruined traitors, and may lead to a fearful loss of life, without attain ing any possible results worthy of accom plislunent. The people of the N orth enter into this contest under a patriotic sense of duty, and Ire filled with a holy enthusi asm. Mr. SrErness may overlook this fact, or studiously keep it from his people; but the people of the South will know it sooner or later. HO is prostituting his talents to a most infamous end, and impartial history will pre sent no more melancholy page than that which records his ambition and his shame. KLNTITUJET, MISSOLIBI, AND MARTI..AIt Will undoubtedly elect Representatives to serve in the new Congress, beginning with the called session, on the 4th of July ; and Virginia, thongh really out of the Union, so far as her leaders are concerned, will attempt the same thing. Our friends shordd be on the alert, to resist the admission of every Representative who is the advoente of secession or disunion. Of course, all such men will refuse to take the oath when the Speaker presents it to them, and hence none other but known Union or Government men should attempt to come to Washington, to participate in the deliberations ofOongress. We had a number of Secession ists in the last Congress, and care should be taken to prevent a repetition of this farce in the Congress which is to come. The attention of persons oontemptating a itott to Niagara Palle is laritod to the adyertho ment of the Clifton House, in another part of to• day's paper. Lazes Beau or Dar Goons, dc.—The early at tention of purehasers i. requested to the large and valuable assortment of staple and fancy dry goods, parasols, to., embraolag 695 lots, (including the entire stook of a city establishment) to be pe remptorily sold, by catalogue, for cash, cora meneing at 10 o'clock, (with the good will of the store and fixtures of store, northwest corner of Eighth and Market streets,) to be continued the greater part of the day without intermission, by Myers, Claghorn, dt,ioo., auctioneers, Nos. 232 and 234 Market street. STOCKR AND AZAL ETATN, TIIIRDAY NAM—. Sao Thomas at Sous' advertisements. Pamphlet 4 " , tolegues cm Saturday. They sell at th.s Et change every we&C. Broca op , Pm Wilma awe LIONONN. to be sold on Friday. Catalogues now ready. See 'deer thumemta. The l'eunsylvania Camps. Renntairono, May 13.—Two companies arrived from Mechanicsburg this morning. Six unattached companies ars now in vamp at ehambenbarg,besides three regiments. Another regiment will go thither during the Week, and one more to West Chester, making four altogether at the latter point. THE PRESS.-PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1861. WASHINGTON COIIIMSPOMS. Letter from 44 ,0ceeeional. 19 Correspondemea of The Prencl . . The leaders of the . . Bentham relbeMen, are he. ginning—and only.beginning--.-to reran Blair true condition in their;newtrelirtion tntheihwtrament. After laughing at thrfacere idea of &concentrated publie opinion in the free States in support of a strong policy, they now concede that they were mistaken, and that they will be welled upon to make nee of extraordinary mettai t 4 MUM them. selves. A gentleman who returned from Richmond list evening informs me that the leaders in that quarter claim to have under arms some thirty five thousand men in the whole State, and he eatimatee that of these eight thousand are quar tered in and about that city. Col. Lee, of Arlington Heights, opposite Washington, an officer of great distinction, who resigned hie commission in the United States service some two weeks ago, IS the General of the forces, and is assisted by Cap. tain Lay, late aid-de•eamp to Lieutenant General Scott. Both these gentlemen esnphati eally deny that it ever was Abe intention of the Southern Confederacy to attack thla capital ; _sad yet, the fact is so patent and so notorious that Mr. Dr. Davis did cherish such a design, that I am amazed that it should be disputed or denied in any quarter. The Secretary of War of the South.' ern Confederacy, venting ter Jefferson Davis when the news of the attack upon Sampler was received at MontgoMery, Alabama, announced that their prime object was to seise Washiagton, expel Mr. Lincoln, and then to march upon Fainudi Hall, Boston. My informant eta* that the Kentucky, regiment, now in Virginia, find er your old friend Vol. MOOD Duncan,..(Whir i from having been a pro-Bell, pro-Iktuglis man, - bag be come a violent Secessionist,) is the finest body of men he saw. • The Virginia troops need arms, and their chiefs think that Washington is °coupled - by fifty thousand soldiers. The apprehension of- an attack upon Richmond is daily growing stronger, and Col. Lay gave it, as his opinion, that-'Ear per's Ferry could never be taken by the 'United States troops. It is evident that all these men have been consternated by the. Beare* and, the rapidity of the movements of the Administration. Credence is given to the most exaggerated nutters. , Othelle,y description of his warlike(' experienie to the gentle Desdemona, in which he Spoke of t#ie " Anthropoehas i and men whesue4teade-4, Do grow beneath their shoulders." was not more extravagant than the stories they be. lieve of the preparationa of the Government add of the kind of men engaged in our army; They fancy the Bouvet; untamed savages, the -Mama— chuaetts men psalm.singing fanatics, and every Rhode Islander a giant. their doubts as to ern unity have given way to the most wondeOnt ideas of Northern enthusiasm. Some of their molt, intelligent men think they are to be overran, over whelmed, and absorbed by a Northern invasion. All this while they insist that their alarm are loyal ! The credulity and superstition of the negro is 'a well-established bet. If intelligent whites" are alarmed by the _warlike demonstrations of the Government, how do you think the ignorant blacks will regard them ? Hide from this populti- Hon as you may newspapers and books, you can not chain down their thoughts or prevent loud rumor from blowing its ittonni into their ears They will either welcome the Northern army into', their midst as foes or as deliverers. If the first, 'bey` will fly, and not fight; if the second, thy " will light:end not fly. When I kear the ildelitYet the sieves demented upon. I recall the terror eg. cited by the unexpected advent of John Brown, the nervous fear that pervaded the whole South' prior to the battle of New Oriente, and the Nat: Turner insurrection that made every farm.honee in Virginia a citadel, and put arms even into the hands of the women. Let the Government strike but one bold blow, crushing and sudden, and that which is now an undefined-apprehension will beoome a panic and a stampede. With all this, however, it is well not to underrate the enemies of the Government. Their very desperation will make them brave. They claim to have anticipated a dearth of food, by sowing a vast amount of land with corn, and for lack of beef they point to the grazing-fields of Texas, and the fruitful pastures of Kentucky and Tennessee. As to money, their shhiplestere pass from hand to hand, and, though incapable of re demption, answer all the present requirements of currency. My opinion is that they will light with as much courage as could be expected of men em barked in such a cause. Bow long they will Belt is another question. It is of the last importance that every effort should be made to prevent divisions among the friends of the Union in the free States. There Is no doubt that in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, many men are carefully watching the movements of the day, determined to take advantage of every miss hike so as to foment dieseneione, and assist the . South in its rebellion by dividing the North. All party orgamzssiuns should therefsre give Way, omit am glad to know that can setting an excellent example by refraining from removing men from ethos who are lincerely deter. , mined to stand by the Government in its present; 'peril. Some interest is exalted by , the approach-" ing special election for Congress in the district lately represented by the Eon, George W. Saran ton, composed of the counties of Luzern*, Colum bia, Wyoming, and Montour. In the South, cer tainly in the Cotton States ' all pirties, for one or another reason , rally around ,a . 1 . - t imm cause which is undoubtedly wio—ed, -,,, _Walt never be motioned by any clanked Go - t Why, then, should we not beaqually cordk r - ilia taking the cause. that is. inquest/4mila righit Let the election in the Congressional district rso . forted to be so conducted as to indicate a sentis Ment showing how Pennsylvania standa.,_ : It doe!' not become me to dictate a candidate, hut .I can-, net forbear advising our friends in that district to be careful, lest individual aspirations should :dal mage the general cause. No matter what a tine man's antecedents may have been, if be is rigif new, heartily and sincerely right, and will come to Washington determined to give his boat aid to the Administration in its vigorous policy, he should betaken up and put through, if posaibb, by a unanimous vote. I see that Bennett, g the New York Beratti, after writing strongly in favor of setting the slaves of Virginia 4 Maryland free, now fame about and blames es Tribune and Ti 1463 for doing, precisely the 5 e thing. It is upon such issues as these, by loss g beyond th e prbabht and misting a gloomy horosio of the future, by terrifying the States of Virgi and Maryland, and by exciting sympathy in &lir' behalf in the free States, that the present ova.. whehning patriotism in the latter may be chi etnsotezi, and finally turned into the wrong a , , - nal. After we have adjusted ourselves to the ner circumstances that must Iseult from the premet exigencies, divisions and subdivisions will of co take place. Parties will be formed as they we . formed a ft er the late war, but now nothing can 4t more injurious than to be reviving dead dispnt about Democracy and Republicanism, or alto ' personal ambition to come in to the detrilaint the general good. A gentleman who saw ex-President Binshanan few days ago, repreeenta that he is in a Most fee condition, greatly depressed at the situation of pu lie affairs, and yet earnestly in fairer of the maxi of the present Adminbstration. Be gives it as unqualified opinion that no foreign Government wi recognize the Southern Confederacy, and declined with great emphasia, that those in the lead of 07,4 movement should be pat down if it led tea spires years' war and to the expenditure of , hundreda millions of dollars. .Be should have thought of all this a year ago. ODOASIONAL. I Arrival and Departure of New • Troops.! • : At wren oielook yesterday afternoon, a detach. runt of troops from New York City remitted' Cam' den, by the Camden and Amboy Railroad, in. took the ferry boat for the Prime-street ;wharf where they were at once ushered into a train . 0 nine pars and mint out Prime street to the Bald more depot, and thence direetly South.; Ties were found to be five hundred regulars fro* Teias lately attached to the rebel Twigp' command who have been in New York some days, and, ar now en, march. for Washington, through Biltintore. They were accompanied by a full olarionet band of twenty Ocoee, whiehdiseonmed natiopal tunes that brought stirring words to mind. ' ! The men were hardy and well drillid. Theyl wore the high black felt hat, with the ; gilt eagle and begirt attached, and blue garments. :There was nothing espeolally noteworthy shoat the men, but they were enthwisstio,,and capable of any re quirements: They are probably by tile time o the open bay, and we shall hear to-day of their ar , rival at Baltimore. The men, in some convene, lion that we held with them, were Load in tliell denunciation of the traitor Twland 'relate/ ggik uuna their treatment in Texas with a dot ' ' tion ti avenge it upon the abettors of reboil! ,Ve hart 1 published full lists of the °Score oft thew commit nies before, and we forbear publishing their agaiM as they are of no possible Interest tO readers. ; The Second New York regiment received mar& ing order' YeelerdeY. They probably passel through this city at a late hour last night. Captain Meagher, of the reserve corps of thl Sixty-ninth New York regiment, went to 'Wash ington yesterday with a small detachment of mce and a large quantity of stores for the regional We heard that he passed through the city at to o'clock last night. Orders were received from headquarters vest • day, (Wedneaday,) to send forward the rose companies of the 2 hirteenth Dlogratent, (Drool lyn ) They number 300 men, mil Will ,be sent to Washington this afternoon, passing thro Philadelphia to-night. It is of 061 i — interest to a Wiens to know officers of all these tiessitory:troops,` that co and go so quickly, that few are conscious of the presenoe. Our own troops note engross all ea and the tardy movements of thi State to respect that are justly tholes for . Mint, Mt. Jorn SWAM, the talented ond ye z 1 tile author and drawiatist, has ready for prod*. tion a new comedy, entitled*" Under . the Rose, *Mph, 111 mid, will be the" sing piece W leek's new theatre in New ork. Mr. Bang* waU known's'a the author of BybU, one of the m suociewesa tragedies of modern time witsursorron,4.7 8,1881 LATEST INE*S. By TelegraPh to The Frea nmw WASHINGTON. Special Deopetohoo to " The Poem" WU/WIGTON, May 8, 1861 Unnamed and Ready for Duty. The Fifth Pennsylvania Regiment have received their uniforms. On making an early visit to•day to their quarters, in the Inapguration•ball build ing, they stated that they had received their uni forms yesterday, and were mcioh pleased with them. One of the oiliest., remarked that they were all right, now, and spoiling, for a tight." The indloations are too manifest that they will not have to spoil long before they will be called to that experience. It le duo to the Fifth to My QM they are among. the best companies in the Oapital. They have drilled constantly every day since their arrival, and have attained great precision in their military movements: They doeire to be remem bered, through The Press, to the ladies of Ptala- . delphia and other parts of the. State, who have one so much , for their comfort. Scene of the First treat Battle. It Is believed here that the first conflict will not be in Virginia, but at Cairo, near the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, where the opposing foroes are gallering.for a grand struggle to obtain dominion over that important point and position. Oar Retail. Market's. The Virginia authorities have removed the re strictions whieh forbid farmers to come to Wash - 4000 with their produce. We are consequently better sapplissil with vegetables, fresh meats and butter, and prices have fallen a trifle. Butter was selling at 50 cents a pound three daps ago, and scarce at that. 44 Through Baltimore to Washington." To-day we are told troops will again maroh through Baltimore on their way to the capital. It is the desire of the authority** In Baltimore that no obitruotione be Presented to prevent a peaceable _march through. •the city. They will unite with the operations of General Bumza and ethers, moving under orders from the War Depart- Meat, in sedating.this issue. General BUTLER has, - 2'ooo. mm at the Relay Hones, under the most %triet military discipline and regulations. At that point all trains on Via Balthnoro and Ohio railway are examined, and provisions and clothing for the army of the Confedeliate States are detained- 64 Camp Cameron.” . The Seventh New York Regiment presented to .speotators great activity yesterday and to-day. they areolosely driiled, in regular military equal in all ordinary movements to "oar regular forces. They anticipate a conflict, and are ready. to marsh to the front of the forward ranks whenever called upon. If, unfortunately, a conflict is unavoidable, and such a position should 'be demanded of them, and our country is corn :pelted to assert its rights at the point of the bay°. A i the Seventh 'will be among those whose aohievements will be recorded in history to their ;credit as a regiment, and to the valor of their men individually. They court the opportunity to ma tritest their loyalty end devotion to their country. The regiment numbers over 1,200 men, in 204 :COMIC The Accident at the Relay House. , Therriudden death of a member of the eighth New York regiment, by "the discharge of his mus ket while cleaning it; yeiderday, has saddened the 'hearts of his comrades, and thrown a gloom over the regiment. His lime was Marv, and he was endeared to his associates by his oourteone and kind deportment. He leaver a wife and two children in Brooklyn, New York. Last evening, a number of the soldiers at the Belay Rouse sickened after eating ginger cakes, purchased from a cake vendor, who loam* to the camp. The matter is to be investigated. _Rhode Island Marine Battery. The Rhode Island battery of light artillery, with about one hundred horses and all the paraphernalia of the company, were on the Avenue yesterday. They were inspected by Inspector General MoDow- ELL, from whom, as might be expected, they re• calved roomituns of praise for the completeness of their equipments, beauty of their animals, and general correctness hitactice. The company were sworn in et the Patent Office. Military Movements in Washington. To•day active movements are in progress among the sevezkl.regimenta A constant marching and countermarching is kept up to and from quarters and drill grounds, and,the fife and drum are heard from a dozen points at the same time. The day is line, and the street of so ranch military display leaves the unaVoidahle Impression on the mind that something of a todsguinary nature is about to take, plass somewhere: '‘. __rTtnv_wrnsrxduaucarri- Moordemany, May •43...!—The Puts" Department le readyJo•take charge of the mails at : any moment 'tlfit'Cogirele may direot. The official seal, books, 'blanks, routes, and clerical force are complete, and no detention of • malls te feared in consequenoe'ef any Tolley of the United States Gov,ernment. Mr. Morton, of Florida ; offered a 'resolution in qUiring into the propriety of appointing chaplains to the navy. Adopted. Mr Ooldltree, of Tell* presented a bill piaci• ding for'ilwoompqmaation,of the dlsbursingdjaeare of the wind departuteitti. - Me, cearadrettLiintsiana,,nerienti inference to the 00124ttec on 4 411ilarts, 'AVM io• The Congress theTayezit iihorot in Congress to-day:, the President, Mr. Cobb, read a despatch from Ds P. sa2,-the commission er froni,l4eorgia, announcing that Arkansas had "pained" ttnanimottely and unconditionally an ordi nance of secession. ' FROM ANNAPOLIS. &Worms, May B.—The Nevr York Twentieth Regiment arrived from Perryville this morning. Thly will prooeed shortly to Wiohington. - Captain Elehiyier Hamilton, from the Relay LDOUOO I reporte that the entire line of road to that point is in the quiet possession of our troops. :Oeneral Butler is expected here to-day. The steamer Thomas sparks, Lieut. Crosby, U. 8. N:, has arrived in port, with the light-boat, which was stationed off Windmill Point, and the convoy in tow. The latter exploded her boiler at the month of the Patuxent, severely scalding one man. Her men were tranferred to the Thomas Bparks. Lieutenant Crosby reports having , found the light-boat twelve miles up the Great Weighoomoco. Her crew managed to escape, leaving a warm breakfast behind. The log showed that three armed schooners had taken possession of her a month since. Lieutenant Crosby saw some two hundred naval ry on shore, and the country was arming. The importance of Annapolis as a military depot ie daily becoming more apparent. An immense quantity of Mores are daily being reoeiyed and distributed. Quartermaster Torniey, and Captain Myers, of Now York, Lite noolotopt, ore briogiog ordor eat or chaos. Captain Smith, of the Thirteenth New York Re ghnent, will command at Annapolis. Western Virginia Solid for the ITnion THE WHEELING CONVENTION. Ddegates from Fourteen Counties I ready ippointed. ARMING OF TEE UNION MEN. Winixtrut, Va., Map B.—A large Union meet. ing waa held - at Kingwood, in Preston ominty, on the 4th inst., at which resolutions were adopted expressing unalterable opposition to the Ordinance of Seoession, and favoring a division of the State to vote for members of Congress. Delegates ware appointed to the Wheeling Convention. Nothing has been heard from the Kanawha re. gion, but advises from the various western coun ties indicate a great increase in the Union senti ment. All the necessary arrangements are being =de for holding the Convention of Western Virginia in this city on Monday. Fourteen counties have thus far appointed delegates. A great deal of enthusiasm is manifested over the receipt of 2,000 stand of arms which reached here to day. I=O , Ml Action of the Legislature on the Haiti more Riot. HARRISBURG, May 8 7 -The report of the select committee on that portion of the governor's mes sage relative to the killing of troops at Baltimore was made this afternoon. It recites the facts, and demands the punishment of all persons taking part in the murders, and.the release of all Algoma of Pennsylvania now - unjustly confined by the Baltimore authorities. A hill is recommended authorizing the governor to take such measures as he may deem best to effect these purposes. The Pennsylvania Militia. "'SPOUTS OF TRA QUARTERMASTER OSNXRAI, AND coxxiseiai GINIRAL HARRISBIIIIG, May B.—The Quartermaster fairne ral'a report, mrde to the Rouse to-day, shows' the following result: Sara total contracted in Philadelphia $69,439 AinOunt paid 21,000 Amount unpaid 47,000 tiopplies worth $13,130 had been sent to Camp Curtin. The Commissary General reports the cost of all articles purchased at Harrisburg for Camp Curtin at,524,1342 This is in addition to the ;09,000 ex pended by Quartermaster Hale in Philadelphia. The Northern Central Railroad. ALL %qua 21131DCIAC8 ERRITIZT. Rininesuno, May B.—All the, bridges on tho Northern Central' Railroad, between here " and Bfiltiololll, have been rebuilt Foe at Memphis, Tenn. Marion's, Tenn., May B.—The block of build Inge at the ooraer of Front Row sad Court atm Wets burned to.day. Loss $BO,OOO. The Latest from the Seat of War. Batertitons, May S.—There has been no mate rial change in affairs at the Relay House. This, afternoon General Ratter tried the range of his battery on the heights, taking ter a tarpt an old, rureeenpled shanty, two•thirds of a mile distant, which was streak with groat precision. The Massachusetts Regiment are UM without tents, sleeping in booths made of fence•rails. tree boughs, and planks. A laughable incident is told of one of them, who, roused by the rain beating upon him. ahouked to biz comrade to " Pat down the window." The funeral of Private Leonard, of the New York Regiment, whose accidental death was noticed yesterday, took plane this afternoon. It was attended by a 'ergs body of military, extending nearly half a mile. The body was buried in the Methodist Church ground. The New York regiment have their camp now in flue order. L illie afternoon they reheat 41 WI. Bag eta' In the centre of the camp, and epread the dare and stripes to the breeze, with loud cheers and rolling of drums. gothe thirty earl ladWWl with prOVitimull and groceries, ohlefly consigned to Government agents, went to Washington today. A rigid examination of all westward bound trains is still main tained, The City Connell of Baltimore thie evening made an appropriation to rebuild the bridge at Canton, on the Philadelphia road. • The recruiting for the United states army in actively progressing here The' National hotel, which has been unoccupied for some time past, bas been rented for quarters. FRZIMIRICK, Md , May S.—About four hundred Kentuckian, Col. Blanton Duncan's command, are reported to have arrived at Ilarperie Ferry. They were unarmed. A cavalry force of 400 men, from the Carlisle Barra°lo, were encamped last, night on fdarah's creek, near Emmetaburg, era route to Washington They are expected to pass near -Frederick to night. Governor Hicks, in reply to the resolution of in quiry by the Legislature tusking whether he con sented to or authorizecl_the burning:4 the bridges on the Northern Ceidral and Philadelphia roads, sip he deithet authorized nor oonsented to the destruction of the said bridges, but left the whole matter in the hands of the Mayor of Baltimore, with the declaration that he bad no authority in the premises, and that he was a lover of law ant order, arid could slot participate in each proeeed- ings. Gen. Butler, in his spsoial brigade order of to day, makes the following allusion to the arrest of Blionoor ; " The eaneral takes this opportunity publicly, as he has done privately, to thank Limits. Fox and Shelley, of the Eighth Regiment, for, their oriel - noes, promptitude and zeal, in arresting one Spencer, who was uttering in the iireeenoe of the 'troops at the Relay House, atrocious sentiments, deolaring that 'we,' meaning himself and brother rebels, 'soled rightly toward the Massaohnsette troops three weeks ago last Friday,' and paying that the murderous mob who killed our friends there were right in the action, and that the same men were preparing to give us a warm reception en our return. "For these treasonable speeobes, substantially admitted by him in his written examination, Spencer has been arrested and sent to Annapolis, where he will be properly dealt with. The other matter to which the Seneral desires to call the attention of the troops is this : Wishing t ) establish the most friendly relations between you and:this neighborhood, the General invited all vendorS of supplied to Tian our camp, and min. ish our somewhat beauty commissariat. "But, to his disgust and horror, he ands well au. thentioated evidenee that a private In the 6th Re. &sent hes been poisoned by means of strych nine adminzstered in food, brought into camp by one of these pedlars. I am happy to be in formed that the man is now out of danger. This sot, of course, wilfrender it necessary for me to cut off all purohooes from unauthorised personi. "Are our few insane enemies among the loyal men of Maryland prepared to wage war upon us in this manner? Do they not know the terrible lesson of warfare they are teaehing us ? Can it be that they do not realize the fact that we can put an agent, with a word, in every household, armed with this terrible weapon? " In view of the terrible eonsequenees of this mode of warfare, if it were adopted by us from their teaoltings, may we not, with every sentiment of devotional prayer, exclaim, Father. forgive them ; they know not what they do.' Certain it is that , any other each attempt, reasonably au thenticated as to tbb person committing it, will be followed by the swiftest, =rest, and meat condign punishment." Capt. Mews and the Slavebolders of Key West. SEIPP ANSW2P. OP SECaJeARY 0111 WAND. WASHINGTON, May will be seen ; from the followingroemoraus.nrtnavisra rroccaost_aoquits Capt. Moir of the coMplainti.whiek followed him from Key West, on his return from reinforcing the , forts of the Gnlf : ' anuroßaripum. DKPAIMIENT or STATI, WASHINGTON, 7th of May, 1881. - The Sixszatery of State boa easefully reed the lettere of Hon Wm. Marvin, Capt. Limit, and Lieut. Morton, sent or submitted to him by Brta- Mar General Totten, and bee farther required - of- Capt. Melgs an amount of the transaction referred t to in then papers. ' It appiana.,frout the information thud obtained,. that - dettain "klareholdein-at West, in, the tltittsof Florida, a long time ago hired to thecnb-' Ile egoitypuf„ . the Government a number of -slaves, at , Yefi,Yratonorstive prices, to be outplayed as lobotero,le the fortifications of the United States,! for a tint of years yet unexpired. Of these a certain number, nqt, it is believed, exceeding twenty, were employed in the fortifiestions at Tor tuga; when Colonel Brown arrived there, and, having need of help: in reinforcing and supplying Fort Pickens. be too - klimixt..to Pensacola, and em ployed them there in landing stores from the At: lanuc and Ekinott, at Port Pickens. It is not complained in the papers before me that the masters are not paid or to be paid fer the labor of the sloven. On the contrary, Captain Meigs distinctly understood that the quartermaster is to pay their wages toile masters of the slaves at Key West, as heretofore. It is not pretended that the quartermaster has violated or intends to violate the contract of hire In any way. It must ba en tirely immaterial to the master whether the Slaves work at Tortugas or Fort Plaque. Both these places are situated in the State of Florida. They are alike safe under the Government In both eases. Should the contract be broken by the public, noun!, the President will take cue to see that due redress is afforded. I am not able to understand what there is wrong or censurable in this matter. Some of the letters say the masters of the slaves hired them as laborers at Fort Jefferson, and would not have consented if asked, to their being Bent to Fort Pickens. This special point is not sustained by any proof. On the other band, the contract wan made years ago, and for years yet to come, and though ills assumed that they were hired to labor at Key West, they were nevertheless actually found laboring at' the Tortugas without any objection on the part of the masters. It is not at all probable that the Govern ment, when hiring men to work at its fortifications in one port of the State, stipulated that they should not be employed in another within the same State. It is said in another letter that the transaction is likely to be represented throughout the-Southern States as negro stealing—as a disregard by the Government of of the rights of memen— tos the commencement of a course of interfe ranee with slavery leading to its pholition—u the employment of slaves by the General Government in acts of hostility against the mastere—as forc ing negro slaves to make war on the whites, and if they should be placed under the fire cf guns without their oongsnt or the consent of their mai• tore it might be represented as inhuman. These are very strained conceits. The papers show that the colored men went from the one port to the other voluntarily and oheerfally. They can in no ease be exposed to fire exeept from - the-citizens of the Slate of Florida in an attack of direct and unlaw ful war against the United States. Even their return of that fire could not be an act of hostility against their masters, unless those masters them selves should be found. voluntarily there, in arms against not only their own slaves, but spinet the Government and the whole people of the United States;"a _crime which it is not to be supposed they will commit Again, it in not to be presumed that the slaves will be compelled to booome cont. batints at alkesoept in a case where military ne• amity would justify meting any persons found in the fort become oombatants and it is not easy to use that negro !slaves have any greater right than free white persons to exemption - from the hazards rendered necessary for the public safety in a time of civil war. New Jersey Legislature. TRENTON, May B.—ln the Senate, this morning, the loan bill was amended so as to authorise a loan of two million dollars instead of one million, as In the House bill; , and in that shape the bill was passed. It is believed that the Rouse will concur in the amendment. A bill authorizing the Governor to raise four regiments for the State service, to purchase ten thousand stand of the beet muskets or rifles, end ati many field-pieces, with munitions of war, as the Governor may deem necessary ; and to alter the four or five thousand flint-look muskets owned by the State, was passed by the Haase this morning and amended in the Senate. Bills authorising the cities of Newark, Vinton, Rahway, Camden, and Bordentown to raise money to support the families of volunteers have been in trodrursd, and will be passed. The Senate resolutions or thanks to the Gover nor, the President, &c., were passed by the Bones to day, by a unanintte TOW. The people are highly gratified by the commendations which the New Jersey volunteers receive from all quarters. We have now several oompanies which will com pare favorably with any troops In, the Union, either volmateers or regulars.- From present &p -i-nitre/20es there will be no difflealty ha raking all the men called for to serve for three years. or during the war. Military Movements in Missouri. Sr. Lotus, May 7.—The Union Home Guards of the First and Second wards, numbering I,soo,were sworn into the emit* of the United States to day. The companies formed in the other wards will be sworn in during the week. These men are to be allowed to remain with their families and follow their usual avocations, but will be required to do guard duty one day in each week. Capt. Lyon has received orders to wept 10 000 volunteers. Be has already upwards of 5,000 mastered into, the service, and the Home Guard of this city will complete, and perbars azeeed, the Complement, ATCHISON, MO., May 7.—At the numlelPel also. tion, to-day, Mr. Fatrobßd,'Unien eaudidate for Mayor, was elected by 28 insjority, over Mr. Hieltedl. The election was very warmly eon tested, though it, passed off unietly. This city has heretofore given a Danooralio _majority of Owns 200. The Union men are overjoyed at their vietory. Secession Message of Gov. MagaMa. Lourrvir.Ln, May 8 —Governor Magdalen mes sage was-reoeived by the Lope'lature to-day. He Nye the eemi-offielal aunoaueement of • pacific policy on the part of the Bedesel Government has Neen broken. The country hie been involved in a civil war, which, If not successfully resisted, will prove fatal to the liberties of the peepla. He charges the President, with the usurpation of power in creating a standing army, mad with sectional hate to mcbjogate or exterminate the people of ten or more States. Seven States bar: , ebtatalbed a Confederacy which seems to receive the cordial and undivided allegiance of their entire population. North Ca rolina, Tenneuee, and Arkansas will soon join it, while Missouri, Maryland, and Delaware, where the public, sentiment favors a like step, are con sidering the propriety of Joining the Confederacy He declares the American Union dissolved, and that war actually exists, and asks whether Ken tnaky shall continue with the North, and sesame her portion of the enormous war debt being in- Inured, or whether she shall declare her own inde pendence and, single banded, prepare to maintain it, or whether she shall make common cause with the slaveholding Stated? lie says he dime not propose to disease the sub ject, but refers it to the people. Au the begiela tare wag elected two years ago, he recommends the passage of a law for a State Convention and elec• don of delegate'. He regrets that' hie proposition to arm the State was not carried out byt e last Legislature. lie compliments the Commercial, Louisville, and Southern Banks for tendering money to , procure arme, but says he fears that, from the refusal of the other banks, the opportu nities for obtaining large supplies of effective guns and munitions of war have been lost He recommends the issue of thoutumd.dollar bonds to secure fends fel the purchase of arms. He compliments the ability and aooomplishments o f the State Guard. He speaks of the oe-operation of the Executives of Ohio and Indiana .for the pre conrallOn Of amicable relations and - trade, bat says they cannot control their law/e0 citizen& alio tears that an armed collision will prevail along the whole border unless effectual means are taken to prevent it. He says his proposition to the General Government to suspend hostilities till the meeting of Congress met with no mumastr, and asks that all party feeling be now extinguished, and tbat Ken tucky immediately maintain the peso., honor, and safety of her citizens. From California - - IBr. Pen, Expreas..l - . . AFFECT OF IBS WAR NEWS--RISEARRASSMERT Or TISEABIIItE EIBIPMMINTB Roar Ba..tuaix, May B.—The California Pony Express passed here yesterday afternoon. SAN Fitascusoo, April 27-3 40 P. M.—Arrived 25th, ship Memnon, from Manilla, bark Isle of France, from Sydney, ship Bald Eagle, from Kong- Hong. Bailed 24th, bark Ogle, for Valparaiso ; schooner Ida, for the Amour river; 26th, ship . Lotus, for Hong-Kong. The ship Syren cleared on the 25th for Boston, with a cargo consisting of 12 000 sacks of barley, 500 seeks of wheat, 3.000 halesof wool, 1.700 hides, and 3,200 sacks of dipper ere. This latter is des tined to become an important item of California escorts. In beating out of the harbor without employ . ing a steam tag, the Syron run on a rook, sustaining such damage as to require the discharging of her cargo, and going into dry dook. The ship Revenue is under oharter for bread stuffs for Australis. Gana= News ..The receipt of the Eastern news to the 15th inst., advising the taking of Fort Sumpter, and the probable oommenoement of civil war, has had its effect upon the business community, causing all to observe the utmost caution about new ventures. While it is believed California will suffer less from civil war than any other State, the apprehension of serious business derangements here is seriously entertained. The effect of the war news is most perceptible in embarrassing treasure movements. Last night 'a mooting of hankers was hold to determine the policy to pursue about shipping treasure to New York by ocean steemors, but nothing definite was arranged. The insurance agents refuse to insure treasure against the hazards of war. The ex change market is consequently unsettled. Some eight drafts on New York were purohased at 4 per cent. to remit eastward by to.day'e pony express. Some of the New York treasure shipped hence by the steamer of the let May will probably be trans ferred at Aspinwall io the British West /naia mail hue. It ie difficult to report, at the present time, what the peculiar sentiment of California is in regard to the war policy of the Administration. In San Francisco, although no public demonstrations have taken place, the fettered tone of conversation seems to be to sustain the Praddent at all hasards, In his efforts to preserve the Union. The Legislature bas' rejected a 'bill calling a Congressional election for the 18th of May, the ob ject of which was to elect two members of Con ela, i v n time to take their seats in the extra lea , mon. The bill was defeated in the Assembly, by the combined strength of the Itreokinridge Demo crats and Republicans, evidently for the .reason that they feared the Douglas Democrats would get the moat advantage from the Union sentiment of the State, and sleet their candidates, if the elec. Lion takes place so soon. The arr ival of Gen. Sumner, to assume the corn mend of the Government forces on this coast, is the subject of congratulation by many, although it ill not believed that any snapieione of the loyalty of the United States officers were justifiable. General Johnston, however, resigned some weeks ago, and it is commonly reported that he is about to depart for the East to join the Army of the Confederate States. - • • - - • -. The Catholic, school bill has been defeated in the Legislature by a large majority. It is Understood that Senator MoDougsill will de part fbr Washington on the 20th of May, and Sena tor Latham on the 15th of June, Mr. Latham is to receive a oompllmentary dinner at Sitn Fran. &rico, and some kind of demonstration in his favor is preparing at Sacramento. General Lane, after spending a few days in this city, hes gone to Oregon. The llome Guard. HARnlnEtrad, May 8 —A severe debate teak plans in the Senate to-day between McClure, Fin ney and ilinith. - upon the bill establishing the game Guard of Philadelphia. Mr. Finney and Mr. McClure otjeoted to letting thi.bid, go farther than Is 'woad readin:gostil thi General Militia bill, tending In the Roue, shall pass finally. Mr. Smith urged the immediate passage of the bill. It was finally laid over for a setarad tending. The dismission between Mr. Finney and Mr. Smith was fall of sharp personalities. Another Requisition, lieunrearno, May S —The Oeturaisearyls ac count of disbursements has been produced by Thomas Webster, and gives general satisfaction. A further requisition upon Pennsylvania for BIM regiments, to serve for the war, is expected to-day. Min) , land Legislature. Md.,lllay S.—The Court /louse was nearly destroyed by fire shortly after midnight. It was supposed to have'been set en fire. The probabilities now are that the Legislature will adjourn on Friday, until July 10th. At a 01111008 of the members of the House, lest night, it was almost unanimously determined to abandon the proposition for a State Convention. Aid to the State. Hanannuno, May B.—The Philadriptia Cinoin aati Posiety have sent Governor Curtin $5OO as a contribution towards arming the State. Sailing of the if. S. Steam Frigate Min• nB9O H. BosToN, May S.—The United Witco atearaer Minnoaota called at 10 o'clock thief morning, with aulati ardepa. A Pernicious Telegram. TEN STATE LEGISLATURE INDIGNANT HAERIMIIMIG. May 8 —The despot , * published in the Philadelphia papers of this evening, de °hiring that the if ohniteerfs riebtoribled here-would drive the Legislature out of the Capitol if they bad a leader, is utterly without foundation in fact. The House, after an animated debate. appointed a committee of three to investigate the author ship of the report, and the correspondent will doubtless be expelled if discovered. The com mittee have been able to determine so far, that the report was not disseminated through the legiti mate channel of telegraphic news—the. Associated Press—but was the connection of some irrespotudE ble party. Camp Slifer, at Champersburg. HARRISBURG, May 8 —A member of the Legis lature, who has just returned from Camp Slifer says the troops were in flue health and spirits, and anxious to advanotoon Harper's Ferry. There we some complaint among them relative to the quality of the food• Onsinurnsmraa, Mai B.—An interestiog oeremony was performed this afternoon at Camp Slifer. Col. George W. Brewer presented a Rag on behalf of the ladies of Ohamberiburg. to the Eighth Regi ment. It was received by Judge Cunningham,f Wilkeabarre. Eloquent and patriotic addre ssee were made. The regiment formed a square during the presentation. The soldiers here are all well and in Sue sprite, impatient for notion. - Abuse of Fire-arms in Washington. *MUM ACCIDENT TO MR. SIMONTON AND RIB WINE -A SOLDIER FATALLY WOITADSD WASHINGTON, May S—Mr Simonton, of the New York Tunes, was seriously but not danger ously wounded thin afternoon. Just as be had passed a military outpost en the city suburbs, the captain levelled a gun down the road, who:nit sud denly exploded. The ball penetrated the =uncle of Mr. Simonton's right shoulder, and, grazing the bone, came out near the windpipe. The horses attached his carriage took fright, the vehicle was overturned, and Mrs Simonton, who asoom panita her husband, was thrownta the ground and severely bruised on the head and face. Much excitement was,occasioned in Pennsylva nia avenneto-night owing to the thoothig of a sol dier by, it Is said, a policeman who was in pursuit of him. The wound being in the head, it is sup posed will prove fatal. 'Abe Indignation against the pollee is intense,among the military. Military Movements in Vermont. Now Tong, May B.—Warren Leland, of the Metropolitan Hotel, has tendered his services to the governor of Vermont, hie Waive IRMO, to lead the first regiment of the Green Mountain boys. The Maine Ship Builders. THIRTY BTXAMERB TIUSTrIENED TO, THE GOVERN Avenges, May 8 —At' a meeting of the lending ship owners and commercial men of the Slate, a resolution was adopted tendering their services to the Government, and pigging their ability to fur• nish thirty Mena vesicle in -sixty or ninety asp. A committee bee been appointed to proceed to Washington and urge vigorous aetlon in the pre. mhos. The Blaine Troops. PC;WILLND. May B.—The First regiment wont into camp today near the Marine Hcapital. The ififth regiment will encamp on the bland Pond restmantree. BUG= Firtz.-10, alarm of tire was caused 011 Ti1e20.7 night by the burnt wg•of some bed clothes and clothing, at a house in Fifteenth street, above Parrish. A Fotorourita.—At a Jute hour on Inooday night a OS&r about two mob* Phi we. foaud on tit* door-Mops of *throning in ffrankliii 'trout, aboro Parrbb. Departure of lit Artillery Reel,lt A,lolPkOrilllga Yesterday morning, according to etinoun turew the let Regiment of Artillery left Pht[mom; via Baltimore railroad, for the seat of War 0, 4 .4 had been brined to the colonels of four regle tuue to keep the men in the armories on Tau% ni gh and have them ready for instant motion at as ~,t 1: hour on Wednesday. lheee orders, however, ac N 3 I sountermanded so farthe three remelt:Mg tee , mints were eonoerned, and the Artillery r eghlut under ooinmand of Col. Frannie E. Patterson Ms, gregated on the west of Washington Squ are The companies marched from their several le o , rise in different quarters of the city nteg tmecia., and nit more than ten minutes elapsed h ttot ` , J , the arrival of the first and of the last te e "; Snob pramptnere of 'talon argues happily ; 01 . Ware of this regiment. The men In facthod het, with a desire to leave the city, trd continued restraint and disappointment to vrhk, th e y had been eubjeoted bed become too m ot , i, none and irksome for the martial ardor with ltbiot they were animated. The companies and efh cer, are as follows : Colonel, Fraud! B. Patterson ; LiEuteuaut ,p, , nel, Robert 0. Tyler ; Major, William t Lte,i, Adjutant, Gideon Clark ; burgeon, Dr Be Ai, eistant Burgeon, Dr. Shippen : Regiment Q ua:. termaster, Eugene D. Denton , • CAPTAIN 9. Company A, Washington gram Thos . P P, rn Company B , Philadeiphia Grays, D. F. Foley' Company C, WOOL Philadelphia Grays, Jok e I f Gardiner,. Company D, National Artillery, Joseph Slee t Company A State Gwerd, Robert Thoeim . Company P,woad company, WEiebingtct Graya, Alexander _Murphy. Company H, Benond c ompany, Philadc Ais Grays, Willie& Pruner. Company H, Cadwaluder Grays, Issas Be gideL Campany4,lndependeet (I rays, W J. J land. Company K, Second company, Cactw i i & d er onsi. Citadels Tapper. TEM SCION AT THI BQl7Arts At eight o'clock the streets oontignenus to ington liquors were alive with people. A sun ba r of companies in this regiment include in the rant ; the sons of some of our wealthiest Citizens 19i sisters, parents, and families of the volunteers , rt early upon the ground, anxious to witness the marching of the regiment, and say the lett too bye Under the beautiful trees that envirooss the square, and in the clear cool morning, the yin , from a west avenue, when the troops, oempe t y after company, arrived, wee picturesque and stir ring in the extreme. To the sound of the drert and fife, the tramp of Squads of men kept elroug, resolute music. Column after solemn of brigh t bayonets came filing up the street, and the ladies, clustered upon the sidewalks, upon balconies, and crowding the front steps of dwellings, shook ther handkerchiefs and smiled, and saddened by ltr ni as if conscious, not alone of the coming peril, be, also of the pride inseparable from defenders of tbs Government. By•and by a detachment of ma officers cleared the middle of the street, and sand. nets paced the cutb-atones with muskets at "e ncl. des inns " to keep book the crowds. Then the-fine regimental band Caine upon the :ground, playing the "Star Spangled Banal ht which all the people buret into a loud hare, sod the boys threw up their hate. There were lota elderly females there—mothers, perhope—oho wore troubled faoes, as if not altogether *Oho give up their sone, even for their country. sub had grown seilleh, and might have learned lease. of patriutiam from the younger folk', some et whom. in the dearer espacitiee of a wife end of I betrothed, beheld the departure of those In Into their hopen were central, with a tear, portiere, but tears rather of exultation than of regret When the whole regiment had - been thou drain ep—fall eight hundred men—they pretreated eiugularly warlike appearance. Their blenkee were rolled up and buckled to the tope of their knapsacks, which latter were strapped to their backer. They also wore haversacks, and sere supplied with two daps' provisione. The men carried full cartridge boxes, but in the meow of muskets were very diesinellarly provided for Two or three companies carried the Mini, mar kete, with the improved Minh eight. (Alien entiti the old-fashioned muskets, altered from dint to per• oussion lock, but, on the whole, the men were very creditably equipped, and beyond some little it eonvenleince. which they experienced from the weight of their baggage, were in good ipirin, anxious for a skirmish, and totally averse to at. maiming in the city for any further time. Mat ei the men had their hair /tweed close, and, with the exception of ten oompenita, wore grey overeats . At the southwent corner of the egaere, that so quiet Javelin of pleasant streets, more then twenty baggage and provision east* wereelationed. That were express wagons, ferry warps, end mallet wagons. In these there were ordinary try geode boxes. Bedtime the drylgoodi boxes, bere were tent-poles, absent' vaiime, wagons full of corn fall of biscuit and met ALONZ TEL ROUTE. The troops moved.mp Walnut street to hum and down Broad to the depot, starting at sin o'clock. Along all the Way; the pavemeata, door. steps, and windows, were crowded with people Beautiful women threw kisses as they caught the smiles of rough-faced men in uniform, and a ben of wives parsed the troops upon the sidewalk ; keeping full pace with them, determined at any heteid to - wade the depot ib lim=o to main a lest good-bye salutation. They were sheared reread °dip, and it seemed that all the enthusiastio people in the city ware out on Walnut stoat, for a m amma volley of shoats kept pace with thh umn all the way from Washington Ethan to Broad and Prime streets: They reached the depot at quarter to 10 o'clock, and the band played the beautiful murk' of " Era of Thee," at they =smiled company after oompaot behind a quad of policemen, through the great hall to the middle platform, when they proceeded almost immediatelyto the care. The scene was of t he meet animated dokription An immense thrpiii of persons had gathered to wit ness the departelre of this 'splendid body of troop!. and to bid them farewell. As a large proportion of the VOOl4Oll were friends or relatives of tbe gallant soldiers, there was no mistaking the hearti ness of the greeting they reoeived, or the warm In terchange of feeling which took place during the time that elapsed between the time of the arrival of the men and the starting of the train. An affecting teens warred just after the troorl had taken meats in the oars. A red bearded mil with rough sandy locks, eat at an open window looking wistfully out upon the owaylog poPII confusedly mingled with the volunteers. Us great hand rested • upon the sill, and it war Teri rough and warred: He had unstrapped hie knap . each and haversaok, and eat very still and pig) , as if full of some weighty ,. sore *hit would not lit him smile, and that kept -him peering into to crowd. Haring regarded the people several tines very cloaely, he turned his head with a diesp pointed expression, and leaned eteadfastly clot his hand.- Directly, through the jostling, pushing, ltasict crowd, a very diminutive woman, bearing a situp faced child in her arms, urged herself She hsi a pale s nervous face, and likewise peered ar t " antiy among the soldiers as. if Ceiling to mml some one gases from the ranks. The child looktd quietly down from her shoulder, and held fast It her neck by one arm, while with the other he pointed hither and thither, at gilded elf' Ina blue troweers and gleaming bayonets. dll st the eyes of the little woman, and the ape of the child, and the eyes of the rough soldier who est st the window, seemed to meet at the same time. The child relaxed lie grasp of the mother's fleet 00 thrust out both hands toward the man, while lu sickly feei became overspread with a very hiPPY expreerion. The little woman very nearly drePl o the Child in the new of her delight, aid ejeedl t4 " Willyum !" as lithe world bad no other inhabitist at that time, and the depot had become depopai°_, of everybody else. The man " Willyum" aPP 64 7, to ray " Blister," and in a moment he bid Pe"' his feet upon the sill and let himself out of the or window with wondrous agility. lie took It sickly ohild out of its mother's arm, and kissed several times, at which the diminutive souse burst into great lamentations, and the child, Pi'_ i Willy smothered with the violence of the Pa y embrace, improved the intervals to eob, it a ow:: net altogether inseplioable. The people fell wra. for there was something unusual in the Weill wane before them, and not a few were 5 ° 1E11 ; tears by the agony of the mother and wile, the feeling of the man—too great for tool grief. In a moment the losomotive whlla s 7 shrilly. The man replaced hit child. 10" wife a single kiss, and vanished over the t 1 r 11144 ,. of the car door, while the women went OD lOg biog. The Roman felon whose punishment WD9 dos' goon until he had filled a gOblet with tears, toji bt have soon expiated his erbium at Broad and prima streets yesterday, for the tears were not drops, at showers, that seemed to sprinkle all the dull gangways, and oonseorate them for the tic* Hare a boy would break from the racks sod kl an old, gray-haired, toothless woman, who 60111 not see him through the tears that ran everd"Pr 1"` eyes until he had entered the tramping I"`"'a again, and gone on to the music of the dram,e h 4 "' momentary memorial clad regrets to agonis martial purpose. The families that slept loot night upon moist pit' lows, with groans that sometimes swelled tbroogt pled Ki t the dusky chamber, and dreams ever peo some baby face, that grew up until boarded man' hood Made it no longer the pet, but the prlde home—tbese, with bitterness in their hear% O a fear that was all the greater for their great will go about today with years of a sight's gro'cu' upon their faces, sadder and tremulous. Let them go ! For if there were rto sorrow 04 no blood shad, there would be no heroism. Zhu boys are perpetuating In their lives the fret' ilt' no w t of history, and the age, through h en" not be forgotten, when its heroism emu to ik i bar By heliport eleven o'clock the hot adlea been spoken, the last hearty shake of the band bus been given, and the loeomotive puked 0 10 . 11 , t° wards the Bohnylkia. dragging after it so 10110—
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