The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-24 00:00:00

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sylvania Regiments, together with five companies of the
regular infantry and Sherman's battery, comprising 1,500
men, arrived there yesterday morning, having passed
through the suburbs of Baltimore, arriving at Locust
Point, which is located in the south-east suburbs of the
city, about a mile from Fort M'Renry, on the north-west
branch of the Patapsco, being the coal depot of the Balti-
more and Ohio Railroad. The tract upon which they
passed runs about four miles through the southerly portion
of the city. They were not molested intheir passage. A force
of Ohio troops, 1,800 strong, now stationed- at Lancaster,
together with a large force of Pennsylvania troops, are to
follow at once. The whole force at Washington and with-
in the city limits at present consists of 25,000 men sir: com-
panies of flying artillery, with 36 field-pieces.
"Eleven steamers from Philadelphia, New York, and
Boston have arrived at Washington within the last 48
hours laden with ammunition, uniforms, stores, and
blankets for the soldiers.

"There are said to be fully 1,000 rebel troops still in
Alexandria.

" The work of repairing the bridges on the Bush and Gun-
powder rivers is progressing rapidly, and will be completed
in all probability by Sunday, in which event the trains will
be run on Monday or Tuesday. The people in 'those dis-
tricts appear to be quite friendly, but guards are strictly
kept there night and day.
" With regard to the movement, of the Southern troops,
we learn that Virginia is divided into 22 military districts,
in which the armed bodies are concentrating, the principal
points being Richmond, Petersburg, and Culpepper. Six
hundred men from new Orleans have just arrived at one of
these stations, and it was said that a concentration of troops
was to be made at City Point, on the James river, and at
Fort Powhatln, on the York river. _ _ _

" While such is the disposition of the forces on both sides,
other events of equal importance are transpiring in other
quarters, which may have a very potent influence on the
future issue of the struggle. Western Virginia, for ex-
ample, holds out strongly against Secession, and refuses to
be dragged into the contest. A Convention is to assemble at
Wheeling on Monday for the purpose of considering the
question of forming a separate State out of the counties west
of the Alleghanies. Thirty-three counties, it is said, will
be represented at the Convention, all in favour of maintain-
ing the United States Government. It is intended to elect
a Governor, members of the Legislature, a United States
Senator, and representatives to Congress, and in every way
to act as a Sovereign State. This proceeding will tend to
cripple the energies of the Secessionists in Virginia, and
leave them at the mercy of the Government.
"In the Maryland Legislature yesterday, the Committee
on Federal Relations made a report to the effect that the war
now waged against the Confederate States was unconstitu-
tional and repugnant to civilisation, and would result in a
bloody and shameful overthrow of their institutions, but
that while they sympathise with the South, they also recog-
nise the obligations of Maryland to the United States Go.
vernment ; and though protesting against the war, Mary-
land will take no part in it. They implore the President,
in the name of God, to cease this unholy war,' at least
until Congress meets. The report further declares that
Maryland desires and consents to the recognition of the
independence of the Confederate States, and protests against
a military occupation of her soil, though the violent inter-
ference with the passage of Federal troops is discontinued.

It i. confidently believed that this report-will be adopted by
the Legislature.
"An insurrection of the slaves in Ewen and Gelatin
counties, Kentucky, is raging to such an extent that an ap-
peal has been made to the people of Indiana for assistance
to suppress it, and Captain Wills,of Rising Sun, Indiana,
has secured the services of two companies to the Kentuck-
ians to put down the insurgents.
" The news from Texas, as r eaeived from New Orleans
last night, is of a very exciting character. General Van
Dorn, a Secessionist leader, left Victoria on the 6th with a'
regiment to intercept Colonel Reeve's command of 600
"United States troops above San Antonio. Captain Lee's
company of the Bth Infantry surrendered to the rebels at
the same point; and Colonel Waite, the successor of Gen.
Twiggs, was in the hands of the rebels as a prisoner of war.

" From Pensacola we learn that the entrance to the chary,.
nel has been obstructed by sinking ves3els to prevent the
entrance of ships of war. The military status quo of Fort
Pickens remains unchanged.
"The North-Western States aro actively displaying their
loyalty to the Government, Although the quota of men
called for from Wisconsin was 1,000 men, that State has
enrolled seven regiments, comprising 7,000 men, and the
Legislature has appropriated 317,000 dols. for their equip-
ment and maintenance."

According to a despatch from Harrisburg, Gove-
nor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, had refused an appli-
cation made by private parties of the Eastern states
to permit bodies of armed free blacks to pass through
Pennsylvania.
In the State of New Jersey laws had passed both
Houses of the Legislature for raising a loan of
2,000,000 dols. and four new regiments ; to pur-
chase arms, artillery, and munitions of war ; to pay
the families of volunteers 6 dols., and volunteers,
without families 4 dols. a month extra ; together
with other bills to provide for the State and the
war, have been passed, and the Government is now
busily engaged in enrolling the volunteers, who are
offering in large numbers.
The Few York Herald of the 10th says :—" We
are placed this morning is passession of the im-
portant intelligence that the threatened movement
of troops upon Baltimore has taken place. On
Wednesday the Pennsylvania troops, accompanied
by Sherman's Battery, proceeded from Elkton to
the Susquehanna, where they were to embark by
steam for Baltimore direct, while, simultaneously,
the troops tinder command of Major-General Keim
would advance by the Northern Central Railroad,
the burnt bridges of which had been repaired. A
third column, consisting of some 4,000 or 5,000
men, with flying artillery, under command of Gene-
ral Butler, accompanied by General Harney, were
ordered to march to the same destination from the
Relay-house, and thus to co-operate with the
movements of the other two columns. In addition
to these operations, General Scott was about to
push troops forward to Binney's•bridge, north of
Georgetown ; and it is stated that large bodies of
troops will soon pass into Virginia, and in the
event of any hostile movement of the enemy on the
line of the Potomac, 10,000 Federal soldiers can be
placed on its right bank in a few hours. Mean-
time, it is reported that the Virginians have seized
the heights upon the Maryland side of the Potomac
in the vicinity of Harper's Ferry, and that the
Government has the important information that
large moves of troops are concentrating in that
position, with a view to march upon Maryland, so
as to draw off a portion of the Federal troops from
Washington, and thus weaken it preliminary to an
attack from the opposite side. It seems that Wig-
fall announces that there are cne hundred thousand
Southerners on their way to Washington, that Mr.
Lincoln and his Cabinet will be captured unless
they retreat before the middle of June, and that,.
as for Wigfall, he intends to winter in Philadelphia.
We wonder he did not say New York, or even
Boston. That troops are continuing to advance to
Virginia from the South there can be no doubt. It
is stated by one correspondent that 50,000 (just
half Wigfall's number) have been sent to the Old
Dominion, and that every able-bodied man, from
16 to 60, is compelled to take up arms."
A member of Congress from Louisiana, Mr.
Bouligny, who had arrived in 'Washington, stated
that 4,000 men had left New Orleans for Lynch-
burg, Virginia, and that large bodies of troops
were concentrating in that locality from various
quarters. He described the Union feeling as very
strong in L arisiana, but that it was kept in com-
plete subjection by the Secessionsts.
The most active preparations were going on in
all the Northern States, and troops were rapidly
advancing from every point in the direction of
Washington. The Government at Washington
were also most vigorous in strengthening them-
selves to meet any emergency, and making exten-
sive preparations for the impending conflicts. It is
sending out agents to Europe to purchase a number
of modern gunboats of light draught to complete
the blockade. It had already purchased the
Southern lines of steamers and all others, with the
exception of Vanderbilt's and the Havre line. The
frigate Minnesota had sailed from Boston under
sealed orders, and the Niagara was on her way to
blockade Charleston.
Orders had been received by the Collector of the
Port of St. Louis, from the Secretary to the Trea-
sury, to examine the manifest of all vessels bound
South, and if any arms, munitions, provisions, and
other supplies are found on board, to confiscate the
cargo and arrest the owners for treason.
A Montgomery paper eitYs that the dinner which

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Jefferson Davis some time since told his confede-
rates he would take in the White House at Wash-
ington, on the Ist of May, had been postponed till
the 10th of June.
Alabama papers think that the capital of the
rebellious States will be removed in less than a
month, and that Richmond will be the place for its
location.
The New York Herald, of the 11th, says :
" There is no truth in the report published, that the
Kedar was to sail immediately with provisions and
troops for the Government, and ' that three or four
of the fine steamers of the Cunard line will be
chartered and remain in the service during the en-
tire war.' The charter of the Kedar is terminated,
and the owners of the Cunard line have never been
applied to, nor thought of chartering any of the
ships of their line."

PROCLAMATION OF THE GOVERNOR
OF GEOR9I4I.

REPUDIATING DEBTS.-ARGUMENTS FOR DIS.
HONESTY.

Whereas, by the oppressive and wicked conduct
of the Government and people of that part of the
late United States of America known as the anti-
slavery, states, war actually exists between them
and the people of the southern states; and whereas,
the President of the United States has issued his
proclamation, declaring his determination to
blockade the ports of the southern states, and is
now collecting federal troops upon southern soil for
the purpose of subjugating and enslaving us • and
whereas property belonging to the citizens of the
state of Georgia, whenever found within the anti-
slavery states, is seized and forcibly taken from
its owners; and whereas all contracts made with
the enemy during the existence of hostilities,
are, by the law of nations, illegal and void,
and all remedies fig the enforcement of eon-
tracts in our courts between citizens of this state
and citizens of the states now making war upon
us, which were made prior to the commencement
of hostilities, are suspended till the termination of
the war; and whereas, in the language of the law
of nations, " The purchase of bills on the enemy's
country or the remission and deposit of funds there,
is a dangerous and illegal act, because it may be
cherishing the resources and relieving the wants
of the enemy, and the remission of funds in money
or bills to subjects of the enemy is unlawful ;" and
whereas sound policy as well as international law
absolutely forbids that any citizen of this state
shall, under any pretext whatever, assist the
enemy by remitting, paying, or furnishing any
money or other thing of value, during the con-
tinuance of hostilities, to the Government or
people of the states which have waged and are
maintaining a most unnatural and wicked war
against us • and whereas justice requires that all
sums due from citizens of this state to individuals
in such hostile states who do not uphold and sustain
the savage and cruel warfare inaugurated by their
Government, should be promptly paid so soon as
hostilities have ceased, and the independence of the
Confederate States is recognised by the Govern-
ment of the United States :
Therefore, in view of these considerations, I,
Joseph E. Brown, Governor and Commander-in-
Chief of the army and navy of the State of
Georgia, do issue this my proclamation, com-
manding and enjoining upon each citizen or inha-
bitant of this State, that he abstain absolutely
from all violations of the law above recited, and
that he do not, under any pretext -whatever,
remit, transfer, or pay to the Government of the
United States, or any one of the States com-
posing said Government, which is known as a free
soil state, including among others the States of Mas-
sachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ohio; or to any
citizen or inhabitant of any such State, any money,
hills, drafts, or other things of value, either in pay-
ment of any debt due or hereafter to become due,
or for or on account of any other cause whatever,
until the termination of hostilities.
And I hereby invite each citizen or inhabitant of

this State who is indebted to said Government or
either of said States, or any citizen or inhabitant
thereof, to pay the amount of such indebtedness,
whenever due,into the treasury of Georgia, in any
(undo bonhablo in Augusta or Savannah, or
to deposit the same subject to the order of
the treasurer of this State, in any one of the
solvent banks of either of said cities, or in
any legally authorised agency of either of
said banks; and upon the making of any such
deposit at the treasury, or upon presentation of any
such certificate of deposit, the treasurer of this state
is hereby directed and required to deliver to such
person a certifica/e specifying the sum so deposited,
which I hereby declare the faith and credit of this
state will be pledged to repay to such depositor in
funds bankable in Augusta and Savannah, with 7
per cent. interest from the date of the deposit,
so soon as hostilities shall have ceased, and it
shall again be lawful for debtors to pay the
same to creditors in the hostile states above men-
tioned. This will not only afford to such of our
citizens as owe money to Northern creditors, which
international law and public policy forbid them at
present to pay, a safe investment and the highest
security for its return to them at the end of the
war, but it will enable them, in the meantime,
to perform a patriotic duty and to assist the
state, and through her Confederate States, in raising
the funds necessary to the successful defence of our
homes, our firesides, and our altars.
And I do further command and strictly enjoin
upon all and every chartered bank in this state,
which may be in possession of any note, bill, draft,
or other paper binding any citizen of this state to
pay money to any one of the said hostile states, or
any inhabitant or corporation thereof, or belong-
ing to any such state or person, to abstain from pro-
testing any such draft, bill, note, or other paper ;
provided the person liable on such bill, draft, note,
or other paper, will exhibit to such bank or any of
its agencies, having such paper in possession, a cer-
' tificate showing that he has deposited the amount due
on such paper, in the treasury of this state, or in
any one of the banks above mentioned, to the credit
of the treasurer, or will at the time such paper be.
comes due, make such deposit. And I further com-
mand and require all notaries public in this state,
to abstain absolutely from the performance of any
official act for the protest of any paper of the cha-
racter above mentioned, under such circumstances
as arc hereinbefore specified.
Given under my hand the great seal of this
state, at the Capitol, in Milledgeville, this 26th day
April, in the year of our Lord 1861, and of the in-
dependence of the Confederate States of America
the first.
By the Governor. JOSEPH E. BROWN.
E. P. Watkins, Secretary of State.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, TIII7RSDAY.

To-day a deputation from Galway is to wait upon
the Lord Lieutenant about the withdrawal of the
subsidy from the Transatlantic Company, and a
numerously-signed requisition has been presented
to the Lord Mayor, requesting him to call a public
meeting on the same subject for Saturday.
The Government have at length disposed of the
Crown tiolicitorships left vacant since the death of
Sir Matthew Barrington. Cork has been given to
Mr. Gilman, Limerick to Mr. William Roche, and
Kerry with Clare to Mr. A. Morphy, each solicitor
having a salary of £9OO a year, out of which he
will have to defray all necessary expenses.
Troops arrived at Kingstown yesterday from
China-370 men of the 87th Regment ; they are to
be stationed in Dublin.

A a return to
THE PAPER DIITY.—CIa Wednesday
was issued, showing the amount of paper duty
March, 1859,
the House of Commons, obtained by Sir Stadffuytyrd Nor
each quarter of the year, ending
threounds in which the
1860, and 1861, distinguishing the
be first
quarter ended 30th
amounts were collected. In the first
was £306,592, and
June, IEB, the amount of
_dudt.y °in
the last quarter given,
colleethtedetien'
the amount collected X31_211,8.1_ was £360,654, and the amount
the 31st March last, the duty
eight is in the course of col-
collect collected Z 360,080. Bound
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