The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-22 00:00:00

AMERICA.

LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.
The Asia, which touched at Queenstown yester-
day, arrived last night.
From Washington we learn that the War Depart-
ment had informed the Governors of the States
which had ordered out their quota of militia under
the first proclamation of the President, that it was
desirable and preferable that these who had not
been marched forward should be mustered in for
three years, under the subsequent proclamation.
The Ist Regiment of Massachusetts Militia, await-
ing marching orders, on learning that no more
three months' Volunteers would be accepted, volun-
teered in a body for the full term of three years.
Major Anderson, with the consent of the President,
had accepted the command of the Kentucky
brigade. The War Department had purchased the
steamship Atlantic for 350,000 dollars, to be used as
a transport. Troops were moving towards' Balti-
more from Washington, Harrisburg, Philadqohia,
and Annapolis. The Mayor of Washington 124€1
ordered all drinking establishments to be closed at
half-past nine o'clock, p.m., in view of the fact that
some of the troops were evidently becoming demo-
ralised by using intoxicating liquors. SThe Secre-
tary of War, in order to accommodate the travel-
ling public, had directed the opening of the military
route between Washington and Philadelphia by
the way of Annapolis. It was said at Washington
that Mr. Seward's despatches to Mr. Adams on the
subject of secession were very elaborate. There was
every probability of a collision at Cairo, near the
junction of the Ohio with the Mississippi. At the
last accounts there were 4,000 Illinois and Indiana
troops at Cairo, and it was supposed that they were
well armed and-equipped. They had direct rail-
road communication with Springfield, Chicago, &c.,
and their force could be increased to any number
necessary for holding this important position.
Troops from Tennessee and seceding States were
reported to be on their way to dislodge this force
and take command of the Mississippi at that point.
The bodies of the Volunteers killed during the
passage of the Massachusetts Regiment through
Baltimore had been interred at Boston with great
ceremony. _ _

Governor Letcher, of Virginia, had published a
proclamation, saying that the sovereignty of the
Commonwealth of Virginia having been denied, her
territorial rights assailed, her soil threatened with
invasion by the authorities at Washington, and
every artifice employed which could inflame the
people of the Northern States against her, it there-
fore became the solemn duty of every citizen of
Virginia to prepare for the impending conflict. To
this end and for these purposes, and with a deter-
mination to repel invasion, Governor Letcher
authorised the commanding General of the military
forces to call out and cause to be mustered into ser-
vice from time to time, as the public exigencies
might require, such additional number of Volun-
teers as he might deem necessary.
The utmost activity prevailed at the Tredegar
works, with a large increase of employes. They
were turning out three of the large size columbiads
and six smaller pieces per week. Other founderies
were actively engaged in casting shot and shell. It
is reported that arms had been smuggled into Vir-
ginia in coffins. Travellers arriving in New York
from Virginia asserted that there were not less than
four encampments, all under the command of Gen.
Lee, the ablest of the United States officers who
have deserted the flag of the country. The largest
of these was at Richmond, and from 6,000 to 8,000
strong. Another was at Lynchburgh ; a third, of
militia, from the neighbouring counties, at Culpep-
per Court-house ; and the fourth at Harper's
Ferry, where batteries were planted at the bridge,
and on all the heights. Not less than 20,000 Vir-
ginians were, it is alleged, mustered into service,
but not all well armed. A vessel (the Daniel
Webster) had arrived at New York, from the Mis-
sissippi, which reported that several Northern ves-
sels had been seized, and it was thought the Tus-
carora, a tug-boat, owned at the North, would be
taken. Pilots had been forbidden to bring in ves-
sels without permission. The Daniel Webster nar-
rowly escaped capture. The Wanderer, the noted
slaver, then lying at Havannah, had been bought
by the Southern Confederacy for 20,000 dols., and
was to be fitted up immediately. The steamer
Habana had also been bought, and was at New
Orleans fully armed. It was reported that a stock
company had been formed in New Orleans, with a
capital of 6,000,000, for the purpose of privateering.
Montgomery advices state that Gen. Bragg's prepa-
rations for attacking the Federal garrison at Fort
Pickens were nearly completed, that the troops
were all in good health and excellent spirits, and
that the Southern railroad corporations were dis-
playing the utmost energy and liberality in advanc-
ing the interests of the Confederate States. An Act
was passed recognising the existence of war with
the United States, and concerning letters of marque
and reprisal and prize goods. The preamble recites
the acts of President Lincoln and his proclamation,
asserting that it is necessary for the Confederate
States to accept the war thus commenced by him.
The Act authorises the granting of letters of
marque and reprisal on certain conditions. A pro-
viso announces the doctrine that free ships make
free goods. Thirty days are allowed the Federal
vessels then at the ports of the Confederate States
for the purpose of lawful commerce to return to
their homes. The 5 per cent. prize was reserved as
a fund for the widows and orphans of those killed
on private armed vessels, and support of the
wounded. Virginia was admitted as a member of
the Confederated States' Government in secret ses-
sion, and two of her members were sworn in, and
they participated in discussions aid voted on ques-
tions. The Secretary of the Treasury has issued
the following notification :
"To John Boston, Esq., Collector, Savannah.
" Montgomery, April 29.
" The Government here entirely disapprove any
interference with private property before war is de-
clared. Let us abide by the law of nations, and pro-
tect peaceful commerce which has trusted to our hos-
pitality. Tell your people to have patience. We gain
more by respect for law than from the seizure of a
few vessels.
" C. G. MEMMINGER, Secretary of the Treasury."
The blockade of Pensacola with several English
ships inside the harbour, it was expected, would
cause the immediate interference of England.
Arkansas passed the Secession ordinance on the
6th by a majority of 61 to 1. Tennessee had taken
a similar step, subject to a vote of the people on
the Bth of June. The Military Bill was passed,
calling for 55,000 troops and appropriating
2,000,000 dols. unconditionally and 3,000,000 dols.
conditionally. The Tennessee Railroads advertise
in the Nashville papers that they will transport all
volunteer companies, munition, and volunteers for
the Southern Confederacy over their roads, free of
charge. An ordinance of Secession was read in
the North Carolina Legislature on the 2d, and
ordered to be printed. A resolution authorising the
Governor to appoint a Commissioner to represent
the State of North Carolina to the Government of
the Confederate States, at Montgomery, passed
both Houses. The president and directors of the
Bank of North Carolina had tendered to the State a
loan of 500,000 del& for purposes of defence.
The Commissioners from Maryland had laid the
following report of their mission to President Lin_
coin before the Legislature :

" To the Hon. General Assembly of Maryland.
" The undersigned Commissioners have the hon-
our to report to the General Assembly of Maryland
that they waited in person on the President of the
United States on the 4th inst. and presented him a
copy of the joint resolutions adopted by your hon.
bodies on the 2d inst. They were received by the
President with respectful courtesy, and made such
representations as were necessary to convey to him
tha sense of the General Assembly of:Maryland in
relation to the occupation of the capital of the State
by Federal troops, and the forcible seizure of pro-
perty of the State and of private citizens in the
Annapolis Railroad, and in the Washington branch
and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and in this
connexion his attention was called to the suspension
of intercourse between Baltimore and Washington,
and of all parts of the State with Annapolis, and
indignantly put upon the State while still in the 1

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Federal Union, by such an interference with the
private rights of its citizens, and by such an occu-
pation of its soil and ways of communication by the
Federal Government.
" Full explanations were exchanged between the
undersigned and the Secretary of War and
Secretary of State, who were present and parti-
cipated in the discussion, as to the facts and cir-
cumstances rendered necessary, the extraordinary
incidents accompanying the passage of the
Federal troops through Maryland en route to the
city of Washington, and especially in reference to
those acts of the authorities of the city of Balti-
more which arrested the progress of the troops by,
the railroads leading from Pennsylvania and
Delaware into Maryland, and of the opposition
to the landing of the troops subsequently at An-
napolis by the Governor of the State ; and in
conjunction with the action of the authorities of the
State the hostile feeling manifested by the people to
the passage of these troops through Maryland was
considered and treated with entire frankness by the
undersigned, who, while acknowledging all the
legal obligations of the State to the Federal Go-
vernment, set forth fully the strength of the sym-
pathy felt by a large portion of our people for our
Southern brethren, in the present crisis. Although
many of the incidents and circumstances referred
to were regarded in different lights by the under-
signed and Federal Government, even to the extent
of a difference of opinion as to some of the facts in-
volved, yet in regard to the general principle at
issue, a concurrence of opinion was reached. The
f'resident concurred with the undersigned in the
opoion that so long as Maryland has not taken,
and N7as not about taking, a hostile attitude to the
Federai Government, the exclusive military occu-
pation of her ways of communication and the sei-
zure of the property of her citizens would be with-
out justification; and what has been referred to in
this connectiel, so far as it occurred, was treated by.
the Government as an act of necessity and self-pre-
servation. The undersigned did not feel themselves
authorised to enter" into any amendments with the
Federal Government to induce it to change its re-
lations to the State of Maryland, considering it
proper, under the threw.
lastances, to leave the entire
discretion and responsibility of the existing state of
things to that Government, otaking such represen-
tations as they deemed prope.
r to vindicate the
moral and legal aspects of the qu'es
cially insisting on its obligation to re:lieve the Stated
to ate
tion, and ese-
promptly from restraint and indignity,
stain from all action in the transportation of troops
anb-
that can be regarded as intended for chasti:"Telit
lor prompted by resentment. The undersigneL.,are
not able to indicate to what extent or to w.'lat,
degree the Executive discretion will be exercise .1
in modifying th 3 relations which now exist between
the State of Maryland and the Federal Govern-
ment, and in the particular matter of the commer-
cial communications between Baltimore and the
other parts of the country, brought to the attention
of the General Assembly by the Mayor and the
City Council of Baltimore ; but they feel authorized
to express the opinion that some modification may
be effected.
" The undersigned feel painfully confident that a
war is to be waged to reduce all the seceding States
to allegiance to the Federal Government, and that
the whole military power of the Federal Govern-
ment will be exerted to accomplish that purpose,
and though the expression of this opinion is not
called for by the resolution of your hon. bodies, yet,
having had the opportunity to ascertain its entire
accuracy, and because it will explain much of the
military preparations and movements of the troops
through the State of Maryland, it is proper to
bring it to your attention.
" OTHO SCOTT.
" ROBERT M. APLANE.
" WILLIAM J. Ross."
A meeting had been held in the House of Dele-
gates in reference to Federal relations. The caucus
was addressed for an hour and a half by the Hon.
R. M'Lane, in a relation of details of the interview
of the Commissioners with the President and
Cabinet. He said he thought it was the intention
of the Cabinet to subjugate the seceding States by
gradual approaches of troops to sustain the Union
men of Virginia and Tennessee, by whose aid
especially the Cabinet expected the Secessionists in
those States would be overcome without bloodshed.
The district of Columbia and Maryland would be
necessarily occupied to some extent as a rendezvous
for troops and depot for munitions of war.
Various inquiries were made of the Commissioners
whether a regiment could not be marched through
Baltimore with the assent of the State, to which
the Commissioner did not feel authorized to reply
affirmatively. It was remarked incidentally by
Mr. M'Lane that the troops which were preven-
ted from reaching Baltimore by the destruction
of the bridges left Philadelphia without orders, and
would have been, therefore, intruders, which, the
Government admitted, gave a new aspect to the
position they occupied with respeot to the Maryland
authorities. Mr. M'Lane appealed to the Legislature

to unite without reference to partisan associations,
to devote themselves exclusively to the preservation
of the peace and safety of the State in the present
crisis. He said that men who desired to confederate
with the Southern States may readily in this crisis
unite with those who have insisted on maintaining
the existing Union, because, while the State is oc-
cupied by Federal troops, it would be physically im-
possible to relieve her from political association with
the Federal Government. Honourable and true-
hearted men will never consent to maintain the
Union by shedding the blood of Southern people
and subjugating the Southern States; therefore
such men can never support the Administration of
Mr. Lincoln, which has now abandoned the defen-
sive policy of maintaining the Federal capital, here-
tofore declared in Secretary Seward's letter to
Governor Hicks. Governor Hicks himself might
sustain the Government when it adhered to a defen-
sive policy, but now that it has avowed the policy
of subjugation, he will be bound in honour to occupy
himself exclusively with the protection of our own
people. Mr. M'Lane read Secretary Seward's letter
to Mr. Dayton, avowing a new war policy, the
Government acknowledging a radical change in it.
He argued to show how widely Governor Hicks
was now separated from the Administration if he
remained true to his own professions ; it was, said
Mr. M'Lane, a great crisis in his life, and the Go-
vernor ought to thank God that he had lost confi-
dence in the Lincoln Administration, which he cer-
tainly had. Mr. M'Lane said he was quite respon-
sible for the accuracy of this opinion, and added that
Governor Hicks could not recover that confidence
without loss of his own honour. He trusted the
friends of Governor Hicks would ponder well
upon this view of the subject, and encourage the
Governor to stand by the true interests and true
men of the State, leaving to the Administra-
tion only the ruffian and venal portion of the
population. The Federal troops at the Relay House
near Baltimore were actively engaged in fortifying
their position on the high ground on the west bank
of the Patapsco. One battery commanded the stone
viaduct connecting the Washington road with the
Western road ; another commanded the turnpike
and railroad on the:opposite side of the river, which
is here very narrow. All trains were stopped and
searched at the Relay. A quantity of military
cloth had been seized. The troops were uncom-
fortably situated, especially the Massachusetts
troops, who had not received their camp equipages.
The Governor of Indiana had refused to join the
Governor of Kentucky in a league for mutual peace,
and had called upon Kentucky to stand by the
Federal Government against rebellion.
Advices from Havannah to the 30th ult. Busi-
ness was paralysed owing to the state of affairs in
America. Sugars could be bought below quotations
--No. 12,
51 to 6 reals per arroba. Stocks on hand
at Havannah and Matanzas, 300,000 boxes.
Freights—There was no disposition to charter
American vessels.
Other flags
highest rates of the xt were getting
4.E
Exchange
on year,
on London, 60 days, 7to 8 per cent. premium. A
letter says
The house of Novega, Olroo, and Co had their ting
of creditors yesterday, and it is said that theirlmee
debt are covered by 20 years of time_
moret mi;l a lions of-
genera
tion of business men in endurance for this city.,