The Sun.
London, England, 1861-05-27 00:00:00

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those laws that he has sworn to defend and enforce, he shall
be most rigorously punished. _

" The General believes that if the suggestions and re-
quests contained in this proclamation are faithfully carried
out by the co-operation of all good and Union 4oving citi-
zens, and peace and quiet, and the certainty of future peace
and quiet are thus restored, business will resume its accus-
tomed channels, trade take the place of dullness and inac-
tivity, efficient labour displace idleness, and Baltimore will
be in fact, what she is entitled to be, in the front rank of
the commercial cities of the nation.
i" Given at Baltimore the day and year herein first above-
written.

"BENJ. F. BUTLER,
"Brigadier-General, Commanding Daparbment
of Anapolis.
"E. G. Parker, Lieutenant-Colonel, Aide-de-Camp."
General Butler had ordered the outposts of his
army to be extended some ten miles towards
Harper's Ferry, to act in conjunction with the force
advancing from Chambersburg. Earthworks were
to be erected along the railroads from the North
through Maryland to Washington, whioh was com-
pletely encircled with encampments controlling all
the railways. The citizens of Annapolis having
complained of coloured persons in the camp tam-
pering with slaves, orders had been issued prohibit-
ing them from passing the lines. On the demand
of General Butler a large number of arms had been
given up at Baltimore. The Maryland Guards
managed, however, to secrete theirs previously.
The Maryland Senate had adopted a proposition
to appoint commissioners to President Lincoln, Jef-
ferson Davis, and the Governors of Virginia and
Pennsylvania, for them to stafhostilities till after
the meeting of Congress. The House refused to
accede. Itoss Winans, a prominent Secessionist
citizen of Baltimore, had been arrested by the
Federal officers.

Advices from Virginia report that the Virginia
troops had rendered their position at Harper's
Ferry impregnable. Batteries of heavy guns had
been mounted. Their batteries on James and York
rivers were also of a vary formidable character.
The whole number of Confederate troops in Virginia
was estimated at 30,111. The Federal sloop of
war Pawnee was anchored off Alexandria with her
guns run out and double shotted, the object being
to stop any interference with navigation, which had
been attempted. Troops were arriving daily at
Richmond from the other States, and quite a large
force was assembled in and around that city. Louisi-
ana, Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Kentucky,
and Tennessee were all represented strongly in this
force. A number of the Georgia, Alabama, Louisi-
ana, and Kentucky man had been sent to Norfolk
and its vicinity. The Virginians had five batteries
erected in Norfolk harbour, one on Craney Island,
one at Sandy Point, one at the Hospital, one near
Fort Norfolk, and one on the Bluffs, three miles from
the Hospital. The steamer Yankee pursued an armed
schooner up York river, but after proceeding a short
distance was fired upon from a concealed battery
and compelled to return.
The Convention at Wheeling, Western Virginia,
had assembled. The Stars and Stripes were hoisted
people were wild
over the Custom-house, national airs were sung,
withnational
excitement. speeches
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Curtin and Dennison
had pledged the Union men of Western Virginia the
entire support of all the forces of Pennsylvania and
Ohio to protect them. Indiana and Illinois had
pledged the Union men of Kentucky and Missouri
the same. The governors of all the Free States
westward, it is asserted, had united and obtained a
pledge from the President that no compromise or
cessation of war should take place until the national
flag floated over all the national property. The
Kentucky Legislature had passed a bill suspending
the Courts until January, and ordering all execu-
tions issued since January last to be re-issued, re-
turnable next March.

The Southern Congress has passed the following

ordinance :
" An Act recognising the existence of war between
the United States and the Confederate States, and
concerning letters of marque, prize and prize
goods.
" Whereas the earnest efforts made by this Go-
vernment to establish friendly relations between the
Government of the United States and the Confede-
rate States, and to settle all questions of disagree-
ment between the two Governments upon principles
of right, justice, equity, and good faith have proved
unavailing, by reason of the refusal of the Govern-
ment of the United States to hold any intercourse
with the commissioners appointed by this Govern-
ment for the purpose aforesaid, or to listen to any
proposal they had to make for the peaceful solution
of all causes of difficulty between the two Govern-
ments ; and, whereas the President of the United.
States of America has issued his proclamation mak-
ing requisition upon the States of the American
Union for '75,000 men, for the purpose, as therein in-
dicated, of capturing forts and other strongholds
within jurisdiction of and belonging to the Confe-
derate States of America, and has detailed naval
armaments upon the coasts of the Confederate States
of America, and raised, organised, and equipped a
large military force to execute the purpose aforesaid,
and has issued his other proclamation announcing
his purpose to set on foot a blockade of the ports of
the Confederate States
; and whereas the State of
Virginia has seceded from the Federal Union, and
entered into a convention of alliance, offensive and
defensive, with the Confederate States, and has
adopted the provisional constitution of the said
States, and the States of Maryland, North Carolina,
Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Missouri have
refused, and it is believed that the State of Dela-
ware, and the inhabitants of the territories of
Arizona and New Mexico, and the Indian terri-
tory south of Kansas will refuse to co-operate with
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States and the Government of the United States
and the States and territories thereof, except the
States of Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee,
Kentucky, Arkansas, Missouri, and Delaware, and
the territories of Arizona and New Mexico, and the
Indian territories south of Kansas. Therefore,
" Sec. 1. The Congress of the Confederate States
of America do enact that the President of the
Confederate States is hereby authorised to use the
wh:.le land and naval force of the Confederate
States to meet the war thus commenced, and to
issue to private armed vessels commissions or letters
of marque and general reprisal, in such foam as he
shall think proper, under the seal of the Confede-
rate States, against the vessels, goods, and effects of
the Government of the United States, and of the
citizens and inhabitants of the States and territories
thereof, except the States and territories aereinbe-
fore named ; provided, however, that property of
the enemy (unless it be contraband of war) taken on
board a neutral vessel shall not be subjected to
seizure under this act ; and provided further, that
vessels of the citizens or inhabitants of the United
States now in the ports of the Confederate States,
except such as have been since the 6th April last,
or may hereafter be, in the service of the Govern-
ment of the United States, shall be allowed 30 days
after the publication of this act to leave said ports
and reach their destination; and such vessels and
their cargoes, except articles contraband of war,
shall not be subject to capture under this act dur-
ing said period, unless they shall have previously
reached the destination for which they were bound
on leaving said ports.
" Sec 2 That the President of the Confederate
States shall be and he is hereby authorised and
empowered to revoke and annual, at pleasure, all
letters of marque and reprisal which he may at any
time grant pursuant to this act.
" Sec. 3. That all persons applying for letters of,
marque and reprisal, pursuant, to this act, shall
state in writing the name and a suitable description
of the tonnage and force of the vessel, and the
name and place of residence of each owner con-
cerned therein, and intended number of the crew ;
which statement shall be signed by the person or
persons making such application, and filed with the
Secretary of State, or shall be delivered to any other
officer or person who shall be employed to deliver
out such commissions, to be by him transmitted to
the Secretary of State.
" Sec. 4. That before any commissions or letters
of marque and reprisal shall be issued as aforesaid,
the owner or owners of the ship or vessel for which
the same shall be requested, and the commander
thereof for the time being, shall give bond to the
Confederate States, with at least two responsible
sureties, not interested in such vessels, in the penal
sum of 5,000 dole. ; or if such vessel be provided
with more than 150 men, then in the penal sum of

10,000 dols., with the condition that the owners,
officers and crew, who shall be employed on board
such commissioned vessels, shall and will observe
the laws of the Confederate States, and the instruc-
tions which shall be given them according to law,
for the regulation of their conduct ; and will satisfy
all damages and injuries which shall be done or
committed contrary to the tenor thereof by such
vessels during her commission, and to deliver up
the same when revoked by the President of the Con-
federate States.
" Sec. 5. That all captures and prizes of vessels
and property shall be forfeited and shall accrue to
the owners, officers, and crews of the vessels by
whom such captures and prizes shall be made ; and,
on due condemnation had, shall be distributed ac-
cording to any written agreement which shall be
made between them ; and if there be no such written
agreement, then one moiety to the owners, and the
other moiety to the officers and crew, as nearly as
may be, according to the rules prescribed for the
distribution of prize money by the laws of the Con-
federate States.
" Sec. 6. That all vessels, goods and effects, the
property of any citizen of the Confederate States,
or of persons resident within and under the protec-
tion of the Confederate States, or of persons perma-
nently within the territories, and under the protec-
tion of any foreign Prince, Government, or State in
amity with the Confederate States, which shall have
been captured by the United States, and which shall
be recaptured by Ntessels commissioned as aforesaid,
shall be restored to the lawful owners, upon pay-
ment by them of a just and reasonable salvage, to
be determined by the mutual agreement of the
parties concerned, or by the decree of any court
having jurisdiction, according to the nature of each
case, agreeably to the provisions established by law.
And such salvage shall be distributed among the
owners, officers, and crews of the vessels commis-
sioned as aforesaid, and making such capture.s. ac-
cording to any written agreement which shall be
made between them ; and in case of no such agree-
ment, then in the same manner and upon the prin-
ciples hereinbefore provided in case of capture.
" Sec. 7. That before breaking bulk of any vessel
which shall be captured as aforesaid, or other dis-
posal or conversion thereof, or of any articles which
shall be found on board the same, such captured
vessel, goods or effects, shall be brought in some
port of the Confederate States, or of a nation or
State in amity with the Confederate States, and
shall be proceeded against before a competent tri-
bunal ; and after condemnation and forfeiture
thereof shall belong to the owners, officers, and
crew of the vessel capturing the same, and be dis-
tributed as before provided ; and in the case of all
captured vessels, goods, and effects, which shall be
brought within the jurisdiction of the Confederate
States, the district courts of the Confederate States
shall have exclusive, original cognizance thereof,
as in civil causes of admiralty and maritime juris-
diction ; and the said court, or the courts, being
courts of the Confederate States, into which such
causes shall be removed, and in which they shall be
finally decided, shall and may decree restitution, in
whole or in part, when the capture shall have been
made without 'just cause; and, if made without
probable cause, may order and decree damages and
costs to the party injured, for which the owners
and commanders of the vessels making such cap-
tures, and also the vessels, shall be liable.
" Sec. 8. That all persons found on board any cap-
tured vessels, or on board any recaptured vessel, shall
be reported to the collector of the port in the Confede •
rate States in which they shall first arrive, and
shall be delivered into the custody of the marshal
of the district, or some court of military officer
of the Confederate States, or of any State in or
near such port, who shall take charge of their safe
keeping and support at the expense of the Confe-
derate States.

* Sec. 9. That the President of the Confederate
States is hereby authorized to establish and order
suitable instructions for the better governing and
directing the conduct of the vessels so commissioned,
their officers and crews, copies of which shall be
delivered by the collector of the Customs to the
commanders when they shall give bonds as before
provided.
" Sec. 10. That a bounty shall be paid by the
Confederate States of 20 dols. for each person on
board any ship or vessel belonging to the United
States at the commencement of an engagement,
which shall be burnt, sunk, or destroyed by any
vessel commissioned as aforesaid which shall be of
equal or inferior force, the same to be divided as in
othcr cases of prize money, and a bounty of 25
dols shall be paid to the owners, officers, and crews
of the private armed vessels, commissioned as afore-
said, for each and every prisoner by them captured
'and brought into port, and delivered to an agent
authorised to receive them, in any port of the Con-
federate States ; and the Secretary of the Treasury
is hereby authorised to pay or cause to be paid to
the owners and crews of such private armed ves-
sels, commissioned as aforesaid, or their agent, the
bounties herein provided.
" Sec. 11. That the commanding officer of every
vessel having a commission or letters of marque and
reprisal, during the present hostilities between the
Confederate States and the United States, shall
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prizes he shall take, and the nature and probable
value thereof ; the time and places when and where
taken, and in what manner he shall dispose of the
same ; the ships or vessels he shall fall in with ;
the time and places when and where he shall meet
with them, and his observations and remarks there-
on ; also, of whatever else shall occur to him, or
any of his officers or marines, or be discovered by
examination or conference with any marines or pas-
sengers of or in any other ships or vessels, or by any
other means, touching the fleets, vessels, and forces
of the United States, their posts and places of sta-
tion and destination, strength, numbers, intents,
and designs, and such commanding officer shall im-
mediately on his arrival in any port of the Con-
federate States, from or during the continuance of
any voyage or cruise, produce his commission for
such vessel, and deliver up such journal so kept as
aforesaid, signed with his proper name and hand-
writing, to the collector or other chief officer of the
Customs at or nearest to such port ; the truth of
which journal shall be verified by the oath of the
commanding officer for the time being, and such
collector or other chief officer of the Customs shall,
immediately on the arrival of such vessel, order the
proper officer of the Customs to go on board and
take an account of the officers and men, the number

and nature of the guns, and whatever else shall •
occur to himon examination material to be known,
and no such vessel shall be permitted to sail out of
port again until such journal shall have been de-
livered up, and a certificate obtained, under the
hand of such collector or other chief officer of the
Customs, that she is manned and armed according to
her commission, and upon delivery of such certifi-
cate, any former certificate of a like nature which
shall have been obtained by the commander of such
vessel shall be delivered up.
" Sec. 12. That the commanders of vessels having
letters of marque and reprisal, as aforesaid, neglect-
ing to keep a journal as aforesaid, or wilfully mak-
ing fraudulent entries therein, or obliterating the
record of any material transactions therein where
the interest of the Confederate States is concerned,
or refusing to produce and deliver such journal,
commission, or certificate pursuant to the preceding
section of this Act, then and in such cases the com-
missions or letters of marque and reprisal of such
vessels shall be liable to be revoked, and such com-
manders respectively shall forfeit for every such
offence the sum of 1,000 dols., one moiety thereof to
the use of the Confederate States, and the other to
the informer.
"Sec. 13. That the owners or commanders of ves-
sels having letters of marque and reprisal as afore-
said who shall violate any of the acts of Con-
gress for the collection of the revenue of
the Confederate States, and for the preven-
tion of smuggling, shall forfeit the commis-
sion or letters of marque and reprisal, and they and
the vessels owned or commanded by them shall be
liable to all the penalties and forfeitures attaching
to merchant vessels in like cases.
" Sec. 14. That on all goods, wares, and mer-
chandise captured and made goods and lawful prize
of war, by any private armed ship having commis-
sion or letters of marque and reprisal under this
act, and brought into the Confederate States, there
shall be allowed a deduction of 331 per cent. on
the amount of duties imposed by laws.
" See. 15. That 5 per cent. on the net amount
(after deducting all charges and expenditures) of
the prize money arising from captured vessels and
cargoes, and on the net amount of the salvage of
vessels and cargoes recaptured by the private
armed vessels of the Confederate States, shall be
secured and paid over to the collector or other chief
officer of the Customs, at the port or place in the
Confederate States at which such captured or re-
captured vessels may arrive, or to the Consul or
other public agent of the Confederate States,drersaid
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