The national Republican., 1861-07-13


enemy is ready to run whenever Gen. Scott
thinks the time has come to advance upon Ma.
nsssas Junction.
- The following removals have taken place
in the Patent Office in consequence Of the de.
crease Of business:
temporary Clerks.-S. A. Lawrence, Of
Michigan; Jas. 8. Ewbank, Of New York, and
Horace Edeln, of Maryland.
Laborrs.-J. Reynolds, ($%0 per month y
J. M. Kavausugh, q. Mcdonald, and J. Gregg,
tall $500 per sunum.)
- The contract for Furnishing stationery
for the Department Of the Interior has been
awarded to ". d. Shepherd. Of Washington
city.
~ In reference to the statement that the
roll of traitors to the country shows no foreign
name, correspondent cites the cases Of en-
Senator Mallory, who was born in the Bahama
Islands, aud of Lieutenant Msfit, who was born
IN Ireland. Exceptions prove rule, And un.
less the number Of such cases is enlarged, the
general loyalty Of our foreign.born population
will remain unimpeached.
~ The steamer Cdtalins, whose charter for
Government service has been noticed as having
been made at asgitious rates, was not made by
Secretary Welles or Secretary Cameron. twas
made in New York by General Wool, in those
days 10 April when communication was cut of
between New York and Washington.
INDIAN AFFAIRs.-The Humboldt (Califor-
nia) Times of June % contains accounts of re-
cent operations against the Indians in the
Northern part of California. According to
these accounts, since volunteers, under Lieut..
Collins, have taken the field, one hundred and
seventeen Indians have been killed, with no
loss on the side of the whites. All this has less
the aspect Of war than of butchery, and will
tend strongly to confirm the impression that
there ought to be such q change in our Indian
policy a. was suggested in q series of numbers
which appeared in this paper two or three
mouths since, and looking to die peaceful civi.
which urge their extirminstion are so powerful
that they need to be restrained by the authori.
ty Of the Indian Bureau here, sxerted through
some fundamentally not likely TO be controlled
by local impulses.
SESAroR KENSEDY.-This gentleman sur
prised everybody in the Senate, the other day,
BY saying that he did not belong to the seces-
sion party in Maryland, and by speaking of the
Baltimore riot Of April 10 in terms Of fdisspproba.
ton. he wrote and circulated last winter an
elaborate letter. insisting that Mary yhnd would be
utterly ruined if she did not secede, if Virginia
did, and the riot of April - was only intended to
carry out the precise policy Of going with Vir-
ginia, which he had so zealously urged, it was,
until now, assumed that the riot, which his let
ter undoubtedly tended to incite, had his ap.
probation and sympathy. As the fact seems to
b otherwise, his views Of the duty of Maryland
must have changed since the last session OF
cougrsss. y
An INFEREAL MACHINE.-On Monday last,
the steamer Pa,onee, cruising near Aqua creek,
picked up an internal machine, which had
been set aaoat to blow up one Of our steam.
srs, or possibly they may have thought it
would be picked up by one of our vessels, when
it would explode and blow them to atoms.
The machine is composed Of tube Of boiler
iron, about six feet long and eighteen inches
In diameter, to which was attached large oh
cask, as 6oat. The machine is filed, no
doubt, with some explosive compound, and
weighs nearly six hundred pounds. From tine
iron bomb, a gutta.percha tube, filed with a
fuse, extends to the cask, and is coiled round
q board, placed lengthwse the CENTRE. Rhe
Free6orn, which arrived here yesterday morn
ing, brought the internal machine" 10 the
navy yard, where it still remains and excitss
. great deal Of attention.
TaE MILITARY SITuATIoE.-Gen. Patterson
forward movement, so long predicted, has D0a
yet been reported as having been made. The
opposing force is concentrated at Winchester
and amounts now, according to the Veracisus
correspondents from that quarter, TO aS,Qot
men. 1t grows daily, but from what qusrtSrs
. recruited nobody can imagine. .'
In Western Virginia, the eneny's forre
cooped up on Laurel Hill, is said to have bSs1
captured, and if that is not already tFue, 4
.-sn h. Th;. Enroe in ststad variously frNap