New-York daily tribune., 1861-08-29

food to any extent, though the ravages OF every
variety of sickness have been remarkable.
1t is very strange to me that the Government
does not at once take toward these sly seees-
siopists of the Patuxent region the most deter'
mined attitude They are deceivins the Govern.
ment of the United States and the Governor OF
Maryland by making no open organization, while
they are really running the authority of both in
that State. The copperbeads of their own
swamps are not more stealthy and deadly. The
country has Just learned with some modification
that o slave has been returned ut Rockville
Nd, by military authority; which, if true, was
against the decision of Congress that this was no
part of the duty of our military arm, and also
against the spirit Of the recent order to Gen.
Butler. But what i, for one, most dislike about
that rendition 10 that It looks like method
which has been adopted toward Maryland Sc
cessonists. Rockville is the county seat Of
Montgomery County, and is situated in and rep
resentatiyo of the Secession half of that
county. The northern part Of that county
il under strong Quaker influence, and
for Union; the entire portion bordering the
treacherous. (This region was greatly corrupted
by q Methodist preacher of the Baltimore Con-
ference, named Nelson Head, who, after i'm
breeding virulent hate Of the North in the
minds of the numerous Methodsts there, nearly
every one of whom are for Secession now, joined
the Virginia Conference.) Now, these Rock.
villains might indeed do our country much harm,
stretching along the river as they do; and if tho
mixture of the war and slave-catching depart
ments Of the Government took place there, it
must have been Tor the sake Of conciliating these
secret traitors Allow me to say that this course,
or policy" which makes such people only des-
pise the Government the more, il not so hon
orable or e1pedient as that whose policy 10 sim
pie strength and authority. Might not our Gov.
ernmebt Justly, and should it not at once, say
to these Counties montgomery, Charles, and
St. Marys), "Gentemen, above and below
we have some reason to fear that YOU are deal.
ing uescherously with this Government The
Government has been hitherto uDsnspicious OF
you, and left you to yourselvesj it would be,
therefore, q very base treachery on your part if
it is ever confirmed. Now, understand well the
method We shall pursue toward you at the first
outbreak. We have no Fort McHenry threatening
you, as we have near Baltimore; but we have
another and more terrible fort bearing on you,
which we shall certainly use il it is needed.
Therefore, the moment that il is Understood that
you are betrayiDg Baltimore and the capital into
the hands Of the Rebels, that instant ereTy Stare
in your county lines shall Be proclaimed free, and
shall, IL our safety demands i, hare spord put
into his hands. That is the nay zee 1iH shell
your county and your STATE u threatens the I'VE
of the nation. u there are any smoRg you too
loyal to be deprived Of their property, they riH
rrors it by catching The disioyei and seeing that
tie Republic reeeires no detrimsat in their midst"
Would that not be q humane and bloodless
way of eonquering treason around the capital
John N. Daniel whose Sandman experiences
have trained the stern virtue which was 20
shocked by the sensaal1y OF our soldiers, was
offered the position OF prntr to the Confederate
Consrcss, but the labor was too actual and the
payment too ideal for the cx-minister The offer
was made TO The EIamiHer because it was the
frst and most violent Secession sheet in the State
When il was declined, the place was given to
Richard NJ. Smith, who obtained IL on account
Of his heroic running out Of Alexandria and loss
es thereby. This Richard NJ. Smith is q native
Of warrenton, Va, where for years be edited
The Flag Of 90. He has always been q leading
and shouting Methodist, and sgnszed himself
when the division of the N. T.. Church topk
place by bic violent attitude toward tho Metho-
dat Church North. lie has his reward.
In q recent letter on the probabilities Of
insurrection in Virginia, l gave you an account
Of tho Lacy slaves, and how they were robbed
Of their liberty. / will just add here that the
slaves 90 defrauded were SO in number aad that
they hnve al, except . very few feeble or aged
ones, been sold TO the far South-chiefy Arkan.
sas. The slaves in the region of Acquia are
now laboring hard in many ways for the army,
and are apparently loyal. This is due immedi-
u,ely to .as presence of q large army under the
head of q tar.and. .feathery. looking man with the
appropriate name of Capt. Lynch, but still more
70 tho systematic hlsehood which has been at
work. They have been told that our army was
for their extermination-told it by men in whose
piety they have always believed, each gravely re.
pestinQ it to hs assembled household, aud justi.
fying the lie by the plea Of life.and-death ne
cessity. Thus we have enemies at tho South in
our natural friends; and the eagerly -seized-and.
road proclamations of our leaders about negroes,
and the tidings Of our slaye.hunting, have really
done us harm whose result, may be more
than we imagine. Perhaps it is thus We are to
be reminded once more that "man never puts
chain about his brothers neck but God is sure
al. A oc hort his