Daily national Democrat., 1861-05-17

Stute department mas Instructed the new
Minister to Paris, Mr.. Dayton, to explicitly
make known to the French Government that
there is not now, nor has there been, nor
will there be- any or the least idea enter
tanned in this Government of suffering dis
solution Of the Union to take place in any
way whatever.
The Maryland Legislature, in their inter-
view with the President Saturday morning,
admitted the right and the power of the Gov
ernment to bring the troops through BalU-
more or the State, and to take any measures
for the public safety which in the discretion
of the President might be demanded, either
by actual or reasonably apprehended exigen-
cies. They expressed their belief that no i'm
mediate effort at secession or resistance of
the Federal authority would be attempted bv
the Legislature or State authorities. and thev
asked that in this view they would as long
as possible be spared the evils of a military
occupation or revengeful chastisement for
former wrongs. The President replied that
their suggestions and representations should
be considered, but that he should now say
no more than that the public interest and not
a spirit of revenge should actuate his meas
ures.
The Maryland Senate Act providing for a
Committee of Safety, is considered to be as
E5bON 40 lOHh L ne Union IeGIlD0 Is gaining
throughout the State.
Workmen are actively engaged in repair
ing the Northern Central railroad. They
meet with no opposition. The people are re-.
ioiced at the speedy opening of trade.
The Government has seized the steamer
that has been running between Baltimore and
llavre de Grace.
Gov. Dennison, Of Ohio Randall, of Wis
consin; Blair, of Michigan Norton, of Indi
ana, and EX-Gov. of Illinois, were in confer
ence at Cleveland, Friday night. Their pro-
ceedlngs are not known. They were serena
ded and addressed the people
A Cairo, Ill, dispatch of the 4th says Gen.
Pillow, Gen. Ely, and other prominent off
GERS of the Confederate army, and large
number of Mississippi, Arkansas and Tonnes
see troops are at Memphis. Heavy guns are
arriving there daily.
G. l.. Prentiss, the commanding officer at
Cairo, has received the following dispatch
! from three of the most prominent citizens of
Cincinnai: "Gen. Pillow has several steam
ers ready at Memphis. lie med;tates an i'm
mediate attack on Cairo" Col Prentiss re-
piled, Let him come lie viii learn to dig
a ditch on the right side. l am ready"
A great Union meeting was held at Spring
/ field, Mo, on Saturday, which was addressed
/ by John S. Phelps, Judge Orr and Others. a.
NJ. Bedford, of Arkansas, Secessionist, after
wards addressed the meeting.
From the latest accounts, it appears that
the Unionists have been victorious in Ken
lucky. The vote of Louisville in favor ofthe
Union candidates to the Border States Con-
vention is from six to eight thousand The
Secession ticket was some time since with
drawn. The Union vote is supposed larger
than any aggregate majority ever polcd
there. Maysville gives $50 majority for the
Union. The stars and stripes float from every
building in town. Paris precinct gives $40
majority for the Union. Bells majority was
500
The U. S Marshal of PHILADELPHIA has Civ
en- notice 10 the Presidents of railroads run
ming South from that city, that no more pro-
visions for the reyolted States can be ship
ped.
Gen. Scott thinks that the concentration of
Secession forces in Virginia is intended only
for the defense of that State, and no longer
for aggressive demonstrations.
BEFORE long the same question will press
itsels on us here in California. Shall we,
too strike for independence-o like whip
ped spanniels, crawl at the feet of either a
Northern or a Southern Confederacy? To
this must we come, and that, too, ere long
Los Angelcs Star,
CALWogNIANs, are you, too, to be melted
to insurrection, to help to dash down the no.
/ ble pillars of our glorious Union, which YOU
have helped to rear and maintain? thinB
/ you, who have leveled the lofty sierras and
delyed in the bowels of the earth, and
brought her deep hidden treasures tc
light; You who have built up this great en-
pire Of the Pacific, whose cities have sprung
up as if by magic though repeatedly con-
sumod by fire and carried away by the
floods and notwithstanding all these diff
culties, have continued to supply the money
chests of Europe, as well as America with
gold, that there is any danger of Californi-
ans being "whipped Ike spauies or crawling
at the feet Of either the North or the South ?
We believe not. w believe that California
will, as expressed by her gallant Latham,
"cleavc to the Union as it is, and as it may
be > she will whip all "spaniel5" and seces-
sion ours out Of her borders, and those who
would set them ON; and if there was any
"crawling' to be DONE it would be when cX-
hausted in conqueriug the enemies of the
Union, with the tattered ensign of the Re
public grasped in her hands crawl to the
statue of Liberty, and repose at its feet-San
BerHdroliao Patriot
Or THE RIGHT MArERIAL.-One Of our Fx-
pressmen, few days since, while travelling
through the county, stopped at the cabin OF
an old miner who auXiously inquired as to
the latest news. Bad enough" replied the
vender of news "the secessonists have taken