The national Republican., 1861-04-22
NEWS ITEMS.


intense excitement in St. Mary's county, Mary.
land. The Lonardtown Beacon says the evacu.
alton Of Fort Sumter was greeted with the firing
Of cannon and ringing Of bells. A call has been
issued for county mass meeting to adopt meas.
ures of an effective character.
1t is reported that all the commissioned off.
GERS at the Annapolis Navy School, hailing from
Virginia, have sent in their designations, and
intend to follow the fortunes of the Old Domin.
ion.
The following naval designations have been
received and accepted: Lieuts. VIM. L. Brad.
ford, Of Alabama, and W. B. Fitzgerald, Vir.
ginis Samuel V. Turner, ssilmaker, from Vir.
ginia; George D. Lining, South Carolina, Acting
Midshipmsn; E. J. .McDermott, engineer, Texas.
appointed cadet at large by Mr.. Buchanan,
has resigned.
A gentleman Of Baltimore, who has son in
Fort Moultrie, has received o letter from him,
stating that not one of the soldiers in that fort
ress was injured during the engagement
Ten thousand people turned out last Thurs.
day to escort the Cleveland Grays, who left for
their rendezvous at Columbus. Intense enthu.
siasm was manifested.
The House of Representatives Of Ohio has
passed the Senate million bill. On its passage
the yeas were ninety nine, the nays none.
John Farley Of Rochester, went to New Or.
leans, some time ago, and boarding with three
other young men from the North, the recruiting
sergeant came along, and gave him the option
of enlistment or jail they chose the latter, but
three days experience Of it induced them to
enlist; while cutting wood a week after, not
xkn thn
Farley deserted, and by begging, hiding, snd
80 on to Rochester. John Farley wants to go
South once more to fight the secession army
he will then cry quits. He says there are
large number Of Northern men impressed iuto
the secession army.
The FIRE of the revolution has been rekindled.
One of the heaviest firms in Troy has proposed
to their clerks that if they choose to en-.
list in the Government service, their positions
their absence, and they would be paid their
regular salary while serving their country.
Our naturalized citizens, German, Irish, and
French-and of other nationalities-are unsni.
nous in their determination to abide by their
oaths of citizenship. They we're made by the
laws Of Congress, United States citizens, and
for their citizenship, and their new nationality,
they will fight to the death.
Mr.. Lincoln keeps his own counsels so care.
fully that Virginia sent committee to ask him
to speak. Mr.. Buchanan always blabbed so
much that the whole country felt disposed to
send committee to ask him to keep his mouth
shut.-Louispille Journal.
Rev. Charles Babbidge, of Pepperell, Mass,
Chaplain of the sixth regiment, leaves his con.
gregation, who were paying him good salary,
having volunteered to act in that capacity at
moments notice. He is in politics Democrat.
A large American flag is suspended across
the street at Havre de Grace, Nd, bearing the
motto: "By the Eternal, the Union must and
shall be preserved! "
The Providence Journal remarks: zone of
our friends, merchant, has received several
business letters from Shareholders in Florida,
who express the strongest desire that the Gov.
ernment would release them from the tyranny
to which they are subjected in the reign Of ter.
rorism."
An immense mass meeting was held in New
York Saturday to sustain the Administration.
1t is said that zoo, 900 people were present.
The Secretary of War has answered the hosts
Of applications for commissions in the army
growing out Of repeated designations, that, in
all cases, he will expect such candidates first to
enlist in volunteer companies organized for the
defence Of the flag.
TERRIFIC ExPLosIoN-SEvEN MEN KILLED.
A lamentable catastrophe happened at Erie,
Pennsylvania, on the l7lh instant, on the
Buchanan Farm, in the Oil Regions The gas
from spouting.wel took FIRE aud exploded,
killing seven men, among them Mr., Rouss, an