The daily Green Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-26
Very --latest by Telegraph !
Montpelier, April rs, 4o'olock'P p H.
BRIDGES BEING REPAIRED
A EsslEsElg. VESSEL SEE ZED.
GATHERING OF SOUTHERN IROorS'
vpFesser BED 'fsayEs az SseauFe"
gard al asicEaiaa oasef'
GATHERING OF SOUTHERN TROOI
rORT SMITH SEIZED BY THE SOUTHs
Gov. Hicks assisting Northern Troops

Gov. Hicks assisting Northern troops Or"
Philadelphia April o.
Yeste!day evenings Baltimore american has
been received.
T. laws it is rumoreI that the Government
has a detachment OF troops protecting wolkinen
in repairing bridges on the Philadelphia road.
A large schooner from New York, towed by
t tug was brought to By shot from Fort Monroe
passing through
A cargo consisting Of military stores for Vir-
g.na and a full Light Artillery Battery was
seized.
Tie Petersburg Express says there are 10000
troops ct Richmond, 5000 at llarper's FsTy,
and $500 at Norfolk.
NV York, April %.
George Law in letter to The Presi lent urges
opening Baltimore, which, If not done, the PEG
pic will be compelled to take il into their own
hands.
Reliable adyiccs state that neither jeff. Davis
or General Beauregard were at Richmond on
Tuesday, nor had any formidable army been con-
centrated any where in Virginia.
! WILMINGTON, Del, April 2G.
! Gov Burton has Issued a proclamation call
ing out troops to defend the Union.
Fort Smith Of Arkansas has been seized by
the secessionists.
A special dispatch from Philadelphia says that
Gov Hicks with Maryland Reg iment assisted the
Massachusetts, and New York Regiments in
opening way to Washington from Annapolis.
Gen Beauregard was repairin; Fort Sumter
on Thursday last, expecting attacks from the
North.
New YORK, April 26.
The Herald special dispatch says the 9TH Re-
ginent has arrived at Washington.
The Capital will undoubtedly be attacked in
few days, from Georgetown lights with she'll.
The business entirely suspended.
The LONDON TINES ON THE Sou rHERN
CoTToN DUTIEs-ln its last article on
American affairs, the Times, after reterating
its disapproval OF tho Morrill, tariff, says:
"The case of tho South is very similar
For q single year the consumers of cotton
may be made to pay tribute in the shape of
an export duty to the planters of Georgia and
! Alabama. We ourselves in India have con-
triyed to levy such tribute upon tie Chinese
n the shape Of an export duty on opium
But the English are not likely to submit to
this kind of treatment nth as mach patience
as the Chiese, and the Southern States
must mako up their minds to pay for whatever
funds they may raise in this manner by the
permanent destruction Of their principal arti-
Gle of export. All the aboitionists of the
North and West never dealt such blow at
slavery as she will suffer at the hands of Ter
chosen champions from the imposition of the
tax upon the export of cotton.
The manufacturers of this country are be-
coming thoroughly alarmed at the precarious
tenure on which they hold their supply Of raw
material. The imposition of an export duty
will put an end to all hesitation in tho minds
OF those at whom it is directly leveled, and
everything that British capital skill cont ma.
ton, enterprise, and influence can effect will
be done in order to raise up competing in.
dustry to that of the Southern States. For
the first time in this question our interests
seem likely TO be ranged ON the samc side rs
our feelings, and We shall be forced at last in.
to taking part for which consistency and
honor have so long pleaded in vain. 1t is
a result OF Constitution which, for the first
time incorporates into itself the principles of
tree trade, to be Immediately succeeded BY
that most deplorable of all economical alb.
surd't'es, an export duty on an article of pro.
oScc OF which the State has no monopoly but
which can be produced almost anywhere With.
IN 30 north and south of the Equator"
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