The national Republican., 1861-05-09

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PUBLISHED BY L. CLEPHANE l. co.
GEORGE NJ WESTON, Editor
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN.
Thursday. Nay 9, 1851.
ExrcurIvE APPoiSrNESrs.-The President
has made the following appointments:
Thomas Carberry, Nicholas Callan, and John
8. Hollingshead, justices Of the peace for the
county of Washington.
James NJ. Fletcher, Of Nd, register Of the
land Office st Vancouver, Washington Terri
tory.
George B. Lincoln, postmaster at Brooklyn,
NY.
James c. sloo, surveyor Of customs for the
port of Cairo, III.
~ The exact vote last week in Washington
county, Maryland, at special election for del
egate to the Legislature, was for Mr.. Fiery,
the Union candidate, 1882 votes-scattering
1872 votes.
~ The secession leaders in Maryland will
be under political ban during the remainder
Of their natural lives. Many Of them will re.
tire to Dixie's Land"
~ We are indebted to Russell for supplies
yesterday of New York and Philadelphia pa.
pers.
~ The Wellsburg (va.) Herald Of May
Sd, is received. 1t is full Of fight, and on the
right side. After describing the various mill.
tary companies being organized in its county,
(Brooke,) it says:
"The state of feeling in Hancock is very
similar to that in Brooke, It is, also, in Ohio
and Marshall; and take it altogether, the 6ght.
ing element inherited probably from the old
Indian fighting times, is decidedly predominant;
and with . little training, proper arms, and
reasonable assistance, the Panhandle will be
found both able and willing to take care Of
ITSELF"
CARo.-The Cairo correspondent Of the
Chicago Tribune, writing on the 4th Of May,
says that the national force was then 5000.
He adds, that gentleman who left Columbus
(Ky.) on that day, reported that the enemy
there did not exceed $50 men. The editors Of
the Tribune, however, express the opinion that
Cairo will be attacked. We shall believe when
we see it, and not before, that the conspirators
will attack anything which is in tolerable
condition of defence. As yet, we have had
nothing from them but swagger
HARPER's FERRY.-Tbe Baltimore american
Of yesterday gives, from ian intelligent and
reliable" source, the following account of af
fairs at Hsrper's Ferry:
There are 5000 Virginia troops there, 600 Of
them wholly unarmed, and 600 more, armed
only with Aiut.lock muskets. Only about 500
arms were saved from the burning Of the arse.
nal, instead of 5000, as heretofore reported.
On the spot, there we're various opinions as to
the question of maintaining or evacuating the
position.
II the letter from Lynchburg, elsewhere pub
lished in this paper, is to be relied upon, Hsr.
per's Ferry is now largely reinforced, but truth
constitutes so imperceptibls an ingredient in
reports from the South, that we are tempted to
renew the old inquiry, "1hether there is such a
thing as a fact in the rorld."
CAPTURE OF A PRATE!-Ths Harriet Lane
brought into Annapolis yesterday, q piratical
schooner, captured on Tuesday evening, just
outside the Virginia Capes. All the pirates
but two escaped, by taking to their boats.
The schooner had no name and was painted
yellow.
INTERCOURSE WITH BALrIMoRR.-Three pas
senger trains each way, and one freight train
each way, are now running on the railroad be.
tween this city and Baltimore.
From Baltimore to Perryville, opposite Ha.
vre de Grace, lines Of steamers, including the
boats recently plying between Baltimore and
Norfolk, are running. This will keep up the
communication with Philadelphia for all pur.
posses Of trade and travel, until the railroad
between Baltimore and Havre de Grace is re.
paired.
Nor INVASION, BUT DEFENCE.-Some Of the
Virginia officials are now pretending, that their
military preparations, notoriously made for the
capture Of this city, were only commenced, or
at any rate; are only kept up, for the defence
Of Virginia.