The national Republican., 1861-05-20

New York Erening Post, on the subject Of fax
cotton.
NJ Bishop Nottingham, the head Of the
Episcopal Church in Maryland, has issued q
circular letter, threatening with ecclesiastical
punishment such clergymen in the diocese as
shall omit the usual prayer for the President OF
the United States.
~ The recent Convention at Wheeling rep.
resented twenty-eight counties. Those coun
ties contained, in 1850, population Of 2o7,66S
whites, and 1896 slaves. Their present white
population is about 100000.
D~ Nathan Sargent, Esq, Of this city, has
been appointed commissioner Of customs.
~ Ex.Presdent Pierce has written letter
to the Boston Post, recommending recognition
of the Southern Confederacy, as an alternative
preferable to war.
~ The Petersburg (Va.) Express describes
the North Carolina Cherokees, some three hun.
dred in number, among the insurgent forces at
Norfolk, as being armed with, in addition to
the rife, "a tomahapk and scalping knife
If this is true, it justi6es any measure of re.
taliation, but il it is false, in all probability
it ia, it is another ludcrous illustration Of the
belief of the secession managers, that they can
frighten the nation out of its fixed purposes, by
threats and bugbears.
~ Texas advices report panic there,
growing out of report that Captain Mont
somery, of Kansas, with three thousand men,
was in possession of Fort Ouachita, in the Ca
manche region, on the northwest frontier of
Texas. Nothing is too improbable for these
ignorant people to believe.
A~At Atlanta, Georgia, May IL, in the
course Of speech at the depot William c.
Rivss, Of Virginia, said:
"There are no Federal troops on any part Of
the soil of Virginia, except Fortress Monroe.
will not say that they are afraid to come into
Alexandra but will say that we have trap
for them, into which they will fall whenever
they attempt to come into that city"
~ A letter, May 10, from St. Joseph, NO.,
says:
part Of the Government troops recently
ordered from the West have gone down the
river to Leavenworth, and detachment been
ordered across Iowa to avoid trouble here
~ The Baltimore correspondent Of the
New York Tribune, says: - a-...
The authority given to General Cooper, OF
Frederick, late Senator of the United States
from Pennsylvania, to raise an independent
regiment for three years from Maryland, is a
capital move, for the general will bring none
but loyal men into the service
JUD0E CAMPBELL.-Among the papers COM
municated by jeff. Davis to the Southern Con.
gress, on the 9Th instant, is long statement by
Mr.. Campbell, late Justice Of the Supreme Court
of the United States, of conferences with Gov
ernor Seward, prior to the attack upon Fort
Sumter. This paper is too long and too dull
for Our columns, and as to giving its points and
substance, that is impossible, for the reason that
it has none.
From the beginning to the end of it, there is
no allegation that Governor Seward committed
himself at all, by any pledge whatever, except
that, on the LIST of April, Judge Campbell was
authorized by him to write South in the follow
ing language:
81 am satisfied the Government will not un
dertake to supply Fort Sumter without giving
notice to Governor Pickens.'
If this amounted to pledge, it was scrupu
lousy redeemed, by formal notice to the Soutl
Carolina authorities, before the attempt to throw
provisions into Fort Sumter.
PRIvATEERISG.-The right of the American
as pirates, is distinctly admitted by Great Bril-
ain. How Great Britain herself may treat sue
privateers is another matter. Some of the e,
pressions of Lord Russell look as if Great Bri
ain would not treat them as pirates, althoug
we perceive that those expressions are not VI
derstood in that way by the London Shppin
Gazette. That paper, for ITSELF maintains tn
view that all Governments in amity with tn
United States must deal with the Southern pr
vsteers, just as the United States deal wit
them.
CHARLEsToS.-The Niagara, which is blocl
aiding Charleston, boarded, on the 18th iustan
three British ships, the Hiya, the Monmouth
and the General Parkhill. The British shi
"A-and A run the blockade, and got I'M
the port on the 18th. The Charleston Nea
of the evening Of that day says
"The Niagara was about ten miles southea
from the ship bar yesterday, and was the
visited during the afternoon by Robert Bunc
Esq, her Britannia Majesty's consul at tn
u1 port, who left the city about 2 p. M. in Il
J. steamer Charleston, and proceeded on boal
the Niagara, where he was received wi,
n the usual salute, and had every courtesy O.
tended to him, and every matter in relation
the blockade satisfactorily explained. All ne