Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1861-08-16

Correspondence of the Baltimore Exchange |
WASHINGTON, August IL, 1861.
The preparations for the defence of the
capital are vigorously prosecuted by General
Mcclellan. A large body of troops, probably
fifteen thousand, have been sent down into the
lower counties of Maryland. Two regiments
will be euartered at Port Tobacco, and a con-
siderable force will also be placed at Upper
Marlboro. In addition to these points troops
are being thrown out all the way down the
Potomac on the Maryland side, ont Of sight
of the Virginia shore so as to conceal the
operations Of the Federal army. The Federal
pickets will extend to Leonardtown, St. Ma
ry's county.
The stationing of pickets so far down in
Maryland is intended as much for the inter-
ception of communication between the Vir-
GINA and Maryland shores, as for the purpose
Of securing the earliest information of the
movements Of the COnfederates. General Nc
Cellan has asserted that he will intercept this
illicit intercourse at all hazards. Fort Wash
ington has 4een reinforced to its utmost ca
pacity and additional means Of defense are
being erected outside the fort.
The Government appears to be alarmed at
the batteries which have been erected by the
Confederates along the Potomac, and it is
probable that counter-works will be commenc-
ed at once.
There is but little doubt that an attack upon
Washington is confidently expected by the
Administration.
WAsmNGroN, Aug. H. 1861
The climax of the atrocities Of the Admins
tration committed on private individuals oc-
CURED to-day, in the arrest Of Hon. Charles
James Faulkner, cx-Ministcr to the Court Of
France, on the charge Of treason. The arrest
was made by the Provost Marshal in person,
(..fI.
der from the Secretary of State
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
WASHINGTON, August IL, 1861.
10 C5l. Porter, y. s. A., Proeost- Marshal
city Of Washington:
You viii proceed to arrest and detain Chas
James Faulkner, ex-Mnister Of the United
await further orders from this Department.
WIN. II. SEWARD.
If the Senate had not adjourned IL might
have been supposed that that body had inn
peached him on a charge made Mt or before the
time he was recalled but as it Is, the arrest
was one of the most despotic actions that could
have been perpetrated by the most arbitrary
government on the face Of the earth
Mr.. j. II. Lindcnberger, Secretary Of th g
San Francisco Democratic Executive Commit
tee. was arrested yesterday at Port Tobacco
believed that Mr.. Lindenburgcr was on his
way to the Confederate Congress at Richmond,
with dispatches from the California Constitu-
tional Association. His trunks were removed
and searched, and he was thrown into q
crowded Jail, surrounded it Is true, by men
who are mostly respectable and generally
clean By nature but who, from their close
confinement and the impurity surrounding
them, are covered with filth and vermin.
Mr.. Lindenberger will probably be arraign-
ed in the course Of a week, on the charge Of
treason, before civil Justice.
You will hardly believe IL, | am sure, when
| tell you that in this city men who are preach
ers Of the Gospel, and even pray for the Presi-
dent Of the United States, are denounced in
the public prints and on the streets because
they choose not TO allude to this unholy strife
in their sermons. Prescription by the clergy
ceased in this country with the wars Of the
Puritans Prescription Of the clergy has
commenced with the war Of MI Lincoln.
You have, no doubt, noticed that ministers
Of the Gospel have at all times, since the out
b3ak of the war, been denounced in unmeas-
urcd terms, when IL has been known that they
will not prostitute their pulpits to tltsupport
Of the Administration.
Notwithstanding the order given by Gen.
Mansfield on July l7tb, concerning "persons
held TO service or labor there are now in the
camps of the Federals in this vicinity large
number Of abducted slaves who arc constant
ly kept at work
Notwithstanding the vigilance Of the Pro-
yosts patrol, the guard house reports each
day show the number Of drunken soldiers ar
rested to be quite as many as there were one
month ago. SPECIAL.
Trouble In The Highland Regiment.
WAsUgeTos August I4.-Much excitement
was occasioned in the city this evening in
consequence Of the disaffcction openly mani
tested in the New York Sixty ninth (Highland) !
regiment, and the sending TO their camp Of a
military force to act as circumstances might
rpouire The result was the arrest of forty or