Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-06-06

Norfolk on Monday THE 27th) jeff. Davis
was unwell, but would come on soon as possible
Business is Frustrated everywhere. Stores
closed and the people desperate and full of fight
The crops look very promising.
POLITICAL.
STATES RIGHTS NOMINATION FOR CONGRESS
IN THE 1sr Distraction Tuesday last the
States Rights Convention of the 1st District of
assembled at Cambridge and nomi-
mated for Congress Hon. Daniel NJ Henry, of
Dorchester county. Hon. James F. Dashiel, of
presided, and the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted -
Resozced, That in the opinion of this Convcn-
ton the coercve policy of the Administration is
unconstitutional and subversive
of the principles on which this government was
founded
Resolved, That voting money for the prose-
cution of this unholly and unjustifable war,
now waged against our sister Southern States,
will be contrary to the wishes and sentiments
of the voters of the LIST Congressional District,
and any one so acting will grossly misrepre-
sent them.
Resolred That we are in favor of a peaceable
settlement of our difficulties, and the withdrawal
of all invading armies, and the immediate recog-
milton of the Confederate States government as
the only means whereby peace and harmony
can be restored between the contending sections,
and of averting the horrors of civil war, now
already commenced.
Mr.. Henry was then nominated for Congress
by John W. Polk, Esq, of Somerset, and unani-
mously chosen. Mr.. Henry accepted the nomi-
nation in short speech, and proposes imme-
diately to canvass the district.
The Southern Rights" Convention for the
Fourth Congressional District has nominated
Hon. Robert M. McLane as their candidate for
Congress in that District.
George Schley, Esq, was nominated at Ha-
gerstown on Monday as the Southern Rights
candidate for Congress from the Fifth District.
Ex-Governor Thomas is the Union candidate in
that District.
~~Isz11arIssss 3. Calvert, ESQ, was on Saturday
last nominated by the Union Convention of the
Sixth District as candidate for Congress.
ELECTION IN CECIL CoUNTY-On the 29tb
ult. special election was held in Cecil county,
for member Of the House of Delegates, to fill
vacancy, which resulted in the success of An
drew McIntire, Union, without opposition. He
received 400 votes.
Gen. Buffers Treatment of the Negro Cues
ton Approved.
A number Of slaves having made their escape
and gone into Gen. Buffers camp, near Fortress
Monroe, Gen. Butler wrote to the Secretary of
War for instructions as to the disposition he
should make Of them. The following is the re-
ply of the Secretary:
WASHINGTON, May 80, 1861.
SIR: Your action in respect to the negroes
who came within your lines, from the service of
the rebels, is approved The Department is
sensible of the embarrassments which must sur
round officers conducting military operations in
State, by the laws of which slavery is sane
tened. The Government cannot recognise the
rejection by any State of it's Federal obligation
resting upon itself. Among these Federal obi
cations, however, no one can be more important
than that of suppressing and dispensing any
combination of the former for the purpose of
overthrowing its whole constitutional authority.
While, therefore, you will permit no interter-
ence, by persons under your command, viii:
the relations of persons held to service under the
laws of any State, you will, on the other hand,
so long as any State within which your military
operations are conducted, remain under the con-
troll of such armed combinations, refrain from
surrenderng to alleged masters any persons who
come within your lines. You will employ such
persons in the services to which they will be
best adapted, keeping an account of the labor
by them performed, of the value of it, and the
expenses Of their maintenance. The question
of their final disposition will be reserved for flu
ture determination.
SIMON CAMERON,
Secretary Of War.