Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-10-10

have been sold to the Government on private
terms.
The steamer Thomas Swami is now loading
at Pier 8, North river, Government stores for
Washington, and will sail this evening.
From the London Herald derby organ), Sep Is.
ENGLAND, "DESPERATE" FOR COTTON,
MAY INTERFERE IN THE WAR.
We have only report, on which it is best not
to comment further at present, any more than
on that other report, more momentous as regards
ourselves of the embargo laid on the cotton
crop. This would indeed be sign of despera-
ton. It's object would be to force England to
break the blockade. Trusting, as we do, that
the war will not 60 on beyond Christmas, and
having cotton enough to last till then, we need
not take the matter into consideration as yet
We must ourselves be rendered desperate before
we can be driven to a measure of arbitrary in
reference in quarrel in which we have no
concern.
THE BRITISH CRY FOR COTTON.
The London Times of the 10th ult. contains
an interesting article on the cotton demand and
supply, from which we extract as follows: :.
''Every account we receive from distant points
tends to show how every available bale from
countries capable of producing the plant is like
ly to find its way to us. Moreover, although
the Confederate States still assert that they will
meet the blockade of the enemy by sef-impos-
ed blockade. and not allow a pound of cotton TO
leave their territory, it is seen that declara
4 rsrEtr1y ve 1IarfgraS iUfts a vessei
fully laden with cotton Was found waiting to
run out and evade the Federal cruisers. From
Texas, therefore, moderate supply is still e1-
pected. The great argument, however, for ab-
stinenee on the part of our people and Govern
ment from mourning at the moment any heavy
liabilities in distant quarters consists in the Gil
cumstance that the lapse of very few weeksss
now likely to show either that the American
crop will come forward, or that, on the contrary.
India may set to work to take the place of that
country, and to supply henceforth all our ire
mendous requirements. If the policy naugu-
rated by General Fremont in Missouri is to be
adopted by the Federal Government, the war
will then be one of abolition and in that cast,
whether peace be delayed OF attained immediate
ly, the production not only of cotton, but Of
sugar, in the United States will temporarily at
least share the fate that attended the productions
of Jamaica. If, on the other hand, the Demo
cratic party in the North become alarmed at THE
Union being committed to such result, and
are able, Notwithstanding the force by which
the expression of their opinions is now kept
down, to re-assert themselves and to insist upon
compromise or adjustment with the South
there will then be no impediment to an early
resumption of the ordinary course of traffic. 4
Meanwhile it is, of course satisfactory to weigh
the subjoined statement, and to observe that SO |
far from American cotton being the arbiter Of
our destinies, our emancipation from all need Of
it is, perhaps, simply question of $4,000 900
or 99, 900 sterling.
From the London News, Sept IS.
EXPORT OF COTTON FROM ENGLAND TO |
THE UNITED STATES. |
The screw steamship Hamburg, belonging to |
the Liverpool, Philadelphia and New York
Steamship Company, which leaves Liverpool
for New York to-day wednesday,, will carry
out nearly 1900 bales of frst-cass American |
cotton. We understand that after paying all
of freight, &C., the prices at New York |
at the present time twenty-five cents per pound, |
will leave margin for profit as compared with
the charges for the staple of cotton in the Liver
pool market. We have reason to think that
this is but an instalment of large quantity Of
cotton purchased in the Liverpool market for
to America, and it is an ominous
of the frail hopes entertained by in
teligent and far-seeing business men of an ap-
preaching cessation of the internecine strife at
present raging in the States of the great republic
From the London Post (Palmerston organ) Sep. II.
LORD PALMERSTON'S DISAVOWAL OF THE
FREMONT PROCLAMATION
The American civil war, originally the creal
lion of hostile tariffs and commercial jealousy.
mas now, at the hands of General Fremont re-
,eived new features of aggravation which must
render all hope of Cancellation and compromise
impossible. General Fremont, recently can
lidate for the Presidential chair and the present
of the State of Missouri, has issued
! proclamation, dated St. Louis, the 31st of
August, in which he declares that the property.
real and personal, of all persons in that State
who shall take up arms against the United
States, or who shall be directly proven to have
aiken an active part with the enemy in the field,
shall be confiscated to the public use, and their
slaves declared free men,
We presume, of course, that General Fremont
S acting in conformity with the instructions of
The Federal Government. To excite and pro-
yoke servile war is the strongest measure of
offence which any Federal officer has hitherto
,ttem pied to enforce. The attitude of the slave
population in the South, which may be describ-
ID as quiescent, arising either from stold ndiff-
,rence or the vigilant coercion Of their m ,sters
seems to show that the negro race is not dispos-
ID to take any part,in the war. Will General
Fremont, W no expects to march from St. Louis,
20 New Orleans, obtain the aid of an army off
black auxiliarics, whose duty it will be to carry