Civilian & telegraph. [volume] (Cumberland, Md.) 1859-1875, 1861-02-07
News of the Crisis.

The New Orleans Trss Delta says of
the condition of things in that city
Trade is at standstill, the impor
tation of merchandise has almost entirely
ceased; the warehouse OF the Federal
Government are everywhere glvstcd with
bonded goods; the banks are remorseles-
sly curtailing their discounts; ordinary
creditors are endeavoring by all means
short of legal pressure to lessen the liza
biIities of their debtors; stores and man
ufactorics, traders and mechanics, are
diminishing their expenses BY tho dis
charge of hands, and, save the office hol-
ders, an influential, wealthy, and impor-
tant body, clectorally considered, every
body looks dubious and bewildercd. not
knowing what to expect or what may
happen.
OF the railroads in tho States. the True
Delta says:
1.-The sixty day notes of ono of the
largest of them, in sums Of ten dollars
tfor labor) and upwards, are to 10 met
with everywhere
Three months moro Of this scoess 10 II
will bring men to reason.
The SEIZURE OF TIE CAPITAL The
select committee Of hvo, of Congress
have had before them John NJ. Tourney
of Baltimore, Clerk of the City Circuit
Curt. aud examined him as to whether
there existed any secret organizations
there or in Maryland within his know
edge. lie testified that he was thor
oughly acquainted with the class Of poo
pie who would be likely to join such an
organization, but within his knowledge
no such organization had existed or oven
proposed, except in way Of merrimert
aud joking.
TENNESSEE A most intelligent gentle
man from Nashville, says the Union men
are in the majority, aud what ~ still
more important. that they are guining
wound. They have taken the stuTp.
! the thing is bong discussed, and the Sc
crssion fever is yielding to reason. 1t
nust be so everywhere, whore time is
allowed for consideration. Itis because
the conspirators know this. that they
rushed matters through i'll the extreme
South. They saw that even the cotton
States could be thrown into 'rrvpiatiOn,"
only by being ''precipitatei' into i.
The Mobile papers of tho 2Sth ult. re-
port that 100 volunteers wero thon at
Pensacola, garrisoniug Forts Barrancas
and McRac, and the Marine Hospital. -
Fort Pickeus numbers one hundred and
sixty United States troops. under Lieu
tenant, Slemmer, about thirty Of whom
it is reported. have been put in chain 8
as mutineers. because they have refused
to fight against tho South; and large
proportion of the others are alao friend
iy disposed towards the people Of Pensa-
cola, many of them having wives and
friends in that city.
Fort Pickens can be played upon by
til. guns from Fort McRao Fort Rarran-
o,s, and IRON battery which should be
planted at the Marine Hospital, and also
from battery which is now being plan
ted at the navy-yard. The idea among
the best military men now there is that
Fort Plckcns can easily be taken with
the present force, if properly used.
Mrs. Semmer was in the hayward
on the Doth. and kindly treated by all
Her voice is for war. She told Lieut.
Slcmmer he could not surrender. So
much for apron strings and petticoats
An Alabama lady was also at the yard
Oh her way down to Pensacola. follow
ing her husband, who, sho. said. she
would stand or fall with. and be be liv-
ing or dead, she would not falter to dress
his wounds
SEIZURE OF THE MIyr AND CUsToM.
HOUSE AT New ORLEANS. New Orleans,
FEBRUARY lst--The United STATES uint
and custorn-house were quietly taken 20
session of yesterday by the State author
tiles. The officials continued in their
positions. having taken the oath pres
crbed by the ordinance of secession to-
day
WASHINGTON, February 2d.-To-day
the Treasury department were notified
by Adams & Co.'S Express that A j.
Guirot. the superintendent of the New
Orleans mint. and assistant United States
Treasurer there. had refused to pay q
draft of the department for $500. 900.
placed in their hands for transfer to Phil
adelphia. 1t is believed at the Depart
ment that in these seizures million of
the money of the government have fall
en- into the hands Of the State. Guirot's
answer on the presentation Of the draft
was that 1.-THE money in bis custody was
no longer the property Of the United
States. but ths republic ofLouisisua.