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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-12-21

w The Lynchburg Virginian, of the
18th. says:
Two members of the New Orleans :. Tiger
Rifles were shot, at Centreyille, on Monday
last, for INSTRUMENTATION.
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significant paragraph:
Turkey hunters, deer stalkers, duck shoot
ers, and all who are fond of rousing mp game,
especially If well acquainted with the woods
and water courses of the State between Sa-
vannah and Charleston, and prepared for a
long maroon, are requested to leave their
names aud addresses at the Courier Office.
Enfield rifles, temahawks and scalping knives
viii be furnished cheap
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Administrators Notice.

October I6, 1861
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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-12-21

Big Gane.-The Charleston Courier,
of the 4th inst, contains the following
significant paragraph
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1861-12-21

Nov. 30, 1861
Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1861-05-07

Ishall keep 81 hand al all times, a fun assert
lleut " the above named goods as
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IL The Insurance companies Of New York
have advanced their war risks to five per cent.

PROVING CANNON-On Wednesday, ten S-inch
columbiads, (slxty four Founders two S-inch and
two 10inch mOrtars, manufactured at the Fort Pitt
Foundry in this city, were tested at the proving
ground near Tarentum. Experiments Were made
with iron plates, to test the effect of cannon balls
upon them the result OF which was that the heavi-
est iron castings were deemed insufficient to resist
the shot of columbiads unless the force Of the ball
had been considerably spent. For instance. a
twelve pound shot, at the distance Of three hum
red Yards, was fired at iron target made of 81 K
plates three quarters Of an inch in thickness and
strongly bOlted together, making a mass nearly
FIVE inch thick. The ball penetrated three OF
the six plates and depressed the whole mass sew
eral inches The ball was crushed to fragments,
and the hemisphere coming In contact with the
metal appeared to have been partly fused. Other
experiments were tried, with about the same re
| suit PittSburg Post.
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NAVY DEPARTMENT.


~ Bureau Of CoastrHctiOn. &c June i, 1851.
PROPOSALS will be received at this Bureau until
the 18th d.y of June Tor the complete conjunction
sod equipment of Steam Screw Gun Hoats. IN
cudiIg spaTs, rigging, sails, awnings, boats. cables
and anchors, tanks, casks, furniture, CO king ap
paatus aud all the outfits for vessel OF war ready
FOR sea service.
The steam machinery, the fuel for the same, the
armament and provisions, WlIl be provided BY the
Government. -
Proposals will only be received from ship build.
ers who are actually engaged in that business and
satisfactory evidence 10 that effect will be uirsd
from parties proposing who are not known to the
Department.
Upon app ication to this Bureau, parties will be
furnished with a specification showing the dImen-
ront of the vessel and the descri pton and SIZE OF
the materials alto, q section showing tbs length
of the tlmbers smidships Building plans vii be
furnished by the Dep srtment when contract is
made. With the Specifications will be enclosed
the form of contract the successful person will be
CURED to execute, with suretles TO the full
amount of the contract
The parties must state in their offer the tots
amount for which they will engage to do all that
the contract and sPeoihcatons require giving sep
ara,e the amount demanded If the vessel be sGnoh-
days, a.d in one hundred and five days. from the
date of the contract the vessel in each to b.
completed and ready for sea in thirty days aftel
being launched.
The Department reserve the right TO aocept tbs
proposition most to the interest of the Severn
meht, and 10 reject them ali, at Its option.
Parties Will state the number OF vessels they VII
agree to deliver within the times specified.
ieS1w
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A RELIGIOUS REsIMENr.-A regiment is now
In progress of organization in which Horace Web
ster, l.. l.. D., and DR. Byard, VI. ID. both Of the
New York Free Academy, are to held the POSI-
tions respectively Of colonel and Lieutenant colonel
DR.. Webster is a graduate Of West Point and DR..
Byard has been a colonel In the militia service
The regiment IL to be formed Of men Of sound
moral and Christian character, without respect to
sect or creed-men who will enter inb the service
Of supporting and defending the government from
principle Of right and not from any mercenary
motive. A notice of the formation Of this regi
ment will be read in the various city churches on
Sunday next, and an announcement of the head
quarters of the regiment will then be made.-Nsn
York World, 9Th,
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ACCIDENT TO THE GREAT GUN.-In the edition
OF yesterday it was stated that preparations were
making with a view Of placing the great gun
s'Unonn on a schooner to be conveyed to Fortress
Monroe. Accordingly, Yesterday afternoon, the
schooner J. w. Barille, Capt. Daws-the deck Of
which had been prepared to receive the gun-was
drawn alongside one Of the wharfs at Locust
Point. Workmen were also engaged with the
necessary implements to effect its removal from
the pier on which it had been placed to the
schooner. Large pieces Of timber called skids,
Of sufficient strength, as supposed, to bear the
weight Of the gun, bad been extended from the
pier on to the schooner that the laoorers could
easily push II to its destined place the deck OF
the vessel. Between four and five O'Clock the
work was commenced, and the force had sue
ceeded in moving the ponderous gun near the
side Of the schooner, when the skias broke In
two, causing the immense gun to fall into the
| water, which at that point is over twelve feet In
depth. The schooner careened Ove., but aftel
being relieved Of the great weight, soon righted
having part of her rails and stanchions broken
The gun can be recovered, though 1t will require
| immense machinery to raise it. The weight o
the gum as previously stated, is SO 500 pounds :
| BALTIC. american.
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IL Some cannon, on Major Clay's principle,
have recently been experimental with, under the
The range was 100 yards, and the flight Of the
balls accurate. The guns were Immediately pur-
chased, and are on their way to this country.
III The Springfield Republican says the regi-
meDt ordered to be made up In the Western
Massachusetts counties for active service will
probably be armed uniformly with the English
(Enfeld) rife muskets, purchased by the State
authorities in Great Britain.
UThere is now a large amount Of snow
among the White Mountains, for the LIST Of June
The spring has been cold, and the snow drifts in
the valleys have not been melted by warm south
erly rains. The north-westerlv winds confirm
private accounts Of the snow In mountain districts
IDA southwest Missouri paper says tine equip
ment Of each soldier joining military company
in that region is quart Of whisky, one loaf of
bread, one pocket Bible, one Barlow knife, and
one fine tooth comb.
II Lieut.. Slemmer, is now at Fort Hamilton,
with his men-the original garrison at Pickens-
and will remain there until he and they are re-
cuperated.
IL Plate glass has fallen in price from so to &C
per cent in England 1t il said that its use pre-
vents successful burg aries, the glass cannot be
cut through without making noise.
IL The steamer Illinois has sailed from New
York for Portsmouth, N. Fl. where she is to be
altered into gunbOat. She has been purchased
by the Government.
IL Large quantities OF bunting and homespun
besides a number OF Enfield Rifles, have been
shipped to Boston from St Johns, Newfoundland
for the use Of the federal troops.
III monster excursion from London to Pari,
| has been got up. Tickets IS, and time allowed
ten days. Fourteen hundred cockneys are alread,
engaged.
III Nearly nine hundred Irishmen have bee,
! enrolled United States volunteers at ST. Louis
| Missouri.
IL All United States vessels which have ar
| rived at New Orleans since the 9th, have beef
seized by the rebel government
| IL We see 1t recommended by several reli
gious journals that the coming 4th Of July be oh
served as day Of fasting and prayer.
| u A letter from Cairo, printed In Chicag
| paper states that law library has been seized
Camp Defiance a. contraband Of war.
| IL The State Treasurer of Vermont advertise
for loan Of i've hundred thousand dollars fc
war purposes.
III Don Isdoro Avanjo de Lyra, editor Of Ii
Diario de la Mariana, Of Havana, has been kille
| In duel.
DrIti IL said that John P. Loye, city edit,
In Liverpool, England, has by bis profession
! amazed fortune Of ESQ 900. Marvellous, II uu
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THE FRENCH SQUADRoS.-The Courier des
formidable French squadron has been dispatched
to the United States, that there has been no
special feet directed to the United States, but the
French regular station at the Antilles had received
orders to attend to and watch the North Ameri-
can coast and as the force is not large enough for
these purposes, II Is to be REINFORCED by two
frigates-a steam frigate and man-of-war. Only
one frigate has been designated vet, ola
Foudre,'' which is now fitted out at Toulon, and
may be taken to Martinique by Contre Admiral
Pena nd as commando Of the squadron.
The Marquis de Montholon, French Consul
General at New York, who has been absent in
Europe for a year, has returned to the United
states
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MARYLAND Legislature.

In the House, yesterday, bill authorizing the
board Of police Of Baltimore to temporarily close
all drinking saloons when necessary for the pre-
servation of peace, was passed
The bill reported by Mr.. Warfeld, authorizing
the mayor and city council to increase the pubic
debt Of Baltimore 81 500 900 beyond the sum now
allowed by law, and to issue bonds TO meet the
increase, after a lengthy and animated debate,
was passed
Mr. Dennis. Of Somerset, offered preamble
and esolutions the former of which recited at
length tina. Maryland is yet State In the Union,
submitting peaceablv to the federal government,
vet nevertheless the President has raised and quar-
tered large standing armies upon her territory has
occupied the houses Of her citizens without their
consent, and has made the military superior to
and above the civil power; has assumed to regu-
late the internal policy and government OF the
State; has seized upon and appropriated our rail-
roads and telegrapEs; has seized and searched our
vessels has fOrcibly entered houses; has deprived
our people Of their arms; has seized and trans
ported our citizens TO other States for trial upon
charges, or pretended charges; has taken the pri-
waite property of citizens; has caused bic
travellers to be stopped and their persons, trunks
and papers to be searched has arrested and caused
TO be imprisoned without any civil process w hat
ever the persons Of citizens, and by the mill
tary power kept and still keeps them In conhne-
ment against and in contempt Of all civil process
The resolutions protest against these acts Of the
President as gross usur patiOn and in utter viola
| ton Of the Constitution They declare that the
rig ht of secession Is not constitutional but rev.
| dictionary right that the Federal government
has no ri ht, under the Constitution, to wage wal
| against State that prudence and policy demand
| recognition of the Southern Confederacy, and
denounce. with indignation, the suspension Of The
| writ Of habeas corpus In the Merryman case.
The resolutions were laid over, under the rule
After some time spent in the consideration o
/ the resolutions of Mr.. Chaplain adopting the re
port Of the committee on federal relations as ex
pressing the policy which Maryland should pur
sue and insruc ng the representatives OF the Stat
In Congress to vote for the immediate recognition
ofthe Southern Confederacy, the House adjourned
Senate The business transacted in the Senat
was altogether local in character.
| Petitions against the confirmation OF Tenc
Tilghman as major general were received froI
| Cecil and Talbot counties.
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CAsIssT DISNER.-Secretary Seward last night
gavs dinner to the members of the Cabinet and
their families, which was one Of those pleasant
entertainments for which the hospitable mansion
of the Secretary Of State is somewhat famous
There were present Mr.. and Mrs Cameron, Mr..
and Mrs. Welles, Mr.. and Mrs. Blair aSd Miss
Blair, Mr.. and Mrs. Bates and Miss Bates, Mr..
Chase, Mr.. and Mrs. Smith; Mr.. and Mrs. Hunter,
Chief Clerk state Department.; Messrs. Harring-
ton, Assistant Secretary Of Treasury; Fox, Chief
Clerk Navy Department; Sanderson, Chief Clerk
War Department; Smith, jr., Assistant Secretary
Interior pro tenn; Kasson, First Assistant Post
master General; Bates, jr., Chief Clerk Attorney
Gene al, and others.
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OUTRAeEs UPON UNION MEN NEAR HARPER's
FERRT.-The following is an extract of letter
received in this city dated WevertOn, Maryland,
June 6:
al take the liberty OF writing to inform you
how we have been used here. On the night Of
the ith inst. party Of Isl men came to Weverton
from the Ferry, and got in our house at O'Clock
in the morning and searched it from top TO bot.
tom, going into my mothers bedroom and lifting
up the bed ard mattress while she lay there My
sister had Just time to put on a dress. They took
my brother prisoner and released him when they
had done all. The same party then broke oper
Mortimore's store and stole boots, shoes. tobacco
cigars, ale, &c. We have been threatened Il
nave our town sacked and burned tonight"
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FROM TEXAS AND NEW ORLEANs.-A gentle
man direct from New Orleans says, in regard to
the entire commerce Of the South, that 1t is In
most frightful condition. He says the States that
will suffer most will be Louisiana, NJ ississippi,
and Texas. In regard to the latter State, he says
he was In Galveston on the 18th Of May. When
he left there bacon was twenty-five cents per
pound, and -four eighteen dollars per barrel, and
a very limited supply at that. They We're wholly
dependent on New Orleans for means Of subsist.
enre
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MORE POWDER Last Thursday, schooner,
on its way to Virginia, having on board thirty
five tuns of powder, was seized by boats from
Fort McHenry, and removed to the fort. United
States Marshal Bonifant had received informant on
of the sailing Of the vessel with the powder,
destined for Virginia, and chartered the tug
Vigilant for the purpose Of going in pursuit, but
the officers at the fort succeeded in overhauling
the vessel before leaving the river.
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FROM WILLIAMSBURG, MD.-The Williams
port CORES pendent of Baltimore American writes
June 9Th,
A few hours since two lads, one the son Of Mr..
Simon SNYDER and the other the son OF widow
Lefever, both about seventeen years old, and both
living little way below this place, were stand
ing on the rivers bank, when two Confederate
soldiers in citizens dress, approached on the OPP
posite shore, and representing themselves to be
citizen farmers, begged the boys to come over Tor
them, as they were very anxious to escape Into
Maryland. The bows teok their skin and crossed
over to them, but the moment the boat touched
the bank the soldiers jumped into 1t, broke 1t up
sent the pieces floating down the river and
marched the boys of for the camp.
A number Of the Virginia companies have dis
banded and most OF the soldiers that went from
Berkeley county have returned home. Desertion
have reduced some companies to about half OF tn
original number; so at least said one OF the de
serters to me few minutes ago.
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VorE OF RICHMOND CITY.-We see by some
Of the Virginia papers that the whole vote cast in
the city OF Richmond in favor Of Secession was
2,40O, against 1t 4. The vote Of Richmond at the
last Presidential election was 400; so that not
half vote was cast, and al the city Is a military
camp 1t is probable that the military vote Is
counted among the 2.4OO
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RELEASE OF WINFIELD g. ANDERsoN.-The
Baltimore American says: sWe learn that Mr..
Winfield s. Anderson, who was arrested at the
Relay House few days since and conveyed to
Fort Henry, was released at noon yesterday, and
returned to the city, the invest CATION having sat-
isfied General Cadwalader that there was no
ground for the charges Of reasonable intent
against him.
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WAR IN THE CAMP.-The Richmond Examiner
growls terribly at the State authorities. 1t says
that all the fat offices fall into the hands Of the
new converts to secession doctrines 1t makes
this painful announcement :-'' We have yet to
hear Of single original champion Of the South
who has been treated with common consideration
or ordinary politenessD .
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IL The vessels now In the stream at the Brook
lyn Navy Yard are North Carolina (SDi Roanoke
(4l); Brandywine (5O); Savannah (22); Potomac
(5O); Daylight, Penguin, Albatross, and some
small surveying crafts. 1t is said that all the Off
GERS and men of the steam frigate Susquehanna
will be sworn in next week. No sailors, thus far
have expressed desire to leave.
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Iron dit, that Hardee, the author Of Hardee's
Tactics was passenger, In the disguise Of female
apparel In the last steamer that left New York for
Europe. In the last news Of his whereabouts he
was said to be In command Of Fort Morgan,
guarding Mobile. 1t was understood some time
ago that he had sent to Europe to purchase arms
for the Southern Confederacy
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THE Cur WORM IN MARYLAND.-The Cecil
MD Wing hears complaints from all sections OF
the county Of the ravages Of the cut-wOrm The
cold wet weather has been so unfavorable for the
growth Of corn, and so propitious to the opera
tions Of the worm that from present APPEARANCES
the corn crop will be very short one. July and
Auguat however. may vet make the corn creep.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-06-08

TKSsEssEE votes to-day upon the confirmation
OF the ordinance Of secession. In Western Ten
nessee the thing will be oil one way, as the dis
unionists insist that open ticket shall be voted;
and all who dare oppose secession be marked for
vengeance. Eastern Tennessee, however, will 20
for the Union, and, gentlemen from that State
now in Washington say, by at least IS, 600 ma
jority.
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PER CoSrRA.-The editors Of the Baltimore
Ariean state per contra to the rose-colored tele-
graphic account Of the prosperous condition Of the
secessionists at Harper's Ferry, the following:
ave last night heard deplorable story from a
Baltimore deserter from Harper's Ferry, who had
just arrived here. He represents the camp to be
in a sad condition, without discipline or order,
and that the men Were dissatisfied and deserving
as rapidly as they could escape. Provisions were
scarce and the commssary so badly managed
that food could only be obtained by scramble
and fight among themselves, or by foraging on
the country people. Not more than half of those
there are represented 10 be armed, and the place
10 in no condition to Withstand an assault from
tbs force collecting, to move against them, a
ChambersbuTg.
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IDA Norfolk dispatch to the Atlanta Confed-
eracy, says the Merrimac has been raised and her
machinery found to be uninjured. She will be
soon ready for sea This 10 doubtful. The Mer-
rimac was burnt to the waters edge, as well as
Hunk
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ERIsADIER GEN. JOHN GARLASD.-Ths gallant
officer Of the United States Army, whose death We
have announced, entered the army on the 3lst Of
March, 1891. Few officers have seen as much ser
vice. He first served the Indian frontier after
wards distinguished himself under Col. Worth In
the Florida war; was breveted Colonel for gallant
conduct In the battles Of Palo Alto and Resaca de
la Palma in 1s4o; commanded a brigade in the
battle of Monterey, and in Worth's division,
through General Scott's campaign in Mexico in
1857; and was breveted Brlgadier General for
gallant conduct In the battles Of Contreras and
Cherubusco, and in storming Molina del Rey
and was severely wounded in the capture of the
city Of Mexico. From the effects Of this wound
and the climate he never recovered. In his per-
sonal relations he was greatly beloved, and as an
officer always prompt and eficest in the discharg.
Of his duty.
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/ IL letter from the flagship Minnesota,
dated off Charleston, Both, says, three steamers
The men were Immediately at their quarters, the
guns shotted and run out, but the steamers did
not cross the bar, though one came within three
miles Of the Minnesota, when she put about fol
| the land
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ILLNESS OF GENERAL McCLELLAN.-We regre
to learn Of the indisposition of Msjor General Nc
Clellan, and hope his illness IL but temporary
Cincinnati EHqsirer, June S.
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IL The latest intelligence from Fortress Mon
roe shows that the Harriet Lane could not have
been injured In the affair e. the Nansemond river
a. she was still actively engaged In the blockade
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GOVERNOR LErcHsR's ORDER TO DESTROY THE
BRlDSEs.-The Wheeling lntelligencer says the
following letter from Gov Letcher to Colonel
POrterheld has been found by the troops:
RICHMOND, VA. May 25th, 1851.
Dear Sir;-when You get matters In proper
condition at Grafton, take the train some night,
run up to Wheeling and settle and carry away the
arms recently sent to that place by Cameron, the
U g. Secretary or War, and use them in arming
such men as may rally to your camp. Recover
the State aims also recently seized Dy the NAL
contents at Kingwood. 1t is advisable to cut of
telegraphic communication between Wheeling
and Washington, so that the disaffected at the
former place cannot communicate with their
allies at headquarters Establish perfect con-
troll over the telegraph, (if kept upD so that no
dispatch can pass without your knowledge and
inspection before 1t Is sent. IL troops from Ohio
and Pennsylvania shall be attempted to be passed
the railroad do not hesitate to obstruct their
passage by all means in your power, even to the
destruction Of the road and bridges.
Having confidence in your discretion, lam sure
YOU will manage all things wisely and well
Yours, truly, JOHN LRTCHER.
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III The Memphis PAT ers are calling the atten-
ton Of the Vigilance Committee to the high prices
Of provisions charged by dealers there.