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CoEGREssMAS MAT.-The Baltimore Ratrlot
eays that Hon. Henry May, the Congressman
from that city, before the election pledged
himself TO his constituents TO- vote for men and
money to put down the rebellion. The Ratrot
intimates that his recent visit to Richmond
and his subsequent illness, were mere lodges
to escape from his pledge. May is undoubt-
edly rebel at heart, although his necessities
compel him to seem to be for the Union. Bill
maneuvers has left Baltimore city, at least
the most important portion Of It, without 8
representative
The FREEDoRs.-The steamer Freeborn,
which has figured pretty conspicuousIy il
Chesapeake Bay and tributaries for tho past
| si1 weeks, has been taken into Washington
! Dry Dock, where she will undergo thorough
| repairs. Her thi1tytwo Founders are to bs
exchanged for heavy rifle cannon aud shel
guns.
! A V1RGn1AE.-The papers state that "Gc cn
! Harris" the Min that made the celebrated re
treat with three thousand men from the I'D
yanclrg column Of one company Of his or,
| secession friends, Is naive Of Virginia. o
course he IL. He IL ore Of the F. +. vs.
["F1eet Footed Viginians'') and son!tn-lav
| Of Commodore Porter.
| GUARDING RKkkL PRorKKTY.-The Wash
ington National Republican says that detach
ment Of the Fjrst Maine Regiment is engages asge
| in guarding the house and property Of Mn
French, on Georgetown Heights, while he
husband is absent, in conue1ion with th
! rebels
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A VERY PATRIOTIC LApy.-An elderly lady
who attended a meeting Of the list Vermont
Regiment, arose, full Of enthusiasm, and said
she thanked God that she was able to do
something for her country her two sons, all
she possessed in the world, were in the regi-
men', and the only thing she had to regret
was that she could rot have known Of this
war twenty five years ago, as she would have
furnished several more Of the same sort.
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AKKEsT UF UFNEWbp4fER C0RREsF0SDENT
Il letter from Ma1tlnsburg says:
F." Yesterday young man named Howard,
who has been representing himself as Mr.
Underhi1l, of the New York 1ines, was ar-
rested and confined in the guard.house, Mr..
Samuel Rca, the agent ct the Associated
Press, was also mfested. These arrests twere
utfsGe p1son an order from headquarters"
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FRGM WASHING roN.

zogrsss Of Busi,aess Ibrtsaits Of tsao Aorther7.
7TaifoTa-Ine Decrease Of tie Htgular army
THE arguments Do and Con.
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TIE PAT AND PENSION OF OUR Vo1us-
TEERs-The following recapitulation affords
useful Information to volunteers and their
families:
l. Alter being mustered into the service Of
The United States, volunteers aIe entitled to
pay the same as regular troops.
IL II disabled By wounds received in Eery-
Ice, or disease contracted in ssrvlce, they arc
entitled to IN invalid pension during lie, or
as long ~ the disability continues.
the United States, leaving widow, she is en-
titled to what pay Is due her hu=ba1d aud a
pension. If there Is no widow, the child or
children Of such volunteer are entitled to the
pay, and a pension until they are sixteen years
Of age.
~. Il there. IL ne widow OF child under
sixteen years Of sge, the Other heirs or des.
cepdants are entitled to the pay due the voluc-
teer st the time Of his death-but no peuaion.
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CONDUCTOR CUTLER,-The st. Joseph {Mo. ,
Journal has good word for Conductor Cutler,
Of the Hannibal and st. Joseph Railroad. On
Wednesday last his train had passed Hume
we'll station without whistling, and on it's
approaching Monroe, several horsemen were
noticed to start of. This attracted no special
atttntion, but On nearing the station, some
rails we're seen piled On the track and these on
fire. Mr.. Cutler got of to remove the rails,
AID in the act Of doing so, he discovered some
500 horsemen 6ashing on him. He immedi-
ately ordered all On board, reversed the en-
gire and pushed back, receiving three fires
trCm the rebels. The iron horse was too fleet
and all escaped unhurt
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P11TEE VINE OF IRON
PRESENTS a COMBINATION OF
Iron Sherry Wine and Perm vfxr Bark

Free from Na1seons iaklDezs Of The Iron without any
injury to the active ToCic principles
Each Teaspocbfnt contains two grains OF the Salt,
tlf nd,t Into Corai7 pleasant TO tie taste std &C.
ceptable to the stomach.
Iron il renabls aud effective Tonic, stgng color
to she Blood and tone and yEor to tae Fho.e system
This preparation streughscs feebls constitutions
end Re est ablahes The eqaius'tstn Of ths fuactons
Eerson who by so1sdd "a ,bs9 9 Rhtrs t1iaeE
enzrl and destroys the aFpet.ts Prepared only b1
Smith Il WKER,
Cfemtk1s and Apothecartes
tx1-e,a; alIake street. cp fremont uor..
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4 PATRIOTIC FAM1Ly.- BrIgadier General
Isaac staat, late of Newport, R. l., had twen-
ty~two chldren-si2teen Of whom were boys,
and nine Of them are in the naval and military
Eetyice. Four Of them are In the Rhode
Island Regiment, four in the Massachusetts,
md one in the Eighteenth New York. The
father was In the Mexican war, and died in
1851, leaving one hundred and twenty de-
scenaauts.
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TAXING ADVANTAGE OF THEIR NEcEssr-
TIES The South feels and bewnila its help
leasress under the blockade, and is willing to
pay fabulous prices for "triacs" which it
never valued before. Needles sell quick at
five cents apiece, and a Cinclnnatian has made
$1,000 on lot which be smuggled to Nash
vile about his person. Steel pens Offer an
other margin for profits. a specu!ator-nho
must be live Yenkec-trayeled 1eisurely
alopg through Kentucky to Tennessee with
his "ehow wagon" and made no less than
10000 on The quinine he had slowed aboard.
This kind Of business-sman though it be-is
making fortunes for scores Of individuals, who
take good care that there is no reputation Of
debts In their cases.
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The crew Of the Argo state that she left
Charleston either one week OF d fortnight ago
last Saturday, Capt. Havener cannos reco!lect
ettamer, after which size eet her sails md put
to sea, directly In sight Of the block2ding
squadron. This is their statement, which, Il
true, does not leave very exalted impression
Of the efficiency Of the blockade We doubt
its being true, however, in all Its particulars.
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TEE REASON WHF.-0ur readers will, OF
course, have noticed the decided advance in
the price Of Southern State Stocks in the New
York market varying from five to ten per cent.
during the past few days. The money article
In the New YorH Norld Of Saturday gives the
following as the reason:
We have good authority for stating that
there have been orders In this city for some
Weeks, from capitalists In New Orlesne, to
purchase for their account Southern State
stocks and securities. The tenor Of the let.
ters which accompanied these orders cvinced
conviction that the North must prevail, and
q reconstruction of North and South take
| States. Some OF these gentlemen are con,
| fdential friends and financial advisers Of JEFF
| Davis
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r. Theodore Dehon, one Of the leading
merchants in New FORK, Of the old well
known firm Of Davis. Brooks 4 Co., died In
Lon don on the 94th ult-, in the 4Gth year ct
his age.
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OK TIE RorE.-The famous Prof. Sweet,
known as the "Proridence Journals daring
tight.rope dancer" who is member Of the
Second Rhode Island regiment, occasionally
varies the monotomy Of Washington camp
life, by walking and dancing on q tight rope,
stretched from the top OF the National Hotel
to the top Of the Clarendon Hotel, opposite.
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AFFAIRS In MISSOURI,

Suppression ef.:Me STATE Journal -1railinp Of
!ho Secesssonists dbonl the Liberty Of Ms
-. Rress-Adon.inal9e Character Of tie Rupcr-
ef 01e Abatr-Loss On The Re5el S1ie-1Ne
: AeosAo Guard Ceptared- Work for Gcvral
=. Lyon--7he 3ateT5or Seeemtonists Preparing
for DfatA Struggle Situation Of Jf0as9n
CKv--Tnoposed Interference with the Re-as-
&nttling Of the 6yate Conpeation-Biood
7hrsotentd-1He address Qf F1gitte
Litat. G0vernor-1hreats to mob Newspaper
gf'ees-Cheriag for Jef.. Darfs-1suqps IN
The City, ETC, ctc.
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Capt. HaVener says that the manner Of pro
ceedirg Of the pirates In making prizes, ID to
inyeigle them into their meahcs by hois ing
falee eolo1s. They frat hoist French or
Dutch tlog, and eyince desire to communal
cate 1fthis fails to attract, they next display
signal Of distress, and when sufficiently near,
"EhoW their teeth " and take possession.
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rco,reeao,d..o.o - ~ chic, m 7r;su,s7
TAsu1soros, july IS, 1851.
The business of both Houses Of Congress
goes on swimminr1y. and an early adjourn
ment Is confidently looked for. The few who
are opposed to The maintenance OF the Coz
eminent b,sa11 tbe force necessary, are d;s
,csad ~ ~ +hs1r11T ~ +he neon1e t,l,e -.
pcseo u let tAe VIII VI .ne Peop4o LIKE 1's
course, after they have had their say in'oppo-
sition. Valla1dfgham, the representative man
of tbe tra;tor nartv IN thu Houee. has her,
80 =. :ees ,:1-a1u 49,. r., w. ~.
nea5u. ~ Ii "o' uhe's '.a.~ ~ 0eu "ooo, ais
only Northern eotJTsTz, will open bis mouth.
He is a stealtby traitor, without either the
openneas, the pluck, ,eF the intellectual ability
ol 'ananolgnam' Ihe 1atter ls man OF In"
diEputable talents, however perverted. He Is
ready speaker and parliamentarian, and DOS
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1IEE PIKATE+ AT WEEhs
E,iit EsSs*Es Seised-Ioings # TIC e{1.. Dart:-
Four Teste7s Captured eT Na7tuc1:st Shoals.


By the arrival OF the q. 8. Maii steamship
Colun1t:a at New Fork from Havana, we learn
that the priyateer steamer Sumter, belonging
TO- the Confederate States Of America came
Into the ha1bor Of CleIfGsgos On the morning
Of The 9Th inst bringing in IS prizes the brigs
Cuba, Maehias, Naiad, Albert Adams, Ben
D1p1ing, end the barks West Wind and Lou
the ship Golden Rocket at sea, and set fire to
her, having previously taken of her crew.
Gem. semnes Of the Sumter, sent an officer on
shcre with a letter to the Governor Of the
town, ~ho'teiegraphed At once TO tho Captain
General for Instructions The American Con
sui also telegraphed to the Consul General at
HaYara- The steamer left agaia the next
after having received supply OF coal and
water.
THE PRIvATERR.
It is stated that this mischief doing ship
may be tie fo,mer steanshlp Hab.na, whose
captain IVES J. G. Mcconnell. The Habapa is
of 400 tuns, VAS bui1t at Philadelphia in 1859,
and belonged to the port Of New Orleans, and
was owned by the New Orleans and Havana
%te"AA4 ~'o f951L4o14 N111lphuy+
It viii be remembered, however, that the
"star Of 1he West" {illstarred,) was seized
On the coast OF Texas few months since, end
taken to New Orleans, where she was fitted
out with the ayowed object of sending her on
a priyatee1iug mission The following Is
from the New Orleans Reayuns Of the Sd
instant.
SAILING OF THE c. 8. STEAMER SUMTER
The first vessel OF our little nary, the C. 8.
steamer-of war Sumter, sailed on Saturday
last On a cruise, having run the paper block
ade of Lincoln Abolition war steamers of the
month Of the Mississippi. As she has now
made good of1ug, and Is far out on the
OCEAN wave, We hope soon to hear Of some
dnsbing exploits in the way Of captures. She
has picked crew, and her commander l.
| known to be q most brave and chfgrlroua
sailor, and he has under him most gallant
Eet Of officers.
4 PRIvATEER CAPTURING FOUR VESSELS OFF
NANTUCKET SHOALS.
From the Providence journal, July 1sth.]
No little excitement Was produced yester.
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election till he has Ind IN opportunity to re-
turn. Verify, secession has turned poor Toms
head. Well, he is not the first poor Tom who
has been lett out IN the cold, for Shakespeare
came fl. twill be a good thing for Reynolds
to remain there through the hot weather-
twill improve his health.
Local affairs are quiet. The SAFE Journal
episode for awhile promised some excitement.
and It was deemed best for eatet1's sake, to
station couple hundred Of Home Guards in
the Custom House building to be handy in
case Of any designs on the Dkn,oerat or 1n.eiger
cf1lces. This was Friday night On Saturday
there being nobody at the Democrat office, the
proprietors applied to Col Mcneil for about
twenty men, who remained over night in the
editorial room without disturbance. The
movement OF troops Sunday evening caused
Eone stir, matn!J In secession circles, but this
Is getting to be common md not worth no.
Cheering for jeff Davis is common
srauseme NJ foz the idle seceshezz. They can
be heard almost every evening, and whenever
| tue Journal put On any flaming notice Of Sc
cession victory on It's bulletin board, the JEFF
Davis cheers multiplied rapidly. When Col.
DouEhesty's regiment went Of South n few
evenings ago, the cheers for the arch traitor
Davis we're given with the design Of insulting
the nlinosians. Whenever company Of Homo
Guards pass through Fourth street, a few &C.
! ceshers Invariably croak out, Three cheers
for JEFF Davit"-but the towards On the ride
| walk fearing some demonstration By the
| troops {hay1ng found out that our men cannot
be triaed 'with), generally sque1ch the ssid
| cheers by cries Of " don't cheer" or !" for
| Ehamc.n - -;
One Alexander Kayser;ia German secession.
ist, has been trying. to gain notodety by
forcing himself into print on various occasions.
BE proposed to give two lots Of land to Urial
I Wright for the zeal manifested BY the latter
| to saye Emmett Med Donald from rope Last
| Saturday he assaulted Col. McNtl On Market
| Etreet, and In 1etnrn was th1&shed so badly
| that he nm home, and hasn't Yeututed out
| tince. This Kayser ran away from st. Louis
| 10 Bell1rnle to escape the Know Nothings, in
1855, aud now is cheek. By jow1 Klth the very
| ren he fed FROM - - j. r.
| The telegraph Between Jefferson. City and
Le1iEgto ton has ggfin been tutto pieces bY tho
| secess Iontsts.. II has been repaired twenty
times in as many days and svery dsy cut Is
soon Es repaired. Hanging Is too good Gor
such foU8, ard nothing short Of Toastlng
alive Will Gf1Te ss an exuHpIe. -
| There are only .hcut twesye En7dr.3 mn
etthe s1seEsl n1v+ hnt ibere hre G;t:sn EGa.
f1fcs 81 Tr,at1'a IIsll, s d IS :na7y 1:.:'ss :: :
| !clg'.g IL &C Ho-: G--.ls O. tA4 Ss:,.3
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-08-24
THE NATIONAL PLATFORM.

Congress, by vote nearly unanimous,
passed the following resolution declaring
the Origin and Object of the war. 1t
was introduced in the House, by Hon.
J. j. Crittenden, of KY, and in the
Senate, by Hon. Andy johnson, of Tenn ::
"7hat the present deplorable c,uH acar
has been forced upon the country by the
Disnnionists of the Southern States, now
in arms against the Constitutional
Government, and in arms around the
Capital; M0t IN this national emer-
gency Congress, banishing all feeling of
mere passion or resentment, aciU recoliect
only its duty to the achole country Mat
this arar rs not wagea on their part IN
any spirit of oppression, or for any
purpose Of conquest or sutjugation, or
purpose Of ouerthrowing or Interfering
NTH the rights or established inst,tu-
tions Of those States, but to defend and
maintain the supremacy oftAe Const.tv-
ton, and to preserve the Un,on, ac,th
all the dignity, equalHy and rights Of
The seuernI States unampaved ind thnt
as soon as these objects are accomplished
the Dar ought TO cease"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-08-24
THE CRY FOR PEACE. The n Y. EXPIRES

THE CRY FOR PEAcE.-The N. Y Express
very pertlncntlv says:
The Democrat journals which hold out the
idea OF peace, or cry peace, and encourage
peace meetings, mean well, but if in carnes',
they fail to comprehend the South now, Just
as the Republicans did before the war. The
Southern Government and the Southern lea.
dcrs now desire the destruction of the United
States Government itself and no comp omise,
no concessions, would satisfy the present
Administration Of the South. Hence peace
with such an Administration becomes impos-
sibie. save not only in the utter destruction
of OR Nationality i'll such surrcndcrs of
territory and properly-as if made by
Democratic Administrator. would bow it
down to ,tarnal lnfamy. What democratic
Administration, if now existing, wonld for
example. dare surrender Fortress Monroe. or
Alexandra, or Arlington Heights, OF the forts
on the Gulf Of Mexico, or the mouths Of the
Mississippi! 1t is evident that even if Mr..
Ben Wood. Or Mr.. Vallandgham were the
President they would not dare give UP the
guarantees Of free navigation or the Gulf of
Mexico, or the Louisiana, free Mississippi
which Jefferson, the great Democratic father
bought from Spain in buying Louisiana
But the only peace possible just now is this
sort of peace and hence it is idle to think of
it, or to talk Of it, unless jeff Davis can
dictate to the North suc! pecae on the
Schuylkill. or on the Ohio river in front of
Cincinnati.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-08-24
u" Il Quer,si," IN last week s Democrat,

u" Il Quer,si," IN last week s Democrat,
catechises US in the following fashion:
"SIR will you please inform the people
of Cecil, whether you endorse Secretary
Cameron S letter in reference 10 holding slaves
as contrahand of war 2"
The act Of Congress Of August 9th, 1861,
declares that if persons held to service Shall
be employed in hostility to the United States.
the rights to their services shall be forfeited
This Is the law Of the United States respect.
ing negroes, employed by The enemies of the
Government, to break it down, and we are
neither Secessionist or Nulliirr. VIII I" II
Quer'M" answer to the people Of Cecil what
disposition he would make of negroes employ
ed 10 fight or dis trenches for the enemies Of
the United States
Are you not in favor Of slave emancipa-
tion e
Every man owning darkes should be
allowed tie emancipate them if he pleases or
sell them, or employ them in lawful manner;
or, in word, dispose of them as he likes.
do you not believe that the present war
Southern States and do you not desire that
it should so ind z"
We are not omniscient, and consequently
have not the remotcst idea what effect the
present war will have upon the = Peculiar
Institution = but if those who began the
war, and have continued to prosecute it
against the Government, think it will extcr.
inmate slavery, then the rnglradcrs of the
rebellion are the most arrant Abolitionists in
the world. All Of the high priests of Adolf
tionsm, and some of the brightest intellects
in the Southern States have always conlended
that diSunion would terminate slavery
Secession. according to this theory, is the
highway to emancipation, and if ,ce " desired
that it (thc war; should so end" we would
join the allies of secession, the new hedged
Peace Party " Of Mary land and act " check
by jole " with 81 QucriA."
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-08-24

ALEXANDRIA, Ang. %. -Ycsterb,y, through
the eXcrtions of Major Lemon commanding
the guard here, Miss Wind.e, formerly of
Delaware, but more recently of Philadelphia,
and Of late a correspondent of the Southern
press, was arrested in the act of leaving for
Washington by the steamboat. She is a
highly educated lady, and the au,horcss of
severa. works published while she resided in
Philadelphia, among which was a legend Of
the Waldcnses also, "a Visit to Mrlrose -
Miss Windle has resided here for the past
month, where her movements have been
closely watched. She boldly avowcd her
secession proclivities, and made no secret Of
her correspondence with the leaders of the
rebel army. After hearing she was sent
to Washington.
The young lady referred 10 above Miss NJ.
j. Windle used to visit Eikton occasionally
peddins her literary wares--s such as they
were. She commenced her autorial career
by stealing story from one of the magazines
and publishing it as original. She aflerward
stole an entire book, altered the title ard the
names of some of the characters and pub.
lishcd it as her own produc; ion. She is
composed Of the proper materials for making
a trst-ratc S,ccssionst.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-08-24

bred thousand men, and when Maryland is to
be made the theater of a devastating war, if
that enemy should by any possible means
succeed in transporting his armies to her
soil, it is a strange time to talk of peace. -
Men who can thus be degraded by partizan
vassalage, are indeed tit subjects to wear the
yoke that is preparing for their cowardly
neck. We pronounce this Peace organization
n conspiracy to assist large Soul ern army
into Maryland to forage on her soil. and
devour her substance as they have consumed
Virginia. The men who are the head mana
gers in this conspiracy, are the hired satellites
Of jeff Davis.
People Of Maryland, let these Peace con.
sprators advance one step further and you
will have to fly your homes or defend them
with fire and sword. Organize immediately
and prepare for the worst, ere the PhilistanS
are upon you.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-08-24
For The Cecil Wig.
PORT DEPOSIT. Avg. 22nd, 1851.


Mn. EDIToR The Union ball is in motion.
large and enthusiastic meeting Of tie
''union Association was held last night a.
the Town Hall.
After the ,ransacting of the regular business
ofthe Association. the meeting was addressed
by Messrs. p. d. McCcnahan, Capt. John
W. Taylor, William Parker and James Touch.
stone. The speaking was reple,e with sound
doctrine as well as patriotism. and showed
the transparency of the imposition about to
be prac'iced upon the people of Mary land by
this new-fledged Peace Party"
Our forces are organizing for the great
battle of November, and We intend to gain a
victory such as will expand the heart Of
every patriot, at the same time, strike con-
sternation and dismay among the dry bones Of
Secession ! God save the Republic!
UNION AND NATIONALITY.
P. S.-Next Wednesday night. we expect,
positively, that distinguished speaker will
be here from abroad" Come one come all !"
The meeting will be held at the Town fall,
commencing at ! past o'clock.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-08-24

THE MAINE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION -
The Democracy has spill: again. They assem-
bled in Delegate State Convention at Augusta
on Wednesday. and quarreled riotously all
day long over their resolutions. The Com
mittee, by majority of one, reported in favor
of sustaining the Government in its efforts to
put down rebellion. The report was set
aside, in full Convention and a substitute
adopted opposing the war and recommending
National Convention for the purpose of
adopting measures that will pac,fy the rebel.
lious Thereupon the Union Democrats Of
the Convention left it in disgust and formed
a new Convention, which adopted patriotic
resolutions, and nominated Charles D. Jane
son of Bangor for Governor Col. Jane.
son who distinguished himself for skill and
bravery at the head of the Main I'd in the
battle at Bull Run.
The sympathizers with treason nominated
John w. Dona Of Fryburg. who was the
the wild cat" Governor of Maine in lS40,
and Minister resident at Bolivia under Pierce
and Buchanan.