The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-03
AFFAIRS on ras MISSISSIPPI K1vER.

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The steamer Ohio Belle was tied up at Ma
poieon, on Sunday night. Her passengers
came up TO this city yesterday, on the steam
er hentncky. The instructions of the Gov
ernor OF Arkansas are, to hold all Cincinnati
poa.s Till the arms of Arkansas, now held in
Clneinnafi, are given up.
The steamer Mars has been tied up at Hele-
ma, and Captain Jones Good has taken out a
protest, and gone to his home in Covington,
hehtncKy. His boat is owned in Ohio, and 1t
Is neio untii the Arkansas guns are given up
at Cincinnati.
The steamer Memphis came down from St.
Louis since onr last She got out a custom
house clearance, in accordance with instruc-
tions from the Treasury Department. which
makes the Federal Government RESPONSIBLE
lor anything taken Off of her. She met with
no detention at Cairo.
AT napoleon the people have erected bat
terry, consisting of two or three guns and a
mortar, aud are determined to capture and
hoid every Cincinnati steamboat till the arms
oeionging TO Arkansas, and held in Cincinnati,
are delivered up.
Messrs. Quimby Il Robinson yesterday
made shipment Of a quantity of six pound
shot to Helena-the first shipment of ammu-
In few days they will be making shot and
| shell OF all sizes. The cannon recently cast
oy them Is getting along we'll.
Ihe Sappers and Miners, under Capt. Pick
ett, are progressing rapidly with their work
at Fort Harris. One gun has already been
mounted, and the remainder will be placed in
position to-day-after which they will be en-
gagged in a similar service elsewhere under
Gen. Pillow.
The Coahomo Invineibles, from Friar' 8
Point, Miss reached the city last night, on
me fast steamer Mary E. Keene. They are q
| fine looking military corps, and are to rem
devious at Corinth, Miss, at which poiD t
there will be $500 troops by this evening"
The steamer Judge Fletcher yes terciay morn
ing landed one company from Pine Bluff,
ARK, composed of one hundred and twenty
members, and another from Helena, com
posed of eighty members, commanded by
Capt. Cleburne, gallant officer. In the at
ternoon. the steamer Golden State brought up
two more companes-ths Border Rangers,
sixty strong, from Searcy, and the Hindman
Guards, cavalry corps, forty strong, from
West Point They We're all landed at Mound
City, just above which point they have q
special duty to perform.
The people of Napoleon, we learn, have
been misrepresented in the matter of the de-
tention and firing upon the steamer Westmore-
| land. According to the representations of the
people OF Napoleon the steamer WestmOre-
land was tied up by committee of citizens,
when the Captain threatened to cut the lines
and leave. He was told if ne did so, they
would fire upon him. He replied I" they
might fire and be d-d." He then cut the lines
which held his boat to the wharf boat, and
the citizens attempted to fire cannon which
was within ten feet of her, but it flashed, and
before the gun could be replaced so as to strike
the Westmoreland she was out of reach, see
| ing which the citizens fired upon her with
oLuoi al hililI, OHe man anu 1lJuTlIlP dlO-
ther. SO II appears that it was the fault of
the Captain Of the Westmoreland that a val
uaDie life was lost.
AwoRD IN SEASON.
We like the following "talk" Of the Will
| mington IN. C.j Journal:
| Curses are waited on every breeze that
blows from the North-torrents of invectiye
| and abuse are poured forth in full stream
| Let them be SO. They can do us no harm
We have ceased TO have any concern in what
| is said of US North of Mason and Dixon's
| line. We rather like that our enemies should
relieve themselves as they do there Barking
| dogs seldom bite. They are mad that they
remind us of the story of the Pennsylvania
soldier in 1872, who was $50 mad-so tam't
mad that he''-well, no matter what ;-some
foolish people thought he was scared
This tumultuous rage is a great thing in its
way. AS tor New York, now, they must have
sensation" )" they cannot exist without Il
sensation but these sensations all pass away
soon, except the sensation of hunger. They
think, and this time with sense, that their
greatness and supremacy is threatened, and
they are "mad,' much mad but they need
not show 1t after the manner of the interior
Pennsylvania. They will gain nothing by
| it, and the SAVIOR of their madness will cling
around, not with the odor of sanctty, long
after they have repented--not of their ma
| Iignity, but of their foolishness in permitting
| themselves to make so os ostentatious parade
of it.
But for all this we must be prepared to
| meet and hurl back the first efforts of this
| malignancy, without giving il a lodgment on
Southern soil. The wants of civilization will
| fight for us. The necessities of Europe will
demand that the blockade of our ports be re-
moved. Difficulties at the North as well as
at the South will call aloud for a settlement
and we will have a settlement, such settle
ment as the opposing section ought 10 have
made at once, and before the shedding of
blood and the expenditure of treasure.
We do not say that this can be looked for
save through suffering and priyation. Some
such is necessary to fos ter and develop the
true spirit of people but we warn all to
bew of those prophets of ill-omen, who go
abroad, if not crying, at least whispering,
woe, woe, and referring to the irresistiblity
of the cohorts Lincoln can bring to our sub
jugation. There are few such-we wish there
were none. They may do harm-they can do
no good. The mind of the South is made up
we suppose. We want no second Jeremiahs
come TO lamentation.
SPEECH FROM vIcE-PREsIDENT HANLIN.
A great meeting of the strong minded wo-
men of New York was held at the Cooper In
stitute last Monday. Among the speakers on
the occasion was Hannibal Hamlin, who said
We present to day such q spectacle as the
world has never witnessed in any age or coun-
try In all the loyal States there beats in
men and women's bosoms but one single heart.
(Applanse.) And that heart beats in vindica-
tion of our common country and the liberty
we inherited from our fathers. (Applause.)
We have differed in opinions upon the passing
questions of the hour, for they are passed,
and they are a sealed book Let the dead bury
the dead. (Applause) We are to- day forget
full of the past We live with the stirring
present around us only in bright hopes of the
future, and in the discharge of the duties that
devolve upon us depends that future. Why is
it that you, women, in such vast numbers
from this Empire City, have gathered from
your humble and your luxurious homes o.
Why is itP Why Is it, but that you feel as
men feel, that all tn It we have and all that is
Ia ifo foo IN la md Nor! ladS
There is nothing, from the stirring marts of
commerce up to all the endearments that
cluster around the domestic altar, that is not
in the issue. OF what use Is commerce in all
its ramitications-of what use Is home with
all it's endearments-without it is guarded and
protec ted by the law All these are assailed
by those who are attempting to subvert the
Government under which we live. The Stars,
which are the hopes, and the Stripes, which
are the emblems of liberty, have been igno-
miniously dishonored; our public property
and our Notifications have been assatled and
taken by rebels from their rightful owners;
and the Government under which We live is
threatened with subversion. These are the
things that have stirred the hearts OF men and
women until all have united. Applause. y
These are the things that have brought you
together here-these the causes which have
united us all one. And let me say
there is no other course to pursue now but
the vindication of the integrity OF the Gov
ernment under which we live. tApplause.)
It is false philanthropy-it is a false hu-
manity that shall falter now in this trying
hour of trouble. (Applause.) The safety of
the republic consists in the energy and eff
cheney of the Government. (Applause) Tho
LOYALTY of the people is inquest toned. De-
struc tion only 10 with those who falter.-
These are stirring times, and now we must
test the question, whether we have or have
not a government, To abandon that great
question now is to abandon all. Applause.
In one sense of the word, there is some truth
in the allegation that the contest Is a sectional