The national Republican., 1861-05-15
NEWS ITEMS.


NEWS ITEMS.
1t has been reported that Gov. Hammond,
Of this State, gave $1,000 to the State, to be
used for her defence, and that the constituted
authorities have never acknowledged it. We
are authorized to say, that II anything has been
given or rendered from Gov. Hammond, it has
not been brought to the knowledge Of the Ex-
ecutivs Charleston Courier, 9Th.
An official statement in the Charleston Cou.
Of South Carolina volunteers would 70 North
to fight, while GOA remained at home.
The Secretary of the Treasury has just is.
sued circular to all collectors, surveyors, and
other officers Of customs, precisely similar to
that recently addressed to those on the North.
ern and Northwestern waters in relation to
commerce with the insurrec,ionary States, and
with the following addition "Among the pro-
hibited supplies are included Goals, telegraphic
instruments, wire, porous cups, platina, sui.
phuric acid, zinc, and all other telegraphic ma.
terial."
The schooner George NJ. Smith has arrived
at New York, in charge of prize emaster
from the frigate Cumberland. This vessel was
captured with gun.carriages on board for the
Southefh SohicucioSy'
The following articles have been officially
declared as coming under the head Of contra
band of war by the Administration:
"Gold and silver coin checks or bills Of
exchange for money; articles of food clothing
and materials for the manufacture of clothing;
rifle, pistol, musket, and cannon balls, and
shells; gunpowder, and all materials used in
its Manufacture; ammunition and munitions
and spnp1onooto oc IF dooo ptinu.
books Of military education saddles, harness,
and trappings for flying artillery, field and
staff officers and cavalry troops; horses; gun.
carriages; timber for ship building; all kinds
of naval stores engines, boilers, and machine
ry for boats; locomotive engines and cars for
railroads; and goods and commodities which
might be useful to the enemy in war"
The steamer North Star, from Aspinwall on
the 4th instant, arrived at New York on Sun.
day afternoon, bringing $765, ,l02 in specie.
Hon. William c. Rives, one of the Virginia
delegates to the Southern Congress, has not
declined, but has left for Montgomery.
Hon. 2. B. Vance, NJ. G. from North Caro-
lima, is now in command of q company Of vol.
unteers.
The grand Jury of the United States district
court at Cincinnati have indicted Ogilvie By.
ron Young for "misprsion of treason AN
offence second only to high treason itself. 1t
is punishable by confinement in the peniten.
tiary for period not exceeding ten years.
A negro panic has seized the people of New
Orleans. The negro churches have been closed
by order Of the mayor, and all assemblsges of
negroes, slave or free, have been forbidden.
A quantity of dried apples was recently
shipped from Massachusetts, destined for Lou.
isvile, Ky. The American Express Company
landed them in Cincinnati on the 7th instant,
where they were examined and found to con.
tain nineteen of Colts army and navy pistols.
Gov. Morton, of Indiana, has contracted at
Cincinnati for eight brass six.pounders and
four brass eight FOUNDER howitzers for firing
shot or SHE'LL to be made and delivered in 80
days.
We learn from reliable source that much
suffering already exists, and more is apprs-
hended, in the lower part Of Virginia-from
Alexandria to fredericksburg being
rs cents per pound and other articles not
grown in that State command the most exorbi.
tant prices. These are among the first fruits
of secession.
The New York Post Of Monday says: Ma
jor Anderson, now Colonel Anderson, arrived
in this city late on Saturday evening, and is
stopping at the Brevoort House. He expects
to 60 west in day or two. Mrs. Lincoln, who
arrived from Washington late on Saturday even.
ing, in company with Mrs. Grimsley, is at the
Metropolitan Hotel, and is the object of numer.
Gus attentions. She left the capital for the pur-
pose Of recreation, and to do some shopping in
New York. She will remain here a few days,
when she will visit her son Robert at Cam
BRIDGE"
Mr.. Mortimer Thomson, better known as
Doesticks," was on Sunday married, by Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher, to Miss Grace Eldridge,
eldest daughter of Fanny Fern" The cere
mony took place at the residence of James Par
ton, Esq, the celebrated biographer. The pa.
triotic mother of the bride had an elegant
American flag arranged as canopy, beneath
which the happy couple were united Tribune.
Charles Lever, the popular Irish novelist, is
dead.