New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-02-25
MINOR ITEMS.
THE BATTERY AT MEMPHIS.


the proposition TO erect battery on the blu ut that
| city. In the City Council on Wednesday night, pc
iion containing the following prayer, and signed by
many Of the fret citizens, was presented and referred
| 10 the Vigilance Committee
"Tbe disturbed condition Of the country, the rapid
progress of revolution the dssoying and reconstruc
ton of Governments, all warn that preparation at
least should be made TO avoid any calamity that hos
tile attack might produce. Situated a. Memphis lie, the
most important and exposed point on the Mississippi,
the threatened and threatening attitude now being as
sumed by the Northern States and General Govern
ment the encouragement offered in such unsettled
state OF public affairs to numerous and plundering
raids all admonish that our city should be PLACED IN
attitude of defense, prepared TO resist any attack
The undersigned also respectfully request your honor
able body 70 grant addition TO the privilege Of e-
Letting suitable point for erecting battery such ap
preparations and assistance TO your honorable
BODY commensurate with the importance and necessity
Of the desnse."
SWEARING IN ExTRAoRDINARY.
Yesterday, at the Office Of Esquire Horne fourteen
Irishrnen 10 support the Constitution and
laws OF South Carolina, TO obey her Governor and
other officers set them, and TO defend the State
against lie enemies They recruits, and enlisted
in the service of the newly independent State.
lMemphi, Appeal, FEB. Is
ANOTHER ENGLISIIMiN MALTREATED.
The tsIring and featherng the English captain, for
allowing his coored stevedore to at at table with him,
was not the only instance in which British subject
has been treated ike Norherner in Savannah. We
find the following in The Toronto Globe
The following is extract from letter received
yesterday from Mr.. W. Morrow Of this city:
Z" About seven weeks siuce, while in Savannah a
colored man came on board our vessel bringing me
basket Of fruit ~ present Seeing newspaper ly-
ing on toe table he asked TO have IL, go gave 1t 10
him He had not been long away, when his master
found him reading Beechers sermons On being asked
from whom he gOt the paper be refused to tell, when
he was sent TO the caabOOse and whipped till be gave
the information. His matter Immediately came and
spoke 70 the captain wishing him TO give up 10 the
citizens but they arranged Il for me TO leave next
morning by the steamer for New-iork. The matter
soon spTead, and next morning, before the steamer
sailed two men came on board wishing TO see me.
asked them 10 10 see the captain, and they Of
fered to let go by paying $50 which was glad 10
do, as there were loud threats of hanging &c. SO
had TO leave my vessel, pay so, and feel thankful
that am free In New-iork."
The perpetrators Of this outrage on British subject
ought TO be called TO account for this insoence We
trust that the attention of her Majestys Minister at
Washington will be directed the matter, and that
ample apology and reparaon will be demanded, either
from the Federal Government or the authorities of
Georgia
PkTERsONLANs DRIVEN HOME.
Northern people have been forced TO leave the South
under all sorts Of circumstances Many Patersonans
have returned, and from the fact that IHE TRIBUNE
correspondent in Charleston mentions the lynct ing
lmurderipg of two Jerseymen in that vicinity, it lie
likely they have left none too soon.
AS many Of those W no have returned expect TO go
back when the rebellion is subdued shall not men,
ton names. One young man who Lives IN Spruce
street, moder by trade, was IN jacksonville, East
Florida, with eight other Patersonians: He informs
us that 80 Lincoln declared elected instant
sagnaon took place, money could be had from the
banks and no debts collected. He was notified that
he must either clear out shoulder musket to light
against the North. man with a big book went
around and asked all 10 enroll ana the men enrolled,
of course, or the Regulators would have seized
them The eight Paersonians agreed quietly to leave,
and got off in the steamer before their departure at
tracted attention. They arrived home sae,y ana are
waiting for the inauguration OF old Abe and the deth
OF Secession They left before soldiers were wanted
for Pensacola, or else they would have been pressed
into service.
Two Young men have also arrived from Savannah,
Georgia They belonged to military company, and
uore ordered out at the first disturbance, by the
Governor Of Georgia TO take possession OF the forts oil
the limited States They went down TO the fort and
lid duty for couple of weeks, 1nti the State had
seeded. when, with commendable patriotism, they
concluded not 20 be forced thus to tight AGAINST the
National Government, aud came home. One Of them
has been 10 Savannah number Of years. but he, too,
ndoed IL better to leave them than TO be forced TO
shoulder the musbe for the defense of system OF
labor which completes with the white mans means OF
livelihood.
the shops to drill, and drilled two days. Every
body who was Of age was ordered the spot at roll
call with gun or musket, or in default was fined 81
a day.
An the eight Patersonians were there during cleo
ton day; but although there number OF Repub
leans in the shops, none dared TO vote Lincoln
ticket -Four years before, there had been given
to Fremont, and great efforts made TO ferret out
the voter in order that they might kill him. 0f course
il was not prudent under such circumstances to vote
for old Abe. Paterson IN. j. Guardian, Feb. ~.
TIE FREE NAVIGATION OF TIE MISSISSIPPI.
The people of Missouri begin to look seriously attbe
question Of the free navigation of the Mississippi
River. The ayowed intention OF the Nicksburg and
Memphis people TO stop all passing vessels did not so
much alarm the West as the attempt Of Louisiana to
levy State duties upon river merchandise The 10.
LOUIS Democrat gives expression 10 the prevailing
sentiment in this emphatic manner:
:" The Mississippi Convention, TO- lull suspicion,
recognized the right of the States bordering on the
river to its free navigation IN tines Of peace, and In
this resolution it was followed by that of Louisiana
Now i, 10 to DO observed tina. by this expression those