Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-05-30
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The London correspondent Of the New York
1oen"g Fost states most positively that nanv
OF President Davis letters of marque have been
taken ii London and Liverpool, by Spanish
houses, and that iron steamers have Jcen fitted
out tor the purpose Of preying on the merchant
service Of the North The correspondent asserts
that the matter is regarded as 50 serious in Eng
land that large numbers of American ships have
changed hands at ruinous prices and that mer-
chants refuse to ship their goods in such vessel,
Accounts from the Sonth state large ship,
ments of arms and munitions of war, designed
for the Confederate States were made from Eu-,
rope early in April. An endeavor to capture
the vessels carrying these supplies is probably
the "important mission" in which the steam
frigate Niagara is engaged in the Gulf Stream.
The Monticello, which recently engaged with
the works on Sewells Point, was struck by five g
shot of small calibre, all of which took effec,
One ball, six-pounder, penetrated the huh
on the larboard bow. few inches above the
water line, but did not hurt much. Tbree:of
her crew were injured, and one of them, a bow.
was supposed past recovery.
The Kentucky House of Representatives have
concurred in the Senate bill for re-oreanizinp:
the militia and appropriating $1,000, 900 for
arming the State. The Louisville editors have
been summoned to Frankfort to give testimony
IN regard to arms brought into Kentucky. to-
matters pertaining to Knights of the Golden
Circle, and to the alleged correspondence Of
Gov Magoffin with the Confederate authorities.
The Junior Artillery Company of Baltimore
city, at meeting held on the DIST, resolved to
tender their services to the General Government.
The Committee proceeded to Washington on,
Thursday, and received the assurance that If
the Government should want any more troops
they would be amongst the first to be called on.
The company is in the possession of field bat
terry of four pieces, with caissons, &c., complete.
and numbers over sixty men,
! The Government has reliDquished the control
of the Annapolis branch road, but it is under
stood will still maintain small force at Anna
polls and use that point as one of their avenues
to the Capital. During the time the Railroad
was held by the Government twenty-six thou
sand troops passed over it to Washington
The Postmaster General has issued an order
disseminating the transmission of the United.
States mails to all the Seeded States, except
Tennessee which has not yet finally consumma-
ted the act of secession. Mails for the South
were stopped yesterday at the Potomac and sent
back to Washington. All the contracts for SER
vice in the Seeded States are to be annulled.
The Richmond Examiner states that Prcsi-
dent Jefferson Davis will come to Richmond at
an early day; that General Beauregard has been
appointed to the command at Norfolk, and is
on his way there; and that General j. E. john
SOD, late of the United States Army, will take
command at Harper's Ferry.
The New Orleans privateers, the Calhoun and
the V. H. Ivy, have made captures. They had
captured two Northern vessels, the Ocean Eagle
and the John Jarvis, both ships.