Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1861-03-21
INTERESTING ITEMS.


INTERESTING ITEMS.
The difficulties about the Revenue, and kim
dred topics-practical difficulties-are beginning
to be seen. The new tariff of the Southern Con-
federacy is now in operation in the seeded States
The new tariff of the United States gives much
The Philadelphia Ledger says:
eff secession is to be uninterfered with, the only
wav to preserve the commerce Of the North will
be to open our ports free of duties. This is one
of the inevitable consequences of successful revo-
luton in the South and the fact has got to be
faced squarely."
A debate of marked importance on the sub
ect of the slave trade, in which Lord John Rus
sell and Lord Palmerston participated, took
place in the House of Commons on the 26th ult.
Both these statesmen denounced the faithless
conduct of Spain in encouraging the traffic, and
sharply arraigned the Government of the United
States for persisting in its refusal to submit to
an indscriminate right of visitation and search
The opinion was expressed in the course of the
debate that the Southern Confederacy should
never be recognized until it had given satisfac-
tory guarantees of it's purpose to abstain from
the slave-trade.
1t is said that the Attorney General, Mr.. Bates,
has given the opinion to President Lincoln that
the revenue cannot be collected except under the
law of 1899. which renders it necessary for COL
ectors to reside within their respective districts,
and. therefore, it will be impossible to execute
the laws with propriety, even were it otherwise
feasible, in vessels.
The Charleston papers have but little to say
about the evacuation of Fort Sumter. They
consider it certain now that Major Anderson
Mercury tells Us that the fact has caused quite lite
a calm among the citizens, while the military,
who have been full Of fight, are now consider
ably Gained down." 1t adds however, that the
usual vigilance is kept up at the several points
of harbor defense, and by the forces ahoat.
The police of Baltimore, in pursuance of law,
have prohibited the meeting in that city of what
is called the "African Methodist Episcopal Con-
ference"
The A'my Register for 1861 has been issued
1t gives the total enlisted men of the army at
1905; aggregate 49, 1872. There are 1913 COM
panies in the different regiments. If all these
were subject to the increased allowance of the
regiments serving on distant stations, the total
enlisted would be 1850, and the aggregate
1866.
The army Of the Southern Confederacy is to
consist of 10, 483 men, divided as follows:
Engineers 10; artillery 1872; cavalry 743 :;
Generals, each with an annual SALARY of 1852,
in addition to forage, fuel, and quarters.
The notifications of the Personal Liberty
bill of Massachusetts, have passed both branches
of the Legislature of that State and it is believed
will receive the assent of the Governor. These
notifications relieve the present law of many
gifts Objectionable and unconstitutional features.
The Charleston, S. c., Ne,cs has an able arti-
Gle against the union of the Border Slave States
with the Cotton States 1t thinks the Border
States had better not join the Southern Con-
federacy.
Spelling matches are all the rage in Winsted,
Conn. They had one in Camp Hall, Monday
night, and collected $40 in ten cent admissions.
Nine schools in the town sent five picked spell
lers. First prize, Websters unabridged pictorial
dictionary. They used up the spelling book,
two or three biographies, and had to bring out
the classics before some of the sharpest spoilers
would succumb.
The Charleston Courier states that the batter
les on the Ship Channel, which are of the heavi-
est kind, are now in high state of preparation,
and ready for almost any force that may attempt
to enter that harbor. 1t thinks that the rein
forcement of Fort Sumter by the Government
is now an imposibility.
From New Orleans we learn that the Legisla-
ture of Louisiana have under consideration an
to submit the permanent Constitution
Of the Confederate States to the people. Some
of the members were in favor of calling Con-
vention for the purpose.
The steamer Adriatic, which left New York
on Wednesday, for Europe, took among her
passengers Hon. Il. Butler King, who it is un-
derstood goes out in some capacity as Com
missioner or agent for the State of Georgia.
President Davis veto of the African slave
trade bill has been made public. He objected
to the clause which allowed the sale of captured
Africans to the highest bidder urges it was in
violation of the clause of the Constitution for
bidding the slave trade.
Gen. Ben McCuloh who has arrived at New
Orleans, reports that Gov. Houston had left the
State Capital to avoid further communication
with the Convention. He would probably be
deposed for his contumacy toward Secession.
REMovAL.-W. MERRILL, General Agent for
WHEELER & Wilson's SEWING MACHINEs, has
removed to No 216 Baltimore Street