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The Nevada Democrat., 1861-05-04

CAUSE FOR IRRTAToN.-The Morning
Call, Is. F.,) says:
To those here who complain OF unneces.
sary agitation and irritation on the part of
the Union men, we have this to say There
are in the Eastern States millions Of people
and in this State Thousands who are devO-
tedly attached to the Constitution and the
laws Of the country, who adore its flag, who
are proud Of its glorious history, who cher
ish with the warmest regards its institutions
and who are anxious to have them perpetu-
ated. These millions see others industr:,
ously engaged, without cause, in the un-
hallOwed work of overthrowing and de.
stroying all that they hold dear and sacred,
and, of course, they are provoked, and just
ly so, into utterance Of severe condemna-
ton Of the conduct Of the revolutionists
Union men cannot be expected, in deferece
to the delicate sensbiIiies Of those who
sympathise with sccessionists TO refrain
from den0uncing conduct which has plunged
the country into civil war and threatens TO
ruin our beloved nation and overthrow all
its Institutions.
The Nevada Democrat., 1861-05-04

KnLED.-A miner named Hugh Houston,
was killed by the caving Of bank Of earth
in race near Campo Seco, on Saturday,
April 20th.
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Correspondence Cf he Mobile AdUsrtiser.l
FROM pENS COL

PENSACOLA, Tuesday night, May 7, 1861 The
port is not yet b.ockaded, though vessels arrv ing
from sea are continually annoyed with examna-
tions by boarding officers. The Norwegian shin
Wl'demore, from st. Thomas, anchored among the
fleet last night. She was rxamined and pronounced
sound on the goose This morning her captain,
under one OF the frigatcs, and in conversation, was
publicly told that there would likely be no inter
ruptinn to the commerce of Pensacola
o'cicck-Abou, 5 O'Clock a steamer was seen
approaching from the westward-suddenly the
frigates Powhatan and Brookly left their anchorage
and proceeded under steam in the direction of
Pickens and the channel, and this time, the Pow
hatan, well as we can make out, is on or near
the bar-evldentiy with the intention of Intercept
ing the approaching steamer, thought to be the
Dick kevs from Mobile. 1t has created consider
able excitement in town, and fear | shall not be
able to write anything further, the mail closes
in few minutes, under the new regulations. What
the meaning of it all is, can't learn for hour
two.
o'cloch-The last we could see, aud as well as
can be made out, the Brooklyn and Powhatsn have
taken two steamers and carried them to the fleet
supposed the Dick KEYS and Lewis God grant
for once We all mistaken.
SECOND LETTER I
PENSACOLA, Wednesday night have nothing
to write tonight. The excitement about the Kevs
and the Lewis has subsded-snce they are both
sa'e-or, at least, we hope You have no doubt
learned the history of the expedition from their
own lips. The guns Of hi'Rae were all shotted
and the matches ready-and just so sure the
Powhatan mad crossed the bar just so sure she
would have been fired into--to have restrained the
gunners would have been an impossibility. Gen.
Bragg himself couldn't have commanded silence
confident his army is in his discretion and gal
lantry. An eyewitness of the whole affair tells
me the excitement equally shared in Fort
Pickens; the ramparts, like M'Rae, were lined
with men.
The sun of to-day must have warmed into life
all the old rattlesnakes and mosquitoes on Santa
Rosa. Thirty more such days, aud farewell to
Abe's authority on that Island, ight or no fight.
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REMARKABLE STATEMENTS ABOUT THE
BRITISH NOBILITY.
ONLY THIRTY-oNE NOBLE FAMILIES OF THREE HUNDRED
YEARS STANDING.

YEARS STANDING.
FrOa. the LicsTl0oL Mercury
If, as Lord John Manners sings laws and learn
ing, trade and commerce are matters of secondary
Importance compared with the preservation of
sour old nobility" we must seek some other ground
for preference than the antiquity of that institu
tion, at all events as represented in the present
House of Peers. 1t NAV be that the noble herds,
when they veutured last year, to usurp taxing pow
ers in d-tanct Of the ministers of the crown and
of the representatives of the people, did so under
some vague idea that, descendants in some sort
other OF the barOns who came over with the Con
qncror and afterwards wrung Magma Charta from
King John, they had a right to make their will
law, and override alike the theory of The British
constitution and its practice for ages. Nothing
be more uufourded than such pretext for their
usurpatiOn. Jobn-a-Nokes and Richard Styles are
Just muca akin to those same domineerng ba-
rons any member Of the present House OF Peers.
As rera ds the great ma Ority of its members "our
old nobility" is a mere mushroom ariStOcracy. 1t
consists of 440 members, of whom 40 are temporal
and so spiritual peers. OF the former there is
only one whose patent of nobility dates so far back
as the last eight years of the reign of Henry III.
Of the 40 temporal peerages, ISL have been
created within the last 800 years; of these, 1872
date within the present century, so between l7GO
aud 1900, IS between 1860 and 1860, 36 between
1860 and 1860 IA between l460 and 1860, between
1860 and AGO. between 1850 and 1860, and not
one further back. The Saxon, Danish aLd Nor-
man nobility, and also the barons at kunnymede,
are therefore without representative in the British
House Of Peers. Of the whole House there are
only thirty-one members the nobility of whose
families is Of three hundred wears standing. The
following is list of them, with the dates of their
patents, as given in ''Dodd's Parliamentary Com
panon," from which we have complied these par
tipullrs.
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Ia W NTELLIGENCE.
CRIMINAL CoURT-JupGE BOND.

y
George NJ. Gill, Esq, City Councillor, appeared
tie part Of the city in the appeal cases. The
g.. ~. hns;rsgs 0ccu ,sied the court yestcrday:-
Tilgman u.s. the Mayor ana UrIy u,ra,,S,s. 4,p-
p"als from Justice Showacre, who fined them each
$50 and costs for an alleged violation of ordi-
nance regulating the speed of steamboats, running
in the harbor. Judgments reversed in each
Capt. j. G. Paul rs. the Mayor and City Coun-
ell. Appeal from Ridgeway. Judgment reversed.
The Northern Central Railroad Company Us.
the Mayor and City Council. Appeal from Justice
Reed. Judgment irmed.-The Appeal docket
will be called peremptoriIy this (Thursday)
morning. court adjourned till 10 O'Clock
this morning.
CITY CIRCUIT COURT-JuDGE KREBs.
The following business occupied the attention of
this Court yesterday: Kate Burke Patrick
Burke. Bill for divorce It mensa ct horo, aud in
junction flied.
There was no business of any Importance trans
acted In the other GnurtS Yesterday.
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Reception of Col. Anderson at Harrisburg

He Announces that Ex-Vice President
ETecIkinridge is GI. the Side of the Union.
HARRUBuRG, May l5.-Col. Anderson, the hero
Of Fort Sumter arrived here in special train over
the Pennsylvania Central Railroad this afternoon
at 4 o'clock. He remained only few minutes. A
large number of the members of the Legislature
were present with Governor Curtin and other Off
cials. and immense number OF people who greet
ed him most enthusiast callv.
The military at Camp Curtin turned out some
twelve companies, who were drawn up at the depot
to salute the distinguished officer. Col. Geo Siber
in cImmand. As the Colonel made his
appearance, he was greeted with loud and repeated
cheers. Col. Anderson stated in his brief conversa-
tiOn with Governor Curtin that Ex-Vice President
Brecknridge would jDin HIM in Cincinnati, to take
command under him This announcement created
profoundly gratifying sensation here, among all
classes. Col Anderson also stated that the Eu-
ropean steamer which arrived Yesterday at New
York, had brought large quantity OF improved
modern arms for the Federal Government, and that
each succeeding steamer would bring more. lie
expressed the utmost confidence Of the final success
of the Federal arms and the eventual reconstruc-
ton of the L CDiOD on its original basis.
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Washington Items.

w ,surScrox Nav TX Tho asSnrancas that tbe
ADMINISTRATION Is vioorous,v nrospcnt;ng its mes
snres aoainst the insnrrectinnarv States have a
substantial basis All tho uambars of Tho Cahinat
,nr,stbar w;tb tho pres;Jent oro onin,atod hr y
common princinIe in furthering the plans for CON
s,atip1c, +ha aCorornn,an,,s n nol;o. An ;,oroasad
s,i'nnIns 5n,.oror u,os 70 darv annl;ad nnn,
;ttoa of nror;nar, can,lan.an ffrrnro tba oit nf
~ WI fhd t ;.:2 ~ - - a. - y "a "
tho result was tbAir c6nsent to acoert ,ha ssry;cas
" r cto Sat;I ~ p;, :" az cp ~ ',e ~, 80
Tbi mats with t%a ccmranoa of ;an, c.
60. go, ''e'' WV" '"0 eN'e VI i''eU' "e"'
rt ro,,,,;,.oo ,..or,o,,,,.- ,,,., u. ,,,.o.
iue or Nuilut' ~ s.'euu"!sJ u'Se ino'e Pl"ihPI
anu eheeNe eS, "r'n In II" 'aI' III lie pr"-
- "hI "lit r ~, +. ~ a.e oon
We; az ,me SaPp. W W s"pPo.'
onS ,h'. e"se'. ~, 70 1
go; " P ~ " Wv
out :; .-o. .b. ~ E;o s;oou
Ia J@d 20 ~ 49, -,
80, nn' dofaroas r;,b;n , ,,o,s 60, rs Wash;rts
Tbis NAV be n ranatit;,n5 ONLY of a fo-mer nnfourd
"a o A, affI oran,s - - La,,id Ia oon e.,
ed !, 10 not .t oil nrobahln tbot tba Gororrment
waud Tansin a. an an pdirapt ohsarrer of ba nro
oaoJirrs
A. tho ad;orrnnant of the term of tho Court of
Claims to-day. onIv one Justice-,Judpe Loring-
was present, who adjourned the Court until the
4th Of july The presiding Judge-Judge Scar
borough-hsvinp RESIGNED there is n vacancy on
The Rench tn fiji which the late SoIicitor Giilet's
name has been suggested.
During the last month the average weekly re-
ceiptS from the Customs have been not more than
like those of other secedipo States have ceased to
make returns
Jndoe Fisher for the Eastern District of yir
gina is the only iudical officer of that State who
! has mt resigned Those for North CaroIina have
ssraratad tIsir connection with tho Unitod States
Tbe President has arnon,ad Georra Il EaIIatt
| r. @ ,t,a..,,. 81 NJ -; paoI ph Da;s.on
c IS - -, ud F,G;oo - d in1as
o. ~ air i"AP war"a1,a Nch;aan "o
~ - tT pe.,r,n.". ~ p,dir prnriro
MA. Edward p Bassett Postmaster at Toledo.
| Ohio. and Nathan A. Moulton. Postmaster at New
| buryport, sachusetts.
| The Secretary of the Treasury has specifically
explained what is meant by the words "other
supplies" in the enumeration of articles cnntraband
of war, contained in his circular, dated May ID,
addressed to collectors and other officers of Gus
| toms. They mean-Mercury, in all its compounds,
cnl" ave VI P.su; nj 80, w -. -; " tth
ASH, nitrate Vi soue, onoi iue VI 49,
ana pearlasn, oaegg, r9Pe aud nro ont nt
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~i.aaetarg aNn Commercial Aebl2m.
BALrIMoRR. Nav Is. lS6l.

BALTIMORE, May Is, 1851
stocks continue dull and heavy There was some
movement at the Board in City 6's but nothing
whatever done in any OF the other stocks on the
For City 6s like every thing else the market k.
Sales made Of 5000 ls90s s5: 5000 1865 S
$500 s75s aslk and 81 900 lS75s at So 1905 left Of
at san bid S5 asked and ls75s closed at79k bid, SO4
asked Railroad share ,cdedly heavy. Northern
Central left OF yesterday at $40 bid s14 asked but
Baltimore and Ohio, FOR which S36H hid the close
yesterday, left OF day only s3j bid, $40 asked For
Railroad bonds there very little inquiry Northern
Central 1855 closed at 35 bid SO asked but there
no quotations for Baltimore and Ohio bonds. Bank
stocks are altogether neglected There some lots
Offering but no bid was made :or any of them to-day
In New York today Missouri 6s advanced 81 Z; North
Carolina bonds 81; Erie n New York Central =; Harlem
K; Cleveland aud Toledo II and Galena and Chicago Il
but Tennessee bonds declined per Virginia Gs
n Michigan southern sl$; Michigan Southern guaran'
teed \; and Rock Island I
SALES AT THE BALTIMORE STOCK BOARD
"WEDNESDAY, May Il, 1861.
$500 Balt 6s '9J--S5 5000 Bait. 6's 'S6-Sl
500 '75--slk 1000 " 1870
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PRICES AND SALES OF STOCKS IN NEW YORK.
l.
The New York Tribune, Of wednesaay morning. $

The New York Tribune, Of Wednesday morning, says
Stocks generally frmer yesterday, except those
of the Southern States, which continue suffer under
sion troubles. OF these, however. MiSsouris
well sustained at previous quotations, h sales
the S75 600. Federal firm and the
loan of 1881 held at advance without actual bust
ness In shares Illinois Central is still the most prom
nent and active, aud the shorts obliged to pay a
further advance OF about per cent to complete deliveries
for the day The movement has been sustained thus far
with vigor and skill and the scarcity Of cash stock has
been turned to good account against the bears
The money market is without material change. and
there is very little paper passing outside Of the bank
The difficulty Of negotiating any but rSt-class paper is
increasing every day and produces great distress among
merchants who have not large facilities with the
banks Money call may be quoted at 5G6 per cent,
t principal operations being based on the lower figure.
Foreign Exchange continues firm at lO6dl063@, and
report larger business doing.
The earnings Of the New York Central Railroad the
year ending April 3d. 1861, s. l49 $3.50, against
S60o74 10 for the previous year showing an increase
til, year Of S9IS,7S4 so.
We comparative statement OF the exports lex
elusive spec) from New York foreign ports the
week and since January l. 1861
1859. 1860. 1861.
Total for the week. 81 397 395 939 500 s2366 lG6
Previously reportcl. % 5i sos 90 975l594 ASH 1872
since Yam 55o AZ
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poleOn. Hamburg; Mattapan, Montreal; barks Onkel,
Bremen: brgs Ina, Demerara; II Havelock, Halifax;
Jane st John; schrs Chaloner, Marseilles Raleigh
and May, Havana
PHILADELPHIA, May 1+-Arr schr Wm Bemen, New
Haven; Burrows Boston; Minnesota, New York; Delie,
Richmond.--Cm bark Kauswna, New York: brig Emi.
a. Salem; Hobbs, Sagua, Adene Belfast, Ire: Ercoe
Genoa; Burmah, Boston, chrs Hornet Portland; Noun.
tain Eagle, Portsmouth
Southern Ports.
SAVANNAH, May ll-Arr brigs Rosa and Panchita,
Havana: schr Laura Frances, Thomaston Me.--Cld
steamer. Charleston.
CHARLESTON, May lo-Cld schr Mary Clinton, New
Orleans; schr Mary Jane Elizabeth City NC.
NEW ORLEANS, May Arr ships Magdaine, Bre
men; Aquila, Havre bark Egypt dn--CId ships Ma
maranack and lllus.rous, Liverpool; Metropolis, and
brigs Alpine and Wm Abbott, Bordeaux.
THRONOMETERS,
~ CHARTS,
BOOKS,
NAUTICAL AND SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS,
and
GLOBES.
TT THE LARGEST ASSORTMENT az THE ABOVE
GOODS IN BALTlhORE.
PETER WALTHER,
- ". rr2tt street
Formerly with and now SOLE AGENT FoRW + ( @.
HlLNT, S"~ forf ra22-tf
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THE FooD QUEsrIoN.-We are at a loss exactly
to conceive what particular advantage is to be
derived from the evidently incorrect, but frequent
ly repeated, representations, here and there that
the jefferson Davis Contederacv has nothing, or
will have nothing, to eat. The truth is,
hour-the staff of life-is Just as cheap and appa-
rently plenty at Charleston, even, as it is here
at Eome. The semi. weekly record of the markets
in the Mercury of the 10th, quotes the best brands
OF -four at SS.5O@9 per bb.-a decline of Sl.50@
81 per bb on previous quotations, owing to heavy
arrivals from the interior The supply is said to
be much above the wants of the city. The supply
of is also reported "adequate to the present
demand" The average price is 81 per bushel so
at New Orleans. Tue latest reports 20 hand quote
-four at $50 to S7l2l2 per bbl., with slack de-
mand and tendency to lower prices. Mixed and
yellow 45 47 cts. per bushe; white 196O cts.
If these figures reliable, then, we thus that
bread be about as cheap at Charleston or New
Orleans, as it is, to-day, in New York.-N T.
Express.
LATER FROM HAVANA BY the arrival of bark
Harriet Brewster, at New York, we have received
advices from Havana to May 6. The weather was
very hot. Many strangers want to leave, but md
it difficult, owing to the absence Of the regular
steamers. The H. b. has passengers, Mr.. NJ. A.
+. Curtis, of Boston, and Henry Bartlett, OF New
buryport.
New York and Boston, per cent. discount; sight
l@l% per cent Money very tight, and much dis
tress among the commercial Community.
| large and extensive failure of a banking house
took place on the I'd. Freights for foreign flags
S09S5s to Falmeuth; American neglected and VIC
| quote at 40s., at which rate two ships only had
| been taken Coastwise to outport and North o
Hatteras, 81 50@S5 per hid; Sugar Molasses
$50 per ITO gallons, and 81 per box Health o
the city good. Rain much wanted. Stock of Su
gar large.
Major Ben. McCulloch, of Texas, and Hon. 7. L
Cingman, of North Carolina, are at present Il
Montgomery.
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Later from California.


FoRr KEAENEY, May H.-The California pony
express passed here this afternoon, bringing the
following news despatch
SAN FRANCISCO, MAY $40 p. M.-Exchanges
the Eastern States are unsettled, depending
future advices by pony express.
Some extensive sales of real estate have lately
been made in San Francisco, the prices indicating
great confidence in such property notwithstanding
the disturbed condition OF national affairs.
The opinion seems to prevail generally here that
civil war between the Northern and Southern
States will not affect any of the material interests
of California.
The public are waiting with intense anxiety for
further news from the Atlantic States, which is ex
pccted to-day by pony express
the price of steamer passage between San Fran
cisco and New York has been raised to the follow
ing rates: first cabin, S25S; second cabin, $50;
steerage, SIPS.
General sumner, after due examination, speaks
in of high satisfaction of the condition of the
Qualifications Of San Francisco harbor, and of the
trOous stationed here
The preparations for a large Union Gemonstra-
ton at San Francisco without distinction of party,
going forward vigorously. The following is
the call for such meeting, which has been signed
By citizens of all political parties:
"The undersigned, believing that, at the present
crisis in national affairs, it is the manifest duty
of all patriotic citizens, irrespg ctiye of party
creed, to yield unqualified and Jealous support
to the Federal Government in its efforts for the
maintenance and perpetuity cfthe Union and the
vudicatiOn OF its flag, invite their fellow citizens,
of all parties, who willing to render their ser
vices to the General Government in the presen
emergency, to meet them in mass meeting, at an
early day in the present week, consider the pro-
priety of a public expression of loyalty to the
! Union
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WEDNESDAY, Nav Is.
FIRST NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. G. BLACKBURN,
Esq, PRESIDENT, and quorum of memberS.-
Mr.. MEYERS presented the petition of Swain &
Banks, asking reduction of rent city property;
referred.-Mr. HAY presented the petition of Jas.
McCoy, asking indemnity of $50 for the de-
sirnction OF his property, No. II North Eutaw
street. by mob on the night Of the 10th of April;
reterred.--The President presented communi-
cation from the City Commissioners calling at;en-
ton to the expediency OF building wall in front
Of the city property on Buren street, at cost of
50, G0O-Ihe resolution from the Second Branch.
authorizing The City Block and Locust Point Ferry
Company to use and occupy all the water front of
the end of West Falls avenue and Great Hughes
street, on certain conditions, amended by fix
per trip for single passenger, ten cents per trip
for vehicle, and ten cents for the round trip and
laid on the table.-Tbe Branch adjourned.
SECOND BRANCH.--Branch met. CHARLES J.
BAKER, Esq, President, in the Chair, and all the
members nt.--The proposition to appoint
Joint Special Committee to take into consideration
the matter of an early adjournment of the Council,
was concurred in by the First Branch. and the
President appointed Messrs Miller Dean and
R0bb, as the committee on the part of this Branch.
An ordinance authorizing the City Commits
sioners to have the work of grading the streets ad
iacent to Patterson'S Park done by the day,
ceivcd from the First Branch and passed --Mr.
DEAN called up the ordinance providing for the
preservation OF the health OF the city; passed.
The Branch then adjourned.
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The peers, body, cannot, therefore, plume
themselves on their antiquity, or safely presume to
take liberties with the prerOgatives of the crown
and the rights of the people the strength of
what was done by their ancestors.
PRIZE VESSELS MAY CARRIED TO NEUTRAL
PoRTs-lt is asked, where shall privateers
carry their prizes while our ports are biockaded
We answer to that neutral port which the cap
tain shall prefer-that neutral port which may be
nearest at the time of the capture-which may be
reached with the least danger of recapture-where
his prize NAV be sold at the best price. A neutral
nation violates no neutral obligation in receiving a
captured prze-ship into its port. This is matter
which the laws of nations leave to the discretion of
the neutral, and which it may regulate like any
other subjects of internal police. 1t is only re-
qured that it apply the rule 20 both beliger-
entS. 1t is to be expected that neutral nation
not untriendly to US will see with pleasure the
arrival of prize in its ports. Every prize will
benefit the neutral city by giving employment and
paying money to its inhabitants; and by selling
among them valuable stocks of merchandise at the
lowest prices. When admitted into the port, by
the laws of nations the prize is under the protec-
ti0n of the neutral power; the possession by the
capor is sufficient proof OF his right and his title
cannot there be questioned But the captOr is
responsible to his own government; and must show,
in court of his country, that the captured
vessel was the property OF the enemy; and for this
purpose, the papers of the prize vessel sufficient
evidence. district court of the Confederate States
will entertain jurisdiction of the case, and render
Judgment in the absence of the prize-vessel, and
while 1t remains in safe-keeping, in the neutral
norris Mobile Heois,or
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large number of the Tobacco establishments
of Richmond have stopped manufacturing, conse-
quently great number of negroes are out of en-
pIoyment. The following, from the Dispatch of
Thursday, shows that they likely to be en-
pl"yed in some way:-'Tobacconists and other cit,
izens who have unemployed negroes, are invited
to meet at the Mayors Office this morning, at 10
o'clock. A matter of great Importance is to be
attended to, and we hope the invitation will meet
with aready response"