Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1862-02-21

was reported in the House of Delegates
Of Maryland, on Wednesday, the 10Th
instant, to provide ways and means
for the defense Of the State, by raising
an amount sufficient to pay the States
proportion of the United States direct
tax. It proposes to issue 81, 300, 600
of State stock, for loan to be called
The Maryland Defense Loan" bear
ing six per cent. interest, payable semi
annually, and redeemable at the plea
sure of the State; one million and a
quarter of said stock to be reserved for
the investment of the interest accruing
on the sinking fund of the State. The
bill proposes TO lay an additional direct
tax of fifteen cents on every hundred
dollars worth of assessable property in
the State, to be pledged for the payment
Of the loan.
re- An order was issued by the War
Department, on Friday last, releasing
the political prisoners now incarcerated
at Fort Warren and elsewhere, on their
subscribing to a parole, engaging then!
to render no aid or comfort to persons in
hostility to the United States. This or
der applies to all persons under arrest,
except those held as spies, and others
whose release, at the present time, would
be deemed incompatible with the safety
Of the Federal government. To all per-
sons who shall be released under this or
der, and keep their parole, the Presi-
dent promises to grant AN amnesty for
all past disloyal or REASONABLE offenses
Extraordinary arrests are hereafter to be
made only by the military authorities.
CONGRESSIONAL PRQcgEDTNGs The
House, on Friday last, passed the naval
appropriation bill, with amendments ap-
propriating $4,000, 600 for building
gunboats for the navy, and 1000, 900
for the increase of the manufacture of
guns at the Washington navy yard
The Senate passed bill providing for
the appointment OF warden of the Jail
of the District of Columbia. The ap-
pointment is to be made by the Prcsi-
dent, and confirmed by the Senate
R5- Ion" the Washington cores
pendent of the Baltimore Sun, under
date of the 10Th instant, writes:
The House will become again involved
in discussion of the great financial mea-
sure of the session, for the report Of the
committee on ways and means disagree
ing to nearly all the Senate amendments
to the treasury note bill reopens the
whole question. The House committee
will neither accept the provision for pay
ing interest on the public debt in coin,
nor the provision for setting aside certain
revenue as a sinking fund, which were
the considerations that induced the Sen
ate to yield to the legal tender clause"
FRoM MIssoURI-A dispatch from
Missouri, states that the Confeierates,
under Price, bad reached Cane Crcel,
seventy-ive miles distant from Spring.
field, and that the Federal troops, under
General siegel, were in close pursuit. Il
is said that Price expected to be rein
forced by twelve or fifteen regiment.
under General Van Dorm, when, if moi
earlier intercepted, he would turn upon
his pursuers and offer battle
Tur CASE OF GuS STONE. Several
of the Boston papers ask that Genera
Stone, now under arrest, shall be allow.
ed speedy trial The Boston Courier
says. Gen Stone is veil known here
and highly respected for an upright,
honorable and magnanimous gentleman
and people win be slow to believe him
guilty in the present case, and will moi
believe it at all until they see the evil
dence'
Es" It is reported from Washington
that the Territorial Committee of both
Houses Of Congress have nearly matur-
cd bill for the future government OIL
what was once the States Of the South
1t is much more radical aud broader ia
its scope than the bill introduced by Mr.
Harris. 1t proposes to annui the orga.
mic lav Of the seeded States and tC
treat them as free territories, ignoring
entirely the institution Of slavery.
ARRESTED. Mr.. SANuEL 4. MArLAcK,
for some time past engaged in this Of
fec, was arrested on Sunday night last.
by the Provost Guard of this place, and