The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-01-08
From the London Pos, Government organ, Dec. 9Th

From the London Post Government organ) Dec. 9Th.
The second rpyal proclamation. o,bidding
the export Ut arms and other warlke stores
nnt included 10 the former, has followed its
predecessor nut . day loo soon. With what
ever view the Cabnet Of Washington has
been engaged ip buying up all our purchase.
able means Of offence and defence, alter a
fashion that Charles Dickens would describe
as wholesale. retail. and f"r expectation
BY much orlhs little. whatever was to be
Attained Tor nancy was about 70 br purchss-
ed aud shipped for America. Within the
last Ten DAYS IN aeenl Of The Federal Gov.
ernment n understood 10 have bought up
three Thousand tons Of sslipetre. The chief
component II gunpowd.r; and thl- was so
much more than The whole amount that Lon.
don could supply, that the. American agent,
We believe, wasohiiged 10 complete his com
Mission by coptrsctlng with manufacturers
oi this commodity in the provinces. The
export ni these three thousand tons was arr
rested by The lcrmer proclamation, probably
just in time.
Meanwhile. kbweyer, the American gov.
ernment had been purchasing small arms on
a scale s0me hat less vast, or with 80 much
mere discretion, al least, that the fact had
not berome notorious. But the necessities
of the Washington Cabinet proving mors
urgent, fresh messenger is understood 10
have been dispatched from New York in the
Persia. which vessel arrived N Liverpool on
y on Monday last Ii is helle,ed that the
i la,,.r awant rae.t..1 81. NJ.
m,ngham. with very extensive orders for RI
hes, percussion caps. lead Tor bullets. and
other stnres Of war. These articles. il will
be seen. had not been included in the inter
dict of The former proclamation, which had
been issued buts few days before the arrival
of the Persia. What the immediate success
Of this agents commission To the manulactu-
rers in Birmingham and elsewhere may have
been We do not know. but IL he were pre-
pared TO paw there's, in cash--which he was
very probably armed with the means Of do
Iing-it may b. assumed that no difficulty
presented itself in the completion Of the con-
tract 80 far as d. manufacturers were con-
cerned.
But 80 prompt and decisive has been the
action Of our Government, that before this
latter agent Of the Federal Cabinrt had set
foot for foriy--Ight hours ID this country. a
second proelamatio, has issued. forbidding
the export Of "a,ms. ammunition. percussion
.aps. tubes, aud lead" This proclamation
is dated Wednesday, Dec. 4. AMI tonk the
public by surprise yesterday morning. But
Tor this rapid action. the good. in question
would probabls have been shipped. so lar a.
they were ready prepared Tor use. by The end
of The week. The result is that this ameri.
can gentleman IL thn,wn upon his beam ends
and will probably return 20 New York b,
the next msH. wIIh his cash in his pocket
aud leaving the coveted arms and ammuni.
tion on EhgIish ground.
The object u The Federal Government Ger,
tainly cannot br logically proved to have beer
that Of preparation Tor bost,il;es agains
ourselves. II. indeed. il were clear that hi,
sAs their mou,e. the fact that their earlier
orders had been issued before thry had learn,
Ell of thr San Jacinta affair would rendrr
their conduct peculiarly uminaus. IL is, al
course. p,s.iblr thst these nnmehse orders
NAV hsye been dictated b, the rrigency 81
their csmpaign against the souihrrners
They sHerl to keep an army Of something
like halfa million in the field; and although
We dCubi whether throughout their civil wal
80 much bluod hss yet bren she'd a. was shed
IN single day At S.llcrino. the requirement,
aI such an army, even in ammunition. mus
still be considerable. The manner, howey.
~, in which the Federal Government has 81
e. work on the presrnI occasion is very On
like the purchases they have hilbert mad,
IN suppurt Of the civil var. The one cas,
differs from The other ss much a. q steamer
taking m coal Cor long voyage differs from
. steamer supplying herself for river TRIP
on the Thames.
The Northern government knew very well
that We sought 80 rupture with ,hem. snd
that 20 long : their conduct 10 Us was peace
able they might rely upon making, irum tin,
t. time. whtes,r purchases they pleased
The Atlantic wsi always open 10 tpem. ant
they had no NOR. dread Of the lew Confrds.
rate vessels uf war on the ocean al nne tim,
Than al another. Moreover, they could read
IL, send their stores Of war on all occasion,
under convoy. Nrithsr Is this country th'
only one from which saiipetre IL 10 be had
Of the twenty tlmussnd tons which we annn
ally import, mme Twelve thousand tons ar,
sent from Tpdn. and The remaining eigh
thousand from UhiIr aud Peru. The Soutl
American markets. which are thus rrtrsmel'
prolific. must have been quite AZ much oper
10 the importers in the Federal States AZ I,