Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1862-02-06

e0-' The Abolitionists for while reconciled
themselves to the idea Of mastery inactivity by
Gen. NJ :Clellans column, upon the ground that.
the army was fitting rapidly to he for emanci-
patton but the dismissal of Gen. Cameron and
the violent spirit manifested in the camps against
the abolition Troubad"urs has dispelleh that de-
fusion. Now they hold that the expense of the
war cannot be much longer borne
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AN IMPORTANT NorICE.-The Washington
Star Of the 10Th ult. publishes the following
notice:
An order has been issued from the office Of
the Provost Marshal here, requiring hereafter all
persons passing by stage or private conveyance
over the roads between the District and Port
Tobacco or Leonardtown, Nd, and the vicinity
OF those villages, to procure passes either from
the office (of the Provost Marshal here if going
thither, or from the headquarters Of General
Rockers division if coming this way; the said
roads now being in military possession. Per-
soils venturng on these roads without such
passes will Of course be stopped, and possibly
held.
ARREST OF MARYLANDER.-We copy the
Maryander, named Bryan, was arrested
in Alexandria a day or two since on suspicion
of being in communication with the Rebels
embarked on the Robert Leslie and steamed
down the river. They landed on the Maryland
shore, opposite Mount Vernon, and proceeded
to Bryan's residence, which they proceeded to
search. They found number of secession docu-
ments and letters, and brought away az trophy.
secession flag which was in the house.
DON'T LIKE Tive learn from the Marl-
boro' Gazette that a valuable negro man belong
ing to a gentleman near that village absconded
sometime last summer, and made his way to
Massachusetts,. He soon found that Northern
sympathy for his race was political mania,
and not dictated by a love for the negro, and
some weeks ago he caused a letter to be written
to his master requesting him to send him money
enough to pay his way back to his old home.
This having been denied, he finally worked his
way to Maryland and reached here last week, a
wiser if not better negro.
The Annapolis Republican notices the return
to that city Of a slave man who was forcibly
abducted by posse of Connecticut soldiers last
October. They took him aboard vessel and
carried him to Port Royal. His owner wrote to
the War Department, and General Sherman
forwarded the negro to Baltimore. He gave
every manifestation Of joy upon being taken
home, and complained of being harshly treated
while in the employ of his captors.
A BOLD Trick The Washington Star of
Friday evening says An oyster boat up to-
day reports that on Tuesday night schooner
from Baltimore, called the "Dorothea Haines,".
Capt. Wm. J. Langrall, passed under the very
noses Of the vessels Of our lower fotilla and ran
in safety up Acquia Creek to the wharf of the
Confederates. The vessel arrived off the creek
about shutdown on Tuesday, and made signal.
which was answered by the Confederates, and
she then moved into the creek She was large
schooner, of over one hundred tons burden. aud
though ostensibly loaded with salt, no doubt
had other articles in similar request in Dixie.
Incredible as it may appear, the fact seems
to be that no search of vessels is made by our
river guard Of the hotilla, but passing crafts are
merely required to send their papers on board
the f]otilla for examination.
Apparently, the suspicion never leaked throuh
the hair of the confding souls of our river guard
theteaid vessel was anything more than trad
Ing xessel bound in good faith for the Washing
ton wharves. : - :
The French lady" is evidently: ''about" in
Baltimore
APPoRTIoNMENT BILL.-Mr. Creswell from
the COMMITTEES on Elections, reported on Thurs
day the following bill, which was read a first
time, ''to apportion the members of the House
of Delegates among the several counties of the
State and the city of Baltimore upon the basis
of the National Census of 1850" &c.:
Section LIST. Be it enacted by the General As
sembly Of Maryland, That the following section
be and the same is hereby added to the 37th
article of the Code of Public General Laws, en-
titled Elections, at the end thereof, under the
head Members of the House of Delegates
"87. After the 9th day of November, eighteen
hundred and sixty three, the members of the
House of Delegates shall be and are hereby ap-
portioned among the several counties of the
State and the city of Baltimore in the following
manner, that is to say: St. Mary's county shall
be entitled to two Delegates; Kent, two; Anne
Arundel, three; Calvert, two; Charles, two; Bal
timore county, seven; Talbot, two; Somerset,
three; Dorchester, three; Cecil, three; Prince
Georges, three; Queen Annes, two Worcester,
three; Frederick, six; Hartford, three; Caroline,
two; fillmore city, eleven; Washington, four;
MONTGOMERY, two; Allegany, four; Carroll, three
and Howard, two" F@
PUNISHMENT OF NEGRoEs.-The following is
the bill reported in the House of Delegates by
Mr.. Magruder, from select committee, relating
to the sentence of negroes:
Section l. Be 1t enacted By the General As-
semsbly Of Maryland, That section one hundred.
and ninety-four of article thirty, of the Code Of
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