Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1862-01-02

neutrality. but really in the direct service Of the
Rebels. With the whole intrinsic right of the
case on onr side we are observation-disclosures
on a quill be- ard put in the attitude Of agrees
sors when the aggression is all on the side of the
| fricn lily enemy, the neutral combatant and i'm
partial partisan, England. The Trent affair."
Systematically settled, but shadow will lie up
on the hearts Of every patriot until legitimate
opportunity shall offer to avenge the insultcd
sensbilities of a people not used to humiliation
through legal tricks, and through pretences lust
within the law.
In saying this, however, we have no DISPOSE
ton to question the propriety and justice of the
determination of the President. On careful
examination of the ground, it is clear that the
case was open to exception on the points so
clearly stated by Mr.. Seward, and that pre-
cedent in the shape this would present to Ell-
ropean eyes would be regarded as dangerous
| and ill-advised by most other nations.
The New York Tribune, after minute re-
view of the affair, concludes;
| Let none imagine that we object to the release
of the Rebel Commissioners, or to the manner
! in which Gov. Seward has conducted the dis
1cusson on our part. On the contrary, we heart
| lily approve 10th the fact and the terms of our
Governments compliance with the British de-
mand. We thoroughly agree with the general
spirit both of Gov. Stewards and of M. Thou
venel's suggestions that it i'll becomes the Uni
ted States, after their honorable struggles and
sacrifices in behalf of the freedom of the SEAS to
be even accused of unfathfulness to that great
principle. If we are ever again to be brought
into hostile collision with Great Britain on a
tquestion involving, or claimed as involving, the
maritime rights of neutras, we insist that our
flag shall be unfurled and upheld, as hitherto,
in accordance with all our national instincts and
| traditions, on the side of the recognition, the
establishment, or even the enlargement Of those
rights-never on the other. If Great Britain
should tomorrow object to the treatment of
anything whatever as contraband of war, except
in the case of vessels violating or intending to
violate a blockade, we hope our Government
at whatever present nconvenience-will at once
assent to the new doctrine thus asserted-never,
at all events, from that quarter
The New York Journal of Commerce is dis
posed to crticise Governor Stewards letter, but
adds
/ We shall not at present discuss the inconsis-
tencies of argument which we find in this paper.
It is, however, sufficient to say that, aside from
all other questions involved, England must be
: regarded ashaving been caught in trap which,
though we think it might have been more skill
fully sprung, is nevertheless closely shut on her.
so that she will not escape. Right or wrong,
England and America agree that the neutral
I flag even in war times shall protect the passen-
gers, however hostile their character, unless the
: ship herself shall be captured and condemned.
The New York Times says:
"A portion of our people will be disappointed
at the result arrived at by our Government, in
I the affair of the Trent But that feeling will
! have no deeper basis than temporary and i'm
pulsive chagrin that two such Rebels as Mason
and Slidell should have slipped through oul
fingers in consequence of the interposition Of
the English Government on their behalf And
even this feeling will promptly yield to the pro-
found satisfaction of the whole country that we
have honorably escaped the fearful perils of a
war with England. which whatever might have
been its ultimate issue, would have given GER
tain triumph to the Southern rebellion.
i THE LATEST WAR NEWS.
1 By the arrival of the steamer Marion at New
1 N--l----a- h. vices orr Royal and
Tybee Island. The Marion, it will be recollec.
ted, transported the Seventh Connecticut Regi.
from Port Royal to Tybee, as a reinforcement te
the troops already there, numbering only six
Hundred. The cannonading heard in that di.
ERECTION was from Fort Pulaski, which threw g
Enumber of shells at the Marion while she was
Idischarging her cargo, but without effect. It is
Expected that General Wright will have COM
mand of Tybee, as be accompanied the Connec.
ticut troops and remained on the Island, which
: is to be put in thoroughly defensible condition
Gen. Stevens, now in command at Beaufort
i ruko hrrodo hoe h
two regiments, is expected soon to make an adj
; vance on the mainland of South Carolina for the
purpose of occupying point on the railroad
; between Charleston and Savannah. The OBJ
fstruction of the channel to Charleston harbol
Ehad been completed by sinking sixteen old whale
ships loaded with stones. They were not placed
straight, across, as in other cases where the ex-
periment has failed, but in three rows, with
Especial reference to the fact that the inland
waters must flow to the sea- An intricate maze
|of shoals and eddies will thus be formed which
fit will be impossible to navigate, but which will
still allow of the flow of water without the crea-
ton of new channels. The Charlestonians, on
the approach of the feet, destroyed the light
house on Morris Island by blowing it up.
/ The Charleston Mercury states that on the
f29th ult an engagement took place at Port
boats and a battery on the mainland. The gun
boat was so severely handled that she steamed
1fapid;y away. but got aground some three miles
Ehelow the Ferry. Under sharp fire from one
fof the Federal batteries on Port Royal Island
three fiat boats. crowded with troops, left the
Shore to cross to the mainland, but the attempt
was defeated by Confederate battery of flying
artillery, which sunk one of the flats and crea-
ted terrible havoc among the others. The firing
[.contnued until night set in. The gunboat
fAoated off at food tide, but the Federal loss is
supposed to have been very heavy.
f. Dispatches from Charleston to the 26th ult
tstate that feet of twelve Federal gunboats had
entered the North Edisto, and approached tc
within twenty miles of Charleston, at place
called White Point Demonstrations were made
against the South Carolina troops under Gen