Stockton Herald, South Durham and Cleveland Advertiser. — 1861-05-31 (Stockton-on-Tees, Cleveland, England)

THE MILITARY RESOURCES OF THE NORTH. Already 30,000 men have gone forward from our midst to the seat of war, and yet they are not missed. Indeed, we only hear of their individual absence through their friends making some casual mention of the fact, suet as " Fred's gone with the Seventh," or "Jones is with the Zouaves." Broadway displays apparently undiminished perambulating crowds of men as well as omnen. The same is true of the leading throughfares of Boston, Albany, and Philadelphia; and even if 30,000 more, or twice that number, were to depart from the North, they would cause no perteptible diminution of our population, and their absence would cause no interruption of the ordinary business of every day life. This demonstrates in a powerful degree the enormous physical resources we have for carrying on a great war on our own soil, and furnishes undeniable evidence that it only requires the word of command to produce action, and in action victory. On all sides we hear of men eager to enlist for active service ; and it is stated only a few days ago by Senator Chandler, at Washington, that in the North-west alone there are 600,000 men ready to volunteer in their country's cause at a moment's notice. The spirit of earnest patriotism is too widely diffused and deeply felt among our people to require illustration at our hands. It is vast, magnificent, sublime. Preparation for an effective blockade of the Virginia waters having been completed, Captain Pendergast had given fifteen days' notice for all vessels to leave the ports of that State. Several of the foreign Ministers had asked for an extension of the time, but this had been refused, and the order would be impartially adhered to. Martial law had been proclaimed in Baltimore. The Federal troops had fully established themselves in that city. Earthworks were to be erected all along the railways front the North through Maryland to Washington, which is now completely encircled with encampments controlling all the railways. 2,200 muskets and 4,000 pikes had been seized at Baltimore, %lid the manufacturers, Ross Winans, of that city, had been arrested, and bail had been r6used. Two schooners laden with arms had also been seised.  The New York Herald says :—" The reign of terror haying been fairly inaugurated in the rebel States, they are now loudly crying for a dictator. The Richmond Examiner would  •-•- ---- have a man clothed with dictatorial functions,  'for the reason that usurpation of power by the chief for the preservation of the people from robbers and murderers will be reckoned  as genius and patriotism by all sensible men in the world now, and by every historian that will judge the deed hereafter.' Jeff. Davis is the man."  The great danger to the Rebel State of America—an insurrection of the slaves—is be ginning to be seriously apprehended. So many planters, overseers, Sze., have gone to swell the ranks of the confederated army that the plantations are left comparitively unprotected and the few whites who remain go armed to the teeth. A correspondent of one of the New York papers mentions a conversation in which the negroes expressed a confident expectation that the war would result in giving them their freedom, hnd states that they were anxiously looking forward to the further complication of events.