Year: 1861

H From The Lendon Times


The practice of arresting the funds and dividend:
of Southern proprietors of Federal and State Sc.
eurities and also of shares in Northern comp anies
was calculated to put final stop to all OhaDee Of
negotiations Of advances in Europe since it follow:
that IN ease Of war at any future time, the policy
of eondseaion, which was supposed TO have totally
fallen into disquietude among civilized people will
be pat in force During the Crimean war, Russia
with scrupulous fidelity, paid all her dividends due
TO English and French holders, and Russian funds
were equally respected on this side. The argams nj
that in the present the war is with rebels i
not available the terms of capitulation granted
to the Confederstes at Hatteras having put an end
to thai plea.
| A letter by the present mail, from respectable
merchant of Baltimore, contains the following par
agrapls, which, making, every allowance for party
texsgeratiOD. gives q remarkable indication Of the
condition Of feeling in the State of Maryland no
claimed by the Federal Government as loyal to the
Union. At the same time, II must be remembered
| that the intolerant treatment of which the South
complains is even yet less furious than that which
they themselves have shown for years past, with
perfect impuDity toward every one whom they have
chosen to suspect Of entertaining views in oppos-
ition to their domestic institutions.


"As regards the civil war, can tell you nothing
definite of the future. In this State-Marylsnd =
we are in the condition of conquered country, and
it may be truly said that the serfs of Russia hold
to-day position enviable to those who dare 10
breathe sentiment dstasteful to the authorities at
W&shingtoa. A sad commentary this lis it not?
upon the bossted superiority of Republican insttu
tons? We have one OF another brave and bold
journalist who dares speak out the truth, but it Is
done in constant dread of the suppression of their
journals, either by the Government or by the mob.
It seems TO me that this war must grow more and
more distasteful to the Northern people every day,
and am looking forward to the tims when the
Government at Washington will be forced by the
Northern people themselves to make peace. When
this may be is of course matter of speculation );
but cannot help thinking that the distress which
the winter viii bring with it will hasten the deRoue
mept y


Another letter from Baltimore, and also from
merchant of good standing, speaks in the same
tone -..L s... --


EAs to polities-Two great armies are now fac
ing each other on the Potomac, almost within speak
ing distance. The Confederate army has approach
ed its lines SO near to the Federal capital that its
flag can be seen from the dome of the capital at
Washington. ~


Iu this State, and especially in this city, we are
under g military despotism worse, l sincerely be-
lieve than anything of the Austrian outrage in
Italy A few days since, two nurses, having IN
charge two infant children, were arrested because
the children were wearing some article OF dress
showing tie alternate coors of red, white and red
the colors Of the Confederate flag. Fourteen
ladies are now incarcerated at Washington. a lady
of this city was few days since arrested and taken
to the police Office, where she was stripped IN
search of reasonable correspondence. You will
naturally ask how can these things be borne by a
brave people? The answer is, that the authorities
in the city of Baltimore were weak enough to be-
lieYe they could maintain neutrality for this State
was false; and the people, being thus lulled into
security soon found their soil occupied by North
ern troops themselves disarmed and desp0Ied of
their most sacred rights"