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The Blockade Qnestlem.
unhie
We learn from the New York Dai- surel
ly News, of the 26th ult., that an of
ticial communication on the subject of
the blockade has been made to the man
British Legation at Washington, by othe:
Admiral Milne, commanding the No I
large British fleet, numbering many
vessels of war in the Gulf of Mexi- T
co. By what means the purport of ill
this document has found its way to
the public eye, it is perhaps needless in to
to inquire; the fact that it should
have been suffered to see the light It
gives it, however, in the opinion of the der:
News, the aspect of an indirect warn- for
ing addressed by the British Govern
ment to that of the United States. Men
When the contents of confidential it is
State papers are revealed by those tial
who hold them in custody, there is ult,
seldom lacking an abundant reason of
public policy for the revelation. By
suffering Admiral Milne's views,
d communicated to his official superiors, excl
to be spread betfore the world, the
e News suggests that the authors of the z
d publicity are in fact addressing a Yor
semi-official notice to the President
- and Cabinet at Washington.
Z. The action of any Government vari
A upon a subject involving deeply the lra
interests ot a conmmercial people, like 1n11
ur a blockade, must necessarily be pre- meI
dicated upon the information it re
u- ceived from its agents who are upon ton
e- the spot. The Prime Minister of neec
G, Great Britain has virtually declared of 1
". in Parliament that his Government tair
nwould respect an efficient blockade.
d, This was the same thing as though pr1
:5. he had said that it would not respect its
ho an inefficient one. Now, what gives of I
at Admiral Milne's report itsgreat inter- clel
ill est is the fact that it distinctly takes cip1
the ground that the blockade is in
efficient. The British commander.
to whose opinion is backed by the ob- '
servations and reports of the com- Irta
in- mnders of his thirty-five vessels of her
d. war, tells the Government at Wash- il
ington, with emphasis, that its at- the
g tempt to close the seceded ports has by
hle been characterized by a "complete e1
ail absence of uniformity, order andredg
s- tularity:" In short, that it is not be
ail such all act of war as the British na- nce
)r- tion considers itself bound to res- ig
icr pect. to i
1 ''The Admiral proceeds (says the tici
's- News; we have not seen the text of Stt
s the letter;) to enumerate a number of Te
ng breaches of the blockade, which have oul
ms- come under his notice. Thoughl Pen- 111
l- sacola was declared closed on the piti
"Is 19th of May, "vessels freely obtain- 110
ail ed admission " as late as the 30th.- al1I
.es. A bark warned ,Iff from Pensacola !pl
ran into Mobile. Twenty or thirty 4111
Mut small vessels ran into other neighbor- of
iad iii~ ports, and he finds "nunw-rou. ail
as cases of ships, harks and brigs osca
the ping the cruisers" in every direc
(flS tion. As for Charleston, "a com
the plete flotilla of small ocean traders
tly sind coasters continued to pass into
the city and out again, regardless of, t iA
m- or insensible to, the presence o" war ot
ing ships." "St. Marks," in 1iorida.
" an important port, is not at all cut eV
off from maritime trade." Steamers w.
sed keep up ci,ltllnilatinl to and from pr
the Savannah, and he adds that his cap- 111
the tairs report four other ports entirely l,
the open, on the very day he writes. u
es Since this rep,,rt of the Admiral l,
Wsth arllade. thrlt. 1eAIlS to be no rea- p:
s',n fIr supposiIng that Mr. Lincoln's to
I, blockade has become anty more strin- a
gent. Thle; News, in this connection, ti
med alludes to the alleged egress of thede
privateer Sumtcr from New Orleans, 11
has and her rumored return thither lately al
ants with a conitrahanll cargo of arms ot' t
v. thile liremelnll bark from lavana-not a
nto- to spl.ak of the Jeftf. I)avis, the Sa- c
L. van:lah ( and other privateers which e
]have reached the high seas-as serv- ti
son. ing as additional proots of' the irreg- a:
in; ularit" :"ind incompetency of the Fed- o
II. eal rpose. a
)ur cotemporary as, therefore, en- p
.sat, tirellv preparel'l d to see a prompt and n
rck, deciided attitude assumed by Great 1
ker, Britain, France and Spain at an ear- V
lv day. T'he news of the hull Runi b
?en- disaster will probably hasten this de- tm
e. termination. n
L'us- "Thus," concludes the News, N
Jo- " with every day's advance we seem ti
oyd to be .approaching more and more
Ma- .nearly, to the dangers predicted by
ille; Washington, when the quarrels of r
trhe States with one another should p
spc- invite the interferentle of foreign tl
powers. iUnder the fatal rule ut
3 Abrabll b , to what a dark and TA
terrible ltue are we appbaclla! -'I
Is a forei n war to be add4 to our 8it
unhappy civil contest ? It would day a
surely apper so."' 1,20
large
t Yesterday evening, an old gentle- althol
, man and a young one, hugged each eightl
r other pretty tightly on Texas street. ooers
a No blood shed on the occasion. at ppa
""will l
The Press of work in our office, not b
will account for the lack of editorial outof
s in to-day's paper. his
d li----- ad
t It is rumored that M1emphis is un- hadte
e der Martial Law. This we doubt- and a
- for reason that we have received the n
1
Memphis papers of the 1st inst., while are b
it it is reported that in that city Mar- give
tial Law was proclaimed on the 27th
is ult.
----"---- It
What has become of our Mobile new
s, exchanges, does anybody know I will
ic Export Duty on Cotton.-The New Sout
a York Times of the 25th ult., says: the i
it ~ We are assured repeatedly and from worl
Qt various quarters that England and led f
France are preparing to make a ds- ded
Ce iand on the United States Govern- were
meet f,~rthe opening at least ofone cot- the
ton port in the Sonth, from ,which we 1
of needed supplies for the manufactures or A
,d of those two countries may be ob- nij
at tained. It. is added that they will free=
`h probably claim th:,' the closing of natim
et itsown ports by any a,.n by mode and
es of blockade is an anomaly, and not forn
r- clearly recognized in any settled prin- Co
es ciples of the laws of nations." hear
r" The Tiltes goes on to say : inva
b- 'T'hle Government of England and thou
n- France profess it determnnination to ad- equt
of here to the course of strict neutrality
h- in regard to th" ttonlltest pending' in A
t- the States of the Ulnioon, and to abide stan
as by the rules that hloneraldc govern- at t
w niuents always observe towards for- Coll
Seign powers. Perhaps it would not try.
t be amliss f'o Congress, in order to mili
ia- meet all the technicalities that for- ed 1
L-e cign governments are likely to raise. dre,
to 1,ut an export duty on cotton suf
he ticient to compensate the United plea
of States G overnment for its shipment. Ihon
of 'fTen cents a pound, for instance, to and
ve our G;-verinment would counterbal- cd1e
m anice the paltry one-eighth of a cent his
he per potu the Confederate Govern- stal
i,- lint would amnerse; and if Englaud lica
and France can aflhrd tobuy and im- der
ula port at such rates, we might not find afle
rty oIlrs,' ves loser- of, their good will or the
or- of our good position, in the end, by of
)u ailowing them to (1 so. tCll
en- " - sou
ec- Gun Boats. but
nn- - er i
ers \Ve find the ftillowing communica- one
nto id
of, t1 in the Nw )rlean.4 Picayue, riot
r tt' the 211d iw-t.:
da:. . trs Pica.e,,:-C'apt. 1(o'it
cut event, of (Gaimne.'ville, in this couinty, in
lers well kn,1wun iii your city as an enter- trt
01 prisin"g Steaitbouttuan, of anmple We
nlli- tlli, l:iS made a model for a gun- act
'ly boat, now Oi its way to 1tichniond wit
and .Jacl;sot-an adiniriily contrived ('V
iral design flr cast defense. We are pre- not
rea- pared at (ailesville and at Pearling- an1
li's ton to build as many of these Loatt i"'
rit- as may h1 called for. We have the cut
ion, timber, the mills, the boat yards, ""a
the docks and ship carpenters, all on hand. ibm
aIs, It may not be generallly knownu that baii
tely at both these places on Pear'l river we.
Is It' are conlstantly buildinlg steaamtboats re
-notu and schooners, of the best .live oak, a
Sa- cypress, yellow pine, white oak anud o
tich cedar. Let the Confede:rate autthbri- tl<
erv ties or the Executives of" Missieiippi on
1 aeg- and Louisiana say the word, and by thj
fed- or befIire the 1st January learlington c
and Galines'ville will fit out and cm- to
eI- plete any nunmber of gun-bonts thatI '
and may be needed. This county, though
reat sparsely populated, has done nobly. r
ear- Ve have two finely drilled compan
Riun ies now in camp at Bay St. Louis,
de- two more are being organized, and a1
number of our citizens are now in au
ews, Virginia, mnembers of other organiza- Pi
Sem I tionls. HANcocK COUNTY. vI
nore fic
by The St. Paul Poucer is advising T
s of real estate owners in. that region to of
onld plow up their town lots, which have ci
eign thus far produced nothing but an of
a o "annual cro)p of taxation."
The Conecticut State Loan Taken.
'Vk9 time offering bids for the
8 to 'A ofo80,o000 closed Satdtý
day arnoon, at which time about
$1,2~000. had been tendered. A FA
large share of the bids were at par.
although many were given at an I
eighth premium, and in rare instan
ces more. The banks in the city
offered perhaps a quarter of a million
at par. It is believed that par bids
will be accepted. The awards have
not been made, as the Treasurer is
out of town, but will be declared upon
his return to-morrow. The bidding
would have commanded premiums
had it not been that the United nan
States loan will be made presently, No
and with such rates of interest that
the men who have the money at hand
are holding up for that which will
give them a cent and a fraction addi
tional every year.
Hartford Courant.
It is said that Disraeli is writing a
new political work, which he expects
will eclipse all his previous efforts.
Hindcuas ,for the South.-The
Southern press should keep before
the people of the South and of the
world the astounding and unparalle
led fact that the army which inva
ded Virginia brought with them
thirty thousand handcuffth which
were taken with the other spoils from
the enemy. This supasses all that
we have ever heard of Russian or
or Austrian despotism. It is almost
impossible to realize that, in the
United States, boastinlg itself as the po'
freest and the most civilized of all oLI
' nations, the most deliberate, inhuman -
and atrocious plan should have been I
formed to degrade and enslave a free Co
people of which there is any record
in this or any other age. Who ever 13
heard, even in despotic Europe, of an
invading army traveling with thirty pt
thousand handcuffs as a part of its
equipments ? t
Richmond (Va.) Dispatch.
Af.~eting little Incid"et.n.-While
standing, a few days since, looking
at the debarking of that sIplendid
company, the Lafayette Light Infan
t try, preparatory to their march to the
militar.y camp, : stalwart soldietr pass
ed by,. and looking at two little chil
drc iear 'me, said to their father: C
" 'it ime kiss these children if you
Splease. I left two just like them at
Mhome. Lot me kiss these for them ;" '
:and a tear stole down his bronzed
- cheek, The little ones submitted to -
t his fond em,race, and all the by 1
standers felt that a soft part in their
hearts had been touched by the ten
der little scene. There was a noble
d aflectinate heart throbbing ben*eath
r the crimson vestur(e, alnd the sight
y of these little ones stirred up the
tenderest em,,tions of his patriotic
soul. I do- not know who he was,
but there and then 1 sent up a pray
er for his shftc return to the loved
ones loft ltiwind, An anny comp,1
sed of such soldiers must he victo
' rious.-lRdeiglh Spitirit of the Age.
Tc i,, il'a . N,,twithl tand
t ing all that has beeht said of the des
Structive character ,of the lowicknif',
we never conceive'l that it would be
_ actually used in a great hatti;.: and
I with such irresistable efli:ct. \Vlhol
d ever dreamed of a regiinent with
nothing but bowieknives, charging
another regiment armed with th,.
, ost guns and bayonets, and literally c
be cutting them to pieces? 'Yet such
was te e c.mse of the mndly won
d durful occurrencets of the wonderfult l
at battle of tlihe 21st. The effect of this
e. nove.operation is said to have betn
Lt remarkalle. The regiment thus .s
jassaulted, whi'vh had f'eught tn..ra'ly
denough with bullets, 1quaih d und.r
tlie oloeration of this dreadful weap
rion, mid shouted "murd,'r at the top of
their voices. The cold teel, espe
ocially in the shape of an Arkansas
un tooth-pick, is an anxiliary whlich
every '' Sutlhern sli ei r shounL cherish.
g [Irlhniind (Va.) Dispatch.
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n- FIAE AItTS.
i f'ISS. ILula Mackiewill take pllea
in sure in giving instructions on thei
za- Piano Forte, in Drawing, Painting of
various kinds, Embroidery, Wax
flower making, Leather-work &c.
ing Those wishing to take lessons in any
Sto of the branches mentioned, will please
re call' and see Miss. M. at the residence
an of Mr. 1I. W. Rhodes.
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