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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Sketch of the life of Ben McCullough. (search)
Prospect of a revolution in Maryland. --A special dispatch from Washington to the New York Herald says: The efforts of the rebels to gather Maryland into the Secession fold have not been abandoned. It was noticed some weeks ago that a considerable rebel force had been concentrated in the upper part of Accomac county, on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. It appears that there are about fifteen hundred or two thousand rebels there under arms. General Tilghman, of Talbot county, Maryland, who was deposed from his militia rank last spring by Governor Hicks, and subsequently restored by the State Legislature, is organizing the disunionists in the lower counties of Maryland. He is about to proceed to Accomac, take command of the Virginia forces there, and march them up into the middle of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, as the nucleus for the formation of a rebel army there, which shall, if it can do nothing else, control the elections in the fall so as to secure a disunion majori
s ordered to the North American station. We are preparing enormous reinforcements to protect British commerce against a blockade which is both illegal and inefficient. "There are only ten weeks consumption of cotton in the country. "Even if you should whip Gen. Beauregard, he has only to retire and await events. "There is no possibility of getting a loan here, so Mr. Chase must depend on what he can get at home.". Insubordination in the "Grand army." A letter from Washington, (August 16,) published in the Baltimore Exchange, says: There is nothing upon which the military authorities here spend so much care as the suppression of a knowledge of the true condition of the army on the other side of the Potomac. General McClellan's covenant with the Northern Abolition press has been entered into not so much for the purpose of concealing from the Confederates the movements of his forces as to prevent the Northern public from understanding the deplorable, a