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Doc. 5. letter from Gov. Thomas of Md. Ex-Governor Thomas, of Maryland, gives the following account of the attempt of the Maryland rebels upon his life: Cumberland, August 24, 1861. Dear sir: As an incident of to-day may be misrepresented, I will communicate to you the precise facts of the case. I left here this morning at half-past 6, for my home, in the railroad train. Ten miles from this place the cowcatcher of the engine ran against a pile of eight railroad ties, which had Maryland, gives the following account of the attempt of the Maryland rebels upon his life: Cumberland, August 24, 1861. Dear sir: As an incident of to-day may be misrepresented, I will communicate to you the precise facts of the case. I left here this morning at half-past 6, for my home, in the railroad train. Ten miles from this place the cowcatcher of the engine ran against a pile of eight railroad ties, which had been carefully placed across the track. Fortunately six of the ties were scattered right and left of the road, and the train continued to run for about five hundred yards, when it was stopped by the resistance to its progress produced by the two remaining ties, which were so situated that one end rested on the engine and the other ploughed along the road. As soon as the cars halted, the engineer and fireman leaped off, and soon removed the two ties, while the baggage-master was out to see what

thousand stand of arms. At any rate, whether the incident has any peculiar significance or not, let me say that the negroes worked well — never better — and they evidently enjoyed the business. And another lesson, as if to prove that this is no sectional war, no contest for subjugation: I see in the bow of the vessel, commanding his division — no fire more rapid than his — no aim more deadly — the stalwart form of a noble Kentuckian; and I know that elsewhere in the fleet, Virginia and Maryland are represented by their sons, bravely battling for the Union. Who are fighting for their home?--those who, under the banners of the usurpers, are disputing the authority of the best government the world ever saw, or those who are fighting for their homes as they were? A noticeable incident happened on the gun-deck. A sponger dropped his sponge overboard. Before the officer of the deck could utter a word of reproach, the man had jumped overboard, got back somehow mysteriously throu

nment of the Confederate States of America neither intends nor desires to disturb the neutrality of Kentucky. The assemblage of troops in Tennessee to which you refer, had no other object than to repel the lawless invasion of that State by the forces of the United States, should their Government seek to approach it through Kentucky, without respect for its position of neutrality. That such apprehensions were not groundless, has been proved by the course of that Government in the States of Maryland and Missouri, and more recently in Kentucky itself, in which, as you inform me, a military force has been enlisted and quartered by the United States authorities. The Government of the Confederate States has not only respected most scrupulously the neutrality of Kentucky, but has continued to maintain the friendly relations of trade and intercourse which it has suspended with the United States generally. In view of the history of the past, it can scarcely be necessary to assure your E

e space of half an hour. The whole woods around swarmed with them. They had no artillery and no cavalry. Our Rhode-Islanders, except the officers, deserted their guns; but Colonel Baker, Lieutenant-Colonel Wistar, Colonel Coggswell, and Adjutant Harvey manned the battery, and fired the guns themselves, aided by Company G, First California, led by the gallant Captain Beiral. (The latter was conspicuous for bravery throughout the action; is wounded, but not dangeiously, and is now safe on Maryland ground.) We kept up both a musketry and cannon fire as well as we could, but half the time we could not see the enemy, and his cowardly discharges were thinning our ranks; still most of the men stood firm and acted bravely. The enemy's volleys and yells increased in loudness, and it was evident that reinforcements were pouring in to his aid. Captain Stewart, General Stone's adjutant, came on the field with the cheering statement that General Gorman would shortly support us. At a quarter

giment of Cavalry; and Rogers' Richmond battery of six pieces and one thirty-two-pounder columbiad, commanded by Gen. Evans in person. Bolivar Heights was taken at half-past 1 P. M. I directed our troops to rest there until evening, when we fired a farewell shot into Hallstown, and as there was no longer any necessity to remain on that side of the Potomac, our errand having been crowned with the fullest success, I marched my command to the ferry, and in five hours it was safely landed in Maryland. There being no immediate apprehension of the enemy there, I ordered the Wisconsin companies to report to Colonel Ruger, their commander, in Frederick, and returned to this place with part of my regiment and the two guns of the New York battery, leaving Captain Tompkins' guns with Major Gould for a few days; also one company from my own regiment. Yours, &c., John W. Geary, Colonel Commanding Twenty-eighth Regiment P. V. Lieutenant Martin's report. Headquarters Twenty-Eighth re

D. Morgan, Governor of the State of New York: sir: I herewith transmit to you a complete report of an engagement with the rebels at a point on the Potomac River, in the State of Virginia, known as Ball's Bluff, in which the Tammany regiment from New York City were active participants. On the morning of the 21st ult. Col. Coggswell received orders from Brig.-Gen. Stone to hold the regiment in readiness to march on a moment's warning to a point two miles below Conrad's Ferry, in the State of Maryland. On arriving at the point, the whole regiment was transported in good order and without accident to Harrison's Island, about midway between the Maryland and Virginia shores, in the Potomac River. Here, in accordance with the orders of the General in command, the regiment commenced crossing to the Virginia shore to a steep acclivity, some fifty feet in height. The passage across was slow and tedious, owing to the inadequate means of transit provided, only about a single company being

I but repeat here what I have said to the people of Western Maryland, who, after hearing my sentiments, sent me to represen Abolitionist, but I care not. When I was charged in Western Maryland as being unsafe, as being an Abolitionist, I was the ples on which I placed myself have been sanctioned in Western Maryland, and even from my boyhood have I maintained them. Thon of these opinions, chose me as the Chief Magistrate of Maryland. Why it is that the Northern section of our country incred by Mr. Van Buren in 1832, when he received the vote of Maryland for Vice-President. It is the position of Henry Clay (trmendous applause) in his whole career — a favorite of old Maryland; of Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, through a long pee extension of slavery where it did not exist. Born in Maryland, a son of a slaveholder, living among slaveholders, servigistrate, or of any of his Cabinet, to lead any person in Maryland to believe that they purposed interfering with the instit