Extract of a letter dated--
Baltimore,
Md.,Friday, June 7, 1861.
News crowds so upon me that I hardly know where to begin.
That there has been several skirmishes near
Alexandria, and resulting seriously to the
Lincoln forces, there is no doubt.
Car load after car load of dead bodies are
known to have passed through our city on their way
North.
We are surrounded by troops and all our rights taken from us; but we bide our time, and when it does come we will rise up in our might and take our position in the Southern Confederacy, where we belong.
There is great dissatisfaction in
Washington among the military on account of the fare. --We have squads of soldiers passing through our city every day on their way home, complaining bitterly of their treatment.
They say they were nearly starved on rotten pork and hard crackers.
The Garibaldi Guard, at
Washington, declare themselves cheated, and many return home disgusted with the Administration.
United States Marshal Bonnifant, appointed by Abe, has been to
Washington and obtained powers as ample as those with which
St. Paul journeyed to
Damascus.
He has seized all the guns of
Messrs. Merrill,
Thomas & Co, and ordered them to make no more arms; also taken several large lots of powder, and has power to arrest all suspicious persons and examine all suspicious houses.
Now, the true power of a U. S. Marshal is not much more than a sheriff, and you may know to what points that black-hearted scoundrel at
Washington is going.
A gentleman from
Washington informs us that he saw two of the steamers that were from the fight at
Aquia Creek, and he did not know ball could do such damage; they were completely torn up and riddled by balls.
Tell the people of
Virginia, and let it reach
Hon. Jefferson Davis, that
Maryland is South in every feeling and desire; that if Union men are in the ascendant, and Union men are elected, it is because they are supported by bayonets; they are elected by bayonets; and I sincerely hope they will be driven from among us at the point of the
Southern bayonets.
W.
