be welters then as now. Unquestionably, if we had seized and hold them, the insurgent cause would have been much weaker.
But no one of these had been committed any crime defined in the law. Every one of them, if arrested, would have been discharged on
habeas corpus were the writ allowed to operate.
In view of these and similar cases, I think the time not unlikely to come when I shall be blamed for having made too few arrests rather than too many.
The late Yankee raid on the Peninsula.
A letter from
Fortress Monroe to the Philadelphia
Inquirer gives a brief account of the late raid up the
Chickahominy.
The
Yankees marched as for as
Jamestown island.
The letter says:
‘
Embarking on gunboats
Smith Briggs,
Mt. Washington, Express, transport
Thomas A. Morgan, and accompanied by two Monitors, we disembarked on the upper shore of the
Chickahominy, and marched within few miles of Charles City Court-House, the nearest infantry has been to
Richmond since the evacuation of the
Peninsula in 1862, investing all the country in the vicinity of Providence Ferry and the
Court-house, driving in the enemy's pickets, capturing a number of the Tenth Virginia cavalry, securing large herds of fine cattle, horses, mules, saddles, bridles, buggies, wagons, guns, over five hundred dollars worth of tobacco, and destroying valuable tool-shops, forage and grain.
One amusing order issued by
Colonel Johnson--i. e., not to disturb the property of our enemies, but take from our friends, as they were expected to contribute of their means to our Government, and, strange enough, his orders were easily complied with.
We found
no enemies. After recrossing the
Chickahominy and
James rivers, we marched through many deserted farms containing vast fields of clover easily accessible to our Government for one fifth of its value and which should undoubtedly be mown and transported away or destroyed to prevent a supply to our enemies.
’
Miscellaneous.
On the 9th ult., there were 44,951 sick in the
United States.
A party of ten Confederates went down
York river on the night of the 16th inst., and landing proceeded to the Half-way
House, about three miles from Great Bethel, where they captured and carried off a sutler's goods and several horses — a daring feat, they having gone fifteen miles within the enemy's lines.
The
European immigration at the port of New York since January 1 numbers 55,427.
Gold was quoted in New York on the 17th at 45¾a45¾, and cotton at 58 cents.
The laborers on the New York Central Railroad have had a strike for higher wages, and had a riot at
Albany, N. Y., on the 17th.
Major-Gen. Hunter and a small army of
Colonel, &c., on his staff, have arrived in New York from
Hilton Head, S. C.
Judge George W. Wood has been nominated by the Democrats of
Pennsylvania for Governor.
Walter Lowrie was nominated for
Judge of the Supreme Court.
The Convention was held in
Harrisburg during the "raid excitement."
The rebel privateer
Tacony, or
Florida No. 2, was seen on the morning of the 14th just outside of the Capes of the
Delaware.
The Bank
Presidents of
Philadelphia offered a loan of $1,000,000 to
Gov. Curtin to expel the
Confederates from the
State.
One hundred and sixty
East Tennessee conscripts recruited from among the
Confederate prisoners at Camp Morton for the 5th Tennessee cavalry, left
Indianapolis on Saturday to join the regiment at
Lexington, Ky.
There is no truth in the report that
Admiral Farragut is to be relieved from the command of the Gulf Squadron.
A dispatch to the Cincinnati
Gazette says that
Gen. McClellan declined being a candidate before the
Pennsylvania Democratic State Convention for Governor.
Dispatches from
San Francisco say that hostilities between
Great Britain and
Japan are probable.
Thirteen English vessels of war were assembled at
Kanagawa.
They had demanded a large indemnity of the
Japanese Government and the surrender of the murderers of
Mr. Richardson.
The 21st and 24th New Jersey regiments have passed through
Washington on their way home to be mustered out.
Capt. Brunner is the name of the Confederate officer who was killed in
Mosby's raid into
Maryland.
In
Lowell, Mass., last week,
Major Gen. (Beast)
Butler was severely beaten by a master stonemason, whom he had slapped in the face.
The stonemason beat him until he apologized.
His eyes was backed and his face pretty severely cut up.
The negro women at
Newbern, N. C., are forming societies and raising funds to assist
Gen. Wild in organizing his
African army.
They have sent funds to
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, requesting her to devise and send them a battle flag.
Senator Cameron made a speech at
Harrisburg, Pa., on the 17th, calling for
Gen. McClellan to command the militia of the
State, and censuring
Lincoln for not more promptly aiding
Pennsylvania in her hour of danger.
Poor
Lincoln!
he would, no doubt, if he could.
