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Washington city Finances.
--The following interesting fact is communicated to the Baltimore Sun, of the 2d inst., by its Washington correspondent:
Mayor Berret extended the time for the reception of bids for the $5,000 loan, in aid of the families of our District volunteers, until three o'clock this afternoon, but the only proposal received was one for $25. Six per cent. was, unquestionably, too low a figure at this time.
The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], [communicated] (search)
To be carried back.
--The Captains and crews of the steamer St. Nicholas; brig Monticello, from Brazil, bound to Baltimore, with 3,500 bags of coffee; schooner Mary Pierce, from Boston, bound to Washington City, with 260 tons of ice; schooner Margaret, from Alexandria, bound to Staten Island, with 270 tons of coal.
The three last-named having been captured on Saturday, the 29th inst. after the steamer had been taken by a detachment of the Confederate army, under Colonel Thomas, and Capt. Hollins, C. S. N., having been brought to Richmond were carried before the proper authorities at the City Hall, at two o'clock yesterday, for examination.
The evidence being adduced to show that they were combatants, found with arms in their hands resisting the legal authority of the Government, an order was entered that they be transported hence this morning to Aquia Creek, and be conveyed across the Potomac into Maryland and released.
No doubt the personal effects of the parties will be del
The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], The British National debt. (search)
Late from Baltimore.
We have had an interview with a gentleman who is a resident of our city, and who left Baltimore on Tuesday morning. He gives a very painful account of the condition of affairs in that city, where the crisis seems to be drawing to its culmination.
Ten thousand Federal troops had passed through Baltimore between Friday and Monday last, and it was believed there that there were over 50,000 men in Washington city.
The Confederate flag was flying in the Lighth Ward, and swivels had been placed in the windows of the houses in that Ward, the occupants swearing that they would defend it to the last gasp.
Cannon had been planted in the principal streets and squares.
A battery of brass field-pieces stands in Monument Square, in front of the residence of the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, and another one in Exchange Place, both being unlimbered, and ready for action.
The city is full of Federal troops, and the population exasperated by these tyrannical and despotic mea