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and otherwise, beg leave respectfully and earnestly to ask the support and coöperation of their fellow-citizens throughout the country, in the work thus confided to them.

MORTALITY OF TROOPS.

Its magnitude and importance are, unfortunately, self-evident. As a general rule, four soldiers die of diseases incident to camp life for one that falls in battle. Such is the average mortality among regular troops. Among volunteers it will be found much larger. We all remember the frightful history of the British campaign in the Crimea. If such was the suffering and loss of soldiers organized and supplied under an established system, with officers educated in their profession and gen erally qualified by experience to take care of their men, what is like to be the fate of an army hurriedly levied in communities that have enjoyed the profoundest peace for generations, and whose officers are mostly without practical knowledge of the dangers to which masses of men are exposed by fatigue, climate, unwholesome food, and other perils of camp life, and of the sanitary measures by which these dangers may be met and diminished?

IMPORTANCE OF SANITARY REGULATIONS.

Such sanitary measures, prudently devised and thoroughly executed, will do more to economize the lives of our soldiers, and thus save the nation men, money, and time, than could be effected by any improvement in the arms put into their hands.

For example, the difference between wellcooked digestible food and ill-cooked indigestible food consumed by a regiment during three | months of actual service in the field, is equivalent to a difference of at least forty per cent. of its available strength at the end of that period. The quality of the water it drinks is equally important. But no systematic provision has yet been made for supplying our newlylevied troops with either properly cooked food or properly purified water. They have already begun to sicken from the want of both. The men and apparatus required to supply these urgent wants will cost money, but our neglect to provide them will cost us tenfold more in the end. Common prudence, therefore, and mere selfish economy demand attention to the subject, even if we ignore the impulse of patriotism and the Christian duty of caring for the health and life of those we send into the field to defend our national existence.

SYSTEMATIC PRECAUTIONS,

Many other subjects, equally important, demand prompt action, and are to be included in the operations of this commission. The clothing supplied the volunteer regiments their tents, huts, and quarters, their hospitals, their supply of nurses, the purity of the medicines supplied them, the general sanitary regulations, (as to ventilation of tents and quarters, for in

stance, drainage of camp sites, the use of disinfectants, bathing, and personal cleanliness,) to be enforced as part of our military systemprecautions against diseases to be adopted in particular localities; these and many other points demand investigation and action with the least possible delay. If the commission shall be enabled fully to execute the work it contemplates, and hopes to accomplish, it will save at least twenty thousand out of every hundred thousand men raised for the war from perishing uselessly, ingloriously, and unnecessarily from mere want of the systematic precautions which ought to be provided (and which can be provided at a cost comparatively insignificant) against the perils of exposure and disease.

AGENTS.

Though the members of the commission gladly serve without fee or reward, they require the aid of their fellow-countrymen to enable them to execute what they have undertaken. Permanent salaried agents at Washington, and other great military centres, are indispensable. These must be men of high grade, possessing not only scientific education, but efficiency in business, and a talent for details. Funds will also be required for expenses of travelling, printing, and transportation, and for other purposes.

FUNDS NEEDED,

For these objects the undersigned appeal, with perfect confidence, to the liberality of their fellow-citizens. For obvious reasons they are reluctant to make application to Congress for an appropriation. It is proper to add that the commission was appointed by the War Department, on the suggestion of the medical bureau at Washington. It originated, in fact, from the manifest inability of the authorities heretofore intrusted with the sanitary charge of our little army to provide for its wants when suddenly increased to hundreds of thousands. An amount of work simply impracticable was thus thrown upon the medical bureau, and made the appointment of volunteer aid absolutely indispensable.

POWERS OF THE COMMISSION.

The commission has every reason to believe that it is honored with the full confidence of Government, and will receive its cordial coop eration and support. Rooms have been assigned it in the Treasury Building, Washington. It is vested with full authority by the surgeongeneral of the army to inspect and examine all posts, camps, and hospitals, and holds the order of the Secretary of War that all persons in the employ of Government, respect and further the inquiries and objects of the commission to the utmost of their ability. Mr. Frederick Law Olmsted, of New York, consents to serve as its resident secretary and general agent at Washington. Donations and subscriptions in aid of its object are earnestly solicited. They should be addressed to its treasurer, George T. Strong, 68 Wall Street, New York.

Office of Sanitary Commission, Treasury | campment at State Line, nine miles from here, Building, June 21, 1861. awaiting further orders. They have not yet reported to me. They hesitate about invading Maryland.

HENRY W. BELLOWS, President, New York.
Prof. A. D. BACHE, Vice-Pres., Washington.
ELISHA HARRIS, M. D., Cor. Secretary, N. Y.
GEO. W. CULLUM, U. S. A., Washington.
ALEXANDER E. SHIRAS, U. S. A., Washington.
ROBT. C. WOOD, M. D., U. S. A., Washington.
WM. H. VAN BUREN, M. D., New York.
WOLCOTT GIBBS, M. D., New York.
SAMUEL G. HOWE, M. D., Boston.
CORNELIUS R. AGNEW, M. D., New York.
J. S. NEWBERRY, M. D., Cleveland.
GEO. T. STRONG, New York.
FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED, New York.

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SKIRMISH AT PATTERSON'S CREEK. COL. WALLACE'S OFFICIAL REPORT.

To General McClellan :

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CUMBERLAND, June 27.

I HAVE been accustomed to sending, my mounted pickets, thirteen men in all, to different posts along the several approaches to Cumberland. Finding it next to impossible to get reliable information of the enemy yesterday, I united the thirteen, and directed them, if possible, to proceed to Frankfort, a town midway between this place and Romney, to see if there were rebel troops there. They went within a quarter of a mile of the place, and found it full of cavalry. Returning they overtook forty horsemen, and at once charged on them, routing and driving them back more than a mile, killing eight of them, and securing seventeen horses. Corporal Hayes, in command of my men, was desperately wounded with sabre cuts and bullets. Taking him back they halted about an hour, and were then attacked by the enemy, who were reënforced to about seventyThe attack was so sudden that they abandoned the horses and crossed to a small island at the mouth of Patterson's Creek. The charge of the rebels was bold and confident, yet twenty-three fell under the fire of my pickets, close about and on the island. My fellows were finally driven off, and, scattering each man for himself, they are all in camp now. One, Corporal Hayes, of Company A, was wounded, but is recovering. One, John C. Holdingbrook, of Company B, is dead. The last was taken prisoner, and brutally murdered. Three companies went to the ground this morning, and recovered every thing belonging to my picket, except a few of the horses. The enemy were engaged all night long in boxing up their dead. Two of their officers were killed. They laid out twenty-three on the porch of a neighboring farm house. I will bury my poor fellow to-morrow. I have positive information gained to-day that there are four regiments of rebels in and about Romney, under Col. McDonald. What their particular object is I cannot learn.

The two Pennsylvania regiments are in en

The report of the skirmish sounds like fiction, but it is not exaggerated. The fight was really one of the most desperate on record, and abounds with instances of wonderful daring and coolness.

LEWIS WALLACE.

Col. 11th Regiment, Indiana Volunteers.

G. B. McClellan, Major-General.

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FIRST MINNESOTA INFANTRY. THE following is a list of the officers: Colonel, Willis A. Gorman; Lieut.-Colonel, Stephen Miller; Major, William H. Dyke; Chaplain, E. D. Neill, D. D.; Surgeon, J. H. Stewart, M. D.; Adjutant, William B. Leach; Quartermaster and Commissary, Mark W. sistant-Surgeon, Charles La Boutiler; SergeantDownie; Commissary-Sergeant, Mahoney; AsMajor, E. H. Davis; Colonel's Aid, E. L. Sproat.

Company B-Captain, A. C. Bromley; First tenant, Mirror Thomas. Company C-Captain, Lieutenant, Mark W. Downie; Second LieuWilliam H. Acker; First Lieutenant, William B. Farrell; Second Lieutenant, Samuel Ragent. Company D-Captain, H. R. Putnam; First Lieutenant, George H. Woods; Second Lieutenant, De Witt C. Smith. Company I-Captain, John H. Fell; First Lieutenant, Joseph Harley; Second Lieutenant, Charles B. Halsey. Company F-Captain, Colwill; First Lieutenant, E. A. Welsh; Second Lieutenant, Anthony Hoyt. Company K-Captain, Henry C. Lester; First Lieutenant, Holsborn; Second Lientenant, Joseph Perriam. Company II-Captain, Charles P. Adams; First Lieutenant, O. T. Hays; Second Lieutenant, William B. Leach, Company E-Captain, G. M. Morgan; First Lieutenant, James Hollistein; Second LieutenMcKewan, (left at Fort Ridgeley:) First Lieuant, George Pomeroy. Company G-Captain, tenant, William H. Smith in command; Second Lieutenant, Charles Messick.

Baltimore (Md.) American, June 27.

SIXTEENTH REGIMENT N. Y. S. V. THE following is a list of the officers: Thomas A. Davies, Colonel; Samuel Marble, Lieutenant-Colonel; Buel Palmer, Major; Joseph Howland, Adjutant; Arthur Dewint, Quartermaster; Wm. B. Crandall, Surgeon; John H. Moore, Surgeon's Mate; Henry D. Townsend, Paymaster; Royal B. Stratton, Chaplain.

NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF.-Fred. C. Tapley, Sergeant-Major; C. F. Moore, QuartermasterSergeant; Howard B. Utter, Drum-Major; Chas. C. Fleming, Assistant-Adjutant.

Company A-David A. Nevins, Captain; | wrong specified on the part of the National Peter L. Van Ness, First Lieutenant; Chas. L. Government-have risen in rebellion against it, Jones, Ensign. Company B-Jas. M. Pomeroy, robbing its treasuries, and even its hospitals; Captain; Watson Hopkins, First Lieutenant; firing upon and treading under foot the flag of Geo. B. Eastman, Ensign. Company C-Frank | our country; menacing its Capital with armed Palmer, Captain; Royal Corbin, First Lieuten- hordes, led by the double-dyed traitors, who, ant; Pliny Moore, Ensign. Company D- educated at the cost of the nation, and sworn Geo. Parker, Captain; Albert M. Barney, First to defend its laws, have deserted in the hour of Lieutenant; Robert P. Wilson, Ensign. Com- need and turned their arms against their nurspany E-John L. Stetson, Captain; Ransom M. ing mother; and appealed to all the scoundrels Pierce, First Lieutenant; Charles H. Bently, of the world to come and take service under Ensign. Company F-John C. Gilmore, Cap- the Rebel flag, against the commerce of the tain; John A. Vance, First Lieutenant; Jos. United States. Holbrook, Ensign. Company G-N. M. Curtis, Captain; Simon C. Vedder, First Lieutenant; Wm. L. Best, Ensign. Company H-Warren Gibson, Captain; A. M. Barnard, First Lieutenant; A. S. Tucker, Ensign. Company JJoel J. Seaver, Captain; F. F. Weed, First Lieutenant; Milton E. Roberts, Ensign. Company K-Wm. W. Wood, Captain; John McFadden, First Lieutenant; Henry L. Carlton, Ensign.

-N. Y. Commercial, June 27.

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PRESIDENT KING'S ADDRESS

TO THE GRADUATING CLASS OF COLUMBIA COL-
LEGE, JUNE 26, 1861.

YOUNG GENTLEMEN:-I salute you as trained athletes, just entering upon the strifes of life. If we have at all succeeded with you in our efforts at education, you have learned how to use your faculties. It will now devolve upon you to make their use subservient to the highest aims and the largest good. So only shall you prove yourselves worthy of your alma mater -worthy of your glorious country.

Honor, Loyalty, Truth, stood aghast for a while, incredulously in the presence of this enormous crime; but when Sumter fell the free people of this nation rose-yes! rose as no like uprising has been witnessed before-and now who shall stay the avenging arm? Who, with traitor lips, shall talk of compromise, or with shaking knees clamor for peace? Compromise with what?-peace with whom?

It is no question of this or that system of policy-of free-trade or tariff, of slavery or anti-slavery--it is a question of existence. To be or not to be-it is all there. There is no such thing as half being and half not being. Either we are a nation, or a band of anarchical outlaws. A grand continental Anglo-Saxon Republic, such as our fathers made, one and indivisible, E Pluribus Unum, under a Constitution equal for all, and supreme over all-or an accidental assemblage of petty, jealous, barbarous, warring tribes, who acknowledge no law but the sword, and from among whom the sword will not depart.

My young friends, you enter upon life at the very moment this great question is under the issue of war. Shrink not back from it. We must be decided now and forever. The baleful Life is real-life is earnest, to all and at all doctrine of secession must be finally and absotimes; but at the particular juncture at which lutely renounced. The poor quibble of double it is your fortune to be called to act, it is more allegiance must be disavowed. An American than usually real and earnest-and it is this ex--and not a New Yorker, nor a Virginian-is ceptional condition of affairs that seems to demand from me at this time and on this, our most solemn academic exercises, a plain and frank expression of opinion, as to matters concerning which it is criminal not to have an opinion, and cowardly not to express it when fitting occasion offers.

You put on the garment of manhood, and assume its obligations in the midst of the most wanton, wicked, unprovoked, and unpardonable rebellion that has been witnessed in the annals of the human race. It has no parallel but in the rebellion of the fallen angels; and it has the same source-disappointed ambition and malignant hate. Against the most beneficial Government, the most equal laws, and a system carrying within itself a recognized and peacefil mode of adjusting every real or imaginary wrong or hardship, a portion of the people of the United States-the least civilized, the least educated, the least industrious, without a single

the noble title by which we are to live, and which you, my young friends, must, in your respective spheres, contribute to make live, however it may cost in blood and money.

Go forth, then, my young friends-go forth as citizens of the Great Continental American Republic-to which your first, your constant, your latest hopes in life should attach-and abating no jot of obedience to Municipal or State authority within the respective limits of each-bear yourselves always, and every where, as Americans-as fellow-countrymen of Adams, and Ellsworth, and Jay, and Jefferson, and Carroll, and Washington, and Pinckney-as heirs of the glories of Bunker Hill, and Saratoga, and Monmouth, and Yorktown, and Eutaw Springs, and New Orleans, and suffer no traitor hordes to despoil you of such rich inheritance or so grand and glorious a country.

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GENERAL BANKS' PROCLAMATION.
HEAD-QUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF ANNAPOLIS,
June 27, 1861.

By virtue of authority vested in me, and in obedience to orders, as Commanding General of the Military Department of Annapolis, I have arrested, and do now detain in custody Mr. George P. Kane, Chief of Police of the City of Baltimore. I deem it proper at this, the moment of arrest, to make formal and public declaration of the motive by which I have been governed in this proceeding. It is not my purpose, neither is it in consonance with my instructions, to interfere in any manner whatever with the legitimate government of the people of Baltimore or Maryland. I desire to support the public authorities in all appropriate duties; in preserving peace, protecting property and the rights of persons, in obeying and upholding every municipal regulation and public statute, consistent with the Constitution and laws of the United States and of Maryland. But unlawful combinations of men, organized for resistance to such laws, that provide hidden deposits of arms and ammunition, encourage contraband traffic with men at war with the Government, and while enjoying its protection and privileges, stealthily wait opportunity to combine their means and forces with those in rebellion against its authority, are not among the recognized or legal rights of any class of men, and cannot be permitted under any form of government whatever. Such combinations are well known to exist in this Department. The mass of citizens of Baltimore and of Maryland, loyal to the Constitution and the Union, are neither parties to, nor responsible for them. But the Chief of Police is not only believed to be cognizant of these facts, but, in contravention of his duty, and in violation of law, he is, by direction or indirection, both witness and protector to the transactions and the parties engaged therein. Under such circumstances the Government cannot regard him otherwise than as the head of an armed force, hostile to its authority and acting in concert with its avowed enemies.

For this reason superseding his official authority and that of the Commissioners of Police, I have arrested and do now detain him in custody of the United States; and in further pursuance of my instructions, I have appointed for the time being Colonel Kenly of the First Regiment of Maryland Volunteers, Provost Marshal, in and for the City of Baltimore, "to superintend and cause to be executed the Police laws, provided by the Legislature of Maryland," with the aid and assistance of the subordinate officers of the Police Department. And he will be respected accordingly. Whenever a loyal citizen shall be otherwise named for the performance of this duty, who will execute these laws impartially and in good faith to the Government of the United States, the military

force of this department will render to him that instant and willing obedience which is due from every good citizen to his Government. NATH. P. BANKS, Major-General Commanding Department of Annapolis

Doo. 49.

FIFTH REGT. OF MAINE VOLUNTEERS. regiment: THE following is a list of the officers of the

FIELD.-Colonel, Mark H. Dunnell of Portland; Lieutenant-Colonel, Edwin Ilsley, Lewiston; Major, Samuel.C. Hamilton, Lewiston.

COMMISSIONED STAFF.-Adjutant, Charles S. Whitman; Surgeon, E. G. Runston; Assistant-Surgeon, Francis G. Warren; Chaplain, Rev. John R. Adams; Quartermaster, John Merwin.

NON-COMMISSIONED STAFF.-QuartermasterSergeant, A. B. Tuthill; Commissary-Sergeant, Benjamin Freeman; Sergeant-Major, Frederick Speed; Hospital Steward, Wm. P. Noyes.

Captain; Wm. Merrill, Lieutenant; Henry R. LINE.-Co. A, from Gorham, Josiah Heald, Willett, Ensign. Co. B, Biddeford, E. L. Goodwin, Captain; Robt. Stevens, Lieutenant; Samuel F. Pilsbury, Ensign. Co. C, Saco, Isaac B. Noyes, Captain; Fred. D. Gurney, Lieutenant; David S. Barrows, Ensign. Co. D, Brunswick, Edward W. Thompson, Captain; George B. Kenningston, Lieutenant; Charles H. Small, Ensign. Co. E, Lewiston, E. W. Sawyer, Captain; L. L. Daggert, Lieutenant; Frank L. Lemont, Ensign. Co. F, Portland, George P. Sherwood, Captain; Nathan Walker, Lieutenant; G. E. Atwood, Ensign. Co. G, Portland, Henry G. Thomas, Captain; George W. Martin, Lieutenant; Thomas Sawyer, Ensign. Co. H, Portland, J. H. Gearmon, Captain; A. L. Dwyer, Lieutenant; L. Munson, Ensign. Co. I, Bethel, C. L. Edwards, Captain; J. B. Walker, Lieutenant; C. M. Wamwell, Ensign. Co. K, Mechanic Falls, Wm. A. Toble, Captain; H. T. Buckman, Lieutenant; B. Spillen, Ensign.

-N. Y. Tribune, June 23

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THIRTIETH REGIMENT N. Y. S. V. THE following is a list of the principal officers: Edward Frisbee, Colonel; Chas. E. Brintnall, Lieutenant-Colonel; Wm. H. Searing, Major; Richard C. Bentley, Adjutant; Charles E. Russ, Quartermaster; Bernard Galligan, Quartermas ter-Sergeant; Dr. Chapin, Surgeon; Dr. Skilton, Surgeon's Mate; Rev. Mr. Axtell, Chaplain.

Co. A (Lansingburg)-Captain, Samuel King; Co. B (Troy)-Captain, W. L. Laning; Co. C (Schenectady)-Captain, B. M. Van Voast; Co. D (Saratoga)—Captain, M. T. Bliven; Co. E. (Poughkeepsie)-Captain, H. Holliday; Co. F (Saratoga)-Captain, A. G. Perry; Co. G (Saratoga)-Captain, M. H. Chrysler; Co. H(Hoosick)

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-Captain, W. P. Tillman; Co. I (West Troy)— Captain, John M. Landon; Co. K (Valatia)Captain, B. Pruyn.

THIRTY-SECOND REGIMENT N. Y. S. V. THE following are the officers of the ThirtySecond:

Field.-Colonel, Roderick Matherson; Lieutenant-Colonel, Francis E. Pinto; Major, Geo.

F. Lemon.

Staff-Adjutant, J. Sparrow Purdie; Quartermaster, T. West; Chaplain, Rev. George Ryer; Surgeon, Wm. B. Little.

Line.-Captains: Jerome Rowe, Chas. Hubbles, Benj. J. Hayes, W. W. Chalmy, Elisha S. Youngs, Enas E. Fish, James H. Butler, Russell Myers, H. Howard Solomon, John Whitlock. Lieutenants: James II. Ticknor, Wm. E. Stone, W. J. Simmons, Wm. W. Lee, John Stewart, E. Sparrow Purdy, Joseph C. Hyatt, Samuel McKie, George H. Moore, Hiram W. Jackson. Ensigns: Wm. C. Wyckoff, J. P. Alucilus, John Persigne, William Atchison, Hewit Andrew Parkes, Anthony J. Altaire, Jos. T. Newell, J. W. Munterstock, Prentiss P. Hughes.

THE CALIFORNIA REGIMENT. THE following is a list of the officers: Field-Officers-Colonel, E. D. Baker; Lieutenant-Colonel, Isaac J. Wister; Major, Robert A. Parrish, Jr.; Adjutant, E. D. Baker, Jr.; Quartermaster, Francis G. Young; Surgeon, Alfred C. Baker; Assistant-Surgeon, Justin Dwinell.

Non-Commissioned Staff. - Sergeant-Major, John C. Smith; Quartermaster-Sergeant, Geo. W. Wheeler; Commissary-Sergeant, James W. Becker; Right General Guide, John W. Flecker; Left General Guide, William II. Fry; Hospital Nurse, Wm. H. Plumly.

Line Officers.-Co. A-First Lieutenant, John Markoe, commanding; Second Lieutenant, vacant; Co. B-Captain, James W. Lurgenfelter; First Lieutenant, John Benker, Jr.; Second Lieutenant, Henry W. Salkela; Co. C-Captain, Charles W. Smith; First Lieutenant, W. A. Todd; Second Lieutenant, W. H. Lewis; Co. D-Captain, George L. Rettmar; First Lieutenant, Sylvester E. Greth; Second Lieutenant, Joseph S. Williams; Co. E-Captain, Charles E. Wallen; First Lieutenant, Isaac J. Niel; Second Lieutenant, W. T. Simpson; Co. F-Captain, Charles Kochenberger; First Lieutenant, Richard Pear Smith; Second Lieutenant, Christian A. Schaffer; Co. G-Captain, Lewis Rierel; First Lieutenant, Thomas Hagan; Second Lieutenant, Peter Hagan; Co. H-Captain, Garet Malloy, Jr.; First Lieutenant, Alfred C. Hill; Second Lieutenant, William A. Harris; Co. I-Captain, William P. Tomlinson; First Lieutenant, F. C. Young; Second Lieutenant, Wm. H. Dull; Co. K-Captain, Enoch E. Lewis; First Lieutenant, P. J. Phillip; Second Lieutenant,

-N Y. Herald, June 29.

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THE COMPROMISE PETITION

AT NEW YORK, JUNE 28. To his Excellency Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States:

THE undersigned, citizens of New York, beg leave to present to you, most respectfully and earnestly, the following considerations:

While they hold themselves ready to sustain and defend their Government, and you as its legal head, they respectfully suggest that the only remaining honorable position for you to take to prevent the horrors of civil war and preserve the Union, is to adopt the policy of an immediate General Convention of all the States, as suggested in your Inaugural. This course would secure a peaceful solution of our national difficulties, and if any State refused to join said Convention to amend the Constitution, or adjust a PEACEABLE SEPARATION, it would stand unanimously condemned before the civilized world.

Earnestly deprecating civil war among brethren, we IMPLORE AND BESEECH you to adopt this course, which you may rest assured is the real VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.

GUION'S REMONSTRANCE.

MESSRS. EDITORS :-As an humble and peaceable citizen, desirous of preserving the Union in its integrity, and averting the horrors of civil war, and with the approval and encouragement of many of our best citizens, I deemed it my duty to circulate a petition to the President of the United States, in accordance with the suggestion in his inaugural address, calling a convention of all the States, to effect (if possible) a settlement of our national difficulties, without bloodshed. Many of our citizens, of acknowledged influence, had cheerfully affixed their names, and others were ready to do so. Being requested yesterday by Mr. James B. Taylor, of No. 48 Pine street, to call upon him at his of fice, as he particularly desired to see me, and concluding it was on business matter, I waited upon him, and was met by the inquiry, had I my petition with me? Replying in the affirmative, he said he would like to look at it. Having two with me, I handed them both to him. After looking at them, and asking a gentleman in his office to sign it, who declined, he handed them to two persons in his front office, strangers to myself, and immediately retired into his back office, closing the door after him. Upon requesting those persons to hand me the petitions, they refused to do so, stating, at the same time, that they were detectives of the police, and had orders from Superintendent Kennedy to bring myself and the petitions to his office in Broome street, against which I protested, both to them and said James B. Taylor, that I had been dishonorably enticed into his office, and demanding the return of my papers, requesting at the same time to be allowed to go to my office to

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