to defend its laws, have deserted in the hour of need and turned their arms against their nursing mother; and appealed to all the scoundrels of the world to come and take service under the Rebel flag, against the commerce of the United States.

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 Lieutenant; Robert P. Wilson, Ensign. Company E-John L. Stetson, Captain; Ransom M. Pierce, First Lieutenant; Charles H. Bently, Ensign. Company F-John C. Gilmore, Captain; John A. Vance, First Lieutenant; Jos. Holbrook, Ensign. Company G-N. M. Curtis, Honor, Loyalty, Truth, stood aghast for a Captain; Simon C. Vedder, First Lieutenant; while, incredulously in the presence of this Wm. L. Best, Ensign. Company II—Warren enormous crime; but when Sumter fell the Gibson, Captain; A. M. Barnard, First Lieu- free people of this nation rose-yes! rose as no tenant; A. S. Tucker, Ensign. Company J-like uprising has been witnessed before-and Joel 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.

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 whoin 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 peaceful 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 everywhere, 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.

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, Quartermaster-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)

-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 Thirty-
Second:

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

Staff-Adjutant, J. Sparrow Purdie; Quartermaster, T. West; Chaplain, Rev. George Byer; 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 H. 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; Lieu-
tenant-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.

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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 Non-Commissioned Staff. - Sergeant-Major, the United States, in accordance with the sugJohn C. Smith; Quartermaster-Sergeant, Geo. gestion in his inaugural address, calling a conW. Wheeler; Commissary-Sergeant, James W. vention of all the States, to effect (if possible) a Becker; Right General Guide, John W. Flecker;settlement of our national difficulties, without Left General Guide, William II. Fry; Hospital Nurse, Wm. H. Plumly.

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. Hav

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 Lieu-ing two with me, I handed them both to him. tenant, 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 Ilagan; Second Lieutenant, Peter Hagan; Co. H-Captain, Garet Malloy, Jr.; First Lieutenant, Al-orders from Superintendent Kennedy to bring fred C. Hill; Second Lieutenant, William A. myself and the petitions to his office in Broome Harris; Co. I-Captain, William P. Tomlinson; street, against which I protested, both to them First Lieutenant, F. C. Young: Second Lieu- and said James B. Taylor, that I had been distenant, Wm. II. Dull; Co. K-Captain, Enoch honorably enticed into his office, and demandE. Lewis; First Lieutenant, P. J. Phillip; Sec-ing the return of my papers, requesting at the ond Lieutenant, same time to be allowed to go to my office to

-N Y. Herald. June 29.

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

the police law is to be enforced by you, except that which refers to the authority of the Commissioners and Chief of Police, and every officer and man, with the exception of those persons above named, will be continued in service by you, in the positions they now occupy, and with the advantages they now receive, unless one or more shall refuse to discharge their duties.

see my nephew, all of which was refused, and | tions were and are suspended. Every part of I was taken by them to the Superintendent's office, with the assurance that all necessary information with regard to my arrest, would be given by Mr. Kennedy at his office. Upon our arrival there, a person, apparently in authority, inquired of these men whether they had obtained those papers, and after looking over them and commenting upon the folly of those encouraging the idea of peace, and predicting the disgrace of all such as should be found advocating If any police officer declines to perform his such a course, he also, on my requesting him, duty, in order to avoid the anarchy which it was refused to return me the papers or inform me the purpose of the Commissioners to bring upon on what charge I had been arrested. He also the city, by incorrectly stating that it had been said if I would call in the evening, Mr. Kennedy by my act deprived of its police protection, would explain the matter to me. This I did not you will select, in conference with such of the conceive it my duty to do, as I do not under-public authorities as will aid you, good men stand why any American citizen should be re-and true to fill their places and discharge their strained of his liberty when no charge is preferred against him.

Now, Messrs. Editors, if this matter concerned myself alone, (being conscious of purity of motive, and yielding to no man in devotion to the interests of my country, whose laws I have always endeavored to obey,) I might pass it by without notice; but as it affects the rights and interests of all men who love their country, and would see its Government so administered as to protect the rights of all its citizens, and so fulfil its mission of Liberty, Justice, and Fraternity, I cannot refrain from giving it publicity, regretting that fellow-citizens, bound together by so many considerations, and all apparently seeking the prosperity of the Union, should be so devoid of charity, which is the only bond of Union. That our country may be safely brought through all its difficulties, and again enjoy the blessings of peace and prosperity, ought to be the fervent desire of all men; nor should those who seek so blessed a consummation be denounced as traitors, or arrested as criminals, without process of law.

FREDERICK A. GUION.

duties.

You will also take especial notice that no opinion, resolution, or other act of the late Board of Commissioners, can operate to limit the effective force of the Police law, or to discharge any officer engaged in its execution. If any provision of the law fails to be executed, it will be from the choice of the city, and if any officer, except such as are hereinafter named, leave the service, it will be upon his own decision.

You will cause these rules to be made known as the rule of your conduct.

I repeat my declaration and my purpose-no intervention with the laws or government of the city whatever is intended, except to prevent secret, violent, and treasonable combinations of disloyal men against the Government of the United States.

I am, Sir, very truly yours, &c.,
NATH. P. BANKS.

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VIRGINIA DELEGATES

TO THE SOUTHERN CONGRESS.

LIST of Delegates to represent the State in the Southern Congress, which meets at Richmond on the 21st July:

1. R. M. T. Hunter, of Essex.

2. John Tyler, of Charles City.

3. W. H. Macfarland, of Richmond City. 4. Roger A. Pryor, of Petersburg.

5. Thomas S. B. Cook, of Appomatox. 6. W. C. Rives, of Albemarle. 7. Robert E. Scott, of Fauquier. 8. James M. Mason, of Frederick. 9. John W. Brockenbaugh, of Brockenridge. 10. Charles W. Russell, of Wheeling. 11. Robert Johnson, of Harrison. 12. Walter Staples, of Montgomery. 13. Walter Preston, of Washington. State at Large-James A. Seddon, of Goochland; W. B. Preston, of Montgomery.

-Baltimore American, June 27.