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Probability of an Extra session of Congress
--Act of 1793 and Volunteers — Stirring Events Predicted.
"Independent," the most intelligent and reliable of the Washington correspondents of the Black Republican press, writes to the Philadelphia North American, that the opinion formerly expressed by him that an extra session would not be needed, was based wholly upon the belief that the present status of the country would not be materially disturbed, and the revenues would continue to be collected as now and heretofore.
If, however, under the temptation of the low duties nominally established by "the Confederate States," imports should seek the principal Southern ports, and make New Orleans the great depot of an extemporized foreign commerce, the condition of things would be radically changed, while the depletion of our legitimate revenue and the necessary derangement of finances, would render an extra session unavoidable.
If the Government should permit trade to take that cou