everything looked decidedly warlike.
Prisoners at Washington.
W. D. Hatton, of Prince George's county, Maryland, who has been in jail for several days past, has been dismissed by Gen. Mansfield's order, he having voluntarily taken the oath of allegiance.
On Tuesday, Lieut. C. H. Shepperd Provost Marshal of Alexandria, sent to Washington four prisoners, who were committed to jail to await the orders of General Mansfield by Justice Donn. Two or them, Captain G. W. Fleming and S. S. Green, were arrested on the 8th June, and W. T. Walker and co McMill were arrested on the 16th inst.; in addition to being held as prisoners of are also charged with firing into the cars.
The compromise — the meeting of Congress
A Washington dispatch to the Philadelphia Inquirer says:
There is a sentiment pervading here among Northern visitors which tends strongly towards a compromise.
But all is vague.
Still it is the feeling, and one which, I believe from common rumor, Pres
, and J. J. Walker, Pickinsville, of the 5th Alabama, taken at Springfield, Thomas Hurston, Uniontown, 4th Alabama regiment, taken at Bull Run; M. M. Mallow, Alleghany county, Virginia, and J. T. Mays, Botetourt county, Radford Regiment, taken at Flint Hill; E. M. Haycock, Fairfax county, same regiment, taken at Vienna; A C. Landstreet, Fairfax county, and Geo H. Thomas, District of Columbia, taken at Falls-Church; David Porter, of District of Columbia, same regiment, taken in Georgetown; S. S. Green, Richmond, Governor's Guards, taken at Burk's Station; J. A. Reynolds, Slumtown, Va, 5th Va. Regiment; H. C. Ferrill, Charleston, S. C. Hampton Legion; R. O. Lewis, Anderson, S. C., and M. Bowman, Groenville, S. C., 4th South Carolina regiment; J. R. Paine, Floyd county, Ga.; Randolph Gray, Bibb county, F. Ward, Harris county, S. B Bulkley, Bibb county, Ga, 8th Georgia regiment; Lieut. Col. B. B. Boone, Tishimingo, 2d Mississippi regment; R. M. Walker, Tippah county, Miss. 2d Mississippi
Richmond, having been released on taking an oath not to bear arms against the States in rebellion, an equal number of the prisoners of war taken from those States, now continued in Washington and New York harbor, will be released on taking the prescribed oath of allegiance to the United States, or an oath not to engage in arms against the United States.
Of those confined in this city the 37 here named will be released as above.
Townsend Hobbs, W. Lafin, R. G. Alford, D. D. Fiquaet, S. S. Green, David Porter.
G. A. Thomas, Thos. Anderson, A. C. Ferrill, J. A. Winfield, J. R. Payne, W. James, A. Bomamdier, F. Ward, W. A. Wilson, C. Long, R. B. Boone, R. Walker, Wm. T. Thompson. W. Johnson, W. Burrows, J. N. McFall, Geo. Banker, J. Carlin, J. O'Brien. S. Garritt, L. Rielk, W. A. Barron, G. H. Gamling, J. Leadbetter, A. J. Smith, J. F. Grayson, R. Pinckney, W. J. N. Barton, Geo. Larrabee, J. T. Elliott, Geo. Miller.
Col. Loomis, commanding at Fort Columbus, will, in connection