Named Entity Results, Maryland (Maryland, United States)

From our army in Maryland We are without any additional particulars from our forces in Maryland. It was stated by a soldier who came down on the train last night that a large amount of flour and other produce was captured by our troops on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, on Saturday last. The same authority also represents that some twelve hundred Yankee troops were captured at Poolesville, in Montgomery county, Md., the same day. A gentleman from the lower part of the Valley who Maryland. It was stated by a soldier who came down on the train last night that a large amount of flour and other produce was captured by our troops on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, on Saturday last. The same authority also represents that some twelve hundred Yankee troops were captured at Poolesville, in Montgomery county, Md., the same day. A gentleman from the lower part of the Valley who arrived in this city yesterday afternoon, states that the Yankees still occupied Harper's Ferry up to Monday last. On that day a portion of their cavalry scouted as far up as the neighborhood of Berryville, in Clarke county. He thinks the force at Harper's Ferry amounts to some six or seven thousand composed of the forces formerly at Winchester. Martinsburg, and Charlestown. In view of the fact that our forces reached Frederick on Sunday, this announcement seems a little singular; but it may

ent in camp at New Orleans. In Baltimore all the barrooms were closed on the announcement that the Confederates were in Maryland. A Provost Guard was instantly sent out, bringing in straggling soldiers and officers from the streets. The panic of tiverting their attention, make a movement by way of Leesburg or Harper's Ferry, force a crossing at these points, occupy Maryland, and excite the secession feeling there into riot and anarchy, break the line of the railroad from Washington to Baltimo another column of the rebel army will move down to a point lower on the Potomac, erect batteries, and either cross into Maryland or prevent our transports from coming up the river. To avoid these schemes I may state that we have on the Lower Potoma massed at Baltimore, as I am told, to be held as a reserve, for the purpose of resisting the capture or the invasion of Maryland, or the assault upon Washington. It is said, also, that there is a proposition to establish a large camp at Chambersbur

allant army, under a chieftain he believed, to become more Illustrious than Cæsar himself, was now pressing in the direction of the enemy's country. He thought it eminently proper that the confidence of Congress should be clearly expressed in the wisdom and prudence of the movement. Mr. Miles was not opposed to the spirit of the resolution, but objected to its phraseology. If modified he would cheerfully support it. Mr. Lyons, of Va, thought that our information from our army in Maryland was not such as to justify the adoption of the resolution. The vote was then taken upon the motion to refer, and it was adopted. Mr. Gartrell, of Ga., from the Judiciary Committee, asked permission of the House to allow that committee to sit for this day during the session of the House. The leave was granted. Mr. Kenner, from the Committee of Ways and Means, asked similar permission for that committee not only for this day, but during succeeding days of the present session of C