THE GREAT REBELLION: More Rumors About the Removal of Fremont; The Great Expedition Heard From; The Rebel Army Thirty Thousand Strong, at Neosho (11/3/1861)

There seems to be little doubt that, nearly a week ago, a special messenger left Washington with a letter to Gen. FREMONT, ordering him to transfer his command to Gen. HUNTER until a successor shall be specially designated. [We have good reason to believe that such a letter as the one spoken of by our correspondent has been prepared, but that it has or will be forwarded is not so certain. -- ED. TIMES.]

A Committee of the City Councils of Philadelphia waited on Major-Gen. MCCLELLAN, at his residence, this evening, and presented him with a magnificent sword. Gen. MCCLELLAN, in the course of his reply, said that he received the sword, not for what he had done, but for what he hoped to do; all that was necessary was patience and confidence, and victory would eventually be ours.

The steamer Powhatan arrived at the Navy-yard this morning, having run the blockade last night. She has been at Annapolis for some time past, and left there on Monday last. Since Tuesday she has been with the flotilla on the Lower Potomac, and last night started up and ran past the Confederate batteries in the darkness although the enemy evidently heard her, and lights were run out and signals made. The pilot of the Powhatan, who knows the river thoroughly, says that any vessels might have passed the Confederate batteries last night without incurring any risk.

The steamer Baltimore is used to convey stores from Old Point to the flotilla below the rebel batteries, and was at Wade's Bay last night, when the Powhatan came up.

Four sloops, a Jersey schooner, and a pungy, went down past the batteries yesterday, early in the afternoon.

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The Great Rebellion: More Rumors About the Removal of Fremont – 2-3
Important from Missouri: Price and McCulloch at Neosho with Thirty Thousand Men – 3
The Great Expedition: The Fleet off Cape Hatteras on Wednesday – 3
The Body of Col. Baker – 3
Editorial: The Resignation of Gen. Scott – 3-4
The Storm and the Fleet – 4
Has the Blow been Struck? – 4
Editorial: Habeas Corpus-The President and the Judges – 4-5
Editorial: The Blockade off Charleston – 5
Our Washington Correspondence – 5
Gens. Scott and McClellan – 5
The Sixtieth Regiment New-York Volunteers – 5
A Prize Arrived at Philadelphia – 5

"The Great Expedition: The Fleet off Cape Hatteras on Wednesday – 3"

The Battle of Port Royal, SC, begins "today", November 3.
Confederate forces under overall command of RE Lee are outnumbered about four-to-one.
They are, however, protected in two forts with 44 cannons.

Union forces under Admiral DuPont (yes, one of those DuPont's) are capably lead, with 77 ships:

"Editorial: Habeas Corpus-The President and the Judges – 4-5"

This is an astonishing piece, doubtless reflecting sincerely held beliefs at the time:

"The attempt to array the judicial power on the side of the Southern rebellion, is one of the indications of a system long pursued by DAVIS, FLOYD & Co., to secure the army, the navy and the Judiciary to support the coup d'etat of March 4, 1861, when Washington was intended to be seized by armed conspirators from Virginia and Maryland; President LINCOLN to be assassinated, DAVIS made President in his place, and BRECKINRIDGE to continue as Vice-President.
With the whole Government in the hands of his military aspirant, DAVIS resolved to become a Napoleon or Cesar, an American Imperator, under the name of President.
Gov. HICKS, of Maryland, Secretaries DIX and HOLT, Gen. BUTLER, DANIEL S. DICKINSON, and the great mass of the Jackson Democracy in the Free States, aided by many patriotic men in Maryland, Western Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri, took away from this American Cesar the American crown and the American throne when it seemed with his grasp.
God's Providence so ordered events that the coup d'etat failed, and the overthrow of this conspiracy and its armed hosts is as certain as any future event.
It is but a question of time.

The secession Judges have aided, as far as they could, the armed rebels.
First, McGRATH, United States District Judge, nullified acts of Congress against the African Slave-trade, with the conspirators resolved to reopen.
Next, to protect the Baltimore conspirators, Chief Justice TANNEY issued his habeas corpus to prevent martial punishment from falling on the murderers of the Massachusetts soldiers and the bridge-burners, in April last.
A Missouri Judge tried his hand for a like purpose4, and a New York County Judge sought to liberate persons guilty of martial treason, and liable to be tried by Court-martial and punished, if the President should so order, by virtue of his constitutional power as Commander-in-Chief.
[See Const. U.S., art.2, sec.2. See the Greytown case in New York....]"

So... Democrat judges conspiring to destroy the United States -- shocking!

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