Richmond Dispatch by Cowardin & Hammersley . Vol. Xix — no.139 Richmond, Va. Wednesday, June 19, 1861 Richmond Dispatch by Cowardin & Hammersley .

Having been assigned by his Excellency the Governor of the State, and Advisory Council, to the command, for the present, of such volunteers from Maryland as may offer their services, the undersgned advisen immediate organization into companies of not less than fifty men, who will elect their own officers.

The certificates of election will be returned to the commanding officer, who will forthwith procure the proper commissions.

Each company will consist of one Captain, one First and one Second Lientenant , four Sergeants, four Corporale, and at leagt forty-two privates.

It is earnestly recommended to the Maryland men that they lose no time in perfecting their organization. Inheriting as we do the name of the old "Maryland Line," let us imitate their virtues, and let the Maryland Line of to-day,; as did the grand "Old Maryland Continentals" of 1776, set an example of loyalty, discipline and conrage to be emulated but not surpassed by our brothers of the South.

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PRESIDENT DAVIS TO THE MARVLAND COMMISSIONERS. --The subjoined admirable reply of President Davis to the Maryland Commissioners, is published in the Baltimore papers:

MONTHOMERT, 25 May, 1861.

Gentlemen — I receive with sincere pleasure the assurance that the State of Maryland sympathizes with the people of these States in their determined vindication of the right of self government, and that the people of Maryland "are culisted with their whole hearts on the side of reconciliation and peace."

The people of these Confederate States, not withstanding their separation from their late sister, have not ceased to feel a deep solicitude in her welfare, and to hope that, at no distant day, a State whose people, habits and institutions are so closely related and assimilated with theirs, will seek to unite her fate and fortunes with those of this Confederacy.

The Government of the Confederate States receive with respect the suggestion of the State of Maryland "that there should be a general cessation of hostilities now impending until the meeting of Congress in July next, in order that said body may, if possible, arrange for an adjustment of existing troubles, by means of negotiation rather than the sword," but is at a loss how to reply without a repetition of the language it has used on every possible occasion that has presented itself since the establishment of its independence.

In deference to the State of Maryland, however, I again assert, in the most emphaticterms, that its sincere and earnest desire is peace; that whilst the Government would readily entertain any proposition from the Government of the United States tending to a peaceful solution of the pending difficulties the recent attempts of this Government to enter into negotiations with that of the United States were attended with results which forbid any renewal of proposals from it to that Government.

If any further assurance of the desire of this Government for peace were necessary, it would be sufficient to observe that, being formed of a confederation of sovereign States, each acting and deciding for itself, the right of every other sovereign State to the same self-action and self-government is necessarily acknowledged. Hence conquests of other States are wholly inconsistent with the fundamental principles, and subversive of the very origination of this Government. Its policy cannot but be peace — peace with all nations and people. Very respectfully,

JEFF. DAVIS .

Messrs. McLaig , Yellott and Harding , Committee of Maryland Legislature.

MASSACHUSETTS VOLUNTEERS. --A Boston correspondent of a New York paper says:

"I tell you, Massachusetts will send men who 'will fight till from their bouns the flesh is hacked.' They will wade through blood and slaughter in support of the Stars and Stripes."

It was a Massachusetts General who led the Federal troops in the battle at Bethel Church. He waded "through blood and slaughter" to get out of the range of Southern bullets, and we opine that the valiant Butler of Massachusetts would have been equally precipitate in his retreat. The New York Day Book thus pungently answers the foregoing bit of braggadocia:

In the war of 1812, and in the Mexican war, Massachusetts boasted that she furnished no troops — said it was "unbecoming a Christian people" to do so. And when the soldiers who were raised and sent at the private expense of Caleb Cushing , came back from Mexico, they were hissed and rotten-egged in the streets of Boston, and hooted at as "butcheraf" The N. Y. Tribune at that time, called General Worth "one of Uncle Sam 's journeymen throat cutters!"

INTERESTING PAKAGRAPHS FROM NORTHERN PAPERS. --The Boston Post says:

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Missouri Gov. Jackson ‘s Proclamation in full.
To the people of Missouri.

A series of unprovoked and unparalleled outrages have been inflicted upon the peace and dignity of this Commonwealth, and a upon the rights and liberties of its people, by wicked and unprincipled men professing to act under the authority of the United States Government; the solemn enaciments of your Legislature have been nullified; your volunteer soldiers have been taken prisoners; your commerce with your sister States has been suspended; your trade with your own fellow-citizens has been, and is, subjected to the harassing control of an armed soldiery; peaceful citizens have been imprisoned without warrant of law: unoffending and defenseless men, women and children have been ruthlessly shot down and murdered; and other unbearable indignities have been heaped upon your State and yourselves.

To all these outrages and indignities you have submitted with a patriotic forbearance, which has only encouraged the perpetrators of these grievous wrongs to attempt still bolder and more daring usurpation.

It has been my earnest endeavor under all these embarrassing circumstances to maintain the peace of the State, and to avert, if possible, from our borders the desolating effects of a civil war. With that object in view, I authorized Major General Price several weeks ago to arrange with Gen. Harney , commanding the Federal forces in this State, the terms of an agreement by which the peace of the State might be preserved. They came, on the 21st of May, to an understanding, which was made public. The State authorities have faithfully labored to carry out the terms of that agreement. The Federal Government, on the other hand, not only manifested its strong disapprobation of it, by the instant dismissal of the distinguished officer, who, on its part, entered into it, but it at once began, and has unremittingly carried out, a system of hostile operations, in after contempt of that agreement, and in reckless disregard of its own plighted faith. These acts have latterly portended revolution and civil war, so unmistakably, that I resolved to make one further effort to avert these dangers from you. I therefore solicited an interview with Brigadier General Lyon , commanding the Federal army in Missouri. It was granted, and on the 10th inst., waiving all questions of personal and official dignity, I went to St. Louis, accompanied by Major General Price .

We had an interview on the 11th inst., with Gen. Lyon and Col. F. P. Blair, Jr., at which I submitted to them this proposition: That I would disband the State Guard, and break up its organization; that I would disarm all the companies which had been armed by the State; that I would pledge myself not to attempt to organize the militia under the Military Bill; that no arms or munitions of war should be brought into the State; that I would protect all citizens equally in all their rights, regardless of their political opinions; that I would repress all insurrectionary movements within the State; that I would repel all attempts to invade it, from whatever quarter, and by whomsoever made; and that I would thus maintain a strict neutrality in the present unhappy contest, and preserve the peace of the State. And I further proposed that I would, if necessary, invoke the assistance of the U. S. troops to carry out these pledges, All this I proposed to do upon condition that the Federal Government would undertake to disarm the Home Guards which it has illegally organized and armed throughout the State, and pledge itself not to occupy with its troops any localities in the State not occupied by them at this time.

Nothing but the most earnest desire to avert the horrors of civil war from our beloved State, could have tempted me to propose these humiliating terms. They were rejected by the Foderal officers.

They demanded not only the disorganization and disarming of the State militia, and the nullification of the Military Bill, but they refused to disarm their own Home Guards, and insisted that the Federal Government should enjoy an unrestricted right to move and station its troops throughout the State, whenever and wherever that might, in the opinion of its officers, be necessary, either for the protection of the “loyal subjects” of the Federal Government, or for the repelling of invasion, and they plainly announced that it was the intention of the Administration to take military occupation, under these pretexts, of the whole State, and to reduce it, as avowed by General Lyon himself, to the “exact condition of Maryland.”

The acceptance by me of these degrading terms would not only have sullied the honor of Missouri, but would have aroused the indignation of every brave citizen, and precipitated the very conflict which it has been my aim to prevent. We refused to accede to them, and the conference was broken up.

Fellow-citizens: All our efforts towards conciliation have failed. We can hope nothing from the justice or moderation of the agents of the Federal Government in this State.—They are energetically hastening the execution of their bloody and revolutionary schemes for the inauguration of a civil war in your midst; for the military occupation of your State by armed bands of lawless invaders, for the overthrow of your State Government; and for the subversion of those liberties which that Government has always sought to protect; and they intend to exert their whole power to subjugate you, if possible, to the military despotism which has usurped the powers of the Federal Government.

Now, therefore, I. C. F. Jackson , Governor of the State of Missouri, do, in view of the foregoing facts, and by virtue of the powers vested in me, by the Constitution and laws of this Common wealth, issue this, my proclamation, calling the Militia of the State, to the number of fifty thousand, into the active service of the State, for the purpose of repelling said invasion, and for the protection of the lives, liberty and property of the citizens of this State. for the protection of their endangered homes and firesides, and for the defense of their most sacred rights and dearest liberties:

In issuing this Proclamation, I hold it to be my solemn duty to remind you that Missouri is still one of the United States; that the Executive Department of the State Government does not arrogate to itself the power to disturb that relation; that that power has been wisely vested in a Convention which will, at the proper time, express your sovereign will; and that mean while it is your duty to obey all the constitutional requirements of the Federal Government. But it is equally my duty to advise you that your first allegiance is due to your own State; and that you are under no obligation whatever to obey the unconstitutional edicts of the military despotism which has enthroned itself at Washington, nor to submit to the infamous and degrading sway of its wicked minions in this State. No brave and true-hearted Missourian will obey the one or submit to the other. Rise, then, and drive out ignominiously the invaders who have dared to desecrate the soil which your labors have made fruitful, and which is consecrated by your homes:

Given under my hand, as Governor, and under the great seal of the State of Missouri, at Jefferson City, this twelfth day of June, 1861. CLAIBORNE F. JACKSON .

By the Governor: B. F. Massey , Secretary of State.

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