Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1861-05-14
Telegraphic Dispatches.


hort open session to-day.
The ordinance IT the Virginia State Conven-
ion, uniting the Old Dominion to the Confesier-
ate States of America, and the treaty concluded
by Commissioner Stephens and the Goinssion-
ers of the Virginia Convention, were presente
An ordinance was adopted ratfyiEg the &C i"p
of those ,mmissioners, aud lecognZing Viz
ginia as one of the Confederate States OF Amer
lea.
Hon. J. W. Brockenbrough and Hon. Waller
r. Staples, members EJECT from the Safe Of Vr
ginia, then advanced to the Clerks desk, and
having been sworn In took seats as members OF
the Congress.
The other Virginia Delegates were not pres
ent
Arkansas has seeded, and guns are being fred
IL token of rejoicing at tie adding Of the tenth
star to the constellation.
Tennessee has also finally seeded from the
Union.
NASHVILLE, May THE proceedings OF the
Tennessee Legislature have just been made pub
lie. An ordinance of secession and alliance with
the Conte crate States has been passed, subject
to the vote OF the people on the 9Th of June.
flfty I'VE thousand troops are called for, and
$2,OOo, OOO are appropriated Internationally, and
81, 100000 conditionally.
WAsHINGToN, May ga Louisiana regiment
arrived at Richmond On Monday. Fourteen
hundred Tennessee troops and battalion Of AL
ALBANIA troops had also reached Lynchburg.
AT Norfolk there are about 1000 troops, in
GLIDING two companies of Georgians. The au
thorilies were terrifying Norfolk in all directions,
Including Craney Island, erecting batteries and
lmpresslng persons to labor 10 their construction.
A tortification has been commenced at Hat
teras inlet, North Carolina
FRANKFORT, Ky, May 1.-THE Legislature oil
this State to-day adopted series of res ouiions
calling for the correspondence between Gov
Magotfin and the Confederate States authorities
also inquiriDg whether the Confederate States
had made any requisition on Kentucky for troops
and the Governors reply thereto.
NEW ORLEANS, May 6.-The blockade Of
Pensacola with several English ships inside the
harbor, it is expected will cause the immediate
Interference of England.
The largest portion of the officers on board the
o. s. ships off the Southern coast are known to
be warmly 10 favor of the Confederacy.
| LOUISVILLE, KY, May 7.-Reliable private dis
patches say that Arkansas yesterday passed a Sc
cession ordinance by vote of SO against /.
ANNAPOLIS, May lO.-About midnight on
Thursday a squad of some fifty mouIted insur
gents fired on the picket guard at Camp Butler
across the Severn. The guard returned the fire,
aud about twenty shots were exchanged
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, May "a
conference was held at Frankfort yester-
day between Governor Magofin, j. G,
Breckenridge and r. Halves, of one par
ty, and Ex-Senators Crittenden and Ma.
son and Judge Nicholas, of the other
They agreed to recommend to the Leg
islature to make an appropriation to arm
Kentucky under the direction of mill
tary Commission, composed of the Gov.
ernor, Inspector General, and another
person to be selected by the Unionists
1t is supposed that 100000 will be
required to arm the State.
ALEXANDRIA, May 13.-It is estimated thai
there are 81 900 troops now in Washington.
Desertions from the Federal army are numer
Gus.
Runaways from Virginia are arrested by the
U. S. Troops in Washington.
/ The U. 5. Postmaster General has made ar
rangeHents for the transmission of the mail be.
tween New York, Fort Pickens and Havana. by
Government steamers.
ANNAPOLIS, May IA messenger sent by
Gov. Hicks to Gov. Letcher has returned from
Richmond. He says that the Virginians ex
pected 10000 Confederate troops by Thursday
| last.
Gen. Butler, with 80 men and pieces of can
non, left this afternoon for some important Sc
cret service, going in the direction Of Baltimore
| ALEXANDRIA, May 13.-The steamer Pawnee
lying off Alexandria, to-day mounted two addi-
tiopal guns
The United States steamer Mount Vernon
stopped opposite to-day, and communicated with
the Pawnee.
ALEXANDRIA, May 13.--The Tory Convention
OF Northwestern Virginia met at Wheeling to-
day, for the purpose of concerning measures fol
division the State. 1t is rumored that over
thirty counties were represented. The proceed.
ings have not TRANSFERRED.