Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1861-05-03
ITEMS.
APRIL so.

April so.
Col. Sam Colt has been selling pistols
South 10Th discount He is now exactly
patriotic enough to stop selling South and be-
gin to sell North--to the latter pithout DIS.
count And this, too just after Uncle Sam
had renewed his patent A kicking Colt
Col Gustavus LOOMS Ia Vermonter) has
accepted the LIST regiment of Connecticut vol
unteers.
The Government has purchased 10000
straw hats for use in Southern cline.
Dr. Metcalf a Yankee, has been arrested
for treason in New Orleans. His offence was
that he had said d" Lincoln is a second Jack
son, and that if he was in Lincoln's place he
would lay Charleston in ashes"
New Jersey has completed her quota of
four regiments.
At Memphis. Tennessee, the secessionists
buried the L. s. flag by the side of the statue
Of Jackson. Lucky for them it was not beside
the bones of old Andrew, else the rogues
would have been shocked into better patriot
ism.
The colored men Of Philadelphia are drill
ing for defensive purposes
Moses Y Beach offers 100000 10 the
government. Pretty well for the editor Of
penny newspaper.
80 900 troops are in Washington or march
ing towards it, and is 900 more are ready for
transportation. Who said the Government
and the North were not energetici
The Traitors are cheating each other with
stories that Scott and Lincoln are about to
resign Whistling to keep their courage up.
The price of provisions is rising rapidly at
the South.
Government has approved the course Of
Mai Anderson at Fort Sumter
Poor picking fer Secessionists-Fort Pick
ems
GOOD The Naval Academy is to be re-
moved from Annapolis, Nd, to Newport, Il. l.
The best place for it.
The Maryland legislature refuses to pass
secession ordinance. SO the Potomac is
now the line between patriotism and treason.
It will never march North.
il is reported that Tennessee has seeded.
That won { be done without fuss.
Government has called for 40, 600 volun-
tccrs for thrcc years service 25 900 for five
years aud $4,000 seamen. This with the
proclamation for $4,000 men, makes total
of l5S 900.
Fort McHenry at Baltimore was reinforced
by United States troops on the 2sth.
The Government has notified Gov. Letcher
that il the southern troops advance one step
from Richmond, the United States will invade
Virginia from the West.
Indiana has completed her quota Of six re-
giments.
In Ohio, II 900 men have already volun-
teered to support government.
Nay l.-On the 9th, thirteen New York
Bank. contributed nearly halfs million ofdol-
lars for the defense Of the government.
A Washington correspondent Of the n. Y.
Eve Post says the policy of the government
is unalterably fixed "no peace crcTt upon
oe unconditional surrender Of Me rebels. No
recognition Of any pretended Southern ConJe-
deraey. No Peaee5le assent to a separation of
the States"
Losses Of The Rsbels.-Four hundred at Fort
Moulirie and one hundred and fifty on Morris
island So say soldiers who we're there.
Senator Mason IS under arrest, but is not
to be tried at present. So says a Phiadcl-
phia item of the 30th April.
Col Dimmiok OF Vermont, who commands
at Fort Monroe, has the entire confidence of
Gen. Scott lie Is the right man in the right
place.
Prot. Low says he ballooned i, from Cinein-
hau TO Columbia, s. c., in Sc hours-one
bundred and ten miles per hour.
Pery likely. The war spirit Of the North
ia very unpopular 10 South Carolina.
Tennessee. Senator Johnson aud Parson
Brownlow still stick for the Union as it is
or rather i0as before secession.
Mssouri-Still considered safe for the u
MON.
MssissiPpi.-A famine reported; many peo-
pie fleeing to escape starvation.
B1,oKwoop's RnfSRrne MAaAzrNE. New York.