Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-06-01
Battle Going on at AcQula Creek
TWO MEN-oF-WAR SENT TO THAT
POINTI
New York 7lst Regiment Started at
Midnight for the Scene Of Aetioni
N1iscenaneous Matters.

have been placed under arrest for extending
their pickets without authority.
A post Office has been established at Fort
Pickens. Letters will be taken by Govern
ment vessels.
The Seventh Regiment leaves for New
York this afternoon.
Especial to the New York Post.l
WAsH1NGToS, May 3l.-~Preparations are
evidently making for q forward movement
Of Government troops. They are all under
orders, aud are ready to march at q moment 8
notice. The probable object is q sudden con-
centration upon the rebel forces in Virginia.
A party Of fifty rebels reached Baltimore
from Harperls Ferry, They are Baltimore
ans. General CadWallader has an eye on
them.
A report current in Baltimore that the tug
Yankee had been captured by the rebels Is
false. She il now at the Navy. yard.
The District Attorney of Maryland has
just had an interview with Attorney Gen.
erAl Bates, respecting the Cadwallader hdbeas
corpus case. The results is not knewn.
In Wheeling District the Union candidate
has thirteen thousand majority in Parkers-
burg District twenty thousand.
WARSAW, Mo-, May 31.-The Union men
of Pettis, Henry, Benten and Morgan Coun-
ties, numbering about seven hundred, organ
lied seven companies, near Cole Camp, in
this county, on Tuesday last, and threaten
death to every Secessionist in the Usage
Valley. They have cent an agent 10 Gen.
Harvey for arms. Great excitement exists
here, and had it not been for the peace ar
rangement between Generals Harvey and
Price, the military companies here would
have driven these men from the county at
whatever cost.
~LEAvENwoRrH, May 3l.-The troops from
the Texas frontier arrived at the fort to-day
in good health. They left nothing at the
posts vacated except forage. Lieutenant
Colonel Emery has resigned. ~
ST.. LOUIS, May 3l.-When the Mcdonald
hdbe0s corpus case came up in the United
States District Court, this morning, General
Harvey made return that Captain McDon-
aid had been removed. to Illinois, and was
now in the military command of General
Mcclellan; that he had never had the BODY
ofthe prisoner under his control, consequent
~ he was unable to produce him.
General Harvey further stated that by
orders from Washington, dated the 10th in
slant, but only received yesterday, he had
been removed from the command of this de-
partment. r.fv
1t is understood that General Lyon sue
ceeds Harvey. rt.. t t.
The Democrat denies that Colonel Blsir's
Regiment is ordered to Virginia. -
NEW York, May 31.-The TFi6uns's dis
patch says ali is quiet at Fort Monroe. One
hundred and fifty negroes were at the fort,
and the number was Increasing.
The Star says nine rebels were killed at
SewalPs Point in the recent conflict. Also,
that the rebels had stopped work on the
entertainments at Manassas.
Fifteen thousand soldiers were concen-
trated in Western Virginia. -Four compa.
mes of District militia have crossed into
Virginia with six days' rations. ~
WASHINGTON, May Silt is stated that a
number of vessels were fitting here for some
destination not made public.
The following dispatch received at the
Navy-yard, between four and five o'clock
this afternoon, affords an explanation:
"Tbe Keystone STATE at noon reports that
in passing Acquia Greek, the FREEDOM and
Andeostd were engaging the battery at
Acquia Creek with success. Shall 1 send
the Pocdhontas with her ten-inch gun to
assist.
Commander at the Nsvy-yard.
Immediately. on receipt of the dispatch,
the Navy Department ordered two memo of
war down to support Captain Ward.
LOUISVILLE, May 3l.-The Augusta (Ga)
Chronicle of the 29th inst. says that Beaure-
gard issued orders ct Charleston yesterday,
r~elinquishing the command of the forces
around Charleston to Colonel R. H. Ander-
son relieving D. R. Jones, who accompanies
B~eauregard to Corinth, Miss. !
T. r. Raoult left Charleston on Monday,
bearer of dispatches to M. Thouvenal.
CHICAGO, May 3l-s3O P. NJ Senator
Douglas is still gradually sinking. His
physicians entertain no hopeso of his recovery.
WASHINGTON, May b. James Watson
Webb has been appointed Envoy Extraor-
binary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
Brazil. f
The revenue laws require vessels entering
a port with informal papers, to be seized,
but inAsmuch as those coming from the
South where the Oastom-houses are in pos
session of insurrectionary parties, they can
obtain the proper ~clearances, the Secretary
of the Treasury, with a view Of remedying
the embarrassment and trouble under these
circumstances, has decided that in all cases
where it appears that there was no fault on
the part Of the Commanders, the latter shall
not be compelled 10 go into Court, but on a
correct representation Of the Collectors
where the vessels arrive, the fines and fees
which the law imposes shall be RENTED.
Post routes and Postofices managed by
loyal citizens, and in loyal districts In Vir-
ginia, are not 70 be deprived of the mail
service under the recent order Of the Post
Office Department. If they should be tenn.
porariiy suspended by the general order
they will be restored upon due advice of the
facts. AT Alexandria a new Collector hav-
ing been appointed, the port has been re.
opened to the commerce Of the country aud
therefore, vessels viii be admitted As here
tofore.
LOUISVILLE, May 3I.-MobiIe papers saJ
that an agent Of the French Government i
there collecting facts for Napoleon.
LOUISVILLE, Nay 3L-The Louisville anG
Nashville llailEOad is again obliged to refusI
all freight till next week, on account Of thu
impossibility 70 obtain q sufficient nRnbeI
Of cars TO take It Southwark. Z
ParaQuet Camp will soon be removed Il
MuldIough's Hill, forty-fiVe miles south o
/ here, on the line OF the Nashville Railroad
Ii is understood that several cempanie
are organized in Louisville, and viii form
part Of Colonel Anderson's brigade.
The Frankfort Convention Committee |
not yet ready to report M
WAsHMaroH, May 3l.-SeVeral vessel
went 10 Fort Monroe to-day, carrying on
hundred thousand cartridges, &c.
Half of the bonds awarded on Saturday ar
being prepared, and will be Issued imme'
Several vessels which have been imProp
erly captured have bean released.
A lady reached here this evening from
Manassas Junction, and reports troops con
eentrating rapidly there, occupying perma,
nent p~ositionsthis side and are expecting An
immediate attack.
General Scott received q telegram lasI
night that troops were advancing on the
Virginia side, which caused the preparations
Yesterday. II was afterwaTd eOntradieted,
Several regiments have occupied the nights
two miles beyond Arlington Their pioket1
extend six and q half miles from Washiag-
ton. A portion Of this force has been or
dered 10 advance on Fairfax Court house
and, II possible, occupy that place before day,
1 break. faa rttlGla 8fcIIu n.a 1.oll N
An engagement Ia expected There az.
fourteen hundred SeceSsionists stationed
] there.