Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-04-20
RESIGNATION OF COL. HUGER +.
sp.el al Dispatch to the Cincinnati e..ss..

tary encampment. From sunrise to midnight the
tap of the drum and blast of the bugle are heard
| every street. and resouhd from the most public
place. Soldiers are met everywhere. They are
| being sworn in by hundreds. IL is estimated that
twenty-five hundred volunteers from Washington
! city alone are mustered into service Aside from
this, two regiments of militia from the District have
rendered their services. These military give
the city unparalleled degree of activity.
! The Government has established Military De-
partment, known as the Department of Washington
and commanded by Col. C. F. Smith, Their head
quarters are G. street. near the War Department.
VISITED the new DepaI tment to-day, and found
the commanding officer and captains, leuteRants
and sergeants all very busy preparing for the de-
! tense of the city
Capt. Talbot, who is now Assistant Adjutant Gen
eral, is attached to this department, and is of
its most efficient officers. 1t will be recollected that
Talbot was Major Andersonis First Lieutenant at
Sumter
The defenses of this city are to be effective and
vigorous. Batteries will probably be placed on
all the bluffs surrounding the city, while volunteers
! will remain on active duty as now.
"A company of artillerists sent from the city
down to Fort Washington yeterday. which has been
partially garisoned for the last three months.
This fort is ten miles below the city, and COM
mands q narrow portion of the river.
There are now FIVE hundred regular troops in the
city, including four batteries of artillery. Two of
these are stationed at the lower end of the city,
| where the arsenal is located. Another-Magru-
der's bsttery-whch did effective service in the
Mexican war, is located right at the long bridge,
connecting the city with the Virginia shore. In
the day This battery isstatoned at the City Hall
! Square. Georgetown Heights are to be immedia te-
y fortified to prevent their falling into the hands of
the SeccssOnists who would in that event speedily
| reduce Washington to ashes.
The frat arrival of volunteers will probably take
| place tomorrow night
Massachusetts, was the first State to respond To
! the call for volunteers.
| suftciency of the seventy-fve thousand men
called out by the Presidents proclamation will be
quartered here 1t Is understood that those reldez
vousng at Harrisburg will hasten to this CITY, The
artillery have taken possession of the heights and
roads leading to the city, Some twenty five carts
| laden with cartridges, grape shot, iron Jars and
other missiles passed up Pennsylvania Avenue to-
day to be placed where needed by the cannoniers.
The Secretary of War has organized the Federal
army into three divisions the first to guard the
Federal Capitol the second to move along the coast
to the Southwark, and the third TO form in the West
| and pass down the Mississippi river
Major Irwin Mcdowell of Ohio who served gal
lantly at Buena VISTA as aid to Gen. Wool is daily
on duty in full uniform, to receive and muster in
the additional District volunteers who report for
duty.
We have numerous threatening reports from the
South ntmating that Fort Pickens will soon be at
tackled. Gen Beauregard having arrived at Pensa-
cola, we are prepared to hear news of a conflict at
any moment.
The States newspaper here with secession pro-
clivities is threatened with mobbing
meeting. composed of Western men, was held
here last night, for the defence of the Capital.
Over 10000 volunteers have already been ten
dered to the Government, being 100000 more than
was called for. 1t Is the intention to receive all
that offered
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial
WASHINGTON, April T-Important dispatches are |
constantly arriving from the North with offers of
men and money without limit.
The enthusiasm of the Union men increases mo- |
mentarily.
Great agitation is produced by rumors of contem-
plated raids upon Harper's Ferry Arsenal Fort |
Monroe and this city, by Virginia State forces re-
quiring confirmation; these garrisons are being
greatly strengthed.
SecessienistsIare leaving town rapidly. under ap-
prehension of martial Law being enforced.
Large numbers here could not undergo close
scrutiny.
A. D. Banks, late of the Enquirer, goes TO Rich
mord tonight thence to Montgomery.
The President is determined to prosecute the pre-
parations for sustaining and maintaining the Gov
eminent with the utmost vigor
Troops should rendezvous with great CELEBRITY if |
an attempt is made on the Capital as unprecedented.
1t will be very soon. No time to lose.
Southern ports will be all bIockaded
IT, as reported, the passage of Northern troops
through Baltimore, for defence of the Capital is
opposed, fighting will probably commence in that
populous city.
Special Dispatch to the Cine matt ENQUIRER
WASHINGTON, April 17.-Col. Huger, stationed at
Picksvilie Arsenal, Baltimore, and one of the
United States Ordnance Corps, has resigned his com
mission in the army. |
Not less than p 900 troops will be here as soon as
they can be mustered into service All this number
VIII be required, and twice the number. with the {
detection in Maryland, should Virginia secede
The disposition of the Pennsylvania troops will de-
pend on the course of Virginia. The order for !
troops will be doubled if Virginia goes out of the
Union.
T1,ar vooIN, |
umbla postpones the declaration of martial law, L
which the President was ready for yesterday.
Gen Scott is in constant consultation at the War
Department.
have been informed that dispatch has been
received from Richmond, stating that a body of
twenty five hundred men will leave this evening.
for the purpose of Selling Harpers' Ferry Anoti- |
er rumer is, that the troops to be dispatched from
Richmond are intended for this city. The excite
nent in the city is very great. {
Preparations for war meet one on every hand r
Every day, from nine till three constant success
ZION OF arrivals of military companies is kept up at
he War Department.
The guards on different roads have been doubled
o-day. 1
Twenty tons of grape-shot were removed from o
he Maynard to Georgetown to-day, in view of a n
possible attack upon the city from that quarter d.
Magruders Battery is posted at the Long Bridge ii
which 1t commands outposts of dragons are sta
Toned at the Chain Bridge and at the Bladensburg
olgate; two companies of infantry are at the
White House patrols are moving about the streets F.
nd guardbOa are on the river. Any movement is
enoting the approach of a hostile party will be
romptly communicated to headquarters and sig hs
ais have been agreed upon for having the whole 81
arisen under arms at short notice. lie
Some tour hundred troops expected to arrive m
ere tomorrow from Pennsylvania
Trouble is feared in Baltimore, for notwithstaud-
e the proclamation of Governor Hicks, which will
issued to morrow morning. there Is strong body sp
Secessonists there or rather men who are deter III
lined that the North shall not use coercive meas
res toward the South.
We have not heard any thing positive from Vir-
MA but learn that the Administration are salts oy
I'd that that State will secede and preparing for
e emergency. The largest body OF troops will be
here and at Baltimore, and distributed
ong the western peninsula of Maryland to prevent
~ landing of Confederate troops from Virginia m
The next startling from the South will be an
intelligence of attack upon Fort Pickins The m
ADMINISTRATION is satisfied that the works have been On
infor- ed. Lieutenant Semmer has been superse-
d. There Is a lack of confidence in his loyalty c.
1t is understood that Gen. Scott desired TO assem-
e the armies of reserve, into which the greater
rtion of the volunteers would be incorporated. fol
of these to be at Carlisle Penn another at
iro. Ill. The volunteers thus assembled were to
habituated to camp life and ready for any emer-
ncy. s
delegation of Kentuckians, two of which oo1
rYed in the Mexican war, waited on Secretary sar
meron to-day and rendered two regiments, not he,
e UoYernor refusal W call OUT the for
litia. Secretary Cameron said he would accept nm
en-. a;Ft;
Captain Talbot just from Sumter has plans near rev
perfected for the distribution of fifty thousand boil
unteers base line from Fort Monroe to Har- vii
rs Ferry. an
Commodore Paulding and Commodore Jenkins left
5 city tonight for New York. Their long and
innate acquaintance with the Atlantic coast and
defences lead to the surmse that they have been n
allied on some special duty connected Herewith S2I
ne massachusetts regiment Is to be ordered to in
It Monroe and the Rhode Island and Connecticut the
iments TO harpers Ferry. l have this on the Mol
0p ne