Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1861-05-24

llake crItlcal examination and see II any
batteries were erected or any troops near al
| hand.
lie has returned and reports that he
saw no cannon, and with the exception of A
small picket guard of twenty men opposite
Georgetwon, there was no soldiers to be
seen within radius of five miles of the
heights.
tits stated that Chief Engineer Hasweil,
from New York, who was lately arrested at
@ erry was released on the strength of Dispatch
every Virgnlan In the North that could be found would
! meet similar fate.
Tribune Despatch1
The President has accepted three Gne tugs offered nv
Mr. Sturges oil Chicago some weeks since. They will be-
detailed for service at Cairo. ~
Arrests for treason continue TO be made daily Tho
lines arc being drawn closely. A Young man Of
Newark New Jersey, just arrived from Charleston s. c.
says there is very little military activity there All the
troops had marched for Virginia. He witnessed the BON.
bardment of Sumter If any killed at Moutrie OF
the batteries they werr buried there and the was
known in Charleston He says he has Bcauregard
twice since the bombardment lie remained at Richmond
one day There all action. Troops continually ar.
irving and departing The cavalry are good men, but poor
horses seem to be very numerous and perfect confidence
as to the result of the conflict regns everywhere.
(Herald's Despatch.)
1t is useless to disguise the fact that leading members
Of the Diplomatic Corps in Washington engaged in
constant anxious discussion on the course It NAV bf
necessary for them at any day to adopt They have re-
Gently received urgent instructions from their respective
governments to inform them with the utmost precision
the chances OF the two sections in their deadly
quarrel 1t Is leaking out that the governments in ques
on declare that their commercial interests identified
in great degree with the South and they
to taking sides with either they will be compelled to look
carefully after cotton and free trade England is disposed
game Of urging France to take the chesnuts out OF the
hre The country not generally be that there
at this moment an agent of the French Emperor travel
ing in the South by the name Of Boroche He instructed
to say that he is simply collecting information for the
Commercial Bureau for the Minister of Public Works.
lis artice He political more than commercial
agent and his dispatches regularly forwarded to Paris
necessarily exercise great influence the mind the
Emperor 1t is beginning to ranspire that Mr. Russell
correspondent of the London Times is merely writing
letters to that journal but that private communications
for higher quarters contain good deal of interesting
ter which he does not think it altogether discreet to
print. TBosh.1
The President summoned the Cabinet Today in great
haste and they in session about hour Secretary
the White House and proceeded to the quarters
of General Butler and not finding the latter in despatch
cd one ofthe Generals aids in pursuit Of hm The inter
view lasted some time.
1t is evident from appearances that the government
intends dealing with Missouri in the it has
with Maryland As an evidence of this the government
has concludedto take charge 1.-THE Hannibal St. Joseph
r. r., and employ it for government purposes.
its programme ofacton the rebel States 1t has de-
erminedt to appoint Collectors for the different Southern
ports and is engaged in selecting men of energy to fuG
the experimentation conhded to them. The duties will
be collected board men Of war; whatever may be the
opinions here or elsewhere on the subject
will have regiment mustered into service Monday
next.
The President has commissioned Mr. Sickles to raise
division ofloOOO men, to report in 10 days Till then
he holds rank as Brgadier General and then Major
General.
st. Louis NAV 1s-The State Tobacco Warebopse was
visited yesterday by the United States authorities and
considerable quantity of arms taken therefrom.
The rifles taken yesterday from the Central Metropoli
tan Police Station belonged to Henry N Hart Colonel of
the Constitutional Guards and had been sent to the Po-
lice Station for safe keeping.
The city is envrOned by line of military poss
tending from the river below the Arsenal aroundt the
tern outskirts to the river again the North The OBJ
ec of these to prevent hostile troops and NUM-
tons owar from entering the city, to protect the public
peace andto give complete security to every peaceful cit
zen. The forces composing these encampments belong to
the regiments under the command of Colones Blair,
Boernstein and Sge
Twentyseven persons have died Of wounds received in
the Camp Jackson affair." and eight in the Walnut street
Boston May lsthA bill was introduced in the House
to-day which proposes to prohibit any person. directly
indirectly from buying holding any collateral securi
ties of the seeded States under penalty of imprson
mentin the State Prison. The bill referred to spe
cal committee on the Governors address.
Chicago, MAY lSth.-Senstor Douglas has been very i'll
with typhoid fever since he returned to this city
Fears are entertained by his friends that he win not
recover.
The Pensacola correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser
saws that 600 troops from Georgia and Alabama arrived
there the 18th ns being the advance guard of 1000
recently ordered to that point They will increase Gen
Bragg's command to about 10000 men.
Washington, May 1Sth.-The long bridge connecting
with the Virginia shore guarded by larger number
of effective troops than heretofore. An armed vessel was
in the vicinity These measures were precautionary in
view ofreporis Of design to inure the bridge by the
Secessonists
Cincinnati May ls-Kentucisy Currency is refused by
nearly all of our Brokers to-day.
Washington, May l7,-Major Mulligan's
Irish bigade has been accepted for the war.
The department daily receives bushels of
letters from applicants for places, military
and civil, most Of which ask for replies. 1t
is therefore proper to state that it is the in
flexible rule that letters relating to such
subjects, though read and filed, are not and
cannot be answered. tf
Philadelphia, May ls.-The steam Tug, Yam
kee, arrived to-day, having in tow three schoon-
ers loaded with Tobacco. They surrendered to
the Harriet Lane off cape Henry. The officer
in charge reports that the ship North Carolina,
in ballast from Havre, and another ship were
seized. Twenty vessels had been detained by
the feet, including five tobacco vessels.
Special to Commercial Advertiser:
Washington, May l6.-Mai, Gen. Butler will
60 to Annapolis tomorrow to consolidate the
Massachusetts troops into division, and then
to Fort Monroe. These troops will give him a
formidable command.
1t is probable that Gen. Mcclellan will enter
Western Virginia at the head or his troops ST.
multaneously with movement by Gen. Butler
on Norfolk. At the same time a column of
regulars will move from Washington, attacking
Virginia at three or four points.
Special to New York Post, says:
There is u spark of unionism in eastern Vir-
ginia. Chas. Repton publishes an address to
the people of Fairfax county, announcing him
self candidate for Congress in the 7th district
The National lntelligencer of this morning
construes Lord John Russell's recent speech in
Parliament as the recognition of the rights Of
the Southern Contederacy to issue letters of
marque, and bring prizes into British ports.
The Posts special says;
New York, May lS,-Negotations for the
purchase of the steamship Atlantic for $350,000
were Immediately broken off on the Secretary
of the Treasury ascertaining that it had been
offered 100000 less TO the Galloway line.
Vanderbilt has rendered his three steamers
at price to be fixed by the Government agent.
If that is declined, he will give the Government
the Vanderbilt.
Within fort t-night the Massachusetts troops
under Gen. Butler, viii have possession of Cos
port Navy Yard or destroy it.
Montgomery, Ala, May l7.-Congress passed
q number of bills to-day. One organizing a
Patent Office; one regulating telegraph lines;
and one authorizing an issue of $50000,000
bonds, payable in twenty years, bearing inter-
est not exceeding 8 per cent Or 10 lieu Of
bonds, an issueof $sO,6OO,OOO Treasury notes
in small sums without interest.
Sdringfeld, Mo, May ls,-At large Union
meeting to-day, addressed by Phelps, Oliver
Dode, recently Of Texas, and S. H. Boyd, reso-
lutions similar to those in Park county were
adopted. About 300 men well armed marched
into town. f Dttr-. e,.s.-,tf ..r5.,i
All are opposed to Secession as remedy for
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