Litchfield enquirer., 1861-04-11
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SECESSION NEWS

all vessels in the harbor have received not,fica tion from Gen. Beauregard to keep out of the range of fire between Fort Sumter and Sullivan's Island; on which Fort Moultrie is situated. As further military necessity, house situated near one of the batteries erected against the fort, sup posed probably to interfere with its efficient work ing, had been blown up. The famous floating battery has also been brought into requisitioa, and was to be aoated down Monday evening, and stationed at some point near Fort Sumter, ready for action. The order cutting off further com munication between the fort and the city, was is- sued by Gen. Beauregard on Sunday. and Major Anderson has been officially notified in regard to it.. Acquisition has been made for five thousand additional troops, and companies were constantly arriving and being put in position. Meantime business in Charleston had been entirely suspen- dsd, and the most intense excitement prevailed
 From Washington We receive an intimation of the exact policy of the Administration relative to the garrison in Fort Sumter. It is not the iuten- ton of the government to reinforce it,-at least for the present ;-but simply to make the attempt to send supplies of provisions by means of an ur- armed vessel. If the CharIestonians to choose to fire upon her, they will thus render themselves responsible for all disasters which must necessa- rily follow.
 It is now definitely ascertained that twenty five hundred of the U. S. troops, whose destination has led to so much speculation, are to be concen- trated on the frontier of Texas The admins tration will await with great anxiety the news of the manner in which the Texans receive them,- Should resistance be made to their landing, the seccssionists will doubtless find Gov. Houston marching at the head of two or three thousand loyal people of Texas, who are about as much ex- with the secessionists as they are with the savages.
 Although most of t}c troops on board the new squadron are destined for Texas, proportion of them WEI doubtless remain on board the vessels and be stationed at Pensacola to be ready for any possible contingency.
 The War department has received the resigua- tion of Major Holmes of the Seventh infantry- Major Holmes is citizeu of Virginia, bu. has lately been in command of the forces ct Govern or's Island. No mtimation was given of his in tention to resign, until he received ordcra to join the expedition now On it's way to Texas
 Tie steamer Harriet Lane, on Sunday, hauled down the revenue flag and hoisted the Stars and Stripes, indicating that she has been transferred to the Navy Department. This was anticipated some weeks since, when her armament was in- creased. Her commander Capt. John Faunce, has frequently declared that he would fight under the American flag .s long as it continued to fly over one city or town of the United States. She sailed from her anchorage on Monday at 10 o'clock, destined, it is said for the South. Who knows?
 GEORGE NJ, SANDERS telegraphs from Mont gomery under date of the sth:
 President Davi, directs the movements of the troops at Pensacola by telegraph. A battery of eleven inch guns commands all the approaches to Fort Pickens. The moment an attempt is made to relieve the garrison destructive fire will be opened.
 The cabinet here have just concluded pro. tracted session. Jefferson Davis strongly urged an aggressive policy, and it was at length decided to instruct the commissioners at Washington to present their ultiuatum to President Lincoln, and if it should not be accepted to declare war.
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 A-I. c cut off as reported-only his supplies.
 Dispatches say that Lieut.. Talbot carries word to Maj. Anderson that he is to have supplies, and if the vessels fired upon, he is to open his bat t,rics and the government will sustain him at every hazard.
 The moment blow is struck, the President will summon Congress. These are the rumors.
 AMMUNITION ON THE WAY.-Six car loads of twenty-four pound cannon balls, five thousand balls in all, weighing sixty tons, left the U. S. arsenal at Watertown, Saturday afternoon, for New York.
 DEATH OF JUDGE McLEAH.-The Hon. John Mclean, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, died ct Cincinnati on the 4th inst
 He had long been in feeble health, and at the recent sitting of the Supreme Court at Washing ton was unable to actively cooperate with his associates in their important duties.
 Judge Mclean was born in Morris county, New Jersey, of humble and respectable parent age, his father being worthy emigrant from Ireland, and weaver by trade, which business he followed in his adopted state and also in Ken lucky. In 1799 he settled in theterritory north west of the Ohio river, which now forms Warren county. Ohio, and turned farmer. His son h. bored with him until he was eighteen years of age, when, having exhibited love of study, he was placed in the Clerks office of Hamilton county, in Cincinnati. With the salary of this position he was able to support himself while studying the law under the auspices of Arthur St. Clair, an eminent counsellor, and sen of the revolutionary general of that name-
 Tn 1907. before he was admitted to the bar. John Mclean married Miss Rehecca Edwards, daughter of Dr. Edwards, of South Carolina = In the fall of the same year, he being then twen- |ty-two years of age, he was admitted, and enter ed upon his professional career at Lebanon, Warren county, Ohio. In 1872 he was elected to represent the city of Cincinnati in Congress- He was reelected in 1914, and had not compile ted his term, when in 1916, having been unani- mously elected by the Ohio legislature to the su' preme Bench of that state, he resigned, and was fl