Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-05-01
Var Items,
From the teleqraphic dispatches to the
Cleveland and Pittsburg papers, We CLEAN
the following:
STATE OF AFFAI9sAT TuE SOUTH.

the following:
STATE OF AFsArRsAF 4HE SOUTH ,
Eew9or ] April ~
The Herald has a dispatch from a spe-
cial correspondent sent to Pensacola, who
was not allowed to reach there. He OBJ
tanned authentic information Of affairs
-~tbeFe,-andAto the-2Ist there had been no
action, and Gen. Bragg has intimated his
inability to reduce Fort Pickens.
His ARMY is said to be demorali2ing.-
He has also intimated that he will act
purely on the defensive.
EIGHT United States vessels were off
Pickens the 2lst. with their guns ready
for immediate aetion[ 1t is believed they.
would retake the Navy Yards and Forts
adjacent.
The correspondents passed through Mont.
gomery or the 22d -s-T
Davis was makiDg active preparation
to attack Washington. He saw troops en-
route for Richmond. They received arms
and equipments at Augusta.
Gen. Regain. of Teon., was at Mont
gomery, concluding arrangements for send
ing two thousand dcsperadoes. in citizens
dress, to Baltimore and WASHINGTON. to Sc
cretly operate in an attack near Washing
ton.
The Confederate States are in a state of
anarchy, and business is prostrated.-
Thinking people are less confident
The country is in a state'of mob law,
and the people are escaping. ly
% .aosioTr 'lH Chicago. April 25th. ;
- A gentleman has j~ustireturuqd to this
city from a business tour through Alaba-
maaud Mississippi, leaving Mobile Tues
day last reports that hundreds of men who.
had gone to Pensacola to take Fort Pick
ems, are returning home daily. disgusted
and satisfied that 1t is impossible for the
Confederate States to capture the Fort
A large number of troops at Pensacola are
sick and dying in hospitals from the effects
of fatigue and exposure and hunger. Our
informant reports that the people in Ala
bama and Mississippi are almost crazy
with excitement. that mob spirit is ram
pant everywhere, and is rendered daily
more desperate in some localities by threat
ened famine and starvation. 5 10
Rochester, April 2S. ,
A reliable gentleman just arrived here
from Montgomery on Tuesday last says
jeff Davis ordered troops to start on the
2Sth for Lynehburg, Va. Great disap-
pointment among the rebels in consequence
Of the reinforcement Of Pickens.
GEN. HARVEY X PRISONER.
A passenger says that Gen. Harvey was
taken prisoner at HaIper's Ferry by a de-
tacbment of Virginia troops this morning.
Gen. Harvey left Wheeling for the pur-
pose of reporting himself at Washington.
Before The. train left Harper,s Ferry it
stopped and a number of troops mount
ed the platform, and the General pointed
out; he was Immediately taken into custo-
.dy. He was in citizens dress and treated
very cautiously.
There is no doubt that as soon as the
Executive of Virginia Is made acquainted
with the fact. General II. will, be ~releas-
ed, as was the case with an officer of the
c. S. Army who was seized a few days
since in Richmond.
~ ,-s- New York, April %.
A special newspaper train will start to-
morrow and every Sunday morning for AL
bany over the Hudson road during the
Six slOopsl laden with ~gunpOwder were
seized on suspicion of its going South.
"a The steamer Nashville mas been taken
by the, authorities Of harlestOn bat it is
not known whether seized or purchased
The former L~ieutenantof the Harriet Lane
has been appointed to the command of the
Nashville, and intends using her to inter-
cept the California steamer. 1t is positive
ly stated that she has letters of mar1ue
from JEFF. Davis. E.
a. There is no blockade of Charleston
The city is quiet. Flour is sI5 per bar
rel - l1 -1 s1s 81.
Private eadTices from New Orleans eerti-
that an attempt 10 negotiate the Con-
federate loan syas -aEsignals failure. Only
sixteen hundred-tho dollars we're Ia
ken altogether i'rc@ 9 g -laa El.s Cd
Z Montgomery adyices state that only
$l2,000,O00is yet taken. sIiUf
The soldiers are unpaid; provisions are
plenty, but short of munitions of war.
-Four privateers from Mobile are already
authorized.
The Mobile papers stated that Col. Har-
Tey Brown commands Pickens and has one
thousand men.
1t appears the Captain General of Cuba
snubbed the Southern Commissioners when
there. lie did not recognize such a power
as the Confederate States Fl
Beauregard was in Charleston ON Tues
day. The war feeling was subsidins. and
it was Thought no more fighting would oc-
cur. Era fet1 - a ls
PROM wAsnINGroN. C -
NEW YORk, April 81.
A Washington dispatch, Wednesday, to
the Times, says a deputation of Yirginians
and Marylanders waited on the President
and demanded a cessation of hostilities un-
til-after the session of Congress. The Pre-
sideRt's answer was prompt, decided and
negative, One Of the deputation said 70
thousand Marylanders would contest the
passage of troops over her soil, to which
the President replied, he presumed there
was Tson enough on her soil to bur- 20
thousand. @-.l .r
{ The Pawnce was at Washington.
A Washington correspondent says DR..
Garnet, son-inlaw.of Gov. Wise, has sent
his wife and family to the North for safe
ty. .eg
A large number Of Virginians are in
this it, mhn hnrn hnnn Lr;r., 49, h