The Nevada journal., 1861-05-10
PONY NEWS.
FoRr CHURCHILL, May 18th. P. N.

FoRT CHURCHILL, May 7th. p. n.
The Pony Express has just arrived with dis
patches to the Union from St. Louis to the
night Of the 2sth.
sr. LOUIS, April 2Sth.
Gen. Scott said, April 26th, that Washington
was safe. There are l., ,0U0 troops now there,
and 5000 more expected....It is said there are
5000 troops at Richmond Virginia, ready for
serviee....A street battery has been erected at
Yorktown and another thirty miles abcve Rich
mond.... There were 1000 troops at Harpers
Ferry and $500 at Norfolk, April 26th...The
Baltimore Sun indicates that the conservative
feeling is gaining ground at Baltimore. .Teie-
graphic communication between Washington
and Baltimore is resumed and troops pass now
between Annapolis and Washington without
interruption. There are road guards all the
way. 1t reported at Harrisburg from April
10Th, that President Buchanan had disposed
of his farm, aud fled to Canada for fear of q
mob he had been threatened. Sherman
has Joined the volunteers as a private. People
were fleeing from Virginia into the free States
Gen. Beauregard at Fort Sumter last
week repairing damages, expecting an attack.
The troops which LETT Kentucky for the South
ern Confederacy, went against the wishes OF
the Governor. The Washington States Union
Il secession paper, has suspended publication,
the people having threatened to dcmolish the
office if it continued to advocate Southern
Confederacy g. Gov. Letcher OF Virginia, has
issued proclamation prohibiting the eIporta-
ton of flour TO Northern cities....Negrocs In
Maryland and Louisiana are rising and burn
ing the houses of their masters. There is great
apprehension among the Union men in North
Carolina. Senator Douglas made great Union
speech at Springfield, ILL.,, April 24th. He ad-
vocated active military operations to crush out
rebellion...A gentleman who left New Orleans
on Friday, April 26th. says the whole country
between Jackson, Tennessee, and New Orleans
are in arms, at every station along the road
companies were seen drilling, but appeared des-
titute of arms, and were using old muskets and
shot-guns. The telegraph lines were in the
hands of the secessionists, and nos permitted to
give any information to the movements of
the troops leaving secession States The South :
ern expectation was the news of the capture of
Washington. The informant was told that the
North should have no more news until the Trea-
sury at Washington was in the hands of the
Confederate troops. and President Lincoln and
Cabinet We're prisoners All troops except those
at Fort Pickens were being rapidly moved
North. Those originally destined for that for
trsss had been Withdrawn. 1t is not believed
at New Orleans that any attack on Fort Pick
ems will be made for weeks to come. A secret
meeting was held at Memphis on Saturday
night. 1t is believed the purpose to march
at once on Cairo, cut the levce and make at
tack. Twcnty-one thousand stand of arms
were taken from ST. Louis arsenal on the night
Of April 26th, and sent to Springfield Illinois.
gentleman who just returned from busi-
ness tour through Alabama and Mississippi,
Left Mobile Tuesday last, and reports that
hundreds of men who had gone to Pensacola to
take Fort Pckens, were returning home daily
disgusted, and satisfied that it was impossible
for the Confederate army to capture the fort.
Large numbers of troops at Pensacola were sick
and dying in the hospital, rom the effects of
fatigue. exposure and hunger. Our informant
reports the people of Alabama and Mississippi
almost crazy from excitemsnt. The mob spir-
it is rampant every where, and rendered daily
more desperate in some localities by threatened
! famine and starvation. -. Etfurts are being made
at Washington to have c. NJ. Clay and n. P.
Banks appointed Major Generals in tho U. S.
Army. Pr sident Lincoln has issued proela-
nation ordering the blockade of tho ports OF
| Virginia, North Carolina and other Southern
Statcs.-Democrqt Er.