Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1861-05-03
Ns1ys Of the Week.

The Herald has dispatch from specia
correspondent, who was sent to Pensacola
but was not allowed to reach there. He de
rived authentic information Of the condition
of affairs there, and to the 2lst there hat
been no action, and Gen. Bragg has inti,na
ted his inability to reduce Fort Pickcns Hi.
army is said to be demoralized. He has in
timated that he will act purely on the dcfen
sive. Eight United States vessels were of
Pensacola on the 2lst, with their guns ready
for immediate action. He believed they would
retake the navy yards and forts adjacent.
This correspondent passed through Mont
gomery on the 22d. Davis was making pre-
parations to attack Washington. He saw
troops en- route to Richmond. They received
arms and equipments at Augusta.
Gen. Renan, of Tennessee, was at Mont.
gomery concluding arrangements for sending
1000 despcradoes in citizens dress for Bal.
timore and Washington to secretly operate
in an attack on Washington. The Confeder,
ate States are in state of anarchy bust
ness is Frustrated; thinking people are less
confident; the country is in state Of mob
law, and the people escaping.
The most absurd thing yet proposed to the
Government was that made by Gov. Hicks
and Gov. Lctcher, that they would jointly
guarantee the safety of the Capitol. The
Government declined such protection, prob
ably very much to the disgust Of the twin
rebels of Virginia and Maryland.
A dispatch from Baltimore stating that the
Union feeling had revived in that city to-day
cannot be relied on. There is but one feel.
ing in Baltimore, viz: hostility to the Union.
There is no blockade Of Charleston. The
city is quiet. Flour is SIS per barrel.
Private aiyices from New Orleans certify
that the attempt to negotiate the Confederate
Loan has proved signal failure. Only six
teen hun lrcd thousand dollars have been
taken. Montgomery advices state that only
twelve millions are yet taken. The soldiers
are unpaid. They have plenty Of provisions
but are short Of munitions of war
Four privateers from Mobile are already
authorized by jeff. Davis.
The Mobile papers state that Col. Harvey
Brown commands Fort Pickens, and has 4
thousand men.
1t appears that the Captain General Of
Cuba has snubbed the Southern Commission
ers. He didn't recognize such power as
the Confederate States.
The President has issued the following
proclamation:
Whereas, for reasons assigned in my pro-
of the 18th instant, blockade OF
ports in the Seeding States was established.
And whereas, public property has been
seized, collection of revenue INSTRUCTED. and
duly commissioned officers while executing
orders have been arrested, held as prisoners
or impeded in their official duties with due
legal process by persons claiming to act un-
der the authorities Of Virginia and North
Carolina.
An efficient blockade of the ports Of these
States will also be established
Signed ABRAHAM LINcoLN
WASHINGTON, April 2S.-Capt. Stringham
will direct the general blockade movements.
Northern troops continue unobstructedly to
arrive, both by river and railroad.
The Alexandria Gazette say that Gen. Lee
has ordered the release of Gen. Harvey, who
was stopped at Harper's Ferry on his way to
Washington. and mentions the rumor that
jeff Davis is to come to Richmond this week
and that Vice President Stephens has return
ed to Montgomery.
A soldier who escaped from Charleston and
served at the guns during the fight at Moul-
trie, says nearly every shot from Sumter
killed somebody. Between 800 and 400
were killed in all and a large number woun-
ded. Those killed during the siege were in.
tered at night at Potter's Field. Many were
killed in dwellings outside the fort. Soldiers
were threatened with death if they disclosed
the facts about the killed People are now
constantly inquiring for friends and are as
sured they are at Sullvan's Island.
Another, who was at Morris Island, says
$50 were killed there and 40 at Sullivan's
Island. They make the same statement re-
lative to the dead being buried at night
They also state that the negroes only want
their leaders to give the word when the
will be terrible.
The National Intelligencer says both Hou-
ses Of the Maryland Legislature passed reso-
lutions offering the right of the Federal Gov
to march troops through Maryland
without hinderance to defend Washington.
A correspondent from the South represents
that North Carolina will 60 out Of the Union
by reclamation.
A special despatch to the Post says the
presence of Sherman's Battery at Elkton.
changed the community from se--
cession to- Union.
Troops are concentrating around Balti-
more. Troops are already in Western Vir-
ginia, and force of Federal troops will soon
be posted at Frederick.
Coy Hatcher has heor pnf;fod that ann