The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1861-06-29
The War News.

The War News.
The war news for the past week presents
no striking features. The fears entertained
. week ago Of an immediate attack upon
Washington have 5,own over, as we'll rs
the positive As ,everst;ons Of the telegraph
correspondent, that Gen. Scott was on the
eve of forward movement into Virginia
Yesterdays dispatches, the contrary,
say, that Gen Scott has no purpose OF
seeking q general engagement with the
enemy He expects, by keeping large
force in front Of them, iii the sorder states,
and b. strategy, to gradually demoralize
and trcak up the grand army of the
enemy. and thus TO forca the fragments to
accept terms. IL this WY, he thinks the
rebellion can be crushed without serious
bloodshed before January. Of course this
also, is mere telegraph speculation.
The rebels, on the other hand, seem
also quite content to occupy their present
positions, and show no disposition to adj
vance. 1t il said, that Gen Lee and the
troops generally are eager press forward
on Washington, but that BeaureGard and
Davis have overEuled them
Virginia is beginning to show signs Of
caving in financially. 1t leaked out in
tho convention at Richmond that the
State has already expended four millions,
and can 60 no further, while the confede-
rate government declare they are at
present unable to help her.
Meantime immense forces are being
concentrated at and around Washington.
Over $4,000 troops are now there, and new
regiments are arriving daily; while it is
confidently believed there are not over
$4,000 confederates in all Virginia.
little skirn,ishins is still kept up at
the outposts to relieve the general tedium.
On Tuesday, the steamers James Gay
and Pawnse went on recommending ex-
petition down the Potomac to Matthias
Point, when they discovered some eight
hundred Confederate troops, upon whom
they opened fire and soon scattered the
party, certainly killing quite a number
On Wednesday, Corporal Hayes and II
men belonging to Col. Wallace's regiment
Of Zouaves, while scouting on Patterson's
Creek, twelve miles east of Cumberland,
night before last, encountered a party Of
rebels numbering about forty. sharp
engagement ensued Seventeen Of the
enemy are reported killed and number
wounded Hayes lost but one man.
Baltimore, though quiet on the surface,
ia said to be rotten with secessionism, and
Gen. Banks has been obliged to draw the
cords little closer On Wednesday morn
ing he arrested Marshal Kane, and sent
him to Fort McHenry, and discharged all
the police under him, appointing new set.
The government has taken definite
steps to protect the Union men in Eastern
Tennessee. That state has been attached
to the district under the command of Gen
Anderson, who is to be reinforced
Government has formally recognized
the government established at Wheeling
AZ the legitimate government Of Virginia
and as soon as the Union Convention 1t
Tennessee organize their government il
will in like manner be recognized.
1t srumoredin Washington that recon
noiterins party were fired iuto by rebe
battery at Sewalls Point on Tuesday night
and suffered loss Of seven killed anc
many wounded
Gen. Pillow has issued proclamation
e."s.rs IL UeoIs que the North are
now by law due the State of Tennessee
and are declared seized and sequestered.
Senator Lane, of Kansas, has received
his commission as Brigadier General lie
is authorised to raise two additional resi
ments in Kansas. Lane expects to take
command of his brigade about july Goth.
From Missouri there's little new Gen.
Lyon is still At Boonyille, with some 800
men. Tho last heard of Gov. jackson, he
was At Warsaw, with his escort diminished
to 800. While halting at Warsaw, a
ruuaor that Gen. Lyon was in close pur
suit, caused quite panic in the Governor
camp. Half his men dispersed, and thu
balance crossed the river, drowning sever
horses in the scramble. Col Boernstei,
il at Jefferson City With a couple of regi
ments, guarding the State property, rec
ords, &c, occupying the Governors house
as his head quarters. A detachment O
regulars from Kansas City captured 81
secessionists, and a small quantity of arm.
and ammunition, at Liberty, Mo, on the
18th inst. Gen. Prcntiss, on Saturday
sent Col Morgan with an expedition from
Cairo to Little River, Mo, to capture .
rsbel force encamped there but on arriv
ing at the point the rebels had flown. TIL.
few remaining secession forces in Missouri
at last accounts, were gathering at Chalk
Bluffs, near tho Arkansas line. Their,
were said to be 1000 there
additions continue to be made to tn,
forces at Cairo, yet there are no indica
tions of an intended advance upon tha
talk of throwing their forces into Missouri
and making that State the western bait!
ground.
EuRoPE.-The news from Europe is t.
to the 10Th inst. Italy is about to be re
cognized by France. The crops in Eng
land, under the influence of hot weather
were progressing favorably, and the corr
market shows decline Advices from
Manchester were unfavorable. The Time,
in an editorial on American affairs an>
the indignation of the North ut the att
tude of England, asserts that the British
public has given much sympathy for tn