Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-05-03
HANGING OF TWO TRAITORS !
NO ARMIsTICE!
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WAsHlNaroN, April q.
The President has issued the following
proclaim ,tion:
WHEREAS, for reasons assigned in my
of the 10th inst, a blockade Of
,orts in the seosding States was established;
md whereas, pull property has been seized,
collection of revenue obstrrcted, and dull
,omm ssioned officers, while executing Or
lers, have been arrested and held as prison
IFS or impeded in their official duties with
tut due legal pr ocess, by persons claiming
% act undes the authorizes Of Virginia and
n orh Car, lima, an efficient blockade of the
ports of those States will also be established.
Signed ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Some exc tement has been caused in diff
Ferent circles in consequence of the Presi
lent's proclamation, dirscti 6 blockade Of
southern por IS. 1t appears that a blockade
70 be respected by foreign powers, must not
,ny be in effect but at due notice must
be given If such intention to their represen-
atives With Braz !. and all other South
Amer Gan Governments, a notice OF ninety
lays is required under treaty but this hiss
not been given by our g vernment, hen"e,
Of coffee aud other natural
pr ducts de-ig ed for southern ports are de-
ayed in their transportation, to thst portion
Of the country. Merchants not being 50 is
fed of thu effects of an immediate blockade,
it has theref re become necessary that spe-
cial inquiries be made of the Federal Gov
eminent in relation 10 this subject, so tn t
treaty rights and privileges 6e not damaged.
The f reign ministers will insist that the
stipul tions shall be respect ed and observed
otherwise naval forces will be dispatched
hither as mems of foreign protection. The
delicacy of The question IS apparent, AID
fr ON what is known may involve serious
to all conce ned. At oil events,
it will produce trouble now, as we'll as in the
future.
Nav YORK, April %.
The Herald's correspondent has from high
that Gov Letcher notified Lincoln
that no Virginia troops will be permitted t.
march against Washington; their purpose
is to defend said Virginia from aggression
by the North, and further says he will n -;
permi, Confederate troops to attack Wash
ington.
Gov. Letcher has issued a proclamation,
saying considerable about troops coming tc
Richmond without notice. and before their
services were required. He prohibits more
from doing go, but to remain at home till
required.
fHlLADEI PHIA, April p.
The Virginia ordinance of secession jus,
published is received, accompanied by q
I'LL tko Al ~,
for ratification by the people; also pro
hibit;ng the election for Congressman requ;r
ed by law on the 4th Thursday The orsi.
nance declares the Constitution of the Unit.
ed States no longer binding on the citizens
of Virig mia. The ordinance takes effec,
when ratified by majority Of the voters.
HARRISBURG, April %.
The Governors message will recon mend
n stay law, and says Pennsylvania will open =
route to Washington, whether Maryland stay
in or out of the Union. No hostile rail-, al
will be permitted to lie between the Capital
anj legal States; rebellion must be crush,-d.
and the property seized retaken at any ex
pense of treasure and blood. 1t recommends
90 appropriation OF three million doliars--per.
haps five-and requisition for twenty -one
more reaime"'s, making total Of thirty
eight from Pennsylvania. The Governnr
re O. mmends reserve of ten tn usand men.
New YORK, April 20.
The board of U derwriters are fitting ou:
an armed steamer "r the coast gnard
1t is stated that grocer has arrived here
from Charleston, who was impressed into
he service of the Confederate arr and e.
capped by concealing himself on a vessel. He
r, ports that, It the bomhardment Of Fort
Sumter, at least 1000 rete were killed.
Four hundred were killed in Moultrie and
thirty by Anderson's fr-t discharge.
The fol owing is ubished:
"7o Mayor Robe, Anderson, late comman-
Ter of Fort Sumstsr-I am directed by the
President to communicate to you, and
through you to the officers and men under
7cur command at Fort, Moultrie ard Sumter,
he appreciate n Of the government, of your
md their judioious and gsllant conduct there.
md ten 'er you and them the thanks of the
government
A Presbyterian clergyman, who left East
Pm Mississippi ola Noble, last Monday. ar.
lived here to-day, coming BY the Virginia
nd tennessee 1ai.rvad. He reports one
hundred and fifty passengers coming North,
eeing from the Gulf States. They sacrifice
through tickets to ave- coming through
saltinI ore and Washington. belis wing both
tiles under martial law He saw troops at
very station, destined for the NORTH, AT i
card it ayowed as their mission to attack
vashington.
All pa ser gers for the extreme South say
eopIe universally believe that Lincoln has
cen drunk ever since his Inauguration, and
My gning out disguised at nigh: to escape
ssasslnstlon. A thousand such extravaeant
;a,emen are flying in every direction.
Richmond papers contain the proclama-
on of Gov. Letcher, ordering the return of
vessels, excepting the steamers James
'wn and Yorktown, to their owners, and |
opeals to the people not to interfere. He
all seizures without legal
,thority, aod appoints officers for the aif-
rent rivers TO see the proclamation carried
to effect. ..
The Wilmington N. O. Journal, of the
ID, states that the Branch Mint at Char
tie, was taken possession of Saturday, un-
r orders from Gov. Ellis.
Troops are constantly passing through
ilmington from South Carolina and Georgia,
r Richmond; and Gen. Barbour and staff
We arrived there.
Gov. Ellis has called for 10000 volunteers
ditional to the regular militia, and all orga l
led corps are commanded to be in readiness {
N hours notice
Col. Ellsworth's Fire Zouaves left this af- .
noon. They wsre escorted to the Baltic {
the entire department. An immense
,wd witnes ed the embarkation. Three
nd of coiors were presented them pre- !
'us to their departure. They looked mag o
|cent. I
ANNAPOLIS, Nav ].
Notifications. commanding Annapolis for r
, miles around, were thrown up yesterday. o