Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1861-05-30

South since Liverpool seems to absorb nearly all the
steamship intercourse with the North.
There are between twelve and fifteen thousand troops at
Harpers Ferry, spelling for fight. There is also
considerable force below at the Point of Rocks
Federal spies from Pennsylvania reported to have
been within the lines of the Confederate troops the
line of the Potomac drawing plans and sending them
to Lincoln. Among these spies is W. W. Mise, al
Captain of the eighth Pennsylvania regiment, and
man named Samuel j. Rea. If either of these spies
had been caught, they ought to have been hung onl
the spot If hereafter caught let them be hang
at any rate. All spies must be treated summarily.
Hon R. M. T. Hunter Of Virginia, who has just reached
home from Montgomery, reports twenty-five thousand
more southern troops their way to Virginia and
to arrive there within few days. The North Caro-
lima troops going on to Richmond. Norlolk
ought as far possible to be held by troops from the
lower part of Virginia inasmuch as they are Injured
to the climate and serve there during the summer
with comparative impunity, while those from the up
country might not do SO.
It appears that the Marion Rifles Captain Watson, OF
Portsmouth, Va, attached to Col. Pryor's regiment
voted Ga out of 66 votes for the late Union. The
company is composed of Northern employees from
the late Federal Navy Yard. The men have been
deprived of their arms, and the officers arrested
The company will be probably dsbanded.
Virginia has no doubt gone immensely for secession
The secession majority will be overwhelming spite Oh
the manoeuvres of the miscreant Garlic or the few
PENNSYLVANIA and Ohio interlopers IN the panhandle
counties, and the free soil town of heeling.
1t il reported, probably with truth thai there is
an agent of the French Government named Baroche,
travelling in the Southern States, ostensbly colec-
Letting information for the commercial bureau OF the
ministry of public works. but in reality sending po-
itical and military information of the progress OF the
existing difficulties to his government. 1t is also
said that Mr.. RUSSELL the correspondent of the Times
in addition to his letters for publication in that Sheet
sends other and more confidential dispatches to Of
ficials connected with the British government The
Northern papers, following the cue given them by
Mr. Seward, begin to threaten the European powers
with dreadful consequences If they look upon the
South with any favour One of them says, speaking
of England and France " 1t were better for the
leading powers in question to reflect long and deeply
before they take steps which may involve them in
consequences they little dream of perhaps at this
moment" Mr. L. N. Buonaparte and Mrs Victoria
D'Este will please take notice.
Mr. jackson the proprietor of the Marshall House in
Alexandria, Va, who is reported to have shot Ellis
worth of New York, and been butchered by Els
worth's Zouaves, is the same gentleman who cut down
the Lincoln end Hamlin pole at Occoquan, Prince
William County, Virginia, during the canvass of last
year, and prevented its being hoisted again. He was
Jealous Southern Rights man, and would have shot
Ellsworth if be had known that it would be bis last
act.
correspondent from Pensacola writing to tie Mobile
Evening News, after specializing upon the probable
time of the opening OF the fire on Fort Pckens, says
But commence when it will, don't think | risk
much in saying that in sixty hours after the first gun
is fred there will not be Yankee left in Fort Pick
ems. A hundred and forty guns converging On one
point for sixty hours, would drive the devil from his
hole" Strong remark that. Make bell too hot to
hold the devil
The Tycoon of Japan has married the Mikados daught
er. Nice young woman. Blackens her teeth by way
of ornament Eats rats. He is entitled to eleven
more wives, thus making up the dozen,