White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-04-25
The Impending War:

The Impending w ar!
zoAn Cochran. offer. s5o. 900 to Penn,yl-
vania-IHs PhiladelpAia Excitement
Qxelled by Mayor Hsnry-Aeedngs
throughout the .Norsh-no party d.
risions-N Y. Appropriates 81. .OOo.-
OO0-Position Of Virginia and Ken
tueky-Jef. Davis insults the Pref
dens-Mors Partiexlars Of the Ssn'ssr
Fight.
Sr. LOUIS. April l6. A. n.
The Secretary of War, yesterday. is
,ued . call on the respective State Gov
.rnments for troops. to serve IS infantry
Or riflemen for period Of three months
Or less if discharged. The call requires
zach soldier to take oath OF fidelity TO the
United States and to be not over forty |
Eve wears of age. nor under eightcea.
The quota to each State is Maine. New
Hampshire, Vermont. Rhode Island. Con
necticut, Delaware. Arkansas, Michigan.
Wisconsin. Iowa and Minnesota. one re
gimeat each. Massachusetts. North Car
olina and Tennessee. two regiments New
York seventeen regiments. Pennsylvania
sixteen regiments: New Jersey. Ken
tucky, Maryland and Missouri, four regi
ments each Illinois and Indiana six re.
gimeuts each; Virginia three regiments.
It is ordered that each regiment shall
consist on an aggregate of officers and
men of 7sO. The total TINS to be called
ont is 1881. The remainder. which
constitutes the $4,000 men under the
Presidents proclamation. will be COM
posed Of troops in tue District Of Colum-
bia.
Hon. John Cochrane has offered Gov.
ernor Curtin $50. 900 Of the loan author
lied by Pennsylvania. to arm and equip
the troops ordered by that State. A
delegation of Pittsburg merchants have
made q similar tender.
The War Department has accepted the
Governor of Rhode Islands offer Of a
regiment. 1t will be sent to Washington
without delay.
Three regiments of the District Of Co
lumtija have rendered their services to the
government.
A special Washington dispatch to the
Post intinates that such orders have been
sent to Lieut. Slemmer, that he would
probably open FIRE without waiting for an
attack, if attempts were made to strength:
en- the position Of the Confederate States.
A company of Federal troops lett for
Fort Washington on the Potomac to day.
Some Maryland troops will probably
be soon called to assist in the defence ol
the Capital.
More of the local military are offering
their services to the Government to-day.
The war news has produced intense
excitement at the North.
Most of the free States have promptly
responded to the Presidents call for vol.
unteer soldiers.
While the mob was making an attack
in Philadelphia. yesterday. on 9 secession
newspaper Office. Mayor Henry made the
following speech:
FrLLow CouNTnYMEs By the grace o.
Almighty God. treason shall never real
its head or have a foothold in Philadel'
phia. Immense cheering.) l call upor
you, as American citizens. to stand BY
your flag and protect it at all hazards. a
the point of the bayonet if necessary
but in doing so. remember the rights o
your fellow-ci,izens and their private
property. (Immense cheering.) Tha
dag is an emblem Of the Government
and call upon all good citizens Wit
love their country and its flag. to testify
their loyalty by going to their respective
places Of abode. leaving to the constitutes
authorities of the city the task Of protect
ing the peace of and preventing every &C
which could be construed into treason t.
their country.
The Mayor then raised the stars an
stripes.
At late hour last night. mobs wer
ranging the streets, making every on
! show Union colors. Search was made 4
1.-THE Office of the Southern Monitor to dss
troy the forms and hang the editors. Th
paper has been suspended. General Pal
> terson's mansion was threatened with de-
truction. He is charged with secession
ism. A heavy 70 u dispersed the crow
Several prominent Southerners, wit
secession proclivities. have received war;
ing from q so.called Vigilance Commi
tee.
{. A dispatch dated 3 P. NJ. says sxcit
/: ment in this city has subsided. At var
o ous military rendezvous. volunteers al
J. enlisting rapidly. especially among Il
e German population.
|. At Pittsburg the war news created ii
n tense excitement. Business has almo
been suspended since Saturday. III
Presidents proclamation thorough
!. aroused the war spirit. Several comp
!, nies have volunteered to sustain the il
tegrity Of the Union.
n Last night an immense gathering at q
i. City Hall was opened by the Mayor. wi
, introduced the venerable VIM. Wilkil
= as President. of the meeting and abo
twenty FIVE Vice Presidents were appoiu
,r cd. Resolutions declaring undying 6deI
ty to the Union, approving the course
the Legislative and State Government
:. responding to the call Of the Presider
- " disregarding all partizan feeling. al
" pledging lives. fortunes. aud sacred hon
in defence of the Union, and appointi'
COMMITTEES Of Public Safety were adoE
Cd unanimously: also . resolution q
: proving the action Of the Philadelph
Banks for the prompt offer of money