New-York daily tribune., 1861-04-30
THE WAR FOR THE UNION.
FROM wAsIiINGTON.
tron Our Own Correspondents

a NOT vet thew sonnet mes bring before the scenes
,f tventv.6se wears feo Witness thing: We
h... now s,aoe three times a week from Washington
n Frederick Md and tbis furnishes all the regular
com.nun, tion we have with the world. One OF these
s Is left Wizards this morning. it was an od-fash-
ioned red coach, drawn by a "spke team" of three
horses there was rack behind for the luggage which
the top would not receive and the door OF the machine
war marked u. S. MAIL while the legend Wv ash
ins1on to Frederick was inscribed along the upper
border. The driver had his way-bill, that important
paper which those of who old enough well re-
member to which he will oitentme refer, as IN the
of the dusty day his team tolls up the stony hii
The Fix passengers within and upon the stage
are precisely like those with whom 9lraveed twenty,
hiriy wears ago and you could not believe they had
ever seen a Iail.car BY my SOUL one woman has
positively q bald.box handbook in 1861 ! You
will not believe it, but the statement is true. There
is tied with string, always flying open, always IN
danger of becoming "squashed word is bad, but
It IL ss GOOD as the bandbox deserves-takrgrp room
Of two large trunks with It's awkward shape, perfect
Dog in the manger among baggage, neither riding in
souf1rt Itself nor allowing anything else 30 TO ride.
The owner bad taken it into the stage with her. and at
once appeared that the vehicle was full The driver
eons ted his wsybi and the conclusion that
there was something one inside not belonging
lere; accordingly search WAS made, revealing the
Sank-box, which dragged forth in gnoniny ca'ls-
ing laughteriI Washington After bali hour oi wait
ing and PACK 80 . O'Clock, the stage having been
advertised {" s t half.past q it Numbered away and
The Avenue ,as left 10 solitude and hacks.
From this story Of the stage coach you may under
stand that we bard up Tor news here in Wasling
:on We are, indeed. There never was duler time,
sven i'll the District Of Columbia. There is absolutely
aouing srriny no troops have arrived the 9TH feg-
iment is regarded ne myth delusive mirage, mil
tary " andeiing Jew. We have heard for the last
toar days that they have been marching marching
marching, from Annapolis toward this Capital. We
~ not believe it. Daily DO Inen come into town VINO
swear that ihey lave the 9TH within SIX eight
s.u or sixteen miles of Washington Hourly do men
:ome up from the NavyYard who have just seen tie
two steamers with troops from New-iork coming mp
.he r,ver Yet they never get here. Tie Govern
aen still has possession OF this cid OF tie iailroai,
AID much good may 1t do them. The same is to be
Ed Of me telegraph.
In fne, from fever of excitement we have changed
70 toe most drowsy apathy conceivable Wien we are
n feeling most secure, then should expect sudden
Danger. Thus reason the silently prudent, and there
iole ;Le vigiant eye upon Virginia is not vailed.
appointment OF Maor-G petition to that effect
has been presented the President and tue latter has
taken the matter into consideration. The friends Of
G-n,rol Nye appear also to be moving III Ills oehah
toward some military commission.
The newspaper. here are begngng to be terribly
piuct ed IN the article of paper. Two of hem are now
ssued on half sheets which is after all useless wrte
of property; ior quarter Of sheet would hold all the
news toey get. The National Iatehtgenoer being uL-
able by reason the soppage of the malls to ake the
een.e OF the country has SUSPENDED for the most part
all editorial expressions o; opinion, conhning ieh to
recruiting some of the choicest old OF the past two
or three weeks.
There must be something wrong in the Commissary 8
Dopartmeut here. The Massachusetts Regiment, for
instance now quarteed at the Capitol, fed only
twice daily, by regular ratioDs but by supplies OF
bread coffee and sat beef. TIE first neal Is ut 8,
or thereatout in the morning, aud tho second twelve
bou,s after. The bread and coffee are fair, but the
beef is very poor; is salt aud fat and tough. Now
men do not expect sumpiu fare when they eDi 1t;
but 'hey do expect and have right to ASK that they
snau be Ted hie better than the swine. 1t appears
now as If the fact that volunteers 10 support his
cuuntry considered at once TO put him down in the
social scale below Tue most servant, and to
take from him all taste refinement Of pro-
priey in life. The convcts in we-ordered prnen-
tsries lave more appropriate and polotable food than
thai ior some days furnished 10 these men, Who have
mCsi Of them left tie welLsupplied tables Of New
England. 1t may be said that the Government WAS
unPrvl AIRED for The reception and feeding OF many.
Then TIE Government weak that is all. Il bso-
iutey suicidal to treat volunteers this stupid way
the outset, at least. Let us get what out OF
them before disgust theu with us and
We hear nothing from Virginia, except of flying
families and single men, forced to leave because they
prefer tie Union TO certain political and personal ram
Th,se men are not so anxious 10 have the war con.
da Ted in tie bloodless it Las conn.en, ed ID,
are some penOus here, and they ray they would moi
object 10 II little violence On side. But then you
know they have been malIrested and cannot take q
conservative view OF things.
WASHINGTON, April 26, 1861.
Before this reaches New-York you will, 81 couise,
nave heard that the Seventh Regiment has arrived in
good condition, received with glorious eDtbusilsn.
We learned, by the way of which shortly, that
even when we get dispatches by private hand TO Have
de Grace, there is chance that they will not be sent
owing to the foolish attempts at revision and expur
CATION prao,ised by the Government Copies of some
Eew-fork papers, of Wednesday, were ia town last