Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-21
Proclamation Of Gov. MagOnln.
oonrINAs ABOUT TO INVADE TEXAS.
DEPREDAT1ONS By SECESSION
lists IN INDIANA.

NEW 1Uhhj hh1 Aus-A bGHOOubT bhAtu
| to-day with thirty eight emigrants for Hayti.
They were principally from Rochester, and
intend to direct their attention mainly to the
cultivation of cotton.
WASHINGTON, May 2o.-Friday's Charles
ton Courier says; "For two days past the
Niagara and HUntsUiHe have not been seen
off the port. Yesterday there were several
foreign arrivals, one with a cargo Of molas.
ses, and a brig from Glasgow with iron and
coal. She was taken for return cargo of Sea
Island cotton at the enormous rate Of two
and a half pence per pound-such freight
never before given"
Especial to Evening Post.I
WASHINGTON, May 20.-0n Sunday night
q Government coast guard steamer got
ashore at the mouth of the Potomac River.
She was attacked by IN armed propeller
from Richmond and, after a brisk contest,
the rebels were beaten off. -Four Govern
ment soldiers were killed and five wounded.
An armed steamer has gone in pursuit.
Late advices from Charleston say they are
erecting batteries on the coast near Charles
ton, of ri1ed cannon, to beat OFF the block
aiding fleet.
A daily mail is established between WASH
inpton and Fort Monroe, Uid Baltimore.
A collision at Harper's Ferry is regarded
as certain this week.
CHAMBERSBURe, May 20SSeven hundred
Virginia troops arrived opposite Williams
port, Oh the Potomac River, twenty six miles
south of this point. 1t is believed here that
they intend making an incuFsion into the
Southern borders of this State.
NEW York, May 2O.-The steamer Desoto
arrived here, from Havana on the 18th.
She spoke, on the 18th, the frigate Niagara
had captured two vessels, and sent them to
Northern ports.
Sugars dull; stock on hand, 235 boxes.
Molasses, l@f% reals. Freights active. Ex-
change on London, 6@T O New York, 20
a discount.
ST. LOUIS, May 2O.-Colonel O'Fallen, one
of the Oldest and wealthiest citizens Of ST..
Louis, has been elected Colonel of a nav
regiment of United States volunteers, raised
in the upper part of the city.
New York Posts Special Dispatch.)
Government has received advices from
London, which afford satisfactory indications
of the line of policy which will be pursued
by the British Government toward the Sc
ceded States.
The Administration entertains a firm con-
viction that its course in crushing out the
rebellion will be fully sustained in England.
Judge Nelson writes from Tennessee that
the Union men of the Eastern section of the
State will give twenty thousand majority
against Secession.
New YoRK, May 2O.-Advices from Key
West to the l4th ult. state that Captain
Craven, of the Crusader, seized the steamer
Susanne. He was about arming the yacht
WdndeTer to be sent into the gulf under a
Lieutenant of the United States Navy. Key
West remained loyal all seditious persons
were to be removed from the island. Major
French had appointed a magistrate, who su-
percedes the mayor, justices, &c.
NASHVILLE, May 20.-A warehouse con-
tanning military stores was burned yesterday
morning. Loss $4,000; insured for $l5, 900.
Porter, johnson Il Co.'s hat store, adjoin-
ing, was also burned; fully insured.
CHICAGO, May 20.-Senator Douglas is i'm
proving, He is now considered out Of dan
ger.
Second Regiment of State Guards will &c
into encampment at Paroquet Springs, forty
miles south Of here, to morrow.
WASHINGTON, May 2O.-Tbe United States
transport Freedom arrived here this after.
poor direct from Fort Monroe, bringing
dispatches to the Government. On the way
up she captured two small vessels and
brought them up to the Washington Navy
yard. A passenger on the FreeborH states
that on Saturday two vessels from the fleet
paid a visit to the vicinity of SewaIl's Point
about four miles from the fortress, where the
Virginians were erecting batteries, and
threw sundry shells at the works, spelling
materially the architectural arrangements
Shots were fred at the vessels, but without
effect.
1t was not known whether any one on
shore was injured.
Commodore Pendergrast sent a flag OIL
truce TO Norfolk with a view to make ar
engagements for the transportation thence oil
certain persons to the North, and received
assurance that in this respect he should bt
accommodated. A vessel was in waiting tc
take them to New York.
Some excitement was occasioned to-day
by the report of a fight at the mouth of tht
Potomac, between a Federal coast guard
steamer and an armed propeller from Rich
mand, resulting, it is said, in the killing o.
four and wounding of five on the former
The truth of the story being doubted, the
Navy Department this evening made specific
inquiries in the proper quarter, and is salts
fed that the runner is entirely unfounded.
FRANKFoRT, KY, May 2O.-Governor Ma
coffin has issued a proclamation, appended
to a preamble, declaring,
Whereas. Many good citizensh had requested
him to forbid the march of any forces oYeI
Kentucky TO attack Cairo, or otherwise dis
turb the peaceful attitude of Kentucky witt
| ICl6It1GC W lUc uCpAOIuDlC war INV WuBAhl
between the United and Confederate States
also stating that the same citizens had re
duested him to forbid the march of any
United States forces over Kentucky soil fol
the occupation of any part or place within
Kentucky, and,
Whereaa Every indication of public sen,
timent shows the determined purpose of thl
people to maintain the fixed position of self
defense, proposing and intending no invasion
$500 49, Akknw GNata -
States, forbidding the quartering OF troop
upon her soil by either hostile section, bu
simply standing aloof from an unnatural
horrid and lamentable strife for the existenc
whereof Kentucky neither by thought
word nor act, is in any wise responsible
and,
Whereas; This policy is, in my judgment
wise, peaceful, safe and honorable, and mos
likely TO preserve peace and amity betWeel
the neighboring border States on both shore
of the Ohio, and protect Kentucky from thi
deplorable civil war; and
Whereas: The arms distributed to the Stat
Guard are not TO be used against the FEEDERS
OF Confederate States, but to resist and pre-
vent encroachments on her soil, rights, homo
and sovereignty by either of the belligeren
parties, aud hoping that Kentucky may b'
come a successful mediator between then
and in order to remove unfouuded distru'
and suspicious OF purposes TO force hentuck
out of the Union at the point Of the bayone
which may have been strongly and wicked
eDgendered in the public mind, in regard
I my own position and that Of the Stal
Guard;
Now, therefore, / hereby notify and wal
all other States, separate or united, and q
pecially the United States and COnfederai
, States, that l solemnly forbid any movemel
upon Kentucky soil, or occupation or an
part, post or place therein for any purpoI
whatever, until authorized by invitation
permission Of the Legislature and EXECUTIVE
I authorities. / especially forbid all citizel
: of Kentucky, whether incorporated In Il
: State Guard or otherwise, making any BIO
tile demonstrations against any Of the ator