The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-05-02

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Stephens in Virginia, as he hirnsel
says, on his way to Washington.
Arkansas is also in rebellion. Solor
Borland, formerly United States Sena
tor, at the head of force of 800, ha!
seized Fort Smith. The Commands
of the. post, Captain Sturgis, with two
companies of cavalry, retired at the
approach of the rebels to Fort Was
bita. rrfe ~rst .fs.sle,.r
Gov. Leteher, of Virginia, has issued
a proclamation prohibiting the expor
tation of flour 10 Northern cities.
1t is said that deputation of TWEEN
ty Indians have arrived at w ashington
to tender 800 warriors of the Sioux
and Chippewa Indians to the President
The States and Union, of Washing.
ton, has suspended. The people have
threatened to demolish the Office if il
continued to advocate the Southern
Confederacy.
A son of Senator Bayard, of Della
ware, has raised company and taken
the oath of allegiance at Wilmington.
The amount of flour seized at George
town by the Government is $500 bar.
rels. They are selling it to the poor al
seven dollars per barrel-street prices
fifteen dollars.
Hon. John Sherman has joined the
Ohio troops rs private.
Thirty-nine thousand Pennsylyanians
have thus far responded to the call for
volunteers, and the Governor says he
is literally mobbed with offers of more,
He has accepted $4,000.
Carl Schurz left Philadelphia on Fri
day last for Washington, in obedience
to orders from military headquarters.
He is to take command the German
regiment from Minnesota.
1t is reported that Gen. barney has
been arrested at Harper's Ferry and
carried to Richmond. k p a. q
The officer, and bearer of dispatches,
who so narrowly escaped hanging al
Annapolis, was Mr.. Patten, of the 18th
Regiment, of whom it is difficult to get
the start at any time, and his nerves
just now seem to be remarkably acute.
+ Gov. Burton, of Delaware, has issued
a proclamation calling out troops to
defend the Union.
A dispatch from Philadelphia dated
April 25th, says that gentleman who
left Charleston on Thursday, says
Beauregard was there, experimenting
the repairs of Fort Sumter, with the
expectation of an immediate attack on
Charleston from the North that there
was then no movement of troops to-
wards the North, and he believes there
will be nonc.
The Seventh Regiment of New
York, arrived in Washington on Thurs
day noon, having marched twenty
miles to the Junction, without escort
They were in fact, the pioneers of the
route, and went because they had made
mp their minds to go any way.
A lady who was living in Baltimore
at the time of the treacherous slaughter
of the Massachusetts men in hel
streets, states that gentlemen of wealth
and position who came i'm from the riot
to dinner openly boosted of the money
they had scattered among the mob tc
stimulate them to attack and kill the
defenders of their country.
The N. Y. Tribune of April 9th
says "a gentleman who came up
through North Carolina last Monday
assures us that Gen. Beauregard trav.
eled on the same train with him.
There can be no rational doubt that
Gen. B., with vice-President Stephens
is now in Virginia"
A special dispatch to the Chicago
Tribune says that the wounded Massa
chusetts soldiers have already got well
G. ]. Ingersoll, of Philadelphia, ha,
invited ex- Presidents Buchanan, Pierce
Fillmore and ]. Tyler to arbitrate be
tween the sections. Little good is ex
pected from the result.
A Washington dispatch, Wednes
day, to the Times says, a deputation O
Virginians and Marylanders waited on
the President and demanded cessa
ton of hostilities until after the session
of Congress. The Presidents answer
was prompt, decided and negative
One of the deputation said $1,000
Marylanders would contest the passag,
of troops over her soil; to which tn,