The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-04-11
Political News.

Ano 1Te0H"eS w dsnlnSt0n CORES
pondent OF the 9TH inst, says that no
official intelligence has been received
that Major Anderson's supplies have
been stopped; that the Spanish Gov
eminent is not responsible for the DEM
constructions at st. Domingo, also that
no orders have been issued for the
blockade Of Southern ports. Com.
Stringham's commission has different
purpose that Government is still with
out intelligence whether the reinforce
ment of Fort Pickens had been effect
ed, and naturally very anxious, as or
ders were sent weeks ago. @ i io
A dispatch from Baltimore states
that large body Of volunteers left that
city to rally around the flag of the
Union in Texas under Houston. aasa IS
Washington correspondents assert
that the President is daily receiving
numerous telegraphic dispatches from
all portions of the country, urging no
surrender of any Forts and offering to
volunteer in ease of any attempt of re-
Inducements. One man offered to re-
inforee Fort Sumter at ten days notice
for $4,000. 100 ssaod guo 81 nsse.r
Gov. Curtin, of Pennsylvania, had a
long interview with Gen. Scott and
Secretary Cameron. tits rumored that
Pennsylvania will Immediately assume
a war footing. .nuag sia
The Post learns from Virginian,
who had it from Major Me- ullough's
own lips, that he has organized force
of 5000 men to seize Washington the
instant the first blood is shed. 1is9
1t is not true that the Southern COM
missioners have taken house in Wash
ington. 1t is well known that the
length of their sojourn here will be de-
pendent on circumstances.
A dispatch from Charleston, dated
April 18th says :-"Gen. Beaurgard this
morning issued an order and sent a
special messenger to Major Anderson,
giving him official notification that all
intercourse between Fort Sumter and
the city would be prohibited from
that date. All the posts have been
strengthened, and two additional regi-
ments are expected from the interior.
The HsralFs dispatch says: ,"Late
news from Montgomery render it per-
fectly certain that there will be no at
tack on Pickens or Sumter"
"Official advices from Central
America state that the impression is
general that movement is on foot for
the consolidation of all the States into
one Government, and that it will be
successful"
The Iri6u,se's dispatch says: An
derson is not to be withdrawn, and will
be provisioned.
The Washington correspondent of
the n. Y. Tribune asserts &c shat Fort
Pickens will be held at every hazard,
and it is by no means improbable
that troops have been landed there
already. Whatever reinforcements
may be necessary to retain it, will be
sent, although the Administration in
tends in that, as in all similar demon
STATIONS, to preserve peace policy.
If assailed, it will resist, but it will not
voluntarily attack.
No disguise is affected in regard to
sending of supplies to the vessels of
war and Fort Pickens. They are am
pie for present and future necessities.
Instructions have also been forwarded,
which are intended to keep the squad
ron off Pensacola on the alert, and pre-
pare to cooperate with the fort, if a
signal should be given.
The companies of sappers and miners
which left here on the Sd inst, have a
Southern destination. They will here
placed by some of the troops just re-
turned from Texas, for it is not thought
Iexpedient, at this time, to withdraw
any considerable portion of the often
sive forces from Washington. On the
contrary, there are indications which
may require it to be augmented i'm
mediately. aaas9 ,il-ea II p
| The New Tariff. ~ aa
Owing to the disturbed condition of
the country, and the low tariff move
ment of the "Southern Confederacy"
it seems to be apprehended on all sides
that the Morrill, Tariff Act, passed by
the late Conoress Is destined TO greatly