Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1861-05-10
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VERMONT wArcnMAN y JOURNAL.

litical fortunes
The Governor may soon have to flee TO
Washington or the Pennsylvania line.
The great seal Of the State is at Annapolis
and viii be thrown into the Chesapeake soon.
or than be placed on a secession ordinance.
The absence Of a seal is veto.
WAsHGNGToN. May 4.
Il is asoertained that the last vote in the
Virginia Convention was 80 yeas to So nays,
and the people Of different counties are very
indignant at having been hurried out Of the
Union, without popular vote
strong reaction has taken place, and a
Union spirit is fast gaining ground.
In Maryland, a special election for repre-
sentatives in Congress will take place on the
18th Of June.
Gen. Butler Of Massachusetts has been
called upon here by large number of Balu-
morians to whom he has said that Massachu-
sets troops will be in Baltimore within thir-
iy days. as friends or otherwise as it happens
that city may dictate.
CAIRO, ILL.,, May 4.
Gen. Pillow. Gen. Ely and other prominent
officers ofihc Confederate Army, with large
number Of Mississippi and Arkansas troops,
are at Memphis, Tenn, and heavy guns are
arriving there daily. Col Prentiss, the COM
handing officer at this point, has just receiv-
ed the following despatch from three Of the
most prominent citizens Of Cincinnati
Gen. Pillow has several steamers ready
at Memphis he mcditatos an immediate at
tack on Cairo"
Col. Prentiss replied
Let him come he will learn to dig his
ditch on the right side; AM READY 90
BALTIMORE. May A.
The Committee on the Public Safety bill in
the Maryland Senate met with such resistance
to-day that it was finally recommittcd. u
Mon men consider it as good as lost. The
Union feeling is evidently gaining ground
throughout the State.
Accounts from the Northern Central Road
say, workmen are actively engaged repair
ing bridges. and meet with no opposition
from the inhabitants, who on the contrary re-
joico at the speedy re-opening Of eommunica-
tion'
New YORK, May 4.
The Jersey City coast guard have seized
two sohooners laden with $500 kegs and
l,l6o barrels Of powder.
The Commercials special despatch says
armed vessels are stationed Off Alexandria to
protect the fishermen who have been fired in
W duu Ndu nSu taken from lntn.
The Memphis Argus of the 25th ult, says
that by order Of Gov. Rector of Arkansas.
Gen. Jonos seized at Napoleon $1,000 ball
cartridges, 100 Maynard rifles, 200 cavalry
saddles. and 500 sabres, belonging to the
Federal Government, for the use OF the Reb-
els
The Posts special learns on good authority
that the Rebels have planned for a fierce con
fict with the Federal troops that may at
tempt passing through Baltimore.
A letter from gentleman in the interior
of South Carolina says. that while absent at
Charleston during the fight, the negroes in
his town burned four dwellings. eight in adj
joining towns, and four more in the vicinity.
Eight negroes were hung, and a dozen more
were TO be hung.
WAsHINGToN, May 4.
The Committee of the Maryland Legislature
in their interview with the President this
morning, admitted both the right and power
Of Government to bring troops through Bal
timore or the State, and to take any measures
for public safety which, in the discretion Of
the President, might be deemed necessary,
on account of actual or reasonably apprehend-
ed exigences.
WAsHINoToN, May 5.
1t is fully anticipated from private informa-
ton just received by the President that the
Rebels will make a warlike demonstration at
Cairo to-day. Dispatches from Col. Stevens
to Gen Pillow have been intercepted, in which
the former speaks of inundatng Cairo by a
crevasse to be made in the protective levec
above that place, when it is hoped in the con-
fusion incident on this hux, they may land
their forces and attack the Federal troops at
Camp Hayden with success.
The Pennsylvania troops - 5000 men -
passed through Baltimore quietly and are now
in this city. making the actual force now here
nearly 10000 men. 1t is understood that
the Federal troops will occupy Alexandria
to-day. The war has commenced.
WAsHrNGroN. May 6.
regiment from New Jersey arrived hcre
at 10 O'Clock last night.
Gen Butler is now at the Baltimore Relay
House with a force Of upwards Of 1000 men.
The 9th Massachusetts Regiment which
left Washington yesterday reached the Relay
House at p. M of the same day.
The Relay house is 2 miles south Of Bal
timore, and this position commands the rail-
roads both from Baltimore and Harper's Fer
ny to Washington. Id. Watch.
Gen. Butler will have there to-day about
5000 men. His object in the first place is
to cut off communication between Baltimore
and the rebel forces, and to open that route
to Government
If this is done the 9th Regiment will, as an
advance guard, march through the streets Of
Baltimore where they were attacked.
The Government is determined to repossess
themselves Of the Government machinery at
Harper's Ferry, which is probably one of the
objects of the expedition.
New York, May 6.
The Government has accepted Col. Terrell's
and Guthrie's Kentucky Regiment
A despatch to the Herald says il is cur
rcntly believed that the President will issue
another Proclamation to-day, announcing the
intention of the Government to repossess the
Federal property seized by the rebels, and
deal summarily with all hereafter found re-
sisting It's authority.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, May A.
The vote of Louisville in favor of Union
delegates to the Border State Convention was
5000 to 5000.
The secession ticket was sometime since
withdrawn.
The Union vote is supposed TO be larger
than any aggregate vote ever polled before.
WAsHINGToN, May 6.
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