White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-05-09


orosuisation throughout the Territory
he has already supplied companies with
arms and equipments. and seems deter.
mined to place Nebraska in the best pos.
.ibIe condition of defence. 1t is suppos.
al that at least one regiment of Nebraska
..lunteers will be mustered into the ser.
,ice of the United States frontier for
home defence. .-rsa
Nebraska is Q unit for the Constitu-
ton. It il rumored that Gov. Black
vill Immediately on the arrival Of his
suecessor, return to Penney lvania, having
been called there to assume IN important
military command.
a -s MAY2.
Judge Boyd. of the Baltimore Grimm.
al Court, charged the grand jury yester-.
d.y morning. He called attention par
ticulsrly to the attack Of the mob upon
the military on the 18th Of April. that
the guilty might be brought to punish
uent.
The following circular to the govern
ment at Washington, was extensively
signed by Baltimoreause herday:
In our opinion military forces or stores
ought to pass through Baltimore without
hinderance, and we will use our best ef-
forts to prevent distractions.
Resolutions were offered to the Mary
land Legislature and referred to select
Committee, saying moro troops, If neces-
sary. to defend the Capital, may be trans
ported over Maryland railroads. Reso-
iutions were adopted to appoint . COM
mittee to wait on Davis and Gov. Letch-
er, to bring about an understanding
whereby civil war may be sverted.
Letters received from Paris state that
the French Government is folly posted
on American affairs, and no sympathy is
felt for the Confederate States.
Scott will soon change his head-quar-
tiers to Philadelphia.
Thirty-6ve Thousand troops are to be
concentrated at Washington.
A letter from the 7th Regiment says
six secessionists were caught on the 9th.
and two were shot on the morning of the
2Sth. Another was to be shot on the
next morning. Several had been arrest
ed for tearing up the rails.
A private letter from Annapolis says
the brig Caledonia has two men hanging
from her yard arm; one for smuggling
powder and provisions to Charleston.
the other for plotting the 7th Regiment
into Chesapeake bar. with the intention
that the Baltimore secessionists should
capture Annapolis before the 7th reached
there.
No Notifications on either side of the
Potomac or Chesapeake Bay are in the
hands of the rebels.
The secession flag was floating at Al
exandria when the Bienville left.
A leave of absence will be granted to
Col. King, Minister to Rome, to enable
him to command the Washington vol
unteers; also to Carl Schurz, Minister to
Spain. who wishes to raise q company
of cavalry.
The Government has authorized the
contradiction Of the rumor that the Ad-
ministration had proposed an armistice
for sixty days.
Capt. Carson. of the schooner r. d.
Pitts, from Charleston. who has arrived
at New York. states that he was al, the
wharf near Fort Moultrie during the
Sumter bombardment. and says on Sun
day night sixty dead bodies were carried
across his track to land, AMI Monday
night, forty more were carried out at one
time and sixty at another. Capt. Carson
and mate saw aud counted all the bodies,
aud say that the soldiers we're sworn to
deny any loss of life.
Mr.. Lipscomb. Union candidate for the
Legislature to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation Of Mr.. Ament. was elect
ed in Marion County, over Thos. L. An
derson. secessionist, BY majority Of l46.
A special dispatch to the New York
Times. from Baltimore, yesterday. says:
The Legislature in session at Frederick
is appalled, at the strength of the Union
sentiment in Maryland. and at the GER
tsinty of making that State the battle
field, If they throw her into the vortex of
secession.
In Baltimore speeches and other de-
monstrations were made last night. The
Union men hold ward meetings tonight,
to elect delegates to Union City Con-
vention, to prepare for Congressional
election.
The Tribune's special Washington dis
patch says: The policy of the admins
tration henceforth is war, and the Csbi
net is now a unit on this policy.
1t is stated that the navy yard at Nor
folk is to be Immediately relaken and re-
built.
Commissioners from Western Virgin
ia to-day assured the President that if
they were furnished with arms their por-
ton of the State would be cared for.
Capt. Cakes. from Texas, reported at
headquarters to-day, states that the
troops throughout the South are in .
high state of efficiency. and are being
concentrated at Norfolk and Lynehburg.
A man was arrested at Annapolis on
Tuesday, with dispatches from New York for
the President, Gen. Scott, and the War Depart
ment, which we're found open upon him. He
will be tried BY Court Martial.
The blockade is evidently being vigilantly
enforced against Virginia.
The steamers say that Norfolk bay ID dotted
over With Government transports.
The Government has received intelligence
nom Paris, that Minister Faulkner had present
ed the Southern Commissioners to the Emperor
Of France. Mr.. Dallas refused doing 90 at
London until he received instructions from
Washington.