The national Republican., 1861-04-30
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Ihe relnforcements thrown into Fort Nc.
Henry are said to be as large as can be conve.
niently accommodated. The barracks are not
large enough, and number Of tents have been
erected for the men. 1t has been closed against
visiters, and on Saturday, several persons from
this city were denied admission. Fort Carroll
is also said to have been garrisoned, and arma.
ment left on it. 1t is not, however, completed,
and will be but q poor defence until the walls
are built up.-Baltmore Sun Of Monday.
The steamer Georgiana, Capt Pearson,
reached her wharf from Norfolk Yesterday morn.
ing. She reports continued activity in the prep.
aration of works of defence. A small addition
to the forces was made on Saturday, by the ar
rival Of company Of infantry from Sussex
county.-Baltimore Sun Of Monday.
A Home Guard has been formed at Elkton,
Nd, pledged to stand by the Federal Govern.
ment."
The Government is preparing to establish
Immediately U. s. armory, similar to that not
long since existing at Harper's Ferry, at Rock
Island Ill. The Virginia disunion authorities
have already trar sierred the remains of the Har
per's Ferry armory machinery saved to Rich.
mond. So Harpers Ferry is soon to become,
as the result Of secession, ruined village.
Col. Mansfield, U. s. Engineers, late Inspect.
or General of the army OF the United States,
has been ordered to the military command OF
the troops now here, vice Col. c. F. Smith, or.
dered to duty in New York. COL NJ. assumed
the command here on Saturday last.
Hon. John 8. Carlile was nominated for Con.
gress at Parkersburg, Virginia, on Thursday
last.
We learn that canal boat, with 100 barrels
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coming down the canal, on the Maryan side,
was intercepted by party from Virginia, and
the corn taken away.
A man named johnson, from Baltimore, was
chased out OF Wilmington, Del, last Friday,
for avowing secession sentiments.
Commander Lloyd B. Newell, of the United
States navy, committed suicide at the Mer
chants Hotel, in Philadelphia, on Friday, by
shooting himself through the heart with Colts
revolver. The deceased was on the retired list
He was a native OF Georgia.
In the Legislature of Maryland, on Saturday,
q message was received from the Executive,
enclosing the correspondence between the Gov.
ernor and the sheriff of Frederick county, in
which the latter enclosed dispatch to him,
from c. F. Wenner, dated April "a, 1861, sta.
ting that his boat, loaded with grain, bound
Point Of Rocks, by order of the officer in com.
mand of Harper's Ferry, and his grain is being
loaded in the cars to 60 to Harper's Ferry. IL
demand" he says, "your presence at this point,
and will hold the State Of Maryland response.
BILE for protection and damages"
s. II. Needham, member of the sixth reg.
iment, Massachusetts volunteers, wounded in
the riot on Pratt street, died at FIVE o'clock on
Saturday morning, at the Lombard street In.
Urinary, Baltimore. His injury was a dreadful
fracture Of the back part Of the skull, by blow
from paving stone hurled into the ranks. He
remained insensble from the time OF his admis.
sion into the institution up to the time of his
death. The operation Of trepanning was per.
formed on Friday last Every possible atten.
ton was shown the unfortunate soldier BY the
physicians of the lnfrmary and the Sisters of
Charity. His body was deposited in the mau-
soleum at Greenmount, along with the other
victims OF the riot. Needham's death makes
the fifth on the part Of the military that has re-
suited from the riot.
The reply Of Mr.. Lincoln, to some remarks
made by the spokesman Of a military organi.
cation that paid him complimentary visit on
Saturday last, was as follows
IL have desired as sincerely as any man.
and sometimes think more than any other
man, that our present difficulties might be set
tied without the shedding Of blood l aviH not
say that all hope has yet gone; but, if the al
Tentative is presented, whether the Union is to
be broken in fragments and the liberties of the
people lost, or blood be shed you will probably
make the choice with which shall not be dis.
satisfied"
A man was taken and hung, on Monday af.
ternoon, by the citizens of Bloomington, Hi.
nois, for placing distractions on the track of
the Illinois Central railroad, to throw off the
train bringing troops South.-& Louis Demo.
crat, april 20.