The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-05-29
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
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Exclusively for the Journal.
Morning Dispatches.
SPECIAL TO The WORLD.

WASHINGTON, May 27th.-No Virginan
are allowed to enter Alexandria unles
known to be loyal. A large number 0
persons were arrested to-day, charged Will
uttering infAmmatory sentiments. Th,
Notifications commanding Arlington Height
are nearly completed.
A gentleman arrived here to-day from
Richmond, states that the greatest activity
prevails among the military There. He was
only permitted to leave on being identified
as a well-anown Baltimore merchant. The
general sentiment in Richmond was that an
attack must be made on the Federal forces
At Alexandria, but that idea did not prevail
extensively as he came further North The
| public feeling is that war was fully Inaugural
ted, and that the present is full of trouble,
and that their future is gloomy and dark.
| an informed that several secret meet
ings of Union men were held at Alexandria
and Fredericksburgh and at several other
places in the State with view to organize
and arm for mutual protection.
While voting for the Union ticket the
vigilance of the rebels and the difficulty of
procuring arms prevented these plans.
The rebels allowed few Union votes to
be thrown to rebut the presumption of
coercion.
4 Virginian from some forty miles from
here reports tonight be met on his way
some 5, 900 rebel troops marching for Har-
per's Ferry. Thew were poorly clad and
two-thirds of them armed with revolvers
tied around their waists with ropes.
SPECIAL TO THE TRIBUNE.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-The Hon. John
McClelland of Illinois is here urging the
prompt assembling Of a very large force by
the government on the line of the proposed
He al tho
government TO promptly purchase large
quantities of provisions and grain now in
the hands of Illinois farmers ard save them
in some measure from their loss by the cut
ting off of their lower Mississippi markets.
Gov. Banks will be rendered a Brigader
GeneraIship and be detailed TO the Bureau
of Quarter Master General. John c. Free
mont has been appointed Major General and
George G. Dennison, Naval officer.
The President to-day accepted six addi-
tional regiments of volunteers from Indiana
The War Department was offered to-day
a battalion and a battery of four II pound
ers from Baltimore. They will be prompt
ly accepted.
At 10 o'clock this morning Lieutenant
Tompkins, with q squad of mounted men
reconnoitered toward Fairfax Court House
Two miles this side, two horses were espied
without riders. The horses were surround !
ed and two uniformed men started up. One !
leveled a fowling piece at the Lieutenant. |
The bugIer of the squad drew a revolver.
The revolver accidentally went off, and the
fowling piece dropped, the Virgiuian being
shot IN his right arm. Both were taken
prisoners. Rumor predicts a speedy ad- |
vance of troops under General Beauregard |
to retake Alexandria.
A Union flag is flying over the Marshall |
House in place of the Southern rag.
WASHINGTON, May 27.-Thore has been |
a mistake concerning the Naval force at or |
near Sewells Point. The Navy Depart |
ment says there should be only the Month
cello and two small single gun boats there. |
The Minnesota ought to be, by this time, off
bockading that harbor. If
there has been an attack, therefore, at Sc
wells Point, as has been reported in the last
few days, in which the Minnesota was en-
gagged, she disobeyed her orders, which is
not at all probable.