The national Republican., 1861-05-08
N E w s 1T Elm s.


The following Virginia companies have been
ordered to report themselves at Harper's Ferry:
Capt. Roberts's company of infantry; Capt.
W. Harman's mounted rAemen of Augusta
county; Capt. Richards's cavalry of Bath coun.
ty; Capt. McNutt's cavalry Of Rockbridge
county, and Capt. McAllisters infantry Of AL
leghany county.
The Mobile rihemen, consisting of los men,
Capt. Woodruff, and the Kentucky companies
numbering 450 men, lately arrived at Lynch
burg, Va, have also been ordered to Harper's
Ferry.
The town of Milford, Ct, has made an ap
preparation of $40 for every unmarried and 5 Is
for every married volunteer, and voted to in.
sure the life of every soldier for $1,000.
Hon. c. c. Clay, jun, late U. S. Senator
from Alabama, has returned home from Min
nesota in somewhat improved health.
Governor Letcher, of Virginia, has issued a
proclamation, under date of the Sd of May, {in
response to the Presidents proclamation in
which the Governor authorizes the command
ing general Of the military forces of the State
to call out, and to cause to be mustered into the
service of Virginia, from time to time, as the
public exigency may require, such additional
number of volunteers as he may deem neces.
sary. The following places of rendezvous are
designated:
Harpers Ferry, Staunton, Alexandria, War.
renton, Culpeper courthouse, Gordonsvile,
Lynchburg, Abingdon, Fredericksburg, King
George court house, Gloucester Point, West
Point, Norfolk, Smithfeld, Petersburg, Buffa.
10, Barboursville, Charlestown, Parkersburg,
Moundsvile, Grafton, and Richmond.
The President has appointed Joseph G. Hays
postmaster at Meadville, Pa; John Hanno
postmaster at Lyons, N. Y; c. W. Patton,
postmaster at Altoona, Pa.
General Scott has, for the third time, volun
tarily taken the aath of allegiance to the Con-
stitution and laws. The officers of his staff
have followed his glorious example. The first
occasion was when he entered the service, and
the second when in command of Fort Moul
trie, in the "Calhoun notification" times.
George C. Whiting, Esq, late Commissioner
Of Pensions, has been appointed by the Sec.
retary of the Interior to $4,000 per annum
position in his Department, created to carry
out the late law of Congress in connection with
the return of Africans found on slave ships.
Charles B. Calvert, Esq, of Nd, has ad-
dressed letter to the citizens of that State,
urging them to stand by the Union, and de-
nouncng the idea of peaceable secession.
Gov. Brown, of Georgia, has issued his proc.
lamation commanding the citizens of that State
that they do not, under any pretence whatever,
remit, transfer, or pay to the Government of
the United States, or any one of the States
composing said Government, which is known
as freesoil State, or to any citizen of any
such State, any money, bills, drafts, or other
things of value, either in payment of any debt
due, or hereafter to become due, or for or on
account of any other cause whatever, until the
termination OF hostilities. A similar command
has been made on the banks of Georgia, and is
done in pursuance of a law of the State.
The Lynchburg Republican says of the Ken.
lucky troops which arrived in that city last
week, that the average height of the members
is five feet nine aud half inches, while no
man in the reg iment weighs less than one hun.
dred and fifty pounds. They are under the
command Of Colonel Blanton Duncan.
Hon. Asa Biggs, of North Carolina, for.
warded his resignation as district Judge of
the United States to President Lincoln on the
23d of April.
Lieutenant John N. Maflit, late of the United
States navy, tenders Us services to North Car.
olina or to the Confederacy.
The steamships W. G. Hewes, Texas, and
Tennessee, belonging to New York, have been
taken possession Of ut New Orleans, by the au.
thority Of Governor Moore.
The president and directors of the Bank of
North Carolina have rendered to the State
loan of 100000 for purposes of defence.
Five thousand five hundred superior mus.
kets, lately contained in the United States ar.
senal at Fayetteville, North Carolina, reached
Richmond last week. They win be used, it is
said, to arm the troops of the ConfederaQy now
congregating in the Virginia State capital
There are over two thousand troops encamped
near Raleigh, North Carolina.
General Scott publishes another card, beg
ging correspondents to spare him. He says he
has no office within his gift, no power to accept
individual volunteers, nor corps of volunteers :;
no time to read applications for autographs
and cannot acknowledge one letter in fifty.
Gov Andrew has notified the Secretary of
the Navy that Massachusetts has purchased the
steamers Massachusetts and South Carolina,
recently employed rs packets between Boston
and Charleston that they are thoroughly equip
ped and manned, and are ready for sea and any
Government service. Governor Andrew asks
for authority to commission commanders The
Secretary Of the Navy nor the President has
such authority. They can only be received in
the service rs auxiliary to the navy, and must
be commanded by a regularly commissioned
naval officer. If they are not thus employed
they will be used by the State to ply within
Massachusetts waters, to protect the commerce