The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1861-11-28

Progress Of the WORK of suppre.io,

Progress OF the WORK OF Huppre01ots
Authorities continue to accumulate III
favor of the Legality of the course takon by
Captain Wilks in removing Messrs. Slidell
and Mason from the English mail steamer
Trent Mr.. George Sumner publishes a
communication in the Boston Transcript.
taking the position that tho Trent was liable
TO captnrc--Grst for carrying the cnemy's
dispatches; second, for the refusal Of the pur-
ser to cxhbit the ship's papers to the board
ing officer and third, according to English
practice, for carrying hostile cmbassa lor.
A writer in the New llavon Journal, over the
signa,ure of "B."---probably EX.Govcrnor
Baldwin--alao sustans tho act.
The review of the troops at Boiley's Cross
Roads near Wash ngton OF Wednesday is
said TO have been the grandcst sight ever
witnessed on this continent. In order to
circuit of the compactly formed mass, stan
ding several regiments deop, it took nearly
an hours hard riding alta gaIlop. The Com
mander-.n.Chiof was accompanied by the
President and Secretary of War, his body
guard, and several squadrons Of Cavalry.
The division Of Generals Mcdowell, Smith,
Mccall, Banker, Fit2iohn, Porter, Franklin
and Hciutzelman, participated, aud wore
three and half hours passing yregimcnts.
Adviccs from Missouri states that Price
has abandoned his position at Cassvillc
near the Arkansas line, and moved to his
old quarters at Neo5ho, about 20 miles to
the Northeast towards Kansas. Some ap-
prchcnejon was felt that he had do,igus on
Kansas. The Rebel Legislature Of Missouri
was in session ia Neosho, whore they had
passcd an ordnance Of secession and elected
Rains us United States Senator to tho Con
fcdcrate CouSrcRs.
A dispatch from Cairo, datcd the Goth inst.
states that an attack is anticipated on that
point every hour. Tho troops there, al
Camp Holt, and at Birds Point were al
to open frc. The picl,ets were driven in OF
tho Kentucky side by bo ly Of reb Is \
rcgim ut Lad Just cturrcd from a few miles
above that point on the Mississippi, after
| an ullHuCCCHHlul NIdSC dittl 'Nll' o'i'hOl'
who made bold stroke, in ec,atnS a St
Louis packet the night before.
From North Carolina we received ncwt
Of the most graf ryils eli IRA ter, but u,
more than previous cv,nts had prepared III
to antcipa e. / ems that Couvcut.oi
has been hell at IIattcIas, representing 4!
or moro than half of the counties III tha
state, which adopted an ordinance repeal
ing the act OF Secession, restoring the Stat
to its former relations to the Union ant
establishing Provisional Government owe
which n Governor was appointed with iuI
authority necessary to carry out the object
Of the ordinance. To what extent thi
movement has been openly participated il
by the citizens of that state, we are not in
formed. but we have the assurances of boil
the loyal citizens and rebels there that
strong Union sentiment is still alive and onl.
needs to be rostcred
Similar adviccs reach us from Easter
Virginia. Some 1000 or 5000 citizens q
Accomac and northampton counties wer
: in arms when Gen. DiX's troops crosse
from Maryland. The effect ofthat officers
proclamation has been to change almost th
entire sentiment of the people, who haV
thrown down their arms and the stars am
stripes now wave mopposcd on the Eas
crn Shore, the homcso Wise and other lcac
ing rebels.