The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1861-04-20

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! they we're informed that lie Obligation
) was Cor three mouths Col Ellsworth
had been rendered the command 1T d
] Kouaye corps, INIT had not accepted Il,
| though be would give them the benefit d
bis experience
n The Heraifs Dispatch 81 the same date
says that the President told torthat
day that decisive events need not be
looked for before the last day Of that week.
II He remarked, Eve win then see whether
they dare TO Gre upon an unarmed vessel
sent to provision our starving soldiers
He expressed but little hope 81 PRESERVE
/ ton Of peace; but eyinced decided de-
Termination to relieve Anderson, md TO
hold the other Southern forts mt I'll haz-
ards
a Montgomery dispatch says--over
\ 1000 men had been Offered from the
border states u. 81 81
| Advires from Pensacola state that from
the navy yard 10 the light house. two
miles and q hall. guns were ranged to
bear on Fort Pickens aGd command the
channel.
Orders we're issued at Savannah on
the 10th, prohibiting vessels passing Fort
Pulaski, without previeus information Of
| their pacific character. Vessels were re-
qulred to stop and send boat % the
wharf at Cockspur Island, 70 convey
commissioned officers aboard, 10 mako an
denomination. 4
All the officers at the Philadelphia
navy yard had been ordered 10 be ready
for active service within ten days, and to
report 70 the frigates Minnesota and the
mississippi, on the 18th Of May.
The New York Commerciai says---the
report that JEFF. Davis had telegraphed
to Charleston not 10 fire on vessels car
rytng mere supplies 70 Sumter, was con
frmed by q dispatch from Charleston to q
shipping house hi that city
The Posi- says the reported agents Of |
the Confederate States received the cold /
shoulder, ID unnistakablc terms, by seye-
raj of our largest capitalists, In the mat.
ter Of the loan Of the seeded states.
Three companies Of infantry left New
Orleans for Pensacola on the 18th.
The board Of assistant aldermen a.
New Orleans had referred an appropria-
ton OF 100000, for protection Of the
city ngainst invasion, To committee.
\ Extensive ordnance and ordnance stores
had been landed at Fort Taylor by the.
schooner Mary r Hudson, from New
York. 2... u. 3... i. s.: ;..&
..s:. 5.: 4 AN EXPLANATION. z,.s&
q Various theories or reasons are given
in newspapers for the present military del
f1onstratons, among which was one that
they were stimulated by the result Of GER
tain late elections; but this was an error,
as at the commencement of the Admins
tratioB, the President and Cabinet enter
tanned the idea Of reinforcing both Forts
Sumter and Pickens, but owing 10 non
acquaintance with the means at the com
mand Of the government and the con- /,
dition Of the country, The. prosecution Of
the plans now progressing was itnpraeti.
cable. In other words, il was necessary
to ascertain the extent Of the effects bel
quehthca the President by Z the late Adj 3
1t was deemed essential to
keep secret the objects of tho military,
especially the sailing Of yes.
sells under scaled orders, Us under the |
last Administration there were; persons /
who enthusiastically communicated rs pnr. Ii
poses 10 the secessionists, and as IL fire. r
lneEtly occurred, before the orders were II
reduced TO official form. and according toll
The remark Of On eX-Secretary, the AID. In
thus HlwaFs foGnd itself en- b
parrassed at the threshold. The present f.
A Administration had limited such know IA
edge to members Of the Cabinet, and, !
perhaps. several trusty officers, and pre-Iti
stationary measures we're taken so as To- !.
'ender next to impossible the acquiring Of d
Information. s=.. :.:l ID, ia, Ii
Tie Administration, while constantly 8
a peace policy, claimed that il 3
,ould be only held to a strict accounta-.E !
,ility by the people, and however specula- b
i've might be the publications respecting r.
IS movements, it was under no obligation Ia
o announce, III advance, Its plans and S,
In other words, that the IN
Administration should be judged by its III
lets. = r :...:. r., !: ..c -. , ... Es
That Pickens had been or would be rel 81
nforced, admitted Of no Doubt, and the N
would do all in its power n
o. relieve Anderson, or secure his eyaena- n
ion Of Sumter without dishonor and con-
hitting the government to the acknow- r
edgetnent Of any. right or claim, by the h
States, or in any way recogs In
lizing the doctrine Of secession. Tue Il
in the Gnlf beyond the re- b
ief of Fort Pickens would be governed
by circumstances; -. - ie