Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-14
[speeial pI.pstehes 10 the N. Y. Herald.

WASHINGTON, May 1l.-A negro traitor
says it is the intention of the rebels 10 begin
the conflict Immediately. They complain
that the Montgomery Government is too
slow.
JEFF. Davis has been expected at Rich
mond for the last eight days.
Governor Letcher said no definite plan OF
operations has yet been determined on.
Captain Meigs has been accommodating the
the nights overlooking Washington, with a
view to the erection Of Notifications.
Governor Letcher said he had written to
the officer commanding at Harper's Ferry
TO withdraw his forces from Maryland. The
rebels are erecting heavy batteries OF Jeffer-
son Rocks 10 command the Virginia and
Maryland sides of the Potomac and the
Shannandoah also, other approaches
When the Government troops get ready to
march, the rebels will be speedily dis
lodged.
An army officer from Cairo reports not
the slightest apprehension of an attack.
Plenty of troops to hold It against any
foTee from the South.
Washington Tribune correspondence SAYS
Horatio J. Perry has been appointed Secre-
taTy of Legation to Madrid,
An oticer returning from reconnoitering
says there are but six thousand five hundred
troops at Richmond. Several Southern
regiments were expected daily.
Governor Letcher was hourly commune
eating with the Montgomery Cabinet and
acting under their orders.
Five thousand four hundred troops were
at Lynchburg and more expected.
Advices from Louisiana state that the
dangers Of insurrection are becoming more
imminent. Stringent rules are enforced on
the plantations
1t is thought that the First Regiment of
Pennsylvania Artillery will be sent to oc.
cupy Arlington Hights.
New YORK, May 1.-THE steamer North
Star has arrived, from Panama, bringing
$500, 900.
The schooner G.. N. Smith has arrived, in
charge of a prize master. She had on board
gun carriages for the rebels.
Especial Dispatch to the N. Z. Herald.l
PERRYvILLE, May l2.-It is rumored that
there was skirmishing at Alexandria to day,
with a company of Virginia cavalry.
ANNAPOLIS, May 12.-General Butler, with
fifty men and two pieces of artillery, left
this afternoon on board of steamer on
secret service. The messenger from Gov
ernor Hicks to Governor Letcher has re-
turned from Richmond. He says the Vir-
ginians expected thirty thousand Confed-
crate troops by Thursday last. The Union
men here are indignant at the occupation of
Maryland soil by Virginia.
a sudden movement of rebels from Har-
per's Ferry toward the Relay House is
feared by many judges of military affairs.
The Virginian army must soon fight or dis
perse. The Secretary of War is hurrying
forward measures of the blockade, and in
forms his friends that by the time Charles.
ton and Savannah experience its effects,
New Orleans will be closed.
HARRIsBURG, May l2.-Thirty- freight
cars with rough seats for soldiery are imme-
diately opposite Harrisburg, on the North
ern Central Railroad, and twenty. two at
York, evidently intended for the immediate
Transmission Of large bodies of troops.
An attempt was made to day to tear up
the track of the Northern Central road,
fourteen miles this side of Baltimore, but it
was detected before much injury was done.