Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-05-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The U. S. troops are now permitted
to pass through Baltimore without mo-
lestation. Shcrnlan's Battery, and a
Pennsylvania Regiment, under command
of Col. Patterson, passed through that
place on Friday last. The Union feel
ing is increasing, and the stars and
stripes are flying in all parts of the city.
The famous steam gun, owned by
Winans, of Baltimore, was captured, on
Friday last, on it's way to Harper s
Ferry, to be used by the rebels. a
warrant has been issued by the U. S. to
arrest the owner, who will be made to
suffer severely for his folly. We learn
by the Baltimore San that the u S.
troops attempte to make display of
its efficiency, but discovered, upon trial,
that it would not work, some of the es-
sential parts Of it having been lost.
1t was rumored on Friday last that
an insurrectlon among the slaves had
broken out in some of the border coun-
ties of Kentucky. Great excitement
prevailed, but it proved to be false
rumor. The Southern people seem to
be on the alert when such reports reach
their ears, Notwithstanding they profess
to believe that the slave element is per-
fectly comfortable
Under the late call of the President
for volunteers for three years service,
Ohio is entitled to six regiments. Vol
unteering is actively going on in differ
ent sections, but companies cannot be
accepted until further orders from
Washington.
Pensacola and Charleston Harbors
are now under blockade, and New Or
leans will also be blockaded shortly.
At least three hundred thousand
volunteers have rendered their services
to the Government, under the Grst call
of the President.
The English steamship Great East
ern, which visited this country last fall,
arrived off Sandy Hook, on Mon Jay
She proves to be an Improbable invest
ment to her owners, and they are at
loss to know what to do with her. 1t is
by some of the N. Y. papers
that the Government charter her tor the
of troops, and other war
purposes. 1t is not probable that this
will be done, as size is too large to enter
any harbor south of Norfolk.
The rebel forces, it is reported, are
at Harper's Ferry in great
numbers.
-Parkersburg, Va, has been desig-
mated as a point of rendezvous for the
Virginia Militia. The Rrvenswood
Va) Chronicle understands that PIT
Pleasant is to be made another point
Rather uncomfortable quarters these
places will be.
The following was the first article
Of stipulation entered into between the
Virginia Convention and A. Fl Stephens
1t will show the relation of the Virginia
Militia toward the United States Will
they be permitted to rendezvous on the
border, when it is understood that jeff
Davis is commander-in-c chief Of such
forces? The article reads as follows:
1st. Until the Union Of said Common
wealth with said Confederacy shall be
perfected, and said Commonwealth shall
become a member Of said Confederacy,
according to the Constitutions of both
powers, the whole military operations,
offensive and defensive, of said Com
in the impending conflict
with the United States, shall be under
the chief control and direction of the
President of said Confederate States,
upon the same principles, basis and
footing as if said Commonwealth were
now, and during the interval, member
of said Confederacy.