Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1861-04-19
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fl CHARLDs7oN, April 10.
= The floating battery is now in position
, commanding the barbette guns of For
. Sumter 1t carries two thirty -four FOUNDER
and two forty.two FOUNDERS, and sixty men
It The Federal steamers are expected tonight
4 The city is filling with troops.
q III '-.- .F-.4.-u WASHINGTON, April 10.
Reliable information states that the rumo
Of Gen. Ampudia marching on Brownsville,
7 Texas) 10 false. 74 -.'5 H aaa
NEW YoRK, April IL.
President Lincoln says he has postiv,
8 knowledge that an attack on Washington il
in contemE lation. He has communicated this
lnfOrmn ti0n to several Governors Of Northern
t and Western States. Ii is understood that he
desires them to call out the militia, and hold
them in readiness at a moments warning
1t is understood that Gov. Curtin will call
out the Pennsylvania volunteers, on the
least sign Of danger, for the occupation Of
, the Capital 80, =
A leading Ohio Democrat dispatches to
the President, No follows 1--WE are for you
to the death, if you will hold Fort Sumter
the necessity of holding it is absolute
r, = CHARLEsroN, April 10.
Wigfall, Chestnut, Mannis, MCGOWAN and
Boyleston have received appointments in
Gen. Beauregard's staff. A large number of
the members of the Convention, after
adjournment, volunteered as privates. @.i
About 1000. troops are now at the fortiA-
cations. :, :, -s. VI e. g.7 2 57f-
The Convention adjourned, subject to the
call Of the President. A resolution was
passed approving of Gen Twiggs behavior.
1000 troops were sent to the Notifications
to-day. ar.e tnT r.l.n.-~ -.
SAVANNAH, Ca, April IL.
Orders were received here, yesterday,
prohibiting vessels from passing Fort
Pulaski without previous information of their
pacific character. Vessels are required to
stop and send boat to the wharf at Cock.
Spurs Island, to convey commissioned Off
Ger aboard to make an examination.
Advices from Pensacola state that from
the Navy Yard to the Light House, two and
half miles, all the guns are ranged to bear
on Fort Pickens and command the channel
.r NEW YORK, April ii.
A Havana letter of the 9Th, to the Er-
press, says the annexation Of Dominica to
Spain is fully confirmed. The army TO
sustain the movement consists OF 1000 men
and four Spanish steam frigates. The
whole matter only awaits the Queens rati.
fica'iOn, President Santana of Dominica
having formally proclaimed for her.
o. BosToN, April IL.
During the session of the Legislature,
the Governor has been authorized to increase
the number of the volunteer military and
put 2,O0O troops on war footing. An
emergency fund was placed at the dispos
ton OF the Governor, but afterwards was
Withdrawn at his request
The Legislature refused to pass bill for
the abolition Of capital punishment, as also
to further protect the freedom Of speech
| GALVESTON, April 9.
1t is reported that the U. S. troops left in
Texas design concentrating at some given
point.
The Star of the West and Empire City
are still off Indianola.
| The Mexicans at Matamoras have planted
cannon pointing towards Brownsville.
The Legislature has passed bill dividing
the State into six Congressional Districts
Also, bill to issue State bonds for one mil
lion dollars, to be secured by special tax.
RICHMOND, April 10.
The extreme Unionists, in the Convention,
say they are not to be moved by telegraphic
dispatches, and indicate that they will stand
by the Government if the steamers are
attacked. he Conservatives entertain diff
ferent sentiments.
The Convention amended the thirteenth
resolution, and passed it. 1t is as follows:
lin the opinion of this Convention, the
people of Virginia will regard any action of
the Federal Government, or Of the Confed-
crate States, tending to produce collision of
forces pen:,ing efforts to effect an adjustment
OF existing difficulties, as unwise and injuri-
Gus to the interests of both, and they would
regard any such action on the Part of either
as leaving them free to determine their own
future policy" t.,s.- aa:
| The following resolution was also adopted
Resolvsd, That Virginia will wait rea-
soDable time for an answer to her PROPOSE
tons, but upon the indispensable condition
that pacific policy be adopted to seeded
States that no attempt be made to subject
them to Federal authority, nor to reinforce
forts, or recapture forts, arsenals or other
property, or to exact payment Of duties and
that all forts in seeded States ought to be
evacuated.
The Convention adjourned.
Especial to the New York ii mssl
| CHARLESTON, April IL.
Three steamers were seen off the coast
yesterday for long time.
Maj Anderson fred signal gun this
morning. .a-s4
An attack on Fort Sumter by the South
Carol:nians is momentarily expected.
Business is suspended.
1t is rumored that the fight will COM
mence at eight clock this evening unless
Maj Anderson surrenders.
1t is said the Harriet Lane Is off the bar.
Thousands Of persons are lining the shore
to witness the attack.
t. 49, WASHINGTON, April IL.
Receipts from customs for the two weeks
ending April 9th, 1860, were $l,28l,24li; !;
and for the two corresponding weeks this
year 81 500, ,667-increase $2Oa, a,426..
The Secretary of the Treasury opens bids
this evening They exceed the amount of
Treasury notes offered nearly s4,90l goo,
about $439, ,OYO at rates rasging from par to
twenty seven hhndredths premium. The
Treasury is now in good condition. No part
Of the proceeds Of last weeks loan has yet
been used, nor will it be needed for some
time to come. Receipts from customs for
two or hree weeks past have nearly equalled
the demands on the Treasury. 7..r...l
, The communication from the Southe. n
comm; ssioners charges the Administration
with gross perfdy; that under the pretext
that they would evacuate Fort Sumter they
t have sent an army to reinforce and provision
) it. They say the government at Montgomery
l earnest y desired eace, and the responsible
ity of civil war rests on the Administration.
, | a- - 2.if r. '--ial
: si5s7.E Arizona Seeded! oast %
-, ..-.-,-.,- .Sg. LOUIS, April II.
The New Mexican correspondent of the
r Republican says the cit zens Of Arizona, in
convention at Messila, on the 10Th ut., re-
$ solved themselves out of the Union; and