White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1861-05-16
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~ RrsrncfIHa TELHoaApHIc OPERATIONS
The telegraph Offices of New Orleans, have, il
compliance with the request of the State au
:horities. declined to transmit any dispatches i:
CIPHER. It il stated also that no dispatches
whatever in reference to military operations il
the Confederate States, will be transmitted ex
cept BY order of the proper authorities.
p The Wheeling Intelligencer, in mention
ing the safe return Of Messrs. Clemens and
Hubbard from the Richmond Convention, say
that during their stay At the capital they were
subjected 10 great insults and annoyances, in
common with other Union members. Seces.
sionist mob visited the boarding place of one OF
the patriotic delegates, and flung halters up in
the trees before his window.
" Gen. Sumner, U. s. A., has been sent to
supersede Gen. Johnston in the command Of
the Pacific Division Of the army. Johnston is
. kInsman of Floyd, and there Is reason to sus-
pect his loyalty. Gen. Sumner is man of ap-
proved fidelity and capacity.
p The FEELING IN VIaGINIA.-The Wheel
ing Intelligsncer says: "There is majority in
this State against secession Of some So or IS, :
600. 1t is scarcel, to be expected in view of
this that the people would submit quietly to dis
union usurpa'ion. should it come to that"
u Roger Ascham Pryor, in his recent dis
union speech at Petersburg. Virginia, complains
of the necessity he was under as a member Of
Congress, associating with the "excrecsences
of Northern vulgarity." He doubtless means
the "excrescence" popularity known by the name
of "bowie knife"
u The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Press is responsible for the follow
ing statement:
Judge Logan Of Illinois, Mr.. Lincoln's late
partner, and a conservative member of the
Peace Congress, 10 the probable successor Of
Judge Mclean.
" The Baltimore Clipper says that the I'm
ion spirit not only lives but imeasureably pre-.
dominates in Maryland. People of all parties
here have grown weary and sick Of all political
or partizan agitation which has precipitated ruin
upon our country, and brought misery, bank
ruptcy, idleness-we had almost said bcggary-
to their once happy homes. The sovereign peo-
pie are determining to assert their rightful mas
terry over those who led them astray, and will
do it though the heavens fall.
u Professor George Tucker, died on We'd
nesday at the residence Of George Rives, ESQ.,,
Albermarle County, Va, in the s6th year of his
age. He had been member of Congress, and
for many years filed the Chair OF Political
Economy and Moral Philosophy in the Univer.
s,ty of Virginia.
" Twiggs, after sacrificing his honor and
conscience, has been contemptuously thrown
aside with a commission of Brigadier- eneral,
which Davis knew he could not accept. He
has sunk too low for scorn. Ills degradation can
excite no feeling but pity.
GTOFFIckRs Decentralization" writes
to the Philadelphia Press that the army officers
who had been ordered to embark on the expe-
dition from New York, waited on Gen. Came.
iohp ahu aSHuSotCu " oS "hos was suC
object of the movement, and whether it was to
operate against the seeded States. With the
utmost GOODNESS, the Secretary of War replied:
"Give me your commissions, gentlemen, you are
from the service this very hour" Any
officer who falters in his duty to his country in
this hour Of peril will be served in the same
manner.
pASricrrArINa BLocKADE.-The Mobile
Tribune says the anticipated blockade Of that
port, has lately led to a very brisk business
in loading vessels with cotton and other freights
intended for foreign ports. Cotton was being
loaded at the rate Of 376 bales day. about l26
bales over the ordinary daily rate.
p The vicksburg Wing says the people Of
that place have become indignant on reading
Mr.. Lincoln's proclamation. They have now
or will very soon find out. that not
d3y Mr.. Lincoln, but all good citizens, are very
Indignant with them.
u The London Times says that England
would have undergone a twenty years war and
could have afforded it, rather than surrender the
slave Anderson, whose extradition was deman.
ded by Missouri.