Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1861-05-08
LATEST NEWS.
From Virginia.

ctement, owing to an alarming report which bad
gained currency that hu organised plan was iai'
to burn those three ssaes Special guards wcro
immediately placed ever all those places.
The Northern papers urge an immediate attack
on Harpcr's Ferry, Alexandria and Norfolk be-
fore the people of Virginia have time to ratiy the
ordinance of secession.
The Maryland Legislature has appointed five
Secessionists on the committee to superintend the
arming of the State.
Gen. Wool has been ordered from New York
back to Troy by Gen. Scott, in a brief, sharp ana
snubbing letter. Wool is requested not to inter-
fere with Scott's orders.
NORFOLK May 1.-THE Bay Line has been per-
mitted TO resume their trips for mails and pas
sensers.
The British ship Hiuwatla, from Liverpool ar
rived at her destination, City Point, on Monday,
with five hundred sacks of salt for Messrs. De
Yoss & Co., of Richmond. On Saturday afternoon
she was boarded by a crowd from tho y. s. ship
Cumberland, two miles OIL Old Point, and the
Captain was told by Conn., Pendergrast, who came
in person. that he had better not attepht to enter
the waters of Virginia, as his ship would probably
be seized that he had better put back to sen, and
enter at Philadelphia or New York ; that, il nc
proceeded to his present destination, the Virgin
ians would not only seize and appropriate his vcs-
sci, but would also keep him and his crew. Ihe
Captain, notwithstanding these false representa-
tons, continued on, and arrived at City Point.
having been shot at twice on his way by the van
Ha into H. to Nlnn
Government of the outrage.
Major Anderson was the bearer from New York
of four million of dollars in gold for the Treasury
in Washington.
\ bill establishing Secession Committee of
Safety, met such resistance in the Senate OF Mary
land on Saturday, that it was finally recommitted.
The papers all agree that on Monday begin the
offensive operations by Lincoln Norfolk. H"r-
per's Ferry, anil AcMnndria, arc points desisna-
ted. The New York Tribune, of Saturday, says:
"Ou Monday, at farthest, let the country be pre-
pared for a proclamation from the President lie
has determined upon active. Instant, decisive ana
comprehensive action. The time has arrived whcn,
in accordance with the doctrines announced in mis-
inaugural the President, will proceed to rcrosSc$s
the property OF the United states.
1t is reported that the English and French Min
listers at Washington have protested 70 the Mont
gomery GoTernms!:: agaias; the issuing of letters
OF Margs The impression was general in diplo.
matte circles tina, the Confederate Government
would not take such responsibility against their
protest.
Itis reported that the Government. has pur-
chased twenty-nine additional vessels. and wl
within twenty days, blockade every Southern
port.
General uarncy reported thst le received ccur-
te,u. treatment from the Virginia authorities, and
il is rumorci tha, he will be put in command ol
the troops n, Washington.
ALExAxparA, May ), 1890 p. M.--Lincon
Issued another proclamation on Friday, calling
for IN additional force Of fortEtwn thousand anu
thirtv-fvur volunteers to serve three years This
force is designed to increase the regu!a. army
with eight regiments Of infantry. ons regiment o.
cavalry one regiment Of artillery, u" tseniy't~"
hundred and sevcnty-oac additional suincn. LIN
coln promises to diyulsc the views aa' p'aas %
the Administration to tho forthcoming Congress.
on the fourth ofJuly.
The course of Maryland is still III 'iVu't. Ao IL
ing definite was done by the Legislature -rr i
Saturday morning but the sending Of anoths'
Committee to the PRESIDENT for what pnrI"Sr II
not known.
ALEXANDRIA, May 5.-This city, i; is exfecte"
will be occupied by Federal troops t"-:uoF''A'
who will advance from Washington, by the Long
Bridge.
Five transports, with men and munitions of
war, have passed ur to Washington.
Lincoln visited and inspected tho Nary iaFd
to-day.
There are now six thousani troops al Anna O.
lis. Seven hundred left there last night h"nh'
ont They arc to land near Baltimore to cooper
ate with troops approaching that city from the
North.
Several persons have been urrcsied IN the
neishborhood of Annapolis as spies Some OF
them had made accurate surveys and minute de-
tails Of the operations there. The 'l'or- war
Alerhany, the Forward. the Baltic. aad the heaar
are OF Annapolis.
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