The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-06
IMPORTANT From MANASSAS JUNCTION.

IMPORTANT From MANASSAS JUNCTION.
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General Hcaurega ard Reported to he In
Command There-Twsnty Thousand
Rebel Troeps Said 70 be In tho Neigh
borhoOd OF Fairfax Court House and
the Manassas Junction.
WASHINGTON, June 3, 1851.
The Stur OF this afternoon Says
We have information from two gentlemen Of character,
whose sympathes with the Of the Union know
70 be entirely reliable, Of whom Is just from
Manassas Junction, and the other In the immediate
vicinity Of Leesburg. The former assures that on
Monday last General Beauregard arrived certainly at the
Junction. so, take II Tor granted that he has as
sumed command Of the disunion troops In that quarter
This gentleman further Gays that there aggTe-
gate force Of troops at Manassas Junction. Centre
vile, Fairfax Station and Fairfax Court House.
This information, though differing widely from that
received by the government here, comes to under
circumstances that to place reliance In It,
Our informant from Leesburg that Sun.
day morning last, during divine service, officer
rode up to the Quaker Meeting House at Waterford,
Loudon county miles from Leesburg and ordered
the people there assembled TO be at Harpers Ferry
the next Monday morning. Qas) with all their wagons
and teams, to move tbs materials Of the troops then
there.
On that day, we believe, 900 Of those troops moved
up the Potomac TO point opposite wiliamsport.
The troops at Harpers Ferry we know to be almost
entirely deficient in army transportation, having arrived
there In comparatively small bodies, by railroad, and
having but sufficient Of other transportation TO carry
baggage Of small parties the twelve miles Of wagon
road between the northern terminus of the Manassas
Railroad and Winchester, the western terminus Of the
Winchester and Harpers Ferry Railroad.
We have further to add that LeesbuYg s twenty-five
miles from Harper's Ferry
IMPORTANT FROM ACKNOWLEDGMENT
OF GEN. BEAUREGARD.
WASHINGTON, June s, 1851.
gentleman just arrived from Richmond, where he
lay sick few days, reports the number of troops at
that point at twenty thousand He says all information
H suppressed far possible. The newspapers there
forbidden to publish correct details He met Beau
regard returning from Manassas Gap to Richmond He
many troops encamped At the Cap but form no
estimate OF the number He did not hear of JEFF Davis
being III at Ri hmond though such might possibly haye
been the case
CAPTURE OF FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS
FROM THE REBELS.
WASHINGTON, June s, 1851.
It reported to night high authority, that federal
scouts had captured rebel pay agent just this side Of
Harpers Ferry, with fifty thousand dollars with which
he intended TO pay the troops at Harper's Ferry.
REPORTS FROM BALTIMORE.
BALTIMORE June s, 1861.
steamer from Old Point reports all quiet there.
The bark General Greene of Charleston for Baltimore
owned by merchant Of Charleston, with cargo Of
sugar and moasses, had been captured by the Quaker
City.
factory Of MesMs. Merrill Thomas, of this city, to-day
and seized oil the breech loading muskes in the estab
lishment IntimAtion given that ample employ.
ment would soon be given TO the establishment in the
| manufacture Of arms for the government.
committee Of citizens, just returned from Washing
ton, have received the from the
that Baltimore shall have share in building gunboats
furnishing supplies to the government also that the
government will soon have opened and keep free and
obstructed for travel and trade the entire line of
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, efectuany obstructed
| by the Confederates at Harper's Ferry.
OUR BALTIMORE CORRESP ONDENCE.
BALTIMORE, June 3, 1861
Arrival of tie Maine Second Regiment Incidents by The
Way-Tne Aa,ch of Fifteen Regiments Through Bali
more-Proposed Puyoation Of Pratt Strea-Secessionism
Not Yet Crushed-Arrats for Treason Of Three er0ocr
n@rs-Probdbe Arrest Of the Board of Police and their
Aarshal-Judge 1aneys Fiasco, dc.
An excessively hot night uehered in sultry and show
cry morning, and by nine O'Clock the town In fever
expectation the Scotch Hghlanders from your
city, their way to the seat Of war, but instead there
Of the crowds that lined the sidewalks were favored
with the sight Of the Second Maine regiment Their
band poured forth soul stirring music not forgetting the
fine march from the sclan vespers" As they tramped
through the dust, almost ankle deep, down Lombard
street, loud the expressions Of admiration from
groups Of Union men, at the martial bearing of
the whole regiment and the hardy looks OF the men,
who seemed TO be strangers TO fatigue. Now and
then a hostile remark would fall from the lips Of
some rebel, boiling over with rage but dead silence
was the prevailing temper Of the spectators, in.
dcatng deep seated disafection. This was confined
chiefly to the better dressed casses One wormed
himself through bevy Of traitors and gave three cheers
by himself for the flag and the Union. Another rushed
through the crowd and waved large federal flag Some
young girls famed their little flags, amid shouts from
the bystanders After sufocating march Of forty or
fifty minutes the regiment reached the Camden station
ington and went their winding way The Hghlanders
are to arrive this afternoon at five O'Clock, when the
whole town and Its wife will be out TO the came
Scots
Fifteen regiments ha We passed through Baltimore since
the national highway along its streets opened by
with this vindicaton Of United States soil in Maryland
from the pollution Of the rebel mob They say that the
ploOoy ground Of Pfatt street must De Purged OF It's
offence by funeral march Of the Massachusetts, Sixth
through 1t, with their flag draped in mourning, for
the death Of the murdered heroes their way the
defence Of the nations Capitol This determnat, IN say
the loyalsts, win be made known In due time 1t would
certainly be come atonement for the crime committed by
the rebels on the 10th OF April Public sentiment has
been In some corrected in this city by the
steady marching Of federal troops through its streets.
They are an argument in favor Of the Union that no
sophstry neutralze. But for all that, It must
be supposed that secessionism Is crushed In Baltimore.
Nothing short of the utter humiliation OF the rebel chiefs
/ haq at n fauO
deep in the public mind Of this State.
There is good deal of amongst the enemies
Of the Union here, lest the Of the military power
may fall upon them and hold them for the treason they
have committed. The arrests Of ex Governors Pratt