Daily national Democrat., 1861-08-27
Military Matters.
The following items are from yesterday
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The following items are from yesterday S
Sacramento Union:
WAeoNMAsTER. Philip Smith steamboat
and stage runner Of this city has been APP
pointed by Gen sumner ns WagoHmaster in
connection with the volunteer forces now
being raised in response to the call OF the
President The position is an important one.
So far as we haze heard any expression on
the above selection. it has been that Of une-
quivocal regret. Smith is not only regard
ed as pre-eininently unsuitable for the posi-
ton but it is asserted that lie has until very
recently, been an outspoken Secessionst
CAVALRY CoMPAYY-A meeting was held
on Saturday evening, at the Arrnory OF the
City Guard for the purpose of making furth-
er arrangements for the formation of cav
airy company. Thirty-fire names, in all
were enrolled. The roll is now open at the
Orc Hotel under the charge of j. M Ropes
An adjourned meeting will be held ut the
Pavilion to morrow evening for the purpose
of eecting officers. Some fifteen or twenty
members of the City Guard will join the cav
alny company.
MAJOR OF INFANTRY.-E E Eyre, of this
city, has been appointed ly Governor Down,
cy as Major of Infantry in the new aomy of
volunteers to he raised in this State. He was
formerly Captain of the Suiter Rihes of this
city, and is at present in the ofllrp of the Sec
retary Of state under johnson Price. He
was understood to Symrathize with the Sc
cessionists in the early part of the year, hut
dissenied from the action of the Breckin-
ridge State Central Committee in indorsing
the Lndlcy resolutions, and resigned from
the Committee of which he was ut the time
mem er, on account of their passage. He
has more recently been an auowed and out
spoken Union man.
Still ENRoLlINa In addition to the COM
pany of cavalary forming Ia this city, mus
ter roll is kept open at, Hamilton Had, X
street. between Fourth and Fifth streets, for
those who wish to join the infantry for the
war.
A New MILITARY CoMPANY.-A number Of
the most wealthy and influential citizens of
Columbia. have organized themseles into
military company, to be called Company A.
Tuolumne Home Guards. The new company
nre being instructed in their drill 10y Captain
A. NJ. Dohbie.
AID FOR MASSACHUSETTS VoLUNTEEEs-The
citizens Of Massachusetts, resident in san
Francisco held an enthusiastic meeting at the
Academy Of Music Friday night and appoint
ed a Committee to collect funds for the T. lief
of the families of volunteers Wells. Fargo
& Co, will act rs agents to forward contri-
buttons from all parts of the State
THE CAVALRY REGIMENr.-D. d. Cotton,
who was offered by Governor Downey, at
the suggestion of the War Department at
Washington, the Coloneicy of the cavalry
regiment, was in Sacramento on Saturday to
confer with the Governor lie has accepted
the offer and will forthwith proceed to his
county iSiskiyou) in which he hopes to be
able to raise large proportion of the regi-
ment Col. Cotton is a native Of Maine, but
resided many years in Illinois. lie is Doug
las Democrat and Chairman of our Central
Committee, and was at one time Sheriff of
Siskiyou county. The position of Major of
this regiment has been offered to Mr. Pollock
of San Francisco, and accepted.
CAMP DowNEr.-A rev camp has been Sc
iected near San AntouiU, for the use of the
volunteers TO he mustered in for service on
the plains, and has been named in hcnor of
Governor Downey.
REJECTED. Gen Sumner has rejected Capt
Regan, of the first volunteers, because the
Captain expressed sentiments of sympathy
with the South prior to the fall of Sumter -
Regan says he has been for sustaining the
Government ever since the first gun fred on
Sumter; but Sumner replies that none bat
men who have always been for sustaining
the Government can he trusted now.