Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-05-10


g5g Louisiana has furnished to Mem
phis, Tenn, several 32-pounders, 5000
Mississippi rifles, and 100000 cartridges.
The Confederate States government has
also sent to that city several pieces of
ordnance and 10000 guns.
PREPARATIONS TO ATTACK CAIRO.
CAIRO, May A. Gen. Pillow, Gen.
Ely, and other prominent officers of the
Confederate Army, with large number
from Mississippi and Arkansas are at
Memphis, and heavy guns are arriving
there daily. Col. Prentiss, commanding
officer at this point has just received the
following dispatch, from three of the most
prominent citizens of Cincinnati
Gen. Pillow has several steamers
ready at Memphis. He meditates an
immediate attack on Cairo, Illinois"
Col. Prentiss replied:
Let him come. He win learn to dig
his ditch on the right side. l am ready"
gy The war fever in New York is
strong, as will appear by the following
dispatch from Gov. Morgan to Mr.. Sew
ard
ALBANY, April 80, 1861.
lion. Wna H. .Seward, Washington.
VIII there not be requisiton for
more troops from this State? One hun
dred regiments can be mustered into the
service easier than they can be depressed.
E. D. MORGAN"
Mr.. Seward replied that there would
probably be no further requisition for
three months troops, but that forty thou
sand volunteers are to be accepted to
serve during the war.
ALL HAIL CoNNECTICUT The
Hartford Press of Friday evening chron-
icles the following glorious evidence of
public spirit and patriotism in the Con
necticut Legislature:
"a bill was reported yesterday appro-
priating 100000 and authorizing the
Governor to call out 10000 men for the
defense of the Union, It was passed
unanimously this morning, by both
houses. All parties joined in urging it
through with hearty good will"
BY this bill the men are to receive
SO a month in addition to the govern
ment allowance.
ca A citizen of Indiana, who has
been down into Kentucky and Tennessee,
writes to the New York Post as follows /:
almost every man in Nashville be-
tween the ages Of sixteen and sixty is
drilling for the conflict. They have
wrought themselves into such an excite
ment as to resemble fends rather than
men. The drum and fife and measured
military tread are heard on every side.
To pay a Northern debt is treason. /
was told Of one case where a man show
ed his creditor a bank account Of $4,000
and refused to pay him $500. Asa gen
eral thing, however, ] think that these
men have very little money, a short sup
ply of provisions, and no great abundance
of arms or munitions of WARRIOR all
which thank Heaven, aud not our Nor
thern foresight or Precaution.
Our Northern men, judging them by
their words and actions, must be willfully
blind or idiotic to place any reliance upon
the Border States, or give their assuran-
ces Of love for the Union a second
thought. They are allied to the Cotton
States, and have only sought to maintain
a neutrality for the purpose Of gaining
time.
am we'll satisfied that the legislature
of Tennessee has before this actually
passad an ordinance of secession; and
that Kentucky holds off only because she
hopes to obtain arms from the govern
ment. With all her boasted loyalty, the
American flag is not protected from in
suit upon her soil Eyen in Louisville
no one dares unfurl to the breeze our
national stars and stripes. / could not
find a solitary American flag, great or
small, in the entire city. Men fear to
express themselves"
g8T The quality of the news sent down
South by the rebels is displayed in the
following extract from a dispatch dated
Norfolk, April %, and published in the
New Orleans papers:
Capt. Elzey reached this city yester-
day morning, having succeeded in making
his escape the night previous from Old
Point, where for more than week, he
was held a close prisoner. He reports
that there are two other Southern Off
GERS, who, like him, were not permitted