The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-04-30


Regulars for hve years service ........... 25 600
seamen for i've years service. $1,000
Total. .l5S 600
That is eco the week before las. IS 900 day
Even this falls short OF the real number States
send double the number Of regiments asked for.
Aarge number Of additional volunteers arrived from
Annapolis yesterday and to-day
Carl Schurz Is here He has obtained three months
leave Of absence from his mission at Medrid and win
soon go West, there engage in a active, but
less efficient service.
The committee from New York city, consisting OF W.
NJ. Evarts Judge Pierrepont and Judge vanderpooi,
whose business you know arrived evening"
closeted with the President 10 day Office seekers
receive little attention An applicant consulate
informed by Governor Seward this morning that
appointments Of that clVs would be made till travel
Northward was less obstructei than at present.
Parades have been going On all day. The Rhode Island
regiment marched up from the Arsenal where the men
who in the Bienvillc over las. night to
the Patent Office, where they quartercd followed by
their own large baggage wagons, drawn By their own
horses and by led horses for relays In the afternoon
they mustered into SERVICE and reviewed by the
President.
The Sixth regiment Of the District militia were mus
tered today. The whole Number of the District militia
is two thousand seven hundred.
The Sixth Massachusetts regiment paraded this morn
ing, their shirt sleeves carrying muskets but no equip
mens.
Every Saturday there will be music by the Marine
band, and the other bands in the city, in the Presi
dents grounds, and every Wednesday in the Capitol
grounds at five o'clock. The grounds behind the Capitol
used every day for d by the Seventh Of New York
and Sixth Of Massachusetts.
day two since large quantity Of bombshells re.
Gently manufactured at the Navy Yard were found TO
have been filed with mixture Of sand and sawdust
pyrotechnist named William Thompson, and the keeper
Of the magazine named Ludwig, recently resigned and
went South.
Corporals Guard from Company c. Union regiment,
shot Cornelius Boyd at his house street. at an
early hour on Sunday morning H. was charged with
endeavorng to raise company for the Southern army
he was foreman of brckmakers ard without property
The testimony respecting the affair s conflicting but on
the whole bears against the soldiers, and the jury
brought in verdict Of simple homicide TIE corporal J.
h. Murphy, and the men, eleven in number have been
arrested for trial. the civil authorities being assisted by
company Of United States troops detailed for the pur-
rose. The affair is an unfortnnats one.
Colonel James s Brisbin, of the Pennsylvania voun-
tcers, who arrived here on Saturday morning. from Har
rsburg, by way Of Baltimore, three times
in that city he thinks that there are two thousand &C.
Cession troops in the city.
The Twelfth New York regiment which is quartered at
the Assembly Rooms, in Louisiana avenue, dimes a. Will
lard's to. day.
Frederic Bailey son Of the late Or Bailey, editor OF
the National Era has been appointed cadetshp at
West Point.
Marylander, who is employed Ia ono OF the public
Offices here made good speculation at Alexandria yes
terday. He bought twenty thousand pounds of fish, IN
herring at four dollars a thousand and the shad
at FIVE dollars and fifty cents per hundred. The
former this morning brought, at the same
PLACE. eight dollars per thousand, and tn
latter had also nearly doubled This sudden rise pric
is a,trbutableto der from the Virginia authorities
forbidding the sale Of FISH at or above Alexandria.
Droyes Of CATTLE their way through Virginia to !h
city, have also been stopped.
one man roportd tha. hcEsaw FIVE six companies on
their way from church at Alexandria, drilling. There
may be thousand troops there Half dozen brass
pieces stationed in front Of building supposed to
be a bank.
entirely WE'LL have obtained short furloughs,
and ten or fifteen have gone TO New York. They will
soon be back.
No more troops have arrived In the city since last
night The sixty.nnth New York regiment is soon ex-
pected.
train left for Annapolis a half past .welve to-day
carrying the mails and number Of passengers. 1t will
return with troops the Of tho night No regu
lar mail arrangements have yet been perfected, and
newspapers have been received from the North except
by private hand, OF later date than Sunday week.
few HEAIDs OF Saturday, which arrived mysterioGsly
yesterday, cold al prices ranging from twenty-five
cepts TO two dollars.
The mails sometimeg 60 BY Annapolis, and sometimes
by Baltmors The Pest oace Department has offered to
send TO and from Annapolis and Perryvilc il
the War Department viii regular train but no
de Unite arrangement has yet been perfected.
Of the late Nicholas Hill, OF Albany has been ap
pointed to a Second IIeutcnancy 10 the army.
miFapprehension exists with reference the proca-
nation Of martial law In this District No proclamation
necessary; but the President, commander in Chief
a doubtful constitutional power in OF
necessity, and exercise martial law without previously
procaimng IL.
Of Sir Charles Stewart officer who served with
great distinction in the Peainsuar war; acting aid
decamp 10 Col Stone Inspector GsnerL OF the District
militia
WASHINGTON, April 20, 1861.
Tho sixty.ninth regiment arrived this evening. The
train aso brought number OF passengers among them
Attorney General Foster OF Massachusetts, who by
the Maryland BOAT to Annapolis which brought stores and