The Van Buren press., 1861-04-24

| The Posts special says engineers are re-
connoitering Washington with a view OF
I erecting defensive works. The mayor of
i Georgetown is raising troops for the Gov
ernment 81 g.
Davis proclamation occasions renewed
activity and the Delta of the Mississippi
will be vigorously blockaded.
j The Philadelphia Bulletin has a special
dispatch, stating that the Southern troops
are marching on Washington. X dispatch
was received = at Savannah, Ga, on the
10th, that Virginia had passed an ordin-
ance of secession. No advices hal been re-
ceived at Montgomery, nevertheless it was
believed by the Government.
One hundred guns are now firing all over
the South for Virginia.
President Davis has just been officially
1 notified.
G At New Orleans, the reported secession
of Va, is received with immense cheering.
5 100 guns were fired. The people are fran
tically joyous.
5 ST.. LOUIS, 10. p. M.
7 The Harper's Ferry armory was fired
t last night, and abandoned by the United
t States troops. Later accounts say there
G was terrible scene on Pratt-strcot, to-day.
1 The railroad track was taken up, and
troops attempting to march through there,
e were attacked by "a mob, with bricks and
stones and were fired upon. The fire was
/, returned Two OF the 7th regiment OF
, Pennsylvanl troops were killed, and scve
: raj wounded.
t This fight is still going on.
n second dispatch says, there is intense
e excitement the soldiers are forcing their way
through. They fired ON the mob, killing
: ten. A third dispatch says it is impossi-
4 bic to say what portion OF the troops have
been attacked They bore a white flag as
< they marched up Pratt-street, and were
a greeted with showers of paving stones.
n military force left Richmond, w ednes.
$ day night, for Harper's Ferry, Other com
panies Joined them on their route. From
information received from Virginia, there il
: no doubt in otficia! quarters, that tn, Ar
inory by this time has peen taken possess
Ion OF by the State forces
..ic latest from Norfolk, received at tho
Navy Depot yesterday afternoon, is tina
J when Capt Prendergast asccrtained tina
IL the channel was obstructed he placed hi
l. ship broadslde to Norfolk and Portsmouth
of and demanded that the distractions in TN
l. river be removed, else he would level botl
lie places. 1t Is added that the citizens com
Is piled with the demand.
/ Gov. .etcher's reply to Secretary Came
+ ron, calling tor the quota OF troops, con
% ciudes rs follows:
"a " our ooJect Is to suojugate the South
III Elm States and your Iequisltion made up
3 on ME for sucn an object, III my Judgment
III Is not within the powers oi the Consultu
E ton, OF the act Of Ii95, and viii not b
y complied with. You have chosen 10 ina,l
ne Surate civil war and having done So "
re wIii meet 1t III spirit Determined as til
II Administration has exhibited to the South.
IL Is stated oy parties direct from Rlch
mond, that the ordinance ol secession wa
II publicly proclaimed yesterday The vot
Oh Its passage Is kept secret.
: In New ork, Col. Ellsworth had up t
SIX o'clock last evening, enrolled 6UU lire
men III Zouave Regiment, and The ranks ar
r. expected to DC fiiled TO-DAY, and the whol
uniformed, equipped and III Washngto
before Tuesday next.
Washington dispatches to the Herald So
that Com. Paulding, reports tina: the YES
IA sells sunk below Norfolk are three heh
IL boats, and can be easily removed that tn
Gosport Navy Yard is protected by tn
guns OF the vessels moored Off the YARD
ID and those in command are fully prepare
for amy emergency ; and ii any attempt
made by Virginia to take the Yard, the
will be blown to atoms
- IVe Custom House refuses clsarances t
the ports ot the soceeded States. Eight
thousand cartridges were seized by the Shel
iii OF Amboy, yesterday, at the factory
L destined for the South, and the Factory
N threatened with destruction
III The Stn l,ayifnaut of Nas 40
II unteers, Col. Monroe, arrived at o'cloc
at this morning, and is quartered at the AS
A. tor House and other Hotels. They wer
received with the same unbounded enthu
'e siasm as those of yesterday. They leav
: at noon. The 7th Regiment OF New Yor
10 leaves at p. NJ, to-day.
D. The Harriet Lane arrived at New Yorl,
last night. The steamer State of Main
OF had arrived with 500 men of the 4th Mas
y Regiment under exGov. Packard.
/ AT Louisville, KY, Gov. Magof1in i
Is trying to get the banks to loan half a mill
ION dollars, to arm the State for defence.
r; is supposed that some arrangement wilr b
Id made.
There was an immense mass meeting, ad
dressed by Guthrie, Nichols, Bullock, an
" Brown. Resolutions were unanimousl
- adopted, declaring that, as the Confederat
States commenced the war with the FEEDER
re al Government, Kentucky has right t
~ ~ choose her own position: and acknowleds
u es her loyalty, until the Federal Govern
= ment becomes the aggressor. Opposes tn
ie call of the Government for volunteers fc
~ coercion, and the raising OF troops here
cooperate with the Southern Confederacy
. o when the acknowledged intention OF III
:, latter is to march on Washington Ths
:, secession is a remedy for no evil-that Ken
lucky should maintain an independent pc
maintain an independent position, with til
Union, against the Administration and tn
:, seeded States--declaring her soil sacre
y against the hostile tread OF either, and tina
kentucky be armed In accordance to law.
AT Charleston, 81, 200, 900 OF the Con
.e tederate loan has been taken up. The ave
: rage quota Of the State was set down a
G. 81 250, 900.
, 'requisition of meI was made on Sout
"a Carolina, but for what service is not knows
Ihe news Of the secession OF Virginia wa
n received with Joy. The old secession. GU
was Tired In front Of the Courier office h
, the venerable Edmund Ruffin
A Canadian gentleman states, that sym
pathetic war feeling with the North, i
aroused in CANADA and that s;x, h,,l.