The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-05-25

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ssyns 49, - 80 .,.,..r. 4
AfcHisoH, LAY AT- Al. mesuns = Ma .h;s
OF Atchison, without respeScs 9, pay .;-ch;Id
evening, and PRESIDED over oy 49, 49, ,,ss. ;ny
. series OF resolunons were soop'.S, .i r and
ample and complete pro.ec.'o ",,S cher freight
property, and to goyern"ens NV INV sh;n,ed here
of all descriptions which may oe s"pp ~. IN.
No danger apprehende1 lIoa, a Ay sv md
several companies are 'nofo'k''! y
fully equipped.
aA Massachusetts. st
BosroN, May ia bill was introduced IN
the House to-day which proposes to prohibit any
person buying or holding collateral securities Of
the seeded States under the penalty OF i'm.
prisonment in the State prison.
The bill was ref rred to . special Committee
on the Governors Address.
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NRw ORLEANS, May H-Texan advices say
tnas Ooi. van Dorm succeeded IN Causing u'e
s%llenoei VI 'ne Ie"a''nss ,..,a "p ~, .ha 10
Troops: Texans, in numbers doubtless, on 'ne
upper tronter. are taxing al nscessary e.eps -
oe,eha tue state against nos.'lc ,"cu' s'ons =;
Untounded rumors at Montgomery say Adolf
tionlsts are marching TO capture tine iorts oA VIC
upper border.
NV YoRx. Nav ls-The Posts special dis
match says negotiations for the purchase of the
steamship Atlantic for $3.50, 900 were immedi-
atelv broken OF on the Secretary of Treasury
asserting that il had been offered for 100000
less 70 the Galway line Vanderbilt has ten.
aored his three steamers at a price to be fixed
bv the government agent. If that is declined,
he will give the government the Vanderbilt
within fortnight.
The Massachus ice tts troops, under Gen. Butler,
~;ll have nossession of the Gosport Navy Yard
or dastrov II.
TSnac;.l IN the Commercial Advertiser
WAsmSGToS. Nav ls.-Major General But
Il, viIl On m Annapoli. tomorrow to CONSOLE
date the Massachusetts, troops into division,
and then to Fort Monroe These troops wiz
DIVE him Formidable command,
Il is probable that Gen. Mcclellan will enter
Western Virginia at the head of his Ohio and
other western troops spontaneously with a
| movement nv Gen. Butler on Norfolk At the
same time n column OF regulars will move fom
Washington. attacking Virginia at three or four
points.
POSTS Special1
There is repo,t of Unionism in Eastern Vir-
einia
Charles Repton publishes an address to the
people of Fairfield county, announcing himself
a candidate for Congress in the 7th district
The National Intclligencet~ of this morning
construes Lord John Russell's recent sneech in
PA n
Southern Confectionery to issue letters of maiaue
and hiring nr;zes into British ports.
TSne,i,l to Tribune.1
w.su,,crns Nav The announcement of
| i. NON ri;t,rv d.nartment Including Virginia,
| North Caro- ina and Tennessee, has ADDED in
,srs.iv- m the war excitement Further an
management that the command vas assigned to
Gen Rutler in no wav diminished the fepiil &.
Generals Scott, Butler and Mansfield have
been IN consultation with Mr. Cameron most of
the day.
The Massachusetts 9Th and 9th regiments re-
ceiyed orders this D. m. to prepare for an instant
start.
A battery of eleven guns on AQUA Creek has
been discovered with extensive earth works
near the mouth.
| Last night three Zouaves strayed from camp;
when arrairned before Col Ellsworth this'rnorn.
| ing one of them unwound from his body seccs-
| sion flag. II feet long. which they had hauled
| down from pole at Alexandria.
| A nerson direct from Richmond, who saw
Gov. Letcher night before last, reports the
| Governor to be very much frightened, and to
have said that he hoped and believed there
would be no fighting
Dispatches to the World say by Wednesday
it ia believed that IL, 900 of our soldiers will be
encamped on Arlington Heights.
| SECRETARY Sa'IplGN tias uSSiihSo " "SSs Nv e"s
four Maryland regiments offered by Gov. Hicks,
simply for the defence of that State apd of the
| District. The Governor has mistaken entirely
| the tenor of the Secretarys explanation. and II
the Maryandcrs enlist they must enter the gene
raj service.
A letter received here from the editor OF a
Memphis paper formerly resident OF Wash
ington, states that provisions are very scarce in
that city, and all business ruined, and that sol
diers are not coming forward as rapidly as Was
| anticipated.
| Times dispatch.
| Gen. Sickies left this p. m. for New York with
| his commission and Instructions. His Whole
brigade will be at once put in the field; probably
| they will 20 to some point near Buffers COM
mand near Fort Monroe. He is ordered to make
all possible haste in his movements.
Herald correspondence
1t is understood thai Gen. Mansfield will take
and of $500 volunteers and $500 regulars
to be advanced into Virginia from this point
The forces that will be detailed to take Harpers
Ferry will probably be commanded by Brgadier
General Reeder.
Gen. Patterson and staff. including Senator
Sherman are her. and received verbal instruc-
tops concerning the proposed movement of
troops from Southern PENNSYLVANIA upon Va.
The President has been absent from the house
nearly all d ~ reeonuoitering in the vicinity of
Washington.
his decided that M more troops will be ac
cented bv the government under the last reaui-
simon either from NV York or elsewhere
Some go 600 men are enlisted.
The War Dep't contemplate establishing
cantonmeut. one at Gettysburg, Pa, and another
in the neirhbornood of New York. The forces
that will he collected in these camps will probs
b,v be15 900 ar % 600 men. They will be worked
nm by the hest officers to the highest proficiency
and kent in constant readiness for active ser
vice, The force at Get,, ~buy will no doubt be
empio,ed at the right moment for an inland
movement that il may not he proper at this
time to disclose. That near New York is me mt
to be directed nnain., variou, points OF the sea-
boards bounding rebel States. Orders are issued
TO get ready 1T the earliest moment feet of
steam transports that will rendezvous on the
attaining waters so that in a few hours, when
til. signal is given the whole of the forces on
the AtI,u,ic eoast ,,,n he embarked to proce, d
with all speed on The service designated.
TWorl,l's Dispatch
WASHINGTON, 10 -L,rse NUMBER OF Bost onians
here assure the Government that they can have