The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-10
NEWS FROM TINE SEAT OF WAR.
REPORTS FROM HARRISBURG.

INTERESTING news FROM THE sOUTH-THE UNION
SENTIMENT AMONG THE sLAvgH0LDRRs-raE
LE6ieLAIURE AND TIE VOLUNTEERS
HARusBuaa. Nap 9, 1851
The troops at Camp ser, ChamsersbnTg, are in good
health and spirits and anxious 10 advance aarpsrs
Ferry. There complaint relative 70 the quality
Of the food.
rb, bridges to Baltimore on the Northern Central Rll
road have all been rebuilt.
An officer ir m the Chambersburg camp brings the
intelligence that on Tuesday morning the v,rginians
seized the heights upon the Maryland side Of The Poto
mac and are engaged in fortifyug them. nunoer OF
secession troops bordering upon 5000, there, hnd
were to be increased by the arrival Of twelve hundred
KentuckiAns.
-Four companies OF cavalry, which marched from Gar
lise Barracks On Monday passed unmolested through
Mary land, and have reached General Scott's hnes
Two regiments leave Camp Curtin to morrow rnorriug
for ashngton city, the Northern Cntra aAircad
they win unite with the forces st York. their march
through Baltimore.
attack is made the Pennsy lvania troops N that
oy military possession win be immedatey taken Of IT,
This should have been done long ago. It wocIi have
saved Mary from everlasting disgrace.
The regular passenger trains will pass thro.gh Bat
TO Orders have been issued TO ths: effect
An the bridges on the Northern Central well guarded
by the federal forces, the government having complete
control OF the road.
portion of Col Louis Dragons from Texas left Car
Isle Barracks today for Washington. Accompanying
them the wives and children OF the officers
Three hundred and eighty Of the troops left with their
horses by land and at Petersburg GeSiysbcg
this morning The former go by water from Philadelphia
gentleman from the neishborhood Of Frederick states
that the Union sentiment is very strong iu that vicinity
Only here and there were secession flags TO be seen,
while the glorious Stars and Stripes were every where
thrown the breeze The people Of the rural districts
are determined that reoeous Baltimore snal not rulo
the State OF Maryland, and denounce the firing on the
troops In that city in unmeasured terms.
Mr. Campbell, from HuntsvilIo Ala, arrived In this
city at noon to day He gives very interesting account
Of his journey through the Carolinas and Virginia He
left Huntsville the 1a jeff Davis was then In Mont
pomery Active measures were being taken by the MI
tary Department hasten troops TO the Virginia from
tier. It was expected that fifty thousand men would
be gathered in the Old Dominion in few weeks.
The gentleman from Alabama spoken of In yesterdays
despatch gives the following fuller account Of Southern
AFFAIRS
lam citizen of Alabama and left Huntsville On the
lat At that time JEFF Davis and his Cabinet were IN
Montgomery busy corcertng plans for the concentration
OF forces the border States The Virginia troops were
to be Immediately reinforced by 600 men a. an attack
was confidently expected In that quarter. Every able
bodied man from sixteen to sixty was compelled 70
take up arms defense Of the Confederate States All
Union feeling ia apparently crushed out Fears were ex
pI essed the defeat Of secession 10 the extreme
boroer Statee except Virginia
Came through Columbia, 3 G. There wss informed
by particular friend that rone were killed AZ the taking
of Fort Sumter. make this statement /, correit
false reports recently published in the Northern papers
II was really boodless battle.
All through the CaroliDas and Virgiria troops were
constantly seen. The movements were towGos Viz
ptch a SyorD Iat,h
Troops daily arriving. and msay slept 90 their
AIMS expecting attack from the United States Forces
The pron Virsinin are ndgnaCt at tbs coui 50
pafsreG by ther invention rhe5 say that they have
been sod sooy and breeches, 10 .he southern con-
on the ordinance The cour.e OF OF and
n1u ntaI ortbern Journals very mucn lanerted oy
them. The national adnip.spssso0 srouid sssure
them that the putting down Of rebelii n does
not q crusade against and tho extermics
gina aso IN the Confederate ,tates, tno largest
nlav,bo IL No mlstsk . dea ihs. the 80 syled
slfvecracy are the eading trators che perp"nny Of
fefe sl Union their highest wish an oosst nor
they think that al Is lositheg 81 nave faith in
the resor strucion OF the Union
The Legtslaure last night passed BILL a2propretiDg
the slm Of four dollrs month .he vJunts, frum
this ~lste In addition - the Compensation nov gven by
the United states government.
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth regiments e.t = q morn
ing for Camp Wayne near W.stches;er.
Seven new companies have just arrived c. Camp Cur
tin
INTERESTING FROM PHILADELPHIA.
DEPARTURE OF TR0OPs-orHEAs READY TO FOL-
Low-oNE HUNDRED AND TWENTY CAVALRY
HORSES SHIPPED FOR wasHINGTOS-rwELyB CO.
LuABIADs ALSO SENT FROM PHILADELPHIA TO
WASHINGTON, ETC.
PmrApnyHTa, Nag o, 1861.
Within the last few days three four thous md
troops have LET, this oty for washington 81! Perryye
Yesterday ming the Cad ~aader Gssys First Artillery
regiment PENNEY vana volunteers, Colonel Patterson,
together with two other companies, IN all MN oer!og
eIvoh hun drad ueu laf hara rlr hey
arrived there late last night
The Twentieth regiment, from Ulster county, Eew
York. left the evening previous, about mac O'clock for
Washington.
The sixth regiment Pennsylvania volunteers, Colonel
Nage left Philadelphia Saturday last TOR Suffolk Park,
ABOUT Ave mies from here, for bettr quarters they
left latter place for Washington Tney number about
eight hundred.
About seven hundred United States tro9ps LEFT ths
city last night for Washington. They arc sAd 10 be
m m Fort Hamilton. Five hundred took the seven
oclock train and the others left a. eleven Yestetdsy
afternoon forty cavalry horses were sh pped for Wash
iDgnn and eighty on tuesday.
1be Fret and Second r. gimens Ohio volunteers Cois
HcCook and wilson, numbering seventeen hundred men,
arrived in this CITY yesterday aterno and marcsfd 20
IN. quarters at sunolk Park they rifle regiments
but have only the common muskets htse, however,
WI be exchanged for res II sat shat tier orders
were 20 proceed N Washington. th ough Baltimore.
Before the simeDis let Ohio tho ladies' OF Springfield,
in that State presented Col Whom 81 the second regi
nent, With splendid flag, receiving which ne swore
Ihst the Tag sh,u wave from the highest pinnacle N
Baltimore
a'n that III Chas Daves regiment, Penney lvania
regiment City Guard, numbering $40 men, took pos.
ssssi,n Of Hsvre do Grace uesosy, and extended
their line simott eight miles toward Baltimore
Al the gsepal yesterday the different companies Ia
the city collected together for the purpose q being
for med INTO regim snfs.
The pbnac ephia regiment OF National Guard Colonel
Lsle, 100 are nlly equipped ss ~e as two other
regiments in the city, and expecting orders 70 leave
fo' Washington
The Scott Legion regiment, numbering $40 ner, are
ready 10 leave Also the Fret Rife regiment, of
Philadelphia Regiments and companies recruiting
oil over the city AID many rtany 10 b. mustered in
three sixty -eigh. FOUNDERS coumbafs, shipped
yesterday from here for WWhpston. This makes,
within the pat week, about twelve gurs, which, To-
gstber with the carriages, have been received At the
Baltimore depot, from the Navy Yard all sent to Wash-
pgten u rec. ived
General Ha'ney arrived In this city to-day, from
washr gton, on his way 70 Cincinnati.