Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-06-02
AFFAIRS IN wasHrNGTor.
PROGRESS or EVENTS.
News, Gossip, Rumors, Lies.
Special Di,D.,oh to "a. cincinn,,, r,.,,.


Special Dispa'ch to toe Cincinnati Eauuirer
WASHINGTON, May 30-The grand movement on
Virginia Is being fully developed every hour.
is confidently believed that an assault will be
made on the same day on Norfolk. Manassas GAP
and narper's Ferry from last named place.
Colonel Lee was expected to arrive there to night
\ be was at Manassas yesterday
Eighteen hundred Ohio Volunteers from York
Pennsylvania arrived at Baltimore this afternoon.
and took train up the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
but for what point Is not known.
An advance guard of sixty United States troops
were at haineld, above Eiicotps Mills on the road
this morning.
The Picket Guard five miles below Aunapolis
junction. was fired into by some unknown parties
last night No one was hurt.
The clerks in the Postofflce Department have been
very busy today issuing orders to the Southern
| postmasters informing them of the discontinuance
of the mails in the secedtd States
The blockade wall be ehec:usy established by the
10th OF June Fifteen days notice to be given of
the actual blockade, after which commerce will be
restrict d. The Government apprehends No doubt
but the blockade will be respected by foreign ma
| tons.
All the candidates for municipal Offices at Wash
lngton pronounce for unconditional Union. indicat.
| ing very sign icant change in pubic sentiment.
The mails for Western Virginia will heEcsforth
| be sent TO Wheeling. Via Harrisburg and Pittsburg;
| for Alexandria UiG Washington. For two or three
days before the stoppsge they will 90 to other Sc.
| ceded States Uia Louisville.
| speci-l Dispatch 10 tbs Cincinnati Commercial
WAsHIS aroN, May 30-The army, the proposed
concentration of which in Southern Illinois was
announced some days ago. will be 10000 strong.
| Gen Mcclellan will command.
Contract for supplying beef to the army during
| the war, was to day awarded to Hugh Maher OF
Chicago. Rates: SO 80 in Pennsylvania and 81 4S
| in Washington, per cwt The Government is now
| paying eight cents per pound
en1
| newly arrived New York regiments this afternoon
The former imbibes considerable military spirit
from the martial spectacles and shows, and ex-
hibits daily increasing interest military matters.
All Southern mails will be stopped tomorrow.
No more letters to be sent or received from the
South. The Department will lose nothing by dis
honest rebel Postmasters, amount of defalcation
will be deducted from amounts due Southern con-
tractors, which have not been paid for several
months.
from Western Territories, and actively employed
in the East.
Special Despatch to the Cincinnati Gazette.
WASHINGTON, May 30 Secretary Cameron issued
instructions to Gen. Butler to day, approving fully
of his conduct ia taking fugitive slaves inside his
lines and putting them to work He says State
cannot throw off its Federal obligations, can it
refuse the performance of these duties.
Among the latter there is no duty more important
than that o. the suppression of armed combinations
formed for the purpose of oyerthrowlng the whole
constitutional duty of the State While he mu I
not permit interference with persons held to SER
vice under the laws of any State, Gen Butler must
on the other hand so long rebellion exists in the
State, refrain from surrenderiDg to their masters
fugitive slaves who come within his lines. He ID
instructed to put them work keep details of their
duties and the expense of keeping them until dis
posed of by future determination.
Dispatches to the New York Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, May 30-There was a movement Of
troops to-day near Alexandria in consequence of a
rumor that Gen. Lee was approaching in force
Charges have been filed with Secretary Cameron,
representing that one of the largest contractors EN-
ployed by the Quartermaster-Gener4 of Phade
phia, shipped a cargo of saltpetre and birthstone
to South Carolina after her secession. He attempt
ed once to send large quantity of camp kettles to
the rebel army, which were stopped by the Govern
ment He was watched by the Mayor of Philadel
phia on suspicion of being in league with an agent
of South Carolina, and was only saved from the in
dignation of the people by the interposion of the
authorities and the publication of card denying
his completely.
The prizes brought to the Navy Yard yesterday
are valued at over $4,000
1t is sail that with the 600 troops near Fairfax
Court House, there are 900 negroes in the capaci-
ty of servants and laborers.
Col Butler returned to Fortress Monroe, bearing
the following letter of instructions to his brother:
WASHINGTON, May 80, 1861 Sir: Your action in
respect to the negroes who came within your lines
from the service of the rebels, is approved. The
Department ID sensible of the embarrassments
which must surround the officers conducting mill
tary operations in a State by the laws of which
slavery is sanctifed. The Government cannot re
cognze the rejection by any State of its Federal OBJ
legations. Among these Federal obligations how
ever, no one can be more important than that of
suppressing and dispensing any combinations assem-
bled for the purpose of overthrowlng its whole |
constitutional authority While. therefore, you
will permit interference by persons under your
ommani with the relations of persons held to |
vice under the Tvs of any State within which your
military operations are conducted which remain
der the control of sach armed combinations refrain
fr m surrenlering TO alleged masters any persons
who come within your lines. You will employ |
-uch ~srsons in the service to which they may be |
best adapted, keeping an account"
A party of ladies aud gentlemen visited Mt Yer |
non Yesterday, and found the road perfectly clear
Fey saw Miss Tracy and one of the Trustees of |
the Mt Vernon Association. They report every |
thing untouched Ii is interesting TO know that |
Mss Tracy has been assured by both Gen. Scot |
and Gen Lee that no troops from either side shall
ne sent to the vicinity and that not than three
soldiers shall at time proceed to Mt Vernon,
add then never in uniform and in arms.
Last v. Eek the T. Of Virginia advanced gold
enough TO pay the duties of the Alexander Custom
House n large amount of iron for rails on tn
rnfaisbed road TO run fr IN Strasburg South
Thursday night number of lab .rers we're busy
the iron { cars running DIVA The Alex
Indria an 0rapga road q, had about halt finish
ed when the Fire u,ses stopped their operations.
rhe amount T. ken of is sufficient to lay twenty
fv miles of track. The rebels intend TO use il on
tp Winchester They eau thus more ea-ily release
Fl .rpsr's Ferry evscuate it. Speedy measures
sill be ken to forestsl this.
Among the effects seized at Alexandra are letters
f greet importance, which we're found in the Senti-
1el Office
Extensive war preparations were making at For
re 8 Monroe. Troops were pushed forward rapidly
owaris the Interior, and it was thought sn attack
IN Norfolk by circutous route was shortly TO be
made
Geo. B. Tucker, Of Baltimore, suffers clerk At
Monroe, arrested q charge Of holding ca m
nunicstion with the enemy. He was sent TO Fort
AcHenry, and arrived this msrnug.
WASHINGTON, May 3l-Two Captains of Masss
,husetts troops, at the Relay House, have been
placed under arrest for extending their pickets
without authority.
Preparations are evidently making for a forward
movement of Government troops They are all I'M
Ter orders and ready TO march at a moments |
otiCe The probable object is a sudden concentra-
ion upon the rebel forces in Virginia.
A party of fifty rebels reached Baltimore from I
Iarpers Ferry. They are Batimoreans. Gen Cad |
vallader has eye on them.
A report in Baltimore that the tug Yankee had T
cen captured by the rebels is false She is now at
he Navy Yard
The District Attorney Of Maryland has just had c
n interview with Attorney General Bates respect
ig the Cadwalader habeas corpus case. The result t
unknown. c
Fifteen thousand soldiers were concentrated in v
iestern Virginia. Four companies of District mi a
tia have crossed into Virginia with six days ra- U
ons. s
Expectation of Cotton.
The Congress If the Confederate States at its
lie session, passed the following important act: