The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1861-05-10
War Matters at Washington,

Washington dispatches to tho Now York
press give those itoms:
The precipitation of Virginia, North Caro-.
lima and Tennessee into tho secession move
mont was the immediate occasion of the
second call ter an additional force of sixty
Ave thousand volunteers. Gen. Scott was
confident of being able to put down tho
rebellion in the cotton and sugar States
with the seventy FIVE thousand first called
our. Should the rebellion spread still fur.
thor in the border slave States, q third call
will unqucstionabIy be made. As it. ia, tho
placing of large reserves upon war footing
in all the FREQ Stutes will unablo tho gov.
ernmcnt to use tho whole of tho ono hun
dred aud sixty thousand mon summoned
into service for offensive operations, the
ro'orve forces being more than sufficient for
home defence.
The Navy Department expects to have
at least fifteen men .of-war put 10 sea for
the blockade of the principal Southern ports
In q fe~ days. Some forty ode more vessels
will DO got in readiness in tho course of the
next four weeks, and in loss than sixty days
every inlet on tho Southern coast, from
tho mouth Of james river to that of the Rio
Grando, will DO eifectualy closed.
Tho slaves are au clement Of weak moss
which the South seem strangely to have
forgotten. Information reaches us that in
Louisiana and Mississippi serious appre.
tensions arc entertained. In Kontuckv the
negroes say openly that this is u war to free
them, and that they will soon be as free as
any one
l loarn from n perfectly reliable source
that the 800 secession troops lately quar-
tered ut Alexandria yesterday staIfod for a
point somo so miles iu tho interior, having
ontiroly exhausted tho supplies they wore
abo to stoal IN that noighborhood. Ouly
GO secession troops arc lott in Alexandria
My informant states that lho people of the
adjacent counties in Virginia are beginning
to DO anxious for an invasion from Wash.
ington, to protect them from tho Virginia
troops. no seize their horses, cuttlo aud
anything else which they want, and hand
them Virginia script in payment The new
rend, zvous Of th,so secession locusts, who
dovastate the land, is understood TO be in
Culpepper county.
Mcssrs. Evarts aud Weed. Of the New
York Committee of Public Defence, who
were sont on TO cohfer with the President
as to tho policy TO be pursued for tho pres.
ent crisis, s,arIcd on their ro,urn Iast even
ing. Thoy had a long interview with the
Io5Iuclt, anu IctuIn "cll sutlsntu tllhL Tue
Administration is unitod, fully understands
tho impending crisis. and has determined
upon a line of policy which will bo sustained
by the people, and will vindicate tho power
and majesty Of tho Government.
OF course, tho Committee do not disclose
tho details of tho policy decided upon.
They also express unboundGd confidence
in Lieut.. Gen. Scott, who has laid plan of
campaign which adds new evidence of his
remarkable military genius, and shows that
tho long life which has eufoebled his physi-
cal system, has brought him invaluable OK
perionce and left him still with intellect as
vigorous and aa kconlv alive to tho ncccssi-
ties of tho hour as when in his prime ma
turi,y he ind our victorious army to the
gales OF Mexico.
Without protesting any knowledge on
tho subject. | am well satisfied that the
Lieutenant Generals plans, which have been
fully accepted and endorsed by the Prosi.
dent, include tho capture of Charleston aud
of Norfolk, and did include the occupation
of Baltimore if that city had continued Ia
oppose obstacles to tho quiet passage oil
troops toward tho Capital. But tho leading
idea of tho campaign is that of shutting the
disoyal States in, aud isolating thom from
tho rost of the world until thoy have time
for reflection upon their own folly, and tC
rotraco their steps,
public property seized by tho seeding
States is, of course, embraced in tho plan ol
operations.