Polynesian., 1861-06-01
No. 5.

mitted their entrance They will not interfere further
until orders received from Washington.
1t is ntmated that 10, 900 troops are in and about
Washingngton, and more arriving
Gen. Beauregard says he get $4,000 men in South
Carolina, and declines the offers of regiments from
Georgia and Alabama.
Good authority states that there is no doubt that
England and France will recognize the independence Of
the South soon.
At Norfolk, Va, yesterday, 100 guns were fred and
there was great rejoicing the fall of Sumter. An
order had been received to fit out the u steamship
MeyTimac Immediately, and tow out all war vessels
from the port.
A telegram was read in the New York Legislature
yesterday, stating that crowd in New York city had
compelled the Herald Office to hoist the American flag
That paper IS now for the Union.
A Montgomery dispatch of to-day says that Gen.
Pillow guarantees to raise 10000 men in 20 days if
President Davis will accept them and hereis doubt
but that he will.
Hon. A. H. Stephens. in Atlanta, Ga, last night,
said that it would require 70 times u.s. 900 to in
midate the Confederate States, and then could not
be DONE OF the 900 900 troops called to-day 5000
are from each State, except Florida The number from
that State is 2000.
a gentleman of Montgomery has taken Sl25, 900 of
the Confederate loan at par, and paid the amount in
gold There will be from 1000 to 100 900 men in the
field in less than 80 days. The Government is likely
to get large amounts Of money from the European
ship builders. The Memphis and Ohio Railroad Com
pany offer to transport troops and munitions free.
The Virginia Convention still in secret session
yesterday Nothing has transpired. The current be-
lief that ordinance of secession has passed the Con-
venton. The Governor withhOlds his proclamation till
the action of the Convention is divulged
The following is Governor Jacksons reply to the de-
mand from the War Department for Missouri troops:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT OF MISSOURI,
Jefferson City. April II, 1861.
To the Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War,
Washington, d. C.:-Sir: Your despatch of the 10Th
inst, making a call Missouri for four regiments Of
men. for immediate service, has been received. There
can be, apprehend, no doubt but these men in
tended to form part Of the Presidents army to make
upon the people Of the seeded States. Your
QUESTION. in my Judgment is illegal, unconstitutional,
and revolutionary in its object nhuman and diabolo-
cal, and cannot be complied with. Not one man will
the State of Missouri furnish to carry any such
holy crusade.
c. T. JACKSON, Governor of Missouri
ST. LOUIS, April 18-A. NJ
Dispatches from New York represent the war feeling
rs most intense Last week a mob went down Wall
street the Journal of Commerce office to enforce mob
law or have the American flag hung out. The Express
and D1y Book were compelled under the terms to
hang the flag The Journal of Commerce saved their
building by displaying the American flag. 1t is re-
ported that A I. Stewart has offered 81 ,OOO, 900 to
the Government.
Recruiting is going on brsky in New York city, and
Government regiments are rapidly filling up Sailors
in great numbers applying for the naval service.
Work at the Navy Yard is progressing rapidly and the
Wabash North Carolina S1ranndh and PERM are fast
being put in readiness All the city regiments announce
their determination to respond when ordered but there
individual in most of them, unwilling
against the South.
The New York Posts Washington special dispatch
has rumor good authority, that the secessioniss
in Virginia have Just seized the Harpers Ferry Arsen-
al. There is no confirmation yet of the reports.
The New York Tribune special Washington corres-
pondent says that it is distinctively announced
Southern authority, that the secession ordi-
nance is passed by Virginia, the Navy Yard Norfolk
will be seized
In New Orleans, active preparations making for
the defence of the city The Council has appropriated
100000 for that purpose. Everything in the way Of
military matters is making rapid progress.
The subscription books for the Confederate States
loan were opened. The rush of subscribers is very
great
The New York Herald has a despatch that several
vessels fitting out in New Orleans anticipating let
tiers of marque.
The state of things at Pensacola is unchanged.
ST. LOUIS. April 19-P. NJ
Three thousand troops from the North expected
in Baltimore this morning, but at 10 o'clock none had
arrived.
Later accounts say there terrible on Pratt
street to-day. The railroad track was taken up and
troops attempted to march through. They at
tackled by mob with bricks and stones and fred
upon. The FIRE returned. Two of the Seventh
Regiment Of Massachusetts, troops killed and
eral wounded. The fight is still going on.
A second dispatch says, there is intense excitement
The soldiers forcing their way through They fired
>pn the mob, killing ten.
third dispatch says it is impossible to say what
portion of the troops have been attacked They bore
white flag they marched up Pratt street, and were
greeted with showers of paving stones. The Mayor Of
the city went ahead of them with the police An i'm
mense crowd blocked up the streets The soldiers f.
nally turned and fired on the mob. Several Of the
wounded have Just gone up the streets in carts
The latest dispatch says, at the Washington depot an
immense crowd assembled. The rioters attacked the
soldiers who fred the mob. Several were wounded.
The Baltimore Sun publishes dispatch that Harper's
Ferry fire by the Regulars, at midnight; that
they then retreated into Maryland. There were no
State troops there at the time
Gentlemen who arrived from Richmond confirm the
report that the act of secession had passed the Conven
ton by large majority. The members are sworn to
secrecy The time for its official promugation has not
yet arrived measures Of military character having
first 10 be eonsummated.
military force left Richmond Wednesday night for
Harpers Ferry. Other companies joined them on the
route.
The same informants, from what they have heard in
official quarters, have doubt that by this time the
armory has been taken possession Of by the State forces
Five hundred Pennsylvania troops arrived here this
afternoon Several of them were hit by stones while
passing through Baltimore.
The latest from Norfolk, received at the Navy De-
partment yesterday afternoon, is that when Capt Pen
degrast ascertaned that the channel was obstrueted,
and demanded that the obsrucons be removed else he
would level both pIaces and it is added that the citizens
complied with the demand.
Gov Letcher's reply to Secretary Cameron, calling
for the quota of troops concluded ''Your object to
subjugate the Southern States etc. your requistion
made upon me for such object, in my Judgment, IS
not within the power Of the Constitution the act Of
1875, and will not be complied with. You have chosen
to inaugurate civil war, and having done so we viii
meet it in spirit as determined as the Administration
has exhibited to the South"
1t is stated by parties direct from Richmond that the
ordinance Of secession publicly proclaimed yeser
day. The vote on its passage is kept secret.
The average quota of men was made on North Caro-
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