The Grand Haven news. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1858-18??, 1861-05-22
WIS ITEMS.
- On the 18th the virgipiaus had five

- In inc tennessee Legislature the
vote for the secession ordinance was 60,
against it 20.
A large quantity of cotton has &C
cumulated at Fort Monroe, captured from
rebel vessels.
= Large numbers OF the Baltimore
mob have gone 10 Virginia to join the Sc
cession troops.
- The reported instruction in Owen
and Gallatn counties, KY, few days
since, was unfounded.
- Troops commenced passing through
Baltimore on Friday last, and 90 through
daily undsturbed.
- The government at Washington re-
ccived 100000 in specie on the 9th
inst. The sincws of war.
- 1t is reported that n brother of Mrs.
President Lincoln is raising volunteers for
the Confederate army in Mississippi.
- The British minister has been re-
fused permission to ship tobacco and 9th
er Virginia productions to fill contracts.
- The Arkansas ordinance of secess-
ion confscates the property of all citizens
of the United States held in that State.
- Col. Bakers California Regiment
has been accepted. II entirely compos-
ed of men who have seen California life.
Virginia has been admitted to the
Southern Confederacy, and her delegates
participate in the proceedings of the Con
gress.
- One hundred and twenty Colts re-
volying rifles were seized at Cleveland a
few days since, bound for the Southern
traitors.
- The Great Eastern has again ar
rived at New York, and rumor says that
negotiations are pending to charter her for
government service.
- General Lee, who is at the head of
the Virginia troops, is the son of the eel
ebrated Light Horse Harry" of the
Revolution.
- Wigfall says the Confederate army
will dine in Washington by the 10th of
juno, and that it expects to winter in
Philadelphia.
- The Spanish Government is build
ing ten additional steam sloops-of- war for
the suppression of the slave trade on the
coast of Cuba.
- A Paris correspondent says the
"Ladies are coming out without hoops,
bustlcs, pads, wadding, or anything else"
They will look very queerly.
- Such is the feeling in Alabama and
South Carolina against Lincoln that seve-
raj county courts have offered 100000
reward for his head.
- The Harrisburg (Pa.) papers have
rumor that the United States armory
lately destroyed at Harper's Ferry, is tc
be established in that city,
- Late California adyces report the
Union feeling predominant, but say from
$4,000 to 10000 Breckenridge men ia
yor the Southern Confederacy.
- The secession troops at Harper's
Ferry are stopping all supplies bound for
Baltimore. From one train they took O
lot Of horses and one hundred beeves.
- A dispatch from Toronto, the l6th
says: "The steamers New York and
Northerner of the American express line
have been purchased by the American
government"
- Andrew Johnson predicts that East
Tennessee, with vigorous canvass, will
give 10000 majority against secession,
and that with firmness and deliberation
the State may be saved.
- Gov. Curtin has refused to permit
bodies Of armed blacks to pass through
Pennsylvania. Application in behalf Of
such expeditions was made by citizens o.
Eastern States.
- The portrait of Washington in th'
Senate Chamber at Hartford, is one o
the three original paintings by Stuart
1t has European reputation, and woulo
readily sell in London for $4,000.
- The New Orleans True Delta q
the 9Th inst, says that letter had bee
received in that CITY from one of its cit