Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-21
NUMBER rs.

The Governor has entirely misapprehended
the Secretarys explanations; and ifthe Mary
landeTs enlist they must enter the general
service. ~ 4. ~ 5fI Il n .777T ! :,
=. A letter received here from the editor of a
Memphis paper, formerly a resident of WASH
ington, states that provisions are very scarce
in that city, and all business ruined and that
soldiers are not coming forward az fapidlyss
was anticipated. tss s, .t .... 4
lNew York Times DiIpatch
General Sickles left this evening for WASH
ington with his cOmTland and instructions
His whole brigade will be at once put in the
held probably they will 90 to some point
near butlers command, near Fort Monroe.
ne Is ordered TO make all possible haste In
his movements lfA frr I'D 1Jtt 0f
lHsrald's OOrrespOndsnoe.l il3oop0
WASHINGTON, May 20.-It is understood
General Mansfield will take command of
twenty-five thousand volunteers and Ave
thousand regulars to be advanced into Vir-
glnla rom this point The force that will be
detained TO take Harper's Ferry will proba-
bly, be commanded by Brigadier. General
Reeder. General Patterson and staff IN.
eludiDg Senator Sherman, are here 70 receive
verbal instructions concerning the proposed
movement of troops from Southern Pennsyl-
yania upon Virginia.
The President has been absent from home
nearly all day, accommodating the vicinity
Of Washington. f... = -.--.4-.r'.
II is decided that no more troops shall be
accepted Dy the Government under the last
requisition, either from New York or else.
where. Some two hundred and fifty thou
sand are enlisted. .-,.
The War Department contemplates to es-
tshlish, shortly, two large cantonments-
one at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, aud the
other in the neighborhood of New York. .
The fnrcn that will ba no1Ia,kaI -, a..
camps will be probably fifteen to twenty
thousand men. They will be worked up by
the best officers to the highest proficiency,
and kept in constant readiness for active
service. The force at Gettysburg will no
doubt be employed at the right moment for
an inland movement, that it may not be
proper at this time TO disclose.
That at Staten Island is meant to be di-
rected against various points on the seaboard
bounding the rebel States Orders are issued
to get ready at the earliest moment fleet of
steam transports, that will rendezvous ia the
adjoining waters, so that in q few hours,
when the word is given, the whole of the
force on the Atlantic coast can be embarked
and procoSd with all speed in the service
designated. .... ...
BALTIMORE, Nay 20.--One thousand addi-
tional MIME muskets were received by the
Virginia troops from North Carolina.
Two DdJJerleS OF railroad iron, similar to
the floating battery at Charleston, have been
erected at the Point of Rocks. ...-. ..,
A gentleman who left Richmond yester-
day says that he passed fifteen thousand
troops on the railroad in Tennessee, who
were en- route for Virginia, fully armed.
. Times Oorrespendenoe.l -...,
Senator Foote, of Vermont, tenders the
Government ten regiments of Green Noun
tain Boys. ao
Worlds Correspondencel ..
WAsHIEGToE, May 20.-A large number of
Bostonians here assure Government they
shall have abundant material aid.
A special to the Herald says Memphis is
in a deplorable state. Troops constantly ar
irving and being transported to Fort Ran
dolph. The universal talk there was the
ease with which the North can be conquered.
A Union man was hung in Louisiana, a
few days since, for expressing Union senti-
ments. .,.....a -- ,-5. f..,..- i, 81.
WASHINGTON, May 20.-Commodore Tat
nall, Of the Confederate Navy. assigned to
the command of the naval forces at Charles
ton, has arrived there. MI s.i 8efl d. In
Colonel Vasburg, of the New York Sew
epty. first Regiment, died this morning, ol
hemorrbege of the lungs. fI