Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1861-06-04
Late war News.
Washington, Map 80.

Washington, Map 3O.
A gentleman arrived this morning fromI
the neighborhGod of Centreville, Virginia.
twenty three miles from Alexandria. He|
says it is reported that there were about
Z, 900 secession troops thereabouts. He al
$50 confirms the report that prominent menI
continue to be seized and conveyed farther
into Virginia, as hostages for the safety of
about forty secession soldiers now in Wash
Iington, awaiiiog orders Of the Govern
ment.
Baltimore, May 80.
The steamer Adelaide, from Old Point
comfort, arrived this morning and reports
/ all quiet.
The steamer State of Georgia landed the
! lst regiment of New York at Fcrt Monroe
yesterday.
A large number of Ohio troops were re-
ported TO be at Little York, Pa, this morn
ling, on their way to this city.
New York. May 30.
The Times Washington correspondent
7speculates as follows:
1.-The Government is becoming embar-
raised with the question of how the prison.
Eers captured in the conflict now going on
shall be disposed Of Scents are daily nick
Ting up men proved to be disunionists. The
snumber already taken exceeds 100. The
rebels are capturing Union mer, thinking
awhen they have sufficient number, they
Twill be able to secure the release Of the sc
4rebels captured at Alexandria. If the
3Government treat these men as rebels taken
lin arms against the Government, they
ashouid be hung. If the system Of exchange
&be adopted, there is in the act a recognition
Hot the rebels as belligerents according IL
&all laws of nations. The Cabinet have dis
8cussed this point several times without com
EiDg to any result"
a The Government has ascertained tha
dthere are no rebel forces at Fairfax Court
q House. There were troops at that point
3but they have fallen back on the main body
Eat Manassas Gap. They have literally eat
Zen up everything to be obtained at Farfa,
9Court House, and were driven back for feai
Sof starvation.
The rebels take whatever they can finC
from the families Of friends and fnes, AM
4pay literally, but in the scrip of Virginia
The determination Of Judge Yancey I,
HrepOrt to the President the result Of his en-
Hdeavor to break down the Federal Govern
! ment, is discreet way of getting out Of tn,
Htrouble.
q 1t appears by advices from Fortress Mon
roe, that there is likely to be a stampede o
slaves throughout Virginia.
Washington, Nay 90.
Harper's Ferry, if it is not already evac
5uated, will soon fall. The rebel troop
There are not near so numerous as has bee,
stated. There are rot 1000 In and abou
the place. They are miscrably equipped
j and nearly starved.
n Gen. McClellaud, with Is 900 troops, j
already on the march toward Harpsr's Fer
HIy. Another force will proceed from
Chambersburg. Pennsylvania, under Gen
Keith, another from the Relay House, ant
still another from Washington, to cut Of
the rebels.
The Government received no official in
ztelligence from our Ministers by the las
: mail from Europe The impression, how
! lever, which the Etna's mails convey re
Expecting Americans affairs there, j, entirel,
Satisfactory to our Government, and cleari'
Indicate that great changes had alread
:aker place in the minds Of the people.
A general order has been issued by tn
War Department, granting to volunteer
now enlisted the same money allowance
Tor clothing as the regulars
The total number of regiments nccepte,
I from Illinois for the war is now Is. inclu
z3sive of Hecker's German regiment.
( The st. Louis regiment, Col +. P. Blair
= has been ordered to Fort Monroe.