The national Republican., 1861-05-15
WAR ITEM

| One thousand ladies Of Massachusetts have
enrolled, ready to 90 to the seat Of war as
nurses.
J. c. Williams, Of firmville, Va, has sent
FIVE hogsheads of smoking tobacco to Gov. Pick
ems, for the use of the troops.
The theology Of weapons was the subject
Of q sermon by an orthodox clergyman at Chel.
sea, Mass, on Sunday week.
A Methodist minister, who commands com.
pany in Ohio, is complimented as true Chris.
tian and good shot.
Provisions are daily advancing at Mobile,
and getting scarcer every day. Oats are selling
at 81 per bushel.
WHERE Is HE2-General Beauregard is not
at Richmond, Charleston, Mobile, Montgomery,
nor Pensacola. Bets of $500 are offered, that
he was killed before Fort Sumter.
John Brown, jun, and his regiment of ne.
groes are all bogus, as Mr.. Caldwell, of Ashtabu.
Ia, has visited him, and found him quietly pur.
suing his business.
The travel upon the Louisville and Nashville
railroad is immense. The trains arriving at
Louisville are crowded to overaowing with peo.
pie going North.
The one advantage Of being traitor is just
now feeding on strawberries and green peas
the latter are selling at 81 cents peck, at Nor
folk, Va.
The Rev. II. II. Garnett, colored preacher in
New York, is about to emigrate at the head Of
a colony to Abbeokuta, in the Niger district,
Africa, where they intend to raise cotton.
Hon. T. Butler King, of Ca, was in Paris,
at last accounts. He had been to Belgium, and
had an interview with the King, in relation to
direct trade with the South.
A large landholder in Sullivan county, Ind,
sold two droves of horses in Tennessee this
spring, on credit. Tennessee repudiates, and
the victim loses every cent.
At the Providence, R. l., municipal election,
on Wednesday, all the former incumbents were
reelected without opposition, on the nomination
of Union Convention, composed Of men Of
all political parties.
Mr.. Boulgny, the solitary faithful Union
member Of Congress from the seeded States,
has arrived in Washington from Louisiana.
He reports that the Union sentiment in his
State is very strong.
John La Mountain, aeronaut, has offered
his services for the purpose Of reconnoitring
during the present war. The utility of these
modern appliances in warfare was proved in
the late Italian compaign.
Mr. Prentice, of the Louisville Journal, writes
to his brother in Washington, expressing the
opinion that Kentucky will 60 out Of the Union,
and asserts his determination to die in his
tracks before he will surrender his position as
} Union man, or desert his business.
A letter written by citizen of Harper's
Ferry says that the Union cause was damaged
somewhat there by the destruction ofthe arsenal,
but that the sober second thought" is pro.
ducing happy effect.
The teachers of the schools in Oswego have
raised the sum of $ll7 for the Oswego volun.
teers. They have expended the money in the
purchase Of revolvers, which are to be pre-.
sented to the volunteers who are graduates of
the schools Of the city.
A clergyman near Baton Rouge, La, having
recently expressed some ambiguous Union de.
sires in prayer, was tried by q vigilance com.
mittee, and it was only at the intercession of
his wife that he was let of, with the privilege
of leaving town in twenty.four hours.
While the editorial columns of the Southern
papers TEEN with accounts of the most perfect
unanimity in the rebel army, the advertising
tans lists of rewards for deserters ; in one case,
for fifteen from single regiment.
A leading mercantile house in Philadelphia,
that has always endeavored to stand we'll with
the South, recently received the following letter
from debtor in Louisiana:
sour note to you for $4,000, due this day,
will not be paid. We have lent the money to
the Confederate States, and you can go To-"
"Ben. F. Wade, high private" was the sigma.
ture Of the Senator for Ohio, in letter to q
friend, last week, saying he had enlisted.
Rebels forcing aliens, negroes and neutrals,
into their ranks, can be properly contrasted
with Colonel PEPPER, Of Cambria county, Pa,
who comes forward with a regiment, offering
the State thousand dollars bonus il he and
his gallant companions are allowed to draw
their swords and pull their triggers in defence
of the Union.
A secret correspondence has been discovered
between Governor Magofin, of Kentucky, and
Governor Brown, of Mississippi, in which it ap.
pears that Magoiin has been trying to buy Ger.
tain arms from Brown, that the latter took from
the Federal Government. Magofin, it is said
wished them to be used by the secessionists in
Kentucky.
"No FAITH WITHOUT WoRKs."-When a
committee from one of the new Ohio regiments
} recently waited on Brother Moody, q we'll
known Methodist preacher to ask whether he
would accept the chaplaincy of the regiment
J to which he was elected, he replied, Why, yes
but with one condition that they would fur.
nish him with musket; for, said he, "in our
Methodist communion, we do not believe in
, faith without works." 1t is needless to say that
Brother Moody received musket.
A gentleman who saw Ex President Bu
chanan few days ago represents that he is in
a most feeble condition, greatly depressed al
the situation of public affairs, and yet earnestl,
In favor of the course of the nresent dmin 10