The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-06-13

Events OF the War.
Col. Anderson, it is said, will not
take any military command at present
as he is still feeble, and is about to take
up his residence for q short time in the
Pennsylvania hills to recruit his health.
There are now fifteen war vessels in
the Gulf of Mexico, twelve on the At
lantic coast, ten in the Chesapeake and
Potomac.
Baltimore seems to be in bad state
as yet, and consequently requires that
an efficient and loyal police should be
organized and supported by all the
power in the hands of the general
government. Gov. Hicks has been
obliged to disarm the company consist
ing Of $50 men, and Col. Smith at An
napolis has seized upon $50 muskets.
The steam frigate Powhattan is now
blockading Mobile harbor effectually.
At New Orleans the blockade is kept
up strong; butter is Is cents per
per pound, and -four $50 per barrel.
The news received from Tennessee
indicates that the eastern division of
that State is strongly for the Union,
and it is not improbable that civil war
between the eastern and western Sec
tons may be the result of the struggle
now going on. senil
Judge fancy has quietly withdrawn
from his attempt to embarrass the Gov
eminent. He is pretty old man, and
is undoubtedly easily influenced by
parties who should make him their
catspaw. ~ 5l3
The Lieutenant Colonel of Ellsworth's
Zouaves, M. D. Farnham, has been ap-
pointed to the place of the late Col.
Ellsworth.
Gen. Butler, of Massachusetts, has
declined the position of Major General
in the regular army of the United States
as it is his intention to return to civil
life after the war.
Marshall Bonnafant, of Baltimore,
has visited Washington and received
instructions to perform his duties of
disarming the secessionists of that city,
and to hold himself responsible to the
war department.
Eight hundred new commissions of
officers in the army will be presented
to the Senate for confirmation and APP.
proval at the meeting Of Congress.
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, as
chairman of the Committee on Mill
tary, has been engaged at Washington
in preparing the business which he will
present to the Senate Immediately on
its being convened.
The Department at Washington has
not accepted the naval brigade which
went to Fort Monroe, without orders.
Advices from London state that Col.
Fremont will probably bring with him
from England park of forty artillery
guns, and ten thousand English rifles.
A letter from Manassas Junction to
the Richmond Wing of the sixth, says
the labors in fortifying that place by
men unaccustomed to labor, has quad.
rupled the sick list. 1t was feared that
a fifth of the forces would soon be sick.
There is no hospital there. 1t is diff
cult to get water to drink, 1t is dealt
out in rations. They demand negroes
to do the labor.
The Richmond Wing of the fifth an.
nounced that after that date, no pass
ports would be issued to persons leav.
ing the State, and no one admitted to
the State except for reasons of peculiar
force. Also, that Tennessee volunteers
in Virginia, were authorized to vote on
the ordinance of secession in Tennes-
see, although stationed in Virginia.
The Charleston Courier of the sixth
says: The Spanish bark Nova Terre
Guiana had been ordered off by the
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