The Shasta courier., 1861-07-13
NUMBER 10.
PONY NEWS


From OR Ertra of Sunday last
SACRAMENTO, July 6.
The Pony Express arrived this morninga.
10 O'Clock. The following is from the Sac
ramen.o Union Extra.
BALTIMORE, June 23d.
Samuel Terrybone, a merchant, has been
held to bail in the sum of 10000 for trea-
son. He is charged with raising obstruction
| across the railroad track on the 10th of
April.
Ngw YoRK, June oath.
| The Worlds dispatch states that latest
advices continue to represent it to be the in
tention of Beauregard to advance on the Fed.
eral lines.
Yesterday was the day fixed on for move
ment on Washington.
The Government is satisfied with this, and
has sseertained that an extensive spy system
is in operation for the benefit of the rebel
government.
Letters have been sent daily from Wash
ington South by persons who are here to
watch the operations of the Government.
johnson and Ethridge, of Tennessee, have
been assured by officials that the Union men
in East Tennessee, and wherever else in the
State they may need assistance shall be sus-
tanned by the strong arm of the Government,
and an order has been issued including Ten
nessee in the district commanded by Brig.
Gen. Anderson.
WASHINGTON, June %.
Tomorrow there will be an extraordinary
meeting of the Cabinet, and Gen. Scott and
his staff, and Generals and Colonels of regi.
ments now in and around Washington will
be present.
1t is understood that Majors General But
ler, Banks and Dix have all been summoned.
Gen. Scott will submit his programme for
prosecuting the war. That the rebels have
changed their plans cannot be doubted. 1t
is believed Gen. Scott has some new project
to submit at the great cotncil of war.
Gen. Scott had been asked by western
man to order the advance of Gen. Cadwalla.
der across the Potomac The old hero re
piled it is all right.
Letters received in the War Department
to-day say there is reason to believe that the
rebels intended to attack Washington this
morning, but for reasons the plot did not
come TO d head.
Prof. Low, the balloonist, is making an as
cension from Arlington Heights this after
noon to view the location of the rebels.
The Missouri correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury of the 18th, says that the people
about Rebel Camp are hostile. 1t is danger
GUS to leave the camp alone. Gentlemen
come in to camp daily who fear their own
s.eves will murder them. The lowest classes
of whites are excited to such degree that
civil war is on the point of Inauguration. In
their van the people are hostile, in their rear
they are fearful.
New York, June 23.
Reports from Washington say the Navy
will be doubled in size as soon as possible
Secretary Wells will recommend heavy ap-
preparations for buying war vessels.
The President will call for at least three
hundred thousand more men in the aggre.
gate, and Navy to correspond
Congress will at an early day suspend the
writ of habeas corpus wherever there is any
organized rebellion.
The Herald's Washington dispatch says
Gen. Scott and bis military advisers met the
President and his Cabinet to-day, when the
plans of the campaign were fully disclosed.
All that can be divulged in relation to it is
that it is supposed the Union forces are rea.
| dy and the blow will soon be struck
1T is rumored that Claib. F. jackson was
in Union City, making arrangements with
the officers iu command of rebel troops at that
camp to move troops into Missouri.
SACRAMENTO, July 9th.
Conness is ahead as far as heard from.