Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-07

Present Aspect Of War Matters nc Wash.
"a inatan.
Washington dispatches 10 the New York
press give these items; -
The precipitation Of Virginia, North Caro-
line, and Tennessee into the Secession move
uent was the immediate occasion Of tbs
second call for an additional force of sixty
FIVE thousand volunteers. General Scott
was confident Of being able TO put down the
rebellion in the cotton and sugar States with
the seventy.five thousand frat called out.
Should the rebellion spread still further in
the Border Slave States, a third call will
unquestionably be made As IL is, the
placing Of large reserves upon war footing
in all the Free States will enable the Gov
ernment TO use the whole Of the one hun
dTed and sixty thousand men summoned
into service for offensive operations, the re-
serve forces being more than sufficient for
home defense.
The Navy Department expects TO have at
least fifteen men-of-war put to sea for the
blockade of the principal Southern ports in
few days. Some forty odd more vessels will
be got in readiness in the course Of the next
four weeks, and in less than sixty days every
inlet on the Southern coast, from the mouth
of James River to that of the Rio Grande,
will be efectually closed. .aA
The slaves are an element Of weakness
which the South seem strangely to have for
gotten. Information reaches us that in
Louisiana and Mississippi serious spprehen-
sions are entertained. In Kentucky the
negroes say openly that this is war to free
them, and that they will soon be as free as
any one.
learn from perfectly reliable source that
the fifteen hundred troops lately quartered at
Alexandria yesterday started for a point
some fifty miles in the interior, having en-
tirely exhausted the supplies they were able
to steal in that neighborhood. Only sixty
Secession troops are left in Alexandria. My
informant states that the people of the ad-
;aeeuIS COUNTIES in Virginia are beginning to
he anxious foi an invasion from Washington
TO protect them FROM the Virginia troops,
who seize their horses, cattle and snJ thing
else which they want, and hand them Vir.
ginia script in payment. The new repdez-
vous of these Secession locusts, who devas-
tate the land, is understood TO be in Culpep-
per County.
Messrs. Eyarts and Weed, of the New York
Committee of Public Defense, who were sent
on to confer with the President as to the
policy to be pursued for the present crisis,
started on their return last evening. They
had q long interview with the President and
return well satisfied that the Administration
is united, fully understands the impending
crisis, and has determined upon line of
policy which will be sustained by the people,
| and will vindicate the power and majesty of
| the Government.
OF course, the Committee do not disclose
| the details of the policy decided upon
They also express unbounded confidence
| in Lieutenant General Scott, who has laid a
| plan of campaign which adds new evidence
| of his remarkable military genius, and shows
that the long life which has enfeebled his
| physical system, has brought him invaluable
experience, and left him still with intellect
as vigorous and as keeuly alive to the neces-
sites of the hour as when in his prime ma.
turity he led our victorious army to the gates
of Mexico.
Without protesting any knowledge on the
subject, am well satisfied that the Lieuten .
ant Generals plans, which have been fully
accepted and Endorsed by the President, in .
clude the capture of Charleston and of Nor
| folk, and did include the occupation of Balti-
more, if that city had continued to oppose
obstacles to the quiet passage of troops to-
ward the Capital But the leading idea of the
campaign is that of shutting the disloyal
States in, and isolating them from the rest
of the world until they have time for reflec-
ton upon their own folly, and TO retrace their
steps.
The recovery and occupation of all the
public property seized by the seeding States
is, of course, embraced in the plan Of oper-
ations.