The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-06-03
the SEAT OF WAR IN the WEST.
IkPORTANT FROM CAIRO.
OUR CAIRO CORRESPOND NCt.

OARo, II :, May 2o-8P Il.
Arrival Of Union Troops at Birds Point from ST. Lsssis-
The Movement SoaAoard Cossmeneed- TIE Neo Illinois
ACKNOWLEDGMENT Preparations at Camp Defonce-
Mounting Of SS 7Airtytco Founders at Cairo-SeasSon
Troops Leaving Illinois for the SoutA-Genoa, Piuo,o
Reported at Columbus, DC. dc.
wrote you yesterday Of significant movements look.
ing to down river operations the part Of the Union
troops IN the West and my oonectures have been veri
fled BY tho eventso to-day. Tho steamer Louisiana,
Captain Bart Abel arrived here at three o'clock this af
ternoon, from st. Louis bringing full regiment OF
Union Voiunteers-apaIt Of COL Frank Blars brigade
for the occupation Of Birds Point the Missouri Shore
opposite this place. The new corners Germans,
from st. Louis one thousand strong, under the command
Of Colonel shuttaer old officer OF the German Confe
deraton and participant In the European Of 1S&s
so. They VIII proceed TO forfy their position immedi
ately, having brought with them implements, and
forming OF themselves an effective corps Of sappers
and miners, they viii act the advance guard Of tbs
Missouri Brigade, who will proceed to occupy every
available point the Missouri shore between this place
and the Arkansas line spite Of the remembrance Of
Mssouris secession Governor The Louisiana s one OF
the steamers OF which wrote you on Sunday as
having been chartered by government and ing ready
at the eyee In st. Louis for immediate despatch-a fur
ther oonnImafion OF what might hive seemed an i'm
prcbable conjecture.
The camp here day has been considerably exercised
phyeicauy ior rainy Gay. companies or men nave
been busy isemba king from the and placing p0-
stion the six thirty 1.-TWO pound previously
ported % having arrived and feeling Of intense salts
faccn pervades the town and camp at the for
micsbie appearance of the levee, the result OF days
labor The troops INDUCED in considerable levity during
the operation Of mounting and placing the "pocket
pieces christening them severay by such appropriate
names as Tho Secession Exterminator }" "Plows Ditch
Digger !" General Prentss' Bearer Of Dispatches to
Uncle JEFF. )" &c &C.
Some excitement was caused yesterday at Anna by
the refusal OF two companies Of the regiment there
to take the cath. They Immediately disbanded,
and two companies who were anxious to be received
transferred TO their places and the regiment
ded and sworn into the service The number of voun
eers rendered to the State embodied in regular company
organizations, since April 49, is dfty thousand
appears from the books Of the Qusrtermaster General
learn by gentleman just from Paducah that party
OF thirty five eecess.0nists from Southern Illinois passed
through Paducah on Monday afternoon to Join the
Sou hern army. They were probably part Of the COM
paDy Of which wrote you on Monday.
Some little commotion has been created here this
evening In consequence Of report that General Pillow
bad advanced so far up the river as Columbus, and had
taken possession Of the town and the steamer Cheeney
the packet plying between this port and that and the
nonsrrval Of the steamer up to this hour nine NJ
cher regular hour being four p seems to give some
color OF truth to the story But the story has been
told twce before when the Cheney has been late,
incline to look upon it nov as then, hoax.