The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-20
|he LattcSsstt Intelligence
from Washington
|igor0ns War Measures Of the
Federal Government.
In ior General Butler Ordered
TO Fortress Monroe.
Large Army to be Concen-
trated in Virginia.
be Formation Of Two Large Can
toDmeDts Decided On.
resident Lincoln Among the
Rebels In Virginia
he Capture Of the Stolen
Light ship.
p1RiGES BY The REBELS IN VIRGINIA.
>asteEs Of Vessels Robbed and
Imprisoned.
meyal Of the Seat Of the Rebel Government
from Montgomery to RithmOnd.
plRaGES BY The REBELS IN VIRGINIA.
(asteTs Of Vessels Robbed and
Imprisoned.
|meyal Of the Seat Of the Rebel Government
from Montgomery to RithmOnd.
(ore Developments Of the Policy OF the
British Government,



I6oROUg MEASURES OF THE ADMINS
TRATi0N.
wAsEsSros, May 10, 1861.
|Nnjor General Butler has been ordered TO Old Point
|yfort, with nire regiments, OF about twelve hundred
n each. rhS know positively. Aggressive opera
|ns are Al lAsi actually 70 DC commenced by the ad-
n3zatiOn. ecreral Butter left for Annapolis on his
Nv South, lasi evening.
Tue Ecurteenih regiment, Of Brooklyn, Colonel Wood,
hunarcd and eighty non have arrived this evenIr 4,
hlssm@e. All well and IA high spirits.
ADVANCE OF TROOPS INTO VIRGINIA.
wAsmsaToS, May 10, 1851.
igaaisr Aosfe'd, q the army, Il Is understood,
tafe comsaand % the corps dwm.s taas viii 10 ad
Sca INTO Virginia from his point.
win canaiss a twenty ave thousand volunteers and
| tloasana regulars, nearly three thousand Of whom
aiFeady concen uaied here.
Jooncl Renry L. scott has bcen appointed Inspector
[acral, In place % General Mansfield.
mo forcos that wln be detailed 10 retake Hsrper's
ry wll probably be commanded by the newly sp.
|csnsed Brigadier General Reedcr.
General Patterson and STAFF Including Senator Sherman
Onto are here receive verbal instructions concern
The proposed movement q trooIs from southern
| ns, iysni1 upon Virgins
DC Medical Committee, headed by m. Van baron
been saccessfui their mission The sanitary do
smeni q the army viii be reorganzed under the so
vision Of the Medical Board they represent
Ayine service was again held today In the open air In
the regimcnla encampments.
Commander Bartlett here TO urge the acceptance Of
= Naval Brigade
PRESIDENT LINCOLN VISITS THE REBELS.
WASHINGTON, May 10, 1861.
The President has been absent from the White House
arly all day reconnoitering in the vicinity Of Washing
Among oher points OF interest," he visited the Great
ns sixteen mes above this city, on the Potomac He
sed the chain bridge and passed the secession pckss
,hc virginia side and returned the same way. The re
Ia might have caught prize, but dif net know 20
'uable one was within their grasp.
H. Banks the notorious scccsslonisi, hailed party
o. tho virginia side of the long bridge last night
-aye item a mesaagc for his personal friend
whom he bad been In the habit Of
wing hn intelligence of the donrs OF the
Al q oes, and whom he supposed was IA this
Banks said he wished them 70 toll his
TO come over and see him this even
ns confederate a. the notorious Ranks lcft
suddenly last night, and otloers are In purrun
Ihave reAson 10 believe thai Substitute of the
Ranke, In the fstape o. federal oHcsr, went
bridge 70 nith, 70 zee he latter, but he vas
eber~et of the numerous oai'ers q The White
,on Nrs LSnooln, am suthorised 70 state thas
~ noe return untn tuesday ncxt, snd wln rcoclvs
a Wednesday.