Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1861-05-15
From New York.

| New YORK, May I3-The Baltimore correspond
dent of the Tribune says that band of Yirgnians
| joined by Baltimoreans, have advanced from Har-
| per's Ferry and seized Monocacy Bridge and Fred
erick junction, and expect TO throw a detachment
| into Frederick City.
! The Tribuae's special dispatches say that agents
who have been sent from General ScOtt's Office to
reconnoItre in the South daily returning. and
all agree that bodies of men at Richmond Lynch
burg Montgomery, New Orleans and Pensacola.
All the troops captured in Texas and released on
parole will be required to renew their full obga-
tons to the Government, and a refusal to take the
oath will be met by instant dismissal from the SER
| vice.
The Heruld's Washington dispatch states that spies
are plenty in the very midst of the Federal troops
and else where, but there being declaration of
made they cannot be treated as spies. They must
be proved to be traitors to their country and dealt
with as SUCH
dispatch TO the HsrdLi says a Government agent
reports that the rebels occupy the Virginia and
Maryland Sides and were apprehensive of attack
from the Federal forces. They were receiving sup
plies, arms and munitions from Baltimore, and had
military road direct to that city.
The Government will soon cut off this road. II
is reported that New Orleans, Alabama and Tennes-
see regiments are being armed only with short
swords and pistols.
The Times dispatch states that General Scott has
sent orders for the fortifcatOn of the heights at
Cairo, commanding Birds Point, which he regards
as the only assaable point at that post.
Two privateers were captured by frigate be-
tween the island and Moniauk, on Saturday after
noon, after three hours severe caDonading. They
were brought into Loudou on Saturday night.
Boil. Anderson visited the Board of Brokers this
afternoon. He was introduced by J. L. Garland, to
which the Colonel responded in substance as fol-
lows:
He said he waI not in the habit of making
speeches, but his reception by them so hatter-
ing that he must say something. The situation he
had been placed in he " ould willingly have shrunk
from an account of the responsibility, but Provi
dence had placed him in the situation. and he had
tried TO do his duty. Since the fall of Fort Sumter
he had received very bitter letters from the South
on account of his refusal to join his destiny with
theirs.
He had never written or said anything to indi-
cate that he would unite with the South. At the
outset of the Slavery trou5les he sympathised with
his Southern friends, thinking there was much
Northern interference with the subject. That if
slavery evil 1t attached to the South alone.
At the present crisis neither slavery or party poll
tics had anything TO do with the subject. The ques
ton is Government or no Government, and he felt
satisfied that when the present ordeal was passed
we should be again happy and united people,
A special dispatch to the Express says the British
Minister has applied for permission to ship certain
products, particularly tobacco, from Virginia to
England to fulfill contracts, but the Governmeu
politely declined.