The national Republican., 1861-05-20
VS. EN- 8.

NEWS ITEMS.
Gen. Totem, of the Engineers, is preparing
q list of the Representatives in Congress, for
the purpose Of making the usual distribution
Of cadets to serve for the term Of four years at
the q. S. Military Academy at West Point New
York. Owing to the secession Of the South.
eru States, q namber Of the districts will not
be represented in the Academy for the next
year, or more, and this will reduce the school,
unless the President should so decide, or Con.
gress SO direct that certain districts shall have
more than one cadet.
The Pensacola correspondent of the Mobile
Advertiser says that six hundred troops from
Georgia and Alabama arrived there on the 18th,
being the advance-guard Of two thousand
troops, recently ordered there. This will in
crease Bragg's command to about ten thon.
sand men.
The following is the notice served upon all
Union men in the neighborhood Of Palmyra,
Mo-:
."SIR: You are considered hostile to the in
terests of this community, and you are hereby
notified to leave this State forever, by the 9Th
day of May, 1861; and every minute you re-
main thereafter will be at your peril.
"Done in Council Of Southern Legion, this
3Oth day Of April, 1861" r.
The secessonists Of the Kentucky Legisla.
ture dare not 20 into secret session. They
were told plainly, if they attempted to sneak
from the light Of day to consummate a trea-
sonable plot, that their den would be entered
by loyal Kentlckians, pistol and knife in hand.
The New York Commercial of Thursday
evening says: E 1885, =
"Gustave Holland, who was dispatched by
the authorities at Montgomery to Europe, for
the purpose Of making arrangements towards
their recognition by England, returned in the
Arago, and on Wednesday was arrested by the
United States marshal, on the charge of being
a bearer of dispatches 10 the secessionists. AT
ter an examination of his documents, he was
discharged nothing appearing therein to i'm
plicate him, and the nature OF his dispatches
being such as, when received by the enemy,
pould be productive Of lille aid or comfort to
them.
Hon. A. G. Brown, late United States Sen.
ator, is in command Of one Of the Mississippi
companies.
The Corwin constitutional amendment has
passed both Houses Of the Ohio Legislature.
The Belgian consul at New Orleans pub.
fishes q card in the papers of that city, deny
ing the statement that a contract was made
With him by the seeded States for a supply of
arms.
Gen. Cameron has declined to receive the
four regiments profere6 by Gov. Hicks for the
defence simply of Maryland and this District.
Volunteers will only be received from the States
for general service.
A Union.loving German in Wheeling, Va,
got little tight the other day, and went about
shouting "hurrah for this Union" He was
doing very we'll until q pstriotic individual un.
derstood him to say "Hurrah for disunion,"
and knocked him down and pummelled him
iuriously.,
Virginia boasts of being the mother of Ken
lucky; but we guess Kentucky's mother will
never know she's om.-Prentice.
A letter from Knoxville, May 9, says:
"There are about 800 soldiers here now
most of them from Monroe and Megs counties
| Of the most worthless, desperate class Of men
and frenzed by liquor. Among them is one
Wash Morgan, who is part Indian, and is cap
tain of company of spirits of the same class
but, if possible, more wicked than himself
The Montgomery Advertiser says that Sena
tor Douglass. plantations in Mississippi should
| be confscated.
DR.. Livingstone, the African traveller, writes
to friend in Glasgow, that he has passed large
fields Of cotton on the Zambes the article
having pile an inch and half long.
| GENERAL BEAUREGARD STILL LIyEs.-Th,
Charleston Mercury of the 18th inst. says
"Gen. Beauregsrd, with Hon. William Elliott
Col. Chisolm, Gen. Gonzales, Acting Inspec,o
General, and Major John Barnwell, Confede
rate States army, returned yesterday from
tour of inspection among our coast defences
The batteries on the various islands and inlet
are advantageously posted and well masked
while the noble harbor of Port Royal is full
defended by batteries of another and more foI
midable kind, which render any demonstration
of the enemy in that neighborhood rather
hopeless experiment.
The three brothers of Col. H. Lamon, Z.
marshal for this District, are not dsunionists
we learn, but pro-Unon citizens of Virginia.
Mr. Keitt, of South Carolina, has introduce
into the Montgomery Congress bill for tn
protection oil the Indian tribes south Of Kansa'
The Inspector General of Virginia publishe
notice that all armed companies Of infantry
light infantry, and riHemen, in the counties Q
Pittsylvania, Halifax, Charlotte, Mecklenburg
Brunswick, Grayson, Nottoway, Prince Ed