Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-05-11
AG"irS in wa.hlnston-Presldsut Lincoln

and General Scott.
One Of the editors of the New York Err
press, who has been spending some days in
Washington, furnishes the following:
No mail came to Washington Between
Friday and Friday. The Government. how
ever, sent and received dispatches. In the
mean time the District troops were received,
and each company sworn in at the War De.
partment, as its ranks were filled. Some of
these joined the companies to keep them
selves nom starving, as ali work. is sus-
pended. Every night at nine O'Clock q
guard is at the Presidents house, Senator
Lane, of Kansas, taking command of it. He
belongs tos company of "Bull Dogs" and is
spelling for a fight with the Secessionists of
Virginia. No one will doubt his pluck or
courage. Mr.. Lincoln looks haggard and
care-worH, and no wonder. He sees every
body who has public business, receives spe.
cial messengers, sends dispatches, rises early
and sits up'late, and works all day through,
allowing little or no time for recreation. or
even proper rest.
WHAT CENTRAL SCOTT SAYS.
Send no troops to Warrington aoho arc not
WeH armed and abundantly supplied :Oith
camp equipsge, clothing and pdr materials.
Ten thousand such men, in good trim and
discipline, are worth twenty thousand troops
. unprepared for the camp, no matter how
brave. The General wants all Northern
volunteers to remember this, as twice as
many troops die from neglect and exposure,
as in battle. Every United States officer
commends the Seventh Regiment for stand
ing by their baggage, tents, &c. AL voluu-
teeTs now have to camp in the field; as the
Capitol and other public buildings, which
can be spared from civil service, are filled
with troops and provisions.
No less than eighteen thousand barrels
were stored by the Government ct the close
Of the week, with a good many thousands
left in Georgetown. General Scott is very
careful in all these matters, andsm0st Hure-
served in his Union sentimental. He has
even threatened to arrest IN old friend and
school mate, who suggested to him reSigna-
tiOn and service elsewhere.
THE GENERALS MODE OF LIFE--FHE e11Y, 40.
From Friday to Thursday, with the mail
cut off and the telegraph wires cut, the Gen.
eral'in. Chief was intensely excited. Sun
day, Monday and Tuesday he dispatched
officer after officer to Annapolis, some of
whom found it difficult to get through on
foot or on horse. Finally the Government
seized the road to the Junction, and the New
York and Massachusetts troops working
their way at the other road; friends met in
arms, and the road to the Federal Capital
was open. There were however but few
accommodations even then, as the Baltimore
people had kept nearly ahiof their psssen-
ger cars and engines out Of reach Of the
Government.
General Scott has left his house, and taken
up day and night quarters ~ his Office. He
is feeble in body, but very clear, compcehen.
sive and active in mind. Visiting him al
near midnight he was sitting up in plain
hard bed, In very plain room, with. but two
candles on enter table near, and two o.
his aids near him in waiting. Dispatches
arrive almost every hour, night and day
borne by vide ties from every quarter of the
district and 10y officers beyond tho lines.
He demaB IS the fullest information from
every body, and before the New York troop
arrived, dec Jared that he was prepared for 81
attack from ten thousand meE by Virginii
OF Msrylas d, if they invaded tie Capital Hi
great anxi ETY., grief and DOUBT have been tn
disatiected. citizens in the District of Colum
bia, scoreiI of wkem have LETT, but many o
whom, even now remain; bat all are know
and wal ched Wtth a lynx-eyed VIGILANCE
Indeed there has been en- extensive Seces
sion feeling heIe, and there are troops of tn
personal friends of Jefferson Davis and A
II. Stephens who, as SO1thern men, hav
been much respected. No Secession fal
however, II oats here, and from the nights
Georgetow n TO the Capitol nothing Is see
but the 81 AFs and stripes with loyalty IN
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