Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1861-04-29
THE NEWS HERE.

THE NEWS HERE. ~.s..
FoRrY TsousASp YoLUSrKRRs, TWENTY-FIVE
THOUSAND REsuLARs, AND RfeHrsxs THOUSAND
sKANzs, Tos TIE THhEArEskD wAR.-The Pres
idsnt has this morning directed the enrolment Of
forty thOHsand volunteers for three years service
and the enrolment of twenty-five thousand regular
troops for five wears.
DE has also directed the enrolment Of sigktsfa
thousand sailors for the navy for five years go
IL will be seen from this, that not only prompt
and gorous action is to be taken by the Govern
ment, but that il 10 TO be continued as long as In
Its judgment 1t may be necessary.
THE MILIrARTPswKae THE UNIr I'D STATS
Jusftw weeks ago the President issued his pro-
cIamation calling cut seventy We thonssnd troops
10 sustain the rights Of the Government, and de-
fend this Capital from invasion. Already the
whole number called for In arms and In mo-
ooni aLd as many more have offered their services
Tnere musto be near twenty thousand here at this
Gpe, and there are certainly twenty five thousand
between this point and the Lakes. pressing for
ward In this direction, while twenty Ave thousand
are rapidly being concentrated on a lin. from
Cairo, Illinois, to St. Louis, Missouri. By long
odos the largest and mos; powerful feet ever sent
70 sea by the United States Is rapidly fitting out
!of service. along The Atlantic coast. Orders are
In preparation 70 Increase the regular army twen-
V-nxe thousand men, and the navy from seven
tnousand seamen to twenty FIVE thousand; both of
which will doubtless be consummated in few
weeks IL the exigencies Of the times require it,
we presume the Government will avail itself of
the services of, the so far declined seveBty-fve
tnousand volunteers that hGvo offered themselves
and not been accepted. 1t is undoubtedly true
that there s no division Of sentiment whatever in
the mop rholding States the subject of sus-
taining the Government. The fact thatdu ute three
foprths NJ all the men from a distance in arms
here at this time are democrats proves the truth
of this declaration, incontestbly.
MAINLAND has, evidently, already abandoned
the idea Of secession that early last week seemed
To be as au-psrvading over the minds of her citi-
zens as over those Of the people Of Eastern VIZ
gina. Ii was evidently not more than skin deep
in TIE minds of the great mass Of the Marylandefs
al the worst OF is eruption; nor do we believe
1nat III mas been or is much deeper in the minds of
t,e great mass Of the people Of Eastern Virginia,
caa efi the Richmond Convention without stop-
ping TO reflect on the palpabfe and positive injury
u must ihHict on their own future, II persisted IN
AiP idea that the passage Of troons TO relieve
washington through Maryland will be interfered
wha,- Eas already vanished with the belief that
tne Legislature now in session at Frederick will
POS session ordinance aud the sudden and
unexpected change OF Maryland's front is astoun-
ding the secessiOs:s Of Vitgfnfa as much as their
recent but too tardy realization OF ti fact that the
North Is Unit IN the purpose Of the defense Of the
Government Of the United States Both these cir
cunstances serve TO complicate the situation and
defeat the plans Of the Virginia seceSsionists i'm
lnenseIy We Hast they have net transpired too
ia's 70 De OF service tn causing Virginia to pause
Ia me mad career of disunion, into which her
pfesA and politicians have plunged her. -
MTsIAkEs-Ali the ruInOrs of arrests made by
tne party OF gentlemen soj0nrning here who ha We
Volunteered. under the name Of the s. Frontier
'Iuardsy y except one, are erroneous. That arrest;
made on'saturday night, is said TO have been Of
al individual named Pietson, who was heard to
boast that hs had just setstned from making an
unsuccessful effort to tear up rails cut towards
Bladensburg-and that his cousin, a person en-
Iioyed oV the Government 10 run trains between
tne NanonAL Capital, and Annapolis junction,
hsa entered with him. into conspiracy to de-
st9y the train By rushing Il over the portion ef
the road thus to have been previously broken up
With his conniyaDce. He (Pierson) was prompt
ly banded over To the military commandant of
this city, and bv the latter the civil authorties
Nor have the Frontier Guards been PatroliDg In
Nlrginia or elsewhere out Of the limits of the cor
Poration Of Washington, a. is being alleged by
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PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS This morning
tne President made the following appointments
Viz: - n
A. Jonas, Postmaster at Quincy, III; ; Arthur n
Sfimshsw, do: at Wilmington Del (; Edward B
Taylor, of OHIO Register of the Land Office al
0maha, Mt; Robert n1c Bratney, Of Kansas do
at1uuction City, Kansas; Samuel ID Houston, OF
kansas Receiver at the same Land ONCE Chas
w Adams, OF Kansas, do at the Fort Scott Kan
s4S Land 0ri-ei Peter O. Elder, Of Kansas Agent
for the Osag.s, senecas and other indians; VIM
w Ross, Of Kansas, do. for the Pottowattomies;
Chas Keith, Of Kansas, do for the Kfckapoos;
James Abbott, Of Kansas, do for the indians Of
OF the Shawnee agency.
The FRIGATR UsrTPD STATES - Out of regard
tos hef blssoTY, the naval, officers dispatched To
bufntbe United States ship at Norfolk (if they
could not ssve them otherwise from falling into
TOE hands Of thek fgihia disunionists spared her;
u oeing utterly Impossible that she can be rem
dered seawOrthy. The disunionists, however,
lowed hef down to the very narrowest part o. the
channel Of Elizabeth river and sunk her: tbns
running the only good harbor which the disunion
fegton Of the nited States claims as its own-the
haroor Of Norfolk, ga.
ME JAMES ). WABswORIH, Of New York ar
rived here yestsfdayfrom Annapolis, where he
reoently afnved nPnn a steamer chartered and
loaded with pdovjsions by himself for the use of
the troops part Of her cargo consisted of forty
horses and sufficient wagons TO be hauled by them;
twelve, hundbed barrels Of sea bread &c a.
chartered the vessel, made his purchases, and
nsd up steam for the voyage in eight hours after
making up his mind to execute the patriotic en-
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COMMANDER w. w. HUNTER, e. s. NJ, ofVa.,
short time since sent on his resignation and
Inskso oi turning over bis charge-the U S re-
ceiving ship Aileg hany, at Baltmore-to the dis
unisnfs Of that city, according to the fashion so
prevalent among absquatulating officers now
preyou, 70 leaving his post carried the ship over
10 Fort McHenry and anchored her as the p,on
fs guns Z - : ' r'''''"OH "'l "a
p CohnirTsE FROM NEw YORK Cry, consist
jag of VIM, 81. Eyarts, Esq, Judge Edwards
PlerPout, esod Judge Vanderpoel reached here
Yesterday evening, via Annapolis, authorized by
me city TO tender to the President from New York
1900 additional men aad one hundred million
dollars, to be used In opening and keeping open
ZOE highway New FORK and the n atiopal
CaPaaAsthreugh Baltimore--or to take that work
on the Soyernmenps hands, II that be Judged
best by the latter. 80 .,-.
Ia NV u s., AEaoKX.-The Government Is
preparing to establish Immediately an U 3 ar
mory, similar to that not long since existing at
HafPers Ferry, at Rock island, Ill. The Vir-
ginia disunion authorities have already trans.
ferred the remains OF the Harpers Ferry armory
mschiltrY ssyeds to Richmond. SO Harpers
Ferry 10 soon TO become, as the result of seces
'siou-an utterly ruined village. 0'7'
TBI RoUTE TRRoUsH BALrIMoRE.-Ana appli-
cant for consulate who applied at the State DE.
Partment this morning, was Informed by the
Secretary Of State that no niofe Consular or dipIo
matte appointments win be made and no consId
efation grven 70 the subject, until all the avenues
feaA fnGr FINN, be-. .Naffn