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protectors and saviors. With this much of their published programme, we must not be surprised at any act or threat as the campaign advances.

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respect were paid. All the bells of the city | ever, in this, as all other instances, will be their were tolled, and the heads of the soldiers and troops uncovered. Several companies of the City Corps, followed by the New York Seventyfirst Regiment, Marines, and the local Cavalry Corps, formed the military escort, with their arms reversed and colors shrouded. The hearse was followed by a detachment of Zouaves, one of whom, the avenger of Col. Ellsworth, carried the identical secession flag torn down by the deceased. Then followed the President, accompanied by Secretaries Seward and Smith, and the rest of the procession was composed of carriages, containing the captains of the Zouave Regiment.-N. Y. Times, May

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—A CORRESPONDENT writes from Montgomery to the New Orleans Delta:-"The startling intelligence of the invasion of the soil of Virginia, and the actual occupation of Alexandria by United States forces, was received here last evening. The Cabinet, I am informed, immediately went into a procrastinated session. No event since the initiation of this revolution has ever created a sensation so profound, and so sorrowful. The mere taking of a deserted and exposed village, is in itself nothing; but when regarded as indicative of the future policy of the old Government, it at once becomes a question pregnant with great importance. Mr. Lin

May 26.-A letter from Major Sprague, U. S. A., giving an account of affairs in Texas, since the arrest of the federal troops in that locality, was published in the Albany (N. Y.) Argus.-coln has declared in his proclamation, and at (Doc. 197.)

-THE privateer Calhoun, Capt. Wilson, arrived at New Orleans, La., having in tow the following prizes: schooners John Adams and Mermaid, of Provincetown, Mass., and the brig Panama, of Boston, Mass.; all these are whalers, and have on board about 215 bbls. of sperm and black whale oil. They were taken about 20 miles from the passes; their crews number 63 men; and all of them told that these vessels had been whaling for some time and cruising in the Gulf-Natchez Courier, May 30.

various other times reiterated the expression, that the only object his Government had in view, was the retaking and the reoccupation of what he asserted to be Government property; but now, in the face of this promise, which has gone before the world, he converts his Abolition horde into an army of invasion, and now occupies a city within the boundaries of our Repub lic. This Government has no longer an election. Its duty is now manifest to all. The nation must rise as a man and drive the hireling miscreants from a soil polluted by the foulness of their tramp. Virginia alone could speedily perform the work of expurgation, but her cause is now our cause, her battles our battles, and let the Government at large pour a continuous stream of men into Virginia, and preserve from dishonor that patriotic mother of States."

-THE rebel Congress passed an act to prohibit the exportation of cotton, except through Southern seaports.--(Doc. 198.)

-THE Mobile Register of yesterday, after announcing the invasion of Virginia by the Federal troops, observes: "Servile insurrection is a part of their programme, but they expect no great amount of practical good to result therefrom-consequently, it is contended that it would be a far better course of policy for the Abolitionists to murder the slaves and thus exterminate slavery. A more monstrous proposition could not emanate from the most incar-THIS afternoon at about 4 o'clock, Gen. nate fiend among the damned. But infamous McClellan, commanding the military departas it is it finds an advocate in the abolition ment of Ohio, received information that two press. The slaves are to be indiscriminately bridges had been burned near Farmington, on slaughtered, and when the last one is butchered, the B. & O. R. R., and that arrangements had then it it is thought the institution will cease to been made to burn the others between that exist. The soul recoils in horror at the idea of point and Wheeling. The general had been an unscrupulous war upon the innocent and de- making arrangements to move on Grafton in fenceless slave. The Syrian massacre of the force, but this intelligence caused him to hasten Christians and all the crimes of its bloody par- his movements. He returned at once to Cinticipants pale before the proposed atrocities of cinnati and issued telegraphic orders for an adthe Black Republicans. Their masters, how-vance. One column was directed to move from

Wheeling and Bellaire, under command of Col. | withering in his denunciation of rebellion, powB. F. Kelly, 1st Virginia Volunteers; another erful in argument, ready and illustrative in from Marietta, on Parkersburg, under Col. anecdote, and fervid and glowing in eloquence. Steedman, 14th Ohio Volunteers. These offi--Louisville Journal, May 28.

cers were directed to move with caution, and to occupy all the bridges, etc., as they advanced. A proclamation to Virginians, and address to the troops, were issued by Gen. McClellan simultaneously with the advance.-(Doc. 199.)

-GEN. BEAUREGARD issued orders in Charleston, relinquishing command of the forces around Charleston to Col. R. H. Anderson.—Augusta Chronicle, May 28.

-IN the case of John Merryman, a secessionist arrested in Baltimore and detained a prisoner in Fort McHenry, a writ of habeas corpus was issued by Judge Taney, made return

-THE First Regiment of New Hampshire Volunteers, Colonel Tappan, passed through New York on their way to the seat of war. The regiment left Camp Union, at Concord,able this day in the United States District yesterday morning. Its progress through Massachusetts and Connecticut was an ovation, crowds assembling at all the stations to give them a greeting.—(Doc. 200.)

-POSTMASTER-GENERAL BLAIR issued the following order:-"All postal service in the States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, will be suspended from and after the 31st inst. Letters for offices temporarily closed by this order, will be forwarded to the dead letter office, except those for Western Virginia, which will be sent to Wheeling."-Boston Transcript, May 27.

Court. Gen. Cadwallader declined surrendering the prisoner till he heard from Washington, and an attachment was issued for Gen. Cadwallader. -N. Y. Times, May 28.

-THE United States steamer Brooklyn arrived off the Pass L'Outre bar at the mouth of the Mississippi, and commenced the blockade of that river.-N. O. Picayune, May 28.

-BRIGADIER-GENERAL MCDOWELL, U. S. army, took command of the Union forces in Virginia, and relieved Major-General Sandford, N. Y. State Militia.-N. Y. Herald, May 28.

-GEORGE W. THOMPSON, one of the judges of the Circuit Court of the State of Virginia, issued a proclamation ordering the rebels in the western part of that State to disperse. Peculiar interest attaches to the document from the fact that one of Judge Thompson's sons, W. P. Thompson, a young lawyer, resident at Fairmont, is aide-de-camp to Gen. Thomas S. Haymond, commander of the confederate forces in Western Virginia, and the leader of the first company which marched on Grafton. Another of his sons is also a secessionist, and a private in the same company.-(Doc. 201.)

May 27.-Emerson Etheridge, of Tennessee, addressed the citizens of Louisville, Ky., on the great questions which are dividing the South at the present time. He commenced his address with an allusion to the distracted condition of the country, congratulating himself and his audience that he stood upon Kentucky soil, a State that was yet loyal to the Union. He clearly proclaimed himself for his country, first, last, and forever. Having but recently come from a State in which anarchy reigned supreme, he could the better appreciate the blessings of -THE blockade of Mobile (Ala.) harbor was political liberty which were yet vouchsafed to commenced. The Natchez Courier of to-day Kentuckians, and which he felt Kentuckians says: "Fort Morgan welcomed the blockading had the patriotism, the gallantry, and the pow-fleet by displaying the U. S. flag, with the er to perpetuate. He drew a picture of Kentucky in her proud position as a sister in the Union of the States, of her wealth, of her usefulness as an asylum for the oppressed of both sections of our unhappy and divided country, and of her grandeur in after days when she has safely outridden the storm which wrecked the frailer sisterhood around her. While he dealt deadly blows to the apologists of dissolution, he spoke cheering words of comfort and assurance to the friends of the Union. He was

Union down, from the same staff, and below the confederate flag."

-COL. A. DURYEA was placed in command of the camp near Fortress Monroe, by MajorGeneral Butler.-(Doc. 202.)

-THE Twentieth N. Y. Volunteer Regiment left New York city for the seat of war.— (Doc. 203.)

-THE First Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, Col. Kelly, stationed at Wheeling, Va., left that

place at 7 A. M., and moved towards Grafton. | ernment, arrived at Washington. Having enAfter their departure, the Sixteenth Ohio Reg-listed for three years, they lose their identity iment, 1,000 strong, stationed at Bellaire, Ohio, as State militia, and at once enter service as under command of Col. Irvine, crossed the United States troops. Eight hundred of them Ohio and followed Col. Kelly's command. The are fully uniformed, and will prove a valuable Fourteenth Ohio Regiment, Col. Steadman, acquisition to the regular army.—(Doc. 206.)—— crossed the Ohio, at Marietta, about the same National Intelligencer, May 29. time, and occupied Parkersburg. At midnight the rebels evacuated Grafton in great haste. (Doc. 204.)

-THE Washington Artillery of New Orleans, La., left that city for Virginia. Previous to their departure, they were addressed by the Rev. Dr. Palmer.-(Doc. 205.)

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-A NEW military department is formed by Gen. Scott, out of that portion of Virginia lying east of the Alleghanies and north of James River, exclusive of Fortress Monroe and vicinity, and Brigadier-General McDowell is appointed to its command. His staff consists of Colonel P. Stone, Fourteenth Infantry, who has recently rendered inestimable services in organizing tho District of Columbia Militia; Captain B. O. Tyler, Brevet Captain James B. Fry, and Lieutenant Putnam, of the Topographical Engineers.

May 28.-The forty-seventh annual meeting of the American Baptist Missionary Union, was held in the Pierrepont Street Baptist Church, Brooklyn, Ex-Gov. Briggs, of Massachusetts, in the chair. The exercises were opened with pray-—N. Y. Herald, May 29. er by the Rev. Dr. Welch. The Chairman then addressed the meeting at some length, setting forth the object for which they had assembled. In reference to the present state of the country, he said that soldiers were now to be seen in every direction, flags were floating from every window in every street, old and young were rallying round the standard of the Government to sustain order and law, but amid all this outburst of enthusiasm the Prince of Peace must not be deserted. He was sure that the cause of all our difference with the South was owing to their misapprehension of the sentiments of the North, and he believed that if the heart of the North could be unvailed to their brethren of the South, all our national troubles would cease at once. Speaking of the charge made against the North by the Rev. Dr. Fuller of Baltimore-that the bad men of the North, the pastors, the churches, and the politicians, all united in crying for blood-for the blood of the Southern people, he inquired if this was the case? The congregation at once responded a vigorous "No." "No," said he, a more cruel, more unfounded charge never issued from the mouth of man. He denied that any such sentiments as Dr. Fuller had imputed to the North were entertained by Northern Christians. He hoped that the Union would place their sentiments on this subject on record, that the world might judge between truth and error.-N. Y. Tribune, May 29.

-THE blockade of the port of Savannah was initiated by the U. S. gunboat Union.-Savannah Republican, May 31.

-Brigadier-GENERAL PIERCE, Massachusetts Militia, was appointed to succeed Gen. Butler, promoted. He left for Washington immediately. Col. Waite, Major Sprague, and the other officers who were captured in Texas, and liberated on parole not to serve against the Confederate States, reached Washington, and reported to the War Department. Col. Lefferts, at Battalion. Drill, took the sentiment of the Seventh N. Y. S. M., about remaining until ordered home by Government, their time having expired. Furloughs were offered to all who wished, but only five out of 1,225 asked for them.-N. Y. Times, May 29.

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--IN the case of Gen. Cadwallader, whose arrest for contempt of Court was ordered, the Marshal reported that, on going to Fort McHenry, he was refused admittance.—(Doc. 207.)

-THE Chautauqua Volunteers, under the çommand of Capt. James M. Brown, left Jamestown, New York, for active service.-Chautauqua Democrat, May 29.

-IN the English House of Commons, a debate on British relations with America took place, being opened by a communication from Lord John Russell concerning the blockade. Lord John stated that Lord Lyons had properly said to Admiral Milne that the blockade, if sufficient, must be respected. Mr. T. Duncombe

-THE Ninth New York Regiment, which was the first to offer their services to the Gov-spoke with some warmth on the treatment

which British subjects received in the Southern | States, and commented with great severity on the piratical offer of $20 per head offered by the rebels for every person killed on board an American vessel. The debate was further continued by Mr. B. Osborne, Mr. Bright, Mr. Gregory, and Mr. Bouverie. Mr. Gregory treated the reported offer spoken of as a newspaper rumor, and declared that he should, on the 7th, press his motion for the acknowledgment of the "Confederate States."-(Doc. 2071.)

-PRESIDENT DAVIS reached Richmond this morning, accompanied by his nephew, Mr. Joseph Davis, Col. Northrop, of the Confederate Army, and Col. Wigfall. Gov. Letcher and the Executive Council met and received the President at Petersburg. An immense assemblage welcomed his arrival at Richmond, with the most enthusiastic demonstrations of delight. The President, in a brief address, thanked the multitude for the hearty reception given him. -N. O. Delta, May 30.

-TO-DAY the American flag was raised over the late residence of Lieutenant-General Scott, at Elizabethtown, N. J., in the presence of

-JUDGE HALL'S charge to the grand jury at Rochester, N. Y., on the law of treason, was published.-N. Y. World, May 28. -Two letters from Edward Bates, Attorney-about five thousand people. When the flag General of the United States, to John Minor Botts of Virginia, were made public.-(Doc. 208.)

-THE assertion of the Governor of Georgia, that property of citizens of that State found in the State of New York is forcibly taken from its owners, is denied in a letter published this day, signed by the officers of seven New York banks. (Doc. 209.)

-THE Rochester Regiment, Colonel Quimby, and the Syracuse Regiment, Colonel Walrath, left Elmira, N. Y., for the seat of war.-Buffalo Courier, May 31.

-THE Garibaldi Guard, under the command of Colonel D'Utassy, left New York for the seat of war.-(Doc. 210.)

May 29.-A mass meeting of leading members of the Baptist Church was held at Brooklyn, N. Y., for the purpose of giving formal expression to their feelings, as a religious community in the present crisis, and to record their attachment to the Union, and their determination to uphold the efforts of the Federal Government, in behalf of the Constitution. (Doc. 211.)

-THE Brooklyn, Capt. Poore, entered the Mississippi River, below New Orleans, and sent. out a number of boats, strongly manned with armed men, to board the ships lying on the bar, to acquaint them of the terms of the blockade. After some discussion, it was agreed that the ships on the bar should have fourteen days to go out. Capt. Poore also made a full survey and soundings of the river.-N. O. Delta, May 31.

—A STATEMENT of the Geographical arrangements of the army of the United States, corrected to date, is published.-(Doc. 212.)

was given to the breeze, the "Star-Spangled Banner" was sung, the vast concourse of people joining the chorus, producing a fine effect. Mayor Burnett presided, and speeches were made by William F. Day and Rev. Hobart Chetwood, which were received with great applause.-N. Y. Commercial, May 30.

-THE correspondence in relation to the establishment of a department of nurses, and the acceptance of the services of Miss Dix, by the Secretary of War, is published.-—(Doc. 213.)

-THE New Orleans True Delta of this day contains the following:-" We have again and again received information of the motions and sentiments of vagabond free persons of color, upon whom it would be well that the police should keep an eye. These men are without ostensible means of earning a livelihood, and are, by many degrees, too familiar with our slave population, instilling into their minds sanguine notions of the 'good time' to be experienced in the event of Lincoln's hoped-for success over the Southern people. The lake end of tho Pontchartrain Railroad is infested with persons of this character, who exhibit a remarkable shrewdness in broaching their pestiferous hints and suggestions. The city also affords rendezvous, at which there are gathered knots of these vagabonds at unseasonable hours. Of course the localities are selected with a view to privacy and remoteness from the inquisitive eyes of the watchman. Careful espionage may bring to light the object of these nocturnal consultations."

-THE Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twentyfourth Regiments of Pennsylvania militia left Philadelphia for Chambersburg.-N. Y. Commercial, May 30.

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