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own towns do not make any provision for break of the 21st of April ultimo. They had them.-N. Y. Express, May 9. been led to believe that the Virginia ordinance of secession would have been pushed through the Convention a few days before that was accomplished, (on the 17th,) and that the troops

of that State would have been able to take

-GENERAL JOHN A. Dix, late Secretary of the Treasury, was appointed one of the four majorgenerals from the State of New York. General Dix is a native of New Hampshire, and is a son of the late Lieut.-Colonel Timothy Dix. He Washington by surprise between the dates we entered the United States Military Academy at have named above. The secret outside ConWest Point in 1812; was promoted ensign invention that was assembled by the disunion 1814, and was subsequently promoted to a third lieutenancy in the twenty-first regiment of infantry. His subsequent rank of promotion is

as follows:

Convention in Richmond on the 17th ultimo, was called to aid the scheme, and the raid on Harper's Ferry was to the end of aiding it also. That was contrived and carried out wholly by Second lieutenant, March, 1814; transferred disunion revolutionary means; the Governor August 14, 1814, to artillery arm; returned (Letcher) having declined to order it, or the raid on the Government property (the Navy same year in the re-organization of the army; adjutant, 1816; first lieutenant, March 18; Yard, &c.) in and near Norfolk. John Bell aide-de-camp to Major-General Brown, 1816; was doubtless in the conspiracy, we apprehend, transferred to First artillery, May, 1821; Third as his change of front took place just in time artillery, August, 1821; captain, August 25; to admit of his getting on what he foolishly resigned his commission in the army, December supposed would be the winning side. The res31, 1828. He afterward filled the post of Ad- ignation of the large number of army and navy jutant-General of the State of New York, Sec-officers between the 18th and 21st of April, in retary of State, and United States Senator from a body, was doubtless also planned to embarrass January, 1845 to 1849; Postmaster of New the Government just previous to the contemYork in 1860-61; and was called to the post of Secretary of the Treasury, under James Buchanan, January 11, 1861.-Commercial Advertiser, May 7.

-THE First, Second, and Third regiments of New Jersey State Militia arrived at Washington. They constitute, with the Fourth, previously. arrived, a brigade of 3,200 men, under the command of Gen. Theodore Runyon. His staff consists of Capt. J. B. Mulligan, Aid; BrigadeMajor, A. V. Bonnell; Private Secretary and Special aid, C. W. Tollis.-(Doc. 136.)

plated attack upon the Federal Metropolis. The conspirators had no idea that the Government would prove more prompt and efficient in their measures of defence, than they in theirs of attack."

-PRESIDENT LINCOLN's letter to Governor

Hicks of Maryland and Mayor Brown of Baltimore, dated on the day after the attack upon the Massachusetts troops, (April 19,) is published in full in the newspapers of to-day.—(Doc. 188.)

-THE Police Commissioners of St. Louis, Mo., formally demanded of Capt. LYON, the officer in command at the Arsenal, the re-THE Arkansas Convention, by a vote of moval of United States troops from all places sixty-nine to one, passed an ordinance of seces- and buildings occupied by them outside the Arsion from the Federal Union. The ordinance senal grounds. The Captain, as was doubtless was unanimously ratified by the State.-N. O. expected, declined compliance with the demand, Picayune, May 7. and the Commissioners have referred the mat-THE correspondence between Mr. Faulk-ter to the Governor and Legislature. The Comner, late American Minister at Paris, and Secre-missioners allege that such occupancy is in dertary Seward, in relation to the recognition of the Southern Confederacy by the government of France, is published.-(Doc. 137.)

-THE Washington Star of this morning, speaking of the intended attack on Washington by the secessionists, says, "The scheme of the oligarchy was to have attacked this city sometime between daybreak of the 18th and day

ogation of the Constitution and laws of the United States, and in rejoinder Capt. LYON replies, inquiring what provisions of the Constitution and laws were thus violated. The Commissioners, in support of their position, say that originally "Missouri had sovereign and exclusive jurisdiction over her whole territory," and had delegated a portion of her sovereignty to the

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