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The Daily Dispatch: may 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], Why the troops were hurried up. (search)
The Abolition Raid on Texas.
--A writer in the N. O. Picayune, of the eleventh inst., says:
In connection with the reported taking of Fort Ouachita by the notorious Montgomery, of Kansas abolition fame, it may be as well to state that three weeks ago, I learned in Galveston, on undoubted authority from St. Louis, via New Orleans, and published it in the Galveston News, that Mr. Lincoln's Secretary of War had, about a week before, sent a dispatch to Major Montgomery, U. S. A., at St. Louis, to instruct Major Emory (who has something to do with the overland mail route) to concentrate all the force he could at Forts Ouachita, Cobb, and Arbuckle, which posts are just outside of the Northern frontier of Texas, and parallel with it.
Major Emory was to use his own discretion as to when and how to carry out the order.
This news has doubtless ene this reached the Texas frontier.
Major Montgomery, you will remember, was taken prisoner the other day by the Arkansas State t
The proceedings at Hampton, Va.
--The Norfolk Argus has the following information from Mr. Wm. A. Hines, of Hampton, who reached Norfolk in a canoe, after having been chased twice by Lincoln's em:
On Monday, about 10 A. M., two companies of Federal troops, numbering about 150 men, marched out of the fort and took possession of the Mill Creek Bridge and Capt. Clark's place on the Hampton side of the creek.
To the remonstrance of Lieut. Wm. Vaughan, of the cavalry, officer of the guard, on the illegality of his proceedings, Capt. Dimmick replied that he wanted water for his men and he would have it. "Might makes right." To the cool courage displayed by Lieut. Vaughan and the guard stationed at that point, great praise is due.
When it was reported in Hampton that old Abe's hordes were marching on the town, the scene was truly exciting.
Men and boys, old and young, and even the lame, discarding for the time their crutches, seized their loaded guns and went to the bridge
Maryland Legislature.
Baltimore, May 15.--The Legislature of Maryland adjourned yesterday, after passing resolutions appointing a committee of four to wait on Lincoln, and four to wait on President Davis, to endeavor to obtain a cessation of hostilities until after the meeting of Congress.
The Daily Dispatch: may 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], The Coercive policy. (search)
Arrest of a prominent citizen of Baltimore by Lincoln's Emissaries.
Baltimore, May 15.--Ross Winans was arrested to-day, on a charge of selling the steam gun to the Virginians.