The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Erom the North.

We learn that a large number of troops are concentrated at Harrisburg, Pa., as well as at Philadelphia and New York, and a determination prevails to "subjugate the South." The following summary of news is gleaned from a Philadelphia paper, of Monday morning:

There was great excitement in Philadelphia, New York and Boston, in consequence of the military movements South.

Great fears were entertained at Chambersburg, Pa., of an attack on that place by troops from Maryland and Virginia. Hundreds of volunteers, including 300 United States troops from Carlisle, were marching to its defense.

A large meeting was held in Boston on Sunday, when a regiment was organized by Fletcher Webster.

Ex-President Pierce had made a speech at Concord, N. H., in favor of the General Government.

At New York the steamers Monticello, Marion, James Adger, Roanoke, Parkersburg, Florida, Alabama and Augusta had been chartered by the Government to transport troops.

The residence of Gen. Cadwallader, at Magnolia Station, is reported to have been burned.

A dispatch received in Philadelphia from Wheeling says some of the citizens are guarding the Custom-House there, to prevent Gov. Letcher from seizing it.

Major Anderson has left N. York for Washington.