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Show TELEGRAPHIC NEWS BY PONY. Thk following news from the East was brought to this city by tho "Pony" which arrived on the 11th iust: WJL8IIIXCT0X. The T rilune't special Washington dispatch dis-patch says, the policy of the Administration Administra-tion henceforth Is war, and the Cabinet is now n unit an this policy. It la stuted that tho nary yard at Jsorfolk is to bo Immediately retaken aud rebuilt. Commissioncra from AVcstcrn Ylrglnia, to-day, assured the President that if they were furnished with arms their portion of the State w ould bo Cured for. A inah waa arrested at Annapolis on Tuesday, with dispatches from New York, lor the President, General Scott and the War Departmcut, which were found open opon him. ' HqwilHje tried Ay a court martial. President Lincoln has issued a proclamation procla-mation stating that the exigencies of the present lime demand immediate and ample am-ple measures for tho protection "of tho Constitution, and the preservation of the Union by suppressing revolutionary combinations com-binations which oppote the laws of the Unlou; he, therefore, makes another call for. more troopi. He calls Into service for three years, unless sooner dweharged, forty-two thousand volunteers, and directs an increaso of the regular army ar-my by eight reglmonts of infantry, one of caralry, . one of artillery, aud etghtceu thousand seamen, for not lees than oue nor more than three years' service. The plan of cnlUtmeut and organization wilt bo submitted to Congress. The special Washington dispatch to the I'osl sajrs that it is confidently asserted that the government will commence actiye operations agniust the Confederate forces on Monday, the Ctb. Washington advices cf the bth ara to tho effect that the war will be vigorously opened in a few days by demonstrations upou Alexandria and Norfolk. A more-I more-I tneut on Havre, do Grace was nlsoor-dered nlsoor-dered to take placo at once, f rom Perry-; I vllle. Three or four companies. . were to crosathttSu&quehauna with a, battery of artillery, and occupy. Havre it Grace, ' ' " - Troops will thenbe senEforrfirrd.tfn miles to Bnsh river. TB: Jast roovcpifnt wk's not expected to bo jjwdd for? todays;' i Tho JKorrscc!M cowcjspbndVnt says, thb Alexfalcjistonlioriid post-office will bo fafcen bosje.)ii bf abpo by federal troops... 3$ If pi $ i It Is contewplafedjtp iosperaall,80h-crn iosperaall,80h-crn malls neajeek.j 'aI, Mb A report is current that there had been a colllifoit between two teasel. at the thftutlf of tlio" Potomac, nnd' supplies for Wiwhliigton, by up country roads, have been cut -off by Virginia. A corps of telegraph operators Is being orimnizcd to be attached to the army.. The navjr department Is to charter ten more steamer nt New York, five at India; dclphia, and five at Ubstoiij to Jbe addedj fothe navy. - '". ' li was reported that nil seccssibnisfs hnVe Lcen warned to'ieave'WoshfngtOn. ..In obedience to orders (torn Wnslilng-loii, Wnslilng-loii, the Alleghn'hy waetowed from Forti McHcnr, bntiie'Ud.- Sb'e will 'be heavf-ly.dfmed heavf-ly.dfmed ai a" giard.shtp for Abnapolls harbor.' ' ' ' " NB.W YpBBl. . ,A New; York. dUpAtch ofthe 4lh, says that Superintendent Kennedy ha receive cd. a letter, stating that .there is a thorooehlr organized plan to burn New YorM'hilodelphia and Boston, by cut-, ting off the supplies Of water, and then Setting fire to various points4 The' letter also states thnt men have' been stationed nt both Boston and Philadelphia; for weeks.; One Iinlidrcd and twenty-five men' have been Sent to New York to carry out their, designs; also thh't, althbuglfat first, JcflV 't)avis disapproved of :snch proceedings,! siucet the President's proclamatl'bri he! favors It. The lettfcr-fs dated libulstiilp; and the writer says that bo Is. an citemy:: but will not fight with camphene and luci-fer luci-fer Wntches, for wcopon?:Severnl wetj known seecsslonfstsln New York are'closei ly ypatchel, and considerable credence ta plnced.mlho statement, and precautionary precaution-ary measures have been .adopted tiy tlie police. ' It was staled In Xcw York, that the Jersey City Const Guard had seized two schooners loaded with 3;800 kegs, bnd 1,100 barrels of powder. ? UISSOUBI, A Union demonstration held on the night off the 2d, at Lexington,. Mo. was broken, up by tlie secessionists,. One, Union man we; shot, but not very serious ly hurt. There was to be a Union meeting meet-ing there at two oclock p.ro. of the 3d ; bnt it also w3 suppressed by secrsslonUfs: The secession ling now -waves Jn ' front of tho court house. On the 2nd,, the legislature convened fn extra session at Jefferson city. Go. Jackson, Jack-son, in. Ids message, reviews the action of the Northern Confederacy in no very flat tering terms, ho sayss "the action of tho President is evidently unconstitutional and illegal, and will only tend to still further nllenntc the people of tho free and slave-holding slave-holding states in their opinions and senti-uients. senti-uients. In confirmation u this opinion It is sufficient to say tho power to qoervo a 1 state by tho Federal Government wpe Iproposcddn tho convention that framed the Constitution, In several different forms, and rejected, and it is an injult to the common, sense of the people 'o ossert that a war upon ludlriduuls acting under the authority of the State, and by virtue of its commission, oriu obedience to its government, govern-ment, is not . . war upoii". thelStatesj the President, It appears, haS'.nbt only discovered the power hi the govern-meat govern-meat to make war upon tho Stntcrbnt ha assumed that the Executive depart-merit depart-merit can Initiate that wjr. Neither Washington, Jefferson. uorJtcksah ever for a moment imagined, that they were clothed with such a dexpulic power us this," . He recommends that a Kiifltcjentsum, rif money be appropriated tni place-ihe State, nt tho earliest practicable lnometit. In a complete state of defense. sbciiircnx J.-EWS. A dispatch front Raletgh, North Curo-Una, Curo-Una, say the legislature met on thcr'Sd. The assembly sjecdily crganized a bill calling'a conTcntion, to assemble on the 20th. It was pasted unanimously. There was no reference of its action to tho people. Tile Southern Confederate (lag was flying over thu capftol. North Curo-I Curo-I Una is irtuully out of the Union. Tho Governor has orgunized a camp of instruction instruc-tion at Halcigh. He says the Northern Government is now concentrating n large force in the district of Columbia ostensibly to protect the scat of Government; hut such a force cannot be allowed to remain within the limits of Maryland, or on the border of Virginia, without endangering the liberties of tho people of those States, "and, if, they be conquered and overcome, J we will becomo ho next prey to the Invaders. In-vaders. Policy, then, as well as a feeling of brotherhood, engendered by a common, interest, requires us to exert our energies in tho defense or Virginia aud Maryland; Every battle fought there, will bo a battle fought in behalf of North Carolina; and there our troops should bo speedily sent: The Pest, special learns on good an-' an-' thority, that the secessionists have planned I for a fierce conflict with the Federal I troops that may attempt passing through Baltimore. j Tho Charleston Courier saya: we learn from a reliable source that President Davis i will take command In person as General-I General-I in-Chief of the forces gathering fn Vir-;gtnia. Vir-;gtnia. General Pillow has several steamers ready at Memphis, He meditates an Immediate Im-mediate attack on Cairo. It is said that . dissensions are frequent in the Confederate camp. The garrison at Fort Monroe numbers one thousand Massachusetts men, and three hundred regulars. Five hundred Virginians were ot tho opposite side. The Virginians are erecting a battery at tbe cutraute of Hampton lloads. Several steamers from, Bultiraore, to! Norfolk, with; tuo4wjl,,wj'r;e .not allowed to land. They " landed, instead, at Old ! Point Comfort. The blockade Is evident- ly beiug urgently enforced agalust Virginia. Vir-ginia. . A New Orleans dispatch of the 2d, states that Col. Van Dorn with eight hundred hun-dred Texans, captured four hundred Fede-ru Fede-ru troops, under Major Sibley, who were at Indianola and attempted to escape In two salling.veutls, - ! KValpaiWwMrcetofthftM ' ! ail eartb'nnifke- destroyed , ,aJ. tt I iloza; clAtVusanTK. I was reported destroyed. 018 Ju |