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From: Daily Telegraph, Painesville, Ohio
Thursday May 2, 1861
TELEGRAPHIC DISPATCHES.
Reported for this Paper
Secessionists Shot and Hung!
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NO ARMISTICE ! !
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THE KILLED AT MOULTRIE!
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New York, May 1st
Captain Carson of the Schooner B.B. Pitts, from Charleston, states that he was at the wharf near Fort Moultrie during Sumter's bombardment, and that 60 dead bodies were carried across his track to land, and Monday 40 more were carried out at one time and 60 another. Captain Carson and mate saw and counted the bodies, and that all the soldiers were sworn to deny any loss of life.
Washington special to the World says:---
Arrangements have been made for the resumption of travel by rail via Baltimore and York, Pa.
All Southern journals received to day state that a large number of troops are gathering there, and the free negroes are being pressed into the service.
Nearly every portion of Washington and the District is connected by telegraph.
Letters received to-day from Paris state that the French Government is fully posted in American affairs, and no sympathy is felt for the Confederate States.
The Post's special says: Arrangements are being made for the resumption of the Northern mail service.
Scott will soon move his head-quarters to Philadelphia. 30,000 troops are to be concentrated.
Gen. Bonham is reported as in command of the rebel troops in Va.
Lord Lyons denies the report that he had solicited an armistice.
A letter from a member of the 7th regiment says six secessionists were caught on the 27th, and two were shot on the morning of the 28th; another was to be shot on the next morning. Several had been arrested for tearing up the railroad track.
A Private letter from Annapolis says, the brig Caledonia has two men hanging from her yard, one for smuggling powder and provisions to Charleston--the other for piloting the 7th regiment into Chesepeake bay with the intention that the Baltimorean secessionists should capture Annapolis before the 7th reached there.
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