May 8, Wednesday

Tennessee and Arkansas have seceded.  The Southern Confederacy have made their declaration of war.  Eastern Virginia is in a ferment of excitement, Union men driven out and their property confiscated.  Many people are leaving the south daily.  Mechanics are not only unpaid but denounced to the vigilance committee.  Debts due northern men are repudiated.  The government is steadily strengthening itself to put down the rebellion.  Nearly 200,000 men will soon be ready for the contest.