NEWS FROM WASHINGTON: The Call of the Government for Recruits; More Difficulty About the Fugitive Slave Law (5/23/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 5/23/1862

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WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 22.

THE CALL FOR TROOPS.

The War Department has called for no definite number of troops, but has reopened the recruiting stations, lately closed by order. Some new regiments will be raised for special service, as in Kentucky, for the military commandant appointed there. Beyond this, no formal call has been made on States for volunteers. The main object is to obtain a reserve to fill up existing regiments. The radicals exaggerate this matter.

THE HUMPHREYS IMPEACHMENT CASE.

The ceremony resolving the Senate into a Court of Impeachment to receive the managers appointed by the House to exhibit articles of impeachment in the case of WEST H. HUMPHREYS, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the Districts of Tennessee, attracted a large audience to-day. The swearing of the Vice-President by Secretary FORNEY, and in turn the administering of the oath by the Vice-President to each of the Senators; the proclamation of the Sergeant-at-Arms, and the entry and reception of the House Managers, of whom Mr. BINGHAM, of Ohio, was the spokesman, all excited intense interest, as much by their novelty as their solemnity.

FUGITIVE SLAVE CASES.

The yesterday's fugitive slave case, defended before the Commissioners by Mr. DEAN and adjourned to this morning for decision, resulted in favor of the claimant.

A fugitive was rescued yesterday by his master and taken to Maryland. To-day they were both sent for by the Provost-Marshal -- as, before any fugitive can be given up, the Military Governor requires proof of the owner's loyalty.

As the Seventy-sixth New-York Regiment were, this morning, debouching into the avenue from Seventh-street, two men dashed at a couple of colored men attached to the regiment, and attempted to take them off. The negroes struggled, hung to lampposts, halloed, &c, until the soldiers,

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News from Washington: The Call of the Government for Recruits – 2
Gen. Halleck’s Army: The Forward Movement – 2-3
Operations of Our Navy: From the Mississippi Flotilla – 3-4
Important from the Mississippi: Evacuation of Fort Wright by the Rebels – 4
From Gen. M’Clellan’s Army: Rumors of a Battle – 4-5
Affairs at Corinth: Reports of Deserters from the Rebel Army – 5
The Mountain Department: The Battle at Princetown a Lively Affair – 5
From New-Orleans: Gen. Lovell’s Defence of Himself – 5
Our War Correspondence: Letters from the Scene of Operations in Virginia – 5-8
The City of Vicksburgh – 8
Farragut’s Naval Operations on the Mississippi River – 8
The Supply of Food – 9
The Fearful Things that Happened When New-Orleans Surrendered – 9
From New-Orleans and the Gulf – 9
The Torpedoes at Yorktown – 9
Naval Operations on the Mississippi – 9
Gen. Curtis’ Column: What the Force Has Done – 9