The New York Times
June 3, 1861
According to the New Orleans Delta, the State of Louisiana had in the field on the 25th ult., 7,350 men, besides 4,000 in camp, awaiting orders, and 5,000 armed and equipped for home protection.
Col. Van Dorn has by letter informed a committee of the citizens of Corpus Christi, that at an early day he will place troops on the Rio Grande frontier, for its ample protection.
Four steamers passed Vicksburgh on the 23d, with Confederate troops from New-Orleans for Fort Smith, Arkansas, to be commanded by Brig.-Gen. Ben McCulloch.
The convicts in the Virginia Penitentiary are now employed in making gun carriages, wagons, axes, picks, flannel shirts, cloth for uniforms, army shoes, tents, wheelbarrows, and litters for the wounded.
The ladies of Goliad, Texas, have organized a company to practice the use of firearms.
Col. Gaines, of Brazona, offers to be one of twenty to raise $50,000 in land, to be given to the soldiers from that county who may be engaged in any battle for the Confederate States.
It is stated that a vessel (the Eliza Bonsall) has safely arrived at Savannah, from Europe, with rifled cannon.
The Mobile Tribune is informed that an agent of the French Government is now in that city for the purpose of obtaining facts relative to the condition of the South.
The same paper announces the arrival in Montgomery on the 24th of three Peace Commissioners from Maryland.
The Government clerks at Montgomery received orders to prepare to remove to Richmond by Wednesday or Thursday of this week.