The Nashville Patriot of May 8 has this paragraph:

"We learn that a vessel arrived at New-Orleans from Europe, on Monday, with 250,000 stand of arms for the Confederate States. This is the vessel which the blockaders have been anxious about, and which the New-York papers have been, urging the Government to watch for and seize. They awoke too late.

About fifty boxes of guns and a large amount of powder and other munitions of war reached this city by railroad last evening from the South. There will be no scarcity of arms. Now that the way is clear, let every man prepare to shoulder his musket."