Named Entity Results, Mathias Point (Virginia, United States)

Old Point. Last Friday morning the U. S. ship Cumberland arrived in Hampton Roads from Boston, where she had been undergoing repairs. The Penguin has left Old Point and joined the Potomac flotilla, now lying off Aquia Creek. The Mount Vernon blockades the mouth of the Rappahannock, and the Louisiana guards the Eastern Shore, near Cape Charles. All on board these vessels are well and in good spirits. The seaman, Earnest Walton, who was wounded in the affair of the Resolute, at Mathias' Point, is lying quite ill at the hospital, and it is thought will not recover. A mistake. The newspaper story, alleging that Commander William D. Porter, U. S. Navy, is on his way home (from the Pacific side) in irons, by order of the Navy Department, is untrue. On the publication of his letter, encouraging his son to fight in the oligarchy's army, orders were sent to the commander of the Pacific squadron to take from him the command of the sloop-of-war of which he was in charge, and

The affair at Mathias' Point. --A correspondent writing from Shiloh, King George county, Virginia, August 16th, gives the following account of the late skirmish at Mathias' Point: Yesterday morning a steam-tug, supposed to be the Resolute, Captain Budd, came down the Potomac on one of her usual marauding expeditions. Mathias' Point: Yesterday morning a steam-tug, supposed to be the Resolute, Captain Budd, came down the Potomac on one of her usual marauding expeditions. On rounding Mathias' Point, she fired a volley of rifle balls, intending, I suppose, to wake up any pickets that she presumed might be there. Proceeding a little further down, the vigilant freebooters discovered a small boat, with some barrels in it near the shore; supposing the boat to contain valuables just arrived from MarylaMathias' Point, she fired a volley of rifle balls, intending, I suppose, to wake up any pickets that she presumed might be there. Proceeding a little further down, the vigilant freebooters discovered a small boat, with some barrels in it near the shore; supposing the boat to contain valuables just arrived from Maryland, the valorous Budd immediately dispatched a boat, containing an officer and five men, to capture the coveted prize; but, before they succeeded in their thievish design, they were seen by a small squad of our militia, in command of Colonel M. Arnold and Major H. B. Lewis, who opened upon them with their "Virginia Cornstalks," an