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Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.flag-raising in Charlotte county--the war news — great enthusiasm. Keysville, Charlotte Co., Va.,April 15, 1861. We had quite an exciting time here last Saturday, it being muster day, and generally known around this neighborhood that a secession flag would be raised. A crowd gathered here at an early hour, which no doubt would have been three-fold increased but for the heavy showers of rain in the morning. At 12 o'clock the crowd met at the Masonic Hall, where eloquent and soul-inspiring addresses were delivered by John C. Hawlett, Jr., and Isaac R. Watkins, both of the speakers acquitting themselves handsomely. After paying a deserving compliment to our patriotic ladies--God bless them — who made and presented the Southern Confederated Flag, they proved how much more it was to the interest of Virginia to be with the South than remain the tail of a Northern Confederacy.--While speaking was going on the telegraph brought us the s