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The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], Good for them. (search)
hia, it is said. This is probably on account of the difficulty of keeping up sufficiently rapid and reliable communications with the main body of the Army. It is now well known that for about two days Gen. Scott's messages for troops were read and kept in Baltimore by the rebels, and yet it was telegraphed back to him that they had been forwarded. Thus far Providence has been better to us then we have been to ourselves, unless it be that, by some means yet unexplained, the arms at Harper's Ferry were not blown up nor destroyed, and very large and important portions of those of the small arms, cannons and other warlike stores, have escaped destruction at the Norfolk Navy Yard. How all this has happened will be matter for future investigation, and whether any officers have been treacherous in the discharge of their duties. Probably no nation before ever so long survived such wholesale treachery and treason on the part of so many of its superior officers. It is upon the honesty
The Daily Dispatch: may 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
ans found on slave ships. The Washington Star discredits the report that Alexandria is to be occupied by the Federal troops; while, on the contrary, a Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun says: I credit the report that exists among the R. I. military, that a strong battalion of their regiment is immediately to occupy Alexandria. Exclusive of District of Columbia volunteers, the number of bayonets now within the city and at Annapolis is just about twenty thousand. As Harper's Ferry and the Norfolk Navy-Yard are simply seats of ruin, I do not credit the reports that the forces are to be scattered and weakened by diversions in those directions. The same writer professes to be well informed upon military movements in Virginia; but taking the following for a sample, and adopting his own language, his "ideas are not worth much:" The Virginia troops left Alexandria on Friday, and we have reports from across the river that the Washington battalion is at Culpepe