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The Daily Dispatch: may 10, 1861., [Electronic resource], Explosion of a locomotive. (search)
t mistake about the arsenal being destroyed here. It was only the two old workshops that were destroyed. The new workshop and all that it contained were not touched by the fire. From 7,000 to 8,000 of the best kind of small arms were obtained by the Virginians, and all the machinery for the manufacture of arms, which they were busily removing to a place of safety. The property obtained at Harper's Ferry is estimated as worth seven millions of dollars. At this place, by order of Governor Letcher, 5,000 barrels of flour were recently seized on the railroad, with a promise that it would be paid for by the State. I saw and heard of from reliable sources of twenty-five or twenty-six thousand troops under arms in Virginia, with thirteen or fourteen thousand at Raleigh, in North Carolina, making a total of about forty thousand, besides numerous troops on the way from the South. As to the statement about no percussion caps being at Richmond, it is untrue. They were busy the