The Daily Dispatch: April 25, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Arrival of guns, &c.

--A number of first class cannon, Columbiads, Dahlgreen guns &c., of large calibre, arrived in this city yesterday via the Danville Railroad. A number of the pieces were mounted. They came from the Portsmouth Navy-Yard, and bore with them evidence of Black Republican vandalism in the nails that Lincoln's myrmidon had thrust into the touch-holes. The Norfolk Railroad brought the pieces as far as Petersburg, and it was deemed best to continue them in the same cars up to the Junction on the South-Side Road, as it would have been hazardous to have attempted to convey them across the bridge spanning the Appomattox at Petersburg.

The same train brought back the guns sent down from Richmond last Sunday morning there being enough at the Navy-Yard for defences in that neighborhood and elsewhere.

The State steamer Empire, Lieut. J. F. Milligan commanding, arrived in this port yesterday, having in tow the barge "Superior," loaded with ordnance and ordnance stores — viz: six large Paixhan shell guns, 200 rounds of shell for each gun, 12 tanks powder, fuses, matches, &c. The force in charge consisted of Lieut. Milligan, Capt. Wm. Parrish, Capt. James Hopkins, Robt. Leorto, and J. Grandison Baker; (volunteers,) and detachments from the United Artillery Company and Old Dominion State Guards, of Norfolk.