The Daily Dispatch: September 28, 1861., [Electronic resource]

Norfolk, Sept. 26, 1861.

I am pained to mention the death of First Lieut. Wm. T. Nimmo, of the Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, which occurred suddenly yesterday morning at the camp at Sewell's Point, in the 53th year of his age. He was highly respected in Norfolk, his native city, for his amiable and gentlemanly qualities.--His death, in the vigor of manhood, and at a time when zealously engaged in the service of his country, is greatly regretted by his brother soldiers and by the citizens generally.

The Yankees at Hatteras have cut a canal across the point on which the fort is erected, and above the latter, to assist in keeping away the Confederate troops. The water flows very rapidly through this dyke, which is thereby deepening and widening, and it is probable that the small island on which the fortification is built will be entirely swept away by the storms which are common at that locality, especially in the winter. The fortifications of Roanoke Island, twenty-five miles distant from Hatteras, are progressing rapidly, and I learn from persons just in from Carolina that vigorous and judicious measures are in progress to prevent any further intrusion by the Federal vandals upon the soil of the Old North State. Eight of the Southerners who live on the coast, and who took the oath of allegiance to the North, have been arrested and sent to Raleigh.--They were caught with incendiary circulars from the Hessian camp.

The Confederate steamer Kahukee, Capt. Taylor, went down this morning to Fort Montoe under a flag of truce, carrying a number of ladies, among whom is Mrs. Jos. Segar, of Old Point. The baggage of an officer, marked ‘"T. D. Wilson, U. S. N.," ’ was also taken down.

The greater part of the passengers are ladies of the members of the band of the Federal frigate Cumberland--mostly Germans.--The Cumberland, it will be remembered, was at the Navy-Yard until the night of the fire, and left with the Pawnee after the incendiary torch was applied.

The remains of Lieut. Nimmo, whose death I mentioned above, have arrived from Sewell's Point in the steamer William Selden. They were received by detachments of the Norfolk Junior Volunteers, Richmond Grays, Norfolk Light Artillery Blues, and Petersburg Greys, and will be escorted to their last resting-place this afternoon.