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The Daily Dispatch: may 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch . (search)
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
departure of troops from Suffolk — Eloquentaddress, &c.
Suffolk, Va., May 1, 1861.
Everything is still moving.
For the past week our town has been a rendezvous for troops, and crowds of eager fellows have bustled among us. The Sussex Light Dragoons, Capt. Belsch, 80 men, well mounted and armed; the Isle of Wight Rifles, Capt.--79 men, armed with the celebrated "Enfield," and the Smithfield Artillery, 75 men, Capt. Chalmers, with two pieces of ordnance and ammunition, have all been quartered here, which, together with our two town companies, numbering about 75 men each, made up a battalion of near 400 as fine looking soldiers as Virginia will send to the field.
This morning, about 1½ o'clock, the deep notes of the bass drum were heard through our streets, to which the soldiers were solemnly marching to the depot of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad--orders and a special train having arrived for them to report in Norfol
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.Affairs in Rockingham. Harrisonburg, Va., May 1, 1861.
Our crops look well, and the prospect is good for plenty of everything.
The men who have gone to war from the county will not retard farm operations, as there remains plenty of hands to do the work.
Our fruit I do not think has been injured by frost, and we begin to feel secure from frosty mornings and frosted fruit.
Our Home Guard will parade on Friday.--The corps is large, and the appearance of a large body of men, armed with home rifles (the best, too, by the way,) and shot guns, will present an odd appearance.
We have but one paper now in Rockingham.
The Register has the field, and is alone in its full blaze of glory.
But it is only a weekly, and, of course, is too slow to satisfy the "fast." Our mails are irregular — the papers get here behind time — and all these things contribute to general impatience.
Our corporate authorities are making a good disposition
From Portsmouth. [special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Portsmouth, Va., May 1, 1861.
The name of the soldier who was accidently shot at the Hospital, is Reuben Wilkerson.
He was easier yesterday.
I hear that Lt. Simmes, on his reaching Washington, expressed surprise that the Dry-Dock was not blown up, as he placed the powder in the culvert, laid the train and fired it. A very laudable and patriotic feat of the Lieutenant, in carrying out the pledge of the so-called Illinois Ape. in his message to hold and protect the public property.
The water which has been flowed into the dock will be an effective barrier to all such infernal attempts in the future.
The battery at the Hospital was discharged with shot yesterday evening, to ascertain the range.
The result was satisfactory.
A rumor was circulated last evening that troops of the Ape had been landed on the Bay shore from steamers.
The report created some excitement.
It was, like many others afloat, a false a
The blockade of Virginia ports.passengers detained at Fortress Monroe.letter from a prisoner. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]
Fortress Monroe, 10 o'clock, A. M., May 1, 1861.
I left Richmond yesterday morning, and arrived in Norfolk, and again left for Accomac, in the steamer Coffee, Captain McCarrick, and am now a prisoner at Fortress Monroe, (temporarily, I hope,) of the Black Republicans, waiting the decision of the Commodore as to what will be done with the boat, crew and passengers.
Our steamer, (the Adelaide, from Baltimore.) and the Belvidere, from Richmond, bound to Baltimore, arrived at the Point about the same time, and are all now in custody.
On one side are the bristling guns of the fort, and on the other, in two cables' length, he the "Cumberland," the "Quaker City," and the "Yankee." The "Yankee" has just come alongside with a rough-looking set of troops on board; but "nobody's hurt," and nobody is frightened.
Several ladies and dear, prat