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The Daily Dispatch: April 30, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
e office is now occupied by soldiers, and no dispatches, except those sent by the Administration, or received from its agents, are permitted to go over the wires. It is asserted, on tolerable authority, (for nothing now relating to the operations of the Administration is certain, as all its plans are intended as profound secrets,) that all those residents of Washington and Georgetown whose affiliations are with the South, will soon be driven from their homes and firesides. Majors Robert H. Chilton and John Pemberton, U. S. A., have resigned, and tendered their services to the State of Virginia. A majority of the members of the 7th Regiment say they did not leave their homes for the purpose of invading the soil of the South, or coercing its people; they simply came to defend the Capital; and because of this expression of opinion, their loyalty to Lincoln's Government is suspicioned, and it has been suggested to the President that he had better keep an eye on their movemen