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The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], From Washington. (search)
From Washington. The Alexandria Gazette, of yesterday, furnishes the following: Washington, May 2.--Washington to- day is quiet and orderly in the extreme; no facts or rumors of any importance, or even a sensational character, are discussed. Arlington Heights, nor any other point on the Virginia side of the Potomac, have been occupied by the troops of the Administration. The children of the lamented G. W. P. Curtis still reside in their wonted ease and quietness at the family mansion on the Arlington estate. More Northern troops are arriving, and a force of forty thousand well armed and equipped men will soon guard the city. Government vessels come and go from the Navy-Yard and Arsenal, to all points on the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay without any interruption or inconvenience, whatever. The rumor about the occupation of Alexandria by the Federal forces obtains no credence in any quarter whatever, though some of the Republicans say that it would be bu