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sum of four thousand dollars in aid of the volunteer companies. The Board of Directors of the Exchange Bank of Lynchburg, at a meeting Saturday, made a donation of 200 dollars to each one of the volunteer companies of that city, making 1,000 dollars in all. Mr. L. H. Lyne, of Lynchburg, formerly of the U. S. Navy, having tendered his services to Gov. Letcher, left yesterday for Norfolk, in obedience to the following dispatch: "Lt. Leonard H. Lyne--Services accepted.--Report to Capt. Forrest at Norfolk. Commission will be sent to you at Norfolk. "George W. Munford, "Secretary of the Commonwealth." Dr. Thomas L. Walker, of Lynchburg, has offered to uniform and fully equip any and all persons who intend to join the companies now formed, or to be formed, in that city, for the defence of the State. The Artillery Company of Lynchburg return their most sincere acknowledgments to "a lady, " for her donation of one hundred dollars to aid in equipping the company.
Commodore Macauley. The dispatches are supposed to be from Old Point, but I have not learned their contents. At one time Norfolk was in great danger of fire, but the wind changing no damage was done. The negroes are hard at work, and breastworks are being thrown up to prevent the " Cumberland" and "Pawnee" from getting back to the city, as it is feared they might fire on us. The guns were all spiked with wrought nails, and are being unspiked in fifteen minutes each. French Forrest has been appointed Commodore of the naval forces of Virginia, by Gov. Letcher. He now has charge of the Navy-Yard, and is having a heavy battery erected with sand bags at Hospital Point, which is in our possession. Four large Columbiads have been unspiked and hauled down to the Hospital. They are now being mounted. The Yankees destroyed all the small arms of modern make. A splendid lot of shot and shell still remains. The brass pieces taken in the Mexican war are sp