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The Daily Dispatch: April 29, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 6 (search)
y resigned his position in the service of the Government. The staff of Gen. Stuart comprises several resigned officers of the U. S. Army. Affairs in Philadelphia. The revenue cutter Forward, Capt. J. H. Nones, arrived on Wednesday from Wilmington, where she has been stationed for some years. She was immediately supplied with stores and three howitzers, and sailed for the Chesapeake. The city ice-boat, placed at the disposal of Capt. Dupont, on Tuesday, under the command of Capt. Marks, was immediately altered into a floating battery, by placing a defence of cotton bales with eight guns and two hundred United States artillerymen, and cleared on Wednesday morning. At the United States Arsenal, at Gray's Ferry, Col. Thomas has 1,900 women and 700 men at work inside and 100 men outside, laboring daily, including Sunday, to fit out the troops. Some 6,000 fresh rations were dispatched to Perrysville on Wednesday, and the cars are now being filled with an order for