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The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
d the job is so complete that it is thought the guns will have to be sent back for the purpose of rebooting the touch-holes. Workmen were employed yesterday in endeavoring to extract the obstructions by boring, but met with poor success. The work of improving the defences within the fort is still going on. The magazine is being fortified by sand bags. An artesian well is being sunk in the fort ground, which is intended to supply the garrison with pure water in case of a siege. John Merryman, Esq., is still at the fort.--His counsel and friends are freely admitted with a pass. The mail train from the West due at 3 ½ P. M. yesterday afternoon had not arrived at 10 last night. It was supposed that other bridges had probably been destroyed, but no definite intelligence could be learned, as the wires were not working. By well-confirmed reports from Pennsylvania, we learn that in addition to Frederick, Williamsport and Hagerstown, Hancock and Cumberland, Md., were both