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The Daily Dispatch: February 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], A proposition from Virginia. (search)
sting of a battery of Dahlgreen's field and boat guns, a gun-boat and machinery, a large quantity of small arms, thousands of pounds of fixed ammunition, &c., weighing in all about ninety tons, were carried in junks to a place about ten miles from Yedo, a vast, swampy, open place, surrounded by high mud walls, along which were built immense rows of sheds, and there thrown in a heap, in a place not fit for a pig-stye, with as little reverence as though they had been so much lumber, in spite of thCommodore. Perry, and except in some small improvements which had taken place since, they were equal to the best in our service, in every respect whatever. To their dismay, the American officer learned that they had, in the forts and arsenals of Yedo and neighborhood, more than a thousand of exactly the same sort, all made since the expedition of Commodore Perry, and after the pattern of the one he gave them.--If it be true, as we learn it is, that there are not one-tenth part of that number o