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e who came up on the steamer to be entirely out of sight of Fortress Monroe and the Rip-Raps. A trial of the gun was made towards Cape Henry, and proved to have a very long range. Several families left on a steamer on Monday for New York. An attack on Newport News Point is expected, and preparations to repel it are now being made. Everything is quiet in the vicinity, though there are constant complaints of depredations by the Federal soldiers on the property of citizens in Hampton and its vicinity. Yesterday Mr. James Weaver, of this city, left Old Point for Great Bethel, in search of the body of Major Winthrop. If found, it will be brought up on the Adelaide this morning and forwarded to Massachusetts. The definite number of the killed and wounded at Great Bethel has not yet been ascertained. Three of the returning soldiers called at the office of the Marshal of Police to ask assistance to get to New York. They report that General Butler was to have
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.the murder of Samuel Pryor. Charles City County, Virginia, June 20th, 1861 Almost simultaneous with the intelligence of the death of the lamented Wyatt, of your city, comes to our ears the news through an officer of the Charles City Troop of Cavalry of the death of Mr. Samuel Pryor, a member of that Troop. He was shot by one of those infernal miscreants (slaves, I should say, of that rufflan Lincoln,) pirating upon our soil in the vicinity of Hampton. Mr. Pryor was a useful mechanic of this county, and possessed many excellencies of character. His murder, committed by a mean, skulking coward in ambush, continues to widen and deepen the hate (we may say the loathing) we have for Lincoln and his abettors. Surely a just and holy God will pour forth his phials of indignation upon such flends in human shape. Can we not pursue our peaceful occupations in quiet? Can we not tread the soil our fathers purchased with their blood without havi