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The Daily Dispatch: June 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Damages awarded. (search)
on Monday last, were $380,000. A gentleman who arrived here this morning, from the neighborhood of Centreville, Va., about 23 miles from Alexandria, reports that he was informed that about 4,000 Southern troops were in that vicinity. He also confirmed the report that prominent Union men continue to be seized and conveyed further into Virginia, to be held as hostages for the safety of about forty secession soldiers now in Washington, awaiting the orders of the Government. Williamsport, Md., May 28. --The Confederate camp, opposite this place, has fallen back from the Potomac about four miles, to Falling Waters. The Church at Falling Waters has been occupied as a hospital. On Monday about two hundred Virginia troops reached Little Georgetown, seven miles above Williamsport, and have encamped there, using the church as a barrack. Chambersburg, May 30.--The Virginia troops opposite Williamsport have retired in the direction of Martinsburg. Four Pennsylvania Regi