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efend it. Our own belief certainly is that the six locomotives that left Alexandria for Gordonsville, if not further South, last night, were intended to carry secession troops back over the Orange and Alexandria Railroad to the Manassas Road, and up that to its present Northern terminus, from whence to be marched over to Winchester, and there to take the Winchester Railroad direct for Harper's Ferry — to seize the Armory, some time to-day. Washington, April 18.--Messrs. Carlisle and Dent, delegates to the Virginia Convention, arrived here this morning. They are of the strongest Union sentiments. Their presence here at this time occasions surprise. They say there is no further use for them in the Convention; and Mr. Carlisle remarked that "he left Richmond a sad man." It is the intention of the War Department to muster companies enough in this District to yield a force approaching 3,000 men. The soldiers of the war of 1812 are about adopting a military organization, an