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The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], Blodgett battery (search)
is a spot on the face of the earth to which Goldsmith's description of a "Deserted Village" will apply, you may set it down to be the once famous sea side resort, Newport. I have wandered through is sandy, grass grown streets, sauntered along the corridors of its empty hotels, strolled upon its magnificent beach, with no bathers; roll about the Boston "frog pond" and the big elm as a matter of necessity and economy. Those free-hearted Southerners who, in times past, have made not only Newport, but our other watering places, popular and profitable, have not come on. Those people, who, if you believe the howling fanatics, could not be driven out of the U"skin-a-six pence" Yankees find it a very uncomfortable one to lie alone in, I assure you, Mr. Day-Book, they have got the blockade in the most aggravated form at Newport, and the contagion seems to have spread to every other place of resort. Only think of setting down at the Tremont, in Boston, to a regular dinner, with just elev
The Daily Dispatch: August 7, 1861., [Electronic resource], For hire. (search)
Important from the Peninsula.probable evacuation of NewportNews. Norfolk, Va., Aug. 6 --It is believed here that the Federals evacuated Newport News on yesterday afternoon, about three o'clock. A large fire was discovered in about that locality, and it is thought that the Federal burnt up all their hospital buildings, stables, &c. They removed their horses in vessels on Sunday. [Passengers from Yorktown, who reached this city by the York River cars yesterday afternoon, state that it was reported at West Point and Yorktown that the Federals had evacuated Newport News]