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The Daily Dispatch: August 23, 1861., [Electronic resource], Admirals. (search)
From Norfolk. [Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.] Norfolk, Va., Aug. 22, 1861. The Spanish Consul at this place, Duncan Robertson, Esq., went down to the Roads under a flag of truce, yesterday morning, to understand something about the arrival of the frigate mentioned in yesterday's letter. The officer from the Fort who met the flag of once informed Mr. Robertson that she was a Dutch, and not a Spanish or French frigate, as before stated, and that she had left the Point and gonMr. Robertson that she was a Dutch, and not a Spanish or French frigate, as before stated, and that she had left the Point and gone seaward. It is probable she put into that port on account of the heavy weather outside — a belief to which we incline, after learning her early departure. Last night, about 11 o'clock, a fire was discovered in the tailor store of Farant, Lester & Co., on Main street, which, if not for the presence of our firemen, would probably have burned a long row of buildings. The origin of the fire, we understand, was through negligence in some of the workmen, when leaving the establishment, in l