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Getting Lively.

--The Dock presented a more animated appearance yesterday than for some time past. Shippers and consignees are encouraged to hope for a revival of the trade which they looked for before the commencement of the political troubles that have annihilated trade and every other thing throughout the broad domains of Uncle Samuel. Barques, brigantines, brigs, top and foresail schooners, oyster craft, &c., were there yesterday, to testify to the revival of trade. Longshoremen and consignees were busy. Stevedores and laborers plied respectively their scheming brains and stout arms. The process of unloading and loading was gone through with according to the fashion of more prosperous days. We note it as an encouraging sign, and hope that traders interested in the supremacy of the commercial marine may be induced to go on and extend their operations till both Rocketts and the broad bosom of the Dock is decorated with the insignia of commerce from one and to the other.

The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. April 6, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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