--The companies which arrived here from
Lynchburg on Tuesday night, are composed of the right sort of material — stalwart, hardy men, who would fight to the death and never yield to a foe. Our
Lynchburg correspondent, in a letter dated April 23d, writes:
‘"This morning we witnessed the departure of three of our fine volunteer companies — the Home Guard,
Capt. Sunderland; Rifle
Grays,
Capt. Maurice Langhorne, Jr., and the
Lynchburg Artillery,
Capt. H. Grey Latham.
These companies are composed of the flower of our citizens.
To particularize might be considered invidious.
The order was received yesterday about 4 P. M., and was responded to with the greatest alacrity and enthusiasm.
In the ranks of these companies are a number of adopted citizens, particularly Germans, as well as quite a sprinkle of gentlemen born in the
North, all of whom now stand ready prepared to defend their adopted State against the encroachment of abolition mercenaries."’ The writer adds that if these brave men fall, a host will follow and avenge them, though the combined forces of fanaticism should oppose.