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Reported Obstruction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad near Harper's Ferry.

Wheeling,May 16.--Passengers have returned here from an attempt to reach Baltimore, and report that the culverts on the railroad near Harper's Ferry have been blown up and the rails removed from the track. The rebel troops there were hourly expecting an attack. The force now there numbered three thousand.

A full regiment of Union men will be in camp here in a few days.

Prominent Secessionists here have been ordered to leave Wellsburg. A number of Secessionists from below report a temporary detention of a party of Virginians, including Judge Brockenbrough, a member of the Montgomery Congress, at Gallapolis, Ohio.

[ All dispatches from Wheeling are to be received for what they are worth, and no more.]

The Daily Dispatch: may 18, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. may 18, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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