The Daily Dispatch: July 4, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Late from Baltimore.

We have had an interview with a gentleman who is a resident of our city, and who left Baltimore on Tuesday morning. He gives a very painful account of the condition of affairs in that city, where the crisis seems to be drawing to its culmination. Ten thousand Federal troops had passed through Baltimore between Friday and Monday last, and it was believed there that there were over 50,000 men in Washington city.

The Confederate flag was flying in the Lighth Ward, and swivels had been placed in the windows of the houses in that Ward, the occupants swearing that they would defend it to the last gasp. Cannon had been planted in the principal streets and squares. A battery of brass field-pieces stands in Monument Square, in front of the residence of the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, and another one in Exchange Place, both being unlimbered, and ready for action. The city is full of Federal troops, and the population exasperated by these tyrannical and despotic measures.

Notwithstanding the reign of terror existing there, portraits of President Davis, Gens. Beauregard and Lee were sold on the streets and greedily purchased.

The Boston Flying Artillery and part of a Pennsylvania regiment were stationed in front of the Gilmore House, and a New York regiment in Exchange Place. It was felt in Baltimore that the slumbering volcano was about to burst forth, and that their devoted city would probably before many days be laid in ruins.