The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1861., [Electronic resource], Purging the service.

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Evening session.

Voice of the people of Virginia .

Effects of the storm.

The military force of Pennsylvania .

Purging the service.

Curing rancid butter.

Water tanks for batteries.

That Bones letter from Sumter .

Suicide of Stephen Van Rensselaer , Jr.

From Buenos Ayres .

A wife in Search of her husband.

Decadence of the French mercantile Marine.

A law move against train's Horse Railway in London .

Testimonial to Major Anderson .

The Troy Arsenal .

More Knock down arguments.

Tragedy in Cincinnati .

New Jersey Charter election.

Post-office affairs in Virginia .

The surrender of Fort Sumter

Burned to death.

Progress of secession.

The Curtis Peck .

To persons Afflicted with Corns .

Security required.

To be sold to-day.

High up the stream.

Fighting in the street.

Scarcity of water.

The Confederate loan.

Death of an old Soldier.

Mr. Buchanan 's health.

Departure of Minister Corwin .

Surrender of Fort Sumter .

Public sentiment in the North .

The attack on Fort Sumter and the State Convention .

English view of coercion.

The temper of the despots.

Edmund Ruffin .

Union among Virginians .

The Convention.

A change in the mail routes.

The military preparations in Washington — Apprehensions of an attack — great excitement — effect of the War news.

Arrival of U. S. Troops at Washington .

Latest from Washington .

Return of the Virginia Commissioners — gallantry of the National volunteers , etc.

More officers Resigning .

Troops to be furnished by the Northern States .

Northern troops on their way to Washington .

Tender of troops to the Government .

New York troops Volunteering.

Shipwreck and Loss of fifteen Lives.

Illinois Legislature .

Effects of the War news in the British provinces.

Meeting in Alexandria .

Reception of the news in Lynchburg — a hundred guns fired.

War feeling in Boston .

More steamers chartered — probable blockade

Northern Markets.

From Charleston .

Charleston, April 12th, 1861

Edict for the toleration of Christianity in China .

Twenty dollars reward.

Committed to jail as a Runaway.

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Purging the service.

--Yesterday the President directed that the names of Capt. W. B. Johns of the 3d Infantry, and first Lieutenant Abner Smead of 1st Artillery, U. S. Army, be stricken from the roll of the army; the former for declining the command of his company in New York when about to start on the current expedition; and the latter for having, when with his company on board the Brooklyn, tendered his resignation to escape from duty.

The above fling is from the Washington Star of Saturday. The "duty" declined by these officers was, that of fighting against their own kindred.

The Daily Dispatch: April 15, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. April 15, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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