From Portsmouth.
[special Correspondence of the Dispatch.]
Portsmouth, Va., May 2d, 1861.
We are now blockaded, as are the mouths of the James river, the York, the Rappahannock and the Potomac — so I am told.
Yesterday morning the Baltimore boat — the steamer Adelaide -- was stopped by the minions of the Chimpanzee at Washington, and pressed into the service of the so-called Illinois baboon.
The mail came up, however, in the afternoon, in the little steamer Coffee.
Spies are said to be about.
A man in petticoats, it is said, has been roaming about our city.
If he is caught he will be stripped and turned over to the secular arm.
The Young Guard, a company of 87 young and fine looking men, from Newton county, Ga., reached here at one o'clock last night, and were temporarily quartered in the courthouse.
Sixteen thousand more from the same State are said to be on their way to old Virginia.
Five companies came yesterday morning from the adjoining counties of Nansemond and Surry, and went over to Norfolk.
The sloop-of-war St. Louis is said to have mysteriously disappeared from off Pensacola.
She may have been ordered on some special service.
Her commander is Poor, a Southern man, and she may turn up in some Southern port --quien sabe
The weather here is quite cold, and blankets and fires are comfortable, though the day is bright and the sun is shining gloriously.
The work of saving the property, guns, &c., in the Merrimac goes bravely on at the Navy-Yard.
Many of the stores here are closed, and business is partially suspended. Old Dominion.
