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

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[for the Richmond Dispatch.]

Among the passengers last week from Old Point to Norfolk, was Miss Susan Archer Talley, of Virginia. Miss Talley accompanied the family of Lieutenant Hunter, of the C. S. Navy, now stationed at Gosport Navy Yard. The party were under the care of Mr. Herbert, of Washington, brother-in-law of Lieut Hunter, and had a letter from Secretary Blair to Gen. Butler, notwithstanding which they experienced considerable difficulty in getting through, being detained several days at Old Point, waiting for a flag of truce to Norfolk. The steam-tug Fanny took them as far as Sewell's Point, where they were met and taken aboard a Craney Island boat. This boat bore the first Secession flag that the party had ever seen. Mr. Herbert was not permitted to proceed to Norfolk, but returned to Old Point in the Fanny. Of the courtesy and kindness of the U. S. officers, and of the President and Captains of the Bay Company, the ladies speak very highly. Mr. Falls, President, gave the party a free passage from Baltimore to Old Point, and at the latter place the officers exerted themselves to procure for them the comforts and luxuries, of which they would otherwise have been deprived through the neglect of the officers of the hotel where they were quartered. Previous to this, the party, with various Southerners, had made a futile attempt to get through at Harper's Ferry. At Old Point no male passenger is permitted to land without first taking the oath of allegiance to the United States.