The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-04-25
MOVEMENTS IN VIRGINIA,

MOVEMENTS IN VIRGINIA,
| We give, from such of our Virginia exchange
as have come to hand by the latest mails, the sui
| joined accounts of war movements:
| MILITARY At NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH.
| Three companies Of troops from Georgia reached
| Portsmouth on Tuesday, and were received by tn
| commandant of the Third Regiment, Col. Jane
Gregory Hodges, and number OF the staff officers
besides large number of the citizens, male ant
female. The companies the Light Guards, from
Columbus, numbering so men none over so YEAR
OF age, only two or three of them being married
men; the Macon Volunteers, so men; and the Fl0yt
Rites, so men, also from Macon. The first and las
commands marched Immediately to the Naval Hos
pital, preerring to enter at once upon military
duty in camp.
On Sunday evening the Richmond Gravs fine
company, numbering 100 rife muskets. arrived at
Norfolk. They brought with them IA pieces oil
rlife-cannon of immense size, of the pieces
weighing 10000 pounds. Four companies, Of lOC
men each, also arrived from Petersburg. The
Portsmouth volunteer regiment is guarding the
Navy Yard. large quantity of provisions had
been received from Carrsyi!le for the troops.
TIE DESTRUCTION OF GOVERNMENT PROPERTY.
The Norfolk Herald says:
1t is believed that the cost to the Government br
the destruction of property in the Navy ard
could not have been much short of eight or ten
niticent shiu-hnuses aad their contents form con-
siderable item in the account, and so does that OF
the Pennsylvania. 1t brings tears into our eyes
when we realize the destruction of this noble ship
so long the ornament of our harbor, and the admi.
ration of thousands from all parts of the country
who visited our waters. Then there was that
splendid specimen of naval architecture the new
and beautiful frigate Merrimac, and four or five
other noble vessels given to the hames and their
valuable armament to the deep. Oh, it is enough
to make any weep to behold such wanton and
wholesale destruction of valuable property.
OLD ''STATES' SUNK.
On Sunday evening the hull of the good old
ship United States, in which Decatur captured the
Macedonian, was taken possession of al the navy
yard by an efficient crew and towed down to the
narrow part OF the channel mile below Fort Nor
folk. where she was mOored across the channel and
sunk. Only few feet brought her in contact with
the bottom: and the naval force that shall attempt
to pass up to our harbOr must hold parley with
the old veteran till they persuade her to stand
one-slde; while IN the meantime the shot and
smells from the two forts above ,One the righ and
the other on the left, are hammering away al them
with the biggest sized shot and shells.-NorJolE
Herald.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Commander John Rogers, United States Navy
and Captain Wright. United States Army, both
from the Cumberland, were arrested at Norfolk on
Sunday and held as prisoners of war;
The Cumberland was anchored on Monday morn
ing off Hampton, her guns bearing on the town.
A gentleman named Richardson, of Portsmouth,
who was out in rOw-boat On Saturday night, ac-
tuated by curiosity, was arrested spy by an of
icer of the Cumberland, also in a boat. Mr. Rich
ardson was fired upon and the ball killed one Of
the men from the Cumberland, who was ASSISTING
in rowing the boat Mr.. Richardson was landed
at Old Point and got home in safety on Sunday
night Another man belonging to the Cumberland
unintentionav killed on Sunday .bv a man
VINO fired upon a deserter in Hampton Roads,
Several ladies of Portsmouth have EXPRESSED
their readiness to cook, or the State in any
capacity where they may be most useful
On the 10Th inst, Dr.. William j. Moore resigned
his position as surgeon Of the U. s. Marine Hospi-
tai at Portsmouth.
Among those who have offered their services to
Gov Letcher, is Captain Jabez C. Ricb late of the
U. ). marine corps He is a native of Maine.
The steam tug Empire of the James River trans
portation line, has been taken into the public
vice at Norfolk, and Lieut.. j. f. Millgan has COM
mand for special duty.
small steamer is plying between Fortress Mon
roe and the Rip Raps, the presumption being that
batteries have been fisted up.
ATTEMPT TO MOB A UNITED STATES SENATOR
We find the following in the Richmond Dis
patch:
LYNcHBURG, Va, April 2l.-Andrew johnson,
United States Senator from Tennessee, passed
through here TODAY on his way from Washington
to Tennessee. large crowd assembled and
groaned at-him and offered every indgnty, incud-
ing pulling his nose. Every effort was made to
take him off the cars
nesseeans. Great difficulty experienced in
restraining the popuace. Johnson was protected
by the conductor and others, who begged that he
might be permitted to proceed home and let his
own people deal with him. He denied sending a
message asserting that Tennessee should furnish
her quota of men.
PROCLAMATIONs OF GOV. LETCHER.
Gov. Letcher has issued proclamation, prohib-
iting the expectation of -four, provisions &C., from
Virginia to the northern cities. He has also issued
the following:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
RICHMOND, April 90, 1861.
In obedience to n resolution of the Convention
the injunction of secrecy having been removed,
the following section of an ordinance passed by the
Convention is published for the information of the
public:
monwealth he and he is hereby authorized and re-
quired to call into the service of the State as ma
ny volunteers as may be necessary to repel inva-
sion and protect the citizens OF the State in the
present emergency, which volunteers he will re-
ceve in companies and organize into REGIMENTS
orlgades ana DIVISIONS according to the force re-
CURED, and the Governor shall appoint and com
mission the General, field and staff officers of said
volunteers, and proceed to have them organized
and instructed. And that he shall immediately in
vite all efficient and worthy Vrginiaus, and resi-
dents OF Virginia, in the army and navy of the
United States, to retire therefrom and to enter
the service of Virginia, assigning to them such
ranks as will not reverse the relative rank held bv
them in the United States service AID vii! at least
be equivalent thereto.
"By order of the Governor,
GEORGE W. MUNFoRD,
"Secretary of the Commonwealth. -
VIRGINIA TROOPS IN NOTION
STAUNToN, Va, April PA company of seven
ty-fve men from Bath county, and another nun
bering one hundred, from Allegheny, have arrived
at this place Three companies from Greepbrier
are expected tomorrow. Pocahontas and High
land are both moving.
sERENADE TO VICE PRESIDENT STEPHENS AT RICHMOND
VIRGINIA.
On Monday night large number of citizens of
Richmond, Va, cOngregated in front of the Ex-
change Hotel in that city, with the First Regiment
Band, and serenaded the Hon. Alexander Fl. Ste
phens Vice President of the Confederate States of
America. The Dispatch has the following sketch
of his speech:
The distinguished gentleman was introduced to
the throng by Mayor Mayo, and received with
hearty cheers. In response, Mr.. Stephens re-
turned his acknowledgements for the warmth of the
personal greeting, and his most profound thanks
for it the representative of the Confederate
States. He spoke of the rejoicing the secession of
Virginia had caused among her Southern sisters
Her people would feel justified if they could hear
it as he had. He would not speak of the States
that were out, but those who were in. North Car
olna was out, and did not know exactly how she
got out. The fires that were blazing here he had
seen along bis track from Montgomery to Rich
mond. At Wilmington, n. c., he had counted, on
one street, twenty flags of the Confederate States
The news from Tennessee was equally cheering
there the mountains were fire. Some of the
States still hestitated, but all would be in
Tennessee was no longer in the late Union. She
was out by resolutions OF her popular assemblies in
Memphis and other cities. Kentucky would soon
be out; her people were moving. Mssouri-who
could doubt the stand she would take when her
Governor, in reply to Lincoln's insolent procama-
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furtherance of your illegal, unchristian and dia-
bOlical schemes ?" Missouri will soon add another
star to the southern galaxy. Where Maryland is
you all know. The first southern blood had been
Shed on her SOIL and Virginia would never stand
idly by and see her citizeas shot down. The
of Baltimore was the cause of the whole South.
He said the cause we were engaged in that
which attached people to the Constitution of the
late United States-it the cause of civil, reli-
gious and constitutional liberty. Many of us
looked at that Constitution the anchor of safety
In Georgia the people had been attached to the
previous Union, but the Constitution which gov
erned it was framed by Southern talent and under
standing Assaults had been made on it ever since
it was established. Lately latitudinous cOnstruc-
ton had been made by the North, while we of the
South sought to interpret it as it was-advocating
strict construction, State rights, the rights of the
people to rule, etc. He spoke of all the fifteen
Southern States advocating this construction
To violate the principles OF the Constitution was to
initiate revoution-and the Northern States had
done this.
The Constitution framed at Montgomery dis
carded the obsolete ideas of the old Constisution
but had preserved its better portion, with some
notifications, suggested by the experience of the
past, and it had been adopted by the Confederated
States who would stand to it. The old Constitu-
ton had been made engine of power to crush
out liberty; that OF the Confederaed States to pre-
serve it. The old Constitution was improved in
our bands, and those living under it had like the
Phoenix, risen from the ashes. The revolution
lately begun did not affect alone property, but lib
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