The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-31
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FROM ANNAPOLIS.
The Federal Forces-Returning Fugitive
Slaves -Th. Steam Gun-Exa mining Bag
aage-Inxuits TO Ladies. &c.
ESPECIAL coRRKsPosDRSca OF THE DISPATCH I

ANNAPOLIS, May q, 1861.
am enabled by gentleman going direct tn
your city 10 send you Il few lines from this
point.
The grounds and buildings of the Naval
Academy are now occupied by the Thirteenth
Brooklyn Regiment, Col. Smith, Numbering
about nine hundred men. They ara mostly
clerks from. the city Of Brooklyn,-gen tee
young fellows of good address, short wind
and irnpissble legs. With these are amaIea
mated one hundred and fifty fire ladies
from "ihams ourgy who really eonstitut e
Inc bone and sinew of the corps. They are
drilling constantly, and in this respect have
advantages which many of their comrades do
not possess.
The battery is a mere nominal affair, con-
sistlng OF a circular shell OF a building two
thirty two FOUNDERS and one or two howit-
GERS; OF ammunition for these pieces they
have little or none
Two Thousand determined men could carry
the place ny storm with nothing but brick
bats.
Just across the bay is the Sixth German
Regiment of New York. There they have
thrown up one or two batteries to protect
them from attack seward The citizens OF
Tue surrounding county are much displeased
with the arbitrary manner in which their
patrols conduct them selves, and the daily in
suits which are experienced by men and wo-
men, especially the latter is rolling uT
against them Il debt OF hate which the people
OF MarTlan viii one day wipe out in blood
10 coneiiiate the people as far as poss BILE
Col Smith at this point is returning to their
masters fugitive slaves. No less than eleven
have been thus disposed of within the las
| three weeks. The people understand tbs
bait, however, and are not to be caught vi. tk
such chaff. The latter are by no means sub.
| dued-only repressed, and when the hour ar
| rives for the volcano to burst, you will see
| storm OF fires weiiiDg up from Mary land tina
| will compensate for tho forced quiet we hay,
| heretofore been compelled 10 observe.
The steam gun is now here, and an object O
| great curiosity to the Yankees. They fioci
| around il every day, to STUDY It's points anC
| seek, II possible, the problem which it's in ven
| tor kept secret by preserving its most valua
| BILE part. IT is now az useless much
| iron, but understand that Bu tier will short
| ly dispatch il to Lowell, Mass, his home, t
| he examined by some OF the mechanics OF tina
| city. The papers are meanwhile lgh ting Owe
| thu lredit claimed by different detachment
| for its capture. Some two hundred men an.
| battery were engaged in the laudabie en-
| terprise, and the result of the exploit was
| man, a boy, and pair of mules
| Between this place and the Junction, thirt
| miles distant at intervals OF two miles o
| Whereabouts, are files of ten or twelve men
| who guard the track. They belong 10 tn
| Goth Regiment of New York, Col. Pratt, en-
| camped ut the Junction-composed by tn
| way of Yankees from the country towns an,
| back woods of New York-milkmen and farm
| erS.
At the Relay House are two regiments O
| Massachusetts, volun teers, one OF these bein
| the same which passed through Baltimore OF
| the famous 10Th OF April. They are nov
| venting their vengeance on the women an
| children who pass up the Baltimore and Ohi
| Railroad, taking every occasion to insui
| them by looks, words and deeds.
| Scrutiny OF persons and baggage is NOR
| rigid than ever. Y.