Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-08-23

TIA steamer Baltimore came up from Cd Point LAS
snt shere she has been detained By bad weA.ner,
bringing in low eleven kns shi saDohef nur Of WINCH
~ers hited cut, each VIII 'reise-pouna ooAI
howi,sr, and marines and towed down 10 tie rect ~
tbe Bal,iunere. To-day workueu are rapidly upg up
the remaining seven 10 the same STYLE and these vii
dort Ties 20 down Tonight The Baltimore reports ell
Quiet down the river, and At Cd Point ail
Last Friday morning the United States chip Cumoer.
nj arrived 10 Hampton Roads from Boston, where she
hal ben under going pairs Immediately Der AMI
val Tag Of truce came down, roro the Confederate,
bringing one or two prisoners bus their eent purpose
"a 70 lsarn the rsme, etc Of the new conner. Com
modore S,singhsm however has upset the ana OF the
"secesh IN their Efforts 10 spy about in or lines under
aag Of truce and now when oae appears Federal tug
ueets Il q, Seses FONT (hsf way where orr officers
can examine the work Of the Confederxtss ~ wall Tbs
Cumberland viii tarry short time, Ii Is believed. at
Old Point, but would leave Southern crase,
4 d JON the bloekading et Of The sescoast.
Toe Peng1in has left Old Point and Joined The Poo.
'asc fctla nov lying of Aqua Greek The Mount
vernon blockades the aoaih OF the Rappshannock and
TIE Leuisapa guards tie Eastern Shore, lear Cape
CeaTlss AL on board these vessels are well and ie
good spiiiis. la a VI II A - -
some time since the internal machine cs6ured BY
The RssolGts examined, and about two barrels oil
powder taken from The iron bomb, bu. 90 other eplo
sivs material was found II Is rpmored that other ma
saeeas have been found but this needs confirmation.
Toe gunboats building 10 Maine 10 be named the
Kaiabdin Aroostook, Penobscot, Kennebec and hineo
rnose In Nassachnsss hArbehead, Sycamore, Chocara
and Huron. Those in Connecticut Osasco, Kenaulis
and Cayuga. Tnoae in New York, Nadia, Ottawa, PEN.
Ina, Seneca, Chippewa and wnonA Those in Pennsyl
yanla IsAscs Scioa and Wssahicon- They are building
/, Delaware the Jshowa and one at Baltimore, RDola
Messrs SpoHord rleston, who have two steamers
running between New York aud Key Kest and Havana,
have proposed subsist one officer and fifteen men on
10 ud eseh vessel be furnished With the pro srma
M ,rt and clothed with authority 70 capture privateers-
Secretary OF the Navy has acceeded TO the PROPOSE
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The United States steamer Connecticut WI leave Mes
NOtk the esd with iresa supplies and prov sion %
vessels noe performing socksd ns service. She win al
81 take letters to them previously sent 70 the Nsvs
Lyceun at Brooklyn for that purpose.
Il il ssc. rt uned a. the Navy Department that good
casss Of men ara offering at New York and Boston, 70
co md the purchased vessels authttzed 70 added
| 10 tba ssrVics They are undergo ng examination.
The nlets Of North Carolina it Is su pected, are not
the onls ones on the Sout TO DO DISTRACT BY
the sinking Of cid hulks filed with cid stone Those VINO
imagine that th- Navy Depaptment Is not Vigorously a.
YORK will have change their opinion, As vAs
resrl-s VII soon be sppLrent
HG West Who rsstste Q himself a. attached 10 IN
NAVY from New York, committed suicide today oy TAI
" laudaaum He vas empl ,yd in the Coast Survey.
The engineer appointed TO examine vessels on the Wes
tern waters 9Th view TO their purchase Tor severn
IA Mt usss has Just returned and made his report TO the
The seaman, Earnest Walton, who vas wounded 10 the
al r of the Resoluts at Matthias Pjin Is lying quite al
a. the hospital aud Il Is thought will not recover
The newspaper story alleging tina. Commander VIM.
D. Porter e. S NJ il his way home ttrom the Pscinc
side in irons BY order Of the Navy Department. Is I'M
true Ca the publication Of his late letter, encouraging
his son to eight IN the ogsrchys army, orders we're scot
to the Commander Of the Pacific squadron to take from
him the command Of tue sloop otwsr OF Which be was
in charge and hand him his dismissal from the service,
.snt 70 the Commodores command at the same time.
When those papers we're received, Commander Porter
vas n San Francisco snd telegrsphed for to return
10 the ship But geGtirg wind t presnmed) Of the
contents OF the dispatches requiring his immediate return
10 shi: he ed - obey the order by telegraph and
DOT bseO heard OF b the Commodore up TO the lstes'
advces from him TO the Department OF course another
oaicsr has beea p1, in charge OF the soop-of-wN.
THI TWO YEARs MIN.
We hear that portions OF the l2th aud slst New York
rsEiments havs bsen melted by uIknown parties to
se up the plea that the two years and the three
months men are on the same footing. IL can only end
IN rips to the Dry Torugss apprehsnd on the part
Of such Of them NAV decline 10 Go duty on any such
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