The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-11-01
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NORFOLK, Oct. %, 1851.
have received information from n SOM
which consider entirely reliable that shir
ty-six steamers end one transport left Hamp-
ton Roads and went to sea this morning al
about o'clock. tits believed that this fIest
has gone South and the wind being fair and
sthe weather fine, al attack viii. probably he
made very shortly upon some place along the
mentioned as probable points of attack
sinong which are New Orleans Charleston.
Wilmington, Pensacola, Galvestsn, &c A
Jew DAYS VIII, in all proba biiity, decide the
Ghesuon and but little doubt is en- ter tain ed
with regard to the result Of the Yankee expe-
@lltlou, although there NAV be some hot work
a vast amount Of treasure has been expeB tieei
III hltlng ont this grand Ormada and the SELF
cohhdent Eederalists write and talk as if they
can defnolish every town and blockade every
port On the coast from Chingoteague Inlet to
the mouth of the Rio Grande. How 9otmly
mus taken they viii be, very short time, pos
s!Dly IL few hours may show
TIE hulk of the brig Dolphin, the upper
porhon OF which was burned by the Fedora I
i1cendiartes in April, has been raised The
ht!ik OF the liz saiapennsylvania will also be
raised shortly. Most of the guns Of the istter
are In seryiceable condition The metal OF
these old hulks will fully repay the cost and
trouble OF raising them from tho bed of the
river,
ture, was presented, yesterday, to Lieu tenant
}. Jett, OF the Norfolk county Rifemen. The
presen tation took place st the nayy-yard The
addresses on the occasion were patriotic aod
appropriate.
Two ladies of this city are engaged in the
commendabie work of soliciting funds in be-
halT OF those persons who were formerly resi-
dents of the town of Hampton, and who. hay.
ing been driven from their homes by the Yam
kee inirnders upon Virginia soil, leaving their
property at the mercy of the Hessians are
many of them, in destitute circumstances.
On Ihursd+y evening series of tableau
wants, representing 3 succession of baauti.
full scenes, will be given ut the Opera House
the proceeds TO be appropriated in behalf OF
the First regiment of the Maryland Volua-
teers, now quartered at Manassas. This enter
prise Will no doubt be encouraged by orr citi- :
zens and patronized with their accustomed
liberality.
Much complaint is heard here relative to
the course recently pursued in allowing alien
enemies to go North under flags of truce. as
some Of those who have gone have given m uch
information about matters here calculated
to benefit the enemy and result to our injury
Among those who have applied for permis-
sion u leave when the next opportunity oc-
ours, are some who are well acquainted wit
the public works here, and it is deemed to be
very bad policy TO allow them to go 1t is
probable that the Lincoln authori ties at
washington are we'll in formed already about
many matters that should have been known
only at the South; but to afford them further
means OF getting the particulars of all our
works and movements, fer their special bens-
fit, is TO infict decided injury to the Southern
cause, and the unwise course should be dis
continued from henceforth.