The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-22
TELEGRApHIC NEWS.
Reported for the Richmond Dispatch.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM
WASHINGTON.
ALL BRIDGES BETWEEN BALTIMORE
AND PHILADELPHIA PORN UP.
TEN THOUSAND r HI 4 ID + L Ii / A
TROOPS COMING SOUTH. r..
FORT McHBNRr BESIEGBDl
Baltimore Votes $500, 900 for Her Defence
NO TROOPS GAN PASS THROU II
MARYLAND.


WAsHIxerox, April 21.-Dispatches from
New York received here state that the people
there are frant tic, and that determined feel
ing to subjugate the South prevails
The steamers which carry passengers across
the ferry a. the Susquehanna river, have been
seized by the Marylanders.
The New York Seventh Regiment has start
ed by water for Washington. They enter the
Chesapeake and 60 up the Potomac. They
are accom- panied by new Massachusetts regi-
ment under the command OF Gen. William
L. Small
-Four bridges on the Philadelphia and Balti-
more Railroad have been destroyed, to pre-
vent the passage of Northern troops.
Fort MeHenry, 1t is said, is besieged by
II, 900 arylanders.
No Virginia troops had arrived at Alexan-
dria last night.
Gen. Scott has appointed Gen. Patterson
commander of the District of Columbia mill
tary.
Baltimore has voted $500, 900 for the defence
OF the city.
The massachusetts, Regiment is going
| through the OapsS, and by that way up TO
Washington. They may probably be placed
in Fort Monroe
Senator Kennedy, of Maryland, had an in
terview with President Lincoln yesterday
No result known.
meeting was held In New York on Satur-
day, at which DOC, 900 persons were present.
They adopted resolutions declaring they would
sustain the Administration of Lincoln at all
hazards.
Trenton last night.
lsECoSD DISPATCH.
| WAsHIEaroS, April 2l.-The Pawnee and
| Anacostia left last night, probably for Nor
| folk.
A large body of troops, it is reported, are or
| the Northern border of Maryland, where they
are ordered by Lincoln to remain. Baltimore
| is now quiet. ~
| The mail steamers on the Potomac are do
| tanned by the u. S. Government.
| Everything is quiet here, and a feeling o
| safety pervades all classes, except stock spec
| ulators.
| [The above is an Associated Press dispatch
sent under the inspection of VIM. M. Watson
| of the New York Express, who has been com
| missioned by the U. S. War Department Il
| inspect all dispatches sent by telegraph from
Washington. Of course the reported =" safe
| ty and quiet" in Washington and Baltimor
| is untrue.-Ed. Dispatch
| THIRD DIsPATCH.1
| ALEXANDRIA, April 21.-All communication
| between Baltimore and Washington is cut of
All the bridges have been destroyed
1t is reported that Fort McHenry is to b
attacked by the Baltimoreans.
| Martial law is to be proclaimed in Washing
| ton. The citizens are leaving there i'll grea
| numbers. Fifteen or twenty Thousand troop
| from the North, en- route to Washington wer
stopped at Havre de Grace by the burning Q
the boat. Tits supposed they will come roun
by water.
There is the widest excitement here an
everywhere.
Col r. i. Lee and Commander Marry hav
resigned.
| Commodore F. Forrest has resigned an
been appointed commander of the naval force
of Virginia.
Col. Lee is to be commander of the Virgini
| forces.