The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-01
From Fortress Monroe


The Baltimore Exchange, of Friday last
says:
The news from Fortress Monroe by yester
day mornings boat con Ia ined but little in ter
"st, except the capture of the bark Sally Nc
Gee. from Rio, with 600 bags Of COFFEE b,
the QUAKER CITY. she is owned in Richmond
A prize crew was placed on board, and sh
was sent 10 New YORK As the Adelaide Wa
passing up the Bay a few miles from the Fort
tresS, heavy cannonadng WAS heard in tn.
direction of Newport News Point, which wa
supposed to be from a trial of guns at Craney
Island.
The Baltimore Clipper, of the same date,
says:
few minutes after the Adelaide quite,
Old Point, a heavy firing was heard in The di
rection OF Newport News Point. Many asser
that The Federal forces had attacked tina.
point, while the officers on the boat say tina
the firing WAS from Crany Island, where the
rebels We're practising with rifle cannon
We learn from gentleman from DAD Point
Comfort, that the report in our mornings is
sue OF yesterday, that Surgeon Eebner Smith
OF the gun boat Monticello. was mor1a,l>
wounded at the affair on Tuesday, on tn.
Rappahannock river, is erroneous. Although
he received painful wound in the cheek, n,
Is not i'll the least danger.
Correspondence of the Associated Press.l
FORTRESS MONROE, June Goth Lynch, the
refugee from Norfolk, picked up by the Qua
ker CITY, confirms previous information OF
about 1000 troops at Norfolk, 2 500 this side OF
the city, and 800 at Portsmouth, all busil,
engaged in Notifications. He knows nothing
about the condition of affairs at CraneS
Island and SawelIs Point Fruit and yega
tables are cheap at Norfolk, but flour is scarce
and ali articles usually imported bring higt.
prices. n refugee from Richmond, by the
nag OF truce yesterday, says that a wors.
IMAM hoInan inquIsition prevails in Virginia
Ihere Is standing order that no one shall
be permitted TO leave the country. Governor
Letcher Is com pleteiy overruled by Jeffprso.
DAVIS and Beauragard, and even his patriot
ism called III question by many of the re bells
Two howitzers arrived this morning foI
Colonel Duryea's regiment. The council OF
officers, called in reference to the post of Sut
Ter, sustain Mr.. Moody, but their in III ence Il
likely 10 oe oVerridden at Washing ton, -
There was no military movements Of impor
lance to report. Adiutant General Haines
goes to Washington tins evening 1t is now
known that the rebels fell back 10 Yorktown
precipitately after the affair at Great Bethel
A bark owned in Richmond, and laden with
coffee, was brought in prize to-day.
The system of telegraph now in use at thu
fort is one OF signals with flags by day and
lamps by night. Words, and combinations OF
words, are indicated by certain motions-a
kind Of deaf and dumb alphabet, simple ano
easy to learn, and capable of conveying any
message. BY repeating, messages may be
sent any distance. Between the Fortress and
is about eighty miles. by the aid of good
glasses messages are read, that is, the mo
tions of the flag can be seen with the greatest
ease. There are about the system many
things resembling the magnetic telegra oh
such as repeating back. breaking in when the
MESA &c is not unders TODD, and o Their CONVEX
sational features. There is nothing complex
or cnmbersome-a few flags, jointed sta fl
and two lamps, all lashed and covered with
slip, not exceeding in bnlk an ordinary fish =
Ing tackle, constitute the entire machinery.
PHrLADELPBIA, PA "A CORES pondent of the
Baltimore Exchange writes from PhiIadel-
rhia, June &C. as follows:
Everything here looks bad. The streets be-
gin TO look somewhat deserted. miss many
familiar faces There have been from IL 600
to IS 900 men already gone from the city, ano
four or five regiments more filing up their
ranks, which VIII make. when they are gone
the number of troops taken from this city
about ., 900. The Democrats number at least
IS or 50 per cent. OF the number. Ii they had
not gone to the rescue of the Government,
Lincoln would have been chased out Of Wash
ington at tie points of Southern bayonets
long ago. The Wide Awakes, those who pa
raded around the streets with equipments
and torches, who were going to swim in
Southern blood, have joined the "Hcme
6uard!" 1t was much more pleasant 10
carry torch than mnsket, and not at all
TO their Liking to be shot at Igo on the prin-
ciple that "lhose who make the quarrel be
the only ones to fight" dstest this uDholy
war. whichever SIDE conquers it only weak.
Gus the common country l have heard men
express the most atrocious sentiments in re-
gard TO the South-but they won't fight, oh
no. Let others do that; we will stay at
home and talk. The Ohio regiments who
were here are nearly all Democrats. Il see
that their General ran train into 4 battery
at Vienna and 80 were the other troops, SO
far as have had the means Of ascertaining
The Inquirer comedies that the Democrats
number, in the troops already gone. ut least
10 per cent. There is q reaction commencing
here in favor OF peace. Whether il will
amount to any thing Heaven only knows, but
sincerely trust that Ii will ~