The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-26

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ShAkLEsToF, Marrh 90 1sRi
now positively asserted, by teieeraph
troia washington, from a very reliable ana
yer, .oat OFT sumter IL certainly TO he evacu
s so, :, 70 morrow may be so. or 1t may not.
nearly at the lend OF his row. !" They ase
die they ought ' ""'' anu
wr a very respeesahle merchant of your city
49, " gentleman here, saying that some
1iah mad Just returned from this civ ana
stated NATAL letters mailed at this nos of,ica
me.e nrst read, aud that the Government was
On a.,4 ,ueh uaiiy Tor words spoken; and that
o'u newspapers We're afraid to condemn IL
ahs the merchant alluded to, of yonr city
writes to an old friend here dastring To know
cue truth oil all this 1t is hardly worth the
aouD'e 70 notice this nonsense, yet this NAV
oe read by the fellow who tarted the report.
ana, l VIII say, If he made these statements
Iof oit OF fun, he il n great fool, and if he
| stated thein as facts, simply tell him he ia
an unoiushing hart-hats alt. have known
oot one white man hung here In the last two
years, ana he was n Virsinian, who called
himself Foster, and hailed from near Peters
oufs, ana was hung for burglary. Perhaps,
tue fellow alluded to above might have heard
vi TINS case, and regarded his own neck I'm
danger.
| Business was never better here than at
present. Our hotels are filled to repetition
| Merchants from all the Confederated States
are mere, with an abundance of money and long
memorandums, and they find the assortment
Oh goods excellent and the stock sufficient 1t
may be that thAAts interior merchants are here
with the money that would have gone in 10
| 'he pockets oil the aholitionsts, and IL may be,
| 700, mat much of the money now get
| ing is due 10 the North il so, let the aboli-
| tionists snarl aid grit their teeth as much as
| they piease-we have got the money and their
| trade, TOO, which, no doubt will he to Them n
| sweet morsel Of comfort.
| Our line of steamers bet ween this city ard
| Liverpool VIII be ready by autumn next, aud
1 there are hundreds OF capitalists who will,
| ana indeed are seeking Southern cities and
| w harm
! 0ohtederacy AT least Will have brushed all
| Black Republican dast from off their feet
Our harhor is filled with vessels from all
| parts OF the world, most of them laden with
goods TO our city. and for which the cash was
paid
| Did you ever know n set of men die SO hard
as these Union saNers2 They buster and talk
OF h-h ting, of '' sending down - an army to
| whip the traitors, and then they seize upon
private property, and then they talk of block
ades, OF achievements, and all that, but yet
| they send no armies no reinforcements or any
| such thing. What, between the fright they
got when We made Il few air holes in the Star
Oh the West, the Impoverished and BANKRUPT
state Oh their Treasury, and the contemplated
INVASION, they certainly have been brought to
stand still, and eventually to a das tardly
back down.
All the high officials of the military have
pe"h called suddenly to Montgomery-what
for no one knows, but it is thought BY well in .
formed men that it is to arrange the army
and have the officers assigned and to consult
rs 10 mfnre operations. / hear that in q few
weeks At most, one hundred thousand men
many OF them veterans, will be ready for ex-
! Fdo'dthary service and plenty left to take
care OF the mercenary Northern soldiers who
may be sent off down South to gss clear OF
them at home If the people of Whsbinrton
city only did but know what few of MS here
know. they would hardly "return back to
take their clothes" Well may General Scott
keep bis hirelings there--he had better bring
more there. VIRGINIUs
| Correspondence Of tho Richmond Dispatch.
DpeNi"g Rurnt-SecsSsion Flags Raised.
ScorrsvILLE, New Kent Co., Va,
March "a 1861.
| About 10 o'clock this morning the mansion
of Fleming 7. Crump, Esq, was discovered
to be on fire, which had originated from a
spark falling on the roof. pretty stiff breeze
blowing at the time, caused the flames &c
| spread with so much rapidity that within 8
very few minutes the whole building was
completely enveloped in flames. Mr.. Crump
| DESTROYS of securing his most valuable furni-
ture, remained in the house until the roof had
| nearly fallen in, and barely escaped from per.
| ishing in the ruins by leaping from q window
| on the first floor. The wind blowing from
the west, and also in the direction of his
| kitchen, caused almost an ms tan taneous com.
mnnication with that building, which also
burned to the ground. But tor the opportuns
arrival Of several neighbors, together with
other persons, who had assembled at church
In the vicinity, other buildings of value would
have been destroyed. Mr.. C.'s loss is esti
mated at $4,000; but we doubt whether the
same buildings can be replaced for tina
amount.
secession banner was unfurled to the
| breeze at our Court-House on yesterday
which was tastefully gotten up by some O
the fair daughters of New Kent. 1t is fl
aud beautiful emblem of their devotion ano
patriotism to the South Most of the ladies
God bless them that we have conversed will
on the subject of our National troubles, ar,
in favor of Virginia seeding immediately
| \ w of hu fQNs
of the sterner who pirate Union. w,
shall have grand secession demonstration a
the fishery of Capt. Thomas w. Atkinson, OIL
next Saturday, the 30th of March, at which
time another secession flag will be run up
DR.. Charles III. Hubbard, our talented Sena
tor having announced his inten ton to resigr
his position in the State Senate after the ad
| Journment of the present Legislature, has
caused several aspirants todeclare themselve
candidates for that office, all of whom san
guine of their election. DYKE.