The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-18

/ u not p1OeAotos hOWevef, that the Confede-
resistance 70 the immense body 81 FEDERAL
troops. They will, moro probably, act mere.
~ a. check on their permanent advance.
Prof. Loves balloon 10 now 1T the Smith .
sonian Institute. being prepared for an aertal
sampaisn. II will be taken 10 Falls Church
Two hundred United States marines have
,rrive1 A. this Navy. Yard 10 the e, last as. two
THIS Government pays no further attention
20 the batteries erected on the Potomac bv the
Confederates. All navigation. except for the
import or export Of munitions OF war, has
On Wednesday 100 900 rounds of musket
cartridges were sent to Fortress Monroe.
The slst New York Regiment Is at the Navy
l Yard on general duty. They expect 70 70
Town the river on or about Tuesday next.
The seventy-one German riflemen who
| sere imprisoned for revolt, were liberated
| Yesterday afternoon on consideration of their
| ,iCping paper agreeing to take whatever arm
| she Government may be pleased 10 furnish
hem with.
A number Of drunken soldiers induIged in a
row yesterday In Prnther's alley. much " the
| annoyance OF peaceabie citizens
A soldier yesterday pointed his pistol In the
| lace OF conrade, when the latter drew q
xnife and stabbed the other seriously Ia two
/ places.
Charles Armour, well. known clerk in the
| bed yesterday.
The speech Of Lord Russell ia the British
| Parliament relative 10 the blockade of the
| between rebels and beiligeren is, has caused q
private consultation between Messrs. Lin.
coin. Seward, Bates and Chase. The meet.
| ing, however, was merely informal
| The Washington Star, of Friday evening,
| contains very little news of importance. The
| following items are taken from it:
AN INTERNAL MACHINE DISCOVERED FLOATING IN
l TO THK NAvY.YARp,
| On Sunday, at meridian, while the Free.
| ooril was lying OF Aqua Greek, in company
| with the Resoiute, Pocahontas and Pawnee,
two oejtcts OF an exceedingly suspicious
ZOO LOOK we, were discovered Heating down with the
mander OF the Pawnee, when they had got
| within quarter of mile, sent out small
boats crew to investigate the queer looking
| things, and the Resolute was ordered to the
| boats support. AS the boat neared the OBJ
| lecrs the crew grew exceedingly suspicious OF
| them, discovering that they fioated with a
| steady purpose towards the Federal vessels,
| ana In their own language, looked diaboii.
| cal" One Of them coming in con tact with
1 the Resolute's rudder, became detached from
something underneath it, and the under
| water part sunk to the bottom, while the top
| part, In shape Of large oil cask, fioated, and
| turned over, discovering square hole III the
| under side. and coil of something which
niled the cask. The other machine careened
over on one side. and probably put out a GER
| lain IRE That was burning inside.
The Resolu te dropped back to let the enemy
oeileve that the objects attracted no atten ton
| on the part of the vessels. After a proper
Lime nad elapsed, an attempt was made &c
| moist the "machines" (then hoating) on board
| the Pawnee, and as the cask came out of the
| water fuse of India rubber was discovered
| hanging from it, which one of the officers i'm p.
mediately cut with his knife, and the cask,
| with its submarine fixing, was hoisted on
| board Attached to the cask (Which was fill
ed with coil of fuse coated with tar,) and
hanging about six feet below it, was an iron
| cylinder, made Of boiler iron. About fve feet
| long by eighteen inches In diameter, and filled
| with something which made 1t weigh near
| four hundred pounds, leading from the cylin-
der TO the cask above, and attached to the
| slow match coil within it, was the India rub
| ber-coated fuse which the officer had severed
| with his knife.
The internal machine was transferred to the
| treeborn and brought up to the Yard for sci
! enti1c investigation. It. was hoisted out this
| morning, and taken to the front OF the shell
| house opposite the ordnance shop, where i,
/ was fastened up i'll a convenient position to
| be photographed. While in that position il
| attracted hundreds Of cautious but curious
| visitors, who peeped at it from all possible
points CT view, though at q respectful dis
| lance.
| FROM FAIRFAx COURT HOUSE.
FALLS CRUNCH, July l2th.-There were five
| regiments yesterday morning Immediately in
and around Fairfax Court House, with eigh
teen pieces of field artillery in all and twelve
pieces being in battery. The three most ad
vanced regiments are from South Carolina.
From the Court House back TO Centrevill,
the woods are lined with them, (disunior
troops,) in what numbers, exactly, am no
able to write you. Their baggage, &c. from
Fairfax station has all been carried back tC
Manassas Junction, and they are all now hi
youacking nightly, as though on the march
This is OF course preparation for an attack
| from us, q retreat, Or q forward movement
| however interpret it to mean that they expect
speedily to have to fall back upon Manassas
| Junction.
| The FkEEBoRN AGAIN SHELLS MATTHIAS POINT.
On BOARD THE Freedom, tPotomac River,
| July n.-This afternoon, Lieut.. Lowry com
manding, this vessel stood in to within Il hun
dred and fifty yards Of Matthias Point, and
| treated the Secession troops. who were visi
BILE, peepng through the neighboring bushes
and woods, to about twenty shells, some o.
| which fell eviden tly among them, scattering
them in different directions. Three OF the
! shells struck Grimes house, tearing big holes
through it. 1t is clear that there is no bat
terry whatever at Matthias Point. On ouI
| way mp the river we found the enemy as busy
| as bees abont Aqua Greek, passing in and
out of their entertainments there in conside'
/ rable numbers.
[Our readers are referred to the first page Of
| this paper for a more correct account of the
affair at Matthias Point, furnished by oul
own correspondent, a gentleman in every way
reliable. His letter was received on Tues.
day, but inadvert emily crowded out of oul
columns yesterday Ed DIs.l
The Baltimore Sun, Of Saturday, contains
the following in addition to what has already
| been published:
PROM OLD POINT COMFORT.
The steamer Louisiana, Captain Pie-son
| arrived yesterday morning from Old Poin
| Comfort, but brought no news whatever O.
| interest
| Nomilitary movement had been made mn Il
| Thursday afternoon.
The body of Corporal Songster, of Colone
Bakers regiment, was brought mp by the L
and forwarded to New York. On Sunday
morning last. while in camp, he was shot By
| Confederate picket, the ball taking effect IL
his right groin. He died on Thursday. Hi
body was escorted by six Zouayes, and &C
companied by his brother
| An idea prevailed at Old Point that Genera
Magruder was killed 8 few days since in
sAxirmish near Newport News Point. negr'
reported, and stated that his body had beel
taken to Norfolk. This was the first direc
intelligence of a skirmish at that point.
| On Thursday the woods intervening be
tween Seweli's Point and the Rip Raps wa
| on fire. Much Of it had previously been Gu
| away by the Confederates. An effort wa
| made to discover the exact position Of thei
battery, but without success, nor could an!
| of the troops be seen.
The scouts reported that the Confederate
had retired from Great Bethel to Yorktown
| but the report was not credited.
| In conseQ hence Of the dissipated condition
| of the troops, Gen. Butler had issued an or
der prohibiting the sale of Intoxicating drink
| within the lines of the camp.
| The body of a Confederate soldier wa
said to have been found by picket guar
| about a mile and half from Newport New
Point, on Thursday, and buried. He wa
| wounded in the thigh, the ball having sew
| cred the femoral artery.
A SENSATION STORY FROM OLD POINT.
correspondent OF the New York Tribune
l n yidautlv ambitions of creating a sensation