The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-08

movements will be mace.
Ellsworth's Zouaves are ordered to start for
Alexandria OH Monday. This corroborates
what wrote you of the first point OF attack
There Will be no battle :here, AS most of the
secession troops are said TO be withdrawn.
The marching orders for the Sixth Massa-
cnusetts Regimen are probably also for Ale K
andria, TO support the Zouaves.
The object of seizing Alexandria Is, not only
to get possession of the Custom House, but TO
open the canal there for the passage of Cam
beTland coal, which is the best coal burned in
locomotives aud steamers. | know that gen
tiemen have represented TO the President
within few days the importance OF this canal
and its possession.
The mex day the same we'll informed cores
pendent says:
The first demons tration to oe made in the
vicinity Of Washington will be TO throw out
advance posts circuit of twenty miles, or
'hereabout, around Washington, including
Virginia and the city of Alexandra, This is
necessary TO secure the agricuf dis trcts
from which is derived n supply of fresh pro
visions for the Washington mar ket, and which
has been cut OF by the impudent Interference
| OF a secession picket guard stationed at the
Long Bridge, and which has existed for more
! than a week.
The next move of the Government will be
| to repossess The Navy ard at Norfolk, and
| open and keep open the water couunlunica ton
! thereto. AT this point a formidable battle
| may take place ii the people Of Virginia will
permit the troops Of the seeded States to pol
! iutu ntr SOIL Tor The DurpOse OF making war
/ upon the Federal Government.
| In the meantime keep TO the ground,
| and the thunder of Federal guns viii be heard
! at Fort Piclens and on the Nj ssipp.
| 1t is currently believed that another Presi-
nttai proclamation, announcing the lnten-
| ton OF the Government to repossess the Fed
| eral property seized by the Southern rebels,
| and to deal surnmarily with all that will
| hereafter be found resisting It's authority, will
! appear TO morrow.
| disp4 trh from Daphury Conn Nav
tells US how the Yankee troops held an indig-
| nation meeting:
a large indignation meeting was held here
| this afternoon, and resolutions passed com
| planning OF the scantiness of provisions, &c.
| furnished The LIST Regiment of Connection
| Volunteers now CHARTERED at New Haven, and
| asking for correction Of the abuse. The re-
| solutions were ordered TO be cent 10 the Gov
| etuUr and Legis lature, and were una .Iuousl y
| signed Letters from the volunteers say thu;
| instead OF fifty cents worth of provisions
! they get less than twelve cents worth per
| day. The ration tor one meal is as follows
| Two very small pota toes, one ounce Of bread
| ind one quarter OF An ounce of fat meat
| Much feeling is nantes ted, and il the matter
| is not remeuied there VIII probably be trouble
| A 'tGistinguished citizen" conveys some i'm
| portant Information TO the Hessians at Wash
ington, according TO the following telegram
from that city;
A distinguished citizen of Massachusetts
and a member Of the next Congress, who went
10 Charleston some six or eight weeks ago tol
the brnefit of his health, has just arrived here
lie has been in Sonth Carolina, Georgia, Mls
stssippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and Ken
lucky. He says he had no difficulty IN trav
| cling wherever he chose.
| He says the people throughout those State:
| are nearly a unit and are fully determined Il
resist the North TO the last extremity. IL
| gives il as his opinion, after a careful survey
| OF the feeling in those STATES, that Tennessee,
| NJ North ttsrOlIDl Will IDn tho Son herr
, | Confederacy, and that Kentucky will eventu
ally follow in the satue direction, He say
they are arming Themselves To the teeth, ant
, | will fight to the bitter end,
Another citizen telegraphs the Northern
press, from Washington
| A gentleman who arrived here to-day from
| Baltimore and whe belongs TO the Secession
lists says. that whenever the troops from tn
| North attempt to pass through Blitimor
they will meet warm reception. He say
| the law and order party cannot control tn
| rowdy element. They are in possessi lion of al
the arms, and will resist ut every step tn
march OF troops II the peace party, he says
had arms, they nigh be able 10 do some thing
, but as il is they are poWeriess.
From Boston, May 3, we learn that
i Corporal Needhan, mortally wounded q
Bal timore, WAS member Of the UniversaliS
Church in Lawrence, and highly esteemed a
Q a citizen. His funeral on Saturday, conducte
4 by the City Government OF Lawrence, was al
tended by the Fire Department, several mil
tary companies, and many thousand citizen
of Lawrence and the adjoining towns. Tire
yoleys OF musketry were fired over his tomb
f a monument will be erected 10 his memory.
r A dispatch from Toronto, Canada, May
says:
y 1t is reported that the Americans are enlis
, | ing recruits for the Federal Army here. d.
III yes inves tigating the matter, and the
, will be arrested if discovered.
The New York papers of Saturday furnis
q the folio wing AS one of the results of the wal
The imports of foreign dry goods at til
| port continue light, and the aggregate for I'll
past month shows a still farther materi
| falling off the entries for consumption d.
| ring the past four weeks fall nearly thrt
: millions below the corresponding period
last year, and as compared with 1889 the di
ference is even more marked, the decline b
ing over six millions. The amount withdra y
:. from warehouse, and the total thrown on Il
" market is a little over one half less than La
:; year. and about five millions less than $50
,e The following Southern news was receiyt
last night:
y MoHTGoaBRY, May b.-Congress was in g
d cret session all of yesterday. The inlunctit
). of secrecy was removed from an act pass
!, providing for the formation OF regiment
;: Zouayes.
d resolution was adopted allowing all De
sons in the siavehofdiug States desirii
l. patents to file caveats with the Attorney Ge
Il eral.
j. Gen Beauregard and Mr.. RUSSELL CORE
d pendent of the London Times, have arriv
: here
lr There is nothing new here from Pensacol
c, MOBILE, May 5.-The Continentais, o.
- hundred and sixty strong, left for Montgome
- to- day, and there We're also on board II
steamer several resigned Federal militia
- officers, from Texas, intending 10 offer thu
services TO the Confederate States Cover
: | ment.
1t is reported that Mobile will be blockad
y tomorrow.
3, CoaMEkcIAL REvULsIoSs IN NEW YORK
% A morning contemporary says there have bee