The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-05-23
REPORTS FROM TIE SOUTH.

WAHiLsttNS, h%y soSA
rroessor Amas4 Mccoy, se,ressry a cassus 4. Gays
Guard, visited Mount Vernon yesterday, ard reprts
that toe tomb of Washington remains undesecrasd rne
trips Of the thlther superded scnc reese
ago, and therefore The only way 10 reach Noun, Vernon
Is overland fram Alexandra. rhs superintendent re-
quests that 70 yisi,er IN mi,ary rufor@ " 7raseai
himself for admission 70 the grounds
Raleigh, ". G despatch da ed yes,e,dsy, 20 too
Rchr ord Eaqui,ey, saye-
The onvep'ion recently elected by ths re,pe o. sis
State met IN this city yesterday ard day orgAu'zed
To-day On ordinance Of secs.si,n was reported
and agreed TO in the Conventi,n ny unsfimens
vote. thus severng the Lass Ink that bouci me Old
North State 10 the abot,orizsd Yankee g. Te-nment
4 salute Of 100 guns were fret o Ral-iss = day Az
the belle were rung and general feeling & gra'a'aon
seems TO pervade tne entire etmn1nfy.
A despatch in the paper from Norfolk slvs:-
Between 500 and 5000 Confederate troops
ate6 at ewes Poin. the night OF tie 10th she
Yankee msrcenares cid not return apprehepded
the steamer wet Point, belonging to tho York Ree.
Railroad hnc left the railroad wha-f Porsmorth uudec
flag of truce visit tho seoera flee on Old Pon, Comfort
for the purpose Of carrying thst destination al the
ard children who aesire to joo their Northern
friends. The steamer accompanied oy Capt. rhos
y Bunser commander of tue Virginia navy me FOL
loving, among other persons, left in the steamer
Hepensfal L. T. Barnard Lucas, Geo. Richard Blash,
John HsrboVner. Jos. D. Knapp, Thos. Nelson, Robert
Gil, John Butler " H. Lewis and James Ii. HardSick.
Captain Hunter reports the Monticello as having farei
bad7 In her engagements with the battery at Sew
els Point The boat .s seriously damaged, both hull
and machinery, and i is thought Is viii be some time
before shs indulge in aro,her bomoGrdment SIX
men were killed on board and several woarded.
his lie news here -REP
correspondent o. the Richmond Disp1ch, under iat'
Of Norfolk, 2lst, saye"There has oecn DO further at
tempt upon any Of batteries since Sunday night
II was thought the Minnesota Cumberland would b
placed 10 position to f,e upon the battery at Sewe
Point yesterday. Accordingly arrangements were mad'
tina, pon! 10 give them proper reception they arc
pretty well titled there now, and are better prepared
to cope with these chips than they with the Mon
no on Sunday"
Rel mond papers note the arrival there o. Colonel
Bates regiment Of Tennessee volunteers. Michael Cus
key Postmaster the House last Congress- s OF the
Captains.
The Charleston Ctuir Of Saturday says'-rhe Gordon
having returned from tour of observation, spoke the
bark Globe OF Richmond Me from port in Europe for
Savannah about eight miles south OF this bar
the ship Sardinia of and for New York forty eight days
from Liverpool This last vessel touched oil rybee, and
we suppose advised TO proceed home instead Of So
irg up 10 Savannah. She had seen no men OF war.
despatch from Wilmington, v. c., says-'tThe shir
Ios. Watson, Allen from New York, had bcen brought
in there She is from 800 TO 400 tons burthen. Tn,
character of her business in these wsters has ye
been ascortaned She lying at the wharf. leaking
badly.