The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-05-02
PROGRESS or THE REVOLUTION.
p,sIIe Sentiment in virginia The North-
wr,t- Movements Of the Enemy-lac
r. al, War. &C.
VIRGINIA


VIRGINIA.
our correspondence continues very heavy
and we are compelled TO omit everything ex-
ceo. actual news. The accounts from all di-
rcxtions are encouraging. e
letter from the University of Virginia
.nrgests the establishment OF a camp at that
MAGE, where the students may see something
Of military life, and says ssaEf
We sll feel that IL is our duty to enlist soor
in actual service, and Wa arc determined To-
40 Sc Most of us We fair prospects of get
tng Offices IN volunteer com mpanies in our ra-
snectiys counties, and yet we feel the need or
more thorough and vigorous preparations. We
have now three companies here viz IS The
Soathern u aarn, lhe Soas of Liberty
and The Jeh. Davis Guard" Oust organ
lied y and unless they can be kept toge ther
aud endowe in some manner or other with
greater power of accomplishing the purposes
OF their organization, do not believe that in
three weeks there will he fifty students at the
University OF Virginia.
From Orange county we have the following
narrative of the anteeedents OF Commander
Thornton A. jenkins, one of the yolun teers
in the work oil dies troying the Navy Yard al
tiosport:
He is native OF Orange county, aud of the
most obscure origin, his grandfather having
been whipped for stealing, and his father
guilty OF social crime OF too gross a nature
10 mention. Thornton being an only child
and 4 sprightly boy, his teacher took an in
terest III him, and encouraged him 10 learn
and as he grew up he withdrew himself from
his family, and the neighbors, in connection
with The influence of Mr. Madison, obtained
Mldshipnans commission for him. and sent
him forth In the hope that in despite Of his
early disadvantages he might do honor to his
naive place. Has recent incendiary exploit
proves that first principles are most dura bic,
and doubtless he would toe willing to demolish
the whole State, prov Ided he could by so doing
IPP q n3 ri
IN honorable contrast TO HIM is the gallant
SpOiswood, native OF Orange also. He Ia
great nephew OF the immortal Washington
resigned his commissi III the Federal Navy,
assisted IA exiting uishing the flames kindltd
By the parricide jenkins, aud was the first To
plant our glorious Southern banner where
had before waved the now dishouored Stars
ana Stripes.
The rebellion In North western Virginia has
not assumed formidable proportions, although
the Wheeling lntelligencer, Morgantown Star,
and some other tory papers, are doing their
utmost 10 infiame the minds of the people
AGAINST their own State. The folio wing, from
the Wheeling Union, is a calm view of the
matter
II is conceded on all hands that the Ordin-
anee OF Secession enacted by the Virginia Con
VeHIlon will be ratified by the people, and that
BY such Il mnlurity was never before given
IN Virginia for any man or measure. The
vote IN the East. the Valley, the Southwest
sHd the Central West will be nearly unani-
nous There will be no ontest except in the
Northwest, and even in this section there
will be majority for the ordinance outside of
the Pan Handle. We have already sufficient
i"iorma ation to justify the expec cation of de-
clied mtJorities in favor of the ordinance IN
the counties of Wetzel, Tyler, Peasants,
kllchie, Lewis, Bourbon and M arion. In
WOOD, Taylor and Monongalia, 1T is believed
that the mijorities will be the other way
From the other counties of the North west,
outside Of the Pan Handle, our in nforInaIion is
not vet sufficient to determine with nfidenca
u which side the maiorities will incline but
IA All OF them many votes will be cast for the
ordinance.
Along the line of the Baltimore and Ohio
Rallro4d we learn that the Western coTiuties
OF Jefferson, Berkeley, Morgan and amp
shire are not only Tor secession. but are sup
plying volunteers 10 the State with great en-
ihuslasm.
In view of the certainty that the Ordinance
OF Secession will be ratified, some persons in
The Pan Handle beginning to organize :.
rebellion against the State. Citizens of more
wisdom ana loyalty will rather infer that "A
dttrrrht course will become the people OF the
Pan Handle. They Will not pire to en-
barrass the noble OLD Common wealth when
sue Is pressed by her enemies.
The following is from the Parkersburg Ga
Iette, of Thursday last
The people of Northwestern Virginia, here
ioioTe Hrm, honest Union men, after the ex-
posure Of the treachery of Lincoln will indig-
nanty repudiate IFnionism. He and his sup
portsrs have yiliainously imposed upon the
honesty OF a large portion OF our people bv
protesting 10 pursue course of peace to ward
the South, while st the same time he was pre-
Wring the engines of destruction which were
10 desastate the country. No people are
more patriotic than ours but when Black
hepubicanIsm looks for encouragement and
support IN lis crusade against the South, il
u wu iooh IN vain in Northwestern Virginia.
when Lincoln assails the South, an almost
unanimous cry Will go up from our people of
resistance 10 the death.
We learn from the Lynchburg Republj
That the Langhorne Foundry, in that city,
owned by F. h. Deane, Jr., d Son, are daily
turning out large quantities of ammunition
In the shape of cannon ball and shell, for the
southern Confederaey, which cannot be ex-
ce'led in quality by those of any other foun-
dry.
The Grayson Dare Devils" have been or |
dered to rendezvous ut Wytheviile, at which |
pace they VIII be furnished with arms in a |
ie" days. II Will be recollec ted that they |
started for Richmond from Lynchburg. not |
"lthsLinding the order TO return but upon |
arriving al Pamplin's Depot, the privates de-
srrihlled 10 go no farther without orders
Aae oHeere however, proceeded on TO Rich
hpEd aud, after an interview with the pro-
per officials were assured that arms should be
speedily furnished, and the 90 Dare Deviis,''
a. soon as possible, be mustered into service.
me twelve members of the Lynchburg Rifle
rays VINO were sent home, are organizing
new company, TO share with their old COM
fades IN the defence of their country
The gailsntry of Western Virginia is wor-
'uy OF all praise. The following, from the |,
rFeenbrer Era, is another evidence of the
spFft that auiinates the people of the noun |
tains,
lie County Court Wednesday last ap-
pFoVrtted ten thousand dollars towards arm
IHg aud go uippng the yoiun teer mpanies of |
Aecouhty. This is IA noble and generous act
81, SGl, II necessary. 1t will appropriate ten or
I''1rh thousand more. The counties adloin- |
ing should Al once organize voiunteer conpa-
No. ah1 follow IN the footsteps of old Green
D'''I war IS upon us--let Western Virginia |
tespond 10 the call promptly, so that we may |
1o'PouT brethren of ,stern Virginia to de-
@ad The honor aud dignity OF the ancient |
~oHhlonweaith, and protect the lives and
property OF her citizens.
FORTRESS MONROE
iA' Baltimore American has the following
He"s by the steamer Louisiana, from Nor
folk.
t.pI. Johns, for many years surgeon in the
THi'ed States Army, came mp in the boat.
ne Doctor Was OH duty at Ola Point, and
V"si5 aih!iatIug vii Ia the South, forwarded
ars as re- 'igniILloA to The commandant, but that
Cet did not feel AT liberty Under the cir
INSTANCES even 70 notice it. DIR. Johns is
isi 'hiiod not 10 serve any longer lii the Uni
"lates Army. Mrs Commodore Fender
r." WHOSE husband is in command of the
$50 Cumberland left in the Louisiana for
Ca uess. and returned i'll the boat yester-
fy, an me women ana children within the |
Nj se-and the number was eonsiderable--;is |
v,r, "e uie eitlzeDs residing ou tside OF the
br.,' "a Tue houses and cottages, have. also
nited To remove therefEom. They |
tbzt A'ii'a away IN q steamer chartered for |
to ~ PVse, ahd tlir most OF them appeared !
1--WE rrtired IL Virginia Several Vessels |
s,iI' - nave been detained at the fortress are