The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-25
FROM MARYLAND.

The Baltimore American Of Tuesday states
that there was Il com parative iu!l in the ex-
ci'emtnt on the previous day. The streets
continued thTouged with people, the military
and other bodies OF armed men were moving
ab1ut The work OF enrolment and drill went
VIGOROUSLY forward. the crowds discussed past
events and specnlated on what was to come
The most stringent precautions nave peeh
taken by the Board OF Police for preserving
the peace of the city. The Legislature VIII
convene in extra session on Friday, the 2oth
Instant
The Pennsylvania troops, whose presence
near Ccckeysvilis so excited the war spirit OF
our people on Sunday, started ON their re-
turn towards Harrisburg yes terGay afternoon
Early in lhe morning they moved from their
original camp over toward the railroad.
We have brief and vague accounts OF the
movements OF the Northern troops at An
napoli6. Eighteen hundred men, supposed q
Massachusetts, regiment and the New ork
Seventh Regiment, had landed there and We're
moving overland toward Washington. Gov
Hicks had ordered resistance TO the move,
ueut and troops were collecting from All
parts of the adjacent country TO operate
against them. They would have to march
some thirty miles through Il hostile country
70 reach Washington.
We learn by the Messenger of Taylor Pony
EXPRESS who left Hayre de Grace yesterday
afternoon, that there were eight hundred
Pennsylvania troops al Perrysyille, awaiting
trans portItiou to Annapolis. Iney mad ar
rived Yesterday morning, and We're anxious 10
proceed on their route to Washington. There
il no dOubt that the military road ordered by
Gen. Scott is 10 be across the country FROM
Annapolis. TO Washington city.
The American also says
Yesterday afternoon Serg't Lindsay. OF the
Central Station, proceeded ut the head OF
.ruad of nc!iCpmen to the Pres ident Street
Urpot. where, in compliance with the order:
OF the city authorities, they seized upon foul
car loads OF military stores, clothing, tents
and other army equ plnents, su1lcient, II Il
s1npospd for the accom- ~ oda ton of about on,
thousand men.
me storps thus seized are the property o
III ederal Government, and were designed
fur ne use OF the volunteers from the Nortl
atWSshi1gton.
u was confidently whispered among mill
taTy circles yesterday that an ample supply
OF effective firearms and ordnance wouin d
received III q few days, at the most, from 1T
CHINA for the defence of the State. The mrs
iustalinent OF this supply reached here las
night, IL was rumored.
We learn from gen tlefnan who was al IN
junction al O'Clock, and had a conversation
over the wires from that point with the ope
razor at Annapolis, that the troops had a
ltaued and commenced their march, tt.id ina
the road WAS lined with MarylaGders pre-
pared 10 dispute their passage over Marylan
soil. Gov. Hicks had taken command OF ID
Maryland troops hastily assembled, and b.
force waa said 10 amount 10 nearly 1900 ell
gent skiTInishers.
From the sun Extra. Tuesday, lOB A. M:
Cockeysviile, moved up 10 the bland sti
tlon and AT half past one O'Clock this Tnornin
took the train for Pennsylsania. The officer
OF The Marshal of Police remained in the v
entity until the train moved OH.
sun Later.
The Sun Extra OF Tuesday evening"
o'clock, furnishes the following
The city wears its usual martial appearan
this morning. but events within the city lmi
are not exciting. The concentration Oh MORT
eru troops at PeTrysyille, on the susq uehann
and Ut Annapolis, has excited yigilant surVe
lance ia those directions.
Two thousand stand of approved arm
reached the Camden Station at O'Clock til
morning, from Harpers Ferry, sent by .
Virginia authorities, to be used in the defen
OF Baltimore. The arms were received
Gen Egerton, of the Fifty third Regimen
who superintendent their removal to the Mar
land Institute, the headq quarters OF the res
nent
Speaking OF the Yankee troops who return
from Cockeysyille, the Sun says
Our Informant reports the condition of t
troops 40 most depiorable. He passed Tree
among them they lay sleeping IN the ca
aud on the ground, with their musAets h;if
Tag out of the car windows, and Lying aron
loose" a force of TWO hundred men cot
have captured all their arms without ava
ening the enemy.
On Sunday night there was a great alarm
down The road, and rafting over the ston
was mistaken for artillery. INSTANTLY tn
was call 70 arms. and formed in line.
The midst of the excitement one OF the soidl'
dropped dead from the ranks.
From AssAPoLis.
We learn from gentlems who left Anna
OTIS about o'clock last evening by land, IL
when three miles from that city he met Z
y ,. Army officers, escorted by detachin'
OF the Evansville Md Rangers, Capt. Sno
Gen. and that he was informed by the lat
That the two army officers alluded to w
sent from Washington by the Goyernme
with directions TO order the Northern troo
Row al Annapolis, To return home.
ASsAPoLIs, April 23.--The Seventh N
lork Regiment Numbering 9yi mem and
massachusetts Regiment landed last night
The Naval Academy.
Lat evening, theavansyiiie Rangers.
frinee George county, intercepted mess
ger from Washington, with sealed orders
taptain Blake, Of the Naval Academy,
brought him before Gov Hicks, who recei
inc dispatches, and Afterwards handed tn
10 Capt. Blake.
IL Is reported that they con tain a n order
the troops 10 return home, II being impossi
iof them TO crons the Patuxent The Rang
report that nearly every man in Fri
oecTges eonnty 70 under Rruis.