The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1865-03-25

The sudden ebeek % budnsaD oeeRa,
doos ~ tho cessation Sf bloc111 f30ns
ming hAs thrown essral hundreds d inch,
6fsnen, stoksr4, etc, Connected wltA The
steamer, out Of employment A large
Of thesA are, or represent them.
selpes TO be, entirely destitute. They
have been provided for by the authorities,
who are getting them shipped of as
rapidly IS practicable. The Legislature
has passed m act prohibiting the dis
charge Of persons engaged in the naviga-
ton Of vessels. Az there are steamers
still arriving FROM England which left
before the news had reached there of
the destruction Of the blockade drumming
BUSINESS, this will protect the colony
against having their crews thrown upon
the shores without the means of SUP
port. One of these vessels. tho
City Of Richmond, arrived on the
>7th instant; another, the Eliza and
Fanny, arrived yesterday from Ber-
muda. The white population, under the
influence Of the present condition of bust.
pess affairs, is gradually dwindling away.
Men engaged in trade find tho tide of
business suddenly retfeating from them.
and themselves LETT high and dry upon
the shore, many Of them with large
stocks Of goods upon their hands. IA
there is no market for them here. their
owners are leaving for Havana and other
places to find market, and those who
have no goods are leaving to seek en-
ployment elsewhere. Every vessel, sail
or steam, carries large nunber of pas
sengers. The Corsica, which sails to.
day, is crowded, and many were unable
to get passage. The United States Con-
sui is worked beyond all reasonable
claim upon his time in attending to the
rush Of business growing out Of this
exodus. For days he has been in his
office from morning until night, without
any intermission even for dinner. The
sailing vessels which were here to take
the cotton aboard, and whose masts were
as thick and numerous as forest trees,
are daily leaving in ballast, so that the
harbor, by comparison, begins to look
deserted.
The last of the steamers which cleared
for Dixie was the Syren. She has been
gone nearly four weeks, and should have
returned some time ago, but did not
She had made nineteen round trips with
unvarying regularity, and was known as
the Charleston mail packet. Alas, poor
Syren, thou hast "gone up" twas re.
ported in the New York papers as the Cy-
rene The Little Hatty, which arrived
here about three weeks since, brought the
captain and crew of the Rattlesrake,
which, in attempting to enter Charleston
harbor, was driven ashore, and after.
wards burned, with her CARGO The
Chicora Qornerly Let Her Be) and the
coquette arrived about the same time.
The steamers are gradually leaving
this port. The Colonel Lamb, General
Whiting, Edith, Watson, Caroline, Little
Hatty and others, have gone to Havana
The Owl, commanded by Captain Mafiit,
formerly Of the Florida, has also left,
She went to Galveston but, unable to
enter that port, made for Havana, and
arrived there safely few days ago.
The Chameleon. formerly the Tallahassee,
sailed on the 9TH instant for Bermuda.
She will bear looking after. It is said
SHE will go to Madeira, and thence to
England. Some Of those who left for
Havana, thinking that some other open.
ing might offer, have returned to this
port, AID will probably remain until they
stink back to England, from which place
they originally came.
The affair Of the Hanover is again be-
fore the authorities Of this place. You1
readers will remember that this vesse
was captured in thcearly part Of the yea'
1868, by the armed schooner Retribu
ton, sailing under the rebel flag. Thu
Hanover was taken by Lock, the com
mander of the Retribution, into Long
Cay-one Of the Bahamas-and be-
cargo sold. Lock was arrested for thi.
breach of the laws OF neutrality upor
British soil, and held to bail in the enor
nous sum of fl0O. Of course he &C,
cepted the invitation thus given him, te
walk of, and disappeared. A short time
since, the attention Of the authorities wa
drawn to the fact that he had again TURF
ed up at Nassau, and he was arrested
and his bail fixed at ZOO. Having
been unable to give this bail, he is nov
in durance vile.