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From Washington. [Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Washington, Jan. 11, 1861. Brimstone is again in the ascendant Never there are not wanting some few signs of adjustment. Anderson has written to the President that he does not want reinforcements, and it is believed at the War Department that the troops on the Brooklyn and the Star of the West will be recalled. Yesterday was the most exciting day we have had. A Wall street canard was sent on here to the effect that McGowan, the Captain of the Star of the West, had telegraphed the owners in New York that the steamer was safe in Charleston harbor. Great was the joy of the Abolitionists. Southern men were greatly depressed and mortified. Moreover, it was believed that the Richmond Grays had gone to Harper's Ferry. It was said that Governor Letcher had telegraphed Gen'l. Scott to that effect, and that the latter had answered that the Virginia troops should not pass through the District, and had even given order
Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.the first secession flag — another Claimant. Mt. Laurel, Halifax, Va, Jan. 11, 1861. I beg leave to inform you of your mistake in supposing that the first secession flag in Virginia "was raised on the 10th of December, for one was raised here on the night of the 7th of that month by the students of Mt. Laurel Academy, assisted by three or four of the peculiar institution. It is twelve feet long and six wide. The device is a Palmetto tree, with the motto South Carolina has the lead, let Virginia follow." on one side, and on the other, fifteen stars arranged in a semi circle, with "Southern Confederacy" beneath. It may be proper to state that several of the students are from the Cotton States, though Virginians were not the lead in this. The secession feeling is so strong here that even the negroes are wearing the blue cockade.
An abolition meeting broken up in Rochester. Rochester, Jan. 11, 1861. --Rev. Mr. May, Susan B. Anthony, and others of that stripe attempted to hold a meeting here to-night. It was broken up by citizens, and resolutions in favor of the Union were passed and cheers given for General Scott and Major Anderson. A flag bearing the inscription, "No compromise with slavery," was not allowed to be suspended across Buffalo street. The authorities prevented a general riot.
The Canada Fugitive slave case. Toronto, C. W., Jan. 11, 1861. --The fugitive slave Anderson was returned to Brantford, C. W., yesterday, to await the action of the Court of Appeals, which will probably not take place until summer.
By Pulliam & Co., Auct's Commissioner's Sale of Slaves.--Pursuant to a decree entered by the Richmond Circuit Court on the 11th of January, 1861, in the suit of Johnson's adm'r and also against Rowe and also, I shall at the auction rooms of Pulliam & Co., in the city of Richmond on Friday, the 18th of Jan'y, 1861, at 12 o'clock M., sell at auction, to the highest bidder for cash, the following Slaves, belonging to the estate of Thos. F. Johnson, dec'd to wit: A negro woman named Mildred, and her three children — Julia, Jimmy and Simon; Caroline, and her two children — Maria and Albert, and a negro man named William Henry. The negroes are likely and of good character, and are sold for no fault. They are sold in order to make a division among distributees. Wm. W. Rowe, Special Commissioner. Sale by Pulliam & Co., Aucts. ja 14--d