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The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
d in the bright sunlight of the morning. The drill lasted for an hour and a half, the officers commanding on mounded steeds. And I tell you, there was er a nobler looking eight presented to the eye than this splendid body of men, moving with the regularity of machinery over a beautiful field of parade. On the dismissal of the regiments, fifteen guns were fired in honor of the Southern States which have declared and are declaring their independence. The last four were slower than the first. Scarcely had the cannon ceased to rear, when Craney Island and Pinner's Point poured forth a vollar of thunder in commemoration of this day. This was answered by Fortress Monroe which deep groans of muttering cannon. Thus, two furtile nations have celebrated a day on which their independence was declared. A bright, beautiful comet was dean the other night with an expanded tell thirty feet long; it seemed disappearing the same night in the Northwest, very long and brilliant. Gorman.
The Daily Dispatch: July 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
le to say, on the authority of a party of gentlemen who returned from Ocean View on yesterday, that they saw the wreck of the steamer, whose name they did not learn, just above the edge of the water, besides pieces of timber they found on the shore, which clearly prove that it was a Federal steamer and not the famous " Hygeia." The gentlemen were enabled to discern the wreck from this point by aid of a spy-glass. On Wednesday a handsome flag was presented to Company F., stationed at Craney Island. The presentation speech was made by our excellent Mayor, Wm. W. Lamb, in behalf of the ladies of Norfolk. This was replied to by some happy and appropriate remarks from our talented young townsman, Richard S. Thomas, in behalf of the " F. 's " The affair drew together a large number of spectator who expressed themselves highly pleased with the sociality of the occasion.-- A fine hand of music was in attendance, and altogether, the affair was such an one as it will be a pleasure to tho