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The Daily Dispatch: may 16, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
endergrast, and has been permitted by the powers that be in Norfolk and hereabouts, to visit Norfolk, make his purchases, and return to the Cumberland. He was arrested in Norfolk, and upon examination produced his permits. He was consequently discharged, but given to understand by the "roving bullies" that if he repeated his visits, permit or no permit, he would be ecclesiastically dearth with — not burnt, but turned over to the secular arm. The Minnesota, Commodore Stringham, is on Old Point, whence messengers from the British bark Volant, and the Swedish brig Tyrus, were permitted to communicate with their consignee in Norfolk. The Norfolk L. A. Blues have come up from Carney Island, where they have been hard at work erecting the battery at that most important point. One hundred and fifty men from Fort Monroe have taken possession of Mill Creek Bridge and the well of water on Captain Clark's place, which is now guarded by a force of seventy-five men. Mrs. Clopton's