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The Daily Dispatch: May 4, 1861., [Electronic resource], A gallant example. (search)
From Portsmouth.[special Correspondence of the Dispatch.]
Portsmouth, Va., May 2d, 1861.
We are now blockaded, as are the mouths of the James river, the York, the Rappahannock and the Potomac — so I am told.
Yesterday morning the Baltimore boat — the steamer Adelaide -- was stopped by the minions of the Chimpanzee at Washington, and pressed into the service of the so-called Illinois baboon.
The mail came up, however, in the afternoon, in the little steamer Coffee.
Spies are said to be about.
A man in petticoats, it is said, has been roaming about our city.
If he is caught he will be stripped and turned over to the secular arm.
The Young Guard, a company of 87 young and fine looking men, from Newton county, Ga., reached here at one o'clock last night, and were temporarily quartered in the courthouse.
Sixteen thousand more from the same State are said to be on their way to old Virginia.
Five companies came yesterday morning from the adjoining counties of Nan