| From the Richmond Dispatch |
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| April 25, 1861 |
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| Arrival of guns, &c |
| A number of first class cannon, Columbiads,
Dahlgren guns &c., of large calibre, arrived in this city
yesterday via the {Richmond &} Danville
Railroad. A number of the pieces were
mounted. They came from the Portsmouth Navy-Yard, and bore with them
evidence of Black Republican vandalism in the nails that Lincoln's
myrmidon had thrust into the touch-holes. The Norfolk {&
Petersburg} Railroad brought the
pieces as far as Petersburg, and it was deemed best to continue them
in the same cars up to the Junction on the South-Side Road, as it
would have been hazardous to have attempted to convey them across the
bridge spanning the Appomattox at Petersburg. |
| The same train brought back the guns sent
down from Richmond last Sunday morning there being enough at the
Navy-Yard for defences in that neighborhood and elsewhere. |
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