The steamer Norfolk has arrived.
Gen. Butler left Fortress Monroe yesterday, with 4,000 troops in propellers, and landed them near Lindhaven.
An officer just from Washington says the War Department received to-day accounts of the erection of several new and formidable batteries near Norfolk, and there were 15,000 troops between Norfolk and Sewell’s Point.
A gentleman from Richmond, yesterdays’ says there are 12,000 troops there, and that they are arriving on every train. Two regiments from North Carolina arrived while he was there, and two from South Carolina left on the same train he started on, but turned off to to the left at Taylorsville.
This would take them to Gordonsville, and they probably went to Culpepper.
The presence of Gen. Johnston at Harper’s Ferry is confirmed.
Two Kentucky regiments were ordered to reinforce the Virginians at Point of Rocks yesterday. They were throwing up entrenchments on the heights last night.
Two hundred soldiers from Federal Hill marched through the streets of Baltimore this P. M.. and seized a large quantity of gunpowder, which was taken to the magazine in Fort McHenry.
Daily Ohio Statesman, Columbus, OH