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French Flyer Leaves China for Japan Tomorrow.
SHANGHAI, May 24.—Capt. Pelletier Doisy, the French aviator, has fixed the time for his departure for Nanking, on his way to Japan, via Peking and Korea, for daylight Monday.
Special Correspondent to The Dispatch — Norfolk, VA, May 25, 1861
About two thousand troops embarked yesterday from Fortress Monroe, and proceeded South in small steamers and gun boats. At the same time all of the vessels that had been captured and held as prizes at that place sailed and went to sea. There are only four vessels left at Old Point and in Hampton Roads, viz : the Cumberland, the Minnesota (frigate,) and two small steamers