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Mack Sennett Cameramen Make Film of Parachute Jump from Blimp
Several thrilling scenes for the Mack Sennett picture Mollie-O were made by cameramen at the naval air station yesterday. The hero of the picture climbed on a swinging rope ladder from one blimp down to another one and then leaped from the second blimp in a parachute.
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
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.
The Niagara, which gave notice of the blockade of Charleston, has not been all the while at that port. In her absence, several vessels have come in, landed with merchandize, etc. The “old government” will have to do better than this, or raise the blockade. We are satisfied that Great Britain and other commercial countries will not permit a “paper blockade” of our ports.