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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
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.
A Midnight March
Movement Upon Alexandria and the Virginia Heights
Brutal Assassination of Col. Ellsworth In Alexandria.
A Swift and Terrible Retribution
Last night was a stirring one indeed. Through the day and evening the reports of contemplated military movements kept the populace on the qui vive to which excitement fresh fuel was added on its being whispered that various Regiments had been ordered to prepare for immediate service; the words dropped also by Gen. Thomas at the Seventh Regiment camp that the storm was about to burst, indicated that a decisive move was to be taken. The general idea among the troops was that an advance was to be made into Virginia, but nobody seemed to be posted as to the exact purposes entertained at headquarters.
Peculiar Theory, in Which Many Had Faith, That Was Put Forward by John C. Symmes
John C. Symmes (1779–1829) believed that the globe was hollow and inhabited. He claimed the earth was open at the poles to admit air, and contained within it other concentric hollow globes all inhabited in a like manner. In 1823 congress was petitioned to send an expedition to test out his theory, with himself in charge, but the matter was dropped. Humboldt states that Symmes often invited himself and Humphry Davy to descend to the earth’s interior and investigate animal and plant life. Symmes said the inside of the earth was lighted by two subterranean suns which he named “Pluto” and “Proserpine.” Arctic exploration and the discovery of the north and south poles proved part of his theory a myth.
Says the N. O. Delta:
The swift low pressure steamer Calhoun, Jack Wilson, fitted out here as a privateer, sailed from this port last evening, and outside the bar captured a prize. A bark, the “Ocean Eagle,” Capt. Luce, from Rockland, Maine. Cargo 3144 bbs. lime.
The Calhoun is admirably equipped for her peculiar service, having 100 of the bravest experienced men on board, and carrying large guns and an ample supply of small arms.
Correspondence of the Belmont Chronicle.
CAMP ANDERSON.
LANCASTER, Ohio, May 20, 1861.
Dear Chronicle: I presume your readers are all aware that Capt. Tallman’s company of Belmont boys are in the 17th Regiment, at Camp Anderson, Lancaster, Ohio; and, according to promise, I will try to give you some account of their situation, &c.
We are in a most beautiful camp — occupying the fair grounds of the Fairfield County Agricultural Society — a beautiful, level piece of ground, about one mile North of the city of Lancaster, well supplied with good water and covered with a nice green sod.