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The Convention of North Carolina having vested in the Government of the Confederate States jurisdiction over the Arsenal and grounds at Fayetteville, all the rifle works or machinery recently at Harper’s Ferry have been or is being removed to Fayetteville, where the manufacture and alteration of arms will be carried on. The Richmond Dispatch says a number of workmen have arrived in that city on their way to Fayetteville.
On Sunday evening, about 7 o’clock, while the Confederate steamer Empire was engaged in reconnoitering the enemy’s works at Newport News, Captain Parrish discovered the Federal steamer Cataline, some distance off and under headway for Old Point. Chase was immediately given, and when within a few miles of Hampton Creek, the Empire fired two shots, one of which is believed to have taken effect on the Cataline and but for the proximity of the Cumberland frigate, which promptly opened her battery to stop the chase, the Cataline would in all probability have fallen into our hands.
Gregg Served Notice on Wild West Showman
Norris B. Gregg, Director of Admissions and Concessions of the World’s Fair, served notice yesterday upon Colonel Cummins of the Cummins Wild West Show that Zach Mulhall must not again appear in that show on the Pike.
Camp Bragg, (near Suffolk,) Va., June 15, 1861.
Mr. Holden: Taking it for granted that you would like to be advised of the manner in which the 4th Regiment of N. C. Volunteers have fared, since they left the rendezvous at Garysburg, I have concluded to inform you.
A little fight occurred near Seneca Mill, which is on the Maryland side of the Potomac, some 28 miles above Washington. Lt. Col. Everett in command of three companies of District volunteers, about 200 men, being a detachment of Col. Stone’s column, who started in canal boats from Georgetown, and were obliged to leave them a few miles up, and march, the Confederates having cut the dam.
The most important event of the past week was the evacuation of Harper’s Ferry on Friday last by the Confederate troops. This step had so often been predicted, and denied with, such confident assertions of the impregnable fortifications erected there and of the determination of the Confederate leaders to make it the chosen point for a desperate stand, that the first reports were received with doubts and incredulity.— Confirmatory statements, however, of the withdrawal of pickets from all points above and below the Ferry, of the burning of the railroad bridge, and the destruction of provisions they were unable to carry off, finally confirmed the evacuation. The troops left in two columns. One column going toward Winchester with the presumed intention of joining the force at Manassas Junction ; the other retreating through Loudon county toward Leesburg. Col. Stone’s column of United States troops is in that vicinity, though it is supposed on the Maryland side of the Potomac, and a collision is among the contingencies.