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From Portsmouth.[Special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Portsmouth, April 24, 1861. I am endeavoring to keep you posted in regard to matters with us. If what I may write is acceptable to you, and shall furnish some satisfactory information, I shall be willing to make these contributions to your columns. Let me say that many merely incidental matters I am compelled to omit, as almost innumerable duties press upon me. I have to write such articles amid urgent calls and distressing circumstances. Yesterday was comparatively a quiet day with us. It was to a great many somewhat a gala day. There has been a constant rush to the beautiful Hospital grounds, but yesterday the attraction seemed to be greater than ever. The beautiful weather favored the turnout, and by five o'clock in the afternoon there must have been over five thousand persons gathered there, a large proportion of whom were the beautiful women of Portsmouth and Norfolk. The Georgians said they had felt they
session of, acquired from the United States, on the same terms and in like manner as the other States of said Confederacy have done in like cases. 3d. Whatever expenditures of money, if any, said Commonwealth of Virginia shall make before the Union, under the Provisional Government as above contemplated, shall be consummated, shall be met and provided for by said Confederate States. this Convention entered into and agreed to, in the city of Richmond, Virginia, on the twenty-fourth day of April, 1861, by Alexander H. Stephens, the duly authorized Commissioner to act in the matter for the said Confederate States, and John Tyler, Wm. Ballard Preston, Samuel McD. Moore, James P. Holcombe, James C. Bruce, and Lewis E. Harvie, parties duly authorized to act in like manner for said Commonwealth of Virginia — the whole subject to the approval and ratification of the proper authorities of both Governments respectively. in testimony whereof, the parties aforesaid have hereto set
The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Pruntytown, Taylor Co., Va., April 23d, 1861. (search)
lls to be opened for the ratification or rejection of the same by the people of this State, on the 4th Thursday in May next: Now, therefore, I, John Letcher, Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, do hereby proclaim that the annexed is an authentic copy of said Ordinance and Schedule, and that all officers designated therein are required to conform to its provisions, in every respect. Given under my hand, as Governor, and under the seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 24th day of April, 1861, and in the 85th year of the Commonwealth. John Letcher. By the Governor: George W. Munford, Secretary of the Commonwealth. An Ordinance To repeal the Ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, by the State of Virginia, and to resume all the rights and powers granted under said Constitution. The people of Virginia, in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in Convention, on the twenty-fifth d
tened age. I appeal to all our people not to interfere with peaceable, unoffending citizens, or others, who preserve the peace and conform to our laws; and I do hereby especially discountenance all acts of seizure of private property without authority of law, and require that order shall be restored, and that all the laws be administered and executed by the tribunals especially assigned for the purpose. Given under my hand, as Governor, and under the seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, 24th April, 1861, and in the 85th year of the Commonwealth. John Letcher. By the Governor: George W. Munford, Sec'y of the Commonwealth. The following officers of the State Navy are assigned to the duties required by this Proclamation; For James River--Capt. Cocke and Commander Tucker. For Potomac River--Capt. Forrest and Lieut.Semmes. For Rappahannock River--Lieut. Lewis. For York River--Commander J. L. Henderson and Lieut. J. S. Maury. ap 25--d--c3t