The Daily Dispatch: February 1, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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The Dock.

--Although the appearance of things at the Dock is by no means as animating as may be desired, we are gratified to notice some little improvement, which convinces us that trade is not entirely stagnated. The bark Winifred, which lately arrived, is loading with flour for a South American market. The schooner Southerner, about to sail for New Orleans, takes out a lot of steam engines of Richmond manufacture. One of the New York packets has just come in with a miscellaneous cargo — in which we observed many articles which should be supplied by our own mechanics. A down-east vessel is discharging a cargo of Yankee ice, a luxury in warm weather which we cannot forego. A dissolution of the Union will scarcely dissolve the ice, though we should have been thankful for a freeze of the inland streams and lakes of Virginia, because that would have made her entirely independent. We noticed at the towing company's shed a number of lighters discharging salt.