The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-08-19
FROM NORFOLK.
lsfEcIAL coERBsPoNDE>cE OF THR pIaPATcH.I
NOkP0rK Aug if+h 1851

lefECiAi EOERbeFtNUENfE OF TIKI DlSP21CH.i
NoKrorK, Aug. leth, 1851
The news of the glorious victory IN nus
souri that tla Yankee hirelings and miniQns
have been routed, was received here with j1y-
Gus feelings, exciting lively emotions pt de
light il many g true southern heart To-
d@y our city is com pa IA lively quiet, and with
regard TO wholesale business operations, Nor
folk is, OF course, duh piacs The hotels
and boarding houses, however, are very e4-
tensiyely patroniz zsd-,sOna OF them CROWD I'd,
principally by brave SOuthsTnerS. who h. ye
come hitheT at the trumpet cau 10 bltJle,
ready ana eager for the contest with any num-
Der Of misguided Northern fanatics, thieves
and eut-throats, who may dare 10 attempt
llrding Il pom our shores.
The monotonOuS tramp OF SO Gads OF soldiers,
the rumble OF army wagons, and the rapid gal
looping Of war tesds, give Il military appear
ance to our streets such evidences OF war as
are also common in your city of hills and in
cliued planes, crowded hotels monuments,
manufactures and Yankee prison houses.
Sons OF our re'ail stores are well patronized
by cash customers, and with some houses
there are considerable Wh holesaie ,ransac-
tiors pertaining 10 the war Our business
streets ana Wharyes, however, present a
very different appearance now from that
which was witnessed here several months
ago, when large piles OF cotton bales OBJ
structed the sidewalks and piers, and hun
dred thousand bushels of North Carolina corn
changed hands weekly, besides heavy opera
tions in lumber bacOp, dried fruit, hides .xc.
Our wide and deep harDOr is not obstruct ted
a. shis time, rs heretofore, by q fleet OF hun
dred sailing vessels and thirty steamers. But
this is all as il should he. The knowing ones
say that instead or doing a mere c0asting
trade-sbipp;ng our produce TO New York aud
Boston, thence TO be re shipped TO Europe--a
heavy and profitable foreign trade will GER
tainly De done here, when the ankees shall
have been sufficiently whipped, and our port
shall be open to the SEA- and to the world.
Yesterday difficulty occurred between II
cOlored ar-keeper IN the restaurant CT Nr.
VIM. ). Pepper. and soldier, who discharged
a pistol ut the colored man, and also at MIR.
p a ball striking the latter on the chin and
entering the bone, making an ugly and painful
wound, which it is feared will caus3 LeLanus.
The soldier was arrested.
The weather here is quite cool and rainy,
the wind having shifted from south 10 east,
an agreeable change from the hot temperature
and burning sunshine experienced here re-
Gently.
Our market is we'll supplied with beef,
mutton. poultry. vegetables, &c, which are
sold at rea sonabla prices
Beef and mutLoE sell at l0c al22., chickens
I5c. .a37c, geese SOC. each ducks 25c .a31c., eggs
zoe, butter 3lc.a50c, tomat o-s aud potatoes
12c. per peck, apples SIC. per peck, peaches
(comm0n) 81 so Fer bushel, green corn &c alZc.
per dozen, sweet potatoes 25c ae7c. per pack
cabbages 4c.al23, each, cantelopes lc a5c
plentiful and very fine) watermelons 8; a25c.
Fish are quite pientful, though principally
OF the Kind known as the spot, second only 10
the hog tsh-price 10c.al2c. for six OF fair
size.
The only case of Importance in the Mavors
court to-dsy was that of David A. Fish,
charged with fetoniously shooting VIM. ).
Pepper. Several witnesses were examined,
and the prisoner was committed 10 Jail for
examination before the Corporation Court,
The weapon uged is Smith s. Wesson's re-
volyer, which drives slug with great force.
NO important war news from this quarter.
GALEaIUs.