The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-06-05
Airllmonn Dispatrb.
MORNING LIME s 1ssI
FROM NORFOLK.
tsPEcI4L coRREsPosDEEcR OF THE prsPATcH.1


NORFOLK, VA, June ID. 1851
we are AT iength able to say that we are
ready Tor the vandals, though, for the last
few weeks, we have been held very uneasy.
for fear they would come down on MS and
nnd u1 uhprepared to repuse force of three
10 one; but now, let them conceive will ba
gao 10 manure our lands with their vile car
cases Being ready, / will tell you some
thlhgs ABOUT our readiness, but there are some
things which we will not tell even to our
friends but should our enemies be djsposed
10 mo Them out, why let them come, and
tney VIII De astounded. ''No inventive ge-
MUS among the Sou therners," 'sno energy"
mo activity" and many other such fiatleri;g
eplthets, we are used TO. circumstances de-
Veiope men. Heretofore we have been con-
tent to hire, with our superfIuous money, the
ingenuity OF the Yankee; but now, how diff
fercnt.
This unholy war forced on as to enable them
10 continue to rob and cheat MS, has brought
out more talent than l ever dreamed could be
found among MS for con triYances. Only yes
,efday 1 witnessed the working of Il heavy
lt-Inch gun mounted on Il carriage constructed
on Il plan submitted by Mr.. Needs, carpenter
OF Tue Yard, and built in four days. TIVE
men can sweep this monster gun around the
eastern horizon without the slightest jar or
vibration, and those who work her are en-
dfeiy covered from the shot of an enemy. In
week we viii have several I0-inch and a
goodiy number Of solid shot guns mounted in
the same way: and then let the Yankee
Doodies look ont. / only wish they would
make an attempt on our harbor with their ships
Tor there are some Of us who have sailed III
those Identical mammoth steam frigates, aud
Know to an inch where to plant our shot;
and We know, too, that there are other
magazines 10 be blown up besides those
that contain powder. Our furnaces
for hot shot, of which we are supposed 10 have
known nothing, will each of them (and we
have plenty keep TWEEN ty five shot a white
heat. In our aea-cOast batteries we have a
large number of guns mounted, and there il
one xery tender point OF the harhor where
several large copper colored oysters, holding
iii their shells 250 lbs. OF guap0Wder, have
been planted, with good ranges, by which TO
explode them, with a nice little wire, led into
one of the batteries, and only recurring a
small contact" to hoist the batteries Al
this very tender point no less than six Butte
ries, with l20 guns, will amuse them Really
Hf. DiSpdtch, wish yOu could CON G down and
see some OF your mountain Toys handle these
heavy 9, 10 and 11-inch guns, to say nothing
of the s-inch and AZ ana 81 Founders
! have spent over thirty years in drilling
men, but L never yet have seen such apt
scholars. The reason is that their hearts arr.
in the work. They want TO learn, and thus
encourage their Instructors TO bend every Ell
fort 10 teach them. saw batteries drilled
yesterday by men who never saw q heavy
gun until few weeks since, and they man
aged them as well as / have seen men do the
same work after six months of daily drills
so much for the water; ROW for the land
If ever we get the DOodes entangled in our
swamps and marshes, we will give YOU a
Flemish account OF them. They evidently
want to land i'll the neigh bOrhood of BurweH'a
Bay, and try to cut Off our railroad. Well
may be they can do it, bat don't think they
can. All the country therea bouts is we'll cut
up and marshy. The roads pass through
heavy woods, and You know we are good
hands 1T cutting down trees about them and
l rather guess they will find ii hard
to move their artillery over our big trees with
several thousands of tip-tUD Fjtemeu close a
hand, who viii shoot horses ami officers in
particular, and YANKEES III general Besides
we nave batteries OF Light artillery heTea-
bouts, rifled guns, and - pound h0witzers
which the vandats thought they spoiled by
bending the screw, as poor Southpruers
have no brains. Under Col. Pembertou. Of
the Ia u L. ). army, these batteries will soon
be eqnal TO any IN the world. | know that
Heaven is with our cause: we see it in i
thousand ways in the organization Of our
Flying Artillery-one great difficulty with us
was TO make the harness, no one here having
ever seen a set. Col. L. had TO attend to ey-
cry detail, when 'Heaven with u.s." Il gentle
man here, had entife set, bought at Old
Point, after the Mexican war, which not only
equipped Il battery, but taught our harness
makers thing or two.
On the Norfolk side, we are more than anx-
Ious Tor them TO try US. Should they move
ali the trees out of the roads which thew Will
be likely TO find there, under the fire of some
good shots and force our men back they will
find entertainments, with heavy guns that T
did not think could have been constructed in
Il year. They might cross Tanners Greek with
the pOntons, which they have brought on so
secretly that we have not found it out, if il
were not for several Slug little concealed bat
teries of AZ pound cannonades on our side of
the river. which reach up 10 our entrench-
meots. If they wish to cross the Indian Pole
Bridge, they must remember that il is a toll
bridge, and We have q small Htete d1l P01fe ~
where we will collect, and besides, you know
we got right smart Of powder on the mem
orabe 18th of April. If they can send 20 600
men 10 Sewell's Point TO try to take it in the
rear, they may possibly succeed, if they are
willing TO plant half OF their men there. for
our trenches and earth works there are gaytheg
strong, our boys behind them, somewhat in
earnest, and these - pound car n tGes of the
old Delaware line OF batte-shipS which thay
DID not spike, are very good guns for quick
firing, with grape and canister, and we will
soon have shrapnel for them also and if we
only get them into confusion once and raw
troops even in a good cause sometimes get
hurried, and our cavalry and guerillas get
among them III our woods, sWamps and
marshes, eve shall see what we shall see
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