New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-11-19


AFFAIRS AT NORFOLK.
An Ep.idc View Story OF g Bcfa2ca High
Price OF Ncccssarios CT LiGc Fhe Vnisn
Feeling DcaG- Condition Of ilsn Torsi-
Gcafiens-Nuu.ber OF Troop slsw she
Capture OF FSauulort was Reeci, no
pteam Batcsring-fsam ilerri'fac - ssit.i-
euIties in tie way of People Leayiag-
Wage Of s.a5Or-T;s barge CA North
Carolina Produce - Di-irss. OF the
People.
Mr. Henry Davis, respectable shoemaker, now
residing on Staten tland who leit Noiio!i Va. lat
Friday with about 80 other refugees, after ten
months residence in that city, Yi,iie Yesterday.
From bret conversation with him we Lave been
alle 20 gather the following items Of nc Troge is
but Ette Union feeling in Norfolk and. far as 10
could learn from North Carolinans WHO worked
with him there was not much in thai State.
few days ago -four rose IN Norioll. nom soto
% % barrel, on account OF tue Outbieik aToDg
the Union men &C Tennessee. COlice is - cents "a
pound and very scarce. Sugar OF the commOnes.
kind is - cents pound. Fish is plentiful md hos:
people live on tat diet, with bread salt pork,
30 cents lard, p cents a pound; potatoes, 5.
bushel; candles, common tallow, - 10 30 cents
pound and sperm, 10 cents each.
Clothing of every kind is very high. Common
blsck pantaoons Sl2 to sls; vcs'- from :I2 to $50;
black frock coats, $50. Dry goods Of all ads have
advanced from 500 TO Loco per cent. Most Of tie
goods are brought from New-Orieans az present.
OF materials for boots and shoes, sole leather sold
at 5 pound, with not pound let in Norfolk when
our informant came away, except what little the
shoemakers heidi upper leather, calf so9 for dozen
skins. No materials for ladies shoes to be bad.
Ladies shoes sold at s. to 81 pair; very common,
80 50. Mems laced boots, IS; long, sI2to So All
kinds of business was very good, many people having
started small manufactures for vSricus nocessries,
giving poor people employment
The old Custom. House was burned down last
Wednesday night. The upper part was used as a
barracks, the lower part ms a soreroom most Of the
contents were consumed. 1t IL not known how the
fire originated.
Il is difficult to TIL how many soldiers at Nor
folk 30 many are encanped about tie town. The
number varied from TO- coo TO 20 eco. Mott
Of the troops have gone into Winter quarters, having
built themselves huts for that purpose.
Norfolk is well defended. On the Portsmouth side
are miles of embankmont, with heavy grns from the
Navy Yard, q, intervals Of 100 yards. Tue camps
are about half mile distant from each other. On
the Norfolk side, for five or xix miles, batteries run
along Princess AIMS Road with similar armament.
The troops in aud about Norfolk arc from North
Carolina. South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, and
three regiments from Petersburg, Va. The soldiers
are well clothed in gray cloth suits. Tie Confed.
crate Government could not supply the men with
shoes. and they were constantly writing home for
money shoes, and other comforts their ray being TOO
small to allow them TO pay $40 pair icr feet cover
ings. The newspapers were arguing thai ,he pay Of
the officers should be curtailed and that of prvatss
advanced. The ladies had been getting up concerto
aud exhibitions TO raise money for the relief of the
soldiers but their efforts did not avail much.
Tie Southern soldiers are good, plucsy fellows,
we'll armed, capital shots, and ready to swear that
every regiment is equal 10 two Yankee regiments.
Mr.. Daviss shop was next door TO shooting
gallery, and he knew that most of them could ring
the bell twice ont of three tines while some would
bet on doing 1t ~ times ont of?0.
Very little was said abou. the victory Il, Beaufort,
slh0ughit was the custom of the newspapers to re-
port every fight glorious victory for the Con-
Iederats arms No matter how great the loss, nor
how thorough the thrashing the Confedcrates got,
their papers either termed 1t great victory for their
arms else proclaimed that the valor OF the van
pushed redeemed the defeat from dsaster, and in
scrbed another glowing page in the history Of the
struggle for Southern Independence" The Chief
apology Offered for The Beaufort defeat was the TACT
that the guns kicked over, and thus threw victory
INTO the lap of the North; or else the ammunition
gave ont just the eunners had got the range and
we're going to sink our fleet.
The MorrRsc has been transformed into great
pattering-ram, with steel nose, for running down
vessels All her internal works are completed, euf
lcr plating il only partially effected as YET She
o be sheathed from the water.line upward with hon
,rates one foo, wide and two inches thick, the same
way as her panks, and then again sheathed
With similar plates over that, running up the same
way ms her rb, the whole to be bolted through and
Trough. They expect 10 -, her hui'hsd by Ne j"