, 1862-05-24

products, fearing that some Of them might 70
to comfort the ston1achs Of the hated Yankees.
But On Saturday morning last there was
change. The market Was partially supplied
with fresh beef, pork, real, oysters, fish,
chickens, spring vegetables and delicious |
Strawberries For stFaWberTi forty cents
quart was asked, but an exhibition Of silver
depressed the market Immediately to twenty |
citizens was principally Norfolk city shinplas- |
te1s, and merchants checks implying. fof in |
stance, that the New Grocery Store, No. -,
Main street, would pay ten cents to bearer.
Beef was selling al 35 cents per pound, hams |
35, dressed chickens one do1lar apiece, green |
peas seventy five cents per peck, oysters so
cents per qusrt There Mt re very few C0nfed-
crate Tn asury notes visible, they being locked |
up in the banks, and the people, in spite of |
tbemsehe'. having, lost a moiety Of their
confdedce in I.e sul7ency Of the Richmond |
government. There had been no sales Of ne
eroes in Norfolk lately from which could |
ob1ain the quotations. The Norfolk Day |
1od:, however, contains the following adYer- |
tisement:
GALE OF FREE BLACKS FOR
~ CITY TAXES.
C1T1 CoLlEcroR*s OFFICE,
NORFOLK, May lat, 1862. I
j.. Ender the provisions Of an ordinance directing
tsSes sha before the door p Of The Ssit City % Hall on
MONDAY, May ~, At u o'clock sell the following
named persons for the term specified BY said or
d:Eance, viz:
Here follow the names ofMree hundred and
Msfy~nine free men and women. The day
specified for the sale WAS the second after the
occupation Of the city by Gen Wool. Being
curious to learn whether it had really taken
place, I stepped into the Day Book Office, and
inquired. The man at the desk responded
drsly, that " it lad been postponed for the
present" The Day Book is now the only
paper published at Norfolk-the 4rgus and
Herald having been suspended some time
since: It consists Of copious extracts from
the New York papers two CT three days old,
without editorial or comment of any kind.
THE NAVY YARD
The navy yard consists Of about one hun
dred acrts OF old iron and overturned walls.
Twenty or thirty worthless cannon still re-
main, and about the same number of immense
anchors, too heavy to be carried of, too tough
to he broken, and Of course indestruct1b1e By
fire. Devastation has had Its perfect work
there We found the great dry dock, which
Was seven years in construction, serving the
purpose Of q bath tub for Michigan regiment.
1t is not much injured, despite the two at-
tempts made to blow it up. The granite
blocks around the culyerts at the. north end
arc dis1ocated, and one or two ofthem broken,
and tic main gate is burned down to the
| waters edge. 1t could be repaired at 8 mod
| crate cost, but every thing else pertaining to
The gard is totally ruined. The smelling fur
mace Is the only building whose walls are not
| 4HG HlaEuiuE 5l4OE3& 6kUEEuDu6GB,
emiShesy, sail lofts, ship houees, timber sheds,
carpenter shops, saw mill, boiler shop, spar
houses, ularine barracks and officers quarters,
are mingled in common ruin with cannon
balls, grape shot, pig iron, fresh water tanks,
anchors, bolts, shaft, boilers and disabled guns.
| a beap Of anthracite coal, probably two or
three hundred tons, was still burning at the
east end Of the gard. AL that remafned Of
nine million dollars worth Of public property
lay in an undistingnishab1e mass at our fest,
0r under the waters Of Elizabeth River Re
turning from the ruined yard, aud comment
! ing on the fruits Of secession, young and
rather good locking woman at the ferry slip
remarked to us that she had always been Of
opinion that the navy yard WAS al injury to
Norfolk, and she hoped It woul never be re-
built. Mr.. Arnold asked her why She re-
plicd It took awuy all spirit of enterprise
from the laboring people-as long as they
could go there md get work ut SO much per
day they would lead dull, sluggish existence
be thrown upon their oeen c!serglcs and com-
PEELED to do something that would tend to
the advantage OF the city. Mr.. Arnold re-
marked that he thought they would all have
tie opportunity, the hboring and the lazy
classes alike, for Congaess would not affiict
years to come.
EolK.
This lady then inquired what was the latest
news from Fort Wright, on the Mississippi
River, saying that her husband Was surgeon
in the Confederate army there. Ne told hel
that the rebel army was reported to be evacu
! atirg the post 4 nan Standing near ther
| volunteered the remark that If they 1.-THE reb
els} could only get us (Unionists) away from
,, the shelter Of our gunboats. they would make
; short work with u.s. =" Wherever you hay'
met Us BY land exclusively" he added, "yot
replied that the Union armies had certainl,
; driven rebellion out OF Missouri without TIL
aid Of any gunboats, and he believed that th
: battle OF Mil Spring Was won without an,
| | such aid, likewise the battle Of Pea Ridge il
Arkansas, and the battle of Winchester il
: Virginia. The fellow shook his head-dldn'
), | believe word of it "But lire in Nilsson
i ri,'' said Mr.. Price, 'tand I knou that you
armits have Ill been driven out Of that State
and that the gunboats have had nothing to d
+ with it-'' Mr.. Secesh retorted more arml
t than before, that in every battle, 1gikaout sol
I ita7y tzupzion, where tue navy was not CT
gagged, the Federal armies had been ing1or
F. ousiy routed And We found this to be tn
Q general belief among the population Of MOI
y iulk
!. YORKTOWN.
- few hours ride brought US around t
- Yorktown, which consists Of fifteen house,
j. | ull built before the revolution. They q,
e principally made Of glazed brick importe
! iron, England, ike the old church at Norfolt
e Al the white inhabitants, (supposlng TIL
= blame them, for it is impossible to concei,
, bow anybody could endure existence in sue
- u place. 4 vile, sandy road, skirted tt
y edges Of ragged, precipitous ravines, finds q
IT unobstructed course of about forty rods in
- straight line, and then plunges iato swami
Th.: fifteen houses, one Of which Is called
l. court house, are built on either side Of th
straight line. The rebel fortifca.Ios
1c surrounding the town are immen
II ca1thwoFke, nearly two miles in length, torE
ID ing three sides Of . squarc-.the river formir
h the fourth The INSIDE Of the works Ia neat
rc walled up With turf and sand bags. Evergshil
n. connected With them has the appearance
ed enormous strength, bnt the guns are so d
D. fective that the place cannot be said to ha
:. been strong against the modern improved 8
on bear the date Of l76S, and none Of them, 9
IT. cept few manufactured at the Tredeg
IL | works fn Richmond, we're Of later date th,
b. 1916. The new Tfedegar guns we're hardly a1
H. better than the old ones, for they were cast
1g ed for use, instead of being cast as perfe
81 cylinders and then turned down to the prop
ss rhape, as our Dahlgrens aud columbiads
i'm | made. or COURSE they were HAole TO bul
ot muzzIe and heavy nreech. Two of the large
d. | mounted on the east front, and in the dir,
nc .ion OF orr advancing army, had e1plod,
on Solid shot, gnpe and cannister lay scatter
around the guns in great protu51on. The c<
inn trHbards told uE that the rebels evacuated Il
i've strong position from fear Of the gunboa
ob- against which they would have been alm,
The | defepseless. This is the only reason appaFc
ct " why they should have done SO. and ye
1 e1- seems strange ttat they did not consider t,
*re circumstance before expending so much
~ Dor there. Yorktown itself was not Wo
IRE anybody life to defend.
ave THE TrpHo1D HOSPITALS.
ns ,sr. The fifteen hoaees in Yorktown have b,
so converted into typhoid hospitals, where, a
and surgt on informed us, the patients were dy
~ 1he rate Of ten per day Of the terrible at
Of ecourge contracted in the swamps bctW
csc there and For TESS Monroe. Just outside
SOC t the town, between a granite block, Wh
old marks the spot where Cornwallis surrender
T to AID an enclosed grave OF one of Washiugte
sed Aids, who fell during the siege, are two i
be rows Of newly made graves, with head-bo,
ater marked Ike the following: t'Prirate T.;
He Norton, Co. e, 1st Minnesota regimen
nd. | "Private Edmund Acsly, Go. B, B5th N.
Waa - tPrivate Geo. ". Lord, Co. &,
Malue vols" While We were looking at Il
E. / four negroes came towards us with a lit
s.. bearing The latest accession to the city Of
.'' svl dead. Two others died in the court he
during the + Y minutes thAt ge stopped th
.sa' ssa will not attempt to describe tbs gha
~ eceue at this place-a part OF slaFery's bI
ha- fruit. It was too revolving. Tue soldier
- T., well pray, Give me wounds or death OF
i:;',r field OF battle, but save me from the TYP
!. T., hospitals at Yorktown" re-.
the THE cosTRABAKDB.
pen. Two negroes were brought into Forkt
q OF By t.ur scouts the day before we visited
Ms: de1ectable siot, charged with shooting q
uroe soldiers: did not zee them, but hi. v
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