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Letter from Virginia.
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III sS8 En- u; EscnnoSp. March IL, 1851. Il
If MY letter containing a description Of the Mer-
rimac. or, as she is now dubbed, the Virginia,
reached your office, you will be prepared to an.
preciate the victory achieved by her on Saturday
and Sunday last. need not SO into particulars,
for they will reach you by mail. The editor OF
the Norfolk Day Book appears to have been an
eyewitness Of the engagement, and il is inferred
from the ineomprehensble editorial which he
wrote after getting home, that he g took some
thing Would had been there to Join hi,n
The Enquirer says that 1900 men have been at
work on the Virginia for six months; all the more
reason why she should hare been completed last
August, Owing to the delay, she was not finished
until the Ericsson begun six or eight months after
she was begun, was completed, and but for the
Ericsson there is no telling what DANA sc she might
have done. Certainly she would never have gone
back TO Norfolk, and left the Minnesota in con.
dition to be hauled OF with tugs.
have inst seen a dispatch to q member Of Con.
| gress from Mr.. Coleman, Telegraphic Agent in
Memphis, which states that victory has certainly
been achieved 10 Arkansas; and hear that the
President has received a telegram from the Gov
ernor Of Arkansas to the effect that Van Dorm aud
Price have cut the Yankees up very badly, if not
decidedly. God grant it may be SO. -
Here let me say that the Ericsson Battery, which
the Herald declares whipped the Virginia, is really
q formdable affair. She has double hull SO ar.
ranged that water can be let into the spaaegb be-
tween the TIVE huls, hieh sinks the vessel so That
Only er iron tower is visible. This tower contains
tive l2s pound guns and Jet the Merrimac stood
Their fire at forty feet tor hours. But so did her
antagonist stand her fire. IA gentleman Just from
IN offok tells me that the injuries to the Virglia-
you see call her first BY her old and then by her
new name oud all have been repaired ia few
hours, if precaution had been taken to have in
readiness second iron nose, to replace the one
that vas wrenched. Asteel nose il being made,
for her, which will cut It'll way through almost any
thing; also some missiles of peculiar char acter.
which the Inventor sweafs will penetrate any
steamer. Bnt, The first thing you know The Yankees
Will send onta concern resembling the Ericsson.
but which will prove To be al Internal machine.
They are devils incarnate At h have r., tbe
ingenuity which Milton gives To Satan, ID the ccn.
strncten Of 4e II War. and tbere q
peftidy " which they viii sickle. witness III
damnabie deed Of iifing into Our men, when th(
VEN 81 accept tee surrender Of the Congress aft
Vie had raised The white nag witness ter thonaas
acts Of atrocfty and which they have pn
.petrated, wherever they have had the power. /
" me suspension of Floyd and PilloW is neitp l
condemned nor approved in strong terms bytss
peepls here. tits felt that this method Of SURE,
defing large bodies'of men, and then shifting ia
bisity on the houiders Of jufbr oficersb
mot The ana Oh the cther hand, iae
felt thai 5cifnston is not altogether blanP
less. rs efss s8s Il b szsstgs 7afs a
\ zee Yankees have alEeady occupied LeesbudTs
ana are pusraging efnsiye citizens, as usual %
81. 49,. !. =. 2 -5s. 8 .AALoUft
q ZEN 3HUMPHREY ~ ARsHA LL---F FREQUENT iuoniri| ~
afe made ot ne postion new occupied BY this villa
lifnt ana fortunate der. have sougAa
" q W yam g The la
W. AsaFa Of hm }Wss when he5retired from ytet q
Ftous neid, ~ with our llclad iil-fedair
armsd handful ofIpens he beat hack q saaraelys
peaioE force. with loss to the enemy II a
SsaPs Or between thatip point and Abingdon. Va. 4
/ gentlem rs last evening ihathe hal I,
Id June last EeeeiFed IA leng letter from (senerls
n ~ ansMer 40 one Of hissown Inviting Till
the service, to brigadershl
" SonthYeateFn Virginia. but which he decijnedEk
wnlcn vas quite pr9phetic.7 Gen. Marshall shape
ont and cOnrse. the Federals have slna u
avali,ng Ives of the Tennessee ant
NJ iseIs knowledg
Wy aasehs mhftafy perception fOresaw the prines&
eags SsfEafe gics points. Memphis Avalanche L.
Il 54s bra
u Gphsss.I 2. EAsIE y4. Profile Fanst1,. wi.
Understand that the worthy Representative ffo,I
o: y D Easley Is member oes
very prolitic and pat iotie family. He had E.s
mother had tiirtyfonr children CAM
Sasfey erhsd children INV IND
nd eight girls. One Of lis sisters had ,twentt q
nllaren; one of ls wife sisters had ten daugif Il
els and one son ther children, HFsT
Fifa5had eleven children Her mo ther had Thirteenth
His father one brother and lis pVife,s rnabssss
ather served campaigns intthe Revolutionary 5vard
hs oehers brothers served in the q
wlies father and one brother served iss
hei war Hof lS II. Himself and one son servsd hi
ne Mexican war. Five Of his sons are now ii, n,
]0nfedsfate Army; also, seven nepheWsl tw tn
rama nepileEss, and four nephews BY marriaees1.
tie vile has one brother, three EnepEews and mi
tates I'D i1ss = y III 'lH 1ssA
What country or what family can bent this mi 8
aa.lly5is net more prolific than patriotic TbPhs
alive is worthy member Of this eycebs@
ntlfanlily. memphis Avalanche. SD,SAs sas
N va 3sfa Il II:
SPIRITED SOUTHERN LADY.-The Abolitionist.ss /:
cincinnati, desecrated the 22d OF February bEn
called Al celebration and illum;natioas1t
ifs. Dck erson, "a true Southern woman. nd yea
outstanding she e the wife Of Capt. Dckerson.
sasarteFlaasIer N The Federal army. y who wasso
oafdlng o. the Burnett House, declined. in tfst.n
osanee Of her husband, to permit tile windows pha
broom 70 pc Illuminated. For this she was dss 81
ounced as ssseeesher,1 and grossly insulted bt 81
III 1oinson, clerk in the house, and Mr. Bah $ss
W boarder, Indignant at this infamous an asss
nmanly treatment, MIS-. Dickerson ediateltied
y the house, and sought the protection Of cHarr
lend VINO resided near the city. When CAPT .ns9,
lckerson returned and was made acquainted will. .
e he indicted summary chastisesrao
emit both Jackson and Barbour, damaging q
ontispieoe Of the latter Individual quite
nd bunging both his peppers id the most artisteSS
yte. For this ne was brought before the Police
ourt, and, pleading guilty, he was fined ss5 "a
'aault and battery, which he cheerfully paid ~
The Mississippi from Fortress w
SHIP Island, with Gen. Butler and staff on
my ashore On Frying Pan Shoals, and stove iIsss,
bow. The United States transport Matapzas y !
I'M New York, bound to Port Royal, was passing 5ai
the time Of the accident, and went to the relief,
The disabled steamer, succeeded in getting r.
oat and took her In tow, designing to take hereay,
Pert Royal hafbor. Gen. Butler conference.-the.
nsferring himself and baggage to anotherstn
amer and proceeding with the least possible d. Is i
10 Ship Island. S ia4 e ], q 81
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