, 1862-05-07

lesy, It does hot appear that go !rnch as sin
gle shot was fired at these two little steamers
On the contrr~~ e---"e'-~- -""'-" *~ h---
been prepared beforeaand for their quiet re-
cepti0n. The troops we're Immediately with
drawn lest they might feel disposed to demur,
all the defenses on the lake were dlsmnutled,
the guns were thrown down without being in.
jnred, the steamboats,, that could have gotten
up steam In an hour and been oil, were
burned, and the defenders were drawn of to
distant point.
Never, since the world began, was there srch
Q transaction Gark, go mysterious, SO al
together unaccountab1e.
The telegraph, thus far, gives very con
fused account Of this most mysterious and
most deplorable affair: Terrible suspicious
are ahoat, but We hold it best not to give voice
to them until something more definite shall
have reached us.
AFFAIRS AT RICHMOND.
NORFOLK AND RICHMOND MUST BE DEFENDED
-JEFF. DAVIS SAYS he WILL KEyER SUR
RENDER
Correspondence Of the Norfolk Day-Book.1
RICHMOND, April 27.-The news from New
Orleans, confirming the fall of that city, has
been read here with SORROW, but We are not
dispirited, and do not doubt our final success.
Norfolk and Richmond Elust be defended at
should be more than doubled. Your city and
the Navy Yard are Of equal importance with
Richmond. Not only is Norfolk and the Navy
Yard of iuestimable value to Us, but the
county Of Princess Anne is indispensable in
this crisis.
The delegation from South Carolina and
Georgia waited on the President before Con
grc6s adjourned, and urged hin to withdraw
the troops from those States, and at all laZ ards
defend Richmond and Norfolk, aud I think
they are coming. Indeed, you would have
thought 80, If you had seen, IS did, on We'd
1nrf he Nonfh GafOfiH3
from Chester, twelve miles from Richmond,
and heard cbccr after cheer resound through
the forest for Old ViFginia-sle must and
shall be free!' Iconyersed with South Car
olina officer on the same trip, who said that
Savannah may be surrendered, aud Charleston
too. but Richmond never. he said "defend
Richmond and Norfolk cost what it may.:'
You have noticed in the papers short ac-
count of President Davis speech, lately made
at R Rocketts, to the soldiers passing to York
heard him make. He said, SO far as he was
concerned, he would eontinue this war for
twenty years, rather than one inch of Virginia
soil should be surrendered. So let us hear no
more about 6uIrendering Virginia.
REroRTEp CAl1rRE.-It is reported, says
tue Charleston Mercury, Of the 28th, By q gen
tlenan from the harbor entrance, that o
schooner was captured by the blockading
squadron Off the bar, early yesterday morn
ing:
1t4E HUABOAT.-1QG 1aQ1GS EunDOaL cO1Lf1-
buttons at Savannah amount to $40, ,009. 20.
FROM SAyAsSAu.--A Savannah correspond
ent Of the Augusta Gonstitutionalis:, writes as
follows: =" Willie Fort Pulaski has fallea,
and while our river batteries could not stand
long against iron-clad yunboats or batteries
on the adjacent islands, still the force Of the
Yankees in this vicinity is not sufficient to
take Savannah, for our land force is too large
to allow an attempted landing to be either
pleasant or profitable to them. Nor eau they
easily pass the river to the city, for while they
may have boats that are invulnerable to our
balls, which is doubtful, yet the distractions
in the river. however easjly removed by quiet
working party, will be very hard to move un-
der the storm Of shot, shell and grape that We
| can rain upon them from dozen places"
FREDERIcEsBUnG.-Tb enemy do not, as
get, occupy the city Of fredericksburg, but
are said to be concentrating heavy forces in
the vicinity to their anticipated march
to Richmond Some Of their soldiers have
stolen of and gone to the city, rollicked
around, and returned, without doing any
| damage: They rarely escape, however, being
escorted back under guards sent especially
after tbem.-Ea4uirer.