The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-02-06
tsPEcIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THB pIsPArcH. !
NORFOLK, Feb, 4. Is

NoRP0LK, Feb. 4, 1861
The Dispdtch has already been app,ised by
telegraph OF the rumor that the Burnside
fleet had left the waters of North Carolina
a letter has been received by q gentleman
here. from perfectly reliable source in Eliz-
abeth City, stating that q steamer went down
on Saturday 10 reconnoitre, and on return
ing, reported tnat no Yankee vessels could
be found, that they had all left and gone to
sea. 1t Is now stated here that the crippled
ducks came into Hampton Roads yesterday.
but OF this l am not yet certain; although it
IS quite possible that the vessels that remain
after the terrible d d.sasters which the feet
suffered, may have been compelled to get into
deeper water, q safer harbor, and more hos.
pitable quarters.
As the wind was blowing freshly from the
eastward for two days, a number Of coastng
vessels have, as usual, sought shelter in our
splendid roadstead; and the arrival OF these
may have given rise TO the report that Burn.
side 6 vessels had come back to the Fort.
The London Herald states that houses in
London and Liverpool are making prepara-
tions for the establishment of branch houses
at Norfolk, New Orleans, and Charleston,
the moment trade with these places shall be
re-opened that French houses at Paris and
Lyons are likewise preparing for similar d.
rect intercourse with the south; that ar
rang eIueH's nave Ooeu CoUPIeIou ny cntoI
prising parties with large resources, at Liv.
erpool, for two lines OF frst-class steamers
one for this city and Charles ION, and one to
New Orleans.
The same paper states that this city is the
terminus OF the Sea board and Roanoke Rail.
way. That paper might have added, also,
the great Seacoast and Mississippi Valley
line of the Abemarle and Ch esapsake Ship
Canal; the Dismal Swamp Canal; and last.
| ly, in the canal way, of the great water line
to the Ohio-the James River and Kanawha
Canal. Besides this, 1t might have been
added, that this seaport Of Virginia, which
| has been wisely chosen Us the Western depot
| and landing place Of those foreign steam
| lines, Is within an hours sail Of Chesapeake
| Bay, on which the Potomac, the Rappahan
| mock, the York, and the James, ceaselessly
! which come vast treasures In the shape O
the various productions Of the rich valley
| of Virginia.
| No better place surely on the whole line O.
| seacoao could have been chosen for the store
| houses Of some of the great ocean lines O.
steamers that are to cross the ocean regular
| ly, and deeply laden with the various pro
ductions of European industry and ingenuity
| Norfolk has Jagged in the race quite Ions
| the important results Of the war, recklessly
waged by the inveterate haters Of their bes
friends, will be to divert the trade from thu
North to Southern ports. which Will be bene
/ flied beyond calculation by the great concen
| tration OF foreign trade.
1regret to state tnat a young man named
| John Taylor, Of the I'd North Carolina regi
| ago, at SewelPs Point, by the explosion OF
| bombshell which he was handling at the
time. His remains have been forwarded Il
his home