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r warm secession friends without being suspected. She then made her way through the woods, a distance of some seven miles to Fortress Monroe, and laying down on the sand on the beach, with her children, she slept until daylight, and then reported herself to Gen. Butler. In passing through the woods, she had to take one of her little children and carry it on a piece, and lay it down, and then go back for the other — the little boy keeping watch over the little one while his mother went ahead with the other. Mrs. Robins reports that there are about thirty thousand men between Yorktown and Big Bethel; that several companies had come down from Richmond to assist the rebels in case of another attack upon Big Bethel. Her statement about the number of the troops between Yorktown and Big Bethel is also corroborated by the flag of truce which was sent out by Col. Duryea to look after the dead and wounded which were left behind, at the time of the retreat.--N. Y. Express, June 19.