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Guns heard at a long distance. --The Day Book deems it worthy of note that guns fired at Old Point, on the 22d, were distinctly heard in this city — a distance of fifteen miles. It occurs to us that, a number of years ago, a French frigate, in our harbor, fired a royal salute on the birth-day of Louis Phillippe, the then reigning monarch of France, which was distinctly heard in Elizabeth City, N. G., a distance of forty miles, in a direct line! The fact was mentioned in the papers at the time, and was attributed to some peculiar condition of the atmosphere.--Norfolk (Va.) Herald.