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A correspondent of the Richmond Whig, writing from Norfolk, gives the following account of affairs at the time of the destruction of the Gosport Navy Yard:--
The truth is, everybody was drunk, from Commodore Macaulay, the commandant, down.
The Commodore was so drunk as to be incapable of any duty, and had to be borne to the ship on a litter.
Nearly every officer, it was reported, was having a high old time.
It seems we have a swilling set opposed to us, even those filling the highest stations.
A gentleman arrived here this morning, who, with several others, was arrested while passing through Washington, for being Southerners, and taken into the presence of the august Baboon.
He declares that Lincoln was so drunk that he could scarcely maintain his seat in the chair; and it was notorious in Washington that he had been in a state of intoxication for more than thirty-six hours. The man is scared nearly to death, and few people in that city are in any better condition.--N. O. Delta, April 29.
Van Nostrand. New York, New York. 1862.
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