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a 4; Unknown, 6. The expected attack at Norfolk Presentation forces fall in the city The correspondent of the New York Post writing from Norfolk on the 20th ult., says a combined land and eagle attack upon that place by the Confederates is greatly apprehended. Intercepted letters to Norfolk fixed the date of the attack at October Gen. Victs has made topographical surveys of the surrounding country, and triple pickets have been posted. A war briefing was held on the 25th; to aid Col. Close, of Alexandria, in raising a Union regiment. About 400 persons were present. Another meeting was to be held at Ashland in Norfolk. Affairs in the city are thus described by the correspondent: The upper classes here do not develop any Union feeling. In a social point of view, Norfolk is father an interesting study. Having been (to use the words of the historian) originally settled by "men of lotty bearing and sterling worth," their descendants have conceived the idea that they wer