n from doing so; as many have sons in the army, and to see or know their fathers in such company would mortify them.
Business in every department is dead; no store is selling five dollars per day. Many Yankee stores have been opened, but they have now pretty well gathered in all the gold and silver in circulation, which was and is the only currency received.
The Yankees, in getting Norfolk, certainly got five millions dollars which might have been saved by better management.
The poor old Merrimac is still an object of great curiosity to visitors from Fort Monroe.
So great a terror was she that when the boats pass Craney Island they crowd the side to gaze on the spot where her honored bones are ignobly reposing, and exclaim, "is it there ! is it there ! !"
A gentleman, recently arrived at Knoxville from St. Louis, reports that only about the hundred Lincoln troops are left to govern the city.
It is the opinion of the Lincolnites that the South is nearly whipped out, and that t
