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n the foundry we found many articles packed for transportation, and directed to "Charlotte; N. C.," where the rebels will doubtless make their next bonfire. This locality is fruitful in towns. Nearly opposite us we have Norfolk. We are in Gosport, and north and west of us are Portsmouth and Newtown. This cluster of towns is "successionally" located on the edges of a marsh, in which the aquatic grass grows luxuriantly, making an elegant nest for fevers to batch in. This marsh is crossed the largest of this swamp trio, and its Secession proclivities are as rank as the grass in its delectable swamp. Nearly all its stores are closed, its stateliest houses deserted, and its daughters are of the rebels, rebellions. Newtown and Gosport exhibit more loyalty. The former town is producing a good crop of Stars and Stripes May Portsmouth soon do likewise, as it doubtless will, for — our drums are sounding the call for regimental drill; so I must fain drop my pen, and seize my crim