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From Norfolk.
Martial Law and music — the people of Norfolk.
[special Correspondence of the Dispatch.] Norfolk, March 13, 1862.
Martial law has a most marked effect upon affairs in our city.
The principal streets are crowded from sight till two o'clock; then the stores are closed, the hum-drum of business is hushed, and the town has quite a Sunday like appearance, or, resembles a place deserted on account of some raging pestilence.
The murmurs of returning life and animation recommence at about five; the drilling is over, a few stores re-open, and the gentler sex reappear upon the stage of action, or rather the sidewalks; and our compact, well built, and pleasant city, assumes an air of activity and bustle, while the numbers of soldiers passing about add the military feature to the general appearance of things.
The great natural curiosity, Tom, the blind negro pianist, who has astonished the good people of the City of Hills by his exquisite musical perfor