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The Norfolk Navy-Yard.

It will be seen that this yard has proved a prize indeed, and that, after all, very little damage was done to it. The incendiaries were hurried in their work by the idea that immense reinforcements to the Virginia camp were arriving every half hour, which impression was produced by the constant moving of railroad trains, with a prodigious clatter through the night, an ingenious device for which the President of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad deserves infinite credit.

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