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Affairs at Norfolk.
The following late intelligence concerning affairs at Norfolk is copied from the Petersburg Express, of yesterday:
The port has been opened, and the people are now receiving supplies from Baltimore and other cities of the North.
Wool's determination to starve the people of that city, unless they took the oath of allegiance to the Government of Abe Lincoln, it seems did not suit the Washington dynasty.
They thought Bennett's suggestion, "that the old flag should carry its benefits and blessings wherever established." a good one--that the people should be lured into the old Union by clement measures, and not by starvation — and therefore they have annulled Wool's policy and removed Norfolk from the department of the cruel old Trojan.
The city has been placed within the military jurisdiction of Gen. John A. Dix, who is instructed to let provisions come freely from all the Yankee cities.
This, we hear, was attempted clandestinely, but the British Consul