Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.
Affairs at Portsmouth.
Portsmouth has suffered and is suffering immensely by the present distracted state of the country. Hundreds of honest men whose daily bread came from their daily toll are out of employment, as but little is doing in the Navy-Yard. If ‘"Old Abe"’ were to pass through this region, every man, woman and child could assure him of his mistake, and teach him that everybody is ‘"hurt."’
The Ocean House, at which I am stopping, is an immense building, and is worthy of the very generous patronage with which it has been favored.