Our Correspondence.
from Norfolk.
pleasant, Weather — interesting reconnaissance — more Arrivals from old Point — fire — the Markets.
It was, by the way, a joyous day in October many years ago, when a noble and venerable friend of America and of liberty stepped gracefully ashore upon the banks of the Elizabeth, and passed through the streets of Norfolk, during his triumphal tour through a nation which he had gallantly aided in its herculean struggles to be free from a yoke less galling far than that which oppresses and crushes many a noble son and daughter of the venerable heroes and heroines of freedom who have passed away. He first came when, as now, ‘"darkness curtained the hills, and the tempest was abroad in its anger; when fathers were dying, and mothers were weeping over them; when the wife was binding up the gashed bosom of her husband, and the maiden was wiping the death damp from the brow of her lover. Freedom's little phalanx bade him a grateful welcome. With them he courted the battle's rage; with theirs his arm was lifted; with theirs his blood was shed,"’ He came again, after fifty years had sped on, and a spontaneous burst of acclamation and rejoicing rang through the length and breadth of the land--‘"a long, loud, transporting shout, like the mingling of many winds, rolled on, undying, to freedom's farthest mountains."’
A flag of truce passed up yesterday from Fort Monroe to Craney Island, with three ladies--one of this city, one living in Wester Virginia, and one for New Orleans.
Persons recently from the coast report nothing of special moment. A vigilant guard is maintained all along the beautiful and almost unbroken coast of Princess Anne county — the hard, smooth, and wave-beaten shore affording a splendid roadway (or broadway, if you choose) for the brave and watchful scouting parties of the Chesapeake and Princess Anne cavalry companies, stationed on the grand old shore of the Atlantic, ‘"where the view is large."’ Occasionally a Federal steamer is seen stealthily cruising along some two miles out at sea; but she passes on her way without any fruitless attempt to disturb the monotonous routine of the camp, or even to give a harmless complimentary ball to the gallant out-riders.
On Sunday night a fire broke out in an out-house on Cumberland street. The light was first discovered by a gentleman from the country, and without giving sufficient alarm to bring out the engine companies, some hall-a-dozen stalwart young men arrested the progress of the flames by throwing on water and pulling down the house. The family who reside on the premises think an incendiary applied the torch. The loss was small, but very valuable property was endangered.
The demand for corn is still greater than the supply — cargo sales at 50 cents. The supply of oats in grain is exhausted, and the article would sell here now at 40a45 cents.--Large quantities of oath in the straw are sold for forage at $1 per cwt. Meal sells at 70a80 cents. Flour — Super $5.50, Extra $6, Family $6.50--supply equal to the demand.--Wheat — red white 60a80. Rice 4½ cts., good supply. Sugar — brown N. O. 13a15, refined 18 cents.
