FORT MONROE, March 7.
A flag of truce from Norfolk brought down the commandant of the French steamer. He represents that there was great excitement at Norfolk. The hotels were swarming with officers from the Gulf States. The Virginia troops have been sent away. The people dread the destruction of the city in case of an attack.
A strong force is concentrating at Suffolk to check Gen. Burnside, who was reported to have reached Winton in force, and was moving on Suffolk.
The reason given by the rebels for not returning Col. Corcoran is, that maps and drawings have been found concealed on his person. No farther communication has been received as to the release of prisoners at Richmond.
Richmond papers of Friday contain no military news, except the arrest of a number of Union men, principally Germans. A detective officer broke into the room of the German Turners, and found two American flags, and a painting on the wall of the goddess of liberty holding the Union colors and a shield, with the words underneath “hats off!”
The House of Representatives have passed a resolution, by a vote of 71 to 11, recommending and directing the military commanders to destroy all the cotton and tobacco in danger of falling into the hands of the enemy. A resolution was also adopted asking the President to inform the House of what foreign vessels of war are doing in Hampton Roads.
The Richmond Dispatch says that a vessel drawing sixteen feet of water recently passed out of Charleston harbor.
Chas. Palmet, arrested for disloyalty a few days since at Richmond, had been discharged.
Specie is quoted at Richmond at 40 a 50 per cent. prem.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Ga., says that the Federal troops have possession of Murfreesboro, and the Gen. Sidney Johnston has retreated to Decatur, Ala.
The steamer Merrimac was lying near the navy yard yesterday morning, with flag flying and a crew on board. She draws 23 feet of water, and was described to me as looking like the roof of a sunken house, with a smokestack protruding from the water.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 10, 1862, p. 1
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