A  CORRESPONDENT  of  the  Richmond  Wliig,  writing
from  Norfolk,  gives  the  following  account  of  affairs
at  the  time  of  the  destruction  of  the  Gosport  Navy
Yard  :—

The  truth  is,  everybody  was  drunk,  from  Commo
dore  Macaulay,  the  commandant,  down.  The  Com
modore  was  so  drunk  as  to  be  incapable  of  any  duty,
and  had  to  be  borne  to  the  ship  on  a  litter.  Nearly


every  officer,  it  was  reported,  was  having  a  high  old
time.  It  seems  we  have  a  swiping  set  opposed  to  us,
even  those  filling  the  highest  stations.  A  gentleman
arrived  here  this  morning,  who,  with  several  others,
was  arrested  while  passing  through  Washington,  for
being  Southerners,  and  taken  into  the  presence  of
the  august  Baboon.  He  declares  that  Lincoln  was
so  drunk  that  he  could  scarcely  maintain  his  seat  in
the  chair  ;  and  it  was  notorious  in  Washington  that
he  had  been  in  a  state  of  intoxication  for  more  thnii
thirty-six  hours.  The  man  is  scared  nearly  to  death,
and  lew  people  in  that  city  are  in  any  better  condi
tion.—  N.  0.  Delta,  April  ZQ.
