Phenix Gazette

The Norfolk Herald of Tuesday last announced that Mr. Lyford had received late northern papers; by the steamboat Potomac, from his correspondent of the "Alexandria Gazette;" but in Monday's Herald we find the following sarcastic erratum:

"We inadvertently gave credit in our last to the "Alexandria Gazette" for papers forwarded by the Potomac to the Commercial Reading Room. A more palpable mistake could not have been made. It is enough to say, that the papers were received from another source."

We never have corresponded with Mr. Lyford nor do we send him our paper—with the Herald we exchange regularly, both by mail and by steam-boat, but have no further intercourse. How the mistake arose we cannot say, much less can we account for the manner in which it is corrected. The Alexandria Gazette for many years corresponded with the Norfolk Beacon, and the "Phenix Gazette" has continued the correspondence with great advantage to its readers. We are in the habit of sending Messrs. Shields & Ashburn of the Beacon, the latest northern papers by every boat—we did so by the Potomac last week, but we learn by letter from those gentlemen, that none were received. "It is enough to say;" that they were sent—that they contained interesting information—the very information indeed, that we recognize in the Herald of Friday. There is a mystery in the matter that we should like to see explained.