The Hillsborough Recorder

The Evacuation.—The evacuation of Norfolk and Portsmouth without a shot, and the destruction of so large an amount of public property, does not strike every one as a wise or necessary measure, yet it must be apparent that the fall of those places has been a foregone conclusion ever since the capture of Roanoke Island. Mr. Benjamin perhaps before this concludes that the taking of that Island was not so small an affair after all.

The policy, however, of surrendering those places and destroying the Merrimac, just at the time when they were so much needed, to force McClellan to move upon Richmond directly by the way of the Peninsula, may well be doubted. The evacuation of those places gives McClellan an opportunity of moving upon it both in front and rear.

We have heard nothing direct from Norfolk and Portsmouth, since the evacuation of those places. The last report is that Suffolk was in possession of the enemy.

Raleigh Standard.