From The 20th Mich. Infantry

[Tlie follmving is an oxtract from a private letter, written by a soldier in the 2üth Michigan Regiment, to S Romio, of Anu Axbor.J Njcwport News, Va. Fub. 22. I received your weieome letter nir;ht before last, also one of the llth wliicb I have nok aoHwered. I am quite a ditance frotn vibere we were last week. Wv had boen at Falmouth nearly three montha. "We vvero ready to go most anywhere, rather than stay in one place all tho time. We had murching orders for about a week, expecting to go every day, and finally, on Saturday, we made a start, i We had reveille at 4 o'clock, got our breakfast, aDd at G tarted for mouth Station, to take the cars. It doküdlikeleaving home. Ve hd comfortable log nhantie, and many things accumulated which we had of coure to leave. It looked rather desolate wben we took our shelter tent roofs off the loga. We oarried all we could down to the depot. There were three or four regimeuta there ready to take the cara. At 8 o'olock the car od, our regiment being on two trains. We passed ovor some high bridgea t hut had been burnt, and built up like cob houses from the bottorn. I should think they were 150 faet high. We run over vory sloir, but it was dungerous. We urrived at Aquin Croek, a distance of eight or ten milos frorn Fal mouth, about 10Í .o'olock, and got aboard the steamer "R,bt. Mot-rW Our whole regiment, buggage, 6 horwes, &c, were put on board. Our teams are all cornposed of muien, whieh ore used principally in tho army, sis on a wagon ; these were put on board a chooner which the teamer took in tow. We started in the afternoon down the Potornoc and about 1 o'olock in the nigbt we anchored, and at daylight startüd agaio, and run down near the Chesnpeake iiuy and anchored, There were indications of a storm, so our üulonel would not let the gteamer go into the Bay until the next diy, Mon day. It was an old river steamer, worn out, and very heavy loadecl, besidei the schooner which she had in tow. We lay oö St. George's Island and Lake all dy Sunday. Wbilö va lay there a small boat carne up loaded vvith oynters in the uhell, and the I oys pitchad in and bought the whole load ! In short meter, at 50 cents a bushel. - rhey wsnt off again and raked orne nore and came back. It took a great Tiany to make a taste around. A 1 Ier from another steamer, which lay at aDchor carne alongwde in a smul! boat, with apples, cheesa, cake?, &c, and sold out in a short time. Tha upples were cheap, tvrelve for a quarter. We put two cornpunies aboard the schoornjr beforo we started. Monday morning the weather was pleasant and we steamed into the Bay. We were almost out of f:ght of the land a nuniber of times. There wns no end to the ducks on the bav. We passed in sight of Cape Henry and Fisher Islaud and the broad Atlantic carne in view. At 3:15, P. M., Monday, the lölh o! Februarv, we arrived at Fortross Monroe. Whenvee were coming in sight of the Fort it lookelike a taisarac svr.imp in front, so ihick wore the shipa, steara eri, schooners, Sec We saw two little Monitors Btearaiog around, just the tur ret above tho frater; no wonder the rebela oalled it a yankee oheese tox Tho Colonel went ashorñ to report, and and in aboiit twenty minutes we starled ngain. We fastened the echooner alongHide, and steanied up to this place, a distanco of eight mile!" from the Fort. We were very orowded on the boat, no chanco to tnake any ooffee. We paid lor making soine ; wo would find the cofFue and water and pav 15 or 20 cents for enough for five. It rained part of tho time which made it verv diï'iigreeable, but I enjoyed inyself, notwilhatanding, for it was nothing like marching, and it was the first time we were on any conveyance since we left the ears at Washington. We remained on the boat Monday night. We could lear our bands playing and the Lieut. Colonel wont ashore and got our mail, whioh hnd been thore vvniting for us. - We got t now regiilarly every day, by : expross steamer from Washington. - j About 1 o'clock it comrnenoed raining ; ' and in the morning at 7 o'clock wo embarkod and marched up about 80 rods from the river, and wnited thero n the rain for the rost of the regiment .ill we got wet through, and then we ' narehod to our camping grjund, % j uileg distant from the landing. We got nome A tonts lar ge eoough to ncoommodate five men, anl uitched them and piled in. It rained until Thursday noon without stopping. VVhen we got into entnp at noon Cuesdny, the8th Michigan made cofee and distributed t to us, it was [uite a treat, for we had had no braakast. This ig a sandy plain, levl and ice as you pleae. Our camp in about 25 rods from the banks o{ the James iiver. I like it better than any place have been. I think that wo shall' tay liere a long time and dril!. The vhole of the Ninth Corps 'u here. We lave company cooks now. Wc bav got all oí our camp kettle, mess paos, ! boxes of clothing, anti everytbing that had been Bcattered on the road where e hoii been ; at Jackson, Washington, Frederufe City, Md., Pleasunt Valley, and o: her places. They were all ut Aquia Otek, and were put tra board the boat. A!l prepara' ions are made [for siaying here a long time I went down to tho river on Tuesdav and picked lip a feiv oysters; yesterday we bad a g od mess of hem ; we bought two quaits at 25 cents per qu;ti-t, threu oí us Wo fixed up sorne yesterday, raiséd our tonta, &c. Lust night it commenced to snow and rain, and this morning there was four inches of ftiow, and kept on snowing and rnining. It ia now 4:20 minutes P. M., and has not stopped yot, though the ario has neaily disüppeared in t'ie rain; we He in our tents yot boveréd I up to keep warm, and then it is bardly pos!ib]e to be cdrafortable, Tho water j run in so that we had to bar] it out or float. It looktd like Spring yesterday. J. P. dementa, of Ann Arbor, got hora Wednesday. Gen. Willcos commands our división ugaJa. This ie all at preaent. A. PtOMIG. TrSr Senator N; rtiihop, of the Lalre Superior district, died at Lansing on the 2d inst. - Mr. Northrop formerly resided at Salino in thts county, where he was Postmaatcr. K3T Gov Spragce, of Rhodo Isl;md has resig;ned, in order to tako his sent in the United States Senate. The President called a specisil session of the Senate for the 5th inst., to act upon nomirmtion. E3T The bil! lor purchasing und fret;irijf the alavos in Missouri and Murvlund Inilt'd 1o [nifs CorgreüS. 5C -As Gold is now a leading topic of d'wcusaiou as well as article of commcrce, we have tkought it best to post our roaders in its hiatory, and Wierefóre copy an article from the Continental Monïhly for Maroh, whioh the reader wül iad interesting. XT3C" The 'ast few üays baa boen proliöc of rurnors. Vick-burg and Savaunah have both been taken, " by tulegraph," and thea it waa uot Savaunah but Fort McA luster, oear by, and then not even that. All there is rcliable from Soutbeast or Southwest - except the outnigeous losa of gunboatg below Vickhburg - is that something is " gomg to turn up, ' aud digcarding all aaseoua rumora from our columns, we wül wait Micawber like for that important eveut.