Commodore Tattnall must be nearly fifty five ye;.is old (*). yet he is as hard and tough as a pieco of live oak. He entered the nary while yet a lad. and banbad his “home on the rolling rt.ep” ever since. Ultras horn near Savannah, Georgia, where his family sti{l resides. Since the blokude of Savannah by the Federals, he has managed with his mosquito fleet to give them no little trouble All he wanted was n good man-of-war to scatter their ships to the windy. Fut him in command of the Virginia, audit were better for the enemy to encounter a hurricane than this lion of the sra.(*) The Savannah Republican .states that tqe coui modors is between sixty-three and sixty-five yearsOil.