Clear and cool.
Gen. Bragg sent to
the Secretary of War to-day a copy of a letter from him to the President,
yesterday, proposing to send 6000 more troops to Western Virginia, as Breckinridge
has only 9000 and the enemy 18,000.
Lieut.-Gen Holmes
sends from Raleigh, N. C., a letter from Hon. T. Bragg, revealing
the existence of a secret organization in communication with the enemy, styled
the “H. O. A.;" and asking authority to arrest certain men supposed to be
implicated.
A letter was
received from G. W. Lay, his son-in-law, by the Assistant Secretary of War,
Judge Campbell, dated near Petersburg, stating that the Southern Express
Company would bring articles from Charleston for him. That company seems to be
more potential than ever.
Cannonading was
heard far down the Chickahominy this morning. And yet Lieut.-Gen. Ewell marched
his corps to-day out the Brooke Road, just in the opposite direction. It is
rumored that he is marching away for Washington! If he had transportation,
and could march in that direction, no doubt it would be the speediest way of
relieving Richmond. Gen. Lee, however, knows best.
At the conclave of
dignitaries, Hunter, Wigfall, and Secretary Seddon, yesterday, it is reported
that when Mr. Seddon explained Grant's zigzag fortifications, Senator Hunter
exclaimed he was afraid we could never beat him; when Senator Wigfall said
nothing was easier—the President would put the old folks and children to praying at
6 o'clock A.M. Now if any one were to tell these things to the President, he
would not believe him.
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