Clear and hot.
All quiet at
Petersburg. President Lincoln was at Fortress Monroe on Sunday last, after the
explosion and its failure.
The Northern papers
acknowledge that Grant sustained a terrible disaster at Petersburg, losing in
killed, wounded, and missing 5000. They say the negro troops caused the
failure, by running back and breaking the lines of the whites. The blacks were
pushed forward in front, and suffered most.
From the same source
we learn that our troops have penetrated Pennsylvania, and laid the city of
Chambersburg in ashes. This may be so, as they have burned some half dozen of
our towns, and are now daily throwing shell into Charleston, Atlanta, and
Petersburg.
A letter to the
Secretary from J. Thompson, in Canada (per Capt. Hines), was received to-day.
He says the work will not probably begin before the middle of
August. I know not what sort of work. But he says much caution is necessary. I
suppose it to be the destruction of the Federal army depots, etc. in the United
States.
Public meetings and
the public press continue to denounce in unmeasured terms the high schedule of
prices recently sanctioned by the Commissary and Quartermaster's bureaus. And,
although the schedule has been modified, much odium will attach to all
concerned in it. A large farmer, at the rates fixed for his products, would
realize, perhaps, $200,000 per annum.
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