Clear and pleasant.
We are beginning to
get authentic accounts of the operations on Thursday; and yet, from the newspaper
publications, we see that the government has withheld one of Gen. Lee's
dispatches from publication. Altogether, it must be regarded as a decisive
failure on the part of the enemy to obtain any lodgment nearer to the objective
point; while his loss was perhaps two to our one.
A letter from Gen.
Howell Cobb, Macon, Ga., in reply to one from the Secretary by the President's
direction, states that Gen. Beauregard, in arranging difficulties with Gov.
Brown, did not compromise the dignity or interests of the Confederate States
Government, or violate any law.
It is now said
Sheridan is retreating toward the Potomac, followed by Early. Some 500 more
recruits for Early left Richmond yesterday. This would indicate that Gen. Lee
has men enough here.
The President suggests
that confidential inspectors be sent to ascertain whether Gen. Early's army has
lost confidence in him. Both Gen. Lee and the President are satisfied that the
charges of drunkenness against Gen. E. merit no attention. The Secretary had
indorsed on a paper (referred by him to the President) that he shared the
belief in the "want of confidence," etc.—and no doubt would have him
removed.
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