Cloudy; rained last
night. 2 P.M.—Cold, and prospects of snow.
The news of Early's
disaster, and loss of artillery at Strasburg, is confirmed, and casts a new
vexation over the country.
Mr. M. Byrd, Selma,
Ala., is addressing some bold letters to the President on the blunders of the
administration.
Gen. Longstreet has
resumed command of the first army corps.
G. W. Custis Lee
(son of the general) has been made a major-general.
There was no
fighting below yesterday, that I have heard of.
Gold, which was $1
for $30 in Confederate States notes, commands $35 for $1 to-day, under the news
from the Valley. Yet our sagacious statesmen regard the re-election of Lincoln
(likely to follow our reverses) as favorable to independence, though it may
prolong the war. It is thought there will certainly be revolution or civil war
in the North, if the Democrats be beaten; and that will relieve us of the vast
armies precipitated on our soil. Many of the faint-hearted croakers are anxious
for peace and reconstruction.
Gen. Butler, called
“the Beast” by the press, has certainly performed a generous action. Messrs.
McRae and Henley, two government clerks in the local battalion, wandered into
the enemy's lines, and were put to work in the canal by Gen. Butler, who had
been informed that we made some prisoners taken from him work on the
fortifications. This was done but a short time, when they were relieved; and
Mr. McRae was permitted to return to the city, to learn whether the Federal
prisoners were really required to perform the labor named. No restrictions were
imposed on him, no parole required. He came with Gen. B.'s passport, but felt
in honor bound to communicate no intelligence, and voluntarily returned to
captivity. We had Federal prisoners at work, but they were
remanded to prison.
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