Rained all night—raining
this morning A dispatch from Gen. Wheeler, 18th, at Forsyth, Ga., says: “The
enemy rapidly advancing.”
It is said Gov.
Brown has called out the men en masse. I think Sherman is
in danger.
Mr. Foote made what
is called "a compromise speech" in Congress yesterday. But although
there is vacillation in the government, no compromise measures will be
tolerated yet—if ever. Everything still depends upon events in the field. I
think the government at Washington and the people of the United States are very
weary of the war, and that peace of some sort must ensue. We shall be
recognized by European powers upon the first symptoms of exhaustion in the
United States; and there soon will be such symptoms, if we can only keep up a
determined resistance.
Besides, the seizure
of our cruiser Florida in a neutral port (Brazil) will furnish a pretext for a
quarrel with the United States by the maritime powers.
I am amused by our
fireside conversations at night. They relate mostly to the savory dishes we
once enjoyed, and hope to enjoy again.
Gen. Butler's speech
in New York, suggesting that the rebels be allowed a last chance for
submission, and failing to embrace it, that their lands be divided among the
Northern soldiers, has a maddening effect upon our people.
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