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The Daily Dispatch: June 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], Exemptions under the Conscription Law of Congress. (search)
The cotton famine,an important letter from Europe.
The following letter is from-the regular London correspondent of the New York Times.
As bear pig upon the question of European intervention, and coming from a source avoidably hostile to the cause of the Confederacy, it cannot be regarded otherwise than important:
London, Tuesday May 20, 1862.
The surrender of New Orleans and the evacuation of Yorktown have fallen upon the British public likewise very heavy claps of thunder.
The first event is a mystery no one pretend to explain.
We wait for further particulars.
As it now appears it is pregnant with alarm.
If gunboats can pass shore batteries and harbor defence, what city in the world is safe.
An iron-clad gunboat could ascend the Thames any day, and lying in the pool below London bridge, reduce the great metropolis to submission or to ashes.
But the same is true of New York, and of every city which lies upon the sea are navigable river.
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