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e announcement by our own journals of the exact number in his front. He can then repeat the experiment with a force large enough to overwhelm all resistance. In regard to the defences of Richmond, it has been stated that, but for the fire of Major Henley's battalion, they would have entered the city. It is perhaps fortunate for us that the enemy's spies, of whom there are no doubt scores in this city, have probably given him by this time more accurate information, and that he is sure that if Henley's battalion had been driven back he would have run upon a succession of snags, which would have sent him in double-quick time to the bottom. We apprehend, however, no injury from this direction now, if it should tempt him to repeat the experiment. But to say nothing of the numbers by which our victories are accomplished. Let him console himself, if he see fit, with the idea that he is defeated by overwhelming numbers. The great object is to defeat him, and the accomplishment of that