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A description of Richmond.
In a very delightful series of papers contributed to the Richmond Illustrated News, entitled "The Exile in France," by John Mitchell, we find the following description of Richmond:
On the first morning that we awoke in Lyon we found the morning papers of that city on the breakfast table.
The telegraphic column announced the arrival of another mail from America — the Federals still working their way up the Peninsula from Williamsburg, still gaining, by their own account, brilliant successes over the rebels at every step, and still confident that their "Young Napoleon" will lead them, Lambour ballent, right into the "doomed city" of Richmond.
On the other hand, we have the news that a Federal squadron steaming up the James river, and already within sight of the spires of the same devoted town, has been beaten off and disastrously shattered by Confederate guns at a bluff called Drewry's. So far, well the intelligence gave me appetite for breakfast,