What General Lee says.
A Richmond correspondent of a Southern paper says: "General Lee told Mr. W. C. RivGeneral Lee told Mr. W. C. Rives, the other day, that there was but a single thing to fear, and that was the spreading of a causeless despondespair.
"To another distinguished gentleman, General Lee said that the attack of the press on the President pained him (Lee) very much.
He had confidence in the President, and did not think we could find a better manource, which we consider entitled to credit, that General Lee said he was "surprised at the despondency of the citizens." When General Lee speaks thus; when General Lee says "we have strength enough left to win our indepenGeneral Lee says "we have strength enough left to win our independence, and we are certain to win it if the people will only not give way to a foolish despair," the people oughown the world could give.
Do the people believe Robert E. Lee?
And if they do, will they not dismiss at once nce; and in that there is everything to hope.
So General Lee declares, and that trumpet gives no uncertain sou
of the South to the Union.
Impressions of a Yankee "commissioner" in Richmond — the people, and what they feel--General Lee etc.
The New York Tribune has a letter from William Cornell Jewett, giving the substance of a conversation with Geterms of reconciliation.
7. He had an interview with President Davis and all the members of his Cabinet, also with General Lee; that he never heard a word of defiance, or reproach, or crimination, from any one of them, or any other person in Richmond.
8. That General Lee impressed him at once with the idea that he was in the presence of a man whose soul was filled with every sentiment of honor, religion and patriotism.
The subject of the war was barely alluded to and, in connection wiired new confidence and life among the army and people; and he really believes that, such is the devotion of the people to Lee, every man, woman and child in the Confederacy would follow him into the, Gulf of Mexico as a religious duty, if he requir
ssolved governments and crumbling nationalities.
God, in my opinion, never made a race of which Stonewall Jackson is a type and President Davis the representative man [great cheering], and from which sprung that great and good old chieftain, Robert E. Lee [prolonged cheering], to be destroyed, though it were thrown into the lion's den, or into a furnace seven times heated.
It cannot be done.
They talk about subjugating the South.
They who believe that the mind and heart can be subjugated byr such circumstances, would remain here because he wished, and was ready, to submit therefore he wanted no such talk.
We all looked to Virginia not only as the mother of statement, but of warriors [cheers]; the mother of that grand old hero, Robert E. Lee [protracted cheering], when we were all willing to follow wherever he might lead.
Remarks of Senator Henry.
Senator Henry, of Tennessee, made short address:
He said the people had come to a point where more than ever, it was nec
often heard men say that they would rather die than be subjugated. --heard such remarks every day; but still there were a great many of that class who acted very differently.
Some had, indeed, shown a disposition to act up to that principle.
Our young men and others in the field had manifested such determination by risking their lives in the cause; but yet we needed more men to do likewise; and if we held back, contenting ourselves with simply talking about our willingness to die, until General Lee's army wastes away from starvation and cold, dying for our country would then do no good;--the dying must be done now and living must be done now. Each man, woman and body must go away today determined; he must give up the idea of general patriotism and take up that of special patriotism.
Fifty pounds of bacon and a barrel of flour, the speaker said, would sustain a soldier till the summer's campaign was over.
Let every man go home, overhaul his shoes, clothes, provisions, etc., and div
itary science, and can tell us off-hand how a battle ought to be fought, a town defended, a fortress besieged, or a campaign conducted.
If the cause is lost, it will be because the counsels of these wonderful strategists are not regarded, and General Lee fails to commence a correspondence with them and ascertain their views.
The criticisms, at the street corners, of the various military leaders are highly instructive and edifying.
Lee, Beauregard and Johnson are not aware of that skillfuLee, Beauregard and Johnson are not aware of that skillful and thorough analysis of their respective and relative claims to popular favor which may be any day heard at the lamp posts.
A Directory, self-constituted it is true, but none the less modest and intelligent on that account, holds its daily sessions at the street corners of the Capital, and settles the merit and the fate of every General of the Republic.
The Directory at Paris used to take off the heads of unsuccessful officers.
The Directory at Richmond simply takes off their reputation,
s, the army is, after all, a very good school for Confederate boys.
They can learn there what will be more useful to them hereafter, and to mankind, than all they can acquire at the best classical schools.
There is no teacher of grammar in England who can convey to them, for example, the meaning of a verb — to be, to do, to suffer,--as they will learn it in the Confederate army.
If they want Greek, they will find a living Greece in the Thermopylæ of the Confederacy; or Latin, there is Robert E. Lee, the best Roman of the day, at the head of the Southside University, with a good many thousand promising boys under his charge, who do the Latin exercises in a style that the world has never seen since the days of Cæsar.
At any rate, the parents of these returning youths should not expect from them the discretion and self-command of the grown-up Confederate men, who, having remained in their country, and given her the benefit of their counsel and advice till her affairs became unfor
ire force at Charleston now cannot be over fifteen thousand, including a division of Early's corps, which was sent down from the Shenandoah Valley.
With this force he will not be very likely to throw any serious obstructions in Sherman's way. If Charleston, being a strongly-fortified city, were the object of the present expedition, this army of Hardee's would be worth considering, but, as it is, the rebel tactician will only be an elephant on the hands of the Confederacy.
Would that half of Lee's army were cooped up in Charleston.
Rumored putting to sea of Confederate iron-clads from European Ports — the opinion in New York.
Ben. Wood's paper (the New York News) has a letter from London, saying that the two iron-clad vessels built a year or two ago in France for the Confederates, but stopped through the vigilance of Mr. Dayton, have got to sea since his death, and are cruising under the rebel flag, under the names of Stonewall and Rapidan.
He also declares that there is a
employ.
Bill for the relief of Joseph G. Bullock, of Fluvanna county, for a slave condemned to death, and hung by a mob, appropriating two thousand dollars.
Bill for the relief of Tucker Carrington, of Mecklenburg county, appropriating one thousand dollars.
Bill to pay Captain James T. Smith for his services as a partisan ranger.
The House refused to take up and consider the bill appropriating sixty-five thousand dollars for the purchase of the life-size portrait of General R. E. Lee, painted by Mr. Bruce, and tendered to the State.
Mr. Ward, of Frederick, asked the suspension of the rules in order that the bill might be taken up and considered, but the House refused to suspend.
Mr. Deane, of Campbell, rose to a personal explanation, holding in his hand a copy of the Richmond Dispatch of date this day, from which he read.
In his remarks on Friday night, on the convention bill, he was represented as saying that Virginia, like a "shooting star," was ab
itary authorities, on the part of the army and the people, and that all must respond to one inspiration — the love of country; and with one aspiration — the country's independence.
3. That we tender our thanks to our matchless leader, General Robert E. Lee, and to the officers and soldiers under his command, for their efforts in behalf of the country, and that we respond in hearty concurrence to the sentiment recently expressed in company, regimental and brigade meetings, never again to finsory system of enlistment, and whether with or without changing the social status of the slaves; yet, holding our independence to be paramount to all other considerations, and understanding it to be the declared opinion of the President and of General Lee, who are charged with the conduct of the war, that such a measure, in some form, is demanded by the present exigencies of the country, we compromise all differences of opinion, and urge upon our Congress and State Legislature the immediate ado
reports that he attacked the enemy, yesterday, four miles in front of Kinston, and drove him from his position.
He disputed the ground obstinately, and took up a new line three miles from his first.
"We captured three pieces of artillery and fifteen hundred prisoners.
"The number of the enemy's dead and wounded left on the field is large.
Ours comparatively small.
"The troops behaved most handsomely, and Major-Generals Hill and Hoke exhibited their usual zeal and energy. R. E. Lee."
Kinston is thirty miles east of Newbern, fifteen west of Goldsboro', and seventy five miles southeast of Raleigh.
The force which General Bragg attacked and whipped was Foster's, which was pushing up to co-operate with Terry, who is advancing on Goldsboro' from Wilmington.
It is thought that another fight took place on yesterday.
The Richmond and Petersburg lines.
All continues quiet in front of Richmond and Petersburg — so potent is mud.
The tobacco Affair.
