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but four or five miles off. They want to know, why he abandoned the lines which he had been all the summer fortifying, and retreated, or rather fled, to Malvern Hill, which was not fortified at all, abandoning and burning in his flight property valued at millions of dollars. Lastly, they want to know why, if he really gained a victory at Sharpsburg, he permitted Lee to retreat at his leisure, and to recruit his forces for the battle of Fredericksburg. Such are the subjects upon which the radical press, according to Greeley, are extremely curious, and upon which they hope to be enlightened by the forthcoming publication. Our own curiosity is of the same character with that of Points with regard to the tales which Falstaff would tell to cover his ignominious flight from the scene of his midnight robbery. We are desirous to hear "what monstrous lies he will tell." They will no doubt be of the first magnitude, but so clumsily contrived as to carry their own refutation with them.