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their deeds of plunder, they resort to other and more vile and inhuman crimes in the outrages of our women and children. A young lady, daughter of a respectable farmer living in the vicinity of Newport News, was taken by these reckless villains and imprisoned in Fortress Monroe where, judging from what has already been done, a most foul and inhuman outrage will be perpetrated. Already have poor and helpless women and children been treated in this manner, too revolting to think of Besides Miss Lee, several other ladies are prisoners at this fort, where, helpless and alone, the mercy of God can only release them. In Hampton, also, a young man, formerly of this city, was taken, divested of his clothing, and compelled in his flight to walk the distance of three miles to Fortress Monroe, where he was confined as prisoner. Does not the heart shrink at such deeds of cruelty and must the offenders o unpunished? On Saturday, several Lincoln steamers were noticed frequently running
General Lee. The people of Virginia and of the South have great reason to congratulate themselves upon the possession of such a leader of their armies as Gen. Gen. Robert E. Lee. We have learned, with sincere gratification, that by none even of our own people is this distinguished son of the Old Dominion more highly appreciated y the eminent statesman and soldier at the head of the Confederate Government. Gen. Lee, as a scientific military commander, is at least the equal of Gen. Scott, and,m as his superior. Certain it is, in his best days, Winfield Scott considered Gen. Lee as his right arm, and we are inclined to think that in the Mexican war he was his brains also. When Gen. Lee assumed the command of affairs here, every one knows that our military preparations were in a condition which it makes us shudder to l We do not pretend that everything has been done which could have been done if Gen. Lee had possessed at the start an army of a hundred thousand, or even fifty thousa