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ould offer upon the altar of their country. Grand because it will show England and France that in leaning towards the enemy, they have leaned upon a bruised reed that will break and pierce them. It will convince them that we are terribly in earnest. The writer left the city. Friday morning at a quarter-past nine o'clock on the Jackson train, at which hour nothing further was known, except that Gen. Lovell had determined to fight them in any way that prompted success. At half-past 12 Major Pickett came up with an ammunition train, and informed us that eleven Federal gunboats were within ten miles of the city. In traveling along the road the writer was pained and grieved to hear persons censuring Gen. Lovell, and some who did not know him had lost confluence in him. I did all in my power to convince them of their error, for recently I have been thrown in contact with him, and am prepared to write whereof I know — that Gen. Lovell has left no stone unturned, has left nothing un