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eneral M'Clellan tried to get in the Confederate service. The North (Ga.) Times contains the following interesting item in connection with the Yankee General, McClellan, which we have never before seen published: We learn from a reliable source that two weeks before McClellan was tendered the commission of Major-General by Lincoln, he was trying to secure a position in the Confederate Army--that his feelings and sympathies were all for the South, but the temptation of superseding Gen. Scott was too much for his principles. The affair at Hatteras Inlet. The Memphis Appeal says that it learns that a British war steamer was off Hatteras and witnessed the entire bombardment, and reports, as a fact coming under her own knowledge, that the Federals, in their attempt to land troops, not only lost the guns and fuel of the Harriet Lane, but also lost two surf boats and sixty men drowned. It turns out therefore, that their actual loss in killed outnumbers ours at least three
The Southern Literary Messenger for September, contains a variety of highly interesting and valuable reading. In the table of contents we find enumerable the following articles: Church, Battle of Manassas, by Susan Archer Talley J Historic Landmarks is Lower Virginia, Christian Love in Battle, Exile and Empire, Unknown Heroes, Letter to Dr Tyng, The Visitation. The Old Story, General Winfield Scott, Pharsalia, Manasas The True. Time has set his seal, Editors' Table, &c.