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We have received a copy of Times containing his first letter after the change, dated from New York. He says: There is a strange shadowy sense of unreality attached to passing 16 months in and about Richmond, and then waking up to find oneself in Washington. To describe such a transition would demand not only unrivalled descriptive and antithetical excellence, but also some such quaintness of conceit as has exhibited Rip Van Winkle starting from his long slumber in Steeply Hollow. In Richmond the spectator has for months and months been familiar with war about his path and about his bed, and at all his meals and under every roof. War is breathed in at every breath, waited upon every breeze, heard in every sound, visible at every step. For grace and elegance and lettered ease there is neither time nor superfluity of resource; nor, it must be added, are they compatible with the sublime earnestness of temper exhibited by man and woman. Sentries at the head of every street subs
Sunday school Concert of Prayer. --On Monday evening last a Concert of Prayer for the Sunday Schools of the Baptist churches of this city and Manchester was held at the Grace street Baptist church. The aggregate attendance of officers and teachers at the various schools during the past month was one hundred and fifty eight, and during the same time nine hundred and fifty scholars were present, a considerable increase over the month preceding. During the exercises of the evening several interesting addresses were delivered.