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The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Harper's Weekly, (search)
ly a movement from their right to their right to their left, and did not presage a relinquishment of the "On to Atlanta" movement of the Yankees, as was stated by the reports of the Press Association. The latest reports from the Yankees are that Blair and A. J. Smith, Yankee corps commanders, have arrived at Memphis with parts of their commands, and as soon as the remainder arrives will march to reinforce Sherman. These troops have been drawn from Steel's and Banks's armies, and, so far as more it is supposed he will combine with the two other columns and endeavor to capture the town. This latter news I cannot vouch for, but it is more than likely; for a grand movement of cavalry in the rear of the Yankee army is looked for. Whether Blair and A. J. Smith will be able to compel the three columns to retire is a question of much anxiety. But it is believed that if our cavalry is well hundred they cannot do so. I regret exceedingly that my letters do not reach you regularly ever
The Daily Dispatch: June 11, 1864., [Electronic resource], Blair on Chase (search)
Blair on Chase --Gen. Blair, member of Congress from Missouri, and brother of the Postmaster General, in advocating an inquiry into the management of McChase in the Treasury Department, made the following observations: I say here in my place, and upon my responsibility as a Representative, that a more profligate administration of the Treasury Department never existed under any Government; that the whole Mississippi Valley is rank and fetid with the frauds and corruptions practiced there by his agents; that "permits" to buy cotton are just as much a marketable commodity as the cotton itself; that these permits to buy cotton are brought to St. Louis and other Western cities by politicians and favorites from distant parts of the country, and sold on change to the highest bidder whether he be a secessionist or not, and that, too, at a time when the best Union men in these cities were refused permits. That is equally true of the "trade stores," as they are called — monopolies o