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flank movement to reach Danville. The developments of to-day, however, will decide this question. A number of flagrant outrages were committed in Amherst — some on the persons of females — the particulars of which are of too beastly a character to be recorded. The burning of the Military Institute and other property at Lexington is fully confirmed. --The residence of Ex-Gov. Letcher was also fired by the vandals, who would not even let his wife save her clothes. The residence of Gen. F. H. Smith was saved by his daughter, who was in a state of health that would not justify her removal from her bed. The very latest we have is a report that the enemy have advanced on the Charlemont road from Liberty, and it is reported that they were crossing the James at an early hour last night at Waugh's Ferry, which is 19 miles above this city. We have another report that still another column of the enemy are advancing from above by the Mountain road, which is next to the James; but fro
ess sacrificed to incapacity. The only success which you came near attaining, but the credit of which we intend to take from you, is due to the incredible imaginativeness that you have displayed in describing facts. Changes of base, masterly retreats, and reconnaissances have succeeded each other with a rapidity worthy of the greatest showman of modern times. The immense variety of circumstances is only equaled by the identity of the results. We have-- Sherman's reconnaissance Smith's reconnaissance Thomas's reconnaissance Kilpatrick's reconnaissance Custar's reconnaissance Seymour's reconnaissance Gillmore's Charleston reconnaissance. The result is everywhere the same, ridiculous and disastrous. The sole concession we can make to your honesty is that you have improved upon the changes of base in 1862; you destroy fewer soldiers and burn less of the nation's property. How is it that, after three years of incomparable victories, according to Halleck's faceti