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eight hundred and fifty-five more. The negroes of the concern, it seems, being assured of victory, raised the cry of "no quarter; remember Fort Pillow;" as they had been taught by the scoundrels who led them into this scrape. Cannot our men take a hint? We would always give quarter to the negro. He is stolen property, and ought to be returned. But, for the white men found fighting in the ranks with him — why, we would give him quarter too — what was called in the old Revolutionary war "Tarlton's quarter"--that is to say, pretty much no quarter at all. We are assured that, for the front covered, this was the bloodiest repulse yet met with by Grant, who has become the hero of reverses. The slaughter of the Yankees was greater, proportionally, than at Spotsylvania or Cold Harbor, or in the previous assaults on Petersburg. Our lines have not been altered in the slightest degree. The whole affair was a miserable fizzle. Yet Grant must invent some lie to cover this last failur