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General Hampton's late foray upon the larder of Grant was a very useful, as well as a very brilliant, affair. It furnishes our army with about one million of pounds of the best beef which the Yankee markets afford, and will feed them full for some time yet to come. Grant has proved nearly as serviceable to Lee in his quality of commissary and quartermaster as Banks did to Jackson in times gone by. As Hampton is now understood to be General Lee's Master of Horse, it can hardly be improper to give the public of Virginia, who know him only from his exploits, and who are deeply interested in matters of which he will have the principal charge, some any surprise, no matter how sudden, or any danger, no matter how little foreseen. Yet no man is more impetuous in the charge, or more rapid in the pursuit.--General Hampton possesses another qualification very important in a cavalry officer, and yet not always possessed even by good cavalry officers. He is passionately fond of h