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or the failure of his former essay. The simple fact is that, having sent his letters through the lines, he waited at General Grant's headquarters nearly four days without receiving any response; when, supposing none would be made, he retraced his sr, did not accompany him. Passes from the Confederate authorities — civil and military (delay in the receipt of which, at Grant's headquarters, had induced Mr. Blair last week to return to Washington)--had been transmitted to him here, and will enab) and contended that the adoption of the amendment would only serve to augment the difficulties surrounding us. From Grant's army. A letter from Grant's army, dated the 7th, says: There is nothing new to report on the lines in front Grant's army, dated the 7th, says: There is nothing new to report on the lines in front of Petersburg. Same shelling took place near the Appomattox yesterday morning, but without any important result. Four deserters were executed yesterday. One was hung and three were shot. The first was W. Thornton, of the One Hundred and Sev
New York Tribune and other New York papers. Mr. Blair's ostensible business in Richmond, or rather presumed business here, for there is nothing ostensible about him, or his business, or movements, is to ascertain whether anything can be done to bring about a cessation of hostilities — an end of the war. We think his real business is to place the Lincoln Administration in a good position before the Northern people, who are just now called upon to fill up another draft. Lincoln knows that the propositions he will make are such that they will be spurned by our Government; but our rejection of them will enable him to go before his people, and, with Blair's aid, to prove that the "rebels" will accept of no terms of peace, and that nothing is left him but a vigorous prosecution of the war. Mr. Blair will return to Grant's lines on Saturday if the freshet subsides sufficiently to enable a flag-of-truce boat to go down the river. We have no news from the South or Southwest.