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Messrs. Editors: Being in Charlottesville last week, I attended an exhibition of the ‘"Confederate Minstrels,"’ and of all chaste and beautiful performances, it excelled anything I ever witnessed. As they half from Richmond, I thought it would be gratifying to their many friends to hear of their great success, and that the beautiful ladies, with their gallant beaux, flocked night after night to the hall — a thing never known before in that place. Besides, they were sumptuously entertained at the private residents of the leading citizens. We provide the

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