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The News from Corinth.

Our latest information from the command of Gen. Beauregard is up to the 21st, at which time there was heavy skirmishing, but with so definite result. The telegram states that the indications portend a battle near at hand, and expresses the belief that the conflict may begin at any moment. That active operations must soon commence, we have no doubt, for it is scarcely probable that the two armies, can maintain their present position much longer without a collision.

The infamous proclamation of the notorious Butter, which places the ladies of New Orleans at the mercy of his brutal soldiery, is said to have fired our army, and a feeling skin to desperation exists to drive back the minions of a Government that will tolerate such a representative. When a fight does occur in the South, but little favor will be shown the invaders, and they will be met by men who feel that there is hardly a shade of difference between death itself and the ignominious life that would follow the success of the Federal forces in the impending conflict. Nothing inflames a man sooner than the invasion of the sanctity of his own home, and this threat of Butler's will so fire the Southern heart that in every future engagement the soldiers of the North will be met by men who will cherish a keen recollection of a threat which has no precedent in the history of modern civilization.

The Rev. Dr. Palmer, of New Orleans, one of the most eminent divines of the whole South, recently delivered an address to the army at Corinth on this subject, which is said to have stirred them deeply.

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