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hat was the situation of the South at that time? It was literally at the mercy of the enemy, if the enemy had possessed the enterprise to take advantage of his superior power. At the time of the Pawnee panic in Richmond, this city could have been taken almost without striking a blow. There were not two thousand men of all arms to protect our capital. If the Pawnee alarm had been a reality, instead of a fiction, and if Lincoln had then sent half-a-dozen gunboats and ten thousand men up James river, the city would at once have become his prey. He could then have advanced his columns without obstruction to every part of Virginia, and with the loss of the State, the campaign against the South could have been carried on with facilities that might have produced the most embarrassing results. Even at a later period, before the battle of Manassas, our condition was far more precarious than at the present moment. We had but one army, and that army outnumbered three to one by the enemy.
Ten Dollars reward. --Strayed or runaway from the subscriber, on the morning of the 25th of April, a slave named Andrew. The said negro is about fifty years of age, about five feet ten inches high, had on a cloth cap (covered with a gleaned oil cloth, a blue round blanket coat, with dark colored pants and boots. He had started with the baggage weapons from Camp Winder to the Fredericksburg cars. It is supposed that he was separated from them article dentally. Information respecting him may be addressed to Dr. F. S. Parker, South Carolina Hospital, Manchester. W. Joel Smith. Orr's Reg't S. C. Votes. ap 26--2t*