Year: 1862

 ofthe Enquirer furnished by gentleman recent ly from the North to the Atlanta (Ga) Southern Confectionery:

 WAsHNGroN, April [, io62 To ike Editor oj the Enquirer:

 The telegraph may advise you of military re- snlts Idoubtit it. however, as every means is taken to prevent news getting out, and so successfully, that here little s known of army operations except what comes through southern papers which seem to be early and well posted as to our military move mnnts Indeed the Coniederates know more of the military affairs of the people of the North than they do themselves. ] have learned through a source that can rely on, that the two sections of the republicans have struck hands and sealed friend shin on this basis: be radicals are to go for gradu al Iemancipation-c0mp for slaves liberated copfecatian by judicial sentence-tor the present. In the meantime, military operations te go on. If the military operations succeed, these cOn9ttu tional q measures are to be made sufficient the end-the utter abolishment of slavery. If the mil itarv operations flag or fail then Mr. Lincoln is to proclaim general emancipation as a military neces sity.

 The secretary of war says that the increased transportation required by the advance in the enc my's territory has increased the war expenses to five million per day-more than the printing ma chine has power to supply.

 The tax bill is an awful affair It will raise an enormous amount of money or destroy vast amount of business-one or the other. It will pass Congress. The public debt by the lst ofJuly will be $l 500 000 O00 That is the calculation of the chief auditor of the treasury. think is short of the reality. The public really know little Of what is the true condition of the finances. They will find it hereafter when they are called upon to pay the interest of the public debt. The principal, no person expects will be paid.

 As have seldom failed in my predictions ot the future as think your reader will bear me witness will now make another, thet this war will end in a proclamation of the freedom of the slaves, and in the separation of the cotton States from the Unon or in their subugation, with change ot our con stitutional form of government.

 need not write you about the present Congress, Senate and House Nothing marks the decline of the republic more than the deSeneracy of these bo dies There is hardly first class intellect in either

 ertainly no acknowledged distinguished statesman except Mir Crttenden, and his age has placed him on the lowest benches. The republic has from tie highest sunk 10 the lowest depth. God grant that we may rise agaln

 Mrs Lincoln has felt the blow of the death ofher youngest son. Sorrow is sacred and hope every mother will forget and forgive whatever might have appeared thoughtlessness at the White house and svnnathize with the real atiiicon of mother. She has been sufficiently punished for that ball in the midst of public caamlties

 1 Shall say word of public corruption The torrent cannot now be stayed. l1 ls overwhei- ming. Fortunes on fortunes are being made, and will be made by iavortes and there seems to be no help for it except in general reputation. Il were ] to tell you one-hundredth of what l know, you and 1 [ would be in Fort Warren Lafayette iu a fort | nirht dcnt mean 10 say that the secretaries con- nive at or profit hy these peculations, on the con trary, am confident they set their faces against them but they are powcrless under the vast amount of business under their hanas, and the pressing necessity of their departments 1 hope my health will allow me to send you an occasional letter

 i CLEVELAND.