Year: 1861

WASHINGTON, June 27, 1861.


notice that you inclined to cavil a little
at Gen. SCOTS course of action. If SO, you diff
fer entirely from those here, who profess to be
familiar with military matters. Here the old
veteran is regarded asequal to half an army him
SELF and his plan OF operations as thus far en-
tirely successful. Public sentiment has come
around to see that any contest of our raw troops
with the rebel forces on anything like equal
terms might result in failure and indefinitely
prolong the war. But now we have in our
neighborhood sixty thousand men in the best
state of health and discipline, increasing Of late
more than a regiment each day. The view of
the result is all one way-a victory is certain as
fate, to be followed by blow after blow, SO well
prepared as to make resistance hopeless.


You can hear nothing Of Southern powder
and STEEL" as you could six months ago. The
sympathixers in the rebellion, only pirate OF the
inhumanity Of "suejugating the South" )" not OF
our want of power to do SO. The reports of Hun
Ter and Beauregard being in New York-of con-
ditions of peace offered by Davis, &c &C., are
doubtless all false but "straws show which way
the wind blows" and these little matters as they
accumulate show that the South is losing conf
dence in herself


| 1t is the expectation that Crittenden will lug
in his old Compromise as soon as Congress
meets, and that men closer in the interest OF
the rebels, will give it support. have even
heard that some oe the broken political hacks Of
the North would rally around some such COM
promise, and seek to form new party, or else
favor recognition of the independence of the
seeded States. Such party would be small.
The sentiment on all sides is to whip the rebels
and then make terms. The vast army now here
would i'll brook different course.


Congress meets next week. We we're told it
would sit two weeks at frst--later month
nowlthey talk Of six weeks. But everything
will be done as speedily as possible. Even now
the business has commenced. The heads Of the
more impor tant committees have been here in
daily communication with the Departments, and
the course is more or less laid out. This is true
of the Senate only, for the House not yet having
been organized, it is impossible to say how the
committees will be composed. Buncombe wi
be carefully guarded against. There is some tall
of secret sessions 1t is little anti-republi
can, to be sure, to pass laws in secret, but il
saves an immense amount of useless gas, and ex
pediates business.


The money to prosecute the war, is to be tn
chief subject to be considered. Secretary Chas'
will ask for two hundred millions Of dollars, ant
the question will be how to raise so much Di
rect taxation would 60 hard. In New England
Il ia feared it would raise strong pressure fo
peace, at any price, and drive them to anything
that would set the cotton spindles in operation
again. and in the west to raise national taxes OF
lands in Iowa that are hardly worth the Stat
taxes nov, would prove difficult problem. Th
more popular course, and one which may: b.
} .dopted. will be the issue of Treasury notes
even to AZ low denomination as Eve dollars
with law making them legal tender.


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