nt of the State Battalion. He says the
order is a personal offense to him and an insult to his State (he is a
native Virginian), and he will resent it and resist it to the last
extremity. He gives notice that the 3d battalion has been ordered back
from the east side of the Mississippi River. The battalion disbanded
numbered but 150 men! A little business--like losing one-fourth of North
Carolina, to put out of office fifty clerks, whose tenure, by the
Constitution, is for life!

NOVEMBER 5TH.--Clear and cold.

Grant has attempted nothing this week, and it is probably too late for
any demonstration to affect the election. I infer that the government is
convinced President Lincoln will be re-elected, else some desperate
effort would have been made in his behalf by his generals. Will he float
on a sea of blood another four years? I doubt it. One side or the other
must, I think, give up the contest. _He_ can afford to break with the
Abolitionists now. We _cannot_ submit without the loss of everything.

It is thought Grant will continue to "swing to the left," making a
winter campaign on the coasts of North and South Carolina--mean time
leaving Butler's army here, always menacing Richmond.

Gen. Beauregard writes from Gadsden, Ala., October 24th, that his
headquarters will be at Tuscumbia, Ala.; will get supplies from Corinth
to Tuscumbia. Forrest has been ordered to report to Gen. Hood, in Middle
Tennessee. The railroad iron between Corinth and Memphis will be taken
to supply wants elsewhere. Gen. Dick Taylor is to guard communications,
etc., has directed Gen. Cheatham to issue an address to the people of
Tennessee, saying his and Gen. Forrest's command have entered the State
for its redemption, etc., and calling upon the people to aid in
destroying the _enemy's communications_, while the main army is between
Atlanta and Chattanooga, when the purpose is to precipitate the _whole
army_ upon it, etc. Gen. B. doubts not he will soon be able to announce
good tidings, etc. etc. This letter to Gen. Cooper is "submitted to the
Secretary of War," by whom it is "submitted for the information of the
President," and sent back by him--"Read and returned, 4th Nov. '64.--J.
D."

Gen. B. was to leave that day to join Gen. Hood, in vicinity of
Guntersville, on Tennessee River. Sherman's army was between Dalton and
Gadsden, 15 miles from Gadsden.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH.--Bright and frosty.

All quiet below. Another day, and if it rem