A Southern View Of The Rebellion

A letler of a prominent Southern gentleman to his wife, who is n a disint country, was reonntly found on jrtiird of a vessel that was cuptui'bd. - [t is of a recent date, and is written in ali ihe finoerity and unriiservedness of nutuul eonfidence. The writer givos lis view of the war he is aiding as f'elows: "This aecursed attempt of one section to set up an independent governinent, must sooner or later tail, and lail ignorniniously. 1 am bound ) duty to share in the btirden9, and to fo what I may to alleviato the suflerings vvhich the atternpt has brought upon thoiie among whoin I was bcrn, but I will take no offiue in it- the highest would be no induceinent - nor will I share in the terrible responsibiüty. No words can dopiot the horrors whioh I witiH'Hsed both at Kichtnond and upon rny journey there and b:iek. The daaths then occurring üt Kiuhuiond were fully equtil to one hnndred and fifty a düj7. More than seventeen thonound siuk and wonnded we now in the Riuhtnond hos pitaK The recent Beeming suecess of our arms will onlv werve to aocelerate ih downfall of our short lived Contederacy.