by John Beauchamp Jones
MAY 19TH—Sunshine and showers, the former predominating. Gen. Lee sends a dispatch saying the enemy’s attack yesterday was repulsed easily—our loss very light.
It is said, however, that the enemy have Guinea’s Station, 12 miles this side of Fredericksburg.
Gen. Beauregard intends shelling Butler in his fortifications to-morrow.
From the West, in Georgia, and beyond the Mississippi, all seem bright enough.
Congress has passed a resolution to adjourn on the 31st inst., in obedience to the wish of the President. He has a majority in both Houses, it seems; and even the bills they pass are generally dictated by the Executive, and written in the departments. Judge Campbell is much used for this purpose.
Gen. Bragg sent in a manuscript, derived from a deserter, stating that of Gen. Butler’s two corps, one, the 10th, is from the Southern coast, no negroes in it, leaving only negroes in the Southern garrisons. We learned Butler was in command, and dismissed all apprehensions—and one day we had but 5000 opposed to his 40,000!
