Posted on 01/04/2022 4:43:48 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Friday, Jan. 3.
AN IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
It is said that circumstances have transpired within the past few days, leading to the belief that it will not be difficult to designate with certainty the source whence the rebels have, within the last two months, derived most valuable information, which it is known the Government took every means to conceal.
SIX REBELS CAPTURED -- IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE
Six rebel prisoners were sent to headquarters to-day, by Col. MCLEAN, Provost-Marshal at Alexandria. They were taken by our pickets on the left wing of the army. Their information is deemed of high value, and stringent measures were taken to prevent all communication with them. The rebels are expecting an advance of our army along the whole line. They are more demoralized than ever before by discords among their public men. Gen. MAGRUDER is believed to have been relieved of his command at Yorktown, and Gen. WISE, who has been quiet since his return from Western Virginia, is expected to assume command there, or if not there, at Frederick. There is a well-founded belief of serious disaffection to the rebel Government at Charleston, amounting almost to insurrection, by reason of the apparent abandonment of the South Carolina coast to National invasion, and the immense destruction of property, that owners have willingly consigned to the fames. They have destroyed not less than ten million dollars worth of cotton, which at last accounts they were deploring, as they supposed the blockade was about to be raised by England, and they might have shipped and sold it. They were holding JEFF. DAVIS responsible for these disastrous losses, and many citizens were bold enough to say that the old Government was better than the new.
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