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shoot.' But the Georgian did shoot, and killed him, too. I saw Slocum's grave to-day in a little cabbage garden by the roadside, and also found there Major Ballou, of the same regiment, who had his leg shot off.

'* There is still another fact I cannot forbear to record. After the terrible fire to which the Eighteenth Georgia had been exposed and which they received with the immobility of a marble statue, General Beauregard passed the little remnant of the regiment that was still left and which was ready to strike yet another blow, and raising his cap with undisguised admiration and sympathy, he said: 'Eigh- teenth Georgia, I salute you.' '

THE CANADIAN PRESS ON THE BATTLE OF MANASSAS.

The Quebec Chronicle has the following:

' ' The New York press will be doubtless sadly downcast now. For ourselves, we have not exulted over the much vaunted victories, and see no great reason to rejoice in a northern defeat. All our desire is that the war should cease, and that we should be spared the spec- tacle of seeing brothers in race and language in mortal combat. Neither the North nor the South can subjugate the other. Let them agree to what we call a reparation de bieus, and be at peace. There is room enough on this great continent for -three great nations a union of the British colonies a union of the Northern States, and a Confederacy of the Southern republic."

The Montreal Gazette has the following:

"The grand army that was to exterminate the Southerners is in full retreat upon Washington, utterly beaten by the superior tactics of the Southern general, which has enabled him to man his troops as to do what the Northern general intended overwhelm the enemy. It was not a pleasant thing for philosophic minds to see that the de- feat of the Northern army was received rather with satisfaction than regret by the people on the streets here. The North has bragged so much and so loudly, has b^en so insolent in its tone, not only to- wards the South, but towards Britain; it has bragged so much about thrashing Great Britain, and crumpling up poor little cowards, that sympathy has been alienated from the braggart and bully. The South has been hemmed in by the great masses of troops, a portion of her territory wrested from her her ports blockaded her every effort jeered at her prospects of successful fighting for her own territory turned into ridicule, until no one could help feeling some