Gen Canby is correcting abuses (and they are legion) as fast as he can - What a fearful mass of corruption he has been grapeling with since taking command of this Division.  There are some things to cheer us amid so much corruption and infidelity to the Government.  There are men of genius whose acts will shed luster on the history of the present.  Men whose honest untiring energy is already dispelling the sickening gloom of the past - When we look at the thousands - yes millions of dollars worth of supplies that have been furnished the south within the past year at the diferent posts along the Miss R. from Cairo to N O and think of the perjured - blackened souls, engaged in this illicit trafic & high officials who for the sak of a part of the spoils have permited these things to pass unnoticed until the actions emboldened by success have carried these things so far that it was imposible not to be caught - yet while many of them are expiating their crimes on ship island or the Dry Fortugus.  Others will pass through the world unknown as rouges - The glitter of gold hides a multitude of crimes.  But as I shall not constitute myself a court-martial I will drop the subject - & let Justice overtake as many as posible.  Yesterday we received the glorious news that Atlanta has fallen into Shermans hands - This news came through rebel sources & may or may not be so.  They claimed to have evacuated it & lost eight hundred men in the opperation".  If they get off with the loss of eight thousand they may thank their stars for it
