place, perhaps without endangering their health.  This may look like a selfish view of the matter to you; well I will confess to share with others in that weakness of humanity.  
And now I have a new cause for anxiety, you are ordered to Memphis and I know not what bloody scenes you may have been engaged in before this time; but all this uncertainty and anxiety is the natural result of the great civil war now upon us and must be borne with all the fortitude becoming patriots, who have intrests at stake dearer than life itself, and now that we have put our hand to the plough must not look back. I do think the Rebellion is kept up now by its last resources, and cannot last much longer; not that the leaders are a whit less hostile to their rightful government, but their finances as acknowledged by "Jeff" himself are in a deplorable condition, their armies depleted, with no material to replenish them, except the blacks; whom they dare not arm, for the most ignorant slave in the South knows the issues of this war, as well or better than "Jeff" Davis; and they arm the blacks at their own peril.  So it looks to me that they will have give up for want of means and material to carry on the war, and not because the regret it, for I believe that the leaders and property holders generally in in the South, hate the principals of our Democratic form of government as thoroughly as ever.  The emisaries of Jeff Davis are all over the North, in all our principal cities plotting their destruction, and but for a providential neglect on their part, New York City would now be a pile of smoldering ruins, I will send you a paper with
