| Description | New York, his time exceedingly taken up in making out pardons for rebels who are coming in for them by hundreds, congratulates his Lordship on the repeated successes of "our short campaign", general sentiment at New York is that the power of the rebellion is nearly broken and beyond any apparent probability of resource or recovery, this intelligence gained from intercepted letters and other channels, hopes for the possession of Philadelphia early in the spring, "the ships etc, in that harbour will be an acquisition to us, if we can save them, but their destruction will be an irreparable loss to the rebels", ships under Hopkins blocked up in Rhode Island, the remains of Congress gone to Baltimore, "the difference in the appearance of the King's affairs and especially the resolution in the professions of many persons in this country are both very great", General Lee behaves since his captivity with the meanness of spirit expected of him |