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lately, to convince them that the city is not secure. The attack will be made, in all probability, before the first of July. Preparations to meet it to do not seem to me to be adequate. New York papers declare, every now and then, that Washington is now impregnable. How can that be, when there is not a fort or entrenchment within twenty miles of it? There has not yet been used a spade or shovel anywhere in the neighborhood of the city for military defence. No prospect of Peace. "Ion" writes from Washington to the Baltimore Sun, May 17: Some few of the Union journals commend to the attention of the coming Congress the interests of peace, and this suggestion is promptly denounced as "next door to treason." There is not, however, the least foundation for any fear that the interests of peace will find a single advocate among the representatives from the Northern States, with the exception possibly of California. That State, remote from the scene of civil strife, and h