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From Fredericksburg.
The public anxiety which succeeded the battle of Saturday last, has greatly subsided, and a deep feeling of gratification at its glorious result in everywhere felt.
The matter which most interests the public mind now, is the whereabouts of the discomfited Yankee hosts.
When McClellan was thrashed and retreated from below Richmond, it was soon known that he was skulking at Harrison's Landing, where he had the protection of his gunboats; but so mysterious has been the retreat of the redoubtable Burnside, that his sudden disappearance from our front has created a general curiosity to know where he will next turn up.
The reports from the late scene of action yesterday were somewhat contradictory.
By some parties it was represented that everything was quiet, whilst others state that the enemy had reappeared on the Northern side of the Rappahannock and that during the morning there was a pretty brick infantry firing between the pickets of the two armies.
McClellan and McDowell.
McClellan, in his testimony before the Court Martial which is now trying McDowell, stated that if McDowell's column had come on he should certainly have entered RichmondMcClellan, in his testimony before the Court Martial which is now trying McDowell, stated that if McDowell's column had come on he should certainly have entered Richmond that very day, and assigns his failure to come on as the reason of his own failure to take the city.
It is natural enough for a General, beaten and disgraced, as McClellan was to cast about for reaMcClellan was to cast about for reasons to excuse himself, and to abift the blame form his own shoulders upon those of some other person.
This is not the only excuse McClellan has made.
He has complained of neglect to furnish quarteMcClellan has made.
He has complained of neglect to furnish quartermaster's stores, though we doubt whether any army that ever marched was ever furnished as his was. He has complained of the Engineer Department, although no General of modern times was ever to amplycame fate with all the rests had he not, indeed, been cut off from the gunboats and captured.
McClellan sent the Prince de Joinville to Europe to retail that pitiful lie, as the best apology he coul