fresh announcements.
The Republicans had a grand gathering at their headquarters, with music, speeches, and so forth.--One speaker announced the fact that there was a heavy Union sentiment in Richmond, and added:
There was in Richmond to-day a secret' organization of Union men who would destroy Jeff. Davis and his minions when General Grant and General Butler should march into Richmond and take possession of that city.
[Applause.] And not the last man there to help them was John Minor Botts.--[Loud cheers.] They had heard a great deal about raiders coming here to take possession of New York, and he knew there had been a conspiracy existing at the North to revolutionize the North by invasion from Canada; and while these men might talk about Beast Butler, they had been frightened to death that day by the fact that he was present in the city.
[Cheers and laughter.] But Butler never interfered with any one except a rebel; and when he got a hold of one of them, he would hang h
