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ch persons or things as it suited his pleasure to treat in that manner. At the same time, it possessed one quality which is always the mark of genius, and which mere talent can never attain. He made everything interesting that he wrote about, a faculty which Johnson attributes to Goldsmith in those famous words, "nihil tetigit quod non ornavit." Mr. Daniel, we should have mentioned, served on the staff of Governor Floyd in his Western campaign, and afterwards as volunteer aid to General A. P. Hill at the battle of Gaines's mill, on which last occasion he was wounded. The object of the Yankees in waging the kind of war they are now engaged in carrying on against us, could not be mistaken, even though the New York Herald had not taken pains to reveal it in the extract republished by us yesterday morning. It is no longer a restoration of the Union that they seek. That was from the first a mere pretence, used to cover designs which, at one time, it might not have been quite