The Daily Dispatch: July 3, 1861., [Electronic resource]

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Spicy correspondence.

We had heard that a sharp correspondence had passed between our gallant General Magruder and General Picayune Butler, shortly after the fight at Bethel. The New Orleans Delta received here yesterday, contained the whole of it as furnished by its correspondent. We copy the letters this morning. The miserable pretence of Butler, that he is endeavoring to protect private property, has not even deceived the Northern press. A correspondent of the New York Tribune denounces the outrages committed by his troops on private property as a disgrace to them and to the age. What barbarities indeed must they not have perpetrated, when the brutal and fiendish New York Tribune complains of them! We conversed a day or two since with J. Barron Hope, of Hampton, who detailed some of the enormities committed in that town by the vandals of Fortress Monroe. Not to speak of destruction of houses, gardens, farms, etc., they have destroyed and carried off books from valuable libraries, and even marred and mutilated the churches.