[Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.]
the Year 1862--Military Recien — Granting Furloughs — old ‘ "Fuss and Feathers"’ --the ‘"Dispatch."’ Davis's Ford, Prince William County, January 1, 1862.
Let us hail the dawn of the new year with joy. It opens brightly for us. With a Government now firmly established, which is emphatically our own; a clear headed, firm and sagacious President; and army able and willing to fight for their rights, as fully shown by the brilliant succession of Victorie which have crowned their arms — in comparison with the insure of which their reverses are but a speck — it is meet that we should greet the dawn of eighteen hundred and sixty-two with gratitude to that Supreme Being who rules all. Knowing we are right, let us strive to maintain that right, through weal or woe, to the period of its close — aye, even should it be at the cost of rivers of blood!
A general review and inspection of the third brigade, composed of the 5th, 6th, and 12th Alabama and 12th Mississippi regiments, with Carter's battery and the Georgia Hussars, took place here yesterday.
They were reviewed by Gen. Rhodes, and presented a splendid and imposing appearance.,
The 6th Alabama regiment has, I under stand, gone to for the war almost to a man. There is every reason to believe that three-fourths of the twelve months men on this line will do the same.
Comment is unnecessary.
Gen. Beauregard has issued an order permitting the various Brigade Generals to grant leave of absence to soldiers desirous of visiting any of the encampments within the lines of the Potomac.
This is a sensible order, and will doubtless be fruitful of many convivial gatherings of old friends this winter, as well as pleasant recreation.
I see by your Northern advices, that the great I am, old ‘"Fuss and Feathers,"’ has returned to the United States.
It has been said that he went to England to settle a domestic difficulty.
Viewed in this connection, he returns in ominous haste, Query.--Wonder if he couldn't now be induced to marry old Mrs. Partington? ‘"Blow out the light!"’
The Dispatch is a most welcome visitor in these, parts.
The first interrogatory at our little regimental post-office being for a letter, the next, invariably is, ‘"have you got the Dispatch?"’ Receiving it, generally, the day after its publication in Richmond, it is universally regarded as the best and most reliable medium of news Warren. 