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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
� 121 The steamers that have come up to serve as hospitals are fast filling up. I should not be surprised if we had a thousand wounded.
A week since the Rebel congress were beginning to leave the capitol in terror. The papers ridiculed them for cowardice. But when news came of the evacuation of Yorktown it must have startled the inhabitants. Many suppose that they are beginning to leave Richmond now, and that the opposition yesterday at Williamsburg was only to gain time. This may we true. Some predict that we shall be in Richmond by a week's time.