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a few days ago visited and inspected our camp, and reported to Washington the honorable statement that in all points of cleanliness, order, and comfort, it was the best camp in the Department of the Cumberland. One of these gentlemen - Dr. Townsend - an Englishman now in the Regular Army of the United States, turned out to be a very near and dear friend of certain English friends of mine, and you may guess, therefore, how garrulous and chatty we were. The other, a Boston man, happened to be an acquaintance of a good many people East whom I know pretty well, and so we also had a pleasant time. The other day I sent my "Sword-Song" to Harper's Weekly, and the "Psalm of Woman" to the Continental. Both are accepted, and paid for; so you will perhaps see them again. I have to-day been doing an audacious thing: scolding an United States Senator. A little while ago Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, sent me his Senate speech, explanatory and vindicatory of his action with reference to his "private circular" in favor of the nomination of Chase for the Presidency, about which so much