16 NOVEMBER 1861, Page 1
The news from America is, on the whole, unfavourable to
the Federal cause. In Missouri, General Fremont is gra- dually clearing the State, driving his adversary back on the swamps of Arkansas, but on the Potomac the repulse of the North is confirmed. The Leesburg affair had spread a gloom through the North, where it is considered one more proof of the incapacity of the generals of division, but there is no symptom of wavering.
