Governor Letcher has stopped three
steamers on James River, and may stop two more. They can put seven thousand men in
Baltimore
in twenty-four hours from here by our connections with the railroads
from Lynchburg
to Dalton. We can carry from five to seven thousand men daily at the rate of
three hundred and fifty miles per day. Georgia
can be run through without unloading. The South Side Railroad is at
the service of the Confederate States.