Part 2, marked "Private." Preceding pages missing., Immediately after his arrival General Nathaniel P. Banks ordered all officers, soldiers and employees of the U.S. Army who occupied confiscated or otherwise obtained houses to vacate them forthwith, and restore as much seized private property as possible to the owners. All confiscations were to cease, except through due process of law. This means it will no longer be possible for subalterns to order families to leave without removing anything, and then occupy their homes together with some runaway Negroes and some unfortunate women. When General Benjamin F. Butler seized Dr. Campbell's house not an article could be taken away, and when one of the women picked up a box of children's toys, it was only through the kindness of a guard that she could carry it off. Similar occurrances were common for six or eight weeks, yet many of the officers who came to search for arms were respectful and polite. The harsh treatment ended with the removal of General Butler, and the changes made by General Banks have gained him the esteem of the whole community. Butler has proved a disappointment; much had been expected of him. The writer has news for McMaster two years ago, when the Freeman's Journal was voicing sentiments and suggestions that might have prevented the war, many people known to the writer were against the paper and refused to read it. Now, however, they search eagerly for it and praise it highly. This unnecessary and unholy war must cease; how many more victims will be offered. Already the writer's dear friends, Lieutenant Julius Garesche and Captain Monroe both of whom had known the writer after the Mexican war, have been killed. ` P.S. Since writing this letter the writer has received McMaster's papers. McMaster has probably heard the story of Father J.J. Mullen's? encounter with a Federal officer over the burial of one of the burial of one of his men. But it would not do to print the story, since it may get both Mullen and Mgr. Napoleon J. Perché in trouble. The writer wonders over Archbishop John Hughes of New York, who it is reported, has gone to Europe in the service of Secretary of State Seward, for which act he is supposed to receive $200,000. It is a pity Hughes interfered. As the speech of Archbishop John B. Purcell of Cincinnati, such action would better become Butler than an aged Ecclesiastic. Since Mgr. Perché never spoke of his arrest or imprisonment in the Propagation it may be supposed he was not free to do so. :: I-1-m A.L.IncompleteS. 4pp. 8vo.