Upon her return last January from a trip into the South for the purpose of seeing her Father and brother in the naval service, she found that the subscription for her mother's Freeman's Journal expired. She would have let McMaster know before, but she has been in close confinement because of her unauthorized running of the Northern blockade. She was arrested first in Norfolk, and then sent to Fort Hatteras and was released only a few days ago. She does not approve of young, unprotected ladies exposing themselves to such dangers, but her Father and brother are sick and she considered that sufficient cause, even though the authorities did not. She tells McMaster of a compliment paid to him and the Journal by an Episcopal clergyman, Rev. Dr. McCabe, in a lecture in Petersburg, Virginia. McCabe, after condemning the Northern press for their approval of the administration's crimes and immorality, said that the Journal was the only paper in the North who dared attack the acts of the government and stand up for the principles of morality and justice. As an Irish Catholic, the writer was proud of this tribute paid by a heretic and rebel. McMaster will not take notice of this letter in his paper. She encloses the amount for next year's subscription and is sending the letter to Baltimore to be mailed, as she does not dare put it in the post office here. :: I-1-m A.L.S. 2pp. 8vo.