AUGUST 23d.—Clear and pleasant.
The enemy still occupy the Weldon Road, beyond Petersburg, in great force. Our loss in killed, wounded, and captured is estimated (in Sunday’s fight) at 1000; under the mark, perhaps.
I hear of no raid yet against the Danville Road; but the flour speculators have put up the price again. Gen. Kemper told me this morning that he had 3000 of the reserves defending the Danville Road, the number Gen. Lee asked for.
Gen. Hood is so strong at Atlanta, that he has promised to send, in an emergency, a brigade to Mobile.
Interesting events will crowd each other rapidly, now.