The Clerk read the letter, as follows: Auousra, Gaonou. March 1, 1866. MY DEAR Sm: Thinking you would like to hear the views and impressionsof one located in the heart of the South. I have concludedto write you i nregard to the State of the country here. Since I arrived l have studied the temperan both of my district and ihlStlty where I reside and you Will perhu s be astonished when I say to you that theyare as intolerant and rebellious as any time during the war. I do not think they understand the situation in Washington. All this neighborhood is infested with mounted bands of desperadoes who are exrebel soldiers and who are murder in Union men and negroes by scores. In my disti;ct there are 2 such bands, oneled by an exmajor of the rebel army. Only last night I received information that they bad murdered two negrees. This fellow has 11 cars cut from negroes, which he exhibits as trophies. I have seentwo poor fellows whose ears were cut off. Mr. Benton Smith (son of the late Dr. Benton Smith, of Philadelphia) has just left my office; he has been driven from his plantation and robbed simply because he is of northern birth; ho is forbidden to return home and is expecting hourly to hciir his home has been burned. General King was dismounted and robbed of everything within a mile of this city: and the very streetsof Augusta are unsafe for northern mIen after dark. have conversed with men of all classeshere and they say openly that they were not conquered but only laid down their arms because it was expedient to i use; and that they intend to resume hostilities tvhaentmagoement. thtyrce a chance ufdoing so with ad These facts you may rely upon. for I assure you I have seen the men on whom these devilish outrages Were committed. I have seen the smoldering ruins of the property of northern settlers. It is no rlltlemine r or gossip. If desirable. it can be sub illlilthetl by 100s of witnesses. Nothing but the stiont:iiiiii of military powercan bring these col {in their senses, and we have not the force to o it lhc moment the troopsare removed the citiopuiilytlintthey intend tosend every Yankee 1 hey belong, and will attend to the negroesas {ii i esterve. l hopeyouwill excusethis long letter, but I thought my duty to give on an idea of the state of feeling l re. You know Inm not iin extremist. but rather iniiseiviitive in myviews; but I do not like to seethe, 1Iwide of the North misled. am, very truly, yours, lltvll. M. R. Tnxvnn, M. 0., Washington.