You will oblige me very much by having the parcel sent you herewith, forwarded to my son, from whom I have not heard for more than three weeks. The Yankees have held possession of our village for fourteen days, and we see no indications of them moving. They have not on the whole behaved badly in the village where we have a safe guard, but in the country they have done badly, pillaging of every thing they could carry off. I have not heard of any cases of the loss of cattle, sheep or hogs — but the country is stripped of mules and horses. I cannot give you later news than you will have had from paroled soldiers from Lee and Johnson's Army. The Yankee dispatches announce the fall of Mobile with capture of Forrest — and the capture of Macon and release of all prisoners at that place, and also of Salisbury, with prisoners and all the Quarter Masters stores sent from Raleigh so! that it is vain to disguise the fact of subjugation but that is preferable to having been Legislated into submission by the Holden faction. by the bye, I hear itas coming from Gen. Atkins , that Holden is to be our Provincial Govr extending the lines over half of South Carolina — the other portion of S.C. to be annexed to Georgia, thus obliterating the state lines of S.C. Kilpatrick was here yesterday and had a grand review, which I did not see. The Yankees are running the cars daily from Morehead City and probably from Wilmington to Durham and probably further up the road. They have a daily mail and forward any letters without inspection. I have a man and horse billeted upon me and if they continue to remain my supplies will be exhausted. They seem to dissuade negroes from going off. Nevertheless they go in large numbers.

My love to Fannie and Lizzie, and my high regards to Mrs. London.