After landing at Queenstown I went to Belfast and thence to Edinburgh.

I found the people of Edinburgh intensely excited over our war and the current of popular sentiment running against us like a mill-race.

For instance, I was recognized by my soft hat on the street; a shoemaker put his head out of the door and shouted as I passed: "I say, when are you going to be done with your butchering over there ?" The _Scotsman_ was hostile to the Union cause, and the old _Caledonian Mercury_ was the only paper that stood by us; but it did so manfully.

On the day of my arrival a bulletin was posted in the newspaper offices and on Change that McClellan and the Union army had surrendered.

The baleful report was received with no little exultation by all who were engaged in the cotton trade.