The Daily Confederate

We find the following in the Conservative of yesterday, which is the first we have seen or heard of the matter alluded to. We have not a shadow of doubt that the statement made in the Charleston Mercury is a gross slander upon Gen. Hoke, as will be shown when the allegation is brought to his attention.

The Conservative says:

The Richmond correspondent of the Charleston Mercury in the following, we judge, very unjustly assails Gen. Hoke of this State. It is the first time that we have heard the intimation that Gen. Hoke claims what is due to others, or that he backs down before a foe, when duty calls him; If the following is untrue, as we think it must be, we hope the friends of Gen. Hoke in possession of the facts, will correct it. If Gen. Hoke is wearing Gen. Ransom's honors, let them be placed where they belong:

"From authority equally good, I learn that one reason why we failed to carry the enemy's third line of entrenchments in the fight the other day, was the positive refusal of the young Major General who was present when Ransom's gunboat Albemarle captured Plymouth and gained the whole credit for himself, to advance his division against the abatis. My informant heard him tell Gen. Alexander: that he would fight no more. It is not said that he has been even censured by the authorities. What harm ever befalls the favorites of power?"