Editor Times: Should you deem the following extract from a letter received by one of my family from Lieut. Wm. L Daniels of this town, now commanding the post at Picolata, Florida, dated Feb. 21st, of sufficient interest for publication, you are liberty to use it. M

The news about here is better than when I wrote to your father about a week ago. When Dickinson recrossed the river from his depredations here he proceeded immediately to Clay landing, a place situated on the Suanee River, about forty miles from its mouth. Here he met a Yankee force of about five hundred men, and got what might be called a good thrashing. Our forces captured one entire company. Dickinson with the remainder of his force retreated about seventy miles, and there reported that he had whipped the Yankees, killing fifty and wounding numbers, all without the loss of a man or scratch of a horse. One of out scouts has come in to-day. He brings cheering news from rebeldom, says many of them smile once more upon the Union cause, and positively refuse Georgia money, believing she will rejoin the Union. This scout is one of our best. He travels night and day through swamps and forests and scours the country for hundreds of miles at one trip. As he reached his home (which is within the rebel lines) this last time, he heard a commotion inside, and signalled his wife to come and meet him. She being used to the signal recognized it at once and went out to him and informed him that the rebels were inside, and had his brother prisoner, and that most of them were drunk. He then gave her one of his revolvers, and with that and his own they proceeded to one of the windows and gave the rebel party a volley which killed three of them, and scared the rest so that they left precipitously, not knowing the number of the attacking party. Thus he was just in time to rescue his brother, who had long hunted by them with the bitterest hate, for he had been engaged in running off their slaves.

Yesterday a woman came from over the lines to this post, as I am at present in command of it, out of curiosity I had her searched, and found just what we wanted, a rebel mail. She begged hard to be allowed to proceed with it, but it was useless. Uncle Sam's boys don't usually make a practice of forwarding rebel mails. The contents of most of the letters were as follows, (all being from the army of the Potomac [ed., Army of Northern Virginia]:--

Almost every letter reads like this.