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have been stolen from their rightful owners, and the stock of wheat, corn, and other necessaries of life, constituting the sustenance of the people, have been appropriated to the use of the invaders. In some instances families have been left upon the verge of starvation. Acts of the most infamous character enacted upon the negro women of the county are reported in the presence of white ladies, and in some instances deeds of violence have been perpetrated upon respectable ladies themselves. Citizens are daily arrested and sent off to Washington, there to be incarcerated. Among others, the Rev. John Cole, an aged minister of the Episcopal Church, was arrested on Sunday last, and taken from his pulpit, for praying for the Confederacy. They stole from Capt. John Taylor, an officer in the Confederate army, twenty-eight negroes, burnt his house and all the outbuildings, carried off his stock and everything else of value, and desolated his entire farm, one of the finest in the county.