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a. Our informants state that Gen. Johnston has undoubtedly captured these troops. They further state that Gen. Johnston is in good health, not withstanding the hardships encountered on the trip from California, and that he would be in San Antonio on or about the 15th of September. Gen. Lyon killed by a Darkey, The Fort Smith (Ark,) Times contains the following in relation to the death of General Lyon at the battle of Oak Hill, in Missouri: A negro man, body servant to Capt. John Griffith, of the gallant Third, was in the hottest of the fight, at Oak Hill, and fought in the last charge like a tiger. He claims to have killed Gen. Lyon. He says, he shot a man in the breast, that was on a large grey horse, and was waving his hat, and he saw him fall. Thus it is very probably that the Abolition Lyon fell by the hands of a darkey. This same black man, finding his youngest master. Benj. Griffith, wounded in the calf of the leg, picked him up, and carried him off of