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New Orleans, Mobile, and other cities, as "without precedent in history"--in short, according to Harper, we are at our last gasp and ready to give up or "die in the last ditch." Harper is not quiHarper is not quite so felicitous in his views of English affairs. They are admitted to be complicated and unsatisfactory, and while he maintains that England will not and cannot go to war on the rebellion question, gland and Lincolndom) is already accomplished." On the subject of an exchange of prisoners, Harper is foggy and unsettled. He ardently desires the release of the brave soldiers of the Union in re ought to be addressed as General of an army, because he was a General at the head of an army. Harper thinks the Feds had better give up that point and confess that Beauregard is "some" General, andn. Bitterness, delusion, falsehood and vain boasting, mark the character of this number of "Harper's" from beginning to end. The feeling in Cuba. A correspondent of the Boston Daily Adve
Robbing a soldier. --An invalid soldier, named Richard A. Cox, stopped at the Columbian Hotel, on Friday evening last, and had scarcely deposited his knapsack of clothing in his apartment before it was spirited away in a mysterious manner. Mr. C. B. Luck soon discovered one of the thieves, and Mr. Brannan the other, and they were at once taken into custody. They are quite youthful, and give their names as John Harper and John Williams. One of them had carried a knapsack out of the house, and was making off with it when discovered, and the other remained behind for the purpose of securing a trunk, which he had moved from one room into another. The Mayor on Saturday remanded the prisoners, to be examined for grand larceny.