exaggerated his captures as he has understated his losses.
The glaring falsity of one portion of his report is sufficient to throw discredit upon the whole.
A correct official report of our losses on the whole line south of the Appomattox on Saturday would be most acceptable to the people, and we hope that such a one will be published.
The Petersburg Express says that fifteen monitors, and forty iron-clad vessels, and a large fleet of smaller boats, are now in the James river. Commodore Porter is in command of the James River fleet.
General Grant's headquarters are at Dr. Eppes's house, at City Point.
Movements of the enemy in East Tennessee.
The advance of Thomas's army — namely, the Fourth army corps, under Langley, are reported to have been at Carter's, twenty miles from Bristol, on Sunday evening. A subsequent report that they were falling back is not believed.
From North Carolina.
We have nothing very recent from North Carolina through Confederate
National Bank stock subject to taxation by State and municipal authorities.--Court of Appeals--September term.
The City of Utica vs. G. Clarence Churchill et al.--The point in controversy in this action was, substantially, whether or not certain taxes imposed by the city of Utica upon the stockholders of the Second National Bank of Utica upon their several shares in said bank were legally imposed, and whether payment of the same could be legally enforced.
The Court held unanimously (Judge Porter not sitting in the case) that the interest of the stockholders in the national banks organized under the act of Congress of June 3, 1864, are legally taxable for State and county and municipal purposes, pursuant to the laws of the State; that the objection that these moneyed institutions are instrumentalities of the General Government for the execution of its constitutional powers, and are exempt from State taxation upon the principle by which the late Bank of the United States was adjudg
