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entitled to the fullest credit. It is known that an unusual number of rebels have recently appeared in Wirt, Gilmer and Galhoun counties, and many Union men have been murdered. The rebel forces are not natives of the counties named, but are regularly organized bands, doubtless from Floyd's army. Last night — about dark, companies A, B, C, D and E, of the First Virginia Infantry, took passage on the steamer Woodside for Parkersburg. Col. Thoburn being absent from the city, Lieutenant Colonel Richmond, of the First Cavalry, went in command. We are not at liberty to state the destination of the expedition. The boys came over from Camp Carlile, preceded by the First Cavalry band, under a drenching rain that would have drowned the spirits of a less enthusiastic crowd, but a jollier set of fellows never set out upon an expedition, the object of which they knew nothing. The attack on the Seminole. A private letter from a gentleman on board the U. S. steam-sloop Seminole,