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nd two lieutenants, belonging to Warren's column, and captured by General Hampton near Bellfield, were brought to this city last evening. The raid into Southwestern Virginia--the salt works Considered safe. The raiding column which, on Wednesday, burst into Southwestern Virginia, are still in motion, having met with no checkSouthwestern Virginia, are still in motion, having met with no check. They are believed to consist of five thousand mounted men, under Stoneman. It will be recollected we stated yesterday that, on Thursday morning, at 9 o'clock, they had reached Glade Spring, taking the people there by surprise and capturing all of the railroad employees, with one exception; and that at last accounts, a portion onst any force the Yankees can muster. Stoneman, if he be indeed, as we think, commander of the raiders, has also discovered that his sudden irruption into Southwestern Virginia was not entirely unexpected by our military authorities, although he did catch the citizens and railroad people asleep. We hope he will find this out to h
e two Houses providing for the adjournment of the General Assembly from Wednesday, the 21st instant, to Wednesday, the 9th of January, 1865, was taken up and finally passed. The Committee for Courts of Justice were instructed to inquire into the expediency of reporting a bill prohibiting the institution of any suit in the courts of this Commonwealth upon any cause of action which may have been the subject of any suit in the pretended courts of the usurped governments in Western and Eastern Virginia; such suit, at recovery, to be placed in bar at any time before trial, and the same to constitute grounds for injunction. A resolution was offered by Mason, of Marion, instructing the Committee for Courts of Justice to consider the expediency of impressing, for public use, the coal mines near the city of Richmond, and so operating them that the State institutions and officers, as well as the inhabitants of the city and its environs, be seasonably supplied with fuel at reasonable ra