is way — that is, of a directly warlike character — are absolutely tame, so much so that the time-honored phrase, "all quiet on the Potomac, " would exactly express the situation.
There are important movements on foot, however, of a preliminary nature, but of which I cannot speak just now. A short time will develop the drift of events, which will be found sufficiently sensational for the most morbid imaginations.
It was anticipated that an early aggressive movement on the part of General Thomas was on the programme.
I think now that present indications don't look exactly that way.
General Thomas Francis Meagher left here yesterday with a considerable force, ostensibly for Savannah.
Hood's army is reported at Okolona, Mississippi.
Exchange of prisoners.
A dispatch from Washington says:
It appears from a communication of the Secretary of War that the entire subject of an exchange of prisoners is now placed in the hands of Lieutenant-General Grant; and th
d, and ordered the same to be published in the Richmond Dispatch until that day.
The following is the list, viz:
Allen, W. C.1
Ball, Dandridge1
Cosby, J. W.1
Carrington, Colonel1
Colin, Jacob1
Christian, Ann1
Duval, Samuel S.1
Duval, miles1
Dickinson, B. F.1
Ellett, A. L.1
Edmunds, Robert1
friend, John E.1
Francis, James G.1
Ford, A. J.1
Garnett, William F. G.1
green, B. W. & Sons2
Haxall, Boling1
Heckler, V.1
Hughes, John C.1
Higginbotham, E. J.1
Johnston, Thomas1
Kerr, Mrs. & Robert Maxwell1
Knight, William C.2
Lersner5
Leake, T. C.2
Lawson, Peter1
Maynard, J. C.4
Omohundro's, S. Estate1
Poe, John1
Payne, Robert1
Randolph, William B.2
Shields, John C.1
Schutte, Richard1
Sheppard, Lavinia1
Stearns, Frank1
Taliaferro, William C.1
Taylor, M. S.1
Tinsley, Reeves1
Winston, James1
Werth, John J., agent5
Westham Iron Works15
hospitals.
Louisiana Hospital1
Camp Lee1
Camp Winder Hospital11
Camp Jackson Hospital8
Howard Grove