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uniting the masses of the Democracy and other conservatives, east and west, upon General McClellan. But there is no time to be lost; for the tide is evidently setting in the opposite direction, though still it may be turned. A summary of Burbridge's expedition to the salt Works. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer, in a letter from James river, says: A number of men (between thirty and forty, I believe,) belonging to Burbridge's command, captured at Saltville on the 2d instant, were among the prisoners who arrived to-day by flag of truce from Richmond. One of them — a gentleman of the Teutonic persuasion — gave me his opinion on the result of that expedition in a somewhat laconic style: "We gets not mooch salt dere," said he, "but we gets peppered like der tuyfel." Miscellaneous. A. J. Shackelford and George W. Booth, of Charlottesville, Virginia, arrived in Washington on Saturday as "refugees." Wendell Phillips is announced to speak at Cooper In
l is quiet along the Atlanta road. The war in the Southwest--from Mobile. They have had another fright at Memphis — this time from the report that General Dick Taylor was advancing on the city. General Dana is in command there. There has been some light cavalry skirmishing around Little Rock, Arkansas. An arrival at New York from New Orleans gives the following intelligence from Mobile and other quarters: Several army officers made a daring reconnaissance in Mobile bay on the 10th, passing inside all the obstructions and returning safely. One of our gunboats, while reconnoitering in Navy cove, was fired into, but no serious damage was inflicted. A severe storm had occasioned some damage to one or two sailing vessels. A coal-laden brig was driven ashore and will probably be lost. General Granger has gone to Pensacola. General Asboth has returned from his expedition. General Newton had arrived at New Orleans, en route to take command of Key West.
ng day. Captain Joseph Pearce, naval constructor at Charleston, South Carolina, died on the 20th instant. He was a native of Baltimore, and had constructed several iron-clads for the Confederacy. The English fashionable put false tails on their horses now, as the ladies wear Alexandria ringlets. Nets for their narratives are spoken of also for some of the "prancers. " The cars on the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad are now running regularly from Bristol to Jonesboro' three times a week. Marzetti, the Ravel pantomimist, whose grotesque but natural performance of the ape will be remembered by many, died in New York a few days since. Dr. R. D. Arnold was elected Mayor of Savannah on Monday, the 10th instant. He had no opposition. Mrs. General Lander, nee Miss Jane M. Davenport, the actress, will shortly resume the practice of her profession. Gottschalk, the pianist, has been made a Knight of the Order of Charles the Third by the Queen of Spain.
One hundred and fifty dollars reward --Ran away on Monday 17th instant, a Negro Boy, sixteen years about five feet eight or nine inches high very sighted, and black, with a scar on under the eye. He has been seen in the day. The above reward will be paid for at the New Richmond Theatre, corner Broad streets.
have been arrested and put on the trains. A lady in Berkshire, New York, presented her husband with their twenty-first child last week. --The babies are all living, but the father is almost caved in. A watchmaker of Annapolis has the silver watch given to George Washington by his grandfather. The number of blockade-runners captured or destroyed off Wilmington since August 1, 1863, is fifty. More than ten thousand refugees have arrived at Memphis within the last three months and been sent North. Chicago is determined to rid herself of her lawless population. Sixty professional thieves were arrested there on the night of the 18th instant. A building is finished in Cleveland, forty-four by eighty feet, which is to be used for preserving fruit. The air in the room is to be all pumped out. Artemus Ward is lecturing in New York on "Life among the Mormons." He sends complimentary tickets to editors, inviting them to come to his show and bring one wife.
William Balson, a magistrate in Scottsborough, Georgia, having refused to go into the military service, was last week shot by the arresting officer, and died on the following day. Captain Joseph Pearce, naval constructor at Charleston, South Carolina, died on the 20th instant. He was a native of Baltimore, and had constructed several iron-clads for the Confederacy. The English fashionable put false tails on their horses now, as the ladies wear Alexandria ringlets. Nets for their narratives are spoken of also for some of the "prancers. " The cars on the East Tennessee and Virginia railroad are now running regularly from Bristol to Jonesboro' three times a week. Marzetti, the Ravel pantomimist, whose grotesque but natural performance of the ape will be remembered by many, died in New York a few days since. Dr. R. D. Arnold was elected Mayor of Savannah on Monday, the 10th instant. He had no opposition. Mrs. General Lander, nee Miss Jane M. Davenpor
The old "Spring Warehouse," in Lynchburg, Virginia, used as a government wheelwright shop, and three buildings belonging to the estate of Dr. James Saunders, were burnt on the 20th instant. Loss, $200,000.
We have received a copy of the Washington Chronicle of Sunday, the 23d instant. Sheridan's last official Falsehood — he Amends his former Dispatches. Fifteen hundred Yankee wounded from the fight at Cedar creek have arrived at Martinsburg, and, according to Stanton's bulletin, fifteen hundred prisoners! The same dignified and truthful document announces that "General Custer arrived at Washington this afternoon with ten rebel battle-flags displayed from the railroad engine. The following is Sheridan's last official dispatch, which the reader will do well to remember comes from a General that has just fallen back behind Cedar creek for safety: Cedar creek, Virginia, October 21--4 P. M. Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, City Point: I pursued the routed forces of the enemy nearly to Mount Jackson, which point he reached during the night of the 19th and 20th without an organized regiment of his army. From the accounts of our prisoners who have escaped, and citize
Negroes for sale. --On the 27th of this Month, at Amelia Courthouse, I will sell two likely Negro men, No. 1 farm hands. Terms: Cash. John F. Simpson, Agent. oc 25--2t*
mmences — have been increased by the addition of $477,000,000. The campaign will then commence with a debt upon the shoulders of the United States of, in round numbers, $2,500,000, 000, and an interest of $113,000,000. To this, add the pension list of the army and navy, to which the faith of the Government is pledged as sacredly as it is to the payment of interest upon any debt whatever, and it is a moderate calculation to say that $120,000,000 will cover it all. The appropriations made last April to pay the annual interest on the debt of Great Britain was but $128,000,000, although her debt has been accumulating for centuries, whereas this debt has been contracted in three years and a half. To the public debt of the United States should properly be added the public debts of the several States still denominated loyal, which amounts to $200,000,000, and, at an average of 6½ per cent., yields a further sum of $18,000,000; so that, on the first of May next, the entire interest will excee
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