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n flag, when news was received of South Carolina's secession. It was an instructive spectacle. I wonder whether the signers of our Declaration of Independence looked as silly as those fellows. On the 20th of April, 1861, hearing of the attack made the preceding day in Baltimore on the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment, Lowell instantly abandoned his position and set out for Washington. In what manner he made the journey is not clearly known; but he reached the capital on Monday, April 22d, one of the first-comers from the North since public communication had been broken. He thus announced his action to his mother (April 24th): I was fortunate enough to be in Baltimore last Sunday, and to be here at present. How Jim and Henry will envy me! . . . . I shall come to see you, if I find there is nothing to be done here. So have the blue room ready. He put himself at once at the disposal of the government, and applied for the commission of Second Lieutenant of Artillery in the Regul

. Cadet, U. S. Military Academy, July 1, 1828, to July 1, 1832. Brevet Second Lieutenant, 3d U. S. Artillery, July 1, 1832. Second Lieutenant, Aug. 1, 1833. First Lieutenant, Sept. 16, 1836. Captain, staff, Assistant Adj. General, July 7 to Nov. 16, 1838. Captain, 3d U. S. Artillery, Nov. 30, 1841. Major, 1st Artillery, Oct. 12, 1858. Lieut. Colonel, staff, Military Secretary to the General-in-Chief, Jan. 1, 1860, to Apr. 19, 1861. Organizing an expedition to relieve Fort Pickens, Fla , Apr. 1-20, 1861. Colonel, 11th U. S. Infantry, May 14, 1861. Brig. General, U. S. Volunteers, May 17, 1861. On the staff of Governor Morgan of New York, Apr. 21 to June 25, 1861. Recruiting his regiment at Boston, Mass., June 25 to July 3, 1861. In the defences of Washington, July, 1861. In the Manassas campaign of July, 1861; engaged in the battle of Bull Run, July 21, 1861; in the defences of Washington, July 22, 1861, to Mar. 10, 1862. In the Virginia Peninsular campaign, commanding 4th C

—At victories of Gettysburg and Vicksburg. Boston Evening Journal, July 6, 1863, p. 2, col. 1; July 8, p. 2, col. 4, p. 4, col. 1. — – Meeting at Faneuil Hall, July 8. Boston Evening Journal, July 9, 1863, p. 3, col. 5. Massachusetts finance and business. Southern merchants send usual orders to Lynn for shoes on six months credit; are asked for security. Boston Evening Journal, Jan. 22, 1861, p. 4, col. 2. —Business disturbances through war rumors. Boston Evening Journal, April 1, 1861, p. 4, col. 1; April 16, p. 2, col. 1. —Merchants denied payment of debts due from Southerners. Boston Evening Journal, April 26, 1861, p. 4, col. 3; May 9, p. 4, col. 1; May 10, p. 4, col. 1. —Closing of mills; offer of land for cultivation to unemployed operatives, etc. Boston Evening Journal, May 9, 1861, p. 2, col. 1; May 10, p. 2, col. 4; May 17, p. 4, col. 8. —Financial stringency; from Boston Commercial Bulletin. Boston Evening Journal, June 1, 1861, p. 2, col. 2.

tenant Richard Coleman Strother Lieutenant Richard Coleman Strother, of West Union, S. C., was born in Edgefield county, April 4, 1840. His father was William A. Strother, a major in the old State militia, son of George Strother, a soldier of the war of 1812, and a descendant of Colonel Strother of the Revolutionary war. His mother was Nancy (Coleman) Strother. Richard Coleman Strother was reared in Edgefield county and in the fall of 1860 entered the Charleston medical college. On April 1, 1861, filled with that patriotic ardor which inspired so many gallant Southern youths, he left college and volunteered in Company G, Seventh South Carolina regiment. His captain was Hamilton Brooks and his colonel Thomas Bacon. Upon the reorganization at the expiration of twelve months, he re-enlisted for the war in the same company and regiment, with different officers, his captain being William E. Clarke, and his colonel D. Wyatt Aiken. He was promoted through the different grades to tha

inuous service. During this time he had also been engaged in surveys in the department of Texas. From 1856 to 1861 he was chief engineer of the Fernandina & Cedar Keys railroad in Florida. Spending most of his mature life among the people of the South, Captain Smith, from his observation and experience of Southern affairs, became fully convinced of the justice of the position taken by the Southern people, and when it became evident that war would soon begin he resigned his commission April 1, 1861, and offered his services to the Confederate States. He was at once commissioned as major in the corps of engineers, May 16, 1861, and accredited to Florida. In this position his services were so well approved that on April 1, 1862, he was made a brigadier-general. He was at first assigned to the army of Northern Virginia as chief of engineers, but was soon after sent to the West. He performed important duties at New Orleans, and on June 26, 1862, was put in charge of the Third distr

Richmond Dispatch. Monday morning...April 1, 1861.General Assembly of Virginia. [extra session.] Senate. Saturday, March 30, 1861, Covington and Ohio Railroad.--The order of the day, the Covington and Ohio Railroad bill, was considered on motion of Mr. Smith. Mr. Brannon offered his substitute and advocated its passage. Mr. Wickham proposed an amendment to the substitute, which was rejected. The vote on the substitute was then, taken, and adopted — yeas 17, noes--April 1, 1861.General Assembly of Virginia. [extra session.] Senate. Saturday, March 30, 1861, Covington and Ohio Railroad.--The order of the day, the Covington and Ohio Railroad bill, was considered on motion of Mr. Smith. Mr. Brannon offered his substitute and advocated its passage. Mr. Wickham proposed an amendment to the substitute, which was rejected. The vote on the substitute was then, taken, and adopted — yeas 17, noes--. A motion to reconsider, was lost. Mr. Wickham proposed another amendment to the substitute, to come in at the end of the second section, which was adopted. The substitute as amended was then voted on, and rejected for want of a constitutional majority — yeas 23, nays 12. The following is the substitute as amended : Whereas, the state has undertaken to construct the Covington and Ohio Railroad, for the purpose of securing a continuous line in connection with the Virgin<

k on the Covington and Ohio Railroad, was taken up and considered. The amendments of the Senate were agreed to. Tax Bill.--The bill imposing taxes for the support of Government was taken up, and certain proposed amendments of the Senate were agreed to. The bill was passed. The Armory Commissioners.--The Speaker laid before the House the following from Geo. W. Randolph, one of the Commissioners, which was read, laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Richmond, April 1st, 1861. Sir To the Honorable Speaker of the House of Delegates: I have had the honor to receive, through the Clerk of the House of Delegates, a resolution adopted on the 9th ult., requesting "the Armory Commissioners to report the amount of the bonds they obtained from the Board of Public Works, under the provisions of the act appropriating five hundred thousand dollars to repair the Armory and purchase arms; whether they sold the bonds, and if so, whether at par, or at what discount;

Correspondence of the Richmond Dispatch.affairs in Petersburg. Petersburg, April 1, 1861. To-day witnesses the annual return of the Easter holidays — a short season of intense excitement to the colored population, who walk the streets with a careless, happy mien, enviable to behold, and which would doubtless put to blush the sage comment from their Northern friends, "that they are the victims of a sad delusion." We hope they will keep their happiness within modest bounds, and not "take to spirits to keep the spirits up. " The Lent services have been unusually interesting this season, and it has been a delightful relief to turn away from the restless scenes of political strife, and the petty trying cares of daily life, and enter one of the quiet sanctuaries to hear the grateful sounds of praise and the devout utterances of thanksgiving.--The ministers, too, seem to have been fully impressed with the importance of devoting themselves to the mighty task of explaining the gr