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State election. --An election was held yesterday for a Sheriff of the city and three Commissioners of the Revenue. Henry K. Ellyson was chosen Sheriff, and John M. Francisco Commissioner of the Revenue for the 1st Ward; Cadmus C. Johnson for the 2d Ward, and Frederick Butler for the 3d Ward, in place of Geo W. H. Tyler, dec'd. The vote polled was a very small one.
rutal soldiery, is said to have fired our army, and a feeling skin to desperation exists to drive back the minions of a Government that will tolerate such a representative. When a fight does occur in the South, but little favor will be shown the invaders, and they will be met by men who feel that there is hardly a shade of difference between death itself and the ignominious life that would follow the success of the Federal forces in the impending conflict. Nothing inflames a man sooner than the invasion of the sanctity of his own home, and this threat of Butler's will so fire the Southern heart that in every future engagement the soldiers of the North will be met by men who will cherish a keen recollection of a threat which has no precedent in the history of modern civilization. The Rev. Dr. Palmer, of New Orleans, one of the most eminent divines of the whole South, recently delivered an address to the army at Corinth on this subject, which is said to have stirred them deeply.
From Corinth. Mobile May 22. --A dispatch dated Corinth, yesterday, says: Skirmishing continued yesterday without important results. Our forces shelled the enemy out on the Farmington road. No casualties on our side. The loss of the enemy is unknown. The indications portend a battle near at hand. Indeed, the conflict may being at any moment. A heavy rain this morning postponed movements. Butler's infamous order has fired our army. Rev. Dr. Palmer delivered an address to our troops, which stirred them deeply. A Federal spy will be shot to-day. [Second Dispatch] Mobile May 21. --A special dispatch to the Advertiser, from Corinth, last night, says: There was general picket skirmishing on our right and left lines. On the left, the enemy threw a number of shells without damage. On our right, several casualties occurred. Among the killed is Capt. Richards, of the 31st Mississippi. The enemy suffered much. A general engagement is ex