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Pa. cavalry, Wistar's brigade of negro infantry and a battery of artillery. The correspondent of the New York Herald, from which we get these facts, says: About the first thing done was to lay in ashes King and Queen county Court House. Not a building was left standing. The ruin of the town was complete. About twenty buildings constituted the town, and these old and mainly wooden structures. The affrighted rebels fled before the approach of our forces, but did not all escape. At Carleton's store, not far from King and Queen county Court House, were found the Fifth and Ninth Virginia cavalry regiments, altogether numbering some twelve hundred, including a large number of citizens who had joined them. Here was their camp, which our troops, after routing its occupants, destroyed, together with a mill filled with grain, and other rebel property. Our forces chased the enemy ten miles in the direction of Fredericksburg, killing and wounding a good many, and taking over thirty p
A visit to Fort Sumter. "Carleton" writes to the Boston Journal as follows: "After a ramble of several hours through the city of Charleston, we made a visit to Sumter, entering by the sally-port where Major Anderson entered on that ever-to-be-remembered January night of 1861. The fort bears little resemblance to its appearance then, externally or internally. No portion of the original face of the wall is to be seen, except on the side towards Charleston and a portion of that facing Moultrie. From the harbor and from Wagner it appears only a tumult--the debris of an old ruin. "All the casemates, arches, pillars and parapets are torn up, rent asunder and utterly demolished. The great guns which two years ago kept the monitors at bay, which flamed and thundered awhile upon Wagner, are dismounted, broken, overturned, and lie buried beneath the mountain of brick, dust, concrete, sand and mortar. After Dupont's attack in April, 1863, a reinforcement of palmer to logs wa
ebraska Territory during the month of November, 1865, the greater portion for homestead actual settlement; and the residue with agricultural college scrip and bounty land warrants. In addition to which a number of cash sales were made. Pardoned. William L. Black, one of the Panama steamship pirates, sentenced to be hung, and whose sentence was commuted by General McDowell to imprisonment to ten years, has been pardoned by the President. Expedition against the Apaches. General Carleton, commanding the district of Mexico, has been ordered to organize an expedition in that Territory and Arizona against the hostile Apaches, who have been committing outrages in that section and interfering with mining operations.--Star. The Bradley case. On Wednesday morning, Mr. Bradly appeared in the Circuit Court and read his answer to the rule served upon him to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court. He acknowledged that he had "offended against the
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