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from Ritchie county, was shot in the abdomen, and after lingering about twenty-four hours, died. The Union forces then burned the house of Peter Seibargh, a prominent Secession leader, and also the house of another rebel, whose name we did not learn. Both of the houses were fortified. Two rebels who had taken the oath of allegiance, and were caught with arms in their hands, were taken out and shot. Two more men, caught under similar circumstances, were to have been shot the next day. Major Slimmer, in marching through Roane county, found eight dead men in an obscure thicket. It was not known whether the bodies were those of Union men or rebels. Major Slemmer is satisfied that the rebels have signal rockets, by which they warn one another of the approach of his force. They also have a signal like the hooting of an owl, which is very advantageously used. By these and similar means they are enabled to elude the pursuit of Slemmer's command and scatter into small bodies. The m