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The army. The intelligence we have from the army indicates a continuance of that quiet which has prevailed since the return of Gen. Lee to Virginia. From all we can gather, the headquarters of Gen. Meade are at Warrenton, where he will perhaps remain till he deems himself sufficiently strengthened by reinforcements to attempt a move on Richmond. We had a report on Saturday that the enemy had evacuated Stafford county, and fallen back on their main body. The report stated that the evacuation was precipitate, and that they burned their tents, and a lot of commissary stores. On the other hand, passengers who came down yesterday evening state that there was brisk skirmishing in Stafford, a few miles beyond Falmouth, on Saturday afternoon and again yesterday morning.
The Peterhoff. --It is nearly time that we had heard of the reception of the news of the condemnation of the English screw steamer Peterhoff, and the sale of both that vessel and her cargo by the Federal authorities. The Peterhoff was arrested twice in her voyage from the English port of Falmouth to the neutral port of Matamoras — the first time by the United States steamer Alabama, in Danish waters, in the West Indies, and the second by the United States steamer Vanderbilt, just outside the port of St. Thomas, under the orders of Admiral Wilkes. Her Commander, Captain Jarman, had a commission in the English Royal Naval reserve, had charge of her Majesty's mails, and the cargo of the vessel was of goods, it is alleged, not contraband of war. The manner of the seizure was rude and offensive, and the circumstances were such, in the opinion of those persons who understood the law of nations bearing upon the case, as to demand the prompt interference of the British Government to pr
Prison Record. --On Saturday last four prisoners were received at the Libby, captured on Friday in Stafford county, near Falmouth; forty-four from Knoxville, Tennessee, and twenty-one were transferred from Castle Thunder to the Libby, under a special order. At Castle Thunder the following-named parties were committed; Capt. W. M. Lomwrick, 7th Tenn.; Capt. F. Easly, 7th Tenn.; Lieut. Lineberg, 2d Tenn.; Lieut. S. Pringle, 5th Tenn., and Lieut, Cadington, 3d Tenn., charged with being spies and recruiting for the Yankee army within the Confederate lines. Also, Capt. J. R. English, a. English, Caswell Claxton, and John J. Lowe, charged with stealing horses for the Yankee army. J. Daniel and John Pace were committed as Kentucky bushwhackers, and John H. Wood for attempting to cross our lines without permission.