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t place, in the ministrations of his office; at this moment a straggler informed Mr. Hodgson that the enemy's cavalry was at hand. He was quickly in saddle, and, with the enemy thundering at three hundred yards behind him, he reached Col. Lay's position. Line was instantly formed, and as the enemy mounted a hill a lethal volley broke their ranks and scattered them. This "fighting parson" is scarcely 21 years of age, and already he had made one campaign in Western Virginia, that of Rich Mountain, as a Zouave. In the spring of last year he was a student in the Episcopal Theological Seminary in New York. He wouldn't "stand it," and came home to militate and officiate, both in one. He has a brother, captain of cavalry, in Col. Clanton's regiment. Bishop General Polk can hardly be at fault for an "assistant" militant. Vandalism in Memphis. A gentleman now in Atlanta, and a refugee from Memphis, has received a letter from his wife at Panola, Miss., from which we make t