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d strongly guarding these routes. Our market is well supplied with everything that we wish, and prices as low as could be desired. A Fincastle correspondent recommends that town as a pleasant, safe and healthful retreat to all who, during our difficulties, would make it a home. The society is good, religious advantages ditto, and there are two excellent hotels — all of which we can endorse. The writer furnishes the following news: A large number of the convicts employed by Rosser, and working on the Covington and Ohio Railroad, escaped a few days ago. Two were re-captured on the same road, and at the same time some twelve or more hirelings made off. A party of gentlemen from the vicinity of Fincastle succeeded in capturing six of them, five of whom are in our jail, and the other was shot. I am credibly informed that only a guard of four men had charge of the convicts. They were not manacled, or in any way secured against escape. Thus, by a dereliction of duty in y