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From Southwestern Virginia. Abingdon, Jan. 7. --Gen. Wm. E. Jones captured, on Sunday last, near Jonesville, Lee county, Va., over four hundred of the Yankee force that has been infesting that county. He captured three pieces of artillery and all their wagons, horses, and mules. His loss was killed and 12 wounded.
as conscript catchers, provost guards, passport clerks, attaches to quartermasters, commissaries, and hospitals, and a very large class are hanging around loose on surgeons' certificates, whilst not a small class are absent without permission or excuse; and yet the names of these men are borne upon the muster rolls of honor of the Army of Northern Virginia. Ought these things so to be? Can they not be remedied? I believe they can. To begin; the present conscript organization of the State of Virginia is a positive nuisance.--The men who are thus engaged so contrive that the duty of collecting conscripts shall be incidental to their private duties rather than the public business of their lives. The sooner, then, all those who are thus engage shall be relieved and returned to their commands the better for the army and the country. Return all the Provost guards to their several commands, and bring out the 45 to 50 class of men and give them this sort of duty to perform.--Improve our