Named Entity Results, Sam Jones

The Prohibition of supplies to Richmond. In the House of Representatives yesterday, the Speaker laid before the House a communication from the President in response to a resolution of the House, inquiring upon what authority Gens. Sam Jones and Imboden have issued orders prohibiting the transmission of supplies from their departments to the city of Richmond. The President enclosed a letter from Gen. Imboden, in which he says that his action was based upon authority which he conceived was purchased bona fide for private consumption, and not for sale or speculation. He says that without resort to impressment, it is not-possible for him to procure indispensable supplies for his own command at the authorized schedule prices. Gen. Jones replies by sending a letter addressed by him to the President of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, in which he says that it was his only desire that the road should be used to the best interests of the Government and community, and should no

till in the Stone, but have been driven by our batteries beyond effective range. One monitor believed seriously damaged by shot from one of our Brooke guns. Movements this evening indicate a purpose of a change of point of attack. From prisoners and a manuscript captured, it appears that the forces now operating against this place compose all the available force on the South Atlantic coast. The bombardment of Fort Sumter has been heavy for several days, and continues so. (Signed) Sam Jones,Maj. Gen. M'Neill's latest Exploit. We some days ago noticed the fact that Capt. McNeill had captured a lot of Yankees, with over one hundred horses and equipments, at Springfield, in Hampshire county. The capture was made on Sunday, the 26th ult., and the prisoners, fifty-nine in number, including three commissioned officers, arrived at Harrisonburg on Thursday evening last. The attack was made about ten o'clock in the morning, and the enemy were completely surprised. Capt. M

, immediately on the main road from Woodstock to Winchester, and eighteen miles south of the latter place. It is stated (not officially) that Sheridan's entire force in the Valley amounts to 41,000 men. His retirement from our front to Harper's Ferry may be regarded as a prudential measure on his part. It is reported that on Thursday, the 18th instant, General Early captured five hundred prisoners near Winchester, and was still in pursuit of the enemy. From Florida. The following official dispatch, announcing a successful affair in Florida, was received at the War Department yesterday: "Charleston, August 20. --Captain Dickinson with a greatly inferior numerical force, engaged the enemy's cavalry and artillery at Gainesville, Florida, on the 18th, and completely routed them, capturing one hundred and fifty prisoners, one piece of artillery and one hundred stolen negroes. The enemy was pursued fourteen miles and scattered. * * "Sam Jones, Major-General."

A Strange Exchange. --Admiral Dahlgren, off Charleston, has written to General Sam Jones, commanding in that city, offering to exchange twenty-five citizens that he captured at a court-house in Georgia for twenty-five naval officers now confined in Charleston. General Jones replied, refusing the exchange, of course. In his letter he says: "You might, perhaps, without going as far as the coast of Georgia, have captured men whom you could, with propriety, have offered in exchange foGeneral Jones replied, refusing the exchange, of course. In his letter he says: "You might, perhaps, without going as far as the coast of Georgia, have captured men whom you could, with propriety, have offered in exchange for your officers; but you would have found them armed, and would have been obliged to fight and overcome before capturing them. You need not trouble the Navy Department with the question, as I do not 'feel disposed' to aid you to profit by your own wrong by exchanging officers captured in battle for private 'citizens' captured so wantonly and at so little risk to the captors.'

ting correspondence." The Charleston papers, while publishing some very interesting correspondence which has taken place about the prisoners recently confined in that city, have overlooked a series of most insolent letters addressed to General Sam Jones by Brigadier-Generals Wessels, Shaler, Scammon, Seymour and Heckman, while in prison there. We find the whole printed in a Northern journal. The first letter, dated "Charleston Jail, June 15," demands that the Confederate authorities shou truce go to the Federal lines; and that their limits for exercise be enlarged. This insolent letter received attention to the extent of some of its requests being granted.--Encouraged by this leniency, General Wessels then proceeds to write General Jones a series of letters, requesting that the "Sanitary Commission" be permitted to attend to the wants of the prisoners at Andersonville, Macon, and other places, and that General Seymour be allowed to visit those places and see that the Federal