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--The following late items are from the Louisville Journal:

‘ The Journal says that ‘"Old Abe's proclamations come about as thick as Mexican pronunciamentos, and are worth about as much."’

’ The Nashville Press, of the 9th, says that Jacob B. Jackson, son of Gen. Jackson, of Parkersburg, Va., is under arrest at Wheeling for disloyalty.

There is great anxiety in Washington because of the condition of affairs in East Tennessee.

Henderson, a clerk in the Federal Treasury Department, has stolen $150,000. This is regarded a small affair in Washington.

Several Abolitionists have been arrested in Louisville for kidnapping negroes in the Northwest and selling them in Kentucky.

Capt. Purcell, of Gen. Hunter's (brother of Senator Hunter, of Va.,) staff, it is thought, will be held as hostage to force the surrender of Quantrell to the Federal authorities.

Gen. Anderson, of Sumter fame, is very ill in New York.

The cold weather of January was terrible in Europe. In parts of England the ice was nine inches thick on the 1st of January.

Old John Brown's brother has been appointed superintendent of freedmen in Northern Virginia.

The Daily Dispatch: February 23, 1864. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. February 23, 1864. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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