In conversation, at his headquarters in Chattanooga, a few days ago, Gen. Grant said of Sherman, that he considered him the best soldier in the United States army, and that he was worth to the Government $1,000 a day more than any other man in its employ. Senator Simms, of Kentucky, has donated $5,000 to the wounded of Bragg's army in the hospitals at Atlanta. Jere Brewel died in Alabama last week at the extraordinary age of 105 years and 3 months. There are 86 patients in the Alabama Insane Asylum.
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