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"have at heart their own interests more than men taken on the privateer Savannah.—(Docthe good of their fellow-mortals, and of the | 147.) country," and should be made to comply with the obligations and duties which extraordinary times, like the present, impose. It commends the action of the Governors of several Southern States, in condemning the systematic practice of defrauding the Confederate Government, and in calling the attention of the legislatures to the subject.-(Doc. 145.)

November 10.-Captain Gillespie's cavalry surrounded a body of Lincolnites in Paw Paw Hollow, Sevier County, Tenn., and captured twenty-five of them.-Knoxville Register, Nov.

11.

-MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, lately arrived from California, was appointed to the command of the Military Department of the West, in place of General Fremont, and General Buell, of Ohio, an efficient army officer who can point to a brilliant record, was put in charge of Kentucky, in place of General Sherman, resigned. These two men are in the prime of life-about forty years of age—and their antecedents warrant the expectations that there will be no more mistakes in the Western section.-N. Y. Herald, November 11.

-A BAND of rebels, armed and mounted, broke open and plundered the store of a loyal citizen, at Clark's Station, seven miles east of Tipton, Mo., to-night. Col. Deitzler, on hearing of it, sent a squad of cavalry, under command of Lieut. Shriver, from the First Iowa regiment, in pursuit. All the gang but one were captured, and the property recovered.-(Doc. 148.)

-GEN. BENHAM, with his brigade, crossed the Kanawha River near the mouth of Loup Creek, Western Virginia, and marched forward on the road to Fayetteville Court House, to get in the rear of the rebel army under Floyd, on Cotton Hill, at the junction of the New, Gauley and Kanawha Rivers.-Part of Gen. Cox's brigade at the same time crossed the New River near Gauley, and attacked Floyd's force in front. After a slight skirmish, the rebels fell back to Dickenson's Farm, four miles, and at night retreated toward Raleigh.-(Doc. 149.)

-ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY Union men of

the Ninth Virginia regiment were surprised by seven hundred rebels under one Jenkins, at

to which they had been invited with the appearance of hospitality.-(Doc. 150.)

Guyandotte, in Western Virginia, and all killed or taken prisoners. Apparently the surprise -THE New Orleans Crescent has the follow- was effected by the treachery of the inhabiing: "Unfortunately the resources of the Hes- tants of the town, as when it was made the solsian Government of Lincoln have been under-diers were scattered all over the place at houses rated. It is now nearly six months since a vessel entered the port of New Orleans from a distant country. The same remarks will apply to Mobile and other ports on the gulf. Where a vessel with a cargo of merchandise has passed the Lincoln blockade, twenty passed the blockade in the war of 1812. Flour from Spain can be delivered via Havana, at our levee, at eight to ten dollars per barrel, such as we ourselves paid yesterday eighteen dollars for."

November 11.-At Columbus, Ky., a Dahlgren gun exploded, killing two lieutenants and six privates. General Polk narrowly escaped. A portion of his clothes were torn off.-N. Y. Evening Post, November 14.

-ONE HUNDRED AND TEN men of the Kansas

Jayhawkers, under Col. Anthony, attacked a rebel camp on the Little Blue, near Kansas -CAPTAIN II. H. MILLER, of the Twelfth City, defeated the rebels, and captured a large Miss. regiment, informs the Lynchburg Vir-number of horses. The Federal loss was eight ginian that on this day he, with twenty-two killed and eight wounded. The rebel loss is Virginians, attacked three hundred Union men not known.-(Doc. 151.) in East Tennessee, at Taylor's Ford, on the Watauga River, killed nine, wounded seven, and withdrew without loss.-(Doc. 146.)

-Lors were drawn by the United State prisoners in Richmond, Va., which should stand as a hostage for Smith, convicted of piracy in Philadelphia. Col. Corcoran was designated. Thirteen others were set apart as hostages for the

-THE Richmond Enquirer gives the subjoined list of property subject to the war tax

in the South:

"Real estate, including all lands and estates therein, with ferries, bridges, and mines; slaves of all ages; merchandise, of all kinds, for sale, except agricultural products of the country; bank stock, except such as may be returned by

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